Imperial Phoenix Divergence Chapters 1-4 (SW vs ST)

[LT.Hit-Man303]

Well I manged to not only salvage the first two chapters of this story from my old, dead computer but I also have added two more chapters and cleaned them up a bit more so enjoy


Imperial Phoenix Divergence
Chapter 1



Grand Admiral Sheppard was dozing in the high backed chair in his ready room, the call about LT.Hit-Man's disappearance in the wee hours of the morning after there recon of DS-9 had thrown off his sleep schedule and since things where at a stand still before he and his forces rampaged across this back water galaxy he decided to take a quick cat nap.

As he hovered in between a waking state and the dark realms of the land of nod he started to relax as his when he heard a wispiering much like that of a wind storm as it wafted though a burned out building that had been put to the torch, " IIIIITTT'SSS TTTOOO QQQQUUUIIITTTEEEE HHHEEERRREE!" ( If you have played RA2 can you guess who that sounds like?)

" Hun?! " grand admiral Sheppard thought to himself for a moment, " MULHAHAHAHAH!" as an insane peel of laughter that shattered the stillness of his ready room and bring Sheppard back into a terrified awakened stated that had him scrambling for the PGX-21 disruptor pistol that he had taped to the bottom of his desk.

" DAMM IT! LT.HIT-MAN GET YOUR SKINNY CRACKED ASS OUT HERE NOW!" Grand Admiral Sheppard screamed at the top of his lungs as he wildly waved the disruptor around as he looked for any sign of the loony Sith lord as he felt the acids in his guts started to churn wildly.

" You rang?" Grand Admiral Sheppard heard from behind him and spun around to see LT.Hit-Man nonchalantly leaning against a wall with a sadistically bemused look on his scared face, his arms folded across his blaster scared stormtrooper armor.

" WHAT IN THE SITH DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!!!!!!!!!" Sheppard sputtered as he considered blasting the LT right then and there.

" Well as you know that Commander Sissco invited us to the Bajorin harvest festival right?" LT.Hit-Man said to a fuming Sheppard who was doing his best to maintain control over his rage at having been so easily frightened and the LT added, " Well since you declined the invitation I thou-"
" I candled that because you took off or don't you remember that I stated that there was to be no hot dogging by anyone under my command!" Grand Admiral Sheppard rasped with a deadly tone to his voice that caused LT.Hit-Man's sarcastic smirk to change into a an evilly gleeful smile.
" Well I sorry how was I to know that my *gift* shopping for you on such a joyous occasion would cause so much trouble." the LT said with a mockingly regret filled tone of voice that caused Sheppard's eyes to bug out and then added " Well I guess then you don't want so I might as well give it to someone who appreciate the thought, you know you really hurt my feelings." and started to walk towards Sheppard's ready room door with a feigned look of hurt on his scared face.

Grand Admiral Sheppard felt his blood run cold for a moment, if the LT had done anything rash then the whole operation to put this galaxy under Imperial rule could be in some serious jeopardy.
" What did you get me?" Grand Admiral Sheppard asked in a calm tone of voice as a few beads of sweat trickled down his deeply troubled brow.

LT.Hit-Man looked over his shoulder, gone of the look of hurt having been replaced with his third most fighting smile, the one he reserved for door to door evangelists and opinion poll takers.
" I thought you might like some fine Bajorin festival music." LT.Hit-Man said knowing that he now had Sheppard's rapt attention and threw something towards him.

" OH FUCK ME! " Grand Admiral Sheppard thought to himself as he saw a glimmering shine off of what the LT had thrown towards him, he had good reason to fear the object that was plummeting towards him, it was well known that anything even the most benign object could become a weapon of mass terror and death after the LT had gotten his hands on it and if the LT bared a grudge against him for having him clean out the waste reclamation unit his life could very well be measured in seconds.
On the other hand if Sheppard refused the LT's gift that in it'self might just the thing to send the loony cyborg over the edge.

But what helped Grand Admiral Sheppard in making the decision to except the LT's gift was the fact that he was kind of curious as to know what *exactly* did the LT mean by Bajorin festival music.
So Grand admiral Sheppard reached and snatched the object from the air and luckily he managed to keep from wetting himself as his hand made contact with what the LT had tossed to him, he was half expecting what ever it was to explode in his face.

Sheppard looked at the object in his hand and it was a data crystal, he looked up and saw that LT.Hit-Man was walking out the door of his ready room, " Enjoy, I have some other * matters * to attend to." the LT said in a malevolent wispier but Sheppard could detected a strange, almost purring undertone to his voice.

" LT.HIT-MAN GET BACK HERE!,I DID NOT DISMISS...you!?!?!?!" Sheppard had started shouting as he chased after the LT but his voice died off as he found himself look out at the bridge of his ship and found himself face to face with a very surprised looking bridge crew, of the LT there was no sign of him.

" I hate it when he does that! " Sheppard snarled as he walked back into his ready room, sat down at his desk and was about to slot the data crystal into the reader when he started having seconds thoughts about what was on the crystal, " What are you doing you loony son of a bitch? " Grand Admiral Sheppard thought to himself as he looked at the crystal as a multitude of ghastly images swirled around in his mind.

" Don't worry it's nothing that can be traced back to us............I think?!?! NHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Sheppard heard the LT say and spun around wildly looking for the out of control Sith lord but saw that he was alone in his ready room.

Sheppard let out a deep sigh, laid the crystal down on his desk then opened a drawer on his desk and pulled a glass, a fair sized bottle of Coruascant moonshine and an even bigger bottle of pink liquid anti-acid drink, he knew that he was going to need them both as he then slotted the data crystal into the reader.

Grand Admiral Sheppard just about flipped his lid when he saw the image of the krinkle nosed Bajorin bitch Kira what-ever-her-last-name-was as she was talking with Odo the shape shifting head of security of Deep Space nine and they where on what appeared to be the command center of DS-9!

With a slight tremble in his hand Grand Admiral Sheppard poured himself a glass of the moonshine as he watched Kira talk to Odo, " Are you going to be at the harvest festival ?" Kira asked the shape shifter who told her that he would be join her later on Bajor, he would be working a bit late reviewing the security logs of Grand Admiral Sheppard and his party, that there was something about them that had set his nerves on edge.
" Note to self have Odo killed ASAP." Sheppard thought to himself as he finished pouring his drink, feeling that Odo was going to be the most troublesome of all the DS-9 crewers.

Suddenly the view pan left and up to show the image of Benjamin Sissco, " It looks like Grand Admiral Sheppard and his routine will not be joining for the harvest festival." Sissco said to Odo who's face grew dark and thoughtful as he walk down to join his command staff, * I wonder what's up with that? *
Sheppard spewed the moonshine out of his nose and all over his Grand Admiral's uniform when he heard the ghostly wispier of LT.Hit-Man!

Grand Admiral Sheppard was stunned and wuffed at the data viewer to back up a few frames as he tried to clear the lingering fiery hootch from his tortured nasal passages, he replayed the segment of the video where Sissco was walking over to Odo and Kira and sure enough there was a ghostly wispier of LT.Hit-Man himself.

" Computer freeze playback." Grand Admiral Sheppard honked at the data viewer and said back in his chair, ether LT.Hit-Man was far more versed in the dark arts of terror, assassination and sabotage that was his stock and trade then he let on or these Federation types where even more stupider then they had been lead to believe for them not to notice the deadly Sith lord in there midst.

" Computer resume playback." Grand Admiral Sheppard said with a raspy voice and with a very keen interest as to what else the data crystal held.

" Did Admiral Sheppard say why he would not be joining us at the festival? " A very suspicious Odo asked Sissco who told him and Kira that they where having trouble with there warp drives, that the strain of there journey from the empire to DS-9 had caused a slightly dangerous fluctuation in there warp core's anti-matter containment grid, there was a wispiering chuckle from LT.Hit-Man and Sheppard saw Kira shiver slightly.

" Perhaps we can send over a few engineers to help them out..sort of a goodwill gesture you know?" Milles O' Brian said that caused the spectral giggling of LT.Hit-Man to repeat it's elf but this time only slightly louder then before and that set Grand Admiral Sheppard's some what ragged nerves on a keener edge as the image of the Feds finding the LT spying on them played out in his mind.

" No Miles Admiral Sheppard said that they had it in hand and that they would consider any outside intervention to be a dishonor to there hard working Imperial engineers." Sissco said with a wistful sigh and then added, " Constable why don't you take the rest of the night off, I don't think that this Admiral Sheppard or any of his people will be causing us any trouble and enjoy the festival I'm sure that if there's any trouble we can handle it."

Odo let out a snort, " I'm sorry commander but there's something about these Imperials that is bothering me more then just there attitudes and political beliefs and until I figure it out or find that it's really nothing to worry about it's going to keep bothering me."

The view panned back to Kira who was doing her best to talk the Constable into reconsidering his decision to stay behind, " Sorry Kira but this is something I have to do but I'll be down on Bajor in time for of feast ok?" Odo said in a softer but still gruff tone of voice.
" Ok Odo you do that." Kira said and gave Odo a peck on the cheek as Odo was leaving the command deck.
" Major I want you to tell Ki' Wyn that as the emissary I will be there in an hour to help with the festival if I can." Sissco said to Kira who told him that she would do that and thanked him, knowing that Sissco never really cared for the whole emissary deal and then asked if she could take her leave so that she could freshen up for the festival.
" By all means Major I'll see you soon." Sissco said as Kira started walking towards the transporter pad.

* I don't think so you dumb cunt * wispiered the LT as the view panned to show the computer console that Chef O'Brian was sitting at, O'Brian however was reading from a data pad that some Fed technician handed him, then there was a soft beeping noise as a button on the panel lit up briefly.


" OH BLOODY HELL! Commander you had better come and look at this!" Milles yelled as he turned back to his computer panel as the view zoomed away from him and back to Major Kira who had one foot on the transporter pad but had stopped and looked over to O'Brian who was cursing up a storm as Sissco was walking towards him and asking what was the matter.

" The entire plasma relays for all the transporters on the station are depolarizing! " O'Brian said as he started to type away at the computer panel.

Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there and watched as O'Brian and Sissco where talking at a furious pace as the plasma relays continued to depolarize.

" LT what the fuck did you do?!?!" Sheppard thought to himself.

" Sir I told you that we needed to replace those plasma relays a week ago!" O'Brian snarled as he continued to type away at the computer panel then with an exasperated curse he hit the computer panel with a balled fist to vent his growing frustration.
" I'm sorry Chef I put in an order for the replacements yesterday and Starfleet told me that they would be tomorrow, I thought you said that the relays would hold out for a week." Sissco snapped back at the fuming O'Brian who said to him that they should have held out for that long.

The view of video pan back over to Major Kira who seemed to be praying of all things, thankful that she had not been in mid transport when the plasma relays went for a shit and the video closed in on her as the LT walked up to her.

" Commander what the hell is going on here!" a slightly whining voice and the view panned to the right to show Doctor Bashir enter the command center with a slight limp and then the video show a set of cross-hairs appeared and centered themselves on the Doctor's forehead and Sheppard could hear a low growling from the LT and Sheppard reached for the bottle of moonshine and with good reason, juring the after recon report Admiral Daala mentioned that he had been hit upon by the doctor then not only did the romulan try and recruit Admiral Daala after she expressed her disinterest in the doctor via a swift kick to the happy sacs but also made a pass at the Admiral.

Even though they would not admit it LT.Hit-Man and Admiral Daala had more then a slightly passing interest in each other but woe to anyone who was dumb enough to make mention of it as the Imperial med-techs can attest to as they treated the luckless souls who had made a remark about the matter in the presence of the Admiral or the force forbid the LT.

" Not now doctor, O'Brian is there anyway to get the transporters on line?" Sissco asked a very irate O'Brian who told Sissco that without the new parts the transporters where as good as dead as the cross-hairs disappeared as the video show a close up of the Doctor who was bitching about some medical supplies that had been lost in mid transport.

* Your so dead! * the ghostly voice of LT-Hit-Man wispiered with a venomous haltered that Sheppard felt the hairs on the back of neck stand on end as the video showed such an extreme close up of the left side of Doctor Bashier that Admiral Sheppard could count the hairs in his ear then the view zoomed back a few feet from the Doctor who was looking around wildly with fear on his boyish face.

" Doctor are you all right? " Sisco called out as Bashier forced himself to calm down, " I'm fine." he told Sissco and left occasionally looking over his shoulder as the view of the video centered on Major Kira who was now cursing to herself.

Sissco looked over to the Major and told her that he would tell Ki'Wyn that he would help out the festival himself and that she might be able to get a lift to Bajor on a shuttle that was taking on a few passengers as part of a tour of the wormhole and would end with the tourists arriving on Bajor for the festival.

With that said Kira walked over to a turbolift, she did not know however that she would not be alone in the turbo-lift as she made her way to the promenade.

Admiral Sheppard reached for the glass and poured himself a hefty slug of moonshine as he watched the Major walking along the promenade though a sea of beings as she made her way towards one of the docking bays, LT.Hit-Man would occasionally reach out and tap her on the shoulder, he would giggle as the Major's frustration grew each time she turned to see who had tapped her but found that there was no one around her.

The video showed a small shop that had a variety of trinkets that was being sold by and elderly bajorin man and the view panned towards a bundle of odd flowers with glowing bulbs as the Kira walked by.
* Hmmm these will come in handy. * the haunting voice of the LT said as the view showed a rack of crystal ornaments behind the old bajorin and slowly the rack began to slowly rock back and forth, picking up speed with each passing moment.

CRASH! the rack of crystal ornaments spilled it's contents that shattered into millions of itty bitty pieces with such a noise that the poor old bajorin just about jump out of his skin as the view shifted back to the bunch of odd flowers, * YONK ! * the stealth mode LT said as the flowers seemed to disappear as the old bajorin began to clean up the mess of shattered crystal.

Admiral Sheppard just shook his head as he poured himself another drink as the video showed the LT sneaking up behind Major Kira as she entered the shuttle never even suspecting that her death was standing right beside her in the somewhat crowed shuttle.

After awhile the shuttle landed on Bajor and the Major was walking at a brisk pace to her home after an hour or so she came to her small, one story house.
" Right let's see here." Major Kira said to herself as she started grab a few thing from the cupboard in the kitchen of her home for a quick bite to eat.
After a few minutes of prepping her dinner he took a look at her wrist crono, " Shit." she muttered as she realized that time was running out for her before the festival was to start so she put down the stuff she was fixing for dinner and walked into the bathroom and began to draw a bath for herself, when she came out of the bathroom she started to strip off her uniform.

" What the fuck? " the phantom LT.Hit-Man muttered as he watched as the nude Major Kira resume making her dinner.

Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there with his jaw hanging around his knees after all this was the last thing he was expecting to see when suddenly his guts began to quake and so he reached for the pink anti-acid as he counted to watch the video as he took a long swig from the bottle.

Grand Admiral Sheppard spewed the pink stuff though his dully aching nose when he saw the naked Kira suddenly start doing herself with a hasperat root she had been chopping up for dinner.

Outside of Grand Admiral Sheppard's ready room the bridge officers suddenly stopped and looked at the door of the Admiral's ready room as they heard " Yes oh yes Odo, harder, HARDER I SAY YOU SHAPE SHIFTING WONDER!" and a few minutes later there was a loud feminine scream from the Admiral's ready room, the bridge officers just looked at each other, shook their heads and when back to work with a smirk on there faces.

Grand Admerial Sheppard just sat there slack jawed as he watched a panting Kira slowly pulled the well marinaded hasperat root out of her dripping pussy, headless of the prink anti-acid that had dribbled out of his mouth, rolling down his chin and dripping onto his crisp white uniform paints and leave a nasty pink stain on them as the Major looked at the hasperat root with longing her eyes then suddenly she took a huge bite from the root and threw it into the pot of boiling water and walk into the bathroom.

* Well it looks like we now know the root of her crankiness is eh Sheppard? * the LT said with a low chuckle
Grand Admiral Sheppard wiped his chin as his mind came back to the real world and he let out a curse then he wiped off the video monitor that he had sprayed when he saw what the bitch of a major considered to be a fine example of Bajorin cooking, there was a low singing from the bathroom as the major cleaned herself up and a few minutes later she came out of the bathroom, stirred the meal she was cooking then walk into the bedroom to get dressed.

After a few minutes the video showed Kira come back into the kitchen and finished the prepping of her meal, as she sat down to eat the door chime rang, she ignored it as she began to hastily eat.

The door chime pinged again and a frustrated Major Kira got up from her seat and yelled " Ok Ok hold the fuck on!" he snapped as she went to answer the door, the video panned to show a shot of the LT looking down at the partly eaten meal and a black tube seemed to appear out of thin air, the top was popped and the LT poured something into the food, stirred it up a bit as a ranting Major Kira came back to her dinner while muttering, " Damm kids!, if I ever catch the little fuckers playing their silly games I'll brake there fingers!"
The video panned to a wide shot as the LT backed away from the table and the Major sitting down and started to shovel her meal into her mouth, " That's right you fucking whore you eat it, all of it! " LT.Hit-Man snarled, leaving Grand Admiral Sheppard wondering just what the fuck LT.Hit-Man was doing and more importantly just what had the insane Sith lord spiked the Major's food with.

What ever it was it was not going to be a pretty when it took effect Sheppard was certain of that.

Grand Admiral Sheppard decided that it was time for another drink even though his rumbling guts thought it was a very bad idea but he took a swig from the bottle as the video showed Major Kira finishing her meal, not knowing that she had just sealed her fate and then she walked out of her house muttering that she was going to be late for the festival.

* Exit, stage left, Mwhaaahahaha! * LT.Hit-Man cackled as the video showed a shot of a mirror when suddenly there stood the LT in a black hooded robe over his old stormtrooper armor with that evil smile of his that was the last thing his victims saw as their souls was fed to the Dark Side as he looked at the mirror from under the hood of his robes!

" Ooooohhhhh SHIT! " was all Sheppard could say as it dawned on him how the LT was able to walk around DS-9 without anyone knowing that death was walking in there misted.

After a few hours the video showed the unfortunate fate of a gang that had tried to mug the LT as he was making his way though the capital city that the festival was taking place.

Grand Admiral Sheppard decided that it was time to lay off the moonshine as his guts felt like someone had sliced open his guts stuffed him full of WP and shoved a lit match down his throat and started sucking back the pink stuff as the video showed a large open air gathering of Bajorin and Federation personal in front of stage that was lined with the top brass from DS-9 and the heads of the Bajorin government and the Vedic assembly, Sheppard could see that Commander Sissco was to the left of Ki'Wyn who was giving a speech on how the profits had seen them though there dark times when the Cardassines had occupied their world then the Dominion war and that is why they are giving thanks this year.
To the right of Sissco was Odo and Kira who was mooning at Odo who looked over at her with a smile, there was Doctor Bashir sitting beside Kira and Ezri Dax and they where exchanging a few looks of their own.

Ki'Wyn finished her speech and told everyone it was time to celebrate, with that said they sat down and began to eat as did the gathered Bajorins and Federation personal, not knowing that they had an uninvited guest who was watching them from the shadows with a truly evil smile.

" Anytime now " came the LT's voice from the video that had zoomed in on Major Kira who was smiling as she was talking to Odo and Ki'Wyn, as there was a building tension in his voice that had Grand Admiral Sheppard sitting on the edge of his seat as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room for of old ladies in rocking chairs and he could feel that death was ever so close.

" Hey Odo did I ever tell you about the time Ki'Wyn and me fooled a bunch of Cardassens into thinking that the weapons we where smuggling to the resistance was nothing more then spare parts for the mines?" Kira asked Odo with a look of wistful remembrance and an underlying look of lust, the mood of the festival was happy go lucky as it went on and she was in a good mood.
" No Major do tell I would like to hear that." Odo said as he caught the look in Kira's eyes and morphed his foot into a long tentacle and slowly ran it up her leg with a lustful twinkle in his eyes.
Major Kira's face flushed for a moment and she took a drink from her glass of cold spring wine, " We told the Car-" Suddenly Kira started to cough.
" Major are you ok?" Odo asked as he reached out to pat her on the back and he slithered the tentacle off of her and morphed it back into a leg and foot.

Major Kira held up her hand to show that she was ok and muttered that she had just drank a little to fast as she continued to cough a little harder.
Sissco, Ki'Wyn and the rest of the people at the table noticed that there was something wrong with the Major as she suddenly stood up and leaned on the table as she continued to cough as there was a lung shredding pain in each of her couchs

The rest of the gathered Bajorin and Federation personal looked up at the table and began to point as they talked excitedly amongst themselves as they watched Major Kira flop onto the table on her back and started thrashing around, sending plates of food flying everywhere as her agonized screams shattered the festive mood.

" GET OUT OF THE WAY! " Doctor Bashir yelled as he ran to Kira's side, tricorder in hand as Odo and Sissco where struggling to hole the convulsing Major down as her screams increased in volume and urgency.

Major Kira felt like there was a mining crew inside her body with heavy drilling equipment as she continued to trash around in hellish agony as a huge lump was forming in her chest, Doctor Bashir was taking some readings from his tricorder when suddenly there was an obscenely wet ripping sound that defied description as the chest of her uniform top was drenched in an explosion of blood and she found herself face to face with a blood covered worm like thing that was slowly turning towards her.

" This is your death, courtesy of the Galactic Empire you REBEL BITCH! " she heard in her mind and the last thing she saw and heard was the worm like thing open it's fanged maw as blood and slime dribbled over it's body as it looked right at her as her terror filled dying scream did a duet with it's furious hissing-scream as her soul was fed to the Dark Side.

There was a moment of stunned horror as Odo, Sissco and Doctor Bashir, who's faces where covered in Kira's blood just looked at they thing that had ripped it's way of her chest their minds refusing to understand what it was that was now facing them in the ruined remains of Major Kira's shattered chest as her head tilted to the right and blood began to spill from her agony twisted mouth, staining her lips like an obscene parody of lipstick.

Ezri Dax had fainted and when she hit the stage the bloody monstrosity turned towards the sound, bit's of Kira's ragged flesh fell from it's wickedly fanged maw as it let out a blood curdling hiss that turned Sissco, Bashir and Odo's blood to ice water.

And all hell broke lose as the gathered Bajorins and Federation personal ran screaming in mindless terror, trampling one another in blind fear as they sought to escape from the horror that had be born in blood at this time of thanksgiving causing scores of injuries and a few deaths as the hell spawned terror leapt from it's fleshy prison at Doctor Bashir and began to rip into his face with a ravenous hunger.

Commander Sissco and Odo backed away from the thrashing Bashir in mortal terror as the doctor was rolling on the table screaming for help as the bloody nightmare continued to eat away at his face, Ki'Wyn dropped dead of fright and the few Bajorin and Federation security officers that had been on hand to make sure that things went well at the festival began to reach for there phasers.
Bashir managed to get a hold of the blood drenched demon and pulled off of his face and ripping away what was left of his face and lips in a spray of blood and managed to throw it away from him, Ezri Dax had awoke from what must have been a bad dream to find herself drowning in an even greater nightmare as she watched Bashier rip the thing from his face and fainted back into the safety of mental oblivion.

As soon as the thing hit the ground it began to head towards the nearest source of food, the Bajorins and Federation personal that had been trampled and lunged at a vulcan man who was now screaming in mindless terror but fate was in a forgiving mood as more then a dozen phaser blasts vaporized the thing before it had a chance to make a meal out of the vulcan.

Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there his mind unable to deal with what he had just bore witness to when the video cut to the cowled figure of LT.Hit-Man how was now sitting in what appeared to be the cockpit of a Federation shuttle.

" I always said that Bajorin festival music is such *scream* won't you agree?" LT.Hit-Man said as Grand Admiral Sheppard was puking his guts out but when he heard the smiling image of LT.Hit-Man say that there was more to this gift then the music Grand Admiral Sheppard force himself to stop puking and looked at the video as his horror began to grow as a squad of stormtrooper entered the ready room with there E-11's at the ready, when the bridge officers heard Major Kira's dying screams they felt a cold wave of terror grip them because there was no mistaking that scream for the one earlier as she * rooted * around in her kitchen and some of the bridge officers called for the stormtroopers to check things out as they found there hands reaching for there side arms without understanding why.

Grand Admiral Sheppard held up a shakey hand to keep the stormtroopers at bay as the image of LT.Hit-Man continued to speak.
" That thing is what I called a chest burster they come from LV-426, you remember that shit hole of rock that me and the Cleaners stopped off at right?"
" Well after I was finished cleaning out the WRU I went back there and this is what I found.", the video was replaced with what looked like technical information, " I feel that these things would back for a very formidable biological terror weapon, HOWEVER I must say this, any world we would use these bugs on would have to be completely exterminated of all life you have no idea on how dangerous these things are."

Grand Admiral Sheppard began to get to his feet as the image of LT.Hit-Man reappeared with a sadistic smirk.
" I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I did after all a rebel is a rebel no matter what galaxy their from and one less rebel leaves the universe a little cleaner." and began to fade to black, the LT's damning laughter filled the silent ready room.

The stormtroopers looked at each other for a moment as Grand Admiral Sheppard in a very badly stained uniform looked at them, they could see the seething rage in his eyes.
" GET ME GENERAL YATES AND CLEANERS NOW OR I'LL HAVE YOUR GUTS FOR BOOT LACES!!!!" Sheppard roared as he fought to keep himself from flipping out and shooting everyone in sight.
The stormtroopers ran so fast that one would think that they where about to hit hyper-space.

" LT.Hit-Man you have gone way to far this time, when next we meet there's going to be the Sith to
pay! " Grand Admiral Sheppard said as he walked out onto the bridge and started to make his way towards his quarters to change into a new uniform, the rest of the bridge crew did not even look up from there stations, they had heard what the Grand Admiral had said to the stormtroopers and from they way they ran from the bridge they know that it had better make themselves look busy instead of standing around like a bunch of yokels from the ass end of the outter rim.

Unaware of what had taken place Admiral Daala was walking to her quarters ever since the mission to Deep Space Nine her work day consisted of battle sims crew evaluation reports and maintenance work, in short she was board out of her skull.

Admiral Daala walked into quarters and kick off her boots and was going to hit the shower when her hand went for her blaster pistol, someone was in or had been in her quarters, there was something in the air that was out of place with the way her quarters normally smelled.

" Ok looks like someone been fucking around here but who? " she thought to herself as she looked down at the carpet in her quarters to see if she could find any kind of foot impressions that someone would have made when they entered her quarters but she found none, using her nose she put her back to the closest wall and followed the scent that was hard to make out as she slid along the wall towards her bedroom.

Admiral Daala licked her lips as she sniffed the air, yes the smell was becoming stronger, more discernable, the smell was like that of something like vanilla and silk, Admiral Daala whipped around the corner in a low crouch as she looked around the bed room, her blaster following where her eyes were looking and when she look at her bed she froze.

Above her bed was a bunch of strange looking flowers with glowing bulbs but that was not what made her freeze up in wonder and a slight bit of dread, the flowers had been impaled on the wall above her bed's headboard by a foot long combat knife that had been driven into the wall with such unimaginable force that there where small cracks emanating from the center of the flowers.

" What the fuck?" Admiral Daala though to herself as she stood up and walked over to the flowers as she holstered her blaster on a hunch that who ever had done this was long gone.
She reached for the combat knife and tried to pull it out of the wall with all of her strength but after a few minutes of her swearing like a stormtrooper she gave up on that and part the stems and found the ones that had been ran though with the blade and began to brake them open to free the flowers from there impromptu wall mount, as the stems where being broken open a clear sap began to oozed out of them and the air was filled with a rich silky, vanilla scent that Admiral Daala found not to be all that unpleasant.

" Tarkin ha-" Admiral Daala was starting to think about her one true love that had been Moff Tarkin who had given her the rank of admiral, given her the respect that she had fought hard to earn where as other Imperial personal only gave her contempt and a leering gaze as a flood of painful memories came back to her and she fought to keep the tears from flowing.

Tarkin had never been one to give flowers and other such nonsense to show her his love for her but he had shown his love for her in other ways some of them base and other more subtle but the one thing that endear him to her was the amount of trust he had given her when he put her in charge of the Maw complex that would turn into a prison that would test her mettle in ways she had never thought possible.

She sat on her bed staring at the flowers as the maelstrom of memories and emotion continued to batter at her iron will as the memory of the last time the two of them had spent together before they parted ways forever, the passion that seemed to ignite the very air around them as they danced the timeless dance of the lovers, or the way the leatheren ropes that he had tied her down to the bed chaffed her skin as he had his way with her or the sounds they made as she tied him down and rode him like a dewback.

Admiral Daala wiped away the wetness that was starting to from in her eyes, after that was done she took a closer look at the combat knife that was imbedded in the wall, after a few minutes she realized that it was a stormtrooper's weapon.

" I hope you like the flowers, when I saw them it was your face that came to mind." A low voice said from behind her.
Daala slowly turned around, her first thought at the sounds of the voice was to reach for her blaster but something in that voice stayed her hand, standing there was LT.Hit-Man in his battle scared stormtrooper armor, however there was a strange look on his scared face that she could not identify.

" Is this your idea of a joke?" Daala said with a cold tone of voice, given the LT's bloody and well deserved reputation she was on her guard for all she knew he could be setting her up for some slight she may have caused him even though she was secretly terrified of the cyborg Sith lord but yet there was something that was rubbing her the wrong way about this whole situation.

LT.Hit-Man let out a snarl, " I don't need this fucking shit! " and quickly turned to leave her quarters and Daala found herself breathless as she finally came to understand the strange look on the LT's face it was a look of dread and confusion but what left her standing there like an eviscerated victim of one the LT's mad rampages was the look of hurt in his slightly misty human eye!


Admiral Daala was about to call out after the LT but when she felt the air in her quarters suddenly grow cold but that was not the only thing that held her to the spot where she stood like a helpless rebel ship in an ISD's tractor beam there was the confusing torrent of feelings that where washing over her like a bursted dam.
By the time she found the resolve to find the LT and confront him about what was going through his mind he was long gone, surprisingly there where no mangled bodies of any Imperial crewers who might have had the shit ass luck of running into the LT in the mood he was in, Admiral Daala made her way back to her bedroom and sat down on her bed as she tried to sort out just what the hell she was feeling at that moment when she first found the flowers that the LT had given her and with a frighteningly savage outburst of rage she threw the flowers as far away from her as she could as a few tears forced their way out of her pain filled eyes.

Daala looked at her blaster and not for the first time she wondered what a blaster bolt across the ol' brain pan would feel like.

Days later Grand Admiral Sheppard called a meeting of his command staff to figure out just how thery were going to handle the LT.Hit-Man situation, after the LT had left Admiral Daala's quarters he had high jacked the ISD _ DoomFane_ after forcing the surviving crewers off at light saber point, he had killed a few of them that had been stupid enough not only to openly voice there objections to the LT taking the ship for a spin but did so to the loony Sith lord's inhumanly cold face!

" So Sheppard do you have any idea of what flipped the LT's cookie this time?" Phong asked as he lazily drummed his fingers on the briefing table.
" No I don't but I have a damm good idea of when the LT slid off into the deep end." Grand Admiral Sheppard told his staff as he looked them over, noticing the slightly distracted look in Admiral Daala's eyes at the meeting wore on, After the LT took off for parts unknown Sheppard had noticed that Admiral Daala had become distance and even a tat snappish as he as the fleet looked high and low for the absent LT.
It had gotten to the point where Admiral Daala's bad mood almost end in one of his crewers picking up his teeth as she tried to knock them out of his skull like a set of dominos's being thrown down for a game if Sheppard not ordered her to stand down, after when he had ordered her into his ready room he asked her what had her knickers in a knot.

Admiral Daala told him coldly that it was a female complaint and gave him a look that had set his teeth on edge, Grand Admiral Sheppard could tell that there was a lot more to the reason why she was tearing around like the queen bitch of the universe then the natural life cycle of a human female but with the loose cannon named LT.Hit-Man prancing about the galaxy and more then likely to throw there well laid plan to conquer this ass backwards galaxy down the shitter they had pressing matters to take care of at the moment, he gave her a reprimand and a dire warning to mellow the fuck out or she would be cooling her heels in the brig until she was in a more charitable mood.

General Yates was picking his teeth with the edge of his thumbnail as he asked Sheppard what he had meant by that and when Grand Admiral Sheppard held up the damming data crystal that the LT had given him and added " When he gave me this * gift * a few days ago.", there was a slight drop in the room's normally pleasant temperature as their eye's took a good look at the seeming innocent looking data crystal that was indistinguishable from any other data crystal.

" Would this happen to have anything to do with the sudden quarantining of DS-9 and Bajor?" the man known only as
* The Butcher * asked as his eyes narrowed slightly as if he was trying to read the info in the data crystal.
" Got it in one." Sheppard told The Butcher, wondering what was going in his mind, from the couched words between the two of them The Butcher vaguely hinted that he and the LT had worked together juring the early weaponztion of Travme at the late Emperor Palpatine's instance as he slotted the data crystal into a reader, not only did he have to deal with the LT going AWOL on him but he had to shuck and jive Commander Sissco, the Federation and the Bajorin government as they put themselves under quarantine due to the LT and assured them that they where not infested with the life form that had come to dine with them as Major Kira's dinner guest at the harvest festival to keep them from boarding there ship in a polite way and without giving any kind of hint that they had an inkling as to what had happened on Bajor.

By a strange twist of the Dark Side neither the LT or The Butcher had ran into each other since they joined up with Sheppard, in fact until this, his first meeting with Sheppard and his command staff The Butcher had no idea that LT.Hit-Man was running with Sheppard and his crew.

Needless to Sheppard was not sleeping as well as he normally should and it showed as he keyed the play button on the data reader, at lest this time he would not have to change his uniform after the video was done, wisely he had declined to offer his staff any refreshments lest they suffer the same indignity that he had.

After the video was done Sheppard looked around the table, General Yates had his head in his hands and was muttering something to the effect " What the fuck did I do in my past life to end up in this mess."
, LV-426 had given him nightmares for a few days and he was damm thankful that he and most of the Cleaners had gotten off of the dismal rock in one piece as well as cursing himself for not seeing that something was like this in making after Sheppard had grilled him and rest of the Cleaners on there mission on LV-426 with greater interest then he normally had for a post mission debriefing.

Phong looked like he was about to puke right then and there, not because he was squeamish when it came to blood and guts, No what had his guts high balling was the fact that before Sheppard had called him to the briefing he had finished a dinner of hasperat stew, Phong considered himself somewhat of a coinsurer of fine foods and since he had came to DS-9 and Bajor he had been indulging his passing interest in Bajorin foods.

Rather or not if Phong would continue to indulge his taste testing of Bajorin foods was anyone's guess....but the smart money would be on not.

The Butcher had a deep and thoughtful look on his face as if he was thinking on away that the chest burster could be used as a bio-weapon as the LT had suggested.

Admiral Daala was in a world of turmoil as she just sat there staring off into space.
She had met the late Kira briefly and until she had started spouting off about rebellion and guerilla warfare she did had not cared about the bajorin major one way or the other, so when she saw the major take the last train to the coast she was in agreement with the LT's comment of one less rebel the better but what had her in a silent uproar was not the fact that they way the LT had taken Kira out of the game, everyone knew that the LT was one sick son of a rancor but she did not figure him to be a pervo to boot as he watched the major do herself with the hasperat root but she was wondering if the LT had been peeping on her when ever she had taken a shower and what not.

" So will thi-" General Yates was about to ask if the LT's high handed game would throw off there invasion plans when suddenly the door to the briefing room hissed open.

* Bop, bop, bop * a child's brightly colored toy ball bounced and rolled to a stop in the middle of the briefing room, leaving a trial of slime in it's wake, they looked up at the door and saw seven some odd feet of a nightmarish monstrosity spawned from the lowest, darkest pit of the Sith.

For a moment on one moved as the thing walked into the briefing room, it's wickedly clawed feet making a nerve rattling sound much like that of fingernails being slowly dragged across a blackboard as it walked towards the toy ball.

[LT.Hit-Man303]

Imperial Phoenix Divergence
Chapter 2


Sheppard and the rest of his staff watched in bowel wrenching terror as the creature walked over to the toy ball and picked it up and put it in it's mouth and sat down like a small dog and was making a strange hissing sound as it began to lightly thump it's deadly tail on the floor of the briefing room.

" Don't worry you're safe. " they heard off to their right and when they looked they saw LT.Hit-Man enter the room but their was something about him that held them spell bound as he walked over to the monstrous creature that had nearly made lunch meat out of the Cleaners back on LV-426 and reach out and pet the creature on it's nightmarishly mishappen head.

LT.Hit-Man was about to speak to Sheppard when he saw the Butcher standing in the briefing room and for a moment there was a deadly and fearful silence that was shattered by the low thumping sound of the monster's as it let out a strange hissing sound,
" LT.Hit-Man you have got five fucking seconds to explane your sorry ass before I come over there and rip your fucking head off and shit down you neck! " Shepard said in a deadly tone of voice as his fear turned to outright hate for the loony Sith lord's childish behavior that had put the whole mission at deadly risk not to mention his dream and hopes of conquering this galaxy and then returning home with a massive invasion force and utterly crushing the damn rebels into dust but yet there was something about the way the LT was acting that kept him of blasting him where he stood.

LT.Hit-Man manged to get over his shock at seeing a man he considered to be a man after his own black and twisted heart, " Sheppard listen to me carefully.. " he said in a calm tone of voice which scard the ever living shit out of Shepard because he knew when the LT was like this, which was only once or twice since he had themisfortunee to have met the most lethal being in his home galaxy after the Emperor and Darth Vader when he had used that tone of voice before it at been at the times when the shit was going to hit the fan so hard that one would need a death star to stay above it.
There was also the fact that the insane Sith lord's voice had a deadly edge to it that told them all that the LT was not playing games which meant they had better listen to him.

Admerial Daala was in a very confused state of mind because ever since the terrifying cyborg had given her those strange flowers his face was practically haunting her every waking thought so much so that she was driving herself to mental rack and ruin as she was trying to understand not only why the insane LT was interested in her but to deal with that look of all to human vulnerability she had seen on his face before he stormed out of her qauters as well as her own need for the touch of man and her her deathly terror of the Sith lord.

Once Lt.Hit-Man saw that he had everyone ones attention he took a deep breath and slowly let it out, " Sheppard these creatures from LV-426 maybe my legacy. " he said as he felt calm and resolute much like the times before a major battle, " LT what the fuck are you talking about? " Sheppard said as he was still trying to deal with the LT's rather dramatic shift in personalty and he felt his blood run cold at the deadly smirk on the loony cyborg's scared face, " If I am right, these creatures were the creation of the Sith long before the first recorded history of our home galaxy as a biological weapon to combat the Jedi in an age so far back that it was time of the gods. " LT.Hit-Man said with such a strange and reverent tone of voice that Sheppard and the others were slightly dumb struck, after a few minutes Sheppard manged to get his wits about him.
" LT your not making any sense with this talk about gods and what not. " he said with a slightly exasperated tone of voice as he found himself wishing for a large, stiff drink.

" Sheppard before we met I had raided one of the Emperor's hidden treasure worlds, that's where I got the bio weapon from that I had on me when we met, it was there that I found a book of the Emperor's that contained fragments of achent Sith history and it was in that book that I came across a legend of a nightmare horde that consumedall in it's path and from that llegend have come to the concultion that these creatures are those spoken of in that achent legend. " LT.Hit-Man said as the creature started to rub it's head against his cybernetic right hand.
Sheppard was having a hard time wraping his mind around what he had just been told but yet there was something in the LT's voice that stopped him from dismissing all this talk about achent legends out of hand, " When I returned to LV-426, I opened my mind to these creatures and a strange thing happened I seemed to force resonate with one of them and it came toacknowledgee me as a Hive Master. " LT.Hit-Man said as he stoked the creature's head which caused it to thump it's deadly tail into the floor of the briefing room once more.

Grenral Yates did not have to hard of a time beileving what the insane Sith lord was saying, he had gone up against these creatures before back on The Cleaner's mission to that nightmare world and seeing one of those snarling and hissing demons acting like a puppy dog seemed to lend credence to the LT's words despite the absurdity of such a statement.

" Ok everyone out, LT you say behind we have a great deal to discuss, I am not happy at your bullshit antics and believe you me you are going to damn well toe the fucking line or I'll have your spleen on a spork! " Grand Admiral Sheppard said as he some how found the inter strength to look the LT in his one human eye as the rest of his staff left the briefing room while giving the LT's pet a wide berth.

Benjamin Sisco was in a depressed mood as he found himself still shaken to the core over the death of Kira as he was looking out of his ready room's window at one of the massive ships of Grand Admerial Sheppard's small fleet when the chime to his ready room pinged, " Come in! " he said as he turned to face the door of his ready room and saw Odo walk in with a grim look on his usually unreadable face, " Yes Constable what is it? " Benjamin asked as he walked back to his desk and sat down.
" I've come to inform you that Dr.Bashir is making a fast recovery from the creature's attack. " Odo said as he was struggling to keep a tight lid on his raging emotions that ranged from utter despair to the blood burning need for vengeance over the death of the woman he had loved.

" Thank you Odo, is there something else on your mind? " Benjamin asked for he was sure that Odo was close to cracking, " No there isn't! " Odo said with a flat and slightly snarly tone of voice that made it clear to Benjamin that Odo was most likely blaming Sheppard and his people for Kira's death.

" Odo you are heard by relived of duty for the next three days, try and get some rest. " Benjamin said and he was not to surprised by the outraged look on Odo's face, " But Commander I- " Odo was starting to say when he saw Benjamin hold up his right hand.

" Constable it is my considered opinion that you are in no shape to continue with your duties as the station's head of security, there for I'm ordering you to take three days off, believe you me I'm sure that you will could use the time off to working on some * Personal * issues you might have. " Benjamin said with a conspiratal tone of voice that told Odo that Benjamin seemed to share his supissions about the Imperials and he was not to sure if his friend was giving him a subtle message to take some unofficialical action into the death of Kira.
" I see Sir and I am inclined to agree that I could use the time off. " he said to Benjamin with a conspiratorial tone of voice of his own, " I'm glad to hear that Constable so long as you don't let your feelings get the better of you I don't see why you should not take some time off to put your affairs in order. " Benjamin said with a knowing smile that told Odo that he was reading from the same page as the Commander.

He watched as Odo bid him a good day and left his ready room, once he was gone Benjamin got up from his seat and walked back to his ready room's window, " What are you up to? " he thought to himself as he was looking out at one of the Imperial ships and he shivered as if someone had walked across his grave as he got a worrying feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Admerial Daala was standing outside of the bridge when the door opened and out walked LT.Hit-Man with his pet by his side and she watched as the loony Sith lord just walked right by her as if she did not exist and this finally pushed her over the edge.
" GODS DAMN IT! QUIT FUCKING RUNNING AWAY YOU COWRAD! " she snapped as the fear and stress she was under finally got the better of her, there was a suddenly hushed silence in the corridor from the few crewers that had been at been there when Daala had signed her death warrant by calling out the LT.
They watched in bowel wrenching silence as LT.Hit-Man his creature came to a stop and slowly turn towards her as the temperature in the corridor seemed to drop to sub zero temperatures.

" OH FUCK! " Daala thought to herself as she felt something warm and wet run down her right leg as she saw the dreaded LT's creature get on all fours and raise it's deadly tail above it's back with a menacing hiss as she saw the look of death in the LT's one cold human eye as time came to a stand still as the fearful crewers watched with blood chilling terror as the LT and the Admerial looked at one another as they mentaly began to perpaired themselves to run for their lives as the LT slaughtered Daala.

Daala felt like her heart was going to explode like a hyper matter reactor undergoing irreversible meltdown then she and the other crewers where stuck close to dead as LT.Hit-Man and his creature turned away from her and began to walk away with cold and deadly looks on their faces, " WHY?! " Daala thought to herself as her mind refused to except the fact that not only was she still alive and in one piece but also the fact that LT.Hit-Man was not massacring every one else in sight and for a moment she knew that it would be a good idea to leave the LT alone and not tempt fate a second time but yet she found that she could not and called out to the LT as she started to walk after him.


Sheppard was reading out the status reports from the home base when he got the report of LT.Hit-Man and Dalaa's latest encounter and he felt like some had ripped his guts out as he had the horrendous image of a high number of fatalties from the rampaging Sith lord and then he felt blood chilling terror as he had the mental image of the LT on a rampage as he went insane which totally put the entire mission to conquer this back water galaxy right down the shitter.

" How many dead. " he asked Admerial Dalton as he felt like his life was coming apart, " None, the LT didn't kill anyone and he left Admerail Daala alive and just walked away with out so much as a word said and he had made his freak show pet back off from killing her. " Dalton said and when Sheppard heard that he reacheddd for the bottle of Corilain moonshine that he had in his desk as he could not accept the fact that there was a god because of this mericel, Sheppard was about to pour a large glass of the moonshine when said fuck it in his mind and began to drink right from the bottle.

Dalton knew that his friend and bother in arms was having himself a very stiff drink as he was having the same religious experience that he was that necessitated a very strong sedative as he took another slug from his bottle of Huttanese rum and waited for Sheppard to get over the shock of it all.
" Right, no fucking time to go to pieces here, I'll deal with the LT later, right now I think it would be best if he went back to LV-426, in fact I'm going to order him to do it, hell if he can truly control these things then we may have a very potaint biological weapon at out disposal not to mention a very potaint psychological weapon to keep these Federation weakling off balance and better yet a perfect means of some covert operations if this is played right. " Sheppard thought to himself as he saw a way to take care of three problems at once.

" Dalton find LT.Hit-Man and order him back to my quarters, tell him I have a sweetheart mission for him that he will enjoy emancely as well agivee us a potanet new weaponn in our up and coming war, and tell him that it will be a perfect opportunity to harvest souls for the Sith, that'll bring him in line. " Sheppard said as he could not help but to smile evilly as he found himself hungry for action.

Voltrick was about to jump into shuttle with his new servant/watch dog/pet when he saw Dalton and a detachment of stormtroopers enter the hastily evacuated hanger bay as Daala was standing there looking at him with such a need to talk to him that he deiced to ignore her because he was still pissed off at her.

" Easy my loyal one. " he said with a calming tone of voice as he reached out and and began to lightly stroke the creature's armored head, " Watch! " he said as he reached into the creature's mind and exerted his will on the nightmare monster.

Dalton was about to piss himself as he wondered why in the hell he was risking his ass to carry out Sheppard's orders to bring the insane Sith lord back to him as he knew full well that this situation between the LT, Daala and the rest of the command staff tantamount to suicide for the entire war effort to not step in and get the two hot heads to cool off.

" Dalton what do you want? " Voltrick asked as he saw that Dalton was looking like he was going to have a terror induced stroke which he found refreshing but yet he could sense that while Dalton was terrified to death of him he could also sense hope and a determination to stand his ground which peaked his interest.

" LT, Sheppard has give me orders to find you and bring you back to him, he has something planed that you might find interesting. " Dalton said with a knowing smile but on the inside he was about to shit himself to death as he saw the loony son of a bitch that had been making his life hell ever since he got to this piss ant galaxy look at him with with a strangely calm look of interest and deiced to push his luck.

" Sheppard says his plan will bring a rich harvest of souls for the Sith. " Dalton said as he gulp nervously because he was talking about something deeply personal to the very embodiment of death incarnate like he had the right to talk about something he not only feared but knew nothing about.

" Interesting. " Voltrick though as he could sense not only the power of the Dark Side envigrated him but he could also sense their will and to top it off he knew from this state of being that there was about to be a whole lot of dying in the near future.

Dalton watched as the LT gave him a strangely friendly but yet terrifying smile, " Let on I'm more then instrest as to what that old fox Sheppard has planed. " Voltrick said with an icy cold tone of as he was enjoying not only Dalton's terror but the fear from the stormtroopers as he felt a strange sense of excitement that he found to be just as pleasurable as sex.

Sheppard took a sip of his drink as Dalton and LT.Hit-Man and the nightmarish pet of the LT's walked into his office and he felt his hand shake because he had half excpiceted the Sith lord to threaten feed his soul to the dark side but yet there he was not only calm and in a sane frame of mind but he looked happy and friendly.
" Sheppard, you have said you have an interesting plan that will bring souls to the Dark Side, also I can tell you have an idea for a potent form of warfare consering the legacy of the Sith as I call these creatures? " LT Hit Man asked as he sat down on one of the chairs facing Sheppard's desk as his minion came to rest beside him, alert and ready to do his bidding.

" LT based on all the data you have given me on these creatures I am plaing to use them as not only a potanet bio-logcal weapon but an equal potnet pycholigcal wepaon as well as some deep recon work as well as some wet works in order to not only keep these Federation weakling off blance but to instill some terror in their popluation centers as well as create some cover for our speical opratives, exspecaily Imperial Phonex. " Sheppard said as he watched as the LT reached into one of his comaprtments in his stromtooper belt and he felt his anus clench violently as he wonder if the LT was going for a weapon or not.

" I'm all ears, I kind of have an idea of where you are going with this idea of your's and I'm all for it so let's get right down to it and work something out. " Voltrick said as he pulled out a stogie and let it up with the plasma torch in the middle finger of his cybernetic right hand.

Sisco was reading over the recorded data on Bashir's tri-corder about the life form that had killed Kira and he had no idea of what to make of it, " Commander it would apper that this creature is some kind of perasidic life from that had infected Kira, how it got there and what it is we have no idea. " Dr. Binicca Heldgar said as she looked at him and he could see that the acting Cheif Medical Officer looked like she had been working late on this case for about a week or so.

" Doctor what else can you tell us about this life form." Sisco asked as he balled his right hand into a fist as he was still trying to understand what the hell happened back on Bajor.

" Commander from what we have been able to tell is that this creaure was a larva of some kind and we haven't be able to make much of it's biolocgal data except for the fact that is a totaly new form of life that we have encountered, because our entrie xenomrophic data base has nothing like this monster in it. " Binicca said and she could see that frustrated look in his eyes that she had in her own.

" Has there been any other reports of these creatures on Bajor? " Benjamin asked Binicca as he was cosidering how he was going to handle this mess because of the death Ki'Wyn had thrown the Bajorins into a panic and the Bajorin goverment had been asking him non stop him to reasure the people of Bajor that everything was going to be ok, as both the emssisary and as a Starfleet commander.

" No so far it seems that this was an isolated incdent. " Binicaa said with a relieved tone of voice that did not unoticed by him," I see, if you discover anything new about this lifeform I want to be infromed of it, dismissed. " Benjamin said as he leaned back in his chair and ran his hand over his head as he felt like he was standing on the edge of of a cliff that was rapidly giving way under him, " I know you're behind this, you son of a bitches. " he thought to himself as he looked out at Sheppard's small fleet of ships.

Dalaa was wondering back to her quaters with a head full of chaotic thoughts as she still could not understand not only her very confusing and fearful feelings for LT.Hit-Man but she was also even more preplexed by the strange changes in the insane Sith lord.
When she got to her questers she decied that a nice hot shower was what she needed to unwind and get her wits about her and she begain to strip off her uniform and once that was done she reached behind her back and undid the clip to her dark gray imperial issue bra and shuck out of it, next she took off her standered issue panties that were of the metiral and color of her bra and she took a deep breath as she felt the slightly cool air of her questers play over her nude, curvy body.

" I am defently geting to old for this shit. " she said to herself as she made her way into the small cubical room that served as her bathroom as she felt like she wanted to sleep for a month stright and she took a moment to inpsect the refelction of herself in the polished metal squiar over her chome sink, " Not bad for an old bitch like me. " she thought to herself as she saw that her fair sized C-cup breasts were showning no sign of sagging at her age of thrity two years.

She turned her back to the mirror and saw that she had a nice, firm but very feminine figuer and that her small, tight looking ass was showing no sign of fat.

Dalaa let out a bone wery sigh as she recalled how Grand Moff Tarkin had thoroughly violated her ass over the few short years that they had been lovers and walked into the shower stall and turned on the tap, when she felt the high presure jets of hot water hit her body she took the small imperial issue washcloth from it's holder and held it under the built in shampoo/liquid soap despencer and squirted some of it on to the washcloth.

" So LT this is what I have in mind, I was thiking that if you can truely control these creatures and perhapps we could use them as shock troops to wear down the enemy before we launch and all out attack on their postions. " Sheppard said as he opened up his desk dwar and took out the nearly empty bottle of this new glaxy's human moonshine and found that even though it was harsher then the stuff back home it did pack on hell of a punch as he saw a displeased look on the Sith lords face.

" My children are not cannon fodder. " he hear the LT say to him very an annoyed tone of voice and quickly opened up the bottle and took a very long drink from it to stedy his frazzled nerves at having to deal with the insane Sith lord.

* Cough..HACK! * went Sheppard as the moonshine started to kick his ass, " Well what do you intent to do with these creatures? " he asked as the LT's pet slunk up beside him and was giving him a scary look before Voltrick called it over to his side.
" I was thinking more of a terror unit in the enemie's back lines, they would be most useful to me in any wet works, sabaotge missions. " Voltrick said with a calm but lifeless tone of voice as he could see that Sheppard was terffied out of his mind at being near him and for some odd reason his terror did not seem all that refreshing to him which put him in a some what perplexed mood.

Odo walked ino Qaurk's and saw that there were only a few patrons in the bar and that Quark was talking to his brother and for some odd reason he that the gut feeling that the shifty freengi might have had a part in Kira's death and for a moment he had to fight down the urge to grab the trollish bartender and drag him into one of the station's interogation room and dementrate some of the more advanced Cardasin interagtion technies up close and personal.

Qurak felt as if some had just walked over his grave and he looked around his bar and when he saw Odo standing there glaring at him with a deciedly hostile look he realized that he might have an axe to grind with him over the death of Kria, he dismissed his brother walked over to the edge of the bar as Odo took a seat at the bar before him.

" Good day Odo, I'm sorry to hear about you're loss. " he said with a turthful tone of voice for even though he and Kria were contantly at odds with one another they had bonded in a strange way juring the war with the Dominon as had he and Odo and the rest of the station's personal jurning that savage conflict.

He got out a bottle of of Bajorin spring wine and two large glasses and placed the wine on the bar and the two glasses before Odo and himself, " Qurak I'm only going to ask you this once and if you lie to me so God help you I will make you're life a living hell do you understand me? " Odo said with a cold and very menaing tone of voice as he watched as Qurak poured the drinks.

" What do you want to know. " Quark said as he finished pouring the drinks, " What happened between you and Sheppard's party when they came here? " Odo asked as he saw Quark take a drink of his spring wine, " Well they are a shifty bunch, they wanted to know if I had any how shall we sat *Exotic* items for sale. " Quark said as he could see that he had Odo's gaurded intrest becuse he was hinting that there might have been some less then legal dealings between himself and the group of new arivals that had shown up and in his mind's eye Odo had the mental image of Sheppard in a pirate's outfit.

" What do you mean by that Qurak? " he asked as he took a drink of his wine and he felt a slight stabbing pain in his soul as his mind assoated the taste of the wine with one of the few intmate moment with Kira when they had been dating each other, " Well Odo, they asked about some erotic entertainment, from the way they were talking it seems that there is only one female on bord their ship. " Qurak side as he took a sip of his wine and saw that questoning look in Odo's eyes and knew that even though he not have Odo hood winked that he did have Odo's intrest for the time being.

" So I offered my ususal fares of my holo-suites and even though they could not make use of them because they might have to return to their ship shuddenly if things did not go well between Sisco and Sheppard. " Quark said as he saw Odo take a long drink from his wine, " Really what else did they want? " Odo asked as he was wondering what Qurak was getting at and studied him intensly.
" Well from the way they were carrying on it seems like they were staved for some female compaionship, as that the single female on their ship might a *Kepted* female from they way they were talking. " Quark said with a conspertial tone of voice that hinted that female slavery might be not only legal in Sheppards neck of the woods but that slave trading was an aceptable from of comerce.

" MMM! " Dalaa moaned as she ran the soapy washcloth over her right breast and she became slightly aroused by the memory of how Tarkin use to bite her nipples as he not only worked them but her whole breast as well and with a bitter sweet smile she bgain to roughtly rub her now hard right nipple as she was taking a stroll down the lane of her memories of her and Tarkin 's highly passionet relationship.

As she was losing herself in her lusty haze as she was twisting her nipples the erotic slide show of the love and lust that she and Tarkan had shared took a strange and hightly frighting turn as it change from Tarkin riding her ass to one of LT.Hit-Man standing in her shower as she had a small, fear induced orgasm.
" OOHH GODS NO! " she moaned as she slid down the wall of her shower stall and come to rest on the shower's floor as her erotic dreamscape became one of raw lust and shame as she could see the evil and lusty snear on the Sith lord's scared face as she felt her hand slide down to her qurvering womanhood as she felt her burning lust burn all the hotter at the thought of having the insane living incarnation of death watching her as she did herself like a shameless slut.

Sheepard watched as he saw the look of confused distraction on the LT's face and for a moment all he could was just sit there and stare at the Sith lord for that look was so out of place for the third most feared man in the Old Empire.

" What the fuck? " Voltrick thought to himself as he was feeling the long forgotten feeling of sexual arousal as he had the mental image of Dalaa deep throating him as he was fingering her ass with the middle finger of his cybernetic right hand and all he could do was just sit still as he was trying and failing to understand what the hell was going on with him as he got the unshakeable feeling that he was sensing Dalaa's lusty desire for him even thought he knew that this was imposable.

But yet the strange sense of contection to Admerial Dalaa told him that this was not a long surpessed desire of his own mind and body and for a moment he was not sure as what to do as the erotic dreamscape of his mind changed to one of him making a lunchion of her pussy like a man who had been starved for a week would attack a five billion coruse banquit.

" So they asked if I had any of my more adult orinatated holo programs for sale and I must say I have never seen a happyer bunch as they brought out my enitre collection of erotic holo programs. " Quark said as he was nursing his drink, " Some how I don't that they were just a bunch of love starved spacers. " Odo said with a scorning tone of voice.

And he was surpised when he heard Qurak say " I agree with you. " becuase the number of times that he and Qurak ever saw eye to eye could be counted on the hand of a man missing seven fingers with one hand, " What are you getting at Qurak! " he said with an annoyed tone of voice as he wanted to stop playing this childish game with the troll and get right to the heart of the matter.

" Relax Odo, I'm just saying that I agree with you because they started asking for some *Intresting Items.* as well " Qurak said and when he saw that Odo was starting to get angry with him he spoke once more. " I think that they are either slavers or smugglers or both, they started asking me questions about crime in this galaxy as well as asking for star chart of local shiping lanes as well as star charts for this quadrent. " he added and he could see that Odo was looking a little bit less pissed off.

" I guess you would know woun't you. " Odo said with a sarcastic tone of voice as he took a drink of his wine, " Odo, I'm a bussne man and I making it my busses to get to know what I can about the people I deal with. " Quark said and he knew he was about to take a very big risk in the next few minutes and when he saw that Odo was about to make a coment he held up his hand.
" Do you remeber that Orion Free Trader that came here about two years ago by the name of Grdelo Farbak? " he said to Odo and saw a guard look on his face, " You mean the smugler/arm dealer that was killed by a Frengi hit team a month ago over a bad deal for bio-genic compounds? " Odo asked as he could not help but to wonder what the hell Quark was getting at.

" Well he was a smuggler all right. " Qurak said and when he saw the * I knew it! * look on Odo's face he knew that things were going to get very dicey and that if he did not play his cards right he could be looking at a very long stint in a Federation prison.
" Anyway he sold me a box of two thosand Federation neural iduction chips and they had been siting on my shelf since then. " Qurak said as he saw the shocked look on Odo's face, shocked because he had never expected him to openly admit to any kind of illegal dealings.

" Now hold on a sec, this is were things get really intresting. " he added quickly with a conspertal tone of voice.

Odo knew that Quark was up to something but as to what it was he could not understand, " Go on. " he said as he took another drink of his spring wine, once he was done he watched as Quark picked up the bottle of wine and started to top up his drink.

" Like I had said they had been siting on my self since I got them from Grdelo Farbak and so I thought I would see if they would be instresting in buying them, they had no idea of what they were and once I explanied what the neural induction chips did and how they worked they got really quiet for a moment. " Qurak said as he topped up his own drink.

" When one of them asked me how many of them I had I told them and they became quiet excited and brought them all and paid quite handsomely for them, but the kicker is that I heard them say and I quiat " With these things we would have no trouble in controling our merchandice " and " Ya with these things we can brake any of our bitches. " he said and watched as a dark look appered on Odo's face and when he saw that he had Odo hood winked for the moment and decied to up the ante.

" Qurak, cut the bullshit and tell me stright what game are you playing? " Odo said with a grave tone of voice and was surpised when he saw Quark look him right in the eyes with a grave look on his face, " I don't know but for some reason I think that Sheppard and his band of not so merry men are a lot more then just smugglers and slavers, what kind of goverment do they have? " he heard Qaurk ask as he watched as the trollish bartender took a long drink of his wine and for some odd reason he decied that playing along with Quark might prove to be benfishal.

" Sissco calls them a * Bannaboat Republic *. " he said to Quark and watched as a puzzled look appered on his face,
" What is that? " Quark asked as he saw Odo take a long drink of his refilled wine, " It was a form of dicatoral goverment on earth in the twentyth centruy, basicly it was a type of gorverment in the small and poorer nations at that time, basicly a millitry junta with screct police, disaperances, arms and drug smuggling and torture. " Quark heard Odo say and what he heard seemed to fit the bill of Sheppard's men.

" You maybe right Odo or maybe they are reneagades of this *Bannaboat Republic *, something about them just reeks of military or ex military, or maybe they are apart of their goverment's scantioned crime organsation, anyways I have said what I had to say on this matter, here's some free advice, don't trust them, I don't, sorry about what happened to Major Kira, enjoy the wine, it's on the house. " Odo heard Qurak say and watched as he went over to Rom and started to talk to him about one of the holo suites being off line.

Odo sat there for a time and was slowly nursing his wine as he was trying and failing to understand what Qurak was up to, after half an hour or so he finished off the last of his wine and decieded to go have a talk with Sissco about this intresting turn of events.

After he had left the bar a man in a Starfleet uniform finished off his coffee and left the bar with a grim look on his hard face.

[LT.Hit-Man303]

Imperial Phoenix Divergence
Chapter 3


" What the hell? " Sheppard thought to himself as he saw not only the spaced out look on Voltrick's face but he saw a strange looked on his scared face that he could not place at that moment when the comm panel on his desk pinged.

" What is? " he asked as he opened the chanel and saw that it was Dalton on the other end, " We have a priorty report from agent Black Hand 21. " Dalton said with a grim look on his haggered face, " Ok pipe it through. " Sheppard said as he was having a hard time looking away of the LT who had a very sick and perverted look on his scard face that made his asshole clinch up tighter then a buzzrd's ass in a mach 19 power dive.

When Dalton sent Agent Black Hand 21's report he saw that it was just audio only and hit the play button.

" Agent BH21's report to HCAMS, at 1500 DS-9 time I was in Qaurk's observing the federation and bajorin personal when the head of DS-9 securty Odo walked into the bar and began to speak with that disgusting little troll, naturaly I listened in and the coveration revolved around the death of one Major Kira. " Mark heard and pulled out a large bottle of earth moonshine and a glass as the report played on.

" Juring the coruse of the coversation Quark and Odo were talking about The Cleaner's vist to the bar and of the back room deal made with Qaurk and the little troll was told that our goverment was most likely a " *Bannaboat Republic*
from my observation a *Bannaboat Republic* was a from of dicatoral goverment on a planet called Earth juring it's tweneth century with secret police, midnight disapperances, torture, drug and arms smuggling, much like a typical Huttnese crime sydicate. " Mark heard as he took out a glass from his desk and filled it with the moonshine as his keen mind was turning over this information in his brain.

" Also the little puss ball Quark told Odo that The Cleaners made some off handed coments about female slaves when they " Purcesed " the neural induction chips which Quark seemed to empsize on, then the conersation ended."
Mark heard as he took a drink of his moonshine and he could not help but to smrik at that and when he looked over to the LT he saw a very pervreted look on the Sith Lord's scard face that painted an arousing image of having a string of naked female slaves in chains to do with as he wished.

" Hmm this could be quite intresting, if the federation scum think we are some backward socity then it would seem to give us a form of cover that will keep them from suspicting of what we have planed for them. " he thought to himself as the moonshine warmed his belly when he got a devilish idea.

Daala sat in her shower stall as the last from her many powerful orgasms subsided, " Wow! " she thought to herself as she came fully out of her orgasmic bliss but before she could say or do anything the's ship's comm system crackled to life.

" All command staff report to the breifing room for an emrgancey meeting. " she heard Sheppard's voice say with a strong and commanding tone which told her she had better get her ass in gear,

As she was strighting out her unifrom as she was leaving her quaters she felt a slight pang of guilt for the way she had been doing herself like a shameless slut.

" But damn I have never cum that hard in a long time. " Daala thought to herself as she recalled Tarkin's rugged face after their last bout of love making and she could not help but to wonder what he was thinking of her even though he was dead she had a feeling that he was watching her some how.

When she got to the brifing room Dala saw that the command staff were present and not only was she the last one to arivive but she also saw LT.Hit-Man sitting in his seat with a thoughtful look on his normaly stone cold face.

" All right now that every is here I have called you here because of a report sent to me by one of our undercover agents on DS-9. " Mark said as he saw that he had every one's intrest and then he replayed agent Black Hand 21's report.

When it was done Mark saw the thoughtful looks on the faces of his command staff which told him that every though they were not reading from the same page he was concering the report they were thinking along the general line of thoughts as he was, " It apprers we have a chance to throw Sissco and the staff of DS-9 off gaurd based on Agent Black Hand 21's report. " he said and whated for some one throw out an idea on how to turn this new information to their advange.

When to his and the others's surpise it was Phong who spoke first since Phong was not really known to be the talktive type, " Based on why you have called us it here it stands to reason that you wish to play up this *Bannaboat Republic* label we have been given right? " Phong asked as Sheppard walked over to his mini bar and took out a bottle of Kingon rum from his desk as well as grabbing a bunch of glasses and returned to the briffing room table.
" Got it in one, I figure if we play this up right it will throw these federation weaklings off the scent as to who we really are. " Mark said as he passed the glasses around as LT.Hit-Man opened up a compartment on his stormtrooper belt and pulled out a stoige that was 95% Wookie Weed and 5% Xartonine tabbaco.

" Maybe we can use the way we have been stone walling Sissco to our advange. " Daala said as she was given a glass as Mark filled his and began to pass the bottle down the line, " What did you have in mind? Dalton asked as he started to fill his glass with the Klingon rum but before she could answer him LT.Hit-Man let out a loud laugh that took them by surpise and it was from that laugh of his that Daala and the others felt their blood run cold.

" You have given me a good idea on who we can really mind fuck these weaking scum! " LT.Hit-Man said with a happy tone of voice as he lit his stogie with the plasma lighter in the middle finger of his cybernetic hand and for a moment no one said anything as the Sith Lord took a drag from his stoige.
" I have? " Daala asked with a slightly timid tone of voice as she could see the warped wheels in LT.Hit-Man's mind turning by the deadly gleem in his human eye that terrified her and aroused her much to her shame.

" You mind explaining what you are getting at LT? " Nathan asked as he filled his glass and passed the bottle down to The Butcher, " Yes you remember the Voyager right? " LT.Hit-Man as he exhaled his lung full of smoke and watched as the others were turning his words over in this minds, " You mean we use that useless bucket of bolts to some how throw these panty waste feddies off some how? " Mark asked but before the LT could answer Phong piped up once more.

" I get it, you are saying that we create some of our own ships based on the fed's technolagy and play them up as being our most advanced ships that we have right? " Phong said as he took a drink of his Klingon rum and just about spat it out as he felt like he was rinsing his mouth out with battrey acid but some how he manged to choke down the foul liqud.

" Got in one. " Voltrick said with a way to wide smile that was about as friendly as coming face to face with a starving female rancor on PMS and when he looked at the others he could see they were smiling as they would turning over Phong's idea in their minds and for the next three hours they traded ideas back and forth untill they had come up with a solid plan of action.

[LT.Hit-Man303]

I hope you like the cliff hanger in this chapter
Imperial Phoenix Divergence
Chapter 4


Liet Kynes was making his way to ten forward to relax after having worked a double shift of *Repairing* the broken consoles in engnearing, " Fuck this is driving men nuts! " he thought to himself as he was finding it harder and harder to keep himself from snaping a main sprink as he forced himself to act like a simpering goody goody two shoes and he asking himself for the umpthen trillon times how it wazs possable for such a weak ass socity made up of Duddly Do Rights to have become a major power in this backwards galaxy.

So wraped up in his thought he failed to notice the person before him and when he walked into the person he jumped back and was about to use his kung-fu death strike on the person in question that he had been taken by surpise, " Excuse me are you ok? " a slightly slutty but very feminine voice asked him and when he saw that it was Deanna Troi that he had walked into he forced himself to relax.
Deanna could see that the small nervouse looking man that had walked into her was sweating heavly and she could sense that he was deeply conflicted emotionaly, " Excuse but I don't think we have met before Mister.. " she said to the sweating man as she was trying and faling to make sence of the small man before her.

" Ahh shit! " Kynes thought to himself as he realized that if he did not act quickly that empath might grow suspssouse of him and he forced himself to look at her large but saggy tits, " I'm Crewmen Kynes, Liet Kynes. " he said with a mock nervousness and a hint of lust as he forced his mind to conjure up the mental image of a topless Deanna which made him want to puke, Deanna could see that the nervouse crewman was scoping out her tits and she felt herself grow a little warm and damp between the the legs since Riker was laid up in sick bay with a raging case of Klingon herpies and it had been a few days since she last got fucked.

" I'm Deanna Troi the ship's consoler, you seem to be under a lot of stress Mister Kynes. " she said as she gave him a
* Come Hither * look, " OH FUCK! " Kynes thought to himself as he could see the fed whore was looking at him like a peice of man meat, " W-W-Well I just got finished a double shift in engnearing and I'm kind of tired. " he stammered as he was fighting down the ugre to boot fuck the tart so he could get away from her less he blew his cover.

Deanna decied that Kynes would fit the bill for a good long fucking as she she mistook his fearful disgust of her as shy nervousness and hooked her right arm into his left arm, " Well Mister Kynes why don't we go back to my quaters and we can relax over a few drinks. " he heard Deanna say to him with a cock hungry smile.

" I'm doomed! " Kynes thought to himself as he was trying to figure away out of his dire sittuation with casting susspiton of himself as he was being led down the Last Mile to a fate far worse then death.

Once they got to Deana's qauters Kynes had made peace with the univerce as he realized that being gang raped by wookies would be a far better way to go then who knew what horrors awaited him, " Nice palce. " he said to Deanna as they walked into her qauters as he saw that the room was filled with all sorted of art objects and that most of them had a sexual undertone to him.

" Why don't you sit down and relax while I get us some drinks. " Deanna said ashe she felt her nipples start to harden as she saw the nervouse little man sit down on the couch, " He does not seem like that much, he seems some what nerdish, but you know what they say about nerds and big cocks. " she thought to herself as she walked over to the replacator and punched up some drinks, " The things I do for the Empire. " Kynes thought to himself as Deanna sat down next to him and handed him a slightly glowing fruity drink.

Deanna watched as Kynes took a sip of the drink and she could sence that he did not much care for the drink as she took a long pull from her drink, " So how long has it been since you had some R&R? " she asked as she put her drink down on the low end table and slither her body to Kynes's body and she could feel the tention in his hard but compatct body which turned her one something fercie, " Well it's been about a month or SOOO! " Kynes squeaked out as Denna was fondling his cock, " GODS TAKE ME NOW! " he whined to himself as he felt himself starting to respond to the fed whore's *Magical* touch much to his ever lasting shame.

" MMMM, nice! " Deanna purred as she found that Kynes was very well endowed and she started to nibble on his left ear lobe and mistook his shiver of revulion for one of sexual excitment, " I'm going to go and slip into something more *Comfotable*, why don't you get undress you hunk of man. " she wispered into his ear and Kynes watched as she got up from the couch and sway her fat bubble ass to and fro as she walked into another room.

Resigned to his ingloriuse end Kynes maned up and removed his pajmas...I mean Starfleet unifrom and sat back down on the couch, " It's for the good of the Empire, It's for the good of the Empire...URK! " was telling himself when Deanna came back into the main room dressed in a black leather Bitch outfit with demi cups that were spiked on the underside while leaving the tops and nipples of her sagging tits exposed, he looked lower and saw that the outfit was crotchless.
And when he saw the large, sharp and pointy Klingon Pain stick in her right hand he knew with was doomed to the Black Hells of the Sith.

" You will call me Misstress Deanna WORM! " he heard Deanna say to him with an evil and sick smirk on her face and it was only due to his deeply ingrained imperial anti torture training that kept him from screaming like a little girly man.

*3 hours later*

Kynes was now convinced that the univerce was out to get him as he realized that he was still alive after suffering the unholy predistons of the fed whore that would have given the Sith nightmares as Deanna sat down before him with her legs open as he was bound and kneeling before her.
" Eat me Worm Boy! " Deanna hissed evily and Kynes could see that if he did not comply he was doomed to suffer even worse then he had untill this point in time, " I so deserve the Imperial metal of honor for this shit! " Kyness thought to himself as he brought his face to Deanna's pussy and saw that it was so hairy and matted that it made Endor looking like a desert plain.

Some how he manged to keep himself from puking up his internal organs at hyperspace speeds as he could smell his tormentor's arousal that smelled like a Hutt's outhouse durning a heat wave as he had the terrifying mental image of being head crabbed by alien crotch lice from the Sith(A bag of net cookies for anyone who gets the refrance) as he saw a small stream of greenish white juice like sludge oozzing from Deanna's baggy pussy.