A Trek to the Hellmouth

by Antonio Cabañas

Chapter 28

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: borg31de777yahoo.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 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: this has nothing to do with the story, but if you are a Star Trek fan, go to the site of "Star Trek:New Voyages", the best Star Trek fanfilm in the web.

I wish to thank my beta-reader Carycomix, for his help and support through all this time.

Answer to Reviewers:

Carrabas: And here it is.

Bigstu: The truth is that the story got a bit out of control. I hope to have a more controlled storylin in the sequel, "The Key of Forever".

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.

Not too far from the ruins of the Sunnydale High School

Antonia walked toward the gathered Starfleet officers:

Hi, Jean-Luc. How is the situation? – asked Antonia, pretending to be Tony. She had time to do a quick change of clothes while she descended to the place where the Enterprise crew, the Scoobies and Angel gang were.

Very bad. Adam wants to absorb the energies of…-

…the Hellmouth. Yes, Antonia knew that. What she didn't knew was how he is going to do that. -

Data? Explain it to Tony. – said Picard, signaling to the android to come there.

Admiral Castro, after gathering the diverse pieces of evidence that we had, we have deduced that Adam wants to use the Enterprise phasers to make the Hellmouth collapse, releasing a great amount of anaphasic energy, that he will absorb through an energy collector that the drones have built. The collapse of the Hellmouth will provoke the appearance of a naked singularity, an event that will…-

..destroy Earth. – said Antonia – Data, do you know how pedantic you are? I would have understand that with half of the technobabble. – she turned to Picard, and said. – Have you warned the Enterprise? -

Unfortunately, we have lost all contact with the Enterprise. We suppose that the Borg have somehow took control of the communication system. –

Antonia didn't say anything. She knew that she couldn't match Adam, and she had hoped that somehow she could thwart Adam's plans. Then, suddenly she noticed that Willow Rosenberg was standing beside them.

Ahem, I have overheard what you have been discussing, and, well, Tony, err, Admiral…-

Get to the point, kid! – said Antonia, a bit too harshly.

Willow gulped, and said, almost too quickly to be understood:

You have psychic powers, you could project your thoughts toward whoever is in charge in your ship, I mean, telling him or her what we think that is happening up there, well, if they don't know it already, because…-

At ease, kid. That idea has merit…-

Valentine manor lawn

Tony awoke, only to discover that she was immobilized by a tightly woven net of lead pipes. Looking for her lightsaber she found that Antonia had stuck the device between the pipes, pointing directly toward her head.

Why am I always so thorough? – said Tony after discovering where her lightsaber was. Then she had an idea. – Maybe not so thorough. If this works, I'll have to thank Sue next time that I see her. -

Slow and carefully, she generated a psychokinetic force field placed in the extremely narrow space between the pipes and her body. When she had finished, she started to press outwards. She had to sacrifice her lightsaber, as there was no way to free it before it would break.

Just after she heard the cracking noise that announced that she had lost her lightsaber, she was loose enough to get out. And as soon and she was free and standing, she started to run toward the ruined High School. She would have to pick up the pieces later… if there was a "later".

Enterprise-E. Earth's orbit.

With all the senior officers down on the planet, the task to command the ship had fallen upon the shoulders of Lieutenant Miranda Farrel, Deputy Chief Engineer. She took the responsability seriously, although she feared that she was still too green.

I have the results of the diagnostic program. – said Ensign Chandra from the engineering console. – All systems nominal, although…-

Although what, Mike? – she said as she walked toward the place where the Anglo-Indian was.

Look for yourself, Miri. -

Farrell looked to what Michael Chandra was ponting at, and she saw immediately what the other engineer was saying.

Damn. The computer needed too much time to do the diagnostic. Did you check all the systems afterwards? -

Of course. There is nothing that could cause that delay in the system. -

I have seen this before, Mike. – said Farrell. – A month ago, or 64 years in the future, how do you like it. -

The meaning of Farrell's words didn't registered immediately in Chandra's mind, as he hadn't been in the Enterprise one month before, but, he had heard of her last mission before spending a full month in the drydock.

The Borg? – he said finally.

Exactly. We have to go to engineering and start to close systems. -

Ah, the new protocols. -

Then Farrell thought that she had heard somebody calling her, and looked around, but everybody was at their stations, working.

Mike, have you heard somebody calling me? -

No, Miri. Everybody is busy at…-

Ok, I must have imagined that…-

"Farrell!"

This time she heard it clearly.

Who? -

Miri? -

"It's me, Geordi. Somebody is projecting my thoughts to you."

Be quiet, Mike. Somebody has put me in mental contact with Commander Laforge. – said Farrell to Chandra. – Look Geordi, we have problems here. Soembody is hacking in the main comp…-

"We had suspected that already. We think that they are the Borg…"

Same here. – commented the blonde engineer.

"… And we think that we know what are they up to."

I'm all ears…- said Farrell - … mental ears, that is. -

TO BE CONTINUED…