USS Tiger Shark-B: "Mirror, Mirror on the wall"

[Felix Savali]

Several days after the wedding celebrations were over the crew of the USS Tiger Shark was preparing to leave Earth. They had spent the last few days relaxing and celebrating and they couldn't wait to be back in space after all they were Starfleet officers and preferred space more than land.

After all of their belongings were transported to the ship it was time for them to beam of. They were saying goodbye to their friends and family, relatives and acquaintances. After all of it was done they all assembled for the transport.

=/\=K'Vada to the Tiger Shark =/\=

=/\=Go ahead sir=/\=

=/\=9 for transport=/\=

=/\=Aye sir , starting transport=/\=

As the transport officer initiated the transporters, there was a power surge in one of the weather control centers on Earth which caused the atmosphere to become ionized. And at that moment the transport began. A few seconds later the crew found themselves back on the USS Tiger Shark.

Once they were in the transporter room everyone stepped of the pad and went their own way not even noticing that the transporter officer was wearing some strange clothes nor noticing that their uniforms had changed.

Tiffani and Felix went to their quarters they were happy they were married. And there was nothing that could make them sad now. As they arrived to Felix quarters and attempted to open the door , but his code didn’t work.

=/\=Computer override code Savali 1186 alpha=/\=

And the door opened it was strange that the normal code did not work. As they entered their quarters a crewmember approached Felix he just noticed that his uniform was different.

"I challenge you to take command of this ship", the man said

"What ?", Felix asked not believing his ears

While he was stunned the man punched him in the face and he flew across the room. Just then the man was pulling out his phaser. Which looked strange in someway.

But the man hadn’t noticed Tiffany standing there and she kicked the phaser out of hs hand which provided enough time for Felix to grab the phaser and fire. Felix thought the phaser was on stun but the man was vaporized in fornt of his eyes.

"What’s happening here", Tiffani asked as she rushed to hug him

=/\=Savali to security report to my quarters ASAP=/\=

Off: Ok here is the mirror universe mission. We still do not know where we are nor what happened and we will encounter our counter parts when we find a way to reutrn to our universe. As they ended up on our ship. Oh and to add interest to this mission it would be fun if the roles would be mixed. Example: the crew of the mirror ship sees the CEO as CMO etc. im leaving the choice of positions to you. The captain and i agreed that they see me as the Captain and him as the FO.

[lohnen]

Danny and Liam had just reached the Marine Deck when they heard Commander Savali's call:

=/\=Savali to security report to my quarters ASAP=/\=. They looked at each other, silently asking each other what could possibly be wrong so soon after they had returned. The ship had been in space dock, so theoretically it was damn near impossible that there was already a security breach. Although technically they were not part of the ship's security department, they did work together with the CTSO ans so they responded to the Commander's call immediately.

When Danny and Liam arrived, Thirteen, the CTSO, came also running around the corner, closely followed by his Security detail. They saw each other approaching and at first they didn't recognise each other. They drew their phasers simultaneously, targetting the other one in the strange uniform. It was Gunnery Sergeant O'Connor who first saw that the stranger was in fact Thirteen and he immediately shouted, "Lieutenant Thirteen. Don't shoot sir, it's us, Lieutenant Löhnen and Gunnery Sergeant O'Connor.

At his cry, Thirteen recognised them and lowered his phaser. Danny hesitated for a second and then did the same. They looked at each other, wondering why the hell they were wearing these rediculous outfits, but then they decided there were more pressing business at hand.

When they entered the Commander's quarters, the air smelled sightly like ozon, like someone had been vaporized shortly before. Commander Savali and Lieutenant Commander Rylka stood in the center of the room, nodding to the Security team and the two Marines as they entered.

Off: Tiffany, how should we address you in the mission? As Counselor or Commander?
Thirteen, I hope you don't mind I have used you in this post. According to my Marine job description, we will work togeher a lot. I won't interfere with you normal CTSO duties, but in cases like these, it would seem both logical and fun to work together. If you do mind, sent me an IM all right?

[tiffani]

OOC You can address me as Counselor for now till i figure something out *L*

*after the tigershark crew had beamed back to the ship and they had started making their way back to their quarters Tiffani couldn't help but feel somehting wasn't quit right she shook it off when she heard Felix arguing with the computer about his authorization code When suddenly a Crewmember wearing unfamilary Clothing looked them in the eye daring them to try and take over the ship*

*as Felix fired back at the crewman Tiffani kicked the phaser out of his hands when suddenly she turned around and seen a group of security officer*

((OOC: i just am posting to get atleast get my character involved Im not sure how much i'll get to be involved I have decided in the MIRROR UNIVERSE My Double will Be CEO and heres an odd Twist She wont be married Either @ Felix Im sure this will be an AWESOME SIMM))

[lohnen]

I think my character would make a nice CMO in the mirror universe, if no-one objects to this.

[laika]

OFF: This is sorta a jump into the future for me and Buster. We’ll still be finishing up at the Vesuvius, but we wanted to participate here. We only plan on staying at the Vesuvius for a few days and then we’ll come back. This is when we come back.

With the vampire problem partly taken care of and J’Leera being well again, Buster decided that it was time to head back to the Tiger Shark. The wedding couple was now supposedly back on board, so that they could head out on their new mission.

The Tiger Shark was still in the Terran solar system, so Buster laid in a course there to meet up with them. They planned to meet them just as they were leaving the system and board then.

They mostly rested on the way back, but also played a few card games. Buster knew a few that he taught to J’Leera. She thought that “Old Maid” was funny, but really enjoyed poker. Since their wasn’t a table onboard the shuttle, they just sat on the floor and played. Buster was amazed at how quickly J’Leera mastered the game and wondered what would happen if they were to actually use money. Better remember that, he thought to himself.

J’Leera was still feeling guilty about Caldwell, but forced herself to enjoy the game. Buster noticed and made a note to himself to have her talk to the counselor when they got back.

Just as they were about to start a new game, the computer informed them that they were entering the Terran system. Buster looked over at the console, “Oh, we’re almost there,” he said.

“Oh, good,” she said and put her cards down on the carpet. She got up and followed him up front. She sat down in the other chair and looked at the console. “There’s the Tiger Shark,” she pointed at the screen.

Buster leaned forward and looked at it closely, “But what’s it doing?”

“What do you mean?”

“Look,” he pointed. “They’re heading towards Earth, now why would they do that? The wedding’s over.”

She shrugged, “I don’t know. Maybe they forgot something.”

“Must be something else,” he decided, but still it bothered him. Suddenly he noticed a funny odor in the air. “What’s that…?” he tried to ask when an alarm went off.

J’Leera quickly shut it off and looked to see what was wrong. The panel indicating the port side wall of the shuttle was blinking rapidly in a red light. She called up a more detailed analysis and was shocked to see that the EPS conduits had overloaded and were beginning to melt the surrounding material. How did that happen? she thought. “We’ve got an overload in the EPS!” she reported. “It’s melting the entire side of the shuttle! We’re going to lose atmosphere if we don’t stop it soon!”

Buster nearly panicked. He was a doctor, not an engineer. He didn’t know what to do. “Suggestions?” he asked.

“It may be possible to expose the outer pieces to space,” she answered. “It may be possible to cool them that way.”

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t the material this shuttle is made of be very resistant to heat?” he asked.

“Yes,” she answered, wondering that herself. “Unless…” she glanced at the console at the Tiger Shark.

“Unless what?” Buster asked.

The hit a few buttons on her console and nearly gasped at what she found. “I’m detecting a surge of radiation coming from the Tiger Shark.”

“What kind of radiation?”

“I’ve never seen this before! I don’t know what it is,” she said. “But it’s causing the atoms that are exposed to the radiation in the shuttlecraft to become ionized. That’s what’s causing them to overheat.”

Buster starred at the console in shock. He couldn’t believe what he seeing and yet it was true. “Hail them! They must know that this is damaging our shuttle!”

She frowned, “The radiation is blocking our transmissions…” she said just as the console’s readout faded away. “Oh, no! We’re just lost sensors. There’s too much interference from the radiation.”

He glanced over at the wall. It was pretty obvious as to what was happening to it and it was obvious what would happen to them if they stayed. He went to the console and checked to see if transporters were offline. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they weren’t yet. “Okay…we’re transporting out of here.” He activated it and got them out before J’Leera had a chance to say anything.

<Tag: Buster>

[Deleted]

Once the transport had finished Luke got off the platform tired from the days exertions.

He tapped his comm badge while walking to his quaters.

"Ensign Lasal please meet me in my quaters as soon as possible."

=^= Excuse me?! =^= Lasal replied.

"You heard me Ensign. Please report to my quaters immediately!" Luke was tired and was in no mood for games.

=^= Ill have you shot for your insubordination Lt. I hold the rank of Commodore not Ensign! How dare you! Yes I will be at your quaters soon, so I can punish you for your rusenss! =^= Then the comm link was cut.

Odd. Why was Jeret acting so strangely? He got to his quaters and found he could not get through the security code at his door.

"Computer overide , authorisation: Dowding 16783 Alpha."

=^= Accessed denied. =^=

"What!" Luke shouted. This was certainly not his day. Just as he was about to consider trying to ram the door down the door opened and Amy stept out.

"Oh Amy am I gald to see you. The door wouldnt open and...." but something was different about her, her eyes were grey instead of blue and she was wearing a wierd silk garment that didnt seem to do anyhting to keep her decency. Just then a tall Human stopped besie Luke an Amy and he began to kiss her! She didnt even try to stop him!

"Oi!" Luke yelled and started to try and pull the huge man off of his girlfriend. "Get off of her!"

"Look you puny little boy, perhaps you should leave me and my woman alone, alright?" The tall man said.

"Thats right Jeret, you tell him. He was trying to break into our quaters. Perhaps you should teach him a lesson." Amy smiled sinisterly.

Luke gulped. Did she just say Jeret? But Jeret is a Cardassian, a Cardassina Ensign and what was Amy doing with him! Something was definately not right here, he had to find the other members of the team that had beamed up from Earth. Luke belived he knew what had happened....

[mathijsbuster]

Buster and J'Leera rematerialized aboard the Tigershark. Buster looked around. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, the only thing that he found strange was that there wasn't anyone else in the room.

"I think we should let them know we have arrived, and if we are fast enough we can still save the shuttle." J'Leera said. She tapped her combadge.
"J'Leera to the bridge" she said. She got no response.
"How odd. Maybe my combadge isn't working. she said.

Buster tried the same but didn't get a response either.
"I have a feeling that something very strange is happening". Buster said. He grabbed his phaser from his belt. He nodded to J'Leera and she did the same.

They walked out of the room cautiously. Buster looked around but the corridors were empty.
"What is happening here? Surely the rest of the crew has arrived? And what was destroying our shuttle?" he asked.
"Computer, how many life signs are on this deck?" J'Leera asked. It took a while but the computer responded. "There are 13 life signs on this deck".

"Well, I guess we aren't the only ones then" J'Leera said. "Computer, locate captain Sam K'Vada".
Once again the computer waited a while. "Unable to comply, please rephrase your input".

That was odd. The computer has never done that before, J'Leera thought. "I guess we'll just have to find them then".

They followed the corridor to the turbo lift and they went straight for the bridge. The turbolift was halfway when the doors opened and another crewmember entered. Buster had seen him before but he was wearing a strange uniform this time.

"Excuse me?" Buster asked. "Could you please tell us what is going on?"
The crewmember looked at them, especially at the phasers they were carrying. "Who are you?" he asked, not too politely.

Buster didn't expect to get interrupted but he answered his question. "Ehr, I am the medical officer, Buster" he said. He then nodded to J'Leera and continued "and this is..."

He was about to finish his sentence when the crewmember once again interrupted him in a very brutal way. "I don't know you. Come with me". He walked out of the turbolift.

"Ehr, actually, we are on our way to the bridge to speak with the captain" Buster said.

The crewmember stopped and turned around. Looking at Buster in a murderous way. Buster and J'Leera gasped.

"I said, come with me! And you will do that if you know what is good for you" the crewmember said.

When Buster and J'Leera didn't move he pulled his phaser and aimed it at J'Leera. "Come with me now our I'll blow you and your little girlfriend here".

Buster didn't know how to respond. He was thinking of possible mutiny. "Actually she isn't my girlfriend... And what do you possibly think you are..." He stopped as the crewmember shot his weapon at him. The phaser hitted his shoulder and he was thrown back. Other than the fall to the ground and a small burn on his shoulder it didn't hurt too much.

"Next time I'll set it to kill" the crewmember said. "Now come with me!"

J'Leera helped Buster back up and they looked at each other. They both knew the crewmember was serious now. They followed him.

They walked through the corridor. Buster kept his phaser lying on the ground when he was shot, but J'Leera was still holding hers. Strangely enough the crewmember didn't seem bothered by it and didn't even look back while walking through the corridors.

Buster gave a nod at J'Leera's phaser. J'Leera understood what Buster meant but raised her shoulders.

Perhaps it was better to follow the crewmember for the moment. There wasn't anywhere they could flee to anyway...

(Tag: J'Leera, anyone)

[lohnen]

The Security team and the two Marines had swiftly examined Commander Savali's quarters. They had found some strange things. For starters, none of Commander Savali's personal belongings seemed to have been brought to his quarters. Everything looked strange and the room was certainly not decorated in the same way as he left it. They were still contemplating these odd findings when they heard footsteps in the hallway. Danny imediately drew his phaser and positioned himself o one side of the door. Thirteen did the same at the opposite side. The rest took cover in Commander Savali's quarters, phasers drawn and set to stun. The footsteps came closer and closer and the two officers could make out three people.

Thirteen gestured to Danny to take the first person and he himself would deal with the two directly behind him. When the first of the three people passed the room, they had just enough time to notice his strange clothing before Danny and Thirteen jumped out from behind the door posts and went for their successive victims.

Danny took the first person. He jumped into the allway, yelling, "FREEZE!" The man in the strange uniform turned around in surprise and raised his phaser before Danny took him out with three successive blasts from hs phaser. The man dropped like a block of wood.

Meanwhile, Thriteen had jumped the two people following the strange officer and right before he fired a stunbeam at them he found out that it was the captured Mathijs Buster and J'Leera Laika. The two officers were glad to see some familiar faces, but otherwise they didn't know what to make of it. It's not every day that your CTSO holds a phaser to your head.

Mathijs started, "What the hell is going on here? Lieutenant, why are you pointing tha phaser on me? We have just arrived and....... At that moment, Commander Savali stepped out into the hallway and interrupted the annoyed CMO. "Come on everybody, quickly into my quarters. There's time for chitchat later. Lieutenant Löhnen, Sergeant O'Connor, cuff that fellow over there and drag him in. Let's see what we can get out of him once he wakes up......"

[Felix Savali]

After everyone went inside Felix's quarters he closed the door and locked them. After that he turned the group of people they got assembled in there.

"There is something strange happening here", he began to talk and everyone was listening

"First when i came to my quarters the usual code to open the door did not work and i had to use the command codes to bypass the lock", he said

"After that a crewmember came inside and said that he was challenging me for the command of the ship, and he has attacked me, but luckily with the help of the counselor here , we were able to disarm him but he jumped for the phasor and i had no choice but to shoot , unfortunately the phasor was on vaporize, and it doesn’t seem like it has any other options on it", he said as he gave it to Thirteen and Lohnen to examine

<Thirteen, Lohnen>

"Also i have noticed that our uniforms have changed and the people are acting differently almost like everyone gone mad except us", he said

"Have any of you encountered something strange? And what happened to you doctor?", he asked the group

<Thirteen, Lohnen, J’Leera, Buster>

[Deleted]

"Have any of you encountered something strange? And what happened to you doctor?", he asked the group

Right after Savali asked this, the doorbell chimed. In a short time, a lot of actions were taken. The cuffed crewman was dragged out of sight, Lohnen, O'Connor and Thirteen drew their phasers, and Savali, Buster and J'Leera braced, ready to jump out of harm's way if necessary.

'Come in', Savali said while the security officers present aimed their weaponry at the door. The doors slid open and revealed.... Wood, with a bruised left eye, a swollen cheekbone, a bleeding forehead and three phasers pointed at his head.
'You may put those down, as you can see I've seen enough action for today.'

'Wood, what happened?'
'Well, when we transported aboard, I went to finish some work, so reported to the ops station on the bridge. You wouldn't believe the shape it's in, Commander, it's barely holding together, most consoles are out, and it's filled with armed security guards.'
'Anyway, I walked over to the ops station and relieved Lieutenant Jasons, who I believe has had a fashion make-over, when he hit me, quite hard i might add.' Wood points towards his bruises and bleeding forehead..

'Turns out I am the third warp nacelle engineer' Wood sighs. 'So I went to sickbay to get this checked out, it's in the worst shape i've ever seen, blood stains everywhere. The nurse, friendly as she is gave me a mild painkiller, or so I thought. When it began stinging, I looked on the hypospray, she gave me some kind of acid.' Wood gestures towards his swollen cheekbone.

'In short, what the hell is happening? And why do we all look so rediculous?' Wood said, quite loud.
'You're not the only one, Commander, have a seat. And could someone close that door please?' Savali spoke.

After closing the door, everyone eased and the conversation continued.

OFF: They made me a third warp nacelle engineer, probably because of budgetary reasons :S Anyway, sorry for inruding on your conversation

<Tag people who are in the room with me>

[thirteen]

Thirteen looked around and saw nothing but puzzled faces.

''It appears none of us holds the position we usually do,'' Thirteen implied.

The group nodded in agreement.

Thirteen looked at the weapon handed to him by Felix.

It was phaser-shaped, yet lacking all modern aspects of a normal phaser.

''I would almost say it is a phaser prototype,'' Thirteen said.

Danny looked at it and nodded.

''This can not be our Tigershark,'' Thirteen said.

''But it is partially,'' Wood said, ''I have a designation as third warpnacelle engineer.''

''True,'' Savali admitted, ''lets see if we can call up a personnellist and see what positions we all hold.''

Thirteen walked over to the small deskcomputer that could be found at what could be called a desk.

He touched the screen and it flickered on. Yet it did not display the starfleet logo. A strange sign appeared and a blank piece in which a password was to be filled in.

Thirteen tried his password.

It did not comply and displayed [password invalid, enter valid password within thirty secondes].

''Uh oh,'' Thirteen said, ''thats going to cause an alarm to go off.''

''Try mine,'' Savali offered, ''Savali 1186 alpha.''

[access granted] appeared on the screen and the computer booted.

Thirteen typed a few commands and found that he had to use them somewhat differently than he usually had to on a computer.

After two minutes a personnellist appeared on screen.

OFF: Okay this is the part where we difine our roles I guess, I don't really mind what position I get, as long as it is not CTSO, since we are in a mirror universe. I wouldn't mind filling up a command post, but I'd also settle with the leftovers.
Oh bye the way, I'm back for a week, at the end of this week I'll go on holiday for three weeks, but I'll post a TLOA by that time.

[Deleted]

Luke began to run away from the angry Commodore, or Ensign, or whatever he was. He had to find the other away team members.

"Computer locate Commander Savali."

=^= You do not have a security access code for the ISS Tiger Shark of the Imperial Section 47, please restate question along with your personal authorization code. =^= The computer sounded.

"Lt. Jg Dowding, authorization: Dowding 16783 Alpha." Luke said.

=^= There is no Lt. Jg Dowding listed in the Imperial Section 47. You do not have access for this area. Only Dowding listed in ships databanks is a certain Crewman Luke Dowding, Slave number 09087865, dilithium mines Deltic Belt. =^=

The Deltic Belt? Thats where Luke was a slave when he was younger, but according to this computer he was still a slave, he looked at himself for the first time and realised he wasnt in a dress uniform like when he left Earth but in a type of all - in - one brown garment with a familiar looking symbol and comm badge on his left. This is getting wierder and wieder Luke thought.


****20 Minutes later****

Luke had walked from his quaters to Commander Savalis, hoping he would be there. It had taking him at least 5 times the time it would normally because he had had to hide every time someone came near.

Luke took a deep breath, rang the door chime and doors slid open, and walked in, hoping this would be where he would find some answers.

[laika]

J’Leera immediately began to look for her name and was shocked to find it not listed. “What in the world? Why am I not here?”

Thirteen checked it over. “No, you’re not here,” he realized. “I know that you’re still new, but you ought to be here.”

“Something very strange is going on here,” Buster mumbled. “Hey, there’s my name. <Tag: Buster>

J’Leera stepped forward for a closer look at the list. “There are a lot names here that I don’t recognize,” she pointed out. “I read the personnel list on our Tiger Shark and I don’t remember seeing these people before. Who’s Fern?”

“Fern?” Savali asked. “Fern who?”

“Just says Fern, doesn’t give any other name or any information.”

“Well, it’s probably just nothing,” Thirteen said, stepping forward. He attempted to call up further information on Fern, but didn’t find much.

“What does it say?” J’Leera asked.

“Special ops,” he answered. “Doesn’t say anything else.”

“Special ops in Starfleet?” she asked, puzzled. “What’s going on here?”

“Possible,” Danny spoke up. “We have the marines after all. But this does seem rather strange.”

<Tag: Everyone else>

OFF: Has anyone else decided on a position? Fern is going to be the mirror version of J’Leera.

[tiffani]

*tiffani watched as all the crewmembers looked over the roster they were examine she couldn't tell what was wrong with her but for some reason she couldn't read anyones mind it was like her betazoid sense were taking away from her* *she listened in silence as the crew spoke to one another she sit back letting her mind flow hoping she could sense something.* *she finally stepped up to see where she was stationed at*

*she looked down the list* Lt Commander Tiffani Rylka ~ Chief Enginneering Officer

Wait *said Tiffani* Rylka? *she looked to Felix a bit puzzled* It shouldn't be that. *she skimmed through the personnel bio on Rylka and gasped* *She sit back and listened as the others went on in sort of shock*

((OOC: okay my character in this realm will have lost her betazoid senses))

[Deleted]

As Luke walked through the door he was relieved to see the away tam all sitting there, but were they who they were supposed to be?

"J'Leera, is that you?" Luke asked nervously.

"Oh Luke, its so good to see you again, I thought that something dreadful had happened to you." J'Leera replied.

"Well, I am alive but this uniform Im wearing has dragged up some unhappy memories..." Luke trailed off.

They all were silent.

"So..." Luke said. "Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I mean this change in character of the people we know, and the different uniforms and my change in postion from the CNO to a slave miner, these all consist with..."

"Yes, the mirror universe." Thirteen said...

[Felix Savali]

While they were looking over the roster , Felix was surprised to see some strange people in their positions. And they on the other hand got even stranger positions. He found his name listed as Imperial Supervisor nr. 2569.

=/\=Computer, what are the duties of imperial supervisor nr. 2569?=/\=, he asked

=/\=That information is classified=/\=

=/\=Computer who can view this info?=/\=

=/\=Ships CO, FO, intelligence officer and imperial supervisor=/\=

=/\=Display duties for imperial supervisor nr. 2569, authorization Savali 1186 alpha=/\=

And the list appeared it seemed he was to oversee prisoner interrogations, and rate mission success. Strange indeed he thought.

After everyone else found out what are their duties on the ship it seemed only logical that Thirteen and Dowding were indeed correct.

=/\=Computer what is the mission of this vessel=/\=

=/\=ISS Tiger Shark, mission objective retake Earth=/\=

"Seems like we are stuck in the mirror universe, on the Tiger Shark on course to Earth, and i think that our mirror versions have ended up on our USS Tiger Shark", Felix said

<tag Everyone>

"We need to act like our mirror versions and try not to attract attention, also we need to find the captain, and find a way to return to our universe", he said

"Ideas people?", he said as he looked at them

<tag Everyone>

[laika]

Savali/Salek/Saarok said:

"Seems like we are stuck in the mirror universe, on the Tiger Shark on course to Earth, and i think that our mirror versions have ended up on our USS Tiger Shark", Felix said.

“Perhaps our mirror versions were the ones attacking us,” J’Leera said.

“Attacking you?” Savali asked. “How?”

“As we neared the ship, we had a malfunction in the EPS conduits,” she explained. “Then we found that we were being slammed by a radiation surge coming from the Tiger Shark.”

Buster nodded, “We didn’t know what it was. It was a kind of radiation that neither of us were familiar with.”

“Which Tiger Shark was this?” Danny asked. “Was it our Tiger Shark or the mirror version?”

“I don’t know,” J’Leera shrugged. “It could have been this one, or it could have been ours after our mirror versions took over, assuming that they have.”

“That’s very possible,” Savali said. “In other encounters with the mirror universe, they happened after transporter accidents. Did you two beam aboard also?”

They both nodded. “We had to,” Buster said. “We were losing too much atmosphere and had no way to contact the ship.”

“If they have taken over our ship,” Thirteen spoke up. “Then we must return immediately. There’s no telling what they may do our universe, especially if they think they still need to recapture Earth.”

“Precisely,” Savali nodded.

Savali/Salek/Saarok said:

"We need to act like our mirror versions and try not to attract attention, also we need to find the captain, and find a way to return to our universe", he said

"Ideas people?", he said as he looked at them

“Should any of us be on duty right now?” J’Leera asked. “If we are supposed to be, it might look a little strange if we aren’t there.”

Luke glanced at his uniform nervously. “I wonder where I’m supposed to be.”

OFF: I’ll post more later.

[thirteen]

The officers list ran over the small screen situated on the desk.

Thirteen didn't see his name fly by, but stopped and scrolled back up. The screen stopped again and displayed:

[Daniel Felix McVaye]
[Identification number: 0016-9870]
[Rank: FC; First Commander]
[Position: SCO; Secondary Commanding Officer]

''Hmm, appearantly they uphold a different system of ranks,'' Thirteen noticed.

''First Commander?'' Buster asked, ''must be something like Commander 1st Class.''

''Could be,'' Savali said.

''And what about Secondary Commanding Officer?'' J'Leera asked.

''Probably the equality of First Officer, so would be alogical conclusion,'' Thirteen stated.

''By the way,'' J'Leera began, ''why did you stop here?''

''Because,'' Thirteen pauzed for a second, ''that is my real name, well, was.''

The others stared at him.

''Thirteen is the name I got after having been assimilated. I was designated as thirteen of twentyone. After my dissimilation by a Starfleet medical ship, my name became Thirteen. Before I was assimilated my name was Daniel Felix McVaye. Dan to friends,'' Thirteen told, as a strange feeling went through his spinal court. He felt something stinging in his eyes.

''Buster, could you have a look, I think my eyes need medical attention,'' Thirteen said, ''I do not at all feel well.

''Thirteen,'' Buster said examining, ''you are crying!''

''Crying? I am not able of experiencing human emotions since I got assimilated,'' Thirteen said.

Buster looked through the room and stepped into the bedroom.

''Thirteen? Come in here,'' Buster's voice came from the bedroom.''

Thirteen walked towards Buster.

''Have a look,'' Buster said pointing at a dusty mirror, which had rapidly been cleaned.

''It is an interesting painting Mister Buster,'' Thirteen said, ''but this is not really the time for art.''

The mirror displayed a young man in a neat uniform. His dark brown, almost black hair was styled in a strict way, strings of hair waving along to the back of his head.

Brown eyes looked, seemingly surprised, back at Thirteen.

The unifrom was black. Each shoulder held three golden stars.

Sturdy leather boots appeared from under a neatly ironed, dark blue pants.

A name was stitched onto the uniform, at the left breast.
It said: 'FC D. F. McVaye, SCO'.

It took a while before Thirteen realized what he saw.

It was him, he was looking into a mirror. Apparently, he had not been assimilated in this universe. There was no trace at all of any implants he might have had.

That meant Buster was right, he was capable of experiencing emotions, he was human.

Thirteen's smile grew bigger and bigger.

He went back into the quarters with the others. And glanced at everyone.

It seemed that just then everybody started realizing how all the others looked and how different that was in contrast to their normal appearances.

''Just so we get it right the next time, how would you like to be adressed?'' Felix asked Thirteen.

Thirteen smiled and said: ''Adress me by my name.''

''Alright, Daniel,'' Felix laughed.

''Dan, it's Dan,'' Thirteen said.

[lohnen]

Danny was still looking at the screen, scrolling down the list of names until finally he let out a cry of amazement. "WOW!" The others turned in alarm. Thirteen immediately drew his phaser, but when he saw Danny's overjoyed face, he put it away and asked what the problem was.

"Well, no offence Commander, but it seems I'm the CO of this vessel" Commander Savali looked slightly annoyed at having his authority challenged by a 1st Lieutenant, but Danny immediately reassured him that it was only make-believe as long as they were in public places. Commander Savali and Captain K'Vada would of course remain in Command.

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Luke couldnt help but express a shudder. Although he loved learning about the mirror universe, actually being in it was another matter, he could see looking round the room that everyone felt the same.

"Well. I believe that the first cause of action should be to determine how we got here." J'Leera said.

"I have a theory on that." Thirteen said. "I believe that for a brief moment Earths amosphere became ionised when we beamed up to the Tiger Shark, causing a similar situation to that which happened to Captain Kirk and his landing party."

"Yes, that makes sense. " Savali said. "However, now we have problem sorted out, another one replaces it. How are we going to return to our universe?"

"I believe I can help with that" Luke said. "In this universe I am only a miner, so fairly inconspicuous, no - one seemed to pay any notice to me on my way over here. Also I believe that there must be ceretain areas of this ship that only certain people can gain entrance to. I looked up some schematics just now and the lower engineering decks were actually the dilethium processing decks. So only slave and those of the rank of Commander or above can gain access to them. If I were to go down to those decks and begin a revolt perhaps it would gain time for every one else to reconfigure the transporters so we can get home. Then our only problem would be sending the doubles back from our universe." Luke finished with his plan and looked at everyone.

"I agee with Lt. Jg Dowdings plan." Savali said. "Although I do not believe that he should go dwon to the lower decks and start the revolt on his own. Who is Commander or higher in this universe." He asked.

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[Felix Savali]

After hearing out everyone’s ideas about what they should do next Felix realized the Luke's plan was the best they had for the moment and decided to go along with it after thinking some more he got an idea of how to proceed next.

"Ok, we will do it like this, Mr. Thirteen since you have experience with security and tactical, you will be able to gain access to the lower decks, i want you to accompany Mr. Dowding below and cover for him while he is attempting to raise a mutiny. But remember if you meet some of the crew of this ship you’ll be expected to act rough toward him.", Felix said to them

<Dowding, Thirteen>

"Counselor and mr. Wood and lt. Laika, you are to go to the transporter and attempt to modify it so that we are able to return to our universe i am sending you because mr. Wood has experience with transporters , lt. Laika is a science officer and may be of assistance and you Counselor because you are the chief engineer in this universe so it will not be suspicious if you claim to be fixing the transporter , but remember to be rough on anyone below your ranks you encounter as things seem to work that way in this universe."

<J’Leera, Wood, Tiffany>

Then he turned to Lohnen and his marine xo.

"You go to the bridge and keep the ships crew busy so that they do not suspect anything is wrong , also try to stick with their mission plan , and remember be tough or they will suspect something", he said

<Lohnen>

"And Mr. Buster and me will go and attempt to find the captain i believe that my position is high enough to prevent anyone to suspect anything about what we are doing."

<Buster>

"Ok people let's move out and remember we do not have much time as if everything is as we think then the real crew of this ship is in our universe on our Tiger Shark and thinks that they need to attack Earth and that is not a good thing", he said as everyone went their way

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[tiffani]

Savali/Salek/Saarok said:

"Counselor and mr. Wood and lt. Laika, you are to go to the transporter and attempt to modify it so that we are able to return to our universe i am sending you because mr. Wood has experience with transporters , lt. Laika is a science officer and may be of assistance and you Counselor because you are the chief engineer in this universe so it will not be suspicious if you claim to be fixing the transporter , but remember to be rough on anyone below your ranks you encounter as things seem to work that way in this universe."

*Tiffani Listened and nodded as Felix gave out orders, she smiled proudly at how well he was able to take control of the situation* understood Commander *she said and listened to last of the orders as the group started to disperse she held back and waited to all the others had started to leave then whispered to Felix* well so much for the honeymoon *she chuckled as the headed out the room and made the turns*

[thirteen]

Thirteen stepped forward: ''I seem to be holding the rank of FC, First Commander, that would grant me access to practically everything on this ship.''

''In any case, I do not think a revolt would be wise,'' Thirteen continued, ''since Mister Lohnen and I are in command of this ship, we do not need a revolt and have nothing to explain to lower ranked officers aboard this ship, so to a certain level we can do as we like without that getting us into trouble.''

''Also, a revolt would mean that Mister Lohnen and I will become the most obvious objectives of attacks, since we are the commanding officers aboard, so a revolt would work in our disadvantage,'' Thirteen said.

''Also, this ship is so battered that I daresay it does not even hold enough power to recalibrate the transporters and have them getting us out of here as well,'' Thirteen went on speaking.

''So we must set up a difficult plan. Of course the crew of this ship must not find out about what is going on, we need to get this ship in a better state, we need to refill our energysources and we need to get out of here as soon as possible, before our mirrorselves completely destroy our real Tigershark, which would be a shame, having lost too many of them already,'' Thirteen said.

=*\/*= All precommanding officers report to the navigational observatory. =*\/*=

''Must be the intercom,'' Danny said, ''what do they mean?''

''Precommanding officers would be what we would call senior officers,'' Thirteen said looking up from the desk-computer, on which he had just looked the words up, ''the navigational observatory is their strange name for 'bridge'.''

The officers in the room checked out a map on the computer screen Thirteen had called up, and went on their ways to try and find their stations after having agreed that all would meet in this office again, one hour after the end of shifts, to keep things as unnoticed as possible.

Thirteen walked next to Lohnen, who's uniform was even more exaggerated than his, and he smiled.

They soon arrived at a lift, which they entered along with the other senior officers, or precommanding ones, to stay in the mood.

The lift was more primitive than a turbolift. It required one to actually push the button of destination before it began showing any signs of life.

Luckily there was a nice button labeled: 'navigational observatory', and Danny pressed it, making the lift seal its doors and moving upwards.

The doors slid open after a short period of time and Danny and Thirteen curiously stepped into the navigational observatory.

An officer stood up and yelled: ''General Lohnen!'' To which the other officers reacted by standing up too, assuming positions.

''As you were,'' Danny said slightly smiling, walking over too a brown leather, very comfortable looking chair, in which he sat down.

Thirteen and the other precommanding officers went took their positions.

''Report secondary lieutenant,'' Thirteen said to the guy that had stood up first when they entered the navigational observatory.

''Yes sir!,'' the man eagerly spoke, to which Thirteen reacted with slightly tilting his left eyebrow, ''we have just discovered three Cardassian marauders on a course straight forward, they apear to be guarding something there, showing patterns of observation routes.''

Thirteen nodded at Danny, and sat down in his equally comfortable, yet slightly less big SCO-chair.

''Lay in a course to ten thousand lightyears from the marauders,'' Danny ordered.

The man gave a puzzled look: ''Errr, with all due respect sir, what are lightyears?''

''He means quadrometers secondary lieutenant,'' Thirteen said with a severe voice.

''Of course, of course, how idiotic of me, my apologies sir,'' the man said panicing.

''Just follow our CO his orders,'' Thirteen said.

The Tigershark began to move, and the stars outside the ship shone brightly before the Tigershark swept past them, and they couldn't be seen anymore.

After thirty minutes of travel an officer from the left section of the navigational observatory stood up and said: ''Arriving to destiny in two minutes, shall we bring our antimaterialaticalvisiondevice online sir?''

Thirteen leaned towards Danny Lohnen and whispered in his ear: ''That is a form of a cloaking device.''

''Just a second,'' Danny said, considering their next action.

[Felix Savali]

After Lohnen and Thirteen were called away. Felix gave some thought to Thirteens idea and it had merit but only partially.

"Small change of plany people he said. Mr. Dowding you will go with Buster and myself in search of the captain.", Felix said

<Dowding>

"And mr. Wood , Counsellor and Lt. Laika you are to proceed with the plan to modify the transporters i am sure with mr. Woods knowledge and your access codes you will be able to modify the transporters and prepare for power rerouting while mr. Lohnen and Thirteen keep the crew busy.", he said

"Now let's go", he said as everyone went on their way , Felix with Buster and Dowding and Tiffani with Wood and Laika

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[laika]

Just before they left, they consulted the computer to see what uniforms they were supposed to be wearing.

“There’s no point in standing out in these uniforms,” Wood said. “If the people here have ever seen what our universe looks like, they may recognize us.”

“Good idea,” J’Leera agreed. There was a small replicator like device in the next room that they used to make their new uniforms.

OFF: Not sure what they’re supposed to look like, so everyone can add it what they want.

J’Leera didn’t really have a uniform. What she had was a black outfit that consisted of pants and a turtleneck with boots. She put it on and went back out to meet up with the others.

“Is that your uniform?” Tiffani asked when she saw her.

“Yes, this is what Fern wears,” she answered.

“J’Leera, you forgot something,” Wood said.

“Forgot what…?” she turned around to see a sword and a phaser-like weapon in each hand. Her eyes widened in horror. “Oh, no! Don’t tell me, those are mine!”

“They are,” Wood replied. “Commander Savali found them in the next room before he left. We’re fairly certain that they are Fern’s quarters. ”

“Oh, okay,” she said and carefully took the weapons. She starred at them, unsure of what to do. The sword had a long strap to it, so she decided to carry on her back. That’s probably how Fern carries it anyway, she decided. She just decided to carry the phaser.

“You look absolutely ferocious,” Tiffani said, looking her over. “Makes you wonder what sort of person Fern is.”

J’Leera looked at the sword and shuddered, “Yeah, it does.”

“Okay, we had better get going,” Wood said. “Those transporters aren’t going to fix themselves.”

They nodded and walked out into the corridor all the while J’Leera was thinking about how her mirror version would react to this situation. She decided that she must be furious and be willing to put up a good fight. Fern really meant business here, she wouldn’t back down from anything. Makes me wonder how many people she’s killed or injured.

In the corridor, there were very few people walking around. But those that did, seemed to slip away nervously when they saw them coming. J’Leera wondered who was causing them to do that. Is it me, Tiffani or Wood? she wondered.

It wasn’t long before she received her answer. Two security guards approached them as if preparing to arrest them. Suddenly they caught sight of J’Leera and backed down.

“Sorry, we didn’t see you!” one mumbled and went on by.

She glanced toward the others and shrugged. She didn’t know what was going on, but was trying to play along.

The second person that approached them received a nasty look from J’Leera and they backed down nervously like the first. “Apparently people are afraid of me,” she said to herself quietly.

They found the transporter room several minutes later and went inside.

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