Off Ship

[D'mora Tal'Aura]

:: Unknown World ::

:: I pick my self off the floor ::
“Oh my head…where am I?”

[Q3]

:: Planet - Chaltok IV ::

“At last you puny flesh life forms do seem to pass out very easily! Don’t you recognise you’re home? No? Well it did look a little different last time you were on Chaltok IV. If you look up you’ll now see a nice asteroid field made out of two of this worlds moons, it seems as if some of the debris will float into the space gateway for the next wave of bio-ships of come through. Over there you see where all the smoke is coming from to the north? That was the largest city on this rock. Need I go on pointing out the sites? Well…just one more, see that bio-dome over there? Good, as the atmosphere is being drained by several bio ships, that dome is the only thing keeping this planets population alive, if you don’t do what I want I will crack it, and everyone will die. Do we understand each other?

I decided against my bio-ships totally destroying this pathetic world, after all we did go to all that trouble building that facility here with all those remote links. Now I want you to get back to work. You know what you have to do. You’ve got the equipment, the raw materials, the mass replication systems and the power generators. Do not disappoint me again or I will be feeding your family to Species 8472 personally while you watch.

Good now I’ll take you to the new facility, try to stay awake this time.”

::Flash::

[D'mora Tal'Aura]

:: Planet – Vulcan, No one knows what planet they are on. ::

:: After another flash I find myself in a laboratory. I look around, see a couple of techs, and one or two scientists I know, but no sign of Q ::

:: LLunih N'Vek, a female scientist from Chaltok IV heads in my direction ::

N’Vek - “Tal'Aura, I hope you’re happy, we told you not to run, I asked you not to do it, did you see what Q did to our world, he personally shattered the fourth moon when he heard you had escaped, now we have to work none stop trying to do what he wants. Maec Suran refused, you don’t want to know what happened to him and his family”

“I did what I had to do LLunih, I will not apologise for it, in fact I now have hope not all of the Romulan people will die, I can’t say much more. What information can you give me about this place, any idea where we are?”

[The Q Riley]

::I'm suddenly transported to a place, consumed by light. Not blinding light, I can see Aunt Kathy, Captain Hurt, and two of her crew, as well as Captain Picard, Captain Riker, Admiral Ross.::

::I hear a voice from behind me, a very familair voice, my Fathers Voice asking me."What do you think you are doing, interfering with there future?"

::I turn and face my Father Q, and answer him::

"I'm doing only what you would do, nothing more. I have not crossed any primordial boundaries. I am simply giving them a chance, to fight off this threat."

::My Father replies,"It's not our place to get ourselves mixed up in the affairs of other species. If this should be the end of humanity, so be it. Who are we, to try and shift the powers against them. This fate, is of there own doing."

::Captain Picard steps forward, and addresses my Father Q,"What madness is this Q? What have you drug us into this time?"

::My father Replies,"Captain, I'm sure this place looks familiar. It should, because the last time you were here, you were Dead. (Reference Star Trek:The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 15 - Tapestry.) Welcome back to my Intersanctum."

"I'm the reason you are all here.... Because of my Father, I learned respect for other species. I learned that my actions have consequences. I learned compassion and forgiveness, from my Aunt Kathy. I know the rules, I know the consequences. But the playing field is not even. Zarius is the one behind the attack. He has lured Species 8472 into the mix. These events have been put into motion, by a member of our own species Father. So we have a duty, and responsibility, to help them in this fight."

::Aunt Kathy (Admiral Katherine Janeway) steps forward, and asks,"Is this the same Zarius, responsible for stranding Me and my Crew, in the Delta Quadrant?"

"I'm afraid so Aunt Kathy. The threat is far worse than we anticipated, since we last spoke. Zarius has convinced Species 8472, that Starfleet, are a conquering species, and a threat non the less. He has convinced them to continue there plans of infiltration, so they can attack us within. It will be swift, and over before anyone knows what happened. They can appear from fluidic space, anywhere in our space. You would have no time to react, or way to defend yourselves. That is, unless you know they are already here, and others are coming. We have to expose Zarius, and his plot to Species 8472, before they wage war on the Alpha, and Beta Quadrants."

::My Father looks at me,"I admire your enthusiam son, but you are no match for Zarius. Leave Zarius to me, and I suggest you all work together on coming up with some sort of plan. I'll now return you all back to your ships, and I'll put your Aunt Kathy on the Valdemar with you son. Tick Tock.."

::Again, there is a blinding light. As the light begins to dim, I see we are back on the bridge of the USS Valdemar.::