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OUR STAR TREK PBEM STORIES: LAST MAN STANDING
Title: Last Man Standing, Part Two
Location: 2387
While the CO recovered, two years in his future and two systems away from where
Pandora's Box had changed course to try and intercept and extract the unknown
agent...
A small but fierce technology battle raged as two different factions in the
Third Temporal War fought for control.
Finally, it was sheer numbers and treachery that seemed to change the tide and
rule the day as sadly has happened so many times in Earth's past.
In space not far from Pandora's Box, what appeared to be an old, heavy cruiser,
Constitution class, entered and decloaked. It had no concern anymore about being
detected. It beamed down several parties who were dressed in uniforms from
generations gone by.
A young man dressed in one of those maroon uniforms quickly sent out his last
message and enacted his last desperate ploy from a compromised time traveler
safe house. Having been an engineer before, in several time periods, had helped
him hold out alone so long against superior forces.
A small robot was the only companion he had left from all the battles he had
been in and survived. The robot was perched on a slumped sock inside the
severely scuffed left boot of the man.
Several feet away, without a sound, materialized an elite squad with masks and
energy weapons drawn. They took no chances with this agent that had not so long
ago been just a young lad. One of the soldiers tossed forward a round metallic
device of some sort.
As the device rolled forward and emitted a toxic gas, the young man kept issuing
commands at the console and the robot vanished unnoticed by all but the man.
Also unnoticed, for now, was the last message he sent as his new program took
over the console and the small safe haven.
The person in charge of the squad turned to the young man with tousled brown
hair and rumpled and burnt uniform admiringly.
"You picked a good time to hide. We didn't expect you in a million years..." he
said wryly "... to come back to where it all started..."
