Chapter 14

It wasn’t but a few hours that Janeway’s ship pulled not far from me. I nodded as I pulled Janeway onboard, she just shook her head.

“I forgot that you could do this. So, you have improved here, a good thing, I believe. Hello Rommie,” she said when Rommie appeared.

“I believe that the Borg are after us, sir,” Rommie said, to which I nodded.

“Take care, Captain,” I said.

“You also, Captain,” Janeway said. Then she winked out as her ship entered the trans-warp conduit.

“Alright let’s go Rommie,” I said, then watched as the universe portal opened in front of us.

We passed through then suddenly came to a halt. “Rommie? What’s going on?” I asked.

“We have lost all engine power, I am getting nothing at all from them,” she said.

I was already on the way to the engine room.

As far as I could tell, there was nothing wrong, though I knew different.

“I am detecting nothing wrong with the engines they,” Rommie was saying. “John, there is something interfering with the formation of the warp bubble. It also appears that the portals are also blocked.”

I started to search the ship, finding something that was attached to the hull of the ship. Unfortunately, every time I blasted it off I always seemed to miss a few cells.

It was a few moments later that several alarms were going off. “John, I am detecting a great many of the energy beings we met before approaching.

Alright, I thought, as I felt that the thing that was attached to the hull was from them. This, of course, increased my temper to the point that I lashed out, destroying another twenty of them.

This, of course, had them all stop several thousand miles away from the ship. A moment later something like the Borg Queen’s holo-gram tried to penetrate the ship.

“Sir, I am detecting a type of visual signal that is trying to penetrate. I am not seeing anything else though I am continuing to scan,” Rommie said.

I nodded as I stared at the readings, “if there isn’t a chance of them taking or entering the ship, allow it.”

A moment later what could only be described as a blob of energy in the holo-gram appeared.

Greetings came the mental communication, its thoughts said. I am the supreme leader of the Xelamortidians, those that you destroyed. We have been wrongly imprisoned here billions of your years ago. In their zealousness, the younger acted out, rather hastily.

Uh huh I replied as I thought about what had been said. I then asked to know just who had imprisoned them here. The answer that I received was almost too much to take. My father was an alien? What the hell was going on?

Information started to flood my mind as it was overwhelming me. Before I passed out, I had Rommie watch everything with a new weapon I added before I was out.

I appeared in a gray dreamscape-like area, there was another presence there. Another presence that was by and far more powerful than I was.

I heard a sigh, then another blob type of energy appeared before me. Ah my son, it is far too soon for you to, hmmm, you have been to the universe of the brain energy earthlings. I am sorry that their planet was destroyed, though they are doing well. Had you not touched her engine, then I think you wouldn’t be alive now.

With that, he touched my head with a hand that appeared. I started to scream as the pain was far different from anything I had ever felt before. I felt as if my mind encompassed everything in all the universes. I felt that I was immortal, though mortal at the same time.

It felt as if I had been there for billions of years, then I was back in the gray area. When I appeared, I felt far more powerful than I was before all this started. The presence that I felt was my father was less of an energy blob and more almost like an ethereal entity.

You are the first offspring that I have ever managed to sire. Your mother was as perfect as a human could be. I was drawn to her as if my very existence depended upon it. I am or rather was an Xelamortidian many billions of your years ago. I am the one that imprisoned the others here.

Are they really that bad, I asked.

Oh, believe me, they are far worse than almost anything that you could imagine. Then they thought they were gods and all beings in all multiverses were to bow to them. I was approached by a being that to this day I still can not look upon. I am, for lack of a better word, its main helper, my first assignment, as you call it, was to imprison them.

I could feel the pain and sadness that was wafting off the being before me, like a physical event. It was far beyond anything I had experienced before.

It was not the best thing I had ever done, as most of them had been friends. Here the word went far beyond what I knew it to be. This felt like the sharing of souls and ideas and feelings.

I had tears falling as I felt the soul-wrenching sadness and emptiness that invaded me. I tried to look at the being that claimed to be my father.

What, I started. What in the hell do you want of me? I am, according to you, only half what you are. I won’t live that long. I am only human.

Here I felt rather than saw the saw that appeared on the now clearer face of the being before me. As I said it started, then only thing that helped to crush the loneliness was your mother. I am sorry that you never got to know her. In my vanity I thought that she was far stronger than she was. I had strengthened her to no avail.

Wait, YOU are the reason that she died? The reason I grew up alone, shunned, feeling as if I was a freak, useless to anyone and everyone? You son of a bitch I shouted as I blasted it, surprising it with the amount of energy that I hit it with. Then there was the fact that I kept it up ‘til it waved a hand.

I understand that you are upset,” it said.

Upset?! Oh no, I was that long before now, now? I want you to feel the pain that I did! This time I shot out feelings much as it had. I hit it and kept going as I let it have it all.

It was a moment later that I heard the entity start to moan, then cry out in despair. I started to smile, then stopped as all the wicked things that the entities people had done.

I dropped my arms and hands, feeling despair myself. I turned away as I felt sas evil as the entities people had been. I thought to it, you should punish me for what I just did, you have enough to do. I sat waiting for the death, I felt that was coming.

It was what felt like a few minutes though here? Who knew? I couldn’t face the entity that had said it was my father. Then I felt what felt like a very strong hand rest upon my shoulder. I tensed up a moment, then relaxed as i thought these were my last moments.

I was then shocked when a powerful voice softly said in my mind, I am not here for your life. I am here to offer you a position. I find that you, like your sire, are truly a force for good. Tell you what, I’ll return you to your ship and let you think about it, OK?

I turned around, though I saw no one but the entity that was my father. He was kneeling in my direction, his now clearer mouth hanging open.

You have truly given a chance to do great good. I know that you are part human, so I do not truly know your thoughts. I would be honored to work with you, to see creation through your eyes. I nodded, then was back aboard the ship.

Rommie was squatting above me with a worried look on her face. “John? JOHN!” She suddenly shouted. “I was worried when you suddenly went silent, then fell.”

I smiled as I sat up and waved a hand at her. Her eyes suddenly went wide as she started to feel about her body.

“What?” She started, still feeling her body between her legs with an even more shocked look. “I, I am alive? Completely, how is this possible? What is this?” She asked as she looked at me with wide eyes wonder.

“That is what we call a female reproduction organ. If you look within, you will see that you also have female reproductive organs there also,” I told her.

“You mean I can be alive all the time and not just for a few minutes to an hour or two?” She asked. When I just nodded with a smile, she threw herself at me, planting kisses all over my face.

“Now then, I have a few things to take care of,” I told her as my face hardened into a look of fierce determination.

I flashed out, appearing before the supreme leader, who was more shocked than I thought it would. Strangely enough, it appeared more like an almost human shape than before. Another came floating toward me rapidly as I just held up a hand, knocking it up against something. When it fell unconscious, the leader’s eyes went wide.

I smirked a moment as I looked at it, then turned toward the leader. So I started as the leader held up a hand and shook its head no. Ah better, I said. So you think that you and they were wrongly imprisoned here? Shall I see if that is true? I held up a hand as the leader started to scream. Ummm, as I thought, not true.

I felt about twenty that started to rush me. Then they were all on the floor screaming worse than the leader. Now that’s twenty-one, should I do the rest? I only feel about a few tens of millions more.

They were all gasping as I released them. The supreme leader started, you will pay, then started to scream again.

I turned away from him as he continued to scream. I panned my hands around the entire room, feeling all of them out there. Hmmm I thought far worse than I thought. I vanished, appearing back on the ship before a surprised Rommie.

A few moments later two shifting areas of energy appeared. I waved a hand as they became solid, both looking at me strangely.

I smiled as I helped the male and female to stand. “It is sad that in all the billions of years, that you are the only two that feel correct. I am prepared to send the two of you to your old home planet, if you wish. The rest I am afraid are staying here.