Mist's Jumps Part 20

Sisko frowned slightly as he watched yet another double line of people walk out of the door to another world carrying backpacks and as much luggage as they could carry. He noticed a couple of faces that weren’t in the last group or even the group before that or at least he didn’t remember seeing anyone that looked a lot like Kira with spots on her face and neck like a trill. Of course it was hard to keep track of everyone because there were roughly four to five thousand townsfolk on every world Lily had opened a portal to. “It seems strange how much difference one crew member can make.”

Egwene smiled slightly as she saw a tall handsome man walk past with black eyes and dark black hair. “I think Lily mentioned something about Captain Riker being in charge of the mission that got them stranded in the past.”

“That should help with the genetic diversity.”

“At least to a point, Bashir was still on board as was Worf and O’Brien. Then again Hermione was planning on copying of some of the best in Starfleet which should help with genetic diversity.”

“Better than nothing,” Kira admitted.

“At least you survived in a couple of dimensions,” Lily pointed out.

Kira frowned as she thought about the lost timeline. “There is that. How many more dimensions are you going to recruit people from?”

“Probably another two today then we’ll recruit some more tomorrow or the day after depending on how long it takes Sin’s team to build more towns.”

“That should give the medical team time to scan everyone.” Egwene wanted to make sure everyone was healthy before they let them wander around.

Sisko asked, “Speaking of time, how long until the station is complete?”

“As soon as the design team finishes the basics, we’ll start construction. After that, it’s just a matter of filling in the details. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of days once we have the blueprints.”

“I’m looking forward to getting off the Enterprise,” Kira admitted.

“Same, Picard has been more than polite but I want my own ship or station,” Sisko replied.

“I’m just glad you’re willing to run the station, no one else has the same type of experience.”

“At least I don’t have to deal with the Bajoran government,” Sisko grumbled.

Kira laughed. 

0o0o0

“Physically she’s fine, mentally…” Julian Bashir trailed off as he yanked his fingers back as the clone tried to bite him. “Hey!”

Noelle looked at the naked smirking evil clone of Kes that was sitting on Mist’s workbench. “Behave.”

Mist ignored the clone’s pout as he worked on setting the mana infusion chamber to boost the clone until hopefully just before her mind completely shattered and or her body burst into flames or melted into magical goo. Normally he wouldn’t set the machine that high but he had dragon break and she was going to be the first of a new generation of ocampa and they were going to have to fix her mind anyways because of Noelle’s powers.

“The doctor needs all of his fingers,” Noelle stated firmly.

“Why is she so aggressive?” Kes asked warily.

Noelle shifted uncomfortably as she thought about her old form. “It’s part of my duplication power.”

“Don’t worry, the aggression doesn’t last that long,” Amelia lied.

The clone of Kes said, “Now that you’ve proved I’m healthy, stick me in the mana infusion chamber and turn it on.”

Mist finished adjusting the machine then opened the door. “In you go.”

The clone grinned as she hopped down off the bench and made her way over to the mana infusion chamber that should give her magical powers. “I’m looking forward to crushing our enemies.”

Kes shivered as she felt the barely controlled rage coming off her clone. “I’m not sure this is a good idea.”

“Don’t get your panties in a bunch sis, I’m going to become a goddess.” She stepped into the mana infuser and sat in the chair. “Maximum power!”

Mist used his telekinesis to strap the clone in then hit her with a wandless stunner. He really didn’t want her awake for the infusion process considering her psychokinesis could do a lot of damage if she woke up and started lashing out. He shut the door and pushed the button on the machine. He doubted she’d sleep through the entire process but the more of it she could sleep through the saner she’d be or at least that was what he was hoping. “With any luck she’ll sleep through the entire process.”

“We can hope.” Amelia turned and looked at Kes. “Don’t worry, we should be able to fix anything that goes wrong.”

“Now what?” Kes asked warily.

“If everything works out, we’ll make a bunch of copies and create a new ocampa nation. We might even sneak back to your homeworld and take a trip into the past to recruit some of the more exceptional telepaths.”

Kes smiled as she thought about seeing her world alive again. “I’ve love to see my world before the biosphere got crippled.”

“Sounds interesting,” Julian agreed.

“Sadly that’s going to have to wait until after we know if the clone is reasonably stable,” Mist pointed out. He didn’t want to try bouncing around in time while he had dragon break active. 

Amelia pulled a deck of cards out of her inventory. “In that case, let’s play cards.”

Julian grinned. “I’m game.”

“Sure.” Mist walked over to a clear area and pulled a folding table out of his inventory and started setting it up.

Julian stared at the table. “How much stuff do you keep in your pocket dimension?”

“Just the basics, camping gear, various potions and a couple of weapons that are too dangerous to leave lying around. It was easier when there weren’t toddlers running around,” Mist admitted.

“I can see where that would be useful,” Julian admitted as Mist started pulling chairs out of his inventory.

0o0o0

Egwene gestured toward the table where she’d laid out a bunch of blueprints she’d printed out. “What do you think?”

Arya smiled as she looked over the plans that Egwene and Abby had come up with for the station. “I’m not an expert on space stations but it looks like you could add a couple more mana generators in various sections of the ship to take the load off the main reactors.”

“Where?” Egwene asked.

“Here and here.” Arya tapped the map in two different places.

Abby shook her head. “That would mess with the park areas we were planning.”

“Not if you put it under the park or covered the top of it with a rock sculpture.”

“Actually, there are tunnels under everything but…” Egwene trailed off as she projected a three dimensional blueprint in the air with her illusion magic. She pointed at a narrow area between two access corridors. “If we put a generator here we’d get more power and could use the ‘rock’ covering as part of a slide.”

Abby grinned as she conjured a projection of the park they were planning on building. “We’d have to redesign the park but we didn’t really have a solid plan yet.”

Arya smiled as she looked over the image of the park. “What about a fountain or two?”

Egwene asked, “What about the extra moisture?”

“Shouldn’t the environmental systems cover that?” Abby asked hopefully.

“Probably but then we’d have to worry about water quality and children drinking the water.”

Cordelia called out from the hot tub, “Not if you use holo-projectors.”

Arya turned to look at Cordelia and Kyra who were relaxing in the hot tub. “What are you thinking?”

“You said you hardly needed the extra power unless it was an emergency which means powering a holodeck grid with the generator shouldn’t be that hard, right?”

“Especially if we get Mist to boost a copy of the Doctor’s mobile emitter before we scan it,” Egwene pointed out.

Abby had a feeling Mist would get bored eventually but they’d probably get some nice upgrades out of it before he wandered off to work on something else. “I’ll ask him before we start having the Enterprise manufacture parts.”

“Sounds good.” Arya went back to looking over the rest of the blueprints for issues.

0o0o0

Julian frowned as Mist hit the sleeping clone with yet another personality altering potion. “Anything?”

Mist frowned slightly as he checked his phone’s display to see what her new personality traits were. “There are a couple of traits worth copying.” He used his phone to save her happy and her mild exhibionist traits.

Amelia asked, “Does that mean she’s good to go?”

“Not so much, she’s still a lazy sociopath.” He pulled a personality reversal potion out of his inventory then poured it on the clone. He checked the readout, “Generally unhappy, helpful, energetic and prudish. I can work with that.” He deleted the unhappy and prudish traits then added the happy and exhinionist traits back in. “We’ll probably have to keep an eye on her for a bit but with any luck she’ll be happy, helpful and energetic.” He was planning on adding her love of learning back once they made sure she was stable.

“In that case, we should probably take her down to the planet and wake her somewhere she can’t hurt anyone.”

“How dangerous is she?” Julian asked as he glanced at Kes.

“I have enough telekinesis that I could hurt someone if I lost control. If I wanted to hurt someone...” Kes trailed off uncomfortably.

“Point.” He turned to look at Mist. “Are we going to have to do this for each clone?”

Mist said, “No, between the mana infuser and Noelle’s power, her personality got screwed up. We have cloning methods that don’t cause personality alterations.”

Julian shook his head. “The Federation would have conniption fits over this.”

“I’m not Federation, hell none of us are anymore. Noelle had permission to clone Kes so her clone would be physically stronger and I had permission from the clone to boost her and then fix her mental issues. The Federation has some nice guidelines but a lot of them forget that there are times when rules should be broken. I’m trying to set up a telekinetic and telepathic society, I’d be irresponsible if I didn’t make sure the girl we’re planning on cloning a couple of hundred times is sane to start with.”

“And healthy,” Amelia added.

“They have a point,” Kes agreed as she looked at Julian. “I can think of a few times on Voyager where it would have been better if the captain had ignored certain rules. If there’s no one to keep emerging cultures safe from other species, keeping them ignorant of the danger isn’t a good solution.”

Julian sighed. “You don’t have to convince me, there are plenty of times I wanted to tweak people’s genetics to fix various diseases rather than treat symptoms.”

Amelia rubbed her hands together. “In that case, let’s get the clone down to the planet and see how stable she is.”

Mist reached out with his magic and orbed the five of them down to the planet so they could test the clone’s magical powers and sanity.

0o0o0

Amelia smiled as she watched the naked clone flying in circles twenty feet above the ground. “Are you using the conversion ritual first or the Disgaea upgrade power?”

Mist pulled his attention off the naked girl that was flying around. “I’m not sure it matters but conversion, that way my main character ability has more to work with.”

“What are you giving them?”

“Telepathy, power granting, leaky limiter and generous donation if I can.”

Julian could figure out the first two powers or at least guess, he had no idea what leaky limiter or generous donation were. “Leaky limiter and generous donation?”

Mist turned to look at Julian. “I have an ability that means my mana pool never stops growing if I use enough magic. Generous donation is an ability that lets the user give away part or all of their magical talents, it’s not something I use all that often.”

“I don’t think I would either.”

Mist nodded. “That said, without some type of immortality or genetic engineering ocampa only live nine years, even with youth potions there will probably be ocampa that give up eventually. If we introduce the tradition of giving your children your magic before you die, it gives the people that want to die a use and makes the next generation stronger.”

Julian frowned slightly as he mentally ran the numbers. “Could they donate a bunch of mana and powers to the father of a child then get them back after he mated?”

“That’s one of the things I’d like to check,” Mist admitted.

“That’s why you didn’t give them immortality isn’t it?”

“What makes you think I can hand it out?” Mist asked curious what Julian was thinking.

Julian raised an eyebrow slightly. “You implied that it was an option.”

“Considering how fast they mature and have children, I’d be unleashing a plague of ocampa on the galaxy. I’d rather teach them how to create youth elixirs than make them immortal by default.”

Amelia spoke up, “It also means they’ll get more mana the longer they live and the more they practice their magic. Which means they can afford to give mana to other people now and then without it crippling their spell casting.”

Julian frowned slightly. “I’m suddenly a bit jealous.”

“Same,” Kes admitted.

Mist smiled as the clone landed next to them. “The conversion process also works on humans. I don’t have a problem turning the best and the brightest of the people we recruited into magical beings.”

“I’d have to talk to Sarina and run some tests on Kes and the clone before I agree but if everything checks out, I wouldn’t mind an upgrade,” Julian admitted.

Kes nodded. “I wouldn’t mind having more magic.”

The clone said, “In that case, let’s get the conversion done so Doctor Bashir can run some tests.”

Mist gestured and conjured a stone platform on the ground with a pentacle engraved in it. “Kneel in the middle of the circle and star.”

The clone floated over to the pentacle then knelt in the middle. “Now what?”

Mist briefly considered trying to come up with some type of pagan ritual filled with naked girls dancing then decided against it, technically all he needed was magic and some blood to turn her into a magical creature so he didn’t see a reason to make a huge progression about it when he wasn’t interested in pretending to be a god or anything. He focused on the powers he wanted her to have as he reached out with his mana and turned Kes’ clone into a magical creature. 

Amelia stared in surprise as the clone’s breasts grew larger and her hair turned green. “That’s not exactly what I was expecting.”

“Green?” Julian asked curious why the clone’s hair had changed colors. 

“It might have something to do with the mana growth ability or maybe I just got distracted,” Mist admitted as he used his projection ability to emulate an ability to sense what powers someone had. He relaxed a touch when he realized his conversion ability had given her the abilities he’d been trying for.

The clone reached up and grabbed a lock of her green hair. “I like it.”

“If you need to change it, we could always ask Tiffany to tweak your hair color.”

“I’ll keep that in mind. What’s next?”

Mist gestured toward Bashir. “He runs some tests then I’ll use two of my other other boosting abilities on you then we can make some copies if you’re still up for it?” 

The Kes copy nodded. “Of course, I’m looking forward to having a bunch of sisters.”

Julian asked, “Two?”

“One of my abilities helps with growth and magic, the other is something I can only use four times a dimension, it boosts someone’s magic and traits by half again.”

Mist looked at Julian. “Any objections to me staying down here and building a town for the clones rather than help with tests?”

Bashir shook his head. “That’s fine.”

“I’ll provide transportation, I want to compare notes.” Amelia reached out and teleported everyone other than Mist back up to the ship.

Mist dispelled the stone platform then frowned slightly as his cellphone rang just as he was about to fly up into the air to survey the area. He pulled his cell out of his pants, glanced at the caller ID then answered. “Hey love, what’s up?”

Abby’s voice came out of the speaker, “I was just wondering how your project was going?”

Mist floated into the air as he replied, “My conversion ritual turned the clone’s hair green but she got the powers I wanted to give her so I’m calling it a win.”

“Tiffany should be able to fix that.”

He continued floating up as he replied, “She seems to like it. How are the plans for the station coming?”

“We have the basic layout done. I don’t suppose you want to use Let’s Give it a Boost on a bunch of components so we can get the updated replicator patterns to the Enterprise so they can start replicating things?”

“I was going to build a town for the clones but I guess we can put that off for a couple of days considering I haven’t started cloning them in mass yet.”

“Good, you can start with the parts for more replicators.” Abby snickered as she heard Mist’s sigh.

Mist rolled his eyes at her snicker. “Sure. Where are you?”

“On the Enterprise with Geordi replicating replicator pieces.”

“That’s probably the best place to start in that case.” Mist orbed up to the Enterprise to start upgrading a replicator.

0o0o0

Picard stared at the viewscreen in fascinated disbelief as the space station/shipyard grew at an alarming pace before their eyes as two dozen people with glowing yellow personal space suits flew around the growing station. “How large is the station?”

Data spoke up, “1.89 times the length of the Enterprise and growing rapidly.”

“Does anyone else want one of those rings?” Tom Paris asked absently as he watched two people surrounded by yellow auras start constructing one of the arms of the station with what looked like streams of multi colored light.

Counselor Troi shook her head. “I doubt he’d be willing to share but we might be able to talk him out of a stripped down version.”

“If it lets me fly in space without a ship, sign me up.”

Picard let himself relax for the first time since coming back in time as he realized that Mist and his friends would be able to finish the station in a reasonable amount of time. He wasn’t sure what the future held but he was looking forward to finding out. He looked at Sisko who was watching the screen with interest. “Looking forward to taking command of the station?”

“It’s not DS9 but it should have it’s own challenges,” Sisko replied with a touch of amusement as he thought about Quark and the collection of people they’d recruited from collapsing timelines. He had a feeling balancing everything would keep him busy for at least the next couple of years.

0o0o0

Mist smiled as he sunk into the hot tub next to Selena and ‘his’ Piper. “Is it a bad thing that I’m already looking forward to the end of the jump and we’re not even half way through it?”

“Is it sad that I almost miss the weekly demon attacks?” Piper asked with a touch of amusement.

Selena snickered as she leaned her head against Mist. “You’re both crazy. The shipyard is done, we have the upgraded plans for the Vesta class ships, we’ve built towns and dungeons for the various recruits and clones and I went back in time and scanned the android creation machine that Kirk found. Other than a trip to Risa and a trip back to grab a scan of an ancient vulcan psionic weapon, I think we’re just about done.”

Mist blinked. “Wait, what was that about an android creation machine?”

“You didn’t watch the original Star Trek did you?” Selena asked with amusement.

“Not since before I started jumping and even then, I don’t think I’d seen the show for at least fifteen to twenty years, so pretty much no.”

Selena snickered. “They had some really crazy tech like a machine to make android copies of people and androids that would last hundreds of thousands of years with very little maintenance.”

“I guess that could be useful,” Mist admitted.

“Yep, I talked Ranma into opening portals. I also managed to find Kirk’s grave and bring him back to life.”

“That was on the list eventually.” Mist hadn’t been planning on bringing him back until a couple of years before the fight but setting up a gate between this world and the mirror verse then unleashing Kirk on the ‘poor unsuspecting’ world might be interesting. “We should probably create a gate to the mirror universe to give people something to do while they’re waiting for the borg.”

Piper asked, “Is that going to unbalance things?”

“It’s not like the karmically linked mirror from your world, it’s just a weird alternate world.”

“Good. What else is there to do before we jump forward ten years to check on things?”

Mist glanced down at Piper’s bare breasts. “I wouldn’t mind copying Kes’ clone a couple of hundred times and fusing the copies with blank copies of other girls to increase the genetic base.”

“As long as it’s a blank copy and the mix won’t look exactly like me, I don’t mind helping.” Piper had gotten used to having her alternate around enough that the idea of alternates and family in other worlds didn’t bother her as much as it probably should have. 

“Cool, we can work on that in the morning.” He closed his eyes and relaxed. He’d expected to enjoy running around the Star Trek universe a bit more but he wasn’t interested in screwing up the timeline or doing a bunch of first contact missions in the mirror verse. He had a feeling he’d run into the same problem in Star Wars after he cloned Anakin a bunch of times and had some fun messing with the Jedi and Sith.

Selena sat up as she asked, “You’re bored aren’t you?”

He shifted uncomfortably. “Eh, I have things to build but I’m not sure what the point is.”

“What do you mean?” Piper asked curious what he was thinking.

“I mean Leet is working on a device to sever Borg ships from the collective which means that once we break the link between a ship and the collective, they won’t be able to adapt. That means we can swoop in and demolish the Borg’s network and cripple their ability to go anywhere. If we use magic to cloak the ships in addition to the advanced cloaking device, the Borg will never even know who killed them. They have thousands of ships but we have almost 70 years to create ships. We’re going to crush them and the victory tastes like ashes.”

Piper asked, “Why?”

He sighed. “Because that’s seventy years where they’re wiping out species and claiming worlds.”

“Unless you want to completely screw over the entire timeline, right?” Selena asked.

“Pretty much.”

“We could always make a nearly indestructible Vesta class ship out of adamantium then head to the Mirror world and test Leet’s device for a couple of months.”

“That has some promise and I can probably find something to do until he finishes the device.”

“Well, you do have two hot naked girls in the hot tub…” Selena trailed off seductively.

“Point.” Mist smiled as he turned his head and kissed Selena. 

0o0o0

The clerk smiled as Pandora walked into her shop. “Hey Boss. You’re a week early, what’s up?”

Pandora smiled as she glanced around the shop that contained thousands of different glass like orbs that contained dozens or perhaps hundreds of different powers. She turned back to look at the ocampa/elf minion with blood red hair that was wearing a sheer blue dress. “What? I can’t come visit my favorite cute minion girl just because?”

The clerk raised her eyebrows. “You can, did you?” 

Pandora she walked over to the counter. “Sadly, not so much. We’re leaving in a couple of days to attack the Borg and might not be coming back for a bit.”

“Ah, does that mean I need to pack up my shop?”

Pandora nodded. “I’m not leaving you behind unless you want to stay behind?”

The clerk snorted. “Nope, I like the locals well enough but I’m getting a little bored.”

“You don’t like running the shop?”

“I like running the shop just fine, I’m just looking forward to being able to pick up new powers.” She glanced at the clock on the wall. “The last time I picked up a new ability was seven months, five days and three hours ago when someone with summoning wanted to donate it to her daughter before she got pregnant.”

Pandora nodded. She’d created her clerk minion and the shop when she realized that her father was paying more attention to building cities and ships than he was to the magical race he’d created. Sure, he’d given them generous donation so that every generation might get stronger but without tweaking the project it wouldn’t have been even a tenth as good as it had ended up with her adjustments. She’s created a specialized glove that recorded and regulated the amount of magic you donated with generous donation which meant that restoring a person’s magic to exactly the same amount or near enough was easy. She’d given her shopkeeper the ability to donate magic, copy powers and create power orbs which meant that she could also donate her own impressive magical talents to the new couple then copy the boosted powers. “Good to know, you should be able to pick up some new powers when we jump.”

“I’m looking forward to it.” The clerk held out her hands. “Ready?”

Pandora smiled as she reached out and took the clerk’s hands. “Always.”

The clerk laughed then donated all of the power she’d collected to Pandora. It wasn’t a perfect system as the bits of magical power that matched up exactly didn’t boost her powers but there was enough variation to make it worth it on a grand scale.

Pandora had to resist the urge to giggle as magic flowed into her. She’d experienced the same thing almost seventy times by bouncing back and forth through time to collect magic but each time was a bit of a rush. It was almost enough to convince her to work on her own project where she went back in time and set up a civilization that had projection powers but she wanted to wait at least until she had something to keep her pet project from going completely off the rails. “Thank you.”

The clerk smiled at Pandora. “My pleasure as always.”

“Do you want help packing everything up or should we head to the testing room so you can copy the powers you gave me?”

“Considering how many orbs I need to pack, we might as well get started.” The clerk pulled out a stack of egg cartons and set them on the counter. “Make sure you label the containers, I don’t want to have to sort every single orb by hand if I can avoid it.”

Pandora snickered as she grabbed the stack of egg cartons and duplicated it. She pulled one off the top then stuck the rest in her inventory. “Sure.” She headed over to the closest shelves to start packing everything up.

“Any idea where we’re going next?”

“Nope, Dad doesn’t like picking his next jump until the current jump is done.”

“I guess that makes sense,” her minion admitted as she pulled another stack of cartons out from under the counter.

Pandora frowned slightly as she looked around at the thousands of magic orbs they’d have to pack up. “On second thought, we could probably talk Harry into sticking the shop in a snow globe so we don’t have to pack everything up.”

The clerk sighed in relief as she realized she didn’t have to move her entire collection of upgrade orbs. “That sounds a lot easier Boss.”

“I’ll give him a call then we can hit the practice yard so you can copy the powers you donated.”

“Thanks Boss.” the clerk rushed over and hugged Pandora.

Pandora smiled as she returned the hug. “You’re welcome.”

0o0o0

B’Elanna Torres frowned slightly as she walked around one of the shuttles in the shuttlebay and saw Kirk chatting up a group of young ladies in flight suits including the avatar of ‘her’ ship. “Are you trying to steal my partner?”

Beta turned and looked at B’Elanna. “Nope, he was just sharing some stories of what he calls the good old days.”

Kirk turned and smiled at B’Elanna. “They certainly were, everything wasn’t mapped out and every mission was an adventure.”

B’Elanna resisted the urge to snort, the captain was a legend for flirting with various alien diplomats in an era before a lot of the rules that prevented that sort of thing had been put in place. She glanced at the other ship girls then back at her friend. “Just make sure you check the official record, he’s been known to exaggerate.”

Kirk laughed. “I’ll have you know, most of the fun stuff was left out of the official record.”

One of the ship girls smirked. “I’ve got a bottle of Romulan ale, maybe you could tell us about everything that was left out of the records?”

“Have fun with that.” Beta smiled as she danced over to where B’Elanna was standing. “So, where are we flying?”

B’Elanna smirked at Kirk’s slight pout as she started walking toward the improved Delta Flyer like shuttle with a large golden dragon painted on the side of the ship. “Sisko has a couple of mirror world missions he wants done if you’re up for it.”

“Always,” Beta replied as she followed B’Elanna with a spring in her step.

Even after a couple of months of flying around with Beta, she still wasn’t sure how to feel about her somewhat hyperactive partner. On the one hand, Beta was a nigh indestructible shuttle with a professional AI which made their various away missions a lot safer, on the other hand Beta’s avatar was a teenage girl that liked Klingon opera and flying around battlefields like a sugar addict. She was just glad that she’d had years to get used to the Doctor being ‘alive’ otherwise she might have had more issues with the intelligent ships. “Good.”

Beta opened her doors for her avatar and B’Elanna. She was just glad that she’d been assigned a partner that wasn’t overly freaked out about having an intelligent ship as a friend. She knew from talking with Victory’s avatar that some of the crew were a bit disturbed about being inside a sentient ship but she didn’t really understand their problem, it wasn’t like the ships had a digestive system or wouldn’t fly where directed unless they got really stupid orders.

0o0o0

“Fire!” Mist shouted enthusiastically from his captain’s chair.

Leet smirked as he fired his anti Borg weapon. “Bombs away!”

Q frowned as he appeared on the bridge wearing a Starfleet uniform. “This is not how I was expecting things to go.”

Mist turned to look at Q. “How were you expecting things to go?”

“Less winning actually, it’s the Borg and they have an armada.”

Uber piped, “Had an armada.”

Mist snorted. “I’m a Builder, we build stuff. It’s sort of our thing.”

“That doesn’t explain how your ship tank tanked everything the Borg fleet had,” Q grumbled good naturedly.

Mist shrugged. “If you don’t don’t know, I’m not telling.”

Q raised an eyebrow. “I could make you.”

“My boss might object, also fuck you, beam me up Scotty.”

Q frowned as Mist and everyone on the ship vanished. “Huh.”

Mist smiled at Genie as he reappeared in the black stone room. “Thanks for the lift Boss.”

Genie laughed. “I’d wondered why you waited until your year was up to attack the Borg.”

“Some of the stops along the way took longer than I was expecting-”

Selena piped up, “Like the vacation on Risa.”

“I thought we weren’t going to mention that?” Mist asked.

“Oh no, you said we weren’t going to mention it, that catgirl was amusing as hell.”

Mist shook his head. “Once we got close to a year, I figured we might as well wait until our year was up just in case we had to flee.”

Genie laughed. “Or Q showed up?”

“That about sums it up. How many extra points did I get?”

“Max, taking out the Borg is pretty impressive.”

“In that case, can I grab Q This?”

“That’s it?”

“At least for now.” Mist wasn’t overly concerned with the rest of the abilities, if he needed them he could come back and grab them.

Genie had a feeling Q would get a rude awakening the next time he caused Mist issues. “Cool, just remember you have to grab them for their power to be nullified.”

“I remember. I’m not really planning on ever using it but it’s nice to have the option if I need it.”

“Where are we going next?” Laura asked.

Leet suggested, “We could go to the gamer jump.”

Mist shook his head. “I’m not sure I want to deal with that world’s crap right now.”

“There is another option for gamer type powers,” Genie suggested with amusement.

“Where is that?” Mist asked warily.

“Generic Isekai.”

“Why does that make me nervous?“

“Because you’re paranoid.” Genie brought the Generic Isekai jump up.

“It’s not paranoia if things are really out to get me,” Mist replied as he looked at the jump.

“That means another world, right?” Uber asked.

Genie nodded. “Exactly, the jump is a generic toolbox for stories about people pulled into other worlds or sucked into video games and such.”

Beth spoke up, “That actually sounds fun, what’s the catch?”

“Depending on the world you end up in, it’s not the safest jump around because of various monsters, dungeons and psychotic main characters that may or may not exist.”

Leet gave Uber a high five. “That sounds great, let’s go.” 

“We can leave the munchkins in the pocket world, right?” Poppy asked hopefully.

Genie said, “Same as always, yeah.”

“Let’s see what we can grab.” Pandora walked over to look at the jump document.

Prue looked at Mist as she asked, “Are there any magical abilities we can share?”

Genie spoke up, “A few of the abilities count as magic and the cheats and most of the perks are trainable as long as someone buys them.”

Mist said, “Cool. It looks like the race options are human, slightly better than human which just gives a weapon skill and elemental magic skill, animals, monsters, mystic beasts, sentient magical items and dungeon hearts which sort of looks interesting but I’d rather not be stuck in a dungeon for a year.”

“That depends on the dungeon,” Sin replied with a leer.

Piper shook her head, “Yeah, no. The munchkins would miss you and I’m not bringing them into a dungeon until they’re older.”

Poppy spoke up, “Agreed.”

“Being a baby monster could be fun,” Pandora suggested.

Buffy snorted. “Let’s not.”

“And say we didn’t,” Faith finished for her.

Fred asked, “How many people can you import?”

Mist scrolled down to the companion section. “Huh, I get four free and can import another four for 100 points and they get 700 points to spend, so eight.”

“The question becomes who you’re importing?” Tiffany asked.

“I’m not sure,” Mist admitted as he scrolled back up to look at the cheats section. “Leet and Uber because they’d never forgive me if I didn’t get them a gamer ability and the perks that go with it.”

“Damn right!” Leet exclaimed. “I mean yeah, thanks.”

Mist chuckled. “Exactly.”

“Anything the rest of us would like?” Fred asked.

Mist frowned slightly as he looked the cheats over. “The cheats are a bit expensive so we’re going to have to farm a couple of them out.”

“That sucks,” Dawn complained.

“Considering we can cross train the cheats and most of the perks, not really.”

Lily said, “In that case we just need to make sure we have all of the perks and cheats covered.”

Dawn smirked. “I’m looking forward to having the Mystic Eyes of Permanence. Being able to boost a spell’s duration to the next best thing to forever should be useful.”

“Yep.” Mist scrolled back up to read the origins again.

Chris spoke up, “Anyone else looking forward to doing some monster hunting rather than listening to various Starfleet personnel complain about the timeline being sacred?”

“Hell yeah!” Aisha piped up.

Wyatt raised his hand as did a number of the rest of the group. “Yes.”

“Same.” Buffy looked at Mist. “That still doesn’t answer the question of who you’re importing.”

He turned and looked at his friends. “Considering we can train just about everything other than a couple of the items and origins and races, I don’t really care who gets imported other than Uber and Leet because Leet totally saved the day against the Borg and Uber has been helping everyone train for years. I’m going to need a couple of cheats covered but other than that, it’s up to the group.” He turned his attention back to making his build.

Shaman spoke up. “We have the gamer angle covered, that means we need people to volunteer for the reborn and summoned backgrounds.”

“The gatekeeper cheat looks pretty cool, anyone up for being summoned?” Pandora looked around at her friends and family.

Tara spoke up, “I wouldn’t mind being a summoned magical item.”

“That takes care of Gatekeeper, looks like Gocha is free for dungeon hearts. Anyone want to be a dungeon heart?”

Buffy shivered. “Is anyone else picturing a creepy demonic heart in a dungeon?”

Phoebe glared at Buffy as she complained, “I wasn’t until you suggested it.”

“Trust Buffy to bring the creepy,” Cordelia pointed out.

Pandora snorted. “It’s actually just an intelligent magical crystal that manages a dungeon.”

Lily asked, “Gocha?”

“It’s an ability that lets you summon a menu filled with various gambling options that you can spend mana to get random loot and loyal monsters.”

Genie spoke up, “Think of it as playing magical slots with mana for prizes from your current world or previous worlds, it’s random but you can get some decent stuff if you’re lucky.”

Tiffany looked at Genie. “Do we have to stay in our dungeon heart form or can we swap to an alt form?”

“Nope, you’d have to be in your dungeon heart form to use your racial dungeon heart abilities but you can swap back to your normal form if you want.”

“In that case, I wouldn’t mind being a dungeon heart so I can share the ability to alter dungeons with everyone.”

Genie mock pouted. “That takes some of the fun out of it.”

Pandora snickered. “That takes care of the gocha cheat, anyone want to be a high blood so they can pick up the mystic eyes?” She turned and looked at Dawn.

Dawn grinned. “Being Lady Dawn sounds fun.”

“It doesn’t come with a title,” Hermione corrected her.

“It does if I buy noble, it would also give us a base,” Dawn pointed out.

“That leaves skill sharing, anyone else want to be a magical item?” Pandora asked.

Aisha pointed at Hermione. “We could turn Hermione into a book.”

Hermione flipped Aisha off then turned to look at Genie. “It just gives us an alt form, right?”

Genie smiled at Hermione. “Which means that you can swap back to normal.”

“In that case, I wouldn’t mind having a book form. It would let me grab the golem ability for cheap.”

Sin giggled. “Can I be a sentient sex toy?”

Sarah looked up from where she was holding her mother’s hand, “Toy?”

Poppy looked down at her daughter then over at Sin. “I will gag you.”

Sin blushed slightly as she looked down at the toddlers. “Oops, sorry about that.”

Piper snorted. “Yeah, they’re starting to actually understand words and phrases.”

“At least wait a couple more years before corrupting them,” Phoenix suggested.

“Or never,” Leo muttered.

Chris chuckled. “Good luck with that.”

Faith smiled as she hugged Sin from behind. “Don’t worry, we love you anyways.”

“Thanks.” Sin leaned up against Faith.

“We still have two spots left, any problems with me being a mystic beast?” Aisha asked hoping there weren’t any problems.

Mist turned as he asked, “What type of beast?”

“I was thinking a magical fox.”

Mist felt a shiver go down his back. “As in a kitsune?”

Aisha smirked at Mist. 

“I have a feeling this is going to bite me in the ass but sure unless someone else has any objections?”

Phoebe glanced at her alternate then at the rest of the group. “No objections here as long as she can share her magic.”

“I don’t have a problem sharing,” Aisha agreed.

“Anyone object to me taking the last spot?” Pandora asked.

“What are you going to pick?” Rose asked.

“I was thinking about a magical cat.”

Paige asked, “Any particular reason?”

Pandora glanced at Aisha. “It gives us the chance to have friendly and magical foxes and cats around if we take the right items.”

“Thinking of making some cat and fox girls?” Sin asked with amusement.

“That and pets. We have a small magical community spread out in magical trunks that we can take with us, I like having familiar faces around.”

Mist spoke up, “Sounds good to me. Let’s figure out your builds then Genie can look everything over to make sure they’re legal.” Mist was looking forward to relaxing and going monster hunting.