A Trek to the Hellmouth by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter 24
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
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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:
Papa Wheelie, Louis Pastiche, Superfan, Zantac the Barbarian: thanks for reading the story, and here is chapter 24. I hope that you like it. Ah, by the way, THERE WAS a catfight in chapter 21, but as I uploaded a faulty version of the story..., the right version is uploaded now.
Ruins of Sunnydale High School
They had managed to fortify a windowless room, blocking the door with several file cabinets.
- It's odd. - said Geordi, throwing his commbadge away. It was totally burnt, having been hit by a phaser beam, which has stunned Geordi. His companions dragged him to the room, where he had passed the last minutes trying to repair the thing.
- What's odd? An horde of cybernetic monsters trying to get us? - said Cordelia
- No, miss Chase. I have fought with Borgs before and they are not behaving like they should be. -
- Ah, no? -
- No. They would be trying to bring down the door and assimilate us, and instead they have only isolated us here. - explained Geordi. - I would like to see what the Borg are doing now. -
- Maybe there is a way...- said Willow.
Somewhere...
Tony walked through the corridors on Antonia mind. She knew that this was only the way that her mind was translating it in a way the she could understand, but it was unsettling nonetheless to walk through a dark corridor full of white doors as far as she could see.
Suddenly she heard a whimpering and found herself in a wide open dark space, illuminated only in the centre, where she could see Antonia, lying in the ground and... crying?.
Not too far from the ruins of the Sunnydale High School
- This looks bad - said Korov.
They had arrived here in a shuttle, and Korov was using his tricorder to assess the tactical situation. They have a group of humans barricaded in one of the few rooms that still had roof and the rest of the building was occupied by borgs. Outside the building, several borg drones were located in strategic positions, so there was no way to reach the building without being spotted.
- Sir, there is no... -
- I can read the tactical situation as well as you can, Mr. Korov. - said commander Riker. - Did you notice how the drones are disposed inside the building? -
- Yes, sir. They are guarding the Hellmouth, or that is what it seems. -
- I wonder why are they doing that. - said Riker, and tapped his commbadge - Riker to Enterprise. -
- Enterprise here. Picard speaking. - answered Picard - What is happening, Number One? -
Riker made a quick exposition of what had they discovered.
- And the borg are not doing any attempt to break there? - asked Picard
- None that we can detect, sir. -
- That's odd. - said Picard.
- You should know better than any of us, sir. - said Riker.
- Very funny, commander. Do you have some suggestion about what to do? -
- I'm in a total loss, captain. - answered Riker.
- Can I join in the conversation? - said Buffy.
- Shoot. - said Riker.
- I know several tunnels that pass under the high school. None of them has a exit there, but your ray-guns would be able to made one. Am I wrong? -
- Not really. - said Riker. - Have you been hearing that, captain? -
- Every word. - answered Picard. - That's a good plan, Miss Summers. -
Buffy smiled and was about to thank the captain when Data interrupted.
- Sir, I have detected unusual radiation emissions from the Hellmouth. Mostly nadion and verteron particles, but also a bit of anaphasic energy. -
- Anaphasic energy? -
- Yes, sir. It's not so surprising, as anaphasic energy is a usual subproduct of interdimensional energy fluxes, but it's nonetheless interesting. The conjunction of anaphasic energy and nadion particles is very rare... -
- Can you translate that technobabble into something that I can understand? - said Buffy.
- The Hellmouth is opening by both ends, but it's collapsing in the middle. If this process continue, the collapse of the conduit will transform each end in a naked singularity, freeing an enormous amount of anaphasic energy... -
- A singuwhat? - interrupted Buffy.
- A singularity. The heart of a black hole. - answered Riker.
Enterprise-E. Earth's orbit
Enterprise sensors picked a signal from the surface. The signal, when processed by the Enterprise computers, translated into a virus that was designed to take control of several non-critical systems of the ship. Obeying their new instructions several people was beamed from the surface, in a point not too far from Sunnydale. Maybe commander Data would have been able to detect the virus, but he was in the surface.
Not too far from Sunnydale
The Borg Queen saw how the last drone was beamed up to the Federation starship. The original plan of Adam had called for her to be aboard the ship, but she didn't want to risk her detection by Locutus, and she didn't trusted Adam at all. He had plans beyond the ones of the Borg collective, and giving him free will in exchange for her freedom of his body didn't seem a so good idea just now. So she made her own plans, in the case that Adam failed or turned against the Collective.
Somewhere...
- Antonia, we need to talk. - said Tony to the still form of her nemesis. "At least she isn't sobbing anymore"
Slowly, Antonia turned her gaze to Tony and what the Starfleet officer saw in those eyes made her to gasp. Hate. Sheer, unadulterated hate.
- You! You are the cause of my disgraces! - said Antonia, getting up in a moment and throwing herself toward Tony's throat in the next.
TO BE CONTINUED...