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. The story is almost complete, only a couple chapters left.

Chapter 9: The Beta Wormhole

The Dynamo dropped out of warp during an approach to a confirmed friendly and occupied trading station. During their last adventure, they made sure that their source of supplies was a reliable source. On the bridge, Brick guided the ship towards the station as Blossom hailed the station's commanding officer to request permission to dock. The screen turned on to reveal the face of a Palaxian officer. He was surprised to see ship of such unknown characteristics with 6 members of a species he had never seen before. He also was surprised to see a fellow friend and kinsman onboard that ship. "Dranico, what had happened to your ship?" He asked.

Dranico smiled a bit and spoke to his old friend. "Well, old Markinok. It's good to see you again. These are my friends that I met. They are not from this quadrant after being stranded here by a wormhole." He took a short breath and continued, "my ship was left useless by a pirate raid and they came to my aid. Ever since, I stayed aboard to guide them back to their home world. Besides, I want to go explore the quadrant they live in." On the screen Markinok smiled and showed his gratefulness to the kids for coming to the aid of his old friend. "Well, by all means, please dock and make yourselves at home onboard Betak Prime."

Brick nodded and said thanks when Blossom closed the channel. Brick then guided the ship to the designated port. He made some final adjustments as the docking clamps from the station attached themselves to the Dynamo. The ship came to a stop and Brick deactivated the engines and engaged the pressurization as the docking tube connected the hatch. The computer screen lit up in green and Brick swerved around in his chair and said, "Let's go shopping."

After the crew had gathered enough fuel and some fresh food, they stopped at the local tavern. While there, Brick overheard a conversion between two elderly looking aliens. "Strange…their conversation sounds very interesting…" Brick whispered to his companions. Dranico looked at them and replied, "They are Makaxian, a somewhat friendly race that shares this system with my people." Blossom opened her mouth and said, "Is Palaxia located here?" Dranico smiled and said it was nearby, and he said that Makaxia was just next to Palaxia. "Anyway, they are known to be quite intelligent in the things they do."

Brick listened closely and noticed that the Makaxians were talking about something that could be very useful to them. "Excuse me, but I can't help but overhear what you were discussing. You see, me and my crew are on a long journey home and we're very interested in this 'wormhole' you're talking about." One of the Makaxians looked at Brick and then looked at the rest of the crew. He then inquired, "And, why would you need to know about the Beta wormhole?"

The crew explained about the incident with the wormhole that stranded them here. As they talked, the Makaxians nodded with interest and concern. "Oh my. Well…the Beta wormhole is a very strange wormhole. No one has actually been reported to have survived the journey through it." The plump Makaxian spoke. "Its also believed in rumors that it can be manipulated in some way to change the destination, allowing whomever using it to go anywhere they wished." The other Makaxian added. "Me and my colleague here were debating whether this wormhole is actually fact or a myth." The plump Makaxian spoke a moment later. "We'll be willing to let you know everything that has been said about it to aid your cause, on condition that when you do set out to find this wormhole, that you send back evidence of it's true existence and usage." Blossom smiled and replied with, "Trading rumors for facts…" "Exactly!" The Makaxians said in unison.

Hours later, Brick and his crew waited outside their hatch. The Makaxian elders had rounded up a crowd to see them off on the quest to find the wormhole. "Good luck on your journey! We hope you find what you seek at the wormhole. Do be careful and let us know what you find!" The elder Makaxians said as the rest of the crowd cheered and said goodbye as the crew boarded the Dynamo. "Dranico, enjoy the trip to Earth, if you plan to join them through the wormhole." Markinok spoke with good spirits to his friend. "May we see each other again in the near future Markinok!" Dranico said as he closed the hatch.

The Dynamo set a new course and jumped to warp. As Brick entered the autopilot sequence, he called for a crew meeting in the conference room. As they took their seats, Brick entered the files that they had received from the elders. Brick began displaying some of the leads to the wormhole's location. "From what we see here…this appears to be some place a wormhole might be." Brick said as he showed a projection of a map of the system it was located on. "But on the sensors…" Boomer said as he showed a current image of that particular location. The strange anomalies that would say a wormhole was present were not even there at all, not even a trace. "That's strange…according to what they have found…this is most recent, only a couple days old from today." Brick said as he inspected the image.

Blossom thought for a bit and said, "Maybe it's an opening and closing wormhole. That could explain why the rumors say it appears and disappears in such an eerie way." "Well…if it turns out to be really all just an rumor or hoax…we can't use it…" Bubbles said in a disappointed tone. "Don't worry, I bet there must be something special we can use there…I know it." Brick said to reassure his friend. Butch noticed something from his companions' theories and said, "The rumors state that vessels which have entered were never seen again. It's starting to seem a lot like the Bermuda Triangle on Earth." Brick scoffed and said, "Well…the Bermuda Triangle would seem really mysterious on Earth, as it really isn't confirmed as a wormhole. This thing here is a wormhole, but for some reason, they say no ship has ever been able to navigate their way back…you know…this is really starting to sound like our case."

Dranico listened with interest and turned to Butch. "Please, tell me about this…Bermuda Triangle on your home world." As Butch explained the myths of the triangle to Dranico, Blossom talked with the others over the similarity of the wormhole that stranded them here. "As from the research gathered here, ordinary wormholes would allow communication and a way to predict where we going. And those who travel through them deal with them with gentle passages. But these wormholes, as I'm starting to suspect there are more than one, aren't ordinary wormholes." Buttercup rolled her eyes. "Duh! They already very obvious that they aren't ordinary."

Brick thought for a moment and said, "Well, these wormholes, theoretically are like super wormholes I assume. They have the power to send you somewhere really far away, possibly damaging you along the way, and maybe leaving you crippled at the end of the tunnel or worse." "Thus explains why no one made it back, I'm positive we endured the same thing in the Sol system." Blossom added to the discussion. "Then how do we confirm the rumors that this wormhole can be manipulated to change the destination?" Bubbles asked. Brick just shook his head and said, "We don't know for sure…but as of right now, these are the leads we got…maybe upon further investigation, we might figure out what this is."

Meanwhile, some hundred light years away, in a field of debris and asteroids, a strange vortex was present. It was a giant violet colored vortex swirling in that part of the galaxy. Without a doubt, that was the Beta wormhole. Its majestic grandeur glowed with magnificent power, as it's incredible vacuum sucked pieces of destroyed vessels into the mouth of the wormhole when they drifted into range. Just at this time, a large piece of a destroyed vessel happened to be sucked into the wormhole. As it went through, being torn to pieces inside the passage, a smaller vortex opened twenty light years away from the Beta wormhole. Minutes later a vessel that looked like it has a biological hull, was thrown out of the newly formed wormhole. Several more ships of its class were also shot out of the new wormhole and they appeared to have been caught by surprise.

The lead ship was the first to regain control of their surroundings. It sent some kind of eerie signal to the other ships and they got into formation. They then connected all of their ships and released some sort of wave. Back where the Dynamo was, sensors picked up the wave heading towards them. Boomer was engaged in a discussion with his companions that he did not see the readouts from the sensors. The wave just passed them by and the crew did not notice anything. Brick however, was feeling uneasy. "Why do I get this feeling something bad is about to happen?"

Minutes later, those ships detected the nearest source of energy, the Dynamo. Inside the lead ship, an insectoid looking alien that appeared to be connected to the vessel spoke in its alien tongue. "The strange anomaly that just appeared almost killed us. We must find food! We must find energy to start a new colony here! We must ensure the survival of the Hive! Onward my brothers and sisters! To that unsuspecting source of energy!" After the alien spoke, the ship seemed to growl with acknowledgement as it became apparent that the vessels were also living entities. In a moment, the ships jumped into a biological form of faster-than-light travel, headed straight for the Dynamo.

The Dynamo stopped its engines automatically as assigned by the defensive programs Butch had installed. It's own sensors had detected several vessels on an intercept course and reacted on its programmed judgment. It rang the siren, with the speakers in the ship going, "Incoming vessels on intercept course, possibility of an hostile attack, 80 percent!" The Dynamo however wasn't fully programmed to fend of the attackers by itself. Brick heard the alarm and got up with the others and headed for the bridge. "Battle stations!" Brick yelled as he got in his seat. "Who's going to attack us?" He yelled as he waited for Bubbles and Boomer to reply. "We don't know! It's not even on the known species list in this quadrant." "Enough yapping, tell me where the nearest ship is! I want to blow them to hell!" Buttercup said as she powered up the weapons. "Wait…I'm tuning the sensors to give you a lock-on on the lead ship…wait…something wrong…we can't target it!"

The Dynamo rocked as the biological ships opened fire with their strange energy beams. The weapons appeared biological and yet the damage felt like it was an energy blast from some mechanical weapon. Buttercup tried to fire manually, and launched a torpedo at the nearest ship off their port bow. The ship took the blow directly and it appeared to be doing serious damage as large chunks of flesh and tissue membrane were scattered all over that area of space. "It's like squishing a bug…" Boomer said as he inspected the damage. Even more shocking, the ship looked like a bleeding carcass with that part of it blown apart by the torpedo. For a brief moment, they could swear they heard insect like screeching coming from all the ships. The gruesome wound on the damaged vessel then began to heal rapidly, as the other ships opened fire.

"They will pay for harming our brothers and sisters! Send over the boarding party, we'll have their crew as our meals!" One of the vessel's commanders said as he transmitted the message through insect like screeching to the other ships. They then simultaneously fired their weapons on a particular area of the Dynamo and took down their shields. They fired once more and breached the hull. With that, some of the vessels began to open up the "hatches" on their ships and the boarding team flew on their insectoid wings into the breached opening of the dynamo.

"They taken down our shields and have breached the hull!" Butch said as he inspected the damage. "Lock down those…" He did not finish when suddenly more of those aliens suddenly materialized in the Bridge. They attacked the kids and grabbed hold of them. Brick managed to fight the giant bug like creature off him and with a blast from his eye beams the creature's head was blown to pieces, splattering its greenish blood all over the navigating console. Buttercup also managed to overpower her assailant, as she punched holes into the alien's chest. However, some of the others were having some trouble. With a loud deafening screech coming from the lead assailing alien, the defenders covered their ears in pain. Seconds later, the surviving aliens dematerialized as they were transported back onto their ships, carrying their weakened prey with them.

The ships retreated out of range as they carried their prey and some of the energy gathered from the Dynamo's energy cells. Inside one of the ships, Blossom woke up dazed in a strange insectoid prisoner cell. She had several cuts on her arm from her struggle with her assailant. She looked around to see that the walls were somewhat see-through. She noticed that only Bubbles and Butch was beside her. Across the hall from her, she saw Dranico lying unconscious in that cell. She just buried her head in her arms as the strange aliens carried them away to an unknown location.

Back in the Dynamo, Brick struggled to get to his feet after the savage attack by an unknown race. He looked around. He then remembered what had happened at the last minute and the aliens escaped with Butch and some of the others. He only saw that Boomer and Buttercup remained with him as they had defeated their attackers. Brick trudged over to look over Buttercup. She was bleeding massively from her abdomen and was in a lot of pain. "Hang on BC!" He said as he carried her quickly to Sickbay. Boomer got up and limped after his brother. "I dunno about the others that were captured, but Buttercup looks in more serious condition."

It was a good thing that sickbay was undamaged during the attack and Buttercup was doing better. Brick sat down next to his girlfriend's sister and held her hand. "Don't worry, we'll get your sisters and Butch back." Buttercup let out some tears as she said that she thought she was going to die. "Thank you Brick…you have always been like a big brother to me, even though you're my sister's boyfriend." Brick smiled and just brushed his hand over her face. "Of course, the Rowdyruffs treat the girls not just as their mates, but also of somewhat of a sibling. We're all made out of chemical X, so we technically can be brothers and sisters." "Chemical Brothers! Get it? Blood-brothers? Chemical-Brothers!" Buttercup said with a smile. "Yea, well you rest up. You need the strength to fight off the enemies as we make a rescue attempt. Boomer, let's try and get those systems up and running, we going after them!" Boomer nodded to his brother's command and was eager to kick some bug ass. They worked together to repair most of the ships systems while monitoring the fleeing ships' progress. They didn't want to lose track of them.

An hour had passed and Brick and Boomer had gotten into their environmental suits. They didn't want to risk getting beaten if another boarding party was to come aboard during their pursuit. They had repaired the defensive weapons and shields as well as the propulsion. With that, they jumped to warp and chased after the alien ships. As they got closer, Boomer said something about where the enemy ships were disappearing into. "Some kind of weird nebula…I don't know what's in it…are you sure you want to enter? We could cut them off on the other side." "No Boomer, we'll take forever to get to the other side, and we're not so sure they are even coming out…we're going in!" By that time, Buttercup had recovered enough and had put on her suit. She sat down and waited as the Dynamo sliced through the nebula, in hot pursuit of those ships.

As the Dynamo made its way through the nebula, they suddenly came under heavy fire from the same energy weapons the ships had used. But however, they seemed to be a bit stronger, as if they were fired from some kind of orbital defense grid. "Their home world?" Brick wondered as he tried to steer the ship into evasive maneuvers. The rescue team was shocked at the sight as the obscure scene before them suddenly cleared and they saw that it was not an orbital gun, but a strange planet that seemed to be completely made out of biological entities. The energy weapons were fired from the planet's strange surface. Unfortunately, the Dynamo was hit by a blast directly and Brick lost control as the ship continues to fly in a collision course with the planet. "We're going to crash!" Buttercup screamed. "I can't take us out!" Brick yelled as he pulled hard on the controls. "Hang on!" Boomer said as the team covered their eyes. Brick was thrown off his seat and thrown back as the ship crashed on the biological surface of the planet. Boomer and Buttercup were also thrown back,and they recievedonly a fewlight injuries thanks to the protection of their suits' energy shielding.

Remarkably, the damage of the Dynamo on the surface was not even serious at all. Since the entire planet was flesh and biological, the ship was not damaged so seriously as it was somewhat bounced onto the surface. It appeared that after a few hours of repairs, the Dynamo would be able to take off. However, they might not survive if they don't put their guard up. The rescue team may have been unharmed thanks to their suits, but they are unconscious. Already, the planet's ground forces have begun their advance to the crash site.

A/N: And that's the end of chapter 9, with an exciting cliffhanger. Will the rescue team wake up in time to put up a fight and rescue their siblings? Stay tuned for Chapter 10, "Wormhole's inconvenience". For those of you who wondered how exactly does the Beta wormhole works, here it is. It is a super wormhole. You can also call it the mother of all wormholes. It has strange properties. When something of considerable size travels through its' main gate, it spawns mini wormholes of different entrances and exits somewhere in the galaxy. That explains how the kids ended up stranded in the Delta Quadrant, and how this strange and violent insectoid species ended up here to be a pest. Stay tuned to see if the kids will find a way to defeat the insects and find a way to use the worm hole to get home.