The Continuing Story of Deep Space 2: Page 67
Earth was now secured. The enemy scientist, expert in genetic manipulations had escaped, but his ship had left a trail, which was almost immediately detected. USS Ajax served as host for the Federation group in pursuit. Arthur took the time to give a tour of his ship to Admiral Alynna Nechayev who had only heard about it. She even had left her own ship, USS Nemisis to join this hunt. Of course she was very curious to see the USS Ajax by herself. But she had ordered the Nemissis to keep up with the Ajax. After all these years about her confusing feelings about her friend Arthur, she still wasn't sure about his motives. Ajax Engineering did not have one little thing that could be a remote resamblance of Federation technology, and when the tour ended in the weapons bays, Alynna was speachless. The Automated battledrones had been pulled up from the battle depot and were ready to be launched. They looked dark and dangerous. Alynna realised that thes destructive weaponsystems would be launched as soon as the USS Ajax would be in orbit of the planet this evil scientist was hiding on, or if the Ajax was close enough for battle with the scientist's ship, these battle drones would come into action. And that would not take long...
"What do you think ?"
Arthur smiled at Alynna as he had done so long ago. It was the smile of victory. It was the smile that made her melt and make her heart beat just a little bit faster.
"Impressive. You can destroy an entire planet with this arsenal. It is horrifying even to think about such a thing."
Alynna came closer to Arthur. she didn't really knew why, but maybe she just felt unsafe. Arthur took her hand.
"We have no future Alynna, but with ships like this we can even stop the Borg. You should feel safe."
"But Deep Space 2 is so far away..."
"It is only at the border of the Delta Quadrant. We could be anywhere in the Federation in less than 20 minutes."
"It could be over in ten minutes."
"I know. That is why we have to stop all evil at the border."
Both of them now were very close, extremely close to eachother. Arthur smiled and to his surprise Alynna smiled...
"Admiral. I am sorry to disturbe you, but we have identified the scientist responsible for the virus, infecting the Vulcans. His name is Linoram. He used to be a professor at the Vulcan Academy of Sciences. They through him out. Apparently he didn't have the necessary logic. Sorry Admiral, that was supposed to be a joke. Anyway, we have found his hiding place and are on our way there. ETA 8 minutes. It is a small planet called Ghianata. sensors indicate that..."
"Yes yes. Thank you lieutenant. I'll be on the bridge in a moment."
And indeed only a minute later Arthur was again on the bridge and admiral Nechayev had left for her own ship. The USS Nemisis and USS Ajax were now speeding up to the planet called Ghianata side by side, both ships at red alert. This raid would be over in no time. And indeed upon arrival the scientist called Linoram had had no time to organise some kind of defense. When six USS Ajax battledrones flew above the small buildings of the town hiding Linoram, the scientist himself realised it was over. Only thirty seconds after the first battledrone had appeared in the Ghianata sky, Linoram surrendered, transfered to the USS Ajax for questioning, after which the Federation council would investigate this matter further.
"So you are the famous Linoram ?"
Admiral Nechayev didn't seem to be impressed, by the appearance of Linoram, who was rather small, looking afraid, even looked more like a victim than the organizer of a plot against the Federation.
Suddenly, out of nowhere two humanoids appeared on the USS Ajax bridge. They were immediately surrounded by Lieutenant Colonel Jan's marine security forces, heavily armed.
"Identify yourself."
It was no request. It was an order.
"Greetings. My name is Akna, I am a timetraveller and this is my companion Gorth. We travel through time and space, and seek out people we believe are a threat to the future.
You all have to the ability to travel far to distance worlds, and have made contact with a great many different spieces. We have been monitoring your activties for the past 300 years, my supiriors believe that you all are a race people who believe that violence can be solved by violence. On my world "Arconia" we have created a race of human like androids, that we have given total control through over our intire Galaxy. They have but one function, and that is to live in a peacefull Galaxy. As Watcher over your area of space, it is my function to watch and report what I see. As an Arconian representative I would like to speak to every leader that is known to you. Gorth will transmit our communication code. I will wait for your answer."
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But Admiral Arthur was not impressed at all.
"I don't care who you are and what you want, but you will be of this ship in a second if you walk in my way. Do you understand ? You, you and you guard these intruders and you and you get this fake scientist of my ship and throw him in Admiral Nechayev's brig..."
Akna and Gorth were just standing there. Maybe they had imagined another kind of reception...