A Trek to the Hellmouth by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter 17
Disclaimer: Star Trek in all its incarnations and all related characters are property of Paramount Pictures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Wars and everything related with it is property of Lucasfilm Ltd., and was created by George Lucas. Resident Evil is property of Capcom. 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.
Spoilers: Buffy to season 4, Angel to season 1, 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.
I wish to thank my beta-reader Carycomix for his help and support
Answer to Reviewers:
Please, review!!!!
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.
Valentine Manor back garden
Buffy impaled the last drone with an iron bar that had been protecting a broken window before. A few dozen demon Borg drones were resting in the ground now, the fruit of the combined effort of Buffy, Tony, Data and Angel. The weapons of the security men were now fully useless, and already Korov was manipulating the randomizer to gain some shots, but that was going to take time, something that they didn't have much of.
- And now? - asked Angel
- We have two options: go down those stairs... - she said, pointing to the trapdoor that they had just discovered when the drones had attacked them - ...or search the place from where had these two waves of drones appeared from. -
- The stairs first. If they don't go anywhere, we can always search the other entry. - said Buffy, starting to go down the stairs.
The others soon followed her into the dark corridors of below.
- It seems to be an intricate net of tunnels here... - said Data, examining his tricorder
- What a surprise. - commented Buffy
- ...but I think that I can guide us. -
Valentine Manor basement, core of Adam's Borg hive.
If Adam and the Borg Queen had been humans they would have been probably in a fit of rage at the moment when they realized that their demon drones weren't up to the task that had been assigned to them. Instead they were calculating, gauging and assessing what they could do now. And their thoughts as always came to one thing: even the twenty or so Adam-like drones that had been made there in the last hours, and were practically all that remained of the great number of drones that they had before, could not be enough to subdue the intruders. Only the help of Antonia, the arrogant woman from another Universe, could save them now, or at least deprive the intruders of their biggest asset, Antonia's counterpart, the Starfleet captain Tony Castro. But they couldn't trust her. But deciding between a sure defeat and a probable victory with later complications, they hadn't really more than an option.
- Antonia, could you...? -
"Thus, it begins" thought the woman in the shadows. "The Daughter of Darkness and the Daughter of Light will have their final confrontation." and vanished into thin air.
Antonia suddenly looked back. This time she had sensed definitely some presence there, in the shadows. But whoever could have been there, had vanished like smoke in the wind. She considered for a moment that the Q entity that she had met briefly in her last confrontation with Tony could have been back, but she dismissed the thought. No, whoever was there was some other counterpart of herself. Her presence here only added more unknowns, and she didn't like that.
Valentine Manor basement corridors
- After that corner, there is a fork. We must go to the left to reach one of the main rooms of this level. . - said Data
They proceeded to do as Data said, and reached a metallic door with an electronic lock to one side. But the lock was half-covered by a web of black filaments that was slowly extending itself through the wall.
- Data, is that what I think that is? - asked Tony
- Borg nanoprobes rebuilding the matter of the wall at a molecular level, Admiral. -
- So their central node is probably here. -
- Very probably, Admiral. Or at least we are headed in the right direction. -
- Data, can you cease to call me Admiral? - said Tony with a pained expression - We both know that I would never have accepted the promotion if we weren't in such dire circumstances, with a war with the Dominion on the horizon. Call me Tony, we have known each other since you were in the Academy. -
- Very well, Ad... Tony.- then he noticed some reading on his tricorder. - I'm reading an unusually high concentration of anaphasic energy 58 meters ahead. -
- 58 meters, that is... - said Buffy, calculating
- A bit more than 193 feet. - said Tony. - So Antonia had found the Borg. -
- How do you know that? -
- Anaphasic energy. Whatever species is the being who gives me my... skills, he appears in most sensors as a high concentration of anaphasic energy. - explained Tony, then she asked to Data - How can we open this door? -
- Raw force, Tony. The door is fully blocked, and although the nanoprobes have started to transform it, I think that we could cut it yet with the phaser. -
- If you can't, we can always use your lightsaber as a can opener. - said Buffy
Data began to cut using his Type II phaser against the door on maximum setting. Under normal circumstances, the door and a good portion of the wall should have vanished in an instant, but with the energy-draining field emanating from the Hellmouth, he had to use the phaser as a cutting implement.
Minutes passed as the android slowly cut the door. The phaser beam was weaker as the time passed and finally, when the door was half-cut the beam flickered and died.
- The battery is exhausted. Fortunately, I brought a spare...-
Then they noticed that somebody was cutting the door from the inside.
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Chapter 17
Disclaimer: Star Trek in all its incarnations and all related characters are property of Paramount Pictures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Wars and everything related with it is property of Lucasfilm Ltd., and was created by George Lucas. Resident Evil is property of Capcom. 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.
Spoilers: Buffy to season 4, Angel to season 1, 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.
I wish to thank my beta-reader Carycomix for his help and support
Answer to Reviewers:
Please, review!!!!
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.
Valentine Manor back garden
Buffy impaled the last drone with an iron bar that had been protecting a broken window before. A few dozen demon Borg drones were resting in the ground now, the fruit of the combined effort of Buffy, Tony, Data and Angel. The weapons of the security men were now fully useless, and already Korov was manipulating the randomizer to gain some shots, but that was going to take time, something that they didn't have much of.
- And now? - asked Angel
- We have two options: go down those stairs... - she said, pointing to the trapdoor that they had just discovered when the drones had attacked them - ...or search the place from where had these two waves of drones appeared from. -
- The stairs first. If they don't go anywhere, we can always search the other entry. - said Buffy, starting to go down the stairs.
The others soon followed her into the dark corridors of below.
- It seems to be an intricate net of tunnels here... - said Data, examining his tricorder
- What a surprise. - commented Buffy
- ...but I think that I can guide us. -
Valentine Manor basement, core of Adam's Borg hive.
If Adam and the Borg Queen had been humans they would have been probably in a fit of rage at the moment when they realized that their demon drones weren't up to the task that had been assigned to them. Instead they were calculating, gauging and assessing what they could do now. And their thoughts as always came to one thing: even the twenty or so Adam-like drones that had been made there in the last hours, and were practically all that remained of the great number of drones that they had before, could not be enough to subdue the intruders. Only the help of Antonia, the arrogant woman from another Universe, could save them now, or at least deprive the intruders of their biggest asset, Antonia's counterpart, the Starfleet captain Tony Castro. But they couldn't trust her. But deciding between a sure defeat and a probable victory with later complications, they hadn't really more than an option.
- Antonia, could you...? -
"Thus, it begins" thought the woman in the shadows. "The Daughter of Darkness and the Daughter of Light will have their final confrontation." and vanished into thin air.
Antonia suddenly looked back. This time she had sensed definitely some presence there, in the shadows. But whoever could have been there, had vanished like smoke in the wind. She considered for a moment that the Q entity that she had met briefly in her last confrontation with Tony could have been back, but she dismissed the thought. No, whoever was there was some other counterpart of herself. Her presence here only added more unknowns, and she didn't like that.
Valentine Manor basement corridors
- After that corner, there is a fork. We must go to the left to reach one of the main rooms of this level. . - said Data
They proceeded to do as Data said, and reached a metallic door with an electronic lock to one side. But the lock was half-covered by a web of black filaments that was slowly extending itself through the wall.
- Data, is that what I think that is? - asked Tony
- Borg nanoprobes rebuilding the matter of the wall at a molecular level, Admiral. -
- So their central node is probably here. -
- Very probably, Admiral. Or at least we are headed in the right direction. -
- Data, can you cease to call me Admiral? - said Tony with a pained expression - We both know that I would never have accepted the promotion if we weren't in such dire circumstances, with a war with the Dominion on the horizon. Call me Tony, we have known each other since you were in the Academy. -
- Very well, Ad... Tony.- then he noticed some reading on his tricorder. - I'm reading an unusually high concentration of anaphasic energy 58 meters ahead. -
- 58 meters, that is... - said Buffy, calculating
- A bit more than 193 feet. - said Tony. - So Antonia had found the Borg. -
- How do you know that? -
- Anaphasic energy. Whatever species is the being who gives me my... skills, he appears in most sensors as a high concentration of anaphasic energy. - explained Tony, then she asked to Data - How can we open this door? -
- Raw force, Tony. The door is fully blocked, and although the nanoprobes have started to transform it, I think that we could cut it yet with the phaser. -
- If you can't, we can always use your lightsaber as a can opener. - said Buffy
Data began to cut using his Type II phaser against the door on maximum setting. Under normal circumstances, the door and a good portion of the wall should have vanished in an instant, but with the energy-draining field emanating from the Hellmouth, he had to use the phaser as a cutting implement.
Minutes passed as the android slowly cut the door. The phaser beam was weaker as the time passed and finally, when the door was half-cut the beam flickered and died.
- The battery is exhausted. Fortunately, I brought a spare...-
Then they noticed that somebody was cutting the door from the inside.
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