Chapter One
"Put it on screen." ordered Dylan. Screen Rommie
disappeared, replaced by a starfield and an extremely small looking, pure-white ship occupied the middle of the screen. "Magnify."
Andromeda complied with her captain's order and the
ship on the screen enlarged so that they could make out the words painted
on the oval-shaped top hull:
U.S.S. VOYAGER
"I've never seen anything like that before." Beka
commented
"Neither have I." agreed Tyr, warily regarding the
vessel.
"Rommie, are there any life signs onboard?" Dylan
asked the avatar.
"Yes, Captain. There are approximately one hundred
and fifty life signs, although some seem to be
unconscious."
Dylan nodded. "They're in trouble then, check for any traces of weapons fire, or debris of another ship." Rommie shook her head, "No traces." "Hail them."
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As Paris came round he opened his eyes slightly, only
to see nothing put hazy
smoke and a pale red light. Opening them fully he
registered two facts: he
was on the floor -and so was everybody else.
Getting up, Tom walked over to his captain and shook
her awake.
"Wh, what happened?"
"Wormhole." answered the Lieutenant
Once everybody else had woken up they began their
work,
"Captain"
"Yes Mr. Kim?" answered Janeway, looking over to where
Harry was working,
"Before I passed out, I saw a huge ship on the view screen."
"Somebody else is out here?"
"It seemed so."
"I'll keep that in mind, thank you ensign." As she said this, the lights flickered off and then on again and the smoke was filtered out of the air once the ventilation system came on,
"It looks like the Main Computer is back on-line." Chakotay observed as he pressed a button on his arm rests' computer panel.
"::Torres to Janeway::"
"::Janeway here,::"
"::I've got the main computer back on-line, Captain. But the transporters -they're another story. When we entered the wormhole it somehow sent a power surge through the relays and fried all of those that are connected to the transporters. It'll be at least four hours before they're working again.::"
The captain frowned, not liking the fact that they wouldn't have transporters for at least that long, "::Okay B'Lanna, keep on it. Is everybody alright down there?::"
"::Yeah, we had a couple of bruises, but nothing worse.::"
"::Glad to hear it, Janeway out::" Cutting off the comm line she turned towards Harry as he addressed her,
"Captain, sensors are now back on-line." Harry
informed the captain, "And
there's a...a,"
"A what, Harry?" asked Chakotay also turning to face the young ensign.
"Huge ship!" spluttered Harry,
"I need something better than that Mr. Kim -I've told you before." Janeway smiled despite the situation, remembering when they had first arrived in the Delta Quadrant -Harry hadn't been able to explain what was out there then either.
"Onscreen."
The bridge crew gasped, on the viewscreen was a giant, glittering silver ship that was at least five times their size.
"Whoah." was the only word that left Tom's mouth.
"Sensors must still be malfunctioning, Captain. They say that there are only seven people onboard that ship." breathed Harry Kim.
Regaining the use of his vocal cords, Tom admired the ship. "That's -beautiful. It's elegant, it's, it's a master piece it's-"
"They are hailing captain," Tuvok interrupted casting a look of disapproval towards Toms back,
"Respond."
Dylan Hunt appeared on the their view screen, standing tall in the centre of his Command Deck,
"--This is Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda
Ascendent, do you need
assistance?--"
The two captains looked at each other via the link, both sub-consciously summing the other up. Janeway noted that Hunt wore a uniform and realised that he must be part of some sort of organisation, something similar to the Federation maybe? His bridge was warmly coloured with a seat at the centre and several stations around the rest of it. However she couldn't see anybody else apart from a woman with shoulder length black hair who was about a head shorter than him -also in a uniform.
The first thing Dylan noticed was how, grey this ships' interior was. Grey walls a grey floor, a grey ceiling and grey stations. The lights were white, not unlike his own but they were more startling. The man next to her had a tattoo on his forehead; perhaps it symbolises something? What's more is that both were wearing uniforms! There was a long station infront of her with a man seated at it, swinging from one-end to the other tapping here and there, I wonder what that's for -and where's the slipstream chair?
Standing up, Janeway raised her voice, "--This is Captain Janeway of the U.S.S. Voyager. Your assistance would be most useful captain. However, our transporters aren't working at the moment. May we dock a shuttle?--"
"--Sure, I'll have my officers meet you there. Docking
Bay Two is now open.--"
"--Thank You Captain Hunt, Janeway out.--"
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(aboard the Andromeda)
"Uhh, what's a 'transporter'?" Dylan asked Harper.
"I dunno. Might be some-it like that teleporter we used to, when we connected to the black-hole." answered Harper, a bit disappointed that he didn't know what they were talking about either.
"Okay. Harper, you, Tyr, Rommie Beka and I will meet our guests in the docking bay."
"Whatever you say bosso!!" Disappointment gone, Harper ran enthusiastically past Tyr and Rommie -missing Tyrs comment in his haste.
"So you're letting the boy near a new toy, is that wise?"
"I didn't know you rhymed Tyr?"
"I don't."
Upon the groups' arrival at the Docking Bay, the Delta Flyer was just landing -looking tiny inside the big docking bay. Turning to Harper, Rommie said, "Calm down Harper, its just another ship."
"Yeah well we didn't say that when we met a ship you
liked did ya?" retorted the engineer, jumping off of the ground in little bounces.
With a **whosh** the shuttle door opened, and out Captain Janeway, flanked by Tom, Tuvok and B'Lanna -cutting off the avatars retort.
Hunt nodded his head at the captain,
"Captain, thank you for your offer. This is Lieutenant Commander Tuvok -my Chief of Security, Lieutenant Paris -my Chief Helmsman, and Lieutenant Torres -my Chief of Engineering." Janeway introduced each in turn while Dylan gave each a handshake.
"Well this is Beka Valentine -my first officer."
"Hiya." Beka smiled at the newcomers, but didn't move from her spot to shake hands with them, who knows who they could be!
"This is Tyr Ananazi." Tyr nodded
"Rommie, the ships avatar."
"Hello."
"Wait a minute -your ship's a living ship?" broke in Torres -gaining herself a look from Janeway,
"No. I am an AI; an Artificial Intelligence."
"Oh, okay."
"And this, is Harper." finished Dylan
"Hi. Did ya know that I built her? Being the super genius I am." Harper pointed to Rommie, who just gave him a pointed look say something like 'yes-but-i'm-beginning-to-wish-you-hadn't.'
"Yeah, but the only problem is -he's nuts," added Beka,
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Not."
"Umm. Please ignore them. If you'll just come with me I'll introduce you to the rest of my, our crew." Dylan corrected, not before Beka sent him six feet under however.
Before following Hunt's lead Janeway asked, "Just how many people are on your ship?"
"Seven." answered Dylan Hunt. With that they took off through the corridors towards the Command Deck.
Once they arrived at the Command Deck Hunt finished off the introductions.
"This is Rev Bem: don't worry -he's a Wayist." Dylan added hastily, but was surprised when the Voyager group didn't even flinch at the sight of the Magog. Everybody else seemed to notice too but didn't say anything -just gave the group weird looks. Rev bowed his head to them and carried on working,
"And this, is Trance Gemini." finished Dylan finally.
"Hi!!" Trance skipped forward enthusiastically to Janeway and held out her hand, Janeway shook it warmly.
"Yeah, the awesome purple sparkly babe!" joked Harper, earning himself a swat on the arm for it as she returned. "Well since you weren't in the Docking Bay this is Tuvok, B'Lanna and Tom."
End chapter one.
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