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Note: This is multi-epic story with many elements to it.
Special note: While this is a spin-off story to "Sailor Moon ST", you don't have to read that one to enjoy this one.
Part 41
A few days ago (Commander Ranma Saotome's time), in the lab of Washu (Scientific Genius of the universe), a situation was brewing…
"I told you madam. I am NOT interested!"
"But Doctor, I AM…"
Washu and the Doctor, who was a "Time Lord" from the planet Gallifrey, were helping the crew of the Federation starship "Defiant", by installing a mechanism making it easier to travel through time. Unfortunately, throughout the procedure Washu, in her patented nurse's outfit, was flirting incessantly with the Doctor. Apparently, the two attended the same college on Jurai, and had a history together. At any rate, the Doctor, being distracted, performed a minor misstep in the configuration process.
"But Doctor," Washu whined.
"No!" the Doctor replied. "Not now, not ever!"
Thus, a critical misstep went unnoticed, which would have a significant consequence later on…
150 years later, near Tholian space…
WHOOSH!
The U.S.S. Defiant emerged into normal space.
"Status report," Commander Ranma Saotome said, as he leaned forward in his command seat.
"The sensors will need to be adjusted first to compensate for the echoes, sir," Lt. Commander Worf replied.
"I'm compensating, Commander," Counselor Usagi Tsukino said, as she began to the reconfiguration process. "From what I can tell, we're defiantly NOT in Terran space."
"Great," Ranma said, as he puts his head into his hands. Then, he looks up at the ceiling. "Thanks a lot, Washu!"
"Ranma, don't be so hard on her," Usagi said, without looking up from her work. "I kinda expected that something like this MIGHT happen, so recorded all of her work-logs. So don't worry, I put something together."
"Well, keep me posted," Ranma said, as he gets up. As soon as he does, the door to the turbo-lift opens up, revealing-
"Ranma, you JERK! Trying to leave without saying good-bye…"
"Ranchan!"
"Airen!"
"Ranma-sama!"
Ranma stopped dead in his tracks.
"How-?"
"Great-grandmother had this!" Shampoo said, as she presented Usagi's combadge to Ranma.
Ranma turned to Usagi, who had the grace of being embarrassed.
Behind the four girls was Lt. Commander Patrick Eddington, who was space station DS9's assistant security chief under Constable Odo.
"They were found hiding in one of the cargo bays," the Canadian said, as he confiscated the combadge from the Chinese Amazon. He then gave it to Ranma. Ranma examined it. Then, he looks at Usagi.
"You modified it as a homing beacon, didn't you?"
With the badges on automatic, the Defiant's computer system would register an emergency pick-up. Thus, somehow, Ranma's fiancées, who were in the "Cat Café" at the time, were accidentally beamed aboard the Defiant, as soon as the ship left Earth. There patterns were stuck in the transporter buffer, until Eddington, who was doing a routine diagnostic, caught the problem. Freed, the girls were escorted to the bridge.
"Yes, I did, Commander," Usagi replied. "As I did with all the other badges, I made similar adjustments."
"Oh."
"Well, what are you going to do about this Ranma?" Akane Tendo said, as she steps forward.
"Leave, Ranma alone!" Ukyo Kuonji says, as she intercepted the Tendo girl. "It's not his fault, you know!"
"Well, I'm here just see Wesley Crusher," Kodachi Kuno says, as she crosses her arms.
Ranma was developing a headache.
"Eddington, escort these ladies to the civilian sector."
"Ranma-" Akane began.
"I don't have time for this. Stop being so selfish and listen to me for a change."
"…" said Akane, as she simply turns away.
"Ranma…" said Ukyo, as she turns away to.
"We talk later!" Shampoo declares as she turns away.
"Yes, on that I agree," Kodachi says, as she, too, turns away.
Usagi places her right hand on Ranma's left shoulder.
"It'll be okay, Ranma."
Ranma puts his hand on Usagi's.
"I hope so, Usako. I hope so."
Meanwhile, a Federation starship escapes its captivity from a Tholian space port. It then turns, and fires upon the facility with a spread of photon torpedoes.
"Excellent," said Commander John Archer, as he sits back in his seat. Ever since he had learned about the existence of an advanced Earth-built starship in Tholian space, Archer had undergone great risk to "liberate" the ship. Now, after facing torture and double-dealings, the Empire will have the means to end this Earth-Tholian War quickly. Perhaps, he can become the new Emperor!
"I see that you have made yourself at home," said the Vulcan T'Pol. She wore her hair long, and, like the rest of the crew, wore a 23rd century version of the Starfleet uniform; the "new" crew decided to wear the uniform just for kicks. In fact, T'Pol was perhaps the most attractive member of the late I.S.S. Enterprise, which was destroyed during Archer's attempt to liberate the Federation starship "Defiant".
"Of course," Archer smirks. "I was right in my assessments about this…ship."
"Of course," T'Pol replies. "If you excuse me, I want to continue my assessment of this ship."
As T'Pol turns to leave, Archer looks at the Vulcan from behind. Her blue skirt certainly accented her awesome curves. He then turns to his personal bodyguard Travis Mayweather, who was dressed in red security uniform.
"Continue your surveillance of T'Pol. I don't' trust her."
Mayweather nods before leaving.
He then turns his attention to his "woman" Hoshi, and how duplicitous she has been behaving of late.
"Man, I wish that Usagi was here," Archer thought evilly. "Now there's a female who knew her place…"
Archer thought about the time a strange girl had been found by Chief Engineer Trip, and how he personally enjoyed interrogating the girl. This occurred shortly before his predecessor, the late Captain Forrest, had taken command of the Enterprise. Archer was allowed to keep Usagi Tsukino as his personal concubine. Had Forrest had not ordered that Usagi was to be sold for parts, shortly before the Earth-Tholian War, the girl would still be around.
"I wonder how 'Bunny' is doing these days," Archer mused.
(A/N: To find out what's going on, check out "SMST: The Life and Times of Darth Lune", on this very website!).
Meanwhile, back on the OTHER Defiant, Ranma was about to receive a …
"Status report," Ranma said.
"Well, I have to reconfigure everything, in order to get the sensors up to specs," Chief O'Brien says, as he hands Ranma his report. "Miss Washu is a brilliant scientist, but she tends to be a bit erratic in her procedures."
"Tell me about."
Throughout the past few hours, Usagi and crew were trying to determine exactly where and when they had arrived. However, with the main sensors down, the crew runs the risk of flying blind.
"Say," Usagi began. "What if I take a shuttle and do a long range sensor sweep?"
"Hmmm," Ranma thought. Perhaps he can solve both of his problems. "Okay, you can do so, but take the Akane and the others with you."
"…"
"Yeah, really, I'm serious."
"Ranma, what's going on?"
"I want them to understand my position, and I want them to understand YOU."
"Well, how generous of you."
"And, it'll get Akane and the others out of everyone's way, so that they can get some work done."
"Oh. And I suppose your feelings weren't being considered, eh?"
"Ha, ha, that's funny. Besides, I'm sure that you can handle a bunch of normal girls, right?"
"Define 'normal'?"
Ranma shakes his head.
A short time later, Akane and the others, dressed in gray jumpsuits, were waiting in the docking bay.
"I'm telling you, Ranma is trying to get rid of us!" Akane says in a huff.
"Well, I think it's nice," Ukyo replies. "We get to know more about Ranchan's work."
"Well, Shampoo rather be here," Shampoo fumed.
"I agree," said Kodachi.
Soon, the doors to the docking bay opens. In walk Counselor Tsukino and Lt. Commander Worf. Both of them are carrying equipment connected to straps.
"You," Akane said.
"AH! Alien!" said the others.
Worf just growls in a huff, before loading the equipment.
"Okay," Usagi begins. "Just to be clear, you are to do what I say at all times. This is not a field trip, so conduct your selves in an ADULT manner, okay?"
"Yes…" said the girls.
"Alright, we will depart in a few minutes…"
As Usagi turns away, Ranma's Fiancées huddled…
"Who does she think she is?" Akane fumes.
"She's the person in charge," said a voice.
Akane turns to see Ranma.
"So, it was good for you to drop by," Akane says.
"Look, I want you all to relax, while the ship diagnostic gets underway," Ranma said, as he places his hands on Akane's shoulders. "And I want you to play nice for a change."
Ranma looks at the others.
"And please, behave yourselves. The last thing is for you all to get into trouble."
"Okay…" said the girls in unison.
"Great. Now, have fun!"
An hour later, aboard the Defiant's main shuttle, work continues…
While Usagi and Worf began their long-range sensor scans, while "Ranma's Fiancées" talk amongst them selves.
"Kinda boring," Kodachi says.
"Yeah, me too," Shampoo replies.
"Actually, this computer is quite helpful," Ukyo says, as she scans the computer. "You're not going to believe the kind recipes I can come up with for my Okonomiyaki!"
Akane was still staring at the back of Usagi's head. She was fuming about the fact that Usagi had married HER Ranma.
Meanwhile…
"Take look at this," Worf said, as he pointed out the data.
"Hmmm," Usagi says. "That can't be right."
She checked her calculations again.
"Counselor?" Worf asked.
"That's…the Defiant."
But that can't be right, Usagi thought. The Defiant disappeared in-
Tholian space.
"I think we know where we are," Usagi said.
Meanwhile, aboard the commandeered Defiant…
"Sir, I believe that the object ahead is a Federation-style shuttle," said Malcolm Reed, the ship's weapon system chief.
"Life scans," asked Archer.
"Five humans, one Klingon."
"Interesting. T'Pol, prepare our guests for their stay."
"Aye, sir."
Meanwhile…
"Counselor?"
Usagi turns to Worf.
"Place an encryption program for randomization. I got a bad feeling about this."
Worf nods.
Usagi turns to the girls.
"I don't know what's going on, but be careful."
"So, what did you do?" Akane said.
Usagi just shakes her head.
"Akane-!" Ukyo says. She was still feeling the effects from her confrontation with the Counselor.
"I'm not afraid of her!"
"Me neither!"
"Really, why must you all put up some nonsensical bravado?" asked Kodachi.
"Since when have you been sane?" asked Akane.
"Since I met this nice young man named Wesley Crusher. And being nice to Ranma-sama could allow me to get to see Wesley again."
"…"
The alt-Defiant reaches their position. It then places a tractor beam on the Defiant's shuttle.
"Counselor, we've been caught," Worf says, as he began to adjust the hull frequency.
"You think?" Usagi says. "I'm preparing a pulse blast to the tractor emitter."
"Fire when ready."
"Firing."
ZAP!
"Sir, they neutralized the tractor beam!" Malcolm says.
"Then what are you waiting for? I want that shuttle dead in the water."
"Firing phasing banks now, sir."
BLAM!
Even though the technology was outdated, a shuttle still was at the mercy of a capital starship.
Damn, Usagi said. "The shields are down. Guys, I'm going to-"
Brrrrrrring!
Before Usagi could initiate her instant transmission technique, she and the others were beamed aboard the Defiant…
SLAP!
"Tell me what you know, Usagi," Archer says.
Usagi simply stares at the man. She was being bound against the wall.
SLAP!
"Tell me, or I'll-!"
"Do…what? Torture me?"
"Not exactly. I will put you in the Dr. Phlox' care, after I have T'Pol and Hoshi 're-educate' you to your proper role."
"And what role is that, Archer?"
"To be a concubine, of course. You remember that, don't you?"
Archer used his index finger to outline the contours of Usagi's chest.
"Was I supposed to be impressed?"
"You know, you're not the same little girl that you were when I first found you."
"So, you're a pedophile, eh?"
Archer's face went red.
"Look, COMMANDER, I've been through too much to allow psychopaths to get to me. I should have guessed that you and the rest of this place was from the 'Mirror Universe'."
"So…you are the positive Usagi Tsukino."
Archer presents a datapad.
"While going through this ship's computer, your name popped up in the public records. Too bad you're not the Usagi that I know and love."
"That's too bad for you."
"Maybe, but I am determined to break your will. If not, I can use those girls against you."
"Don't you DARE harm them! They're innocent."
"Then, you better tell me what I want to hear, starting with how to disable the encryption program."
T'Pol handed Archer his whip. She then took out a sharp dagger, went up to Usagi, and began to cut her uniform from her body.
"Oh, yes, I'm going to have fun trying to break you…"
Meanwhile, in the Brig…
"What are they going to do to us?" Ukyo said.
"If they try to harm Shampoo, Shampoo KILL."
"Really, must we simply use brawn over brains?" Kodachi said.
Akane simply sulked. She was worried that somehow, someway, Ranma was going to blame her for something.
Then, the door opens.
"In you go, Klingon!" said one of the guards.
Worf is thrown into the brig with the girls.
"Oof!"
"Mr. Worf!" said Ukyo, as she goes to the Klingon's aid. She then looks up at the guard.
"How could you?"
"Don't worry about that, little lady," sneered the guard. "As soon as Archer gives the okay, you and your friends are going to 'party' with us!"
And with that, the guard goes away.
"Oh, why can't Ranma be here?" lamented Ukyo.
Kodachi goes over to Worf, and examines him.
"He's definitely been drugged," says Kodachi.
"How you know?" asked Shampoo asks.
"I see the signs," Kodachi replies. "You of all people should know, Amazon."
"You want fight?"
"Bring it on!"
"Enough!" said Akane, as she steps forward. "We can't afford to fight amongst ourselves."
"Why you care?" Shampoo says.
"One, I don't want to look bad in front of Ranma. And two, you saw the look of that guard."
"So what? Shampoo simply kill!"
"Oh that's real smart," Ukyo says. "They have guns that can stun us before we do anything!"
"Then we have to use our individual gifts then," Kodachi replies. "We're martial artist, in some form or another. And I for one will not allow some brute to manhandle me in any way!"
The girls nod in understanding.
"So, what do we do?" Akane asks.
"You can help by helping me," said a voice in the vents.
The girls look up.
"Who are you?" demanded Akane.
"I was a technician for the Tholians, before these humans took this ship for themselves. I know that if you all are here in the brig, then you must be against the Empire."
"Uh, right," replied Akane.
Then, a small vial drops towards the floor. Ukyo catches it.
"What's this?"
"That will counteract the drug in the Klingon system. I took it out of this ship's medical bay."
Then, a small rod drops through the vent towards the floor. Shampoo catches it.
"And this would be…?" began Kodachi.
"That is your way of getting out your cell. I took THAT from Engineering."
"Okay. Well, thanks?" said Akane.
"You are welcomed, human."
And with that, a scurrying sound could be heard.
"That was odd."
Back in the designated torture room, Usagi's "torture" continues…
"You know, if you were going to do this, I should have brought a book," Usagi smirks.
Even after trying to degrade her, Usagi was nonchalant. She had long since done away with modesty, and she has been tortured by the best. To Usagi, Archer's efforts were laughable.
SLAP!
"Don't you dare talk to me like that!" Archer roars.
"What's the matter? Not MAN enough to shut me up?"
"Heh. You'll loosen your tongue after a stint in the pain-giver!"
Meanwhile, Worf, having awoken, listens to the plan that the girls had concocted.
"I like that plan," Worf says. "I deactivate the force-field, while you all deal with the guards. Can you do it?"
"I think we can," says Akane, as she cracks her knuckles. The other girls were twirling their patented weapons.
Worf smiles, as he sets to remove the inner panel of the walls.
The resulting chaos drew the surviving alt-Enterprise crewmembers into combat. However, since none of them were prepared for the high-powered martial artists, the slaughter was certain.
"Try to molest me, will you-!" said Ukyo, as she used her giant spatula on the guard's head.
POW!
Finally, after taking out the entire security force, Worf and Ranma's Fiancées make it to where Usagi was being held. When they entered that room, they were shocked to see a visually degraded Usagi.
"What!" the girls yelled in shock. They were so worried about their welfare, that they did not realize how much of the "licks" Usagi was taken for them.
"Let her GO!" yelled Worf, as he leveled his weapon at Archer and T'Pol.
Archer took T'Pol's knife and pressed it against Usagi's neck.
"Stand back, or she gets it!" Archer says.
Usagi then made her move.
Snap!
GRAB!
CRUNCH!
"Arggh!"
Usagi had snapped the bonds holding down her legs, grabbed Archer by the waist, and squeezed (nearly snapping Archer's spine). As Archer's body fell, Worf fired his weapon at T'Pol.
ZAP!
With the Vulcan down, Usagi snapped the bonds holding her arms down.
"What took you so long?" Usagi said, as she began to remove T'Pol's blue dress/Kirk-era science uniform.
"Actually, Commander Saotome's friends helped," Worf replied.
Usagi looks at Akane and the others.
"Most impressive," Usagi says with a smile. "Thanks."
"You're welcome, I guess," Akane says. She STILL can't believe that Usagi was so nonchalant about what she just gone through. "How…how can be so…normal? Were you…?"
"Does it matter?" Usagi replies.
"It's just that, well, you know…"
Usagi, who had already puts on her "new" sets of clothes, steps forward. She holds Akane's shoulder.
"Look, I have had a rough life, but I've also had a good one. No matter what people do to my body, my mind and spirit will always belong to me."
Usagi turns to see the unconscious Archer and T'Pol.
"And I'm willing to sacrifice for my friends at any time, any where."
As Usagi, Worf and Ranma's Fiancées leaves the makeshift torture chamber, Usagi was examining her clothes.
"What's wrong?" Worf asks, as the group head for the docking bay.
"I don't know. It kinda feels weird wearing my old uniform, it being blue and all."
"I see," Worf replies. "But what are we going to do about Archer and his crew?"
"It's already taken care of."
Fifteen minutes after Usagi, Worf and Ranma's Fiancées left the Defiant…
"We got to give chase, and destroy that WITCH!" Archer yells, as he is helped unto the center seat by Travis.
"We will catch up to them shortly," Malcolm says.
Suddenly, the main view screen lights up.
"You," said Archer.
"Yes, me," replied Usagi, as she leans forward. "I can't allow you to use the Defiant to tip the balance power in this war of yours. So, I did something to T'Pol to insure that you never make it back to Earth. Buh-bye!"
"T'Pol…!"
"I do not know what she is talking…about…"
Suddenly, it came clear. Using telepathy, Usagi jury-rigged T'Pol's mind to create an imbalance in the warp matrix-
"Reed, do not engage the engines-"
It was too late.
When Malcolm Reed engaged the engines, it became stuck in time. Everyone on board were frozen in time, and out of phase with normal time and space. Thus, a form of imprisonment occurred.
Back on the shuttle…
"Thank you for rescuing me," said the benefactor of Ranma's Fiancées, who turned out to be a Gorn. Gorns were generally warlike creatures who loved a fight. This particular Gorn, name Rumm, was a scientist hired by the Tholians to help examine the Defiant. When Akane had told Usagi about her benefactor, the Starfleet Counselor immediately used her telepathy to make contact. Once Rumm's intentions were made clear, Usagi rescued him before she initiated her end game.
"It's no problem. We'll drop you off to your homeworld as soon as possible."
"Can you?" the Gorn replied. "This shuttle of yours seems kind of cramped."
"Then, don't I have a surprise for you," Usagi says, with a smile.
"We're approaching the coordinates of the Defiant," said Worf.
"I don't see a…ship…"
The U.S.S. Defiant de-cloaks right in front of the shuttle.
"Wow," said the Gorn.
Usagi smiles.
Twenty years later, still in the Mirror Universe…
A black clad figure appears aboard the Defiant. The figure is dressed in a black cloak, which hid much of the figure's body. The figure then walks up the temporally frozen Commander Archer.
The figure's gloved hands remove the cloak's hood, revealing the crowned head (the tiara had a reverse, black crescent Moon) of Usagi Tsukino. However, it was not exactly Usagi.
She was the Sith Lord "Darth Lune", who was first a concubine under Archer's care, but later had learned a power called "the Force". Years ago, when she was being sold off for parts, a temporal rift to a time long ago, to a place far, far away, had swallowed her cargo ship. Soon after, Usagi crashed landed on an alien, desert world, where her master, Darth Sidious, had groomed her to be his apprentice. Under his "care", Usagi did her part to aid her master in causing enough chaos to allow him to take over the galaxy.
At least, that was part of Sidious' plan.
However, after learning that Sidious was planning to sacrifice her, Usagi turned the tables against him, and ascended as both the Master of the Sith, and well as "Empress Serenity", the ruler of the galaxy. With Sith Lord Darth Vader and his acolytesat her side, so far, her rule has been great and mighty. Things would have been perfect if those infernal Rebels would simply submit to her rule. Still, Lune/Serenity/Usagi was nothing if not resourceful, which is why she decided to visit her old friends. After all, Archer and crew could be useful to her plans. Thus, with her mastery of the dark arts of the Force, coupled with her power over the Silver Millennium Crystal, the Sith Lord tracked down Archer and his crew. And something like a "temporal prison" will not impede her agenda.
Finding a ship ready to serve her needs would be the icing on the proverbial cake.
"Jonathon Archer," Darth Lune smirks. "Thanks to YOU, I've learned the darker nature in humankind. Thanks to YOU, I am the ruler of a galaxy."
Then, a nasty grin formed on her face.
"We have much to talk about, you and I. HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO-!"
Tbc.
Author's note: Find out about the fate of the alternate Enterprise crew in "SMST: The Life and Times of Darth Lune".
Next time: The Defiant arrives just in time for first contact. Or will "Sailor Borg" destroy all hope for humankind? See you next time!