CHAPTER THREE:
Chakotay sat in his chair on the Bridge and was looking over a pad that had Ensign Kim's scans on it. As he looked over the pad he just became more and more frustrated with the lack of insight that it had given him. He sat the pad down ,and started to walk to the back of the bridge when suddenly the bridge shook, the lights of the bridge automatically dimmed with the Red alert signal sounding. Chakotay hurried back to his chair and sat in it firmly, he looked to his side at his monitor, "Report?"
Ensign Harry Kim was looking at his station and tapping buttons on his, "Some kind of rift has opened directly in front of us."
"Can you identify it?" Chakotay asked.
"Negative."
The ship shook again, but this time it wasn't a brief shake, it just continued without stopping, "Sir," Tuvok started, "We are starting to be drawn toward the rift." He reported in a calm and logical manner.
"Helm, full reverse!" Chakotay shouted.
The ensign at the helm tried to input the command, "Sir! The helm isn't responding!"
Tuvok looked at his scans and reported, "At current speed we will impact with the rift in approximately 27 seconds."
"Options?"
Ensign Kim looked at the station behind him, "If we emit a subspace tacion field toward the rift, it may loosen its hold on us."
"15 seconds to impact." Tuvok calmly reported
"Do it." Chakotay commanded.
"Stand-by." Harry Kim said as he prepared the tacion field.
"Impact with the rift in 10 seconds!" Tuvok said.
"Initiating tacion field!" Chakotay looked at the view screen, and Harry Kim initiated the field, but the ship was still shaking. "It didn't work, we're still being drawn toward the rift." Harry said.
"Impact in five... four... three…" Lt. Tuvok said.
"All hands, brace for impact!" Chakotay shouted.
"Two… one!" Suddenly there was a massive white light that engulfed the bridge. No one could see a thing. The only thing anyone knew was that they had hit the rift!