Landing Party to Defiant, MANY to beam up!

"QUIET!" shouts the Roughneck officer, finally tired of it all.

....

Now, where things could have gone from here without the time traveling interference (ala through one of his Weird Devices) of one Torg High Lord called Mobius (recently escaped from prison and seeking revenge upon those "New Players" who'd ruined everything) is a pretty question. Maybe the Champions (or the Roughneck officer, who knows?) could have calmed things down enough to where some kind of deal could be struck. Maybe B'Elanna could have found out that the crashed ship could have been fixed enough to fly up to dock with the Defiant in orbit (and all be on their merry way).

Maybe perhaps the restless dead (in magical environments those who aren't properly dead or cremated can come back as ghosts or some other undead fiends) upon the Defiant could have been dealt with so that that blessed event could take place. Until the interference by Mobius, Kirk had to retreat until the ship's chapel and barricade himself within for safety sake. The undead, deranged still from their experience, wanted him. In little pieces (living folks' presences were painful to them). It was a stroke of luck that our brave Starfleet Captain holed up there because anywhere else the various religious relics (by whatever the rules the undead obey in the magic realms) wouldn't have been able to keep them at bay. Surely some bright Champion could have figured out the problem and accessed remotely the ships transporters and beamed the undead out (widespread to give them the peace of the grave).

Maybe the computer records and sensor logs (they'd been left on after everyone had killed each other up there) could be coxed into revealing what they'd seen, revealing glimpses it had seen that would have given the others from Elsewhere/When a chance at getting home.

AND maybe after that, the new Champions would have been able to reach their destination and finished their Validation Quest (and sometime after that Avon's problem with Shadow could be addressed.....Xanthian healing springs might do the trick, being able to regenerate even lost limbs and maybe be able to address Avon's addiction). Maybe.

BUT NO!!

Mobius had to be a typical Nile Empire villain, just HAD to have his revenge. Revenge in a grand and overblown manner, he had to have it! And being that he'd (from afair from one of his arcane Weird Device Sensor systems) witnessed the destruction of that mummy mage, Imhotep. Being that Mobius was from his world's version of ancient Egypt (long story....not important) and mummies were special (part of their religious ceremonies and all that), well....he didn't take that so well. So as part of his wacky revenge plan, he'd go back in time and prevent Imhotep's death and defeat. Would have had fun in helping Imhotep having his way with those who'd defeated him.

Now, how he managed to get a working time machine is a good question, but not important for the story here. See, when Mobius used that time machine to change our Champion's past, he basically "screwed the pooch" as they say on Core Earth. The Rules and Agents are very protective of their Champions, and one way they do that is to sweep the offending parties well OUT of the reality that the Champions were placed, or some kind of VARIATION of that. This is a variation of that, due to the funky condition still hovering over the Defiant a strange "hiccup" occurred between Defiant and time machine.

Kirk, being in the eye of the hurricane, finds himself alone (no bodies, walking or not) aboard the Defiant. He'll find that he'll be getting hales and such from various worlds/realities. See, the Defiant is doing something REALLY funky. It's straddled in a limbo that brigdes all the worlds below. People can call in (and perhaps can be beamed in, remains to be seen). However, a Timelord will be the only person able to get the Defiant out (before Kirk and anyone else living on the Defiant can go, as a guy named John said once, "Hannibal Lector"). The Defiant, ghostly, appears to orbit each world, and that'll perhaps be clue enough to those below, stranded there....

Anyway....

Dr. Mobius got bounced, alright (onto a Command Carrier captained by a leather clad freak). Finding a human being (rare out here in the Unexplored Territories, maybe he knows a John Critchon?), can you say Aurora Chair? 'Tis a nearby parallel version of Chiana's reality, just a bit further advanced in events.

But the fun part is that Mobius SORT of got what he was after. See, the Champions (and the other strangers) also got sucked into various other realities, each finding themselves upon Earthlike worlds.

Avon, the Doctor, Griskard, the as of yet unnamed pilot of the crashed spacecraft, and the Roughnecks found themselves upon a world called Gauda Prime (ala Blake’s 7)

The Elves get plopped down upon a world some call the World of Two Moons by some, Abode by others (ala Elfquest).

Inquirer gets plopped down upon a world which is having a problem involving a golden ring, a distorted man who looks and acts like a 65 year old heroin addict, and a volcano (ala Lord of the Rings).

Sigin finds himself standing upon a wintry world, on a frozen lake. It’s in the reality where Mobius is being introduced to “the comfy chair”. He’s wondering just how he got here (and shivering a little from the cold), when he jumps as an ejection chair (with firing braking jets) crashes into and through the ice nearby (safe distance but still startling). The figure in the chair manages to get to the water’s surface for a few seconds and screams for a guy named “Crichton”. Synizn recognizes the woman (and that name) for obvious reason, and needs to do something and QUICK! (ala Farscape, 2nd season)

And then we have the world that Betty, Ragan, and Chiana (another reality, ala Farscape). This one has events advanced to the FOURTH season. Namely, things are pretty...er... Well, it involves a nutrient rich sea which has upon it a former female Peacekeeper and a very wayward American Astronaut in a boat. Chiana has found herself flying around in her dragon form, seeing an unidentified ship lining up on those within that boat for a strafing run. A part of Chiana notes that she, in her current form is much larger than the craft (and a swat from her tail or claw, if she’s swift enough of wing, could knock the ship off course....maybe even force it down?) The other Champions (Betty and Ragan, who‘ve found themselves behind a familar Luxan warrior and a VERY familiar female Nambari) are screaming (mentally and verbally to her) that they must be stopped!

1. What does Chiana do, oh reader?

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