This is a cross-over between Star Trek (mostly), Buffy, Angel, Charmed, Farscape and The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (although the last two are only minor additions).
Then the standard: I don't own the characters from the previously named series/movies, I'm only borrowing them.
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THE REALLY BIG CROSS-OVER (in lack of a better title)
"God, I wish this wouldn't shake so much," Reiko Shren, most of the time Operations Officer on the Stella Navis II, said, holding on to her console to keep standing.
"Yeah, I know," Captain Aeryn Silverberg replied, "but we still know only half about how this Drive works and Angel's got no idea why it does the shaking thing, so…."
Suddenly the shaking stopped.
"Great!" Aeryn said, "Let's find out where we are."
"I'm comparing star charts right now," Spike, at the helm, answered. A few seconds later, the answer rolled out and Spike turned around.
"We've come a long way," he said, "Delta Quadrant."
"Delta Quadrant?!" Aeryn said, "Cool, we never been here before."
"Yeah, putting it on screen right now," Spike said and keyed in a few commands after which a big picture of their position relevant to other star systems and phenomena.
"Reiko, do we have anything on file about the DQ?" Aeryn said turning to the left.
"Nothing."
"Okay, well, just… go somewhere Spike."
"Got it!" Spike said, liking that the most, just going somewhere. He had mostly been piloting this vessel, the Stella Navis III, and its predecessors the Stella Navis I and II, from the beginning, 117 years already.
"Hey guys," interrupted a voice from the back.
Three men came out of the turbo lift and headed to the front where the other three were.
"What's up?" Aeryn asked as she eyed the trio, the Doctor, Leo Wyatt, mostly Chief Engineer Angel and their often Chief Security Officer Deyran Yiy.
"We've managed to update the Babel Fish," Deyran continued.
"Update?"
"Yeah," Angel added, "we've added a locator chip. That way we can locate one another even if we would loose our communication badges."
"That is a terrific idea, did you build in a communicator too?" Reiko asked.
"No," Leo answered, "we tried to, but the Fish couldn't handle that."
"Okay," Aeryn said, "lets put them in then."
"First we'll have to remove the others," Leo said and held up a hypospray.
"I'll inject us all with this, which causes the Fish to come out and then we can put the new ones in."
"Go ahead," Aeryn said and bend her head to the side.
Leo pressed the hypospray against it and injected the Captain; then he continued to do so until all six crew members had been injected. A few seconds later, everyone started pulling at their ears and soon they all had a small Fish in their hand. Deyran deposited his in an empty basin he had brought along up and passed it round.
Then Leo carefully lifted one of the new ones out and pressed his hand against Aeryn's ear. She wrinkled her face as the Fish slithered in but as soon as it was in place, it was as if there was no Fish at all. Leo then did the same to the others and himself.
"Testing time," Reiko said as she pressed a few buttons. Angel, take off your badge and go somewhere."
Angel gave his badge to Deyran next to him and left the Bridge; he then quickly stepped inside the bathroom there and waited.
"Computer, locate Angel," Reiko ordered, back on the bridge.
"Angel is in Bathroom 1," said the computer, followed by: "Angel is on the bridge."
Aeryn frowned and looked at Deyran.
"Off course we'll have to turn the locator in the badges off," he said.
Aeryn smiled, "It's okay, I got that. Will you go and get him?" Deyran nodded and left the bridge.
A minute later, he returned with Angel.
"I have spare badges down in Engineering, I'll disable the locators in some of them and then we can replace them with the ones we have now."
"Why don't you just take these with you?" Spike asked.
"We wouldn't be able to contact each other in emergencies," Angel explained, "it'll take some time, it's precision work."
"All right," Aeryn nodded, "let's do it. Angel go on and change the badge's, Spike engage on the previously set course, warp 2; Reiko keep an eye out for interesting anomalies and such. I'll go get some sleep, I've been up for twelve hours straight; Deyran you have the Bridge."
Everyone went about their duties as Aeryn dragged herself to the lift, the moment she entered it though, she gasped and stiffened. The others turned around and waited for her to relax, they were used to her premonitions by now.
"What did you see?" asked Leo when Aeryn relaxed.
"Nothing very much out of the ordinary, hostile aliens, I'd say three light years from here, on a course that'll pass us. We'd better watch out, I saw them attacking, but I couldn't see why. They kinda tore us apart so better keep shields and weapons ready. I'll try to get some sleep, but I'll come down if necessary. We know this drill; see ya." Aeryn looked around briefly and saw all nodding heads upon which she completely entered the lift and went down. They all knew she liked her space battles and would rather fight them than divert course to go around them.
About half an hour later, Reiko laughed.
"She did it again, they just showed up on sensors."
"When will they be in weapons range?" Deyran asked.
"Oh, I'd say about three hours present speed," Reiko answered.
"Spike, slow down to full impulse. That'll give us some more time to think strategy and offer Aeryn some more sleep. That way she'll be awake when we need that tactical brain of hers."
"Slowing down," Spike said, punching buttons, "okay, we're at full impulse."
"Reiko, how much time now?"
"We just bought ourselves two hours more, given they don't speed up."
"Okay, send a wakening call to Aeryn in four hours."
"Programmed."
Then Deyran tapped his commbadge.
"Deyran to Angel."
"Angel here."
"How far are you getting along with those badges?"
"Two down, four to go. Two more hours and they'll be done."
"Great, pay attention though, we'll be meeting some aliens in about five hours, and they're probably hostile. Aeryn had a premonition. Make sure the W's are ready."
"Weapons and warp drive at your command."
"Great, Deyran out."
The next thirty minutes went by calm. The alien ship had not sped up or slowed down, raised its weapons or its shields. Suddenly Reiko called out: "Damn!"
"What is it?" Deyran said.
"I think they spotted us," Reiko said, "they're speeding up and raising shields."
"ETA?"
"Two hours, at most."
"Shields up, wake Aeryn," Deyran said and tapped his badge again.
"Angel, they spotted us, they're coming."
"When?"
"Two hours tops, keep it smooth down there."
"Always," he said, "Angel out." Deyran tapped his badge again.
"Leo, come up here, you'll be needed soon."
"On my way."
A few seconds later, Aeryn stepped up the bridge. Even though she had only had an hour of sleep, she looked a bit fitter. Shortly after her, Leo entered from the other side.
"Status Deyran," Aeryn said as she took her place in the command chair.
"They're on their way. They spotted us and have sped up, ETA, two hours…"
"By now its 90 minutes," Reiko interrupted, "they sped up a little more but are now constant."
"…Their shields are up although we couldn't yet detect any weapons. It does seem that their sensors are not as good as ours, it was half an hour after we detected them that they seemed to detect us."
"Perfect," Aeryn said and suppressed a yawn. Leo came closer and put his hands on her head.
"I'll temporarily remove the tiredness so you'll see what you're doing"
"Great," yawned Aeryn as a light glowed around Leo's hands and onto her head. When he lifted his hands, Aeryn stretched and smiled.
"Better, much better, thanks Leo buddy."
She sat down in the command chair as Deyran took the Tactical console and Leo took a seat at the science console on the side.
"Okay people, let's kick some butt," Aeryn said, smiling, "Spike keep it at full impulse, ready to go to warp in case they're stronger, Deyran, keep phasers down for now, but I want you to have them standby the second I ask for it." She tapped her commbadge and continued; "Angel, make sure everything works down there, need help?"
"A little help wouldn't hurt."
"Leo'll come down, but he might have to come back up to heal if we're hit," Aeryn said upon which Leo stood up and orbed down to Engineering.
"Perfect," Angel said, "Angel out."
"Reiko, everything ship shape?"
"Couldn't be better, we're in the best shape ever," Reiko said, obviously proud of the ship.
"Okay, the wait has now begun."
"They're in visual range," Reiko said, about forty-five minutes later.
"On screen," Aeryn said and looked at the small vessel, just slightly bigger than the Stella Navis.
"Reiko?" Aeryn asked.
"Their shields are up, weapons stand by, but I'm not sure about their armament, it looks like phasers and torpedoes but they could have some tricks up their sleeve, the ship's unknown in our database."
"Raise our shields, weapons stand by," Aeryn ordered.
"Shields up, weapons ready," Deyran said.
"When are we in range?"
"Thirty minutes," said Reiko, "correction, they're speeding up again, twenty-three minutes, fourteen minutes, seven minutes, three minutes… a minute… They're hailing us."
"Showtime!" Aeryn said, "On screen."
On the viewscreen a vicious looking alien appeared.
"You're in our territory, stop right now and prepare to be boarded."
"No," Aeryn said.
The alien seemed dumbfounded by this straight refusal.
"Stop right now and…" he began again.
"I said no," Aeryn repeated, "We will not be boarded."
"Then suffer the consequences," the alien said and cut the connection.
"They're powering up weapons!" Deyran said, readying the Stella Navis' phasers.
"Shoot at will, but only after they shoot the first shot," Aeryn said.
"Off course," Deyran said, familiar with the procedure. The Stella Navis never shot first in conflicts.
Then the first shot of the alien ship hit the SN, the ship rocked and Reiko fell, luckily she got up right away again.
"Shields down to 86%," Deyran said, as he fired a volley of phasershots at some critical points of the alien vessel.
"Their shields are down about 10% I'd guess," Reiko said, "they hit our phaserbanks, if they do that once or twice more, they're down." At the moment she had said it, new phaserfire hit the ship.
"Shields down to 47%," Deyran said and returned fire, "Got them! I penetrated their shields at a weak spot."
"Concentrate fire on the weakness," Aeryn said as she keyed in some commands on her armrest and studied an overview of the situation.
Then, the Stella Navis was hit again.
"Shields are down," Deyran said, "our phasers can't get through their shields."
"Arm photons and show them we're serious about the not boarding," Aeryn ordered, looking grim at the enemy.
"Yes ma'am!" Deyran said, with a wide grin on his face as he hit the controls and sent a volley of photons at the alien vessel. All three torpedoes hit target and did a fair amount of damage by bringing the shields down to about 25%. Unfortunately, the alien ship retaliated, and it did it hard, Six torpedoes came flying at the Stella Navis.
"Evasive!" Aeryn ordered and Spike worked the controls feverishly, swaying the ship and so evading two of the torpedoes. The other four hit them and made the phaserbanks go offline and almost caused a hull breach on Deck Four.
"Warning!" the computer said, "Deck Four hull breach imminent."
"Damn," Aeryn sighed, "Spike evasive, Deyran ready new torpedo volley, three times three, Reiko, how are their warp capabilities?"
"Same as ours, but were damaged, we can't go faster than Warp 5, and they're still up to speed."
"Damn! Spike, be ready; as soon as all three volleys are fired, take evasive manoeuvres. Deyran, fire!" With a few taps on the console, nine torpedoes shot out of the Stella Navis and headed toward the alien vessel. Six hit target and the enemy shields were down.
At the same time on the Stella Navis, Aeryn tapped her commbadge.
"Angel, patch up Deck Four and get us phasers!"
"Working on it. Phasers in a few minutes, but we need to get away from them."
"Got it, Aeryn out. Deyran, you heard him, be ready, fire a few more torpedoes and try to kill their engines."
"We don't' have that much torpedoes left, only eight."
"Eight?"
"Our last battle before we used the Improbability Drive took fifteen."
"Damn it," she said as now phaserfire hit the ship but didn't do much damage.
"I've rerouted some auxiliary power to form emergency shields but we got to get away," Reiko added.
Aeryn nodded, "Spike prepare to go to warp and out of here, Deyran what about phasers.
"They're not… they're back online, firing."
Suddenly everything happened at the same time. As the alien vessel took little damage from the Stella's phasers, she took some pretty heavy damage from a new phaservolley. At the same time, Reiko called out: "Other ship approaching, it's huge."
"Enemy?"
"No… it's... it's Federation."
"Federation?"
"Yeah, their shields are up and weapons loaded."
As the Stella Navis took evasive measures and fired some more phasers, barely hitting the enemy, the Federation vessel closed in and soon reached the battle.
"They're hailing us," Reiko said.
"On screen, quick," Aeryn said.
"I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager, need help?"
"Yes!"
Voyager then fired a torpedo spread at the vessel as the Stella Navis fired her phasers at them. This was enough, the aliens took some more damage and decided to retreat as they sped of at high warp.
Then the standard: I don't own the characters from the previously named series/movies, I'm only borrowing them.
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THE REALLY BIG CROSS-OVER (in lack of a better title)
"God, I wish this wouldn't shake so much," Reiko Shren, most of the time Operations Officer on the Stella Navis II, said, holding on to her console to keep standing.
"Yeah, I know," Captain Aeryn Silverberg replied, "but we still know only half about how this Drive works and Angel's got no idea why it does the shaking thing, so…."
Suddenly the shaking stopped.
"Great!" Aeryn said, "Let's find out where we are."
"I'm comparing star charts right now," Spike, at the helm, answered. A few seconds later, the answer rolled out and Spike turned around.
"We've come a long way," he said, "Delta Quadrant."
"Delta Quadrant?!" Aeryn said, "Cool, we never been here before."
"Yeah, putting it on screen right now," Spike said and keyed in a few commands after which a big picture of their position relevant to other star systems and phenomena.
"Reiko, do we have anything on file about the DQ?" Aeryn said turning to the left.
"Nothing."
"Okay, well, just… go somewhere Spike."
"Got it!" Spike said, liking that the most, just going somewhere. He had mostly been piloting this vessel, the Stella Navis III, and its predecessors the Stella Navis I and II, from the beginning, 117 years already.
"Hey guys," interrupted a voice from the back.
Three men came out of the turbo lift and headed to the front where the other three were.
"What's up?" Aeryn asked as she eyed the trio, the Doctor, Leo Wyatt, mostly Chief Engineer Angel and their often Chief Security Officer Deyran Yiy.
"We've managed to update the Babel Fish," Deyran continued.
"Update?"
"Yeah," Angel added, "we've added a locator chip. That way we can locate one another even if we would loose our communication badges."
"That is a terrific idea, did you build in a communicator too?" Reiko asked.
"No," Leo answered, "we tried to, but the Fish couldn't handle that."
"Okay," Aeryn said, "lets put them in then."
"First we'll have to remove the others," Leo said and held up a hypospray.
"I'll inject us all with this, which causes the Fish to come out and then we can put the new ones in."
"Go ahead," Aeryn said and bend her head to the side.
Leo pressed the hypospray against it and injected the Captain; then he continued to do so until all six crew members had been injected. A few seconds later, everyone started pulling at their ears and soon they all had a small Fish in their hand. Deyran deposited his in an empty basin he had brought along up and passed it round.
Then Leo carefully lifted one of the new ones out and pressed his hand against Aeryn's ear. She wrinkled her face as the Fish slithered in but as soon as it was in place, it was as if there was no Fish at all. Leo then did the same to the others and himself.
"Testing time," Reiko said as she pressed a few buttons. Angel, take off your badge and go somewhere."
Angel gave his badge to Deyran next to him and left the Bridge; he then quickly stepped inside the bathroom there and waited.
"Computer, locate Angel," Reiko ordered, back on the bridge.
"Angel is in Bathroom 1," said the computer, followed by: "Angel is on the bridge."
Aeryn frowned and looked at Deyran.
"Off course we'll have to turn the locator in the badges off," he said.
Aeryn smiled, "It's okay, I got that. Will you go and get him?" Deyran nodded and left the bridge.
A minute later, he returned with Angel.
"I have spare badges down in Engineering, I'll disable the locators in some of them and then we can replace them with the ones we have now."
"Why don't you just take these with you?" Spike asked.
"We wouldn't be able to contact each other in emergencies," Angel explained, "it'll take some time, it's precision work."
"All right," Aeryn nodded, "let's do it. Angel go on and change the badge's, Spike engage on the previously set course, warp 2; Reiko keep an eye out for interesting anomalies and such. I'll go get some sleep, I've been up for twelve hours straight; Deyran you have the Bridge."
Everyone went about their duties as Aeryn dragged herself to the lift, the moment she entered it though, she gasped and stiffened. The others turned around and waited for her to relax, they were used to her premonitions by now.
"What did you see?" asked Leo when Aeryn relaxed.
"Nothing very much out of the ordinary, hostile aliens, I'd say three light years from here, on a course that'll pass us. We'd better watch out, I saw them attacking, but I couldn't see why. They kinda tore us apart so better keep shields and weapons ready. I'll try to get some sleep, but I'll come down if necessary. We know this drill; see ya." Aeryn looked around briefly and saw all nodding heads upon which she completely entered the lift and went down. They all knew she liked her space battles and would rather fight them than divert course to go around them.
About half an hour later, Reiko laughed.
"She did it again, they just showed up on sensors."
"When will they be in weapons range?" Deyran asked.
"Oh, I'd say about three hours present speed," Reiko answered.
"Spike, slow down to full impulse. That'll give us some more time to think strategy and offer Aeryn some more sleep. That way she'll be awake when we need that tactical brain of hers."
"Slowing down," Spike said, punching buttons, "okay, we're at full impulse."
"Reiko, how much time now?"
"We just bought ourselves two hours more, given they don't speed up."
"Okay, send a wakening call to Aeryn in four hours."
"Programmed."
Then Deyran tapped his commbadge.
"Deyran to Angel."
"Angel here."
"How far are you getting along with those badges?"
"Two down, four to go. Two more hours and they'll be done."
"Great, pay attention though, we'll be meeting some aliens in about five hours, and they're probably hostile. Aeryn had a premonition. Make sure the W's are ready."
"Weapons and warp drive at your command."
"Great, Deyran out."
The next thirty minutes went by calm. The alien ship had not sped up or slowed down, raised its weapons or its shields. Suddenly Reiko called out: "Damn!"
"What is it?" Deyran said.
"I think they spotted us," Reiko said, "they're speeding up and raising shields."
"ETA?"
"Two hours, at most."
"Shields up, wake Aeryn," Deyran said and tapped his badge again.
"Angel, they spotted us, they're coming."
"When?"
"Two hours tops, keep it smooth down there."
"Always," he said, "Angel out." Deyran tapped his badge again.
"Leo, come up here, you'll be needed soon."
"On my way."
A few seconds later, Aeryn stepped up the bridge. Even though she had only had an hour of sleep, she looked a bit fitter. Shortly after her, Leo entered from the other side.
"Status Deyran," Aeryn said as she took her place in the command chair.
"They're on their way. They spotted us and have sped up, ETA, two hours…"
"By now its 90 minutes," Reiko interrupted, "they sped up a little more but are now constant."
"…Their shields are up although we couldn't yet detect any weapons. It does seem that their sensors are not as good as ours, it was half an hour after we detected them that they seemed to detect us."
"Perfect," Aeryn said and suppressed a yawn. Leo came closer and put his hands on her head.
"I'll temporarily remove the tiredness so you'll see what you're doing"
"Great," yawned Aeryn as a light glowed around Leo's hands and onto her head. When he lifted his hands, Aeryn stretched and smiled.
"Better, much better, thanks Leo buddy."
She sat down in the command chair as Deyran took the Tactical console and Leo took a seat at the science console on the side.
"Okay people, let's kick some butt," Aeryn said, smiling, "Spike keep it at full impulse, ready to go to warp in case they're stronger, Deyran, keep phasers down for now, but I want you to have them standby the second I ask for it." She tapped her commbadge and continued; "Angel, make sure everything works down there, need help?"
"A little help wouldn't hurt."
"Leo'll come down, but he might have to come back up to heal if we're hit," Aeryn said upon which Leo stood up and orbed down to Engineering.
"Perfect," Angel said, "Angel out."
"Reiko, everything ship shape?"
"Couldn't be better, we're in the best shape ever," Reiko said, obviously proud of the ship.
"Okay, the wait has now begun."
"They're in visual range," Reiko said, about forty-five minutes later.
"On screen," Aeryn said and looked at the small vessel, just slightly bigger than the Stella Navis.
"Reiko?" Aeryn asked.
"Their shields are up, weapons stand by, but I'm not sure about their armament, it looks like phasers and torpedoes but they could have some tricks up their sleeve, the ship's unknown in our database."
"Raise our shields, weapons stand by," Aeryn ordered.
"Shields up, weapons ready," Deyran said.
"When are we in range?"
"Thirty minutes," said Reiko, "correction, they're speeding up again, twenty-three minutes, fourteen minutes, seven minutes, three minutes… a minute… They're hailing us."
"Showtime!" Aeryn said, "On screen."
On the viewscreen a vicious looking alien appeared.
"You're in our territory, stop right now and prepare to be boarded."
"No," Aeryn said.
The alien seemed dumbfounded by this straight refusal.
"Stop right now and…" he began again.
"I said no," Aeryn repeated, "We will not be boarded."
"Then suffer the consequences," the alien said and cut the connection.
"They're powering up weapons!" Deyran said, readying the Stella Navis' phasers.
"Shoot at will, but only after they shoot the first shot," Aeryn said.
"Off course," Deyran said, familiar with the procedure. The Stella Navis never shot first in conflicts.
Then the first shot of the alien ship hit the SN, the ship rocked and Reiko fell, luckily she got up right away again.
"Shields down to 86%," Deyran said, as he fired a volley of phasershots at some critical points of the alien vessel.
"Their shields are down about 10% I'd guess," Reiko said, "they hit our phaserbanks, if they do that once or twice more, they're down." At the moment she had said it, new phaserfire hit the ship.
"Shields down to 47%," Deyran said and returned fire, "Got them! I penetrated their shields at a weak spot."
"Concentrate fire on the weakness," Aeryn said as she keyed in some commands on her armrest and studied an overview of the situation.
Then, the Stella Navis was hit again.
"Shields are down," Deyran said, "our phasers can't get through their shields."
"Arm photons and show them we're serious about the not boarding," Aeryn ordered, looking grim at the enemy.
"Yes ma'am!" Deyran said, with a wide grin on his face as he hit the controls and sent a volley of photons at the alien vessel. All three torpedoes hit target and did a fair amount of damage by bringing the shields down to about 25%. Unfortunately, the alien ship retaliated, and it did it hard, Six torpedoes came flying at the Stella Navis.
"Evasive!" Aeryn ordered and Spike worked the controls feverishly, swaying the ship and so evading two of the torpedoes. The other four hit them and made the phaserbanks go offline and almost caused a hull breach on Deck Four.
"Warning!" the computer said, "Deck Four hull breach imminent."
"Damn," Aeryn sighed, "Spike evasive, Deyran ready new torpedo volley, three times three, Reiko, how are their warp capabilities?"
"Same as ours, but were damaged, we can't go faster than Warp 5, and they're still up to speed."
"Damn! Spike, be ready; as soon as all three volleys are fired, take evasive manoeuvres. Deyran, fire!" With a few taps on the console, nine torpedoes shot out of the Stella Navis and headed toward the alien vessel. Six hit target and the enemy shields were down.
At the same time on the Stella Navis, Aeryn tapped her commbadge.
"Angel, patch up Deck Four and get us phasers!"
"Working on it. Phasers in a few minutes, but we need to get away from them."
"Got it, Aeryn out. Deyran, you heard him, be ready, fire a few more torpedoes and try to kill their engines."
"We don't' have that much torpedoes left, only eight."
"Eight?"
"Our last battle before we used the Improbability Drive took fifteen."
"Damn it," she said as now phaserfire hit the ship but didn't do much damage.
"I've rerouted some auxiliary power to form emergency shields but we got to get away," Reiko added.
Aeryn nodded, "Spike prepare to go to warp and out of here, Deyran what about phasers.
"They're not… they're back online, firing."
Suddenly everything happened at the same time. As the alien vessel took little damage from the Stella's phasers, she took some pretty heavy damage from a new phaservolley. At the same time, Reiko called out: "Other ship approaching, it's huge."
"Enemy?"
"No… it's... it's Federation."
"Federation?"
"Yeah, their shields are up and weapons loaded."
As the Stella Navis took evasive measures and fired some more phasers, barely hitting the enemy, the Federation vessel closed in and soon reached the battle.
"They're hailing us," Reiko said.
"On screen, quick," Aeryn said.
"I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager, need help?"
"Yes!"
Voyager then fired a torpedo spread at the vessel as the Stella Navis fired her phasers at them. This was enough, the aliens took some more damage and decided to retreat as they sped of at high warp.