A Trek to the Hellmouth by Antonio CabaƱas

Chapter 2

Disclaimer: Star Trek in all its incarnations and all related characters are property of Paramount Pictures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. I'm only borrowing them for fun. Tony Castro and the USS Corsair were created by me, other adventures of her can be found in my site http://www.geocities.com/borg31de777/fanfic

E-mail: borg31de777@yahoo.es. I hope that the reviews will be more than the flames.

Spoilers: Buffy to season 4, although due to the nature of the story there is some spoilers to later seasons. Star Trek to Star Trek: First Contact, and to Deep Space Nine season 5.

Author Note: I have borrowed some concepts from the two Star Trek / Buffy crossovers by Scott Eiland, and from the story "Time Slayer", another Star Trek / Buffy crossover that I found in the net a few years ago.

Answer to Reviewers:

Tigerfanfvr: to see how Buffy fight Adam of Borg, you have going to wait a bit. And the Enterprise crew is going to learn that some legends are real in the hard way.

Summary: a month after the events of Star Trek: First Contact, remnants of Borg technology aboard the Enterprise launch the ship to the moment when Buffy destroyed Adam.

Enterprise-E. Earth's orbit

The senior officers of the Enterprise-E, and admiral Castro were in the conference room of the ship, deciding a course of action.

- The Borg artefact was a reconfiguration of a Borg drone that presumably was repairing the computer terminal when the Borg Queen was destroyed. This drone and the few others in the cargo bay and adjacent chambers and corridors formed a provisory independent Collective and used the few time that they had before deactivation to build the artefact, so to have a way to fulfill their mission. Some way, probably using pieces collected in the cargo bay, the artefact built some mobile prolongation of itself. That was the thing that was transported in the cargo transported pad. Before being destroyed the artefact used our communication array to transmit a copy of it toward a point of Earth surface. By what we could reconstruct from our deleted sensors readings is in the same general area where the transporter beam was headed. - exposed Data.

- So the try to take over the ship was simply a ruse? - asked incredulously the acting security officer, Lieutenant Boris Ivanovich Korov.

- No, the device transported to the surface was a backup, in case of the main plan failing. At least that is what we have could surmise from the recorder of the drone. -

- And where was transported the device, Data? - asked Picard.

- To the general area of a city in Southern California called Sunnydale. -

"Sunnydale!? Oh, shit!" thought admiral Castro, although her face remained as impassive as ever.

- Our databanks says that the city was founded in the last years of the XIXth Century, and was abandoned and later destroyed in the year 2002. There were riots and later an underground cave system under the city collapsed. -

- And nobody tried to rebuild the city? - asked Deanna, curious.

- No, Counselor. Apparently Sunnydale had bad reputation, the murder statistics that I have found were staggering, and most people were rather relieved to leave the city. -

- That doesn't matter now. We are in 1999, 3 years before that event. I think that what we must do is beam down and search the device. -

Initiative Complex. Sunnydale CA

The new entity stood in the room where the Slayer had destroyed his former incarnation. His skin, before a patchwork of human and demon skin was now an almost uniform emaciated tone. His cybernetic were no longer metallic and shiny, instead they were covered by an ugly black web of small conduits, wires and indefinable parts, as was the part were the Slayer extracted his former power core. Random points of his skin were covered by splotches of the same web.

Adam of Borg began to walk toward the dying fight noises that could be heard out. He smiled. The wills of the drones of the Collective had been so puny and easy to dominate. He wasn't a drone, he was the Borg King.

In his way toward the noises, he was attacked by a furry creature. It was an ape-like demon with no more intelligence than a bear. But the creature was strong, and in a quick search on his database Adam saw that had no particularities that could difficult the assimilation. They wrestled for a time, but finally Adam could inject the nanoprobes in the blood flow of the demon. The new Collective had assimilated it first drone.

1630 Revello Drive. Sunnydale CA

- Hi, mom! - said Buffy Summers, hugging her mother in the door of the house.

Joyce Summers returned the hug and introduced her daughter in the house.

- Where is Riley? -

- He had to go to Washington. Something about the Initiative fiasco, for what he had said me. -

- It's a pity. When you called me I thought that you were going to come with him, so I prepared a big dinner. -

- I can invite Giles. I think that he wasn't going to do nothing this evening. -

The expression of her mother convinced Buffy that inviting Giles wasn't a good idea.

Initiative Complex, Sunnydale CA

A few demons and vampires had managed to flee, but the rest were there. The demons assimilated and the vampires captured. And a bonus prize. He had found one of the junior scientist of the Initiative half dead in a corner. Apparently the Slayer had overlooked him when they evacuated the Complex. Now he had the drones evacuating all the equipment toward a place that he had found exploring the tunnels in his former life, the basement of an abandoned mansion in the outskirts of Sunnydale.

1630 Revello Drive. Sunnydale CA

- I know that is a bit early to go to patrol, but... - said Buffy

- Yes, I understand, is your duty as the Slayer. -

Enterprise-E, Earth's orbit.

After some time of deliberations they decided that the landing party would be composed by Tony Castro, Deanna, Data, Laforge and three security officers.

- I have recalibrated the tricorders, so they are now able to detect Borg technology in a radius of 500 meters. - said Laforge

- How did she convince me to let her beam down? - said Picard. - Tony is an admiral now, she wouldn't be so eager to jump into the fray. -

- The reason is that I am a native of this era, Jean-Luc. - said Tony Castro from the door.

While the other members of the landing party wore quite usual clothes from that era, Tony Castro was clad in black from head to toe. A tight black tank top, tight black leather trousers, black leather boots and a black trenchcoat. And to complete the effect, she was wearing black sunglasses and her long black hair, usually collected in a ponytail, was now loose.

- After you collect your jaws from the floor, we can beam down -

They stepped in the pad, and vanished in a whining sound and blue sparks.

They appeared in a cemetery, when the sun was setting.

To be continued.

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Note: Tony Castro is a non-standard Star Trek character created by me. A short bio: born in 1977, become a leading researcher in the field of quantum mechanics, and in 2006 was launched 270 years ahead by a freak accident. She was rescued by the original Enterprise, and she found that she was now practically immortal, and can't age, and had limited telepathic and telekinetic skills due to the "accident". Currently (in the time of the story) she has been just promoted to admiral and put in charge of the 15th Fleet.