TRTSS7: The Hidden Trek Voyage! – By DS Wynne


Disclaimer: R1/2, SM, ST and other genres belong to their respective owners.

Note: This is a multi-genre story.

Special note: Although this chapter begins the tie-in of the new movie "Star Trek", the prelude begins NOW. Thus, I will officially give a "Possible SPOILER alert"…now. C&C are welcomed.


Part 29


2245 CE: Riverside, Iowa (North America).

"Hello?" said a voice. "Mrs. Kirk?"

Skuld looked up from fixing one of her client's classic cars, the one who is always flirting with her whenever her husband George was away on assignment, at her shop to see the local police officer.

She also sees her son being held in place by the police officer.

"Let go of me, you bucket of bolts!" the boy yelled.

"Naruto, calm down," Skuld said, as she wiped her hands of grease. She then turns her full attention at the officer.

"What has my son done this time?"

"He was caught attempting to steal holo-vids from the Mayor Finnegan's house."

"I was NOT trying to steal anything!" Naruto protested. "That older kid Sean tricked me by saying that I could have holo-vids of the 'Princess Gale' series. Honest!"

Skuld sighs. Being practically a signal mother at times was hard work, especially while being both parent and provider.

"How much is the fine?" Skuld said, as she brought out her credit card.

"That will be 1500 credits ma'am," the police officer said.

"Okay," Skuld replied, as she presented her card for the proper exchange.

CHIRP!

"Thank you ma'am," the police officer said. "I also recommend that you and your children attend family counseling at the earliest convenience."

"I'll do that," Skuld said with a smile. "Oh, and how's the arm?"

The police officer rotates his left limb.

"The new gears are working like a dream, ma'am," the police officer said.

"Good. You guys do a good protecting our community."

"Thanks you, ma'am."

The police officer turns towards Naruto.

"Stay out of trouble, young man."

"Humph!"

After the police officer leaves the shop, Skuld turns towards her son.

"Naruto…"

"I didn't do it, Mom," Naruto said.

"I know," Skuld said, as she hugged her son. "But you have to be smarter than that."

"But…it's nothing to do around here, ever since George went to Starfleet Academy."

Pause.

"And I miss Dad, too."

"Naruto, I miss him too, which is why I want you to be the man of the house until he gets back from assignment. Okay?"

"Oh…okay," Naruto scowled.

"Good. Now, you can help me by cleaning those parts, so we can get out of here faster."

"Oh?"

"Yes, well…I want us to get a good seat at the noodle shop, after all."

Naruto's eyes lit up with excitement.

"All right!" Naruto said, as he immediately performed a series of hand gestures that his mother taught him…

"TRANSFORM!" Naruto yelled.

POOF!

Now, there were two more Naruto(s).

"Let's hurry, guys!" Naruto yells.

"Right!" the other Naruto(s) yell back in unison, before going about the task of cleaning the spare auto parts in his mother's shop.

Skuld merely chuckles, as she goes back to fixing her client's classic vehicle…

Back at the Time Gate, Sailor Pluto looks at the course of events, somewhat pleased with herself.

"Moving certain parts of the time stream, with the help of the Norns, the original timeline is somewhat intact," said Sailor Pluto aloud. "In this altered reality, Sakura Haruno takes the place of Usagi Tsukino, and becomes the new "Sailor Moon". With her memories of the original life still present, albeit subconsciously, Sakura and the other Sailor Scouts do not die while fighting Queen Beryl and her Dark Kingdom. Now a Saotome, Sasuke Uchiha defeats his foes, though is a bit more efficient and brutal than Ranma Saotome. In fact, Sasuke, with the help us his more pure bloodline trait, the Sharingan, mastered the Cat Fist, rather than succumb to it initially, and even kills Saffron utterly, rather than allow the Phoenix King to be reborn. Amazingly, Sasuke and Akane do manage to become close, after all…"

Sailor Pluto clears her throat.

"And Naruto Uzumaki is reborn as Naruto Kirk, and…huh. There is no significant deviation from the original James T. Kirk's lifetime, save for Naruto's craftier and more risk-taking outlook…and tends to use his 'Sexy No Jutsu' a bit more…"

Sailor Pluto taps a virtual button. The screen changes, showing a Gammazon version of Dr. Sakura Tsukino strangling Captain Naruto Kirk while Security Chief Sasuke Saotome merely smirks. They were all dressed in classic Starleet uniforms…

"How DARE you tell Hulkura that Hukura looks fat?" the Gammazon yells.

"Ack!" her commanding officer managed to say, while turning blue.

"Losers," said the Security Chief.

"A…little…help?" Naruto managed to say.

"Huh," Sailor Pluto said, as she performed a sweat-drop technique.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same, no?" said a voice from behind.

Sailor Pluto turns to see an old friend and colleague.

"Doctor, I would expect a man of your stature to have the common courtesy of letting me know that you have arrived?" Sailor Pluto said. "And I see that you have a new face…again."

The eleventh incarnation of the Time Lord known simply as "The Doctor" takes out a red apple.

"Very recent, and still getting used to the latest change," the Doctor said, just before he bites into the fruit. This version of the enigmatic mortal looked more beatnik than college prep…especially with the dark clothes and no collar or tie.

"Does the All-Mother and Primus know about this?"

"Let's see…yes, and no."

"And you're as vague as always."

"Well, you know how these things work, with Time and all."

"I know the quote: 'Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff'. Yeah, I get it. You were my teacher in Temporal Mechanics at the University of Illuminati, after all."

The University of Illuminati (or "IOU") was a trans-dimensional university that existed in its own realm, but connected to existing colleges and academies. Only the special or foolhardy from across Time and Space could gain an invitation to become legends…or even GODS. Before Sailor Pluto could assume guardianship of the Time Gate, she had to go the school to develop her skills. The Doctor, who was in his first incarnation at the time, was a bit eccentric, but was an accomplished temporal physicist. That time in college was perhaps one of the few times Sailor Pluto could explore her options as a person and as a scholar…

It was there that she met the incarnations that had become Ranma Saotome and Usagi Tsukino, not knowing that they were the incarnations of her friends Princess Serena of the Moon Kingdom and Prince Eldarion of Middle Earth. Eldarion was close to Serena, until he was killed in a battle against the vestiges of Lord Sauron's dark forces. Serena—who, like other Lunarians, were immortal—would be distraught for centuries after that, until an Earth Prince named Darien Endymion, a descendent of the Shepard King Endymion, and who was her distant cousin, came into her life. That love would not be fulfilled, when, in 1004 CE, the Dark Kingdom, controlled by an entity from the Negaverse, attacked the Moon Kingdom and the rest of the Silver Millennium Empire. As a result, the empire was "cooked" out of existing, leaving ordinary celestial bodies behind.

Still, Sailor Pluto was glad to have later learned that her best friends had been reborn as Usagi and Ranma, though she does blush at the thought that her best friends were her first intimate encounter…

"I KNOW," the Doctor said with a grin. "Otherwise, I would have failed you on your last exam in my course."

"Humph," Sailor Pluto said. "But I am glad that you were able to make it, Doctor."

"Considering the fact that Ranma and Usagi are meaningful to me, why wouldn't I be able to?" the Doctor said. "That's why we need to restore the original timeline, otherwise I will have to deal with THAT."

The Doctor points to the screen featuring Hulkura, Naruto Kirk and Chief Sasuke.

"I'm already used to one set of 'children', and that is more than enough to handle."

"Agreed. Now, that our placeholders are…in place, we can help the All-Mother and the Primus' previous incarnations."

"Where are they, by the way?" the Doctor asked.

"The Emissary has them in 'holding'," Sailor Pluto said.

Meanwhile, somewhere else…

"RANMA!" Usagi yells, as she looked around the field of white. "Ranma, where are you…?"

For a long time, Usagi tried to use every trick she knew to either figure out where she was, and how she can leave. The last thing she recalled was grabbing Ranma by the shoulder, as he dove into the Guardian while trying to catch Charlie Evans…

"This is it," Usagi said. "I'm in purgatory for my hedonistic ways…"

Usagi looks up.

"If I get out of here, I promise to remain celibate…forever!"

"Yeah, right," Ranma said, as he showed up. "That's like me wanting to be a girl forever: it ain't gonna happen-"

GLOMP!

"Ranma!" Usagi said, as she held onto her husband tightly. "You're safe…"

"Yeah, for now," Ranma said, as he looked into his wife's eyes. "How are you holding up?"

"I'm fine, I guess," Usagi said. "But where are we? Limbo?"

"Not sure, but it does feel like we're in the Spirit Temple of Chikyuu…"

"Close, but no cigar," said a deep voice.

Ranma and Usagi turn to see a bald black man, who wore a goatee and some kind of Starfleet uniform.

"Who are you?" Ranma demanded. "Did you have anything to do with us being in here?"

"Yes," the man said.

"Okay, then," Ranma said, as he cracked his knuckles. "You're going to tell us some things, or-"

"Ranma, calm down," Usagi said. "He's wearing a 'Starfleet' uniform."

"So?"

"So, at least give him the opportunity to talk."

"Thank you, Usagi," the man said. He then turns towards Ranma.

"The Ranma I know would be less…hot-headed."

"Wait," Ranma said. "You KNOW us?"

"More like, you WILL know me," the man said.

"Wait, you're from the future, aren't you?" Usagi asked.

"Obviously," the man said. "And, obviously, I can not divulge certain information about the future."

"Yeah, without risking changing events," Ranma said. "Yeah, I know."

"What you do not know is that your respective pasts has been changed."

"How so?" Usagi said.

"You, Ranma and James T. Kirk were never born."

"WHAT?" Ranma and Usagi yell together.

"Grandfather clause."

"Wait…Charlie?" Ranma said. "It's him, isn't it?"

"Yes, Charlie Evans made sure that you three were never born," Sisko said. "Now, had you not entered the Gateway when you did, you would have ceased to exist. However, you came here to limbo."

"Then…there's nothing we can do," Usagi laments. "We could exist here in nothingness, or cease to exist."

"And now, a new timeline is being formed, while the previous one has been put 'hold'…so to speak," the man said. "If nothing is done to reverse this, there will have never been a Usagi Tsukino or Ranma Saotome."

"Then we have to do something about it," Ranma said, as he balled his fist.

"Yeah, isn't there a way to correct this…nonsense?" Usagi pleaded.

"There is a way," the man said. "Should you leave here, you will automatically cease to exist. However, you may be inserted into a life that has yet to be, by 'leaping' into that life. But I must warn you: should you fail, the life you leap into will be yours permanently. Furthermore, the life you leap into will have an effect on your core personalities. Still, I know you two can preserve."

"But…what about Charlie?" Ranma asked. "He's at the center of all this."

"The Charlie Evans that you know exists in the timeline that is forming. You will be inserted in THAT timeline, and go from there."

Ranma and Usagi look at each other.

"I can do this alone-" Ranma said.

"No, Ranma," Usagi said. "We do this TOGETHER."

Ranma takes Usagi's chin in his hand, and kisses his wife on the lips…

"Okay," Ranma said, as he holds his wife's hands. "We're ready."

"Whoever you are…thank you," Usagi said with a smile.

"You're welcome," the man said with a smile. "This will seem…a little weird…"

FLASH!

Usagi felt dizzy, but conscious. Her senses were a bit numbed, but one word was clearly heard.

"Fire," said a familiar voice.

Meanwhile, Ranma shook his head, as he attempted to shake the cobwebs from his mind.

"You have problem, Garret?" said a familiar voice.

Ranma looks up to see John Harriman sitting in the captain's chair of the original Enterprise. Except, he wore a gray cadet uniform, and that the right side of his temple was scarred.

"Well?" John said.

"Maybe he does NOT have the stomach for what it is about to happen?" said a Klingon.

"Huh?"

"And THIS is your best man, Harriman?" said a disheveled Chekov, who was standing next to another that was, like Chekov, dressed in a commando-style uniform.

Meanwhile, Usagi scans the Bridge. Everything appeared to be 'dark', and some of the uniforms that the Bridge crew wore reminded her of her trip into the Mirror-verse.

And then, she took a look at her self.

"Huh?" Usagi said, as she realized that she was green-skinned, and wore the tattered clothes of an Orion animal woman.

"It looks like your slave needs to be replaced," Chekov said.

"I don't need advice from a terrorist, 'Kerick'," John said. "Like Vulcan now, soon the rest of your rebellion will be destroyed-"

BOOOOM!

Ranma and Usagi had horrified looks, as Vulcan, a world that they know so well, was destroyed…

"And—BOOM—goes the dynamite," John said. "Or, in this case, an Omega Torpedo."

Usagi had to steady herself, as she felt the deaths of billions of lives are suddenly snuffed out, while Ranma had to keep his rage reined in. Obviously, the two had to learn more about what has just went on, before acting.

"Ahhhh," said the Klingon. "Glorius…"

The Klingon then turns towards the rest of the crew.

"THAT is what happens to those who are 'neutral'," the Klingon said. "You either dominate…or be dominated. There IS new truer statement than THAT."

"Yes, indeed," Ranma said quietly, while looking at the Klingon. By the end of this adventure, SOMEONE will be dominated…and it won't be HIM.

The only thing that went through Usagi's mind was thoughts of her daughter T'Sara. She knew that T'Sara can't be alive in this timeline, but still…it definitely hurts.

"Never again," Usagi said to herself quietly. "Never again…"

Tbc.