Tongue Time!

"Not really," Betty says slowly. "It's more like what we learned from lectures while learning magic."

"Huh?" John Crichton blinks. "Magic? What next, you're going to say you were classmates with Potter at Hogwarts or something?!"

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That kind of gives you an idea on the tone of things for a bit there with these folks, reader.

In the end, things sort of get sorted out (as much as they ever do in Farscape, at least). Here are the important highlights, okay?

Pip (the nickname for this reality's Chiana, which we'll be using for convenience) finally got to learn just how she got her eyesight back (for the moment at least) and what the deal with her twin was. Made for a very interesting story for her, but we already know it, eh? Let us just say that at turns Chiana was amused, appalled, and saddened by what her "sister" had to tell about her and her friends misadventures in this universe....

The death of this realm's Talyn hit her especially hard, and the news about the native Zhaan wasn't easy to swallow for her, also.

Meanwhile, both Betty and Ragan not only are able to convince Crichton and the others about this "magic stuff" (after pointedly reminding John about the strangness of Maldis and all that, though reminding him not ALL mystical types were necessarily bad like that vampire type!) and was even able to talk the native Farscapers into letting them (Betty and Ragan) speeding up the healing of the connection between Moya and Pilot! What helped there was a rather astute observation that whilst Chiana had been able to drive home the need for speed!

She reminds our friends that while she’d been able to damage and drive off that one strange flying ship, it might have friends. Many friends and many better ARMED friends....

And being that the Betty and Ragan mutter something about "the fifth season" being canceled (all but Chiana had a clue on what that was about), they couldn’t give a clue on just who was in charge of the aliens with split apart faces!!

Not really.

As for the ghosts, the task of tracking down the dead Star Trekker bodies which were on Moya (which linked the ghosts to this realm) was aided immensely with the tricorders that the unexpected visitors (Betty, Ragan, and Chiana) were carrying. Yes, John was a little "weirded out" by real tricorders, but then again "weird" goes so WELL to describe Crichton, sometimes. Rather.

Anyway, Stark (with a "pick me up" from "Granny") is able to facilitate the shrieking ghosts over to the other side. Good, considering that while harmless enough as they were NOW (though sleeping would have been impossible with them about), given enough time they could have learned how to start telekenetically throw things about (sharp things especially, just ask Rygel how that worked out back in "Taking the Stone"). Right now, the ghosts are too new to their undead state . . . . just as well....

Hm, so things LOOK like they’re coming sort of together especially when (after Pilot recovers enough) the ghostly Defiant is spotted overhead visually by Moya (even IF her sensors cannot detect it in any other fashion than visually). That ship was, the Champions figure, the only means BACK to putting things right and finishing up their Quest.....

Or at least a step in the right direction, considering that the Defiant WAS figured to have been their means of completing their Quest before this....er.....interruption.

But the Question is just HOW to get aboard that vessel gets accidentally answered by John, who’s still got that wormhole equation in his head (as well as guy named Harvey, but that’s another tale for later). He hits upon an obvious possible solution....

"Maybe there’s somebody still on her," Crichton mutters as he flips open a communicator (old style) to try to contact Kirk upon the Defiant. After all, he HAD been the last aboard the ship before it had disappeared in the TV show. Maybe, just maybe things hadn’t gone as in the TV show and Kirk had been stuck aboard instead of floating around in limbo, halfway snatched off the Defiant (but not into the Enterprise) when things went sour?

But.......

While John’s a good enough fan, he’d never actually used a REAL communicator (ala Star Trek: TOS) before. Not really. So when he flipped the thing open, he blanches as he recognizes he had accidently touched something (brushed against it while opening the faceplate). The emergency beamup beacon went off and.... It appears that some kind of emergency routine for transporters was still in effect aboard the Defiant because the blasted rustbucket had beamed everyone on Moya (except Pilot, who’d been too attached to register as separate from Moya by the transporters sensors)....

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Hey, just because you never saw it in the show doesn’t mean such an emergency automatic measure didn’t exist!

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Hrmph.

Well, let’s just say that Kirk looks surprised upon coming up to the bridge to check things out, only to find the folks from Moya already having headed there, beating him. They’d gone up there to find out if the ship’s sensors could give them a clue on how to get OUT of their (the transporters could beam up but refused to beam down for some frelling reason)!

Being that B’Elanna had taught them the basics of the com system on starships (as well as watching a bit too much Star Trek themselves), Betty and Ragan were trying to contact the Doctor and the others. Combadges and such were being detected, but it was such a HASSLE getting this antique to tune to the frequencies (much higher than what was used by the Star Fleet of Kirk’s time)!

"Uhura needs a raise," mutters Betty to Ragan, fiddling with her ear piece while Ragan tried yet another tweaking of the system board.

That’s when the bridge door’s slide open and Kirk in that funky spacesuit, sans helmet (had gotten lost in a chase with the Defiant’s ghosts, makes the seen.

"Who are you?" Kirk says slowly, pointing his phasor at Aeryn, all the while well aware of Aeryn’s and Crichton’s weapons on HIM!

After cautious, tense exchanges things and things calm down to something less dangerous....

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Well, rather it's D'Argo tonguing Kirk (who wasn't expecting THAT) that calms things down! He'd had his Qualta blade sheathed, so hadn't been able to draw on Kirk so resorted to his "backup".....

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Hey, stop looking at me like that! D'Argo can talk with it, but that tongue of his can strike out (literally) like a whip and knock a guy out! Anyone who'd seen John Crichton's first encounter with D'Argo would have seen it in action....

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Anyway...

Pip mutters a question to Chiana (who had just realized that besides herself, Betty, and Ragan, none of the other Champions had ever seen D'Argo do that).

"Why did he talk like Durka?" the Nebari asks the Dragoness, who just shrugs (curious herself about that).

1. Meanwhile, down on Gauda Prime....

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