Star Trek: Ranma's Story 56 – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: "Ranma ½", "Sailor Moon", "Star Trek" and other genres belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a multi-genre story.
Special note: This story depicts the events featured in "Star Trek: Nemesis". Also, in future chapters will cover the "DS9" and "Voyager" sagas in greater detail (though this chapter will drop "hints" as to what has happened since the previous chapter), as well as take a look at previous eras, such as the "Next Generations" and "Enterprise" eras (have to, since there is a new timeline now).
Part 56
Location: En route to Romulus.
Darkness.
Then light.
A series of ones and zeroes scrolled.
Chirp!
An image formed…
"B-4?" said the person who formed the image. "My name is Usagi."
Captain Usagi Tsukino, acting commanding officer of the Federation station "Deep Space Nine", had activated Lore's ROM component. Essentially, Lore has been regressed to his basic state known as "B-4". None of the senior officers wanted to take a chance on Lore coming back for revenge.
"U…Usagi…?" said the android.
"Yes. My name is Usagi."
Usagi steps back for a bit.
"And this is your brother Data."
Commander Data (Ops) steps forward, and looks down on his brother. B-4 was dressed in a simple gray jumpsuit, and had a slightly blank stare. He was feeling a mixture of anxiousness and dread, feelings that were still new to him.
"My…brother?" B-4 asked.
"Yes, brother," Data says. "My name is Data."
Elsewhere, aboard the Enterprise-E…
Commander Ranma Saotome (Conn) was jogging in a simulated park on the holodeck, thinking about things, when he suddenly found himself in a white space.
"What the heck…?"
"Hello…halfling," said a voice.
Ranma turns around, and sees-
"Q!" Ranma yelled.
"Ah, the jock remembers," said the cosmic jester. As always, he wore a Starfleet uniform (cranberry-red). "So, how's it been?"
"Busy, as always. Why are you bothering me? Shouldn't you bother someone else, like Picard or Usagi?"
"All in good time. Actually, you and I have business to discuss."
Location: Federation station "Deep Space Nine" (Bajoran Sector).
"I thank you all for coming," said Princess Setsuna, aka "Sailor Pluto". "I know that it wasn't easy for you all to be pulled from your lives, and all."
The entire Sailor Scouts, save for "Sailor Borg" (who was trying to rebuild the Borg to something less menacing back in the Delta Quadrant), "Sailor Moon", "Sailor Helios", "Sailor Uranus" (all of whom were en route to Romulus) and "Sailor Z" (who has yet to decide whether or not she should help her parents or not).
"Wow," Princess Minako (aka "Sailor Venus") said, as she leaned back. "You weren't this open at any time that I have known you."
"It's just that, there is a good chance that the Outer Scouts can be reformed."
"We know this, Setsuna," said Princess Makoto (aka "Sailor Jupiter) curtly. "We were told the story. We do have our own lives to consider, you know."
Sitting with the Inner Scouts was Col. Kira ("Sailor Bajor") Nyres, Counselor Ezri ("Sailor Trill") Dax, Lieutenant Commander B'Lanna ("Sailor Q'onos") and Petty Officer Kes ("Sailor Ocampa") D'Ocampa. Kira had the ability to manipulate spirits and spiritual energy, Ezri had the ability to manipulate psychic energy, B'Lanna can manipulate matter, and Kes can manipulate life.
"Anyway," Kira began, with rolled eyes, "We're here. So, what do you want us to do?"
Setsuna sighed, as she readied a hologram.
"I've called you all together because of a threat that the Moon Princess and the Chaos Factor are about to face. Well…here is 'the threat'."
Setsuna activated her holographic projector.
"What!" Minako yelled out. "That's…not possible. HE cannot be alive."
Rini stands up, visibly shaken by what she is seeing.
"Setsuna, please don't tell me that HE is the threat? Please, don't tell me that my beloved has return to harm the galaxy…"
"Okay, what the hell is going on!" B'Lanna asked.
Setsuna looks over to the demi-Klingon.
"You must understand that the threat was the beloved of the Neo-Princess. He fought, and died for his beloved. But the heartbreak that he witnessed from Rini drove him insane in death and in the next life…THIS life. Unfortunately, that anger is clouding his true memories, and it is that anger that his driving him to destroy the very planet he had once sworn to protect: Earth."
"Then…we have to stop him!" Rini proclaims. "He has to know his oath! He has to know that…I'm here…"
Ami gets up.
"Speaking on behalf of the Inners, we WILL make things right."
Kira looks at her colleagues, and rises.
"Usagi is our friend. We'll do what we can to help."
Setsuna merely nodded her thanks, as her minds wanders to the strings she had to pull in order to get one last hold out...
Location: "Sector Z"A trans-warp conduit opens up, depositing a Borg "diamond". It was the designated as the command ship of the "Borg Queen". These days, that role was being helmed by…"
"This is 'Adjutant Six of Nine' of the Borg Collective," said "retired" Starfleet officer Lt. Hoshiko ("Sailor Borg") Saotome. "We seek an audience with the Regent of Z'Ha'Dum…Queen Aikiko."
Two Shadow spider-vessels de-cloak, and surround the Borg ship. A hideous screeching sound is emitted from one of the ships.
"Understood, and thank you," Hoshiko says, as she nods. She then directs her vessel to go to the planet with escort…
Down in the throne room of Z'Ha'Dum, Aikiko, sometimes referred to as "Anna Sheridan", greets her twin sister.
"Hoshiko," Anna says, as she gets up from her throne.
"Anna," Hoshiko replies, as she faces her twin.
Suddenly, both females disappear…and slam into each with fist blazing, while in mid-air. Anna then recovers, and performed a reverse punch, followed by a spin-kick; Hoshiko blocked the punch, and caught the kick, and flipped Anna away.
And all this was being done while still in the air.
Anna recovered, and rushed forward, moving nearly at 'invisible speed', intent on delivering a flurry of blows. However, instead making contact, Anna seemingly went through Hoshiko. Or, should that be, the after image of Hoshiko. Hoshiko was moving fast enough to create the illusion of being in more than one place.
After a few minutes more of their "game", the two Saotome sisters faced each other once more.
"Humph," Anna says. "Being part machine hasn't slowed you down."
"And you are still as aggressive as ever, sister," Hoshiko says.
"You have to be, if you want to survive this place," Anna says, as she sits down on a nearby bench. "I take it that you are here to convince me to help Mom and Dad with Dad's little problem."
"Then we take it that you know what that problem is?"
"Of course I do, sis. Just because I am confined to this sector, that doesn't mean that I am not without contacts."
"Sister, we known that you feel angered over what has happened to you, but there is a worse threat out there. And if you do not want save Mom and Dad for their sake, do so for ours."
"Hmmm…"
Location: En route to Romulus, Enterprise-E.
"Come," said Dr. Beverly Crusher, the ship's chief medical officer. She finally had gotten her new "hobby" installed.
"Ah, Dr. Crusher," said Captain Jean-Luc Picard, as he enters Crusher's office. "I see that you have a place for your 'pets'."
"Yes," Crusher says, as she taps her case full of fireflies. Their new home was made to simulate an optimal environment. "I don't why, but these insects seem so fascinating…"
"Yes, well, did you get the information Ranma's contacts acquired?"
"Yes. I'm having it analyzed to clue us on what exactly killed the members of the Romulan Senate."
"Good. Keep me appraise of your progress."
"Will do."
Location: Outside of normal time and space…"Okay, what do you want?" Ranma asks, as he folds his arms.
"What, you don't trust me, faux-fem?" the entity Q asks.
"No."
"Well, then, I guess that you don't want to hear some information about your son…"
"What? What son? I only have daughters!"
"My dear, Ranma, haven't you learn anything from your dealings with temporal mechanics?"
"I'm afraid that you will have to 'enlighten' me, Q."
"Very well. Let me show you…"
What Q shows Ranma, will change his life forever.
Tbc.