CHAPTER BY DIGIMON LANTERN 1

CHAPTER TWO - CONVEY

USS ENTERPRISE

NCC-1701

FIRST FIVE YEAR MISSION

Captain James Tiberius Kirk was pleased. His partner, a beautiful Vulcan female named Kela, seemed to have enjoyed herself. Kela hadn't been in the midst of Pon Farr but that didn't seem to matter to her.

"Captain Kirk, please report to the bridge." Uhura chimed over the comm.

"Okay, I'm on my way," Kirk said, closing the channel. "As it would appear, I have to get back to work."

"Go," Kela said, "I'll be waiting."

After recieving a kiss from this immensely attractive woman, Kirk left his quarters to find Ensign Sulu at the nearest turbolift car.

"Captain, what's going on?" Sulu asked.

"I don't know, but I intend to find out," Kirk said getting into the car.

When Captain Kirk arrived on the bridge, Sulu went to his station and relieved the Ensign at it while Kirk was humbled by the size of the vessel that pervaded the Enterprise's viewscreen. Kirk turned to his Vulcan science officer, Mr. Spock, and the Vulcan seemed to know what question his human captain and friend would ask.

"Sensor analysis suggests that this vessel is from the thirty-first century." Spock said calmly.

That remark gave Spock everyone's attention, including Scotty, who was listening to the whole conversation from Main Engineering.

"But Keptin," Pavel Chekov said, "the amount of energy to power such a wessel would be astronomical."

"Spock, how can you be sure that this ship is one that is from Captain Archer's Temporal Cold War?" Kirk asked his friend.

"I have several forms of evidence to my theory. One, temporal radiation has left a residual charge on the vessel's hull. Two, a sensor scan of its hull has revealed that these same alloys were found in another vessel recovered by the U.S.S Enterprise NX-01. Three, the..." Spock explained his reasons.

"Spock, you green-bloode Vulcan, would you stop repeating yourself!" McCoy's voice yelled out from behind him. "Will you all stop?"

Kirk turned in his seat to see Dr. McCoy had appeard out of nowhere. Before he could ask, Chekov yelled, "Keptin, it's firing!"

The Enterprise seemed to scream in pain as weapons from eight-hundred years in the future collided with her hull. Kirk staggered to his feet and gave Chekov the order he was waiting for. Chekov began to fire every weapon that the Constitution-class starship had at its disposal. The Russian had no idea where to fire on the attacker so he fired at every spot on its hull, hoping to hit some critical section that would give the Enterprise enough time to make an escape to warn the rest of the Federation of this threat.

Then, something unexpected happened. The last torpedo that the Enterprise had at its disposal tore through an apparantly weak section of the hull. Explosions lit up the blackened hull of the ship. The explosions raced throughout the vessel.

"Sulu, get us out of here!" Kirk exclaimed. "Maximum Warp!"

The Enterprise jumped into warp a millisecond before the ship, displaced in time, exploded. Kirk was thrown out of his command chair as the timeship's explosion plucked them out of warp. The inertial dampeners failed for a couple of seconds before they came back on and Kirk hit the comm panel.

"Scotty, give me more power!" Kirk yelled out his order.

"Captain! I'm givin' her all she's got! If I give her anymore, the whole thing could blow!" Scotty yelled back. "I'm sorry, Captain. There's nothing I can do."

The wave drew the Enterprise in and the ship disappeared. The now imploding wave had torn a hole in space and time.