Star Trek: Reloaded

Chapter 13

A group of Science Officers and Commanding Officers meet in the Briefing Room of the Enterprise. This public meeting is transmitted to the fleet and open for instant messages from any ship.

Interactive. Lei thought as he crossed his arms and leaned back against a wall on the Ticonderoga. The Bridge crew huddled around looking up at their small viewscreen at the back.

>Picard sat at the head of the table.
>Kayla: "...If we could alter a chronometric particle beam and decelorate its molecular flow, we could fire it into the core of the Rift and mend the space-time continuum."
>Seven of Nine: "Theoretically. Although the Fleet has no convergence dianametric enhancer device that would simulate the choronometirc particle concept."
The Federation was still unable to deal with thier problem.

...Until two Borg Cube's and three Sphere's approached the Rift and started examining it.

Lei stood up from the back wall, watching this as everyone else watched this on-screen in awe.

The Borg ignored the other Ship's in the Fleet, engaging sub-molecular sensor sweeps in different areas of the Rift... They were studying it, everyone realized.

The Bridge crew was too busy as Lei was grabbed by Thine and Swine, and brought into the Briefing Room. They cuffed him, but he quickly kicked Swine in the side. Swine kicked his leg out to block another kick by Lei.
Lei: "Ergh!"
Swine: "Humph!"
Thine, pressed a comm-unit implaneted under the skin of his wrist, speaking to a superior Section 31 Officer: "...Yes, the Enterprise is planning that selected Officer's in the Fleet infiltrate a Borg Cube for a type chronometric device."

Lei pushed down a high kick from Swine and backed off. He kneeled and took out his Handgun from his ankle strap, aiming at Swine.

Thine finished talking and activated a nearby console, showing a Jem'Hadar Vessel approaching the great Rift area: "Section 31 knows everything that is going on, except why that Vessel is here..."

Swine was too preoccupied with Lei. He put up his hands, but Lei suddenly then fell through the floor... as if his molecular density was changed.

He fell through the cieling of someone's Quarters and hit the floor hard. His cuffs were off, but he was still holding the Handgun.

Up in the Briefing Room, Thine and Swine saw that thier handcuffs were sitting on the floor: "What happened!?"
Swine: "We have to find him!"

An Ensign stepped out her shower, placing her towel around her naked body as she entered her living room: "Aaahh!!! What's going on here!?"
Lei got up and examined his arms... his molecules were fluxuating and he could see his arms fading in and out of existence: "What the--??"
Vicky, picked up a tricorder: "Are you okay...?"
Lei: "I-- I don't know."
He passed his hand through a chair.
Vicky walked over, reading her tricorder: "You're being transported...!"

Lei suddenly found himself on the Bridge of the Dominion Timeship; Krone turned around from his chair, humanoid with liquified arms from working on the consoles.
Krone: "You're alive!"
Lei: "Huh? ...Did you just transport me?"
Krone: "Yes, but the Timeship is stuck in this slow time frame... --Are you alright?"
Lei: "Yeah, thanks."
Krone: "Okay."

Lei suddenly then found himself back in Vicky's Quarters, she was still scanning him.
Lei: "Huh? ...I'm back?"
#Thine, voice over comm: "Bridge to Ensign Vicky. There is an intruder in your Quarters. Apprehend him."
Vicky, taps her commbadge on her night table: "Aye..."
Lei didn't have time for this and walked for her door.
Vicky: "Hold it right there, please."

Lei continued walking until Vicky grabbed his arm, spinning him around and slamming him against the wall: "Ugh!!"
Vicky: "Trying to sabatoge our efforts in sealing the Rift?"
Lei: "Ergh-- no!!"
Vicky: "The Rift is extended into the Prexis Sector, and has destroyed Phelcon Prime. My cousin was killed!"
Lei: "Please believe me! I want to put a stop to this Rift as badly as you do! ...The Fleet has a plan to do it. Maybe you can help them infiltrate the Borg..."
Vicky, lets go of Lei in deep emotion: "That won't work. The Borg are nothing but trouble."
Lei, looks to the side and then back at her: "...I agree. --Would the..." He searched his memory for the name, "...Jem'Hadar have one of those particle devices?"
Vicky had watched the confrence earlier: "...A device that could simulate a chrono-feed...?" She thought about it for a second. "Yeah... I think they would. It's called a Veriban Transmodulator. They use it in thier Warp drives."
Lei was coming up with a plan...

The Jem'Hadar battle cruiser, the Neikada, floated past two Federation Ships near the Rift. The Borg Cube on the other side tried hailing them.
#Borg: "Information update..."
There was no response from the Neikada.
#Borg: "...Information update," the Borg demanded. "We are the Borg. Transfer selectively captured Scientists over for assimilation."

Silence.

The Neikada came to a stop, the crew was dead and blood leaked all over the ship. A liquefied Changeling then destructively broke out one of its airlocks into space.

Vicky shoved Lei out her Quarters so she could get dressed. Lei found himself surrounded by Thine and Swine.
Lei: "Hey, are you guys lovers or something?"
Thine flung out his fist in anger; Lei blocked this and fought him rapidly, then turned to Swine fighting him with rapid kicks and blocks. They all spin around as Lei takes turns close range fighting both Thine and Swine, alternating between the two... until he punches through Thine like a ghost.

They all stop and glance at each other until Lei finds himself back on the Bridge of the Timeship. Something strange was going on here...
Lei: "I'm back!"
Krone: "You never left."
Lei: "Yes I did! I was transported again!"
Krone turns to his console, examing the transporter logs: "I know I did not see you leave this room."
Lei looks over to his arm which is still fluxuating. He wondered if it would ever stop.

The other escaped liquefied Changeling, floated through space away from the Jem'Hadar battle cruiser. It noticed the Ticonderoga which was sitting in front of the Timeship that was caught in the Rift. The Changeling slammed itself against the hull of the Ticonderoga and made its way inside so it could read thier sensor logs.


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