Critical Condition

[Simon Rajnus]

"I see, all I can tell you is that time travel has been experienced before and maybe in the future we have mastered it, why would he come back in time I dont know.  Maybe hes hiding from something, I dont know that either.  But what do you need to solve this?" Rajnus asked curiously.

"Maybe theirs a temporal paradox here that we dont know about.  But im not sure the Temporal prime directive would apply to this either." Rajnus added.

[Voyager]

"Well, that's the thing.  The solution to how to get out of this might be hidden in his memories.  We need to have some idea on how his memories were surpress to store them safely away.  It also might explain his time-traveling.  For all we know, this is just a side effect from extensive time-traveling," answered a doctor.

The images seemed to fast-forward again.  The doctors noticed the number of buildings increased exponentially.  The number of machines also increased dramatically, with an army of them surrounding the buildings.  Some resembled tanks, others robots, still others airplanes, and there were many more.  A number of shields overlapped thoughout the base, with a number of gunships patrolling the skies.  Some of the smaller machines where projecting similar blue beams at some of the buildings, others constructing other buildings.

Suddenly a new screen moved forward.

"Incoming message from Brigader Pershing," announced the feminine voice from the ACU's computer.
An image of Pershing appeared and he said, "A UEF dropship has managed to escape the Aeon blockade.  They haven't been able to reach the space gate yet.  You do your best to protect it from the Aeon."

The brigader's face then paled.  "The Aeon are launching an attack on your base and it isn't light.  Scans show a Galactic Colossus heading toward your base.  You might want to get your Fat Boys moving."  The brigader's image then disappeared, replaced by a screen that showed the Aeon advance.

Dolan hit several buttons and the ACU suddenly teleported near a UEF dropship.
"Glad you showed up.  I need you to hold off the Aeon for a couple more minutes.  The engines are almost fully powered."  A man in a UEF piloting uniform spoke rapidly as his screen showed up in Dolan's interface.
Several Aeon tanks showed up and started firing at Dolan's ACU.  They were quickly dispatched with the ACU's antimatter cannon.
"Multiple hostiles closing in on this location.  Get that ship out of here!"
"Copy.  Primary Thrusters engaged.  Launch trajectory plotted."
"Hostiles approaching, ETA, 4 minutes.  That's all the time you'll have."
Some of Dolan's forces arrived to reinforce him and clashed with the closing Aeon forces.  A number of explosions shook the ground.  A number of the Aeon started focusing their fire on Dolan's ACU.

[Simon Rajnus]

"Im a starship Captain who follows the prime directives, I am not a doctor who knows what his condition is.  Do what you can I need him back in peice and hopefully in 1 peice of mind.  UNDERSTOOD!" Rajnus told the Doctor.

[Simon Rajnus]

"CLEAR THE ROOM!" Rajnus said in a rather angry voice, then he set the room to private mode, once the doctors and nurses had left.

"You have some explaining to do RIGHT NOW!" Rajnus said in the most authority voice he could muster.  "What were those images of your UEF days?, and WHAT! in gods green earth are you?.  Your not an android, androids arent as stuck up." Rajnus added.

[Simon Rajnus]

"You forgot a god complex.  Thinking your better then us.  Your not!.  You may think you are but you are as weak as anyone else when it comes to transporting your damn robot arse out into space and destroyed!.  Dont think for one second that I wont do it.  You go crazy on me or think your god and I will.  Do I make myself clear!" Rajnus told Dolan in a drill sargeant tone.

[Simon Rajnus]

"Oh im so honored, it wouldnt be the first time.  So why dont you tell me about this file they had on me? Then tell me the SIMPLE version of who else they had files on?" Rajnus asked calming down a bit.

[Voyager]

Dolan replied, "Understood.  As for a shut down process, none has ever been developed since if symbionts were ever in that situation, they were already dead or captured.  Besides, I doubt I could survive for too long without my implants.  I think they were working passively when they were deactivated by the people who captured by me."

Dolan walked to the still locked door.  "So what class is the U.S.S. Normandy?"

[Voyager]

Dolan's body was beamed to sickbay, which was pretty empty, considering all of the wounded from the Lothlorien's crash and the battle for the control of the Swift Retribution.  His body arrived onto a surgical bed, where there were more scanners.  The doctors scanned him several times and found out he was in a coma due to the sudden trigger and release of roughly twenty years worth of memories that were artificially surpressed and were now all being viewed by Dolan's mind simontaneously.  Also, a strange video feed seemed to be coming from one implant near Dolan's brain that projected all of Dolan's current thoughts, which revealed some unusual images.  Upon this discovery, one of the doctors tapped his combadge.

=/\= Sickbay to Captain Rajnus =/\=
Lt. Dolan had been found in a coma on the Heraan ship.  There are...complications.  We need your help and possibly your security clearance.  You might need to contact the Admiralty.  Please come as soon as you can.
=/\= Sickbay out =/\=

[Voyager]

One of the doctors turned to Rajnus and said, "It seems Dolan is in a coma partially due to roughly twenty years worth of memories, surpressed by some foreign means, surfacing at the same time.  It is also most likely due to the fact his mind is somehow viewing all of those memories simontaneously.  But that's not all."

The doctor motioned toward a console, where it seemed a movie was playing.

"We've detected a faint signal from something near Dolan's brain, which seems projecting a video feed of all of those memories, in order.  Of course, some of the older memories are much more vague than the newer ones, but it's what the newer ones show worry me the most.  You might have to start from a little bit back, but here," the doctor pressed a few buttons, and the video of Dolan's memories switched to one of a radically different briefing room.

"See, if you zoom into the lower left-hand corner of this screen, you'll see a date.  The year is 3825.  We quantum dated a piece of the Lt.'s skin and got similar results.  He's most definately from the future, but if you continue watching here, it most certainly doesn't seem like ours.  This is where you come in.  We were wondering if you had any information to help us figure out what is going on and how to cure him, though there might be some information we didn't see yet, since we didn't view all of his memories.  We also might need to know if we're cleared to know this type of information, since I don't know if doctor-patient confidenciality covers this."

[Voyager]

Another nearby doctor spoke up, "You might want to note, Captain, that during the briefing, we noticed Dolan and his company was being scorned by one of his commanding officers for being something called 'Symbionts' and that they had an upgraded form of some sort of 'loyalty programming'  engaged."  The doctor was quickly shut up by his collegues when the projected images on the console suddenly changed from the briefing room.

The image then entered a massive humanoid robot through its sizable head from above.  A doctor noted it was very heavily armored.

"Major Dolan, your ACU is ready to be engaged."  A number of screens then popped up in front of the seat Dolan was sitting on in this new image.  Dolan seemed to recognize every single control on the seat since when he sat down on since he pressed a few, which made no apparant change.

"Armored Command Unit controls being released to operator," announced a computerized yet feminine voice.

In one of the screens, an image of a male popped up and said, "Major, you may proceed to the gate.  Good Luck, sir," before disappearing.

Dolan pressed several more buttons on several of the screens and the ACU began to move to the gate.  Upon passing though, the ACU was covered with what seemed to be a blue electricity and was suddenly transported to a clearing bordered by forest.  The doctors noticed a ring of flames surrounding the ACU and concluded that whatever brought this ACU there had caused the devastation to the environment.

Dolan then began rapidly pressing a number of buttons and the ACU projected a blue beam from one of its arms to a location just in front of it.  In a matter of minutes, a number of buildings had rose out of nothing and some even began producing much smaller machines on their own.

"It seems to be some sort of advanced replication technology that's creating those buildings and machines," a doctor observed, "Maybe this ACU is also controlling those buildings and machines."

[Simon Rajnus]

"Maybe, but this isnt the problem, from what your telling me its images of his past, what im confused with is what his condition is in the present, how do you wake him up to full active duty again?" Rajnus said irritably trying to restrain himself.

[Voyager]

"I'm taking heavy fire, here.  Anyone coming to help out?"
Another UEF ACU appeared next to Dolan's and opened fire on the advancing Aeon.
"Targeting enemy forces," said Pershing as a screen of him slid forward.  A series of explosions destroyed the front line of Aeon forces, but more were coming.
"The enemy is going to overpower you.  The ship is on its own here.  Initiate recall, Brigader.  You too Dolan," said Clarke as she appeared on the screen, next to Pershing.
"Recalling in 5...4...3...2...1," Pershing counted down.  His ACU then disappeared in a flash of light.
Dolan didn't recall yet, trying to give the ship more time.  All of a sudden, a missile streaked through the sky and hit the ship.
"The ship's been hit!  It's losing hull intergrity!" shouted Dolan.
"Major Dolan, I'm ordering you to recall!  The enemy is closing in on your position and you won't be any good to the UEF dead!  Recall, Dolan, recall!"  Clarke's voice yelled.
"Recalling in 5...4...3...2...1..." counted the computer's voice. Dolan was blinded by a flash of light.  but couldn't move any part of his body.
"Get him out of there!  On to the stretcher!  Get him through the gate, have Colonel Clarke take over Dolan's ACU!"

[Voyager]

"Quantum Gate activating in 5...4...3...2...1..."  Dolan saw a burst of what seemed to be blue electricity consume his body.  As he dematerialized, he distantly heard shouts.

"A Czar crashed into the fusion power plants!  He isn't going to make it through!"

However, he started to rematerialize, but not where he was before.  Through barely-open eyelids, he saw he was lying next to a strange donut-shaped device.

An unfamiliar and confused voice began talking.  "What the- Captain, a critically injured human in an unidentifiable uniform just appeared in front of the Guardian of Forever."  There was a brief pause before the voice continued.  "That's impossible, the last team came back already and everyone was accounted for.  Permission to beam him to Sickbay.  Yes, I know this would disrupt the mission, but we're Section 31, we bend the rules.  Besides, he might have some useful information.  Got it."

There was another pause and some vague commands before the voice continued.  "Transporter room 1, 2 to beam directly to Sickbay."

There was a brief pause and black out before the images continued.

[Voyager]

The doctor in Dolan's memories said "I've scanned his body again and picked up faint signs of implants this time.  They have been very cleverly disguised and hidden.  I checked and saw they are designed to improve every aspect of his body - speed, coordination, intelligence, strengh, you name it and it's improved.  There is even an AI tied into his brain.  I'm going to try and tap them to see if they hold any information."

All of a sudden, a voice in the past Dolan's brain rang out.  "Liberation Matrix initialized.  Disabling UEF Loyalty programming."

"What's going on?" asked the Starfleet captain in alarm.

Several minutes passed by, with the captain and the doctor attempting to override both the Loyalty Programming and the Liberation Matrix.  However, the Liberation Matrix won out.  The past Dolan broke through the forcefield and knocked out the captain and the doctor.  He began to input a series of commands into the computer.  He downloaded the entire ship's database into his implants before accessing the sensors and searching for the closest Quantum Gate.

Out of nowhere, a phaser beam hit the past Dolan, stunning him.  The images blacked out again but soon resumed.

"I've disengaged most of his implants and his AI.  I managed to suppress the memory engrams that showed his life in his timeline and replaced it with a past that is based on ours.  He won't remember his life in this 'UEF'.  He might have some brief memory relapses, but those would most likely be ignored," the doctor reported.

"He is a security risk.  We have to get rid of him," replied the captain.

"He can be a great assest to the Federation.  We just have to deposit him in a quiet corner of the Federation."

There was a brief pause before the conversation continued.  "We could drop him off at the Expansion Fleet after a couple weeks here.  We have to make sure he won't remember anything first.  Once we're sure, we'll drop him off on a shuttle there.  I'll forge an identity for him, just tell me what you imprinted him memory with."

In Avalon Station's sickbay, the doctors were in shock.  The few that managed to retain their senses began running scans, trying to find these implants that were apparently found by this mysterious doctor.

[Voyager]

The doctors soon found the various implants thoughout Dolan's body after running a multitude of scans.  The AI was discovered to be intertwined with Dolan's brain and was dormant.

"Captain, shouting does no good.  Do you think you can figure out how to reactivate the AI?  It will most likely help reorganize Dolan's memories and probably the rest of the implants along with it."

The doctor then paused and quietly told Rajnus, "Captain, you also might want to know that Lt. Dolan is not only from the future, but also of a radically different timeline.  We've managed to glean some information from several of Dolan's implant that appear to store data.  His history diverges from ours at a very early time.  No WWIII, only one alien species ever encountered, the whole galaxy colonized by humans in only a few centuries..."

The doctor shook his head in disbelief.  "In any case, we might have some problems after he is woken up from this coma.  If he remembers anything about us, we would be lucky.  He might need to be rehabilitated, who knows?  How do you come to terms with falling into the past of a very different timeline?"

He then turned back to a console and said, "So, try to reactivate his AI, alright Captain?"