A/N: ARG! I hate the school computers sometimes. The network went down so I couldn't save and I lost all of ch.12! So I had to redo it from scratch.

Future Bound

Chapter 12: The Dragan/Magog Alliance

All crews past, future, and alien alike were sitting at a large round table just behind the ships control deck. Judekär had pulled up a map of the Sequoia Galaxy which appeared in the middle of the table.

"This is the Seqouia Galaxy," she said, "and this [she zoomed in to a smaller portion of the galaxy] is the Sequoia Ruse Nebula, where we are."

"Ok we know where we are so what?" asked Harper.

"So these are the slipstream ports Kain and his Magog allies will be using in the next hour," said Judekär highlighting the slip ports in turquoise on the screen.

"Magog allies?" asked Dylan, "excuse me?"

"Let me guess, your government told you it was a 'scare tactic'?" drawled Morrilan, "oh please."

"Slow down," said Ft. Dylan in shock, "Neitzscheans teaming up with Magogs? They destroyed the Commonwealth for allining ourselves with the Magog before and now your telling us they're teaming up?"

"I think it's story time," said Zak, "The Drago Kazov struck up an agreement with the Magog after they lost more than ¾ of their territory and enslaved worlds to the New Commonwealth. The Dragans, as you recall, didn't give in easily and went away from the Battle of Augustus beaten to a bloody pulp. They want vengeance on the Commonwealth but no longer have the advanced technology so they allied themselves with the Magog…"

"To gain their technology and manpower," finished Ft. Dylan.

"So when we were attacked by Kain the first time and he said him and the Magog were all buddy-buddy.." said Harper

"He wasn't bluffing," said Zak.

"Raeis sent someone to talk with Kain," said Ft. Beka

"He's already dead," said Zak, "your government should really monitor your enemies or at least get a confirmation."

"The Commonwealth screw up again," said Morrilan, "I really thought you'd learn to be more careful-I mean after the Commonwealth fell the first time…"

"Which means?" asked Ft. Dylan.

"Kain's planning a second Long Night," said Maggie, "I'd warn your government if I were you."

"A second Long Night?" said Harper, "and we're not even out of the first one yet."

"What have we got to do with this?" asked Beka

"You're a core, a link, should you all die, your future selves perish as well," said Judekär.

"Wait a minute I thought they said nothing we do can change this future?" said Beka

"Your actions no, but your deaths, yes, everything can be changed."

"So if we die," said Harper, "it's bye-bye to this universe."

"It's complicated," said Judekär, "your actions now influence our future but your other past selves shape and create other possibilities, this one-maybe, but we'd all be different. We are on your path, you are our past link. Every other universe has their own Andromedas; the future's are endless. But every universe is one of a kind. None are identical. In another time this world may happen but Will and Ingrid may never exist, Terra's pride may have been taken over by another. Harper or Beka or one of us may be dead, maimed, or lost. Nothing is the same."

"So if anything happens to us then, all of our possible futures are gone," said Dylan, "This world won't happen because we are your past."

"Exactly," said Trance speaking up, "our actions won't change this universe, but our deaths will."

"You all can see the future," said Ft. Dylan, "what's most likely to happen?"

"I can tell you the most likely attack but not action or outcome," said Judekär, "In 66 minutes and counting, Kain along with his new ships which you saw when he blasted you into this word and many Magog swarm ships, will come through every possible slipstream and are busy positioning themselves now. We may be your advantage, the likelihood that they know we're here is almost an equal chance that they don't. They're also attacking Mischenidar for the location of Tarn Vedra."

"Any message would take days to reach Mischenidar from way out here," said Ft. Dylan, "and we have an hour."

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A/N and disclaimer: Another cliffhanger, I know it's short but don't worry I'm on such a roll! My writer's block has been torn down and I'm just writing whatever comes to mindJ

Please r/r! I've resorted to begging.

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