Chapter 44.
Future's End.
(Scott POV)
I was in my ready room as I was trying to get in the mode again for lacrosse again. Then my door bell rang.
"Come in," I said as I threw the ball as Tuvok walked in and catched it. "Oh Sorry, Tuvok, Working on my aim,"
"Your aim," Tuvok said.
"Lacrosse, after 3 years since I got here I starting to play it again," I said. "What can I do for you, Tuvok,"
"I have complete my monthly security evaluation. All systems and Crew are.." Tuvok said.
"Red Alert, Captain McCall to the Bridge," Chakotay said as we went out.
"Report," I said.
"Some sort of spatial rift, It opened right in front of us," Chakotay said.
"Analysis," I said.
"It's a distortion in the space-time Continuum, But it's got a graviton Matrix," Harry said. "It's being artificially generated,"
"By whom," Chakotay said.
"Sensors can't get inside, The Distortion field's fluctuating," Harry said. "Something's coming out,"
"It appears to be a small ship, Approximately 6 meters in Length," Tuvok said.
"Magnify," I said.
"Sensors are reading one occupant, Human," Tuvok said. "He is holding position at the Perimeter of the rift,"
"There's a subspace signature emanating from the ship," Harry said. "Captain, It's Federation,"
"Hail them," I said.
"No response," Tuvok said. "They appear to be charging weapons,"
"Shield up," Chakotay said. "Hail them again,"
As we got hit.
"Report," I said.
"Shields are down," Tuvok said.
"Get us out of here," I said.
"Helm control is offline," Tom said.
"He's firing some kind of Subatomic disruptor," Harry said.
"Tuvok, Return Fire," I said.
"Full phasers, No effect," Tuvok said.
"Voyager's molecular structure is coming apart," Harry said.
"Tuvok divert all available power to the Deflector, Send out a high energy Polaron pulse, It might help to disrupt his weapon," Chakotay said.
"Emitting Deflector Pulse Now," Tuvok said.
"It's working," Harry said.
"ZPM 1 To shield and structure integrity, Harry," I said.
"Aye Captain," Harry said.
"We are being hailed," Tuvok said.
"On screen," I said.
"Starship Voyager, I'm Captain Braxton of the Federation Timeship Aeon," Braxton said. "I've come from 29th Century Earth, 500 years into your future, Please Disengage your Deflector pulse,"
"Not until You tell me why you fired at us," I said.
"Your vessel is responsible for a disaster in my century, A temporal Explosion that will destroy all of Earth's Solar System," Braxton said. "I've come back in time to Prevent that Occurrence, My Mission is your destruction, you must not Resist,"
"What are you. A Borg Drone, I'm not going to do that. Until I see all the Information Before I allow you," I said.
"Debris from your secondary hull was found in the explosion," Braxton said.
"That's is no Evidence," I said. "What you doing is creating a Paradox here,"
"No Time," Braxton said.
As we got hit again.
"He's remodulating the Subatomic Disruptor, Our Deflector is losing power, It won't hold much longer," Tuvok said.
"Captain if he's telling the truth," Chakotay said.
"I'm not allowing anyone to destroy this ship on 10 second conversation, I want Proof," I said as we got hit again.
"Doesn't look like we are going to get it," Chakotay said.
"Adjust our deflector to match the frequency of his weapon, Overload that pissing Emitter," I said.
"It seems to be working, His weapon is off line and his ship has been damaged, The Rift is Destabilizing and he's being pulled back inside," Tuvok said.
"Reestablish Helm Control," I said.
"I'm trying, Captain, But we seem to be caught in some kind of Graviton Distortion, We're being pulled in too," Tom said.
"Everyone hold on," I said.
As We went through. Shaking hard until it finally stopped.
"Status," I said.
"Primary systems are coming back online, The Weapons grid and power array took heavy damage," Tuvok said.
"The temporal rift is closed," Harry said.
"Where are we?" Chakotay said.
"Home," Tom said as he put on the viewscreen, Earth.
"We just cut across half the galaxy," Chakotay said.
"The rift must have originated here, Hail Starfleet command," I said.
"No Response on standard frequencies," Tuvok said. "Curious, I am picking up a multitude of narrow band EM Signals,"
"EM Signals," I said. "That Mobile Phone Networks, The question isn't where are we. It's when. Harry,"
"According to Astrometric readings, the year is 2014," Harry said.
"21st Century," I said.
"Captain," Tom said.
"I know, They had Satellites here get us into a high orbit. Modulate the shield to scatter their Radar systems. We don't want to alarm the planet. Or SGC," I said.
"What about the Timeship?" Chakotay said. "Is it here too,"
"There's no sign of the vessel in orbit. Scanning the planet's surface, I'm picking up 2 low frequency subspace readings emanating from the northern hemisphere," Tuvok said.
"Subspace Technology shouldn't exist for another 100 years," Chakotay said.
"Roughly yeah, Could be our friend from the 29th Century, Localize them," I said.
"North American continent, One in the Pacific coast," Tuvok said.
"Los Angeles, Where is the other one," I said.
"It is 2,216,6 Miles from Los Angeles, From a city. Called Beacon," Tuvok said.
"Beacon Hills," I said.
"Yeah," Tuvok said.
"How," Chakotay said.
"It's my hometown, Where I was Born, back home," I said. "We're going down there. 2 Teams, Tuvok, Tom Los Angeles, Chakotay, You and I Beacon Hills, If it Captain Braxton in either of those locations He's the key to all this and at the moment his ship is the only way we have to get back to our own time. Meet in the Transporter Room 3 in 10 minutes. Harry, You have Voyager,"
"Yes, Sir," Harry said.
As I went into my Ready room and grabbed the USB's which I made for them, My Pack if I ever got this chance. But I can't stay, I promised I get this crew home. But I'm home, They're aren't. Could I really leave them in the wrong time, for me. No.
Then I headed down to my Quarters and got changed and into some of my Clothes I had. Then I met up with Chakotay, Tuvok and Tom in Transporter Room 3. Where I got my Phaser and tricorder.
"Tuvok Tom, You beamed down to Los Angeles, Chakotay, Us Beacon Hills, Let's go," I said.
As Chakotay and I Beamed down to Beacon Hills.
Man it looked the same.
"The Subspace readings are coming from within the Town City," Chakotay said.
"Ok, We track it down," I said. "Meet me here," pointing to the Mall.
"You sure it's a good idea to split up," Chakotay said.
"Yes," I said. "We meet here, Just watch yourself and don't use you Combadge until you know you are alone,"
"Got it," Chakotay said as we split up as I went in and found a newspaper. The Date was just after Kate was Dead and Chris Threatened me. Screw this, I can help him. So I went to see Chris where I found him in the warehouse and I knew the Code and used it and went in and found him working on something.
"Chris," I said.
"What are you doing here," Chris said. "How did you get in,"
"You. Long story," I said.
"Shouldn't you be at School," Chris said.
"Maybe but I need you to do something. Watch yours on those. Then you will understand," I said throwing him the USBs.
"Why should I," Chris said.
"Cause if you Don't Victoria will Die, Gerald comes and tries to Turn Allison into something she isn't, I know Because I from 20/6/2014," I said. "Look you have no reason to believe it but She tried to Kill me. As Derek found her and bite her Saving me. She kills herself as Gerald uses her death to Twist Allison mind,"
"And what if I don't do what you have on this," Chris said.
"Allison is going to die," I said.
"Bullshit," Chris said.
"It's not, After You and Her came back from France, after you left when we stopped what Gerald was planning. There was this group which came Someone started killed people. Near yourself, My Mum and Stiles' Dad. We stop them as I turned out to be a True alpha," I said let them show so he could see. "Look I don't want her to die again. But Remember doing what you did doesn't help, You need to know that, Allison and I. We. We,"
"What," Chris said.
"I didn't know until after she Dead. But She was the only person for me. And Now she's gone, But I found a way to do this but It won't last long, Please you have to do this," I said.
"You both are Mates weren't you," Chris said.
"Like I said, the only person for me," I said.
"Chakotay to McCall," Chakotay come through my Combadge.
"What was that?" Chris said.
"Just shut up for a minute," I said. Hitting it. "Go ahead,"
"I found it. It's a piece of a power matrix, the rest must be there," Chakotay said.
"Meet me back where I said. Then We get to the Others," I said.
"Understood, Chakotay out," Chakotay said cutting it.
"What was that?" Chris said.
"It's all on that, Just make sure you give Allison hers," I said Then Turn and went to the Door. "You understand what is going on after you watch those, Tell her, Tell her I love her and miss her," Then Left.
Then started heading back to beam in site. As I went and got a few things and stored them using my Transporter Buffer where it was safe too. Then Reached the Site.
"There you are, I was starting to get worried," Chakotay said.
"I'm fine," I said. "McCall to Voyager, Harry, Beam us to Tom and Tuvok location where they beamed down,"
"Aye Captain," Harry said. "Standby for Transport,"
As we beamed back and then down to where they were beamed to.
"Let's go," I said.
"You ok," Chakotay said.
"Fine, Why," I said.
"Just seemed like you were sorry to leave Beacon Hills," Chakotay said.
"It's home, as much as I want to be there again, But we have this to sort out," I said. "Any sign,"
"Yes, It in a radius of a hundred meter of our position but can't pin point the source," Chakotay said. "I find it hard that a ship from the 29th century could've landed on this beach without being noticed,"
"For all we know they could have Cloaking Technology by then," I said. "McCall to Paris,"
"Here, Captain," Tom said.
"Where are you," I said.
"We are at the Shoreline," Tom said.
"Got it, Chakotay and I will search the boardwalk," I said.
"Acknowledged," Tom said.
"Well, Scott, you got us home," Chakotay said.
"Right place, wrong time, But it's good to be home," I said.
"Maybe I should look up a few ancestors as I recall one of them was a school teacher in Arizona," Chakotay said.
"None of mine was out of Beacon Hills, We stay there," I said. "You ever been here,"
"No," Chakotay said.
"I have once, Man, I spent it down by the beach with my Cousin," I said.
"I never knew you had a Cousin," Chakotay said.
"Maddy, I called her Mads, She didn't mind it. But she lives back in Stoneybridge. In the UK. but after the Hermosa Quake of 2047, This entire region sank under 200 meters of water, it become one of the worlds largest coral reef home to thousands of different marine species," I said.
Then we were nearly on the beach.
"The Readings are coming from over there, 10 meters," I said. "There,"
"So much for the Timeship," Chakotay said.
"There's no doubt about it, The Subspace reading are coming from him," I said. "Let's get Tom and Tuvok,"
After we meet up again and started to follow the guy.
"He appears to live on the street," I said. "That pushcart seems to contain all his belongings,"
"From what we can tell, he spends most of his time putting up literature about end of the world," Chakotay said. As my Combadge went.
"McCall here," I said.
"Captain, we've got a problem, We received a signal from the surface, It looks like a standard greeting designed for Extraterrestrials," Harry said.
"We've been detected," I said.
"It look that way, We tracked the signal to an observatory about 20 kilometers from your location," Harry said.
"Beam Tom and Tuvok there," I said.
"We Can't do that right now, Not without going into a lower orbit, the main Pattern buffer is offline, B'Elanna says it could take a couple of Days to repair," Harry said.
"In that case Transmit those coordinates to Tuvok's Tricorder, Him and Tom will have to use more conventional means, Also Tell the Doc see when he can get that ATA Gene virus ready," I said. "We could need a jumper some time then,"
"Aye Captain," Harry said. "Kim out,"
"Nobody walks in Los Angeles and they don't have much of a public transportation system. We're going to need some wheels," Tom said.
"Do what you have to do, Find out who sent that message and get more information have we been detected, how many people know about us, we cannot risk contaminating the Time line," I said.
"Aye Captain," Tuvok said.
"See you later," Tom said.
As We split up again.
We followed him all the way to a junkyard.
"Who the hell are you?" he said. "This is my stuff,"
"We're not after your stuff, we just want to ask some questions," I said.
"No, no, no, No more questions, No more surveys, Damn social workers coming around all the time," he said. "No, I don't Need your advice, I don't need your. Voyager, oh I knew you'd show up, this is all your fault, This is all your doing," He said as I found the same badge.
"Braxton," I said.
"I told you to turn off your deflector pulse but you wouldn't listen to me, Voyager, Fools," Braxton said.
"What happened to you, the last time we saw you," I said.
"I was a younger man, Confident in my mission, But you wouldn't listen to me, no, you were too concerned with yourselves," Braxton said.
"You were trying to destroy us," Chakotay said.
"I was trying to save billions of lives, to stop a chain of reaction that started with Voyager," Braxton said. "It's too late now, All things are set in motion, The Temporal Explosion will occur, The end is coming the Future's end,"
"How long have you been here," I said. "In the 21th Century,"
"Oh too long, 30 years too long," Braxton said.
"And yet we just arrived why?" Chakotay said.
"The Rift, It was already falling apart, So we got sent to a different time, Then Braxton here landed," I said.
"He is right, When you knocked my Navigation system off course, There's not telling where we would have ended up," Braxton said. "Who's been here, who took my pencils, Oh always something missing, People always trying to steal things, Greedy people, Post industrial Barbarians,"
"Captain, we want to help you but you've got to give us more information," I said. "You said that voyager causes the explosion,"
"Yes, No Yes," Braxton said. "That's a,"
"I know about paradoxes," I said.
"What," Chakotay said.
"It a cycle," I said. "Keeps going not matter what, Like World war 3, First contact,"
"Exactly, A, There's an explosion in the 29th century, Debris from Voyager's hull is found in evidence I go back in time to destroy, you," Braxton said.
"Set it all in motion again," I said.
"B. You try to stop me, disabling my weapon, which causes my to crash land back here in the 21th century. C, Someone from this century, steals my Timeship and launches it, They go into the future and once there, they make one critical mistake, Which causes a temporal explosion That takes us all the way back to A, There's an Explosion in the 29th century, the cycle of Causality is complete," Braxton said.
"How do you know all this," I said. "What evidence do you have that it will be your Timeship that causes this disaster,"
"I've spent 30 years, answering that very question, Oh yes, When the explosion first happened, My sensors recorded a whole variety of chronometric data, The Pulses were highly chaotic, At first I thought it was a Warp core implosion, But then I found debris from Voyager, And my theory seemed to be confirmed it was you, But then someone here stole my Timeship, Then It started to dawn on me, If someone were to fly my Timeship into the future, Without recalibrating the Temporal matrix, Then that could case the kind of explosion I witnessed in the 29th Century," Braxton said.
"So it really wasn't Voyager after all," I said.
"No, No, No, I reconstructed, all the chronometric data as best I could remember it, And it proved that I was right, My Ship Causes the Disaster," Braxton said.
"Then that raises the question Who has your Timeship," Chakotay said.
"Starling," Braxton said. "Henry Starling. CEO. Chronowerx Industries, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, Outstanding Citizen, Ha, Before I crashed in the year 1987, I made an emergency beam out,"
"Wait isn't that one year after Chernobyl," I said.
"Yes," Braxton said. "But Starling found my ship before I did, In some remote mountain range, I've been following this corrupt little man for months ever Tracking his movements, But he's Become too powerful, I can't get close to him, Of Course you can't accomplish anything in this wretched century, Nobody here listens, Do you know that once they put me in a mental institution, and filled me with primitive Pharmaceuticals,"
"Maybe we can help you find Starling and your ship and get us back to where we belong," Chakotay said.
"No I wouldn't do that if I were you," Braxton said.
"Or doing nothing is what causes that explosion," I said.
"Because that's somehow you're involved in the disaster," Braxton said. "That's why I found debris from Voyager's hull in the explosion, you will be destroyed as well,"
"Now that we know what's going to happen maybe we can figure out," Chakotay said as there was a siren.
"Say nothing," I said.
"Hey, Captain," Policeman said. "How you doing? I understand you been putting these signs up around the city again,"
"No, no, no, no, Not me, I. I would never do that," Braxton said.
"Why don't you walk over here and we can talk about it," he said.
"You stay right where you are," Braxton said. "You quasi-Cardassian totalitarian,"
"No need to get upset," He said. "We just want to talk to you about the signs, Now there've been a few people complaining,"
"Captain, Tell them I'm not Crazy," Braxton said. "Tell them I'm from the future," I just shook my head like is he for real. "They came from the future, too you know,"
"Okay," He said.
"Yeah they came in on a Starship," Braxton said.
"All right," He said.
"Traitors," Braxton said taking off as they went after him.
"We'll have to worry about him later, Right now we've got to find Starling," I said.
As we started moving.
We found it and waiting till night to go in. As we got to his office.
"So far so good, we haven't set off any alarms," Chakotay said.
"Desk," I said. As I went over to the Computer. "Our Mr. Starling has built quite a corporate empire, Looks like he's got wealth, Celebrity, And An ego to match,"
As I sat and tried getting in.
"Okay," I said.
"Seen you have done that before," Chakotay said.
"Oh yeah, Damn," I said. "Wait," As I got my tricorder out and tried it with that to crack the Password giving us access. "Gotta cha,"
"I picking up a forcefield I can't scan beyond this wall," Chakotay said. "I don't see an access port or a control panel,"
"Then we try that on his PC. Wow, He's got a massive database here, But it's protected by an encryption sequence, My Tricorder should be able to get through," I said.
"Looks like a series of Pictographs," Chakotay said. "They must have used symbols to represent the different functions of the Computer,"
"Let's see what Henry's been up to all these years," I said.
As I started getting through his files as my Tricorder was Download the data.
"You really got a hand of this," Chakotay said.
"Damn straight," I said. "Man is it good to be home,"
"What's that mean," Chakotay said.
"That can wait. Oh Incredible Starling's Computer Designs were inspired by technology from the Timeship, He introduced the very first isograted circuit in 1969, 2 years after Braxton Crash landed," I said.
"And every few years there's been an equally revolutionary advance in computers all from Chronowerx Industries all based on Starling's crude understanding of 29th century Technology," Chakotay said.
"The Computer age of the late 20th century shouldn't have happened, not for another 10 years, But it's happens and it's part of our history, All because of that Timeship," I said. "Look at this, Gantry, Power Conduits, Telemetry consoles, This is like a launching bay design,"
"Braxton was right, The ships going to be launched," Chakotay said.
"Let's send these to Voyager for analysis," I said. "McCall to Voyager,"
"Kim here, Captain," Harry said.
"We're in Starling's office, I want you to establish a com link with my Tricorder and try to upload his Computer database, Everything he has," I said.
"Aye Captain, We'll need a few minutes," Harry said. "To Reconfigure to their binary system,"
"Acknowledged," I said. "Let's see if we can find out where the location of that launch pad is,"
"You know Captain, In a way Braxton was right," Chakotay said. "If we hadn't fought him when he tried to destroy Voyager he wouldn't have been pulled back in time his ship wouldn't have crash landed on earth and none of this would have happened,"
"We don't know that, you know there was a saying, Time can be rewritten, Plus Time travel damn how much I know about it. First time as a Starfleet captain, I hate these Gorram Paradoxes," I said.
"Hold on," Chakotay said. "This looks promising, Try Timeship Security Portal,"
"Maybe it linked to some sort of Camera system even an image of the launch bay would give us a clue to it's location," I said. As it worked and saw the window behind us opened up. "Bingo," As I grabbed my tricorder and left it on in my pocket.
Then the lights turned on.
"I see you've made yourself at home," Starling said.
"You know, Pointing at gun at me is really getting old," I said.
"Really," Starling said.
"Yeah, Most of my teen life so," I said.
"I know who you are," Starling said. "You're from the future, I knew you'd come back one day, I detected your vessel in orbit, and Mr. Dunbar here had a run in with your friends, You're here to take the Timeship,"
"Starling, You're about to cause a terrible disaster that will affect the 29th Century, And explosion that will cost Billions of lives, We're here to stop from doing that," I said.
"What are you talking about?" Starling said.
"If you launch that ship and travel to the future, it will destroy Earth's Solar System," Chakotay said.
"How do you know this," Starling said.
"Well, let's just say we talked to the ships previous owner, He told us that if its temporal matrix isn't precisely calibrated you will trigger a temporal explosion," I said. "That ship shouldn't be here, It belongs to another century, We have to take it back,"
As My Combadge went.
"What's that," Starling said.
"It's a communication device, Someone is trying to get hold of me," I said.
"Answer it," Starling said.
"McCall here," I said.
"Captain, We've established to comlink, Ready on your signal," Harry said.
"Do it," I said.
"My database," Starling said. "Stop or I'll kill your Captain,"
"Don't listen to him Ensign finish it. He hasn't got the Balls to kill anyone, Why else is there a bitch right next to him, Finish it," I said.
As It finished.
"You know you just got yourself killed," Starling said.
"Really, I seen people try kill me for years and they are the ones who failed," I said.
"You've taken everything," Starling said. "Including my launch plan, But that's not going to be problem, Captain, I'll make a few changed to my Travel itinerary, You're not going to stop me,"
"Want to bet, If you don't give us that ship we'll take it by force, Or Destroy it," I said.
"In case you haven't noticed I'm holding the gun," Starling said.
"Are you, Looks to me, your pussy boy behind me is holding the gun, not you," I said. "Oh and," As I turned and Kicked it out of his hand and Got it. "Don't try it, Now Either you give me that ship or I'll vaporize this entire building in a blink of an eye,"
"And you long with it," Starling said.
"Think that bothers me, it's doesn't, I'll happy to save that time," I said.
Then We got beamed up. To the Bridge.
"Nice Timing Harry," I said. "Helm Maintain present altitude Keep us within transporter Range, Chakotay See if you can disable the force field around that Time ship, B'Elanna prepare to Lock on to the Timeship and Beam it to Cargo Bay 2, Harry, You have as I said the Hell of a sense of Timing, Not Bad for your first day in the big chair,"
"The Matter Stream is Remodulating he's Disrupting Transport," B'Elanna said.
"Now what," I said.
"Captain, I don't understand how but he's using our Transporter beam as a downlink, he's accessing our Main computer," Harry said.
"Shut him out," I said.
"Everything I try to disable his down link he comes up with a new command override," B'Elanna said.
"He is using 29th century technology against us here, we may not be able to keep up with him," I said.
"Inertial Dampers are offline, he's gotten into our Propulsion systems," Chakotay said.
"Disengage transporters," I said.
"Destabilizing Matter Stream," B'Elanna said. "Transporters off line,"
"We've terminated the Downlink Captain, But he got a least 20 % of our main computer data files," Harry said.
"Get us back into orbit and I want a full damage report," I said.
"Captain McCall," Starling said. "Henry Starling here,"
"The Fuck you want," I said.
"USS Voyager, Intrepid Class, Much bigger than I expected, and much less advanced, Says here your ship was launched un the year 2371, Your from the 24th Century and all this time I thought you were from the 29th looks like I have the home field advantage," Starling said.
"Keep Dreaming, I'm going to Destroy your damn building and that Timeship one way of another," I said.
"Ohh What this," Starling said.
"Cut him off," I said.
"Damage reports are coming in, Some minor power fluctuations in the impulse drive and a few burned out circuits in the main computer core, Nothing we can't handle," Chakotay said.
"Sickbay to Bridge," Kes said. "Captain I can't find the Doctor,"
"Is his program off line," I said.
"No His program is gone," Kes said.
"Starling," I said.
"Captain this is Neelix," Neelix said. "There's something on the television I think you should see, It's a current events program,"
"News Channel, Great, Harry," I said.
As there was footage of Voyager flying.
"Damn," I said. "Get me a full Damage report,"
As I headed down to my Quarters. Once I went in.
"Dad," Clara said hugging me, As Chloe come over to and hugging me too.
"Hey Kiddos," I said.
"Daddy, You're home," Chloe said.
"Yeah, I am Sweet heart," I said. As I let them go. Then I headed for my room to get changed and into my uniform. As I came back out as Chloe just rushed me and hugged me again. "Hey, you," As I got Chloe to let go. "Got to go, See you later okay,"
"Okay Daddy," Chloe said.
"I know look after her, Go," Clara said.
"See you soon," I said headed out and up to the Bridge and into the Conference room.
"Starling downloaded near 20% of our Computer core, while we were trying to beam the Timeship out of his building," Chakotay said. "Lucky he didn't get his stuff back,"
"I'm replacing those programs as quickly as I can, But some of it isn't retrievable," B'Elanna said.
"Like the Doctor," Kes said. "There's literally nothing left of him he' just gone,"
"Unfortunately, The Doctor is only one of our problems, Our Weapons are offline, Lost contact with Tom and Tuvok in LA, And we've confirmed Captain Braxton's Hypothesis, If Starling does attempt a flight to the future, It will start all this all over again," I said.
"Captain, I've analyzed Braxton's Schematic. The Temporal technology is incredibly complex," Harry said.
"No matter how much a genius this Starling might be, he is not a trained pilot from the 29th Century," B'Elanna said.
"Exactly, How long can you get Weapons back online," I said.
"Captain," Chakotay said.
"If Starling does launch that Timeship, We're destroying it," I said.
"Without the exact calibration, that ship will rip the Time space continuum apart," Chakotay said.
"The Instant he jumps to the 29th Century," Harry said. "There won't be a 29th Century, Not for Earth Anyway, The Entire solar system will be destroyed,"
"Then We either get that Timeship or destroy it, Starling can not get through one of them rifts," I said.
"Long Range Transporters are still down," B'Elanna said. "We'd have to drop out of orbit again,"
"No, The Airforce was start shooting at us before we even get close," I said. "So if we can't get to the ship, Maybe we can get to the Man, B'Elanna, I want you to,"
"Captain McCall, I'm receiving a Transmission from Lt Tuvok audio only," She said.
"Put him through," I said. "Tuvok, Are you and Tom alright,"
"We are Fine, Lt Paris and I are at the Griffith Observatory, In the Hollywood Hills, We have modified the Satellite Dish Transmitter to carry and receive Voyager Communication Frequencies, I regret the Bad Connection," Tuvok said.
"Don't worry about that Tuvok, Just glad to hear from you, What happened?" I said.
"We have become associated with a young woman Employed at the Astronomical Laboratory. It was she who sent the message to Voyager But her Lab is under the Supervision of an individual named Henry Starling," Tuvok said.
"We met Him, He the one with the Timeship and the one who will cause the Disaster in the 29th Century," I said.
"Then it would seem we must find a way to stop him," Tuvok said.
"Tell me about this young woman, will she help us," I said.
"She and Lt Paris appear to be bonding on a cross-cultural Level," Tuvok said.
"In Tom's element more like," I said.
"Indeed, I would have to say yes," Tuvok said.
"Ask if she'd be willing to help us," I said.
"Aye Captain, Tuvok out," Tuvok said.
XXX
B'Elanna and Chakotay were off with the plan, Now we were waiting for the time to do this plan of ours.
"Captain, we've got Starling in our Transporter buffers, But we can't rematerialize him," Chakotay said.
"The Interference is disrupting computer Pathways," B'Elanna said.
"Aft Thrusters are down," Chakotay said.
"Captain we're close enough to the Shutter to use the short range transporters," Harry said.
"McCall to Transporter room 1, Lock directly onto the shuttle's Pattern Buffers and energize," I said.
"Acknowledged," She said.
"Chakotay, We're taking over, from here," I said. "Harry, Let go,"
As we went down to the Transporter room 1 and got there.
"He's got what looks like a tricorder," I said. "I'm putting out some kind of interference signal,"
"I'm Isolating it and suppressing the Amplitude," Harry said. "Got him,"
"Damn it," Starling said.
"McCall to Sickbay, Medical Emergency in Transporter room 1," I said.
"Acknowledged, Captain," Kes said as I took that device off him.
"Get that Analysed," I said. "McCall to Bridge, Any sign of Chakotay Shuttle,"
"No, Captain we've lost his signal," Ops said.
"Transmitted their last know coordinates to Tuvok and Paris, Maybe they can find them," I said.
"Aye Captain," Ops said.
"Captain shouldn't not look for Chakotay and B'Elanna," Harry said.
"We can't not without going down there again," I said.
As We got the Sickbay.
"McCall to Tuvok," I said.
"Tuvok Here," Tuvok said.
"Tuvok, We've got Starling, but we've lost contact with Chakotay and B'Elanna, Their shuttle went down over Arizona," I said. "Harry is Transmitting the Coordinates to your Tricorder, I want you to find them,"
"Aye Captain, Tuvok out," Tuvok said.
"He suffered minor synaptic stress, during the extended Transport enough to cause unconsciousness but not any permanent damage," Kes said.
"Can you bring him out of it," I said.
"Yes Captain," Kes said.
"Welcome to the 24th Century," I said. "I took the precaution of Removing your Tricorder, That's what it's called by the way,"
"It didn't work," Starling said. "It should of blocked your ships teleporter,"
"It works perfectly, you just shit at using anything," I said.
"Give me some credit Captain, I did pretty well for a primitive," Starling said.
"That's all gone now, I win, So Disable the forcefield around Chronowerx, We taking that Timeship," I said.
"You're in no position to making any demands, Captain," Starling said.
"Actually, I do," I said.
"What are you going to do, Shoot me," Starling said.
"Oh No, A Lot of more painful ways," I said.
"I've rigged the Timeship, If you try to teleport it again If you even go near it Los Angeles will look like the face of the moon," Starling said.
"You'd destroy an entire city, You don't care about the future or the Present only thing you care about is yourself, And don't even try to Bullshit me, Only thing you want to do is go to the Future and get more Technology," I said.
"I've Cannibalized the ship itself as much as I can, There's nothing left to base a commercial product on," Starling said.
"And the future is just waiting to be exploited," I said.
"You just don't get it do you," Starling said. "I created the Micro Computer Revolution,"
"Using Technology you never should have had," I said.
"Irrelevant, My Products benefit the entire world," Starling said, "Without me, there would be no laptops, no internet, no bar code readers, What's good for Chronowerx is good for everybody, I can't stop now one trip to the 29th Century, And I can bring back enough Technology to start the next 10 computer revolutions,"
"If you even go to travel to the future, You risk creating a temporal explosion that could cost billions of lives, Including your own, And starting this Paradox all over again," I said.
"I'm willing to take that risk," Starling said.
"Says the former person who was homeless had nothing. To having an empire, just because of that Timeship. It's not worth Billions of lives, and in my time Starling, No human being would dream of endangering the future to gain advantage in the present," I said.
"Captain The Future you're talking about that's 900 years from now," Starling said. "I can't be concerned about that right now, I have a company to run and a whole world full of people waiting for me to make their lives a little bit better,"
"Computer, Reactivate forcefield Level 10," I said. As it did. "Chronowerx stock is about to Crash and Burn, If he tries anything, Shoot him,"
"Aye Captain," He said. As I headed for the Bridge.
XXX
"We're in Arizona, Chakotay and Torres are 30 kilometer northeast of Phoenix" Tuvok said.
"Good get to them as soon as you can," I said.
"Captain, There's a Transport in Progress," Harry said.
"What?" I said.
"It Starling, He's beamed to the Surface," Harry said.
"Motherfucker, He must have a satellite in orbit," I said.
"It sent a transporter signal through our shield like they weren't there," Harry said.
"Where is he now," I said.
"Back at Chronowerx building," Harry said.
"Get me weapons back now," I said. "He's going to launch,"
"Captain. It's Tom on Audio," Harry said.
"Go ahead Tom," I said.
"We just turned off the main highway onto a desert road," Tom said.
"Hi, This is Rain Robinson, You don't know me, Bu the point is there is zero traffic on this road, They're going to know we're following them," Rain said.
"Yeah, No shit Sherlock, Tom we've scanned the area, The appears to be a small landing field, about 10 kilometers ahead of you," I said.
"It could be his launch site," Tom said.
"Stay on him Our Weapons are still offline, And B'Elanna hasn't finished repairing the shuttle," I said. "It all up to you Tom, Do what ever you have to,"
"I'll do my best Paris out," Tom said.
After a few minutes.
"Chakotay to Voyager, The Timeship's not here, Captain It was a ruse," Chakotay said.
"Get back to Voyager as soon as you can, Starling is Launching from the Chronowerx building," I said.
"Aye Captain," Chakotay said.
After a minute.
"The Timeship is entering the upper Ionosphere," Harry said.
"Track his course," I said. "Chakotay get back here, Fast,"
"Acknowledged, Captain," Chakotay said.
"Phasers are still offline, I've armed the Photon Torpedoes, but we still can't fire them," I said. "The Launch Activation Sequencers aren't responding,"
"I think I can reroute fire command through the helm," Harry said.
"There's no time, Take the bridge, Harry," I said. "Should be second nature to you by now,"
"Captain," Harry said.
"Open The access portal to Torpedo Bay one, I'm going in there to reconfigure for manual Launch," I said.
"Scott, I should be," Kat said.
"Captain with the activation sequencers down, you'd have to launch from inside the tube, It's too dangerous, The Plasma Exhaust," Harry said.
"You have your orders," I said.
As I reroute the Turbolift there.
I got in there and I starting to work on it.
"Bridge to McCall," Harry said. "the shuttle is back on board,"
"Good I'm nearly there," I said.
"Captain, the Timeship has jumped to Warp 1," Harry said.
"Go to warp we are not losing him," I said.
"Aye Captain," Harry said.
"McCall to Bridge, I've Reconfigured for manual Launch, Arm Photon torpedo," I said.
"Torpedo armed," Tuvok said.
"Lock on target, " I said.
"Locked on," Tuvok said.
"Chakotay, Give him one last warning now," I said.
"Aye Captain," Chakotay said. After a minute. "Chakotay to McCall, Captain we have no other choice, Fire,"
As I pulled the Lever as it lit up in front of me. Then I got up and headed out of the Tube and into the Corridor.
"Captain," Doctor said.
"On the move, Doc," I said getting into the Turbolift. "Bridge.
"Captain, I insist you come to sickbay," Doc said.
"There'll be plenty of time for that Doc," I said as we got there.
"The Bridge is yours, Captain," Chakotay said.
"Is there a chance in hell we can reopen that rift," I said.
"Captain the rift is opening," Harry said. "There's something coming out, it's the Timeship,"
"Let's see it," I said.
"We're being hailed," Tuvok said.
"On Screen," I said. "Captain Braxton,"
"Do you know me," Braxton said.
"yes, Unfortunately," Chakotay said.
"You tried to destroy our ship in the 24th century, and the next time we saw you were an old man homeless in 2014," I said. "Wait, You don't remember that,"
"No, I don't Remember that timeline," Braxton said.
"Then what are you doing here?" Tom said.
"In my century we can scam time. As much as you scan space, The Temporal integrity commission detected your vessel over 21st century Earth. I was sent to bring you back, Prepare to follow me back into the Rift, I'm returning you to your own time to your previous coordinates in the Delta Quadrant," Braxton said.
"Captain, We've been trying to get home to Earth for last 2 years, Can you return us to our century but here in the Alpha Quadrant," I said.
"I'm sorry, Temporal Prime Directive, I'm afraid your on your own, Braxton out," Braxton said. Cutting it.
"The Timeship is Re-entering the Rift," Harry said.
"Tom. Follow him in," I said.
"Aye Captain," Tom said.
Then We were returning back to our time.
"Captain, We're back," Harry said. "Same Coordinates,"
"Get Repairs on the way, and Resume Course for home," I said.
"Captain There's something in the Database here but it's for your eyes only," Harry said.
"Sent it to my Ready room," I said. "You have the Bridge, Commander," As I went in.
"Captain's Log stardate 50312.5, We are again in the Delta Quadrant at the exact time and place we first encounter the Timeship. I've resumed course for home, I've Order the Crew to the Mess hall for a toast, But In a few minutes. I have to admit. It was good being back home even if it was before I disappeared. Only thing I can think of Right now is getting this crew home. Then I can worry about getting back to my time, End Log," I said. "Computer open file,"
"Level 10 Authorization Required," Computer said.
"Authorization McCall 1153 Red. Clearance Level 10," I said.
"Confirmed," Computer said. "Message Ready to play,"
"Playback Message," I said.
Then the screen went black and then back again.
"Hey Scott," Allison said.
"Computer pause," I said as It did. "Computer when did we get this,"
"Message Received as we returned to our space time," Computer said.
"Resume," I said.
"If you are reading or listening to this. Then I got the message, You left dad. I know that you lied to him to at the time since you 2 weren't on speaking terms, But I also doing this to Tell you when you disappeared. I found out the days before we went to the movies, And I was waiting for the right time to tell you, That I was Pregnant. I was going to tell you at your birthday, Since it was only another 3 days till then but this happened. Dad loved the news, As did I since I, Well you know how I get. I missed you so much when I got the news I thought I would have been doing that with you with me. But I don't get rid of our child Scott. I couldn't, She was the last link I had to you. As I said Her. We had a daughter. I called her what we always talked about. Chloe Allison McCall. Yeah, Changed my last name to that too. Look Scott what ever you are doing, Just see if you can find a way back to me. Us. I love you Scott, My first, Well My everything. Love you," Allison said as it stopped.
She was pregnant. Oh god. Allison was Pregnant and I was stuck here.
"Computer. Any Files Related to Chloe Allison McCall," I said.
"Yes, But will require 5 hours," Computer said.
"Send all the files and this message to my Private Database," I said.
"Confirmed," Computer said. "Files and message saved,"
Allison had our kid and I was stuck in this time so far away from her. She even changed her name for me. Even Called our Child what we always talked about.
"Chakotay to McCall," Chakotay said. But I wasn't focusing. "Chakotay to McCall," As It came through again.
"Go ahead, Chakotay," I said.
"We are all in the mess hall, Captain," Chakotay said.
"Thanks, I. I'll be down a few minutes, McCall out," I said. Cutting the link.
(Chakotay POV)
"That's didn't sound like the Captain," I said.
"Whatever was in that message he got must really got to him," Harry said.
"Nevertheless, Whatever it is, The Captain, Will tell us when he is ready," Tuvok said.
"I hope so," Chakotay said.
As the Mess hall doors opened.
(Scott POV)
I was got to the Mess hall. And went over and got myself a whiskey.
"Cheers," I said. As the rest did. "To the Future, How long will you be out and about, Doc,"
"If you're referring to my newfound mobility that is entirely up to me," Doc said.
"I'm still trying to figure out exactly how the Doctor's Autonomous emitter works but it looks like downloading him back into the ships computer, isn't going to be much of a problem," B'Elanna said.
"Apparently the reverse is also true," Doc said. "I will be able to make use of the emitter as casually as you might slip on a pair of shoes,"
"It's a little more involved than that," B'Elanna said.
"You know Kes, now that I'll be to and for Your responsibilities in Sickbay will increase," Doc said.
"I'm up to the challenge Doctor but what about you?" Kes said. "There's going to be more to your life now than sickbay,"
"Nothing I can't handle, You know Captain, I've always wanted a little more privacy, perhaps under the circumstances my own quarters," Doc said.
"One step at a time, Doc," I said.
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