A Trek to the Hellmouth by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter 25
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 1: 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.
Author Note 2: English is not my first language, and I can't reach my usual beta-reader, so the grammar could be better.
Answer to Reviewers:
Louie Pastiche: The best has yet to come!. Seriously, I hope to end with a great finale in chapter 29 and put an epilogue in chapter 30, that will spawn a sequel set just after Buffy's death and around mid-season-4 of DS9.
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.
Somewhere...
Antonia and Tony were assessing what the other could be planning. When Tony had tried to talk to the still form of her nemesis she had jumped and tried to strangulate her. She managed to block the hands and threw the mind representation of Antonia away. Now they were carefully circling each other.
- What are you talking about? - said Tony while avoiding a kick of her mirror image. - Why am I the cause of your disgraces? -
- Do you remember when we meet the first time? When we were both onboard our respective Enterprise? - said Antonia dodging a punch, and trying to grab Tony's arm in the process.
- You tried to use the ion storm to transport over to this universe. - answered Tony, slipping off Antonia's grip. - Because you were a part of Admiral Spock plot to overthrow Emperor Tiberius, your Kirk, and you were under vigilance by Imperial Starfleet Intelligence. -
- You convinced me to return, to try to make a difference!. Instead I returned to face Tiberius tortures and mind -altering drugs! Spock was executed, and I became the drugged fucktoy of the Emperor! - said Antonia, her face contorted in rage, hate and... sorrow?
Enterprise-E, Earth's orbit
The drones immediately started to assimilate Environmental Control, and following the instructions received, block the door and take control of several low-profile systems. This way they could invade the systems that they were interested on in a roundabout way, instead of doing it directly and made all alarms go on.
A blocked store room in the ruins of the Sunnydale High School
- We need at least three people to make this spell, but four would give us a better shot. - said Willow.
- But I haven't any experience with the supernatural. - said Geordi.
- Don't worry, for this kind of spell, we only need one person with that knowledge. That person will sustain the spell, while the others will only help in the casting. Now we must sit forming a circle, Tara and me will recite the spell and you only have to repeat what we are saying. -
- Hey, if this goes bad, it's your fault. - said Cordelia.
- Listen to your daughter, White Lady... - started to chant Willow and Tara
- Good that people pay me attention. - mumbled Cordelia before joining.
Ruins of Sunnydale High School Library
Adam supervised how the drones installed part of the equipment around the Hellmouth. They had managed to build an functional energy collector, a key piece of his plan. If everything worked as should be, nobody would be able to stop him.
Sunnydale outskirts.
The Borg queen broke into an abandoned warehouse. Before entering he scanned it to see if there was somebody inside. There wasn't.
Inside she found machinery that seemed to have been there for a long time. She injected nanoprobes in some of them that began to be rebuilt into something usable by the queen.
Tunnels under the ruins of Sunnydale High School.
- We are just under them. - said Data looking at his tricorder.
- I hope that the modification that commander Data did to the phasers to make them work in this energy field will work. - said Korov.
Korov aimed at the ceiling of the tunnel, and started to disintegrate layers of a foot each and diminishing diameters, to minimize the risk of collapsing the tunnel.
A blocked store room in the ruins of the Sunnydale High School
- It's astounding! - said Geordi. - And they can't see us? -
- No. What they see in the other side of the wall is the wall as before. - said Tara, as Willow was too busy keeping the concentration to keep the spell working.
- How is that? A tunnel effect, a quantum duplication of the radiation received in the other side, a subspace distortion field...? -
- I don't really know, Willow is the science nerd here, my field is English literature. - said Tara. - But please, hurry, this spell is easy to do, but difficult to keep working.
Geordi looked at the Borg drones constructing something like a net around the Hellmouth, and connecting that net to something that resembled a satellite dish being expanded by borg nanoprobes. A idea began to take shape in his mind. He looked at the net with more attention. Yes, as one would expect they were at regular intervals, making the net an energy collector. Captain Scott spoke to him, when they were repairing the Enterprise-E after coming back from 2063, about something like that in one of his anecdotes about the Enterprise and the Enterprise-A. It was an energy collector of some type...
- It's enough. -
The glowing circle in the wall disappeared and Willow exhaled a relief sigh.
- Have you seen what do you wanted? -
- Yes, I have and I don't like what it seems.
Somewhere...
- FINALLY!! - said Antonia, snapping the neck of the mind representation of her counterpart. But to her surprise the neck went back to its position.
- Are you satisfied? We have thing to talk about, and we can't kill each other here, our mind power is too balanced for that. -
Antonia was still looking at her counterpart with rage, but she lowered her fists and said.
- Ok, let's talk. -
- Do you know what are the borg plans? -
- Adam or the Queen? - asked Antonia - Because they hadn't the same objectives, do you know? -
- You are the expert in back-stabbing here, or have changed the promotion method in the Terran Empire? -
Antonia narrowed her eyes, but her face adopted a troubled expression.
- Don't outsmart yourself, Tony. The Terran Empire unofficial motto is "survival of the fittest", but their definition of fitness is cruelty, ruthlessness, sadism, and the like. So I become the meanest killer bitch of the galaxy. - she said and continued - I managed to get over my drugged haze in a few months and I conspired with Sulu and Morton to kill Tiberius, in exchange for freedom. Later I conspired with Sulu to kill Morton, in exchange for the command of a ship. Eventually I reached the throne leaving a bloody trail, and I stayed there with the same methods. At the beginning I thought that I could carry out Spock plans, but so many years of assassinations and conspiracies had left its mark, so I soon became even worse than Tiberius. -
- "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - quoted Tony.
- That's it. -
They remained a moment in silence.
- What are Adam's objectives, Antonia? - finally asked Tony.
- He thinks that he was shielded from my mind powers, but he was wrong. - said Antonia with a shadow of her crooked smile. - He want to attain godhood, absorbing the energies of the Hellmouth. -
TO BE CONTINUED...