Imperial Apocalypse
To save a life
On board the USS Enterprise, Daniel met Captain Kirk, a nice human with a strategic mind, and Spock, who questioned everything that Daniel said. Daniel saw the starship as a pristine object with which to wage war. But as they say, seeing is not always believing. Beneath, in the engine rooms, he saw oil, grime, and dirt everywhere he looked. He even saw a prison cage with one being inside, one that appeared to be Cerinian. He thought nothing of it.
After seeing this, he wondered what his fate would be. Should he get out now? Maybe he should wait to see what his quarters were like. When he got to his living space, he found that it was nicer than he expected. He began to think that they were thinking of him as a tool of war. When they told him that he was free to roam the ship, he couldn't figure out what to do next. He still had his TIE fighter and he intended to train with it once he got used to his new surroundings. So for now, he started to walk around the cleaner end of the ship, away from the possible Cerinian. Maybe it was just a ghost. Daniel didn't want to think of that right now. He wandered into the bridge. The door opened and Kirk stood there looking at him, then said, "how did you obtain the code to get here?" "I have no idea." Daniel replied, obviously confused about how he got here and why he was there in the first place. "So, what do you need?" asked Kirk, "Just looking around." Daniel told him, not wanting to tell the Captain his real intentions. He wanted to look for a few weaknesses in the formidable firepower of the StarFleet Federation.
After wandering, trying to find a computer room, he saw that even on the Enterprise, people looked at him the same way as they did at school. Then, he found the computer room, and, once he broke in, he began to hack into the weapon mainframe with a speed that would rival a supercomputer. Once in, he found the weapon information and searched for the weaknesses. The weapons, astoundingly, were relatively weak compared to the cannons of the Empire. In fact, the only weapons on board were Phasers.
When he got out of the computer room, he wanted to go find out what the strange being in the prison cell was, but at the moment there was an attack by the Separatists taking place aboard the Enterprise. He was told by Kirk that he needed to escape with Spock as the Separatists were apparently hell-bent on capturing him. "What about you!" Daniel asked. He had grown to like Kirk and the Enterprise and felt strongly that no man should be left behind. "I'll catch up to you after we fend off these droids. But for now, you're far too important to us to stay here where you can be killed." Kirk told him. The Separatists were getting closer by the minute and the Enterprise needed every man they could get. "Spock, I want you to get out of here! If I weren't here, this wouldn't be happening. Captain Kirk, if I go down, I am taking the Separatists with me!" he told the two Federation officers. He then took out his lightsaber and prepared for close combat.
It felt different to fight with a tail, very different. Daniel just couldn't get used to the concept of having another limb. In the heat of battle, Daniel and Kirk fought the droids side by side, while preventing the ship from being destroyed. "Kirk," said Daniel, Do you happen to have an EMP bomb on you?" "Yeah. Why?" answered Kirk "Set it off, the droids will shut down." He told the Captain. Kirk did so and the droids all shut down instantly. Daniel's quick thinking had save their lives and the lives of the remaining crew. But now wasn't the time for thinking about what just happened. Now was the time for rounding up the crew to evaluate the damage.
The damage wasn't too terrible and there were a few human casualties, but the important thing was that Daniel was still alive after the battle. At the moment, the power of the Federation depended on Daniel being alive and ready to fight. For a brief moment though, Daniel thought he saw Krystal, dressed in her blue flight suit with a gattling gun in hand and a need to destroy the Federation. He started to walk towards her, but she vanished as if she were never there. Daniel disregarded this and concluded that he was seeing things.
"Daniel, I need you to go down to Earth to warn them." Captain Kirk said. "What for?" Daniel answered. "To warn them of the Separatists and the Empire's intentions to do battle there. Your TIE fighter is in the docking bay and you will be given a rifle on your way out."
