Antares was, from more than two weeks, the Final Frontier of Space exploration. It had been discovered only three weeks before, a new Solar System. New opportunities for discovering life forms. There was a problem: it was more then 10 light-years far from the Federation's sector. For long-distance travelling, the Federation entrusted the mission to the Argo, the fastest Spacecraft of the Starfleet, equiped (finally!) with a fully-functional Warp-15 core.
"Sir, we noticed a strange phenomenon in this sector. It seems like a sub-time frequency." Nex informed Hobbs.
"Really? Well, I'll ask to the Federation the permission to go and see what's happening down there. Anyway, our mission is more important, and I think..." the captain was interrupted by miss Bennett.
A Starbase, the nearest Starbase to Volcano, was calling the Argo for a help request.
"Strange." captain Hobbs said, "Normally, Vulcans don't ask for help to the Federation. What do you think about, Number One"
"I think that it has to be a very serious and urgent situation, sir." Aira Kell answered.
"Hailing Frequences, miss Bennett." the captain ordered.
"Open"
The face of an old Vulcan appeared on the screen. "Captain Hobbs... the damage caused by the Klingon ship is serious. Why you weren't here? We called you"
"Klingon, you say?" Hobbs stood up, astounded, "Sir, Klingons are allies"
"Captain Hobbs. I understand that you are a scientist. And I understand that your warp-9 core doesn't go as fast as the other Spacecrafts of the fleet. But, we are in war, and you can't deny it." the Vulcan said, nearly furious.
"Close all frequences." Miss Bennett executed immediately.
"Are they mad?" Hobbs asked to Kell. She winked at him, almost nodding.
"Thy're calling us, captain. They ask help again"
"Respond"
"Captain! I don't know what's happening to you! But that ship is going towards Volcano! Help them! Please!" the Vulcan said.
"Space, the Events' Horizon. These are the voyages of the starship Argo. Its continuing mission, to explore the infinite minutes, the infinite realities or dimensions our Time is made of. To seek out new differences and new combinations. To go there... beyond our Future!"
"Liutenent Nex... set route on Volcano... warp 11. Engage!" Steve Hobbs ordered.
"We will arrive to Volcano in one minute fourty-five seconds, Sir." Nex informed. Doctor Lamar entered the helm.
The planet of Volcano appeared on the screen, as the Argo approached it. Or, when the Argo approached the place where it should have been. Because Volcano was destroyed, debris in the Universe.
Hobbs first looked worried to commander Kell, native of that lost planet. She remained expressionless, even after seeing and after every confirm that Volcano had been destroyed.
"Miss Bennett, call the Vulcan starbase. Tell the Vulcans..." Hobbs turned to the woman, "... Tell them we didn't arrive in time. Volcano has been destroyed. Noone survived"
"Sir, private communication to you from Starfleet." miss Bennett informed.
"In Main Briefing Room, please"
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Admiral O'Toole's face appeared on the screen in Main Briefing Room. He seemed like he was bearing a heavy weight.
"Admiral, I have to inform you that Volcano has been destroyed, very probably by a Klingon attack." captain Hobbs said.
"Yes, I know. It's terrible. Why didn't you answer quickly to the Vulcan call, Hobbs?" O'Toole asked.
"I answered when I received the message, sir. The Argo was going to Antares, for the discovery mission, Sir." Hobbs answered.
"I don't accuse you, Steve. It isn't your fault. But, you have to understand, after the Earth, now Volcano"
"What?" Steve muttered.
"... You have all the reasons to be... upset, and the Argo isn't properly a war spacecraft"
"Sir, what happened to the Earth?" Hobbs nearly yelled.
The admiral's expression on his face expressed comprehension.
"Steve, don't you remember?" O'Toole said, in a low voice, "The Earth has been destroyed three days ago, by the Klingons"
Hobbs closed his eyes, desperately.
"Hobbs, I advice you to go by your medical officer. O'Toole, Starfleet, out." the admiral said, with the same voice.
Hobbs was still in Main Briefing Room when Aira Kell entered the room. Hobbs stood up and walked to her.
"Kell, I'm sorry for what happened. I know that's my fault." Hobbs said.
"You're not logical, captain. There was no way to save Volcano." the Vulcan said.
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Captain Steven Hobbs entered the sickbay, and doctor Lamar eyed him suspiciously.
"What's the matter, Steve?" Lamar asked.
"Admiral O'Toole's advice." Hobbs said, "I think I'm becoming mad"
"I see your morale very bad, captain." the doctor exclaimed, nearly smiling, "It's you or admiral O'Toole"
Hobbs sat on med bed one, and Jono rose his tricorder.
"Just think to the fact I didn't remember that the Earth had been destroyed." Hobbs answered.
Suddenly, the doctor lowered his instrument, "What?" he asked, "The Earth"
"Why? You didn't..." Hobbs looked to the Betazoid, surprised, "... remember? It cannot be a coincidence"
"I didn't have this news. I never knew, and I'm all right, I can assure you!" Jono Lamar remarked.
"All the officers in Tactical." the captain ordered, as he tapped his commlink.
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"So, noone of you knew of the destruction of planet Earth, isn't it?" Hobbs said, after a quick discussion.
Almost all the officers shook their heads. Aira Kell was perplexed.
"How the Klingons had so much power to destruct the Earth and Volcano, the two main Federation centres?" she asked.
"Tomak? Could you explain it?" Lamar asked.
"Not so directly, sir. I can make some hypothesys. For example, I can deduce from the past alliances between Romulus and Q'onos that there is a new union." Tomak said, "But I can't understand why starships of a race called Andromeda were near Earth and Volcano, when they have been destroyed"
"Computer, what do you know about the race of Andromeda?" Aira Kell asked.
"Andromeda is a race that comes from Volcano, like Romulans. They distingueshed for their high brain ability and capacity. They worked for years to a computing system called Nex, that had the possibility of understanding human thoughts, and had the speed of a brain-to-brain connection"
All the eyes turned to the android Nex.
"... Andromeda, in this way, attracted two centuries ago, the interests of Klingon people, that used a blackmail to initial an alliance between the two people"
"Stop." Hobbs interrupted Computer's feminine voice.
"I can study the Andromeda systems, Sir. And I think that miss Bennett can study their language and behaviour." commander Kell said. Sarah Bennett was staring at the table, nearly crying.
"Miss Bennett"
Liutenent Bennett stood at attention, and turned to the captain, "Aye, sir"
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"I really don't understand your experiment, doctor." Aira Kell said, laying on the medical bed 2.
"Don't worry, commander. Tomak... I must admit he had an excellent idea. I will trace your brain frequences, and compare them to the ones in the Federation's archive." doctor Lamar explained, analysing the first officer with a tricorder.
"Doctor, what are you going to prove in this way?" the Vulcan asked again.
"We are not in our own reality." Jono said, lowering his instrument, "And I can't really understand how, and why. But there is the fact that Klingons and Romulans... for us had been allies, always, and, well, I can't understand, but what I feel is telling me that I don't know this universe"
"You base your researches on what you feel? Only on your Betazoid sense, doctor? Are you sure it's enough"
"I'm sure it is, commander. And now, I'd like to proceed." the doctor remarked.
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Nex entered the captain's office.
"Sir, I discovered very interesting facts, connecting to the Federation's database." the android said.
"Go on." the captain said.
"You can easily see the differences, Sir." Nex switched on the little terminal on the captain's desk, "In the database of the Federation, the Federation has been in war against Klingons and Romulans for four centuries. In our database, we are their allies from two centuries ago. In the the database of the Federation, the Argo, and the Enterprise, are war ships - and we know that it is not true. In the database of the Federation, I am a form of artificial life used for war computing. Sir, I am confused, because I am not a war machine"
"Nex, did you discover something about the blackmail done by the Klingon empire to form a union with Andromeda?" Hobbs asked.
"No, sir. This information is hidden in a blocked and private section of the database." Nex answered.
"Liutenent Nex... who created you?" the captain stared at the android.
"Lo Deneth, from an unknown place called Andromeda, Sir." Nex answered again. Perplexed, he added: "Sir, do you really agree with doctor Lamar's opinion"
"Yes." the captain said, nodding, "Computer, on my screen all the informations about Lo Deneth, from Andromeda"
"Search complete. Accessing." Computer said, with a bleep as confirm.
"Ah, Computer." Hobbs remarked, and Computer bleeped again, "Compare all data on our database with the Federation's database"
"Comparing"
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Commander Kell opened her eyes and stood up, on med bed 2. Doctor Lamar rose his tricorder.
"Are you all right?" he asked.
The Vulcan nodded. Jono Lamar continued examinating her.
Aira Kell approached the screen, and looked her brain pattern and Tomak's.
"Well, doctor, what did you discover?" she asked.
"Computer, on screen new and old brain pattern. Kell, Aira, commander." Lamar ordered. The two brain patterns were different.
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"Steve, what do you remember about your dialogue with the old chief of operations, at the Vulcan Starbase?" Lamar asked to Hobbs, in the captain's office.
"What, especially, you are talking about?" Hobbs asked, out-of-the-way.
"A thing that surprised you, or attracted tour attention, or... anything!" Lamar explained.
"That Vulcan was really furious..." Hobbs murmured.
"What"
"I said that the Vulcan was really furious! This is the only thing that surprised me." the captain remarked.
"Exactly! Look at the screen, Steve!" Lamar indicated the two Kell's brain patterns, "This is the database's one. And this... this is the new one, that I registered twenty minutes ago"
"Jono, the emotional pattern is... out of range!" the captain noticed.
"Yes, Steve. According to this old graphic, Aira Kell is a very emotional Vulcan... probably like all Vulcans. And there is another thing that I cannot understand"
"What"
Doctor Lamar sighed, "Aira Kell doesn't remember that she had another brain pattern scanning"
"How is it possible? Who did it?" Hobbs asked.
"According to the Federation's archive, I did it. But I didn't do it, Steve. I'm sure, I controlled on our database." Jono Lamar said.
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"We have all the elements we need to deduce that we are lost in another dimension." captain Hobbs said, ten minutes later, to all the officers, in Main Briefing Room.
"In fact, Computer noticed a sub-time frequence, near the Vulcan starbase." Nex said.
"Another dimension? What does it mean?" miss Bennett asked.
Aira Kell switched on the monitor. Tomak stood up and walked to it, organizing to himself his speech.
"A dimension is a reality, that we know as our life, a... scenario that we are part of. Dimensions are generally similar, for example, the one we're in has only some things different to ours: here, the Federation is still in war against Klingons, and Earth and Volcano have been destroyed." Tomak explained, "Thanks to an alliance with Andromeda, an empire in the 342 system, Klingons are capable of doing an action like this"
"As Computer said, then." miss Bennett remarked, "How we can know more about the alliance and the war machine called Nex"
"We have to meet Lo Deneth, from Andromeda, that lives alone on the 227 asteroid." Steve Hobbs said. Aira Kell rose her eyebrows.
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As the Argo approached the asteroid, the captain ordered to Tomak to transport him, doctor Lamar and the android Nex on the surface.
The environment wasn't very hospitable, so the three members of the crew located immediately the house of Lo Deneth.
The wreck of a little shuttle was, actually, the more comfortable place on that land.
"The door is blocked by a password. No way to enter." Hobbs said, as he exhaminated the pad near the door.
"I can force the doors to open, sir." the android noticed.
Jono Lexor grabbed Nex's arm, before he forced the door.
"We can even try to ring the doorbell!" the doctor exclaimed.
Captain Hobbs smiled and nodded, rising his tricorder.
"No life form noticed. Strange, isn't it?" the captain remarked, embarrassed, "What do you sense, Jono"
The Betazoid shook his head, "There is another empath, down there. He knows that we're here, because he's reading my mind"
Hobbs knocked the door, and when it opened, a very old native of Andromeda appeared on the threshold. The infinite wisdom on his face impressed to the captain, that made one step forward.
"Knocking the door has been enough." the Andromedh said, calmly. He looked to Hobbs, then to Lamar. The doctor seemed very nervous.
"I'm captain Steven Hobbs, of the starship Argo. I come from the Federation of United Planets, and I need your help." he was someway interrupted by the strange expression of Lo Deneth, that was staring at Nex.
"Nex... Nex, you came?" Deneth exclaimed, walking to Nex and putting a hand on the android's shoulder, "It's impossible... you abandoned this appearence many, many years ago... your appearence, the one I gave you"
"It is a honour for me to know my creator, and my creative, Sir." Nex said, coldly.
Jono went up to the Andromedh, and his voice wasn't cold, "Please, help us to find again our reality"
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"Another dimension?" Deneth asked, perplexed, walking to and from in the shuttle, "Then, we have to suppose that the Argo from this dimension is now in your dimension"
"We'd like to know about the alliance between Andromeda and Q'Onos, too." Hobbs said.
Lo Deneth sadly laughed, "Alliance? It has been a blackmail, and no more! Andromeda had a king, one upon a time, that was kidnapped by the chief of Q'Onos. P'Ragh was the chief's name. P'Ragh threathened the Andromedhs, and told them that, without an alliance between the two people with their conditions, the king would have been killed"
"And the Andromedhs accepted?" Lamar asked.
"Yes, what should they have done? They were and are scientists, and no more. Now Andromeda and Q'Onos are powerful... more then the Federation. But they follow a different morale." Deneth remarked.
"What do you intend for different morale, sir?" Nex asked.
The Andromedh, smiling, walked to the android, "The Klingon follow the morale of honour and winning with any means. The Andromedhs are linked from a treaty, and an alliance. They follow the morale of duty"
"I don't think we can talk about honour, with a so great and evident blackmail!" Lamar exclaimed.
"But what are you going to do, now?" Lo Deneth asked.
"We will prevent the alliance to be concluded." Hobbs answered, firmly. Lamar eyed him, worried.
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"I cannot ignore the fact that it's my fault... the destiny of Volcano has been only my fault..." captain Hobbs said to his counselor, in his office.
"I understand how do you feel. But, how you told me, even the Vulcan logic says that there was no way to save Volcano." Lamar assured, friendly.
"We have to do something. Jono, follow me in Main Briefing Room, with the other officers." the captain said.
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"Sir, I must officially protest for your decision, that is going to threathen the safety of the ship." Kell said, when the captain explained his idea.
"Protest registered. Tomak, prepare core for warp 15." Hobbs ordered.
"Sir, we're not part of this dimension. We must go back in ours!" the first officer exclaimed, calmly.
"Don't you all understand? We're here, in the middle of a catastrophe... if we don't live here, the other Argo, the one in our dimension is doomed to this destiny! It's us or them, don't you understand? And I want to solve this unfair alliance." captain Hobbs said, solemnly.
Doctor Lamar went up to the captain, "I'm with you, Steve. You can trust on me.". Hobbs smiled, while Tomak nodded.
"Sir, you know that we must not interfere in the other times. Following your idea, you will violate the Prime Rule about Time Travelling, and I cannot let you do this." commander Kell remarked, and Nex nodded.
"Do you want to raise him by command, madam?" miss Bennett asked, fearful.
"If it is necessary, yes, liutenent." Kell answered, coldly, expressionless.
Jono Lamar lost his temper, "And I oppose, commander Kell! I expected you to act as a friend, and forget those stupid rules! But don't forget that you need the permission of the crew, to raise Steve by command"
"Quiet, Jono." captain Hobbs said, and doctor Lamar lowered his head, "You're both right. Kell, if we have the occasion, we must help people in trouble, and I must respect my own duties, the ones I really feel mine. But, it's true anyway that rules are made to be followed"
"Sir." Aira Kell intervened, "I must admit that I cannot raise you by command. The crew is with you. Do of your best"
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"Captain's Log - Stardate 5027.25 - USS Argo
We're lost in a catrastrophic dimension, and, after discovering that we can avoid the distruction of planets Earth and Volcano with a time travel, mr Tomak is preparing warp 15. We will go in stardate 3556.8, and we will stop the alliance between Andromeda and Q'Onos, based on a blackmail.
I have to register the protest of my First Officer, Aira Kell, that reminded me the Vulcan logic. I must admit that I don't understand her behaviour: we're going to save Volcano, too, her native planet...
Lo Deneth gave us the outlines for dimensional travelling, we should modify the hysolinears subroutines, and hope in a successful modified warp-15"
Captain Hobbs entered the helm, and Aira Kell left the captain's chair.
"Warp 15, mr Tomak." he ordered.
"Aye, Sir"
The sense of not existing, and being only a spectator in an unknown reality, took the captain. Again, the stars made full circles around the human, and the room swirled around him as the Argo left warp-15.
"Date, position, liutenent Nex." Hobbs asked.
"We're in 3556.8, near the Klingon base P'Agh." the android answered.
Steve Hobbs turned to commander Kell, "Convinced of what we're doing, Kell"
The Vulcan didn't answer immediately. After a few seconds, anyway, "Humans make illogical decisions" she remarked.
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"We will be quick and precise." the captain said to its away team, "We have to go in the prisons of the base, that are in this corridor, you see." he continued, pointing to a map on the tricorder.
"That corridor is carefully protected!" miss Bennett remarked.
"Yes." Kell said, "For this reason, someone of the away team must go in this other section, which is a control center of all systems"
"Who will go there, sir?" Nex asked.
"Volunteers?" the captain asked, moving his eyes from miss Bennett, to commander Kell, to liutenent Nex.
"I am a volunteer." all the eyes turned confused to the Vulcan.
"Madam, respectfully, I think I could discover the passwords in less time then you." Nex noticed.
"I need you to the prisons, Nex. To force the doors to open." the captain said, then turned to Aira Kell, "Good luck, Kell"
Commander Kell rose her eyebrows, and it seemed like she wanted to say something. She thought about it for a while, and, finally, she decided what to say.
"Thank you, captain Hobbs"
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"We have only half an hour. Energize!" the transporter took the captain, Nex and miss Bennett near the prisons' corridor, and left commander Kell in the control center.
"Phasers on stun!" the captain ordered. As a guardian passed, the three hid behind the threshold of another room.
Miss Bennett noticed that the rooms were very rudimentary, and many swords and strange Klingon weapons were hanging on it.
"Come on, Kell... we have not more time..." Hobbs murmured.
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Commaneder Kell surprised the Klingons as she transported in the middle of the room.
"Intruder!" one of the Klingons exclaimed. Before the alarm was activated, Kell took her phaser and stunned the three Klingon guardians. She went up to the control panel and disengaged the supervision systems and the alarm systems. The prison locks were protected by passwords, and Kell began working on it.
But one of the Klingons came round, and threw the Vulcan against the wall. Kell took a strange Klingon sword hanging on it, and faced the warrior, that was taking his weapon, to fight the Vulcan in a terrible duel.
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"Supervising systems disengaged." Nex informed the captain.
"Good. Come on!" the captain ordered. He and Nex stunned with the phasers the two Klingon guardians.
"Miss Bennett, look at the prison register. Where is the Andromedh?" Hobbs asked.
"Let me see..." the human read the Klingon register, and, after a minute, "In cell two"
Nex rose his tricorder, "It is protected by password, Sir. But the Transporter shield has been deactivated"
"We cannot wait anymore!" miss Bennett yelled.
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Commander Kell turned to the door as the Klingon ran towards her from it. She resisted to a hit putting the sword in front of her, and she replied, aggressively. But the situation was precipitating: another Klingon was coming round, and taking a weapon to fight the intruder.
Kell couldn't resist to two Klingons. The last thing she thought was that it wasn't very honorable fighting two against one, before she was hit by one of the guardians.
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Kell woke up in the transporter room 1. The captain tapped his commlink and called the sickbay.
"How do you feel, commander?" Hobbs asked, bending down near her.
"My life functions are at fifty percent, sir." the Vulcan answered, "I've been hurt, but I'm quite all right, Sir." she added.
"I thought I lost you. Welcome aboard, Number One." the captain remarked, helping the Vulcan to stand up and sustaining her.
Doctor Lamar entered the room, with one of his assistents, a Klingon named Kurn.
"Kurn, help me, let's take her in med bay. Don't worry, Kell, you'll be all right." the doctor said.
"Jono, I need her in Main Briefing Room, and I need you too, in ten minutes." the captain ordered. Lamar nodded.
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Commander Kell and doctor Lamar entered the Main Briefing Room. A young man was sitting near the captain: he was an Andromedh, the king of Andromeda.
"I explained to her majesty that we will take him by his people, without asking anything for this." the captain said, "Jono, would you like to take him to his quarters"
Jono Lamar nodded, and showed to the Andromedh the way.
When Lamar was away, and commander Kell was sitting near the other officers, the captain's voice was more serious.
"We have to go back to the future, I'm afraid. This is the plan: we will return in 5027.23 first, we will close the dimensional fracture that took us here before the other Argo arrives, then we will use the modified warp-15. Questions? Comments"
"Sir, what is exactly a dimensional fracture?" miss Bennett asked.
Kell showed her the tricorder she prepared.
"A dimensional fracture " the Vulcan explained, "is a kind of door between two dimensions, that we cannot recognize only noticing a sub-time frequence. We can close a dimensional fracture only ejecting plasma and igniting it"
"I don't understand, madam." miss Bennett said, shaking her head.
"The fracture, in this way, absorbes energy and matter, and the frequence goes stable." Tomak explained.
"Ready to go?" professor Hobbs' eyes were the eyes of a scientist eager to experience.
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As the officers entered the helm, Daq informed the captain that there was a message from a ship of Andromeda.
"On screen"
The face of an old Andromedh appeared on screen.
"I am Galed, of Andromeda. You aren't Klingons." the Andromedh said, surprised.
"I'm captain Steven Hobbs, of the USS Argo, starship of the Federation of United Planets. We knew about the blackmail the Klingons did you, and we don't want that you are forced to initial an alliance." the captain said, firmly.
"What kind of interest does the Federation have to take the King back?" Galed asked.
"Nex, prepare transporter. Galed, with an alliance like this, the Federation would be disadvantaged." Hobbs remarked.
"I understand, captain." the Andromedh said, smiling, "Thank you, anyway"
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"Captain to engineering. Tomak, prepare warp-15 core." the captain ordered, after the King of Andromeda was transported to his people.
"Warp-15 ready, sir." the android Nex noticed.
"Engage!" commander Kell exclaimed. Captain Hobbs looked at her out-of-the-way, but smiling.
The feeling of floating in space was back, and the stars were composing complicated pictures on screen. The room went upside-down, and the ship returned to normality.
"Date, position, liutenent Nex." Hobbs ordered.
"We are in 5027.25, near the dimensional fracture." Nex said.
"Make the ship stay in a safe position. Captain to engineering." Hobbs ordered, as he tapped his commlink.
"Tomak here"
"Tomak, ready to expell the plasma and igniting it?" the captain asked.
"Yes, Sir, I need..." Tomak was interrupted by a violent force that shook the ship.
Even the emergency lights shut off, and Computer noticed that life support was feeble.
"What's happening, Nex?" Kell asked, as the captain stood up and went up to scientific terminal.
"The fracture is opening, and the force of attraction is taking the ship there. The sub-time frequence now is at the same level we met in the other dimension." Nex explained.
"Tomak, expell and ignite the plasma!" Hobbs ordered.
Another violent explosion shook the ship, that was pulled away from the fracture.
"Shields at 30 percent! They won't hold, captain!" miss Bennett said.
"The fracture has been closed, captain." Nex said.
The captain sat on his chair, while Tomak called from engineering, "We've made it, captain"
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Miss Bennett visualized on screen the Federation's database, and all the officers could see that the planets Earth and Volcano had not been destroyed, and even if the Klingons and Romulans were enemies, the Andromedhs were allies, and this was a great advantage for the Federation. In that dimension.
"Tomak, how is your modified warp-15 project? We've only a few hours before the other Argo arrives." Hobbs asked.
"I have to finish some links and some subroutines. But I'll finish in time, Sir." Tomak answered.
Miss Bennett called the captain, and he turned towards her, "Sir, the Argo is arriving here"
"Run in engineering, Tomak! Maneuver outline 4, Nex!" the captain ordered.
"Outline 4, Sir." Nex confirmed.
"Let me come to the helm." Hobbs said, and Nex left the position.
"We'll hide in the debris of the explosion: ignited plasma. Tomak, I want full power to the shields, and full systems!" the captain said.
"Sir, I can give you only fifty percent..." Tomak began, but Hobbs interrupted him.
"I said full power! Kell, come here, in scientific position. Nex, go in engineering section, and help ensign Tomak"
Nex went away, with a nod.
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The ship began rolling, as it entered the debris of the explosion. Many lights exploded, and wires were hanging by the ceiling. The helm was bending by one side and by the other.
"Kell, give me all instruments to hide. I want full precision for hiding just behind the plasma." the captain said.
"Aye, Sir. Beginning programmed approach to the target." the Vulcan noticed.
"Sir, ready for the leap!" Tomak's voice said from the commlink.
"Ensign, we're gonna pass through the plasma, then full power to the shields, and... hold tight!" the captain replied.
"Ready on helm." Aira Kell said.
"Engage"
It was like the ship squeezed on itself, then, went longer, dispersing in space. Then, a long tunnel appeared through plasma and space.
"Hollow Formation!" Aira Kell exclaimed.
"Sir, this will make warp-15 continue!" Tomak's voice from the communicator said.
"Structural Integrity 50 percent decreasing." Computer noticed.
Commander Kell ran to the helm's chair.
"Sir, we have a choice of two: fire with the photonic torpedoes, then provoke an explosion to leave warp-15, or overload the warp core, then hope that in this way it leaves warp, or expell the core after the overload!" the Vulcan said, desperately.
The ship collided to the Hollow Formation, and the ship began rolling.
"Prepare photonic torpedoes and phasers... fire with all we've got!" Hobbs ordered.
The torpedoes and phasers hit the wall of the formation, and the Argo passed through the fire.
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"Date, position, commander Kell." the captain said, exhaustly, as the ship stopped rolling.
"We are in 5027.25, eight light-years away from Antares, Klingons are allies, Andromedhs haven't been discovered, so far." Aira Kell said, expressionless.
Hobbs laughed, "Very witty, Kell, my congratulations"
Commander Kell stood up and walked to the captain, as doctor Lamar, Tomak and Nex entered the Helm.
"I'm sorry, captain, I didn't want to be... witty." she said.
"Then," doctor Jono Lamar began, jokingly "what do you think about humans and their decisions"
"I learned one thing, working with you." commander Kell said, solemnly "Working with persons like you, I have to trust not on the highest probabilities, but on the lowest."