[Naked Crook]

Meanwhile: The Timeship Melting Clock emerged from it's temporal vortex, and returned to normal space. The Timeship melting clocked emerged into a region of space where two large starships were currently engaging fire with each other. A Federation Sovereign Cruiser known as The USS Victoria, and a KDF Brotasqu Dreadnought known as the IKS Ven'tek. The two ships were activly exchanging fire, with neither ship backing down. S'kaelz: Damage report!? KDF Tactical Officer: The Federation ship is continuing to target out forward shields. Their shields are holding at 49%. S'kaelz: Rotate shields...target the weaons systems on that Federation cruiser. Re-modulate our weapons on a rotating frequency and attempt to isolate a frequency to allow increased shield penetration of our weapons! KDF Tactical officer: Rotating weapon modulation. The Ven'tek shook hard as it was hit by a spread of torpedos. KDF Ops Officer: We have sustained a direct hit to our port shields. Port shields down to 71% S'kaelz: Resume firing. Keep us within 10 Km of the Federation cruiser. Continue to target their weapons. KDF Tactical Officer: Sir...I believe I have found a weapon modulation that will allow us to directly pierce their shields. I believe I may have isolated their shield modulation. Where would you like me to target? S'kaelz: Target a single beam array, at full power, on their warp core. If we can offline their main power, or even cripple their warp drive...we might be able to turn a small fortune with the Orion syndicate in the amount of Federation "slaves" we could provide. I could always use an upgrade to our axillary Anti-proton regulators... The Ven'tek fired a full power beam at the warp core of the USS Victoria. The beam pushed right through their shields, and scored a direct hit on the warp core of the USS Victoria. As soon as this hit was landed, the Victoria lost power to its shields and weapons. KDF Tactical Officer: Enemy shields and weapons are offline! S'kaelz: Begin transporting as many officers and crew members off that ship. Beam them directly to the large holding cells on deck 22. Have security teams ready to stun every officer as they beam in. KDF Ops Officer: SIr...we must hurry...that last shot cause heavy damage to the warp core of the Federation ship. I am estimating a warp core explosion in less than one minute! S'kaelz: Plot a course for Federation Starbase 97...and engage on my mark! Concurrently: Section 31 Operative: Sir...we have returned to normal space. Temporal shields are at 21%. Chroniton weapons are offline. The Chrono-deflector is heavily damaged. I recommend we take it offline pending repairs. David: With the Chrono-deflector offline...we won't be able to make temporal jumps. Section 31 Operative: Sir...with the Chrono-deflector damaged, and online, any attempt to make a temporal jump with a ship this size, at this point, could cause a temporal explosion capable of nearly destroying this entire sector and causing irreparable damage to subspace. David: I am aware of that...ensign! David sighed. David: Take the Chrono-deflector offline, and begin immediate repairs. Section 31 Operative: Aye sir... As the Section 31 Operative carried out his orders, another officer spoke up. Section 31 Ops Officer: Sir...I think you might want to see this... The Ops officer activated the view screen. There were two ships currently engaged in battle. One of these ships was a Sovereign class Cruiser. The other ship was a KDF Brotasqu Dreadnought. Section 31 Ops Officer: We dropped into normal space in the middle of a battle ground. David: Scan for other ships! Section 31 Ops Officer: Those are the only two out there! David: Identify those ships! Give me readouts on their incursion factors! Section 31 Ops Officer: Federation Starship identified as the USS Victoria. Incursion fact - moderate. Commanding Officer - Rear-Admiral Scott Landon. KDF Starship identified as the IKS Ven'tek. Incusrion factor - critical. Commanding Officer - Lieutenant General S'kaelz. Sir...neither of these ships carry a low incursion factor. David: Explain! Section 31 Ops Officer: According to our records, the battle between these two ships ended in a stalemate. From what could be determined, the IKS Ven'tek was en-route to partake in an attack on Starbase 97 that is, according to this, currently going on. However, as a result of the efforts of Rear-Admiral Landon, and the USS Victoria, the Ven'tek was never able to make it to the battle. As a result, Starbase 97 was able to repel the Klingon attack by exploiting the absence of the Dreadnought. David: So...then we do not interfere in this. Section 31 Ops Officer: I do not believe that is an option sir. David: Why? Section 31 Ops Officer: According to these readings...the USS Victoria's warp core is going critical. There is a warp core breach immanent. They sustained a direct hit from the Ven'tek that pierced right through the shields, and sustained heavy damaged their Warp Core. David: How is that possible? Section 31 Ops Officer: Sir...I believe it is our fault. I am detecting a massive build-up of Chronitons inside of their warp-reaction chamber. Our arrival may of caused this. Our Chrono-deflector must of been leaking Chronitons, and those Chronitons must of permeated the warp core of the Victoria. This may of destabilized the shields on the Victoria just enough to allow a directed beam, at the correct modulation, and of sufficient power, to pass right through the shields. David: Why was that Klingon ship not affected? Section 31 Ops Officer: I am not sure. However, it may have something to do with the energy signature I am getting from that ship. Their power levels do not conform to standard Klingon levels of this era. In fact, their weapon levels are significantly higher than what we have expected. There must be some combination of configurations on that ship that has prevented any adverse affects. It could very well be the Anti-pronton regulators on the ship that could be sufficiantly neutralizing the charge of the Chroniton particles...but that is purely speculative. Antiproton weaponry is very unstable. David: Our own Chroniton weaponry, espeically our directed energy beams, is derived from Anti-proton based weaponry. The Chronitons that leaked from our deflector didn't have adverse effects...it had a bolstering effect. We may of inadvertently provided a very temporary power increase to the Ven'tek...which would explain how they are now able to overpower the Victoria. Section 31 Ops Officer: Sir...the Ven'tek has gone to warp. They plotted a course for Starbase 97, and they engaged at warp 9.975. They are gone. The USS Victoria is going critical. I suggest we move away to a safe distance. David: Back us away! The USS Melting Clock moved away at full impulse. They managed to put a great deal of distance between themselves, and the Victoria, before it went critical. Section 31 Ops Officer: The Victoria is gone sir. It has been destroyed. No escape pods...no survivors...at least not here. David: What is the ETA of that Klingon ship to Starbase 97? Section 31 Ops Officer: 33 minutes. David sighed. David: Damn it. This was not supposed to happen. This is terribly wrong...