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TNG) by Ben Church
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X-Men: Trek Wars
by
Ben Church
All Star Wars characters are the property of Twentieth Century
Fox, All Star Trek characters are the property of Paramount, All X-Men
characters are the property of Marvel Comics.
Chapter 9
"Time to Endor Mr. Data?" Picard asked.
"Ten minutes, five seconds sir." Data answered.
"Anything on Sensors Mister Worf?"
"Negative Captain."
"Looks like we beat them here Captain."
"So it would seem Number One. Which gives me that much more
time to decide how to explain how we lost our ambassador."
"Oh I don't think you have to worry too much about that Jean
Luc." said a familiar voice.
"Q!" Picard practically snarled. "What are you doing here?"
"Merely giving you something to do while you wait." Q said.
Without another word, he vanished.
"Captain!" Worf said. "Sensors show an intruder on deck
twelve!"
"What?" Picard asked.
"This has to be Q's doing Sir." Riker said. "I think we have to
assume that it's dangerous."
"I'm forced to agree Will. Mr. Worf, have security escort our
visitor to the brig, phasers on stun."
"Aye sir."
"What could Q be doing here?" Picard wondered. Every time Q
had shown up, there had been trouble. He could only assume that Q had
come because of the conference. Somehow, Q thought this occasion
worthy of his attention.
Cyclops suddenly found himself in a strange corridor, with what
looked like some kind of computer terminal running down the wall. The
entire corridor was white, and there were lights on the ceiling. He
realized that Q must be responsible for him being here.
"What did he say?" he thought. "You must meet Riker? Who is
Riker?" Someone here, obviously. But how to find him?
"Freeze!" a voice shouted behind him.
Cyclops whirled to find several men yellow uniforms pointing
strange objects that could only be weapons at him. Cyclops raised his
hands in the air. He didn't want any trouble.
Unseen to all, Q appeared amongst the security guards. "He's
dangerous." Q whispered in the lead guard's ear. "You'd better shoot
him now while you have the chance."
Cyclops barely dodged the phaser blast in time. "I see they're not
going to listen to reason." he thought. He opened his visor and let loose
an optic blast. The blast knocked the lead guard off his feet and into the
guards behind him. Cyclops turned to run, but found himself facing a tall,
dark man with a strangely shaped forehead.
Worf dodged the blast from the intruder's eyes and stunned him.
"Worf to bridge, the intruder has been subdued."
"Excellent work Mr. Worf," Picard said. "Have him brought to the
brig."
"Aye sir." Worf picked up the prone body of the intruder and
headed for the brig. He paused for a moment and looked behind him at
the unconscious guards.
"Worf to sickbay, security guards on deck twelve require medical
assistance. Doctor Crusher please meet me in the brig."
Crusher ran the tricorder down the intruder's body. The scan
results fascinated her.
"Captain according to the tricorder he's human."
"Human?" Picard asked. "Then what is he doing on my ship with
that strange uniform and phaser over his eyes?"
"That's not a phaser Captain, the energy blast came from his eyes
themselves."
"Is that possible?"
"It would seem so, the visor he's wearing is the only thing holding
the energy back. It's made from a strange mixture of ruby and quartz.
There is an anomalous mutation in his DNA that could account for his
ability, but other than that, I'm at a loss to explain it."
The room was suddenly full of the sound of a cheering crowd. Q
appeared in a strange uniform, with vertical black and white stripes,
holding a microphone.
"And at the end of the fight ladies and gentlemen, the score is
Federation 1, X-Men 0. Stay tuned for round 2."
"What the hell are you babbling about Q?" Riker demanded.
"Why the skirmish between your guest and Bonehead here." Q
said. "Oh it took some persuasion to start the whole thing, but you won.
This round. I'd like to see how you stand up to a full assault when they
find out you've attacked their leader."
"What?!" Picard was furious. "You've manipulated the minds of
my crew, ruined a first contact situation, and for what? Your damned
entertainment?"
"Don't act so shocked Jean Luc. Just because I never used mind
control before doesn't mean you shouldn't have expected it."
"Q, this situation was bad enough without your interference."
Picard snapped.
"Relax Picard, I was just curious as to who would win. I won't
make the others mad at you."
"What others?"
"The other X-Men. But I'll let your guest explain it when he wakes
up. Don't worry, he's nearly as stuffy as you Picard. Actually, he's
more like Riker. Anyway, I'm off to `harass' some of the other players.
Bye."
"Q!" But he was gone. "What the hell is going on?"
At that moment, Data walked into the room. "Captain, I have some
information regarding the intruder."
"You do?"
"Yes Captain. On stardate 45976.8, Captain Kirk and the crew of
the original Enterprise encountered a group of mutated humans who
called themselves the X-Men. This man matches the description of their
leader, who calls himself Cyclops. He has a mutant power to fire blasts
of energy from his eyes." Data tilted his head to one side and looked at
Cyclops. "Fascinating Captain. This event occurred nearly 100 years
ago, yet this man has not aged a day. In fact, he appears younger than
he did on the Enterprise logs."
"Must have been a temporal anomaly that caused the encounter."
Riker said.
"Yes Commander." Data said. "If that is the case, than he knows
nothing of the future encounter. We must be careful to not disclose any
information that may disrupt the time-line."
"What the hell just happened here?" Wolverine asked. "Who was
that guy?"
"A powerful entity named Q." Xavier answered. "I can only
assume that he had his own reasons for transporting Scott away."
"Where are we going Corsair?" Jean asked.
"To the planet where the Empress was heading when she was
abducted. The Forest Moon of Endor."
"Endor?" Beast asked. "I'm afraid I've never heard of that planet."
"Here." Cho'od handed him an electronic book with the words
"Don't Panic" on the face.
"Hmmm," Beast said. "`THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDED TO THE
GALAXY' fascinating." Beast hit the search key, and typed ENDOR.
An english accented voice emanated from the guide; "Almost, but
not quite, sort of, pretty much, kind of, maybe harmless. A wonderful
vacation spot if you like teddy bears that babble on all day about great
wizards from the sky and exploding moons and such nonsense."
Beast looked at the guide for a moment. "Most illuminating." he
said sarcastically.
"Luke." a voice summoned from the middle of the room. Luke
slowly brought himself out of his meditation. He looked up expecting to
see Han, but instead there stood a strange man in a brown Jedi robe.
"Who are you?" Luke asked. "How'd you get in here?"
"I'm Q, and I'm omnipotent."
Threepio and Han chose that moment to enter the room.
"Oh! Good heavens! Who are you?" Threepio began. "What do-"
"Oh do be silent." Q said irritably. Threepio immediately fell silent,
but he continued to gesture.
"Hey how'd you do that? I've been trying to get Golden Rod to
shut up for years." Threepio began to look panicked as his voice failed
to return.
"Oh calm down Goldy, it's not permanent."
"Did you have something you wanted to tell me?" Luke asked Q
calmly.
"Most certainly." Q said. "Your prize pupils have been
kidnapped."
"What?!" Han broke in. "Who's got my kids?!" Chewie bellowed
his concern for Lowie from the doorway.
"Oh look, another Worf!" A fiendish expression crossed Q's face.
"Well," he said. "I just thought you should know." With that, he
vanished. Along with Chewie.
On the bridge of the Enterprise, Worf disappeared from the
security console.
On the bridge of the StarJammer, Wolverine vanished as well.
To be continued...
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