Hello everyone!
Here is the next chapter of this insane story and I hope you all enjoy it.
Chapter Two: Meeting the Neighbors
The stars burned brightly against the infinite darkness of outer space, tiny dots of light lighting the way across space.
Flying across this vast void is a ship. Pure white in color, the ship has gentle curves along her outer hull, giving her a sleek appearance. The ship has a large circular saucer section that composes her main hull while a smaller circular secondary hull is connected to the upper hull by a thin neck portion. She has two large nacelles connected to the lower portion of her hull via two large pylons. And on her saucer section, right below the bridge are the words, "NCC-1701-A."
This is the USS Enterprise, a Constitution class Starship in service to the United Federation of Planets and more specifically, Starfleet which is the main Scientific, Expeditionary and Defensive arm of the Federation.
Currently the Enterprise is heading back to Yorktown, the Federation's newest and most advanced Starbase. The Enterprise has been in deep space for a little over two years now, bringing them to the end of the fifth and final year of their deep space mission. They have met and opened dialogues with dozens of sentient species, some of them peaceful, some of them hostile. But now, the ship is supposed to be returning to Yorktown for a refuel and resupply before heading back to Earth to debrief Starfleet about what they have encountered in their five years in deep space.
"Captain's log. Stardate 2266.3. The Enterprise is returning to Yorktown to get some new supplies after our final two years in deep space. The crew has performed beyond expectation, performing with dignity and integrity in the face of unknown odds and opposition. The Enterprise has come across no less then seven hostile alien races and if not for the exceptional performance of the crew, the ship would have been lost numerous times. They are indeed, the best and brightest Starfleet has to offer. And they have more then earned a little shore leave before we head back to Earth. It feels odds that the mission we have dedicated ourselves to for the past five years has finally ended. All of our trials and tribulations have ended as we return to Earth with entire new frontiers for Starfleet to explore. Perhaps one day we can return here and continue searching, but for now, our mission is over. End log."
Sitting in his Captain quarters is James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of the Enterprise. A open computer terminal sits before him as he enters the latest entry of vocal reports for Starfleet.
Sighing, Kirk closes the terminal and turns to look out his window. Outside of the Enterprise, a bubble of warped space appears in front of the ship while smaller bubbles trail behind the ship.
Looking out, all Kirk can see are blurred lines that are the form of stars that they are passing by. It's a interesting sight, but Kirk would prefer to stare at regular looking stars, not bright looking lines.
As he starts to get lost in thought, the Tricorder on his desk starts to chirp and with a quick swipe, the Tricorder lays open n Kirk's hand.
"This is Kirk. What's up?" Kirk askes.
"Captain, please report to the bridge. I have found something that is most fascinating and I believe you may want to see it." The voice of his second in command, Spock from the planet Vulcan said.
"Got it. I'll be there in a second." Kirk replied.
"Captain, the turbolifts to not have the ability to transport a person across numerous decks in such a short period of time." Spock said, failing to grasp the metaphor. Even after more then five years among the crew of the Enterprise, Spock still misses the occasional human phrase.
"Never mind Spock, I'll be there soon. Kirk out." Kirk replied as he shut the Tricorder down and started to make his way to the bridge.
The interior of the ship is a match for the original Enterprise, have pure white walls with black flooring. Kind of bland if one were to ask Kirk, but then again he is a Starship Captain, not an interior decorator, so maybe there is a reason for this.
Reaching the turbolift, Kirk selects the bridge button and is taken up several levels.
The doors open and Kirk walks onto the Enterprise's bridge. The bridge looks exactly the same as the bridge of the original Enterprise, only with some slightly more advanced consoles and technology.
Standing near the door clad in his usual blue Starfleet uniform is Spock, his immaculately clean uniform the picture of perfection.
"Captain." Spock greeted.
"Mr. Spock, I believe you said you have something you think I would want to see." Kirk said.
"Indeed. Follow me Captain." spock said as he walked over to his science consoles and began to bring up sensor scans.
"For the past ten minutes, we have been detecting an unknown anomaly about one minute away from our current position. The anomaly is awash with unknown particles and based upon the scans I am getting, I believe that the anomaly might be a tear that leads into a higher dimensional plane." Spock said.
"Higher dimensional plane?" Kirk asked.
"Yes. Starfleet already knows of Subspace, which is its own unique part of the universe with it's own time-space continuum. However, this anomaly appears to lead to something beyond subspace, a layer that exists underneath subspace as we know it." Spock explained.
"And you want to go check it out." Kirk said, more a statement then a question. He knew Spock and something like this is bound to get the Vulcan's curiosity.
"I believe it would be beneficial to do so. By analysing the anomaly, we might be capable of forming our own artificial versions one day. This would greatly increase our understanding of the universe as we know it." Spock said.
"Hm. I guess this thing won't be there for very long?" Kirk guessed.
"Actually, it appears that the anomaly is actually growing and getting stronger. It appears stable for right now, but I believe the anomaly will reach critical density and implode upon itself inside of twenty minutes. Captain, this is a once in a lifetime event. We cannot afford to miss such a chance." Spock urged Kirk.
Kirk gave it thought and said, "Mr. Sulu, divert course to the location of Spock's anomaly. We'll get some scans and then continue on our way to Yorktown before the thing explodes."
"Understood sir. Diverting course and heading towards the anomaly." Sulu said as the Enterprise dropped out of warp, changed her direction and then went back into Warp.
A minute later and the Enterprise arrived close to the anomaly.
"Bring up the anomaly on the main screen, I want to see this thing for myself." Kirk said and a few moments later the main screen showed a view of the anomaly.
It was a large green portal floating in space, wisps of green gas floating off of the portal and then disappearing a few hundreds meters away from the portal.
"Alright Mr. Spock, I want full spectrum scans on that thing. Get as much data as you possibly can, divert some power from non-essential systems to boost our sensors. Also, I want Deflector Shields raised just in case." Kirk ordered.
"Understood Captain. Boosting sensor's power." Spock calmly said as the sensor module was flooded with new power.
A few minutes later and Spock said, "Fascinating. It appears I was right, the anomaly is a rift into a higher dimensional plane the likes of which Starfleet has never come across."
"Cool. What do you think would happen if we went into that thing?" Kirk asked.
"Impossible to determine sir. The anomaly could have thousands of different effects on the hull and the crew. We could be exposed to radiation that would boil the flesh off of our bones instantly or a unknown energy burst could radiate the Warp Core and cause a breach. I would not recommend we do not try to find out." Spock said calmly.
"Understood. Mr. Sulu, keep us away from that thing at a minimum of 3,000 miles." Kirk said.
"Aye sir." Sulu said.
A few minutes later and Bones walked onto the bridge.
"Kirk, what's going on? We should be back at Yorktown by now." Bones said.
"Sorry Bones, but Spock found a cool anomaly that I thought we should check out." Kirk said with a smile.
"Oh great, another chance for the crew to be irradiated by an unknown energy that can kill us all. Good idea." Bones said tiredly. These past few years have tested McKoy's patience with the universe as more strange and unknown diseases were contracted by the crew that he had to heal.
"Don't worry Bones. We're keeping our distance and our Deflector shields are up, so we should be fine." Kirk said.
"I feel so much better." Bones deadpanned, causing a few of the younger crew members to crack a smile as the two bantered with one another.
Another few minutes passed by with no incidents when Spock said, "Captain, the anomaly is starting to reach critical density. I believe we should leave the area."
"Arlight, Mr. Sulu, engage Warp Drive, maximum speed, head for Yorktown. Let's get out here." Kirk ordered.
"Aye sir. Engaging Warp Drive." Sulu said as he pulled the lever and sent the Enterprise flying forth into the stars.
However, a few moments into their flight and Spock said, "Captain, I am detecting an unknown energy wave rapidly approaching the Enterprise. Impact in thirty seconds."
"An energy wave that can race with a ship at Warp?" Kirk asked, slightly shocked.
"Indeed. I cannot identify the energy wave, all I can tell you is the fact that is massive." Spock said.
"How massive?" Bones asked.
"Impossible to determine." Spock said.
"All hands, prepare for impact. I repeat, all hands prepare for impact." Kirk said as a klaxon sounded out all over the ship as the crew got ready for impact.
"Don't worry Bones, we have our Deflectors up. It's perfectly alright Bones. This is all your fault Jim, I know it is." Bones said as he strapped himself in.
"C'mon Bones, I think you're overreacting a little." Kirk said.
"I most certainly am not." Bones said with a slight glare.
"Impact in ten seconds. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One." Spock said as he counted down.
A moment later and the ship was rocked as a massive impact threw everyone in the seats. The energy wave passed through the ship, knocking everyone out as the Enterprise was carried aloft by the energy wave far off course from Yorktown while the universe all around them changed irrevocably.
Meanwhile, a universe away a small light tan freighter that has a crescent shaped aft section while the bow has a twin prong shape to it with the cockpit being on the starboard side while a large satellite dish sat on the port side was flying in an asteroid field to try and avoid ten small fighters.
The fighters have a circular central module while two large rectangular fans sit on either side.
This freighter is the Millennium Falcon, a ship that shall one day become one of the most important and most legendary ships in history. But for right now, the Captain of said vessel really doesn;y care about that. All he cares about is not getting blown to atoms by that squadron of TIE fighters behind him.
"Damn that backstabbing pile of bantha crap! Next time I see him, I'm gonna shoot him!" Han Solo, owner and Captain of the ship swore as he banked the small ship to the right to dodge a massive steroid that crushed a single TIE.
"Han, I'm in the dorsal gun nest, Leia has the ventral one. We're gonna try and swat these TIEs down." Luke Skywalker, one of the few people Han can claim as a friend spoke through the communicator.
"Be careful. Blast an asteroid apart and we might do the TIE's job for them." Han said as he kept his eyes on the many asteroids around them. Flying through an asteroid field is a bad idea at the best of times and right now thanks to those TIE's the Millennium Falcon's Deflector Shields are badly drained. An asteroid of the right size and velocity will crush the freighter with little difficulty and Han really doesn't want to die today.
"Got it. We'll check our aim." Luke said as he cut the comm and diverted his attention back to aiming his gun turret.
"Fly boy having trouble getting us out of here?" Princess Leia Organa, Rebel Alliance Leader said with some slight irritation. She and Han just do not get along all that well, more often the two end up yelling at one another. Mostly because Han pushes Leia's buttons with his insinations that she likes him romantically.
"Han's doing his best. We just have to get clear of this asteroid field and then we can make the jump to hyperspace." Luke replied to his fellow gunner.
Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the ship, first mate Chewbacca is currently scowling and roaring in his Wookie native tongue as he tries to get the hyperdrive ready. The Millenium Falcon is old. She might be a good ship for smuggling, but there is no denying that the ship is well past her prime. Many systems are not working at their optimal levels, especially since a lot of the systems have been modified with vastly illegal technologies that make getting repairs harder since a lot of sentient beings don't want to get on the wrong side of Imperial Law.
As Chewbacca worked to repair the hyperdrive, he suddenly heard a familiar series of beeps and whistles. Turning his furry head towards the noise, he saw the familiar domed head of R2-D2, the faithful and dependable astromech droid of Luke Skywalker.
The droid currently was standing on his two legs to give him a more straight posture while a cylindrical connector has come out of his chest and is now allowing him to make alterations. The droid let out another series of whistles and beeps to let Chewbacca know that the Hyperdrive Regulator has been finally been repaired.
Chewbacca let out a joyous roar. With the Hyperdrive regulator back online, the ship is almost ready to head to light speed. All they have to do is get out of the asteroid field and they are home free.
"R2, just what are you doing?" A condescending robotic voice said as a golden humanoid shaped robot walked over to R2.
Chewbacca instantly felt his good mood die an ugly death. C-3PO is the second robot Luke owns and by far, C-3PO is the one most people want to send to a compactor. The robot is cowardly, load, practically useless in almost any situation that their small band of misfits find themselves in since most of them end with the crew having to fight their way out.
Chewbacca got out of the repair pit he was just in and covered it over with the floor panels nearby and then started making his way to the bridge. Han is going to need his help to get them out of this one.
Meanwhile, back in the dorsal gun turret Luke swore as a TIE came screaming across the Falcon's port side, the twin cannons on the ball shaped cockpit splashing green bolts of plasma onto the Falcon's Deflector shield which is rapidly loosing power from how many TIEs are attacking at once.
Luke took the control stick for the turret and yanked it up and fired, the red plasma bolts screaming from the four barrels of the turret. The TIE had no time to react and flew into the plasma blasts, the red bolts melting into the thin and weak armor of the TIE with ease. The small fighter exploded in a bright cloud of expanding plasmatic gases, scratching one more TIE from the formation.
"I got another one. That brings the total to three for me, two for you, right Leia?" Luke said with a smile.
The sound of blaster bolts firing filled his comm link followed by Leia saying, "Wrong. It's three apiece farm boy."
Luke narrowed his eyes as his competitive spirit flared up as he said, "The games not over yet."
Luke saw a flash of green as two more TIE came down onto the Falcon hard, their cannons firing as fast as they could.
Luke moved his turret towards the lead TIE and let loose a stream of red bolts that managed to smash into the TIE's cockpit, blowing the cockpit apart and causing the fighter to explode violently.
The second TIE however as too fast and managed to pass Luke by as it completed its attack run, draining the Falcon's shields even more as Han continued to try and fly out of the asteroid field.
"Hey guys, shields are down to 21%! If you two don't get rid of those remaining TIE's, we're all gonna be meeting our ancestors in the afterlife." Han yelled out, a small line of sweat leaking from his brow.
"You're not helping!" Leia yelled back as she fired at another incoming TIE, but missed as the TIE banked away from the Falcon.
"Listen your worshipfulness, if I was firing that gun I would have already killed all the TIE's, but I'm needed up here on the bridge to try and navigate us out of this asteroid field without letting that Star Destroyer know where we are! If you think you can do better, then come up here and take control! If not, the be quiet and kill those TIEs!" Han yelled out.
"You arrogant, banatha smelling blockhead!" Leia shouted back at Han, but before Han could retaliate Luke cut in and said, "Can you two please focus on getting us out of here alive? You two can kill each other when we're back with the fleet."
"Fine." The two of them said at the same time.
Luke simply sighed as he turned the turret towards the newest incoming TIE, which was being smart and had cut his engine power down a little to maintain his position behind the Falcon. He was in the perfect spot where neither Luke nor Leia could get him with the guns while he is feely capable of hitting the Falcon with his own weapons.
The TIE was letting loose, twin streams of emerald energy splashing against the rear Deflector shields. However, the pilot was too eager to try and take the falcon down and so wasn't ready for Han to push the Falcon down in dive, which meant that Luke could now take the TIE out.
The TIe pilot banked hard to port to try and get out of the firing arc of Luke's turret, but was too slow and so the TIE took several dozen ruby red plasma bolts to the starboard side rectangular fin which resulted in the fin being blown apart and causing the TIE to spin around out of control until it hit an asteroid and blew apart.
Meanwhile, Leia had two TIE coming from underneath the Falcon for a pass at the freighter, but Leia managed to nail the leftmost TIE in the cockpit, blowing that one apart while the other was caught by the shrapnel of his dead partner which caused it to lose engine power and couldn't react in time to avoid the stream of energy bolts Leia let into it, causing the second TIE to be killed.
"Is that all of them?" Luke asked tiredly.
"Yeah, that's all of them. We'll be leaving the asteroid field in twenty seconds. Prepare for the jump to hyperspace." Han said as he ducked and dodged out of the way of more asteroids.
Luke and Leia both got out of their gun turrets and headed into the main section of the Falcon. Once there, the two quickly headed for the cockpit.
Han and Chewie were both there, the two of them quickly working to get the coordinates from the nav-computer.
"Settle in, we're at the very edge of the asteroid field. Once out, it's just be a few seconds before we can make the jump." Han said, not even bothering to turn and look at the two.
Leia and Luke both sat down and strapped themselves in while C-3PO and R2-D2 both rolled into the cockpit.
A few seconds later and the Falcon finally got out of the asteroid field, only to get a warning beeping from one of the computers.
"That Star Destroyer is right behind us. Around 1,000 miles out and closing fast. We'll be in tractor beam range soon. we have to make the jump now Chewie!"; han said looking at the console.
Chewie let out a roar as he put in the coordinates that the navicomputer finally spat out. After he finished punching in the coordinates, he let out another roar.
"Alright, punch it!" Han yelled as Chewie pulled a lever, causing the ship to make the jump to hyperspace.
The view of the stars in front of the Falcon blurred, being nothing more then brightly burning lines as a large blue tunnel enveloped the Falcon.
Han collapsed in his seat, happy to finally be in the safety of hyperspace and not facing an Imperial Star Destroyer.
"Well that was fun." Han said as he wiped his forehead with his right hand.
"Finally away from the Imperials. But now we just lost a possible safe haven. Alliance High Command will not be happy losing yet another system to the Imperials." Leia said.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I would rather keep my head and not be shot by some Stormtrooper. Rather we lose this system then our lives. We can find the resources for Echo base in other systems." Han said.
"How? More and more star systems are turning us away as the Imperials have started cracking down hard after the Death Star was destroyed. At this rate we'll have no place left to turn outside of our few loyal star system." Leia said.
"The galaxy is a big place. Plenty of places that are just waiting to take a shot at the Empire and what you are forgetting is that the Empire is making a lot of enemies by cracking down. They keep this up and we'll have hundreds of eager recruits ready to take the fight to the Empire." Han said with his signature smirk on his face.
Leia would have liked to say something back to Han, but the beeping from one of the consoles interrupted the conversation.
"What's that?" Luke asked.
"Sensors are picking something up." Han said, looking over the readings.
"In hyperspace?" Leia said.
"There are plenty of things that can affect a ship even in hyperspace. Suns, black holes, supernovas, so it can happen, but this is different. It looks like an energy wave." Han said.
"An energy wave? Captain Solo, just what do you mean?" C-3PO said.
"What I mean chrome dome is that there is an approaching energy wave that will hit us in forty seconds based on the speed of the wave." Han said as he and Chewbacca started flipping switches.
"Should we drop out of hyperspace?" Luke asked.
"Nope. We'll just be hit by the energy wave even faster. Apparently the wave is affecting everything in both hyperspace as well as in real space. Besides, we drop out know and we have no idea what we'll hit. We could drive right into a planet at near light speed which would be really bad." Han said as he continued working.
"So what do we do?" Leia asked.
"Strap in and prepare to ride the wave out. I've put all energy into our deflector shield to try and mitigate the damage, but e'll most likely take some damage. I'm sealing the cockpit in the event of hull failure." Han said as the door leading to the rest of the ship closed itself off.
"Do you think we'll make it?" Leia asked.
"No idea. Never seen anything like this before. But we'll do our damnedest to live." Han said as he finished his preparations and strapped himself into the Captain's chair.
"We're doomed." C-3PO said pessimistically.
"Either shut him up or shut him down. We need to concentrate, not listen to goldenrod have a meltdown." Han said irritably.
The seconds wore on as the wave approached the small freighter until at last, the freighter as struck hard. The small ship bounced around as the ship shook like it as in an earthquake.
Those on the ship were knocked unconscious by the energy wave as it passed them by, the freighter being carried away by the energy wave to an unknown destination.
Inside a black tunnel with no colors, a large blocky ship made of gunmetal grey armor flew forth.
This is the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, one of the UNSC's many Halcyon class Light Cruisers in deployment, however the Autumn is special. She has many major upgrades over the rest of her sister ships that make her much stronger and more powerful.
She has a better MAC cannon, more Archer missile pods and a much more powerful nuclear fusion reactor. Not only that, she also carries a single Spartan-II super soldier, John-117.
All of these things make the Pillar of Autumn a much more deadly beast, however for all of her upgrades, the Covenant still can destroy her with ease.
The Covenant are a coalition of alien species united together under one banner that have all declared a war of extermination against humanity for unknown reasons. This has lead to a 28 year long war that has seen a large portion of the 800 human worlds turned into apocalyptic wastelands incapable of supporting human life anymore.
The UNSC has lead a valiant attempt at holding the Covenant back, however they are just too outmatched in outer space. On the ground the UNSC can hold their own and can even win. In outer space though, the Covenant warships are just too strong. With their energy shields, plasma based weaponry that melts through even the toughest of UNSC armor plating within seconds and their faster Slipspace speeds, even the smallest of Covenant capital grade warships take at least three-to-one odds to be beaten. So, even if the UNSC wins on the ground, the Covenant can just vaporize them from orbit and there is not a thing the UNSC can do about it.
The UNSC has become rapidly more desperate for any advanced technologies that might just turn the odds against the Covenant, scouring every planet, every moon, any possible location where Covenant technology might lay for them to find, yet they have found only meagur scraps of technology, usually from ground forces which has lead to the development of personal shield technology, yet they still lack any shields for their own warships.
Just days prior, Reach, the UNSC's largest naval base, strategic headquarters and second-largest population center, has fallen to the Covenant. All the UNSC's defenses, all of their ships, all of their tricks ultimately meant nothing as the Covenant steamrolled through the defenses around Reach. Only the Pillar of Autumn managed to escape and even then, that was by the skin of their teeth.
It has been five days since the Pillar of Autumn fled Reach. Moral on the ship is low as even though only a few of the troops have been injured, all of them are still reeling from the shock of losing Reach. The crew is dealing with this by doing as much work as they can to keep their minds off of the horrific memories of Reach burning. Some of the troops are helping the wounded recover from plasma burns and other injuries while the rest of the crew is doing what they can to fix the damage the vessel took during her fight with the Covenant. Thankfully the damage isn't debilitating as only a few glancing shots from Plasma Torpedoes grazed the ships hull and melted through only a few decks of armor which is not close to as bad as it could have been.
Captain Jacob Keyes stepped onto the bride of the Autumn, his face seemingly made of stone as he walked over to the holotable.
"Cortana, ship status." Keyes ordered.
A blue block of light appeared as a consolidated into the form of a woman. She appeared to be roughly 25-ish, but age is impossible to determine based on he holographic avatar she has chosen. Lines of code appeared to be running through her body, protecting her modesty.
Cortana crossed her arms across her chest and said in slightly compertized voice, "Well Captain, we are in one piece and unless something bad happens, we're most likely going to stay that way. Covenant Plasma Torpedoes only grazed us luckily, so damage to hull is minor with decks 13-15 on the starboard side being open to space while decks 25-31 on the port side also being vented. We used a large portion of our Archer's up killing that Supercarrier and our nuclear missile tubes have been jammed thanks to internal damage. Repair crews think they can get it fixed inside of seven days, but they said don't count on it."
She then showed a holographic screen showing the point defense guns of the Autumn and said, "Our point defense guns have 78% of their ammunition left while our Spitfire's have 71% on their stock and our Sentry auto-turrets have 62% left in their stock, so we are doing okay on that part. MAC cannon has plenty of ammunition left and thankfully hasn't suffered any damage, so there's that. Our main concern is our Archers. We are down to 20% and some of the remain pods have had their launching mechanisms fried thanks to the plasma damage. Repair crews are working hard, but I think unless we completely rebuild the pods from the ground up, they aren't going to work. A lot of the internal electronics were badly damaged and we don't have the spare parts to be repairing them all."
Keyes had taken out his grandfather's pipe and was silently chewing on the tip of it, a habit he has developed over the years to try and deal with stressful situations.
"We have been in worse conditions. What about the crew?" Keyes asked.
"Out of the 800 Army personal , only 54 are down in the infirmary for minor wounds. They'll be back on their feet in around two weeks or so. ODST's got off lighter, only 12 injuries, also expected to recover. Spartan John-117 is safely sleeping in a cryo-chamber. So, what do we do now Captain? We lost a large portion of our Spartan's down on Reach and have suffered damage. Not only that, but we have also lost our only chance at getting a Covenant ship. RED FLAG has failed horribly." Cortana said with concern.
Keyes sighed and said, "I know. But, with Reach fallen, we might be the last hope at survival humanity has. We have to find the Covenant homeworld and get one of their leaders to force a truce. There is no other options Cortana."
Cortana knew he was right. Before Keyes had a chance to talk a single word, Cortana had already run ten of thousands of simulations on humanity's chances of survival and in none of them did humanity win in a show of arms. Fighting the Covenant has proven to be a hopeless fight, however this plan of theirs is not much better. The odds of them somehow getting to the Covenant homeworld is slim to none and that is not even factoring in however large the defense fleet of that planet must be as well as how hard it is going to be to capture a Covenant leader. Cortana stopped calculating the odds of this mission being successful after the chances got lower then 0.0006%.
But logically, Cortana knew Keyes is right. The UNSC has exhausted literally almost every other option available to them and unless the UNSC just so happens upon advanced alien technology that they can immediately use, they are going to lose the war inside of a year.
Before Cortana could think for very long, the sensors detected something inside their Slipspace stream.
"Captain, we have something on our sensors. Unknown energy wave. It will overtake us in thirty seconds." Cortana said.
"Sound alert, get the crew strapped in. Can you drop us out of Slipspace?" Keyes asked.
"I don't think that would be wise sir. We have traveled a fair distance from Reach and we have no idea what we might crash into if we drop out right now." Cortana said with slight unease.
"Do you think the hull can take the energy wave?" Keyes asked as he strapped himself in.
"Unknown sir. It's unlike anything I have ever seen before in my life." Cortana said as she analyzed the energy wave every way she could think of and she was still no closer to understanding it.
"Then take us out of Slipspace. I am not about to risk the ship being torn apart." Keyes ordered.
"Understood." Cortana responded as she sent the deactivate signal for the Slipspace drive.
The Pillar of Autumn came out of Slipspace with little fanfare, a large abyss colored portal appearing in front of the ship of which the ship squeezed through and then collapsed after the ship left.
However, a few moments after the ship left Slipspace, the ship was engulfed by the energy wave and swept away, the entire crew being rendered unconscious as soon as the energy wave struck.
Across four different realities, a mysterious energy wave has appeared, sweeping away stars, planets and everything else until nothing remains of those Milky Way galaxies.
As one, the four Milky Way's combined into one, leaving them as a massive super galaxy.
This shall forever be remembered by those that have yet to come into existence as "The Merging." And it will be remembered as the most important event in civilized history.
Our story now truly shall begin.
In a small solar system with only dead worlds orbiting a normal yellow star, a flat tar ripped open in space. Colored light green, the tear stopped silent and unmoving for a few moments before a strange blur shot out of the tear at ludicrous speeds as the tear disappear from existence.
The blur came to an abrupt halt a few miles from it's exit point, revealing itself to be the USAF Odyssey, the ship managing to survive being shot into its own hyperspace window after being struck by the energy wave formed from Orilla's destruction.
A few seconds later and another vessel was deposited in the solar system, this one coming out of a distortion in space. The sleek hull and registration number disclosed the fact that the vessel in question is the USS Enterprise, also somehow managing to survive her own brush with an uncontrolled and unexpected strike by the mysterious energy wave.
Another few seconds passed as yet another vessel was deposited into the solar system, this one being much smaller then the other two sleeping giants. The Millenium Falcon, despite her small size, managed to hold together and survive the impact of the energy wave as well as her uncontrolled voyage through hyperspace.
A moment after that an a much larger vessel came into view. The UNSC Pillar of Autumn has actually been here much longer then the other ships, the ship just laying still after the energy wave disappeared.
The four ships were silent, their reactors being cold and offline while their crews remained unconscious after being struck by the energy wave.
A silent and empty space station in the shape of cylinder with emerald green conduits running across the outer hull floated near the four ships. Sensing the ships, life support as well as gravity systems automatically reactivated as the stations primitive AI assumed the ships were actually it's masters returning to take control of the station once more. After bringing the reactors back on and ensuring gravity as well as life support are back online, the station began to await for the ships to dock with it.
O'Neill groaned slightly as he came back to consciousness, the right side of his head throbbing. Reaching up, he felt no blood, just a burning spot. Most likely he hit his head on his chair and gave himself a nasty bruise.
All around him, the fellow members of the command staff all started to pick themselves up and begin running diagnostics on the ship to try and ascertain what damages they have suffered.
"Damage report." O'Neill called out.
"Sir, scans are showing our hull is still in one piece, no damage. Internal scans are showing no damage as well. Asgard Core is safe as well as the Asgard Minds. Colonel Derek is checking them over and is saying they are alright." Major Marks said.
O'Neill let out a sigh of relief. It appears that the Odyssey was very lucky. No damage and more importantly, no Asgard lost and the Asgard Core is safe as well.
"What about the crew?" O'Neill asked.
"So far, three crewmen are reporting minor injuries, one broken arm and five with minor to major concussions as well. No deaths. All compartments are reporting green across the board. However, the Hyperdrive is offline and is going through a diagnostic sequence. We should be able to jump back to hyperspace in fifteen minutes sir." Marks said.
"Good. Carter, mind explaining to me what in the hell just happened?" O'Neill asked.
"Sir, I am going over the logs sir. Apparently, just as we were entering hyperspace we were struck by the energy wave from Orilla's destruction. The force of the blast shot us into hyperspace like a bullet. We are lucky sir, the Asgard Core recognized the danger and diverted all power from the secondary reactors into the shield generators. Normally a ship using an Asgard hyperdrive can't raise shields while in hyperspace, but the core was able to handle the strain on the systems and get the shields raised. If the core hadn't acted, the ship would have been destroyed." Carter said as she read over the logs.
"Asgard engineering as it's best. Even without bodies the little guys are saving our asses. So, we good to head back once the hyperdrive is back online?" O'Neill asked.
"I would like to run several scans just to be sure, but from where I am standing, the ship is good to head back to Earth, sir." Carter reported.
"Okay, run a few scans just to be on the safe side Carter. Oh, before I forget, can you tell me where we are?" O'Neill asked.
"The star charts are working on it sir, we should have an answer soon." Carter replied.
"Okay, call if anything's broken. O'Neill out." Jack said before cutting the comm link.
Cameron, Vala, Teal'c and Daniel all regain consciousness soon and were brought up to speed quickly.
"So the ship got hit by the energy wave from Oriall's destruction and catapulted us god knows how many lights years away?" Daniel asked, bad memories from when something similar happened years ago when he, Sam, Jack and Sam's Dad, Jacob Carter where all sent 4 million lights years with Apophis.
"Yeah, that about sums it up. Carter is running some scans just to be sure we are good to go and once we get our position, we'll be back to sweet old mother Earth in no time." Jack said with a smile.
"Sir, sort range sensors are operational again and we just detected three unknown ships around 1,000 miles from us in different directions." Marks said.
"Bring them up on screen. Let's see what we are dealing with." O'Neill said.
Marks nodded and quickly brought up a view of the unknown vessels.
Everyone looking at the main screen let out as gasp as the three small holographic screens showed two ships deeply ingrained into the minds of every young child ever since their two respective franchises were created.
"Marks, are you sure you brought up the screen right? The sensor array ain't damaged, correct?" O'Neill asked, unable to believe his eyes.
"No sir. Sensor array is working perfectly and I brought up the scan correctly. What are seeing is indeed correct." Mark said, also unable to believe his eyes.
"Sir, am I going crazy or is the Millenium Falcon as well as the Enterprise just outside the ship?" Mitchell said.
"You're not crazy, unless we all went crazy at the same time, which would then make this a group bonding experience." O'Neill said with his usual tone.
"Sir, scans on the three vessels show that their reactors are offline, although secondary reactors are working and life support is operational." Marks supplied.
"Okay. Let's think about this logically. We get hit by that energy wave from the Asgard blowing themselves up, we go unconscious and when we wake up we see ships from fictional universes right outside. There can be only one logical answer." O'Neill said as all eyes turned to him. "We are all still unconscious and this is a mass hallucination."
"Sir, I don;t think that's the case. I patched into the sensors and I see the other ships. While I was scanning the background area, I noticed a large amount of discrepancies with the stars." Carter said over the comm channel.
"What kind of discrepancies are we talking about Carter?" O'Neill asked.
"Some stars have moved far from their original alignment and more over, there are a lot more stars then there should be." Carter said.
"Carter, I may not be the smartest man to live, but even I know that stars do not move and stars do not randomly appear out of nowhere." O'Neill said, before he was ct off by Vala talking.
"She's right. I have been looking the stars over and I can tell you with absolute certainty that there are a hole hell of a lot more stars then we are used to. Unless the memories from Quetesh are wrong." Vala said.
They all knew that when it comes to certain subjects, Vala is the best person the SGC has. One of them is the ability to locate and plot positions in space, based just upon observations of the constellations. If Vala is saying that the stars aren't right and that there is a lot more of them then usual, they will take her word at it.
"So what? The Milky Way gained a couple of new additions?" Mitchell asked, unable to see the significance of these events.
"COlonel Mitchell, if more stars have appeared in our galaxy, it might be a sign that we are no longer in our own universe anymore. We have long since found proof of alternate realities, perhaps we have been thrown into one. That would explain the existence of two warships who previously have only existed in the imagination of Earth's people/" Teal'c said.
"Carter?" Jack asked.
"I am running several background checks to determine if indeed we have been through to some alternate parallel reality, the results should be coming in soon. Theoretically, it is possible. There are an infinity of infinity worth of parallel realities. The possibility that there is a reality where the characters of both Star Trek and Star Wars actually living, breathing people is actually quite high. Both of them living together in the same reality is also equally likely somewhere in the grand range of the multiverse. However, the odds of us running into them is astronomically small to the point of near impossibility. However, when you consider our luck, it's not so far out of the range of possibility." Carter said.
It is true, when it comes to experiencing the weird, the unexplained or the impossible, the SGC has a record of somehow managing to see all of it. Alternate realities, time dilation, alien empires, time travel, alien created cloned younger versions of themselves, SG-1 has seen and done it all. Meeting once thought to be fictional characters is just another day in the job of being an SGC member.
"So, what do we do?" Daniel finally asked the question bugging everyone.
"I think we should meet with them. Always did want to talk to Kirk and Solo. This might be my only chance to do so." O'Neill said with excitement bubbling beneath the surface.
"Would the crew of the Enterprise even talk to us? We are from the past from their point of view and the Federation has strict rules regarding time travel. Not only that, they might believe they are breaching the Prime Directive by speaking to us." Teal'c cationed.
"They can only not talk to civilizations who haven't developed FTL travel yet. We have several ships capable of that, so speaking to use shouldn't violate the Prime Directive. As for the whole we are from their past, we aren't. We are from another universe and so it should be safe for them to talk to us. Logically, if the Vulcans, Klingons or Romulans existed in our universe, the Goa'uld would have wiped them out years ago as a threat to their rule of the galaxy. The fact that we haven't found a scrap of evidence to them ever existing, shows we are from two different universes. So all in all, the Enterprise crew should have no objections to talking with us." O'Neill said with a smirk.
It is a good argument and one that should alleviate any concerns the crew of the Enterprise has with talking to them.
"Carter, if for some reason we have to fight our way out, can we?" O'Neill asked. He didn't plan on firing the first shots, bt to protect the crew and the ship, he would destroy ven the Enterprise.
"Shields are at 78% and charging fast, should be at 100% in three minutes. Asgard Plasma Beam weapons are operational and be activated at any time. Ion Cannons are also operational. Missile tubes are working perfectly as well as the torpedo tubes. Rail Guns and Disruptor Cannons can be turned on at anytime sir. Bottom line is, if a fight does break out, we can fight back. However, I can't gareteen the effectiveness of our guns against ships from alternate realities." Carter warned.
"Understood." O"neill said as he then turned to Marks and said, "Hail all three ships."
Marks nodded and quickly pressed a few buttons on his console and then said, "You're on sir."
O'Neill said nothing as he stood up and walked over to the front screen and looked at the three vessels before him.
"Unknown vessels, this is the USAF Earth warship Odyssey. We mean you no harm. We wish to talk to you. I repeat, unknown vessels, this is the Earth warship Odyssey, please respond." O'Neill said, listening for any response.
The silence that permeated the bridge was deafening.
Kirk groaned a little as he sat back up in his chair, a throbbing headache rampaging across his head.
Looking around, he saw the other members of the bridge crew waking up one after another. Soon the bridge was filled with noise once again as his crew went to work.
"Damage report." Kirk ordered.
"It appears the ship suffered no damage sir." One of the bridge crew said.
"Captain, we have three unknown vessels on our short range sensors. One is around 900 meters in length, one is 1,710 meters and the final one is 34.7 meters in length." Spock said.
"On screen." Kirk ordered, the main flaring to show each of the vessels.
All three had a kind of utilitarian design to them, two of them have a blocky ship design, one looking like a literal brick with engines strapped to the end of it while another looking like a grey bread box with two outriggers on the sides of the ship while the final one had a two prongs on the bow with a crescent shaped aft section to it.
"Spock, you recognize them?" Kirk asked.
"Negative Captain, these vessels do not belong to any known organization currently encountered by the Federation. This is a first contact." Spock said.
"Great. Possible first contact with potentially three new civilizations and the ship is knock out. Good way to make first impressions. Uhura, can we contact them?" Kirk asked.
"Almost. Just got to lock in the frequency and...Sir! They are contacting us! It's on a broad band frequency, they want to talk to us.' Uhura said.
"Eager little guys. Well, let's hear what they have to say." Kirk said as a new voice filled the bridge.
"I repeat, this is General Jack O'Neill of the USAF Earth warship Odyssey contacting unknown vessels, please respond." The voice said, sounding like it came from an older human male.
"Uhura, is the translater working?" Kirk asked, slightly confused.
"Sir, the translator doesn't have to. He is speaking English. Every word spoken is how he said them." Uhura siad with equal confusion to her Captain.
"If I remember correctly, the United States Air Force was disbanded over a century ago when the UNited States as well as many of Earth's governments collapsed during World War III." Spock supplied.
"You're right Spock it did. So whoever is on that ship is either lying, dylusional or we have found ourselves in a really awkward situation." Kirk said.
"Open a channel. I want to talk to him." Kirk ordered.
"Channel open." Uhura said.
"This is James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise is service to the United Federation of Planets as well as Starfleet. We read you load and clear Odyssey." Kirk said.
A moment of silence followed before the voice returned.
"Thanks, We have been trying to contact you guys for the past three minutes. Marks was starting to run out of frequencies to try." O'Neill said.
"Sorry about that. We had a few concerns to take car off. I can;t help but notice you said USAF. Would I be correct in assuming you mean the United States Air Force?" Kirk asked.
The line was dead for a few seconds before a response was given.
"Yes. This ship is owned and operated by the United States Air Force on planet Earth." O'Neill said.
"Well, that's a problem since the United States and all organizations working for it collapsed during World War III over a century ago. Can you explain why a deceased government is in operation of an advanced starship?" Kirk asked.
Another period of silence followed before O'Neill said, "This vessel are her crew are from the year 2006."
Out of all possible answers, Kirk didn't know how to respond to that one.
"Sir, I have run a scan of the ship and there appears to be a temporal fluctuation in the vessels quake. Scans have revealed tachyons that are different from the rest of or known universe. This supports their claim." Spock said.
"So, you're telling me we are looking at a vessel from 2006 operated by the United States government?" Kirk asked, not believing the story for a moment.
"It would appear so. It is curious how the United States government managed to create vessel in that time period, considering it was many years prior to the development of Warp and the First Contact with Vulcan." Spock said, intrigued by the vessels existence.
"Bones, how likely is it that we are all having a mass halucian together?" Kirk asked.
"I've run a scan. There's nothing in the air or being transmitted that would cause a simultaneous and shared hallucination. What we are seeing is really happening." Bones said as he ran a scan.
"Alright, so what do we do? We can't talk to them, the Prime Directive as well as the Temporal Directive must be followed here, right Spock?" Kirk asked.
"Actually Captain, I believe our current situation makes it so that both of those directives are not applicable. The vessel is from the past, true, but they must have a FTL drive to be so far from Earth, thus satisfying the Prime Directive. Secondly, they might not be from our timeline. If such a vessel was capable of being built in 2006, then history would have mentioned so. Earth's technological state at that time period would prevent them from building sch a craft, so advanced alien technology must have either been given to them, they stole it or they found it. Either way, such advanced technology would make itself known to the world and thusly, history would remember such a vessel. Even after World War III, some records of such advanced technology would have survived. The fact that such a vessel is not mentioned in history leads me to believe the vessel is from an alternate Earth, a parallel reality." Spock said.
"An alternate Earth?" Scotty asked.
"Yes. Several scientists in the Federation believe that there is a multiverse of parallel realities where every possible decisions has an alternate outcome. Small changes in the timeline leading to completely alien and unfamiliar versions of our own reality. It is possible that the Odyssey may in fact come from one of these alternate universes." Spock said.
"So, what do we do?" Kirk asked.
"There is no directive or protocol for this eventuality. We will have to ing it, as you humans say." Spock replied.
"Alright then. Is there a neutral place were we can all meet together face to face?" Kirk asked.
"There appears to be a large derelict space space around three light minutes away from us. Scans show light support is functional as well as gravity. We could hold a meeting there." Spock said.
"Okay, let's talk to them." Kirk said, spinning his seat to face the main screen once more.
Meanwhile, the crew of the Millennium Falcon were listening into the conversation between the odyssey and the Enterprise.
"Well Solo, recognize any of the ships?" Leia asked, looking over the form of the Enterprise, appreciating the soft and gentle curves of the ship.
"Nope. Never heard about this Earth place either, although it sounds important from the way the two Captains are talking about it." Solo said, looking over the scanner.
"So, what should we do? The hyperdrive is scrammed badly, so we can't leave. I think the only thing we can do is talk to them and hope they don;t vaporize us." Luke said.
"Farm boy is probably right. The Falcon ain't leaving the system for a while and from the size of those ships, they are probably packing some serious firepower, so fighting or way out is suicidal. Playing ball with them is our only chance of survival. Well Princess, you're up, Our lives are in your hand." Solo said, gesturing to the communication console.
"Thanks Solo." Leia said as she moved into the copilot seat that was empty after Chewbacca when to see the hyperdrive.
Reaching out, Leia gently tapped the comm link and said, "This is Princess Leia Organa of the Rebel Alliance to unknown vessels, please respond."
A few seconds of silence followed and Leia was about to speak again when the voice that identified itself as O'neill said, "We read you loud and clear Princess Leia. We mean you no harm."
"Well at least they aren't shooting at us." Solo said.
"Greetings General O'Neill. We find ourselves lost at the moment and a bit confused as to what is going on. Do you think you can render assistance?" Leia asked.
"Yeah. There appears to be a large space station near our current location. I think we should all head over there and just talk face to face until we figure this all out." O'Neill said.
"I got it. It's a large station, not as large as the Death Star or some of the other things we have seen, but it is larger then any Star Destroyer. Around 15 kilometers in diameter. Life support is operational as well as gravity." Solo said.
"We really have no other choice then to accept. I think if they wanted to, they could kill us or capture us with little difficulty, so we have to listen to what they say." Luke consoled.
"I agree with Farm Boy. No sense in pissing off the people with the large warships loaded with weapons. Might as well see what they want before we do anything." Solo said.
Leia nodded and then said, "Understood. We will meet you there General O'Neill."
Leia shut the comm link down and Han took control of the Falcon, maneuvering the small freighter around to face the station and then ignited the repulsor engines to send the ship flying forth towards the station.
Meanwhile, Captain Keyes and the crew of the Pillar of Autumn had all awaken and where currently listening in on the conversation between the Enterprise, the Odyssey and the Millenium Falcon.
"Cortana, what can you tell me about these ships?" Keyes asked.
"Not much besides the fact they aren't some of ours and they aren't Covenant. I can tell you the Odyssey is putting out ridiculous amounts of energy, much higher then any UNSC ship and Covenant ships with only a CSO class ship coming close. Also, the Enterprise is putting out some high amounts of energy as well and appears to have some DEW on her hull, scans aren't really getting through to get me an accurate picture. However, what I can tell you is there are humans on all three ships." Cortana said.
"How? Possible Insurrectionists who found alien technology?" Keyes asked.
"Possibility. However, from the way this General O'Neill and Captain Kirk are talking, they are both apart of official governments both situated on Earth, but not apart of the UEG. That can't be possible, so either they are both lying or things have just gotten a lot weirder for us." Cortana said.
Keyes was silent for a few seconds before he said, "Wake up 117. Get him to the bridge. We are going to meet them at that station and I want him with the delegation in case things go south."
"Knowing our luck, they most likely will." Cortana quipped before she sent the command to have Spartan 117 thawed out.
Keyes then turned towards his bridge crew and said, "Get me a link to the Odyssey and the Enterprise, I want to talk to them."
A few seconds later and he heard, "You're on sir."
"This is Captain Jacob Keyes of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn to Starfleet vessel USS Enterprise and USAF Odyssey, do you read me?" Keyes asked.
A second later and General O'Neill said, "O'Neill hear, I can read you loud and clear."
"Captain Kirk, we are hearing you Pillar of Autumn." Kirk said a few moments later.
"We have no idea what is going on, so if we will have us, we would like to head to the unknown space station and talk things over with you." Keyes said.
"Fine by me." O'Neill said.
"I would very much like that Captain Keyes. I'll be seeing you in person in just a few minutes." Kirk said.
"Very well. The Pillar of Autumn shall be there momentarily, Keyes out." Keyes aid as the communication channel closed.
Meanwhile, down in the Pillar of Autumn's cryo bay, a single cryotube opened up to reveal it's content.
Inside was a massive giant of a man, standing seven feet tall while clad in his olive green armor that shined in the light of the cryo bay.
After a few seconds, the figure began to move, his fingers slowly twitching and then clenching into fists as the figure began to more into a upward sitting position.
A few seconds later, and the figure had leapt from his cryotube and was now standing upright as he moved his arms and legs a little to get feeling back in them.
Once the figure as done, Cortana's voice came from the overhead PA system and said, "The Captain wants to see you Spartan. A bit of a situation has formed since you went into cryo."
Spartan John-117 said nothing as he made his ay from the cryo bay and went to the lift to take him to the bridge.
As he walked through the halls, UNSC personal all moved out of his way, some of them having excitement and awe in their faces, while other had looks of apprehension and fear.
Wherever he went in the UNSC, these looks are not only common, but expected. He and the other Spartan-II's learned early on that those in the regular military or even the ODST's will always look at Spartans with fear and awe at the same time for various reasons.
He doesn't care about that, all he cares about is completing his missions and protecting humanity. That is all he and his brothers and sisters were made to do and so he shall continue to do so, until the day he dies.
After a few minutes of transversing the large vessel, 117 walked onto the bridge of the vessel and saw the holographic avatar of Cortana conversing with Captain Keyes.
"Captain Keyes." John said in his baritone voice as he saluted his superior officer, standing ramrod straight as he did so.
"Master Chief. Good of you to join us. As Cortana said, we are in a situation. Recently the ship was struck by an unknown energy wave that knocked the crew out and shot us to an unknown sector of space. When we came to, we found three other ships, one ship a little bit smaller then a Covenant Frigate called the USAF Odyssey with another ship being slightly smaller then that called the USS Enterprise, while the final one is around the size of a civilian shuttle which apparently is carrying a Princess Leia called the Millenium Falcon." Keyes said as images of the USS Enterprise, USAF Odyssey and the Millenium Falcon appeared.
Master Chief scrutinized the three ships. The larger to were warships, although the largest look something like what the UNSC would field, the second one being a alien design and the third also looking slightly alien.
"Are they a threat to the ship?" Master Chief asked, although if they were Keyes wouldn't wait to inform Master Chief about them, he would take care of the problem.
"Not as of yet. They invited us to an abandoned space station three minutes away from our current position. All four ships will dock with the station and send a delegation to try and figure out what is going on. I want you to be on the team for us." Keyes said.
"Understood. Who else is going?" Master Chief asked.
"Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson, Major Antonio Silva, Fireteam Raven, myself and Cortana shall accompany you." Keyes responded.
"Sir, are you sure that's wise. If this turns hostile, we can't handle losing you sir." Master Chief said.
"True, but I want answers and the best place to get them is on that station. Besides, the Odyssey and the Enterprise are clearly technologically advanced, we have to take this opportunity to try and get some of that tech for Earth. As the Captain of the Autumn, I need to be there for those negotiations." Keyes said, unbending in his decision.
Master Chief nodded and said, "Time until mission starts?"
"Five minutes. Head down to the armory and get ready Master Chief. Also, take Cortana with you. In the event of a double cross, Cortana's technical abilities will be invaluable in ensuring we can get back to the ship." Keyes ordered.
Master Chief nodded as he was handed the small AI container chip holding Cortana and slid into the back of his helmet. A chilling cold spread through his mind like mercury had been poured into it, but a few moments later and the feeling passed as the familiar feeling of Cortana being in his head appeared.
"Ready to go caveman?" Cortana asked.
"Affirmative." Master Chief replied to his AI companion as he saluted Keyes and left to head to the armory.
"Mr. Sulu, take us to the station please. And do be careful when parking the ship." Kirk said.
"Yes sir. Taking us out." Sulu replied as he maneuvered the Enterprise with a deft and experienced ease.
The large ship approached the station as a large connecting arm slid out and gently took hold of the upper hull, lifting the vessel up until the Enterprise was 90 degrees facing down compared to the station. The arm retracted and pulled the Enterprise up until the Enterprise was now just slightly above the surface of the station.
"Alright, Spock, you and me and a squad of security personal will go and meet these guys. Let go get some weapons in cause this goes badly." Kirk said as he and Spock went to the lift.
"Mr. Sulu, I am leaving you in charge of the ship until I return. Keep her safe." Kirk said.
"Yo can count on me sir." Sulu said.
"I know I can." Kirk said just as the lift doors closed.
"Well, are you excited Spock? People from possible alternate dimensions, now that is cool." Kirk said excitedly.
"While indeed it is fascinating, I am not excited. There is much to discuss and very little time to do so. We must choose our questions carefully and speak with cation." Spock sad.
"I'm going to ask them what kind of sports they like." Kirk said with a smile as the lift stopped and opened for them Kirk as out and through the door in second.
"That is not very surprising Captain. To quote a human saying. "I wonder why I even bother anymore?" Spock said as he followed after his Captain.
A few minutes later and now Kirk was standing in the transporter room with Spock and five security officers, all of the security officers armed with Phaser Rifles while Kirk and Spock just have Phasers to appear less threatening.
"Alright, beam us down." Kirk ordered.
A second later and swirls of energy appeared around him and the others. The energy swirled faster and faster until Spock, Kirk and the others all vanished in a flash of light.
"Carter, you ready?" O'Neill asked as he strapped on his M91 pistol. He never though he would miss the feeling of kevlar on his chest, but he did. Having the familar feel and weight of the bulletproof material felt nostalgic. It is good to be out and about once again.
He, Mitchell, Daniel, Teal'c, Vala, Carter and four other marines were all in the armory getting their weapons ready as they prepared for the meeting with the other crews.
"Ready sir." Carter said as she clipped her P90 onto her chest and then walked over to the others.
"Alright, Major Marks, beam us down." O'Neill said.
With a flash of light and a musical chime, the SGC members disappeared from the ship.
Han gently eased the Falcon towards the station, a large hanger bay opening up to show multiple berths for the freighter to land on.
"Well, ain't that inviting." Han said as he landed the Falcon down as an umbilical cord attached to the Falcon and established a pressed seal.
"Seal is good, we can leave the ship." Han said as he left the cockpit and went down to the hatch.
Chewbacca was already waiting for him, his large Wookie crossbow strapped across his chest waiting to be fired.
"You're gun all charged Chewie?" Han asked.
The Wookie gave a series of growls and roars that let Han know that indeed his gun is charged.
Luke and Leia walked up, both of them having blaster pistols while Luke's lightsaber lay on his right hip.
"Ready flyboy?" Leia asked.
"Whenever you are good your worshipfulness." Han replied with a smile as the two droids walked in.
"Oh I know this won't end well." C-3PO moaned as the hatch slowly lowered down and the small entourage walked down the planet and left the ship.
All four vessels began to dock with the station, unaware of the events that they shall be put in motion with the decisions they shall make on this station.
The universe has changed and now they shall change it once again, whether for good or ill.
And that is it for this chapter!
Man this one was challenging to write, having so many different characters as well as ships to describe and talk about, but I think it turned out okay.
Next we shall finally have the different groups meeting together at last! Can't wait for that.
Also, I would like to credit the idea for this fic to a YouTube video I watched called, "Galactic Battles - A Crossover Fan Film Featuring: Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo & Mass Effect." Good video, great actors, I just love it. Also the station in the video is the same design for the space station in this chapter, just FYI.
And that's it, so as always, if you have any comments, criticisms or concerns, leave a review or send me a P.M. always appreciated.
And until next time, this is StrikeFreedom10, signing off.