Lieutenant Commander Zofchak and Lieutenant Fulks had finally reached the building. They stood up against the wall on either side of the door. Zofchak held his tricorder up to scan inside the building.

"I'm reading one hundred forty-nine personnel inside the building. Where we want to place these charges will be in the room in the center of this building. We'll set the charges and then head to the opposite end of the building and steal one of their shuttles. Once this building blows, it should deactivate the transporter inhibitors as well."

"How many people are just beyond this door?" Fulks asked.

"Thirteen. And there are a higher number of people near the other entrances." He said. "This door is probably our best bet of getting in."

"We might as well make our entrance." Fulks said.

Usually, Zofchak was more a stealthy type. During the Dominion War and when the Dominion took hold over Betazed, Zofchak acted as a sniper and was responsible for a good number of kills. It wasn't something he enjoyed doing but he had to do it for the safety of the Federation.

Once he returned his tricorder to his side pouch, Dustin nodded to the security chief and Fulks leapt in front of the door and kicked it in. The two of them charged in there with phaser rifles firing.

Meanwhile, Alex had returned to where he had left Michelle. The young Ensign was very surprised to see him. She was slightly angry because he abandoned his mission but also a bit glad he came back.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"I couldn't just leave you here by yourself." Alex replied.

"You're a Starfleet officer. You have a duty…"

Alex cut her off. "I couldn't let anything happen to you if I could help it. If something were to happen because I left you here, I didn't want to have that on my conscience."

Michelle accepted that answer and smiled. Alex looked over to the fallen soldiers. "I'm going to see if they have any tricorders and if they do I'll see what I can do with that wound."

He got up and ran over to their fallen enemy. The first two he searched didn't have anything on them but the third one had a tricorder. He came back over and scanned the wound on Michelle.

"Their weapons fire some kind of pulse that left an anti-coagulant in your system."

"That would explain why the bleeding won't stop."

Alex took off the top of his uniform and ripped a piece from his yellow turtleneck. He then applied it to the wound.

"We've got plenty of my shirt to use so that'll help for awhile.

"Always making jokes regardless of the scenario." Stull said.

So that Stull wouldn't move as much, Alex had to remove her grey and black jacket and her turtleneck, revealing the standard issue tank top that Starfleet officers wear underneath their uniforms. He applied the cloth to the wound and told her to hold it there. She wasn't about to argue with a superior officer over something like this so she did as she was told.

"However, if I keep doing this then I'll run out of clothing and then I'll have to use your clothes and we'll be naked by the time we're rescued."

Michelle smiled at Merriell's attempt to keep them in high spirits.

If we're rescued. Alex thought.

"Sir," Lieutenant McKenzie said from tactical. "I'm picking up an enormous radiation surge."

"Where's it coming from?"

"From underneath Challenger."

Allensworth turned around to Sato. "Hoshi, contact Captain McAuliffe."

"Aye, sir."

Moments later, the captain of the Challenger appeared. McAuliffe was a human woman in her forties.

"Captain," Allensworth began. "We're picking up an enormous radiation surge coming from underneath your ship."

"Yeah, we're picking that up too. What do you think it is?"

"My suggestion would be a cloaked ship."

"What would a cloaked ship be doing out here?"

"We intercepted a transmission from Earth to this area and we believe the recipients are aboard a cloaked ship."

"Is it possible that it would be a ship from the Terran Empire?"

"That'd be my guess. The Terran Empire did take over the Klingons and Romulans on their side, so they must be able to use cloaking technology. The transmission we intercepted was in Temarian and you know how the Temarians speak.

"Sir, I'm picking up another transmission." Hoshi said. "It's in Temarian again and it says, 'Admiral Black of Avenger. Enterprise at Halkan planet. Tasha Yar of Romulus."

Because of her uncanny knack for linguistics, Hoshi is fluent in forty different alien languages and only has to listen to a new language once before she becomes fluent.

"What's the records say?" Allensworth asked.

"Admiral Black was the commanding officer of the ISS Avenger and was assassinated by Jonathan Archer in twenty-one fifty-five. Captain Kirk annihilated all of the Halkan cities once he returned to his own universe. Tasha Yar was sent back in time to Romulus and she subsequently overthrew their Praetor."

Allensworth thought for a moment. Betrayal, a suicide mission, assassination, destruction, infiltration. The Defiant against a Starfleet armada could mean a lone mirror ship against all of us."

Hoshi put the ear piece on again and listened intently.

"What is it, Hoshi?" Allensworth asked.

"That voice. The voice of the person sending the message is…Admiral McKeen."