Hey guys, i did not write this, it was my old friend but i did Beta this with him. I decided to post this on here in honour of him, as he is not here anymore but i hope you enjoy it. I would have continued this myself but I am way too busy these days and can't remember how we wanted the story to go on.

P.S I used to do role play on Bebo many years ago so you will learn a bit about my old characer 'Elizabeth Soden' (Shame Bebo isn't about like before wanted to check my old profile out :(..)

Star Trek: Cerberus: The Fen Domar War

Prologue:

The United Federation of Planets, he had witnessed its signing, its small beginnings, its baby steps into the galaxy. Still, it seemed to him like space had gotten a whole lot smaller. To him, there was very little left that was unknown, so little room to go out and explore.

The year 2404, Vice Admiral Charles Anthony Tucker III stared down at the desk in his ready room. Looking at the forty-nine year old reflection that did nothing but stare back at him, he felt even more detached than most times.

His life was far from simple, even by Starfleet standards. Not only had he experienced what he had on the NX-01 Enterprise – his most memorable experiences included getting pregnant and faking his own death in 2155, in order to try and save Earth from the Romulans – but was the first victim of a non-fatal transporter malfunction. In 2161, the day after the historic signing to be exact, Charles Anthony Tucker was duplicated. However nobody knew.

One of the two Tuckers – him – was simultaneously transported to the Wells class USS Mesozoic NCV-6059421, a twenty-ninth century Federation timeship. He would've been lying to himself if he'd thought that the all-alien senior staff of the Mesozoic didn't intimidate him, slightly. Captain Vang Orkon Yesric Clawnak, a fiery male Pahkwa-thanh who was slightly less fierce than he looked, had welcomed Tucker with open claws, he preferred to work with the first officer, a calm and reasonable man, a Voth, called Commander Ritang.

There were instances aboard the Mesozoic where he felt a little outdated, his inability to say the name of the ship's second officer, tactical officer and chief of security, Lieutenant Commander 'Eight Four Seven Two'. He could communicate with all of the aliens, but he was disappointed he couldn't say the Lieutenant Commander's name. However he'd insisted only other members of Species 8472 had the correct telepathy to say the names.

One thing that surprised Tucker about the future ship was how many reptiles served on it.

Have to learn to be more open minded. He'd constantly say to himself. Although the other reptilian member of the senior staff, he got along famously with. The chief medical officer, the Gorn Commander Skarl. He also found several common interests – which to his delight included horror movies – with the science officer, the Reman Lieutenant Commander Vralikat.

Tucker figured, that the hospitality shown to him by the Mesozoic crew was not only to protect the timeline, but to help him move on, albeit only slightly. Helping him do this was – to Tucker's uneasiness – Lieutenant Commander Arloores Wa'aquunia, the ship's counsellor and female Xindi aquatic. Despite his objections Tucker found her methods of helping him overcome his sister's death and his dislike towards Xindi easier to overcome, or at least set aside.

A female Cardassian-Bajoran hybrid, the chief engineer Lieutenant Kratel Yaz, and the ship's helmsman, a female Aenar, Lieutenant Shrella took a liking to Tucker, which he tried his best to ignore. One member Tucker found it difficult to get his head around was the operations officer, Lieutenant Junior Grade Rhillakirtaanaa, a Tholian, both male and female. After spending so long struggling to work out the three gendered Vissians and the four genders of the Andorians and the Aenar, and the five genders of Species 8472, he pushed all thoughts of Tholian practices to the back of his mind.

There were two crewmen who Tucker felt uneasy around, even more so than the Xindi counsellor, the female Klingon transporter chief, Chief Entharal, but especially the Romulan communications officer, Ensign Nartok. However hard he tried, Trucker could not look the man in the eye.

They sent him to the year 2395, with the simple order to live his life, they did also make an uncomfortable point about his 'importance', Tucker tried to forget he'd heard that. Changing into the lavender, black and mustard colour uniforms felt unusual to him, but they quickly grew on him.

One of Commander Tucker's first missions in 2395 involved battling the Borg onboard the Archer class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-F.

You've got a class of ship named after you, and they made one an Enterprise; you'd be so proud Captain.

The mission's success lead to the Commander's placement in Starfleet Engineering, however, his taste for action swiftly took over. In 2397, he exchanged the mustard undershirt for a more tasteful red one, with four illustrious gold pips on his collar. Captain Charles Anthony Tucker became commanding officer of another Archer class ship, the USS Elizabeth NCC-80975. He chose it personally, in memory of his late sister and late baby girl.

He'd hoped things would become less complicated, which turned out to be wild hopes on his part.

He was proud of his chief medical officer, Commander Pheluna Phlox, great granddaughter of the NX-01's Doctor Phlox and spitting image of one of his wives Feezal, which had less-than-subtly flirted with him, so long ago.

Although Tucker's personal life was set for a dramatic turn as seven years later, earlier in 2404, as his CMO and XO became captains, Tucker became a Vice Admiral and discovered his family.

His XO, who had served under him for seven years, who he'd personally took under his wing after a near-court martial turned out to be his son.

Neil Robert "Trip" Carmichael III, was a second binary clone created by Terra Prime in 2155, but all of his Vulcan cells were pushed into recession, leaving him looking completely human, and he was kept in suspended animation until 2364. Unlike Elizabeth Tucker, he could survive, despite needing regular cellular therapy.

His daughter Elizabeth Julie-Anne Soden, a clearly half-Vulcan woman, and a semi-independent time traveller – thanks to her long and complicated relationship with an omnipotent being named Q – found him, travelling from thirty years in the past – the year 2374 – and from the USS Voyager, in the Delta Quadrant.

Tucker wasn't sure what bothered him more, the fact that this had happened, or the fact that he knew all along.

In 2159, the Prometheus class USS Cerberus NCC-81036 had time travelled to stop Tucker from going on a suicide mission during the Romulan War. Whilst cloaked, they beamed him aboard, where Vice Admiral Tucker, Captain Carmichael and Lieutenant Commander Soden explained what to him, sounded like an impossible future.

Feeling to honest for his own good, Vice Admiral Tucker had to explain this to his children.

It was more complicated explaining it to Liz Soden. She was born naturally, after Tucker and T'Pol had travelled to the year 2331, they could not take their baby back and so gave her up to Jennifer and Norman Soden, two Starfleet officers, Who unknown to Tucker and T'Pol had named her Elizabeth, like his late sister and their late baby girl.

The fact that his children had wound up with the names Trip and Liz, always brought tears to Tucker's eyes.

The refitted Prometheus class ship, the USS Cerberus NCC-81036 was ahead of her time. La May's advances to the warp engines allowed it to excel past the warp thirteen barrier. With all five nacelles deployed, the Cerberus could reach warp factor fifteen.

The Starship Cerberus was experimental in other ways. It was the prototype – although Tucker felt the term 'guinea pig' was more apt – of the Extreme Tactical Program. An upgrade of Starfleet's 'Hazard Team' this was testing how a minimal crew – just the senior staff – could operate a ship. Twelve people were assigned to it, and at least one hundred and fifty holograms, to act as medical, repair and security teams.

The ship had a less than stellar start in life, the first transporter chief Frank Boyle was stripped of rank, dishonourably discharged and imprisoned. The second transporter chief J'Mole an avian life form, who resembled a five and a half foot tall budgerigar transferred to the Starship Elizabeth, under Tucker's command, a social creature, he felt too uncomfortable.

However the crew quickly adjusted to their new lives. Captain Neil R. "Trip" Carmichael, the commanding officer, Commander David A. Black, the executive officer, Lieutenant Commander Luke W. D. Clay, the second officer, tactical officer and chief of security, Commander Nigel Macauley, the chief medical officer, Lieutenant Commander Verity J. Smith, the science officer, Lieutenant Commander Chloe Deacon, ship's counsellor, Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth "Liz" Julie-Anne Soden, astrometrics officer and part-time engineer, Lieutenant Laura Doyle, chief engineer, Lieutenant Chris Manders, the helmsman, Lieutenant Junior Grade Tom "Bidderz" Bhaduri, Chief Chris J. Cotterill, transporter chief and Ensign Adam Pipes, communications officer.

All very skilled officers, hand-picked for the task of testing the ETP. There was some prejudice involved with Lt Commander Clay, as he was a changeling and some people never fully recovered from the effects of the Dominion War.

They were no strangers to the weirdest possible twists and turns of fate. Time travelling to the twenty-second century, their involvement in the Temporal Cold War, which involved fighting alongside the Celestial class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-J and the USS Cerberus NX-81036-A in the battle of Procyon V, against the Sphere Builders.

They even fought their counterparts from the Mirror Universe, who were led by Intendent Charles Anthony Tucker. The crew were almost the exact opposite, which proved disturbing to Vice Admiral Tucker and the Cerberus crew. The first officer of the ISS Cerberus was Commandant Carmichael. An unusual feature of the Terran Empire vessel was the Marine detachment, Major Black, the second officer, chief of security and tactical officer, Sergeant Bhaduri, the Intendent's personal bodyguard. Also attached to the ship were Corporals Clay and Deacon. Agent Soden, an expert saboteur was brought aboard at the request of Intendent Tucker. The remaining Starfleet personnel on the ISS Cerberus were Doctor Macauley, science officer Lieutenant Commander Smith, helmsman Lieutenant Manders, chief engineer Lieutenant Doyle, transporter chief Petty Officer Cotterill and communications officer – or spy – Ensign Pipes. Tucker always wondered how the mirror version of himself ended up where he was in the Mirror Universe's timeline.

The Cerberus's first mission was to the Gamma Quadrant to retrieve the long lost NX-02 Columbia, and bring her home. The thought that his love for T'Pol had actually saved his life rekindled the fact that he loved her still.

Tucker stood and walked up to the window of his ready room and looked out as the USS Cerberus flew close by. None of the collective experience of even Starfleet's finest officers could prepare them for what was transpiring.

A Beta Quadrant species, the highly aggressive, and highly religious reptilians, the Fen Domar, who had been in several confrontations with Starfleet over the past three years, had signed an official declaration of war.