Star Trek: Reloaded

Chapter 10

The Klingon Bird of Prey blasts' a photon torpedo at them. But before they can be hit, the Changeling liquefies a lasso around Lei, pulling the both of them out of the way.

The grassy field explodes in a blossom of chaos, with dirt flying everywhere.

Lei and the liquefied Changeling have rolled to the side, against a building, safe.
Lei: "...Ughhh..."
He opened his eyes, as Krone took humanoid shape beside him.
Lei: "You... saved me life."
Krone: "As you have done for me."

Before any of them could have continued the conversation, the huge Bird of Prey Starship hovered around catching a glimpse of them. They knew they couldn't escape a second shot.
Krone: "Why aren't they firing?"

The Captain on the Bird of Prey suddenly recieved a transmission from one of the nearby Structures.
>Nargh: "You patoks!! You're firing on Klingon soil!!"
Sigon: "You wanted those intruders annhialated."
>Nargh: "Did I also say that I wanted the Outpost destroyed on the side!?"
Sigon then cut the transmission out in anger: "Urgh! I have much more important things to do."
He walks over to his second in command at a station.
Sigon: "What is the status of the Jem'Hadar ship?"
Maze: "They have broken a subspace link into the Fleet's Klingon Database, and have downloaded everything."
Sigon, slams his fist against a console: "Damn! When will the Fleet get here?"
Maze: "Not for a couple hours..."

Lei sat up, and noticed a movement as he looked through the doors of a nearby Building inside. Something was clinging to the cieling in the shadows, watching him.
Lei: "There he is!"

Lei got up and ran. He leaped over large sitting clumps of land, slid down crevices, and made it to the door. He busted the door more open entering a dark corridor. Kelik scurried along the cieling escaping deeper inside.

Krone: "Huh??"
Krone looked over and saw his Timeship being investigated by Klingon's. He ran over.

Gergth: "What is this thing?"
Trel: "I don't know. Let's destroy it."
Krone, liquefies over: "No!"
He slammed himself against the parked Timeship, intending on going inside.

In the Command Centre Building, Nargh took another stab at communications with his only Ship in range.
Nargh: "Captain Sigon! You are to apprehend the Alien Vessels for research."
>Sigon: "I am not a puppet, to do your every bidding!"
Nargh: "Yes you are! Now get them!"

The Bird of Prey hovers past the Merchant Centre and locks a tractor beam onto the Timeship and Remen Shuttle which were both sitting on the walkway.

Krone was suddenly shocked by pain sticks, as his Timeship began to hover off the ground. Krone hit the walkway in pain as he was suddenly surrounded by Klingons. The Bird of Prey took in both Ships.
Trel: "Well look what we have here..."
Krone quickly liquefied his leg out, knocking out a Klingon with great accuracy.

Meanwhile, Lei tackled Kelik as he was entering an elevator platform. The platform started moving upwards in the building as Kelik grabbed Lei and threw him on the platform floor.
Kelik: "Erk!!"
Lei grabbed a loose cable and swung it around, tactfully. He faked a hint that he was going to fling it at Kelik's left side but didn't, causing Kelik to want to dodge right. Lei extended the cable to the right, as it wrapped around Kelik.
Lei: "Gotcha!"
He came in close and slammed Kelik against a railing.
Lei: "I saw you frozen on one of your Ships. Either you got free, or there are two of you!"

The platform ascended into the fresh air, outside. They found themselves on the roof of the Building. Kelik ran... Lei ran after...

Kelik leaped off the Building as his cables unraveled, as the Bird of Prey was hovering by. Lei stepped off the side of the Building, soaring through the air, right after him. He rolled along the wing of the Brid of Prey. The shields weren't on.
Kelik: "You never give up, do you!?"
Lei, stands: "Not really."
Kelik turned to face Lei again. He was going to give this another shot... He jabbed a fist out, and hunched a knee forward; which Lei shifted his head to the side and angled his body parallel to dodge. Lei hooked his arm under Kelik's arm and around Kelik's back neck.
Kelik: "Erk!"
Lei threw Kelik around to disorient him and give distance, and kicked Kelik in the side.
Kelik: "Argh! ...You're friend never gave up either."
He took a few breaths, and then attacked again.

They both jumped and kicked back and forth on top of the wing of the hovering Bird of Prey, fighting. The daytime sky in the background.

Lei: "What are you talking about?"
While a complicated jab angle, he locked his arm around Kelik's. They both stopped for a second.
Kelik: "Ha! I don't know for sure, but I think he persuaded the Remen's to work with him."
Impatient, they let go as Kelik arched a kick around which Lei purposely locked his leg around. They stopped again.
Lei: "What about you; who are you working for?"
Kelik unraveled his leg and punched Lei in the shoulder, giving them distance again: "No one. Working for someone is so mediocre."

They both suddenly beamed out, and into the Bird of Prey. They found themselves approached by Sigon.
Sigon: "We have your Timeship, and to us, it seems Dominion based technology... None of you are from the Dominion are you?"
He voice was condescending.
Lei: "No, but I might know people."
Maze: "Captain!"
The sensors picked up something that inturpted this meeting.
Maze, went through consoles: "The Jem'Hadar vessel has taken orbit. They've beamed off Professer Felkane from the Science Institute!"
Sigon: "He is, like, the smartest scientist we have on the Outpost..."

The Jem'Hadar Battle Cruiser, the Neikada, sits in orbit.
Neyern: "Hah! They're fleet isn't even here..."
Torpedoes rained up from the Planet.
'First: "But they are firing at us."

The Bird of Prey flew up out the atmosphere and opened fire at the Neikada. Thier hull breeched violently.
Sigon: "Great shot!"

Sigon's attention glared only at the viewscreen. Lei looked to the side, finding that Kelik had already escaped.
Lei: "Huh??"
Lei ran out into a hallway and made his way around the Ship interior.

On the Planet, the Changeling Krone whacks the last of his tentacles at one of many Klingon's. He re-instates his shape, looking around at all the fallen Klingon's he had beaten.
Krone: "If only someone were here to see all that."
He then shot himself into the next Building, and liquefied into a control room. He picked up signs of his Timeship, on the Bird of Prey flying above the Planet.

Lei made his way, passing Klingon after Klingon who were too busy as the Ship shaked under fire, Lei making his way into the Shuttle Bay. There he found the Timeship, wired into the Ship's main computer and a couple Klingon's working at the Timeship's back engines.
Lei: "What is going on here?"
Poroka: "We are trying to get power from this thing. Who are you?"
Lei: "That's a Chronometric Drive. Your Ship is probably not compatible!"
Poroka: "Oh, what do you know?"
Lei then grabbed a wire that was hooked into the Timeship, away from Poroka: "Give me that!"
Poroka, takes it back: "No!"

Krone continued to watch on a viewscreen as the Bird of Prey flew through space, around being hit by energy currents from the Neikeda.

The Bird of Prey passes underneath the Neikeda, blasting a disrupter pulse into thier engine's. The bottom part of the Neikeda explodes, but the Neikeda quickly stabs an overloading beam onto the passing Bird of Prey. The Bird of Prey is overloaded with energy.

This causes the Timeship to be overloaded with energy, activating its Chronometric Drive. Lei and a couple Klingons quickly run inside to see its controls.
Lei: "...Of course."

The Bird of Prey statics out of existence. Krone reads his sensors, finding that they have gone.

The Bird of Prey statics back into existence, a week later. The Planet is infested with Jem'Hadar vessels. One of which opens fire at them, knocking them into orbit, and another which knocks them into the atmosphere.
Sigon: "What the---!?!?"

The Bird of Prey soars down from the sky, on a crooked course, slamming right into the centre field which was blasted earlier, surrounded by all the Outpost buildings. It seems that the Outpost had been taken over and was now operating under Vorta and Jem'Hadar law.

Sigon was not stupid and figured all this out quickly through sensor sweeps. He glanced over at his companion.
Maze: "I don't know what to say sir... we traveled through time...."
Sigon, punches a wall unit: "Argh!! That Nargh is the patok! How could he let this happen to the Outpost!?!"

The Bird of Prey was crashed upon the pile of dirt and grass near the buildings, but was okay. Lei made his way off the Ship and stepped outside, where he started. He sighed.
Lei: "...Green aliens..."

He suddenly felt a pull, as a Changeling liquid wrapped around him. He found himself brought into a corner, beside one of the Klingon Structures.
Krone: "Lei!"
Lei: "Hey...!"
Krone: "I calculated by the energy readings you were jumping for a week, so I came back here."
Lei: "What are you talking about?"
Krone: "Your time jump. While you were doing that, I went out and found this guy..."
He pulled away a plating against the wall to reveal a man, a Human, who was tied up and conscious. The man looked up at Lei, recognizing Lei.

It was Raiden.


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