Trek Wars: When The Dead Walk

Authors Note: This story is a part of my "Trek Wars" story arc and you will not be able to fully enjoy nor understand the story unless you read my first story, I'll provide you with a link to it below. If you have already read my first story, enjoy! :).

Here's the link to the first part of my Trek Wars arc: s/6451246/1/Trek-Wars-RETURN-OF-THE-BORG

Enjoy! :)

Chapter One: First Assignment

Location: Earth, Central Georgia. Date: 2012.

Rick sighed as he continued to watch over the dimly lit camp. It was pitch black out and the only thing you could see was the moon, the fires lit by the camp and the cars parked near them. Ever since the farm went down the group had been running from house to house in search of food, shelter and most importantly, to find a safe place for Lori to give birth to the baby. The baby was due soon, within a matter of days even and Rick was getting more antsy by the second. Ever since the zombie apocalypse had brought humanity to the brink of extinction surviving was now a way of life, the only way of life. He licked his chapped lips and began to think about what he would do if Lori were to go into labor during a bad situation. How could he, how could the group handle something like that? They couldn't unless they had a safe haven and that's what scared Rick. He sighed and held his pistol tightly as he began to slowly walk back and forth past the RV and cars parked in the open field they were now camped at for the night. The night was quite warm and muggy for an early March night, Rick rubbed the sweat off of his forehead and thin beard as he started planning for the few days ahead of them. They were trying to go anywhere, find anything that would keep Lori and the baby safe for the time being but he just couldn't figure out where. Suddenly he heard a shuffling sound behind him, like someone was slowly walking up to him. Rick cocked his gun, spun around aimed it towards the sound; but it was only Herschel. Rick lowered his pistol, "Don't sneak up on me like that, I thought you were a walker." Rick whispered to the old man as he slowly turned back towards the woods. Herschel stood beside the troubled man and put his arm around him without saying a single word.

The silence lasted a few more minutes until Herschel broke it, "You know Rick, you shouldn't give up hope. Not now, not like this. We can get through this; I know we can."

Rick looked back towards the old man and let out a heavy sigh "Yeah, maybe we can but I'm not going to think a positive thought until I know that Lori and the baby are safe and out of harms way." Rick wiped a few small tears away from his bright blue eyes, "In order to find somewhere safe in time we're going to need a miracle and a lot more man power, and we don't have the man power we used to have."

The old man clasped his hand on Rick shoulder, "Don't worry Rick, Miracles happen and I believe one will. God hasn't abandoned us and there will be a miracle, trust me; I just don't know what that miracle will be."

Location: Starfleet Headuarters, San Francisco, California, Earth Date: March 5th, 2375.

Captain Archer stood in front of the Admiral Malchow's desk as the kind faced bald man begin to look over Captain Archers request to join the investigation deep into the heart of Imperial space. The Admirals office was quite quaint. There were a few objects from early 21st century Earth that Archer quickly recognized as comic books. On the admirals desk there was one lying open, it was a Superman comic from the early 2000's and it appeared to be a bit banged up. The cover looked like Superman was fighting the undead but Archer wasn't sure exactly what he was fighting. Archer sighed when he stopped looking over the comic and started to think about more pressing issues. Not too long ago a wormhole of an unknown origin appeared right in front the Enterprise-E while she was patrolling the neutral zone. The Enterprise met up with a ship from another galaxy that had came through the wormhole shortly afterwards. They also ran into another ship, this one hostile but the Enterprise was able to handle the situation on its own before the Borg arrived to complicate the situation and make things even worse. Not even the Jedi of the newly discovered galaxy were able to handle the Borg in hand to hand combat and to say these jedi were powerful was an understatement. In response to this massive change in the timeline a temporal agent from the 31st century had sent Archer and his crew forward in time to help out with the Borg. Archer was now requesting to assist the Enterprise with his newly refitted NX-01 to investigate what happened between the Galactic Imperial destroyer Executer, Darth Vaders flagship and the U.S.S. Nixon. The Nixon was sent to start collecting the weapons and technology they had lended the Empire but wasn't heard from again. The last thing they had received from the Nixon was a distress call and Archer intended to find out what happened. The Admiral sighed and looked up at the Captain from his desk, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline your request Captain, as admirable as your request to assist Captain Picard is you're not ready for what's out there."

The Captain looked down at the Admiral, "Sir, permission to speak freely?" Malchow nodded and the captain quickly spoke up, "Me and my crew are ready to take on what's out there, we were able to assist the Enterprise and the fleet destroy the Borg armada with ships left to spare. Isn't that enough?"

The Admiral leaned forward and looked over a report on his data pad that had just came in, nodded to himself and looked back up at the Captain, "Tell you what, I won't let you out of the milky way just yet but I will let you earn your stripes so to speak. There are a few freighters that need to be escorted through the badlands near Cardassian space, I want you to escort them."

The Captain didn't get what he wanted but he conceded as he walked over the the replicator to order a drink, "Yes sir, I accept and I will make it a point to prove you wrong. Computer, one Pepsi-Cola please." The replicator beeped and responded, "Error, drink ordered does not meet nutritional requirements, would you like to override?" Archer scowled at the machine, he had first tried to order a big mac from one of these things on the Enterprise-E once Daniels had dragged him to the future and it to had declined to make him his favorite junk food; that is until Picard had butted in and overrode the damned thing. Archer sighed, "No computer, a glass of pineapple juice then please." The replicator produced the glass of juice out of nowhere as if it were magic. White sparkling dots swirled around the tray until the glass materialized on the tray. Archer picked it up, took a sip from it and turned back to the Admiral, "When will this mission launch?"

The admiral looked back down at his data pad; he began to look over the mission details and snapped his fingers, "I almost forgot! The area you're going to be entering is very dangerous and prone to pirate attacks. You're going to need a lot of guidance still so I'll be sending Lieutenant Commanders Data and Worf along with doctor Leonard McCoy, ambassador Spock, captain James T. Kirk, Voyagers holographic doctor and rebel commander Luke Skywalker to lend you a hand for your first few missions."

Archer froze and almost spit out the juice he was drinking when he heard Lukes name, "But sir, he isn't one of our own. Doesn't he have a war to fight?"

The Admiral handed Archer the data pad he had been holding. Archer quickly looked at it and nodded his head while handing the pad back to the admiral. Malchow smiled at Archer and got out of his seat, "It was a pleasure speaking with you captain, also, I do hope that you prove me wrong." The admiral extended his hand and shook the captains hand firmly. The captain nodded in return, turned back toward the door the opened to the main lobby of the building and exited the office.

Captain Kirk, Spock and doctor McCoy strode along the corridors of the NX class starship heading towards the bridge. The first mission ever conducted by this ship and its crew during the 24th century was about to be launched and Kirk would be damned if he wasn't on the bridge the moment the newly refitted Enterprise NX-01 left on her "maiden" voyage. McCoy spoke up as they entered the tubrolift, "I don't know about you but I don't feel comfortable working with that damned doctor. His techniques rival those of medieval earth."

Spock raised his eyebrow as if he found the doctors quip amusing. Needless to say, he replied to the doctors statement, "Doctor, if you are referring to doctor Phlox's use of animals it is neither medieval nor primitive. In fact I have found various medical uses for almost every single one of the specimens in question."

Kirk smiled at Spock, patted him on the back and looked back towards bones with a massive grin on his face, "Yeah bones, try keep an open mind." the captain said with a chuckle. "Also, is it just me or is it unfair that the crew of the NX gets to keep and wear the original jumpsuits they were with the only modification being a Starfleet patch on their right arm while we have to suffer and wear these same damned tight uniforms that poor Jean Luc dons everyday."

McCoy shook his head, "It's just you."

Kirk laughed at McCoys obvious insult, "Oh come on Bones don't lie, now you're just trying to spite me."

Before McCoy or Spock could respond to the captain the lift opened up and revealed them to the bridge. Lieutenant Reed spotted them, stood at attention and announced their presence to the crew. "Captains on deck!" the entire bridge stood up, looking directly at the trio. Kirk nodded his head with a smile and looked over at the viewscreen. On it was Earth Space Dock and planet Earth itself. Its pristine oceans shining like a beautiful sapphire ring and its majestic clouds hovering over the continents made the view breathtaking.

"At ease everyone and congratulations on your first mission." Kirk began as he eyed captain Archer staring at him with a smile from his seat. "I know how nervous each of you must feel. You're stranded in a different time with no one familiar to you other than yourself and your crew." Kirk paused and looked over his audience, "But I do know that you have the capability to be the best crew in starfleet and that your captain is going to be the man the federation needs during times of crisis. I know we can do this, I know you can do this." The bridge clapped and stood up for Kirk who smiled in response to the reaction he received.

Archer smiled, "Captain Kirk it's a pleasure to see you again. Same goes for you ambassador, doctor." Archer stood up from his chair and shook each of the mans hands firmly, "If you're wondering where Worf, Data and Luke are they're in engineering helping Tucker tinker with the Hyper drive, they'll be up here in a little while. Lets get this mission started, Captain Kirk would you please do the honors?"

Kirk smiled, pat Archer on his back and headed towards the center of the bridge. Kirk hadn't done this in a long time and he was waiting for this moment to come again, it finally did and he savored every minute of it. "Alright Ensign, take us out." The ship broke the clamps that were holding it in position at the space dock and headed out towards the outer solar system. Soon the ship was heading past Jupiter and the crew was beginning to get excited. You could feel the excitement and tension in the air, Kirk smiled at the crew as they talked amongst themselves at their stations and smiled at the memories he had of his own crew doing that on a regular basis. He missed his friends, especially Uhura. Kirk walked closer to the viewscreen and looked out towards the stars, "Alright, the fleet of transport freighters is waiting for us at the edge of the badlands, we should be there in five minutes once we jump into hyperspace; is everyone ready?" The crew nodded while shouts of "Yes sir" were enthusiastically thrown at Kirk. Kirk paced closer to the conn and knelt down next to the short brunette ensign at her station and put his face so close to hers they could practically be kissing, "Alright Ensign, set a course for the freighters, engage."

The Enterprise shook with intensity as the Cardassian pirates continued their onslaught on the newly refitted NX-01. The pirates had came out of nowhere, the freighters and the Enterprise were cruising at warp six when they dropped out of cloak and onto the unsuspecting ships. Ten out of the twenty freighters were either captured or destroyed by the pirate fleet. The Enterprise had provided enough of a distraction for the other ten to get away safely. Captain Archer pulled himself back up to his seat, sat down and bellowed a few orders, "Kirk, take over the conn and Spock take over the science station. Evasive pattern gamma three-seven!" The ship twirled around and shook off a few of the Cardassian pirates shots but they still managed to hit and damage the left nacelle.

Malcom Reed looked over his station and cursed under his breathe, "Shit..." He held on to the tactical station for dear life as the ship yet again shook with extreme intensity. "Captain one of our nacelles has been hit, we're leaking plasma!" Reed yelled through the sound of the ship almost splitting in half.

Archer pressed a yellow button on the side of his command chair, "Bridge to engineering, can you get us to hyperspeed with the damaged nacelle?"

Datas voice came on the comm, "No sir, we won't be able to sustain a jump to hyperspeed nor warp for that matter, but I have detected a Nebula less than one hundred kilometers off of our port bow, I suggest that we head their for cover as it should disrupt their sensors."

Archer looked towards Kirk, "You heard the man Jim, lets get to that nebula." Archer flew out of his chair and sparks flew out of Malcoms stations, nearly hitting him in the face and sending him flying into a bulkhead. Malcom grabbed on to the wall and stood up, running back to tactical and tried to arm torpedoes, but they weren't arming. 'Great, it looks like our first bloody mission will be our last' he thought to himself as he continued to arm the torpedoes. Finally the light came on, the torpedo was ready to go. "Captain I know we weren't supposed to use this torpedo since this it our only one but perhaps we should see how their shields hold up against a transphasic torpedo." Malcom said with a grin.

Spock spoke up, "I would advise against that captain, the use of transphasic torpedoes in a highly unstable nebula could create a rip in the space time continuum or something equally as damaging, it isn't worth the risk." The bridge shook even more violently, although they were in the nebula they had underestimated the pirates, they had been able to track them through the thick pink nebula and were again on their heels. Kirk was trying his best to out maneuver them but it wasn't enough. He had bought them a few more minutes of time but that's all he could do. Data and the others were already hard at work trying to get the warp core back online but that would take hours. There was only one thing that could be done, and that was to take the risk.

Archer turned back towards Malcom and nodded, "It is worth the risk, I'll be damned if we're destroyed on our first mission." Malcom nodded with a smile and fired the torpedoes, the torpedoes ripped through the nebula and slammed into the lead pirate Galor class cruiser, blowing it and the few near it to smithereens. Before the bridge could breathe a sigh of relief at the sight of their aggressors retreating out of the nebula the sensors started to go wild. "Spock what the hell is going on?" Archer said as he got up out of his chair and looked over the station.

Spock turned towards the captain and raised his eyebrow, "I told you what the risks were captain and it appears that we did do something to the fabric of space time and it's gaining on us. We're going to be hit by it in the next fifteen seconds."

Archer pressed his combadge, "Captain Archer to the crew brace for impact I repeat, brace for impact!" The hole in space time swallowed the ship whole sending the ship into what seemed a downwards spiral. Archer fought to retain his consciousness as he held on to the science console next to Spock who had already collapsed to the floor. Archer collapsed to the floor and looked up towards the center of the bridge, their stood Data and Luke at the conn trying to desperately get the ships erratic movement under control, that was the last thing Archer saw. After that, everything went black.