Time and Again: Part One.
AN: I don't know the timeline between when each episode happened and when it was on the Voyager journey. I am just going to start guessing at this point. I did google it but surprisingly that did not help.
Chapter 8: Time and Again: Part One.
(Two weeks later.)
Harry Kim's POV
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I heard tapping on my console, just a few millimetres away from me. I looked up to see Tom grinning at me
"You ready?" He asked. I groaned internally as I caught up to what he was asking. It was because of that stupid bet I took. If only Bini didn't agree to take the night shift and day shift today and last night. She would be here. Shutting him up. Instead of getting off duty.
"No, I want to get on that transtator assembly diagnostic."
"Harry, I can't do this alone." He insisted.
"I'm sorry! I am just busy right now." I said.
"You're making a big mistake. Can't you see what's going to happen? We're the only humans out here, Harry. People are going to start pairing off, and if we don't get to the Delany sisters in Stellar Cartography soon, somebody else will." He demanded.
"I got a girl back home."
"So what? I've got five."
"I plan on seeing mine again."
"Harry, Harry, Harry, Harry, Harry. You think she's going to wait for you?"
"I hope so."
"Let her go. Let her have a husband and kids and a good life, while you and I have the Delany sisters." He insisted again. I shook my head.
"You are insane. I have to run a transtator diagnostic." I insisted as I entered the commands into the main computer.
"You need to run a self-diagnostic. Look, they come as a pair. It's a double date or no date. Come on-"
The ship jolted forwards as people stumbled to attention. The Captain and Neelix stumbled onto the bridge from her ready room.
"Report!" She barked. She managed to walk towards the middle of the bridge as everyone checked their posts. Neelix moved to stand beside Tuvok and annoy him as usual about security matters that were none of his concerns.
"We're at the leading edge of a shockwave." Tuvok reported.
"Minor hull breach on deck three. Contained. Shields are holding." I reported.
"Torres to Bridge. Engineering is undamaged, Captain. All systems operational." She called from the channel and abruptly closed it. Tom moved back to his post as the shaking stopped.
"Mister Paris, can you identify the source of the wave?" The Captain asked as she placed a hand on Tom's shoulder.
"I'm not sure. Scanners are picking up a debris cloud in the red dwarf system we're approaching."
"It consists of differentially charged polaric ions, Captain." Tuvok reported.
"Differentially charged? That would suggest a massive detonation. Are you familiar with any intelligent life forms in this system, Mister Neelix?" The Captain looked towards Neelix at the security console.
"Familiar? Not exactly familiar. Considerably less than familiar, actually." He nervously let out.
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Neelix's POV
I was starting to feel useless as I stood on the bridge. I was unable to help the Captain with something I told her a knew. The Delta Quadrant.
Kes walked onto the bridge. I carefully took her arm, grabbing her attention away from the viewscreen.
"Entering the system Captain. Heading zero one zero mark four. Deflectors at maximum." Tom reported from conn. I ignored the rest of the buzz of the bridge as I focused on my main concern. Kes, my love. She didn't look well.
"Kes, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"I had to know." she whispered back. Never taking her eyes off the viewscreen.
"Know? Know what?" I pressed. My concern for her was growing.
"The origin of the shockwave is an M-class planet, Captain. We're within visual range." Tom said.
"On screen." Janeway ordered.
A grey cratered ball, a broken shell of a planet appeared on the screen. Rotating ever so slowly.
"All vegetation on the planet has been destroyed."
"No satellite system in orbit, no evidence of spacecraft."
"Life signs?"
"None." Kes whispered again. How did she know this? Wait, no. I am jumping ahead of myself.
"None. But the polaric radiation may be interfering with the scanners."
"Take us into orbit." Janeway ordered as Chakotay leaned towards the console between their chairs and looked at scans of the planet.
"Density patterns on the surface show artificial waterways and a global aqueduct system. There is a civilization down there, Captain."
"Or there was. What do we know about surface conditions?"
"Radiation is within acceptable levels. The atmosphere, breathable."
"Mister Paris, Tuvok, you're with me." Janeway ordered as she spun around and headed for the turbo lift. She quickly tapped her badge. "Janeway to engineering. Miss Torres, meet us in transporter room two." She ordered.
"On my way."
She closed the channel and gave Kes a curious look but pushed it away and entered the turbo lift was Tuvok and Tom.
"Commander, you have the bridge."
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B'Elanna Torres's POV
The away team beamed down into the dark planet, filled with a scene of devastation. It reminded me a bit too much of an aftermath of a war. It reminded me a bit too much of the Cardassians.
Tuvok pulled his phaser away and grabbed his tricorder, like the rest of us. I looked at my readings as I waved the tricorder.
"The entire surface of the planet was just seared." I said. The Captain moved to stand beside me.
"There was a chain reaction in subspace, very likely triggered by the detonation of one or more polaric ion devices." The Captain explained.
"If that's what happened, the people here never had a chance." Tom pointed out as he moved some rumble out of his way.
"They're gone. Vaporized. Every organic has been obliterated."
"At least it happened quickly. Polaric detonation would have swept through this city in seconds."
"It recalls the Chaltok Four incident." Tuvok pointed out.
"Chaltok Four?" I asked.
"A Romulan research colony was nearly destroyed during the testing of one these devices. It lead to the Polaric Test Ban Treaty of 2268."
"So, we're looking at the end of a war." I finished.
"I wonder who won?" Tom asked.
"I'm not so sure there was a war. Look at these readings, B'Elanna." Janeway said as she gestured towards my tricorder.
"Polaric ion concentrations are so high I can't get an accurate reading."
"I'd say these conduits were the source of the explosion, wouldn't you?"
"A civilization powered by polaric ion energy?" I asked. The Captain moved to kneel next to a power conduit. She ran her hand carefully across it as she scanned it with her tricorder.
"That's what it looks like. A time bomb underneath every street, running into every home."
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Kes's POV
I cried as Neelix held me close in my quarters. The horrible images were still fresh in my mind. Despite my power to try and block them out. Neelix did not understand what I was going through. even though I tried to explain.
"What do you mean, you saw it? How could you see it?"
"I don't know!" I snapped.
"What did you see again?" He asked.
I unwillingly brought back the horrid images. The screams of pain and horror. The destruction as it swiped through the planet's surface.
"I saw them burn. Their bodies ashes where they stood." I choked out.
"You felt the shockwave in your sleep. It's just your imagination, a strange coincidence." Neelix reasoned as he rubbed my back.
"It was almost telepathic."
"Telepathy is a message, words, a voice. What you're describing, why, it's almost like the visions of Drakian forest dwellers."
"Who?"
"A tribe with para-normal abilities. They can walk into an empty room-"
"Neelix. My ancestors were said to have unusual mental abilities." I interrupted.
"No one believes those stories."
"I always have."
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B'Elanna's POV
I watched as Tom walked over to what I assume used to be a store just before the destruction befell the city. He brushed away glass and picked up a round object. He swiped it to show a few numbers. I could barely make them out. They were red of course. My eyes adjusted.
401-22-84.
That is strange. I wonder what they meant. I suppose it doesn't matter now. I moved away from Tom and back towards the Captain and Tuvok as they discussed our findings.
"What was that?" Tom called towards us.
"What?" I asked as we looked towards him. He was still standing at the building. Looking at us with a frightened expression.
"Didn't you hear that?" He demanded.
"Hear what, Lieutenant?" Tuvok asked.
"Kids playing. They were as close to me as-" Tom stood mid-sentence as he spun around again. He didn't move or make any action to speak.,
Janeway hestiatly stepped forward and placed a hand towards Tom's shoulder. He turned to look at her. He was out of whatever trance was put on him when she touched him.
"I don't understand. I was here in this square, but there were people." He continued.
"You never left here, Tom."
"But I saw them! Lots of people, children playing, and the sun was shining. There was no evidence of an explosion. Everyone was alive and happy." He desperately insisted. I pulled out my tricorder and began to scan him.
"You were standing here the whole time." Janeway continued to insist against Tom's view.
"Your central nervous system is showing a temporal flux, but it's rapidly returning to normal." I commented.
"The chain reaction has shattered subspace, Captain."
"I want everyone to stand exactly where they are. If Tuvok's right, there may be subspace fractures floating like icebergs across the planet's surface." Janeway ordered as a flash of panic crossed her face. She tapped her combadge. "Away team to Voyager."
"Go ahead." Chakotay replied on the channel.
"Four to beam up." She barked. The transporter beam caught us in matter of seconds. I looked over to the Captain and Tom-
They weren't standing there anymore. My view fadded for a moment then back to the transporter padd in transporter room two. The ensign manning the station eye's grew wide as she gasped at us.
I stepped off the padd and looked at Tuvok. The Captain and Tom were missing. This was shaping out to be just a great day indeed.
"Torres to Chakotay."
"Chakotay here. Are you alright?"
"The Captain and Tom are missing."
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Micheal Janeway's POV
I tugged on Sarah's arm as she wined through the corridor. I missed Mommy too but I wasn't making such a big deal about it. Where was Bini? She knew how to stop this. Mommy told us this morning not to bother her. I don't know why but I know better than to argue with Mommy when she hasn't had her coffee yet in the morning.
"Sarah! We are going to go see Mommy now. She wouldn't want to see you like this!" I demanded as we entered the turbo lift. She finally pulled herself together and wiped her eyes.
"Really?" She asked as I ordered the turbo lift to the bridge.
"Yes! Now pull it together! Maybe she will have lunch with us if we are good." I insisted.
She nodded in defeat and slumped against the wall as the turbo lift jolted to the bridge. A few moments later it opened to the bridge. Mommy has let us in here before so maybe she won't mind us coming today-
"The Captain and Tom are missing."
Someone said on the channel. I stopped in my tracks as we exited. Sarah whimpered as I froze. Mommy...missing. Mommy is missing. No. No. NO! The Commander paced the bridge. He ran his hand through his hair. He lost Mommy! He was supposed to keep her safe!
"Chakotay?" The voice called again.
"Report to the briefing room in an hour. Send me the data as soon as possible." He snapped and closed the channel. He was supposed to keep Mommy safe! She is gone! Like Daddy!
"You lost Mommy!" I yelled. Rage filled my senses. I wanted to hit someone. I wanted Mommy back. The crew looked towards us in shock and pity. I don't want pity. I want Mommy back!
"Micheal-"
"NO! I am going to protect Mommy. Something you can't even do!" I yelled as I yanked Sarah back into the turbo lift and barked it to Deck Ten. Bini can help us. She cares about Mommy. She can help.
I stormed onto deck ten, followed by Sarah who was crying. She kept calling for Mommy as I held her hand. Checking each door for Bini's name. I had to find her quarters. Finally, I found them!
"Lieutenant Bini Filters: Quarters: Section 25. Deck Ten." It said on a door. Sarah titled her head.
"Mommy told us not to-"
"Mommy is missing. Bini can help us. We can apologize to her when she gets back." I snapped. I typed in Bini's access code. She had given it to me once in case of an emergency. I have never actually been in her quarters but-
Doesn't matter. This is an emergency.
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Lieutenant Tom Paris's POV
The plaza appeared again. Only this time the Captain was with me, and we didn't go back to the other form of this planet again. The Captain frantically tapped her combadge.
"Tuvok! B'Elanna! Janeway-"
A boy in the middle of the plaza screamed as he looked in our direction. Disturbing the citizens of their normal routine as they looked towards the boy. Wondering what was going on. A local officer rushed over to the boy.
"Hey, calm down. It's all right. Now, what's the problem?"
The boy pointed straight at us with a frightened expression. Great.
"I saw them. They appeared out of thin air! They're some kind of demons. I saw them with my own eyes." He cried out. Janeway sucked in a deep breathe and approached him as she gestured me to follow her as a crowd formed.
"I'm sorry we startled him. We just came around the corner." The Captain insisted.
"They are lying!" The boy snapped. The guard bent down and patted the boy on the shoulder.
"Shh. Now, calm down. You've been reading too many of those Dark Storm tales, young fellow. There's no such thing as demons."
"But, I'm telling you-"
"Ah, ah, ah! Run along now. Have a confection bar and calm down. All right everybody, back to your business. Nothing else to see here now." The officer insisted. The boy hesitated. He gave one last glance towards us then ran off. The crowd dispersed
"Oh, sorry about that." The guard apologized.
"No problem." I replied with a smile.
"Who knows what gets into their heads, huh?"
"Perhaps the uniform scared him. We're not from this area." Janeway replied.
"Come in on the continental transport?"
"This morning."
"Is, er, that what they're wearing in Kalto province these days?"
"Er, this is a little more formal than most. You know how it is when you travel." I chuckled nervously.
"We were actually looking for a clothing shop. We thought we'd change into something more appropriate." The Captain jumped in.
"There's one right over there." He pointed towards a clothing shop. "I hope the rest of your stay with us is more enjoyable." he said and walked off. Continuing to patrol the plaza.
"I wish I could say it will be." I muttered as I headed back to the store with the timepiece. It was counting 371-20-01. An old fellow came out of the shop and towards Tom. He stopped just beside him and followed his gaze to the timepiece.
"Need a timepiece?" The man asked. He carefully opened up the display window and handed me the timepiece.
"Maybe you could help me. I'm from Kalto Province. I'm not used to your timepieces." I explained.
"They're no different than Kalton pieces."
"Are you sure? What do these numbers stand for?" I asked as I pointed towards the numbers on the machine.
"Rotations, intervals, fractions. Same as any timepiece." He explained as he pointed to each section. "Fourteen kalodas."
"A fair price. I might stop back later, if there's time."
He nodded and placed the timepiece back in its spot as I moved back to the Captain as she watched the area.
"If I understood correctly, this world is going to be destroyed sometime tomorrow." I said as we began to move away from the plaza.
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Micheal Janeway's POV
We stepped into her dark quarters. I heard soft snoring from the bedroom.
Bini was curled up on her bed, hugging a teddy bunny as she hid in gray covers on her bed. Fast asleep. I ran over to her and shook her awake. She mumbled something and faded away again. I was starting to get annoyed. The longer we spend here the more time Mommy is lost.
"Bini! Bini wake up!" I urged as I shook her. She didn't wake up.
"Why isn't Bini waking up?" Sarah demanded as anger took over our senses. We weren't angry at Mommy for getting lost, or Bini refusing to wake up. We were angry at everyone else who was on duty. My Mommy is gone because of them.
"I am going to jump on her." Sarah suggested as she struggled to push herself up. She finally did and crawled over to Bini. She stood up and with on swift move, jump on Bini.
Bini yelped as Sarah hit her upper body and sat up in a flash. Knocking Sarah down to her bed. Bini struggled to control her breathing as she looked around at us. She rubbed her eyes and ordered the computer to turn the lights on by 20%.
The light-filled her quarters. She narrowed her eyes at us as she realized who we were.
"Sarah, Micheal?" She said. Then her eyes widened as she collapsed back down to her bed and covered her eyes with her arm. "When I said you could use my code as an emergency I didn't think boredom qualified. Go play with your...mother or something. "
I rolled my eyes as I hopped onto the bed next to Sarah as Bini resettled herself back to her previous position to go back to sleep. She closed her eyes in an attempt to ignore us.
"Bini! Get up! This is an emergency! Mommy is missing!" I pleaded as I shook her again. She snapped her eyes open and looked towards us.
"Your mother is missing...The Captain...is...missing. OK. I agree that does qualify as an emergency. I don't see what that had to do with me though." She replied.
"You are going to help us find Mommy! We need help!" Sarah insisted as she shook Bini again. Bini sighed and sat up in her bed.
"I can't help you! I would get thrown in the brig." She snapped. Sarah started to bawl and crawled over to Bini. She hugged Bini in a death grip as she pleaded and begged for her to help us. I just want Mommy back.
"Please Bini. We just want Mommy back." I pleaded as warm tears spilled down my cheeks. Her serious expression softened. She sighed.
"Fine. Fine...Go clean yourselves up in the washroom. I have got to get dressed. We will discuss our plan for getting your mother back from the living room."
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Lieutenant Bini Filters POV
(Ten minutes later.)
"Let me get this straight. You walked onto the bridge looking for the captain and someone said over the com channel: 'The Captain and Tom are missing.' Chakotay said they would have a staff meeting in an hour. Then you, Micheal proceed to tell Chakotay about failing to do his job and ran off to me." I cleared up.
We sat in my living room at a four-person table. I had given Micheal and Sarah grilled cheese with Tomato soup for lunch as I had Hot Chocolate to wake me up. I had just come off the night and day shift from yesterday and was honestly exhausted but some sort of strange feeling complied me to help these two. Micheal described it as a Sister's sixth sense.
I told him I wasn't their sister. They said it doesn't matter what the law says I am to them. I don't know if I should be honoured by this. I don't exactly have any living family that I know of. If a make-belief family is what I get, then I will take it.
"Yep." Micheal chirped as Sarah bit down on her sandwich
I ran my hand through my brown hair. Which had grown as long as to my chest. Thanks to my last check-up with the EMH who thought my hair needed to be longer.
"So...I have a plan." I replied. What I was thinking goes against almost every rule that I should be following as second in command of security. But, I have been bored recently. I am going to break them anyway.
"What is it? Will we get in big trouble?" Micheal asked. I shrugged as I took a sip from the cup.
"Probably. But I think it is necessary to get your mother back." I said.
"OK. What is it?" Micheal demanded. Determined to get going."
"As second in command of security, I can listen in on meetings when I feel fit. I don't think Tuvok knows that I know this little fact. I am assuming they will be talking about your mother's and Tom's disappearance. We plan from there. Computer. When is the next senior staff meeting?"
"Please enter in authorization code."
"Code: Beta-six-five-four-Filters-Second-Nine."
"Authorization code accepted. Senior staff meeting in thirty-eight minutes."
I slumped in my chair as I drained the rest of my cup. I smirked at them.
"There you go. Now we wait. Now excuse me. I have work to do. See you guys in thirty-eight minutes." I got up and recycled my cup, then moved towards my sofa. I grabbed one of my many padds littered about of reports and lied down on it.
Micheal and Sarah ran out of the quarters. To whatever next problem they were going to find themselves entangled with.
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Neelix's POV
I fidgeted as the EMH waved his medical tricorder around Kes's hand. He lowered it and pressed a few buttons on the device.
"Hmm. Hmm, hmm."
"What?" I demanded.
"Hmm?"
"IS something wrong!?" I demanded again.
"Yes, terribly wrong. Your brain is not on file. Either your government failed to transmit the standard fifteen five oh one crew personnel report or somebody at Starfleet Medical really fouled up." He explained.
"Um, I'm not a part of the Starfleet crew. I thought you were aware of this, Doctor. We have been on the ship for three weeks now."
"We came aboard mid-expedition." I chirped in.
"And no one asked you for your medical histories when you arrived? Of course not. That would be the ship's doctor's job. My job, if anyone had bothered to tell me about new passengers, but I seem to be just about the last to know about everything around here. So, tell me, just how many other new arrivals are there?" He snapped
" Just us...and another crew from a ship that was destroyed. How have you not figured this out yet?" I replied with a raised eyebrow. He took a couple of steps back. Looking at us in disbelief.
"Another crew. That's nice." He tapped his combadge. "This is the Emergency Medical Holographic system to Captain Janeway-"
"She's not on board. She's missing on the surface of a planet." I interrupted.
"Missing. The Captain is missing. It seems I've found myself on the Voyage of the Damned. Very well. Please advise the highest-ranking officer who is not...missing, to see me at his earliest convenience."
"That would be Chakotay. He is from the other ship."
The Doctor mumbled something under his breath and narrowed his eyes towards us.
"You may shut off my programme now." He snapped.
"But you haven't told us anything about her condition." I demanded. He sighed and closed the tricorder. Placing it on a nearby tray.
"She is the healthiest member of her species I've ever seen. The only member of her species I've ever seen. You have a lovely brain. It will make a fine addition to our files. I wouldn't worry. If your species has a history of extraordinary mental abilities, this may simply be your way of flexing those muscles for the first time. Living in space requires the body to make a variety of biological adjustments. This could be a side-effect of that process. Go home. Get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluids."
"Fluids?" Kes asked.
"Yes, fluids. Everybody should drink plenty of fluids. Don't leave without turning me off." He reminded. Kes rolled her eyes.
"Computer, end programme." She ordered.
"And call me in the morning." He chirped as he faded back into the computer banks. Kes and I headed towards the exit of the sickbay.
"I don't understand. We have been on the ship for three weeks. How does he now know about the crew yet? I told him my name two weeks ago. We had a lovely chat." Kes said as she glanced back at sickbay before following me into the corridor.
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Lieutenant Bini Filters POV
(Five minutes before meeting."
Micheal, Mollie, Sarah and I all hurried down the corridor.
"I have always wanted an older sister!" Sarah chirped out as she skipped down the corridor beside Mollie as Micheal and I walked ahead of her towards sickbay.
"For the last time, I am not your sister. Your friend, sure. I can live with that. But to the federation of planets laws, your mother's thought process and my own mental health. I am not your sister." I reasoned.
"I override the law, I override mommy's brain and um...whatever that last one was." Micheal insisted.
"That is not how it works! First of all, you can't override the law. If you could we wouldn't be here and the Maquis would still be free to terrorize any Cardassian in the Alpha Quadrant, not to mention I would be on one of those ships. Second, your mother's orders are law. Literally. She is the law on the ship so good luck overriding that. Third. We aren't related! My brain has accepted that, so can yours." I explained.
"I override those reasons!" Micheal snapped at me. GOSH! Is this child...correction...ARE THESE CHILDREN NOT LISTEN ON PURPOSE!? Mollie happily barked behind us.
"See, Mollie agrees with us. You are our sister." Sarah said.
"I am not." I growled.
"I override you." Micheal said with his head held high. I narrowed my eyes down towards him.
"Stop overriding me."
"No. Not until you admit you are our sister."
"I-AM-NOT!"
"Override."
"GAH! I give up!" I yelled as quickened my pace. Micheal and Sarah ran after me to catch up with me again.
"So you admit it." Sarah stated.
"Sure, fine. Whatever." I was tired of fighting them. They squealed in delight and gave each other a high five. I rolled my eyes as we entered sickbay. I took a moment to look around. No one is here. No EMH. Almost too perfect.
I gestured them into the EMH offices. They scampered in as I sat down in his chair, much to the protest of them. Ha. Micheal can't override me now. I carefully hacked into the cameras for the briefing room. Covering my tracks as I watched the senior staff walk into the room. Minus Janeway and Tom of course.
"Why are we in the EMH's office?" Micheal asked.
"Because if they figure out someone watched the recording they would trace it back to here."
"Oh...Okay." Sarah said.
-----ON THE SCREEN-----
Harry walked over to the wall console and turned it on. Showing a strange diagram of a subspace fracture from the surface. He turned back to the room and pointed towards the screen.
"This is one of the subspace fractures we've located with a magneton scan of the surface. This is the time of the explosion, where the fracture opens. Then as the shock waves dissipate, the fracture grows more narrow. We believe that the Captain and Lieutenant Paris are trapped at the narrow end." He explained.
"Shockwaves from most explosions dissipate into the future, but we're speculating, based in part on what Paris told us he saw, that these dissipate into the past." B'Elanna continued.
"That's consistent with the subspace damage we've observed." Harry added in.
"Why haven't they been able to return as Mister Paris did the first time?" Tuvok asked with the raise of his eyebrow.
"He wasn't all the way inside a fracture, remember? We still saw Paris standing there even when he could see the other side." B'Elanna answered.
"So it's possible that the Captain and Paris are existing only hours and minutes before the explosion occurs." Chakotay cleared up.
"There's no way for us to measure exactly how far back these fractures go."
"How do we find them?"
"If I know Captain Janeway, she would activate a subspace beacon to assist us." Tuvok added.
"We're counting on it. First, we have to find a fracture in a location where they've been. Then we have to microscan the fracture to try to pick up the signal from their subspace beacon."
"Once we've identified where and when they re, then we have to widen the fracture at that point." B'Elanna said.
"How do you suggest we do that?" Tuvok asked with his usual Vulcan charm.
"Um. We aren't sure yet, sir."
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Lieutenant Bini Filters POV
I shut off the computer with a big grin on my face as moved away from the desk. Micheal and Sarah gave me confused looks as Mollie happily wagged her tail as she sat straight beside them. I think she was just happy to be included in something.
"What's the plan?" Michael asked. I quickly moved to the sickbay storage closet and pulled out tricorders, not the medical tricorder. I handed one to Micheal and Sarah, then attached one to my belt as I gestured them to follow me again.
"We are going to the surface. We are going through one of those fractures, then we find Tom and the Captain. And finally, we find a way to get them out. Are you with me?" I explained. I looked towards them.
They both nodded their heads with big smiles and gave me a bear hug. I chuckled awkwardly as I untangled myself.
"Let's go." I snapped as I started to jog down the corridor. Followed closely by the rest of them.
---The end of Chapter eight.---
AN: I feel kind evil now. I left you guys on a cliffhanger. Don't worry the next chapter will be longer. Much longer.