Commander Zofchak came rushing into sickbay. He was practically running. Dr. Plumley came walking out of her office. She didn't have to ask to know why he was there.
"She's over here, Commander. She regained consciousness a few moments ago."
The chief engineer walked over to the contact specialist. He put one hand on her left hand and then his other on her forehead. She looked up at him and smiled.
"Hey." She said.
"How are you feeling?" He asked.
"Better now."
"What happened?" Dustin asked.
"I was headed back to our quarters and then I got a bit nauseated. Then it was like I was somewhere else."
"Do you know where?" He asked.
Hoshi shook her head. "No, I just know I was somewhere in the past. I was called Counselor on a ship that was watching a group of ships."
"That really doesn't give me much."
"They wore uniforms similar to your old one. The one with the yellow torso."
"That was the uniform I wore when I was on the Enterprise-D."
"Yes, they mentioned one of the ships was piloted by Commander Riker and Lieutenant Ro."
Dustin thought for a moment. "That was when we were trying to stop the Maquis from attacking the Cardassians."
"At first I thought it had something to do with the pregnancy but then I realized it wasn't when I saw myself on the other ship."
Dustin looked up to Dr. Plumley. "What do you think, Doc?"
She let out a small sigh. "I don't know. Nausea is a part of pregnancy symptoms but not hallucinations. Other than the hallucination she's fine. There's nothing wrong with her and the twins are coming along just fine."
Dustin looked back at Hoshi. She could tell he was a bit worried about her.
"I'll be okay. Just as the doctor said." Hoshi said with a reassuring smile.
Dustin leaned up and kissed her on her forehead. "I gotta get back to work. I wanted to stop in and see how you were doing."
She smiled and returned the kiss before he left sickbay.
Shortly later, Zofchak walked out onto the bridge. His first observation was two guards standing at either side of the doors that led to the captain's ready room. He also noticed a slight tension in the air. He walked over and sat down at Navigation next to Kell Perim who was stationed at Ops. Zofchak hadn't been at Navigation since his days on the Enterprise. On occasion he would sit down at Navigation during the late shift. With the absence of Lieutenant Stull and with Merriell's promotion to first officer, Zofchak figured it would okay to handle the helm for a bit until he was needed in Engineering.
He turned around in his chair to Commander Merriell who was sitting in the center chair. "What is going on?"
"Internal Affairs is on board."
"IA? What do they want?"
"I'm not sure yet, but they're talking with the captain."
At that moment, Captain Allensworth and Fleet Captain McElfresh emerged from the ready room.
"Attention, we're going to do a series of investigations with each member of the crew. I'm going to start with Commander Merriell." McElfresh said.
Captain Allensworth walked up to Merriell and put his hand on his shoulder. Merriell nodded and stepped away from the command chair and towards the turbolift. Zofchak swiveled in his chair and watched in confusion as his friend led the Fleet Captain to the turbolift. He along with McElfresh and his two guards rode to the deck that housed the Commander's quarters.
A beeping came from Ops and Kell straightened her posture as she entered the commands into her console to figure out why the panel demanded her attention.
"Sir, we just got a message from Starfleet. The Third, Fourth and Fifth fleets entered the Mirror Universe and took over the Chin'toka system."
Dustin slightly smirked and Perim looked at him. "What's so funny?"
"During the Dominion War, our first and only foothold in Dominion territory. And our first foothold in Mirror territory just happens to be the Chin'toka system. They must've taken down the Cardassians in their universe."
Shortly later, the two entered the commander's quarters. As they entered McElfresh took a look around.
"You keep a clean set of quarters." McElfresh said.
"Thank you, sir." Merriell said as he sat down behind his desk. He offered another seat to the Fleet Captain. McElfresh sat down and got straight to business.
"So, you've been recently been promoted as First Officer of the Alexandria."
Alex nodded. "Yes, sir. Commander Sparhawk was wounded during the Ba'ku campaign. He is currently at Starbase two three five."
"I'm aware of Commander Sparhawk's status. So, Commander, tell me what you know about the Terran Empire."
Lieutenant Michelle Stull's shuttle landed on the Trill homeworld. She stepped out of the shuttle to be greeted by her parents. They welcomed her with open arms. Her father had retired from Starfleet after Danielle was killed by the Breen.
"How are you, Michi?" Her mother asked.
"I'm good. Things are okay for the most part but with the war and all it has been a bit difficult at times."
"Already a Lieutenant. That's good." Her father said.
Michelle nodded. "So what's the story on the Trinn symbiont?"
"Torkien hasn't much time left. We should begin the procedure as soon as possible. We'll take you to go see Torkien now if that's okay."
Michelle nodded as her and her family began walking away from the shuttle.
Zofchak sat in his quarters after coming off his shift. His door chimed.
"Come in."
The door opened and in came the Fleet Captain and his guards. Zofchak stood up.
"No need to stand, Commander. It would appear that you're next on our list."
Obviously. Dustin thought to himself.
The Fleet Captain sat down as Zofchak offered him a seat. He looked around the room, taking it all in.
"A lot of stuff for one person." He said.
"Actually, Commander Sato and I live together, sir."
McElfresh nodded. "Ah, I see. On stardate five seven four four five point seven, you were captured by Christine Nycz of the mirror universe. You were interrogated and tortured into giving them information about the transphasic torpedo. You ultimately gave them the information. Why?"
"Because they knew how to get information out of people, sir." Zofchak answered.
"That's not a good enough answer."
"They put me in an agony booth for a full day and then they put me in a room with a female Orion. Now the last time I checked, sir, was that no humanoid male can resist an Orion female especially after being in an agony booth for twenty-four hours."
Zofchak noticed the guards tense up a bit.
"According to your report, not only did you get intimate with an Orion but as well as the mirror Hoshi Sato. It would appear that you enjoyed your time over there."
"I was downloading information from their computers when Sato discovered me. However, she thought I was my counterpart. I couldn't risk revealing that I wasn't him so I went along with it. It's called being undercover, sir."
"There's no need to get hostile, Commander."
"It sounds to me that you are accusing me of something. Are you, sir?"
He didn't immediately respond. At that moment, the doors opened and in walked Hoshi Sato. She was a bit taken back by the guards' presence.
"What's going on?" She asked.
"Just some routine questioning." McElfresh said. "However, we're done here."
The Fleet Captain got up and walked out of the room with the guards in tow. Dustin looked at his fiancé with a concerned look on his face.
Dustin walked down the corridors on his way to the holodeck to install a new program he got from Doctor Julian Bashir. It was a program about a singer named Vic Fontaine from the 1960's. He entered the grid like room and began to install the program. He opened a panel and entered a few commands.
He felt a bit nauseated and tried to shrug it off. Suddenly, he heard the red alert klaxon in the room. At first he thought the ship had gone to red alert but realized it hadn't. He looked around and saw that he was on the bridge of a Nebula class starship. He stood up thinking he had accidentally activated a program.
"Computer, end program."
Nothing happened. He looked around and noticed the uniforms. He wasn't too far in the past since they wore the same uniforms as he. He looked on the view screen and saw a transwarp conduit opening and a Borg Sphere emerged.
A beeping came from the console in front of him. It took him a moment to realize that he was supposed to answer the call. The captain looked back at him.
"Is something wrong, Mister Duran?"
"Duran?" Zofchak asked.
"Yes, that's your name." The captain said.
"Oh uh, no, sir. I just blanked for a moment." He said as he entered the commands into the console. "It's from Admiral Paris. He's ordering us to open fire."
"You heard the admiral. Fire." The captain said.
The ship opened fire as well as the rest of the ships. A few seconds later, the sphere exploded and an Intrepid class starship shot through the flames. It was Voyager.
Dustin then dropped to his knees and passed out.
