Star Trek: Reloaded

Chapter 12

So many Ships, almost two entire Federation Fleets, hold position around the Sector-wide Temporal Rift; a giant white anomaly, torn through space.

The Ticonderoga tractor beams the Dominion Timeship into thier Shuttle Bay. Lei looks over to his Changeling companion.
Lei: "Argh! I can't believe this! ...Can you get us out of here?"
The Krone liquid swoops over to the consoles and taps at them quickly.

The back door is suddenly blown out, as the Timeship is surrounded by Federation Officer's who charge in and surround Lei and Krone with Phaser Rifles.
Fenton: "Don't move!!"
Lei and Krone glance at each other as Lei raises his arms.
Lei: "...I'll get us out of this."

Lei grabs the Rifle of a nearby Officer, and smacks him in the face with its handle, knocking him out. Lei spins the Rifle to his own use and runs right into the group, blasting phaser beams left and right.

The Officers immediately fire phasers, but miss before Lei runs past, phasering out a kneeling Officer. Lei jumps out the Timeship landing on the Shuttle Bay floor.
Stan: "He's escaping!"

Lei makes another run through a larger group of Officers, blasting phaser beams, knocking Officer after Officer out, until a single Federation Officer from the side, tackles him. They hit the floor as the other Officers have them surrounded indefenitely.
Lei: "Ugh!!!"
He's apprehended by two Officer's and picked up to his feet. The Commander approaches him.
Fenton: "Who are you?"
Krone steps out the Timeship and walks over.
Lei: "We're... from the future."
Fenton nods to the two Officer's to let him go.
Fenton: "The future?"
Krone nods.
Lei: "We were after that other Timeship. It was stolen by a criminal named Raiden."

It was a partial lie. Hopefully it would hold them over.

Fenton: "...We did detect that other Timeship."
She looks down and then back up at them.
Fenton: "I'm sorry. We weren't sure about you."
Lei: "It's understandible. Please, will you let us continue on our mission?"
Fenton: "That depends."
Lei: "On what?"
Fenton: "On the circumstances of your next timejump. This part of space isn't exactly in the best condition."
Krone glances over at the both of them and nods: "I'll assess the situation."

He walks back into the Timeship to access the computers. Lei and Fenton walk in after.
Krone: "She's right. This may take a while for me to readjust the chronometric sequencers."
Fenton: "My personnel is currently working on temporal sciences dealing with the Rift. Perhaps they could share thier data with you. Could I offer you a meal or something in hospitality?"

Lei's mind was too much focused on his enemy, he didn't realize how hungry he was.

Lei: "...Well... uhhh... yeah, I guess. I am kind of hungry."
Fenton: "Follow me."

Later, the last Officer leaves the Ten-Forward to get back to duty, as Lei continues to scroll through replicator menu's at the wall panel. He makes a plate of food and brings it over to the Bar to hang out with the Bartender.
-Illia: "You love that replicator, don't you?"
Lei: "Do you know an Ensign Seanna Jackie?"
-Illia: "No, I don't think so. I get a lot of people in here everyday... Ugh. Especially since this whole Tear thing that's been going on..."
Lei, eating: "Tear thing?"
-Illia: "Yeah, we've got two whole Fleets of Science Vessels out here trying to find a way to stop it. It grows everyday, consuming space. People want to come in here to try to forget everything, even if it's for a short while."
Lei stops eating his meal and gets up. He slowly walks over to a window and peers out at the spectacular display of energy out in space...
Lei: "Wait a second... I---"
Thine: "--Lieutenant Lei Sanchez."

Two men stood at the doorway, and then entered, both eyeing Lei.

Swine: "We didn't think we'd ever see you again."
Thine: "We heard about your arrival just five minues ago."
Swine, turns to Thine: "When we last saw him, over a month back, we did a background check..."
Thine, turns to Swine: "...He's not from the future; he's from the past."
Swine: "Our cloaked vessel is out of range; I'll go alert Commander Fenton instead."
Thine nods, agreeing to this... But Lei skips over and grabs Swine's shoulder.
Lei: "No wait! Heh, heh... You don't have to do that... Come on, let's have a drink or something."
Swine immediately pulls his shoulder away: "Eu, he touched me."
Thine: "That's disgusting."
Swine and Thine immediately pull out Pulse Disrupters and aim them at him.
Swine: "You're not getting away this time."
-Illia: "Wait a second, who the hell are y---"
Thine aims his Disrupter at her: "Don't interfere, lady. This is a very dangerous man."
Illia puts up her hands, stepping back... when suddenly Lei stretches out his foot and kicks left, knocking Swine's Disrupter out his hands, and then right, knocking Thine's Disrupter out his hands.
Swine: "Owe!!"
His Disrupter hits off a table to the floor, as Thine's Disrupter goes flying across the other side of the room, pausing in mid air. Lei, Illia, and the two Operatives notice this.
Thine: "What the--?"
Lei: "It's just floating there!"
Illia, steps back: "Oh my God... our shields must be defecting. The Rift's effects are moving into the Ship!"
The Disrupter suddenly picks up its momentum again and hits the floor.

This becomes but a side-concern as Swine approaches Lei and they both start exchanging quick punches and blocks. Lei's face is punched on its right, knocking his stance to his left.
Lei: "Argh! --What the...? You guys can't fight!"
Swine, kicks: "We've had a little time to practice since our last encounter with you."

Lei grabs Swine's foot in mid air, and redirects it to the side. Thine jumps into thier fight area and starts spin kicking one foot after another. Lei is hit again and again and then sent back onto the floor in pain.
Lei: "Argh!!"

Lei jumps onto his feet and kicks at them both with one foot, hitting Swine and then Thine. Thine and Swine then break formation, circling Lei, as Swine apprehends Lei's arms and Thine force kicks Lei in the stomach, sending Lei over a table.

Lei slows in mid air, passing over the table, due to the temporal interference.

Thine and Swine glance at each other not giving into expressions.
Thine: "Interesting."
Swine: "...Problematic."

Lei speeds up to normal time, flying into a bunch of chairs on the floor: "Augghh!!"

He quickly gets up, noticing the distorted strands of altered space slowly passing through the windows and into Ten Forward, as he tosses a chair through one of them.

The chair speeds right through it, not giving enough time for Swine to move out of the way as Swine is hit and knocked back against the Bar, blood flying.
Swine: "Gggh!!!"

Thine runs over, kicking his foot at Lei, which Lei dodges. They both jab and redirect thier arms at each other, stepping around their fight area, falling into different time-distortions.

Stan enters the Shuttle Bay and runs into the Bridge of the Dominion Timeship in panic.
Stan: "Stop! Stop it!!"
Krone is working on three panels at once with liquified arms, with two friendly Officers at other panels.
Krone: "What?"
Stan: "Whatever it is you're emitting from your deflector is interfereing with our shields!!"
Krone: "I emit nothing."
Stan just looks at him in confusion.

Thine and Lei fight, moving over to the Bar, not knowing they are in the most concentrated confusion of distortions in the room.

Lei jumps up, slowing in mid air, realizing that Thine is existing much slower. Lei kicks Thine in the head, sending him against the Bar.
Thine: "Aa-ah-h!!"

Swine leaps from behind, tackling Lei out of mid air and onto the Bar table in slow motion. They slide along, smashing through sitting glasses and bottles, with pieces of shattered glass blossoming out even slower.

This indicates an upward spreading of slow-time as Lei and Swine's movement away from this speeds them up. Time increases as momentum gives and Lei quickly grabs his plate.
Illia: "Aaaaa!!"

Swine is over Lei, but Lei smacks Swine across his face with the plate. Food and blood goes flying out, passing the slow-time distortion.

Thine gets up in pain, noticing the food and drops of blood in mid-air slowing even more than he is. This leads his eye to Lei and Swine who are punching and kneeing each other over the Bar in increased time. His eye can barely follow thier movements as they are way too fast.
Thine: "Ugh-- I can't believe--"

He doesn't bother to finish his train of thought as he decides to pick up the chair from before. He walks over to the quick moving Lei and Swine, trying to decide when to throw it.

Both lying on top of the Bar, Lei and Swine kick, punch, knee, spin, jab, redirect, grab, turn, head-butt, force-kick--- They both spin horizontally as Lei kicks Swine out of the distortion and into normal time, into Thine.

Swine takes Thine to the floor, clumsiliy as the chair is left in mid air, that of which Lei sees all in slow motion... Lei looks up at the chair and circles himself around to kick it with his foot, altering its direction of momentum and speed.

The chair then rotates and falls to a 45 degree angle. --The chair crashes into Thine and Swine, knocking Thine out and forcing Swine's head against a floor-step, knocking him out.

With speed Lei jumps off the Bar, slowing through the slow-distortion into the air, and then speeding up to normal time when his feet hit the floor. He looks down at the unconscious Thine and Swine.
Lei: "That was unconventional."

He grabs Illia's hand leading her out Ten Forward and down the corridors.

Meanwhile in the parked Timeship, Stan watches as Krone taps at his consoles in confusion.
Chad, scans with his tricorder: "Lieutenant! It's not the deflector, its the multi-deranium regenerative hull. It has its own inverse polarty frequency."
Stan, sighs in anger: "Okay. Send it back out into space."
He glances at Krone, who understands.

Lei and Illia run down abandonned corridors.
Illia: "Looks like the whole Deck was evacuated because of the invading time-folds."
Lei: "Those folds... they're from that big Rift outside?"

They take a tubrolift.
Illia, nods: "The Rift's been there for well over a month."
Lei: "This wouldn't have been due to a Borg Sphere would it?"
Illia: "I did hear conversation over its origin being caused by a Borg Transwarp Conduit..."
Lei, looks to the side in deep thought.

The three Officers leap off the Timeship as it begins hovering in the Shuttle Bay. The Timeship's back door closes as the Timeship impulses out the Bay's forcefields and into space.

The Timeship just sits there, unmoved.

Lei and Illia enter the Bridge of the Ticonderoga. The Dominion Timeship is on screen with the Rift energy covering its background.
Mint, tactical: "Shields at 98-percent."
Fenton: "The Timeship's stuck in a distortion. It's frozen in time."
Mint: "...The Rift claims yet another victim."
Lei: "What? ...This Rift thing is all my fault. I have to put a stop to this."
Fenton, walks over: "Not unless you know how to alter temporal anomaly."


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