Synthesis

[Lawliet 0]

After several days of examining and anylazing material from the Romulan Mist Station, Lieutenant Lawliet had finally made some progress into his investigation. Thinking back on his actions, he couldn't understand why he didn't pursue this course of action in the first place. Any Starfleet cadet would have attempted using a recursive algorithm to reconstruct data blocks that had either been lost or severly damaged right from the start. Perhaps his previous incident with attempting to break into the medical storage locker had something to do with it. At the first sign of oppertunity, he told himself, he was going to request some much needed R&R.

 

Having sent all revelent medical data down to Doctor Pavilion, Lawliet continued to look into: operations, transport, cargo, logs...anything that could shed some light on what the rebels were up to. Of course he already knew that they were artificaly creating a virus that posed a threat only to humans, but why did they choose a virus with such little health risk to the general population? Not to mention of course, the virus in question was iradicated over two hundred years ago.

 

He spent the next few hours reading, checking, and confirming all the material he had already collected. It was too simple. Everything was there. There was enough information to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that the rebels simply accuired the nessesary equipment to create a retro-virus with the hopes of infecting several Federation outposts. Perhaps his intuition was wrong, maybe they simply had a singular grudge due to the events that led to the loss of their homeworld. Leaning back in his chair, Lawliet realized the time was already past 2100 hours. With a single sigh, he got up to his feet and procceded down the corrider into a turbolift which took him to his quarters.

 

 

 

::Several Hours Later::

 

Lawliet had drifted to sleep the moment he hit the bed, only to find himself waking up in a chair. Rubbing his eyes to adjust for the lights blinding him, he looks about to find himself in a circular room. There are panels adjasent to the walls and bow. It was a bridge of a Starfleet starship, but somehow it didn't feel right. As he got to his feet, a familar voice called out.

 

"Been a long time."

 

Turning around, he already knew who he was about to come face to face with. Wearing her traditional El-Aurian attire, Guinan stood there as if she were waiting for him. Looking about, Lawliet asks the question:

 

"This is not the Nexus."

 

"Not this time. This is solution."

 

"Solution? Solution to what?"

 

As he spoke, three individuals beamed onto the bridge. For a moment, Lawliet was taken back a step. The Starfleet officers that had arrived were wearing the previous uniform used prior to the Dominion War. One of the officers was a Vulcan, the other two were Human. Lawliet thought it interesting how the team leader operated while having a tribal tatoo over his left eye. The Vulcan officer approched one of the display panels and began reading.

 

"U.S.S. Dauntless. Registry: NX Zero One-A"

 

At that moment, Lawliet finally made the connection. The Dauntless was trap concieved by an alien lifeform from the Delta Quadrent to lure the crew of the starship Voyager so he could have them assimulated by the Borg Collective. Lawliet had enough of these experinces to realize they could neither see or hear him. As they continued to press on, he turned back to Guinan.

 

"This is the past. What does it have to do with anything what's going on now? I mean...in the present, at Aegis?"

 

Without as much as a single word, the setting around him changed as two security offices attempted to restrain an alien lifeform from reaching what seemed to be helm control. He managed to overpower them and pull a lever which changed the material around them into what Lawliet could only imagine was his native design. The two security officers and the Vulcan were beamed away, however two human females were left behind. Walking around to get a better look, Lawliet realized the two women had to be Captain Janeway and Seven of Nine. The lifeform which had apprently abducted them began explaining his situation and how he blamed them for the destruction of his homeworld. Captain Janeway asked:

 

"How'd you create the Starfleet bridge, holograms?"

 

"Particle Synthesis. Beyond your understanding." said the alien with a smug complextion.

 

It was only at this moment did Lawliet realize what he sensed when he first arrive. The "particle synthesis" was masking the true nature of the ship. This is how the crew of Voyager nearly feel for the trap. Looking back towards Guinan, she simple smiled as the bridge around them faded into nothing. With a fright, Lawliet sat up in his bed with a horrible revelation. Putting his uniform back on, he ran back to the Science Lab to run his new theory.

 

Thirty minutes later, Lawliet had managed to have one of the components confiscated from the Mist Station brought up to the lab for testing. Having accessed the Starfleet database, he found the files containing the information collected from Voyager concerning Particle Synthesis. Putting the component through the spectural scanner, the test revealed the component was masking the original makeup of the material used to construct it. Cross checking with the database, Lawliet managed to identify the origin of the components.

 

"My god..."

 

Refusing to belive it, Lawliet ran the spectural scan on several additional components. Each of them came to the same conclusion. Lawliet's worse fears, perhaps everyone's worst fears were coming to light.

 

 

Lieutenant Lawliet

Assistant Science Officer

Sky Harbor Aegis