| "Kirk!" he shouts, "Why is my aide under house arrest?!"
Sigin I sigh, annoyed, dropping the illusion I'd been maintaining on my clothes. I had planned on dropping the illusion of my rather unstylish apparel in private, after this task was done. However, the devil drives the need... My clothing shifts back to the style of fashion I'd chosen to adapt on my 500th birthday. (Styled along a gentleman privateer who's sense and debonair had caught my eye....back before I actually learned what a cad–if you'll pardon me for such a old fashioned and quant term– he and other privateers–pirates in all but name–were. Kept the style in part due to I still liked it. Due also in part to the fact that I find it helpful sometime to misleading opponents, thinking the "smooth" character before them wasn't possibly a serious threat). I've met with people like this before. Whether royal courtiers or futuristic bureaucrats, 'tis all the same. Men being too full of themselves and furious at those who don't acknowledge their greatness. "Let the man speak and stop this needless prater," I say simply, reasonably (standing right before him so I am all that he sees), "Making like a terrorist in a tea party, all loudness and bluster only belittles you." Barris looks rebellious for a moment, and then mutters something affirmative before sitting down, clearly awaiting an answer. When Kirk does answer it, his and a lot of other jaws drop. Basically the bottom line was that "our" Darvin had been planting his tribble bomb in the storage compartment which Kirk would later open. Done with his planting amongst the other tribbles present (some already dead from the poison in the grain planted by this universe's Darvin), the Klingon spy had been climbing out of the bin when he slipped and knocked himself silly on the ladderrungs! Dazed and confused, he'd babbled enough to the guards who'd opened up the bin to make them suspicious (to say the least)! Our teams nearby could not reach Darvin in time to stop this. The guards noticed the tribbles (some dead) and McCoy and Spock (this one's sporting a rather stylish beard, gives him character) was brought into the picture, who discovered the poison and the bomb. Fearing time travel being involved here, Spock was ordered to confirm (or deny) "our" Darvin was a time traveler from the future (Kirk didn't want to deal with his Department of Temporal Investigations yet again). If he was, then certain steps were going to have to be taken here to limit any damage to the time stream..... But as it happened Spock rapidly noted the different quantum signature of "our" Darvin. Dravin's ramblings were put together, and now "our" Darvin was in custody in one of the Enterprise's holding cells. Kirk's Darvin (the one of this universe) was under arrest. Furthermore...... I almost feel sorry for "our" Darvin in a way. His luck is the worst I've ever seen. First he gets caught in his universe by "his" Kirk in his younger years. Then, in the Robot universe, he gets caught by Solarians, people who are hardly competent in fighting crime (much less spies of Darvin's caliber). Finally, he gets caught by "this" Kirk.... As to why so public, and how he'd known to come here to our group? Well, it wasn't actually due to us standing out. Rather, it was due to the fact Darvin had muttered enough in the bin about some traitor to the Empire. A Klingon who'd joined up with Star Fleet, you see. In other words, enough was said and enough remembered by the Redshirts for Kirk to identify Worf. In addition, there was the fact that "our" Darvin had contacted this realities Darvin to try to make an early contact and alliance with the Military..... Ah, I see that I must explain. "Our" Darvin's Klingon Empire got thoroughly trounced by the Enemy, it's fleet now a mere fraction of what it had been. The locations of the Klingon fleet locations (and the Romulan fleet) had been less known by the Military at the time of the coming of the Enemy/Alliance War than that of Star Fleet (something to do with the Military Intelligence wanting to keep a close eye on them after some incident with Janeway, I've heard). While not a real big lover of the Military (rather would have his Empire the biggest power around), "our" Darvin was realistic enough to know that the Enemy's Empire (powerful enough to span a LOT of universes) was just too large and powerful for the Klingon Empire to take on alone. The idea was to instead for an early alliance with the Military (the only one who could face and eventually defeat the Enemy) and instead of the Empire being so devastated...... Well, you get the idea.... Naturally, for a big incentive needed for the Klingon High Command to listen to Darvin....for them to give him a hearing was for Kirk to die..... Seeing a chance to seek out new civilizations and all that rot (as well as making some powerful allies), Kirk was paying us a rather public visit.... "Well don't we just love that!" E'eyhsa sighs, laughing a bit and shaking her head, "'The Sisko' is going to flip when he hears about this one!" Go Back |