"Are you feeling better?" Gabriel asked as he woke her, "I don't like the idea of anyone throwing up on my bridge," he teased.
"I feel completely better," she replied, "I guess it was something I ate. Is it time to begin the mission?" she asked, unable to hide her excitement.
He grinned down at her as he nodded, "You need to cut back on your enthusiasm just a tad or we won't be able to leave this bed," he revealed causing her to smile.
"Then I guess I should get out of here," she said as she stood, "I'll meet you on the bridge after I clean up," she revealed as she began to take off her clothes on the way to the shower.
"You're being a terrible tease," he whined before groaning in frustration as he too got up but made his way to the bridge instead of joining Sky like he wanted to.
Skylar got ready in record time before she made her way to the bridge and took a spot out of the way to watch Gabriel's plan unfold.
She held tight as Lorca gave the order to begin the jump sequence and allowing the Discovery to fire on the ship multiple times from all directions.
"Stamets, you can do this," Lorca said over the comm, "Just ninety-six more jumps and we'll have the data we need."
As the jumps continued, Hugh came over the comm to request an abort, "He's not going to make it," he revealed.
Skylar walked over to Lorca, "I'll go down there and keep him calm while Paul completes the jumps," she offered gaining a nod of approval from him as she raced down to engineering.
She walked in to see Hugh nervously pacing, "He's going to make it," she assured him as she jumped into action to assist he and Tilly in any way she could.
They worked rapidly as they were within the last fifteen jumps, "We're almost there," Tilly announced, "just ten more now."
"Hugh, he's beginning to regulate again," Sky stated as she read over the vitals, "I think he knows we're almost done too."
"Crew of the Discovery, this is your Captain," Lorca's voice echoed throughout the ship, "We are beaming our crewmen back aboard the ship and we are about to blow up the main ship in the Klingon's army. Good work, everyone. When this is over, we are headed back to base 46 for a well deserved break. Stand by," he finished before he signed off and Tilly initiated the last jump.
After the ship stabilized, Hugh opened the chamber to get Paul out and to the team's relief, he was ok.
"I'm never jumping again," Paul said as he took deep breaths to regulate his breathing.
Lorca appeared in the room, "How is our engineer?" he asked.
"He's stabilizing well, Captain," Tilly replied, "We got the data we needed."
Lorca nodded, "We did great work and this room of people along with Tyler and Burnham are to thank. The Klingons are coming this way in full force so we are headed to base as I promised. Thank you," he announced.
"Captain," Paul began, "I can make one more jump to get the crew to safety and then I am done."
"I can't ask you to do that," Lorca replied gaining an appreciative smile from Skylar, "You have done enough."
"I won't risk the Klingons getting us after all we've done," Paul replied, "I will make this last jump and then I retire because I need the best doctors in Starfleet to look me over."
"Understood," Lorca replied, "I'll prepare the crew."
Lorca disappeared and Tilly got Paul back in the chamber to make the journey home for his last jump.
"He'll be ok," Skylar reassured Hugh, "He just did 133 so one simple jump is nothing," she stated with a smile.
"Are you ready with the spore drive?" Lorca asked through the comm.
"We're good," Tilly replied as the ship went to Code Black and began the jump.
As the ship began the jump, Paul screamed out in pain and doubled over in the compartment.
"Tilly, what's going on?" Skylar asked as Hugh was already in the chamber evaluating Paul.
"The computer is registering it as an incomplete jump," she replied confused as she moved to check on Paul with Hugh.
"Hugh, do you have this?" Skylar asked, "I want to go to the bridge and see what happened or at least see if they know anymore."
"I'm good," Hugh replied waving her on.
Skylar raced out of engineering to the bridge where she stepped on board without request, "Where are we?" she asked as she looked out the main screen to see wreckage all around.
"We're trying to figure that out right now," Lorca replied, "Our coordinates are right but nothing else is. How's Stamets?"
"He's in a catatonic state," she informed him regretfully as the nausea from the night before came over her again.
Lorca noticed the sudden change in her color and the way she carried herself but he couldn't check on her, at least not in this moment.
"What do we know?" Lorca asked, looking to Burnham and Saru.
"Everything here is reading normal but it's all just slightly off," Saru replied, "It's almost as if a different wavelength exists where we are."
"That was my thought as well," Michael agreed, "The hulls of all these ships are registering as ships we know but they are all also off."
Skylar grasped the wall behind her as the nausea added dizziness to her symptoms causing Lorca to move toward her, "Doctor Tate, are you feeling alright?"
Skylar tried to nod but it made her feel even worse as she sank down to the floor, joined by Lorca even though the entire crew on the bridge was watching.
"Sky, what's going on?" he whispered.
She shook her head, "I just don't feel well but you should get back to the problem at hand," she forced herself to speak though each word caused her queasiness to be worse.
"Saru, I'm going to take the Doctor to medbay," he began as he wrapped his arm around her waist and helped her to stand, "If we figure out anything else, hail me."
"Yes, Captain," Saru replied.
"You didn't need to do that," she began once they were in the lift.
"Sky, you aren't well and if I'm going to treat you how you deserve to be treated then I don't deserve you, now stop being stubborn," he ordered before he began to look her over.
"Yes sir," she replied before she coughed softly and then threw up on the floor, her body shaking as she lost whatever was inside her. Lorca held her tightly as she continued to get sick before his comm chirped.
"Lorca here, what is it?" he asked once she was calmed down.
"Sir, we believe we are in a parallel universe where everything is almost as it was in our world but different in dangerous ways," Burnham replied.
"Do we have any leads on how to get back or how to survive here?" he replied.
"I believe we can get a main computer off of one of the ships in this wreckage we can learn about this world and try to acclimate until we find our way home," she answered.
"Begin and I'll be back soon," he answered as he hung up and looked at Skylar, "What's going on with you? Are you feeling any better now?" he asked, multiple questions falling from his mouth.
She nodded as the lift stopped, "I will be. Thank you for being so caring but you need to get back to the bridge," she stated, "I'll be ok on my own from now."
He began to shake his head until she put up a finger to his lips, grateful for self cleaning floors after what she'd done to the lift, "I'm good. I'll see you in your cabin later on."
"Find out what's wrong," he agreed as he disappeared in the lift and she headed to medbay.