Jedi Reloaded

Volume 1: Prophecy

Chapter 1, Time Shift

JM_Yoda and The General

It has been twelve years; twelve years since the incident that transported us clear across the universe as we were flying back to America in the Dragonfly to visit my parents. It was during that flight we were transported to a galaxy similar to our own but teaming with all sorts of alien races, some of which looked like various creatures from Earth. We crashed on a remote planet and in trying to find shelter stumbled upon an immense cave, it was in this cave that we were exposed to an energy stream that granted us abilities that were pure science fiction to us growing up. Those that pulled us out told us we had been called across time and space to this galaxy to help preserve a group known as the Jedi Order and that we were now part of that order; Anna, Miriam, Moishe, and myself. My name? I am Eli, and after what seemed like another lifetime, we finally made it back to earth.

While in a galaxy far, far away we were put under the command of a Jedi Master, who like us was brought from Earth to aid the order, but had arrived 8 years before us in the same manner. He taught us everything there was to know, and after two years under his command the purge began and we had to flee. However, during our escape, our master was slain by agents of the new "Galactic Empire" as he held them off so we could flee and begin our most dangerous mission yet. Using the same methods that brought the five of us to this galaxy we laid in a course for earth, and after a sixth month journey, spent in hibernation, then we came face to face with the crew of the Federation Starship USS Enterprise D. Though the journey had taken sixth months, we were told that when they found us, we had remained in hibernation for a year.

They eventually dropped us off at a Starfleet R&D facility in orbit around Jupiter where we were charged with the task of helping Starfleet analyze and learn about the ship that we came in to develop new technologies, as well as our "altered" human biology. While a few people we encountered listened to our story, only a handful took our warning seriously about the possible Imperial threat.

We thought we had escaped, and though the Federation refused to help us take back our adopted home from the Empire, we knew we would not be able to stay hidden forever, nor would the Federation be able to sit out the conflict that would come.

It all started one morning, when we woke up feeling unusually well rested.

"Hey, honey, why do I feel like I have been asleep for a millennia?" said Anna.

"I don't know, but I feel it too. What about you Moishe?" asked Eli.

"How does the phrase 'I feel like I just woke up from a 11000-year cat-nap' sound?" replied Moishe.

"I take it that is a no. Something is not right," muttered Eli. "Computer, what is the date and time, and none of that Stardate mumbo-jumbo, Gregorian if you please?"

"Today's date is October 18th, 2375, time 0730 hours."

"Okay well that's not it," sighed Anna, who by now had a concerned look on her face. Anna got out of bed, still in her gown, and looked at her husband. "I sense that this change may have be a sign of a shift in the Force, I am going to check what has happened while we were 'asleep'"

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" muttered Moishe.

Eli responded saying, "You always have a "bad feeling" about everything. The Federation could defeat the Borg before we complete Project Hornet's Nest and you would have a bad feeling about it," as he got out of bed and put on a robe.

Just then Anna came running back into the room, with a look of horror on her face and a data tablet in her hand. She shoved the tablet at Eli and said, "Look at this, this image of Earth was taken two minutes ago."

Eli looked down at the image on the tablet, what he saw was not the Earth he had visited just two days ago to give a status report on Project Hornet's Nest to Starfleet command, it was an earth that according to the image on the tablet was dotted with masses of living biological land masses that rose kilometers above the Earth's surface. It was then he felt cold all-of-the sudden, and shivered, he turned to his wife and Moishe, who had by now gotten off the bed and was stretching on the floor, and asked, "Is it cold in here or is it just me?" The nodded in agreement, to which Eli responded by asking, "Computer what is the temperature in the room?"

"The current ambient temperature in this room is 25℃."

"Has the temperature changed in this room in the last 5 minutes?" questioned Anna.

"Negative."

"Well, if it is not that Eli, then what just happened?" asked Anna.

Before Eli could answer the doorbell rang.

"It must be Miriam," said Moishe, "you may enter Miriam."

The door opened in walked Eli's younger sister Miriam. After the door closed behind her, she looked at her brother and sister-in-law and tried to hold back a laugh, but the expression was quickly replaced with that of concern as Eli thrust the tablet at his sister, saying, "What do you make of this? Did you feel a chill just a moment ago?"

"Yes, and I think what has happened is the doing of the Empire."

"Oh, come on sis, like manipulating time is going to help them find us. Starfleet has intercepted and disabled all of the probes that the Imperial Navy has sent thus far. Oddly enough most of them are concentrating on specific systems, like Axanar, Terra, Shinwa, and Gallia."

"Actually, only the ones they have caught entering the galaxy through the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma quadrants," Moishe said chiming in.

"He has a point Eli," affirmed Anna, "recent events with this time shift and this stuff called 'Scub' appearing on earth seem rather out-of-the-ordinary."

"Scub? Did you say Scub?" asked Moishe with a look of bewilderment on his face, "I had a dream last night, in which I felt like I was back in that temple we crashed near and I kept hearing that word, as well as 'Gekko', 'find', 'scar', 'ally' and 'Coralian', what is a Coralian, a type of fish?"

Then without prompting, the computer replied, "Coralian: a manifestation of Scub Coral, that comes in three-forms; Kute-Class, Antibody, and Human."

They all look at each other with expressions of confusion and puzzlement. Miriam broke the silence, saying, "I think we ought to try again to commune through meditation, maybe we will find the answers as-to-what-is going on in the Force."

"Let's meet in Holodeck 6 in three hours then," said Eli.

"Very well, at 1130 hours," replied Miriam.

As Miriam walked out the door, Moishe looked at Eli and Anna and said, "I have a very bad feeling about this."

"Oh, will you give it a rest for once! You are so high-strung!" Anna said yelling at Moishe.