Family;Weer. STAR TREK-Voyage To No Where
Family;Weer
STAR TREK
“Voyage to nowhere”
Chapter Five-Solitaire
Starring
Mathew Weer
Guest Starring
Kyana
Jovine
Introducing
Darow
Special Guest Star
William Shatner as
TOS Era
Captain James T Kirk
Morning came and Mat was wakened by the sound of voices. Moments later, staring out the crack of the drapes on the shed’s windows, Mat watched as the small craft lifted off from the ground, next to the shack of a house, and quickly sped away.
A night of restful sleep, and thankfully he didn’t snore, had gone a long way into making Mat feel better. Though his legs still ached, he felt more responsive. It was time to start planning away off this planet. Once that was done, he would have to find the Nebula-1 and see to the safety of Beth and the children. It was time to get out of the solitaire of the shed, and try and help as best as he could.
Mat fished into one of the side pockets of his dear-skin pants, and found the secret patch zipped there. He pulled back the patch and found the small transponder he had placed there just for this kind off occasion. He pressed the button. At that moment a signal, witch was scrambled, was sent into space.
Millions upon millions of miles the signal traveled, at very fast speeds through subspace. In several hours it would reach its destination; the spaceport in orbit of Droanha. The signal would activate the Revok’ta power systems, and more importantly, its automatic flight mode.
Mat had intentionally docked the craft at the closest spot next to the hanger doors. He had even hacked in to the station’s system to get the code to open the hanger doors on his own if he had to. With Mitch’s help, they both programmed the automatic flight computer to pilot its self out the hanger bay, and to follow an emergency homing beacon if Mat was stranded somewhere and needed such assistance. Well, that time had come now.
Mathew watched as the transponder blinked. He only hoped the spaceport hadn’t changed the code to the bay doors. If they had, Mathew know of a particular Romulan commander who wouldn’t be happy at the loss of the Revok’ta in such a way.
Moments later the woman, Kyana, and her young daughter, Jovine, came into the shed, where Mat was kept hidden for the past day. They had been unable to sneak Mat any meals, or water, which had left him hungry and thirsty. They had a bowl of fruit and some water, which Mat accepted graciously. He had been ration what fruit they had left for the past few days.
“I’m so sorry we couldn’t get you anything more until now.” Kyana said.
As she spoke, Mat noticed that she had new bruises on her face, and a black-eye. Mat shook his head.
“Kyana,” he asked her as he ate, “how did you come to be in this position?”
The woman sat on the bed next to Mat, and Jovine sat on her mom’s lap.
“I have done some things in my life, Mr. Weer that I am not proud of. For that reason I fell in with the wrong crowd, and did some things I now regret.” As she spoke, she grasped her daughter’s hand real tight. “When I met my husband, Darow, I already had a two year old daughter from another failed marriage. With no where to go, and with no means, I married Darow out of need. He was a wild man, who drank, but he served in the Bajoran defense force, which to me meant stability. So, even though the physical abuse started early on, it was a sacrifice I made to make sure my daughter and I had a roof over my heads. But that is all starting to change now.”
“What do you mean?” Mat asked as he sipped on the cup of water.
“Darow left the military two years ago. Well, actually, he was dismissed for bad conduct.” She told Mat. “With dwindling means, he brought us to this world. I guess, while on patrol in the Gamma Quadrant, the ship he served on came across and old Dominion outpost here on this planet years ago. When we found ourselves unable to afford to live on Bajor, we came here. He had been able to scrape out a meager existence by selling some of the excess hardware that was still operational at that old Dominion post. It’s just two miles or so from here, over that small ridge.” She pointed to a small hill outside the window. “As it turns out, a couple star systems away, there is a planet where wild men like him go to drink, and whore around with the women who work there.”
“I’ve been there.” Mat said with a smile. “Just for the drinking I might add.” Mat said quickly.
Kyana smiled. “Well, he is running out of spare parts to sell. He has totally gutted the communication’s system. Soon he will start gutting the Transporter’s devices. I think it actually is still working to this very day, barely.”
(At that moment, two miles away, at the Dominion outpost Kyana had just told Mat about. The lights are off, and it was strangely dark. But then, suddenly, the transporter came to life.)
Kyana took the empty bowl from Mat, as he finished the glass of water.
“I wish we had more to feed you. But Darow keeps track of what we eat, so we don’t waste food.” Kyana said.
“A moment ago you said something was going to change,” Mat said as he handed her the drinking glass, “what did you mean by that?”
She handed Jovine the bowl and glass. “Take these to the house.” Kyana told her daughter.
“Yes mama.” Jovine replied, and she scampered away and did what her mom said.
Once Jovine had left the shed, Kyana returned to her conversation with Mat.
“Darow has started to look at Jovine in that...” she lowered her voice, “that way.”
Mat’s face became more stone cold. “You have to get her out of here Kyana. From what little I know of your husband, for her survival, you must.”
Kyana buried her face in her hands. “I know,” she said as she cried. “But I can’t. He runs our home like a prison. So many times I have had to just start fights with him so as to keep his wandering eyes off of her. He has never used the belt on her, but I know he will someday. I can see it in his eyes.”
“What about your first husband, the girl’s father.” Mat said. “Can you at least ask him to get her out of this hell?” Mat asked.
Kyana shook her head. “No, he died from medical complications sometime back.” Kyana said. “I know I gravitated to this kind of life with the choices I made.” Kyana said. “But she deserves so much better. I just know that one of these nights he is going to come home and,” she choked back on her tears, “he is going to force him self on her.”
(The small transporter in the Dominion outpost hummed to life. Suddenly a confused man stood there, with absolutely no idea as to how he had gotten there. A moment earlier he was standing on the transporter pad, along with Chekov and Uhura, and one instant earlier, now, he was standing in the silent solitaire of some darkened transporter room of some unknown alien design.
He reached back and grabbed his communicator. He swung flicked his wrist and the small cover of the communicator opened up.
“Kirk to Enterprise.” the man said, “Kirk to Enterprise.”
He used his fingers to twist the small diodes on the communicator, and then he tried again to contact the ship, but it didn’t work.
He stepped off the small transporter pad and walked over to the small control panel. Although the instrumentation was different, he was still able to ascertain that the device had picked up three signals; his and two others. The other two had degraded to a point that they could not be reinitialized. Uhura, and Chekov, were dead.
Capt James T Kirk was not a man to wait for answers. Instantly he began to survey his new surroundings. He felt confident that Spock would not stop until he had exhausted all resources to find him. Until that happened, Kirk would find out as much as he could about where he was, why he was brought here, and, most importantly; by whom?)
Mathew tried to stand. Kyana did her best to help him. Mathew was nearly six feet five inches, and she was barely five feet seven. But they were able to work as a team, and Mat, leaning on her shoulder, was able to walk several steps. The effects of the phaser stun, and being cramped up in the probe, were starting to fade. After several moments of walking, with her assistance, Mat sat back down on the bed.
Later, with assistance from both Kyana and Jovine, Mat was taken into their small house. It had been built it seemed, from the skeleton of a cargo ship. It was primitive, but it worked, Mat concluded. Kyana scrapped together enough food items to make Mathew a pretty good sized breakfast, which went a long way to making him feel better.
Later, as he showered Kyana hand washed his clothing, and dried them real quickly. Once he was dressed he was able to limp out of the bathroom, and rejoined the two in the main kitchen area. Jovine, who was very polite, showed Mat around the small home. It was very quaint, and Mat felt sorry for them. They had barely enough to get by, and they were going out of their way to help him heal. Perhaps Kyana had made mistakes, Mat thought to himself, but they deserved more than this meager existence. Finally, Mat and Jovine made it back to the kitchen area.
“You better be getting back out to the shed. He was only going to get some supplies. He’ll be back soon.” Kyana said.
Mat sat down at the table, and nodded. “I will, but I want to tell you something.” Mat said to them both. “I’m not sure how this is all going to turn out. But once I rescue my family, I swear to you I will return. Just hold off for as long as you can.”
Suddenly a small, antiquated communication pod on the kitchen counter chirped to life.
“Woman; I’ll be home in about ten minutes,” a deep voice said.
“That’s Darow, we better get you back into the shed.” Kyana said.
“Oh,” Darow’s voice said, “fetch Jovine from her chores. I have a special dress I just got for her to wear. I expect her to be bathed and cleaned before she puts this expensive dress on. And if you try to serve me that same slop you served me last night woman,” Darow said with disgust in his voice, “I will belt you like nothing before!”
The signal went dead.
With out hesitation Jovine ran off to the shower. Mat could tell instantly that Darow had used fear and intimidation to condition the two. Kyana helped Mat back to the shed. Once she had left, Mat went over to the desk next to his bed. He picked up the buck-knife he had left there. Although he as not a full strength he would not let Darow touch the mother, or her daughter, again. The muscles of his legs were very sore from the effects of the stun, and from the lack of blood flow from the flight. But he was feeling much better than when they, Kyana and Jovine, had fetched him from the inside of the torpedo/probe.
Mat stood up, and peered through the crack of the hold drapes. Moments later Darow’s ship came into view, pivoted upward then settled on the landing porch next to the house. Both Kyana, and Jovine, came out of the house almost as if on cue. The boarding ramp to the ship lowered, and the ship’s lone hatch opened.
Darow was very repugnant looking the moment Mat saw him. The Bajoran walked with a swagger that reeked of controlling power. He was holding a couple bags which no doubt contained supplies, food ect. But he also held a small rectangular shaped box. It no doubt contained the dress, Mat deduced. The moment Darow was of the landing porch, he set the bags down and slapped Kyana with such force, she fell to the ground.
“Why didn’t you respond to my message?” The man yelled at her. He then reached down and grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to her feet. Then he looked to Jovine.
“Get in the house!” He yelled at Jovine. The small girl ran to the house as fast as she could. Then Darow peered into Kyana’s eyes as he held her by the hair on the back of her head. “Did that bitch bathe as I told her to? I spent a lot of credits on this dress, and I don’t want her to get it dirty in case I have to take it back! Perhaps I will have to inspect how clean she really is!”
Kyana nodded emphatically. “Yes, she did.” Kyana said. “She did the moment we got your signal. That is why I didn’t respond to your message. I wanted to finish her chores for her.” Kyana said, in tears.
Mat watched as the man, Darow, punched Kyana in the ribs, causing her to fall to the ground. He then grabbed her by the hair and dragged her, while she was still on the ground, into the house, slamming the door once they were in. Mat could here Kyana’s screams of pain. The unmistaken sound of a belt against skin could be heard as well.
Mat shook his head. Enough was enough. Maybe he should have waited a longer, he didn’t know. If he failed, and Darow over powered him, Mat would no doubt die and the merciless Bajoran man would beat both Kyana and Jovine. But he could no longer stand to hear her screams of help. He picked up the knife, put it in its sheath, and limped out of the shed. He would either kill Darow, or die trying.
But, unknown to Mat, someone else had heard the cries of help too. And he was a man, just like Mat, who would not allow such a travesty to happen, even if it meant losing his own life.
Captain Kirk had been exploring this new world for most of the day, trying to find clues as to where he had been taken to. Armed only with what appeared to be an alien form of binoculars, he saw Darow’s craft as it approached moments ago, and followed the craft. Kirk ran as fast as could and came across a clearing. That is when he heard the screams of someone being beaten.
And then Kirk saw his first target. Peering through the binoculars, he saw a man wearing what appeared to be an outfit made out of animal skin material. In fact, he surmised it was of ancient Native-American design. Suddenly the screams came again, and Kirk watched as the stranger he had been watching, and who limped considerably, unsheathed a large buck-knife. Kirk realized, instantly, that his man was going to try to save the woman being beaten. Kirk put down the binoculars and made his way toward the small shack as quickly as he could. He could only hope he would arrive in time to help this strange tall man in animal skins!
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Meanwhile, several star systems away, the Revok’ta powered to life. The special program that Mathew and Mitch had written into the ships subroutines came to life and the Romulan style scout class vessel undocked its self from its birth.
The yard master, in the Droanha spaceport command, and his crew, could only watch with dumbfounded looks on their faces as the bay doors opened automatically. They were equally dumbfounded as they watched an unmanned ship maneuver through the doors, and out into space. The yard master could only shake his head in disbelief.
“Mathew Weer.” Were the only words that escaped from his mouth.
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CONTINUED
Family;Weer
STAR TREK
“Voyage to nowhere”
Chapter Six –Life and Death