ILuvHawkeye: Never in a million years would I force you and Nathan to be friends... at least not in this fanfic. evil grin And sorry, you do not get to strangle him either.
T'Son: Did I put that you beat me at chess in the story? Thank you for [finally] joining FFN and reading my story!
MedStudent: Thank you. Weird is a wonderful compliment. And people back in the '60s made better TV shows than they do now. Star Trek is one of the only TV shows I can stand. I just like it better.
I believe that this is the second-to-last chapter. Do not get your tissues out yet- there is a sequel planned. I think I am going to called it "The Trio Broken" so look for it when this is finished!
Mirror T'Son walked confidently onto the bridge of the USS Enterprise, followed by Mirror Qwi. Mirror T'Son gazed at the planet, seeing none of its beauty, but only wishing he had some of those special Nathan-ized quantum torpedoes he invented for a Star Trek fanfiction back in the twenty-first century. After all, he was part of an evil universe, and he hung out with Mirror Toreth.
"I like the Excelsior-class bridge better," Mirror T'Son remarked as he looked around at the USS bridge. It looked pretty much the same as the ISS bridge. The sword-and-globe symbol, however, was nowhere to be found. Instead there was a strange A-like shape with a star in the middle. That had to be the symbol of their "Starfleet."
"You like the Excelsior better than anything except the Sovereign. And don't talk about such things in front of these imbeciles," Mirror Qwi whispered.
"True," Mirror T'Son said.
"Goddess, he agreed with me!" Mirror Qwi murmured in surprise.
"I agree with you sometimes, Gwyneth," Mirror T'Son said with a grin, walking towards the center chair. A moment later he was knocked over by a phaser in Mirror Qwi's hands. Not to be outdone, he rolled over and fired back.
"Security to bridge. We hawe a wery big problem," Chekov said. A moment later, Spock and three security officers stepped onto the bridge. Neither Mirror Qwi nor Mirror T'Son noticed. Mirror T'Son was too busy copying Valeris, though he knew Mirror Toreth would kill him because she wanted to be Valeris (though less than she wanted to be the Empress of Romulus or the Chairman of the Tal Shiar).
"Like this?" Mirror T'Son asked with a grin, raising his phaser. Suddenly, it was snatched from his grip.
"I do not know who you six are, nor do I know what you have done with our crewmembers, but this brutality cannot continue," Spock said disapprovingly. He was holding a struggling Mirror Qwi and a random redshirt had Mirror T'Son's phaser and was pointing it at him. Mirror T'Son knew, however, that he could not let himself be locked in the brig. As he was preparing his plan, a disembodied voice spoke.
"Okay, the game is over. This is getting too dangerous for humans, Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons." As everyone on the bridge watching open-mouthed surprise, Spock, Mirror T'Son, and Mirror Qwi all vanished off the bridge.
Mirror Toreth had forgotten the transporter. She was fighting a losing battle just to stay in her seat. Mirror Spock rolled their shuttle under a Klingon shuttle and she desperately tried to aim the phasers to penetrate it. They only grazed its hull.
"Mirror Q, you are going to kill us!" she screamed in panic. The Klingon shuttles were circa 2350 shuttles and the ISS shuttle was no match for them.
"Who is this 'Q' I so often hear you and the other members of your "Trekkie Trio" talking about? Is this 'Q' the same one who changed your species?"
"Spock, now is no time to be logical and calm," Mirror Toreth said through clenched teeth.
"On the contrary, there is always a logical solution to problems. One must not allow panic, which is a form of emotion, to interfere." Mirror Toreth was in such a bad mood, she did not even realize she was arguing with her "true love."
"And if that solution is our capture by Klingons?"
"More likely it will be death."
"I like death!" Mirror Toreth had no time to say anything more. A disembodied voice spoke.
"Okay, the game is over. This is getting too dangerous for humans, Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons." With that, Mirror Toreth and Mirror Spock vanished from the shuttle.
Mirror Kirk and Mirror Bones searched the USS brig for a way out, finding none. Mirror Scotty was attempting to build some sort of scientific thing that could blast through the walls from whatever loose metal he could find. Mirror Uhura was watching him.
"Och, I could work better were there a mad Vulcan capturing us and I had to get my ship back from him!" Mirror Scotty moaned.
"Mad Vulcan? I highly doubt that will ever happen," Mirror Uhura said dryly. Mirror Scotty glared at her. Neither of them had anytime to get further though, for suddenly a disembodied voice spoke.
"Okay, the game is over. This is getting too dangerous for humans, Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons." The four people disappeared without a trace.
Scotty and Uhura were trying to get through Engineering unnoticed. Of course, everyone immediately saw them.
"Mr. Scott!" a lieutenant j.g. called. "We have the phasers in prime condition. Whenever the captain is ready, he can start firing on Halka."
"What would ye want to do that for?" Scotty asked. "Has the Captain lost his mind?"
"Scott..." Uhura hissed in a warning tone. His gave an embarrassed smile and nod, but before either he or Uhura could make any further mess-ups, a disembodied voice spoke.
"Okay, the game is over. This is getting too dangerous for humans, Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons." Before the confused engineer's eyes, the two vanished, and everyone watched them go.
Toreth's eyes were fixed on the viewscreen as she told the tale of the Mirror Universes. Kirk and McCoy seemed to actually be beginning to believe her, though she was not sure. She sincerely hoped that they were. If Toreth failed to convince them, well, everyone in the room probably had some reason to want her executed. Then the ISS shuttle exploded.
"Spock!" Toreth cried, leaping up, her eyes wide in fear. Tears leaked out of them and splashed to the ground, unheeded. "Q! You will pay, you horrible-"
"Du calme, Imperatrice. C'est pas vraiment grave," Q's voice sounded.
"Flattery and French will get you nowhere. You killed the mirror of my one true love, for whom I would have given up just about anything, excepting things like the Romulan Star Empire. How can I but be furious and wish to avenge my destroyed Mirror love?" Toreth said, unconsciously slipping into ways of talking from her SF/F books.
"No need to be so aggravated. You will soon join him."
"Good. I am in love with death."
"I am not going to kill you."
"You mean the evil Klingons captured him!? You veruul, you-"
"Okay, the game is over. This is getting too dangerous for humans, Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons." With that, Toreth, Kirk, and McCoy vanished, leaving the poor bridge crew of the ISS wondering when their universe had first started turning upside down.
"Please, dear God, I am your daughter, and I endeavor to be a good Christian. Please send some sort of miracle to save me from being trapped in a turbolift with T'Son. Also, forgive Toreth and Q, because I do not think I will be able to for a long time. Amen." Qwi looked up. T'Son had not even noticed, as he was currently in the middle of explaining the thirty-ninth deck of his imaginary USS Royale C... in details only a Vulcan would notice.
This had, of course, been going on for thirty-eight decks. T'Son was so deep into his imaginings that she suspected she could have gotten drunk and danced around in the arms of Barney the Purple Dinosaur and he would not have noticed. She did not know how Toreth could stand him. The fact that that insane Romulan had even once loved him was completely out of the question. A/N: Happy, Qwi?
"... and in the metal is a small depression, about .00000349863 millimeters deep, while someone messed up. He or she or it was definitely not a Vulcan! The door next to that-" Both of them jumped when a disembodied voice rang out.
"Okay, the game is over. This is getting too dangerous for humans, Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons." Qwi only had time to think a heart-felt thanks to God for his mercy before she and T'Son disappeared.
Kirk, Mirror Kirk, Spock, Mirror Spock, McCoy, Mirror McCoy, Scotty, Mirror Scotty, Uhura, Mirror Uhura, Toreth, Mirror Toreth, T'Son, Mirror T'Son, Qwi, and Mirror Qwi all found themselves in a small grassy amphitheatre in Kansas. Only Toreth and Mirror Toreth recognized it.
"I have come to tell you," Q's voice shouted from the stage, "that Toreth's game has officially ended!"