Gabriels Awakening

By GreyWolf

Disclaimer: Gargoyles belongs to the nice people at Buena Vista and Disney, and Star Trek is the property of Paramount Pictures. I intend no infringement, and I am not making a cent. Please don't sue.

Home Dimension

1984

A young genius named Gabriel Cardaro works away in a secret underground lab, on a farm. As he works, the TV in the corner of the room starts showing Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Gabriel finally looks up and sees the show, and thinks to himself Star Trek and Gargoyles, my two most favorite shows. I wonder if there is another dimension out there where those TV shows are reality. Only forty-five minutes till my other favorite show comes on. Well no time for TV I gotta finish working on my Interdimensional Gateway.

At about three oclock in the morning, Gabriel shut down the lab equipment and went back to the house for something to eat. Then he got into his boxers and went to bed.

10:00 oclock AM

Gabriel got of bed and got dressed. He went to the kitchen and ate some Corn Flakes. A few minutes later he said to himself its time to work on that machine again.

Twenty minutes later in the lab, Gabriel was making some fine tuning adjustments to the Interdimensional Gateway. After an hour he said its time to test this sucker out.

Gabriel flips a few switches; the computer displays a bar graph on the screen with the words Charging Capacitors. After five minutes the computer displays a System Ready screen. Then Gabriel pushes a button called Gateway Open. A few bursts of light start flickering in the portal gateway. Suddenly Gabriel sees a puff of smoke coming from a circuit board, and hears a crackle of electricity. The computer screen starts flashing a message MALFUNCTION, MALFUNCTION. Gabriel slaps the emergency shutdown button, and yells out in anger fuck!

After making some repairs, he tried it again. This time the portal opened, and what he saw amazed the shit out of him. Gabriel packed his suitcase and left an envelope on his front door step.

He goes back to the lab and walks through the gateway. When he exited the gateway he almost got thrown to the floor. Gabriel looked around; he was defiantly in a different room. He opened the suitcase and pulled out a device that was counting down from two hours. He thought I got to be back at this spot in two hours or Ill miss the portal home.

Just then an alarm started sounding and a voice saying intruder alert in sector five alpha. Before he could think of anything to do there were four armed men pointing weapons at him. One of the men spoke Hold it right there! They escorted him down a long corridor to a door at the end of the hall which opened on his approach. Another man spoke in a harsh tone In there, move it! Gabriel looked at the men, they appeared to be wearing, and he took a double take at the mens uniforms and said in confusion Starfleet uniforms. He was escorted into a jail cell as the last guard stood back Gabriel saw a flicker of a force field in front of him.

About an hour later a guard came back, but he was not alone. There was a man in a red uniform that he recognized as an admirals uniform. The man spoke My name is admiral Negala. I have some questions I need answered. If you cooperate things will go a lot more smoothly for you in the long run. Lets start with your name. Gabriel spoke My name is Gabriel Cardaro. Next the admiral asked How did you get into a secure area and what is this device. Admiral Negala held up the device which read fifty minutes left on it.

Gabriel in a conceded tone said First off I am not of this world. Hell Im not even from this universe. You see I am a visitor from another dimension and that timer is telling me when the gateway to my world will be open again. You see unless I get back to that room you found me in, Ill miss my ticket home. After the gateway opens Ill have one minute to go through it, or else Im stuck here. The admiral smiled and said We cant let you miss your ticket home. And your coming here coincides with a strange energy spike we picked up at that location. Gabriel asked quite bluntly Do I get to go home or do I live out my days here?

Admiral Negala took a step back and replied On one condition. You take one of our science officers with you and return in twenty-four hours. Gabriel agreed to the deal and added my equipment is not entirely stable, so Im not sure we can get back here. The admiral frowned for a moment Well do your best. Gabriel asked Im just curious, how much time is left? Negala answered fifteen minutes. Negala signaled to the guard and the man push a few buttons and the force field dropped. Gabriel and Negala walked down the corridor until they got to the room where they found him. The door opened and they walked through inside one other person was there. A female science officer, she introduced herself as science officer Jade Anderson. After introducing himself they stood there waiting for the time to run down. Negala handed the device to Gabriel and the timer read thirty seconds. Gabriel said with enthusiasm Any second now. The timer read ten seconds then five then zero. Suddenly there was a gust of air as the portal opened up. Gabriel told Jade Watch your step on the other side. This thing has a tendency to throw you forward. She looked at him with confidence understood.

Jade went first and Gabriel went second. Once they were through the gateway Gabriel found the gateway controls and shut the portal down. He looked around and saw Jade looking at the equipment. He asked Are you alright? She replied with a nod. He said Now what do we do? Jade smiled slightly I was sent with you so that I can examine your equipment and report my findings to Starfleet command. Gabriel laughed out loud. She asked whats so funny? Gabriel chuckled That suitcase that the admiral has contains the blueprints for this gateway. I mean hes holding on to the crown jewels and he doesnt even know it. Jade said dryly Even if he knew it was there we would not take the technology without asking your permission.

Gabriel went over to the desk as grabbed a couple of CD-ROMs off the desktop. He waved them and said This is my backup copies of the blue prints. You see the blue prints would fit on one CD-ROM but for security reasons I split them up on two disks. She eyed him Good idea. Gabriel added The data is encrypted too. Now since you got all the data you need what do we do with the spare time? She said with amusement We can go back early? She meant that as a joke, but he took it seriously. He replied dryly The equipment needs about another ten minutes to cool down, and then we can go. She started to say Well and was cut off by Gabriel saying Well what, you got what you need, so lets go!

Ten minutes later the equipment was cooled down enough and Gabriel flipped the switches to prime the capacitors. Five minutes gone by, not a word spoken. He said Are you ready? She replied yes. He pushed the initiate button and the gateway opened. This time Gabriel went through first shortly followed by Jade. As soon as they were through she tapped her communicator and said Jade to admiral Negala were back early I got what I need. Negala answered Understood, Ill be there shortly Negala out? About five minutes later admiral Negala showed up. He took Jades report and then turned to Gabriel So do we have your permission to use this technology?

Gabriel grinned On a couple of conditions. Negala said Name them. Gabriel named his conditions One that you let me live here, two I get large piece of land for my property, three I get a strong starship of my own, and four no questions asked? Negala replied Agreed I can probably get you those request. Gabriel said Good as soon as you get full approval for my requests, well have a deal. Twenty minutes later all his requests were approved.

Gabriel then decrypted the CDs and copied the blue prints to the Starfleet top secret archives.

To Be Continued