A Trek to the Hellmouth
by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter 26
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, please, .
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.
Somewhere...
- 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. -
- But, how? The Borgs can't detect magical or spiritual energy... -
- I'm only speculating, but I think that his demon parts gave him an start point, and all the demons that he assimilated helped. -
Tony thought for a moment and paled when she deducted the precise plan of Adam.
- But... but to do that he will need to collapse the interdimensional conduit, transforming the opening into a naked singularity. That will destroy Earth and the Sun System. - said Tony.
- Exactly, although I doubt that the Borg Queen is aware of that. -
An abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of Sunnydale
The Borg Queen was pleased to see how the machinery was being transformed by the nanoprobes. If Adam dared to double-cross her, she would be ready.
Not too far from the ruins of the Sunnydale High School
Picard pressed his commbadge when it chimed.
- Korov to Picard. -
- Picard here -
- Captain, we have rescued commander Laforge and the others. - announced Korov - But he had discovered some unsettling facts. -
- Well done, lieutenant. Bring them here. -
Somewhere...
- Have you dreamed sometime that you are floating between the stars and suddenly a wave of darkness start to engulf everything...? - asked Antonia suddenly.
- ... and when everything had been consumed by the darkness you feel that is all your fault? I have had that same dream since I arrived to the 23rd Century. -
- As I have. - said Antonia - If I had fallen in a gentler universe, maybe I could have been more like you. But I chose what I chose, and now I have to face the consequences. -
- And that is supposed to mean...? -
- Nothing, Tony. Ramblings from somebody that had passed too much time in Hell. - said Antonia - I'll help you against Adam, Tony, if you want. After that you can do with me as you wish, even if you think that I deserve to be thrown again in the Hellmouth. -
- Tempting, but I think that even you don't deserve that. - answered Tony - Why the change? A moment ago you wanted to kill me, and now you almost... -
- My reasons are mine, Tony. It's sufficient to say that I have sins to atone for. -
The room began to fade around them, signaling their return to consciousness.
Environmental Control Room, Enterprise-E, Earth's orbit
The borg drones inside the room were gaining access to several the main systems of the ship, although their real objective was eluding them. Several key systems were using an internal encrypted code to guarantee that nobody external could take control of the ship. They were trying to use penetration programs to break this code without success, but they were making progresses.
Not too far from the ruins of the Sunnydale High School
- Captain, I need Data to verify my calculations, and access to the computer of the Enterprise. I never studied too hard this particular branch of Subspace Physics. - said Laforge. - With a tricorder, and the help of Data will suffice. -
Picard signaled Data, while Riker handed him a tricorder. LaForge produced a connection cable of the back of the tricorder and said to Buffy's group:
- I have to connect this directly in my eye implant, and look like a bit gruesome. -
- I have seen worst things. - said Buffy, while Cordelia gave his back to the engineer.
- You have been warned. - he said as he plugged the cable into the implant, and proceeded to download the memory of the implant in the device. - Done. - he said as he removed the cable.
Data and him were less than a minute reviewing the readings when they confirmed LaForge suspicions.
- Sir, the Borg are building an anaphasic energy collector around the Hellmouth. But even in its current unstable state the only way that the Hellmouth can liberate a sizable amount of anaphasic energy, it's the impact of a coherent beam of high energy nadions. -
- A phaser beam. -
- Yes, sir, but on a starship phaser energy level. -
Valentine Manor Lawn
Antonia and Tony answered almost at the same time. Tony got up almost immediately, but Antonia stayed in the ground.
- I can't move. -
- Beverly injected you with neural inhibition chips, Antonia. Your immune system will need at least another half an hour to destroy them. -
- Ah. - said Antonia, while she started to move a nearby boulder with her mind. She would need less than a minute, now that she now what to search. But before of doing that she needed to get free of Tony.
TO BE CONTINUED...