(The Phoenix-X heads for an opening in the blockade, until they're
confronted by another Breen, firing like crazy at them. The Phoenix-X
ducks and then moves in, phasering the torpedoes just being launched. The
Breen vessel blows apart in a rage of energy and plasma as the Phoenix-X
flies right through)
Seifer: We're out!
(The Phoenix-X speeds through space)
Daniel: Armond; location of the Violator and the Ragonark?
Armond: The last sensor records show them heading into that big
ice-asteroid cluster.
Red: It would take us days just to search it.
Armond: There are abnormal elements in all the ice, emitting radiation
that scatters our sensors.
Daniel: Damn!
(Seifer sits at his chair, checking the external sensor console on its
arm. Five Breen vessels close in, in the distance from behind)
Seifer: I think someone missed us...
(The Breen vessels speed along, catching up
to fly along side the Phoenix-X. They open fire)
Neano: Destroy them, you fools!!!
(The Phoenix-X shifts to the left, tagging
on a tractor beam to the nearest Breen. They circle the Breen ship to
below them, smacking it into another Breen ship. The two are badly damaged
and lose direction out of the chase)
Armond: Captain, I'm detecting a Conduit opening.
(The three remaining Breen fire at the
Phoenix-X's shields, meanwhile to the right, and in the distance, a
smaller Federation ship drops out of Transwarp, making a left turn to join
the race)
Wallace: Paroga to Phoenix-X. Section 31 is very interested in knowing
where the Hellonesian Jumpers are.
*Daniel: They're up your butt and around the corner.
Wallace(is about to check his butt): Oh okay, I'll just--- Hey!!
(The Paroga swings over to the chase and
takes on one of the three Breen vessels, circling the huge ship and firing
at all its critical systems. It fires at the Breen's warp nacelle, causing
the Breen ship to explode)
Neano: Aaahh! You are all a bunch of complete morons!!!!
Aeathos: Even me?
Neano: Nah, you're good.
(The Phoenix-X soars over and above the
Breen to the left, landing on top of it. The Phoenix-X spins both ships,
flinging the Breen over to the right, which smashes into the last Breen
ship. They both explode, as the Paroga flies right under, over to the
Phoenix-X)
Wallace: Excellent work! --Now where are those Jumpers?
*Seifer: They were stolen by two Breen vessels.
Wallace: The Breen!! I should've figured when they bought three hundred
Canadian music CD's from the Federation. No one trades Jumpers for
anything else!!
*Armond: We've reached the ice-asteroid cluster.
(The Phoenix-X suddenly smacks into the
wall of an ice-asteroid. The area of space is filled with large rocks of
ice)
Seifer: What are we going to do? We can't scan.
Red: We could look out the window.
*Wallace: The Paroga is specially equipped with a filter. I can take my
ship around to scan for the Breen.
Daniel: We'll follow you with the Phoenix-X. Armond, get that anti-virus
program ready.
(Armond taps at his control panel as it blinks off defectively)
Armond: Unable to comply. We've lost power to thrusters.
Seifer: Why?
Armond(tapping frantically at the console): I have no idea! --Blame
GoyCho!
*Wallace: The Breen are going to get away! I have to leave now to get
those Jumpers back.
Daniel: Seifer, assemble an Away Team and beam over to the Paroga.
Seifer: Okay.
Daniel: Take the cloaking suits.
(Seifer meets up with Wallace on the Paroga
with Red, GoyCho, Tong, Ensign Dan, Amos, Elly, Kortos, and some guy named
BOB)
Wallace: What is BOB doing here?
BOB: I just wanted to be a part of the team.
Seifer: Everyone take one of these. We'll use them to infiltrate the
Violator and the Ragonark.
(He tosses everyone a cloaking suit)
Ensign Dan(holding nothing): Uhhh, I didn't get one.
GoyCho(walks over and turns it on): No yours was just invisible.
(The Pargoa speeds through the ice cluster,
ducking and weaving around large cold asteroids. It suddenly sees two
Breen ships hiding in a concealed area. The Paroga hovers over behind an
iceberg and beams the Away Team onto the Breen ships. The teams are
invisible as they diffuse throughout the Breen vessels, searching deck
after deck for the nine starpods)
*Wallace: I want the each of you to fly a Jumper outta there and get it
back to the Phoenix-X as fast as possible. Armond said there was some kind
of central-virus on one of them.
(The Phoenix-X rests in space. Armond
accesses his console)
Armond: I've uploaded the central-virus deleting program. All we need are
the Jumpers.
Daniel: They'll be here. Or else someone's getting fired!!
Armond: GoyCho?
Daniel: Maybe.
(All the computers on board start to lose energy and blink on and off)
Armond: Something's wrong.
Kayl(checks the computer): I'm picking up a massive energy drain to the
Battle Arena.
(She looks over at Daniel)
Kayl: ...It's him.
(Matt, Shane, and Kugo are at the three
computer stations in the Battle Arena, trying to shut the computers off)
Shane: I can't do anything!
Matt: Energy from all systems are being re-routed to here.
Kugo: --No, ....to here.
(She backs away from her console, as electric bands wrap it and shoot out.
Daniel enters the arena)
Daniel: What the--?
(The electric bands collect in large clumps to each other, radically
shaping into some kind of humanoid energy creature, grasping to get out of
the computer frame)
ZL_: Hh--h--g-ggg-h--h!!--!!!
(Kugo takes out her phaser, but the ZL hits her with a shockwave that
sends her flying across the room)
Matt: Kugo!
(Matt taps at his armlet, firing three sharp spikes at the ZL, which it
just absorbs)
ZL_: Nice try.
(The creature hits him with a shockwave, and sends him across the room.
Shane liquefies down and surrounds the ZL in strands. The ZL reflexes it
arms, zapping the Shane liquid, making it splash all over the floor)
ZL_: Heh, heh.
(Daniel recalls his powers, flowing bands of energy around him)
Daniel: Come on....
(The Jumpers secretly turn on, in the
Shuttle Hangar's of each Breen ship. The cockpits are opened and then
closed. Some Breen guy, looks up from reading his Play-Alien Magazine,
thinking he felt a breeze)
Reck(looks around): .....Nah.
(The Jumpers hover above the floor and break out the Shuttle Hangar doors
into space)
Reck: What!?!?
(He reaches over and slams his finger on the console beside him)
Diablos: Get them.
(All nine Jumpers scatter like crazy to get out of there as the Violator
activates its engines and turns around. The Violator gains on all the
little pods, fanning a huge tractor beam that stops just about six of
them from moving)
Diablos: Ha! Ha! Ha! These Federation people have no idea how to use them.
Yuan: Neither do we.
Diablos: Yeah I know. Thanks for pointing that out.
(The Paroga comes flying in from above,
cutting its phasers into the hull surface of the Violator)
Wallace: I don't think so...
(The Violator stops, faces up at the Paroga,
and blasts two photon torpedoes at the corner of its bottom, sending the
Paroga spinning into a chunk of ice)
Diablos: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! We are so in.
(The remaining three Jumpers speed off away
from the Violator)
GoyCho(taps the comm.): We have to go back!!
(Jumper 1 edges over)
Elly: We can't. Anyone of us could have the virus. Our orders are to
return home with as many Jumpers as possible. Let's go!
(Kugo, Matt, and Shane regain consciousness
and leave the Battle Arena. Daniel faces the ZL Energy Demon in the centre
of the laser-marker circle)
ZL_: They got away... You won't.
(Daniel hops forward thrusting his fist, which gets moved aside by the
Energy Demon. The Demon whacks its foot to Daniel's shin, then waist, then
head)
Daniel(hops back): --Argh!!
(The Energy Demon jumps forward and blasts shockwave into Daniel's
stomach. Daniel is knocked through the air into the wall, dropping all the
bat'leh's to the floor)
ZL_(walks over): You're more indestructible than the others.
(Daniel gets up and punches the Energy Demon in its left shoulder,
reinforcing it with omni energy)
ZL_: Owe!
(Daniel punches its waist, then goes over and punches its torso, then its
other shoulder, and then he swings around punching the Demon across its
face with the back of his hand)
ZL_(cradles its cheek): Argh!! --Wait a minute... You're the omnipotent!!
Daniel: Yup.
(He runs up the Demon's upper body, stepping his feet across its face and
knocking the Energy Demon to the floor)
Daniel(lands on his feet): I know who you are. But why are you here?
(The Energy Demon re-stabilizes its form to standing up)
ZL_: Haven't you figured it out?
(It recalls more of its power, flinging ribbons of energy around him. He
thrusts his arms forward, flooding Daniel with the energy and power.
Daniel is shoved over against the wall again)
Daniel: A-rrggh-hh!!!-!
(Both their matters starts to fluctuate, and Daniel starts passing through
the wall)
ZL_: ....I'm here to merge with you.
(Jumper 5 is far enough to break out of the
Violator's tractor beam. Jumper 5 soars around when suddenly the Ragonark
approaches, firing like crazy)
*GoyCho: Commander, you have to get back to the Phoenix-X!
Seifer: Just a sec.... What is this... Silencer?
(He circles around to the hull of the Ragonark and activates the Silencer.
A thick beam floods out, melting the hull surface of the Ragonark)
Seifer: Whoa!
(Jumper 5 pulls the beam along the Ragonark,
liquidating parts of its duranium-tritanium hull surface. Liquid hull
splashes everywhere)
Freados: Aaahh!!! Get away!!
(Daniel tries to get away as the Energy
Demon keeps pushing through wall after wall, beyond room after room, until
they fall out into cold space)
Daniel: Aaarrghh!!!
(Daniel rolls away, breaking free from the Energy Demon's grasp. They both
land onto the surface of an ice rock)
Daniel: Why!? You've already begun the process of omnipotency!
(The Demon reaches out its arm and runs forward, blasting pockets of his
energy at Daniel. Daniel leaps and dodges them all, planting his foot into
the Energy Demon's stomach as he gets closer)
ZL_: Hhhrghh!!
(Daniel rolls back, flinging the Energy Demon over through space and into
another ice rock in the distance)
ZL_(re-stabilizes its form): Because!! Because the process takes too
long!! It will take ages for omnipotents like you and me to become full
Q's or X's or whatever the-hell else is out there!
Daniel: ...Well there are twenty-four more letters to choose from.
(The Energy Demon recalls all its power and force, shattering the big
ice-rock behind him into large floating chunks. The Demon thrusts all its
energy across the distance, into Daniel again)
Daniel: Aaa--aa-a--hhh-hh-h!!-!
(Jumpers 1, 8 and 3 zoom by and approach
the Phoenix-X)
Red: We are receiving three of the Jumpers.
Armond(scans them): No central-virus detected.
Red: We must find it before that Energy Demon destroys the Captain.
Armond: We are slowly regaining power to most systems. But the thrusters
are still offline!!
(Jumper 5 continues to drag the Silencer
Beam across the enemy's hull. The Ragonark suddenly explodes, tossing
Jumper 5 away, and hurling a large chunk of the Ragonark across the
Violator's tractor beam. All the other Jumpers suddenly are free and speed
off)
Diablos: Stop them!!
(The Violator dodges the flying pieces of
the other ship, and speeds after the remaining five Jumpers. Jumper 4 is
hit with large piece of the other ship and knocked off course)
Ensign Dan: Aaahh!!! This can't be good for my health.
(The Phoenix-X regains most of its health,
activating its thrusters and shooting off into the ice-asteroid cluster.
It meets up with the oncoming five Jumpers)
Armond: Scanning vessels....
Red: We're missing two Jumpers.
Armond: ...No viruses.
Red: The virus must be on Jumper 4 or 5. Or perhaps we were wrong in
assuming these starpods contained it in the first place...
(The Energy Demon flies over, continuing to
flood Daniel with his energy)
ZL_: If I merge with you, I'll automatically become a full omnipotent!!
---Hahahahahahaa!!!
(Daniel tries to counteract with his powers)
Daniel: --Arrgghh!! --Why? You should have to earn it through experience.
That's what the X are doing!
(The rock behind him suddenly shatters into large chunks of ice)
ZL_: Well, you see... I just can't wait.
(Their bodies begin to merge together)
ZL_: Besides, it's the 24th Century! No one makes it to the top without
taking a few shortcuts.
(Daniel and the ZL Energy Demon suddenly
become one. A bright flash occurs, and the recreated being that they've
turned into appears taller and alien. It finds itself in an area of white
limbo)
* *X_Daniel: What have you done to the Universe? You destroyed it, didn't
you!?!
(The same person speaking answers, but in a different voice)
* *X_ZL(wines): Yeah but I was going to put it back.
* *X_Daniel: You don't know anything about this kind of power!
(The X curls its head and arms into its
stomach, re-dividing the mixed omnipotent energies. They find themselves
split apart, back to normal and the universe restored. They hover in the
area of the ice-asteroid cluster)
Daniel: There!
ZL_: Hey!
(Jumper 4 weaves over a couple ice rocks as
the Violator chases after, firing photon torpedoes)
Ensign Dan: Aaaaaahhh!!! There's a spider in here!!
(He looks out his window and sees the Violator firing at him)
Ensign Dan: Aaaaaahhh!!! --Two bad things at once is not good.
(He notices a bruised luminescence on one of the side control panels)
Ensign Dan: Hmmm....
(Jumper 4 speeds along, ducking a fairly
sized ice rock that suddenly gets hit by one of the Violator's torpedoes.
Puffs of snow disperse into dust on contact with the Violator's hull as it
rushes by)
Diablos: Don't destroy it! Just disable it.
Yuan: We could interface with the Jumper's computer system and take
control.
Diablos: Great idea! You are my sunshine.
Yuan: I'll just pretend I didn't hear that.
(Reality sets in and Daniel floats over to
the Energy Demon)
ZL_: You're ruining my plans!!!
Daniel: I'm not sorry.
(Daniel upper cuts the Energy Demon, and whacks his fists' across its
face, spinning the Energy Demon in mid-space. He swings his foot around at
the spinning Energy Demon, knocking it away into the distance)
ZL_(stops itself from spinning): Argh!! You will pay for that!
(The Energy Demon spits out four torpedoes of energy at Daniel. Daniel
recalls his power and blocks each one with one forearm after another)
ZL_: I hate you!!!
(The Energy Demon fires eight parallel lasers of his power, that Daniel
hovers out of they way of)
Daniel: Tisk, tisk. Not very focused today, are we?
(Daniel leans back recalling as much of his power as possible. Flames of
plasma and light surround him. He thrusts his arms forward, aiming at the
ZL Energy Demon, blasting out a chaos of large translucent semi-circles)
ZL_: AA-A--aa--aaa!!!
(The circles near the ZL, dispersing the energy that is his body, until
he's totally dissolved out of existence. Daniel just floats there
watching)
Daniel: Hmph. I didn't know I could do that.
(A light blinks on Armond's control panel
on the Phoenix-X)
Armond: Red! That virus is gone from our computer!
Red: What about the main one that was controlling it?
Armond(points at his readings): Oh that's sitting in Jumper 4.
(Diablos approaches Yuan on the Bridge of
the Violator)
Diablos: What's going on? We're linked with Jumper 4 aren't we!?
Yuan(checking the computer): Yeah! ...But we took on an unauthorized
download.
Diablos: Of what!?
Yuan: I don't know.
(They look to their left as one of their computer stations begins to light
up in electric bands. The electric bands shoot out and collect in large
clumps, radically shaping into the ZL Energy Demon)
Diablos: Uhh, Yuan?
Yuan: Yeah?
Diablos: Escape pods. Now.
(A couple escape pods shoot out of the
Violator as the Phoenix-X approaches in the far distance. Jumper 4 circles
around to the back of the Phoenix-X and docks onboard)
Red: What are we going to do about those escape pods?
Armond: Leave them. --Armond to Shuttle Bay 2.
*Ensign Dan: Ensign Dan here. Jumper 4 is back and I think I can confirm
the virus being on board it.
(Daniel enters the Bridge, feeling a little weak)
Armond: Captain, are you alright?
Daniel: Yeah. --Report.
*Ensign Dan: I think the Violator interfaced with the Jumper 4 computers.
Armond: What? Then the Violator obtained the same virus, the same way we
did.
Daniel(looks at him): But I just killed it.
Armond(shakes his head): It doesn't matter. The trampoline salesman said
the ZL virus can multiply more of its sub-viruses. It remembers everything
it learned from being on our ship and fighting you.
Daniel(looks on screen): Then we're too late.
(The ZL Energy Demon struggles, grasping to
get out of the computer frame on the Violator)
ZL_: Hhh--hh-gg-g-gghh--h!!-! ...Need... more power from the computer---!!
(The Violator sits out there in space,
giving all its power to the virus inside. On the other side of the ship,
in the distance, an enormous white block of ice approaches. The Paroga is
towing it with a tractor beam)
Wallace: The Breen will pray they never messed with us.
(Jumper 5 soars along, applying its Silencer
Beam to the huge block of ice)
Seifer: You damn straight, Wallace.
(The huge block of ice melts to a large
mass of liquid. The Paroga and Jumper 5 drop their beams and fly out of
there, letting the huge mass of water over come the Violator. The
Phoenix-X just watches)
Red: What the--?
(The Violator is broken in to, and drowned
in a chaos of water, being pushed along with it. The water begins to
re-freeze due to the element of space. The Violator is frozen inside it.
All the decks and rooms onboard are filled with water that suddenly
freezes, causing the computer systems to be killed and the ZL Energy Demon
to disappear due to lack of power. Jumper 5 and the Paroga soar over to
the Phoenix-X)
*Seifer: Yes!!
Wallace: That radiation will knock out all the computer's data.
*Seifer: Oh, uhh... Yes...!! ...I think--?
Wallace: Yes.
*Seifer: Oh, okay.
(Daniel sits in the Phoenix-X's Battle
Arena, meditating. Wallace enters)
Wallace: Well, Captain. I just wanted to say goodbye, and order you to
keep those Jumpers for all those special atmospheric planets you can't
transport through.
Daniel(opens his eyes): Thanks for all your help, Wallace. You've really
changed for the better.
Wallace: Well my cooking has been improving. ...I shouldn't have just
jumped Section 31 into this whole Phoenix-X undercover thing. It's too
much for us to handle.
Daniel(nods): You should be careful next time.
(Wallace leaves the Battle Arena. Daniel continues his meditation until
one of the screens is activated)
*Theseus: Captain! I hope that Section 31 has finally gone.
Daniel(opens his eyes): Yes. I hope you know those Jumpers you were so
eager to give us contained an omnipotent virus.
*Theseus: Omnipotent? I thought it would've been just an advanced computer
program.
Daniel: You mean you knew about it!?!
*Theseus: Of course! Why else do you think I wanted you to get those
Jumpers? We heard that the owner of Volouski's Trampoline Services was
experimenting with a new computer-teaching matrix that would advance all
the systems of a ship or station. ....Section 31 is so gullible. They did
all my work for me!
Daniel: That matrix almost killed us. How much trouble do you think we can
handle??
*Theseus: Well I guess we were wrong. Sorry about that.
(The screen cuts off)
Wallace: So, I'm off.
(Wallace walks over to the Paroga, sitting in Shuttle Bay 2. Shane and
Matt walk over)
Wallace: I really don't know what all this virus stuff was all about. --I
took the liberty of downloading a copy of each Jumper's entire database.
Section 31 will be very interested in the Hellonesian history.
Shane(pats him on the back): We're sorry to see you go, Wallace. We'll
really miss you.
Matt: Yeah, and all those times we had together.
Wallace: What are you talking about? I never even hung around either of
you!!
Shane(turns around): Oh. Then what are we doing here? Come on, Matt. Let's
go.
Matt(walks away): Who was that Wallace guy?
(They leave and Wallace gets into the Paroga)
Seifer: Getting into more meditation?
(Seifer enters the Battle Arena)
Daniel(opens his eyes): I'm trying. Being in space for so long isn't
really that good for my changeling protoplasm. I'm trying to heal it.
Seifer: How were you able to talk in space when sound can't travel there?
(Pause)
Daniel: It's an omnipotent thing.
(He closes his eyes again)
Daniel: I guess you were right about the crew defeating the actual ZL
virus.
Seifer: Yeah, but we would've been destroyed before that if it weren't for
your fight with it.
Daniel: You know, that Silencer weapon seems pretty amazing. Do you think
we could adapt it to the Phoenix-X?
Seifer(shrugs): We tried, but the Hellonesian technology is just too
different.
(Seifer leaves the Battle Arena. Daniel gets back to more meditation when
Armond suddenly enters)
Armond: Captain. We have just successfully deleted the actual main virus
from Jumper 4.
Daniel(opens his eyes): Excellent work, Lieutenant. So it's dead now, for
sure?
Armond: Yeah. The virus that was in our computer was just an extension of
the main-virus. Those Energy Demons were just extensions of the
sub-viruses that were in our computers.
Daniel(shakes his head): Yeah, but it's definitely gone for sure?
Armond(shrugs): Yeah. Unless it can travel and duplicate itself right
before I ran the Volouski Delete program on it. But there's no other
computer for it to go.
Daniel(nods): Understood.
(The Paroga speeds, via Transwarp, heading
for home)
*ZL_LOGS: Arrgghh!!! I was this close to
having all the power! --I even did have all the power until that Phoenix-X
Captain stopped me!! ...And what was he talking about with the
"experience" and the "earning?" You don't need to have
any stupid experience to reach your goals. What a moron!! He must teach
his crew to be morons too!! Anyways, he obviously wasn't the one. But I
know for sure there are more half-X being's out there, and one of them
must be willing to join with me. Thanks to that Phoenix-X, I've learned a
few more attacks...
(Wallace falls asleep at the helm of the
Paroga, not
noticing a bruised luminescence on one of the side control panels in the
back)
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