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To all those who are wondering when is this story ever going to end there is only a couple more chapters, and then maybe I'll start another fic, thanks to all of those who have been supported! This chapter should also answer a question.

Chapter 23

Greater than Q

"Angela Jackie!" Picard cried as the tiny frame of the child went limp, Dr. Crusher who was on the bridge raced to the child's side.

"Emergency transport to sick bay!" Dr. Crusher order as Picard resumed his role as captain and fighting off the battleships.

"Direct hit to deck 7 and 8, life support is failing in those decks." Worf informed.

"Evacuate those decks, I need…" Q flashed before Picard.

"Mon. capitan!"

"I don't have time Q."

"I know why they're firing at you."

"Why do I have a feeling its you." Riker snapped he had taken over the helm, as the original helmsofficer had been thrown from her seat, and was knocked unconscious.

"Correct!"

"Why?" Picard demanded trying to maintain his seat in the captain's chair.

"Because we tried to destroy them."

"Why?" Picard couldn't see why the Q continuum would want to destroy an entire race.

"Because they are a race, capable of becoming greater than us!" Picard braced himself as once again the ship rocked upon impact.

"Open a channel to the planet, tell them we wish to negotiate." Picard ordered.

"No response sir." Replied the ensign who was manning communications. The ship rocked again throwing everyone off balance.

"IF THEY ARE A MATCH TO Q THEN THEY CAN DEFINITELY DESTROY US, INFORM THEM WE JUST FOUND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT THEM AND THE Q AND WISH TO TALK!" Picard snapped, almost as soon as the transmission was sent the battleships pulled of their attacks.

"They're hailing us sir." Informed the ensign.

"On screen." President Bustan appeared on the screen.

"President Bustan, Q here has informed me their original intentions, now I'm not sure what he wanted us to do, but I wish for you and your people to desist their attacks and let us discuss this in a diplomatic way." President Bustan eye's shifted between Q and Captain Picard.

"You were not sent here to destroy us?"

"That was never MY intention." Picard informed eyeing Q.

"Very well, we will attempt negotiations again, when can we expect you again?"

"Shortly, I wish to check on my daughter…she was injured in the attacks."

"My sincerest apologize…very well…please inform us when you wish to join us." Picard nodded and the transmission ended.

"Sir I request you take a larger security team down with you." Worf requested.

"I'll take it into consideration, in the mean time I'll be in sick bay, number one you have the bridge." Picard then stepped off the bridge and into the turbo lift.

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The smoke was so thick Angela Jackie could not see her own hand in front of her. Suddenly the smoke cleared and a tranquil Pearl Harbor was visible. The harbor, though, was not filled with ships and was not how she remembered it. Angela Jackie saw a man sitting on a bench on the dock, he was in a WWII army uniform and watching the water. There was something peculiar about the water, it was not coated in oil….

"The oil is gone." Commented the man, his voice was older than his young body.

"Papa!" Angela Jackie cried.

"They said the Arizona would continue to bleed oil until every last survivor of Pearl Harbor passed away." Her father continued.

"How's that possible?" Angela Jackie inquired.

"This is not the 1940s anymore, I've been dead for over 400 years now." He wrapped his arms around his daughter. "We missed you so much, and your mother and I love you so much."

"Daddy I want to go home." She cried.

"You are home." Angela Jackie looked around. "Your home now is aboard Enterprise."

"I want to be with you though." The young girl cried.

"I know baby, but this is how it's meant to be, and your mother, Jimmy, and I will still watch over you, but your going to make a difference here, your going to achieve something you could never achieve back 'home'."

"I think I understand."

"I know you do, you're such a smart girl." He kissed her on the forehead then stood from the bench.

"Where are you going?" Angela Jackie asked not even bothering to hide her panic.

"It's my time to go, and yours to. I love you sweetheart, and so does the rest of the family and remember will be watching over you." Then the smoke filtered in again and all went black again…

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"Angela Jackie? Can you hear me?" Angela Jackie's eyelids flittered opened to see the anxious faces of Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher.

"What happened?"

"You hit your head." Dr. Crusher informed. Angela Jackie sat up with a start.

"I saw my daddy, my birth father." Beverly and Picard both gave a confused look.

"When?"

"When I was unconscious. He told me that I'm to live my life out here, on Enterprise, and that I'm to make a difference here, and that they love me and will be watching over me." Picard and Crusher were both astounded. "So why were they firing at us?"

"A little misunderstanding…on Q's behalf, apparently these people we've visited can evolve to be something greater than Q."

"Greater than Q, I don't understand."

"Apparently we've gotten ourselves into a bigger mess than we wanted."