Star Trek: Reloaded

Chapter 18

A Klingon Bird of Prey static's into existence, above and to the right of the Orion Fleet facing the Remen Fleet who drag the Dominion Timeship closer via tractor beam.
Kelik: "Pitiful!"
The Bird of Prey fires a torpedo onto the Remen Vessel's tractor beam, deactivating it and then fires a modified disrupter-probe which clamps itself onto the Timeship's hull.

Raiden faces Lei, in the centre of the Bridge of the small Dominion Timeship.
Krone, taps at panels: "I don't get it-- the time jump is inoperative!"

Raiden punches for Lei's head, but Lei quickly blocks it. The viewscreen clicks on, and they both turn thier heads.
>Kelik: "I picked up my Timeship in this area... but this is not my Timeship!!"
Raiden, gasps: "It's you!"
Lei: "I thought you'd turn up somewhere..."
>Kelik: "In a few moments, your loly Changeling was about to cause a self destruct due to a time-jump activation under tractor beam stress. You and a few Remen Ships were about to explode!!!"
Raiden: "And what are you, the gypsy king?"
>Kelik: "I'm from five years in the future. Where you have caused a second temporal rift, that axials itself with the other temporal rift. You morons destroy the Alpha Quadrant because of this!"
Lei: "Oh my God..."
Raiden: "Oh give it up, Lei. You don't even know what the Alpha Quadrant is!"
Lei, shoves him: "You don't even know what your mom is!"
Raiden: "What!?"
He jabs Lei's chest and towards his face. Lei blocks his face and kicks Raiden in the side.
>Kelik: "Stop it!! ...I placed a temporal dampening field emitter on your hull so that you cannot time-jump."
Jackie: "My scans indicate your Klingon Bird of Prey is a Timeship itself..."
Lei: "Of course... He spent all those years on that Klingon Planet that was taken over..."
>Kelik: "I developed a time-travel device, as the Dominion fixed up this crashed Bird of Prey. Then I stole it."
Lei: "Well if you want your Timeship, it's on that Remen Ship."
Raiden: "The Remen's have kept thier hands off it on my orders."
>Kelik: "Very well then, I bid you adieu."

The Bird of Prey passes over them and heads for the Remen Fleet. Lei and Raiden face each other once again. Everyone around them is unsure at their intentions.
Lei: "Alright, nobody interfere..."
He and Raiden bring up their arms both in a ready-to-fight stance. Raiden takes the first move and jump kicks Lei's shoulder side. Lei is tilted to the side, but launches out fist after fist.
Raiden: "Ugh!"
Raiden is forced to dodge his head left and right and left and right until he's punched in the face. Blood spills from his nose as he spins a roundhouse jumpkick into Lei, sending Lei flying back.
Jackie: "This is not a good idea. Stop it!"
Thine: "Wait!
Swine: "For a moment."
Krone grabs Raiden, holding him with his liquid.
Thine: "The data on that Klingon Bird of Prey is the only thing that can tell us what the Dominion's plans are."
Swine: "It's possible they are planning on breaking the treaty."
Infinity, holds the two: "Want me to kill them?"
Jackie: "Hold it! --...Go on."
Thine: "Section 31's only concern is the safety of the Federation. That ship is the only thing that has been to the future and knows what moves the Dominion has made."
Swine: "Will make."
Krone, checks a console: "I can check the History records right here..."
The panel flickers.
Krone: "--Or not."
Lei: "Maybe it's that probe that was launched on us."
Krone, nods: "Its corrupting a lot of Systems on the Timeship."
Jackie: "You two will have to wait." She goes over to a panel and taps at it. "Listen, we may be able to isolate certain Systems and have them working without interference from that Device."
Trinity: "Or we can destroy the Device itself."
Krone: "Good idea."
Trinity nods and lets the two Section 31 operatives go. She liquefies through the ventilation ducts. Thine and Swine are suddenly beamed out.
Jackie: "Figures. They must have a cloaked ship somewhere."

Infinity goes out onto the Hull in space and spikes her liquid into the Device. She's shocked with bands of energy in pain. She sits there, weak.

An unknown Section 31 Ship decloaks and fires phasers onto the Device. An automatic shield adapts around the Device, blocking the beam.

Jackie: "They do have a cloaked ship!"

The fleet of Remen and Orion Ship's engage them, firing torpedoes. The Dominion Timeship shakes from hits.
Krone: "Ugh! We're dead in the water!"
Raiden: "If you return me, they might stop!"
Lei takes out his handcuffs and cuffs Raiden's wrist together: "Stop talking, and keep still!"

The Bird of Prey close ranges around the lead Remen Vessel, blasting disrupters into their hull. The Suliban Timeship is beamed out and onto the Bird of Prey.

The Section 31 Ship cloaks out of there, as Infinite shakes her head and jumps off the Hull into space. She transforms propuslion gills and speeds out into space aswell.
Krone: "Infinite!"
Jackie: "Hey, keep rerouting the secondary transwarp stabilizer!"
Krone gets back to work: "...She's gone again. I can't believe it."

The Bird of Prey jumps to Warp, out of there. Kelik runs to the Shuttle Bay to find his Timeship.
Kelik: "Finally!"
He accesses a panel and runs inside.
Kelik: "Now to get this thing back where it belongs. My Commander won't even know its gone from the Station."
He taps at the Helm panels.
#Computer: "Warning. Missing component."
The holoscreen shows a model of a Temporal Quantum Regulator. It is about the size of a hand, and has specific codes inscribed on its side.
Kelik: "What!?!?"
He turns away.

Meanwhile, Orion Ship after Remen Ship start Warping out of there. Leaving only one of each to handle the small Dominion Timeship. They each take turns pumping torpedoes at it.

Raiden: "Those idiots! Don't they know they can have this Vessel if they just capture it??"
Jackie: "They probably can't scan our Vessel properly."
The Computer beeps.
Jackie: "We've isolated the propulsion systems, sensors... and a cloak!"
Krone: "Activate it!"

The Dominion Timeship cloaks out of visual and sensor ranges. They then Warp out of there.

On the distant Bird of Prey, Kelik paces inside his own Timeship.
Kelik: "That is impossible to repair. The one I've created for this Vessel has already been leaked of power. I know! I'll create another one."
He leaves his Timeship and out into the Shuttle Bay. Dead Jem'Hadar lie all over the floors.
Kelik: "Curses!! The Timeship only works on that specific component. The Station's Technicians would know something was wrong."
He makes his way back to the Bridge in anger.
Kelik: "...It's those confounded Orions... and Remens; they have my component."
He stops.
Kelik: "They won't live to find out what it is..."


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