Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000
From: James Leete <leeteey2063@hotmail.com>
Subject: My Maquis Lover: The Return - Chapter 9

Disclaimer:

This story is based in the "Star Trek" universe. The use of anything
related to "Star Trek" in this series is not intended to infringe upon the
rights of Paramount Pictures, the pentagon or the US military. The author
is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any
media franchise.

All other content or otherwise are works of my own imagination. All events
are fictitious in nature.

Any similarities to persons living, dead, or otherwise are purely
coincidental.

This story contains strong themes of homosexual content, if this offends
you in any way, please refrain from reading further. If you are not of
legal age to read this, please leave now.

Ok as well before we start this is based on the series Star Trek Voyager
but with a twist from the original story line and i hope you like it.


Chapter 9: Back to the past

Silence.  One of the worst things that a starship captain wants to hear is
silence. It usually means something bad is heading your way and I never
have liked that feeling. But on this day I was more than happy to welcome
some silence. A chance to do some work and catch up. The last several
months that I had been in command of Voyager things had just kept getting
worse. I mean it all started with the loss of the Chakotay and then getting
a bitch for a first officer and then we had the son'a incident and then the
cadets that went AWOL not to mention saving the Enterprise from near
destruction after it was enveloped by an energy cloud and delivering
supplies to Karemma which for some reason upset the dominion so after going
more diplomatic negotiations with them I was really starting to get into
the swing of commanding a starship and Tom was becoming no stranger to
being the ships first officer. On more than occasion the few months I had
been in command Starfleet Command had said that we worked well together as
a married couple and the ships command officers. Kathryn was more than
impressed with us as we fell under her command and I couldn't be happier.

Today was no exception. Starfleet had sent us on a 3 week survey mission to
look at some sectors of the gamma quadrant that were previously un-explored
due to the war with the dominion. I had recently had coffee with colonel
Kira at DS9 and she said that I spend more time in the gamma quadrant than
most other Starfleet officers and that I should think about setting up my
retirement there. I had to laugh. I stood up from my desk and moved over to
the window and looked out and was greeted by a beautiful sight. Voyager had
landed on a planet yesterday and the sun was out at its full beauty and in
the same position were some lush green mountain and crystal lakes which I
could see from where I was stood. I had sent out 9 science teams and a
further 5 away teams consisting of engineers and other officers to
investigate the planet and learn all they could. Tom was off the ship at
the minute leading one of the teams. Harry had taken the bridge to allow me
to do some work.  Things were just perfect. This morning I had lead a team
out myself and was amazed by the sheer beauty of this planet. "Bridge to
Carter." Said Harry over the comm bringing me out of my trance. "Go ahead
Harry." I replied. "Message from Tom." He said. "Put it through." I said. I
went over to the my desk and pressed a few controls. "Go ahead Commander."
I said. "Jack, Lieutenant Spencer has requested permission to stay on the
planet until 22:00 as he has found a species of plant life which only
blooms at night and his scans reveal that it may have some form of healing
properties." He explained. I thought about it for a minute. "Not this time
Tom, we have to lift off in 2 hours if we are stick to our schedule and
rendezvous with the Dauntless in 15 hours and finish the survey of this
sector." I explained. The Dauntless was due to take over from us and finish
the survey which would take another 3 weeks, this was so Voyager could
return home and take the president, the chief of Starfleet and the head of
Starfleet intelligence as well as my mother, father and Admiral Janeway to
a top secret meeting which was being held on Andoria. The president herself
had requested Voyager specifically. "Understood Jack, we will start heading
back."  Tom replied after a minute. "Very good, report to me when you're
back on board.  Carter out." I said. I sorted out the last few pads on my
desk before finally rising and moving over to my sofa where I sat with a
fresh cup of coffee. I looked out of the window for a little while and just
let my mind wander before I was interrupted by the door chime. "Come in." I
said. The doors opened and in walked Tom, looking hot as ever with very red
cheeks. "Catch the sun I see." I said to him as he sat next to me. "Yeah
this planet is amazing Jack, we should really think about coming here on
vacation. It's perfect and what's more it's uninhabited." He explained. "We
shall see. Are all the teams back on board?" I asked. "All apart from Seven
of Nine's. When I spoke with her she said her team were making their way
back to the transport sight." He told me. "Good, well then as soon as they
are back on board we will run one last scan and then head off." I told
him. "Okay, oh and just to advise you Kyle brought a device back on board
to study." He told me. "A device?" I asked getting up. "Yeah it was giving
off energy readings like we had never seen. B'Elanna assessed it and
determined it was safe so I allowed him to beam it to engineering for
further study." Tom told me. "Very good, any ideas yet as to what it could
be." I asked. "Not yet but I'm pretty sure Kyle will figure it out." Tom
replied. "Okay, well you need to go shower and start on your mission report
and I will take the bridge. I'll see you when you're done." I told
him. "Sure." He replied and kissed me before leaving. I rose and left the
ready and took my chair and brought up the arm console to see what the
ships status was.

2 hours later and everyone was back on board. "All stations report ready
for liftoff Captain." Harry said. "Take us up Mr Paris." I ordered. "Aye
sir." He replied and the ship slowly began its accent in to orbit. A short
while later and we were back in orbit and ready to complete the
mission. "The last phase of the mission is to run a sector wide scan and
allow stellar cartography to map the area completely. I want this done in 3
hours, so that we can make our way back to rendezvous with the dauntless."
I explained. "Understood." Everyone said. I moved over to Kyle and said
"Kyle, any luck in working out what that device that you brought on board
is yet." I asked. "Not yet, I was actually about to head to engineering to
hook it up to the main computer so I can run a more detailed scan and see
if I can get anything from it." He told me. "Very good, I'll join you and
see what you find. Tom the bridge is yours." I said as kyle and I entered a
turbolift.

20 minutes later I was in engineering and saw the device that Kyle had
brought on board. It was gold plated and pyramid shaped which I found very
odd. Kyle hooked it up with the computer as I stood and observed. I then
moved over to a console and brought up the analysis protocols and began a
level 3 analysis of the device. The initial results didn't show anything of
consequence apart from the same energy reading which was back on the
planet. "I'm going to try a level 4 analysis. See if that shows anything."
I said. Kyle walked over and stood with me. I began the analysis and there
was some data coming through. As I sat there and reviewed it I was shocked
by what I saw and I got a bad feeling in my stomach. "This things internal
memory core shows that it was used a number of times and generates a high
amount of Chroniton particles." I explained. "What does that mean?" asked
Kyle.

"It means that this device is used in some way for time travel." I
explained with a serious note in my voice. "Time travel!" Kyle
exclaimed. "Yes time travel." I replied. "I want this thing discon..." I
was in the middle of saying before I was cut off. "Bridge to the captain."
Said Tom. "Go ahead." I replied.  "Captain, massive amounts of energy are
being drained from ships systems and re-routed to the deflector." Tom
explained. "What?" I asked. "He's right, the deflector's power reading it
has over 200% more power than it should. But I don't understand how?" Kyle
said. "I think I do, it's this device. Disconnect Kyle. I need to get to
the bridge. " I said before marching out of engineering and into the
turbolift before landing on the bridge. "Report." I said. "The deflector is
continuing a power build up, now at 300% above normal." Harry said. "Red
Alert." I said. "Bridge to Engineering, Kyle have you disconnected that
device." I asked. "I can't sir, it's created a forcefield around it's self
and I can't disconnect it." He told me. "Keep trying." I said. "Captain the
device is accessing our deflector." B'Elanna told me. "Shut it down." I
said.  "I can't, I'm locked out." B'Elanna replied. I went over to the
engineering station and worked the controls. "I'm going to try an emergency
shutdown of the deflector." I explained. I worked the controls but was
getting nowhere. Every time I tried something to initiate the shutdown the
device was re configure the deflector protocols. "I cant initiate the
shutdown." I explained. "Captain, the deflector power output is now at 500%
above normal. We have lost warp drive, weapons, shields, impulse and life
support on decks 14 and 15 is down to critical levels." Harry told
me. "Evacuate those decks." Tom said. "Captain the deflector is
activating. It's creating a temporal vortex." B'Elanna told me.  "Full
reverse. Harry try to cut the power relays to the deflector." I ordered.
"Already tried sir. The computer won't allow me access." Within seconds the
vortex was fully open and the forces were rough on Voyager. "Captain we are
being pulled in." Tom said before a blinding white light appeared.

I woke up on the bridge floor with some consoles sparking and the rest of
the bridge crew trying to regain their footing. "Report." I said. "The
vortex is closed sir and...." Harry started before he train
off. "Lieutenant." I said.  "Checking." He replied. "Captain according to
these sensors we are at Earth."  He said before activating the view
screen. "Yeah but the question is when." Tom said. "According to
astrometric database, the year is 2012." Said Harry. I turned to look at
Tom. "A time of financial upheaval. The worlds economy was in crisis. In
England this was also the year where they had the olympics and in America,
it was the first black president." I explained. "Captain I would suggest
that we move into a high orbit to avoid being detected." Paris said.
"Agreed. Do it!" I said. "Captain you're not going to believe this but I'm
reading an anti-matter signature on the surface." Harry said. "What?!" i
asked.  "Yeah I'm reading 1 signature and its coming from the northern
continent."  Harry said. "Can you localize it?" I asked. "Yes sir, it's
coming from Los Angeles." He said. I thought for a second and something
about this seemed somewhat familiar and then it clicked. "Starling." I said
aloud. "Jack." Tom said coming towards me. "Bridge to Engineering." I
said. "Yes Captain." Said Kyle. "Kyle that device is it still working?" I
asked. "No sir, it shut down just after we arrived. But I'm pleased to say
the power that was being used to channel the deflector has now be
restored. The warp core, should be online with a few hours and all other
systems will be online within an hour." He told me.  "Very good, Now kyle
listen that device did it give off any form of chronotron flux?" I
asked. "Yes sir as a matter of fact it did. Of .003" Kyle replied and when
he said I breathed out heavy and loudly. "Understood Kyle. Carter out." I
replied. "Jack... Care to explain." Tom said. "Senior staff to my ready
room."  I said as well walked down. Kyle arrived a few minutes later and
when everyone was there I finally spoke up. "1996. Los Angeles." I said
looking at everyone.  "Yeah, what about it." B'Elanna said. "Is everyone of
you clueless or maybe brainless." I told them. "Jack what are you talking
about." Tom said. "I guess I'll just spell it out. 6 years ago we were
pulled through a temporal rift and taken back to Earth of 1996 where we
encountered Captain Braxton and Henry Starling." I said as people came to
the realisation. "Oh god yeah, I remember that. Chakotay, Captain Janeway,
Tuvok and I went down to the planet to get back the time ship." Paris
said. "Exactly it's also where the doctor got his mobile emitter." I
explained. "I don't recall this." Seven said. "You wouldn't it was before
you joined the crew. But needless to say we were trapped until we figured
out what to do and found our way back home. Now Kyle has said that the
device gave off a chronotron flux of .003, to my knowledge this ship has
only encountered that twice before. First time was when we were thrown back
to 1996 and the second time was when Seven helped prevent the destruction
of Voyager by Captain Braxton. I'm going to guess that the device was from
the 29th century much like the previous times we had an encounter. It's my
belief that the device was meant to bring us here." I said. Everyone looked
at me and there was a dead silence before Tom spoke up. "So what do we do
now?" he asked. "I don't know but whatever it is we aren't going to figure
it out from up here. We need to go down to the surface and find out. Seven
get me some exact co-ordinates for that reading. Tom, Paris and Harry you 3
will accompany me down to surface while we investigate what's going
on. B'Elanna you will be in command." I told them. "Aye captain" B'Elanna
replied. "Then let's get to it. I want you all changed and into clothing
from that era in 30 minutes. Make sure you stop by the armoury to pick up a
phaser and tricorder each. No rifles and no equipment." I told them. "Kyle
while we are on the surface get this ship working again." I told him. "Aye
sir." He replied. "Dismissed." I said. At that everyone left to go about
their business as me and Tom left the ready room and headed back to our
quarters. I went straight for my drawers and pulled out two pairs of jeans,
two t-shirts and then went to our closet and found two jackets and two
pairs of pumps for us to wear. "This must be heaven for you, to wear these
clothes and get to see an era that you are fascinated by." Tom said as he
was taking off his jacket and top. "It is sort of exciting. I mean I'm
going to be stepping into an era that I've only read about and seen images
of." I told him. "Well let's get ready then." He told me. We dressed in the
clothes and I styled his hair to suit the time period. I simply left mine
as it was with the exception of running my GHD's through it.  I then went
to the replicator and replicated some cash for us all. I told the computer
to replicate $400 for the year 2012 and sure enough it created 4 small
piles of money each made up of 2 $20 bills, 4 $10 bills and 4 $5 bills. I
put mine into my pocket and then handed Tom his. "What's this for?"  he
asked. "In case we have to pay for anything." I told him. "That sounds
about right." He told me. When we were ready we left the quarters and
walked down to the armoury and grabbed some phasers and tricorders before
entering a turbolift and heading to the bridge.

When I walked onto the bridge I found Paris and Harry dressed and stood
with B'Elanna at Tactical. Paris was in jeans and a shirt with a thin
jacket, while Harry was in jeans and t-shirt with a leather
jacket. "Gentlemen, $100 each." I said handing them their money. "Good
thinking." Paris said. "Combadge's on the inside of your jackets or in your
pockets. Phasers and Tricorders in pockets as well please." I said. "Aye
sir." They replied. "Now have you found the exact position." I asked. "Yes
sir, here are the co-ordinates for the anti-matter reactor signature. But
we have another problem." B'Elanna told me. "Well I've been monitoring
transmission activity on earth and there is something that keeps popping
up. A man named Marcus O'Hanlon, he is some sort of computer designer that
worked for chronowerx when Henry Starling was there, anyway now he's moved
to a company called NASA which tracks space and are the people responsible
for the space shuttle program. A televised broadcast an hour ago said that
he saw Voyager in orbit. He described it as the same ship that came and
destroyed my former boss Henry Starling. The one that was seen in LA in
1996." She told me.  "Well I think we need to catch up with Mr O'Hanlon." I
said. "It gets worse he says he has evidence of us being here." She told
me. "We need to recover that data and speak to Mr O'Hanlon. Paris, Harry
that's your job. Find Mr O'Hanlon and find out what data he has. I would
suggest you start at the National Space Centre in Washington." I told
them. "How do you know where it is?" Tom asked.  "I'm obsessed with this
time." I explained. "Tom and I will go after the anti-matter signature and
find out what's going on with that." I added. "Aye sir." Everyone said. "We
will rendezvous in LA in 12 hours. Let's move." I said and walked into the
turbolift.

 As we materialised in an alley way I could instantly feel the difference
between my earth and this earth. We emerged from the alley and began
walking towards the board walk. There were people everywhere all in such a
rush. We went towards a railing edge which looked out onto the beach. "This
is the exact spot from last time." Paris said. "That's cute Paris but we
have work to do." Tom said. "Agreed, Mr Paris, Mr Kim contact the ship and
have them transport you to Washington. We will meet back here in 12 hours."
I said. "Aye sir." They said before leaving. I pulled my tricorder and
stood facing Tom very closely while I worked out the distance from where we
were to where the source of the anti-matter readings were coming from. "You
know I could get used to this." Tom said. "What?" I asked. "This..." he
said before he pulled me closer n kissed me. I immediately pulled
away. "What is it baby?" he asked. "Tom there a few things I should tell
you. In this time people were as accepting about gay people like they are
in our time. There was still a lot of homophobic abuse that happened and I
just don't want anything to happen." I told him. "Okay babe. Well where do
we go?" he said trying to change the subject. "According to this the
reading are 9 kilometres east of here." I told him. "That could take some
time to walk that far." He told me. "Yeah, next bet... we need a car." I
told him. "Where do we get one?" he asked me. "A garage." I told
him. "What?" he asked. "In this time when people wanted to buy a car, they
went to a garage and got one. Or when they were home they parked their car
in the garage. There's a housing area 5 minutes walk from here. Let's go."
I said and we walked away

5 minutes later and we were walking down a street that had kids playing
outside and people looking after their gardens. At the top of the street
was a bigger house that was set apart from the rest. I saw that there was
no-one near the house so walked closer. I pulled out my tricorder and ran a
scan. No one was in the house or round the area of the house and there was
a car parked in the garage. The computer had identified it as a Audi
R8. "There's a car in this garage." I said. Tom and I slowly walked up the
drive way and no one even flinched or looked at us. "Use your tricorder to
open the garage. I'll keep a look out." He said. I worked the controls of
my tricorder and the door to the garage started to raise up. "Done." I
said. "When the owners come back they are going to call the police and they
will be able to track this car." I told Tom.  "How?" he asked. "With this
licence plate" I told him. "Can we get a new one from the ship?" he
asked. "Yeah I think so." I replied I touched my commbadge.  "Carter to
Voyager." I said. "Yes captain." B'Elanna replied. "B'Elanna I want you to
go into the main database and look for a car licence plate that was never
before used for an Audi R8 car and replicate it and then send me it down."
I told her. "Aye sir, Tom has told me a lot of this so it should be
easy. Stand by." She said. I turned to Tom, "Let's get in." I scanned the
car and there was no signs of an alarm and the doors were open. I opened
the door and saw that it was a very stylish car. "This car must belong to
someone with a lot of money." Tom said. "I think so." I replied. I got in
the driver's side and pulled down the visor to have the keys fall down on
my lap. "Torres to Carter, standby for transport." She said. The was a hum
followed by a blue light and suddenly the licence plate appeared. "Got
it. Carter out." I said. I withdrew my phaser and fired at the licence
plate that was already there and it melted away. I then tuned my phaser to
a lower frequency and fired in the small holes and the plate moulded with
the car and well and truly attached. "Let's get moving before someone comes
back." I said. We both got in the car and I put the eyes in the initiation
and turned the keys. The car started and Tom looked at me. "Can you drive
this thing?" he asked. "Tom I've piloted Voyager through a Kazon attack,
I'm pretty sure I can handle the car." I told him. I put the gear leaver in
the R position and slowly drove off the drive and on to the street, before
moving the gear leaver into the D position and driving off. "You have done
this before haven't you." He said. "Tom I hold a drivers licence on earth
in our time. My mother and father thought it was a good idea. Plus I have
done this with Paris on the holodeck a lot." I said. Driving was great I
loved it. I came to the end of the road and indicated Left to come out of
the street and onto the main road and then pulled out when it was safe. I
pulled my tricorder out and handed it to Tom and told him to direct me to
the co-ordinates. He opened it and began to direct me. "Take a left here."
He said to me I continued to drive and follow his instructions and then we
hit the freeway and I had to try to merge on, "Jack you can't do this." He
kept saying to me. "Tom, I'm the captain now shut up." I said as I
eventually merged onto the freeway. After an hour of driving and following
Tom's directions we eventually came to a housing estate. "This house coming
up on the right." Tom told me. I stopped and pulled up outside the
house. "From in there?" I asked. "Yeah, the anti-matter signature is coming
from their basement." He told me. "Any idea is someone is home?" I asked
looking around the street. Two kids went past me on bikes and I smiled. One
was a blonde haired boy around 5 or 6 and the other was a girl with brown
hair and she was about 4 or 5 on a little pink bike. "I wanna do that with
our kids." I told him. "We will one day baby."  He told me. "Looks like
there is no one home."  Tom said. "Then let's go and check it out." I said
as we got out the car and headed for the house. We walked up to the front
door as Tom handed me my tricorder. I scanned the house for an
alarm. None. I tried the door and it was open. We walked in to the house
and it looked fairly normal. I found some paper on the side and picked it
up and read it. "This guy is called Dylan Saunders. And it looks like he
has some debt issues." I said showing Tom. "What's a Mastercard?"  he asked
me. "In this era they had what called credit cards, where a company would
give you a card with money on it and you would have to pay back whatever
you spent on it. It was one of the corner stone's that lead to the eventual
abolishment of money all together." I told him. "Well according to this,
Dylan has to pay $5,000 very soon." Tom replied. "Well that's down to him,
now let's find the basement" I said pulling my phaser out of my pocket.

After looking around the house for 5 minutes we eventually found the door
to the basement. "Here" said Tom. He scanned the room from where we
were. "I can't get any readings, the anti mater signature is too strong,
it's deflecting my scans.  He told me. "Let's go in, stand ready." I
said. I opened the door and went straight in and ran down the stairs to
find a man working with what looked a reactor. "Stop where you are." I said
holding my phaser up. "Who are you? He asked. "Never mind that, what the
hell are you doing here?" I asked. "What do you mean this is my house?" he
replied. "There's a strange energy coming from this house, so what is going
on down here?" I asked. "I'm not answering any of your questions until I
see a warrant or something." The man replied. "We don't need a warrant, we
are on official business. Now answer the question." Tom said also pointing
his phaser at him. "I was given this technology to study. Major Davis from
the pentagon asked me to study it. It was found at the chronowerx building
16 years ago and was being held in storage until last week when I was given
it.  Major Davis told me that it was important and that I was to contact
Marcus O'Hanlon when I found out." He explained. "And that's all you know."
Tom asked.  "Yeah, Marcus is on his way here, he left Washington an hour
ago." Dylan replied. "And what are you getting out of all of this?" I
asked. "$50,000." He replied. "Should help clear some debts wouldn't you
say." I replied. The man went silent and looked at the ground. "So have you
worked out what it is?" I asked. "Yeah, it's an engine. But something from
way into the future." He said.  "What is Marcus planning to use this for?"
Tom asked. "He said he was going to use to make a photon torpedo whatever
the hell that is." Dylan replied I walked over to the device and looked at
it. It was a reactor. An anti-matter reactor that was from beyond our
timeline. That was the moment when he choose to knock the phaser out of my
hand and push me to the ground. He ran at Tom and knocked him down before
he ran out of the house. "Damn." I said getting up and helping Tom
up. "Where did he go?" I asked. "I dunno but I don't think he will have
gotten far." He replied. "We need to get this thing to the ship." I
said. "Carter to Voyager." I said hitting my commbadge. "Go ahead." Said
B'Elanna. "We have found the reactor. Prepare to transport it to Cargo bay
1 and secure it within a forcefield." I said. "Understood." B'Elanna
said. I grabbed Tom's commbadge and attached it to the reactor. "Lock in on
Tom's commbadge and energise." I said. There was a hum and a blue light and
the reactor disappeared. "Target Obtained." B'Elanna said. "Very good,
Contact Paris and Kim and have them rendezvous with us in LA, Marcus has
left Washington." I replied. "Aye sir."  B'Elanna said. "Carter out." I
replied. "Let's go." I said.

Half hour later Tom and I found a car park and contacted Harry and Paris
and told them to meet us there. We sat in the car and talked when Tom said,
"God I don't no what it is, but being in this car is making me major
horny." I smiled. "Well we could always do it in the back." I said pointing
to the back seats. That was all the inspiration Tom needed before he
climbed into the back of the car and dragged me through.  Without
hesitation Tom unzipped his jeans and pulled out his flaccid cock, shocking
me as Tom pushed himself against the car so his back was pressed against it
and his flaccid cock was point right at me, right near my face. I instantly
began to take Tom's cock into my mouth and sucked hard. "mmmm yeah that's
it, suck it" Tom moaned. I had a quick look around to see if anyone was
around to catch them but luckily there was no-one to be seen. Tom's cock
was stood to attention at 8.5-inches and I loved it. I lovingly sucked hard
on the big mushroom head, sending shivers down Tom's spine as he lightly
thrust his cock into my mouth, desperate for his cock to feel more of my
lips. "Aww yeah keep goin'" Tom groaned. In reality Tom was close and as I
took more and more of his cock within my mouth, he could feel his load
rising in his balls.  The thrill of being out in public obviously making
Tom extra horny, he wasn't exactly sure what he'd do if we got caught! "Get
ready baby I'm gonna cum!" Tom groaned and thrust his cock lightly into my
mouth one more time before his cock exploded. "Awww yeah!" Tom groaned. I
clamped my lips around Tom's cock hard as burst after burst of cum shot
from Tom's dick and into my willing mouth, filling it full of slimy
spunk. Tom let out a satisfied sigh of pleasure as he eventually withdrew
his softening cock from my mouth and was about to put it back into his
jeans but I stopped him, taking one last suck before allowing Tom to put it
away. He pushed his cock into his jeans and zipped them up before my
commbadge went off. "Paris to Carter" came Paris' Voice. "Go ahead." I
said. "Captain, we can see the car we approaching your position." He
said. "Understood, we are waiting." I said. "On our way sir.  Paris out."
He said and comm closed. Tom and I both got out the car and saw Harry and
Tom approaching. They climbed into the back of the car as we got in the
front and then shut the door. "I would suggest we drive. The police of this
time don't take kindly to people loitering in car parks." Paris
said. "Agreed."  I said and started the car and began to drive. "How did
you guys get on in Washington?" I asked. "We recovered the data from Marcus
and found out what he knows, which in fairness is that Voyager is now in
orbit and is tracking us by our warp emissions like Starling did. We did
listen into a phone call he was having with someone saying that he would
meet them today at 4:30pm in the west LA shopping mall on the second
floor." Paris explained. "He's meeting Dylan." I said to Tom. "Who's
Dylan?" asked Harry. "The person we met when we found the source of the
anti-matter readings. He is working for Marcus who wanted to use the
reactor to make a photon torpedo. Apparently they have someone called Major
Davis involved from the pentagon." I explained. "The pentagon, that's a
facility controlled by the United States Military." Paris told me. "Well it
stands to reason that Marcus was going to make the torpedo and then sell it
to Major Davis and the pentagon."  Tom said.  "True, so all we have to do
intercept this meeting and grab all 3 of them, get them back to Voyager and
find out what they know." I said. "The meeting is in 20 minutes, we need to
get to that mall." Harry said. "I'm getting the directions."  He added. He
then began to direct me to the mall.

We parked the car and headed inside the shopping centre which was covered
in people. We looked around and moved through the crowds of people when
Paris spoke up. "I'm detecting Anti-matter residue signatures, like someone
who handled a reactor and not cleaned themselves after." He told
me. "Where?" I asked. He pointed and I looked at spotted Dylan. "Split up
we will approach this from both angles." I said. Tom followed me while
Paris and Kim moved off. We stood near where Dylan was stood but out of
sight and I could also see Paris and Kim from where I was.  Dylan soon got
some visitors, a guy wearing a military uniform and a guy in a suit. My
tricorder began to bleep. I pulled it out and looked at it, `MSG FRM PARIS:
THAT'S THEM' the display read. I looked at Tom and nodded. I nodded at my
Tom and said "Let's move." We pulled out our phasers and headed in Dylans
direction when he spotted us and told the others. The other two withdrew
weapons and began to fire causing panic amongst the people and a lot of
screaming. Dylan took off in one direction, the Major went another and
Marcus another. "Tom, Harry go after Marcus, Paris get after Dylan. I'm
going to take on the major." I shouted. The major was heading down an
escalator and shot at me but missed. I fired my phaser and also missed. He
was now down on the floor below. I shot up at me again and again missed. I
climbed over the railings that were in the centre of the mall and jumped
down to the floor below landing on the floor. I got up and ran after the
Major. "Stop!" I shouted as I ran after him. I was getting closer but he
dove around and headed around a corner. I took aim with my phaser made a
quick check that it was on stun and then fired catching him the back. He
dropped straight to the floor. People were shocked. I went over to him and
picked him up and dragged him over to the side out of the way. Paris soon
returned with Dylan walking with a phaser in his back to stop him from
going anywhere and eventually Tom and Harry returned with Marcus also
stunned. "Let's get back to Voyager." I said. We entered an area which was
out of the way of everyone and transported back to Voyager.

"Welcome aboard." I said as I walked into the brig and looked at the 3 men
sat there. "What the hell is this?" asked the Major. "Now, now major that's
no way to speak to a captain." I said feeling so much better now that I was
back in my uniform. "A captain is a lower rank than a major actually." He
said. "In some cases yes, but in this case no. This isn't the military of
the 21st century anymore, your on board a starship from the 24th century
and now I'm here to find out what you're up to. As far as my rank, I'm the
captain of this ship, so just think of me as your colonel." I
explained. "Then it is true, this is the ship that came to us in 1996."
Said Marcus. "Yes it is." I replied. "So you're the ones who killed Henry
Starling." He asked. "That's right." I replied. "So I guess that makes you
Captain Janeway." He said looking at me. "Actually no, Admiral Janeway is
back on earth in my time and as you can tell by the title was promoted. I'm
Captain Jack Carter." I replied. "So how long do you think you can keep us
here." The Major asked. "As long as it takes for you to tell me all that I
need to know. Don't worry I won't bore you, I have your reactor back on
board this ship which is where it belongs. What I want to know is where you
found it and how you discovered how to build a photon torpedo and where the
components are for that." I said. "For someone from the future you're not
all that smart, especially considering you've come back to a time 16 years
after the last time." Said Marcus. "It all goes back to
chronowerx. Starling downloaded this ships database and you found it and
worked out what a photon torpedo was, and started to build one but there
was one thing missing the anti-matter required for the warhead. So how did
you get your hands on the reactor?" I asked. "That part was simple. A
science team was in the Antarctic and discovered it. I don't how but when
the pentagon found out we got our hands on it. I then bought the reactor
from Major Davis and found out that it was what I needed to complete the
weapon. I told him he could have the weapons at a reduced price if I could
have the reactor. I then recruited Dylan who was a scientist who recently
lost his job and the rest is history." Said Marcus. "How many of these
weapons did you make?" Tom asked. "250" Marcus replied. "Why are you
telling us this now?" I asked. "Because once I escape from here, I can get
more technology from ship before I destroy you with those weapons." He
explained. "Good luck." I replied before I left the brig. "We need to go to
chronowerx and get those weapons." I told Tom.

As I walked into the Chronowerx building I was surprised by the lack of
security. "Can I help you gentlemen?"  asked a guard. Spoke to soon. "Yes
I'm here on behalf of Major Davis and Mr O'Hanlon, we have come to do an
inspection of the weapons. We're with the pentagon." I replied. "Follow
me." He said. I smiled at Tom. He lead us to the room where the weapons
were being held and all across the room the weapons were set up. "That will
be all." I replied. "If there is anything you need to hesitate to ask." He
said and left. Tom and I quickly went round a did a count.  "249 in total."
Tom said. "There's one missing." I replied. I went to the computer near the
front of the room and began to work away. "One of the torpedoes was loaded
on to a truck and is en route to a test site for testing."  I told him. "We
have to catch it." He told me. "Agreed. But first we need to get these
weapons to Voyager." I told him. "Carter to Voyager" I said. "Yes Captain."
Came Paris' voice. "Prepare to beam 249 torpedoes on board to cargo bay 2
and prepare to beam us back." I ordered. "249 sir, I thought there was
250." He said. "I'll explain when I'm back on board." I replied. "Aye sir.
Stand By" he said. A moment later he came back on the comm. "Ready to
energise." He said. "Do it." I replied. A moment later and all the
torpedoes were beamed up and an alarm was set off in the building. "We need
to go. I've got the tracker's frequency for the truck." I said. "Stop!"
said the man who had originally come in to the room with us. "We took cover
behind a crate and Tom fired his phaser "Carter to Voyager 2 beam directly
to the bridge." I said in a whisper. Gun shots were being fired as we were
beamed straight to the bridge. I stood up and walked over to Harry and gave
him my tricorder. "Get the tracker frequency out of her and locate it." I
told him. "Mr Paris prepare to begin a decent." I told him. "Sir." He
replied. "Jack the last time that happened we were seen." B'Elanna
replied. "I don't care we have to get that last torpedo." I told them "Aye
sir." Said Paris. "Security to the bridge we have a...." and then comm went
dead. "B'Elanna?" I asked. "We have a breach. The prisoners have escaped
and are heading for the shuttlebay." She said. "Lock out the shuttlebay." I
replied. "Too late there in a shuttle." She told me. "Seal the space
doors." I told her. "I can't they have overridden the security system. They
have left Voyager." She said. "Pursue." I ordered. "Captain they are
heading for the surface." Paris said. "Harry can you get that tracker
frequency?" I asked. "Already have sir, the computer is triangulating." He
said.  "When you have the co-ordinates send them to the helm. Mr Paris lay
in a decent vector and follow that shuttle." I ordered. "Aye sir." He
replied

10 minutes later and we were going through the upper atmosphere "Got the
shuttle on sensors." B'Elanna told me. "Lock target." I ordered. "Hail
them." I added. The viewscreen came to life and there sat Marcus and Major
Davis while Dylan was in the back. "Stand down or I will open fire." I
said. "Never this ship is a technological marvel. I can make weapons and
more money than I had ever dreamed with this." Marcus said. "I can't allow
that." I replied. "Well that's just tough look." Marcus replied and ended
the channel. "B'Elanna target them and fire." I said. I heard the computer
target and fire and watched as the shuttle was destroyed. "Coming up on the
truck." Said Paris. We were now in the lower atmosphere flying right above
the city and heading away to an open desert. "I can see it." Harry
said. "B'Elanna lock phasers." I ordered. "Locked." She replied. "Fire." I
shouted and she let loose a phaser strike and destroyed the truck with a
nice big explosion. "Paris take us up." I ordered. "Aye sir." He
replied. It only took a matter of moments to get back to orbit. "Mission
accomplished." I said as I sat in my chair. "Not quite how are we planning
to get back to our own time." Tom said. "I think we are about to find out."
Said Harry. "We have a temporal rift opening directly ahead and a vessel is
emerging." He added. "Hail them." I ordered. "On screen."  Harry said. The
viewscreen came to life and there sat Captain Braxton. "Captain Braxton." I
said. "Hello Captain, and congratulations. You have done the temporal
integrity commission proud. We knew you could achieve this mission given
Voyagers previous history with chronowerx and Henry Starling. Prepare to
follow me back into the rift and I shall return you to your own time at the
exact time you left. Don't worry you won't have been missed." He told
me. "I appreciate that Captain thank you." He said. "It's not a problem
Jack. Braxton out." He said. The viewscreen went black and the smaller ship
began to turn and head for the rift. "Mr Paris, follow him in." I
ordered. "With pleasure sir." He replied smiling and slowly we headed for
the rift.

Captain's personal log stardate 59827.4 it's been 8 hours since we returned
through the temporal rift. The handover with the dauntless has been
completed and we are now en-route back to earth. I very much enjoyed
explaining to Admiral Janeway the events that occurred.  She is eagerly
awaiting my report on our journey back to the past. I'm looking forward to
our upcoming mission and spending some time with my mum and dad as well as
the kids and Tom. All in all everything is going well. End log.  Feedback
always welcome. Love hearing from readers. Sorry it has taken so long. Been
very busy with work etc. Happy Reading