Ron the True Fan: Does it look like we own Star Trek? Or STO? Or ANYTHING beyond the madness you're about to read? What's that? No? Then don't bother, lawyers!

Takeshi Yamato: Now, this will be a little bit different from some of our other STO stories. Jorn's the one who had the idea, so I'll let him explain it if he wants.

117Jorn: Basically, the focus is Star Trek, however this shall be crossing over a LOT of other series… I would explain more, but I shall not spoil more until you start reading! GO!

San Francisco Shipyards, Earth Orbit

"Captain's Log, USS Ra-Cailum, stardate 87359.3: the Ra-Cailum has completed a three month refit following the Iconian War, and I'm finally getting her out of the dock. I'm pleased to report that all hands are eager to get the hell back into deep space, and my chief engineer's been wanting to test some new convoluted warp drive system. If my ship explodes… I blame her."

An Odyssey-Class superdreadnought hung in her gantry near Earth Spacedock, swarmed by work bees. "Tis a glorious sight to behold. And she's all MINE."

Sonja Henderson rolled her eyes as her captain laughed manically. "Boss, you can quit with the evil routine. It stopped being funny five minutes ago."

"Aww, Sonja, can't you just enjoy the moment? This is the ship that ended the Iconian War."

"With a lot of hard work, guts, and plenty of just plain luck," another voice remarked as two people walked up to Sonja and the Captain. The speaker was a human male, around 25 years old, with dark brown hair done in a buzzcut, a bushy moustache in the same color as his hair, and violet eyes. With him was a human female, around the same age, with dark red hair that only fell to the nape of her neck, bluish-purple eyes, and an above-average bosom. Both were clad in the standard 'Odyssey' uniform Starfleet had adopted, the man with Commander's rank insignia while the woman had Lieutenant Commander's insignia. The man also had a katana sword strapped to his waist. Both also bore matching bands of gold on their right ring fingers.

"More like a temporal paradox. Now, let's see what those idiots have done to my engine room." The fourth-shortest person in the shuttlecraft Ra-horakhty guided the shuttle into the main bay, planting it into the deck. "You're a horrible pilot."

"I can fly. I just can't land."

"Riza, you can't fly anything smaller than a Dakota," the man with the sword told her. "There's a reason they call you 'Riza, destroyer of shuttles', after all."

"Does 'shove it up your—'"

"RIZA!"

Riza looked at the man in the co-pilot's seat. "Yes, oni-sama?"

"Watch your language. My second-favorite person will be coming on board in a few hours as soon as Sonja makes her once-over. I will be cutting down on the cursing, too, so that means you, too."

"Still a little surprised you agreed to let Larcei come along," the man with the sword admitted. "Given your policy about starships and kids, after all."

"I spent three months on Earth babysitting her. And the look she gave me was enough to kill a bloodthirsty Klingon when I said she couldn't come with us."

"She guilt-tripped you?" the woman next to the man with the sword asked. "I didn't think that was possible, seeing as Admiral Quinn couldn't do it."

"Never underestimate the pout of a three-year old girl, Luna. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to reconnect with the ship's computer network. If those idiots screwed up the leads, I'm going to make heads roll. Literally."

"Understood, boss," the man with the sword replied. "Luna and I will make sure our room's ready for Larcei."

On the bridge, which was a lot more closed in compared to most Odyssey-Class ships (per the captain's request, as he found the bridge of a stock Oddy too agoraphobic) Corpsa zh'Kilon worked furiously to get the setup she had BEFORE the refit back up. "Bloody spacedock engineers. They always think their way's the best way."

"Could be worse, ma'am, they could've torn the ship apart looking for—"

"Finish that sentence, Kim, and I will challenge you to a ushaan!"

Lieutenant Kimberly "Kim" Johnston wisely shut up.

The turbolift doors opened, revealing their captain, Ronald Pinkerton, and his XO, Takeshi Yamato. "Captain on deck!"

"Corpy, I don't stand on ceremony. As you were, people! We've got work to do, and we're not getting to it in spacedock!

Everyone scrambled to secure themselves to anything bolted to the deck.

"Oh, COME ON! Departures are never that bad!"

"You tell your sister to take us out at full impulse! Towards traffic!"

"Eh, we always dodge them."

As Takeshi sat in the XO's seat and pulled on his safety harness, he said, "And that tends to strain the inertial dampeners a bit, boss."

Ron sat down in his chair as his sister entered the bridge. "We'll be fine. Departure stations! Kim, get me the dock master."

"Control tower reading, Captain."

Ron smirked as he leaned back. "ESD, this is Ra Cailum Actual. Request permission to depart."

"This is control, Ra Cailum: permission granted. All moorings are cleared." Riza tapped the controls to get the ship moving. "Aft thrusters, then punch it up to full impulse."

Takeshi just hit a control on his armrest, sending an automated message to all other decks for all hands to secure safety restraints, before he braced for the inevitable ride. Down in the quarters he shared with Luna, the redhead had already strapped in, and was holding their three-year-old daughter tightly in her lap.

The Oddy exited the dock smoothly, much smoother then Luna could remember. "I guess Riza wants to give your first time out of spacedock a smooth ride."

On the bridge, Ron leaned to rest his head on his left hand. "Riza, punch it!" The Ra Cailum shot forward like an arrow shot from the bow, shooting toward the USS Izumo. "Roll over and let's give those cadets the bricking of their lives!"

As the ship suddenly accelerated and rolled, Luna made sure to keep her grip on her daughter tight. "Then again, maybe she was just warming up a bit there," she admitted.

The ship got within five meters of the bridge, the saucer barely missing the command center. "Izumo to Pinkerton: you REALLY enjoy scaring my cadets."

"Think of it as extra training, Nano! To get that close, you must master your fear! Riza! Take us out!"

"Copy that. Prepare for warp speed!"

As they leveled out, Takeshi breathed a bit of a sigh of relief. Usually getting clear of the traffic was the hardest part, so it should be smooth sailing from there… though he didn't say that out loud, for fear of jinxing it.

The Oddy inverted, then, as soon as she was clear of Luna, jumped to warp speed in a flash of Cherenkov particles.

The senior staff waited in the briefing room, looking right at the painting Riza made of the original Ra-Cailum, flying as though a ghost behind and above the one they were currently on board.

"So, what's the meeting about?"

"It's Sonja's job to tell us. It involves the SCE."

The doors opened, and Sonja ran in carrying a half-dozen PADDs. "Sorry I'm late, had to get all the data for the meeting."

"No worries, Sonja," Takeshi replied. "So, what's up?"

She pasted the PADDs around. "Any of you remember Kosinski?"

"That half-baked jackass whose assistant sent the D to the edge of the universe? Hard to forget."

"Right. Command wants us to test some of his viable calculations in conjunction with the warp ten system Voyager brought back."

No one looked happy about that. "Didn't that shit turn Paris into—"

"Don't go there, boss," Takeshi interrupted. "So… we're basically testing some improvements to the warp drive?"

"More or less. I'll be overseeing the modifications, and if they work, we'll be able to add the enhanced warp drive to our list of FTL: warp drive, quantum slipstream and that transwarp system we… recovered from that Voth ship." Ron and Takeshi smirked at the reminder of how they got that Voth scout ship and its' all-important transwarp drive.

"Begin the modifications. Now, if you excuse me, I'd like to see my niece."

They all nodded, and Takeshi, Luna, and Ron all left, heading for Takeshi and Luna's quarters.

"You consider her your niece?" Luna asked.

"I asked Take to name me her godfather at the Academy. The exact words were 'if he had any kids, I'm the godfather', but the point remains."

Larcei had never been in space before. The sight of all the stars shooting past was mesmerizing. "Pretty."

"That's not the only pretty thing!"

Larcei turned around, seeing her parents and her favorite uncle. "Uncle Ronnie!"

"Hey there, musume," Takeshi said. "You enjoying your first actual trip into space?"

"You bet, Tou-san!" Larcei replied. "The stars are so pretty out here, even more so than on Earth, or even on the station!"

"You know what, little one? Guess what?"

Larcei looked to her uncle. "What?"

"You're coming to the bridge! Wanna take the helm with Aunty Riza?"

Her eyes lit up. "Yay! Can I come, tou-san?"

Takeshi nodded. "Sure, why not?" he said. He hoped Ron knew what he was doing, but couldn't really say as much when both Ron and Larcei were right there.

"I'll talk to Sonja and see how that warp drive's coming along," Luna whispered to him. "You and Ron take Larcei to the bridge."

"You don't trust Ron?" Takeshi asked in a similar whisper.

"It's Ron," Luna reminded. "Remember the time when you gave him a phaser pistol and it came back as an overpowered weapon of mass destruction?"

Takeshi shuddered a bit. "Don't remind me," he told her.

Main engineering was a mess.

On the Ra Cailum, this was normal. But THIS was just wrong. "I am going to KILL those morons at ESD! I expected my engine room to be the same way I LEFT it! Look at this mess!"

"It could be worse, Sonja." The hispanic Mirror Universe woman glanced over her shoulder to find Lunamaria standing at the threshold of main engineering. "It could be not here."

"Don't give me that image, Luna. I thought you were with Larcei."

"Ron and Takeshi are taking her up to the bridge," Luna replied. "Ron's idea."

"That won't end well."

"Most of Ron's ideas never do, although usually they never end well for someone else. Although that stunt we pulled with the Laevhal cost us the original Ra Cailum. What gave him the idea to ram it?"

Sonja smirked as she kicked the new warp core. "The Kobayashi Maru, according to his personal log."

Luna stared at her. "You hacked into his personal logs?"

"Sure. don't you?"

"For one thing, hacking is Rina's thing, not mine," Luna replied. "Second, isn't that, I don't know, an invasion of privacy?"

Sonja shrugged, picking up a hyperspanner. "Does it look like Ron cares?"

"…you have a point. How's that warp core?"

"Modifications are complete. We should be able to jump into warp at the boss' order to test the insanity drive."

"Knowing Ron, he'll let Larcei push the button."

"You're seriously going to let her push the button?" Takeshi whispered to Ron.

"If she follows in your footsteps, she'll be pushing LOTS of buttons. I'm just going to be the one to let her push her first."

"...You can be unnecessarily creepy at times."

"Eh, Larcei loves it."

The young girl was sitting in Riza's lap, marveling at all the buttons.

"She doesn't even understand half the crap you pull!"

"Corrupt 'em young, that's what my mom used to say."

Takeshi sighed. "You have a seriously crazy family," he said.

"Well, I learned to beat the snot out of godlike beings from her."

Takeshi facepalmed as Sonja and Luna came onto the bridge. "Everything's ready to go, boss man! Push the button and this tub of shi—"

Ron glared at Sonja before pointing at Larcei, which shut her up.

"Whoops. I thought you had a no kids on my ship policy."

"Larcei's an exception. Speaking of which… Oh, Larcei?"

Larcei smiled. "Right, Uncle Ronnie!" she said, before pressing the button.

The Ra Cailum jumped into what would later be called Ludicrous Speed. The ship began to shake before Ron looked to Sonja before ushering Larcei to his ready room and sealing it. Takeshi covered his ears. "SONJA!"

Luna looked at the viewscreen, and pointed. "Wormhole!" she called out, and indeed, it seemed like one was opening up right in front of them.

"What the hell?!"

"You idiot! You imbalanced the warp engines and now we're pullin' a 2273 Enterprise!" Ron looked to Corpsa as vision distorted. "Arm photon torpedoes!"

"Here's hoping it works this time, too!" Takeshi yelled, bracing for the inevitable impact.

The Andorian armed the torpedoes, then fired the two projectiles. The captain's eyes widened as he realized a mistake. "CORPSA, NO!" Too little. Too late. The torpedoes exploded, and all went white.

117Jorn: And here we go! The prologue to a story which shall SPAN THE MULTIVERSE!

Ron the True Fan: I blame the influence of Take, here. If you've read Archangel's Amazing Adventures… He betas it. …Not complaining, I'm looking forward to this INSANITY.

Takeshi Yamato: We won't be touching any series that AAA visits, though - we want to be somewhat original here. We may hit other entries in some of the franchises he's visited, but never any specific entries. So, for example, Final Fantasy VI is out because AAA went there, but any other entry in the Final Fantasy series would be fair game.

117Jorn: Prepare for a lot of crazy-ass tales to be told! And next week we start this epic journey. What will be the first series to cross over? Find out in the next installment of STAR TREK ODYSSEY!

Everyone: Ja Ne!