After a week at Starbase the Fang was fully repaired and ready to go

The Fang is pulled into another time and place and meets an old friend of the Federation...

Old Friends

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The Crew of the USS Fang

Captain Dava Fett, Cmdr. Paul Drew, Cmdr. KezTrek, Counselor Beckie Triano, Dr. Anna Shipley, Cmdr. Trylophis, Lt. Cmdr. Jerry Springer, Lt. Ragin Cajun, Lt. Mark Troi, Ens. Leah Lamont

After a week at Starbase the Fang was fully repaired and ready to go. Captain Fett and Commander Drew walked onto the bridge to find the crew rearing to go KezTrek stood up from the Command Chair and sat at the helm as Lt.jg Troi called out "Captain on deck!". Fett took his chair and looked around the bridge "Its good to be back" "It sure is Sir" Drew agreed "KezTrek lay in a course for Vulcan I believe we have something to return" Fett ordered casting a look over to Trylophis at science "Aye Sir" KezTrek replied. The Fang jumped into warp.

Just as soon as the Fang jumped into warp it jumped back out. "KezTrek what happened" Drew asked with alarm "I don’t know sir the warp drive appears to be offline" suddenly the bridge shock violently causing everyone to be thrown out of there chairs "Report" Fett ordered as he climbed back into the command chair "I don’t know what it is sir" the young Lieutenant at Ops reported just then a explosion rocked throw the bridge as the Ops station exploded killing the Lieutenant instantly Fett and Drew both spin round in shock when suddenly the Tactical station exploded as well throwing Jerry across the bridge Trylophis ran over to him with a med tricorder "His alive but he is badly burned we need to get him to sick bay. "Sir" KezTrek called out "We are being pulled into some sort of rift" "Trylophis want is it?" Fett ordered, "I don’t know sir its some sort of temporal rift" Trylophis replied with alarm "KezTrek back us out" Drew ordered "No can do Sir we have lost engines". The bridge continued to shake as the Fang was pulled into the rift.

The lights on the bridge went out leaving the bridge in darkness "Report" Drew ordered "We are out of the rift Commander" Trylophis replied "I cant get a fix on our position" KezTrek called out just then the emergency red lights kicked in Drew looked round to find Captain Fett slumped in his chair "Captain" he cried with alarm he took a med tricorder from the side of his chair and scanned Fett to his relief he saw that Fett was still alive but in some sort of coma he looked round the bridge and relished other crewman where in some sort of coma as well "Sickbay to Bridge Medical emergency" no response came "Commander comm system is offline" KezTrek reported "Commander I believe I know where we are" Trylophis reported "According to my sensors that was a temporal rift of sort we have been pulled back in time some 90 years" Shock filled the bridge with that statement 90 years!? "There is more Sir I believe we have been pulled into the Mirror Universe as well" dread filled through Drew one thought came to his mind "How the hell are we goanna get home?"

The Doctor and two other medics walked onto the bridge to find the Captain, Lt. Springer, and two other ensigns in bad shape. As Anna ordered the medics to get the bodies to sickbay, she kneeled beside Captain Fett. "Obviously the comm links are down, what happened? I've got sickbay filling to the brim!" As she was filled in on the situation with the mirror universe in surprise, she scanned the Captain once more before sending him to sickbay. "How is he doc?" Commander Drew said worriedly. "He is alive, but for some unexplained reason, he and others from the ship have been knocked into some unexplained coma when we were pulled into the rift. My main concern is that this coma could possibly send him into a relapse of the virus he had before, in which case it could mean an extremely slim chance of survival. I'll need to go to sickbay before I can determine anything further." The commander nodded trying to organize his thoughts "Keep me posted doctor." "Aye sir" the doctor said as she rushed from the bridge.

After completing a series of test, and after the comm links was back online, the doctor tapped her badge: Sickbay to bridge "Go ahead doc" Drew replied "Commander, I need you down here when you get a chance." "Acknowledged Doctor"
The commander entered sickbay with obvious but unwanted stress portrayed on his face. He walked up to the Doctor who was leaning over the captain. "Doctor, what have you learned so far?" she walked over to a computer "well sir, there have been 9 cases of this coma including the four from the bridge, two children and three from engineering. All the tests have shown is extreme activity in the area of the brain that controls the REM state. I've yet to give these conditions a logical explanation, none of the injured has anything in common as far as I can tell. Actually, both children came out of the coma on their own within four hours with minor complaints of headaches." The Commander looked hopeful "Is there any chance of the same happening for the Captain and Lt.?" "Yes, but I doubt it will happen soon and with only minor headaches. I'll be monitoring them at all times and give you full reports on their conditions, but you sir have an extremely important responsibility now, I'll do my job and you do yours that I am positive you are completely capable of performing, and I'm sure everything will turn out fine in the end." The commander's face clouded over but Anna could sense the determination and strength he was feeling. "I appreciate your confidence doctor" he said as he began to leave sickbay deep in thought "and I do want complete reports, good or bad, spare no details." "Understood sir." The commander walked out to return to the bridge and crew of which was waiting for the next course of action.

Commander Drew entered the Bridge and KezTrek stood from the command chair "How is the Captain Sir?" the concern evident in the Half Vulcan's. "I really can't honestly say Commander it's still touch and go but the Captain's strong, he won't go down without a fight" Drew said sitting down in the Captain's chair "Systems report" he ordered as KezTrek again took her post at helm.

Communications are functioning normally again, we lost most of our shields during the journey though the rift but we should have them back to full power in less than an hour. Our Warp core is still not functioning, and we have slight damage to all secondary systems but it should all be repaired with in the next 24 hours" Lt Troi called from his station. "Thank-You Lt, I want hourly progress reports. What is our precise location?" Drew asked. "We are Six Light years from Vulcan on a heading of 121 mark 347" Commander KezTrek answered from the helm. Lt Troi spoke up from behind "I recommend we find a place to hide from passing ships sensors, at the present time in the Mirror universe things are extremely voitile and it would be dangerous to allow any ships from this period to locate us. Even with our advanced shields and weapons if someone from this universe and indeed this time should decide to attack and take over the ship it would have long lasting repercussions".

I must concur with Lt Troi's assailment of the situation Sir, if forces from this universe get access to our technology it could have repercussions for our universes future as well as this universes future" KezTrek offered from the helm "There were as we know several jumps into this universe made by Starfleet officers and several civilians in resent history, not to mention the journeys people from this universe have made into our own".

Drew nodded in agreement "We need to limit our contact with anyone from this time period KezTrek I believe there is a nearby star system that should be uninhabited try and locate it and lay in a course we can hide be hide one of the moons". "Aye Sir I believe I know which system you refer to". Drew looked round the bridge apart from the Tactical and Ops stations that would both need to be replaced there was little damage "Mr.Troi I believe Tactical and Operations are part of Strategic Ops transfer controls to your station until Mr.Springer returns" "Yes sir transferring controls now" Walking over to science Drew looked down at Trylophis "Lt have you been able to determine how exactly we got here" Trylophis shock his head "I am still going over my readings I should have an answer soon Sir" "Very good Lieutenant use whoever and whatever you need I want answers transfer all data on the Mirror Universe to the Ready Room Computer" Drew walked towards the Ready Room door "KezTrek you have the bridge
I will be in the Ready Room reading up on the locals" Drew ordered as he left the bridge.

beckie was in her quarters when the ship lurched violently, the impact knocked her to the floor causing her to hit her head on the corner of the desk she was sitting at. (computer report),the computer didn’t respond. She slowly goes up and touched her head. A bit of blood was trickling down and she left her quarters and headed off to sickbay. She saw a few other people sitting on the floor on her deck and stopped to help get them back up on their feet again. They looked like they were a bit shaken but not injured. So she continued off to sickbay and when she entered the turbo lift there were a few people who ran out of the lift nearly knocking her down. She told the lift to take her to sickbay and a moment later the doors closed and she was off to sickbay again. She got off the lift and turned to enter sickbay, she stopped dead in her tracks, there was a terrible feeling that came over her and she almost collapsed and thankfully there was a few people coming out of sick bay that helped her over to a corner so she could get medical attention. She wasn’t too worried. She had bumps on her head before. But that feeling. It took a while but she waited patiently in the sickbay before she was helped. She noticed that the captain was in a bed and he was out cold. She remembered the almost fatal virus that he had a little while back and was hoping that he would make it. Sickbay was filled. When one of the assistant doctors came to help her, she was feeling a lot better, he used a dermal regenerator for the cut on her head and injected her with a hypo. After that she walked over to the doctor and asked how the captain was doing.

Sickbay was rapidly slowing down as the injured came and went. The doctor saw the counselor and filled her in on the captain's condition... "Beckie, I'm sure you've heard that coma victims can still hear people talking to them. I believe you might have a large impact on the Captain's and Lt.'s recovery." the counselor looked at the captain's solemn face "I'll do my best doctor" Anna gave an encouraging smile and walked over to help another patient.

Drew did not really know what he was looking for in the database he already knew that there was little information on this period in the Mirror Universe's history. The explorer in Drew wanted to learn more about this time to gather as much information as possible but the command officer in him knew that the ship and crew had to come first he could not put there lives on the line just to learn more about the past. Suddenly KezTreks voice sounded through the Ready Room "Commander Drew to the bridge". "Report" Drew ordered as he walked on the bridge "Commander we have detected a fleet around Vulcan it appears some kind of battle is taking place between the Empire and Alliance forces" KezTrek reported. Drew sat down in the Command Chair as KezTrek took the helm "Keep us hidden Commander" Drew ordered "Trylophis record as much information as possible on this battle we could be witnessing the falling of Vulcan itself" "Aye sir" Trylophis said with a enthusiasm Drew activated his own sensor display and watched the battle with fascination. "Commander Drew" Lt Troi called from his station "there is a distress call being sent from Vulcan requesting assistance" Commander Drew looked up at the Lt "You know we can't interfere in this timeline Lt" the Commander said sounding slightly aggravated that a Starfleet officer would even consider answering that distress call under the circumstances. "Yes Sir I know, but...." Commander Drew cut him off "No buts Lt" he said, Troi looked down at his console and for a second contemplated leaving it at that but he knew he couldn't "Commander Drew Sir, I understand that but this is something you should hear" Troi said and then going against every Starfleet regulation he'd ever known he put the message on speakers. "This is Spock of Vulcan calling the federation Starship U.S.S Fang, I know you are receiving this message I wish to speak to your Captain, Dava.. Fett, also I beli....eve your.... helm officer...r is Vul..can, I w...ish to speak to her also. Pl...ea...se do not ig...nore this.... message thi...s is a mat...ter of.... g...re....at imp..ort....ance......". Commander Drew sat stunned for a moment trying to come up with an explanation for how they knew the Fang was here, not to mention the other information they seemed to have on the crew........

Drew roused from the command chair in shock and almost clasped back into it "How did he know we where here" Drew asked out loud not expecting an answer KezTrek turned round in her chair "Commander it is not possible for them to have detected us even if they had how did they obtain such information on the Fang crew logic suggests that they where already aware of our arrival" Drew sit back in the command chair he had one headache coming on "I hate time travel" he whispered under his breath "I guess there is only one way to find out what is going on" he looked round at the bridge crew "What I am about to do is a breach of every rule in the book and a few others if any of you wish to object now is the time" a few Ensigns glanced round at each other not sure what to do but all the command staff looked at Drew giving the message that they would not object "Mr.Troi open an channel to ... to Vulcan"

Drew looked to the view screen as one of the most famous people in all of the Federations history and one of the greatest heroes in Starfleet appeared "This is Commander Paul Drew of the Federation Starship USS Fang" "Thank you for replying to my message Commander but the information I have is for Captain Fett not you" Spock replied "Captain Fett is unavailable at present I am in command of the Fang" "Very well Commander as I am sure you are aware a Fleet has gathered around Vulcan" Drew cut him off "I don’t know how Starfleet worked in this universe but in mine we have something called a Temporal Prime Directive I cannot and will not interfere in this time line" "Commander by responding to my message you are interfering with the time line" Drew did not respond but starred at the Mirror Spock indicating for him to continue "Very Well" Spock continued "I brought your ship here Commander to save my universe".

Drew starred at the Vulcan "Pardon are you saying you brought the Fang here?" anger began flaming up in Drew. Spock seemed to pay little attention to Drew’s tone of voice but continued to speak calmly "Yes Commander with the Fangs technology I will be able to save my planet" "Like I already said I will not interfere any further into this time line its one thing answering a distress call its quite another to give you technology 90 years from now" Spock raised an eyebrow "Humans" he said "I wish to discuss this further with Commander KezTrek" "You will discuss this with myself and KezTrek" Drew told him "Mr. Troi transfer the comm link to the Ready Room" Drew ordered "KezTrek lets go here what he has to say Trylophis you have the bridge" Drew said as he and KezTrek entered the Ready Room to hear Spock’s answers. "Commander I was hoping you would be a bit more cooperating" Spock said "But I can see you are going to be of little help" Drew looked at him "You are correct on that one mister I will be of no help" "I must warn you then Commander that you have made an enemy today to use an human expression I would watch my back if I where you your ship is very advanced and these are dangerous times" Spock then cut the link but Drew starred at the screen as a shiver went down his spin something told him he had not heard the last of the mirror Spock he had a very bad feeling about all of this. He looked to KezTrek "I am going to Sickbay to see how Mr.Springer is doing you take the bridge”.” Aye Sir" KezTrek said following him onto the Bridge and taking the command chair as Drew entered the turbo lift. For several minutes everything was quite until Lt Troi spoke up from behind her. "Commander KezTrek, there is a sub-space communication coming from Vulcan, it is requesting you directly", KezTrek considered this a moment "Ignore it Mr. Troi" she ordered. "Commander another message from Vulcan, again requesting to speak to you, but Commander this message says if you do not answer within 12 hours the ship will be destroyed" Troi reported with some trepidation. KezTrek spent a few moments contemplating this, on one hand Commander Drew had made his orders clear, however if the ship was in danger. And Spock had said that he had brought the Fang here perhaps he knew how to return them home. "Very well Lt I will take it in the Ready Room" KezTrek said rising "You have the bridge Trylophis" KezTrek ordered going into the ready room.

Drew walked into the Ready Room with mixed emotions he was anger at KezTrek for disobeying his orders but he knew she would not have done it if she did not believe it was the best thing for the ship. KezTrek was standing by the window starring out at space "Commander I believe you have something to tell me" Drew stand as he sit down in a chair "Yes sir" KezTrek stood to attention Drew could tell she was not sure how he was going to react to whatever she had to tell him "At ease KezTrek" Drew said indicating for her to take another chair "Now tell me why you decided to disobey my orders and speak with the mirror Spock?" "He threaten to destroy the Fang unless I spoke with him" Drew nodded his head "He wants us to help save Vulcan..." "I have already made it clear I will not interfere in this time line just because somebody told me to" "Commander he gave me some information that will prove relevant to us the ships matter stream is as you know currently adapted to our universe but within 48 hours it will adapt to this universe making it imposable for us to return to our own time and universe" Drew walked over to the desk and pressed some controls on the desk computer a few minutes later he looked up at KezTrek "It looks like he’s right the question is what are we going to do about it?

Suddenly Drew's comm badge beeped "Trylophis to Drew sir we are being hailed from an unknown location" "What now?" Drew muttered "While we have already broken the non-communication rule so what does it matter patch through to here" "Sir it appears to be an automated distress call" "Lets hear it" Drew replied a human females voice sounded through the speakers "This the planet Earth to anyone who can listen we are under attack from Alliance forces they are burning our rain forests and oceans we need immediate help". Drew and KezTrek starred at each other "Sir" Trylophis continued "We have just received visual logs to go with the message" "Play it" Drew simply said his body going numb the computer screen changed to images of Earth but not the Earth Drew knew the great lakes of America where dried up the oceans where a muddy brown/green and the rain forests lumps of wood, horror filled through Drew was this the fate that awaited Vulcan could he really stand back and let this happen there was a very good chance that the ship would not get home so would it really be harming anyone for him to take action. "Trylophis how many ships are on an intercept course for Vulcan" "According to sensors 25 Klingon and Cardissan battle cruisers although I should point out that these are 23rd century battle cruisers 100 years be hide the Fang we could properly handle them" Drew turned to KezTrek "Should we interfere?"

"Should we interfere" was the question Drew asked her, such a simple question, but one that could have lasting repercussions, but Drew was looking at her expectantly awaiting an answer and she had to give him one - fast - "Sir I needn't remind you what Starfleet’s prime directive says about this, while they may be Human's and Vulcan's they are not from our universe, if we help them we will be breaking that directive... However if we don't millions of people will die and we would be stuck here...Permanently" She paused for a second collecting her thoughts when Drew spoke "Your not going to give me a straight answer are you" he said. "No Sir I’m not you are in command while Captain Fett is in sickbay which means it's your decision, I can provide you with the necessary information upon which to base your dission but I can not and indeed will not make it for you"

Drew nodded his head "You say Spock will contact you again in 6 hours?" Drew asked "Yes sir" looking out at the stars Drew made one of the hardest decisions in his career "I will properly get court marshaled for this but it could be our only way home tell Spock that we will help him but he has to give his word that he will send the Fang home before its to late" KezTrek nodded "Aye sir" "Inform Trylophis that you have the bridge dismissed" Drew told her.

beckie walked over to the bio bed where the captain was and happened to notice that Mr. Springer was there too. she pulled up a chair and started telling the captain and Springer the only thing she could think of at the moment, her past, which was really wired for beckie since she was quite person by regular standards, she was sitting and talking and thinking about what was going on. she had this odd feeling every since the ship lurched. she didn’t know what it was, things felt different. right now she could not worry about that, so when kept talking to the captain and mr springer.

after about 4 hours she went to the doctor " Anna, I am going to take a shower and go to eat. i will be going to the bridge as well to see how every one is doing.*shaking her head* i will be back to help you out unless the cap...umm, commamder drew needs me." the doctor was swamped she had PADD's all over the desk. she even looked a bit tired herself. "ok" was her reply.

*ten minutes later*

beckie was eating, with a towel still on her head. she was looking at some of the reports that she called up on her computer when she got up to look out of her windows. *Humm, every thing looks.... brighter* she thought. she went back to the desk and still was reading crew reports. till she came up to one by commander drew, her eyes grew huge........

beckie walked over to the desk, and put the PADD down and decided to put her hair up in a clip. and put on a clean crisp uniform. she left her quarters and mid way through to the turbo lift she recieved a call from the Doctor +shiply to triano.+ , 'triano her doctor.' +mr springer came out of the coma and i would like you to evaluate him when he wakes again, i will contact you when he is able.+ 'yes sir. anything else?' +not at the moment lieutentant, i will let you know, shipley out.+ beckie continued to the turbolift. "main bridge" said beckie. a few minutes later beckie entered the bridge and noticed that mr drew was not on the bridge, so she went to the door and chimed in % beep beep % it took a few seconds. "enter" said mr drew. the lieutentant entered and found mr drew was in session with commander keztrek. "sorry to interrupt commanders." she said. "i will be with you in a minute lieutenant. As Commander KezTrek left the room Drew called out to Triano "Come in Lieutenant". Triano walked nervously to the desk and took one of the chairs "Can I do something for you?" Drew asked. Triano looked up at Commander Drew and set her PADD Down and raised one Eyebrow in the typical vulcan way, even though the ensign was only 1\4 vulcan, and never wore her hair in the typical Vulcan way, she looked more vulcan than ever. "Commander Drew, I have read your preliminary report that we have went back in time and i must say that some of the crew are very worried that we are going to be stuck here. i my self am a bit worried. more than half of the crew has not been born yet. in this time and may be worried they will never exist." Ensign Triano looked woried, Commander Drew, said " Ensign, i understand all of this, we are taking every precaution. I want you to keep a clear head on all of this. if there is anything, i want you to report it to the Doctor. Also Ensign," said the Commander, debating on if he should inform her or not, but he needed every one of his crew behind him. He didnt want to be worring on wiether his crew were stable or not and go flying off the rock. "not only have we went back in time, but we are in another reality, another dimension so to speak, and we have been contacted." Drew got up and walked to his window to over look the stars. " by Mr. Spock." he put his hand up to his temples to rub them and looked down," i am put in a position at the moment that goes against everything the federation holds dear" Triano looks down at her hands. "I understand sir. " beckie said as she sat there thinking how stupid she was to jump the gun like this. ~acting like a first year cadet~ she thought. ~there are people who need me~ Drew turned around and the ensign looked him in the eyes, he smiled hoping he got to her, she was still new to the crew. "Alright ensign. get back to work." Triano got up and nodded to Commander Drew and left the room.

Beckie left the bridge and went straight to the sickbay and found Dr. Shipley standing over Captain fett. she looked worried and extreamly tired.

Triano: Doctor, um may i sprak with you for a moment. i have a need to talk to you.

Dr. Shipleylooked up from Dava and noticed that the ensign looked worried. So Anna straigted up her uniform and said"this way Ensign." and walked to her office.

Beckie followed the good doctor into the office and Anna motioned for the ensign to take a seat. "Tell me ensign, what may i help you with." said Anna.

Beckie sat down and looked at her hands. " um where to start. I am worried. some of the crew are worried as well. i went to Commander Drew and i voiced my opinions and i think that some ofcrew might begin to..... how can i say... think that they never existed... i too am very worried about this. ......." beckie paused for a moment, Doctor Shipley was looking intently at the ensign. " Commander Drew, wants me to inform you of anything, i will. But i am very worried. also i keep having these headaches. i thought they were from the bump on my head, but they keep reoccuring."

The doctor looked worriedly at the counselor and motioned her to a biobed to run some test. "You've been having these headaches off and on since we entered the rift counselor?" Beckie nodded "Yes doctor, I'd hoped they would go away but they keep coming" Anna scanned Beckies head and noticed some unusual activity in the limbic system pathway. She looked curiously at the counselor "Lt. have you noticed anyone else suffering from headaches?" "Not especially, but I haven't paid close attention for it." Anna looked puzzled before she continued "I'm going to give you a hypospray and if your headache reoccurs within 6 hours, report to me immediately" Beckie looked worried "Aye Doctor"

Dr.Shipley walked to her office and tapped her comm badge "Doctor to Commander Drew: "Yes doc" he said "Sir, I need to speak with you as soon as you have a free minute. I belive I have a theory on the cause of the unexplained comas and it could possibly have an effect on the crew." "Acknowledged doctor, I'm on my way"

Drew walked into sickbay and to Doctor Shipley's office. "Report Doctor" Anna passed him a PADD to read over while she was informing him of her new discovery "Commander, Counselor Triano was just in here complaining of random headaches, as well as a few other members of the crew. I've taken some test and have found declining and unusual activity in the Limbic system of the brain which controls emotions and some parts of the memory. With the cases of the coma patients, I believe their brain basically overloaded. Some more seriously than others. It's hard to be sure, but I think the cause of this is out travel back in time. Since we haven't been born yet, our brains are trying to reset with the time which is causing it to malfunction because of its complexity. I can stimulate this area of the brain for an uncertain amount of time. I need any person suffering from headaches to report to sickbay before the condition worsens." Drew was staring intently at the doctor, his face unreadable but tense. Anna sat patiently waiting for his response.

Drew walked around the Doctors office he was finally beginning to understand why Captains tried to avoid time travel and hated it so much - it give you one big head ache "Doctor how long do you think our brains can keep working before we fall into a coma" Shipley shock her head "I do not know for certain sir but I would guess a few days a week at the most". "So if I could get the ship home in the next 48 hours it could save a lot of the crew's lives" Shipley gave him a confused look "Yes" Anna heisted for a second "Sir has a way home been found?" Drew looked straight at her "What I am about to tell you stays between us" "Aye sir" Shipley replied "As you know we are 90 years in the mirror universe's past" Shipley nodded her head "What you don’t know" Drew continued "Is that we have been contacted by the mirror version of Ambassador Spock he wants us to help save Vulcan from the Alliance in return he will send us home" "That’s against every rule in Starfleet" Shipley said more to herself then Drew "Yes it is and I have agreed to break those rules and help him" Drew informed her.

Anna sat back in her chair, a surprised look flooded her face. "sir, I want you to know you have my full support on this matter and I will back up any decisions you make." Commander Drew smiled "Thanks doc, that's good to know" Anna gave him a reassuring smile as he walked out of sickbay. The Doctor sighed to herself "I just hope we can get out of here soon enough". Lt Troi stood watching his station but his mind was not on the work, some very strange things were going on and so far Commander Drew hadn't seen fit to tell them. Commander KezTrek had taken command of the Bridge when she came out of he ready room and now Commander Drew was in there with Lt Triano, he just wished someone would tell them what was going on. "Lt Troi" KezTrek said looking up towards the officer behind her "Yes Commander" he replied after a moments hesitation. "In approximatly five hours we are going to be hailed again by this universes Spock, at that time we will agree to help him defend his home planet, this will require us to break every rule in the StarFleet book, and at that time we will need to know what we are going to do to help so we can get it done as quickly as possible. I want you to study the patteren of the ships surrounding Vulcan and find out their weeknesses, we will need several stratigies to deal with this and we need them fast, Understood" she asked "Yes Sir" Troi replied "Good, get to work Lt" KezTrek ordered. Troi nodded briefly before bowing his head and starting his work. Mark troi sat at his station thinking very intensly, Staring repetitly over the ships displayed on the control panel. He knew that he had to find a weakness, and fast. Runing over and over the data in his mind, it seemed perfect, there were no weakness'. But he had to find something, anything! Mark Troi decided to study the shield modulations there was bound to be something they could use as an advantage. He was studing the mathematical representations of the shield frequencies and the links between them, runing little simulations of them in his head. Wait!!! he thought. Mark Troi had got it, something he could report to Cmdr. Keztrek with. Because this was in the past they tended to use Tri-numeric shield modulations, which at that time was a pretty apt way of thinking, but with one flaw because they were so precise if one of the links in the frequencies was disrupted the whole sequence would fail. The collection of vessels around co-ordinates 458.25 about 30 ships all used this modulation, which if radiated with a Tacheon burst of about 30 RDMs per Km2 and a small collection of theda radiation would break the links in the shield and they would be useless. But if this plan was to work we would only have one chance to try it because we only have enough power for one burst of Tacyons!.

Traino went over to her desk. and looked up the roster for appointments for today. she new that most people anywhere didnt like going to a counselor of anykind, especially this closed up on a ship. Most everyone knew everyone and sometimes people like to keep thier business in check and tend to keep quiet about thier personal lives. Today there were 17 people on the list. Some of which were directed by thier department heads for evaluations since the ship went back in time. Her first appointment was due at 0800. she had an hour and a half so she thought reflected on recent events. Commander Drew thought she was completely capable of her duties as coulselor. only been a few weeks since she was promoted, now she had her own Assistant to help her out. ~Man this is wierd.~ she thought. It would be another hour till Dani Rian canme in. Dani was bajoran, he was very unlike most bajorans where they are upfront and suspicious, he was so much "milder". Beckie didnt know that much about him except where most bajorans were outspoken Dani was kind and soft.
smiling Beckie was thinking when Captain Fett promoted her. Dani gave her a small gift to put on her new desk. A little cronomiter that said positive affirmations. She tapped the clock, "life is what we choose it to be, so make it a great one." Beckie shackes her head "Humm, in light of a bad situation something good happens" she said. Beckie got back to looking at her list of people that she was going to see, the first one was a young girl who lost her mother in the last mission with the borg. Lietentant Bayers was her mother, she was one of the people who worked in engineering, and happened to be on the away team that happened to be in the right place, but just at the wrong time. Her father seemed to be helpfull in the young girls treatment, since the mothers death. Beckie thought that the father might have issues but as a counselor, Beckie knew that she cant force anyone into seeking help.

While Beckie was reading over the young girls history she noticed Dani enter, " Hello Dani,*holding up a cup of coffee* your here early today."

Dani: yeah i though that you might need a bit of help today.

Triano: yeah i sure do, most of the people comming in are evaluations.

Dani: you can bet this will be a long day *laughing with a huge grin*

Dani walked over to his desk and took out his PADD and went into the counseling room to see if everything was ready. Beckie was looking at her PADD and deciede to get another cup of coffee.

Drew walked onto the bridge to find the crew busy at their stations he noticed that tactical was still manned by an Ensign a thought accord to him if he was going to take the ship into a dangerous situation then he needed his Chief Tac Officer at his post "Drew to Springer" he said as he tapped his comm badge "Springer here" "Jerry I know you are still recovering and Dr.Shipley probably wants you to take some rest but I could really use you on the bridge" "I will be right there sir…. That is if I can get past the Doc" he added "Good Drew out". Taking the command chair Drew called a status report on his screen he noticed a number of reports made by Lt.jg Triano about the crews discomfort he had to be careful what he told the crew if they did return to there own time and place then he would more then likely be court material and the less the crew knew the better but he still could settle a few of the rumors "Drew to all hands" he said as he pressed the ship wide comm button "I am sure that by now most of you know that we have been pulled back in time I can tell you that why have in fact traveled 90 years into the past" he paused wondering how the crew would take this next bit "Into what Starfleet calls the Mirror Universe and I am afraid to say we have been dragged into a local dispute, we have however found a possible way home I expect all of you to work your hardest as I know you will to help get us home" cutting the transmission then Drew pressed another button on his control board "Senior Staff report to the conference room in five minutes".

In the Conference Room
When all the senior staff where seated Drew begin his briefing he informed then all about the contact with Spock and his terms for sending them home "Lts. Springer and Troi you will both work on the ships defensive gather as much information about the ships of this era as you can I want to be ready" "Yes Sir" both officers replied "Dr. Shipley and Counselor Triano I want you two to work with the crew prepare for possible casualties and make sure the crew is ready" he looked to Trylophis "Try and see if you can find another way home if we can avoid doing this then I want to know KezTrek I suggest you get ready for some fancy flying" looking to each of them he asked "Any questions?"

"I wish to object to such a thing!" Springer said. "I don't know weather i want to be a part of this. Its one thing going back in time, but its another to alter time." "Well what do you suggest Mr Springer?" Commander Drew asked. "Well say if this technology falls into the wrong hands? And if you say that Mr Spock got us here and can send us back, What’s stopping the enemy doing the same? Only they come to our universe with ADVANCE technology to our time or past in OUR universe and rage war? Millions if not billions could die. I rather get stuck here then take the risk of war that could kill more then this little conflict here." Springer said in a raising and angry tone waiting for Commander Drew's reply.

"Commander, I agree with Mr. Springer." said beckie looking down at the data PADD and solwly looking up she said. "If they can Pull us through to thier time what makes us think that they wont do it again. If i am correct in thinking, it seem to me that history states that Captain Kirk and his crew on the origional Enterprise where the First to enter the "Mirror Universe". Even on DeepSpace Nine when they had thier Few accidents there was nothing in the initial reports that said anything about "Time", usually they were in the exact same time, just that different pathes were taken." *beckie looks down at her pad again* "Niether were there any "affects","beckie looking up again and looks around to the group. then directlly at Commander Drew* "Sir i beleve that this is a Trick, and that we need to find some way to stop "Mr. Spock" from using this Equiptment again."
Drew looked around to the command crew of his ship. these were some of the people that served with him for years in StarFleet, even on this ship. He put his PADD down.

"Who said anything about giving them technology Lieutenant?" Drew asked Springer "While sir with all due respect I cant see how else we can help" replied Springer "That brings us into stage 2 of my plan Lieutenant" Drew replied with a smile "Stage 2?" Springer asked with interest "Somehow the Terrain Empire has developed technology to transport Starfleet ships from the future to this universe and I don’t intend to let them keep that technology or knowledge for that matter”. KezTrek looked up “Commander how do you intend to do that” “I have been doing my own research on the Mirror Universe” Drew informed them all as he activated the wall screen “This is the area of space where the Fang is currently located and this” he said as he zoomed the map in “Is the point where the transmissions from Spock originated as you can see about 10 light years away from Vulcan and only a short distance from the Fang”. “How is that possible?” Triano asked “There’s nothing there for the transmission to ornate from” Drew turned to Trylophis “Lieutenant” “Counselor after reviewing Commander Drew’s data in more detail I have came to the conclusion that the transmissions are coming from a clocked ship in that location” “And” Drew carried on “We have also come to the conclusion that Spock is onboard that ship”
Springer shuck his head “So what does that mean for us” “We need Spock to de-clock his ship” Drew told him “And the only why to do that is if Spock believes we will help him” “Why not just phase his clock out it should not be to hard to find the clock information for this time period?” Troi asked “Because then Mr. Spock will know that I have no intention of helping him and our way home could be lost” Drew told them “Instead I am going to tell Spock that a team of my best crewmembers are going to beam onboard his ship and begin outfitting it with technology and bring new weapons for the crew when in reality the team is going to take control of the ship capture Spock and search it from stern to stern until we have discovered the way home” “How do we know that the technology or information for that purpose is onboard Spock’s ship” KezTrek asked “Because” Trylophis replied “I have pin pointed the location of the organ of the rift it came from that ship I believe we can use that technology to reopen the rift and go home” “I have one more question” Springer said “Who are going to be on the away team?” Drew gave him a smile “KezTrek will command the team, You, Trylophis, and Troi will all join her with teams of science, tactical and engineering personnel ”

"Dismissed" Drew ordered and everyone began to file out with the exception of KezTrek "Yes Commander?" Drew questioned knowing that KezTrek was going to in someway object to his plan - "Sir I didn't want to say this infront of the rest of the senior staff, but what happens if we fail?" KezTrek asked - not a possibility she liked but a possibility all the same. "Well it's you job to make sure you don't, but if you do....." Drew cut of he really didn't want to even think about it. "If we fail you will fire on Spock's ship destroying the technology and killing all those aboard, including any members of the Fang's crew" KezTrek stated in a typically infalible Vulcan attitude. "I...Yes Commander if that is what must be done to protect he people in our universe then that is what must be done". KezTrek stood before Drew in silence for a moment "Premission to speak freely, Sir" -"Granted Commander" Drew said with a note of suprise. "Commander you have been trust into command due to... unforseen circustances but I must say I am extreamly impressed wih how you are handeling this crisis, and when Captain Fett recoveres he will be extremly pleased with how you have dealt with everything - should it come to the point where destroying Spock's ship is nessasary you must do it with out hesitation - every memeber of the team that is going joined StarFleet freely and knew what they were facing, that includes death, you must do what ever is needed to protect our own universe, even at the expence of the lifes of his crew" KezTrek wasn't particularly good at speeches but she knew Drew wanted to protect this crew (and humans could be extremly over emotional when it came to protecting each other) - she only hoped it was possible.

Drew looked down at the time display on his control pad, Spock should be contacting them any minute, after preparing themselves as much as they could the Away Team was ready and waiting in transporter room 1. “Commander” the Ops Officer called out “We are being hailed” Drew sat back in his chair “action time” he thought to himself “On screen” he ordered Spock’s face appeared on the screen for a brief second Drew saw surprise and anger in his eyes as he released Drew was answering the call. “Commander Drew what a surprise” Spock said with as little emotion as possible “I was expecting Commander KezTrek” “Yes I know” Drew said as he stood from his chair and pulled down on his tunic “KezTrek told me your terms and I have agreed to them” Spock raised an eyebrow but said nothing “In return for you sending the Fang home of course” “Of course” Spock agreed “Well you have made the logical choice Commander” “logical but not the right one” Drew thought to himself “I will have my helmsman lay in a course for Vulcan” Drew informed him “That will not be necessary Commander” Spock said as he turned to face someone on his bridge “I am already here”.
A Excelsior class starship de-cloaked off from the starboard side of the Fang “I see” Drew commented “You will transport an Away Team to my ship Commander with technology to upgrade it with” Spock told Drew “I already had a Team ready for transport to Vulcan I suppose I can send them to you instead” “That would be logical” Spock agreed Drew tapped his comm badge “Drew to Transporter Room 1 beam the Away Team to Mr. Spock’s ship Energize!”

"Commander KezTrek a plesure to finally meet you in person" Spock said typically stonic even thought his word portared a emotion. "Indeed, the plesure is mine. We have several teams that need to get to work imiditly if we are to have this ship prepared for battle with the fleet surounding Vulcan, I would ask that you alow my people to do their jobs without any interuptions from your crew, it will get this done faster and more efficently" KezTrek said if this was to work he last thing they needed was Spock's people hanging around watching their every move. "Ofcourse Commander, and if I may Thank-You up front for helping us" Spock offered graciously. "No you may not. We are doing this only because we have no choice if we wish to return to our own universe, it is the logical choice, that does not make it the good one". Spock looked taken back for a moment but quickly regained his composure "You Disagree with your Commander's dision?" Spock asked. "It is not my place to agree or disagree and no I do not disagree, under the same circumstances I would have made the same choice, however we all amke choices we do not like, this is one such choice" KezTrek said with s decidedly un-Vulcan like venome in her voice. "Indeed" Spock concided "You can have free reign on all systems but there will be a guard with in 10 meters of all your people at any given time should you try anything, Understood" Spock said with perfectly articulated Vulcan logic in his voice. "I understand, however if your men interfere with our work and it is not finished on time do not blame me" KezTrek said "They will not interfere" Spock assured her. "Good" KezTrek said. Spock turned and followed by what she presumed to be his perminant armed guard left them to their work. "OK we all know what we have to do so lets not waste any time - Trylophis, Spinger find the dam thing that got us here and figure out how to get us back" "Aye Sir" both officers said "And be careful" she said as they walked away. "Troi find out as much as you can about there defensive and offensive weapons, if they turn tale and attack the Fang we need to know how just tough they are" "Aye Sir" Troi said walking out a few moments after Trylophis and Springer. "The rest of you, you know what you have to do, go" KezTrek ordered, she stood for several scond while everyone filed of to their different tasks before setting of in search of this ship cloaking device - If what KezTrek had heard was true they weren't suppose to have cloak technology, which means they may have got it from a ship in their time - if that was true they could have some serious trouble.

"Aye Sir" Springer and Trylophis said and walked off. "Where do you suppose it would be?" SPringer asked Trylophis. "I dunno. It could be Science labs, Tactical, engerinerrying or even the Captains Quarters." Trylophis replied. Springer whispered to Trylophis, trying not to let the guards hear them "Lets try to keep our voices down. Anyway we don't want them to find out do we?" "No we do not. Lets go to engernieering first. We might find it there." Trylophis said in reply to Springer. The two officers headed to engiernning without saying many words. "I suggest you go to the Bridge Mr SPringer and see what you can find there." Trylophis said. "Right away" Springer replied.

*On the Bridge of Spock's Ship*
Mr Springer walked onto the bridge as if it were the fang and went straight to the tatical controls. "Just what do you think you are doing Mr Springer?" Mr Spock asked in his typical Vulcan tone. "Commander Keztrek said no interferance with work. I belieave you are breaching that am i right not?" Springer replied back to Mr Spock. "I do wish to know what you are doing there Mr SPringer."
"I will not get my job done efficently if you stop asking questions!" Mr Springer said with a bit of tone. Spock keep his cool Vulcan mind in order and spoke without changing tone "Mr Springer do not talk to me like that on my ship. Now could you tell me what you are doing?"
"If you must know, if your tatical officer could just step aside, i am trying to put more power to your phasers and torpedoes so they are more effiencent." Springer replied, trying to keep his cool. "Ok go ahead." Mr Spock.
Mr Springer could see Spock was starting to get annoyed even though Spock didn't show it.
After some time at work, finally Mr Springer found the contorls to the damn machine but didn't know where it was. Mr springer went straight to where Trylophis was and within minutes they were next to each other.
"Hey. I found the controls but i don't know where the actual thing is. Shall we tell Keztrek to take over this ship or shall we not?" Mr SPringer asked Trylophis.

"Commander" Springer called as he and Trylophis caught up with her, "Did you complete your assigned tasks" KezTrek asked wanting to finish everything and get of this ship as soon as possible. "Not excatly Commader" Trylophis said "I did manage to find the control's, but no sign of the actual device" Springer reported. "I see, well then we will not be able to remove the device back to the Fang" KezTrek observed wispering in as non-conspirtary way as possible. "Is it possible to remotely control the device from the Fang?" she asked...

"I don’t know if I can do that sir." Springer said to KezTrek. "Well good work guys. Least it is a start." KezTrek. "Maybe I can try to get the controls to the Fang somehow, but don't know it." Trylophis said. "Well see what ever you can do guys." KezTrek replied. Springer and Trylophis walked of to go find out what they could about the controls for the alien device while KezTrek made her way into engineering. Going to one of the secondary control panels she began looking for information on this ships cloak - after a few minutes she found what she was looking for. 'Just as we thought - It's Klingon, circa 2375' she thought as she downloaded the information to take back to the Fang before going to check on the rest of the away team.... Drew sit he is chair waiting. It had been over 3 hours since the Away Team had left and this type of mission meant there could be no contact between ship and away team so Drew had no idea how the mission was going. He had been tracking their movements through out the ship and had taken some relief from the fact that the team seemed to be moving freely through out the ship. A worrying though came to his head "Drew to Shipley and Triano" "Go ahead sir" they both responded "Doctor, Counselor I have been wondering how the crew is doing have the reported headaches gotten any worse?". As Mr. Drew was Asking the question she was in mid sentence with one of her appointments. She got up and went back to the assistant’s desk and gave Mr. Drew her report. "Commander so far nothing has been happening here on my end. As for my self I have not had any reoccurring headaches. I will give you my full report within the hour."

Drew: very good counselor, I will be waiting for the Report. Drew out.

::beckie went back and sat down and finished up with the session. She scheduled the next appointment for a few days from now. This was the last session for the day. After that she filed her report on the patients that she saw today. There were several that were nervous and jumpy. The Doctor saw several too just as Beckie. Most were people who had some sort of telekinetic abilities. She also noted that later she had a meeting with the good Doctor. That way she and Anna would be able to shed more light on this so they would give some helpful advise to Commander Drew.

::Beckie sent the information to Commander Drew for review, and finished up the rest of her duty shift.

Triano: computer log off duty. Triano Beckie 1600 hours.

Computer: Acknowledged

Triano: Dani, I am going to go change and then I am going to the holodeck for some exercise. Care to join me?

Dani: give me an hour, to finish up the reports.

:: Beckie got up and nodded to Dani."Sure just let me know when."

and with that she left to go to her Quarters to change.

=========Holodeck===========

Beckie was waiting for Dani, when another headache attacked her, she fell to the floor and hit her head on the deck doors.

Dani came up and instantly ran to help her.” medical emergency deck 6, Doctor, the counselor is out and she hit her head.

Beckie wakes up and finds she is in a bio bed again... Anna was working at her desk and saw Triano's bio signs return to normal so she got up and talked to Beckie for a bit before doing some test ands releasing her.

Beckie gets up and leaves the sickbay. She looks around and a thought pops into her head. What if this spock is trying to trick us. " I need to tell Drew.'

She went us to the Bridge, and found Mr drew in conversation with the current helm's man. he was bent over the with his hand on the helm and another one on the officer patting him on the back "Keep a track on the wearabouts of the away team." His brow was furrowed in deep thought.

::Beckie walked up to Drew and waited to talk to him. Drew looked up and saw the Counselor standing patiently for something...

Drew: Counselor, Can i help you?

Triano: yes sir, I would like to talk to you. Privately, please.

:: Drew nodded and reached out his hand to indicate that they should go to his ready room. Triano followed his lead.

::After they entered Drew motioned for the counselor to take a seat. She did and looked up at Drew.

Drew: What can I do for you counselor.

Triano: Well Sir, I have been bothered by something, I could not quite figure what it was till a while ago. Commander, I think that "this Spock" is tricking us. I know it would be a breach of the Prime directive, but we have come this far.....Sir I think we should contact Vulcan, that is the Vulcan here, and find out the circumstances. Sir What if he is trying to get technology from us to do something terrible, I don’t think this "Spock" is trying to to help the people, but hurt them.

::Drew held up his hand at the excited counselor.

Drew: Let me get this straight, you want me to contact Vulcan. HERE? Let them know who we are? God only knows I could be court marialed as it is...

:: Triano looks down at her hands." Sir. we don’t know any thing except what "Spock has only told us.

::Drew looked at the counselor for a few seconds and pondered his next step.

"Ensign Culrey" KezTrek spoke as she came up behind one of the engineers who had been assigned to the team, "Yes Commander" the Ensign asked standing almost to attention as KezTrek approached. "You and Ensign Markenson are to return to the Fang, to obtain some needed parts this is the list of what you will need to get" The Padd actually contained a progress report for Commander Drew however one of Spock's officers was near by and KezTrek did not want them to know what was really going on. "Aye Commander" the Ensign said taking the pad and going of to find the other Ensign who would return to the Fang with him.
"KezTrek to Spinger" she said tapping her combadge "Progress report Lt" she asked wanting to know if any progress had been made in finding a way to control the alien device from the Fang.....

Ensign Culrey and Ensign Markenson walked onto the bridge of the Fang and handed Drew a PADD. "Sir Commander KezTrek told us to give you this its a progress report" "Thank you Ensigns" Drew said as he started reading the report "Very good you two had better take some spare parts with you back to Spock’s ship dismissed". "Um, I will meet u their KezTrek, I need to discuss something with you." Mr. Springer said as he headed to whereever KezTrek is. "Ahh Mr Springer good to see you. So how have you been putting those weapons in?"
"Well, its going slow." Mr Springer replied, then he went into a whisper "Maybe I could control it via a shuttle link somehow, but I will need Trylophis to look into that. Also, another option is, we could send the Fang back, but that would leave one of us behind, unless I can figure out a way to get a shuttle back someone. Maybe the device can be in one of those, but if it is, it wouldn't be strong enough to send a whole ship back. So in conclusion, we have 2 options so far. Try a shuttle link, or send the Fang back, risking someone's life then escaping via shuttle." Mr. Springer sometimes kept talking and sometimes couldn't stop when he was nervous as he waited for KezTreks reply.

KezTrek thought over the options Springer had presented her with, "I see Lt, speak to Trylophis about the shuttle, hopefully we will have no reason to pursue the later option" KezTrek ordered, "Yes Commander" Springer replied leaving engineering to find Trylophis. For several minutes after he left KezTrek stood running thought all the options again in her head. If a crew member was required to stay behind it must be her, as leader of the team, however it was probable that Commander Drew would not be happy with that - he didn't like losing crew members, however as Ambassador Spock from their own universe was renound for saying - The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one - if it was needed KezTrek would stay behind and activate the device, but hopefully Trylophis will be able to implement Lt Springer's shuttle plan and this whole line of thought is redundant. "Commander" Ensign Markenson said approving her, "We got all the spare parts we needed" he said. "Good Work Ensign, Dismissed" she said and he returned to his work in 'upgrading' Spock's ship.

When Lt Troi entered Engineering he saw Commander KezTrek standing in deep thought, but after a minute she moved off to work at one of the stations. "Commander" he spoke approving from her left "Yes Lt" she answered never moving her eyes from the display before her "I have annualized all there tactical systems..." he paused as one of Spock's men approached "I..I believe the modifications we are making will work at normal capacity" he paused again as the Vulcan moved over to he other side of engineering "I have several Ideas that will allow us a major advantage should we need to use them" he said and stood waiting for her response.....

"Good Work Lt" at 2300 I will be rotating the work crews I’d like you to return to the Fang and make preparations, also I would like you to give a full report to Commander Drew, I sent one over a few hours ago but it was incomplete I would like you to ensure he knows everything that is happening, see Mr. Springer for information on the Alien Device that brought us hear, the Commander should be made aware of all options open to us" KezTrek ordered "Yes Commander" Troi replied "Dismissed Lt" KezTrek said and Troi went in search of Springer.... Drew thought about what Beckie said "If what you believe is true then the minute I open a channel to Vulcan Spock will know we are not going to help him" Drew told her "And he will most likely kill the Away Team because of it" "I know sir but we have to find out what the actual situation is on Vulcan" just then the door beeped indicating someone wanted to come in "Enter" Drew called out. The door opened to revel Mark Troi "Sir I have news from Commander KezTrek" he reported Drew nodded his head "Go ahead Lt" "Sir has you know we have found the controls for the alien device that sent us here" Troi continued "We believe we have found two possible ways of controlling it first we could us a shuttle link to control the device and send the Fang back or we can leave a crewman be hide in a shuttle" "Stop right there I am leaving no one be hide" Drew told him "We got into this together and we are going to get out of it together" "Yes but this could be the only way home for us all" Drew nodded his head already planning what to do in that situation he suspected that KezTrek was planning on being the one to stay behide but if the Fang was going to do this they would need their best pilot he on the other hand was expandable he made his decision if that situation did occur he would stay be hide. "Sir" Beckie interrupted Drew's thought "Yes" Drew asked her "What are we going to do about my theory?"
"Follow me" Drew told them as he walked onto the bridge towards the Ops station "Ensign Lamont" he called out to the young officer who had been manning Ops ever since the death of their last Ops Officer "I hereby promote you to Chief Operations Officer effective imminently" the young officer was unsure what to say "Thank you sir" "We can celebrate later" Drew told her "Ensign I want you to work with Lt.Triano and Lt.Troi to find a way to send a coded signal to Vulcan without Mr.Spock releasing" "Aye sir" she replied.

"Commander KezTrek" Springer shouted as he ran quickly to KezTrek. "I have some good news with the installments of the new weapons. They are almost complete but I need one more item."
"Oh whets that?" KezTrek replied. Springer voice went down a notch as he started to explain to KezTrek. "One of the Fangs Shuttle. Now before you ask what for, it’s for the shuttle link. See, this device is from the future. Don't ask how and don't ask why but on the ships shuttles from Spocks ship wouldn't handle it. But one of our shuttles could very well not only link up, but also once we got back to our universe, destroy the device with some sort of power surge through the link. What ya say Commander? Am I good or what?" Springer said as he waited for a reply

"Excellent Mr. Springer, I will arrange for a shuttle from the Fang but it may take sometime, I just sent a group back and if I start sending too many people back and forth Spock may become suspicious" KezTrek said "Aye Commander" Springer said evidently pleased with his latest theory "I will keep working with the work crews until we can get a shuttle" Springer offered knowing it would not be wise if he didn't look like he was doing something Spock's people may start to realize something was going on. "Good idea Lt, I will contact you as soon as the shuttle can be arranged, Dismissed" KezTrek said and Springer went of to assist one of the work crews....

Beckie looked at Mr. Troi. "Well I don’t know anything about signals and such but isn’t there a way to 'Cloak' a signal I mean you know how we can cloak ships and such. Couldn’t we cloak a signal" Mr. Troi looked at the counselor and she could tell that he was thinking hard. "or maybe we could send a cloaked probe with a message or something? What do you think Mr. Troi?" She looked at Mr. Troi with big huge eyes she was nervous. He could sense that she was worried about the Vulcans. Ensign Leah Lamont still had a little bit a hard time to concentrate on her new task with Beckie Triano and Mark Troi. It was her first mission right after the academy and she really hadn't expected her first assignment to be that exciting and frightening at the same time. She couldn't quite believe yet that she was already Chief of Ops.

"Are you alright Ensign?" Beckie asked her. "Sorry Counselor" Leah said "my thoughts must have been elsewhere for a while." She hadn't been aware that Beckie had asked her a question. "It's alright ensign, I'm sure this must be hard for you right on your first mission! But we must find a way to cloak our signal, do you have any idea?" Leah tried to think. "I don't think we can cloak a signal like cloaking a vessel, a signal is just a wave and not matter. And also they have to be able to pick the signal up on Vulcan. Maybe we could let the signal "ride" on top of something that looks like a natural emission. The question is, how will Vulcan find out that there is a message hidden but Spock won't."

Drew walked over to Ensign Lamont "So any ideas?" he asked her "We have thought up some possibilities" Lamont reported "Good with the Away Team almost ready to send us home I want to contact Vulcan soon"

After Cmdr. Drew had walked by they knew they had to find a solution for the problem quickly. Leah tried to think and she could see the others were also trying hard to figure out a way. Suddenly Leah thought she had an idea. "I think Counselor Train’s idea was right, I just thought into the wrong direction before. Instead of making matter reflect light as used for cloaking a vessel we have'd to make the signal reflect itself from Spock's sensors. We should be able to do this, similar to the reflection of light. If we emit the signal the right way we should be able to hide it from Spock but Vulcan will get it. We only have to submit them how they have to answer us so Spock won't get the answer. Lt. Troi do you think you can help me with the calculation of the emission frequency?.

Doctor to Commander Drew: "Go ahead doc" Drew answered "Commander, in light of what happened with the counselor, and the dozens of reports I'm still receiving, I think that our time is running low sir." After a moment of silence the commander asked solemnly "How much time do you think we have left Doc?" "well sir, maybe another couple of days, it's hard to tell. I was able to bring Beckie out one time, but I'm not sure if I can again and it could be the same for the rest of the crew." "Understood doctor, we are working on ways to get back home as we speak, keep me updated Drew out"

Drew rested his head in his hands he had a headache for the past few hours but it was suddenly getting worse the Doctors news had not done much to help him. All of a sudden he felt very weak and everything around him starting spinning he "Mr.Troi who have the bridge I will be in my quarters" Drew ordered has he tried to get up from his chair "Sir are you alright" Troi asked with concern "Yes Lieutenant I am fin..." Drew clasped to the floor before he could say another word Troi rushed over to him "Troi to sickbay" "Go ahead Lieutenant" Shipley responded "Doctor something is wrong with Commander Drew he has clasped!"

Anna rushed onto the bridge with two other medics and leaned down beside the Commander scanning him. "He'll be alright I think, I need to get him to sickbay quickly though." As the medics took Drew, Anna looked up at Lt.Troi "What exactly happened Lieutenant?" "Well, he looked like he had a headache and when he started to get up, he just collapsed." Troi answered. "All right Lieutenant, hopefully we will be out of this predicament before anything else happens."
----In Sickbay----
After reviving Commander Drew, the doctor was studying his brainwave patterns. The impatient Commander was sitting up on the biobed. "Commander, why didn't you report to me when the headache began?" Drew was silent. The Doctor sighed and gave him a hypo spray "this should last about another 6 hours, if you have even the slightest bit of pain, come to me immediately...that's an order." Drew sighed "Yes doctor". "Then I guess you are free to go Commander" Anna said as she put her fingers to her temple and walked toward her office staring confusingly at her recent findings.

"Lt Springer I have been in contact with the Fang, you will need to make any modifications on the Fang before they launch the shuttle, I have arranged for your transport in one half hour - please ask Commander Drew to send Lt Troi back over if he has finished making arrangement on the Fang" KezTrek ordered as she and Springer stood off at the side of engineering away from the other work crews "Aye Commander" Springer replied and began gathering his things for transport.....

"Right Commander, but I need the controls transfer from this ship to shuttle, then back to our ship, which I figured out how. So all I need is to get it into the shuttle bay of Spock's ship. Now before you say how we do that without Spock raising any concerns is if some one breaks our transport unit. I can do this simply of course by pretending I am sending over a part, but really a high-energy surge that stuffs up the transporter. None the wiser. Then I fly over with the shuttle. Then it is simply rerouting the controls to the shuttle via a link, which I have made, and home free. Simple really. So, all go is it Commander?" Springer finally finished as he felt real excited.

"I believe Mr. Springer should be arriving soon for the Shuttle" Drew told Ensign Lamont at Operations "Make sure that the Shuttle is ready for him to make any modifications he needs and stand by to clear the shuttle for departing"

"Welcome back Mr. Springer" Commander Drew greeted Mr. Springer on the teleporter pad. "How long do we have?" Springer said straight away quickly rushing off to shuttle bay 2. "Oh I don't know. About 30 hours. Why you ask?" Drew said. "No reason." Springer replied. "its just that I have to fly this thing to SPock ships somehow without them noticing while trying to open their shuttle bay doors. I have Commander KezTrek on standby to do that, but I only get a chance every 5 hours." Springer replied. "Whys that Mr. Springer?" Drew asked "that’s when they change shift over there. Also, can you get Mr. Tori for me? Commander KezTrek wants him back over there." Springer replied. "Hmmm I believe so. Just tell me when you are ready to depart." Drew said. "Eye Sir."
Mr. Springer did have long to the first window of opportunity (YES I CAN NOT SPELL!)
He and Mr. Troi along with a few crewmembers got to work. Within 3 hours everything was all set to go. For the next 2 hours Mr. Springer went over with Mr. Troi what to do when they arrived on Spock’s ship. Finally the time had come.
=/\= Springer to Commander Drew =/\=
=/\= Drew Here =/\=
=/\= were ready for lunch. =/\=
=/\= Ok your all clear to go. Good luck. Drew Out. =/\=
And with that Mr. Troi took the controls of the shuttle and slowly flew out of the shuttle bay. Out of the Fang they left, onwards to Spocks ship.
"Try not to get their attention Mr. Troi."
"I won't Lt."
"Ok, when we get in there, be prepared to get this done as quickly as possible. Time is critical. Understand?"
"I Understand."

The Shuttle was about to dock at Spocks ship. Lucky for them, there was no trouble. They landed in the shuttle bay with KezTrek and Trylophis waiting for them with the other crewmen.
"Ahh welcome Mr. Springer." KezTrek said as they landed and Mr. Springer and Troi were getting out of the shuttle. "What’s first Mr. Springer?" Trylophis asked. "Well for starters, get rid of those crewmen. I suggest we get them to tell Spock that the Modifications are finished, then they could go. Mr. Troi, Trylophis and myself can complete the hook up easy, while Commander KezTrek fly’s us home and protects us from getting caught. What ya say? Cause I'M EXCITED!"

Drew sat in his command chair and waited. That had been all he had been doing for the past few hours with most of his senior staff on Spock’s ship, he himself had very little to do. Mr. Springer had taken the shuttle to Spock’s ship almost 20 minutes ago with time fast running out for the Fang crew Drew prayed the Team would succeed soon. Work was now well under way by the officers on board Spock's ship in the shuttle bay. Springer was hard at it trying to link the ship to the shuttle. Mr. Troi was getting the controls fixed and Trylophis was checking to see if anything went wrong. KezTrek stood watch over the whole thing to check if there was any trouble. It was roughly about 20 hours till they had to depart this time of space. The Officers still had about 3-4 hours of work to do. All ready they had been hard at it for hours.
"Can't we hurry this up?" Trylophis ask Mr. Springer
Mr. Springer replied wiping sweat away from his forehead "Look, if we hurry it up, then it’s harder to get home. If we don’t do this right, we have a chance of being attacked on the fang and destroyed. We have to get it right so we can be within 1000km of Spocks ship, instead of less."
"How Close?" KezTrek said to Mr. Springer
"About 1000Km. Why you ask sir?"
"1000km? And if you don’t do it right its closer?"
"That is correct Work was now well under way by the officers on board Spock's ship in the shuttle bay. Springer was hard at it trying to link the ship to the shuttle. Mr. Troi was getting the controls fixed and Trylophis was checking to see if anything went wrong. KezTrek stood watch over the whole thing to check if there was any trouble. It was roughly about 20 hours till they had to depart this time of space. The Officers still had about 3-4 hours of work to do. All ready they had been hard at it for hours.
"Can't we hurry this up?" Trylophis ask Mr. Springer
Mr. Springer replied wiping sweat away from his forehead "Look, if we hurry it up, then it’s harder to get home. If we don’t do this right, we have a chance of being attacked on the fang and destroyed. We have to get it right so we can be within 1000km of Spocks ship, instead of less."
"How Close?" KezTrek said to Mr. Springer
"About 1000Km. Why you ask sir?"
"1000km? And if you don’t do it right its closer?"
"That is correct Sir."
"Hurry it up. I don’t care if we have to be 200km, I want to get out of here." KezTrek Ordered
"But, Sir that’s too dangerous. Our weapons will be offline, and the shields need to be up to get back.....through.....the....rift. Did I say something wrong? Springer replied to KezTrek.
"No weapons???? Shields must be? Are you crazy?" KezTrek replied angrily at Mr. Springer.
"I didn't want to alarm anyone, but that was the only way." Springer replied.
"And the Captain approved of this. He does know doesn't he?" KezTrek said to Springer "Well....." Springer replied
"He doesn't know either? Mr. Springer, I am disappointed in you. I thought you would have told him" KezTrek said
"I will when we get back. Now back to work." Springer said.

For the next 3 hours and 28 minutes, the officers worked without making much talk only when needed, till finally "ALL FINISHED!" Springer Shouted in joy. "KezTrek, do you want to do the honors with flying it out of here?" Springer Asked
"Well, I am the pilot right?." KezTrek replied
"You are too." Springer said
"Ok, lets get out of here!" KezTrek said to the officers as they got aboard the Shuttle. Sir."
"Hurry it up. I don’t care if we have to be 200km, I want to get out of here." KezTrek Ordered
"But, Sir that’s too dangerous. Our weapons will be offline, and the shields need to be up to get back.....through.....the....rift. Did I say something wrong? Springer replied to KezTrek.
"No weapons???? Shields must be? Are you crazy?" KezTrek replied angrily at Mr. Springer.
"I didn't want to alarm anyone, but that was the only way." Springer replied.
"And the Captain approved of this. He does know doesn't he?" KezTrek said to Springer "Well....." Springer replied
"He doesn't know either? Mr. Springer, I am disappointed in you. I thought you would have told him" KezTrek said
"I will when we get back. Now back to work." Springer said.

For the next 3 hours and 28 minutes, the officers worked without making much talk only when needed, till finally "ALL FINISHED!" Springer Shouted in joy. "KezTrek, do you want to do the honors with flying it out of here?" Springer Asked
"Well, I am the pilot right?." KezTrek replied
"You are too." Springer said
"Ok, lets get out of here!" KezTrek said to the officers as they got aboard the Shuttle.

Back on the Fang

Leah was feverishly hitting the buttons on her panel. She had run various computer simulations to figure out how exactly they had to send the signal so it would reflect of spock's sensors. She knew there wasn't much time and Beckie couldn't help her because this technical stuff wasn't quite her strenght. Finally she recieved a positive result. To make sure it would work she ran a few test simulations with those settings and it looked good. Now she felt confident enough that it should work. It had to work for if Spock noticed they would all be in high danger. She turned to Cmdr. Drew. "Cmdr. Drew, I believe I have found the right settings for the emission so Spock won't notice. I am ready as soon as you can give me the message to send..." "Lt(jg) Lamont send the message" Drew ordered from his chair "Aye sir" Lamont responded "Message sent" Beckie looked at the consol. watching Spocks ship, to see it they noticed anything...so far the signal was sent and they didnt see it.

===6 hours later====

Sir, We are being hailed usuing the same signal we sent out.....
Sir, It is the Vulcan Science Commitee. "Lets hear it" Drew ordered "This is the Vulcan Science Committee to the USS Fang" a strong Vulcan male voice sounded through the speakers "Commander Paul Drew, USS Fang" Drew introduced himself "We received your message Commander, Vulcan was conquered by the Alliance two years ago Indendant Spock has been missing presumed dead since that occasion" Drew looked to Triano and Lamont in shock "But I don’t understand if Vulcan has been conquered how can the Science Committee still exist? And how can you send this message?" "We have our ways Commander the Alliance have brutalised our world we are no longer a threat to them one day we will regain our standing and crush the Alliance we can do that with your ship" "What do you mean?" Drew growing concerned "We have also send an message to Indentant Spock informing him of your contact we do not like betrayers Commander" with that the message went dead. After the Committees message ended dread filled through Drew "Ensign Lamont what is the location of the Away Team?" "All members are in the other ships shuttle bay" "Is there any of Spock’s people with them?" Drew asked "No sir" Lamont replied hitting the comm button on his consol Drew spoke "Fang to KezTrek" "Go ahead Commander" KezTrek responded "KezTrek Spock is on to us you have to get the device and get out of there now!" "Sir we are almost ready for launch" "Good things could turn nasty so make sure you have Lt. Commander Springer at tactical" "Sir the shuttle has no weapons" "What the..." Drew cried "OK do the best you can we will protect you" "Aye sir" Drew ended the transmission "Red Alert!" he ordered.

KezTrek sat at the shuttle controls watching the readouts 30 more seconds till they could launch 'great 30 more seconds for Spock's people to make us dead in' she thought but instead turned to Springer "Mr Springer, is there no way to get the weapons online?" Springer looked at her and even before he spoke she knew what he was going to say "No, not if we want this link to work, its difficult enough to keep active as it is but if we had weapons online..." he trailed of KezTrek already knew he was going to say impossible. "Alright, just promise me the helms at max. efficiency" KezTrek said almost joking "Yes Commander, Helm is at 100% efficiency" Springer replied "Good, preparing launch sequence, launch in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...." The shuttle shot into space, ready to get this done - or die in the attempt, but KezTrek would be dammed if she'd let the Fang be destroyed while there was breath in her body and quite frankly the option of her being dead was decidedly unappealing.

As the Shuttle shot into space, about 3 seconds later a photon torpeodo hit the Shuttle from the rear. "FULL SHIELDS! Commander KezTrek to the fang, We need help and fast!" KezTrek said. "Were on our way" Was the reply from Drew. "One thing more Commander, Do not destory Spocks ship, it is important because we still need it." Mr Springer added. "Is there anymore suprises?" Keztrek turned and said to him. "Errr......i dont know." Springer replied as another two torepedos hit the shuttle. "Impulse engines are failing, shields are down to 15%. Life support is onto emerancey systems." Was the readout Mr Troi gave. "Another torpedoe on our way!" Springer called out. *BANG* Alarm Sounds were ringing, lights were flashing. "Shields are down! Life Support is failing, Navigation Offline, Inpulse engines are down. The Hull is at 68%." Mr Troi gave another read out. "Commander we need your help NOW!" Was the call from KezTrek "Commander, another torpedoe hits, and everything we have worked for will be lost." Springer told the Commander
"Do we have thursters?" KezTRek asked
"About the only thing we have" Troi replied to him
"WARNING life support will fail in 2 minutes."
"GREAT! another problem!" Muffled Mr Springer.
"Aother torpedo sir!" Shouted MR Troi. "BRACE FOR IMPACT!"
But nothing happen. "look there! Its the FANG!" Mr Trylophis said. "Commander KezTrek to Commander Drew, get a tractor beam locked on us and tow us into dock so we can get on with it." KezTrek said. And as it happen, a tractor beam was pulling them in. Within about 30 seconds they were in dock. KezTrek rushed off to the bridge leaving the 3 officers behind in contorl of the shuttle. "Whatever you do, just wait till i tell you to start." Mr Springer said to Troi and Trylophis as he rushed off to the bridge also.

"Commander KezTrek. Welcome back!" Commander Drew said as phaser firing was going on between the two ships. "Hold fire!" Mr Springer Shouted as he ran onto the bridge. "Whats this Mr Springer?" Drew asked "I can disable there weopons and engines, just enough for us to get home." Springer said as a few more torpedoes hit. "Shields down to 38%" was the call from the crewman at tatical. 38%???? Springer thought to himself. "Give me tatical!" Springer said as he took over from the crewman. Alarm bells rang out as phaser and Torpedoes were pounding the Fang. "Shields offline. Hull at 79%." was the readout.
"Firing two torpedoes." MR Springer said. "Watch and learn."
On the main veiw screen the two torpedoes ripped though Spock's Ship shield and took out both engines and weopeon systems. "What the? How that happen?" Commander Drew asked MR Springer. "I got the shield frenquency of the ship before i left, Sir. Now i must get to work. Also one more thing, We will have no more weapons and we need the shields to get back up higher than 53% or we wont make it." Springer replied.
"WHAT? No weapons? We will be Defenceless!" Commander Drew said.
"Um, also you think i would leave withou the torpedoe and Phaser bearings? I have cycled our shields to the more efficent rating to combat their weapons." Springer said. "We shall now only recive minamal Damage."
"Good Work. Mr Springer" Drew replied as Mr Springer went off to get the shuttle link up and running.

As Lt. Commander Springer hurried back into the shuttle bay to finish the last preparations Drew turned to KezTrek "I take it all went well Commander?" "Yes Sir I have discovered the clocking device used by Spock and have brought it back to the Fang" "Very good Commander" just then Springer’s voice came over the intercom “Springer to Bridge we are ready down here” "Very well" Drew said as he took the command chair "Lets go home” KezTrek relived the young officer at the helm “Aye sir” she said “Bring us about” Drew hit his comm badge “Jerry shields are up to 60% get ready to active the device” pressing the ship wide announcement button he warned the crew “All hands brace for impact”. “Sir the refit is opening” Lamont reported from Ops “Take us in KezTrek” Drew ordered. The Fang entered the rift the ship shuck violently has it travelled through the refit until it reached the other side. After the shaking had stop Drew looked round to Lamont “Report” he said with hope “According to sensors we are back in our own universe!” she reported “In what time period?” Drew asked “Checking now sir according to the star positions we are..” she cut off looking at her screen “Yes” Drew prompt “Back in the in the year 2387 twos day after we left we did it sir!” Drew hit the comm button again “All hands the mission was a success we are home!” Just then Dr. Shipley voice came through the speakers “Sir Captain Fett is awakening from his coma” “I will be right there” Drew replied “KezTrek you have the bridge” he ordered has he entered the turboleft.

Sickbay, 30 minutes later
“Its good to have you back Captain” Drew said to Fett after Anna had let him see him “Thank you Commander its good to be back though there is something we need to discuss” Fett told him “Doctor can you give me and the Commander a moment please?” Fett requested “Alright but not too long I will in my office if you need me” Anna told him “Commander I received a message from an old friend on Bajor just before we left Starbase asking me if I would like to return to Bajor as a Minister on the prevousal government” Fett paused to let his next statement sink in “I have been thinking about returning home for sometime now Paul so I have decided to accept his offer” “I see” was all Drew could think to say

A week later, Bajourn system
“Sir we are being hailed by DS9” Lamont reported “Onscreen” Drew ordered “Colonel Kira a pleasure to see you again” “Same to you Commander welcome to Bajor” DS9’s commander replied “Thank you Minister Fett is almost ready for transport” “It is a great day for Bajor, one of her greatest heroes is returning” Kira told him “He is an hero alright” Drew agreed “Will you will excuse me Colonel we have some business to take care of here” “Understood DS9 out” Drew walked into the Ready Room to find Captain Fett looking at his desk deep in thought “Having one last look” Drew said pulling at his neck slightly both men wore there best dressed uniforms and the collar was a little to teat “Yes I have served on the Fang along time most of my Starfleet career in fact” Fett told still in deep thought “It wont be the same with out you sir” “Yes while I wont be the same without her as well” “Shell we” Drew said indicting to the door “I believe I have one more thing to do” Fett said “Computer transfer command codes to Commander Paul Drew authorization Fett alpha two she’s all yours now Paul take good care of her” Drew nodded his head “I will Sir”. Both men walked into the turoboleft “Deck 5” Drew told the computer after a short trip the doors open to a corridor lined with crewmembers forming an honor guard for Fett. Both men walked into the corridor has KezTrek came to join them with two of his most trusted officers Fett begin his walk down the corridor saying his goodbyes to the crew finally they entered the transporter room where all the senior staff had gathered “Well I guess this is it” Fett said to his staff “It has been a pleasure to serve with you all I wish you all the best of luck in your careers” stepping on to the transporter room Fett took one last look at his ship and give his last order “Energise” and with that the Fangs commander returned to his homeworld.

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