Mutiny (part 4)

Disclaimer: See part three.

B'Elanna left the bridge. She started looking for one of the visiters, one found her. B'Elanna wanted to get to the point with away. "Hi, Harry, I know your captain probably wanted to stay neutral," she didn't want them to have any idea the Captain had heard their meeting. "But, you are aware the engineering has stopped working on a way for you to get back to your universe, right?"

"I heard that, yes?"

"Well, the Captain says, that he will order them to continue if you help us."

"I will report this to my captain."

"Then it's settled?"

"I will tell her."

"Ok, you can tell her now. Here she comes."

He looked surprised and glanced behind him.

Janeway approached them, "Harry, B'Elanna."

He spoke quickly, "The other Kim made the offer, she did too just now."

Janeway nodded. "I see."

B'Elanna frowned at him, "You didn't mention that."

"I only said that I would tell her, and I did."

B'Elanna gritted her teeth angerly and started to leave. Then Kathryn came from the near door. They both quickly drew their phaser at each other, but didn't fire.

Kathryn glanced around and realized she might have been too late to make the offer, she looked at B'Elanna. "Drop your phaser now, then leave, and I'll let you live."

B'Elanna frowned, knowing in reality she was outnumbered, but unsure the other two were going to do anything just yet. "Let me leave now, and I won't fire."

Kathryn glanced at the other she, unsure if she wasn't outnumbered. "Fine."

B'Elanna left to the closest door to her.

Kathryn lowered her phaser some, "Starfleet knows what offer to make because they listened into your meeting."

Janeway frowned, "What?! They have no right to do that. How do you know what offer to make?"

"Because we listened into them. So, she made it? Have you sided with them?"

"She did to Harry, I arived after," Janeway said, "But Harry also told me, that Lt. Kija told him first."

"Then you are on our side?"

Janeway hesitated, "...yes."

Kathryn lowered the phaser completely. "Excelent, I will imform my crew."

"And I will mine." Janeway said, "Harry when you see any of them, tell them."

Kathryn took out another phaser and tossed it to Janeway. Janeway left.

"So, where was Harry when you talked to him?"

He smiled, "He's nearby, you shouldn't have any trouble finding him, Kathrena."

Kathryn was stunned, then said, "You better hope she doesn't meet her Harry and wonder why he doesn't know which side he's on."

"I do. But if she figures out I will argue, I mentioned the proposal to her first, so officially we did make the offer first."

"Very good."

Word came out quickly that the visiters had officialy picked a side. The Captain was not happy. But now he'd deal with it. He had given the orders, "Fire at any Maquis and anyone who had sided with them."

Meanwhile, the Maquis who had made their base in sickbay had to come up with a plan to get to the brig. "Twenty-one people were put in the brig," Kathryn said, "That's a third of our group. We need to get them back. Anyone have any sugestions besides going in there while shooting everyone?"

"What not?" Harry said, "They're shooting us with no hesitation. You'd think Starfleet would be the peaceful side."

"That because they are being lead by a hologram," Annika said, then glanced at The Doctor who frowned at her comment and added, "Who's a bit crazy."

"Crazy?" Janeway asked.

"Yes. Recently we spent two months studying a unusual planet because he thought it would be good for Starfleet research. He keeps getting worse."

Harry nodded, "It's like he's forgotten that we are not supose to be in the Delta Quadrant."

Kathryn started talking, "He has the brig area heavily garded and also engineering. Not so much the bridge. Tuvok, take a small group of people and make them think there is a threat against engineering. It'll keep people there and bring in a few more. Then I will take a team and try to take over the bridge. Harry, after people leave the brig to go to engineering and the bridge, have your team ready and get the people from the brig. Annika, defend sickbay, it's ours and I plan on keeping it."

Tuvok picked his group, whoever was closest to him. Torres, Neelix, and 3 other people. They started on there way to engineering.

Everyone else picked there teams and prepared.

Chakotay, Seven, and Tuvok were on Kathryn's team.

Janeway and Kim were on Harry's team.

Paris and the Doctor would stay in sickbay with Annika.

Meanwhile this Voyager's Neelix hid in his quarters, he had his rations and was prepared to stay there for a long time while the mutiny was taking place. He heard a knock on the door. "Who is it?"

"Georgia Elshim, I heard you were staying nutral and I wanted to do that to so-"

Neelix opened the door, "Welcome, but I don't have much rations."

"I brought my own."

Neelix invited her in, "So why are you staying nutral, I thought you would go with Starfleet."

"Well, I agree and disagree with both sides. I couldn't choose, then when I heard you were going nutral I figured you might want company."

"Well, you and all Nutrals or New Others are welcomed."

Tuvok (from this ship) used the Jefferey Tubes to get to engineering, "There are 3 hatches that surround engineering, 2 people go to each one. Attack occasionally and don't let them see you."

Torres nodded to herself analyzing the plan. It felt odd to attack engineering.

Neelix wanted eveeryone to feel better, "I'm sure everything will go well as planned."

"Neelix," Tuvok said sharply. Neelix jumped. "Your with me. B'Elanna go with Floy to the next hatch. Zack and Robert go to the third one."

Torres and Floy quickly made it the next hatch. Floy took charge much to Torres's dislike. But she reminded herself that it wasn't her ship.

"They are probably guarding the hatches," Floy said. "So when we open it prepare to shoot. Make sure your phaser is on the kill setting."

"Don't you think that they will prepare for someone coming out of the hatch. They probably have someone there just keeping they phaser pointed towards it ready to fire. We wouldn't have much of a chance."

Floy stopped crawing, "Hmm, actually I didn't think of that. There is a hatch close to engineering but far enough that it wouldn't be to heavily guarded. Let's go there."

Tuvok crawled quickly to the hatch he was going to. Neelix tried to keep up with him. "Hurry up," Tuvok said, then went into hatch ahead. When Neelix got there he came to a small room, it had hatches on both sides and the front. No Tuvok. Neelix frowned wondering which way he went. He looked in each one. No Tuvok. Then he tried to figure out from his own ship which way would be best to go. He chose the one in front and went in that.

Meanwhile Kathryn was making her way to the transporter room. Tuvok should have started his attack by now. Chakotay followed right behind her. They got to the door.

Tuvok used a tricorder, "There are two people in the transporter room."

"Well they should be easy." Kathryn said.

"It would be logical it asume," Tuvok said, "That they have a way to block the transporter so we cannot beam into the bridge."

"Then we will override it." Seven said in her emotionless, matter of fact voice.

Kathryn brought her phaser up and ready, "Let's go in."

Harry used Jefferery's Tubes to get to close to the brig without Starfleet knowing. Now that he was close, he was sittting, and waiting for Kathryn's signal.

Janeway sat opposite and to the side. Kim was by her sitting against the same wall as Harry.

Harry looked up at Janeway, "So how does it feel to be taking orders from me?"

"Uh," Janeway didn't know what to answer, "Different."

"Different, yes. But I enjoy it. Kathrena has always outranked me." He ran the tricorder towards the hatch. "Hmm, that's strange."

"What?"

"There are more people near the brig then there was before, there should be less."

Suddenly someting beamed in. "Dr. Kija's signal?" Kim asked.

Harry picked it up and tapped the buttons, then read, " 'More people coming to the brig. Attack now. LLAP' This looks like it. Hmm, I wonder what LLAP is."

Torres and Floy left the Jefferery's Tube's. They fired at the guards nearby, then ducked down. Then they saw Tuvok, Neelix wasn't with him, but he wasn't alone either, he was talking to some of the Starfleet engineers. He was looking around nervously and then left.

Floy was in shocked, "He betrayed us. He's no true Maquis, I can't believe this."

"Which means they know about our plan."

Floy went back into the Jefferery's Tube so he wouldn't be too loud. "Computer locate Dr. Kija."

"Dr. Kija is in the Transporter Room."

Floy tapped his comm badge, "Floy to Dr. Kija."

Kathryn was surprised to be hearing from Floy. "Yes?"

"Your not going to like this. But I just saw Tuvok having a nice conversation with our Starfleet friends."

"Your sure?"

"Talking and looking to see if anyone was noticing."

Kathryn felt a surge of anger, "Take charge of that team, get more people and attack Engineering. Kija out." She turned to her team, "Their probably expecting us on the bridge. So we won't go there, just yet. Erect a force field around the transporter padd and beam everyone on the bridge here."

Janeway fired at the opposing officers, she felt guitly everytime she did. Kim and a couple others were working quickly to put down the force fields, there were codes to pass.

Alot of people had came to guard to brig suddenly, but at least no more were coming. There was still alot of people to fight. There were people on both sides that seemed to enjoy shooting each other.

The force fields fizzed out. Harry quickly made his wall over there, he saw Louis and hesitating with trusting him. "Which side are you on?"

Louis frowned slightly, "Your side ofcourse. You know I never liked the Captain."

Harry nodded satisfied, but still causious. He had the team start their way to sickbay and was the last to leave. When he arrived, Annika told him of Tuvok's betrayal, they sent more people to engineering.

Suddenly everyone on the bridge disappeared. The Captain called for backup immediately. Most of security was now at the brig, he didn't get much, B'Elanna, Tomas, and 5 other people responded.

The Captain located Tuvok seeing he was not near any Maquis and question him, "I thought they were going to beam in, not beam people out."

"That was the plan," replied a confused Tuvok, "Though, Kathryn has made last minute changes before. I will atempt to find any other changes she has made."

"Find out. I don't want any other unexpected surprises. Bridge out." The Captain frowned and grabbed a phaser riffle and ordered the others to do as well.

Then Kathryn's group beamed in, out numbering them 2 to 1 they took over the bridge quickly. Starfleet officers soon were sitting against one wall. The Captain disappeared as his program was deleted. However, Kathryn knew he had just reappeared wherever his backup program was, and not to her surprise, the Starfleet officers claimed they didn't know where that was.

Kathryn had all controls rerouted to the bridge and only the bridge. As she tried to figure out where the Captain went, she decided it was time to tell Harry's team to attack the brig. To her surprise she found he was in sickbay.

"Dr. Kija to Lt. Kija."

"Harry here."

"Did you already attack the brig."

"Yes," he said slowly, confused, "You sent a message 'More people coming to the brig. Attack now. LLAP' Though I didn't know what LLAP was."

"I never-", Kathryn stopped as the screen in front of her went blank and was replaced by these words, "HoloCaptain in engineering. Another backup program in cargo bay 1, another in sickbay. He's making more. LLAP"

"What?" Harry asked as she was quiet.

Kathryn deleted the message and spoke quietly, "I just got a message where the HC is, engineering, cargo bay 1, and sickbay. Someone must be Starfleet, getting information and giving it to us."

"Is there a way to find out who?"

Kathryn was tapping the console trying to find out where the message came from. She frowned slightly, "This person is covering their tracks."

Annika listened as Harry told them what what was discovered. She smiled, "Well, Starfleet had their spy. I guess LLAP is ours.

"Except we don't know who LLAP is. As for the HoloCaptain's program. We need to delete the one in sickbay and try to find some kind of program that would go through the ship's systems and delete all his programs.

"A virus?" Janeway asked. "One could be created to delete his program and nothing else. But it would have to have defense so it couldn't be deleted or removed."

Floy and Torres lead a team and took over Engineering, it wasn't that hard since they didn't expect an acutal take over. Floy found the Captain and deleted the program. He put everyone from Engineering to the same place and had them guarded. Tuvok wasn't to be found.

Tuvok was on his way to the bridge, for some reason Kathryn wanted to talk to him. On the way he met Vorik.

"I'm not sure why, but Dr. Kija wants me to go to the bridge."

"Probably to find where the HoloCaptain went."

"This is still odd of her. I hope...I hope she doesn't know I betrayed her. Could she?"

"No, I don't think that's possible. But if one of her crew finds us talking then she will. I suggest you go."

Tuvok nodded and entered a nearby turbolift. "Bridge." He heard a soft humming and he was lifted to deck 1. Then the doors opened.

"Tuvok come. We took over the bridge as you see." Kathryn greeted. When he entered she added, "No thanks to you."

Tuvok had a morbid feeling when he realized she knew. "Doctor, let me explain. I don't think the Mutiny was right-"

"You know what happens to traitors."

Tuvok remembered as he felt the beam of a phaser burn through him. It was the last thing he remembered.

As Kathryn put the phaser down she heard someone walk by and heard a Chakotay voice say, "You didn't have to kill him."

"He betrayed me and he knew the risks when he did." She frowned and shook her head angrily, "He used to be my first officer. I'm the one who got him the job here." She sighed sadly and walked away.

In engineering, Torres and Pearl were working with a few other people on a way to reopen the link between the two realities. With Pearl, they were able to pick up where she and her original team left off. They were getting close.

Meanwhile, sickbay was being attacked. Annika and Harry tried to hold their first base. But odds were against them two to one. With them were Janeway, Paris, the Doctor, Kim, Louis and the rest who were in sickbay.

"I guess this is for engineering and the bridge," Annika muttered as she fired.

"And don't forget the brig," Harry said, he and the Doctor were grabbing medical supplies and stuffing them in the medkits, "It's almost the same people my team fought there."

Janeway and Kim worked to transfer the information about the virus from the computer to a padd. Paris and Louis were shooting.

It was hard to keep sickbay as long as they did. But finally they had to back out. Harry frowned, last to enter the Jeffery's Tubes. "They better not mess it up." He looked back to the others, "So where do we go now?"

A padd matiralized by them, it listed all the rooms the Starfleet had taken over followed by "LLAP". Annika scowled, "They have most of the ship. We may have the bridge and engineering but that's it."

"I suguest we get to one of those before we are attacked," Janeway said.

"Engineering is closest." Annika said as she lead the way.

In Engineering, they received they same list of rooms Starfleet had from LLAP. While one person started looking throught the computer for anyone who had the those initials, Pearl tried to send a message back, "What's LLAP stand for?" After a second the computer read, "Can't say, it might give me away."

Pearl started back to work when the people from Sickbay showed up. They exchanged information and informed bridge of everything. Pearl started again to find a way to get the visiters back home.

Kim restarted on the virus, while Janeway went back and forth between the two.

An hour later, the virus was released through the ship. Everyone hoped it would work. An half hour later LLAP sent a message, "HoloCaptain seems to be gone, but may still be hidden in equipment. Starfleet still fighting."

"They don't give up, do they?" Kathryn said after reading the message. Her combadge beeped. "Kathryn here."

"The visiters can go home now." It was Pearl.

"Alright, beam more people here before they go there." She waited a few minutes and heard the sound of a transporter beam behind her. Then she had Chakotay, Tuvok, Seven, and herself beamed to engineering.

"Kathrena," was the first thing Kathryn heard. She smiled as she and Harry embraced. "I missed you," She said quietly. Then she looked to her double. "Thank you for your help."

Janeway nodded, "Thank you, for helping us."

Harry moved away from Kathryn's side to shake hands with Kim. "Good- bye. I never met a double of me before, so you know I won't forget you."

Kim smiled, "I won't forget you either. Good-bye."

Harry took a step back to Kathryn's side.

Annika smiled and said good-bye to Seven. Seven said good-bye in her usual emotionless voice.

Janeway, Chakotay, Torres, Paris, Neelix, the Doctor, Tuvok, Kim, and Seven went back to their own universe. They found themsleves where they left, in the conference room. Tuvok and Seven left right away, the rest stayed behind to talk a little bit about what happened.

"I hardly spoke to the other Neelix," Neelix said, "I wonder what side he was on."

The Doctor said, "I think it's sad that they hated their only holo- officer."

"Who looked like me," Chakotay added, "I wonder who LLAP was and who is going to win." He turned to Janeway, "It was also odd to be fighting in a mutiny on Voyager with you."

Janeway nodded slightly knowing that odd feeling as well. "They offered to help us first. Though Starfleet wasn't far behind."

They nodded slightly, all hearing different stories what happened there. Some thought Kim was the one the Maquis asked. A couple thought it was Janeway. A few thought it was someone else entirely. The rest had no idea.

The conversation stopped and they left the room, all having questions about the other Universe, questions that would never be answered.

The End