Chapter Eleven
"Troi to Captain Picard." She said sitting up abruptly in the chair beside Crusher, and tapping her communicator badge.
"Picard here. Go ahead, Counsellor."
"Captain, I sense that you've made a decision of some kind. Is everything alright?" She asked feeling a bit edgy.
"Yes, Counsellor everything is fine. I've decided to separate the ship and take the engineering section into the lower atmosphere so that we can scan the planet more thoroughly." He informed her. "How did you know anyway?"
"I still have heightened telepathic senses at the moment. Captain... be careful. I sense that something awaits us down there."
"Why didn't you sense this before?"
"I don't know, Captain. It only became apparent to me a few minutes ago. I've had a feeling that there is some form of higher life down there that we haven't discovered yet, it seems to be curious at the moment but has the potential to turn quite quickly, and I think that it may have something to do with Beverly's condition. She seemed to deteriorate after beaming down to the planet, as you know but what I didn't know was that it made her start to remember something from her past, that was linked with what happened down on that planet."
"We think that this life form may be controlling the planet and its ecosystem somehow, that's why we're going down to have a look. We hope that they or it may know what has happened to the Washington and Voyager. If we can communicate with it, it may be able to help Beverly." Picard suggested.
"Somehow I don't think that it will be in the mood for helping, Captain. Please be careful though." Troi replied.
"Careful is at the top of my list, Counsellor. Picard out." The channel closed and Troi turned back to her friend on the bio-bed.
The Defiant left the station and headed off towards the Enterprise at warp five. Its crew consisted of Captain Sisko, Commander Riker, Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien. Since the Defiant was one of Starfleet's most newest design of starships, the ship's computer was more advanced and able to handle most of the functions of a full crew; therefore the ship was able to make do with as little as four people on board at any one time.
"Commander, we need the precise co-ordinates of the Enterprise, once we enter the nebula our sensors will be as severely compromised as your own were." Sisko said turning in his chair to look at the Enterprise's first officer.
"Aye, Captain." Riker said turning to Chief O'Brien and informing him of the last known position of the Enterprise. "Chief, heading one-four- seven mark zero-six-one. Those were the last co-ordinates of the Enterprise."
"Aye, sir." O'Brien replied tapping the co-ordinates into the computer and engaging engines.
"It's a pity that we can't inform the ship that we're coming but I said that it shouldn't take me more than eleven hours so they should be expecting us." Riker said cutting through the silence on the ship. The engines of this starship were even quieter than those of the Enterprise.
"We'll be there soon enough, Commander, just sit tight." Sisko replied.
The ship sped off to the aid of Dr. Crusher.
On board the Enterprise Captain Picard stood up from the center seat on the bridge. "Computer, transfer primary control to the battle bridge." The computer beeped as the task was carried out and most of the bridge crew rose and headed for the turbolifts. "Lieutenant Simmons, you have the bridge and control of the saucer section."
"Aye, sir." Simmons said moving away from one of the science stations at the back of the bridge.
"We'll inform you of when we're going down to the planet. If anything should happen while we're down there, you have orders to take the saucer section out of the nebula and to Deep Space Nine."
"Aye, sir." He replied, and then as an afterthought, "Captain, what about Commander Riker?"
"Commander Riker is bringing Dr. Bashir here form DS9. When they get here make sure that Dr. Bashir goes straight to sickbay. Commander Riker will take over command of the saucer section."
"Very good, sir. I'll inform him of what has happened. Good luck, sir."
"Thank you, Mr. Simmons." Picard said stepping into the turbolift and heading for the battle bridge. Simmons sat down in the center seat and waited.
Beverly Crusher stood in the house that had been their home for three years. Jack was busy loading all of the data into the padd that he carried, for the co-ordinates of all of their furniture, so that the beam out could begin. They had planned moving into larger accommodation ever since their son Wesley had been born. He was two and a half years old now and it was time for that move to begin.
They were going to live on Delos Four for a few years so that Beverly could finish her medical training. Jack was going to be on Earth for a little longer with Wesley and they would be moving into temporary accommodation at Starfleet, he was going to go and help Beverly get the new house sorted out first though.
Jack moved through all of the rooms loading in all of the data and preparing a list of everything they were taking with them. The freighter would soon be in orbit to beam up all of their furniture and he wanted everything ready for when they arrived so that they could get going as soon as possible.
Beverly wandered into the nursery to see what Wes was up to. She had left him in his playpen while they were busy so that he wouldn't be in the way. She moved over to the playpen and looked over the barrier to find that Wesley was no longer there. Maybe Jack's taken him, She thought turning around and calling for her husband. "Jack. Have you got Wes?"
"Wes? No. Why? Where is he?" Jack said entering the room at haste, Wesley was already able to walk and was proving to be quite a handful at times. He was always playing with things he shouldn't and getting into more trouble than enough. Beverly found him trying to re-modulate Jack's personal phaser one day while he had been on leave from Starfleet. He had climbed up into a cupboard and disabled the locking mechanism on the door before retrieving the phaser.
"He's got out again, that's why." She said immediately starting to search for him with Jack right behind her.
"I swear that we'll be using a force field to keep him locked up soon." Jack said trying to remain calm and moving boxes out of the way so he could see if Wes was behind them.
"Here he is, Jack. How did you get all the way up there, little man?" Beverly asked, picking her son out of the food replicator.
"The food replicator this time? Think he's trying to tell us something?" Jack commented as Wesley pointed back to where he had been a moment ago.
"He's not due his feed for another two hours, Jack. If we start feeding him in between meals he'll get confused and his routine will be all mixed up. He needs some sort of consistency in his life at the minute, especially with the move and everything." Beverly told him.
"Well, you're the doctor." Jack replied returning to his cataloging of all the furniture.
"Wait, Jack. He's not pointing to the replicator, he's pointing at the comm panel, we've got an incoming message." Jack turned smiling and seeing the flashing light on the comm panel just above the replicator.
"That's may little model Starfleet officer." Jack said moving over to the comm panel and tapping a few buttons.
"Lieutenant Commander Crusher here. Go ahead." Jack spoke into the comm unit.
"Commander, this is the Marimax freighter, I'm Captain Hites. We're here to beam up some furniture and take you and your family to Delos Four."
"Thank you, Captain. I've prepared a list for you and I'm down loading it into the computer now. You can begin when ever you feel ready." Jack said tapping a few buttons on his computer console.
"Up loading now, Commander." The captain of the freighter said.
Jack cut the comm link and turned to Beverly who was standing behind him and keeping tight control of Wesley. "I forgot to give you this, Bev." He held out a small computer chip to her.
"What is it?" She asked him as she took it from his hand.
"I made it a few days ago, it's a holographic program for Wesley when he gets older. I figured I would record everything I wanted to say to him incase I forget it. I want him to know who his father was when he gets older just incase anything happens. I'm going to make more of them but I wanted you to keep this for him."
"Okay but nothing is going to happen so you can give it to him yourself when he's old enough." She gave him a determined look and placed the chip in her pocket where it would be safe until they got to Delos.
Within a few minutes the furniture around them was beginning to shimmer and was finally gone within the blink of an eye. Jack, Beverly and Wesley stood together in the lounge room of their empty house looking around.
"I'm going to miss this place." Beverly commented.
"It was our first home together." Jack said beginning to feel nostalgic about the place.
"There sure are a lot of memories here." Beverly commented.
"Beam us up." Jack said to the comm panel and in an instant, they were gone in another shimmer of light and were whipped away to another page of their lives.
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"Troi to Captain Picard." She said sitting up abruptly in the chair beside Crusher, and tapping her communicator badge.
"Picard here. Go ahead, Counsellor."
"Captain, I sense that you've made a decision of some kind. Is everything alright?" She asked feeling a bit edgy.
"Yes, Counsellor everything is fine. I've decided to separate the ship and take the engineering section into the lower atmosphere so that we can scan the planet more thoroughly." He informed her. "How did you know anyway?"
"I still have heightened telepathic senses at the moment. Captain... be careful. I sense that something awaits us down there."
"Why didn't you sense this before?"
"I don't know, Captain. It only became apparent to me a few minutes ago. I've had a feeling that there is some form of higher life down there that we haven't discovered yet, it seems to be curious at the moment but has the potential to turn quite quickly, and I think that it may have something to do with Beverly's condition. She seemed to deteriorate after beaming down to the planet, as you know but what I didn't know was that it made her start to remember something from her past, that was linked with what happened down on that planet."
"We think that this life form may be controlling the planet and its ecosystem somehow, that's why we're going down to have a look. We hope that they or it may know what has happened to the Washington and Voyager. If we can communicate with it, it may be able to help Beverly." Picard suggested.
"Somehow I don't think that it will be in the mood for helping, Captain. Please be careful though." Troi replied.
"Careful is at the top of my list, Counsellor. Picard out." The channel closed and Troi turned back to her friend on the bio-bed.
The Defiant left the station and headed off towards the Enterprise at warp five. Its crew consisted of Captain Sisko, Commander Riker, Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien. Since the Defiant was one of Starfleet's most newest design of starships, the ship's computer was more advanced and able to handle most of the functions of a full crew; therefore the ship was able to make do with as little as four people on board at any one time.
"Commander, we need the precise co-ordinates of the Enterprise, once we enter the nebula our sensors will be as severely compromised as your own were." Sisko said turning in his chair to look at the Enterprise's first officer.
"Aye, Captain." Riker said turning to Chief O'Brien and informing him of the last known position of the Enterprise. "Chief, heading one-four- seven mark zero-six-one. Those were the last co-ordinates of the Enterprise."
"Aye, sir." O'Brien replied tapping the co-ordinates into the computer and engaging engines.
"It's a pity that we can't inform the ship that we're coming but I said that it shouldn't take me more than eleven hours so they should be expecting us." Riker said cutting through the silence on the ship. The engines of this starship were even quieter than those of the Enterprise.
"We'll be there soon enough, Commander, just sit tight." Sisko replied.
The ship sped off to the aid of Dr. Crusher.
On board the Enterprise Captain Picard stood up from the center seat on the bridge. "Computer, transfer primary control to the battle bridge." The computer beeped as the task was carried out and most of the bridge crew rose and headed for the turbolifts. "Lieutenant Simmons, you have the bridge and control of the saucer section."
"Aye, sir." Simmons said moving away from one of the science stations at the back of the bridge.
"We'll inform you of when we're going down to the planet. If anything should happen while we're down there, you have orders to take the saucer section out of the nebula and to Deep Space Nine."
"Aye, sir." He replied, and then as an afterthought, "Captain, what about Commander Riker?"
"Commander Riker is bringing Dr. Bashir here form DS9. When they get here make sure that Dr. Bashir goes straight to sickbay. Commander Riker will take over command of the saucer section."
"Very good, sir. I'll inform him of what has happened. Good luck, sir."
"Thank you, Mr. Simmons." Picard said stepping into the turbolift and heading for the battle bridge. Simmons sat down in the center seat and waited.
Beverly Crusher stood in the house that had been their home for three years. Jack was busy loading all of the data into the padd that he carried, for the co-ordinates of all of their furniture, so that the beam out could begin. They had planned moving into larger accommodation ever since their son Wesley had been born. He was two and a half years old now and it was time for that move to begin.
They were going to live on Delos Four for a few years so that Beverly could finish her medical training. Jack was going to be on Earth for a little longer with Wesley and they would be moving into temporary accommodation at Starfleet, he was going to go and help Beverly get the new house sorted out first though.
Jack moved through all of the rooms loading in all of the data and preparing a list of everything they were taking with them. The freighter would soon be in orbit to beam up all of their furniture and he wanted everything ready for when they arrived so that they could get going as soon as possible.
Beverly wandered into the nursery to see what Wes was up to. She had left him in his playpen while they were busy so that he wouldn't be in the way. She moved over to the playpen and looked over the barrier to find that Wesley was no longer there. Maybe Jack's taken him, She thought turning around and calling for her husband. "Jack. Have you got Wes?"
"Wes? No. Why? Where is he?" Jack said entering the room at haste, Wesley was already able to walk and was proving to be quite a handful at times. He was always playing with things he shouldn't and getting into more trouble than enough. Beverly found him trying to re-modulate Jack's personal phaser one day while he had been on leave from Starfleet. He had climbed up into a cupboard and disabled the locking mechanism on the door before retrieving the phaser.
"He's got out again, that's why." She said immediately starting to search for him with Jack right behind her.
"I swear that we'll be using a force field to keep him locked up soon." Jack said trying to remain calm and moving boxes out of the way so he could see if Wes was behind them.
"Here he is, Jack. How did you get all the way up there, little man?" Beverly asked, picking her son out of the food replicator.
"The food replicator this time? Think he's trying to tell us something?" Jack commented as Wesley pointed back to where he had been a moment ago.
"He's not due his feed for another two hours, Jack. If we start feeding him in between meals he'll get confused and his routine will be all mixed up. He needs some sort of consistency in his life at the minute, especially with the move and everything." Beverly told him.
"Well, you're the doctor." Jack replied returning to his cataloging of all the furniture.
"Wait, Jack. He's not pointing to the replicator, he's pointing at the comm panel, we've got an incoming message." Jack turned smiling and seeing the flashing light on the comm panel just above the replicator.
"That's may little model Starfleet officer." Jack said moving over to the comm panel and tapping a few buttons.
"Lieutenant Commander Crusher here. Go ahead." Jack spoke into the comm unit.
"Commander, this is the Marimax freighter, I'm Captain Hites. We're here to beam up some furniture and take you and your family to Delos Four."
"Thank you, Captain. I've prepared a list for you and I'm down loading it into the computer now. You can begin when ever you feel ready." Jack said tapping a few buttons on his computer console.
"Up loading now, Commander." The captain of the freighter said.
Jack cut the comm link and turned to Beverly who was standing behind him and keeping tight control of Wesley. "I forgot to give you this, Bev." He held out a small computer chip to her.
"What is it?" She asked him as she took it from his hand.
"I made it a few days ago, it's a holographic program for Wesley when he gets older. I figured I would record everything I wanted to say to him incase I forget it. I want him to know who his father was when he gets older just incase anything happens. I'm going to make more of them but I wanted you to keep this for him."
"Okay but nothing is going to happen so you can give it to him yourself when he's old enough." She gave him a determined look and placed the chip in her pocket where it would be safe until they got to Delos.
Within a few minutes the furniture around them was beginning to shimmer and was finally gone within the blink of an eye. Jack, Beverly and Wesley stood together in the lounge room of their empty house looking around.
"I'm going to miss this place." Beverly commented.
"It was our first home together." Jack said beginning to feel nostalgic about the place.
"There sure are a lot of memories here." Beverly commented.
"Beam us up." Jack said to the comm panel and in an instant, they were gone in another shimmer of light and were whipped away to another page of their lives.
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