Disclaimer: Only the plot and three of the characters are mine, and those three are these:
Rose Lynn Palmer-Briefs
Benjamin Briefs
Darijan
All the rest of the Star Trek universe belongs to Paramount and all the rest of the Dragonball Z universe belongs to Akira Toriyama and Funimation
A/N: This is the start of my revision of this fic. I'm adding a lot of descriptive stuff and making sure that I'm not contradicting myself. If you spot any mistakes in the story, please tell me, but I will studiously ignore any flaming about my story not following one or both of the original stories. This is my fic and the plot will go the way *I* want it to.
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CHAPTER 1: RETURN
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Rose ran as fast as she could, knowing in her gut that if they caught her it would be the end. The forest was thick here, making running difficult, but it was more so for the bulky cretin and his followers than for her. She knew these woods well, and she knew of a few good hiding places. She turned her head slightly and saw through her peripheral vision that they were still too close for her to make a break for any of those hidden spots. She would be seen.
She was really too close for comfort to the cliffs that she knew were near. If she didn't watch where she was going, she might have too much momentum to stop herself when she reached them. Ah! There was the edge. She turned sharply behind a tree and shimmied up the trunk like a squirrel. Maybe that would throw them off. She was just about to make a flying leap to the branches of the next tree when a bright, diamond-shaped flash of light right in front of her caused her to stop. Q! No! But there was nothing she could do to stop him. Her world dematerialized, and when she opened her eyes, she was no longer in the forest. She was back on Voyager and she was back in the uniform she hadn't worn for nearly twenty years.
Q had put her in the corridor just outside Sickbay. That was probably a good thing, because as just what she'd lost sunk in, grief overtook her and she collapsed.
x x x
The Doctor was becoming as annoyed as it was possible for a computer program to become. "Captain, you really must come in for your annual checkup! Being in the Delta Quadrant is no excuse for you to neglect your health!"
Captain Katherine Janeway smiled at the Doctor's persistence. She really had every intention of getting that check up, but she had had other things to worry about. And anyway, it was fun to watch him squirm a little when they weren't in a life or death situation. He was so stuffy!
As they rounded the corner, Janeway was about to relent when she saw a female figure with long wavy red hair and a security uniform crumpled in the floor of the corridor. Both the captain and the Doctor ran to her side. She was crying, weeping in great, uncontrollable sobs that were never the less silent. She had almost stopped breathing because of them, unable to draw breath because of the constriction of her diaphragm.
She and the Doctor picked her up and took her inside Sickbay, laying her down on one of the cots. He grabbed a hypospray from the first aid kit, one filled with a sedative. She stopped weeping and passed into unconsciousness, though tears continued to flow down her cheeks for a while.
As the Doctor scanned her to find out if her fit'd had a medical reason, Janeway asked the computer who she was. "Ensign Rose Lynn Palmer, Security."
His scans complete, the Doctor found a mystery. "Captain, her memory angram count is up by 87% from her last scan! It's like she was stuffed with memories, or she lived twenty years somewhere, but came back without much time passing."
Janeway decided to start eliminating possibilities. "Janeway to Bridge."
Chakotay answered, "Yes, Captain?"
"I need you to scan the ship and the surrounding area for temporal anomalies, and see if there are any ships on long range sensors."
"Aye, Captain. Anything in particular we're looking for?"
"I don't know yet. Keep me posted. Janeway out." She turned to the EMH. "How long before she wakes up?"
"About an hour."
"All right. I'll be in my ready room. Tell me when she's up and I'll come back down." The Doctor nodded and she left the room, her face troubled as she wondered what new crisis she and her crew were about to have to face.
x x x
Rose slowly opened her emerald eyes. Where was she? She automatically looked around for her husband. She knew that he had gone to train with their son, but she thought he might be back by now. But as she recognized the room she was in as Sickbay, the memories all came flooding back, coming home to an empty house, Darijan showing up on the front steps, the race through the woods to escape him, and Q popping out of nowhere, bringing her back to the ship that she had once called home. For a moment, the grief took her again, but this time she was able to control it, just letting the tears fall and not allowing her breathing to join in the expression of her emotions. Her husband had taught her that trick, along with so many other things.
She sat up on the cot, drawing the Doctor's attention. He came over, smiling at first, but when he noticed the tears streaking her elvin face, his expression turned to one of concern. "Ensign Palmer, what is it? We found you in the corridor crying so hard you stopped breathing, and your scans showed that twenty years worth of memories have been added to your mind."
She snorted lightly. "Almost to the day. That anniversary would have been tomorrow." She sighed. "You'd better call the Captain before I answer that question. If I have to repeat myself, I'll shoot something, and at the moment, I don't particularly care what."
x x x
"Sickbay to the Captain."
Janeway looked up from the reports. No anomalies in or around the ship an no other ships in sensor range. This mystery was already deepening, and she didn't like the plot so far. "Go ahead, Doctor."
"Ensign Palmer is awake, and she'd like to speak with you."
"I'm on my way." Time to get a few answers.
x x x
She walked into the Sickbay, and saw the girl sitting up on the medical cot. She had obviously been crying again, but she was calm at the moment, her eyes red, but dry, and her face not the intense mask of grief that it had been earlier, even though the emotion was still plain on her face.
Palmer said, "Hello, Captain. It's good to see you again. I know we've never been very close, but I've still missed you over the years."
Janeway simply nodded. She was definitely older than her physical age. She seemed more like a woman in her mid forties than twenties, lending substance to the Doctor's diagnosis.
"The Doctor told me that all you know is that I have too many memories in my head. Well to tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind forgetting a few things, but as a whole those memories have been happy ones." She paused. "Captain, you might want to pull up a chair. This is going to take a while."
x x x
Rose Lynn Palmer-Briefs
Benjamin Briefs
Darijan
All the rest of the Star Trek universe belongs to Paramount and all the rest of the Dragonball Z universe belongs to Akira Toriyama and Funimation
A/N: This is the start of my revision of this fic. I'm adding a lot of descriptive stuff and making sure that I'm not contradicting myself. If you spot any mistakes in the story, please tell me, but I will studiously ignore any flaming about my story not following one or both of the original stories. This is my fic and the plot will go the way *I* want it to.
_____________________________
CHAPTER 1: RETURN
_____________________________
Rose ran as fast as she could, knowing in her gut that if they caught her it would be the end. The forest was thick here, making running difficult, but it was more so for the bulky cretin and his followers than for her. She knew these woods well, and she knew of a few good hiding places. She turned her head slightly and saw through her peripheral vision that they were still too close for her to make a break for any of those hidden spots. She would be seen.
She was really too close for comfort to the cliffs that she knew were near. If she didn't watch where she was going, she might have too much momentum to stop herself when she reached them. Ah! There was the edge. She turned sharply behind a tree and shimmied up the trunk like a squirrel. Maybe that would throw them off. She was just about to make a flying leap to the branches of the next tree when a bright, diamond-shaped flash of light right in front of her caused her to stop. Q! No! But there was nothing she could do to stop him. Her world dematerialized, and when she opened her eyes, she was no longer in the forest. She was back on Voyager and she was back in the uniform she hadn't worn for nearly twenty years.
Q had put her in the corridor just outside Sickbay. That was probably a good thing, because as just what she'd lost sunk in, grief overtook her and she collapsed.
x x x
The Doctor was becoming as annoyed as it was possible for a computer program to become. "Captain, you really must come in for your annual checkup! Being in the Delta Quadrant is no excuse for you to neglect your health!"
Captain Katherine Janeway smiled at the Doctor's persistence. She really had every intention of getting that check up, but she had had other things to worry about. And anyway, it was fun to watch him squirm a little when they weren't in a life or death situation. He was so stuffy!
As they rounded the corner, Janeway was about to relent when she saw a female figure with long wavy red hair and a security uniform crumpled in the floor of the corridor. Both the captain and the Doctor ran to her side. She was crying, weeping in great, uncontrollable sobs that were never the less silent. She had almost stopped breathing because of them, unable to draw breath because of the constriction of her diaphragm.
She and the Doctor picked her up and took her inside Sickbay, laying her down on one of the cots. He grabbed a hypospray from the first aid kit, one filled with a sedative. She stopped weeping and passed into unconsciousness, though tears continued to flow down her cheeks for a while.
As the Doctor scanned her to find out if her fit'd had a medical reason, Janeway asked the computer who she was. "Ensign Rose Lynn Palmer, Security."
His scans complete, the Doctor found a mystery. "Captain, her memory angram count is up by 87% from her last scan! It's like she was stuffed with memories, or she lived twenty years somewhere, but came back without much time passing."
Janeway decided to start eliminating possibilities. "Janeway to Bridge."
Chakotay answered, "Yes, Captain?"
"I need you to scan the ship and the surrounding area for temporal anomalies, and see if there are any ships on long range sensors."
"Aye, Captain. Anything in particular we're looking for?"
"I don't know yet. Keep me posted. Janeway out." She turned to the EMH. "How long before she wakes up?"
"About an hour."
"All right. I'll be in my ready room. Tell me when she's up and I'll come back down." The Doctor nodded and she left the room, her face troubled as she wondered what new crisis she and her crew were about to have to face.
x x x
Rose slowly opened her emerald eyes. Where was she? She automatically looked around for her husband. She knew that he had gone to train with their son, but she thought he might be back by now. But as she recognized the room she was in as Sickbay, the memories all came flooding back, coming home to an empty house, Darijan showing up on the front steps, the race through the woods to escape him, and Q popping out of nowhere, bringing her back to the ship that she had once called home. For a moment, the grief took her again, but this time she was able to control it, just letting the tears fall and not allowing her breathing to join in the expression of her emotions. Her husband had taught her that trick, along with so many other things.
She sat up on the cot, drawing the Doctor's attention. He came over, smiling at first, but when he noticed the tears streaking her elvin face, his expression turned to one of concern. "Ensign Palmer, what is it? We found you in the corridor crying so hard you stopped breathing, and your scans showed that twenty years worth of memories have been added to your mind."
She snorted lightly. "Almost to the day. That anniversary would have been tomorrow." She sighed. "You'd better call the Captain before I answer that question. If I have to repeat myself, I'll shoot something, and at the moment, I don't particularly care what."
x x x
"Sickbay to the Captain."
Janeway looked up from the reports. No anomalies in or around the ship an no other ships in sensor range. This mystery was already deepening, and she didn't like the plot so far. "Go ahead, Doctor."
"Ensign Palmer is awake, and she'd like to speak with you."
"I'm on my way." Time to get a few answers.
x x x
She walked into the Sickbay, and saw the girl sitting up on the medical cot. She had obviously been crying again, but she was calm at the moment, her eyes red, but dry, and her face not the intense mask of grief that it had been earlier, even though the emotion was still plain on her face.
Palmer said, "Hello, Captain. It's good to see you again. I know we've never been very close, but I've still missed you over the years."
Janeway simply nodded. She was definitely older than her physical age. She seemed more like a woman in her mid forties than twenties, lending substance to the Doctor's diagnosis.
"The Doctor told me that all you know is that I have too many memories in my head. Well to tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind forgetting a few things, but as a whole those memories have been happy ones." She paused. "Captain, you might want to pull up a chair. This is going to take a while."
x x x