Telvan's Leaps 4-5: Yin-Yang

Posted on Sun Aug 9th, 2020 @ 1:28pm by Captain Enalia Telvan

Mission: The Bulikaya Particle
Location: Various
Timeline: 2397

As Enalia shimmered into view once more with a sparkle of blue energy, she felt like she was starting to get a handle on this whole dimension leaping thing. The last hop was two minutes so since they were doubling in time, this one should be four. As she looked around, she wondered how many more leaps she'd be subjected to.

The place she was in now was definitely in the Artan fortress, but it looked far different from anywhere in it she recognized. Outside the bay windows was the outer landscape she knew and loved, but the inner area looked more like one of the lounge decks had been converted into a warehouse for... Glancing over a few of the inventories, it looked like the place was filled with medical supplies.

"Excuse me, are you Captain..." came her own voice from behind her. Turning around she came face to face with herself wearing a blue Artan jumper and a white lab coat with gold detailing on the shoulders - far less ostentatious than the imperial looking uniform she was used to wearing herself. "You... You look like me..."

"I'm you from another universe," Captain Telvan tried to explain while donning her best 'fleeter smile, hoping she at least didn't have to fight. "One where you joined Starfleet in the hopes of helping people there rather than suffering under the oppressive rule of my... your... our... Mother..." Trailing off, her smile faded a bit as she glanced around the room a bit more. "Thanks to this accident... Anyway, I should be gone four minutes after I arrived so you can just forget I was here."

"Ah... That explains a few things," The local Enalia tapped the PaDD in her hands against her hip a few times before continuing. "I never really knew Arenara. Not long after I was born, she challenged Grandma to the throne and lost. I'm told it was an epic battle that lasted most of the day, but I always wondered what things would have been like..."

"I guess now we both know," Captain Telvan replied with a soft smile. They then shared a moment of silence together before the other-universe captain felt the tingle of the Bulikaya particles once more. "Good luck..." She added as she faded away to be whisked off to another universe.

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This time when Enalia looked around, she was in a wholly strange place. It reminded her of a cross between a Klingon station and Deep Space Nine, but with a decidedly Artan twist. It was still the fortress she grew up on... but it was a dark and twisted place with what looked like slave pits, black market auctions, and a sprawling city where the forest, lakes, and various activities were before. Even the interior decorating inside seemed to be the polar opposite of what she had come to know and love, with spikes and bondage gear replacing swords and antiques.

“I know that uniform style. You’re from that Starfleet universe that the Alliance is in an uproar over, aren’t you?” came a rather sinister version of her voice from not far behind her.

Turning slowly, Enalia had to blink a few times before she could believe it - there she was, almost all her spots on display, her boobs somehow bigger, a savage hyena grin on her face, was what had to be her mirror universe counterpart wearing what amounted to a red and gold pirate bikini, a serrated whip at her hip.

“And you would be my mirror universe counterpart,” Enalia replied with grim determination. Eight minutes. She just had to stall for eight minutes. “Sorry for intruding. If your life is anything like mine, a lot of crazy things happen.”

“I had heard that the crossover technology, whatever it is, required at least a transporter in the same place on both sides,” the mirror Enalia mused as she got closer, licking her lips as she inspected herself curiously. But you appeared nowhere near one. Why is that?”

“An accident with an experimental particle from the future. It isn’t the most stable thing and it went haywire when a thief tried to steal it.” She figured it was best to at least tell part of the truth rather than flat out lie - after all, this was herself and she would most likely tell when she was lying. “Rather than the normal transporter effect, I’m bouncing between universes a few minutes at a time to visit myself. Unfortunately, I have no idea how many more jumps I have left.”

“Very interesting... And how long do you have in this universe? Is it long enough to have sex with yourself?” As the grin widened on the Mirror Enalia’s face, Captain Telvan noticed something else about the woman in front of her. As an augment, she had originally been male but flipped to female in her mother’s womb and even when she had visited that unaugmented Commander version of herself, even she had been flipped wholly to female.

The woman before her was not entirely female.

As sweat started to bead on her forehead, she felt it once more - the telltale tingling of the particles about to whisk her away once more. “This time, eight minutes,” she replied as she vanished in the blue Bulikaya particle sparkle.