September 23rd 2410…

"Go, go, go!" 20 year old Seth responded loudly, him and 16 year old Amanda running off.

"Why'd you have to go and enrage him?!" Amanda replied, her plasma rifle strapped to her back.

"I thought he'd appreciate a response of guts and courage!" Seth spoke in response as the two stopped, taking cover for a moment behind a bulkhead door aboard the USS Newton, the small Sabre class ship they served on.

"Voth are not Klingons, idiot!" Amanda responded, widening her eyes as she heard the logic behind his actions. He was about to respond when a pulse of Antiproton energy sparked off the door edge as the Voth had followed them… moments before beaming off the ship.

It was quiet as they kept moving and Amanda looking around.

"Soon as we find it, we're going to a simpler time. Live out our lives like normal people." Amanda responded, Seth turning startled and pulling her aside.

"Mandy, we don't even know if the thing works, let alone how to use it!" Seth replied, Amanda dragging him over to an access panel and showing him an overhead grid map of the ship.

"See those hull breaches? The bridge is gone, the core is about to breach, soon the ship will burn! Wherever and however we go, we have! To go!" Amanda responded, pointing out several chunks of the ship missing.

She turned her attention to the panel… and Seth was regretting what he was about to do to his childhood friend.

"I hope you forgive me…" Seth muttered before he slammed Amanda hard into the wall and she fell.

Amanda tried to get up but her vision was blurring and she saw him disappearing before she lost consciousness.

The next thing she knew, she jumped up from her seat, her palms flat against the glass of the small window as she saw the scattered ruins of the Newton quickly fading into the distance as her escape pod propelled itself away.

"They destroyed us entirely." Amanda turned around, finding she was in the pod with one of her crew mates, Baron. "Good call stopping the captain, Mandy. Guess who just started a war!"

"Must you always be an ass?!" Amanda replied as she rubbed her head.

"I don't think you get the picture here Cena, your little mutiny caused the firing to start, the blood to shed! Every life lost down on that ship is on you and Seth, wherever he is!" Baron responded, standing up. "If I hadn't known you so long, I'd have left you unconscious by that bulkhead but I actually want to save lives!"

"And the guy you choked to death in last week's poker game was just what, a casualty?" Amanda questioned sarcastically, Baron grabbing her by her neck.

"You know…" He spoke after a moment, letting her go. "I'm not gonna give you any more hassle. You're gonna get plenty of it from the admiralty." He spoke as he sat back down on his side of the pod.

Once the two had crashed and had left the pod behind, Amanda walked around, lost.

But her walk soon turned slow, her body in so much pain that she fell to her knees and then to her side… and heard footsteps before seeing a pair of blue eyes.

"Help…" Amanda said, her voice weak as she was lifted up and lost consciousness…

Present time, March 5th, 2411

Events which had seemed so quick at the time had sent the previous months into chaos, as the losses on both sides sparked outrage and inevitably war. As if the Alliance and Voth hadn't gotten enough fighting over the Solanae Dyson Sphere, the conflict had now spread to the Beta quadrant, the Voth front approaching inwards from the outer rim, a path which had bypassed both Borg and Iconian space.

Amanda, meanwhile, had been given a full blaming by most people. While it had been far from her intention, in the lack of Seth she had been called a mutineer, the biggest since Michael Burnham.

Staring out of the window at the passing stars, Amanda was dead silent in the prisoner transport Danube Runabout, despite the other three prisoners aboard making small talk among themselves for the whole trip so far.

"Hey."

The other three looked to the guard, who motioned for them to leave so he could talk to Amanda… they were escorted out and 25 year old Finn walked in, closing the cell door.

"You feeling okay?" Finn questioned.

"Neck still hurts…" Amanda responded.

"Can't do much except try and bare it… a lot of people seem to dislike you." Finn replied, Amanda looking at him.

"And you don't?" Amanda questioned.

"I prefer to judge people in the now. You did what you did, but I'd prefer to see what you do next." Finn answered, Amanda a bit confused as she hadn't seen much more than surviving a maximum security Federation prison in her future. "I'm not a prison guard, I'm a security chief on a starship. We're at war, all hands are needed so my captain called in for temporary hands from the prison, nothing too specific except that you were the only one asked for specifically. By name."

"Our plan was to go back 400 years or thereabouts." Amanda explained.

"Our?" Finn asked.

"Seth went berserk, slammed me against the wall… took the escape for himself." Amanda answered.

"Seems people were so fixed on blaming you that they forgot there were two…" Finn replied before she stood up. "I don't know why Captain Zayba asked for you specifically but… whatever she has planned for you, I judge on how you'd use this opportunity. Not on why you got here."

"Hopefully it works." Amanda responded, Finn pulling his jacket off and putting it on her to keep her warm.

"I'm gonna find a way to get you out of here… Zayba might already have something in mind." Finn replied.

"Why would you risk everything… for a kid?" Amanda questioned.

"You wanted a war no more than the rest of us. It's wrong for you to be kept like this for it, to be outcast by half a galaxy." Finn answered.

Amanda nodded and the two hugged before Finn left.

After docking with the Vesta class USS Arundel, he met up with Luke and Karl in the mess hall.

"Kid doing any better?" Karl asked.

"Past few months have made her very withdrawn, can't say I blame her." Finn answered as he sat down at their regular table.

"We've gotta get her out of here… this isn't right, what's happened." Luke responded.

'Her plan didn't sound so bad…' Finn thought before he went to find Captain Zayba, not liking how Amanda flinched earlier.

Somehow, it had to be done.