Star-Date 1256.9
"When are we going to be at our new home, Daddy?" A small girl with green skin and pink hair tied up in a ponytail, wearing a blue dress and carrying a brown stuffed animal asked while looking out the port hole of their cabin. Dr. Byrex looked at his daughter and grinned.
"We'll be home soon my darling. We just need to make it through two more stops to pick up more passengers and then we'll be there." He informed her.
"I hate stopping. I just want to get there now. I miss Jorean." She began to cry and her mother leaned over and picked her up and sat her in her lap.
"It'll be okay my darling. Soon, we'll be home and we never have to go on another trip if you don't want to." Her mother told her in a soothing voice.
"You shouldn't make promises that you cannot keep Shayan." Byrex said with a wide grin. Shayan just gave him a playfully dirty look.
"And who says I cannot keep it. After all you can always go on these assignments by yourself." Byrex nodded realizing that she had a point. "I'm joking with you dear. I would never let that amount of time pass without seeing you." She grinned and leaned over to kiss him. Suddenly, the lights went out in the cabin and a red emergency light came on as a siren began to sound throughout the ship. They looked out and saw people running through the hall as the captain's voice came over the intercom.
"All passengers and personnel, please make your way in an orderly fashion to the emergency pods." They felt the ground underneath them shake and Byrex quickly led his wife and daughter out of the cabin and they started to run towards the pod. A wall blew apart ten feet behind them and their daughter began to cry as fear started to take over. A force field activated, but was too late to stop several of the passengers from being sucked out into space.
"This way," Shayan shouted and grabbed her husband's arm as they ran. They didn't know if it was luck or something more but they managed to avoid being trampled by the other passengers and made it to the pod.
"My bear," The little girl screamed and she pulled free from her mother's grip and ran back towards where she dropped the toy.
"Vilandra stop," Her mother called out and she rushed to grab her. Byrex began to head back but a wave of bodies pushed him back inside the pod. The door to the pod slammed shut and he rushed to the door to try and open it but force field appeared on each side of the door. He slammed his body repeatedly into the field to try and break through. Shayan knowing was on the other side looking in along with several other people that were trying to get into the pod. She lifted Vilandra up so she could see her father one last time before the pod's engines activated and jetted away from the doomed ship. Byrex watched helplessly as the Vesta was sucked into the largest wormhole he had ever seen. He took out his scanner and reset the distance so he could scan as much of the wormhole as he could.
"That's impossible." Byrex said in shock as he saw what appeared to be another universe on the other side. He suddenly found it hard to breathe and began to frantically search for a way out. He went to the control panel but before he could push anything a member of the Vesta's security who had gotten on the pod at the last minute used his shock stick to knock the doctor out so he could be restrained. Everyone sat in silence after that and waited for the pod to slowly bring them to the nearest space dock which was three days away.
Star Date 6955.7
"Captain, we have arrived at the source of the anomaly but our sensors cannot locate the cause." Data input a few commands into his console. "There doesn't seem to be… Captain, there is a ship that seems to have crash landed on the planet surface.
"Life signs," Picard inquired as he came up to stand next to Data's console.
"There appears to be four that I can detect, sir." Data replied. Picard looked back at his first officer who nodded in understanding.
"Counsellor, Geordi, and Dr. Crusher you're with me." They went to the turbo-lift and took it down to the transporter room.
"It's strange Captain, the ship bears Federation markings but I don't recognize the name and I can't find it in Starfleet's database.
"What's the name?" Picard asked curiously.
"It's the U.S.S. Voyager." Data replied. Riker's away team beamed onto the bridge of the doomed ship and began to scan the wreckage searching for the life signs detected by the ship's sensors.
"What do you think happened here?" Troi asked while they searched through the ship.
"I have no idea, but it must have been something big to do this much damage." Geordi replied. Riker looked around at some of the debris and noticed something. He bent down and lifted a beam up and off of Tuvok's unconscious body.
"Doctor," Riker called and Beverly hurried over and ran her medical scanner over him.
"There are no life threatening injuries, but we should get him to the med bay so I can run some further tests." Riker nodded and Beverly signaled for the Enterprise to beam her and the unconscious Vulcan to the ship.
"Commander, there are two more over h… What is that on her head? Is that an implant?" Geordi looked over 7of9 for a moment before Riker picked her up off of the ground and Geordi grabbed onto B'Elanna's arm and lifted her up into his arms. "What the hell happened here. She's bleeding pretty bad. We should get these two to the Enterprise now. Troi was coming back towards them when she thought she saw something underneath a console that had fallen over. She picked it up and discovered two bodies underneath the male officer that appeared to be shielding the female officer with his body was obviously dead. A part of the console had broked off during the crash and buried itself in his back. Troi gently moved him off of Captain Janeway. She felt for a pulse and was relieved to see that she was still alive.
"Will, we need to get these people out of here quickly and find out what happened here." Troi advised. Riker nodded.
"Geordi, stay here and see if you can locate the ships log or anything that will explain what happened here, and look for anymore survivors." Geordi nodded and shook his head. "Give me maybe an hour." He pulled out a scanner and opened up a panel on the wall. It was loose and fell of at his touch. "You may want to make it two." Riker grinned and signaled for the Enterprise to beam them up. A few minutes later just as Geordi began to use rewire the console to try and get auxiliary power back to the bridge Data materialized in the room carrying a large tool box.
"Dr. Crusher took blood samples from each of the officers that we brought on board and after an extensive search through Starfleet records and instead of solving this mystery it seems to have deepened." Data informed his friend as he walked over to help him get the power back on.
"What did you find?" Geordi asked barely listening as he focused on his work.
"The human woman officer they brought on board is related to another member of Starfleet." Data pulled out a few tools and started to work.
"Who?" Geordi asked when Data didn't continue. Data thought for a moment.
"She's related somehow to Lieutenant Commander Travis Janeway." Data said in a matter of fact tone.
"Am I supposed to know who that is?" Geordi chuckled.
"He's the helmsman of the U.S.S. Dakota…" He would have said more but the ship was suddenly filled with red light and Geordi quickly took a cord from the panel and put it into his tricorder. "It's a mystery because when he entered Starfleet he had no family and now he has a relative that is not only an officer but is also not listed anywhere in the records."
"Well, let's hope that we can figure out something from these ship logs." Geordi grinned at him. While they continued to work Dr. Crusher was examining her new patients.
"What have you found out about our guests?" Picard asked as he walked into the medbay.
"Their uniforms don't match any worn by any member of Starfleet and they seem in good health except this one here. She has some kind of an electronic device attached to her head and I don't recognize it." She informed him.
"Captain Picard to the bridge," Riker's voice came over Picard's communicator. Picard tapped his comm badge.
"I'm on my way Number One… Let me know if you discover anything else." Picard ordered before leaving the medbay and heading to the turbolift. When he reached the bridge he was stunned to see a wormhole had was showing on the view-screen. It was larger than any other wormhole he'd ever seen before and he thought he could see an image inside it. "What is that?"
"It just appeared in front of us. We're keeping a safe distance from it but it's trying to pull us towards it." Riker replied.
"Captain Picard, something is coming through sir." Wesley Crusher announced from his console. They all stared in shock at the view-screen before Riker finally spoke up.
"Is that what I think it is?" He asked in a surprised tone.
"Wesley, run a scan." Picard ordered.
"Yes sir," Wesley hit a few commands on the console. "Oh, my god I can't believe it."
Star Date 1257.4
Captain Kirk and Commander Spock had just returned to the Enterprise after negotiating with the Navarian Ambassador on behalf of the Federation. The talks were going well, but Kirk was glad to be back. The Navarian's were made of pure energy and Kirk always felt a shock of static electricity every time he touched something metal.
"Captain, we're receiving a distress call from the N.S.E. Vesta. She is caught in some kind of wormhole and can't break free. The latest report says she is breaking apart and needs immediate assistance to evacuate her crew and passengers." Lieutenant Uhura announced.
"Do we have the location, Lieutenant?" Kirk asked.
"Yes sir, they are in orbit around Syrus-four." Kirk nodded.
"Mr. Sulu, plot an intercept course." Kirk ordered.
"Course laid in sir." Sulu announced.
"Warp five, engage." Kirk ordered. They arrived at the planet and they slowed to impulse power.
"There doesn't appear to be anything here, Keptin." Chekov announced from his console.
"Uhura, are we still receiving the distress call?" Kirk asked as he walked up to the view-screen.
"Yes Captain, the signal is stronger now that we're here." Uhura replied.
"That doesn't make any sense. Spock is it possible there's something wrong with our equipment.
"Our sensors are functioning at one hundred percent efficiency. There must be another expla…" Before Spock could finish his sentence a large wormhole opened in front of them. The red alert siren began blaring as the Enterprise slowly began to enter it.
"Back us away from it Sulu." Kirk ordered as he sat in his chair.
"Fascinating, I've never seen an anomaly like this. Wormholes don't open and close this way." Spock pointed out.
"Apparently, they do now. Sulu why aren't we backing away?" Kirk asked irritably.
"I'm giving it all it's got Captain." Sulu answered.
"Get us out of this, Scotty." Kirk said after hitting the communicator on the arm of his chair.
"We're working on it. Standby." Scotty's voice responded.
"Jim, it's too late… look." McCoy announced. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy stood in the center of the bridge and watched as the Enterprise was dragged helplessly into the wormhole.
"What is that?" Kirk asked when an image became clearer the closer they got to it.
"I don't have the information necessary to answer that at this time." Spock replied.
"Great now we get to die in a damn hole in space." McCoy said bitterly. The wormhole closed and with it the Enterprise disappeared.
5 ABY (After Battle of Yavin)
"Jabba, this is your last chance. Free us or die." Luke Skywalker announced as he, Han, and Chewie were waiting to be executed by being tossed into the Saarlek pit from a hover ship that was floating above it. There were several of Jabba's thugs surrounding them and they each had their hands tied in front of them. Jabba the Hutt along with many of his favorite mercenaries and wenches including Leia Organa his new favorite girl were watching from his hover barge and he was growing impatient with how long it was beginning to take.
"Push them in," Jabba called out, and a guard with a spear began to prod Luke forward with his bayonetted rifle. He stepped forward and leaped off of the edge before twisting around and gripping the plank with both hands. He flipped forward and landed in the middle of the hover boat. He caught his lightsaber that had been launched to him by R2 from the barge. Jabba shouted in rage when he saw the bright green blade appear from Luke's hand. He quickly used the blade to slash through two of the thugs that were standing near them. He leaned over and quickly undid Chewie's bindings.
"Easy Chewie," Luke told him as the big Wookie began to struggle against his binds. Just as they became loose Chewie reached out and grabbed one of the thugs that was rushed forward to attack. He lifted him easily over his head and threw him over the edge of the hover boat. They heard him scream as the Saarlek swallowed him. Chewie broke Han's binds and Han looked around trying to focus his eyes. After the carbonite freezing he was still trying to regain his vision and he could start to make out shapes. Luke leaped to the barge and started to climb up. One of the viewports opened and a thug with large tusks in his mouth stuck his head out. Luke grabbed him by the back of the neck and threw him out of the barge as he continued to make his way up.
"What's that… Boba Fett?" Han asked frantically responding to a warning from Chewie. He spun around with the blaster rifle he pulled away from one of Jabba's thugs. The butt of the rifle struck Boba Fett's jet pack and caused it to activate slamming the bounty hunter into the barge and he fell to the sand below before being pulled into the pit. Just as Luke reached the deck of the barge one of the crew got on the turrets and opened fire on the hover boat. The explosion caught Lando Calrissian by surprise who had worn one of the thugs uniforms. He fell over the edge and Han quickly reached over with the rifle and Lando tried to grip the end of it, but he couldn't reach. Han leaned over as far as he could and then told Chewie to grab his ankles and hold him down closer to his friend.
"Grab it Lando." Han shouted.
"I'm trying," Lando said frantically.
Leia took advantage of the distraction and used a large round weight to break her chains and she quickly wrapped them around the the large slug like Hutt's throat. She tightened it and kept it tight until he quit squirming. She leaped off of the platform that they were on and she ran up to the deck of the barge. Luke slashed through the gun man's chest and noticed Leia run up on deck.
"Get on the gun." She nodded and ran towards the turret on the bow of the barge. "Aim it at the deck." She nodded again and twisted the turret around. Just as Lando grasped the end of the rifle he felt one of the Saarlek's tentacles grasp his leg. He let out a stunned shout and Han called for Chewie to give him the blaster.
"Don't move, Lando." Han called out and started to aim the blaster.
"Wait, I thought you were blind." Lando called out.
"It's okay, I can see a lot better." Han said reassuringly.
"A little higher… Just a little higher." Lando called out.
"Don't move." Han said again and fired. He hit the tentacle and it scurried back to the pit and Lando quickly started climbing up as Chewie and Han both worked to pull him back onto the deck of the hover boat. He ran to the helm of the boat just as Leia fired his turret at the deck of the ship and it caused an explosion which began to have a ripple effect around the barge. Luke grabbed a rope and kicked the trigger of his turret causing it to fire. He grabbed Leia around the waist and swung out to the hover boat.
"Let's go and don't forget the droids." Luke ordered.
"We're on our way." Lando said and flew the boat next to the barge and used the magnets at the bottom of the boat to get the droids out of the sand. He flew the boat away from the barge as fast as it would go. They saw what appeared to be a dust cloud come up out of thin air and just as they got closer they began to realize they could see an image in the center of the storm.
"That can't be real." Luke said in a shocked tone.
"We're going to fast. We're headed straight for it." Lando said irritably. The hover boat suddenly disappeared in the storm.
Star Date 1258.1
"I almost have it." Byrex said excitedly. Since the Vesta disappeared he had been working to understand the anomaly that had swallowed the ship and took his wife and daughter from him. He had built a device that he hoped would simulate the wormhole and if he couldn't bring them back to him then he would go to them. He was standing outside on the tallest mountain he could find and he worked on his device night and day. He started it again and the ground began to shake and he watched as it fired a beam of energy into the atmosphere. He watched the a wormhole open up but it closed almost instantly. "Don't worry darling, I will make this work." He began to walk into the pod that he had retrofitted to serve as a house until he could fix the device when something fell from the sky and slammed into the ground next to the house. He watched in awe as a blue skinned man rose from the crater he created. He was wearing a green shirt and black leggings. His hair and eyes were white.
"Greetings mortal, where have I landed?" Byrex looked at the man in shock.
"We're on the planet Syrus-three." Byrex replied. The man nodded and looked around for a moment before he noticed the machine Byrex had been working on.
"You're trying to create a portal device. Did you summon me?" The strange man asked while he studied it.
"No, I was trying to get my family back or maybe open a doorway that would take me to them." Byrex advised him.
"It would seem that we both now share that goal. I will help you fix your toy and maybe when the door reopens you will find your family, but be warned that when the door opens the universe will merge with others. When that happens only one can remain. The others will be destroyed. Can you live with that?" The strange man studied his face for a moment to gauge his reaction.
"I have to. I have to see them again. Show me how to fix this." Byrex said in a firm tone.