Chapter Two – Alternate Reality
B'Elanna Torres stood facing the unfamiliar room. She looked around at all the computer stations, with small holographic emitter strips around them. They were projecting the ships system diagrams in 3-D.
"Janeway to Torres, what is our status? The Romulan fleet is almost on our position and we really could use main power right about now."
"Romulan?" B'Elanna stuttered, as she looked around the room. The woman that had initially addressed Torres upon exiting the Jefferies tube stepped foreword.
"Conahan to Janeway, Lieutenant Torres is ill, we have restored warp power as well as shields and weapons. All ships systems will be back to one hundred percent within the hour."
"Good job, Ensign Conahan. Get Lieutenant Torres to sickbay as soon as possible. Janeway out." Hogan stepped up to B'Elannas side.
"What is going on, Lieutenant?" He muttered quietly. B'Elanna ignored him, and turned to Ensign Conahan.
"The Romulans? Are we in the Alpha Quadrant?"
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"Where the hell is my fleet?" Janeway spat at Tuvok, her tactical officer.
"They are on their way here, the computer estimates their ETA in thirty minutes." He replied, as he looked up at her.
"Computer, display all sensor data in relation to ours, and the Romulan fleet current position." Janeway said. The computer recognized her command, and the viewscreen turned white. A small holographic map appeared in mid air between the helm console and the viewscreen. It displayed Voyager, the Federation fleet behind them, and the Romulan fleet in front of them.
"Damn," Janeway said, "We are right in the middle."
"That's why we are the flagship… don't they always send the most important ship out in the middle of the action?" Harry Kim said from the ops station.
"You would think it would be the other way around." Janeway muttered.
"Look on the bright side, we get these nifty white flag uniforms." Kim said. Janeway cracked a smile for the first time all day.
"Thanks Mister Kim, I needed that." Janeway replied, as she sat down.
"I think we all need a little shore leave when this Romulan crisis is over with." Commander Cavit said as he looked over at Janeway.
"I agree. Tuvok, how long until the Romulans intercept us?"
"I estimate seven minutes."
"Well, lets get this show on the road. Start charging the coaxial shield emitters, we might need a little more than deflector shields in this little battle. Computer, Red Alert." Janeway sighed as the bridge lights dimmed; she had an uneasy feeling ever since the energy wave hit the ship. Something just didn't seem quite right.
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"We are at war with the Romulans? Voyager never left the Alpha Quadrant, and is now the flagship of the Federation? This is insane, do you think that energy wave reconfigured space-time?" B'Elanna was rattling off questions to Hogan, as they were walking to sickbay.
"I don't know, Lieutenant. I would say so… considering everything is different. We must have been protected by the forcefield generator."
"Your right, Voyagers shields were down because of the computer malfunction. Hey, didn't that Ensign Conahan say that their computer was back up now? It must have happened in this timeline too."
"I would say that's a good guess. But I how did we both end up over here, on the other side of the galaxy?"
"I have no clue." B'Elanna replied, as they rounded a corner, and went through the doors. They both stopped dead in their tracks.
"This isn't sickbay." Hogan muttered as they stood facing a huge control room- in the location that sickbay would have been on their ship.
"Your right… I don't recognize anything in here." B'Elanna said, as she stepped foreword into the room. "Computer, what is this room?" She said in wonder.
-This room is coaxial shield control. The computer replied. B'Elanna stopped and stared at the equipment. There was a holographic model of Voyager spinning in the center of the room, with computer readouts floating next to it. Suddenly, the red alert klaxon sounded momentarily. They looked around the room and noticed the computer readouts changing.
"Whats happening?" Hogan said to B'Elanna.
"Your guess is as good as mine." She replied as she walked up to a display. "It looks like these coaxial shields are charging. Look, these little blinking things on the hull must be the emitters." She said as she pointed to the display.
"Lieutenant…" Hogan said from behind her.
"Yes?" She turned around, and saw Hogan point to the holographic model of Voyager. The model of the ship changed colors, and a thin image of the shields engaging surrounded the ship.
"Look, the deflector shields on this ship are contour-conformal, instead of ellipsoid." Hogan noted.
"They sure are." B'Elanna agreed.
"Lets get to sickbay, I want to make sure we aren't hallucinating." Hogan said after they stared at the holographic image for a moment more.
"Sure, good idea." Torres agreed. They walked out of the control room. Hogan took a left, and Torres took a right. They both stopped, and looked at each other.
"Computer, where is sickbay?" B'Elanna said with frustration.
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"Brace for impact." Tuvok said calmly, as Janeway gripped her armrest. Voyager was struck with a disruptor blast, and everyone on the bridge was thrown around.
"Evasive pattern Cavit epsilon!" Commander Cavit said loudly to Voyagers helm officer, Reid Target.
"Got it." Reid said quickly, as the ship reacted and thrusted hard starboard.
"Captain, I am detecting an energy wave coming straight at us, it has temporal properties." Harry said, as he looked at his panel. Janeway furrowed her eyebrows.
"The Romulans?" Janeway said quickly.
"No Ma'am, its coming from behind them. I recommend we bring the coaxial shield grid up." Kim said.
"Agreed. Do it." Kim pressed a few buttons, and Janeway felt her body start to tingle. "Mister Kim…" she said, as she began to feel nauseous.
"It will pass, it's a side effect from the coaxial generators."
"Remind me to test this thing more thoroughly before we use it again next time." Janeway said, as she doubled over. "I'm going to be sick." Janeway said as she hit the floor. Reid collapsed as well, and Kim started to double over from the strange sensation.
"The energy wave will hit us in four seconds." Tuvok said, as he fought the tingling sensation.
"Impact!" Tuvok said suddenly, and everyone blacked out.
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Ok, so Im sorry if there are typos. I don't have time to fix them really… but w/e. Im in college so it's a miracle I do this at all. I hope ya'll like it. Please comment, and I will try to get more up faster.