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- to see why he has entered a coma-like condition. It is risky, as
- unusual mental energies are travelling through his brain. I see no
- other way to help him. I feel responsible for failing to see how
- desperate his condition was and I hope I can bring him back to
- reality."
-
- Deanna then left her office and travelled to Sick Bay, where
- Nate still rested on the diagnostic table, unaware of anything.
-
- She entered and saw Dr. Crusher and Data, discussing his
- condition.
-
- "So you see Data, his body is mutating. Into what I don't
- know."
-
- "It would seem reasonable to assume that the unusual lump of
- muscle forming in his chest is a second heart."
-
- "I agree. Heart muscle is only found in one place in the
- human body and is used for only one thing."
-
- more [q=quit] "I am ready to go in now."
-
- "Oh, Deanna, great. I have set up a bed next to his, so you
- can touch him if you need to."
-
- "I won't need to touch him, but I do need to be as close as
- possible."
-
- "Counsellor, is this technique similiar to the techniques
- used by Vulcans?"
-
- "Yes, it is."
-
- Ever since he had met Spock, Data was most intrigued by
- anything Vulcan.
-
- "Would it be a disturbance if I were to observe?"
-
- "No, Data. Not at all."
-
- Deanna lied down on the table next to Nate. She shut her
- more [q=quit] eyes and projected her mind out to Nate's. Entry was surprisingly
- easy. This worried her. Usually, only a willing fellow psionic
- could make the entry this easy.
-
- And so Deanna attempted to probe what was the universe like
- that Nate's mind had been trapped in. She looked into his thoughts
- and found something she hadn't expected.
-
- Four nude women surrounded him in his fantasy-trap. One lay
- next to him, while a younger one probed her vaginal area. A third
- was withdrawing her nipple from Nate's mouth, while a fourth stood
- next to the bed, tall and waiting, so it seemed. Deanna was not
- the voyeuristic type and so let Nate be. She had to find a way to
- link a fantasy creation of her own into Nate's fantasy and have him
- travel into it. Then she could pull him out. She decided the direct
- approach might be best.
-
- A security team beamed into the bedroom which currently housed
- Nate and his 'friends'. Lt. Worf spoke to him.
-
- "Petty Officer Pisarkiewicz!"
- more [q=quit]
- Nate immediately noticed the burly Klingon and his 2 fellow
- officers. The women all fell fast asleep in an instant. Nate did
- not answer the Security Chief but looked at him, his face turning
- quite a few different shades of red.
-
- "Worf to Enterprise. I have located Petty Officer Pisarkiewicz.
- Four to beam up."
-
- Just like that, the four spacers left the bedroom on the planet
- Ogimmemo and arrived in the transporter room. The transporter operator
- at that time was Ensign Kate Terwillinger, who had been seduced by a
- roguish pirate several seasons earlier. She vowed not to let it
- happen again.
-
- Worf turned to one of his security men, to have him get a uniform
- for the enlisted man with them, when he noticed this was not necessary.
- The enlisted man was already dressed. He was sure that he had been
- naked on the bed a few moments before. Worf decided to think about this
- later and said to his men.
-
- more [q=quit] "Counsellor Troi wishes to see this man right now. Can you make
- it to her office on your own, Petty Officer?"
-
- "Yes, sir, I am pretty sure I can."
-
- "Very well." With that, Worf and the team left. As they did so,
- Kate reactivated the transporter and beamed four more people up from
- the surface. Her look was a bit on the blank side. Monica and her
- three daughters materialized on the pads, nude of course.
-
- "Is there anything else you require of me, Nate?"
-
- "No Ensign, you can just forget this and start a Level 1 diagnostic
- on the transporter."
-
- "Sure, no problem."
-
- "Not in uniform, of course, in much more erotic attire."
-
- "It shall be as you wish."
-
- more [q=quit] Kate left the transporter room to change her clothes.
-
- "Ladies, follow her. No one should see you."
-
- "Of course, Nate. Come on, girls."
-
- The four women left the transporter room. Nate felt much more
- confident about his powers now. Much more...
-
- "Dr. Crusher, has there been any change in the patient's
- state?" asked Captain Picard.
-
- "No, Captain, he seems stable."
-
- "Well, that means he isn't getting worse or he is adjusting to
- his new condition."
-
- That is obvious, Jean-Luc, thought Beverly.
-
- "That would be my assessment of the situation also, Captain."
-
- more [q=quit] "Very well, keep me posted. Picard out."
-
- Beverly loosened the front of her uniform to the middle of her
- chest. She hoped whatever Deanna was doing, it could bring her
- patient back. She walked over to Deanna and looked at her
- fellow officer. Don't lose him, she thought to Deanna. Nate's
- mind was already getting into her head, though she could not
- realize it.
-
- In Nate's fantasy, Commander Riker entered the transporter room.
- He was the first inroad that Counsellor Troi had managed to establish.
- He saw Ensign Terwillinger, clad in a short, lacy robe, performing a
- diagnostic it looked like, on the transporter.
-
- "Ensign, what are you doing?"
-
- "Performing a level 1 diagnostic on the transporter, Commander."
-
- "On whose orders?"
-
- "Petty Officer Pisarkiewicz's."
- more [q=quit]
- "Ensign, I don't know what has gotten into you, but stop the
- diagnostic and get back into uniform."
-
- "No sir. I must do as I am ordered."
-
- "I am giving you a direct order, Ensign. Now do it."
-
- "A higher authority has overridden your orders. I cannot obey you."
-
- "That does it." Riker hit his comm badge. "Security, this is
- Commander Riker. Send a team to the transporter room, I am confining
- Ensign Terwillinger to quarters."
-
- "This is Security, we are on the way."
-
- "Sir, wouldn't you want my body?" Kate dropped the robe to the
- ground and walked nude to Commander Riker.
-
- Deanna, who was controlling Will, made him realize what was going
- on. Will was separate from her and had his own personality.
- more [q=quit]
- The team arrived and escorted Kate away, putting her robe back on
- her. She did not resist their efforts. In a few moments, the Ensign
- had left the room. Riker called out.
-
- "Computer, location of Petty Officer Pisarkiewicz."
-
- "Petty Officer Pisarkiewicz is in enlisted quarters 34."
-
- Riker headed off. He was going to get to the bottom of this.
-
- Meanwhile, in another part of the galaxy...
-
- Dum, dum, DUM!
-
- "Boulder?" asked the Cylon with Johnathon Harris' voice.
-
- "Yes, Lubricant?" answered the human, spinning around in his
- mega-chair.
-
- "When will we beat the humans?"
- more [q=quit]
- "Now." Boulder pushed the button and the humans were destroyed.
- Of course, he was destroyed too, everyone but Doctor Z and most of
- the girls he had inoculated (Doctor Z, that is) lived. But that is
- another story (Galactica 1993).
-
- And now back to the story.
-
- Commander Riker arrived at Enlisted Quarters 34, one of whose
- occupants and it's sole occupant at this time was Nate. He, being
- polite, buzzed for entry.
-
- "Come in." called back Nate.
-
- Riker entered. Nate was in uniform now and was currently combing
- his hair. Deanna remembered that Nate had many antiquidated procedures
- about his upkeep, hair combing being one of them.
-
- Nate looked at Riker and acted on reflex. He came to attention.
-
- "All right, Mister, what did you do to Ensign Terwillinger?"
- more [q=quit]
- "Sir?"
-
- "You heard me. You did something to Ensign Terwillinger. What was
- it?"
-
- "I did something, sir, that is true. How I did it, I have no idea."
-
- "So you admit to doing something. What exactly did you do?"
-
- For some odd reason, Nate knew exactly what had transpired between
- Riker and the Ensign in the transporter room. He told Riker of the
- orders he had given her, leaving out the four women, just saying that
- he had ordered her to perform a level 1 diagnostic in something sexy.
-
- "Well, Counsellor Troi should be able to get to the bottom of this.
- I suggest you report for your appointment immediately."
-
- "Aye, aye, sir." Nate left his cabin and began to walk down the
- corridor. He decided to skip a bit and...ZOOM! He was flying down the
- passageway. He shifted his body and...WVUMP! He stopped and righted
- more [q=quit] himself. He could feel things on his body, a belt with items on it,
- some sort of skin-tight suit under his uniform. It was strange.
-
- "Doctor, why are you undressing?"
-
- "What do you mean, Data?" answered Beverly.
-
- "You are naked from the waist down."
-
- Beverly looked. Sure enough, Data was right. She had removed her long
- jacket and pulled her uniform down around her waist. Her undergarment
- lay on the floor. She scrambled quickly to redress as she
- answered Data.
-
- "I don't know, Data. This is all quite odd."
-
- Data nodded. "Could it be Petty Officer Pisarkiewicz's mind,
- controlling you?"
-
- "It is possible, Data. Then again, we don't know what is happening
- to him."
- more [q=quit]
- Not far away, the real Ensign Kate Terwillinger decided to take a
- stroll as her sleep period continued. Her long white nightgown was
- comfortable and sexy as she rose from her rack, her eyes closed and a
- pleasant smile on her face. Nate was getting more powerful very
- quickly, and he had to be brought out of his state within the next
- two pages, before all the women of the Enterprise would answer his
- will.
-
- Nate arrived at the office of the Ship's Cunt-seller, I mean,
- Counsellor, and buzzed for entry.
-
- "Come in, Nate." Deanna said.
-
- "Petty Officer Pisarkiewicz reporting as ordered, ma'am."
-
- "Sit down, Nate." Nate did as he was asked. Deanna was close to
- bringing him out. She just needed a little time alone with him.
-
- "What did you want to see me about, Counsellor Troi?"
-
- more [q=quit] "Nate, I have to tell you that you and I are not really here."
-
- "Huh?"
-
- "I have joined minds with you as an emergency measure."
-
- "I don't understand."
-
- "You are in Sick Bay now, in a coma. I am next to you."
-
- "Oh, come on! With all due respect, Counsellor, how can that
- be? We are here in your office."
-
- "Nate, I don't know if this is a result of the injuries you
- sustained in the martial arts class or not, but you are living a
- freeform delusion, which you are making up as you go along. None
- of this is real."
-
- "But how can you prove it, Counsellor?" Nate was getting more
- bold now.
-
- more [q=quit] At that moment, the four young ladies from the planet entered
- the room. Monica moved to Nate's side, while the other three
- moved towards Counsellor Troi. Nate grinned. Troi knew she was
- losing.
-
- "You had Ensign Terwillinger beam these women aboard?"
-
- "Yep, gotta have some cool women onboard."
-
- "Nate," she decided to appeal to his sense of duty," this is
- against Star Fleet regulations."
-
- "Counsellor, I kinda feel unrestricted by regulations now. I
- mean I was able to hide these four lovely ladies from the whole crew.
- Kinda cool, don't you think?"
-
- "Nate, there is no other crew! We are the only ones who are real
- on board!"
-
- "What about Lt. Worf? And the XO?"
-
- more [q=quit] "Lt. Worf and Commander Riker were mind-manifestations I created,
- just as these four women are mind-manifestations of yours."
-
- "I still cannot believe you."
-
- That is an interesting choice of words, thought Deanna. Cannot
- believe, instead of will not believe.
-
- "I can prove to you that this is all a dream."
-
- "Go ahead."
-
- "Troi to Data."
-
- "This is Commander Data. I can't talk for very long."
-
- "You see, Nate? Data's voice is a mind-manifestation, you see
- how he used a contraction?" She spoke to Data on the badge again.
- "Everything is all right here, Data. Troi out."
-
- "OK, so this is fantasy. So what? It's alot better than
- more [q=quit] reality." Stephanie moved behind Deanna and placed her hands on
- the Counsellor's breasts, while her two sisters stood along side her.
-
- "Nate, you can't spend the rest of your life in this fantasy!"
-
- "Why not?"
-
- Deanna thought for a moment before she confronted Nate with
- the answer. She knew, on his world, families were very important,
- and that Nate was the only son of his father.
-
- "Nate, your father is counting on you to continue the family
- line. How will it look to him when he is on his deathbed and you
- are somewhere, on a machine, and he dies without a grandson with
- the Pisarkiewicz name? Would you wish that on your father, Nate?"
-
- Nate froze for a moment. His father's voice rode through his
- mind. It was not pleasant. He looked up to Deanna.
-
- "That's playing dirty. Don't bring my dad into this!"
-
- more [q=quit] "It's true. Your father, in fact your whole family loves you,
- and you're going to leave them for a fantasy! All they will see
- of you is a shell of a man, in a life support unit. Is that what
- you want?"
-
- Tears formed in Nate's eyes. It was time for a catharsis and
- Nate cried. He cried and cried. Deanna began to cry too, she was
- receiving so much repressed anger and pain that she sobbed. She
- walked over to Nate as he stood up. The two embraced and cried
- on each other.
-
- The Enterprise Sick-Bay lost power for a moment or two, then
- Deanna opened her eyes.
-
- "Deanna," asked Beverly, "what happened? His vital signs, brain
- activity all seems to be returning to normal levels."
-
- Deanna wiped her eyes. "I was...successful."
-
- As quickly as Nate's vitals had stabilized, they began to wildly
- fluctuate. Data, Beverly and Deanna watched as Nate's features
- more [q=quit] became soft and white, like a moulder's clay. And then they changed
- again, this time, becoming human-looking once more. But they were
- not Nate.
-
- The man who now lay on the table and whose eyes had just opened
- with a shock, had blonde hair, light and thin. He looked up at
- everyone with two green eyes. His features were far from the general
- ....ugliness of Nate, this man had a boyish handsomeness about him.
- But his feet now were over the edge of the table. He was much taller
- than his predessecor, over a half meter.
-
- He looked about in wonder at all the people around them, but did
- not speak. Deanna heard a voice speak.
-
- "My dear Counsellor."
-
- "Q! I should have known you were behind this."
-
- "I am merely excersizing my ability to reward humans, Deanna."
-
- "Reward?"
- more [q=quit]
- "Yes, I glanced at his satire at the crew of this ship. Amazingly
- amusing. It was a stroke of an angry wit, much like my own."
-
- "So you have changed him into this?"
-
- "Yes, it was a passionate desire of his. He may find though, that
- beauty is a curse as well as a blessing. I would hope so."
-
- "Q..."
-
- "Now as for you, for your brilliant performance in extricating him
- from his ultimate fantasy, I will not bother Star Fleet for the rest of
- this season. Farewell, fair Counsellor!"
-
- And with a wave of his hand, Q departed and Deanna returned to
- normal time flow in Sick Bay.
-
- No one, not even Wesley could figure out what had happened to Nate,
- but after a few days rehab, he was back at his same job. He felt
- better about things, and would spend long hours by himself, sitting
- more [q=quit] and grinning as he travelled to a Holodeck Of The Mind.
-
- (Good title for the next story, huh?)
-
- END OF PART 3 and the STORY.
-
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