James T Kirk: DS9
Womb to Womb
Rebecca Sisko, with two connected shackles around her ankles, sat at a dining table inside the hidden lair of the Brotherhood of Kirk.
She had been allowed to wear a robe, but nothing else, for modesty. The shackles were attached to the chair she was sitting in, making escape impossible.
The lair, as best as she could make out, had been relocated and she and Myran were taken to an area inside an abandoned cave. Rebecca didn't know for sure, but based on the ragtag nature of the cult, and their apparent lack resources, she was quite confident they were still on Bajor.
The cave walls were quite dense, and because of that, it probably rendered it hidden from sensor detection.
At that moment Labootu came in and sat at the table with Rebecca. Labootu had a worried expression on his face.
"I must ask for your assistance with your friend Myran," Labootu said.
Rebecca had just spread butter across her Hom'ba (the Bajoran equivalent to croissant.) and chuckled at what Labootu has just said. She took a bite of the pastry, and then looked at Labootu with a look of contempt on her face.
"I'm not helping you do anything," Rebecca said, as she ate a slice of the Hom'ba. "Perhaps you haven't been keeping up with the latest events, but I'm a prisoner here."
"If you do not help your friend," Labootu said, ignoring Rebecca's statement, "she may die. Certainly, we both do not want that to be her destiny."
"Her destiny probably didn't include being kidnapped by bunch of outcasts," Rebecca said.
"Be that as it may," Labootu came back with, "unless you do what I ask, she, and the baby I might, will die."
Rebecca took another bite of the pastry, and then sipped from the glass of water provided for her.
"What's wrong with her?" Rebecca asked point blank.
"Ambathey…" Labootu began to say.
"You mean the Native American witch doctor," Rebecca jabbed back with.
"Think of her as you wish," Labootu, "but Ambathey has brought many children into this life on many worlds. She has concerns that the unborn infant, the Meh'tahq, may have health concerns..."
"Does Myran know this?" Rebecca asked.
"Yes," Labootu answered, "and Ambathey wants to give Myran some herbal medicine that will help the infant, and the mother I might add, pass through this fragile period of the pregnancy. Myran refuses to take the medicine."
"Mister; can you blame her?" Rebecca asked with a sardonic laugh. "You kidnap her, bring her to this place, tell her that her child is some sort of God, threaten to take the child when it's born, and you wonder why she doesn't trust you? For all we know, you might be trying to poison the baby. I wouldn't trust you either, in fact," Rebecca added, "I don't."
"Then," Labootu said, with sadness in his voice, "the Meh'tahq will perish," and then he added, "and so will your friend."
And with that, Labootu reached out, and holding a strange pouch in his hand, he squeezed it and a mist of power came out of the pouch. Rebecca had breathed some of it in, and then she began to lose grip on reality, and closed her eyes.
DEEP SPACE NINE
Admiral Kate Janeway sat in a briefing room on Deep Space Nine, along with Captain Kira, and Commander Christine Vale and they all paid close attention as Constable D'aneve gave the summary of his report.
"And so, to summarize, according to the latest communication from Star Fleet security," D'aneve said, "there are no updates on the missing statuses of Captain Riker, Captain Kirk, Commander Deanna Troi and, now, Kirk's wife Myran and Benjamin Sisko's daughter; Rebecca."
"Are these abductions related in anyway?" Kira asked.
D'aneve pressed a button and an image of Bak'nor came on the screen.
"This is Bak'nor," D'aneve, the Betazoid Constable of DS9 stated, "as you know from my last report, security devices on one of the upper docking rings detected his arrival on DS9. Since that time, my security teams have swept DS9 from top to bottom, and the Chalnoth is no longer aboard this space station, nor do we have any record of his departure."
"Then, if he isn't here, then how did he get off the station?" Commander Vale (the Titan's first officer) asked.
"According to our dock master," D'aneve replied, "Commander Riker docked this ship," an image of Riker's private starship, the Celeritas, appeared on the screen, "and while Riker was only aboard Deep Space Nine for just over an hour, we believe he left," images of the Celeritas departing are shown on the screen, "and upon his departure, we believe Riker transported Bak'nor off of DS9. Now," D'aneve continued, "we know from our informant (Quark of course) that Bak'nor has a sizable debt owed to the Orion Syndicate. They could be players in the abduction of Commander Troi."
Janeway sipped from a cup of tea.
"Alright," Janeway finally said, "let me see if I have this straight. Bak'nor came to DS9 to retrieve something. We don't know what that something was, but Bak'nor believed it to be with Bakooth; his dead brother. Bakooth died on the Defiant, and Bak'nor now believes that whatever Bakooth had, he passed on to Jim Kirk, who was the last person to see Bakooth alive. The Orion Syndicate wants whatever Bak'nor is after, so they abduct Troi so as to get Bak'nor to get Riker to help him find whatever this thing is."
"That is a bit of a stretch," Kira said. "But, then again, I am starting to believe that when Jim Kirk is involved, reality doesn't always factor in."
"Very true," Janeway said. "I've read up on Jim Kirk's career, and while most of it covers the career of the other Kirk, who died on Veridian III, they both seem to be magnets of the most peculiar events I've ever read about. But while I see the connection to Kirk-Riker-Troi and their disappearances, I don't see that connection with Kirk's wife and Sisko's daughter."
"As you know," D'aneve said to Janeway, "I went to Bajor. The abduction of Kirk's wife is no doubt the work of the B.O.K.; the Brotherhood of Kirk."
"Excuse, but what is the Brotherhood of Kirk?" Commander Vale asked.
D'aneve went on to explain the history of the cult movement that had grown out of the worship of Jim Kirk as a deity. Vale and Kira shook their heads at the unbelievable information about such a cult.
"I believe," D'aneve finally said, "that Myran and Rebecca are still on Bajor. We have pretty much ruled out their being transported off the planet. Thanks to you Admiral, there are three Runabouts orbiting Bajor, using their advances sensors, in an effort to find them. If Kirk's wife is only pregnant by two months, then I believe the child is safe for now."
"What does that mean," Janeway said, "safe for now?"
D'aneve produced a data-pad, and showed it to them.
"I took the time to read about the BOK," D'aneve told them. "They believe that a male descendent of Jim Kirk will be the Meh'tahq, or as they call it, the savior of the universe."
"A Bajoran woman's pregnancy will last nearly twelve Earth months," Kira told Janeway and Vale, "so we have at least ten months to find the baby, its mother, and Ben's daughter."
"Actually," D'aneve said, with remorse in his voice, "we have four weeks."
"Four weeks?" Kira came back with. "Why do we have only four weeks?"
"According to this," D'aneve said as he held out the chip, "the Meh'tahq must be removed from its mother, purified, and then placed inside the womb of a Mugatu."
"And what is that?" Kira asked.
"The Mugatu," Vale explained to Kira, "is a primate that exists on the planet of Neural."
"Another one of the worlds Kirk visited, and left an impression," D'aneve added.
"Are you telling me," Janeway said, with a slight tone of fear in her voice, "that in four weeks this cult is going to take that child out of Myran and put it inside of a Mugatu?"
"Yes," D'aneve said. "And in that process, they will also drug Myran so that she will die when the baby is removed. They believe the Katra, the living spirit of the mother, will enter the Mugatu and help keep the child alive."
"Myran is not Vulcan," Kira said, "why do they think she has a Katra?"
"Does any of this make any sense?" D'aneve replied to Kira. "They believe the she has a Katra and are willing to kill her for it."
The room was silent, and then finally Admiral Janeway spoke.
"We have to find her, and Rebecca, before it comes to that." Janeway said.
"How do we do that?" Kira said. "They could be hiding anywhere on Bajor."
"I understand that Kira," Janeway said. "To avoid our sensors, they must be hiding in some sort of natural environment, in a cave, or something like that. You spent many years in the Bajoran resistance, so you must have some idea as to where some of the better hiding places would be."
"It would be a miracle to stumble upon one of the thousands of underground caves they could be hiding in," Kira said with little hope in her voice.
"Kira," Janeway said, "you, and the rest of the resistance fighters who are still alive, have to come together on this and right now. With Jim Kirk M.I.A., it's up to us to find his wife and unborn child. And if I know Ben Sisko, I am quite sure he will do anything to find his daughter; help him."
And with that the meeting adjourned and Kira, Christine Vale and D'aneve all left the briefing room. Once they were gone, there was a bright flash, and Q appeared on the other end of the briefing table from Janeway, in his Admiral's uniform.
"Alright Q," Janeway said, "What is going on?"
"The ordeal with Kirk's wife is none of my affair," Q said. "However, I will tell you that Riker and that Chalnoth bucktooth-varmint of his are with Kirk."
"Just what are they doing?" Janeway asked.
"I assure you that it is nothing tawdry," Q insisted. "Well, yet. But once Kirk has completed his task, I'll bring him back to find his missing wife."
"She only has four weeks, Q," Janeway stated with a little force in her voice. "And then that occult is going to slice that baby out of her womb. Are you going to stop that from happening?"
"Kathryn," Q said, with seriousness in his voice. "The aftermath of the Q civil war has created a set of rules that I must follow. And involving myself with saving Kirk's wife is prohibited."
"But using Kirk on one of your silly errands isn't?" Janeway asked. "Isn't that just lucky for the Continuum?"
"As someone once said," Q said, with vagueness in his voice, "it is what it is."
And then, in a flash, Q was gone.
Continued…
