Star trek: Darkside Base

Alexandra woke up with a splitting headache and a bright light in her eyes. The combination of the light and the pain brought a moan of pain from her lips as she rolled over onto her side. She kept telling herself not to throw up but if that light didn’t stop stabbing her eyes she would be making a mess. Alexandra heard a moan come for the other side of the room and she suddenly remembered Holis, the concern for her officer did wonders in stabilizing her nausea. She rose up on her elbow and called out.



“Holis? Are you alright?”



“Uhhggh. I think my head is under phaser fire.”



“I know what you mean.” Alexandra said tiredly.



“Be careful. We are still running tests to make sure you are ok.” A nurse pushed her back onto the bed and the light was turned off. Alexandra blinked and looked around her eyebrows furrowed into a frown looking at the nurse as she was curiously dressed. Instead of a uniform jacket and black pants she was wearing a black short skirt and a blue sleeveless tunic. It was a very revealing version of a standard Starfleet uniform and Alexandra thought maybe the nurse had been called in from being off duty. She sat up again and swung her legs over to sit up and after rubbing her eyes for a few moments she found herself staring at a strange symbol on the wall. What should have been the Federation symbol was a Romulan one but it looked strange and vaguely familiar. Then it hit her, the writing on the symbol was Vulcan! Where the hell were they?? Holis came around to her and wore a similar look of confusion on his face.



“Did we get captured by the Romulans?” Holis asked quietly.



“No. The nurse is human but something is really wrong.”



Alexandra hopped down and finally noticed that she was also wearing a similar outfit as the nurse but hers was red were the nurse’s was blue. The doctor was wearing a v necked silk shirt with matching trousers. Why didn’t they have their uniforms on?? The nurse looked at them curiously and came forward with a hypo spray in hand.



“You must calm down. You will be expected by the captain soon.” The nurse tried to administer the hypo spray to Alexandra but she put up a hand to stop the nurse.



“Who is the captain?” Alexandra asked quietly.



“Vorik of the Vulcan Empire. I really think you had better let me give you this. The captain has little tolerance for delays and he won’t be pleased if you are not ready for duty once he arrives.”



Alexandra shook her head and drew herself up straight and put a smile on her lips.



“It’s alright. Just a momentary lapse from the transporter accident. The Doctor and I are well and can begin our duties. There is no need for the hypo spray. I think the Doctor and I will go meet the captain now. Thank you.” Alexandra turned on her heel and motioned for Holis to follow her and once they were in the relative privacy of the corridor she turned on Holis.



“Holis do you remember anything from when we got onto the transporter pad and started dematerializing?” She whispered.



“I heard shouting but that was it then I felt like someone whacked me over the head then I woke up in that sickbay. That looks like my sickbay but it isn’t. Where the hell are we?”



“I think the transporter malfunctioned. Probably an energy surge from the back up power grid. This happened to Captain Kirk years ago and I think it just happened to us now. We are in what is called a mirror universe. A dimension parallel to ours but different. In this universe the Roman Empire never fell and, for example, the Bajorans occupied Cardassia not the other way around.”



“I remember reading something about this. We are going to have to be very careful. How do we get back to our universe though?”



“We have to create an energy surge like the one that brought us here and it should return us back to our universe. All we need is to get to a transporter room and be uninterrupted for half an hour.”



“I guess we will have to fake it until we get an opportunity. I guess I should just act like a raving butcher and I should fine.”



“Well act ill tempered and it should fill the bill. Be careful, people here are vicious and can’t be trusted. Watch your back.”



We continued down the corridor to the turbo lift that would take us to the bridge when Alexandra passed a data screen and caught sight of her rank in the reflection. She stopped and stared with a growing look of anger on her face.



“Lt Cmdr? Lt Cmdr?! What the hell? This is not right at all! I am only a Lt Cmdr? God Dammit!!”



Alexandra punched the data screen and was about to start on another torrent of swearing when the Doctor cleared his throat in a warning tone and nodded his head in the direction behind her. Alexandra whirled around and faced Vorik but it wasn’t the Vorik she knew. This Vorik dressed in tight black long sleeved shirt and black leather pants around his waist was a deep blue silk sash which bore his family crest and strapped to his thigh was a wicked looking serrated Vulcan dagger. Black boots encased his feet and legs up to his knees. His hair was pulled back into a small ponytail close to his neck and the small scar that graced Vorik’s jaw in her universe was now longer and jagged on the man standing in front of her. He was followed by three swarthy Vulcans who were armed to the teeth and looked ready to kill anything that stepped in their way. Alexandra went immediately to attention and to quietly ascertain as much as she could about this man who looked like her best friend but wasn’t. The man in front of her had a way about him that immediately put her on edge. The look in his eyes was cold and predatory, something said that he had a lot of blood on his hands and it didn’t bother him. Alexandra felt the best course of action would be to be as professional as possible. Vorik looked her up and down slowly not saying a word, his keen ears had heard her rant about her current rank and it made him curious. Most human females were not concerned about their rank in the empire or if they were, it was to impress some powerful male. Instead of going down on one knee like most women she stood tall and looked him in the eye. Curious and more curious. Finally Starfleet sent him someone worth while, someone who ignited his interest. He could sense that she was strong and willful which only interested him even more. He was tired of supplicating females; he wanted someone who could challenge him. He wanted someone interesting, professionally and personally. He would see how she faired in her duties then proceed from there.



“Make a summary of this tactical data and give me some theories on how to handle the conflicts arising in the Begani sector. You have three hours. You may work at the computer console in my quarters.” Vorik handed her a data PADD.



Alexandra took the data without hesitation, she had to appear like she was apart of this universe. It would be the only way she could move freely and unobserved so she and the Doctor could return to their universe. Vorik motioned for the Doctor to follow him and they left Alexandra standing in the corridor. She asked the computer for the location to Vorik’s quarters and told the computer to display the information on the data panel. The base seemed to be the same as hers so without further ado she made her way to his quarters.