Austin Grayson; NCC-1701--That's All She Wrote; RUN with it!
AUSTIN GRAYSON
NCC-1701
THE FINAL EPISODE
That's All She Wrote So; RUN with it!
Featuring
The crew of AUSTIN GRAYSON; NCC-1701
Q
Jack
Vash
and
Zimmerman
Jennifer Grayson entered the bridge. She walked over to where Frank stood and they held hands and watched, together, as Austin was about to save all of mankind; if he could.
“How do we make sure we end up in our universe before our world was struck by the pulse?” Reymia asked.
“That’s where I come in my dear.” Q said to her. “Once Austin pushes your ship back to your universe, I will have about a millisecond to alter your course through the space time continuum of your universe.”
“But how will you have control over us?” Mark asked.
Jack spoke. “Our universe only exists because someone in your universe, via this,” he pointed at the Server, “created it.” He rolled his eyes, and scratched his head, then continued. “I also have come to the conclusion that for this universe, the Star Trek Universe, to continue, someone from your universe must exist here, in it. How that can be? I don’t know. But in any event, once your ship moves over, and meanwhile one of you stays with us, Q will have, hypothetically, a momentary bridge to act upon, and can send you to a point before your sun pulsed Then you,” he looked to Austin, “do your thing, switch the suns, and hopefully it will all be over. If Q can’t move you to an earlier time, or you can’t use your power, then you will most likely be stuck in your universe with no one on your planet alive, or worse, you will all die, and both universes will explode into oblivion.” Jack folded his arms together. “That’s all you have to do.”
“Sure,” Austin said nervously, “sounds like a piece of cake.”
“Alright,” Rayana said, “then who stays in this universe?”
They all looked to Q.
“There are some things in life that not even a God should reveal.” Q said to them all.
“I agree,” Jack said.
“Don’t get cocky.” Q said to Jack.
With that said, Austin looked over to Saxon. Saxon placed the Server on the Navigation consol. Austin, who was just teenager who once liked to play Dungeons and Dragons, skate to school, and grab his girlfriend’s ass, now held the very universe in the palm of his hand.
--
Instantly, as if nothing had happened, Q, Jack, Frank Grayson and Hank Morton all stood in what appeared to be an all white universe.
“What happened?” Hank asked as he stood next to Frank Grayson.
Q pondered the question for a moment. “They made it.” Q said finally. He looked over to Jack. “Nice job, I couldn’t have come up with a better plan myself.” He said.
“Why the fuck are we here then?” Hank asked as he motioned to Frank and himself.
“I died already over there, remember?” Frank said to Hank Morton.
“So you never intended to go back.” Hank Morton deduced. “So if that’s the case, then why am I here if you already had your bridge to my universe?” He asked Q.
Q pointed to Frank. “He isn’t from your universe.” Q said to Hank as the four began to walk toward some unknown destination inside the white universe.
“What?” Hank asked.
--
Austin, Amber and Jennifer, standing on the Transporter pad, all took all hugged Mark.
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Mark asked as he felt the forth pip on his collar. “The ship is yours.”
Austin shook his head. “I know, but I know we both know that I am not cut out to be a Starship commander.”
“What about Frank?” Mark asked.
“He’s dead,” Jennifer said to Mark. “Let’s just tell everyone he died. I don’t want my family to spend one more minute on this ship.”
Mark nodded. “Tell him I love him.”
“I will.” Jennifer said.
--
Frank spoke next. “I was on that ship that your Frank dreamed of. From the moment I woke up in his bed, I had his memories, his children, and his wife. I was apparently pulled out of this universe, the universe you call Star Trek, and my being was merged with his.”
--
Three Transporter beams began to shake shape on the warm sand of a beautiful Australian beach. The beach was in a private cove that was overlooked by a large modern home.
The white sandy beach was very bare, but very beautiful. And as Austin, his mother, and his sister Amber, strained their eyes they could see four beach lounge chairs in the distance, and someone waving to them as they walked closer to the lounge chairs.
--
Hank shook his head. “Look, I know Star Trek back and forth. There was no Frank Grayson posted on Captain Kirk’s Enterprise. And that ship certainly didn’t disappear from the Star Trek universe because that was the Enterprise that was eventually destroyed in the Mutara-sector.” Hank told them all.
--
Saxon handed the Server over to Liu Fong, as was their agreement, as Liu Fong stood on the Transporter pad.
“Good luck trying to unlock its secrets.” Saxon said to Liu Fong.
Fong smiled. “Our minds, the Chinese mind, are far more disciplined than yours, Mr. Saxon. We shall indeed unlock its secrets; in time.”
Mark Grayson slid the levers on the Transporter machine and Liu Fong beamed away.
--
Q nodded his head in agreement. “Yes, those are the correct events that happened in this universe.” Q agreed.
“You see,” Frank added, “there were two beams of energy that escaped from the Server in 1943.” Frank told Hank Morton, “One of them struck the airplane that was piloted by a man named Gene Roddenberry. That same energy beam deflected into my father’s, for lack of better word, soul, after it had crossed the myriad universes dreamed of by Mr. Roddenberry since the time he was a young boy writing.” Frank said
Q took over for Frank. “From that moment on the Star Trek universe was waiting to be formed, because Roddenberry already was thinking of the early elements of the show even that far back. Once he began producing the show, the Star Trek universe he unwittingly created began to follow the course of history he created for the show. And even when he passed that responsibly on to others, the Universe he created took it as a literal order from “God” and followed along what you would call the canonical elements of the show.”
“And then fate struck again.” Frank said. “As you recall, the beams of energy from the Server were trapped by the electromagnetic sphere of Earth. One of the beams, as we know, hit the plane Roddenberry and George Grayson, father of my counterpart from your universe.” Frank said to Hank Morton. “When your Frank had his dream, somehow the other stray beam of energy that burst from the Server back in 1943 finally found it’s companion and reunited inside of Frank, who at the time, was dreaming of a universe that the Server, which was still in contact with the beams, found very familiar to the Star Trek universe it had created.”
Hank was trying his best to follow along. “So it merged the dream Frank had about,” Hank said to Frank Grayson, “with what was established and created by the first beam, in essence, and then a second Star Trek universe and brought you all, you-the Enteprise-the Romulans, all over to my universe.” Hank stopped walking.
He pondered for a moment, trying not to be more confused than he was.
“So, if that is the case,” He continued as he began walking with them again, “I never met the real Frank Grayson. In fact, he was never aboard the Enterprise at all. That means that you,” Hank said to Frank Grayson, “knew all along you were not the real Frank.”
Frank, as he walked along side Hank Morton, began to glow with a white aura.
“What’s happening to him?” Hank asked Q.
“Well,” Q said, “he isn’t from this universe either. He belongs in his own universe. Whether it exists any longer I can not be sure, but he belongs there, not here.”
Instantly Frank Grayson, from an alternate Star Trek universe, was gone.
Hank looked to Q. “So, I am the bridge to my universe?”
Q and Jack nodded. “Yes, you are.” Q said to him. “And it would appear that our existence depends on your ability to stay alive, and, or, to have several children to carry on the legacy we share with you.”
“So what happened to them, Austin and the others, when they returned back to my universe?” Hank asked, wanting to know the fate of the friends he had come to know on the Ncc-1701.
“Austin was able to do exactly what Jack told him to do.” Q said. “As it turns out, my bridge to your universe lasted nearly ten seconds. I was able to accomplish a great deal in that time.”
“Like what Q?” Hank demanded, “You better leave them alone!”
Q shook his head and laugh. “First off, Austin did what he had to do very fast. He was really amazing. He pulled them into your universe’s continuity, I was able to make them appear seconds before the wave hit, and then he simply wiped the pulse wave out of existence, and changed out the suns. He did all that in about eight seconds. With the final two seconds I solved the Server’s power, rendering it at best a very interesting looking glowing ball of nothing. I also took away his ability to tune, that’s what we call it, with the fabric of his universe, or any universe for that matter.”
“All of that in ten seconds?” Hank asked.
“You doubt my ability?” Q asked mockingly.
“Is that all you did?” Hank pressed Q.
Q smiled. “No, I decided on two other miracles. I decided to let them keep their Enterprise, and I also decided to do a real godly kind of act and brought Frank, your Frank, from where ever he was, deposited him on a beautiful beach with all of the knowledge of everything that happened while he was in limbo. I even put him back in time the day it all started with his crazy dream, at the point when the other Frank took over. But I gave him direct instructions he had to wait until his family came home for good to reveal the fact that he was…”
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“Frank?” Jennifer asked as she recognized her husband from afar. She and the kids ran at full speed to greet their father, who they thought they had last seen before coming back to the universe.
“How can this be?” Jennifer asked as they hugged. “What is going on.”
Austin knew, somehow he knew. “You were never up there, were you?” Austin asked.
Frank shook his head. “No. I read the papers about some of the events, but I couldn’t reveal myself. It was part of the agreement I made with,” he paused, “Q.”
“What are you talking about?” Jennifer asked.
“Its not important dear,” Frank said as they kissed. It was the first time he had kissed his wife in quite some time, and it felt real good.
“I think he took our powers a way too.” Austin said to Frank.
“He said he would. Though,” Frank said as he looked up into the sky, “he did let us keep the ship. I hope Mark figures out how to use it the proper way, and how to keep it out of the wrong hands.”
“He will,” Jennifer said.
“Uncle Mark a Starship captain?” Amber said with a laugh. “I’ll believe it when I see it.”
“What about this house?” Jennifer asked.
“Oh,” Frank said, “I convinced Q to give me four of those.” He pointed at three large suit cases near one of the chairs. “Three of them are filled to the brim with stock certificates, bonds, and a whole lot of other loot. I counted it some time back at about two-hundred million dollars.”
--
Q chuckled, “Okay, three miracles..”
--
“What’s in the other one?” Amber asked.
“Two hundred bars of Gold Pressed Latinum.” Frank said. I bet its worth another two hundred million as well. And I have decided,” Frank said, “I am going to transfer five million dollars into Mr. Wilkes’ account.”
“The man who lost his job?” Jennifer asked as she kissed her husband, not realizing it was for the first time in several months. “My husband,” she said as he grabbed her ass real tight, “always the hero.”
They all sat on the lounge chairs, and sipped on their iced tea as the Sun, the brand new Sun, began to kiss the edge of the horizon.
--
Two Years later.
Hank Morton had become quite a celebrity in the two years that had passed since calling the Star Trek universe home. Starfleet had made him an honorary Admiral, and he had spent several months discussing military strategy with the highest ranks of Starfleet.
He had come to Risa for and relaxation. He was relaxing on a beach lounge chair, soaking in the sun, when a beautiful woman came up and occupied the one next to him.
He looked over to the woman.
“Isn’t your name Vash?” Hank asked.
She smiled her seductive smile. “Why, yes, I am.” She said with a flirtation voice. “You’re that man who came from that other universe and got mixed up with Q.” She said to him. “I know how getting mixed up with him can be, believe me.” She said as she sipped her martini.
Morton flagged down a waiter and asked him to bring them another round of drinks.
They chatted with each other as the sun went down, and as the sun dipped away, they both headed to Hank’s room.
--
It was the middle of the night. Hank was sleeping in his bed, with Vash by his side. It was then he heard a crashing noise from the next room. Vash wasn’t disturbed by the sound, but Hank was curious as to what it is.
He slipped on his robe and went out into the hallway of the hotel room he was staying in. The hallway lights had been dimmed. The light of from another room was coming out from an opened doorway. Hank was curious as to why the door was opened to the other room, and made his way over to opening. He looked in, and saw a most terrible sight.
A man’s body was on the floor of the entrance, stabbed several times. Another man, who was holding the knife with bloodied hands, was crouched down next to the dead man’s body. The killer looked up at Hank Morton. Hank recognized him immediately. He was the doctor from Voyager.
“What is the meaning of this?!” Hank demanded.
“I swear,” Zimmerman said, “I didn’t do this.” He stood up. “I’ve been framed.”
Morton was always a good judge of character.
“I believe you.” Hank told Zimmerman.
“What should I do?” Zimmerman asked, with the look of shocked horror in his face.
Morton could only think of one answer. “Run!”
The end of
AUSTIN GRAYSON
NCC 1701