The Key of Forever
by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter Four
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.
Tony Castro and the USS Corsair were created by me, other adventures of her can be found in my site, which address is in my profile.
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Spoilers: Spoilers for Buffy season 5. Spoilers for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: First Contact and Deep Space Nine until season 4.
Author Note 1: This story is a sequel of the story "Trek to the Hellmouth". If you don't want to read it, here is a quick resume: After the events in Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise-E is relaunched, but remains of Borg technology aboard launch the ship back in time toward the moment when Buffy killed Adam. Adam becomes a Borg, but he quickly comes to dominate the Collective. But the time paradox in progress start to opens the Hellmouth. The Enterprise crew, guided by Tony Castro, an admiral that was invited to the launching and had contact with the Watchers and the Slayers in the past, contact the Scoobies, and the events began to take a rollercoaster ride from there: the Borg Queen reappears, from the Hellmouth emerges the Mirror counterpart of Admiral Castro, Adam devises a plan to absorb the energies of the Hellmouth, destroying Earth in the process. Finally with the sacrifice of Mirror Tony they destroy Adam and close the Hellmouth.
Author Note 2: for the nitpickers, this story takes place shortly after the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Sons of Mogh".
I wish to thank my beta-reader Carycomix, for his help and support through all this time.
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Summary: Dawn visits Buffy's tomb and something happens. "Meanwhile", in the 24th Century, Captain Tony Castro discover a very unsettling thing, and Captain Sisko of Deep Space Nine witness a real blast from the past…
USS Agincourt
"Take this." said Tony, handing several tricorders and communicators to Spike and Angel. Dawn and Tony were already carrying a few.
"Wait a moment! I'm not going to walk another step until you explain what are you going to do with these... these damned sci-fi props!" said Spike.
"Well, I suppose that there's no time like the present. When I was speaking with Dawn earlier I realized what had happened. Plainly speaking, the warp drive malfunctioned, and somehow every living being in the ship became frozen in time. The main reactor is tied to the warp drive, so everything that was receiving power from it is also down. I can give you a more technical explanation if you want." answered Tony, in a quiet tone.
"That explains what happened, but, not what are we're going to do with all of this."
"I don't have enough technical expertise to reroute power in the ship, but I can build a crude sensor and communication grid with the tricorders and the communicators."
Other side of the Lykandia Anomaly
"U.S.S. Anchises to freighter Millenium Falcon. You have permission to depart the system." said the harsh voice of the Anchises captain through the Comm system.
Solo cut the channel and spoke to the woman who stood behind him.
"What now?"
"Make a light-year-long jump and later make a series of microjumps. Enough to get back here in less than an hour."
"And, why, exactly?"
"Because we are going to use the Anchises as our exit ticket. Their shift on this side of the Lykandia Wormhole ends in 1 hour 15 minutes. Afterwards they are scheduled to deliver a shipment to a nearby Federation planet. We'll hitch a ride through the minefield, and disengage just before they go to warp."
"And you are going to be here all the time looking over my shoulder."
"No, captain Solo. I'm going to be putting everything that I transported here in use to refit this hunk of junk."
DS9. A corridor
"Ben!" said Jadzia Dax running through a deserted corridor in the bowels of Deep Space Nine toward her old friend and current commanding officer. "I have something about the Agincourt crew."
"Let's see, Old Man." as Jadzia gave him a PADD.
"The Agincourt departed drydock with a skeleton crew. Less than one hundred people for a ship that normally had a complement of five hundred."
"I see... Commanding Officer... Commodore Theodore Wilkins... Executive Officer... Lieutenant Commander John Harriman... One moment, John Harriman?"
"Yes, the first captain of the Enterprise-B. But read the next entries, please."
"Acting Science Officer... Lieutenant junior grade Antonia Castro... Have you tried to get in touch with her?"
"Yes, but she is on leave, personal reasons."
"Okay, Helmsman... Lieutenant Samuel Grant... Ambassador Grant?"
"The same. I asked him to wait for us in the Defiant docking pylon."
And as they turned the corner they saw him. Samuel Grant was standing next to the door, grinning at them.
"Wonderful." said Sisko with his teeth clenched. Dax and Grant were old friends, but he could never stand him.
USS Caravel.
The security chief of the USS Caravel was about to enter the ship's lounge when she almost collided with her right hand, Mathew Croydon, chatting amiably with the arrogant DTI agent, Sylvia Silver. When Mathew realized who it was, the boyish face of the ensign turned pink from the embarrassment.
"Sorry, chief. I was..."
"No offense, Matt." she said, forcing a half smile. The DTI agent had remained aloof from the crew since the beginning of the current mission. Why suddenly had she become so friendly with Croydon?.
TO BE CONTINUED...
