What Demifox Synizn knows of the situation (part 5)

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 6958

"More analogs of the Voyager," the former dragon agrees. "And just like the doppleganger legend of old, of which I'm sure that the slipgates and incidents similar to what happened to us are responsible for, something very....interesting happened and was in the works....

Janeway starts when, halfway to the Mess hall when the Red Alert alarm goes off throughout the entire ship! She swears and goes running for the turbolift to the Bridge. Rushing out to her Command Chair, she turns to look at the main viewer.... and doesn't quiet believe what she's seeing.

"Chakotay, what's all this?" Janeway shouts, pointing at the screen.

"Just what it appears, Captain!" Chakotay says, staring in wonder as yet another Voyager blinks into existance into existance. That would make seventy one in all.

"What's the source?" Janeway asks, taking this in. There had to be a logical explanation for this!

Seven, at the Science panel, looks up in surprise at her scan results.

"The source of this is.....Scott's coffin!" she says in amazement

Now what? Well, the Voyager tries to contact the other Voyagers. They are greeted with a riot of versions of the Voyager brigde crew. It ranges from exact duplicates.....to a crazy "furry" version of themselves!

So....

'Our' Captain Janeway puts down the PADD and looks up at her four doubles arrayed around the Ready Room.

One was missing an eye, one was bald, one had a prosthetic left arm and the last one...well, doubles of herself Janeway was used too but not a vixen double of herself. She had a tail! Janeway shoved the conflicting emotions to small space in her mind. She gestured to the instrument.

"All this chaos is caused by Scott and his doubles jumping around from dimension to dimension and all through the time stream?"

"Exactly." said the bald one. "We've been following Scotts and collecting them. My ship has a transdimensional beaming device that sends the Scott's to my Federation. There, they put the Scott's onto a planet that dampens all forms of energy. They only have enough to live as if they were on a starship. Not enough to jump through space/time." "And that's why you took Scott's coffin." "Yes." "But he's dead." "You don't understand, Captain." said the furry one. Janeway wondered how she could speak with the muzzle. "Scott is immune to death. We think it's because of Q. Scotts do speak of strange and omnipotent beings called Authors. We think they are Q in disguise." "So you beamed over Scott's coffin and now are dumping that on your planet while you wait for him to revive. I don't like it. He saved our ship." "He saved my ship too." said the one with the prosthetic. "Then he killed Ensign Caplan, nearly murdered Suder and shot my arm off."

"I'm...I'm sorry." Janeway knew what it felt like to lose crew. But on that Voyager, Suder was still alive. Should she tell her that on this ship, Suder killed Darwin?

Before Janeway could say anything more... alien ships attacked and destroyed 'our' Voyager. The entire crew was safely beamed off by ten other Voyagers while thirty more destroyed the attackers.

Later, the shellshocked Voyager crew is gathered aboard together on the "furry" Voyager...

Janeway stands next to Chakotay, rage barely under control! She watched silently as the other Voyagers finish off the black, spiney craft that had cut her ship in half with a huge beam weapon!

"I swear to you, Chakotay!" Janeway says softly, venom dripping in her words. "The 'Shadow' will pay dearly for what they've done....attacking my and the bald Janeway's ship without provocation!"

"AAARRRRGGGGHHH!" screams B'Ellana Torres. "I'll kill them!!" The Doctor rushes over to the enraged Klingon, and administers a strong sedative. The Klingon stops screaming, and starts crying about her poor ship. Some people were taking this harder than others.

Chakotay looks grimly around the cargobay where the "furry" versions of themselves stowed them. Chakotay shakes his head, hardly believing that his double was a horse! It was just too weird for words! Slowly, a fact dawned upon him.....which seemed trivial at the time, but if what the other Janeways say about Scott is true.....

"Captain." Chakotay says softly. "I think we might have more of a problem than just our lost ship!"

Janeway look at Chakotay blankly for a second, and suddenly guesses what her first officer is going to talk about.

"Scott." Janeway whispers. Chakotay nods grimly. Scott's body had been aboard on of the destroyed Voyagers. If he was immune to death......

"Psst!" a low, raspy voice calls from behind a large pile of crates. "I need to talk to you two....about Scott! He's in danger from the other Janeways!"

The vixen form of Janeway is looking back at our Janeway and Chakotay. What gives here?

The vixen Janeway summons the human Janeway and Chakotay over behind the stack of crates. "I can't talk long," she whispers. "The device will only last for a few minutes. It's, it's the other Janeway, the bald one. We're practically her slaves. You would call her your 'mirror universe double'. Sure, we are stopping the breakdown of realities by kidnapping Scott's from the multiverse. But Janeway wants the other Scotts to tap their power. She's days away from learning how to manipulate realities. She's going to be an omnipotent being sooner or later. We've gotta stop her. Her ship that was destroyed...well, it was a ruse. It was an innocent Voyager. I have a plan. Are you in?"

Human Janeway looks at Chakotay. Then back at the other Janeway. "What proof do you have to offer?"

"Only this." The vixen Janeway reaches behind her back, manipulates something, then turns around. Janeway gasps. The woman's back was cris-crossed with whip scars. Janeway sucked in her breath. "We're in."

"Good." the vixen reassembled her uniform. "The Janeway with one eye has agreed to cause a distraction. In the chaos, we'll slip back to the planet with the Scott's, beam them all up and rev our dimension hopping systems into overdrive. Our Torres thinks it'll throw us through a couple thousand random dimensions and then melt. Hopefully they'll never find us."

"We could end up somewhere even worse." Chakotay says.

"I don't think that's possible." the vixen Janeway said. She turned and vanished into the shadows. Some words came floating back.."Brace for impact."

The 150 crewpeople bravely held on as the Voyager they were passengers in bucked and weaved and spun. This went on for ten minutes straight, then stopped. Thirty minutes after that, vixen Janeway came back. She didn't have to hide this time.

Janeway took her to one side. Chakotay followed. "We made it. The other Janeway's ship did not. We're ten minutes out from Scott's planet. It's...it's..."

She slumped to the floor. Chakotay caught her.

"Doctor!" Janeway said. "Take her, get her to Sickbay. I'm going to the bridge. Full bridge crew, follow me!"

"Helm, three degrees port. Phaser fire at three, four, eight and twelve." The bridge crew responded effectivley and instantly. Janeway allowed herself a smile, glad that Starfleet training crossed dimensions and biological differences. Sure, Chakotay was a horse but inside it was still her stable and efficient second in command. Well, not 'hers' but the real Captain was in Sickbay. The last jolt had caught her alone in the corridor and she had decided to tell the humans before getting her wounds treated. Janeway admired her tenacity then ordered a Krevon Manuver. Half of the attacking ships were left in the dust. The other half took ten minutes, three torpedoes and a spin through a radioactive nebula to lose.

"All 76 Scotts on board." said Ensign Mulcahey. Human Janeway reflected that the Scott's were probably glad to leave. Scans and reports indicated mile long devices whose sole purpose was to manipulate the body to cause pain. How many people had toiled over the gigantic machinery. Did they know it was to torture people? Janeway left the bridge with horse Chakotay (a horse?!?) and went to Sickbay. Sure, Janeway was temporarily in command. Top secret confirmation codes had been quickly exchanged between her and the other Chakotay, letting her sink her experience into fighting off the attacker ships. But she had to remind herself this wasn't 'her' ship. Soon she would have no ship at all. Janeway felt a pang of regret and pushed it away, ashamed. Her crew was alive. Her crew was okay. Her crew would stay okay because of the organic materials found on the planet. Keeping a two ounce sample on the body of each of the Scott's would dampen the rampant dimensional energy.

Two Doctors stood in Sickbay. Despite expecting it, Janeway was a bit startled. Espically considering one had dog ears. 'Her' Doctor came up to her while the other hovered around the vixen's bed. "No, Captain. No changes. She's going to be in here for a long time." More small talk resumed. Janeway returned to the bridge.

"How long until we skip through the dimensions?"

"Five minutes." was the reply. Then, nearly a whisper. "Look, Katherine. I know how hard this must be for you. I'm leaving my home dimension also. We may never get to our 'real' homes."

"I believed your Captain when she told me about the plans for the bald Janeway to become omnipotent. My crews knows this. We've had the chance to review your records. They're willing to do what it takes to prevent their world from being overcome by this tyranny."

A flash of light blinded Janeway. "What was that?"

"Seems Torres got the dimension jumper working just a bit ahead of time. You're world is safe, Captain." "That was it?" "That was it." "I hate to say it, but our situations end with a little more flair then then this." "I can blow up some shuttlecrafts off the port bow if you want." Chakotay smiled.

All signs indicated that this was a normal universe. Signs of the Borg, the destroyed Hirogen communications systems...everything but the presence of the bald Janeway and her legions of troops.

The humans and the Scott's agree to join the furry Voyager crew. Though the strains on resources and especially space will be tougher, all agree this is a good idea. Human Paris is allowed to set in the course for the Alpha Quadrant.

All but the Scott in love with Ensign Wildman vanish when a temporal anomaly hits the ship.

Soon, however, the two crews join together into a large crew. Adjustments and accommodations have to be made, but being the professionals that they are, the crew (both human and "furry") soon are working and laughing together.

A simple add on to names became popular, and accepted soon by everyone aboard. It helped distinguish what a person meant when they were talking about somebody (or to somebody). The human and other "non-furry" folk aboard the old Voyager would have the prefix of Human to their name, to distinguish themselves from their furry analog (even if the person in question wasn't human per se). Their furry analog would have the prefix Furry in front of their names, for the same reason as the humans had.

Captain Janeway was more than happy to field promote Scott Chen (who renamed himself James Chen for some reason) to Ensign after he'd taken the Star Fleet Equivalency Exam. Scott was now happily working down in Engineering, and had formed a relationship between furry Ensign Samantha Wildman and himself.

Meanwhile, many analogous people soon find themselves beginning to really like their counterparts. It was very much like having a brother or sister, and talking to each other was incredibly easy...since the other understood where you were coming from. After all, they shared the same history up to a point (at least until the furries' universe had been invaded by the Bald Janeway).

Others didn't get along too well, and several fights broke out between each other....several times.

Some were in the vein of seeing something in the other person that they didn't like within themselves, and thus was the root cause of many of the B'elanna Torres twin's fistfights.

Others happened because of the stupidity of some people who had done a half-assed job of researching on "furries" by examining some of the 20th centuries later day internet publications, and had....mistakenly thought that the real furries were as sexually promiscuous as their fictitious relatives.

  1. "So THAT'S the source of the rumors I've heard," Astra says, suddenly making a connection.

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