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Laura quickly nodded her head, while Calem looked at sam intently.

"Got it." said Sam.

There was a small blip! and a fweeeeee and suddenly sound began playing.

Above them was the rattling of metal, and suddenly feet pounded along on the catwalk.
"What's this." came a male voice.
He sounded distraught.

Behind him came another pair of feet which stopped abruptly.
"Sh-shino-!"
There was a dropping of a thing and a muffled cry.

"Shinozaki! Shinozaki, calm down. I... I think he's okay. He probably just fell."

"Sh-shinohara... These are Shinohara's shoes..."
It seemed like the second person was... sobbing?

"I... it's okay," the first man comforted. His voice was calm, but there was a hint of panic in it. "He... he probably just fell down."

"What if Shinohara's gone..." she cried. "Sh-..."

The sound of cloth sliding against an arm-- probably the soldier extending a hand, and his comrade grabbing it and stood up.

"Wuh-"

"Come on, Shinozaki." the man said in a gentle voice. "We'll go look for 'im."

A vaguely-female sounding whimper, and then the two feet picked up and trotted off in another direction. There was a clang-clang-clang as they ascended a ladder, and then the sounds faded into the distance.

(And no, they are not based on people I ship from another fandom.)

^[Before these new people were introduced, I was wondering if whatever was making the sound was something from Alien. ]

Mike listens curiously. "They certainly don't strike me as Heiwa Federation soldiers." he says before continuing up the ladder.

Suddenly another female voice comes onto the communication frequency. "Mike? Is that you?" "Yes" he replies, "Who am I talking to?" The voice responds, "This is lieutenant Quinn in the USS Hercules. Why are you climbing Nexus Station?"
Mike: "Long story. How did you know that it's me?"
Quinn: "I don't know many people with a robotic left arm and a yellow drone."
Mike: "Good point."
Quinn: "Who are the people following you?"
Mike: "Another long story, they are not from this universe though and they have agreed to help me with this."
Quinn: "Oh. I'm gonna' stop bothering you with questions now, I'm sure they will tell me everything at debriefing."
Mike: "How is the battle going?"
Quinn: "We are taking a lot of damage, at this rate we will have to retreat within the hour so whatever you are doing you better do it fast."

An ominous creaking noise emitted from Jian's wings, but she managed a smile. "Well, now we know that wings and spacesuits don't mix." Enye floated closer, casting great ripples of light across Jian's entire body, and the latter visibly relaxed. "Thanks, Nay-chan."

"I wonder who they were..." Laura commented when Sam's recording was over. When Quinn stopped talking, Laura started to climb faster. "Does this ladder have an end?" she asked.

"I doubt they were meant to mix." Calem stated, when Jian was talking about how her wings were cramped.

"This reminds me of when I got stuck in an inter-dimensional hole." Jian commented as she began climbing again, while Enye floated close to her in a serene mood. "It was quite a peculiar experience. Then there's that night I got stuck in The Shrieking Shack at Hogwarts. That was...interesting, to say the least." Jian then peered over her shoulder. "Oh. Aelkai fell asleep! Well, she has been through a lot."

The scene that the group overheard brought to Guinan's mind the day the Borg came to destroy her homeworld. It was hundreds of years ago when she was a young adult, but she would never forget.

***
The mechanical beings known as the Borg function with the intelligence and amorality of one collective mind and will. When the Borg came to Guinan's homeworld of El-Auria, the Borg collective mind was singularly focused on assimilating the planet's resources and people, turning them into Borg drones that would join the collective.

Guinan recalled the chaos as her world went to pieces around her. She and others had tried a variety of weapons, but they would barely get a shot before every Borg in the collective adapted and became resistant to the weapon.

Guinan had been unsuccessfully trying to shoot a group of oncoming drones from behind a huge pile of rubble when she heard a loud thud and a man cry out in pain. She dashed out, not considering her own safety as she recognized the cry. "Dad!" she shouted, but when she saw him, she knew he could not answer. Blood dripped from a gaping wound in his leg, and there was a huge bump where his head had crashed against a door jam. It appeared to be friendly fire from one of her people's beam weapons, but the shooter was nowhere to be found. Terror coursed through Guinan, as it was up to her to drag her father's unresponsive form through the crowd.

She darted in and out of crumbling storefronts, behind doors and under debris as she made her way toward one of her people's escaping ships. She had several close calls, but she managed to get her injured father to safety.

***
To Mike, Guinan just said, "People are not always who they seem to be," as she continued her ascent.

(OOC: Sorry if my poetic license has offended any fellow Star Trek fans. Lillikoi, awesome idea to create that mysterious little scene. Well done.)

^[Um...'borgue'? Is that some sort of copyright code name? ]

([b]To Data: Hehe. It is a lead-up to something which will happen later. I may or may not involve about the other folks, but the guy they mentioned will definitely come back into play later (albeit, maybe not in person.) Hehe, no spoilers, but it is definitely something of the flashback variety. Also, really cool flashback there.)

Gristle glanced at Laura.
"Yeah, didn't they mention finding somebody's shoes? I wonder what that was all about..."

Lilli grinned.
"It means ya think too much, ya doofus." they added, poking Gristle in the face.

"Hey, don't touch me!" Gristle snapped. Gristle moved to push Lilli, but they teleported to the side.

"Hehe! Can't touch me!" they taunted.

Gristle just shook his head. "You are such a child." he muttered.


Lilli grinned at Jian.
"Hehe. Did I tell you about the time we went to Hell?" they asked.

"You're starting to sound like this chick I met at World's last year. Her name was Iris." Laura reminiced, when Gristle Gristle called Lilli a child. "Heh, you should see Laura back home. She definitely takes the cake when it comes to acting like a child." Calem pointed out. "Hehe, why thank you!" Laura said sweetly. "Speaking of, I wonder how everybody back home is doing..."

When Lilli teleported, both of them looked at them in amazement. "Should I even be surprised at this point." Calem sighed. "I... How did you... What...?" Laura stammered.

When Lilli mentioned that last part, both Laura and Calem looked at Lilli as if she was crazy. Again, Laura was getting that feeling that she wasn't special, even though she, along with Calem and the rest of her friends, saved their world.

"Lilli. How did you do that?" Calem asked, dumbfounded.

Mike was quite surprised when Lilli mentioned hell. "Wait, what?! Hell exists? Well, I guess with the vastness of the multiverse a place like that is bound to exist somewhere. Pardon the pun, but how the hell did you manage that?"

[ooc]
It should be noted that Mike is an atheist. I even made him that way before I myself became one, fun fact.
I'm actually thinking of doing some flashbacks for Mike. It might be a good way to reveal details about that universe.
[/ooc]

"There must be lots of places that... someone would call hell," Guinan commented in between lifting herself up the latest pillar she came across. As for Lily and her teleportation, it didn't surprise Guinan, what with all the other magic she'd seen.

(OOC: Thanks, Lily.
Kuraudo, I fixed my post.
So when do we want to skip forward to the end of the climb?)

(I actually asked to go back because there was something specific I wanted to do. )

(OOC: Cool, I didn't realize there's more.)

~Flashback~
-[2017]-

19 year old Mike walked out of his history class and met up with Mason on the college campus. "I'm here to major in physics, why are they making me learn crap about the world wars? I got the point by the time I graduated high school." he complained. Mason replied, "I'm sure the knowlage will come handy eventually. I mean, I'm an economy major being forced to take physics classes and knowing you I could probably get you to go on for eons about how useful I will eventually find that."

They continued walking and talking about random things for a few minutes until Mike reaches his car. Mike says: "Well, I gotta' go home. Seeya' later." Mason says: "OK. I actually have a nice dinner planned with my girlfriend, so I better be on my way as well." "I wish you and Ashley good luck then." replies Mike as he gets in his car.