A/N: The twenty-seventh chapter of my HP/ST:TNG crossover-fic. Again, I'm sorry that you had to wait. For full details see my ending notes.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to J.K Rowling. Star Trek belongs to Paramount Pictures and, of course, Gene Roddenberry (R.I.P.), The Great Bird of the Galaxy. And all other trademarks aren't mine, but just used in the story. Lynn is all mine.
27. Veritechs in heated battle
"Computer, what time is it?" said Dr Crusher.
"1900 hours," said the computer voice. Dr Crusher sighed. She was in Ten Forward, where a little farewell-party was being organised for Harry and the others. Even though it was over a day left before they would reach the co-ordinates where they could perform the time-apparation, it somehow seemed appropriate to have a party now. Guinan walked up to Dr Crusher.
"Something wrong, doctor?" said Guinan.
"Wesley, Lynn and all the others aren't here yet," said Dr Crusher. "It's only a few minutes left."
"Doctor, there's plenty of time left," said Guinan.
"It's just that I asked them to be here early..." said Dr Crusher. Guinan looked around the room.
"Don't you see someone else missing?" said Guinan. Dr Crusher looked around the room too.
"Well, the Captain hasn't arrived yet, but that's abo-" she said, but stopped herself. She looked at Guinan. "Worf's not here."
"And Harry's not here yet," said Guinan.
"The Holodeck," said Dr Crusher. "I'll go get them, they've probably lost track of time. I won't be long."
"See you in a few minutes then," said Guinan. Dr Crusher nodded and went out the door. Just outside the door she met Captain Picard.
"Leaving before the party's started, Beverly?" he said.
"I'm going to the holodeck to get Worf and the guests of honor," said Dr Crusher. "They've probably just lost track of time.
"I'll go with you, there's plenty of time before the party," said Picard.
"Why does everyone else except me think that...?" said Dr Crusher.
They went down the hallway.
On the holodeck both Harry and Worf had performed admirably on the various tests, Harry having a slight edge in the piloting skill testing tests, and Worf being better than Harry in the tests consisting more of combat skills. Lynn was surveying the whole thing intensely.
"Okay the only thing left for you to do is to go head-to-head against each other," said Lynn. "Good luck to the both of you." She switched off the com. Then she giggled madly.
"Um...Lynn? You okay?" said Hermione. Lynn turned around to face the others.
"Okay? This stuff is great!" she said, a huge grin on her face. "I'm actually gonna see two Veritechs going into combat against each other! I've been dreaming about this kind of thing for years!" She turned back towards the console again. Hermione leaned towards Wesley.
"She acts like this sometimes when she's exited about something," she whispered.
"Here they go..." said Ron. Harry and Worf started their duel.
Picard and Dr Crusher reached the holodeck entrance. Picard looked at the display next to the door.
"'Walsh M7'," he said.
"One of Lynn's programs maybe?" said Dr Crusher. Picard nodded. Then he went towards the door. The door slid open and revealed what seemed to be the hull of a spaceship. Picard and Dr Crusher stepped in and onto the hull, the doors closing behind them. The hull was blue in colour and above it was stars.
"Outer space," said Picard. He looked to his left. About a hundred yards away the hull started to rise up like a hill. Atop the "hill" was something that almost looked like a sky scraper with lots of communications antennas, and a large round structure on its port side. "That seems to be the control center."
"I wonder how big this ship can be?" said Dr Crusher. "It seems at least two times as long as the Enterprise."
"Well, we should try and fi-" said Picard, although he did not get any further. The surprise of two fighting, giant robots slamming down no more than 15 yards away from you tends to do that. The robots were entangled for a few seconds, but then one of them, the one which Picard noted had two antennas on its head, managed to get an arm loose and punch the other robot. It was a rather heavy blow and the other robot, which had four antennas on its head, flew of the first robot. The first robot stood up and transformed into something that looked somewhat like a late 20th century military jet plane, except for the fact that it had arms and legs. The plane-robot mix took off and flew away. Now the other robot looked up. Then it stood up, jumped up off the hull, transformed into a jet plane and flew after the plane-robot. Left behind stood the somewhat shocked Captain Picard and Dr Crusher.
"Being in Starfleet I suppose one is to be prepared for anything..." said Dr Crusher after a few seconds silence. "...but I never thought I'd see something like that."
"Likewise..." said Picard. "We better go find young Mrs Crusher."
"What is that?" said Hermione.
"What?" said Lynn.
"That," said Hermione, pointing down on the hull of the Macross. Lynn tapped a few buttons on her console. An image appeared on a viewscreen. It showed Captain Picard and Dr Crusher, walking along on the Macross' hull.
"The Captain," said Lynn.
"And my mom," said Wesley. "What are they doing here?"
"What time is it?" said Lynn.
"Um...I dunno..." said Ron. "A few hours after tea time?"
"Computer, time," said Lynn.
"19 hours, 7 minutes," said the computer voice.
"Of course, the party starts in while!" said Lynn. She looked out the bridge's port window, where the two robots just slammed into the large round structure Picard had seen from a distance earlier. "Those two will be at it for at least a few more minutes..." She paused for a few seconds. "Computer..."
"I wonder how we get into the ship?" said Picard. "There has to be an entrance somewhere, a hatch, an airlock-" Picard stopped himself as both he and Dr Crusher suddenly found themselves inside the ship. More precisely inside a corridor.
"Lynn must've modified the holodeck so that we would enter the ship," said Dr Crusher. Then she smiled. "Good thing to know that my son married such a smart girl." On a wall about nine feet from them was a door. "Let's try that door." They went up to it, and Dr Crusher pressed a button next to the door. The door slid open. Inside was big room filled with consoles and viewscreens. To the front of it stood Lynn, Wesley, Ron and Hermione.
"Welcome to the bridge of the Macross, Captain Picard and Dr Crusher. Please come in," said Lynn. "But watch out for the-" However Lynn was too late in her warning as Picard had already hit his head on the doorframe. He clutched his hurting head. "-low doorframe... Are you alright?"
"His head is too thick to be seriously hurt by that," said Dr Crusher, smiling as she entered onto the bridge after the hurting Picard. "What's all this anyway?" She looked around the bridge, and then at Lynn.
"Well..." said Lynn.
'He's fast!' thought Harry as he narrowly escaped a few rounds fired from Worf's gunpod. 'I never thought he would be this fast. It's the first time he's ever flown a Veritech.' Worf now suddenly was directly in front of Harry, his Veritech in Battroid mode. He was just raising his gunpod.
Harry quickly transformed his Veritech into Battroid mode. He boosted towards Worf, manoeuvring his Veritech so that it raised it's leg and kicked Worf's gunpod out of his Veritechs hands. Worf however quickly and grabbed Harry's gunpod and used it almost like a baseball bat, hitting down hard on the left arm of Harry's Veritech. Harry groaned. Then he smiled.
'Good thing that I enjoy a challenge.' Worf was getting ready for another blow but Harry ducked, and then grabbed hold of the gunpod. He used all of the Veritechs force to swing Worf away. Worf flew quite some distance before he slammed into the side of the bridge tower.
"So, it's that what all this is about," said Dr Crusher.
"And Harry and Worf are having a battle with those 'Veritechs' you spoke of?" said Picard.
"Yes," said Lynn.
"Any idea when they might be finished?" said Dr Crusher. It was now that Worf's Veritech slammed into the side of the bridge tower.
"From the sound of it, not too long," said Hermione. Now everyone looked out the window as they saw Harry's Veritech fly up to where Worf's had disappeared from their view. "Oh dear..."
"What?" said Dr Crusher. About a second later Harry's Veritech came flying backwards, as if being punched.
"That..." said Hermione. Now Worf's Veritech came flying after Harry's. "Here they go... They're gonna end it now."
'Here he comes!' thought Harry mere moments before Worf slammed down on him. They began fighting furiously. Whenever Harry gained an inch, so did Worf. Soon it came down to the point where the two held each other in place, unable to move. Suddenly Worf got his arm loose, raising it to deliver a devastating blow. 'The headlasers!'
Harry quickly turned the two antennas on the head forward and fired the lasers installed in them. The laser beams hit the arm Worf had raised, cutting it off at the elbow. Worf's Veritech looked at the remaining piece of the arm, seeming surprised at what had just happened. Then the head on his Veritech turned towards Harry. The four antennas on Worf's Veritech lowered, pointing directly at Harry, who acted quickly and turned the Veritechs head to face Worf's. Now it was just a matter of which who managed to fire first. As Harry was pressing down the trigger, he saw four laser beams erupting from the antennas on Worf's Veritech. Then Harry's viewscreens went blank.
A moment later big red letters saying "Game Over" appeared on all the viewscreens. Harry took off the seatbelts holding him to the seat, and then opened the hatch of the Veritech. He looked outside and saw that the giant machine was lying on its side. He could easily climb down to the Macross' hull from here. He heard the sound of a hatch opening, and looked over to Worf's Veritech. Worf was just peeking out of his hatch. Harry grinned.
"You okay over there Worf?!" he called. Worf looked at him.
"Yes!" said Worf, a grin on his face. Harry and Worf climbed down onto the hull. They went over to each other and shook hands.
"Good match," said Harry.
"It was...interesting," said Worf.
"I was pretty impressed with how you handled it," said Harry.
"So were we," said a voice. Harry and Worf turned towards it. There stood Picard, Dr Crusher, Lynn, Wesley, Ron and Hermione.
"Captain, we were just-" began Worf.
"It's quite all right, Mr Worf," said Picard. "However, I do think that Dr Crusher has something to say to all of you."
"First of all, nice program! Secondly, the party is about to start, so go get ready!"" said Dr Crusher.
"Oh right, the party!" said Hermione.
"We better get going then," said Ron.
"Computer, end program," said Lynn. The program ended and everyone went out of the holodeck.
A/N: First of all: DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT THE FIFTH HARRY POTTER BOOK! I have it, but I haven't had the time to start reading it, so PLLLEEEEEAAAASSSEEE DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT IT!
Now, back to my fic: Fanboy-ish or what? ^_^ I've had my yearly Macross-crazy whilst writing this chapter. I just love "Super Dimentional Fortress Macross". I love the characters, the mechs, the music and just the whole feel of it.
The name of the holodeck program is a reference to "Macross 7", one of the Macross spin-offs. I really would've liked to made a reference to "Macross Plus" which is a whole lot better and a really ingenious series, but Star Trek holodeck-programs always seem to be called something like "Worf A6", so therefore "Walsh M7".
The Macross is supposed to be 1.210 km long.
About Ron's "...a few hours after tea time?"-line is of course a loving joke with the English. I think the only way of knowing when it's tea time is to actually be English.
I don't think Picard would actually slam his head on the doorframe, but that was a running gag on the early part of the "Macross"-series: whenever Captain Global entered the bridge he would slam his head on the doorframe. Captain Global is however quite tall. I just thought it would be fun if Picard too, being a Captain and all, slammed his head on the doorframe.
I love the headlasers on the Veritechs, and I've always thought it was such a shame they never used them more on the show.
Next time it's on to life more like usual when it's time for the party and the last night in the 24th century for the wizard-team.
Now, I need to explain myself why I haven't updated sooner. To tell the truth I've been busy graduating High School. It's a strange feeling. During my High School time I've matured very much as person, as well as loosened up a bit. I've bought a suit for graduation (yup, no caps and robes here) which feel damned comfortable, but on graduation day it was so hot that I couldn't keep the jacket on the whole time. If I had I would've sweated to death!
After graduation, which was *clears throat* um, two weeks ago, I've mostly taken it easy and watched the reruns of C.S.I. (I love that show!), finished watching Cowboy Bebop (SEE this series, PRAISE this series, LOVE this series! ^_^), started watching Neon Genesis: Evangelion, and bought two presents for my sister. And on top of all that I've been writing. So here you are, the next chapter will not take as long, I promise.
Now, review comments:
Rogue1615 – Me: Ah, yes, the Veritechs were stroke of genius, don't you think? Oppressed assistant: Of course, Sir. :D Seriously, good you liked it. Hope it was enough of the Veritechs in this chapter for you.
Dizzy2381 – Awww, I can't tell you if they get back! But I can give you hints. How about this, I'm a sucker for ***** endings! ^_~
C1ofUnknown – Three reviews from you ("No more, no less." Hehehe, I love Monty Python! :D ). Here follows my comments per chapter:
24: Yeah, you're right about the sentences. I reread that chapter and saw all the mistakes I made. About Picard, I think got it wrong. The Captain I was referring in this sentence: "Status report?!" yelled a Captain on one of the starships in the fleet, was just some Captain on some ship. I just didn't have the energy at that time to come up with a new name for a new Captain. Therefore the whole thing with the Cardassians blowing up the ship with his family on. I thought that it would make a nice addition to have that little story in there. Plus I wanted the Cardies to have some part in the story, since I've becoming this huge Niner because of the DS9 DVD-sets. And about Picard's family you're absolutely right about how many people they were, but now about how they died! Only Picard's brother and nephew died in the fire, and I don't think they ever said where it were. I've always assumed that Picard's brother's wife was the one who gave him the news.
25: Thank you. Good luck with picking up your cap and gown.
26: Thanks!
That's all for now. You people have a great time until next chapter. Until then!
Emher
PS. Yesterday it was Midsummer's Eve. I drank Blueberry/Lime cider, something that is somewhat close to Romulan Ale. On the other I did not drink all to much, since I didn't get a hangover. Go me :) DS.
PS2. OHMIGOD! I just remembered that the fifth Harry Potter book is released on the 21st! I won't get until Monday, but still...! Bet it'll rock and make my fifth-year fic seem like a total hackjob. DS2.
PS3. I wrote the above notes about two weeks ago, just so you know. JUST DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT THE FIFTH BOOK! DS3.
