To Boldly Go Where No Puff Has Gone Before

Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff girls and their related content, as they belong to Craig McCracken and Cartoon network. I also do not own anything that is related to the Star trek Universe, which are created by Paramount Pictures. However I do own the idea for the design of the Starship, the USS Dynamo, and several made up alien races scattered throughout the galaxy. Everything else, like the galaxy quadrants, warp drives…etc belong to startrek.

A/N:This is a slightly similar Powerpuff Girls version of the "Startrek Voyager" series. There is bound to be some violence, so this will be rated "R" in later chapters for graphic scenes and language. Hey, Hairy Gregory, thanks for the reminder on the technical info, but I know how ships react. Actually, I wanted the approach to Dranico's ship to be like the "Picard" maneuver, just to close the gap of a thousand kilometers quickly. So maybe I over calculated.

And now on with the story!!

Chapter 3: The Station

The Dynamo arrived just some distance away from the station, which Dranico called Mecalon Zeta. The station was a massive structure. It looks almost like a giant, metal mushroom. The station consists of a giant dome like structure connected by a main "stem" of the mushroom like station. The stem goes down from the round dome to a series of spiraling rings. On some parts of that ring were ships of all shapes and sizes docked there. The Dynamo got within 200 feet, before the communications hailed them. Blossom opened the channel and an alien that looked like a hairy primate showed up on screen. The kids except Bubbles could not understand a single word that came out of the Alien's mouth.

Dranico spoke to the alien and the alien nodded. After that, the channel closed. "What did you say?" Blossom asked. "He was cautious since he hasn't seen a ship classified like yours in this system. He is the stations commander and he was only inquiring if there needs to be any need for defensive measures. After all, he is only trying to ensure the safety of his patrons." "Alright, so…we have clearance to dock?" Brick added. "Yes, it's that port right there, on the station's deck 34. look it's lighting up at us." Brick listened and looked out the view screen. Indeed one of the docking ports opened up a light and shone it on the Dynamo Brick and Blossom covered their eyes, as the light was a bit bright. Brick operated the controls and moved the ship closer for a dock. As Brick got closer, he noticed that the docking port looks a lot like a garage, except no garage door, just an opening. He noticed the other ships sliding in and out to dock and undock from the station. As he closed in on the opening, he saw a green light on top of the port's canopy ceiling. As he got closer, it changed to red. Brick took this as a universal sign and stopped the ship.

Meanwhile, outside the ship, as the Dynamo came to a stop, a long tube slid out from the walls of the docking port, connected to the spirals, towards the Dynamo's airlock. It secured itself, and hissed as it pressurized the area. Outside the view screen, further down the docking port on the canopy, a light that shaped like a person stepping into the tubes came on, indicting it is safe to open the airlock and go through. Brick sighed in satisfaction as he deactivated the ship's propulsion. "Ok, shore leave!" He shouted. Blossom smiled at him and got off her seat. Dranico spoke, "You guys should stick close to me, first thing is that we have to get you some personal universal translators, it'll help out quite a bit."

The seven companions got out of the hatch on docking bay 532. As they walked down the tube that connects the docking bay to the main station, Blossom looked outside the portholes and admired the vastness of the Delta Quadrant. Brick stopped a moment, "Wondering just which one of those stars is our Sun, right?" He uttered to Blossom as he placed his hands on her shoulders gently. She just nodded solemnly, placing her arm around him and resting her head on his shoulders as they hovered after the others. "Don't worry, Bloss, we'll get home." He reassured her.

At the end of the tubing, was a small guard post stationed with 2 alien guards. One of them was a brutish thing that looked like an evolved gorilla. The other was another Palaxian. As Dranico walked closer, he whispered to the kids, "That big guard is a Jiralhelian. They are quite calm and peaceful, but if you anger them, there can be dreadful consequences."

Dranico walked up to the guards and spoke to them. They nodded and motioned Dranico and the kids through the scanner unit. According to their scans, they only detected a standard issue civilian plasma pulse pistol on Dranico, which they allowed him to carry. Other wise, the kids were unarmed on their scans and they were allowed into the main decks of the station.

Dranico looked over a map of the station in his handheld device. "Hmmm, this way, children. We'll get you those translation units." He led them down the hall and into a lift. The lift went up through out of the docking area to the main commerce facility. As the lift went up, the passengers could see the various ships docked below on the spiral docks. Bubbles looked around and saw their ship. "Gosh, our ship taken quite a beating from the wormhole!" She spoke. The other kids looked at their ship and confirmed what she had told them. The Dynamo's hull looked really worn, and some minor breaches can be seen. "I guess we should try and get some new duranium plating for those repairs." Butch thought as he surveyed the ship. "It'll be a hell to fix."

The lift stopped on the base of the giant dome. It opened and revealed a massive facility of shops, markets, hawkers, and various alien merchants trying to sell their wares. Every once in a while, Jiralhelian guards would patrol the deck. Brick observed one of the guards and noticed just how massively built those guys were. They will be hell of a challenge to fight without powers. He also stared at the massive laser rifles they were carrying. "Wow, lethal law enforcement." He thought. Just then, he noticed that the others were down the hall, beckoning him to follow. He hovered after them.

The companions stopped in front of a kiosk. Dranico went up to it and inserted his translation unit. The English language began uploading into the main database. After that, Dranico placed 3 meranium bars into the kiosk, and 5 new translation units were created. He handed them to the children. "There you go, you should have no trouble communicating to the other species." Bubbles already informed Dranico not to get her one since she already is capable of translating any language. As soon as that, Dranico tapped the kiosk again. He turned around a moment later, "The drones are now unloading the cargo from your ship. We'll get our resources in a moment." 2 minutes pass by, and the kiosk spat out several meranium bars. It was 600 in total. "Not bad for today's haul. 600 Meranium is just what we need." Dranico said as he scooped up the bars.

Brick looked around and noticed the map hovering in the middle of the hallway showed the ship weapon vendors. He also realized that the other goods the ship needs are on different levels of the station. So he informed the group to split up into 3 groups and go shop. So, Dranico split the meranium bars into 3 portions. Brick, Butch, and Boomer scooped up the bars and pocketed them. After that, the girls followed their respective counterparts and split off into different locations. Dranico gave them each a communicator device and told them he'll be going to a schematics station to monitor just the goods they need for the ship's upgrades. He'll relay the information as the kids look through the vendors.

Brick and Blossom hovered down the hallway, but then decided to walk, as it was drawing a lot of attention. "I bet they never saw a species that have the ability to defy gravity like we do… I noticed some of the ones with wings, but they don't fly all the time either." Blossom spoke, as she put her arm through Brick's. He placed his arm around her shoulder as they walked. As they walked towards the ship weapons vendor, he noticed something slick and shiny on his left side. He stopped and turned to look, gawking at what he saw.

It was a shiny, yet somewhat old battle environmental suit. The vendor told them it was worn during the Kladian war, fought some centuries ago not far from this system. The vendor continued, "Now that the war is no longer being fought, we only have a limited amount of these suits, to be purchased by daring adventurers seeking to explore the far reaches of this quadrant and the rest of the galaxy. It is the most advanced combat suit/hazardous environment suit there is!" Brick and Blossom listened with interest as the vendor explained the suit features. It had personal energy shielding that automatically recharges quickly if the wearer gets pounded by enemy fire, provided the wearer could acquire a chance to take cover. It also has a built in environmental support system that creates the ideal atmosphere for the wearer to breathe from.

After hearing all the features of the suits', Brick contacted Dranico. His voice came on the communicator as Brick told him about the suit. "Hmmm, I'm checking the data on the station about the suits inside your ship. I would recommend you get a suit like that to replace yours. Your old ones are a risk to your health as we travel further." Brick then smiled, as that's exactly what he wants. "Heh, maybe Butch can tweak around on the suit, makes the visor's eyebeam safe." He went over to the vendor. "Alright we'll take…" He stopped for a moment, and contacted Dranico again. "Dranico, would you like one?" Dranico replied that he already has one. Brick then faced the vendor again, "Sorry, we'll take 6 of those suits." Brick handed over 100 Meranium bars and the vendor grabbed 6 suits from his storage hold. The pair each carried 3 suits. Brick smiled at his girl as they lugged the suit back Dranico, who could get the suits loaded onto the Dynamo. "Hey, Blossom, need help with that?" She shook her head and hovered over to give him a kiss.

Brick just blushed as he continued moving.

Bubbles and Boomer already stopped by the ship parts vendor and ordered several duranium-plating sheets. The vendor opened up a channel and inputted the desired amount of plating to be loaded onto the Dynamo. After that, Bubbles and Boomer stopped by another vendor and noticed something the vendor called a replicator. "With that, we'll never run out of food as long the ship has power!" Bubbles shouted with glee as she pieced together what she could do with the machine. So Boomer handed the remaining meranium bars to the vendor and ordered 2 replicators to be loaded onto their ship.

Blossom and Brick finally bought several torpedo launchers and a plasma phaser array at the ship armament department. They paid the vendor extra for his drones helping them install the weapons. After that, Brick noticed that they still had plenty of time left, before they will have to regroup with the others. So they decided to take a walk around the station, looking at all the things going on.

Butch and Buttercup already finished their shopping of several spare parts for their ship, as well as improved power sources. As they walked towards where the meeting location, an alarm started going off. The station was going into combat alert as pirate raiders are planning to raid and attack the station. "Pirate raid! Pirate raid! All combat personnel to battle stations!" The speakers around the stations went off, informing all the guards to take their positions. Butch grabbed his girlfriend's hands, "C'mon sweetheart! We'll better get to the others or we're in a lot of hell!" As they held hands and flew at top speed to the meeting spot, they saw that the pirate ships have already fired upon the station. Bodies littered about, a lot of them were severely burnt. One alien was clutching its waist, as purple blood and guts leaked from his hands. A piece of metal had impaled him as the station took the torpedoes the raiders fired. Buttercup winced and closed her eyes as she flew past the horrific sights. She was tough and such sights didn't bother her much, but still it was pretty gruesome, even for her standards.

Blossom woke up from under Brick, who had covered her to shield her when a pirate ship had appeared outside the their part of the station and fired their weapons. The blast knocked many of the alien patrons back killing some of them instantly. Brick awoke a second later, the only wounds was a minor gash on his forehead. Blossom hugged him and asked if he was all right. He nodded and got up. "We better get to Dranico! We have to leave the station immediately!" Brick was then interrupted when the sides of the reinforced walls of the dome were smashed open as an alien boarding craft docked. Several aliens, most of them not much taller than the kids. After the smaller ones got off, 4 six-feet tall aliens jumped out of the boarding craft. As soon as they got off, the pirates began firing on any survivors and taking their loot.

Brick and Blossom leapt to action, firing their eyebeams at the bigger ones. The one that Blossom hit stumbled a bit as his shields kicked into action. It flashed and flickered all over his environmental suit as the beams struck. Brick's target wheeled around to face him and hit Brick dead on with the plasma bolts from his rifle. Brick got hit by a couple of the blasts and he dropped from the flying charge, clutching his bleeding chest. "Blossom! Look out! Their guns can hurt us!" He warned his companion as he rolled to the side to take cover behind a wall. Occasionally, the pair would stand out of their hiding spots and fire at the enemies. After the boarding party was neutralized, Blossom ran over to Brick. She checked his wounds, and noticed he was doing ok. Bleeding slightly, but he was all right. Clutching his chest to stop the bleeding, Brick and Blossom flew quickly to the meeting spot.

At the meeting spot, the boarding parties were pinning down Butch and Buttercup. Across the hall from Butch, were a few Jiralhelian guards, taking crack shots at the boarders with their rifles. One of the guards took a direct plasma bolt to the head, and died as his head blew to pieces. Butch winced as he saw the carnage. He shouted to one of the guards. "Hey! Pass me his weapon! We can help!" The guard slid one of the rifles towards Butch. Butch picked it up and examined the weapon briefly. "Why are you using this? We got eyebeams!" Butch pointed to the sight on the rifle. "Much more accurate, watch this." Butch sprawled on the floor and looked out from his cover with the rifle. The boarders were hunched over, taking shots at the Jiralhelian guards. Butch aimed his rifle carefully at one of the boarder's head. He took a deep breath, and depressed the trigger. A bolt of energy was fired and the boarder's shields flickered. Butch fired a couple more times, until the boarder lay dead, his head looking like a melted candle.

Brick and Blossom flew in behind Butch and Buttercup after the boarders have been slain. Dranico was all right in the corner, but a little shaken up by the attacks. "2 pirate attacks in one day! That is…unbelievable!" Brick checked up on his brother and was relieved to know he and Buttercup was ok. Moments later, Bubbles and Boomer appeared. They too, were in good condition. Brick and the others then quickly headed for the lift and went down to deck 34. The drones had completed the upgrades and Brick was eager to gun down the pirate ships. But as they went down, the noticed that the defenders have driven off the boarders and the hostile ships were jumping to warp, escaping the reach of the defending ships in orbit.

The Dynamo crew gained clearance to leave the station, and the kids were thanked for helping the security forces repel the boarders. The ship, now reinforced with duranium-plating, and armed with torpedo launchers and phaser banks, pulled out of the docking port. Brick turned the ship to the new course for the alpha quadrant. "I hope we don't have to run into any more violence like that." Brick sighed as he and Blossom engaged the warp drive. "I certainly hope we'll be safe, that chest wound was too damn close." Brick thought as the ship traveled ahead at an improved warp speed of 6.

A/N: Well, that's the end of chapter 3. Bloody conflict. But the Dynamo crew got away safely. Stay tuned for the next chapter, "The metal planet"! thanks for reading, and please review. No flames, please!