"The Nega'Jem, Part II"
(Matt activates his armlet. The crew is safe and sound on the Bridge of the Phoenix-X)
>Seifer: That was really amazing how we were able to escape the Nega'Jem.
>Daniel: Yeah. I'm glad things are back to normal.
>Seifer: Funny thing, though. I can't seem to remember how we came up with that brilliant plan?
> Daniel: Heh, heh! That can all be explained later on. Let's just get back to looking cool on the Bridge.
(They pose, as if for a magazine)
Armond: Hey, Matt! Let's go!!
(Lieutenant Matt turns off the mini Daniel and Seifer holograms floating above his armlet)
Matt (sighs): If only it were that easy.
(Out in space, the thick tentacles, from within the asteroid cluster, squeeze harder around Phoenix-X Vector Gamma, trying to crush it. The vector shakes like crazy)
Armond: This could be the end.
Shane: That's it! I'm outta here.
(He's about to run away when Matt stops him)
Matt: Stop! I have a plan.
Armond: You're not cool enough to have a plan. Shane had a better one!
(He turns to Shane and points to the screen at the scattered debris of the Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ship)
Armond: Beam us directly into that part of the Tekken, over there. It's still working.
Matt: Wait! What if we could communicate to this tentacle species!? Also known as the Sleri.
Armond: Wait a minute. You're saying there's a name for this species, that of which can be vocalized to refer to them in a casual manner?
Matt: What? I'm saying we can give them the command to let us go!
Shane: He's right, sir. The ship is being held by a huge tentacle and we do want to be let go.
Armond (throws up hands): Alright! What steps can we take to accomplish this? I have many skills in voodoo dance.
Shane: Um, no.
Matt: The Nega'Jem normally use a list of bio-electric command subroutines to communicate with them. They just send it over hailing frequencies.
Armond: "Good thinking, Matt!!" which is what I'd be saying if we knew anything about bio-electric communication.
Shane: We don't have to! I can link up our computers with what's left of their debris. Man, if their computers aren't still intact, you can call me Charlie.
(Lieutenant Commander Armond walks over as Shane works)
Armond: Good. Their computers are still intact. Can I still call you Charlie?
Shane: No. Well, okay.
(They link their computer systems up with the computer systems of the floating debris of the Tekken and use it to send out a widespread signal throughout the asteroid cluster. The Sleri tentacle species stop wiggling around their tentacles and the Sleri holding the vector lets go)
Shane: Yes! They're not alive. They're not alive!
Matt: Now they're just awaiting our next command.
Armond: Good work! You know, I used to treat you badly because I felt threatened by your talent to always follow protocol. But now I think we'll be the best of friends.
Matt (moves away): Don't touch me.
(Meanwhile, on Vector Alpha, Kayl is still possessed by the Mirror Jem'Hadar, Shadow Flare. The vector remains surrounded by the four attack ships)
Daniel (shrugs): Well, what are you waiting for? I feel like we've been at this stalemate for at least two episodes.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Ah, you know. I thought we'd debate our points of view for a while? You know, a couple bad guy good guy pot shots?
Daniel: No!! What do you think this is, Battlestar Galactica?
(Shadow Flare suddenly appears on screen)
Kayl/>Shadow Flare: You will pay for your insolence!!
Daniel: Uh. Could you stop possessing Kayl now? It's like an echo.
Kayl/>Shadow Flare: Oh, sorry.
(Lieutenant Kayl collapses to the floor)
Kayl: Ugh.
>Shadow Flare: You will pay for your insolence!!
Daniel: Where did you get your powers?
>Shadow Flare: From the same people who gave you yours. The X.
Daniel: What? Are they handing out free memberships now? I feel so categorized.
>Shadow Flare: Hey, if you have a problem, you can go talk to them. In the meantime, I'm going to have to kill you for your insolence.
(The surrounding Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships begin to bombard Vector Alpha with polaron pulses)
Daniel: Uh!! I really thought we had a bond going?
Red: I could get us a considerable distance ahead of them if you are able to distract them, Captain.
Daniel: You're not suggesting I seduce them by shapeshifting into a female Jem'Hadar?
Red: No! Use your X powers to disorientate their ships' sensors.
Daniel (disappointed): Oh, okay.
(He touches his finger to his forehead and concentrates his powers. There's a sudden flash, everywhere, momentarily confusing the Nega'Jem's targeting sensors)
Red: Great! Except you threw off our targeting sensors too.
Daniel: Just fly the ship.
(Vector Alpha shifts back a little, dodging an incoming cluster of polaron pulses, then nosedives away from the circle of attack ships to speed off into the distance. The four attack ships break formation and chase after them)
(Meanwhile, Phoenix-X Vector Beta speeds through space as the Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ship Zidane chases and fires at it. The vector gets weaker and weaker after every shot)
Seifer: Aahhh!!! We're all gonna die!!
Kugo: Don't worry, Commander. I'm sure it'll all work out in the end.
Seifer (gets up): Oh, okay then. I'm going to go take a break. Anyone want anything?
Kugo: No!! You have to keep flying the ship. We're under attack!!
Seifer (sits): Oohhhh, yeeaah.
(He taps at the helm, raising the vector up and falling back to position itself above the Zidane. They cut phasers into the Zidane's shields, weakening its strength. In the distance is a small, small star throwing out strips of flowing energy)
Seifer: It's the iso-star.
(The ship shakes)
Kugo: Shields down to 23%.
Seifer: Seifer to Doctor Lox. How's that tactical information coming?
#Lox: Oh, just fine. Thanks for asking. You know, it's really comforting to know that your superiors actually care about the work you do once in whi—
Seifer: Stop talking!! Just send us their shield frequencies!
#Lox: Yes, sir.
(The Zidane suddenly slams a green ray of particles onto the vector and then flies off. A bubble forms around Vector Beta causing it to static out of normal space)
Kugo: There are conduit walls all around us? We're contained in some kind of transwarp room? I think we're locked in some sub-level of subspace!
Seifer: Damn!! You know that break? I'm gonna take it now.
(Deep, in the asteroid cluster, Shane gets all the tentacle species to do a dance in sequence flailing)
Armond (slaps him upside the head): Stop that!!
Shane: Owe!
Armond: We have to get back to our mission and cover our tracks now. Prepare the phaser array so we can vapourize all that Nega'Jem debris.
(The computer beeps)
Matt: Uhh, sir. The Sleri seem to be emitting high-frequency bio-electric waves.
Armond: If you people don't shut up, I'm going to be emitting some high-frequency waves.
Shane (checks): They're interfacing with the Nega'Jem computer.
Matt: We're being hailed.
#Slerina: We are the Sleri. Prepare to be assimilated— into nothingness. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be totally destroyed, along with anything else you have.
Shane: Commander, they've evolved into sentience!
Armond: Borg?? Where??
#Slerina: We have always had sentience since we were created by the ones you call Jem'Hadar.
Shane: No. We changed their name to Nega'Jem.
#Slerina: That's stupid! Prepare to be unexpectedly destroyed for disrupting our perfect existence. Remember, it is an unexpected destruction, so prepare for it.
(The comm signal cuts out, and the tentacle species grab for the broken half of the Tekken for themselves. They cradle the debris to maintain their own sentience)
Armond: We needed to destroy that debris! This is all your fault, Shane!
Shane (shrugs): Oh, well. Good thing I'm not a Starfleet Officer, eh? I'd be in so much trouble. Heh, heh.
(Lieutenant Commander Armond busts a vain and couple thousand brain cells)
Armond (checks pulse): He is only a Changeling. He is only a Changeling.
(Elsewhere, the Apocalypse and other attack ships chase Phoenix-X Vector Alpha through space, back towards the Sleri asteroid cluster in the distance)
Baek (checks): We're gaining on the one ahead of us.
Shadow Flare: Good.
Ganryu: Weren't there three Phoenix-X pieces all together?
Baek (looks up): I thought there are only two in this area?
Shadow Flare: No thinking!! Besides, the others should be taking care of them. I think we have a good catch already.
(Meanwhile, on the chased Phoenix-X Vector Alpha)
Red (looks over): Hey, you think we're being lured?
(His colleague thinks about it for a second)
Kayl: Nah.
(The vector rumbles nearby rocks as it passes into the scattered asteroid belt. The Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships pump out countless polaron pulses, hitting the vector and exploding some rocks. Vector Gamma detects them)
Matt: I'm detecting them.
Armond: Good for you.
(Phoenix-X Vector Alpha dodges an incoming tentacle, letting the tentacle smack into an attack ship, throwing the attack ship off into another direction in the pool of asteroids. Vector Gamma brings their systems back online and heads about towards the remaining three Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships, bombarding them with photon torpedoes. Vector Alpha turns around and matches Vector Gamma's tactical maneuvers)
Kugo: Don't worry, Commander. I'm sure it'll all work out in the end.
Seifer (gets up): Oh, okay then. I'm going to go take a break. Anyone want anything?
Kugo: No!! You have to keep flying the ship. We're under attack!!
Seifer (sits): Oohhhh, yeeaah.
(He taps at the helm, raising the vector up and falling back to position itself above the Zidane. They cut phasers into the Zidane's shields, weakening its strength. In the distance is a small, small star throwing out strips of flowing energy)
Seifer: It's the iso-star.
(The ship shakes)
Kugo: Shields down to 23%.
Seifer: Seifer to Doctor Lox. How's that tactical information coming?
#Lox: Oh, just fine. Thanks for asking. You know, it's really comforting to know that your superiors actually care about the work you do once in whi—
Seifer: Stop talking!! Just send us their shield frequencies!
#Lox: Yes, sir.
(The Zidane suddenly slams a green ray of particles onto the vector and then flies off. A bubble forms around Vector Beta causing it to static out of normal space)
Kugo: There are conduit walls all around us? We're contained in some kind of transwarp room? I think we're locked in some sub-level of subspace!
Seifer: Damn!! You know that break? I'm gonna take it now.
(Deep, in the asteroid cluster, Shane gets all the tentacle species to do a dance in sequence flailing)
Armond (slaps him upside the head): Stop that!!
Shane: Owe!
Armond: We have to get back to our mission and cover our tracks now. Prepare the phaser array so we can vapourize all that Nega'Jem debris.
(The computer beeps)
Matt: Uhh, sir. The Sleri seem to be emitting high-frequency bio-electric waves.
Armond: If you people don't shut up, I'm going to be emitting some high-frequency waves.
Shane (checks): They're interfacing with the Nega'Jem computer.
Matt: We're being hailed.
#Slerina: We are the Sleri. Prepare to be assimilated— into nothingness. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be totally destroyed, along with anything else you have.
Shane: Commander, they've evolved into sentience!
Armond: Borg?? Where??
#Slerina: We have always had sentience since we were created by the ones you call Jem'Hadar.
Shane: No. We changed their name to Nega'Jem.
#Slerina: That's stupid! Prepare to be unexpectedly destroyed for disrupting our perfect existence. Remember, it is an unexpected destruction, so prepare for it.
(The comm signal cuts out, and the tentacle species grab for the broken half of the Tekken for themselves. They cradle the debris to maintain their own sentience)
Armond: We needed to destroy that debris! This is all your fault, Shane!
Shane (shrugs): Oh, well. Good thing I'm not a Starfleet Officer, eh? I'd be in so much trouble. Heh, heh.
(Lieutenant Commander Armond busts a vain and couple thousand brain cells)
Armond (checks pulse): He is only a Changeling. He is only a Changeling.
(Elsewhere, the Apocalypse and other attack ships chase Phoenix-X Vector Alpha through space, back towards the Sleri asteroid cluster in the distance)
Baek (checks): We're gaining on the one ahead of us.
Shadow Flare: Good.
Ganryu: Weren't there three Phoenix-X pieces all together?
Baek (looks up): I thought there are only two in this area?
Shadow Flare: No thinking!! Besides, the others should be taking care of them. I think we have a good catch already.
(Meanwhile, on the chased Phoenix-X Vector Alpha)
Red (looks over): Hey, you think we're being lured?
(His colleague thinks about it for a second)
Kayl: Nah.
(The vector rumbles nearby rocks as it passes into the scattered asteroid belt. The Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships pump out countless polaron pulses, hitting the vector and exploding some rocks. Vector Gamma detects them)
Matt: I'm detecting them.
Armond: Good for you.
(Phoenix-X Vector Alpha dodges an incoming tentacle, letting the tentacle smack into an attack ship, throwing the attack ship off into another direction in the pool of asteroids. Vector Gamma brings their systems back online and heads about towards the remaining three Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships, bombarding them with photon torpedoes. Vector Alpha turns around and matches Vector Gamma's tactical maneuvers)
Daniel: Kayl, tell Armond to match our maneuvers.
(He walks over to the helm)
Daniel: I think you still have a few tricks up your sleeve.
Red: Yes, sir. But I do not have sleeves with this Klingon Armour.
Daniel (with attitude): How many times do I have to keep telling you to just fly the ship?
(Vector Gamma follows Vector Alpha's flight path around the three attack ships. Every time the circling vectors pass the enemy's warp nacelles, they fire torpedoes at them)
Red: This will prevent them from creating any more conduits to screw us over, sir.
Daniel (focuses his powers): I'm going to see what I can do cause some major damage.
(On the Apocalypse, Shadow Flare senses Captain Daniel's increase in omni-potential activity)
Shadow Flare (angry): He is attempting to once again screw us over!!
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Kayl stops operating the computer and looks up at Daniel with a red glow in her eyes)
Kayl-Shadow Flare: You will pay for your insolence.
(She walks around the Bridge to Daniel and places her hands on his temples. The omni-energy engulfs both Kayl and Daniel. Kayl links her mind, causing a flash to occur, throwing the both of them across the room and knocking both vectors' targetting sensors offline)
Daniel: Hggh!!!
Red (trying to fly): What are you two doing??
(Meanwhile, far, far away, Phoenix-X Vector Beta tries to get out of the transwarp room)
Kugo: Sensors do penetrate the bubble, but the emitters don't seem to have any effect on them.
Seifer: We might have to alter the emitters to match the Nega'Jem-type conduits.
Kugo: But how?
Seifer: Only one medical scientist can answer that question...
(Doctor Lox enters the Bridge with a PADD)
Lox: I've got it! The modifications to the emitters.
Seifer: Oh man, I was hoping it'd be a different Doctor.
Lox: We are so on top of their technology. Two times in a row!
(He and Seifer laugh)
Kugo: Stop laughing!! What are you guys talking about??
(Lox and Seifer stop laughing)
Seifer: Uhh. Nothing.
Lox: Yeah. We're not keeping any secrets about the Nega'Jem.
Seifer: Nope. None at all.
(A beep goes off)
Kugo (checks): The Zidane is firing on the iso-star. They're trying to destroy it.
(Out, in space, the Zidane pumps the small star up with polaron pulses. The star begins to bulge and throw out more rapid strips of energy)
(Meanwhile, in the asteroid cluster, Phoenix-X Vectors Alpha and Gamma retreat from the three Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships due to loss of targeting sensors. The attack ships give chase)
Red: I am getting tired of being chased by these people.
#Armond: Armond to Vector Alpha. We're going to cloak. We need you to stay within two kilometres.
Red: Understood. What about a plan of attack?
#Armond: Leave that to us.
(The two vectors cloak as they head towards a huge Sleri tentacle, wrapped around the half of the Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ship, in the distance)
(Vector Beta gets control of the subspace field surrounding them)
Lox: Yes!! We can now drop the transwarp walls.
(They drop from the environment and return to normal space. The Zidane suddenly blows up the iso-star. A thick rupturing multi-space shockwave is produced)
Lox: Uhh. Maybe not.
(Lox puts the transwarp walls back up. The shock wave shatters the Zidane and heads outwards for Vvtor Beta. The shockwave hits the transwarp walls around them and starts pushing them along)
Kugo: Oh my God. We're not destroyed!!
Seifer: But we are travelling sideways at Warp 27.
Kugo: Doctor, how did you know to do that? It isn't possible you knew that from the brain extraction procedure.
Lox (nervous): Sure it is. Heh, heh.
(Beat)
Lox: Alright, I give!
Seifer (shakes head): Dammit, Doctor.
Lox: We didn't develop the brain extraction procedure by ourselves. We stole the technology from the Nega'Jem a long time ago.
Kugo: You mean during the time loop?
Lox (sad): Yes. I was on the vector with Commander Seifer. We had a few encounters with the Nega'Jem before this.
Seifer (shakes head): Dammit, Doctor.
Kugo: Commander! How could you? No wonder the Nega'Jem are so bent on destroying us.
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Kayl and Daniel regain consciousness)
Kayl-Shadow Flare: You may be cloaked, but we will destroy you for your insolence!!
Daniel: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Not since it was you who brought us to this universe. The you who countlessly defies us and the you who expects us to leave!
(He walks over to the helm)
Daniel: I think you still have a few tricks up your sleeve.
Red: Yes, sir. But I do not have sleeves with this Klingon Armour.
Daniel (with attitude): How many times do I have to keep telling you to just fly the ship?
(Vector Gamma follows Vector Alpha's flight path around the three attack ships. Every time the circling vectors pass the enemy's warp nacelles, they fire torpedoes at them)
Red: This will prevent them from creating any more conduits to screw us over, sir.
Daniel (focuses his powers): I'm going to see what I can do cause some major damage.
(On the Apocalypse, Shadow Flare senses Captain Daniel's increase in omni-potential activity)
Shadow Flare (angry): He is attempting to once again screw us over!!
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Kayl stops operating the computer and looks up at Daniel with a red glow in her eyes)
Kayl-Shadow Flare: You will pay for your insolence.
(She walks around the Bridge to Daniel and places her hands on his temples. The omni-energy engulfs both Kayl and Daniel. Kayl links her mind, causing a flash to occur, throwing the both of them across the room and knocking both vectors' targetting sensors offline)
Daniel: Hggh!!!
Red (trying to fly): What are you two doing??
(Meanwhile, far, far away, Phoenix-X Vector Beta tries to get out of the transwarp room)
Kugo: Sensors do penetrate the bubble, but the emitters don't seem to have any effect on them.
Seifer: We might have to alter the emitters to match the Nega'Jem-type conduits.
Kugo: But how?
Seifer: Only one medical scientist can answer that question...
(Doctor Lox enters the Bridge with a PADD)
Lox: I've got it! The modifications to the emitters.
Seifer: Oh man, I was hoping it'd be a different Doctor.
Lox: We are so on top of their technology. Two times in a row!
(He and Seifer laugh)
Kugo: Stop laughing!! What are you guys talking about??
(Lox and Seifer stop laughing)
Seifer: Uhh. Nothing.
Lox: Yeah. We're not keeping any secrets about the Nega'Jem.
Seifer: Nope. None at all.
(A beep goes off)
Kugo (checks): The Zidane is firing on the iso-star. They're trying to destroy it.
(Out, in space, the Zidane pumps the small star up with polaron pulses. The star begins to bulge and throw out more rapid strips of energy)
(Meanwhile, in the asteroid cluster, Phoenix-X Vectors Alpha and Gamma retreat from the three Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships due to loss of targeting sensors. The attack ships give chase)
Red: I am getting tired of being chased by these people.
#Armond: Armond to Vector Alpha. We're going to cloak. We need you to stay within two kilometres.
Red: Understood. What about a plan of attack?
#Armond: Leave that to us.
(The two vectors cloak as they head towards a huge Sleri tentacle, wrapped around the half of the Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ship, in the distance)
(Vector Beta gets control of the subspace field surrounding them)
Lox: Yes!! We can now drop the transwarp walls.
(They drop from the environment and return to normal space. The Zidane suddenly blows up the iso-star. A thick rupturing multi-space shockwave is produced)
Lox: Uhh. Maybe not.
(Lox puts the transwarp walls back up. The shock wave shatters the Zidane and heads outwards for Vvtor Beta. The shockwave hits the transwarp walls around them and starts pushing them along)
Kugo: Oh my God. We're not destroyed!!
Seifer: But we are travelling sideways at Warp 27.
Kugo: Doctor, how did you know to do that? It isn't possible you knew that from the brain extraction procedure.
Lox (nervous): Sure it is. Heh, heh.
(Beat)
Lox: Alright, I give!
Seifer (shakes head): Dammit, Doctor.
Lox: We didn't develop the brain extraction procedure by ourselves. We stole the technology from the Nega'Jem a long time ago.
Kugo: You mean during the time loop?
Lox (sad): Yes. I was on the vector with Commander Seifer. We had a few encounters with the Nega'Jem before this.
Seifer (shakes head): Dammit, Doctor.
Kugo: Commander! How could you? No wonder the Nega'Jem are so bent on destroying us.
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Kayl and Daniel regain consciousness)
Kayl-Shadow Flare: You may be cloaked, but we will destroy you for your insolence!!
Daniel: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Not since it was you who brought us to this universe. The you who countlessly defies us and the you who expects us to leave!
Daniel: I did all that?
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Yes!!!
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Yes!!!
Daniel: Well you've plundered and pillaged four Federation planets and three underdeveloped pre-warp civilizations!
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Well what do you expect!? We're bad guys!!
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Well what do you expect!? We're bad guys!!
Daniel (shrugs): You got me there.
Kayl-Shadow Flare (stands): You assume, since you brought us here, we want to go back. We do not, Captain.
Kayl-Shadow Flare (stands): You assume, since you brought us here, we want to go back. We do not, Captain.
Daniel: Not even a little?
Kayl-Shadow Flare: No!!
Kayl-Shadow Flare: No!!
(Out in the cluster, the Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships begin to swarm, firing everywhere to find the cloaked vectors. The Apocalypse suddenly fires near the debris of the Tekken and hits Vector Gamma. The two Vectors become visible as they're headed toward the large tentacles wrapped around the half Tekken)
Matt: I can't link with their systems. They're using some type of encryption.
Shane: If only there was an expert at these encryption things.
Armond: I'm an expert.
Shane: Maybe Armond's an expert.
Matt: I think he is.
Armond: Yes, I am!!
Shane: Let's ask him.
Matt: Okay.
Armond: I already know what to do, you idiots!!!
(Matt and Shane face Armond)
Shane (points his thumb): Hey, there's a—
Armond: I know!!!!
(He shoves passed them and starts typing on the console. Matt checks his armlet)
Matt: Oh, I had the sound wave force field on.
(They link up with the half Tekken with the tentacles around it and access the phaser array on it. They get it to fire polaron beams at the swarming Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships. The Sleri tentacle gets agitated, trying to keep it under control. A beam suddenly cuts off the wing of a nearby attack ship)
(Meanwhile, the shockwave of the iso-star continues to increase in diameter exploding planets, comets and debris in the sector, while pushing along Vector Beta inside the transwarp room)
Kugo: We're heading for the asteroid cluster, Commander.
Lox: They'll all be destroyed.
Seifer: Not if we can slow the iso-wave down.
Lox: No way, man! That's crazy talk! You're all crazy!!
Seifer: Pull yourself together, man!! If we can reverse what we have of the transwarp room around us and display it flat behind us as big as possible, it might stop the wave long enough for us to get to the cluster.
Lox: I dunno.
Seifer: Believe in me, Doctor. We can do this... together.
(He extends a friendly hand)
Lox: I believe. I believe.
Kugo: Are you guys doing a thing? Never mind. I am attempting the procedure.
(The shockwave pushes along as the vector starts to become visible in normal space, turning around to face and converting the transwarp walls against the shockwave. They slow to a halt and a flat grid momentarily becomes visible as it spreads out light-years into permanent space. The shockwave is stopped from passing but continues to grow against the wall on the other side. Vector Beta turns around and heads for the Sleri asteroid cluster)
Kugo: The shockwave is going to eventually outgrow the wall, so we better be fast in alerting the others.
Seifer: Can we hail them?
Kugo: No! Subspace comm frequencies were ruined, remember?
Seifer: For your information, no, I did not remember.
(Over in the asteroid cluster, the two Phoenix-X vectors and the three Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships swarm the centre Sleri asteroid, with the tentacle wrapped around Tekken debris that is firing at everybody)
Red: The thrill of the battle is mine!!
#Armond: Red, you're not getting turned on are you?
Red: Perhaps. Perhaps not. Then again, perhaps.
(Beat)
Red: Uhh. Oh, and perhaps not. Heh, heh. Almost forgot to say that. Someone might've seen through my deception for a second there.
#Armond: Uhh, Red, the communications signal is still open.
Red: Aahh!!
(He turns it off)
Daniel: Kayl, don't let him possess you. You can fight back if you try!!
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Nah, I don't feel like it.
(Vector Gamma dodges a line of polaron beams and swoops under a passing attack ship using manual targeting to hit another ship behind with quantum torpedoes)
Shane: Their shields are down to 34%.
Armond: Yes! We are good. Absolutely nothing can go wrong now.
(Suddenly something goes wrong)
Matt: Commander, our linkup has been terminated. The Sleri are overpowering it with excessive amounts of their bio-energy.
(Every ship is suddenly snatched and held hostage by a Sleri tentacle)
Armond: Oh man. That's a crap and a half.
#Red: What happened to my glorious battle? What happened to the plan of attack?? You said to leave it up to you!!
Armond: Obviously I'm not the kind of person you can leave things up to.
(The Sleri suddenly hail all the vessels)
Slerina: Nega'Jem ships. We have displayed our individuality. We think for ourselves now. You will leave us, or be destroyed!!!
#Shadow Flare: Oh, come on! We gave you so much! Life, for instance.
Slerina: Yes, but you treat us badly.
#Shadow Flare: No we don't.
Slerina: Okay. But you are evil!!
#Shadow Flare: You can be evil too!
(The Sleri think about it)
#Shadow Flare: We can agree to work together against the dangers of this universe.
Slerina: Interesting proposal. We agree.
(The Sleri tentacles release the Mirror Jem'Hadar ships)
#Shadow Flare: Ha! Ha!! Suckers! Bye!!
Slerina: Uh!
#Shadow Flare: Just kidding.
(Vector Beta comes flying in, dodging flailing tentacles)
Seifer: Seifer to Daniel. We have a very serious threat coming.
>Daniel: It's not another era of Country-Disco is it?
Seifer: No. A large multi-space shockwave is headed this way.
>Daniel: Let me guess. You screwed up the iso-star mission?
Seifer (looks away): Uh. Noooo.
(Beat)
Seifer: Okay, yes. But I bet you screwed up your mission too. Missed a certain transwarp conduit, I see?
>Daniel: That was your fault too!!
Seifer: Look. We can argue all day about me or how Armond was not supposed to let that Nega'Jem ship get destroyed, but we have a major iso-star explosion on its way here.
Kugo: Captain, we have to evacuate the sector. We calculate after a couple more parsecs the shockwave should weaken and die down.
>Daniel: Understood. Our survival is up to you guys now. Whatever you do, do not get caught by the tentacle species.
(Suddenly Vector Beta gets caught by the tentacle species. Kayl approaches Daniel aboard Vector Alpha)
Kayl-Shadow Flare: Now, we want to destroy you, but we can't because you have one of our technologies and we want it back.
Daniel: Is it the coffee maker?
Kayl-Shadow Flare: No!! It's the brain extraction module.
Daniel: The what? I think you have us confused with some other Phoenix-X ship.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: No!! It was you. More specifically, I think it was your Commander.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: No!! It was you. More specifically, I think it was your Commander.
>Seifer: He's telling the truth, Captain. We did steal his coffee maker.
Daniel: He said you stole the brain extraction module.
>Seifer: Yeah. That too.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: If you return it and all your Vorta and Nega'Jem prisoners to us, we will let you go free.
Daniel: He said you stole the brain extraction module.
>Seifer: Yeah. That too.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: If you return it and all your Vorta and Nega'Jem prisoners to us, we will let you go free.
>Seifer: How do we know that we can trust you?
Kayl-Shadow Flare: You have my word as a bad guy.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: You have my word as a bad guy.
>Seifer: Good enough for me.
Daniel: Agreed.
(Phoenix-X Vector Beta beams the prisoners over and the machine onto the Bridge of the Apocalypse. It's beamed onto Shadow Flare's foot)
Shadow Flare: Owe!!!!
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Daniel approaches Kayl)
Daniel: Now let us go.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: No!!
Daniel: Agreed.
(Phoenix-X Vector Beta beams the prisoners over and the machine onto the Bridge of the Apocalypse. It's beamed onto Shadow Flare's foot)
Shadow Flare: Owe!!!!
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Daniel approaches Kayl)
Daniel: Now let us go.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: No!!
>Seifer: But you gave us your word as a bad guy!
Kayl-Shadow Flare: I know. The word of a bad guy means to double cross. I'm sorry. I don't make up the rules.
Kayl-Shadow Flare: I know. The word of a bad guy means to double cross. I'm sorry. I don't make up the rules.
>Seifer: We understand.
(Captain Daniel shakes Kayl)
Daniel-Shadow Flare: Kayl, snap out of it! Fight back!! Don't let him control you! Don't let him control your speech pattern!
(Captain Daniel shakes Kayl)
Daniel-Shadow Flare: Kayl, snap out of it! Fight back!! Don't let him control you! Don't let him control your speech pattern!
Kayl-Shadow Flare (shakes head): I— can't— stop— talking— like— this—
(Daniel gets an idea. He places his hands on Kayl's shoulders, enforcing X power to her concentration. She looks upward emanating bright lights from her eyes)
Kayl: —A-A-Aa-aa-aaa-ahh-hhhh!!!
Daniel: Kayl, use the link-up against him!!
(On Phoenix-X Vector Gamma, Shane turns to Armond)
Shane: We can use the link-up against them!
Armond: What link up? They overrode it!!
Shane: Oh, yeah. Well, can't we undermine their lockout? I noticed an unused secondary backup generator in the Nega'Jem changing rooms. They use it to iron their polka-dot underwear.
Armond: That's a little too much info for me. But I will try.
(Meanwhile, far away, the shockwave outgrows the square transwarp barrier and spews waves from all sides. The subspace pressure rises and the sudden shattering of the transwarp barrier becomes momentarily visible. The wave continues on)
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Red turns around to see a display of energy emanating from Daniel and Kayl)
Daniel (glowing): Focus...!! Your mind is linked with his. You have just as much control as he did!!
Kayl-Shadow Flare (shoots energy): AAaaaaahhh!!!
(Suddenly, Kayl finds herself on the Bridge of the Apocalypse)
Kayl: —A-A-Aa-aa-aaa-ahh-hhhh!!!
Daniel: Kayl, use the link-up against him!!
(On Phoenix-X Vector Gamma, Shane turns to Armond)
Shane: We can use the link-up against them!
Armond: What link up? They overrode it!!
Shane: Oh, yeah. Well, can't we undermine their lockout? I noticed an unused secondary backup generator in the Nega'Jem changing rooms. They use it to iron their polka-dot underwear.
Armond: That's a little too much info for me. But I will try.
(Meanwhile, far away, the shockwave outgrows the square transwarp barrier and spews waves from all sides. The subspace pressure rises and the sudden shattering of the transwarp barrier becomes momentarily visible. The wave continues on)
(On Phoenix-X Vector Alpha, Red turns around to see a display of energy emanating from Daniel and Kayl)
Daniel (glowing): Focus...!! Your mind is linked with his. You have just as much control as he did!!
Kayl-Shadow Flare (shoots energy): AAaaaaahhh!!!
(Suddenly, Kayl finds herself on the Bridge of the Apocalypse)
Shadow Flare-Kayl: ...aaaaaaAAHHHhhh... Huh? I did it!! I'm in control.
Baek: Did you say something, sir?
Shadow Flare-Kayl (checks nails): Man. I need to manicure these and fast. Fashion emergency!
Baek: Did you say something, sir?
Shadow Flare-Kayl (checks nails): Man. I need to manicure these and fast. Fashion emergency!
(He snaps, effeminately)
Baek: I knew it! I have to come out of the closet too, sir! Fashion emergency!
(He snaps the same way)
Ganryu: First. The Phoenix-X's third vector has regained control of the Tekken debris.
Shadow Flare-Kayl: Let them go. What's the worst they can do?
Baek: I knew it! I have to come out of the closet too, sir! Fashion emergency!
(He snaps the same way)
Ganryu: First. The Phoenix-X's third vector has regained control of the Tekken debris.
Shadow Flare-Kayl: Let them go. What's the worst they can do?
(The Tekken debris suddenly fires polaron beams at the bases of each Sleri tentacle holding a Phoenix-X vector. The tentacles are cut off one by one, unravelling the vectors)
Ganryu: That's pretty bad, sir.
Shadow Flare-Kayl: You know what's even more bad? I'm not even a sir!! Hahahahaa!!
Ganryu: That's pretty bad, sir.
Shadow Flare-Kayl: You know what's even more bad? I'm not even a sir!! Hahahahaa!!
Ganryu: Yes, we know you are gay.
Shadow Flare-Kayl: No! I'm Lieutenant Kayl! Hahahaa!!!
Shadow Flare-Kayl: No! I'm Lieutenant Kayl! Hahahaa!!!
Ganryu: Are you saying you are going to go for that gender change thing now? We support it.
Shadow Flare-Kayl: Never mind.
Shadow Flare-Kayl: Never mind.
(The three vectors shoot out of there as fast as possible, avoiding more tentacles. They initiate the reintegration sequence, combing the entire Phoenix-X back into one stasrship)
#Computer: Reintegration sequence complete. For more information on the reintegration sequence please contact no one, since this is classified. Thank you, have a nice 24-hour day unless the world of which you come has an extended or limited-hour day that has not been acknowledged by any Starfleet personnel.
Daniel: I really have to shorten that reply.
(More senior officers enter the Bridge. They see Kayl in a trance)
Armond: What's happening to Lieutenant Kayl?
Daniel: She's a little preoccupied right now.
(Meanwhile, on the Apocalypse, Shadow Flare is hailed)
Shadow Flare-Kayl: After I do these nails, I'm going to have to do some skin treatment.
#Slerina: Three of our kind has just been injured. Why? Why did you create us to feel pain??
Shadow Flare-Kayl (looks around): What the hell was that?
Ganryu: First, I'm picking up a multi-space shockwave heading for us. ETA, five minutes. We could protect ourselves with a transwarp room.
#Slerina: You must protect us from danger!
(Commander Seifer from the Phoenix-X suddenly goes on screen)
>Seifer: Kayl, we've gotta break for it. Drop any poltergeist act and get your slack-assed consciousness back here.
Baek (stands): How did you know our First's new gender identity!?!?
Shadow Flare-Kayl: Sit your sweet ass down. Fourth, alert the other ships to create that transwarp room around the entire —mmwwwaaaaa!!! Get out of me you stupid—!!! Uh! —Around the entire Sleri asteroid colony.
Ganryu: Yes, sir, your freakiness.
(The other Mirror Jem'Hadar attack ships depart and start placing themselves around the asteroid cluster. In the distance, the immensely growing shockwave becomes visible. The crew on the Bridge of the Phoenix-X take notice)
Armond: The Nega'Jem are establishing a transwarp base pattern. They may be getting ready to create a conduit.
Kugo: More like a protective bubble.
Seifer: They're going to create one strong enough to withstand the shockwave. If we stay here, we'll also be protected.
(The energy around Kayl and Daniel subsides as she returns to her body)
Kayl: —a-aa-aaa-aAAA-AAHHH—! Where am I, now?
Daniel: The Land of Oz. Where do you think?
(They're hailed and Shadow Flare goes on screen)
>Shadow Flare: Argh!! As soon as we're clear this shockwave, we will destroy you!!
Daniel: Not before we disrupt your transwarp containment wall.
>Shadow Flare: If you do that, we'll all be destroyed!!
Seifer: Yeah, I have a lifelong record of avoiding destruction.
Daniel: It's either all or nothing, Shadow Flare.
(Beat)
Daniel: Heh, heh. I am so the one in control.
(The computer beeps and red alert goes on)
#Computer: Warning, fatal radiation incoming.
(On the Apocalypse, Shadow Flare steps forward)
Shadow Flare: Fine!!! If you leave us alone, then we'll leave your precious Federation alone. It would have been like that in the first place, but you and your stupid crew had to exist.
>Daniel: What? Just for that, I'm gonna disrupt the Transwarp Walls anyway.
>Kayl: Wait!! This is the best progress we've ever made with the Nega'Jem. We can't just throw it all away!
>Daniel: Sure we can. I'm about to press the button.
>Lox: Captain, I strongly oppose on another misunderstanding with the Nega'Jem.
>Kugo: Captain, this may be our only chance. The Nega'Jem are a major contaminant in our universe.
>Seifer: Captain, what about my record??
>Daniel: Alright already!! We have a deal, Shadow Flare. Starting now.
Shadow Flare: Good. You are welcome to stay once we establish the barrier.
>Daniel: I think not. Red, take us out of here. Now!!!
(The Phoenix-X turns and shoots out of there as fast as possible. Then the transwarp barrier is established just as the iso-shockwave makes contact with it. The whole circle around the asteroid colony lights up in heavy energy flames while the Phoenix-X makes a quick exit into transwarp)
Daniel: And that's the end of that. You know, I think we've all learned a valuable lesson from all this.
Lox: Uhh. It's not over yet, Captain.
(The iso-shockwave nudges the asteroid colony over a little, but still passes over towards the area where the Phoenix-X made their exit)
#Computer: Warning, transwarp conduit destabilizing from an unknown source.
Kayl: We have to drop transwarp or we'll be torn apart, Captain.
(The Phoenix-X re-enters normal space)
Daniel: And that's the end of that. You know—
Kugo: Captain! We are still in range of the destructive path of the shockwave.
(The iso-shockwave is visible in the distance, heading straight for them)
Seifer: Take us 200 more kilometres out of here, Red.
Red: Aye.
(The Phoenix-X speeds ahead as fast as possible, until the shockwave passes over them, shaking the ship like crazy. The shaking stops and the ship isn't destroyed by the now-weakness of the shockwave)
Daniel: Now? Is now the end of that!? You damn better all have learned a valuable lesson from all this!!
Armond: Yes, Captain.
(The Phoenix-X returns to Federation space. Kayl and Red take a stroll down Deck 12)
Kayl: I feel kind of bad for abusing the Nega'Jem so much. They do have a right to their own privacy.
Red: Much of what the Phoenix-X is about is breaking the rules. I believe we should have stayed focused on our mission to extract those threats to our universe, whatever the cost may have been.
Kayl: You just wanted a reason to fight, didn't you?
Red: Yes.
Kayl: We have to consider the enemies' goals before we charge in firing. They might've changed their minds at the last minute, and us interfering could have sent them back to their previous motivations.
Red: That is exactly how Klingon's make sure there is battle all the time! See? I knew you would understand.
(Armond enters the Captain's Ready Room just as a communication from Starbase 55 comes in)
>Theseus: This is the worst mess you've caused to this date!!!
Daniel: But, Admiral, you couldn't have already gotten my report. I haven't written it yet.
>Theseus: Oh, sorry. The guys and I are just so used to saying that to you. You did have a successful mission, didn't you?
Daniel: Uhhh. Oops, my finger slipped!
(He turns off the communication)
Armond (hands a PADD): Reports of the destroyed Sector 8814. Not many casualties, sir. The inhabitants of the only planet were able to escape in time.
Daniel: We could help them locate a new home. What's the word with the Nega'Jem?
Armond: They make daily runs from their nest with the Sleri asteroids, scavenging uninhabited planets and comets for food or power sources they need. They haven't made any hostile attempts towards the Federation.
Daniel: Understood. But if they do, we'll be there. We'll be there.
Armond: I heard you the first time.
Daniel: I know. I'm just making it sound dramatic.
Armond: I think you were insulting my ability to listen to what people say the first time.
Daniel: No I wasn't! Fine. Just go. I have your report. I have your report.
Armond: You did it again! That's it. I'm out of here. I can't take this anymore.
(Seifer enters the Messhall, where it's decorated with a welcome banner)
Seifer: Oh, thanks. I knew everyone cared.
Ensign Dan: It's not for you. It's for my parents. Remember? They're coming aboard.
Seifer: Ohhh, yeah. Um. I kinda called them to cancel their trip.
Ensign Dan: What!? Why??
Seifer: Well, I felt bad for forcing it on you. That, and there were all these battles with the Nega'Jem and stuff. I thought you were upset that they were coming?
Ensign Dan: I was. But I changed my mind. Man, don't you ever mind your own business??
Seifer: Not really.
Ensign Dan: Well, if you'll excuse me. I have toilet duties to get back to.
(Meanwhile, a soldier approaches the Fleet General of the Ceavon homeworld)
Mekia: General! Our forces have been re-supplied with material to create ablative armour and weapons!!
Ozio: Damn them!! Oh wait. That's good. Who did that?
Mekia: There are rumours going around that it was some people called the Nega'Jem.
Ozio: Well stop those rumours! We can't have people believing total possible fiction. Just tell them it was the Ceavon Fairy of Re-supplement.
Mekia: You don't really expect people to believe that, do you?
Ozio: Yes!! And send our regards to the Nega'Jem. They're not the kind of people we thought they were
THE END