Crossed Worlds

By Dslguy14

Chapter 3, Captured

Authors note to all readers: Sorry I took this long to update. I was on vacation in Washington state. Some advice for you: NEVER do the Mystic Lake trail: my thighs still ache. If I get the sickbay description wrong, don't flame me! Also, I haven't got my TNG Seasons 5-6 DVDs with me, so I might get some characters or descriptions wrong.

The disclaimer in the first chapter applies here.

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Holly slowly became aware of a dim light all around her. Realizing that she was barely conscious, she barely managed to open her eyes before a bright light made her wish that she hadn't.

"Unnnh…," she muttered, as it all came flashing back

Artemis firing that device at her… feeling as though she was being taken apart, molecule by molecule… seeing that wall rush up to her…

Before she could put another thought together, a female voice interrupted her.

"Captain, the intruder is waking up!," her voice sounded.

Barely opening her eyes a crack, Holly could see that she was in what Mud Men would call a futuristic room. Set with about six hand rest-free beds around a carpeted room with fluorescent lights projecting an even light around the room.

Then she saw them.

Three Mud People were standing in the room. One was wearing a blue uniform under what looked like a Mud Persons doctor coat, which was also colored blue and had two front-side pockets. The other two were both wearing uniforms of red-on-black and somehow Holly could sense an aura of command about them.

Military, she thought bitterly.

Squinting a bit closer, she could see that one of them was bald, and the other one had a mustache. Also, she noticed that the bald one had four insignia-type circles around his collar, while the other one only had three. So, baldy was in charge.

Then baldy spoke.

"What were you doing, trying to get on my ship?"

Holly eyed him warily.

"Fowl set this up, didn't he?"

"Fowl?"

"YES!!, ARTEMIS FOWL!!!"

"Well, Captain Short... I do not see how this Fowl person is relevent to you trying to sneak on my ship"

"Where am I? A ship?"

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Picard and Riker glanced at each other.

Apparently this being didn't know she was on the Enterprise-E. So that had to mean either someone forced her here, or some sort of phenomenon dropped her here, possibly against her will.

"You are on the Federation Starship Enterprise-E, and I am Captain Picard, and this is my first officer, Commander Riker"

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Holly looked annoyed now.

"That, Mud Man, is the biggest lie I have ever heard"

"Well, the Federation..."

"I DO NOT want to hear it, human!," she almost roared.

"So, what are you going to do with me? Research, Experiments? Well?"

Picard and Riker looked highly affronted

"We do not experiment with sentient beings, Captain," Picard said icily.

"I do not know where you get these preconceptions from, Captain, but I assure you that once your intrusion onto my ship has been thoroughly investigated, you will be free to do as you wish," Picard finished.

"I still don't believe I'm on a starship," Holly challenged

Picard almost looked like he expected this.

"Well then, Captain Short, I can offer you some proof later"

Something about Picard wasn't right. Holly could sense it. Then it hit her.

"How did you know my name...??"

Holly broke off, glancing at her Gnomish nametag. No human on the planet could read Gnomish... Or have the means to translate it... Except for Artemis Fowl.

"A Universal translator," Picard said quietly.

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I usually like to keep my chapters at around 500 words.

-Dslguy14