Mission 2: "The Dark Side"

[Apodae Swift]

"Sorry, just you tried to indicate the way in which felines communicate and from that I assumed you were trying to devise some sort of feline human communication system." Swift said, then realised that might have sounded a bit too... convoluted for what he was supposed to be. After all he was supposed to be hiding his interest in science as part of his cover. "So we can we go back out there and blow a path through the alliance ships to the rift, so we can get back to our reality?" He thought mentioning blowing things up again might ground himself back in the persona he always tried to show.

[Weasly Cook]

Commander Cook had at the alarms raced back to the Iroquois and had finished looking over the scans and blueprints enroute, by the time he had reached the ship, he had a plan forming.

=A= Captain, this is Cook, we are able to install the little beasties of circuitry, but I will need ten minutes to get it ready and prepped...=A= he stopped as the Transmission came through. =A=  Also, it seems that we have company with the Lothlorien, however, we would have to go through a majority of the fleet to get to them.... Since with have a rift generator of our own, maybe we could start up communications with them? With your permission sir.=A= He closed the link and began to work on getting the machine prepared, the good thing about being a ship builder and scientist was, he knew a little more about hot wiring things to get stuff done, he thought that he might have done pretty good as a Chief Engineer if science hadn't... he shook his head, he was getting off topic. Around his legs feeling the tension Captain Smith purred and rubbed his whiskers against his ankles.

[Apodae Swift]

"Swift to Starchaser," Swift said as he activated communications, "give him a full medical workup. I want to know everything down to the composition of his blood. Anything out of the ordinary you report straight to me, no matter how small the anomaly. Even if he has a slightly raised white blood cell count or a slight potassium deficiency, I don't care, it won't be a waste of time, I want to know. I am not risking the security of this ship on the hope that we aren't dealing with people that have intelligent ways of killing you. If he complains just tell him to be thankful I'm not asking for a full cavity search."

[Teranis]

*a sudden loud thud against the shields, shook the ship as a message could be heard over the shipwide comms*

=^= Captain and Senior Officers to the bridge.=^=

computer report

** Shields down to 87% and holding
** No structural damage taken

Helm, get us out of here, head straight for the mirror Avalon maximum warp.

Helm: aye sir.

(OFF: im saying theirs a helm officer their as it seems mr Clark is in the medbay too?? oh and this happened cause somehow ppl forgot about an army of ships sitting in front of us. :P)

*The Iroquois entered into warp heading straight for the mirror Avalon. The small fleet started to follow but for some reason they all suddenly backed off and let the ship continue to the station*

[Weasly Cook]

Commander Cook looked at Swift. "I know this... I was making a theory... but Animals might think in pictures, not words... but we are not talking about the four footed kind here." He smiled and looked at the doors where the chiefs had left.

"I was talking about the possibility of maybe helping bridge a language barrier between us and the Felians... that is the humanoid cat looking person." He decided to use small words to denote that he had been talking about two different subjects. "I also did it to keep my mind off certain events, an escape for me... I haven't touched in months now..." his eyes glazed over as he realized something. "Indeed, it has been months since I last tinkered with that matrix indeed." He feel into silence as he tried to think through some things.

[Voyager]

"We don't have any spare power to be pushing anywhere.  Even life support is at a minimum right now.  Our transporter rooms are in sections of the station that are badly damaged and don't have any atmosphere."  Dolan ordered the launching of the shuttles, with the ones with the experimental weapons that he installed himself to be protected at all costs.  He continued, "Karelia might be crazy but he is smart.  He knows that the Federation is in an alternate universe.  Also, there were only 8 Defiant class vessels created, and with the Iroquois destroyed, only 7 in service, all in other areas of the Empire, trying to suppress the rebellion.  He would know something is wrong if other Defiant class vessels showed up.  He also must know our ships are not in dock.  Even your ship won't stand much of a chance against Karelia and his fleet.  He was one of our best before he defected.  And boarding one of their ships is out of the question.  Unless you have a plan to take on a crew of about 80, not including the boarding party itself, which is roughly 300, all on just the Lothlorien alone, with about 50 people from the station, I don't think so.  The station has been on a skeleton crew for a long time.  It isn't going to change soon."

Dolan felt he was taking too long with preparations and decided to test out the neurogenic interface that the station managed to 'acquire' several weeks ago.  He said to the Starfleet personnel still on the Ops deck, "I believe a rift to your dimension is forming a few hundred kilometers nearby the rebel fleet.  A Federation ship called the Lothlorien hailed.  You might want to go."


He got into the Admiral's seat and sat down.  A curved metal device rolled out of the back of the chair and started scanning Dolan's brain patterns.  Dolan was slightly surprised at how easy it was and closed his eyes, giving himself completely to the interface.  He had complete control over the entire station, which he was already used to, and continued with preparations for the battle that was coming using the neurogenic interface.

[Apodae Swift]

"Ma'am, they are not the diplomatic types. Basically it's the evil twin cliche, it's going to end up with a very messy fight. I say we attack Bizzaro Lollock with everything we have then turned round and try and get the frack out of here." Swift told commander Lollock, he didn't like the idea of Stay in the mirror universe too long. "Besides we need to close that portal before they try and send this fleet through, even if it means trapping ourselves here."

[Apodae Swift]

"Translate a cat?" Swift asked, half surprised and half dumbfounded. "They don't have any sort of language. Animals use alarm calls and have a limited set to send a few basic messages. All you will get the cat to say is 'food' and maybe 'danger' or something. I doubt you could have a conversation as a cat is simply not evolved enough. They have no concept of language. Most creatures don't, although perhaps some other creatures you might be able to converse with. Dolphins perhaps, bee's seem to have full communication, and some people say elephants. There are a few, but cat's aren't one of them."

[Voyager]

**Mirror Dolan**

Dolan was growing exasperated at the Admiral, never really expecting her to grasp the whole situation.  He gave up waiting and transported the whole Iroquois crew still on the station to their ship.  He then beamed everyone still on the Ops deck one deck below and then locked the doors and placed force fields around the deck.  He couldn't afford any more disturbances to adequately defend the station.