Allensworth stood staring at the identical ship on the view screen. The ship was of the same design but was slightly darker in color. Allensworth turned and saw his chief engineer staring at the ship he visited a few months ago. A ship he visited and according to his report, tortured in many different ways and to which their mirror counterparts obtained the information they wanted. The captain turned around the other way to face Lieutenant Fulks.

"Mister Fulks, send a subspace message to Admiral Tracy. It looks like our mirror counterparts have invaded our universe."

"Message sent, sir." Fulks said.

"Hail them." Allensworth said.

"No response." Fulks said.

Suddenly the ship rocked. It wasn't enough to knock anyone over but it was enough to get their attention.

"Photon torpedo." Sparhawk said.

Allensworth stood up. "Isn't a photon torpedo the universal greeting when communications are down?"

"I think it's the universal greeting for when you don't like someone." Sparhawk said getting up and standing next to Allensworth.

"Shields up. Red Alert. All hands battlestations."

"Sir, they're hailing us." Fulks said.

"That almost makes the torpedo meaningless. On screen."

The viewer changed from the ship to the image of the captain of the mirror ship, Captain Allensworth. It was like looking into a mirror.

"Ah, Captain Allensworth." The mirror Allensworth said. "Funny to meet you here."

"What are you doing here?" Allensworth said getting straight to the point.

"As I'm sure you're aware, Captain, we are conquerors. We take and conquer anything we see and want. We are now able to enter your universe with ease and now we want to conquer it."

"What happened to your Borg threat? Shouldn't you deal with the Borg before starting any new fights?"

"We already dealt with them, thanks to your chief engineer's information."

"So now that you've finished of a mortal enemy, that probably costly and now you're willing to pick a fight with someone else? "

"You see, Captain. Although that both of us may be Jermaine Allensworth and we both are Captains of the Sovereign class Alexandria and both serve our respected powers, we have produced different results than the other."

"Meaning?"

"Like you we had our dealings with the Borg, however we didn't have the Transphasic torpedo which allowed us to eradicate the collective. Like you we had our own Dominion War but we started it by invading the Gamma Quadrant. I've received information about your dealings with another universe where the Terran Empire fell at the hands of the Cardassian Klingon Alliance. Both of those races now serve the Empire as well as the Romulans. We are the ultimate power and now that we have invaded your space, you will not stand a chance."

The mirror Allensworth looked back to the mirror Fulks and nodded to him before the screen returned to the image of the mirror Alexandria.

"Sir," Fulks said. "They're preparing to fire."

"Evasive maneuvers." Allensworth ordered.

Kit Moran entered the commands into her console and the Alexandria moved accordingly. The ship barely missed a phaser beam to its starboard nacelle. A second phaser beam impacted the ship and the crew stumbled as the inertial dampers compensated for the blast.

"Lock phasers and return fire." Allensworth ordered.

The Alexandria fired phasers and hit its mirror counterpart. The mirror crew stumbled at their stations while they tried to maintain their attack. The mirror Alexandria fired its weapons that impacted the aft side of the ship.

"Aft shields down to seventy-seven percent."

"Keep our bow on the Alexandria. Auxiliary power to forward shields." He said looking to Zofchak.

"Aye, sir."

The two Sovereign class ships moved around each other firing.

"Attack pattern, Delta." Allensworth said.

The U.S.S. Alexandria moved into position and fired its quantum torpedoes. Three of the four blue torpedoes slammed into its counterpart just as the mirror ship fired phasers and quantum torpedoes that also slammed into the ship.

Sparks flew from almost every console and every crew member who was standing was thrown to the floor. Other crew members rushed to the fallen crew members' side to help in anyway. The bridge crew recovered rather quickly. Sparks erupted from the ops console. Merriell shielded his face and leaned back to avoid most of it. He still fell out of his chair. Ensign Stull ran from the aft part of the bridge to take over at Ops. Counselor Nycz ran over to help Merriell to his feet and take him to sickbay.

"Damage report." Allensworth said.

"Shields down to thirty-eight percent." Stull said.

Allensworth pressed a few buttons on the arm panel of his chair.

"Moran, come about to course three three zero mark one seven two."

The Alexandria came about and fired phasers and photon torpedoes that slammed into the mirror ship's port side saucer section and port nacelle. The mirror crew stumbled around and fell to the deck.

"Damn them." Mirror Allensworth said getting back to his feet. "Return fire."

"We can't, sir." Mirror Merriell said. "Weapons are offline."

Allensworth slammed his fist into the arm of his chair. He pressed a button on the same arm. "Engineering, I want those weapons back online or I'll execute every one of you."

There was no response. The engineering crew was too busy trying to please their captain so they wouldn't be executed.

Why haven't they finished us? Allensworth pondered while he sat there staring at his counterparts.

Allensworth stood on his bridge, knowing that the other ship was practically disabled.

"Defensive patter, Kirk Epsilon. We need our shields back online, Dustin."

"Working on it, sir." Zofchak said pressing commands into his engineering console.

"What now, sir." Sparhawk said in an almost whisper.

"We wait. We still have weapons, impulse and part of our shields. We'll use this time to repair what we can before they make their move."

Counselor Nycz helped Commander Merriell into sickbay where Dr. Plumley was running around attending to the injured. Nycz helped Merriell to the one unoccupied biobed.

"I gotta get back to the bridge." Nycz said.

Merriell nodded. "Thanks, Counselor."

Christine walked off and Merriell looked around to see where Dr. Plumley was. Plumley was a bit busy with another patient. Even the EMH was activated to help out. Dr. Foglesong came up with his medical tricorder in hand and ran it over Merriell.

"You have first degree burns but you'll live." He said. "I'll give you an anesthetic for the pain"

Foglesong pressed a hypospray against Alex's neck. He instantly felt relief from the pain.

"Thanks, doc." Merriell said.

Foglesong walked away to attend to other patients.

The bridge remained active while the crew did their repairs to get the ship back to 100% or at least close to it. Ensign Michelle Stull slowly recalibrated the disorderly array of EPS circuits underneath a wall console on the right side of the bridge. She thought she had activated the EPS conduit but all it did was spray a small shower of sparks. She kinda hoped that Commander Zofchak was still on the bridge but he had to go to Engineering to help down there.

"Damn it."

"Do you need help, Ensign?" A voice asked from behind her.

Michelle didn't recognize the voice immediately but then she knew who it was by the time she saw the person's face. It was Lieutenant Commander Hilary Kazarick. She was a girl in her late twenties and had already made the rank of Lieutenant Commander. She was exceptionally skilled in the engineering department and worked close to Commander Zofchak.

"I just blew out the entire EPS conduit. The relays are shot and I probably ruptured the bio-neural gel pack." She slowly reached inside the conduit and detached the pack. She felt a thick slime ooze down her arm. "Definitely ruptured it."

Commander Kazarick kneeled down and assisted the young Ensign. Kazarick inspected the damage. "Yeah, this may take some time. Time we don't have but we'll get it back up and running. I'll work on this and you run down to Engineering and bring up a new gel pack."

"Yes, sir." Stull said as she stood up and entered a turbolift.

Compared to earlier, Sickbay was a much more peaceful place. Though every biobed was taken nobody was on the floor and no one was suffering. Doctor Plumley, completely confident that her staff could handle things, sat in her office finishing paper work. At that moment, she heard a bit of arguing. She sighed and stood up from her desk. She walked out of her office and saw the EMH arguing with a patient. The patient was Lieutenant Lauren Skundrich.

"You cannot leave." The EMH said. "You are not fit to go back on duty."

"I'm fine. There is nothing wrong with my shoulder. It feels fine."

"You say that now. But just wait until you lift a container in the cargobay and then it goes crack. I don't want you come crying to me."

"You won't have to." A voice said behind the EMH

Lieutenant Skundrich looked past the EMH as the hologram turned around to see Dr. Plumley walking towards them. The EMH looked relieved as he saw the chief medical officer join in as he had gained an ally.

"Doctor…"

"Computer." Plumley began. The EMH knew what was coming next. "Deactivate EMH."

The holographic doctor disappeared and Plumley approached Skundrich. "Damn hologram." She opened her tricorder and scanned Skundrich's shoulder. "There is some merit to the EMH's argument but I don't see any reason to keep you further. However, do take it easy for the next few days or you will be back her crying."

A smile crept across Skundrich's face. "Thank you, Doctor."

Hoshi Sato was the closest person to Ops when the panel came to life and began beeping. She walked over and pressed a few buttons to figure out what was going on. She didn't like what she saw. She looked back to tell the captain but he wasn't on the bridge. He was in his ready room. The one in charge was Commander Sparhawk.

"Commander," She said. "I think we're in trouble."

"What is it?" He asked walking over to her.

"Two more ships are appearing through the event horizon. One Excelsior class and one Miranda class."

"You're right. I think we are in trouble." Sparhawk said as he straightened his posture. "Captain Allensworth to the bridge."