Title: Wormhole Dead Ahead (Adult version)

Author: 3D Master

Feedback: 3d.master@chello.nl

Rating: Adult

Keywords: X-Over Star Trek(Deep Space Nine)/Highlander/X-Files. First sequel to Nothingness. Tie ins with Vulcan's Heart and Dominion War book 1 and 3. No reading of the books required, but it will add so much more to the story.

Spoilers: Vulcan's heart

Character Listing: Dana Scully, Dr. McCoy, Duncan MacLeod, Nick Wolfe and a bunch of original characters.

Summery: Using blue-prints left over from their first attempt, the Dominion is trying to build a second artificial wormhole. Dana is sent in to destroy it.

Disclaimer: The character Dana Scully does not belong to me, but to Chris Carter and 1013 productions. Star Trek belongs to Paramount. Highlander to Panzer/Davis Productions.

The other characters belong to me.


Author's Notes: Well, I'm back, my first sequel, more to come though. Let's see, is it absolutely necessary to read Nothingness, probably not, but it helps a bunch. I'll thank my Beta readers: Verin Haley, who beta-read right up until and including chapter 8 before he got sucked up by a death in his family (Sorry to hear about that, Verin!), Crys, thanks for the last 4 chapter, and Yvonne. (Sorry, Yvonne, but Crys was faster and can't wait any longer)

And holy ****, well that was unexpected, forget my notes at the beginning of Nothingness. Just got the New Frontier comic book, and guess what? It's a time travel story, and the Excalibur ends up about one and a half years in the future, seeming continuity problem solved. Nothingness still occurs shortly before the Dominion War though. The rest of my ranting you'll find at the end of the story.


Wormhole Dead Ahead


by 3D Master (3d.master@chello.nl)


Prologue


San Francisco

Starfleet Headquarters

June 2375


"Please, sit down, Ambassador," Admiral Stevens asked her.


Scully was nervous, damn was she nervous. She had pretty much been taken, although she had come freely, from her apartment and brought here. She had been certain this didn't happen anymore, at least not through official channels; however only a few months ago, she and most of the entire Federation had found out that the Federation Council had ordered the removal of an entire population from their planet for a little radiation that seemed to slow down aging.


Stevens showed her his right wrist: a familiar blue tattoo attired it.


This was not good. It didn't calm her down at all. Actually it agitated her even more. He knew what she was and that could mean something bad. They had been willing to sacrifice six hundred people, to simply relocate them and dump them somewhere and then destroy an entire planet's ecosystem and all life forms on it, in order to get their hands on a bit of radiation which could potentially improve medicine. The radiation just regenerated cells, and thus slowed down people's aging process, and in older cases, even rejuvenated them down to a certain age . . . but they still aged. If they didn't, their children wouldn't have grown up and the adults would've rejuvenated to infants, or younger than that. They hadn't, so they still aged, albeit agonizingly slow. That was all: when they died, they were dead.


What then, were they willing to sacrifice for true immortality? To be able to come back from the dead, that brain dead isn't enough to keep them dead, that when their heart was cut out of their chest, a new one simply grew in its place and they got back up. A lot, Dana knew and not just a lot - some would be willing to sell their souls for that. They definitely wouldn't mind one Immortal in a clutch. Suffice to say Dana was apprehensive and her posture and look in her eyes betrayed that.


"You're worried, why?" Admiral Stevens asked, not understanding.


Dana answered with just one word, but a word that told so much, "B'Aku."


"I see," the Admiral answered, "There are a lot of people, who do not condone those actions Ambassador Scully; I'm one of them."


"Then why am I here?" Dana asked not entirely convinced yet, yet her voice was laced with a tinge of intrigue.


"I have a mission for you. It requires your special abilities... or rather your lack of the ability to die. And since we know you've stuck your neck out for all of us before, I thought you would be the best choice. So . . . what do you know of the Dominion's artificial wormhole?" Stevens asked her.


Dana shrugged and answered, "Found over a year ago, and subsequently destroyed by Picard and some of his crew."


"Correct. I don't even wanna know how you got your hands on that classified information," Stevens said and handed her a PADD. "When the Bajoran wormhole closed, they started to rebuild it. It has to be destroyed for good, which means any blueprints they have must be destroyed."


Dana studied the PADD and raised one eyebrow, then looked back at the Admiral.


"Will you take the mission, Ambassador Scully?" he asked.


"I will need a free hand in this, make some improvements, as I see fit," Dana answered him.


"You got it," Admiral Stevens said, offering a hand, which Dana took. "Welcome aboard, Captain Scully."