"I really cannot believe the captain approved this foolhardy mission."
Commander Jovan Kalimar sighed. "Please, Jennifer."
Lt. Jennifer Antilles crossed her arms. "All right. Thanks to the help of Jarrett Horswill, who apparently created Captain Richard Wallace's character, we've tracked some covert military activity to this area just outside of... Flagstaff?"
Jovani nodded.
"Flagstaff, Arizona. The USS Seth might be in here..."
"Might?" asked Colonel Johnny Chee.
"Please work with me here. We need to work recon. Jovani has experience with this..."
"I do?" asked Jovani.
"Guys! I'm trying to brief you here. Please stop interrupting!" Jovo collected himself and moved on. "We will transport down to this level, 300 feet below the surface. We can only go that far because there is some sort of field below that point that is disrupting our transports. From there, we will enter these conduits; they will take us over Command. We will infiltrate the Command center and search for the USS Seth."
Johnny asked, "What if we get caught?"
"No! I will not have any negative thoughts on this operation."
Johnny sighed and whispered to himself, "We're gonna die."
Jennifer called to the group of three. "It's now or never, oh horde of pig-like warriors."
Jovo looked at her piercingly and snorted. He and the other two took to the transporters and prepared to beam out. "Wish us luck, Jennifer."
"Break a leg." Jennifer activated the transporters. When they were gone, she whispered, "Be careful."
Jovo, Johnny, and Jovani beamed into a room where they found themselves surrounded by armed guards. "Well that didn't take too long."
Johnny smacked Jovo on the back of the head.
Agent Pierce walked forward. "You are a tough bunch to catch. My superior would like to see you."
Jovo, Johnny, and Jovani walked ahead as three armed guards followed suit. Agent Pierce walked behind them all. Soon, the group arrived at an elevator. They took it down to the lowest level. It opened to a large office where a man was sitting with the back of his chair facing the group. The far wall displayed a map of the entire facility they were in.
The guards filed on the sides of the room and Pierce approached the desk. The three captives stood in the center of the room.
Pierce smiled. "Admiral, we captured two Starfleet officers and the ever-elusive Jovani Burgos."
The man turned around. It was Stephen Maruu in an Admiral's uniform, except the collar was all too high. "Excellent."
Jovo gasped. "Captain?"
Johnny and Jovani both said, "Admiral."
Johnny said, "Five of us we transported to an alternate dimension by Ensign Alysa Sinclair some months back. We traveled to an alternate Virgo where the Federation had been taken over by the Kullinari."
Jovo nodded. "That disgusting bug species whose advances were stopped by Admiral Picard."
Jovani continued for Johnny, "Right. The five Virgo officers managed to save the Virgo from the Kullinari and prepare the way so that the alternate Virgo crew could save the Federation."
Johnny added, "Except this one, the leader of the Kullinari, got away from us. We never knew what happened to Admiral Maruu."
Admiral Maruu grinned. "I went to an uninhabited planet and tried to find a way to travel through alternate dimensions as you did. I jury-rigged a device like yours and traveled to this time and place. So, I figured what better way to take over the Federation than by taking over the planet that will found it over 200 years later. I reproduced more Kullinari and transplanted them in a few government officials. Then, I discovered the NSA: a highly secretive governmental organization. No one really knows what they do, and I need that type of secrecy.
"Then, the USS Seth shows up, and I rejoice. I can now travel between dimensions and take over, not a world, not a galaxy, not a universe, but creation itself. I would be a god. Then, you show up, and I decide that I need to find out more about you. The Virgo systems, however, are quite advanced. The Internet gave me another option. Now, thanks to Mr. Burgos and JoVo.cc, I know everything there is to know about the Virgo. I will use it to eliminate you all and then to start several strategic wars that will place me in power over Earth. It is from here that I will start my empire."
Johnny looked around. "So, is that enough recon for ya?"
Jovo nodded. "I'd say yes."
Jovani smiled. "May I do the honors?"
Johnny chuckled. "Go ahead."
Jovani took a small silver object out of his hands. He dropped it on the floor and a wave of energy knocked everyone but Jovo, Johnny, and Jovani to the ground. They ran to the elevator quickly. Jovani hit the button for the second level. The doors closed before the guards could react.
"Second level. You were looking at the map behind the Admiral while he was talking?" Johnny asked.
"Yup."
"You'd make a great Marine."
Jovani laughed. "I think I'll pass on doing anything for the government. My level of efficacy has severely dropped after this mission."
Admiral Maruu stood up as his men laid sprawled on the ground. Pierce was picking himself up. Maruu grabbed him by the lapels and lifted him a foot in the air. "They're heading for Level Two. Don't let them leave alive!" He then threw Pierce across the room. The guards and Pierce all scrambled for the second elevator and headed for Level Two.
Maruu went to his desk and pushed a red button. He was immediately transported away.
As Jovo, Johnny, and Jovani got out of the elevator on the second level, Admiral Maruu fizzled into existence just in front of the USS Seth. Maruu fired a phaser at Jovo, but he put up his hand and deflected it to a guard on the right of Maruu.
Maruu grunted. "Get them!"
Two guards headed for Johnny. He quickly dodged one man's punch and kicked him in the ribs. He then knocked him down with a head butt. The other guard pulled out a knife and lunged at Johnny's belly. Johnny jumped back, grabbed the man's hand and, with the same swift action, broke the man's arm and stabbed him in the belly. A Kullinari jumped out of the dead man's mouth and tried to run away, but Johnny stepped on it, squishing it.
An armed guard ran at Jovani with an Uzi. He began firing as Jovani hurled himself behind a group of boxes. Jovani saw his chance when the guard made his way under a large box which was held by a chain. Jovani pulled out his energy weapon and fired at the chain. It broke, and the box landed on the guard, killing him instantly.
Three guards ran at Jovo. One guard began to attack Jovo with all sorts of kicks and punches. Jovo blocked every one of them. He grabbed a leg during a kick, twirled him around and hit him with an open hand on his back. The man flew fifteen feet across the hangar. The second guard was a huge man who looked like a bulldozer. He punched Jovo in the stomach, and Jovo flew back a few feet. The third guard, having procured a forklift, drove at the fallen Jovo. Jovo quickly smacked the ground with his hands and flew up, grabbing a chain hanging above him; the forklift missed him. Jovo then flipped and kicked the bulldozer in the face. The bulldozer grabbed Jovo's leg and threw him against a group of boxes. The forklift made another run at Jovo. Jovo saw a crowbar lying right next to him. He grabbed it and hurled it at the forklift. It hit the wheels, locking them in the direction of the bulldozer-like guard. The bulldozer was impaled by the forklift as the guard desperately tried to stop the forklift. Before he could take action, the forklift hit an oxygen tank and exploded.
Suddenly, the hangar doors began to open. The Seth was powering up. Jovo ran up to it, and Johnny and Jovani followed. Jovo inserted his code, and the Seth doors opened up. They ran in to see the pilot's seat empty.
Jovani cursed. "Where'd he...?"
Maruu's laugh was directly behind them. They turned around to see Maruu pointing an Uzi at them. "Obviously, a phaser won't harm you, but an Uzi will. Goodbye, human scum."
Jovo turned around and pushed a button on the pilot's console just in time. A force field activated in front of Jovo, Johnny, and Jovani just as Maruu began firing. The bullets ricocheted throughout the ship, and several of them caught Maruu in the chest. He slumped to the deck.
Jovo deactivated the force field and checked for a pulse. "Nothing. He's gone." Admiral Maruu would never plague history again.
He took the Uzi from Maruu and was about to get up when, to the horror of the onlookers, something from within the dead body of Admiral Maruu began clawing its way out. Ribs and muscle tissue were ripped aside by wicked nails, and a hideous head poked its way through internal organs to gape at the light of day.
A bloody, bobbing head hissed and gaped at Jovani and Chee, fangs gnashing and tentacles thrashing. The tentacles quickly grasped Jovo and its fangs seared his flesh. Jovo yelled out in pain. "Shoot it! Shoot it!"
Johnny couldn't understand the Mother Kullinari's language of course, assuming the hissing was communication, but it didn't take any stretch of imagination to decide the thing was hostile to human-kind. He fired his phaser at the beast, and a second later, Jovani joined him.
The two beams hit the monstrous creature dead center. The phaser fire, however, was not working. The creature, still holding a writhing Jovo airborne, began to glow a light blue. It was sucking energy from Jovo's orb. A wave of energy flew at Johnny and Jovo, throwing them back against the main consoles. The creature grabbed both Jovani and Johnny and hurled them out of the ship.
Jovani yelped. "My arm!" He looked to see a crowbar that had taken off a piece of clothing and skin just above his hip. Jovani looked at the crowbar, then at the creature. "I've got an idea."
The elevator doors opened, and Pierce, along with his men, filed out. Johnny looked at Jovani. "I'll take care of them."
Jovani took two crowbars and ran at the creature holding Jovo and beginning to infest him.
Johnny ran closer to the elevators. He grabbed a grenade, pulled out the pin, kissed it, and tossed it in the direction of the elevators.
Pierce saw the grenade fall at his feet. "Back into the elevators, now!" He pushed past a few of his men and made it into the elevator. He closed the doors with three of his men still outside. The explosion rocked the elevators and killed the three men, leaving Pierce and the others behind a wall of rubble.
Jovani threw the first crowbar at Jovo's side and, with all of his force, impaled Jovo through the belly with the second crowbar. The crowbar went right through Jovo and through the horrid creature on the other side. Jovo screamed as he fell from the creature's grasp and into Jovani's arms. The creature tossed around in pain as it's slimy blood was hurled about. Jovo, still in horrible pain from his severe wounds throughout his torso, grabbed the first crowbar. Together, Jovo and Jovani began beating the creature senselessly. Blood spurted everywhere as the creature received beating after beating.
Finally, the severely injured creature fell to the floor, barely hissing. It was as if it was pleading for its life. Jovo and Jovani put down the crowbars. The fight was over.
Johnny ran back into the Seth. We have to go; the agents in the ele..."
The creature, with a last burst of strength hurled itself at Johnny. Jovo aimed his open hand at the creature, and a burst of energy from his hand caused the weakened Kullinari to explode, sending mucus and pieces of flesh flying throughout the ship.
Johnny looked at Jovo with awe as he tried to wipe as much of the Kullinari off of himself as possible. "What are you?"
Jovo was about to respond when the blinding pain, once quieted by the adrenaline rush, took control of his body. He fell over, and Johnny caught him. Jovani said, "He may be half-Prophet, but his wounds are very severe."
A second explosion quickly attracted their attention. Johnny explained, "The oxygen tank that blew must be connected to others. That's probably how they keep this place filtered. We need to go now!" He and Jovani carried Jovo and laid him on the floor of the Seth's small bridge.
Johnny took the pilot's seat, and Jovani sat down at co-pilot. Johnny urged, "We need to break through the hangar doors!"
Jovani nodded. "No problem. I designed this ship, remember?" He pushed a few buttons causing one phaser shot to blow open the doors that would lead them to freedom. Johnny flew the ship out of the compound and into space as Jennifer's shuttlecraft joined them.
Pierce and his surviving men made their way to see guards dead and the hangar doors blown open. Pierce cursed. Then, he noticed the oxygen tank aflame. He breathed one last time and put his head down.
From the air, a huge tongue of fire flew out of the middle of the desert as if the gates of hell had been opened. The fire continued to blaze, but its intensity quickly died down as the local authorities stepped in to stop the flames and assess the situation.
Captain Stephen Maruu nodded. "Understood." He faced Lt. Commander Benton. "Benton, transport Commander Kalimar to sickbay immediately!"
"Aye, sir."
Commander Katianna Nadira was concerned. "I need to go see how he's doing."
"I'll go with you."
Lt. Commander Dana Maruu waited for her patient as Jovo materialized on the biobed. "Oh my god!" She quickly injected him and began to mend his wounds. Before long, Dana went to see Stephen, Jovani, Kat, and Johnny. "He'll be fine. I just can't believe he survived with so many wounds. That man should be dead."
Jovani smiled. "It helps when you're not all man."
"It does."
Johnny looked puzzled.
Kat, relieved, began, "Jovan Kalimar was born a Q. He lost his powers for wanting to join Starfleet. His dad, Q, allowed him to keep some powers, basically strength and such, but his CO at the time didn't trust him. He was attacked several times by what Bajorans call Pah Wraiths, and his CO used that as an excuse to incarcerate him. He was in his ship's brig until his ship was destroyed, and he used the commotion to escape. He used the little power he had left to create a tesseract that transported him into the hands of Section 31. Section 31 ran some experiments and modified his DNA, setting events in motion that would eventually kill him. During an encounter we had with the Orion Syndicate, Jovo became exhausted, so we went to Bajor to find out about the Orb of Kalimar. We went in search of it and found it. That is what gives him the powers he has today. Now, what happened down there?"
Johnny looked at Jovo, then at Kat and Stephen. "Let's just say you're going to love reading my report."