An: I hope you like the first chapter! Things will get complicated from here on out. As always read and review…they are seriously like my fuel. But if you don't like the story…please no drawn out reviews as to why not...I get it.
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A Wrinkle In Time
Chapter Two
1999?
(Earth-One Day Later)
The crew safely made the arrival to 1999 San Francisco and began their observation. The group walked around trying to find anything that would resemble what the older Nyota talked about, and found nothing.
People where walking and going about their daily lives.
There was however, another matter to consider one that only Spock understood to be a problem.
They had no clue what day it was in the year 1999.
And they were still wearing their Starfleet uniforms.
Unlike the others who could blend in easily among the humans, Spock with his pointy ears and logic could not. It was already hard enough to live among emotional and illogical humans in his time, let along during a time where humans were so ignorant, so illogical, so uncultured and uneducated it defied all reasonable logic.
Spock had to make sure to conceal his ears so as not to draw anymore attention to themselves any more than what was necessary.
"I wonder why the Romulans would chose the year 1999 to attack the Earth? Anytime would have work considering how primitive the technology was up until first contact." Kirk observed several groups of humans walking and staring at them intensely.
"Perhaps this is not the best place to be. " Nyota pointed to a small alley and the group followed her.
"Kirk is right, what is with the year 1999?" Bones stated, "The Romulans could have conquered Earth at anytime they so desired."
They all put their heads together to think about what was wrong with this picture, until Spock came up with the answer.
"The Millennium Crisis, it is the only logical reason for the Romulans attempts to conquer the planted." Spock looked to see if the others were following him, in his reasoning, but all he got was blank stares. "It would appear that I am the only one who managed to pay attention in history class."
Nyota vaguely remembered learning about the Millennium Crisis. It was a time when the human race believe that their 'advance' civilization as going to end, as a result of an unproven belief that their technology was going to stop working after Earth date December, 31, 1999.
The Millennium Crisis gave rise to religious zealots who preached about the coming end of their world, riots, and religious hysteria. But no outbreaks of disease.
Of course, the world did not come to an end after December 31, 1999, but just thirty years later, a major war broke out between the United States and China, two of most power nations at the time. But these things were known to have happen, so what did the Romulans do to change everything?
"Well it makes since that the Romulans who try to take over now given the tension among people. But to unleash a disease when they could have used their ship to destroy the planted just doesn't make any sense. There has to be something more to this!" Kirk tried to reason with himself, the older Nyota's message worried him. Nero survived? How?
"We should make contact with the ship or at least analyze what we have." Nyota reached for her communications piece. When she attempted to contact the Enterprise, she got nothing. "Captain, I don't have any communications from the Enterprise!"
"Yeah, we wouldn't. We are tying to contact them from the 20th century. Something is wrong. I can feel it." Kirk folded his arms and his eyes flashed with anger. He did not like be part from his ship and now wished he hadn't left it.
(Enterprise)
The ion storm had passed and Sulu was trying to analyze the readings from the last message the Captain received from the 'other' Enterprise. He too thought it was suspicious that the older Nyota would report that the Earth was under attack during the year 1999 and she would be the one to lead the Enterprise.
Sulu wanted to make sure that everything made sense.
"Have you fully analyzed those readings Mr. Jones?" Sulu asked.
"Yes, Captain, I have. But it still doesn't make any sense."
"What?"
"The location of our two ships indicates the same place, but another time and from the looks of the 'older' Nyota, the crew must have been on the Earth for much longer than a few months. Which means that once the crew went to ancient Earth, something must have kept them there for a much longer period of time."
"Like what?" Sulu was asking himself that question more than he was to Mr. Jones.
"Perhaps that message we received wasn't for our ship, perhaps it was for another Enterprise, an Enterprise indigenous to another Universe."
"How could that be? This our Universe! Unless the ion storm somehow….."
Sulu, Mr. Jones and the crew fell to the ground.
The ship was under attack.
"Hail them!" Sulu struggled to get up.
"I am trying." Lt. Balana, Nyota's replacement attempted to established a communication link with the attacking ship.
It took almost five minutes before the ship finished it's attack against the Enterprise. And when it was over the damage was done, the Enterprise was hit bad, killing many crew members, and the mysterious ship revealed itself.
Sulu's eyes widen.
It was the Narada.
"Captain we are being hailed!" Lt. Balana put the image on screen.
Sulu was unable to say anything. Just what in the universe was going on?
The image appeared on the screen.
"USS Enterprise you must surrender! Now!"
Sulu's gasp for the image was not of Nero or even a Romulan.
But of a Vulcan.
It wasn't Spock that was for sure, this Vulcan had slightly darker skin and voice was much more….
Human.
"I my name is Syon. Surrender and you will not be killed!"
The crew looked at Sulu, and Sulu wished Captain Kirk had picked another.
He wasn't prepared for this.
An: It's getting a little bit more tricky, but if you have any questions let me know! Syon is a mysterious dude and will be explored in later chapters. I shorten this chapter because I did not want to burn out with ideas. I am think to expand the trip to 1999 Earth to touch on the social issues too. Who knows. Read/Review!