Star Trek: Reloaded

Chapter 16

The Timeship seemed to be held in space, like a paused video.
Lei checked his two 9mm Handguns: "Hey, the bullet's are back!"
Krone was too busy, tapping strands of his liquid onto the panels, trying to access thrusters: "It is no use... The thrusters are fractured in a completely slower time-frame!"

Row's of recently assimilated Federation Officer's, stood in regeneration units on the larger Borg Cube. The Borg recieved all thier thoughts.
#Borg: "Scientists... insufficient knowledge."
Pause.
#Borg: "Searching new memories for plausible subjects for assimilation..."

Surfaced along the cieling structure, Infinity watched the Starfleet Officers below hooking the Transmodulator into consoles and recievers in the Technology Research Room, on the Ticonderoga. Energy began to flow along tubes.
Gero: "The injectors are at perfect efficiency."
Kayla: "Great!"
A few Officers walk by, nodding to Gero, an old man.
Kayla: "You know, Dr. Gero, it is an honour working with such a brilliant scientist."
Gero: "Oh, come on now. If my collegue, Darpa, heard you say that, he'd have a fit."
They shared a laugh as the Transmodulator was then activated.

Meanwhile, the Federation Starship Titan sped through at high Warp.
Charn: "Captain... there's a general distress signal going out from the Rift Project. The Borg are attacking."

The Ticonderoga shook like crazy. Gero fell onto his back: "Ugh!!"
Kayla: "Doctor!"

Two Borg Sphere's sped over the Rift and engaged the fleet. One Sphere blasted torpedoes onto the Enterprise, and kept on a heading stright for the Ticonderoga... they were after something.

Captain Riker paced the Bridge of the Titan.
Jackie, walks over: "Sir, I'd just like to personally thank you for letting me come along the Rift Mission."
Riker: "This is not the time Ensign. The Borg are attacking the fleet."
He looked back on screen.
Jackie had to think for a second: "Sir! The Borg aren't after the fleet. They only want an intelligent scientist."
Riker: "What's the difference? They get the fleet, they get any Scientist.... and we have our best Scientists working on that Rift."

Lei walked over to Krone on the Timeship.
Krone: "I have the specifics of the jump that occured ahead of us. I may be able to recreate it."
Lei, looks out a window: "So, if we're in slow time, and all of the Galaxy is in a faster time than us... then won't we be freed any minute?"
Krone: "Yes. It has been only 10 minutes in here."
Lei looks out the window, seeing all the Federation Ships moving around, like a fast forward video.

Borg Sphere's and incoming Cubes, fly around attacking Federation Ship's, really, really fast.

Lei: "Hahaha! That's so funny! ...Terrible... but funny."

The Titan fly's in, blasting trans-phasic torpedoes onto the Borg Cube cutting lasers into the Ticonderoga's Shields. It begins to explode.
#Borg: "Systemmss-- ffail--urrre!!@%^!!"

Infinity takes the shape of an Officer on the Bridge of the Ticonderoga, as its blasting a beam into the Rift as all the Borg chaos is happening all around.
#Riker: "Riker to Ticonderoga, you gotta get out of there!!"
Fenton: "Almost there... --Just give us one more minute. If we reach a compensation level of 77 particles, it'll be enough to degrade the Rift!!"

Riker jerks his head in curse: "Dammit Fenton! --Ensign, get to a console. What's their output level!?"
Jackie links computers with the Ticonderoga: "...68... 71... 74..."

A deathening black crust suddenly sours throughout the internal structure of the cloud Rift... Krone realizes the Timeship is free.

Riker: "Ensign. What's their radial output?"
There's no response.
Riker, turns aorund: "Ensign?"
He finds Jackie gone as the Turbolift Doors at the back just close.

The Cube partially explodes fire and plasma.

Jackie beams aboard the Timeship. She makes her way to the Bridge: "Lei...?"
Lei turns around, seeing her: "Jackie!"
Krone: "Ohhh, so she's Jackie."
Jackie: "I'm here under permission from Admiral Ross himself. He wants to meet you."

The Titan and the Enterprise swoop in and tactor beam the Ticonderoga away at full impulse.

Krone taps at the panels frantically...
Thine: "Hold it...!"
Swine: "...Right there!"
Two Section 31 Operatives come out the corner of the back of the Bridge. They had just beamed in.
Thine, aiming a disrupter: "We're confiscating this Timeship."
Krone stops.
Jackie, turns to the Operatives: "Who are you??"

The Cube can't contain itself any longer.

Thud! Something enters the Timeship from outside.
Swine: "What was that?"
Krone: "Warning. We are too close to the Borg!"

The Cube explodes into huge pieces. These pieces go flying out, catching time fractures, so that the explosion happens in slow motion.

This gives Krone enough time to access the consoles... He jumps the Timeship out of there-- disappearing out of existence, and into another time and spacial co-ordinates.

The Enterprise and the Titan had succesfully cleared the Ticonderoga. Unfotunately, the Lexington suffered major damage and was flaming as it passed aside the Ticonderoga, accidentally affecting thier shields.

A Borg Sphere passed by, piecring a transport beam through. They had taken Doctor Gero.

Thine: "Take this!!"
He blasts a disrupter pulse across the small Bridge at Krone. Krone quickly liquefies out of the way as the pulse blows a console.
Lei: "Hey, here's a reciept!"
He leaps accross, with his foot flying out and spin kicks Thine's disrupter out of his hands.
Jackie: "Lei, watch out!!"
The disrupter is caught by another liquefied Changeling around. Swine aims his disrupter right up to Lei's temple.
Swine: "I don't think you'll be able to watch at all..."
He's about to press the trigger, until the other Changeling, Infinity, pierces a liquid tentacle through it. She circles around, taking Swine and Thine to the floor.
Krone: "Infinity!!"
Infinty: "Krone!"

Krone takes shape, and approches her, reuniting thier presence. Jackie accesses the Helm: "Where are we?"
Lei jogs over: "Kansas?"

Outside the Timeship exists nothing but white space... a nothingness.

Lei: "What the--?"
Jackie: "We seem to be stuck in a temporal plain of existence."

Meanwhile, Thine and Swine are held by Infinity. She links one of her strands into Krone's chest, sharing her thoughts... her feelings.
Thine: "Let us go, you pathetic jello people!"
She roughly shoves him into the wall as she continues linking with Krone on the other side.

Lei and Jackie sift through scans.
Lei: "...This must all be a dream."
He paces.
Lei: "I know I'm going to wake up in bed, or in my Office any second now..."
He closes his eyes.

He'd no idea where he was, even for the future.

Jackie: "Got it!"
The Timeship re-appeared back in normal space.
Jackie: "It was just a temporal set back caused by left over radiation from the Rift."
She glanced over at Lei.
Jackie: "Are you okay?"
Lei, opens his eyes seeing the stars: "Yeah. I think I'm starting to enter a mental shock from all this..."
Krone let Infinity keep holding the others as he walked over.
Krone: "Lei. Are you alright?"
Lei: "Yes, I'm fine. I just..."
He looks to the side.
Lei: "I'm from the past."
Krone and Jackie glance at each other and then back at Lei.
Jackie: "I know."
Krone: "A man in any time is still a man."
Lei, looks up at them, and then out the window...

The Timeship sat out in space, a good distance from a fleet of four Remen Warships who were facing a fleet of five Orion Transports and Cruisers... This wasn't your average traffic jam.


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