Star Trek: Renegades Page #3

an intercept course.

It's the Archer, they're hailing us.

Let's hear what they have to say.

This is Captain Alvarez of the

Federation Starship Archer.

You are hereby ordered

to stand down,

and answer to the charges of hijacking

a Federation shipment

of Dilithium crystals.

Am I clear?

Open the channel.

Lexxa Singh,

Captain Alvarez,

This is definitely a surprise,

you're supposed to be serving out a life

sentence in an Orion Prison right now.

Oh, I'm afraid you've been

misinformed, Captain.

You happen to be a convicted criminal.

If I bring you in;

guaranteed to get a medal.

We're in neutral space,

and you're out of your jurisdiction.

We'll see about that.

Battle stations!

Battle stations!

See how you handle this...

Return fire!

Program another spread, now!

I'm not lettin' them get away.

Take 'em down!

Approaching Syphon system.

Time?

Less than a minute.

Rear photons.

We will burn the universe in our wake.

Only enough to slow them down.

Shield is holding.

Fire!

We're in restricted space.

We almost got 'em!

Diplomatic relations have been severed,

we are forbidden to enter this sector.

No one fires on my ship and gets away.

Ten seconds, Sir.

Captain!

Belay that, let 'em go.

Dammit!

Stealth Mode initiated.

The tunnels lead straight

to the center of the stronghold.

Ragnar.

Doc, Fixer

you'll monitor from the bridge

the rest of you are with me.

Some of those tunnels have extensive

deposits of Foriniteum...

hyperonic radiation. I mean it

could really play hell with your phasers.

That won't bother me.

The Pareks will make us

their instruments of death.

They did a decent job of

covering their tracks.

I'm still working on the data

I keep seeing the connections here and

there, but nothing I can confirm.

Come!

You remember my roommate Poppy?

Nice to see you again, Admiral!

Don't move!

There's a traceron device in her left

hand with a molecular decay detonator,

proximity triggers set off the alarms.

She's a bomb?

How did that happen?

Some kind of stealth

nanotechnology;

could have been a handshake,

something in your drink.

If it's a proximity trigger,

let's get her away from here.

It's activated, move it away from

the target, it still goes off.

Poppy..?

What we do?

There's only one thing.

What are you doing?

It's the only way.

Do it.

I'm sorry, I got you now!

Emergency beamout,

Starfleet medical, now!

It's forty two meters ahead.

Take the corridor to your northwest...

I hate this place.

I know, they're here!

Help me!

Must be the thornax deposits...

This shouldn't be affecting me.

- We could be in trouble.

- We're already in trouble!

The wall is weakening.

Shields down!

Your weapons are useless, as are you.

My father would have his

minions kill you all,

but who needs them.

Allow me to kill the Cardassian, and I

will tell you anything you wish to know.

Why my father regarded any of you

cowards as worthy opponents

is beyond comprehension.

Are you the leader of

this courageous crew,

or nothing more than a

weak, helpless female?

And keep your head; we may need him.

Your sacrifice will honor you.

He was foolish and ambitious,

and he disobeyed my orders...

Yet, he was my son.

Soon, you will wish that your mother

had ripped you from her womb...

Your sacrifice will honor you.

That's exactly what your son said,

right before I snapped his neck.

Wessa?!

It is ruined!

It was her fight, not yours!

Now her death will not benefit me.

Take them away.

I can't feel anything...

Ronara

Am I damaged?

What happened?

They were waiting for us,

just like the Archer.

Someone is working against us.

I... think that is a given.

Let someone just kill me

and get it over with.

Although you can no longer benefit me,

you may still be of use to my people.

And it is, perhaps, more fitting,

every moment that I see you suffer,

I shall remember my son!

The Federation made a grave

mistake in interfering.

We are not Federation!

No! But they sent you,

just as they sent this.

It came to us over three

hundred years ago.

It took us decades to

discover it's purpose.

This portal dilates and folds space,

allowing you to travel across the

Galaxy Galaxy in mere seconds,

instead of months and years.

But there was one thing we did not know.

A second portal is required

to establish a gateway.

We activated this lone portal

and space folded around our system.

It was catastrophic.

Ecosystems were

destroyed, millions died.

And, those who survived, were left

having to resort to savagery.

Three hundred years and

this is all we have,

Three hundred?

The Federation didn't even exist!

You question my word, Lexxa Singh?

Aaaah, yes. I know who and what you are!

But, all of this has made us stronger.

And now we use it to spread our

strength across the quadrant.

We will not be stopped by you.

We will not be stopped by anyone!

I will bring the Federation to their knees

for what their portal did to us.

I will make them suffer

the same fate we did.

We have to get a message to Chekhov.

We can't, there's too much

interference in the atmosphere.

Fixer, power up the engines!

Fixer!

It is already in motion,

a fleet of ships just left orbit.

He must be takin' the portal back

to Earth, we need to move.

Something is still jamming the comm.

I usually love a man who's

persistent but this is ridiculous!

Hail him, maybe he'll listen to reason.

He seems like a reasonable fellow.

Captain Alvarez! Borrada and...

Damn!

The photons damaged the com array,

we're not contacting anyone.

Maximum warp to Earth.

We can't leave our crew!

They all knew this was a one-way trip.

Enough recording, Lexxa, now back to it.

Out of the night that...

Out of the night that covers me.

You know it.

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be,

for my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced or cried aloud.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears,

looms but the horror of the shade.

I don't like this planet. Can't we go home?

Why do we have to keep running?

Why can't they just leave us alone.

They want you because you are

stronger and smarter than they are.

I'm thinking.

Think faster.

Alvarez is right behind us,

they just dropped out of warp.

Oh, no.

What is it?

What the hell!

Mom, what's happening?

I don't know, sweetheart.

He did it. Like the other planets.

Not quite, this fold is

only around the Earth.

We're cut off from the sun.

In a few days,

the average surface

temperature will be zero.

Most plants will die within a week, the

animals will follow shortly thereafter.

The scavengers may hang on for a little

while, at least until the cold gets them.

We should be able to survive for

a while on our manmade power,

but in a few months time,

the temperature will be over a

hundred degrees below zero.

Bottom line...

The end of the world.

How did they they do it?

They didn't have time to activate

another portal, unless...

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