*****I DON'T OWN STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION OR ANIMORPHS**********

Animorphs At Warp Speed

By:

Digimon Lantern 1

Chapter 1

Beam Me Up, Erek

(Marco)

My name is Marco. I'm not the kind of guy you'd find in a horror flick that gets killed thirty seconds into it. Although I think I'm the romantic type, you wouldn't catch me in a movie like Shakespeare in Love. I'm more of the science fiction movie type and that's probably how me and my friends, the Animorphs, came to be in this situation. You see, I convinced everyone to go to this Star Trek convention in appropriate garb. Now, if all of us were normal, red-blooded humans, this wouldn't be a problem. But it is a problem. Two members of the Animorphs are a hawk who use to be human and an Andalite aristh. I think another member is part Klingon but I better not mention Xena in this sentence. Luckily, we Animorphs have the power to become any animal we want to become for two hours.

Okay, I'll come clean. Erek, an android friend of ours, told us that the Yeerks were going to try some kind of weird experiment there. He got us tickets and I would have been in heaven if we weren't on a mission. Well, Ax was looking at a laser pointer in the shape of a phaser and Rachel was learning how to use that Klingon batleth in a little class that was offered. Cassie was with Jake and I was stuck with Ax and Bird-Boy. Erek, conveniently, dressed in a red uniform with lieutenant commander insignia on walked over to me.

"I see someone could only get promoted to lieutenant." He said.

"Yah, at least I have a shot of becoming captain. Mr. Data." I said.

"Okay, the Yeerks are mounting a Kandrona generator in the main engineering and they'll be able to use it to knock everyone out who's wearing one of these." Erek said handing me one.

It looked like the comm badge from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

"Why are you giving me one?" I asked.

"I've removed the knock-out circuit so you guys can wear it. I've already given them to the rest of the Animorphs. The shock should occur right about now." Erek said.

Right on the money as always, several Trekkies collapsed to the floor as we made our way to 'Main Engineering'. Once there, we discovered something.

"It seems to be what the original series called a Tribble." Ax said holding it up.

"Nice toy, now let's see about destroying this Kandrona." Rachel said.

"It isn't a toy. My eyes can tell when something is alive based on the heat created by internal organs. I can differentiate organs within it." Ax replied.

Then, something Gene Roddenberry wouldn't have expected came into the convention. It was Visser One led by a squad of Hork-Bajir. One of Visser One's stolen Andalite eyes spotted us.

ANDALITES IN MORPH! GET THEM YOU FOOLS! He bellowed.

Hork-Bajir vaulted began climbing the tower that we were on. One fired his Dracon Beam at us and the strangest thing happened. The Tribble jumped in the way of the beam and exploded in a violent white explosion. I woke up in some kind of hallway with someone shaking me awake. It looked like Worf from Star Trek but there were a lot of Klingons at the convention.

"Lieutenant, get up." He ordered.

I got up and someone handed me a 'phaser'. I decided to play along and walked with them to the shuttle bay. We got in and took cover as very un- Star Trek weapons were fired at us.

"Lieutenant, the aliens are firing a type of Disrupter that was banned by the Khitomer Accords." A voice that sounded like Data said.

TSSSEEEEEWWWWW!

TSSSEEEEEWWWWW!

TSSSEEEEEWWWWW!

TSSSEEEEEWWWWW!

TSSSEEEEEWWWWW!

I pointed my phaser at the chest of a Hork-Bajir and fired. Now, this was something I wasn't expecting. The phaser actually fired and not a little laser pointer. I was looking at a dead Hork-Bajir. So, I did what any Trekkie would do in this current situation. I fired my phaser till it lost power. By then, I lost power. It seemed like Worf's security team would lose until the hero in me beat the coward within me. I ran towards the nearest Hork-Bajir and used the stock of a phaser rifle I picked up and broke the jaw of it. I fired until a single Hork-Bajir sliced my back and I fell. Fortunately, Worf killed him and I was beamed to Sickbay.

"Who do we got?" Dr. Crusher asked as she began to work.

"One of the lieutenants that just transferred to the ship, Doctor." Worf said. "He was sliced on the back by one of the attackers' wrist blades."

"Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound. He'll be fine." Dr. Crusher said. "Ensign, can you finish up here?"

The ensign looked familiar and I recognized her almost immediately. It was Cassie.

"Cassie, how did we get here?" I asked in a whisper.

"I don't know. Better find the others while I patch you up. My shift isn't over for another five hours." She said.

I got off the bio-bed and got out of sickbay. Later, after I was assigned quarters, I found out where everyone was. Rachel was in security, big surprise. Jake was with Ax and Erek, in Main Engineering and I was on the bridge. Tobias was in the science lab.

"How are we going to get back home?" I asked myself.