<USS Avalon> "Flashbacks" Cmdr Skyler

"Flashback's"
Cmdr  Skyler

Sitting in the center chair of the battle bridge, Skyler could  feel the 
memories come crashing over her like a tidal wave. The last time she  had been 
in 
that seat was on the Avalon's mission into the Guardian of Forever  wormhole's 
or gate opening's. They had found one. That is when all hell broke  lose, at 
least for her.

One minute she was talking to Phillipa and the  next they were both bound and 
beaten. Standing over them was a petite woman,  claiming to be a Lt. from a 
ship called the UCP Tempest. She was telling a story  that couldn't possibly be 
true, yet it was. Sitting on the floor, bound and  beaten, Skyler was the 
proof. The Avalon had been boarded.

According to  Lt. Cate, as she was calling herself, she and her crew had been 
sent down to  destroy the Avalon. In her time the Avalon didn't exist. Her 
time was the  future. The Avalon was not supposed to exist in the future, they 
were all  supposed to be dead. What happened?

During the course of that mission  there had been many changes in captor and 
captive, ranging from enemies, to  tolerant equals, to something almost like 
friendship. She heard the tale of a  person who felt they belonged to the 
military, whose life was the military.  Skyler offered her a chance at a new 
beginning if only she would assist in  getting the Avalon back to it's own time 
period. She knew this all occurred. She  remembered it all. Almost to the last 
detail.

Once back in their own  time, the Avalon had a new crew member and Skyler was 
undergoing mind wipes.  Mind wipes that didn't work. She still remembered. 
The feelings of helplessness,  of trying to save herself and those she was 
serving with. Now they were all  rushing back, because of this new mission.

Time travel, Temporal Police,  futuristic weapons. It was all a bad dream, 
yet it wasn't. It was real. The  Avalon again was going to mess with the 
future. 
This time their was more at  stake. There were new families, children on the 
way, new friends, lost families  reunited. There was too much at stake...too 
much.

Skyler got out of the  chair, walked over to the replicator to get a glass of 
cold water. Looking at  the glass, she thought to herself, "I've done this 
before, in the future. Gotten  water for a captive." She tried to shake off the 
feelings of....hell she didn't  even know what to call them. Her forehead was 
a sheen of sweat as her nerves  became more on edge.

This time was different or was it? They were going  to risk a one man shuttle 
and hope that they could retrieve this person before  the hole to the future 
closed around him. There had to be another way. A way to  complete the mission 
without risking lives needlessly. She just didn't know what  it was.

She returned to her chair and waited. Waited for the future or  for the past. 
Neither one would be the same again.  

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