Star Trek: Beyond What
The Eye Can See
By: trekker
CHAPTER 7: Let's Get Ready To Rumble!
Yura (a few seconds after Sark sets up the pattern enhancers). . .
(Kagome is now in the fire Yura just set, still wearing the firerat suit, still thinking Oh, shitshitshitshitshitshit …)
That was before Yura noticed the other guy creeping around behind the well. He seemed to be setting up crowd control devices around the bushes. Why would someone set up crowd control devices in some bushes?!? Kagome thought. Then blue beams shot out from the things, connecting them, and the guy walked away.
"My, my. Who is this?" Yura just noticed the newcomer, and she swung down to greet the newcomer. "Hello," she said sweetly.
The newcomer wore what looked like a space suit from a sci-fi TV show that covered his whole body. Yura didn't like the newcomer's inability to hear her so she used her hair-web to bring the newcomer wrist- and ankle-bound to up to the tree, facing her. "Hello." She tried again. This time he said something but no one could hear him.
Kagome looked at the sky, and she saw a comet suddenly enter the atmosphere! And it was coming straight at her (except at a higher altitude and dropping)!
"Inuyasha! Look! A comet!" She called excitedly.
Inuyasha saw the comet, too. "And what's that going to do?" If he had ever seen one he obviously did not expect it to do anything to save them. The comet soared straight overhead, made a very tight, and un-comet-like U-turn, and kept coming lower. But it wasn't as if it was going to crash into Yura's tree.
She drew the hair strands taught. They constricted around his throat, wrists, and ankles. His [hood/helmet] and gloves sliced off and Kagome could clearly see that his ears had pointed tips!
"Hello. What are you doing all the way out here?" Yura asked. Clearly she was becoming frustrated at not being answered.
"I am designating a meditation area for my personal use," the newcomer replied evenly.
"I've heard that there is a connection between meditating and elevating yourself off the ground. Perhaps this will help?" This time she said it in sinister tone.
"Meditation… does not involve…inflicting pain…upon…oneself," the newcomer rasped. The hair was strangling him, but it would not cut. And then the strands around his neck snapped! He jerked forward violently.
"You aren't human!" Yura, apparently, had not noticed his unusual ears and was shocked that he wasn't instantly decapitated. She moved closer to him. "You are clearly not demon. How can this be?"
"I am Vulcan. My physiology prevents my decapitation," he responded. He was so controlled, it seemed as if he were having a typical, everyday conversation with someone who wasn't trying to kill him, if not for a little raspy-ness from the attack. He did not even try to massage his neck from the beating it must have taken. Then again, such an attempt would be futile anyway. Kagome found this aspect of the newcomer most interesting. Inuyasha, on the other hand, clearly could not wait to get out of this mess; he was struggling, futilely, but struggling, against the hair that tied him in midair. And then he did escape…
Kagome. . .
The comet soared overhead, banked around, and flew just above the surface of the ground, cruising straight at Kagome and everyone else stuck in the tree! It started snapping hairs right and left. Yura didn't take this very well, and aimed two large hairs straight at the thing–– and they blew up! Or more accurately: the thing shot twin beams of light and incinerated the hairs on contact! And then it did it again (shooting the beams), just missing the tree. Kagome could feel the heat from the beams as they shot past. And just when the thing seemed about to crash into the tree, it veered off, into the sky.
Inuyasha took advantage of Yura's momentary distraction. He ripped his wrists through the hair, and leapt at Yura, who gracefully dodged the beams–– and then Inuyasha got her. They fell to the ground, Inuyasha on top. But Yura rescued herself just before impact, so Inuyasha landed hard with no Yura at hand to kill on the spot. Yura re-secured Inuyasha with the hair, and made an attempt to slash him with her sword. Inuyasha swung back, having almost had his first lesson in lobotomy-made-simple 101.
The newcomer seemed to be more interested in the comet-thing than in Yura's actions, Kagome noticed (she is distracted), as he [the newcomer] repositioned his head to watch the comet. "Why are you so interested in the comet-thing?" she called to him impatiently. "Why aren't you worried that Yura's about to kill us all?"
And then the newcomer spoke. His voice was deep, monotone, and gravelly. "Resisting Yura from this position is not logical. I am therefore focusing my attention on a more interesting object. However: I notice there is a longbow with plenty of arrows lying near you. You can use that to attack Yura."
Kagome picks up the longbow…arms it…takes aim (at what, we will never know for sure)… fffwwwwwp. The first arrow hissed as it just missed Inuyasha, who screamed "Hey! Watch where you're aiming that thing!"
And then the comet did the last thing Kagome could have expected it to do: it slowed down and parked carefully, just outside the web (now Kagome sees that it is like an airplane {minus the wings}, instead of a comet)! A couple seconds later, two people in black uniforms, one with red shoulders, and the other with blue shoulders, emerged!
"Jesus Christ!" the one in the red exclaimed as he looked at the people . "Sark! How the hell did you get up there?!"
"Be careful, commander. The biomatter strands are haphazardly arranged here. They are thin enough to cut like a razor." The female person in the blue-shouldered uniform warned.
"Thanks, lieutenant. Hey, Sark! Hang on, I'll get you down." The red-shouldered person pulled something off of his belt, pointed just slightly away from Sark, and a gold beam shot out of the device. It struck the hair holding Sark's left ankle and the hair disintegrated. He aimed at his right ankle and the same thing happened. The second beam attracted Yura's attention. The hair re-secured Inuyasha to the web; Kagome was now watching the new people (not Sark) with interest; Yura was scolding the new people: "You have ruined the hair! (some was fused or melted by the phaser blast) Now I am cross! You will not escape!" She wiggled her fingers and the hair started moving toward the new people.
"The acrobatic female is controlling the hair! Stun her!" Sark called from his position. Hair had shot from the nest straight at Sloane, who retreated around the shuttle when she saw it coming. Boslin had also retreated behind the shuttle. The hair things missed. Sloane slipped inside the shuttle, and gestured for Commander Boslin to follow. She immediately powered up the shuttle and took off vertically, oriented the shuttlecraft at the nearest captive (Inuyasha) and fired. Twin phaser beams lanced out from the shuttle and destroyed the hair that was holding Inuyasha in place. Now free, Inuyasha launched his own attack against Yura, who had jumped to another tree to avoid becoming the Cortez's hood-ornament. –– he had tried to get Yura before she jumped ––and smashed a gaping hole in the side of the tree. Black hair and skulls started pouring out of the tree. (George, George, George of the Jungle… yeah… [replace "George" with "Inuyasha"]. If you don't get it, please don't feel bad; there's plenty of people out there who don't get, so you're not alone in that context.) Correction: Kagome shot the hole in the tree (with the longbow), having missed Yura altogether cough again.
"How could you? All my treasures!"
The Cortez banked sharply as it flew above the tree, and banked around to come diving toward the web. The phasers discharged, this time releasing Sark. Inuyasha was dueling with Yura, so he did not notice when Sark was suddenly released.
Sark pulled a hidden type II phaser from the remains of his EVA suit and shot at Yura, who had just shut the hair around her like a curtain, protecting her from the from the attacks from Inuyasha and Sark's phaser. The shuttle skirted over head, straight at Yura, who ducked and summoned more hair to catch the shuttle. The hair wrapped around the nacelle ports and started dragging it down. That was when Kagome noticed the red skull among the hair pouring from the tree.
She grabbed it and started hacking at it with an arrow (she still has her bow and arrows and she knows how to use them, aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! all right: bad humor; sorry; I'm too tired to know what just happened == (ZZZZZ!) )
Yura sees Kagome hacking at the skull and changes her mind from attacking Inuyasha to attacking Kagome, having been suddenly forced to the defensive. She sends her sword at Kagome…
Too late. I'll just brief you on the rest, considering that you probably saw the episode: Skull breaks; Yura disappears, save for her clothes; Kagome retrieves crystal fragment; villagers are okay now; Starfleet people wonder what just happened (where did Yura go, what's so special about the crystal fragment, etc.); Sark boards shuttle, but leaves pattern enhancers behind, having put a security force-field around it at the beginning of Chapter 6 while you were too busy reading this and not paying attention to him setting up the PEs…
…shuttle takes off with Starfleet people… Kagome goes home… episode 4 ends…
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
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