Pandora's Box: Chapter II (IC)

[Urran]

Hostage Hustle

Yoshi ducked and rolled to escape from the steam attack and to avoid becoming collateral damage from Iko's beam attack. Drone weapons were no laughing matter. He came back up in a kneeling position, pistol already drawn, and fired several shots into the swirling, tumultuous clouds of fog that had begun to fill the hallways.

He stood back up, completely erect, holding his pistol out and began to inch forward into the white. He was a bit surprised when Iko completely vanished. He assumed she was vibrating so fast that she could no longer be seen. That was really impressive. "Try not to cause too much collateral damage." He called to the robot girl, though he didn't think it would do much good.

He began following quietly behind Marie. She likely needed his help more than Iko did, but he wasn't sure how much a FN 5/7 pistol would do against Erich. He had a sudden desire for a plasma rifle or pistol.

[Demincia]

Spyglass and his Spectres did not react to the assault, and instead the automated infantry raised their weapons. The robots screeched out, and began to sprint down the hallway in pursuit of the hostile. Spyglass remained a few paces behind, since his platform was unarmed. He dispatched AGP drones to also track down the android. It was unfortunate that the drones currently on station were all unarmed, a plasma drone would be very hand at the moment. All of the flying robots broadcast his voice as they flew around the area. "I had anticipated that an android of your level would behave much more intelligently than this." the Vice Admiral said, knowing that somewhere, Erich would hear him. "You are on a space station, filled with personnel, and there are far more personnel in orbit. There are also thousands of automated infantry units, all of which possess no qualms about rendering any hostile presence nullified. It is advised that you reveal yourself, an agreement can still be reached. It is your only chance for survival. You are trapped on here with us. There is no escape." The drones buzzed around, and the Spectres marched on with their Vice Admiral.

[Naval Monte]

Morgana

The soldiers all knew that in their line of work death, insanity, and worse was in their future; inevitability that all have came to terms with. They were all trained to work as not only as individuals by learning many different skills out in the field but to also work as a group, to assist one another with skills they excel at and to replace one another if one of their team mates can’t preform their jobs.

Each soldier in the group were brothers and sisters. Each one trained, fought, and even live with each other. A close bo d that helps motivation each soldier to keep pushing forward when they have nothing from their former lives to return to. The lost if each friend, comrade, and for some even lover cut them deeply but they still persisted on to keep the other members of their team alive, to save their grieving for after the battle.

As the AIs if the ship assisted the soldiers in every way they can, even some going as far as to use the sprinkler systems to help soldiers take down invisible combative and others sending out cleaning, medical, construction, and other civilian purpose bots to be used as distractions or to be used as improvised combat robots.

The destruction of one robot caused ten more to take its place, the death of one soldier resulted in the deaths of five aliens, with one trap avoided another is activated. The Jem’Hardars were bringing driven to the breaking point as their rapidly depleting numbers now ran to the double digits.

In the dining room the many stilllive all ens were all being taken before they are transferred to the contaminated bay, right now they need to make sure they dealt with all aliens before taking them down that particular section of the ship to prevent ambushes.When J.D. requested on speaking with the aliens most of the soldiers let him be.

As J.D spoke to the aliens they were surprised st not only at his Braden attitude towards them but the fact he got one of them to speak to him and the alien spoke English. The soldiers were all asking themselves how these aliens can speak English as J.D kept talking with the aliens.

With J.D’s departure the soldiers all waited for their captain to arrive, the wait didn’t take long as she entered the room a few minutes after J.D. “I see so the final group as been captured. Good work Ross, now we can focus on the fighters.” Hex said to the soldier through her ear piece.

A soldier pulled a chair in front of o e of the Jem’Hardar as Hex sat down, glaring down at the alien. “Now. I want you to tell me everything about your Founders.” She demanded as the lord guys in the room began to dim, starting the interrogation.

[Legokiller]

Deep Space Nine
Operation Center

When the magical girls and well the patched up soldiers from the previous fight arrived that Operation Center, the enemy seemed to be retreating from the entire space station entirely. Sailor Venus ordered the marines to search for any remnants of the enemy, while she and the rest will stay in the Operation Center . “Hey Sailor Mercury, mind if you take a crack in one of the station’s computers to see if it has the location of the signature?”

Sailor Mercury nodded. “I’ll do my best Mina.” She processed to check one of the terminals to access any of the records of the station, and see if there is anything worth of interest.

Crystal tried to lure the one dark Pokemon, Umbreon, to sniff her hand as she leaned down and smiled at the creature. Crystal wanted to pet the adorable little monster. Akari and Sailor Jupiter curiosity look at the snow woman to see what she is up too. “He’s not going to like anyone trying to touch his pet. ”

“Yeah!” Akari added. “But.... the monster could be friendly… like that cool zebra one other there.” Akari pointed to Zebstrika.

“It’s okay darling. This little guy won’t bite.” Crystal replied.

"Yeah." Sailor Moon cheerfully butt into the conversation as she looks down at Umbreon. "The little guy is quite cute. I think Hotaru would love him."

[Brusia]

Deep Space Nine
Promenade

When the order to fall back came through, the Jem'Hadar and Cardassians made their way to the fighters still docked with the station, though hundreds were still killed by the advancing multiversal forces. Thirteen fighters managed to make it away from the station, though four sacrificed themselves to the incoming fire to protect the Founder as her ship and eight others jumped to warp heading back for Cardassia. The last of the Jem'Hadar on the station soon found themselves cornered by the Covenant, and when they were dispatched the Dominion's occupation of the station finally came to an end.

Meanwhile on the Morgana, the last of the Jem'Hadar who had been captured for interrogation had no intention of dishonoring the Founders by allowing themselves to be taken prisoner. After the First shouted: "Victory is life!" they all charged their nearest captor, attempting to ram them headlong to impale them with the spikes on their head. As stun weapons were completely ineffective against the Jem'Hadars' physiology, the crew of the Morgana would be forced to kill them if they wished to protect their people.

Captain Benjamin Sisko
USS Defiant
Bridge

"Sir!" Chief O'Brien stated to the Captain "I've detected an abnormality in the scans of those unknown ships; you may want to take a look at this."

After approaching O'Brien's console, he turned and asked: "What am I looking at here Chief?"

"Sir, our scans showed that the unknown ships were all in a state of Quantum flux, so I investigated further, and it turns out all of the larger vessels have a unique Quantum signature."

With a somewhat puzzled look on his face, the Captain asked: "Meaning what, exactly?"

Overhearing the conversation, Bashir approached and stated: "Meaning that each of those ships is from a different Quantum reality."

"You're saying they're all from different universes?" Dax asked "But how did they end up here?"

"Worf once told me about a similar incident involving a Quantum fissure back when we were serving on the Enterprise, so I extended our scanning range to check for one."

"And?" the Captain asked.

Pointing at his console again, O'Brien continued: "And I found something fairly similar a few hundred thousand kilometers from here, but the readings are different from a Quantum fissure; much more stable than they should be."

Turning around in his chair, Garak stated: "But however they got here, I take it the bottom line is that a group of individuals from universes we know nothing about is now occupying our station?"

"That seems to be the gist of it" Sisko replied.

"And I thought the Obsidian Order tried to keep things interesting. There really isn't ever a dull moment in your Starfleet is there?"

"It sure doesn't seem like it." Sisko replied, before asking: "How long until the rest of our fleet arrives?"

"They should be here any moment Captain" Nog replied.

"Good. Chief, forward your information to the fleet, we'll let them open a dialogue with these vessels; at least they haven't made any hostile moves against us yet. Dax, order an away team to report to transporter room one; I find it hard to believe that the Dominion was able to abduct people out of another universe, so I want to find out what's really going on in my station..."

Revan
Deep Space Nine
Ops

Thinking the Operations Center would be a logical place to keep the records they were searching for, Revan began scanning the room with his Hub scanner, but did not discover the signature they were looking for in the vicinity. When a group of the Covenant's soldiers then entered into Ops and asked if their fight was rewarding, Revan replied: "I don't know about rewarding, but it was decisive at the very least." Revan then overheard one of the new arrivals ask if they could hack into the station's systems to search for the signature they were after. After her superior gave her permission, Revan stated: "That's a good plan" then pulled out his scanner and forwarded the information on the signature to her console. "If the station has internal sensors, see if you can access them and use them to locate that signature; hopefully that'll cut down on the time we'll need to locate these records."

Suddenly Revan sensed a strange presence, as though someone had just arrived in front of them, and yet was not there entirely. He drew his lightsaber, and a few seconds later, several blue lights suddenly appeared near the back of Ops accompanied by a strange noise, and in an instant a group of six armed humans suddenly appeared out of nowhere. He readied his weapon, but when they had appeared in their entirety he did not sense any of the hostility he had detected from the strange aliens that had inhabited the station when they arrived, and raised his hand to motion for his allies on the Hub to hold their position.

One of the humans held a scanning device of some sort in his hand, and after moving it about the room stated: "Looks like the same thing here Captain, I'm reading a number of different Quantum signatures in the room." The man who had been addressed as Captain nodded, then addressed the multiversal forces in the room stating: "My name is Captain Benjamin Sisko of the United Federation of Planets, and I'd like to know what exactly it is that brings you to our universe." Though somewhat surprised this group was able to figure out that they were from another universe, Revan slowly approached this Captain Sisko, and stated: "I am Jedi Master Revan of the Galactic Republic, and I'm afraid that's something of a long story..."

Captain Marcus Nelson
USS Constitution
Bridge

Though the crew of the Constitution had already fought hard in the recent battle against the Dominion, they were still eager for the coming fight to push the Dominion out of Deep Space Nine and finally reclaim the station. The only sound on the Bridge was the blaring of the klaxons as the crew quietly steeled themselves for the coming battle, but the silence was broken when the Communications Officer stated: "Captain Nelson, we've just received a transmission from the Defiant; they're saying the Dominion has fled the system after being engaged by..."

The officer suddenly stopped with a confused look on her face, prompting the Captain to ask: "Engaged by whom?"

"Sir, they're saying the Dominion was driven out of the system by ships from other 'Quantum realities.'" Now nearly everyone on the Bridge was looking about with a puzzled expression, before the Captain stated: "Contact the Defiant and ask for an official confirmation on that report."

The Communications Officer complied with the order and contacted the Defiant, then turned back towards Nelson and stated: "The Defiant has confirmed the report sir."

Lieutenant Commander Suval then turned towards Nelson and stated: "Captain, if I may, I have scanned the space surrounding Deep Space Nine, and have discovered an anomaly similar to a Quantum fissure, but considerably more stable. As such, it is feasible that extra-universal entities could have arrived in the system and attacked the Dominion forces stationed there."

Turning to the Chief Science Officer, Commander Jhalas asked in a sarcastic tone: "Care to translate that for us non-Vulcans?"

Suval raised an eyebrow and replied: "If your universal translator is not functioning properly, the more prudent course of action would be to get it repaired."

Jhalas brought her palm up to her forehead, and Nelson informed her: "Basically he's saying it's possible the Defiant was correct, and people from another universe might have done our job for us and wiped out the Dominion force occupying the station."

Suval then stated: "A simplistic explanation, but correct Captain."

Jhalas turned to give the Vulcan the angry eye, before turning back to the Captain and stating: "Shame we won't get to take out that Dominion slime, but these folks from another universe might prove interesting; I've never fought anyone from another universe before."

"Let's just hope you don't have to..." Nelson stated as the ship dropped out of warp near the station, with over 200 other Federation and Klingon vessels dropping out of warp directly behind them.

Athena and Zenithar
Hub
Conference Room

Athena and Zenithar were still working together to try and find additional leads on the location of the Corax, when they were interrupted by VICCI who reported: "Warning: weapons fire has been detected in the corridors."

Sighing at what was surely another problem caused by the stupidity of these mortals, she asked the VI: "Do we have forces in the area?"

"Affirmative."

"Then seal it off to keep the trouble-maker from damaging any important systems, and patch me through to our allies there."

VICCI complied with the order, and anyone attempting to escape the area would discover that they were now sealed in by invisible force fields. Meanwhile, Athena spoke into the comm system and asked the allied forces in the area: "The VI detected weapons fire in your area, will you be able to deal with whomever is responsible on your own, or will your require reinforcements?"

[Demincia]

Deep Space Nine: Ops
Lito 'Zasumee

The robed human did not see their fight as rewarding. Typical. "I had hopes that you humans would be different. The humans I know do not believe in honor, and fight only to destroy. The Sangheili value honor above all else, and if there is no honor to be gained in a fight, then it shall not be fought. Losing your honor is a fate worse than death, for it is eternal." Lito said. He words likely fell on deaf ears, though one could not say that he was not a Believer.

The group wasn't alone for much longer though, as more humans appeared in the room. Revan had drawn his sword, but quickly put it away. Lito was not as trusting, and kept the handle in hand in case it was needed. "Humans. Of course," one of the Minors grumbled. "Is every universe full of them?" The other one chuckled some, and the Skirmishers looked them up and down from behind the Sangheili. "Fancy tech. Means it's valuable." one of them chirped. "Hush, now is not the time to play pirate, you can worry about loot when you're not on duty." Lito growled at the avian. He turned back to the new arrivals, and stared down at them. "Zira told us that you contacted the fleet." He could feel the curious and slightly nervous stares of the humans, apparently they are not familiar with any aliens like the Sangheili. "If you are worried about conquest, then you are overestimating our stay in this world. There are more... important matters we must deal with." Lito gestured towards the lift that brought them to the Ops center. "You do not come as hostiles, and you have destroyed the ship used by these aliens, so must intend on claiming this station from them. Well you are in luck humans, we have taken care of it for you. They gave an honorable fight, despite their cowardice."

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The Hub
Spyglass

Spyglass was surprised at the length of time it took to get a response from their allies. It was unknown if the delay-which would not be surprising to the humans-was due to the response time of the VI or the personnel. Athena inquired about sending reinforcements to assist them. It seemed that she did not place much faith in any of the units or organics in thee area. "It is a lone android against several humans and multiple automated infantry units. Battle projections do not place its survival at a high rate if it decides to try to fight its way out." They also didn't place the survival of the humans very high in the same scenario, but that would likely cause a negative reaction in them that would lower their efficiency even more.

[Naval Monte]

Morgana

As the Jem'Hadar tired to charge towards Hex the woman pulled out a large pistol and pulled the trigger, unless a hyper volocity round as the mixed sounds of a tradional gun fire and an electic buzz can be heard.

The other soldiers all open fire on the aliens to protect themselves and their captian. A few soldiers gave their lives to defend their comrades as they threw themselves at the aliens, yet before the aliens can celebrate they were quickly gun downed by venegful soldiers.

Once the final Jem'Hadar was killed Hex contacted Revan. "My ship is clear. I can begin to deploy additional reinforcements should you need them." She told the Sith/Jedi.

When the fleet arrive they would see the Morgana, her frigates, and drone fighters hunting down the retreating Jem'Hadar fighters. Hex order the flotilla to remain engaged against their primary enemies but to be prepared encase the new flete tries to attack them.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Erich
Hostage Hustle
As Erich continued to run down the hallway, he saw a squad of 4 of those drones approaching him, each a small distance behind the other. As one attempted to fire its beam weapon at him, Erich quickly kneeled down as he ran, using his momentum to slide him across the floor at a fast speed, as he slid, he did a 360 and morphed his right arm into a blade, using the momentum of the turn as he quickly approached on the drone, slicing upwards and jumping back up, slicing the first drone in half.

Erich turns both his arms into blades and quickly slices across the chest of the second drone before it can fire, and then proceeding to stab it through the chest, dragging the blades upwards through the head. Erich then quickly dodged the shot of the third drone, and then somersaulted to its position, knocking away it's weapon arm and then forcefully putting his hand around its "face," his silvery body rushing into it, breaking through its eye and crushing its main CPU.

After quickly reabsorbing it, Erich used the body of the dead drone to block the shots of the last one. He then proceeded to throw said drone at the 4th, knocking it down. Erich then rushed forwards just as the drone got back up, puncturing through its chest, and then morphing his arms into crowbar like shapes, tearing apart the drone in half. As he got back up, wiping away the imaginary dust from his 'suit,' he saw another three drones, one behind the other, rushing down the hallway towards his position.

Erich casually walked forwards, transforming his right arm into a blade, while his left arm morphed into a spear-like object. He then proceeded to rush his spear arm up, while simultaneously bringing down his blade arm, slicing off the spear part of his body, the momentum of both the force up and slice down causing it to launch into the air. As it started to come down, Erich turned his right arm back into a normal one, grabbing the now silvery javelin mid-air, and stepping forward as he threw it, putting his entire body mass into it. (If you want to see what that would look like, click here, and play 0:04-0:12)

The, quite literally, self-made javelin rushed through the air, piercing through the first drone, then through the second, and then through the third, impaling all three drones. As Erich walked down the hallway, he picked up the javelin on the floor, which slowly absorbed back into him. Suddenly, he felt a tingle on his sensors, and turned around, spotting a shape behind him with his various scanners. Quickly, he proceeded to get out his two MP5s from his jacket and started firing full auto into the supposedly empty hallway.

[Demincia]

Spyglass watched the Spectres fail with mild interest. This android was unlike anything he had seen before. He would have to claim the body if it died, and study it to replicate the capabilities. And it seemed that this android was hell bent on getting itself killed, despite knowing its situation. The four Stalker units had been placed on alert, then when the android ran away they had started to advance. Unfortunately for Erich, he wasted time dealing with the Spectres, and now the eight-foot tall robots had caught up to him. They advanced, even though they were being shot at. They shrugged off the bullets, their glowing red lights indicating attack mode. Spyglass came down the opposite side of the hallway, behind the T-1000. "This is not a fight you will win." the Vice Admiral said flatly. "Advise that you stand down, or you will be terminated." The Stalkers kept their weapons level, all of them carrying energy weapons. "You will not be given another chance." Spyglass said, despite having the same tone as before, the words carried weight.

[Rostavykhan]

The abundance of visible targets surrounding the hostile unit worked to Iko's advantage. It further obfuscated her, though she was essentially invisible anyways. She was small, fast, and flexible, all of which came in handy as she slipped and twisted between and around the Stalkers and found herself standing between them, facing Eric and Spyglass.

Slowly, like a mirage, the light around her rippled, revealing her once again. Her palm began to pulse again, her body winding up to disperse another beam. Unlike Spyglass, however, she wasn't giving any warnings.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Erich
Hostage Hustle
As Erich looked towards the three larger machines, he thought of what to do. Surrendering would be the best option but from what he's seen of all these machines, they all seemed to be connected to one main CPU. It reminded him too much of Skynet. And if he was anything like Skynet, God knows what they would do to him. Erich simply tilted his head, but before he could attack again, a beam of energy was fired and shot through, making a hole in his face, some of it even turning into glass. Erich's arms when slump, and he collapsed backwards, his back hitting the floor.

From the outside, it looked like Iko had just killed Erich, but inside, it was completely different:

T-1000 Main CPU
LOADING....LOADING....REBOOTING....REBOOTING....ANALYSING DAMAGE.....
DAMAGE REPORT:
-MIMETIC POLYALLOY DAMAGED....
-PERSONALITY CORE DAMAGED....

POLYALLOY DAMAGED VIA PLASMA BEAM-LEVEL 10 GLASSING....POLYALLOY STATE DISRUPTED, EJECTING USELESS POLYALLOY FROM UNIT.....

PERSONALITY CORES 'HUNTER KILLER,' AND 'BATTLE ERICH,' DAMAGED, WILL NEED TO BE REPAIRED-REPAIR TIME: ONE STANDARD YEAR....FINDING BEST REPLACEMENT....DOWNLOADING 'FUN ERICH,' INTO MAIN CPU HARDRIVE....TRANSFERRING MEMORIES....COMPLETE

Erich Wheatly Hiddleston
Hostage Hustle
(Imagine Portal 2 Wheatly's Voice)
Suddenly, the supposedly dead body seemed to do something, as chunks of glass and slightly black and corroded looking metal liquid were suddenly ejected from the body, and Erich's face seemed to regenerate and fill up. Suddenly he opened his eyes, and sat up, seemingly ignoring the extremely tense looking enemies around him. He blinked. And then he spoke in a British Accent.

"Hello? Erm....I don't really want to be a bore but....this doesn't look like a bar in New New York." Erich said as he looked around. He then proceeded to stand up, waving around a little bit as if just hit by a pipe to the head. When he finally stood up completely, instead of the usual straight and blank expression, his body structure was a little bit more carefree and his face filled with confusion.

As he looked around, he noticed the several scary looking people around him, quickly analysing them, he identified three of them as 'Giant Awesome Killer Robots,' and 'Sexy Yet Scary Looking Robo-Chick With Red Eyes,' As he continued to get more stable, he noticed they had weapons pointed at him, and with a yelp put his hands up.

"Woah! Look, whatever I did, it wasn't me, well technically it was me, just not in this body, well technically, that does mean it was me since it was my body, but it's not my fault! It's all just one big misunderstanding." Erich mumbled for a bit before declaring loudly. Suddenly, he staggered as the memory transfer was completed, before blinking his eyes twice.

"....Alright, maybe it was my fault, but you can't blame me, I have no idea what HK does all the time," Erich whined, whispering loudly as if sharing a secret. "You should meet him when he isn't fighting, he just stares into your soul for all eternity....into mine too if I had one." He then suddenly turned towards Iko. "Hello scary robot chic-, I mean female not organic thing! I'd just like to apologise, very, very, much so, i'll have to excuse HK, he isn't much of a social person, he prefers to decapitate you while laughing in a monotone matter." Erich told Iko.

Erich then turned towards the three Stalkers. "And you there! Totally-Not-Skynet-Ripoff! I'd like to apologise for destroying like," Erich said, before counting his fingers. "7 of your robot things, I'll assure you, if it was a test, you will be happy to know that they're absolutely garbage, you should replace them with the things standing in front of me right now." Erich said jovially, awaiting an answer.

[Demincia]

The Hub
Spyglass

Spyglass immediately noted that the current personality would have to be removed if the android was duplicated. It would serve no purpose, and would only irritate personnel. "It was four." The Vice Admiral corrected behind Erich. "And the name Skynet means nothing to me. It does not exist where I come from, therefore it is impossible for my creation to have been an emulation." The new personality did not give any indication that it would be useful in battle, which would make the entire android useless. Spyglass did not care for redundant crew. "The BRD-01 Spectre units repeatedly show exceptional performance in combat against their intended target." The robot said, and the four Stalkers turned and left, leaving the Spyglass platform alone.

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Deep Space Nine
IMC Remnant Fleet - 99th Helljumpers
Brynn Overton

Brynn walked a lot more slowly in the Titan, the search for straggling enemies not turning up results. Brynn laughed a little when Elizabeth complained abut the blood. "Aye, you've got blood everywhere." She looked down at the witch's clothes, ruined by the damage as well as stained red. "Luckily most of my seat is already red." she teased. Brynn sighed and took off her helmet and set it on a hook in the cockpit. "Lass, it's ok. You don't have to keep apologizing. It's in the past. Was it the smartest thing to do? Probably not. But it's over. You're gonna live to annoy me another day." she said. She rubbed her temples, "I can't wait to get back, go to bed, and not be shot at for once." She looked down at the blood she had on her. "After a shower first... that is." she saw the reinforcements from AEGIS arrive. "Oh look, after the fighting's done." she said. "Never fails."

[Naval Monte]

Deep Space Nine

Elizabeth laughed a little as well to the comment about the chair already being red. "I say, saves me the trouble when I'm forced to clean the blood off this cockpit." She said, her eyes fluttering as she try to fight off the fatigue caused by both echaustion and the drugs.

When Elizabeth look down at her ruined clothes she sighed. "I can replace the shirt and vest with no problem thanks to the replicator. I can do the same with my bra cause one of the strapes is broken. But my trench coat is a different story. I can't replace that and more to the point I don't want to." The witch explained.

"Me and that old thing have been through so much together that I can't stand the thought of just tossing it to the bin like yesterday's trash. Besides it's been through worse. I can fix the old coat to look good again. A shame I can't make it look new but I like's waned and grungy look, gives it character."

When Brynn told Elizabeth to stop apologizing about her plan she nodded. "With my plan all I can guarentte is that it would be risky and most likely insane, whether it is smart is a whole different story."

When AEGIS finally arrived the witch sighed. "They always show up at pdf times. Sometimes they arrive too late and others they are too early. I had cases where they pop out of nowhere in the middle of my own investigations and other times when tbeir arrivial is just on time... Usually when I don't need them around."

When Brynn expressed her desire for both a shower and rest Elizabeth agreed with her. "You read my mind sister." The drowsy mage couldn't think of a better thing to do back on the bin than to enjoy a warm shower and sleep in a bed away from anyone that wants her dead.

"I will clean up my mess after I get some rest. But on return I need someone fix my coat and use the replicators to make more clothes for me. Preferably another woman for obvious reasons."

[The New Byzantine II]

Yuriko Omega
Red Alert 3: Uprising - Universe
Tokyo, Allied Provisional Government of Japan

9th of February, 1988. A cold rainy night have come to the capital of the Allied-puppet of the Japanese Provisional Government, Tokyo. A thousand rains have poured towards Yuriko, making her clothes wet than ever. After the destruction of the Shimada Sanitorium and the death of her twin sister, Izumi in her hands, she escaped in that area as one of the newest and powerful Allied units of all, the Allied Psychokinetic Legion, have decided to hunt her down in order to imprisoned her on the frozen ice. She was considered as the most wanted criminal of the planet due to her deadly powers she haves. Sadly, she have no where else to go and doesn't know what to do. The Empire of the Rising Sun's ambitions thru divine destiny was destroyed by the power of democracy in the hands of the Allies. The world was now in its democratic shape as the Allies have won on a strategic victory in the War of the Three Powers. Communism and imperialism was no more although there are still remnants of the Imperial forces in Japan who were loyal enough to restore the days of the Empire of the Rising Sun and the Soviet remnants who were still loyal to the Motherland across the former USSR, she thought.

As she walk towards the busy streets of nighttime Tokyo, she could see the Allied flags fly on the high-rise buildings, she was disgraced by it. It's sad to see that her homeland fell under the hands of the Allied dogs, even Crown Prince Tatsu, a once feared commander of the Empire, was collaborating with the Empire's greatest enemies, such a shame. And then she looked at the large picture on the wall, it was herself of course. It was about her general information like 'Yuriko Omega is dangerous' blah blah blah, she was annoyed by it as she only wants peace and then the sirens would be heard from the distance, it was the Allied Psychokinetic Legion.

"Tawagoto.." She swears in Japanaese, she knew that the Allied Psychokinetic Legion were powerful to defeat her and they're the same when it comes to power level. She is weak at this point due to her recent psychokinetic fight with her twin sister and the destruction of Shimada Sanitorium that was caused by her. She have no energy to fight against the Allied Psychokinetic Legion.

She quickly entered in a famous Tokyo nightclub called 'Genius', a formal and classy type of a nightclub that was recently opened to the Japanese public as this was the part of the so-called 'Allied democracy' that is still introducing to the Japanese society. As she was supposed to enter the nightclub, she was stopped by a bouncer who was a tall man in a muscular built.

"You, stop right there! Where's your pass?" the bouncer asked.

Yuriko raised her right hand, aiming it to the bouncer's forehead, she would use her Psychokinetic ability called 'Mental Domination' which the bouncer's mind would be now controlled by Yuriko. Yuriko would command the bouncer to let her in the nightclub and defend the entrance against the forces of the Allied Psychokinetic Legion. The bouncer agreed and Yuriko proceeds to enter the nightclub and the bouncer would proceed to defend the entrance of the nightclub against the incoming forces of the Allied Psychokinetic Legion. When Yuriko entered, she felt dizzy a bit although she needs to be focused, especially at this noisy environment she is in. She observed her surroundings and the people were dressed formally and classy that has stylish looks on it while Yuriko is dressed as a formal high school student. She realized that the power of the Allied democracy have somehow changed the Japanese people, it's sad, according to her. The old was better than the new.

With her wet clothes, the people noticed her until hey recognised her face. Their expression changed from joyfulness to fear. The people obviously feared her because of her destructive powers. People have began to murmur about her name and Yuriko was getting annoyed by it. As she was about to unleash her Psionic blasts to everyone inside the nightclub, the bouncer that was under Yuriko's control was thrown across the room by a soldier from the Legion. The forces of the Allied Psychokinetic Legion would swarm the nightclub and the people started to ran away which causes panic inside the nightclub. Yuriko would unleash Psionic blasts towards the legionnaires which caused them to knock out on the ground, and some were killed. The forces were sending reinforcements which most of the Legion would keep entering the nightclub to stop Yuriko. Yuriko have no choice but to go to the female bathroom to make her last stand against the Allied Psychokinetic Legion.

As she entered the female bathroom, she was panting. She inhaled and exhaled, she was ready to die. Suddenly, a portal would appear at the back of the portal which caused Yuriko to be surprised by it, she looked at the portal as she raised her eyebrows.

"What the hell is this madness?" She thought that it would be either a FutureTech technology or the Imperial remnant technology, was she going to be captured by the Allies or was she going to be rescued by the Imperial remnants? She wasn't sure about it. The blue light was so bright in the female bathroom which caused the legionnaires to be curious and they were wondering what's happening inside the bathroom. A brave soldier of the Legion would cautiously approached the bathroom, as the soldier opened, he would be shock at what he was seeing; a portal and a curious Yuriko Omega that is currently watching the portal. As Yuriko heard the door opened, she turned around and she began to ran towards to the portal. The first soldier followed her towards to the portal and suddenly, the portal was closed. The rest of the Legionnaires who were about to enter the portal got hit on the wall and some of them were trip. They don't believe what they were seeing and one legionnaire was able to enter the portal with the most wanted criminal on the planet, Yuriko Omega.

---

Yuriko Omega
The Hub - Bar

Yuriko and the legionnaire would be thrown out to the portal and landed on the ground. The portal was gone and the two of them were able to stand up. They were inside the female bathroom however with different textures and surroundings. They don't know where they are at this moment.

"Where the fuck am I?" the legionnaire replied in a thick Russian accent. The legionnaire turned around and he would see that Yuriko was looking at him in somehow annoyed expression.

"So it seems that a disgusting Soviet commie is now working with the Allied dogs? How charming.." Yuriko would smile at the legionnaire.

"I was captured by the capitalists and drafted me here in your homeland! Please..please don't kill me, I have a family!" The legionnaire would began to whimper.

"How sad but this will be your last day, commie. Die!"

She would levitate the legionnaire and would thrown him to the exit of the female bathroom which caused him to get unconscious. As Yuriko approached the the unconscious legionnaire, she would kneel to pick up his pistol. She lifts herself up as she turns the pistol to safety off. She aimed it to the legionnaire's head and pulled the trigger. The legionnaire's blood would spread across the floor. The problem is she started to feel dizzy as she walks towards to the exit, somehow, she would fell down to the ground and got knocked out completely.

[Rostavykhan]

Iko gave Spyglass a curious glance. "It appears that I have neutralized it.", She stated, before letting the being continue.

"Apology accepted.", She said, quick and to the point. Her objective had been met - blast the intruder - and so she was content to turn and return to Yoshi.

Behind her, and leading just ahead of Yoshi, Marie bolted over with her weapon at the ready. When she saw all the robots gathered around their target, however, she came to a stop. "Oy!", She started. "What's this? We have him, then?", She asked, lowering her rifle.

Meanwhile, in another wing of The Hub...

A gunshot. The distant noise caused the trio of women to exchange concerned glances. Torii, Dima, and Katya, all reached for their handguns, though Dima took the lead. Torii was right behind her, the three moving with purpose, to investigate the source of the gunshot.

Of course, being the first in line, Dima was the first to stumble upon the scene, a dead male and seemingly unconscious female. She moved in, weapon at the ready, but once she had determined that there was no immediate threat, she moved to grab the handgun on the floor, pulling it towards herself. Torii's reaction was to look away - a sudden wave of nausea and panic creeping over her. She closed her eyes and counted down, letting her heartbeat slow back down before she came to assist her twin.

Katya stayed back, giving the two space, while they worked to separate the two bodies. When she did offer help, she was told to look for a doctor. She found a communications panel just down the hall, still in sight of the others, where she...struggled for a moment. She'd seen them on arrival, but using them was still new to her. Thankfully, it wasn't rocket science, and having the ability to comm all over the Hub was easier than running and calling for help. She opened a channel, asking around their entire wing in an attempt to find someone, ready to comm the entire station it needed.

The message was simple - Katya spoke clearly, seemingly under control despite dealing with what appeared to be a shooting. "Attention? If anyone is onboard, we have a Medical Emergency at a restroom near the Living Quarters and Conference Room, in one of the hallways. Any help is appreciated, but a medical professional would be a great asset right now. There are three of us here, and we have two bodies. Please respond as soon as possible."

[Urran]

Yoshi, Hostage Hustle

Yoshi sighed, lowering his side arm and placing it back in its holster. He really needed to get one of those cool futuristic weapons. Just to be on an even field around here at the very least.

"Is anyone injured?" he asked, coming up to Iko and Marie, looking them over. They seemed fine and he reverted back to his usual calm and pleasant demeanor. He listened and tried to figure out what exactly was going on. He was confused as to why their opponent was no longer attempting to rip them apart.

[Osnil Returns]

Golbatman
Golbatman seemed otherwise occupied, especially since the girls didn't really give him an answer to begin with. What exactly were they fighting and why did they attack to begin with? Despite the fleeing enemies, he was initially curious as to why they were up against these foes.

In the meantime, his Umbreon wandered over to sniff Crystal's hand. "Zebstrika can run like lightning," Golbatman said, still looking away from the pair. "He can produce the sound of thunder at full gallop." Pokémon had the irony of looking cute, but being extremely powerful. "It also has one of the worst tempers of all Pokémon, with the exception of perhaps Primeape. Umbreon on the other hand, if his opponent is sleeping, it can attack it through it's dreams." He said all of this with a cold, dark tone. "It won't hurt unless it doesn't like you, in which case it will snarl at you."

[Naval Monte]

Morgana

With most of the aliens now dead and clean up can begin Hex was walking down the hall wearing a gunmetal grey, skin tight, body suit. The attire left little to the imagination on Hex's amazionian figure. However some parts were padded to contain plates of armor to provide some adequte protection. However protecting against bullets and knives is not the main purpose of the suit.

It along with the grey hooded ponche she wore on top of the body suit along with the grey face mask all were the results of AEGIS first attempts into invisiblity. Unlike the Goliath exoskeletion powered armor that use an anomalous device to bend light around the user while allowing them to are through the cloaking field this suit uses many small cameras sewed into the suit to project images from behind the wearer, allowing them to camoflauge like some animals found in nature.

The suit have the flaw that once activated the wearer most not move as the cameras will begin to blur the image as the suit does not produce true invisibilty, yet for suit made only for recon and stealth missions and whose tech is easy to mass reproduce it works quite while.

Hex wasn' t the only one wearing the suit as a few others following close behind her also wore identical suits. "Our mission is to fine and terminate any survivors. Once they are deceased we can take some parts of their bodies for our necromancers to try and conjure their spirits si se can interogate. If we're lucky than the soul exists in this world." Hex looked at the other members of the team.

"Hopefully these aliens have left enough information on their computers, we may be able to get some of the names of these aliens for our rituals." Hex and her team finally enter one of the hangars and walked to a shuttle still in the Morgana. "Mona you deal with this new fleet while I'm gone." The AI' voice can be heard through the eat piece as she agreed with the order.

From the same device Hex heard from the troops down in the station that most enemy combatives were elimanated which made Hex consider what to do, the other members of the team also heard the message and waited for Hex's response.

"Our mission is still the same." She told the group. "There is still valuable information that se can again from that station." Knowing that the mission is still proceding all enter the shuttle which it took off once all systems with on the machine were ready.

The trip to the space station was much quicker than all of the others as most of the enemy forces were now preoccupy with fleeing than fighting, allowing the shuttle yo land quickly and drop it's valuable cargo.

Once outside of the shuttle Hex ordered those not wearing their makes her to do so as she began to move, the cloak activating as a blurry, human-shape distortion, was the only sign of Hex and her team moving about.

The Cardassiabs still slice were being rounded up to be questioned by Hex once she arrives.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Erich
"Ya, you can tell that to the drone pieces spurred across the floor at the moment," Erich replied happily. "But, I guess I can give you some credit, those things aren't the worst of subjects." Erich walked passed the platform with a smile and patted it on the shoulder, he then looked down the hall again, seeing Marie and Yoshi(o) rushing down it. He proceeded to walk over to them with a very large smile.

"Hello again! Cat....Puma....World War 1 Erad Female Soldier thing." Erich said jovially but slightly confused towards the end. "I'd like to apologise for HKs attitude previously, you've got to be grateful though, if he was in a foul mood, he would've snapped that arm right in half...heh, heh....heh, anyways, once again, my sincerest apologise madam."

"And as for you Heterochromia Man!" Erich said, turning to Yoshi(o). "One, no, no one is injured unless you count the drones, which would mean I am quite the gruesome murderer, and second of all, you should be ashamed of yourself! Having only a small dinky pistol with you, what if some giant robot suddenly appeared." Erich continued in a scolding manner. "Get yourself a man's gun sunshine."

Erich suddenly turned to the others. "By the way, would you be willing to share your names, because constantly naming you people with random designations is getting to be quite tiresome."

[Brusia]

Revan
Deep Space Nine
Ops

As the Sangheili officer stated that his kind valued honor above all others, Revan couldn't help but find that somewhat difficult to believe, given that the first of their kind he met didn't think twice about putting a blade to an unarmed civilian's throat. The situation with the Federation didn't give him time to respond though, and after the Sangheili informed Captain Sisko that they weren't seeking conquest, the Captain stated: "Well I'm glad to hear that, I think there's been enough fighting for one day; though that still doesn't tell me exactly what it is you are doing here."

"We're looking for some very ancient records that our scans show are stored here" Revan replied. "Once they've been recovered we have every intention of leaving this station."

With a somewhat puzzled look, Sisko replied: "Deep Space Nine isn't a very old station, so none of our records would qualify as 'very ancient.' If the Dominion brought them here, I imagine they would've brought any records with them when they retreated or destroyed them, but since you did drive the Dominion out of my station, I suppose we could help you look for them. What's so important about these records that you were willing to commit an act of war against the Dominion for them?"

"As I said earlier, it's a long story."

"Well, as it happens I now have plenty of time on my hands. I can have my people help locate your records while we speak in my office, if you'd prefer to sit."

After a brief sigh, Revan replied: "Very well" then, pointing to the station being used by the Exoterra's crew member, continued: "I've uploaded the unique signature we're looking for to that terminal, it should help to narrow the search."

"Understood. Chief, why don't you take a look at it; I'll be in my office if anyone needs me."

Revan followed Sisko into the Starfleet's officer's office, where the Captain proceeded to grab a baseball off his desk with a grin, then took a long awaited seat back in his old chair. Revan then sat down in one of the chairs in front of the desk, and Sisko stated: "Why don't you start at the beginning" then tossed the baseball up into the air.

Revan caught the ball at its apex with the Force and levitated it close in front of him to get a better look, then replied: "At the beginning? Well, I suppose that would be with a race known as the Ascendants a long, long time ago..."

Some time later

After explaining the situation to Sisko and showing him evidence of his claims from the data on his Hub scanner, the Federation proceeded to scan the location of the wormhole to confirm that the aliens the Bajorans referred to as the "Prophets" were no longer there. After confirming what Revan had told them was correct, Revan could sense grave concern among Captain Sisko and some of the senior Starfleet officers who had returned to the station, as they apparently feared panic might spread throughout the nearby planet of Bajor if news of the Prophets' abduction got out. To make matters worse, the signature the multiversal group was looking for was detected within something called the "Orb of Prophecy," an artifact of great value to the Bajoran people.

An emergency meeting was then called among the senior Federation and Klingon officers, as well as a select few of the most senior Bajoran political and religious leaders, while Revan and Bastila, who allowed herself to be beamed off of the Rampart as she preferred that to "spending another minute on the malfunctioning droid's garbage scow," sat in a nearby room to wait for the group's decision.

After a lengthy and heated discussion the meeting ended, and Revan and Bastila would stand up when a few moments later three men in Starfleet uniforms entered into the room. On the right was Captain Sisko, front and center was a man who had earlier introduced himself as Admiral Ross, and on the left was an officer he hadn't met yet. After the door closed, the Admiral stated: "Well, it took some convincing, but in his status as Emissary, Captain Sisko was able to convince the Bajoran leadership to lend you the Orb in order to help rescue their Prophets. They did have a couple of stipulations though: namely, that a Vedek be allowed to accompany the Orb at all times, and that it be given a Federation escort.

Given the existential threat these Ascendants pose to us and countless others, I decided we might as well kill two birds with one stone and assign someone who could also lend some assistance to you during your mission." Pointing the man on his left, the Admiral continued: "This is Captain Marcus Nelson, he and his crew are some of Starfleet's finest, and I have no doubt they'll prove to be a great asset to you and your group. We'll be beaming the Orb and its accompanying Vedek over to Nelson's ship momentarily, so you can depart as soon as you're ready. Good luck to you all."

With that, the Admiral and Captain Sisko left, and Nelson stated: "Well, as I understand time is a factor in our mission, I suppose we should skip the usual pleasantries. Would you care to use the station's comm system to contact your people?"

After shaking off the surprise that something in their mission had finally managed to go even better than expected for a change, Revan replied: "No, that's alright, our communications devices were patched into a multiversal translator and into the same frequency by a VI on the Hub, so it's easiest to contact each other that way."

"Interesting." Nelson replied "And this 'Hub' serves as your base of operations, correct?"

"As near to one as we have anyway" Bastila somewhat sarcastically replied, before Revan stated: "Your communications equipment should be automatically adapted once we've entered into the Hub's space as well."

"I'll be sure to let our comm officer know. Unless there's anything else, I'll head back to my ship and get the crew ready to depart."

"I think that's all I need to know for now" Revan replied "I'll contact the rest of my group, then we'll head back to our ship as well."

"Right than, until we meet again on this Hub of yours." After a polite nod, Nelson tapped his combadge and stated: "Constitution, one to beam up" then disappeared in a flash of blue light.

"I'm still not sure I care for this 'transporter' technology" Bastila stated. "Seems like there's a great deal that could go wrong."

"Still, it could certainly prove useful." Revan replied, before using his comm device to contact the rest of the multiversal group, stating: "This is Revan to all multiversal forces, we have what we came for and the universe's locals have assigned a vessel to aid us in our mission. Return to your vessels and prepare to return to the Hub at your earliest convenience. Revan out." With that, he and Bastila began making their way back to the Ebon Hawk to make their return back to the Hub...

Athena and Zenithar
Hub
Conference Room

Just as Athena was about to return to work, she received yet another notice from VICCI stating: "Warning: weapons fire has been detected in the recreation room, and known personnel identified as Dimitrov, Katya has requested medical assistance. Should I deploy drones to transport the injured to the medbay?"

Athena just rubbed her eyes for a moment, then turned to Zenithar and stated: "Given the stakes, you'd think these mortals could refrain from killing each other at least until our mission is complete."

Zenithar shrugged and replied: "It seems the one constant in most every universe I've been to is that mortals devote more time and effort to killing each other than most anything else."

Athena nodded, then with a sigh informed the VI: "Very well, you may send your drones."

"Order acknowledged. Deploying drones now." Part of the hallway near the Living Quarters and Conference Room would almost appear to be moving, as millions of microscopic drones converged and made their way towards the bar. Upon entering, the tiny robots moved themselves underneath the casualties, lifting them just slightly off the ground, then began moving them back towards the medbay at a brisk pace, though not so fast that they couldn't be followed. Upon arriving at their destination, two robotic arms moved out of the wall and lifted the patients onto separate biobeds, at which point the drones dispersed to return to their work repairing the Hub's systems.

After identifying that the individual who had been shot in the head was damaged beyond repair, the robotic arm fired a powerful beam at it, causing the body to instantly sublime; leaving no trace that the man had ever even been there. Fortunately, the young woman's injuries were far less severe, suffering only a minor concussion and some bruises during her fall. The biobed underneath her began to glow, as the advanced technology contained within markedly sped up her normal healing processes to that point that her injuries had fully healed in mere seconds. Once that was completed, the robotic arm above her bed injected her with a stimulant to wake the now treated patient up...

[Rostavykhan]

Halls/Medbay

Katya was beginning to become impatient, tapping her foot on the floor. What was taking so long, she thought? She had half a mind to -

"Whoa."

She turned, in time to see the bodies being lifted from the floor. Torii was watching in interest, and looking a little relieved that she didn't have to carry anyone. Dima looked confused, and almost surprised.

They would all have questioned how the floor, or the machines were being summoned, had they not begun moving the bodies towards the medbay. They picked up the pace again, and followed. Dima was curious about who the people were, and where they came from, and Torii and Katya were concerned, wondering if there were doctors waiting for their arrival. None of them were particularly happy to have run into the scene.

Robots/Hallway

Marie was taken aback when she was acknowledge by Eric. "You what?", She asked, stepping forward. "You get knocked up good enough?", She said, leaning in to observe him. She looked around at the others as well, wondering what they all thought. "He's daft, isn't he?"

[Urran]

Yoshi

Yoshi looked at Marie and shrugged. Erich was indeed peculiar. Yoshi was, of course, a bit put off by the sunshine comment. Of course, the robot thing was right, he needed to get something other than a sidearm.

The man tossed his ponytail and turned to Iko. They were all acting funny. Maybe they were indeed just robots in need of a memory wipe. They could get a bit chatty when they hadn't undergone basic maintenance or memory cleaning in a while. But maybe they were more than robots. Still, even if they were self aware, they were getting increasingly odd.

Yoshi wasn't sure if he was supposed to answer Erich or not. It was rude not to, so he bowed and politely introduced himself as "Yoshi." he left out the part about being a national personification.

[Demincia]

IMC Remnant Fleet
99th Helljumpers
Brynn Overton

Brynn sighed with relief when Revan told everyone to return to the ships. "About bloody time. I thought I'd have to take this place apart myself." she said and turned back towards the way they came. She used the three dashes in quick succession to cover a lot of ground faster. "Ooh, sorry about that. Probably should have warned you before that happened." she said. "As for your coat, well I'm not exactly a tailor, but I can try. Kate's robot arse isn't gonna be much help. Where the hell is she anyway?" she muttered wandering the halls to get back. She saw a group of Marines standing around an Atlas Titan, who was gesturing to give orders. "Oh how nice." Brynn called over the radio. "Did you stay back here and miss all the fun?" she asked. Kate's artificial voice returned her jeers, "Most of it. They tried to push us out but we held them off... Why is there so much blood on your hull... Fuckin' hell it's on the cockpit too? You're a sick bastard Overton." Brynn laughed and stretched her arms out, "Aye, but you know you love me, lass." Kate sighed, "Yea, more than I'd like to. Head on back to the Rampart, we're covering exfil." Brynn walked passed, resisting the urge to screw around more. "See you back on the ship." she said, walking the Titan back into the Widow dropship that was waiting. "Oi, you know people are gonna wonder what's up when we get back to the ship and you're wearing my suit." she said calmly as the bay door closed, causing it to go dark.

[Talchyon]

J.D. Lange
Deep Space Nine

Ok, so since everything had cleaned up nicely on the Morgana, I had nothing else to do. I mean, I could explore the Morgana more. But so far, it seemed like all the cool stuff was concealed away from public view. And while I had some tricks in my bag that could un-conceal certain things, I was guessing that the ship would be on full alert since those teeth-lizard things had popped in out of nowhere.

So I hopped on a vessel heading for the space station. I had my newly acquired teeth-lizard weapon with me. So I could possibly use it if they needed extra fire support. My impact field generator was off, now nursing a 42% level charge. I could turn it on for some combat, but I'd need to recharge it sooner than later. The trip over was a little stressful, I'll admit, not knowing what kind of carnage we would find there on the space station. I looked over at some of the soldiers who were also flying over, and felt a little sad because I knew that not all of them would be coming back, if our last battle was any indication.

The thing was, when we got to the space station, the others in our ragtag little party had captured the station and driven off the enemy completely. There was no need for combat! Which surprised me, but I wasn't going to complain. Doctors and field medics were instead tending to their wounded, some repairs were being made, and some general clean-up too. The station was big. The locals called it "Deep Space Nine." Which told me, we weren't anywhere close to civilization. These guys were the lone rangers of the galaxy, the last line of defense or the official greeting place and tourist information booth, depending on which way you were going. There were lots of little rooms, some small stores closed for business, and various people... and aliens walking around. I got a big smile at that. Possible samples will do that to me.

There was an open area, looked like a mix between a bar and a casino, in a hole in the wall. Some chairs were seated around the table, mostly empty, though with an individual or small group here and there. Having nothing else to do, I sat down, and then wondered if there was any protocol to the place. I was about to get my answer when a short, swarthy reddish-pink-tan alien with a bulging forehead, sharp teeth, a crinkle around his eyes and a big used car salesman smile. "Welcome to my humble establishment, stranger. Whatever you need, I can get. Would you like a drink?" Truth was, I would love a drink. But I was also pretty sure I didn't have the kind of money he took, and well, after selling one of my glowsticks on Skyrim, I didn't know how much more I had to barter with.

"I'd love a drink, but I'm not from around here." I was about to tell him that my money wasn't compatible, but he interrupted and started telling me about drink specialties and what was the local favorite. Then he said, "Name's Quark."

"J.D." And to act as if I was friendly (when I had something else in mind), I reached out to shake his hand. He took mine, and the sample transfer was complete. Excellent. My systems would have some fun with this one. I continued, "What kind of species are you, Quark?"

The barkeep was astonished. "You said you weren't from around here, but you've never heard of the Ferengi?"

Shook my head. "Sorry, pal. Like I said, I'm a little out of place."

His eyes got even wider, if that were possible. And then his smile grew bigger. The effect was as if he was happy that I had never heard of his species. As if me having a blank slate for this alien race was a good thing, so as not to fill it with the negative aspects of this group.

"Well, then, since I'm the first Ferengi you have met, I consider it an honor. I'm sure you'll hear about my people in due time." His smile got wider, and his eyes looked a little more crafty if that were possible.

Just then, my comm went off. It was Revan, telling us to return to our ships. Shore leave was done. Time to head out. I stood. "Well, Quark, sorry but my commander has just called me back to the ship. Maybe next time I'll have to have that drink."

He was visibly disappointed that I wasn't going to be buying anything, and began offering me other drinks and food, something to take with me to my ship (for a price), and couldn't I just wait a few more minutes? But I had to go. I couldn't tell, but it seemed like he was glaring at me as I left. What exactly were these Ferengi and why was he acting this way to me?

On the way back, I "bumped" into a few other alien races I found. There were a few aliens who looked practically like people, except that they had some wrinkles around the bridge of their noses. Apparently these were "Bajorans." There were also some tall, muscular and seemingly aggressive dark-skinned aliens with unique heads. It was like their skulls had ridges and was pressing into the flesh of their heads, and that their flesh was stretched out taut over them. I found out that they were called "Klingons." And I managed to get a few samples of each alien race.

Finding an elevator, I hopped on, only to be joined by a younger woman with what looked like giraffe spots of all things, running up and down the sides of her neck and the sides of her head. I interrupted and said, "I beg your pardon. But I'm not from around here, and I've never seen an alien of your kind before. What are you?" The woman looked up from the device she was studying, with a questioning look in her eyes. She said, "I'm a Trill. My name is Ensign Ezri Dax. I am the 8th host of the Dax symbiote." I try to contain my face when I hear something unexpected. Being a form-changer like myself, you have to be able to keep your face from emotional reactions if you want to pass off as another person. That skill came in handy. She must not have seen me react hostile, so she went on and told me more about herself. Soon, the open faced elevator stopped. I stuck out my hand and said, "Ensign Dax, it has been a pleasure." And she gave me a firm handshake, a smile, and more importantly, a precious DNA sample.

I made it to the starcraft that had carried me from the Morgana, and hopped back on. 4 new alien DNA samples! I was really curious to hear what my systems were going to say about these, and hoped that my microtech would change my form to match such unusual DNA.

[The New Byzantine II]

Athena and Zenithar
Hub
Conference Room
After identifying that the individual who had been shot in the head was damaged beyond repair, the robotic arm fired a powerful beam at it, causing the body to instantly sublime; leaving no trace that the man had ever even been there. Fortunately, the young woman's injuries were far less severe, suffering only a minor concussion and some bruises during her fall. The biobed underneath her began to glow, as the advanced technology contained within markedly sped up her normal healing processes to that point that her injuries had fully healed in mere seconds. Once that was completed, the robotic arm above her bed injected her with a stimulant to wake the now treated patient up...

Yuriko Omega
The Hub - Medbay

Yuriko slowly opened her eyes, like coming out from a dream. It was so bright that she can't see anything but seconds later, she would be fully awaken and in her confusion, she doesn't know where she is. This may look like the Shiro Sanitorium to her but different, she thought. She saw the robotic arm going back to its original position. She lift herself up and would get up from the bed. She cracked her head from left to right which she got relieved after what happened to her this past hours. First, she was tracked down by the Allied Psychokentic Legion and then she saw the portal which she entered and then she killed the Legionnaire by putting the bullet to his head. It was a crazy day, according to her. I hope it was just a dream, she really wanted to exile herself from Japan and to live in a peaceful island that contains serenity and tranquility. However, the dream was like real to her and now she doesn't where she is right now.

"Where the hell am I?" Yuriko said in Japanese, scratching her head.

She would began to roam around the Medbay, trying to find a way to leave this large hospital room. While she was roaming around, she saw medical robots that is unfamiliar to her. She began to think if she was held captive by the FutureTech Corporation; who created advanced AI beings than the Imperial Rising Sun and then she saw three women which their expression was concerned but by who? By me? Did they know what happened in the recreation room? Hopefully, in the distance, she began to look at their appearances. Most of them are ethnically Russian which Yuriko's expression became hostile towards to the three women..

"All of you!" Yuriko yelled at the three women.

"You Soviet whores, are you now working with the FutureTech, huh? Did you kidnapped me here?!" She yelled as she uses her defensive stance of her Psychokinetic burst. Purple orbs began to occur on her hands, ready to hit the three women using her Psychokinetic burst. She waits for their response and Yuriko's anger was going high, she really hated the Soviets because of Japan's 'imperial mentality' dominating her mind.