*****I DON'T OWN ANIMORPHS OR STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION******
Chapter 3
Q and Rachel's Disappearance
(Marco)
It's been a few weeks since Starfleet Command gave me the Enterprise on one condition. That when Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, and Lieutenant Worf recovered from whatever was baffling Starfleet's greatest scientific and medical minds was solved, I'd return command of the Enterprise to Picard. Personally, I thought it was a fine arrangement. Hopefully, we'd figure out how to get out of this reality by then. I moved Tobias to the helm and Rachel to Tactical. Even though Wesley may be a freaking genius, he's one of the most annoying people on this ship and if I hadn't take him off the bridge, he'd probably have found one of Rachel's grizzly bear claws in his chest. That would be a strange thing to explain to Starfleet. We were on our way to a research colony who found something rather interesting.
"This is calm, too calm." I said anxiously.
"Captain, I find it curious that you feel apprehension towards this mission. Why is that?" Data asked me.
"It just doesn't seem right." I replied.
Then, the answer to my apprehension was revealed. Q flashed in carrying an unopened bottle of wine and seemed to be in a cheerful mood. He was facing the view screen.
"Jean-Luc, there was this great party in the Denubian Nebula that was so much fun that I thought..." Q said as he turned around to see me. "You're not Jean-Luc!"
"What told you that, Dilbert Dumb-butt?" I asked him sarcastically.
"Well, you're definitely not Jean-Luc. You'll actually try to crack a joke." Q replied.
"Look, you omni-potent twit! This mission may not sound important to you. Heck, I know a dozen other ships who are closer that could arrive at the colony that have better equipment than the Enterprise. So, you can tell why I don't want to go. Personally, I don't mind having you around for comic relief. So, stay out of our way." I said pushing Q aside.
Q began to walk along side of me. "You know, between you, Sisko, and Picard, I'd have to say that you are the most interesting Starfleet captain I've ever encountered. But let me warn you, you'll find something familiar to you happening at this research colony. Hope you like it." Q said flashing off my bridge.
"Captain, we're receiving a distress call from the colony. They claim to be under attack." Rachel said.
"Go to Red Alert!" I ordered. "Bird-Boy, maximum warp to the colony. All hands to battle stations."
As everyone was executing their orders, Data leaned over to Tobias and asked, "Bird-boy?"
"I'll explain later." Tobias replied to him.
We arrived at the colony to be immediately fired by a strange ship. It looked like someone had sloppily cobbled together a Yeerk Blade Ship, an Excelsior-Class starship, a Romulan Warbird, and a Klingon D7 cruiser. Luckily, the shields were up to protect us from the blast.
"The weapon signature is consistent with the alien weaponry." Data reported.
"We're being hailed." Rachel said.
"On screen." I replied.
A Klingon female appeared on the screen. She was beautiful but I knew what she was.
"I am Visser Two. Second in command to the great Visser One. Lower your shields and surrender your ship, Enterprise. No one can resist the new Yeerk Empire." She said.
I replied to her in Klingon. Roughly translated, it meant "Eat me."
"With pleasure." She replied closing the channel.
I ordered the Enterprise to go into a collision course with the vessel. Then, another vessel used a narrow beam energy weapon and beamed Rachel away from her post. Lt. Cussler took over the post as I knew that the safety of this ship was paramount over my comrade.
(Rachel)
Cleanly, I chopped off the Romulan-Controller's head with a bat'leth that was near the transporter pad. A Vulcan tried to give me that Vulcan nerve pinch thing and rammed the bat'leth into his chest. Taking the two disrupters each of them had, I exited the transporter room and vaporized a Hork-Bajir who happened to step out of his quarters at the time. I made it up to the bridge to see Visser Two give another order to fire a spread of torpedoes. Aiming a disrupter carefully, I fired a beam that tore through computer consoles and tore Visser Two in half. She separated as she turned around to see who it was that shot her.
"Computer, activate self-destruct sequence. Half-hour countdown." She said dying.
"Self-destruct sequence activated. No counter-command can now be given." The male computer voice said.
Reaching a communications channel, I opened a channel to the Enterprise.
"Rachel!" Tobias exclaimed.
"No time for that now. I have to get this ship out of here. Ax, what's the maximum explosion a Yeerk vessel this size could cause?" I asked him.
"It would take out fifteen star systems if it has been upgraded with new technology." Ax said.
"Then, see you later." I said closing the channel.
(Tobias)
I almost yelled to Rachel for her to get out of the ship. Then, Data detected something strange.
"I'm detecting a strange signature coming from the Yeerk vessel." Data said.
"Marco, she's tunneling into Z-Space!" Erek yelled from Engineering.
"And she's bringing the vessel's warp engines online." Data added.
"Ax, what would happen if you went to warp while tunneling through Z- Space?" Marco asked.
"She could be ripped apart, but the speed boost would accelerate her out of the galaxy before the explosion." Ax said.
(Rachel)
I can't believe this worked. Now, I knew that I would die. Then, Q's familiar flash and he appeared lying down on the console I was working on.
"Need some help?" Q asked.
"Yah, send me back to the Enterprise but let this ship destroy itself." I replied.
"I'm not that good here in this...whatever this is space. You might land on Cronos." Q said.
"I don't care." I replied.
He smiled methodically. "Good."
Chapter 3
Q and Rachel's Disappearance
(Marco)
It's been a few weeks since Starfleet Command gave me the Enterprise on one condition. That when Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, and Lieutenant Worf recovered from whatever was baffling Starfleet's greatest scientific and medical minds was solved, I'd return command of the Enterprise to Picard. Personally, I thought it was a fine arrangement. Hopefully, we'd figure out how to get out of this reality by then. I moved Tobias to the helm and Rachel to Tactical. Even though Wesley may be a freaking genius, he's one of the most annoying people on this ship and if I hadn't take him off the bridge, he'd probably have found one of Rachel's grizzly bear claws in his chest. That would be a strange thing to explain to Starfleet. We were on our way to a research colony who found something rather interesting.
"This is calm, too calm." I said anxiously.
"Captain, I find it curious that you feel apprehension towards this mission. Why is that?" Data asked me.
"It just doesn't seem right." I replied.
Then, the answer to my apprehension was revealed. Q flashed in carrying an unopened bottle of wine and seemed to be in a cheerful mood. He was facing the view screen.
"Jean-Luc, there was this great party in the Denubian Nebula that was so much fun that I thought..." Q said as he turned around to see me. "You're not Jean-Luc!"
"What told you that, Dilbert Dumb-butt?" I asked him sarcastically.
"Well, you're definitely not Jean-Luc. You'll actually try to crack a joke." Q replied.
"Look, you omni-potent twit! This mission may not sound important to you. Heck, I know a dozen other ships who are closer that could arrive at the colony that have better equipment than the Enterprise. So, you can tell why I don't want to go. Personally, I don't mind having you around for comic relief. So, stay out of our way." I said pushing Q aside.
Q began to walk along side of me. "You know, between you, Sisko, and Picard, I'd have to say that you are the most interesting Starfleet captain I've ever encountered. But let me warn you, you'll find something familiar to you happening at this research colony. Hope you like it." Q said flashing off my bridge.
"Captain, we're receiving a distress call from the colony. They claim to be under attack." Rachel said.
"Go to Red Alert!" I ordered. "Bird-Boy, maximum warp to the colony. All hands to battle stations."
As everyone was executing their orders, Data leaned over to Tobias and asked, "Bird-boy?"
"I'll explain later." Tobias replied to him.
We arrived at the colony to be immediately fired by a strange ship. It looked like someone had sloppily cobbled together a Yeerk Blade Ship, an Excelsior-Class starship, a Romulan Warbird, and a Klingon D7 cruiser. Luckily, the shields were up to protect us from the blast.
"The weapon signature is consistent with the alien weaponry." Data reported.
"We're being hailed." Rachel said.
"On screen." I replied.
A Klingon female appeared on the screen. She was beautiful but I knew what she was.
"I am Visser Two. Second in command to the great Visser One. Lower your shields and surrender your ship, Enterprise. No one can resist the new Yeerk Empire." She said.
I replied to her in Klingon. Roughly translated, it meant "Eat me."
"With pleasure." She replied closing the channel.
I ordered the Enterprise to go into a collision course with the vessel. Then, another vessel used a narrow beam energy weapon and beamed Rachel away from her post. Lt. Cussler took over the post as I knew that the safety of this ship was paramount over my comrade.
(Rachel)
Cleanly, I chopped off the Romulan-Controller's head with a bat'leth that was near the transporter pad. A Vulcan tried to give me that Vulcan nerve pinch thing and rammed the bat'leth into his chest. Taking the two disrupters each of them had, I exited the transporter room and vaporized a Hork-Bajir who happened to step out of his quarters at the time. I made it up to the bridge to see Visser Two give another order to fire a spread of torpedoes. Aiming a disrupter carefully, I fired a beam that tore through computer consoles and tore Visser Two in half. She separated as she turned around to see who it was that shot her.
"Computer, activate self-destruct sequence. Half-hour countdown." She said dying.
"Self-destruct sequence activated. No counter-command can now be given." The male computer voice said.
Reaching a communications channel, I opened a channel to the Enterprise.
"Rachel!" Tobias exclaimed.
"No time for that now. I have to get this ship out of here. Ax, what's the maximum explosion a Yeerk vessel this size could cause?" I asked him.
"It would take out fifteen star systems if it has been upgraded with new technology." Ax said.
"Then, see you later." I said closing the channel.
(Tobias)
I almost yelled to Rachel for her to get out of the ship. Then, Data detected something strange.
"I'm detecting a strange signature coming from the Yeerk vessel." Data said.
"Marco, she's tunneling into Z-Space!" Erek yelled from Engineering.
"And she's bringing the vessel's warp engines online." Data added.
"Ax, what would happen if you went to warp while tunneling through Z- Space?" Marco asked.
"She could be ripped apart, but the speed boost would accelerate her out of the galaxy before the explosion." Ax said.
(Rachel)
I can't believe this worked. Now, I knew that I would die. Then, Q's familiar flash and he appeared lying down on the console I was working on.
"Need some help?" Q asked.
"Yah, send me back to the Enterprise but let this ship destroy itself." I replied.
"I'm not that good here in this...whatever this is space. You might land on Cronos." Q said.
"I don't care." I replied.
He smiled methodically. "Good."