"Vengeance"
(Armond
and his fiancée, Monique escape the Phoenix-X on a runabout to get
married near a purple and pink nebula)
Monique(holds
his hand): Isn't this romantic?
Armond:
Yeah... us getting married, near a beautiful nebula, alone...
Daniel:
And I get to marry you two for a very considerate fee! ...It's just too
bad Q's don't need money. --Hey! Then why am I doing this?
(He
drops the biblical padd. The witness enters the runabout bridge)
Daniel:
Ah, the witness, Crewmen Doyle, is finally here. --Waitaminute, there is
no Crewmen Doyle!
Doyle(reveals
himself as X): I am X. Follower of the X that is now you.
Daniel:
Cool!
X(reaches
out his arm): I have just taken your easy access to your powers away from
you.
Daniel:
Not cool.
X:
Until you can look inside yourself to the X, you will not be able to use
them.
Daniel:
Hey! I thought you were my follower!
X(fades
away): Remember. It is not the power, but the purpose...
(The
nebula outside the runabout sucks itself into oblivion)
Monique:
Well that kinda kills the mood.
Armond(rubbing
his eyes from X's pixie dust): He ruined our wedding!! It took months to
plan this wedding! --and millenniums to create that nebula!
Daniel:
Hey, what about me!? He took my powers away!
(Armond
and Monique look over at him)
Armond:
Oh, sorry. I guess you'll be enterprising vengeance upon the X now.
Daniel:
...Nah. I kinda see his point.
Armond:
Well then at least avenge our ruined wedding!!
Monique:
Yeah!
Daniel(looks
at himself): It's not like he did it on purpose. Oh my gosh. I feel so demi-god now.
Armond: Argghhh. You must promise me vengeance. Think of it as a wedding gift.
Daniel:
Alright, alright; if I ever see him again I'll kick his @$$ for you.
(The
runabout turns around and heads back to the Phoenix-X)
(Half
a lightyear away, the Phoenix-X is attacked by an alien vessel. Two torpedo
discharges from the aliens puncture through the shields and hull of the
Phoenix-X. The Phoenix-X shakes like crazy)
Gotens(holding
on): We have to surrender!
Red:
No! Klingons do not surrender!!
(The
ship shakes like crazy again)
Red:
Okay, I'll make this second exception. But only once!
Gotens(hails
the alien vessel): We surrender!
(A
tall scaly green serpent girl beams onto the bridge, in front of Gotens)
Kehlehmeh(the
alien): Surrender is not your choice.
(The
alien liquefies her arms and jabs them into Gotens's shoulders. More aliens
beam onto the Phoenix-X)
(The
runabout zooms over to the Phoenix-X, 4 hours later)
Daniel(sits
up): I sense something is wrong...
Armond(looks
out the window): Well, yeah, obviously. There's some ship tractor beaming
the Phoenix-X.
Monique:
The ship's been hijacked. We can't let them get us too!
Ensign Yelto: There are only four us. We could sneak aboard.
Daniel(nods):
Alright. Mask the runabout.
(The
runabout emits an ionic scattering field as it approaches the huge Phoenix-X)
(The
four beam into the Jeffrey's tubes)
Armond:
What now?
Daniel:
Spread out to different areas of the ship and peek outside to see what's
going on. Armond and Monique will spy Vector 2. Me and Yelto will spy Vector
1.
Armond:
What about Vector 3?
Daniel:
That's the loser Vector. Only losers go there.
Yelto:
But me an Ensign Dan share quarters there.
Daniel:
My point exaclty.
Armond:
We should meet back here in 4 hours.
(Daniel
nods. The two teams start crawling thier serperate ways)
(Armond
and Monique crawl the jeffery's tubes and find a control panel)
Armond(accesses
it): Wanna play some computer games?
Monique: Armond!
Armond:
Okay, okay. I'll see if I can find out what's going on. But we're ruining
this opportunity.
(He
accesses external communications. He gets a transmission, but only the
incoming part of it)
*Shangrilah(on
screen): Have you taken over the Federation Starship? .......... .....
......... Good, good. The rest of the fleet is on its way. We will have
this Federation taken over in a matter of days. ............. .........
......... ............
(Armond
and Monique glance at each other)
Monique:
If only we could hear who's talking with him.
Armond(playing
a computer game on the other screen): Oh sorry, I needed some computer
memory.
*Shangrilah:
I'm beaming aboard. I hope to be the one to catch whom ever came from that
Runabout Class Federation vessel.
(On
the bridge)
Gotens:
Understood, Captian.
*Shangrilah:
Shangrilah out.
(They
salute, then the screen goes off)
(Armond
and Monique kick the vent door out and step into their living quarters)
Monique(accesses
the view screen): I'll contact the Federation.
Armond(goes
to another panel): Right! I'll lock out the main computer.
Monique:
Wait! I need the main computer to contact the Federation!
Armond:
Oh! Good thinking. That's why you're the wife.
(She
calls in and Admiral Theseus goes on screen)
*Theseus:
This is Starbase 55; your one stop baggy pants shop!
(Armond
and Monique just glance at eachother)
*Theseus:
Oh, it's the Phoenix-X crew! --I gotta stop saying that as an opening....
Armond:
Admiral, the ship is under occupation from an unknown alien species!
*Theseus:
Damn! You got invaded?
Monique:
Duh!
*Theseus:
Do you still have the torpedoes?
Armond:
The torpedoes? Yeah, I guess--
(The
transmission starts to break up)
*Theseus: Use---th--m--!!!
(It
cuts out. Armond taps away at the control panel)
Armond:
The aliens are messing around with the main computer.
Monique:
Lock it out!
Armond:
I just did, with an encryption code. It is highly unlikely they will break
it. The code is PHOENIX-X.
Monique:
Oh, that's original!
Armond:
Hey, do I look like freakin' Data here?
Monique(pulls
him along): Come on, let's go to the Torpedo Bay.
(They
crawl back through the Jeffrey's tubes)
(Daniel
and Yelto spy from inside a vent in the conference room where three scaly
green aliens are talking with some Federation Officers)
Shangrilah:
So there are no more of your crew free?
Gotens:
Nope. They're all occupied. Isn't that cool?
Shangrilah:
No. I wanted to be one of the first people to occupy.
Gotens:
Well you still can. Some free officer accessed the main computer on deck
17, just a second ago.
(Shangrialh
nods to one of the other aliens to go ahead.)
Shangrilah:
Thanks! --Uhhhh...
Gotens:
It's me! Kehlehmeh!
Shangrilah:
Oh right! Thanks Kehlehmeh. I didn't recognize you.
(He
liquefies and goes through the floor)
(Armond
and Monique kick out the vent door to the Torpedo Bay)
Monique(gets
up and walks into the room): Oh my back is killing me. Can you rub it for
me?
Armond(just
getting out of the vent): I don't have to do nothin' 'til we get married!
(Shangrilah
deliguefies from the ceiling and just hangs there above Monique)
Armond:
It's Shangrilah!
(Shangrilah
drops and splashes all over Monique. Armond tackles her, trying to save
her, but the liquid sucks itself into Monique's body)
Monique(gets
up): Hello, Armond...
Armond(gets
up and steps back): What have you done to Monique?
Monique(laughs):
Nothing that won't happen to you soon enough...
(Monique
leaves the bay, pointing one of the other aliens to where Armond is.)
*Toguera(on
the comm): Toguera to the ship. There should be three free Federation Officers
still around. If you see them, report their location to me so I may merge.
(The
alien steps in as the doors close behind him)
Armond(hiding
a phaser behind his back): Who are you people?
Kelarou:
Don't talk to me, body.
Armond:
I'll reverse whatever it is your Captian has done to Monique.
Kelarou(laughs):
Reverse? It is irreversible! We need your bodies for sustenance; when we
leave them, they are dead!! Hahahaha!!
Armond(gulps):
You mean the kind of dead where you're not alive anymore?
(Kelarou
begins to liquify. Armond stuns him with the phaser. Kelarou falls to the
floor)
Armond(punches
a torpedo capsule in anger): Arrgh!!!! Monique is dead and so is everyone
else on this ship.
(He
punches it again)
Armond:
I will have my revenge!!
(He
opens his eyes, pulls his fist away and notices that the whole bay is filled
with torpedo capsules labeled, Slipstream Torpedo)
(Toguera
walks down the hall and sees Armond running out of the Torpedo Bay)
Toguera(starts
running): Hey Kelarou, wait up!
(He
stops just before the torpedo bay doors to see Kelarou inside still in
alien form on the floor)
Toguera:
....Dead?
(Daniel
crawls back through the jeffery's tubes to where everyone was supposed
to meet, but he's the only one there)
Daniel:
Oh great. My crew is so irresponsible! Now what?
(He
hears a whispering voice)
*X:
....The force.... use the force....
Daniel:
The who?
*X:
...Your Ki.... Use your Ki....
Daniel:
My what?
*X:
...Stop the wanting... stop the hate...
Daniel:
Huh?
*X: Argh. Summon your power! Clear your head and try to communicate with the
freakin' X within you!!!
Daniel:
Oh, okay.
(He
closes his eyes in meditation)
(Monique
enters Main Engineering. A lot of people are working there)
Monique:
Commander Kehlehmeh.
Gotens(turns
around): Captian. We were just trying to boot up this stupid Transwarp
Drive!
(He
kicks it)
Monique:
I know the encryption code to unlock the main computer.
Gotens:
Excellent!
(Monique
goes over to a control panel. Armond enters Engineering)
Gotens:
Identify yourself.
Armond:
It's me, Toguera.
Gotens:
Oh hey, I didn't have a chance to talk with you. How're you and your brother
doing?
Armond: ...Uhhh... fine, fine. He just bought a new Playstation 64.
Gotens(nods):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. Those are so cool.
Armond:
Everyone's been merged, now. You want me to contact the fleet and tell
them to start the invasion of the Federation?
Gotens:
No! Are you crazy? We have to colonize first!
Armond:
...Oh.... okaayyy....
Gotens(points
to a screen): This Federation planet, Kina 4. It's the only empty one with
our native atmosphere. After we put everyone assigned to this galaxy there,
we can start the invasion. You remember the routine!
Armond:
Oh, yeah, yeah. What was I thinking? Heh, heh. You might as well be talking
to an unmerged host just pretending to be Toguera. Heh... heh...
Gotens(slaps
his back): Ha! Ha! That would be funny, eh!
Armond(laughs
with confidence): Yeah! Hahahahaa!!
Gotens:
Okay, seriously. Get to the bridge and tell Lieutenant Borabora to take
us to Kina 4.
(Armond
nods. He eyes Monique as he leaves Engineering)
(Armond
walks through the hallways, passing friends and co-workers, and not saying
anything to them. Yelto catches up to him)
Yelto(whispering): Armond!
Armond:
Ensign! You're still alive?
Yelto:
Me and the Captian almost have this thing figured out. Everyone on the
ship is possessed by these Boosti.
Armond:
The Boosti, eh? Well the Boosti are about to get the booty.
Yelto(laughs): Hahahahahahaa!! --That wasn't not funny at all.
Armond:
I think I've figured out how to eliminate them.... Man. They've taken the
lives of everyone on this ship, including my fiancee. I will have vengeance.
(They
enter the turbolift. The doors close. The turbolift goes up and Yelto steps
up to Armond)
Yelto(with
an evil look in her eyes): And what would you know about vengeance...?
Armond(looks
at her): ...Who are you?
Yelto(grabs
Armond by the neck): Toguera, you fool. You killed my brother in the Torpedo
Bay!!
Armond(trying
to push her away): Argh--He's--jus--stunned--!!
Yelto(squeezes
her eyes): Liar!!!
(Armond
kicks her away)
Yelto: Aarrrgghh!!!
(Yelto
spins and kicks to Armond's head. Armond dodges. Yelto spins again, stabbing
her foot right under Armond's chin. Armond is pushed against the wall)
Armond: Ackk!!
Yelto:
You are no match for a trained guard.
Armond(phasers
her): You're no match for a weapons specialist.
(She
faints and Armond hides her beside the door.)
(The
turbolift doors open and Armond steps onto the bridge)
Kayl:
Identify yourself.
Armond: Toguera. Identify yourself.
Kayl: Jeymola.
Armond:
I think we may have an unmerged Federation officer roaming the ship pretending
to be a Boosti.
Kayl(nods):
I'll check on it.
(She
leaves the bridge. Red is the only other person on the bridge)
Red: Toguera, man! How you doin'?
Armond(goes
over to his station): I'm in a bad mood. Don't talk to me!
Red(turns
back to the helm): ...Man. He really hurt my feelings...
(The
computer comes back online. Red engages the ship to Kina 4. Armond beams
Daniel to the bridge)
Daniel(sitting
and meditating): Huummmmm... Awwwww... Ehhhhhhh...
Armond:
What are you doing?
Daniel:
Trying to contact my inner X.
Red(turns
around): What is the meaning of this!?
Armond(puts
away his phaser): Shut up, Lieutenant Borabora! Yo mama's so sad she had
you, she had another baby with a laughing hyena just to make it better!
(Red
runs out of the bridge, crying. Armond accesses his station)
Armond:
I'm putting ionic force fields all over the ship, to confine everyone.
Daniel:
So who cares. I'm trying to do something here!
Armond(bends
down to talk to Daniel): But I think I've figured out what happened. The
Phoenix-X must've got word of the invasion just before we left to the nebula
for the wedding ceremony. They must've started building the Slipstream
Torpedoes right after we lef--
Daniel: Hummmmmmmmm... X? ...X? Is that you? I see a light... What? ...What? Walk
towards the light?
Armond(stands
up and scratches his head): Hmh. He must be dying.
(The
Phoenix-X drops out of transwarp. The other two Boosti ships also drop
out of transwarp. They approach the planet with a fleet of 43 other large
Boosti ships parked beside it)
*Captain
Smalsh(goes on screen): 'Sup! You finally here? We was about to start the
colonization of the planet. We hafta breed more Boosti; the Federation
has a lot more people than we thought.
*(He
rubs his hands)
*Smalsh: Heh, heh. This is gonna be fun.
Armond:
Not so fast, scaly green alien guy! I'm gonna hafta cut your breeding capabilities
short.
*Smalsh(covers
his private part): No, not mine!!
(Armond
presses fire. The Phoenix-X discharges a Slipstream Torpedo towards the
crowd of Boosti ships. The sparkly torpedo suddenly bursts into long cracks
of lighting in space. The other Boosti ships move away from it)
Armond:
That was just a warning shot. I demand your fleet leave our galaxy immediately,
or I will destroy your fleet.
*Smalsh:
Damn man. What's up your @$$? Someone merge with your wife? Heh, heh! That'd
be so funny!
(Armond
gets angry)
(Toguera's
brother, Kelarou wakes up in the Torpedo Bay. He passes through the force
fields and makes his way to Main Engineering)
Gotens(touches
the force field): Damn these bodies!!
Kugo(at
a computer): Kelarou is the only other non-merged Boosti on the ship.
(The
Phoenix-X shakes)
Gotens: Panehmah, see if you can contact Shangrilah's ship.
Shane(at
another computer): I can't. These modified shields are blocking the transmission.
(The
ship shakes again. Bulkheads and support beams fall)
Kugo:
They're firing on us.
Kelarou(steps
through the shields): Perhaps you all should unmerge.
Walace:
Unmerge? You know how dangerous that is this early in the merge!
Monique(steps
up to Kelarou): Get to the bridge and merge with Armond. Now!!
Kelarou(nods):
Yes, Captain.
(The
bridge is a mess. Armond's eye twitches as he watches Smalsh on the viewscreen)
*Smalsh:
How is this possible? We had no idea you had a weapon of this magnitude.
Armond(holds
his finger above the fire button): And I'm about to give you a better idea...
(He's
about to press fire when Yelto tackles him from the side. They roll and
fight)
Daniel(just
sits there, meditating): ...I see a gate... a golden gate...
(Armond
dodges a punch and knees her. She over takes him)
Yelto:
You killed my brother!!
Armond(looks
up): He's right there!
(Kelarou
walks through the force field and enters the bridge)
Yelto(with
a black eye): I won't fall for your tricks.
(She
doesn't look up and continues to fight Armond. Kelarou suddenly begins
to liquefy and shoot towards Armond, but bursts into bunch of pieces from
a powerful shock wave from Daniel)
Daniel(standing
there): I have done it.
(Armond
throws Yelto away and crawls to his command station. He lifts his arms
above it and eye's Smalsh)
Armond(twitching):
You killed my wife... And everyone on this ship... This is where it ends.
(He's
about to press fire)
Daniel:
Stop! Are you really ready to commit mass murder!?! Look what vengeance
has done to her!
(Armond
looks over at Yelto, who's eye is also twitching)
Armond(glances
back at Smalsh): Your people will not survive here.
(He
taps the control panel and then presses fire, again and again and again
and again)
Armond(yells
with rage): Aaaaaaaahhhh!!!!
(The
Phoenix-X rotates the other way, pumping out 8 to 12 Slipstream Torpedoes
towards the planet. The planet shakes as the torpedoes tear into it. The
Boosti ships move away but the Pheonix-X just sits there as the big ass
planet bursts into a billion large pieces. The pieces shoot by the Phoenix-X
and out into space)
Armond(looks
up at the viewscreen): Leave... now.
*Smalsh(gulps):
Uhhhh, okay. Yeah, sure. Leavin'. Right away.
(The
entire Boosti fleet turns around one by one and transwarps out of there.
Shangrilah's ship also transwarps out, leaving the original, and empty,
invading ship with the Phoenix-X. The two ships hover amung the planetary
debris)
Armond(steps
down and approaches the Captian): Can you do it? Can you unmerge the Boosti?
Daniel(nods):
I think so.
(He
places two fingers on his forehead and concentrates with his inner X)
Daniel:
....
(Each
and everyone else on the ship is suddenly possessed by a bright white light.
Some of the planetary debris around the Phoenix-X bursts into smaller pieces.
The bright white light around every person fades. They find themselves
alive and back to normal, sitting next to the Boosti who had merged with
them)
(Gotens
looks at Kehlehmeh, on the floor beside him)
Gotens:
Man. What happened?
Kehlehmeh(gets
up in anger): Argh!! How could this be possible!?
(She
tries to liquefy but can't)
Kehlehmeh:
I-- I don't understand--!! Am I to be one of those handicapped Boosti?? Nooooo!!!
(She
looks around and sees everyone else unmerged)
Kehlehmeh: Noooooo!!!!!
(She
looks around and sees a handicapped Federation officer trying to function
in normal everyday society)
Kehlehmeh:
Noooooo!!!!!
(Yelto
gets up and looks over at Toguera)
Yelto:
I'm sorry about your brother.
(Everyone
on the ship gets back to thier duties. Monique enters the bridge; Armond
and her embrace. Gotens shoves Kehlehmeh and Shangrilah onto the bridge)
Daniel:
I have taken your easy access ability to liquefy away from you. To liquefy,
you must look inside yourself to your inner X.
Shangrilah:
But we don't have inner X's.
Daniel:
--Oh. ...Then you're pretty much screwed.
(Gotens
contacts the Federation)
*Theseus(goes
on screen): This is Starbase 55; your one stop Mariah Carey lingere supply
shop!
Armond:
I'm sorry, sir. We weren't able to destroy the Boosti fleet as planned.
*Theseus:
I never ordered you to destroy the fleet. I ordered you to destroy the
planet so they'd have no where to breed. You did exactly what we wanted.
Armond:
Oh, yea, yea, that's what my plan was all along.
Kehlehmeh(steps
away from the guard): Well, we'll just be going home now.
Gotens(grabs
her): No you won't. We have laws.
Kehlehmeh: Grrr!!!!!!
Gotens(steps
back): Okay go ahead.
(The
Boosti beam back to thier ship and transwarp away. The Phoenix-X returns
to normal and Armond and Monique decide to have thier wedding on the ship
with everyone)
Yelto(approaches
Ensign Dan): Isn't this romantic?
Ensign
Dan: I don't like it on Vector 2, everyone's a snob. Let's go back to Vector
3!
Yelto:
No.
(The
X follower appears in the crowd, next to Shane and the Commander)
X:
The X has achieved the first step.
(Shane
and Gotens glance at eachother)
Shane:
The first step to what?
X(takes
a deep breath): After the X merged with him, it sparked a great disturbance
in the Q-Continum. Some of us revolted and begun the X-Continum. Do not
tell your Captian, but he will one day have to take his place with us in
the X-Continum.
Gotens:
But why choose the letter X?
(X
just looks at him and disappears)
Gotens(to
Shane): Should we tell him?
Shane:
We better not, the X are powerful and could turn us into wierd animals
--and plus, this could be the best for him.
Gotens(nods):
Good point.
(The
bride and groom walk down the isle)
Armond(approaches
the alter with Monique): Thanks for helping me out on the bridge, back
there.
Daniel:
Don't thank me, thank the X. He was the one who said, "not the power, but
the purpose."
Armond:
Oohhhh yeaaahhh.
Daniel:
You best be paying me for this since I'm mortal now.
Armond:
Yea, yea, of course. Oh and don't worry about getting that revenge on the
X for me.
(Daniel
nods and starts reading the biblical padd.)
Daniel:
....THE START--
THE END
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