"Secret Shuttles, Part II: Furtherance"
(In 2375, the timeship Klon dissipates the Paroga's tractor beam with an energy pulse and flashes away)
Daniel: Good! Who cares about that stupid timeship anyway!
(He looks at the navigation and realizes that he's back in time in the Essex system)
Daniel: Crap. I hate time travel. I destroyed this system like two years ago.
(The Paroga suddenly slowly disappears from sight. Daniel finds himself inside a cloaked Section 31 starship. He steps out of the Paroga as a man in black approaches)
Floan: Captain Daniel? Of the Phoenix-X??
Daniel: Who are you?
Floan: Allow me to introduce myself. I am Floan. Brother of Sloan.
Daniel: Section 31.
Floan: We were just monitoring the Phoenix-X when we saw your entrance with the timeship.
Daniel: Timeship? What's a timeship? Then again, what is time...?
Floan: Don't play dumb with us. It's obvious you are from the future. And soon you will tell us what we want to know.
Daniel: I'm not telling you anything!
(He turns around to the Paroga and covers the name)
Daniel: Don't look! You're not supposed to see this.
Floan (signals the guards): Take him away.
(A bunch of guards with phasers take Daniel away)
Floan: Oh and don't bother trying to change shape. We have anti-Changeling devices all over the place.
Daniel: You won't get away with this, Floan!
(The Phoenix-X descends transwarp near the cloaked Section 31 ship. Wallace opens a hatch on the wall of his cell and taps on the controls. The force field lets down and he steps out of the Brig. He accesses a comm panel)
Wallace: Sloan! The Captain and the Commander know about Section 31!!
(Sloan goes on screen. He's at a pool party in California with girls in bikinis all around)
>Sloan: Can't you see I'm on vacation!? Go bug Floan!
(On the cloaked Section 31 starship, Floan enters as Daniel is shoved into the Interrogation room)
Floan: Welcome to the Interrogation room, Captain.
Daniel: Could use better decor.
(A computer panel beeps and Wallace appears on screen)
>Wallace: Floan! Remember when you said that I should destroy the Paroga after any signs of enemies trying to steal it? Well, I sort of blew Section 31's cover instead.
Floan: Dammit, Wallace! You had fifteen jobs.
(He beams Wallace into the Interrogation room)
Wallace: Captain?
Daniel: We time jumped. We're back in the Essex system. Also, we're getting out of here.
(The guards suddenly stand in the way, aiming phasers)
Floan: Not so fast.
(Daniel bows his head and reaches out his arm. He uses his Omni powers to blast the guards away)
Daniel (crouches): Arrgh!!
Wallace: Captain—
Daniel: I'm okay!
(Floan takes a step towards them. Daniel and Wallace make a run for it)
(On the Phoenix-X, Armond takes a seat on the Bridge)
Armond: Okay, okay, okay. We're back in time. That's normal. But what's not normal is that the Captain and Commander are missing.
(The screen goes on, showing the ship's shuttlecraft Roche leaving)
Red: The two Trill have escaped.
(On the shuttlecraft Roche)
Lex Gotens: Night looked pretty desperate to get the symbiont back when we left.
Half-Mirror James Gotens: Hahaha! There are no more shuttles on the Phoenix-X. What's he gonna do, dislodge Vector Gamma and come after us?
(Phoenix-X Vector Gamma, the bottom third of the ship, suddenly separates and chases after the runabout. The Commander is at the helm of its Battle Bridge)
Night Seifer: Must get Symbiont back. Must get Symbiont back!
(Someone bangs on the Bridge's back door from the other side)
#GoyCho: Who's in there? I heard a noise. I know I heard a noise.
(On the Roche, Lex turns her head and sees Vector Gamma coming after them)
Lex Gotens: It must be the Seifer symbiont. It doesn't have much in the way of ethics.
Half-Mirror James Gotens: Just keep going. I've located the iso-star. Though, it seems to be a lot younger than when we first located it?
(Phoenix-X Vector Gamma and the Roche disappear in the distance. Shane just watches on the viewscreen)
Shane: Okay, why couldn't we stop that?
Kayl: The Commander locked us out, temporarily, with a Level 4 security code.
(The computer beeps again)
Red: I've located the timeship Klon. They're right near the Essex star.
Armond: Change course for that star. Getting that timeship is more important right now.
(The top two thirds of the Phoenix-X cloaks and heads in the other direction. It approaches the Past Phoenix-X as its decloaking itself in front of the Past Cardassian Hideki-class Isotope and the Past Romulan starship Konsugon)
(On the Past Konsugon)
Past Plutark: Ah! It's the Phoenix-X. Attack!!!!
>Past Meloneus: Yeah, same here.
(On the Past Phoenix-X)
Past Daniel: Firing torpedoes now.
(A slipstream torpedo is fired at the two ships)
Past Daniel: Ha! Take that.
(On the Past Konsugon)
Past Plutark: Destroy that torpedo, now!!
(A disruptor beam hits the torpedo and causes a conduit between the two ships to open)
Past Plutark: Get us out of here.
>Past Meloneus: Yeah, same here.
(The two ships attempt to escape, but the slipstream conduit also engulfs part of the star. The star is suddenly torn between spaces. The ships strain to be released from the conduit)
(On the Past Phoenix-X, Main Engineering)
Past Kayl: Captain, readings show that the slipstream conduit is making the star unstable. I predict that it will go nova in one minute.
#Past Daniel: That isn't good. I need all the power you can muster down there.
(The other Phoenix-X just sits there, watching)
Red: I'm reading the timeship Klon. It's cloaked and it's heading towards the Cardassian ship Isotope. They've just beamed someone off it.
(On the Klon)
Past Meloneus (beams in): What is going on here?
Tellus: Uncle! I just saved your life!
Klokian (turns): Klokian debt paid. Now Klokian return to Klokian homeworld in future.
Past Meloneus: Huh?? Who are you?? Tellus what are you doing here??
(On the Phoenix-X, Shane looks at the star on the view screen and then walks over to warn Armond)
Shane: Armond, get us out of here.
(The star to the left begins to rumble.)
Armond (holds up hand): Just wait...
Red (reads): The Klon is powering up its temporal engines.
Kayl: The Essex star is tearing between space's. 3.367 seconds until nova.
(The Past Phoenix-X relevant to this time period transwarps out of there)
Armond (takes helm): Engaging transwarp.
(The other Phoenix-X transwarps right through the timeship Klon as it makes a time jump. The star goes nova and destroys the Past Konsugon and Past Isotope. The explosion sends shockwaves of fire and energy out to the ends of the Essex system)
(On the cloaked Section 31 starship, Floan looks out the window and sees the shockwave coming towards him. The Paroga breaks out of the starship with Daniel and Wallace onboard)
Daniel (working): Three seconds until impact.
Wallace (working): I've located the Phoenix-X's transwarp conduit.
Daniel: Engage.
(The Paroga stretches into transwarp as the shockwave bursts the Section 31 starship out of cloak and into a million pieces. The Paroga descends transwarp, back into normal space, and everything calms down)
Wallace: We're alive.
Daniel: Are you sure? Better check our pulses.
(They feel their wrists)
Daniel: Oh, no! I don't have one!
Wallace: That's because you're a Changeling.
Daniel: Oh, yeah. Hey, what's part of the Phoenix-X doing there?
(He points out of the window at Vector Gamma which is chasing the shuttlecraft Roche in the distance)
Wallace (checks): It's from the Phoenix-X relevant to our time period.
Daniel: Go to the Shuttle bay.
(The Paroga changes course for Vector Gamma. It parks in the Shuttle bay. Daniel and Wallace head for the Battle Bridge but a whole bunch of people are outside the doors trying to get in)
Daniel: What is going on here? Where is the Captain?
GoyCho: You are the Captain, sir.
Daniel: That's right and don't you forget it!
GoyCho: The Commander has sealed himself on the Battle Bridge trying to apprehend the renegade Trill. That, and we went back in time about two years I think.
Daniel: I know that, you idiot!
Wallace: Heyyy. I thought idiot was our thing? You always used to call me idiot.
Daniel (shakes head): Hhhh. What an idiot.
Wallace: Awww. You remembered.
GoyCho: Sir, with all due respect, why don't you just shapeshift your way through the floors?
Daniel: All due respect? What do you mean by that!?!?
GoyCho: Well, you're a Changeling.
Daniel: Oh, yeah.
(He glances up and recalls a memory. Lox: Any change of shape could alter that temporal X material within you. Anything could happen... happen... happen...)
Daniel (nods): I better not.
GoyCho: Sir?
Daniel: Weren't you listening to the recall? Just shoot down the door!
GoyCho: We already tried that. Besides, you out-rank the Commander. You can just override his lockout codes.
Daniel: Are you telling me what to do!?!?!
GoyCho: No, I just—
Daniel: Fine! I'll just override the Commander's lockout codes! I mean, I do outrank him.
(On the Battle Bridge, the Commander is at the controls, firing phasers at the shuttlecraft Roche)
Night Seifer: You won't get away with this!!
(GoyCho is still banging on the door from the hallway)
>Half-Mirror James Gotens: Yes we will! Now Lex has the Gotens Symbiont and I have the Gotens Symbiont from the Mirror Universe!!
Night Seifer: What Mirror Universe? Why do you keep on mentioning that?
>Half-Mirror James Gotens: Why don't you just access your new symbiont's memories? It knows all about it.
(Night glances up and recalls a memory from the Seifer Symbiont. Half-Mirror James Gotens: Think of another dimension. One as similar to this one, but with minor opposites in peoples attitudes and matter anti-matter polarities. That one is the negative universe and this one is the positive universe... universe... universe...)
Night Seifer: What's with that echo?
(Half-Mirror James Gotens: Soon, my love. We will return there where we are safe! ...safe! ...safe!)
Night Seifer: Why did you call me your love?
>Half-Mirror James Gotens: I was talking to Lex at the time, you idiot! She and I are now one with the Gotens Symbiont. We are in love.
Night Seifer: Eww! That's like me being in love with me? How more weird can things get?
(He looks at his reflection in a reflective control panel surface)
Night Seifer: Although, I do have many attractive qualities.
(The force fields all around the room suddenly go down and Daniel and everyone enters the room)
Night Seifer (gasps): Gasp!
>Half-Mirror James Gotens: Looks like you're busted, Seifer!!! Hahahaha!!!
(The communications cut out and the shuttlecraft Roche speeds off)
Night Seifer: I'm not Seifer!
(The guards pick him up and hold his arms back)
Daniel(approaches him): What do you think you are doing, Commander?
Night Seifer: I'm missing my symbiont!!
Daniel (observes): Funny, I don't see anything missing?
Night Seifer: The symbiont is a separate being who lives inside of my body. Of course you can't see it!!
(Lox scans him with a tricorder)
Night Seifer: They performed surgery on me and replaced my five-lifetime-old symbiont with this one-lifetime symbiont!!
Ensign Dan (raises hand): Uhh, I still don't understand the concept of symbionts?
Lox (closes tricorder): Whatever symbiont replaced the Gotens one, changed Night considerably. He's a totally different person now, taking on traits from both his former and new symbiont.
Night Seifer: His name is Seifer. Get it right.
Daniel: Understood, Doctor. Wallace, confine Seifer to quarters and put guards on him at all times. We don't know what to expect of him.
Night Seifer: Expect the same as before. I haven't changed. I can still dance!
(He starts to dance)
Daniel (covers eyes): Hurry! Take him away!
(Wallace grabs Night Seifer and shoves him to some guards outside in the hall)
Daniel: Now, pursue that alien vessel!
Ensign Dan (takes helm): Yes, sir! Except it's not an alien vessel. It's just one of ours.
Daniel: Whatever. Just do it! Computer, activate chase music.
(Further on, the shuttlecraft Roche approaches a small Iso-star in space, active with bolts of lightning coming out of it)
Lex Gotens: I recognize this thing.
Half-Mirror James Gotens: It's an iso-star, a neutral tear in the bi-polar universe. They disguise themselves under isolinuim radiation. That's why we thought they created a double of the Phoenix-X before.
(Lex takes more readings)
Half-Mirror James Gotens: This one is identical to the one we encountered last time. Only it's a little bigger. It might not totally disintegrate after we pass through it because we are so small.
Lex Gotens: I am having second thoughts about all this.
Half-Mirror James Gotens: It's just your symbiont echoing. Ignore it. Activate an intensive sensor sweep. That's what irritates the star enough to transport us over.
Lex Gotens: That kind of sweep is pretty high?
Half-Mirror James Gotens: I don't want to take any chances! Vector Gamma is still after us. Do it!!
(Phoenix-X Vector Gamma approaches the Roche from the distance and locks a tractor beam onto them)
Daniel: Pull them in.
Wallace: Sir, it's one of those stars.
Daniel (nods): I know.
(The Roche engages its intensive scan causing the iso-star to rumble and throw out longer strips of lightning. The iso-star captures the Roche and Phoenix-X Vector Gamma with its energy tendrils and disappears them out of the Prime Universe. The two ships reappear in the Mirror Universe)
GoyCho: Great. Now we're back in time, inside a parallel universe! That is very annoying to me.
