Chapter 6: Thunder, Lightning and the Storm (Alternate Dimension)
Q raised an eyebrow watching his crystal ball, "Ok, let's see what happens here."
Shinzon eyed the room listening to Worf's thoughts of Ba'el's lovely eyes and almost felt sick to his stomach. 'How Worf cowers to the All Powerful Federation' Shinzon thought as he started talking about Ba'el traveling to Romulas to join Spock on his quest of Unification. He spoke of when he came to power as the Praetor and finding Spock and a group of leaders of the movement with Ba'el among them. How he kept them separate from the other Romulans and questioned them himself.
Shinzon sent thoughts and questions into Worf's mind, 'Why do you think I spared that half Klingon and half Romulan female? Was it curiosity about her Klingon savageness? Was it a sense of honor that kept me from allowing the Romulans from slitting her throat? Was it her thoughts of you becoming angry with me when you found out…if you found out there might have been affections toward me and that was the reason I did not give her to the Reman guards? Why do you think I allowed her to live? She is after all half Romulan. Could it have been some favor she bestowed upon me after I questioned her? She has the ferociousness of a Klingon, but the mental power of a Romulan. Could you tame her?'
To those thoughts, Worf became infuriated further than his ability to control himself in front of Picard. Worf started growling and stood to his feet and reached to try and grab Shinzon from over the table and missed.
"Worf, you need to heal." Shinzon hissed out over the table to everyone's amazement and Allisa's terror. She could hear and see the thoughts in Worf's mind of Shinzon's blood splattering on the walls as he drinks it.
"What have you done to Ba'el? I swear by the gods if I find out any harm has come to her I will kill you where you stand!" Worf leered.
Shinzon looked at Picard and Allisa and rolled his eyes, "Think on thy sins" then back to Worf who was still standing on the other side of the table ".peace be still." He looked back at Worf who understood the lines to be the ones from Ten Forward. He remembered in the story that the woman died and believed that Shinzon meant to kill her as well. Shinzon sent thoughts to him only, 'Oh no Klingon, I will not kill her. I have another use for her. She is superior." Worf lunged over the table before Shinzon or Allisa could discern his intention to attack.
Smiling at the turn of events, Q and his guest watched as Shinzon and Worf fought in front of everyone. Worf grabbed Shinzon's neck and tried to snap it. Allisa yelled at them to stop. Q smiled even more when Shinzon used his telekinesis to throw Worf across the room. For the next few minutes they struggled with each other determined to kill. Shinzon held his hands out toward Worf. He stopped in mid-turn as Shinzon used his powers to start to crush his internal organs.
Shinzon turned to Allisa and felt a flow from her mind that spoke with emotions of peace, "SHINZON, Shinzon release him…Please!"
He did so as he took her in his arms and faced her with an evil glair, "I will not be handled psychologically by you and Picard or physically by this Klingon or Dr. Berman. I have had enough of that from the Romulans. I am taking over this ship and when my Reman brothers get here everyone will feel my pain!" Shinzon hissed at Allissa with his emotions flaring out of control. Shinzon spoke to her mind, 'I will not harm you, but you must stay out of my way. Go to my room and stay there till I get the ship under control.'
Q became inpatient and waved his hand over the magic ball causing it to go forward in time. "Ok this is better, let's watch from here."
At that moment Worf leaned over the table and seen Geordi and Picard still holding their ears as if frozen by Shinzon's new power. Shinzon was enraptured with his new power and thought he had wounded Worf worse than he did and had his side turned toward him. He was going to toy with the proud Klingon before disposing of him. Worf stealthy pulled his weapon out and aimed at Shinzon. Allisa seen his actions and Worf's thoughts of stopping Shinzon once and for all and gasped. Shinzon recognized in a microsecond that his emotions for power and Allisa were his undoing. Worf fired the weapon and it hit him dead in the chest. Shinzon fell to the ground with Allisa hanging on to him unable to balance herself.
Geordi, Berman and Picard were able to move once again and looked at the room around them. Worf was on the floor touching Shinzon's neck. Allisa was half laying on Shinzon crying loudly and trying to wake him. Worf announced with metal in his voice, "He is dead."
Doctor Rick Berman slapped his com badge, "Emergency transport of 6 to Sick Bay!" Reality phased before their consciousness. Picard nodded in agreement with the doctor thinking that his and Shinzon's tags being in the transported may help the young man in some way and get him to the doctor faster. Picard's hopes of Shinzon becoming his friend and having a future together as a family were dashed to pieces. All he hoped for now was for Shinzon to live.
"She always knows what's going on. That Guinan is such a nuisance at times." Q stammered looking at a conversation between Picard and Guinan about the Remans and Shinzon.
Q moved the time 20 minutes into the future. Allisa was standing at the side of a medical bed holding Shinzon's hand. There was a blank look on her face with tears falling onto her uniform as she asked everyone to leave them alone. They complied and Picard went to his Ready Room to talk with Guinan.
She felt the same resolve Captain Picard had in the Briar Patch when they were trying to capture Data after he malfunctioned. They were falling to the ground in a shuttle attached to Data's shuttle. At the last moment possible Picard and Worf were able to save both crafts and Data.
She climbed onto the bed and lay on one side still holding his hand, not willing to let him go. She laid her head on his chest and noted the lack of his regularly bounding heartbeat. She closed her eyes and pressed her face into his chest letting her lips touch slightly as she spoke saying, "Hear my voice? Feel my lips? I am here. Stay here with me." She clenched his hand with her hand and placed the other on the side of his face. She reached out with all of her strength trying to find his thoughts or a glimpse of his being.
Q glanced at his guest, "Ok, let's see the ending of this altercation." He waved his hand again and the figures in the crystal faded and new ones materialized as Allisa and Shinzon.
Allisa located Shinzon's presence stronger once again. She held onto his body and pressed her mental connection to his soul with all her ability. She found him, very subtle, but she had a hold of his being at the risk of her own. She told the Remans in thought, 'I don't know how long I can hold him here without TELEPATHIC HELP. The medallion, Piontry, on his neck from Picard is helping his body from losing its natural signals. They are very week. When can you get here?' She let out a gasp as she felt his soul fear and he started resisting her not knowing who she was once again. The Remans returned, "We can be there within the hour." And broke the transmission after sending her strength from their beings into her to hopefully sustain Allisa for that amount of time and for what she was about to do.
She spoke the words out loud and telepathically, "Imzadi I am here." Shinzon's essence became aware of who was speaking. "Stay with me…you can't leave me." Allisa thought to him. She felt the tie start to waver, as Shinzon's consciousness perceived it was leaving his body again, "If you go I'll go." At that, she locked her soul and mind with Shinzon's.
"Don't close your eyes, don't turn out the light." Shinzon spoke to her from his soul. Allisa stared at his eyes as they opened and locked with hers filled with tears and pain. They were one.
The guest of Q had tears swelling, "They truly love each other."
Q had a blank look, "Yes, and it might be his undoing. Lets go forward again. So here is Picard and everyone else walking together to do see Shinzon in Sick Bay. Bla Bla they try to help Shinzon. Bla Bla It is strange to see Picard fighting for Shinzon. The weapon was flying across the room to Shinzon's bed. Bla Bla Oh, here is an interesting part." Q and his guest leaned forward to watch and listen.
Allisa's essence fought to maintain itself with the violent separation from Shinzon's. The only thing that saved her was the fact that the link was already weakened when the attack started or so she thought. Shinzon's body was to heavily wounded. He was dead. Allisa's mind came to terms with the fact that Shinzon was not coming back and she lunged from the table at the two men fighting on the floor. She picked up the phaser in a wave of hatred. She held the phaser and fired killing the man Picard was fighting instantaneously.
Picard lay still in the floor catching his breath for a moment. He got to his feet and noticed that Allisa was still holding the weapon in his general direction looking confused. Q smiled knowing they could not see him, "What to do Jean-Luc."
Worf and Ba'el forced their way into Sick Bay and found Allisa holding a phaser at Picard. They also saw the Remans on the floor covered with a mixture of their blood and their cloaks. Worf was the first to speak, "Captain? Allisa?" Neither of them acknowledged him speaking, but examined each other.
Vernaka and Kunak started using the medical instruments to heal themselves under their hoods and cloaks. The bright lighting of Sick Bay was causing Vernaka to squint her eyes in soreness. She observed that Allisa still had the weapon in her hands pointed at Picard and communicated as much to Kunak. They looked on in bewildered amusement not knowing if it was Allisa or Shinzon in control of Allisa's body.
Worf took a step toward Allisa and stretched his hand to the weapon. Allisa retreated to the other side of Picard. He became aware of the fact her eye color had changed. It now had hints of different colors within that appeared to be stirring. Her eyes had transformed from the emerald green to that of a tornado hazel...to storm clouds. "Allisa, it is Picard talking. Can you hear me? You need to give Worf the weapon."
Allisa's voice sounded like wind from a tempest, "Yes, give him the weapon we will." A metallic illusion covered her face within the mischievous smile. Her warm appearance of peace was gone. She turned the weapon toward Worf, "Darker clouds and storms of chaos summons the king of fear."
Worf and Picard maneuvered themselves to a safer distance from her as she apparently was using her words for power. She tipped her head inquisitively to one side and aimed at Picard all over again. Worf stepped in front of Picard whispering to him, "Perhaps today is a good day to die." Picard tried to help Worf, but was as unsuccessful preventing Worf's demise as he had with Data and Shinzon.
Allisa fired several times with a blank look on her face saying, "Awaiting the stormy sea, shreds of flesh chained to walls to greet the Master of Realms. The dawn of the blackest sun of all skies mysteries revealed."
Her voice trailed off into the distance as Picard hovered over Worf, "Security to Sick Bay STAT!" He sent a telepathic message to the Remans, 'What is going on?'
Kunak, not willing to move at this point, spoke to Picard's mind, 'She is bonded with Shinzon. They are one in her body. There was a problem with the link between their minds. He believes he is dead and so he is in the underworld. He is covered with an evil of old. Do not move. Wait for the opportune moment. We will only have one when she closes her eyes.'
The doors opened with security detail entering with weapons drawn. Allisa shot them all dead with her phaser and with the power of the storm. The doors closed again then she spoke, "Step inside yourself and emerge enter a realm of worlds, the future lies marked out before your feet don't break the circle, play your part, remain silent in your seat." A wisp of a cloud started to come from her eyes even faster now. It was surrounding her in an ever-growing storm. "Come walk the footsteps of lost generations." The storm started to take form before their eyes. She started to close her eyes, as she was transfixed in time.
Kunak and Vernaka understood and transmitted to Picard if she was not stopped in the next few minutes there would be a mighty power loosed aboard the ship from the underworld. They lunged at her in the same instance each one holding onto her but for a moment. Her gun struck the Remans first then Picard as the storm carried Picard to a farther away distance. The Remans lay on the ground wounded not far from her feet.
Picard was bleeding from his neck as she spoke his last few words trying to reach her humanity as he had once to Shinzon, "Allisa? Life is but a dream." He rested his head upon the floor and let out his last breath. Picard was dead with his blood having spilled on the Enterprise floor and soaking his uniform wondering in his last moment, 'What event in time caused these events to be possible?'
For a moment Allisa surfaced to reality and seen what she had done. She seen that Shinzon was bringing the hounds of hell into her world threw her. She pointed the gun at herself to end it speaking, "The rest is silence."
The doors opened and Paulera entered breathless in the instant Allisa fired killing herself and Shinzon's presence. Paulera seen Allisa change in appearance as she died. Paulera stood in the Enterprise's Sick Bay with bodies all around her and thought of Shinzon and Hamlet then spoke it out loud:
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
me one thing. What is the reason that you use me thus?
I loved you ever: but it is no matter;
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day."
Paulera sank to the floor and called for more security and medical staff knowing it would not help. She spoke to a room of beings who could hear no more, "The esteemed Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise laying cold dead in his own blood. Beloved Shinzon, his clone: one whom my heart longs for…gone to me forever. O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd: Treachery! Seek it out." At this point Paulera was in the floor with her hand on Shinzon's shoulder. The guards entered seeing the bodies laying on the floor and tables covered in blood.
Paulera's eyes glazed momentarily as the guards looked on at the site:
"This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
That thou so many princes at a shot
So bloodily hast struck?"
Q turned from the sight before him not interested in thinking Picard or Shinzon as being dead. "Oh, I am not as amused with this one as I thought I would be. Vulcans! Yes, let us go on to another alternate dimension and see another version where the Vulcans try to help. Don't look so sad. These versions are not real."
His guest had lowered watery eyes still looking at Shinzon and Picard, "I am glad these alternates are not real. They have had so much happen to them. Picard never even found out what the alien artifact was. When I seen Shinzon die, I regretted looking into these."
Q and his companion blinked out the crystal ball and another form prevailed as Q said, "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! The rest is silence."
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