SEASON FOUR

EPISODE 1: WHEN THE WALLS COME CRUMBLING DOWN
PART TWO

By: Elektra

SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE WWF TITANPRIZE. IT'S MISSION: TO EXPLORE AND ENTERTAIN NEW SOCIETIES AND NEW CIVILIZATIONS.  TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WRESTLER HAS GONE BEFORE!

TITANPRIZE CREW:
Captain Vincent K. McMahon
First Officer, Commander Shane McMahon
Chief Engineer, Commander Stephanie McMahon
Chief of Chiefs, Commander Linda McMahon
Chief of Security, Commander Kane
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Taker
Communications Officer, Lieutenant Rock
Counselor Al Snow (assisted by H.E.A.D.)
Diagnostics Officer, Lieutenant Jericho
Tactical Officer, Lieutenant Commander Austin
Transporter Chief, Lieutenant Commander Debra McMichael
.. And many more!

WWF TITANPRIZE - CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM

    "Captain's log, stardate 060920.00.  Lieutenant Jericho's shuttle seems to have been destroyed. My aim was merely to damage the ship, not destroy it. It was a waste of a good shuttle... but I'm sure Wrestlefleet will understand. End log."

    Captain McMahon sat back in his chair, and briefly wondered where his daughter was.
 

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SHUTTLECRAFT HEAT

        Commander Stephanie slowly came to, "What happened?" she asked, then remembered. She looked towards Lt. Jericho, who was sitting at the controls,  "YOU! Are you kidnapping me?! I'll have you know,  my daddy will---"

    "We care nothing for your DADDY!" Unit Y2J began, his voice frightening, his eyes black.

    "How could you NOT care? He is Captain VINCE McMAHON!"

    "We have left a surprise for your Captain McMahon aboard his ship."

    "What do you mean?" Commander Stephanie asked.

    "In T-minus 2 hours, the WWF Titanprize's warp core will explode..."

    Stephanie remembered Lt. Jericho messing around in Engineering earlier, "So THAT'S what you were doing! But... WHY did you do it?" Stephanie asked.

    The thing that had Y2J's face turned to her, "Because we wish to multiply and must find a planet to do so. Aboard the Titanprize, there would not have been enough room. "

    "Multiply or not, you have NO RIGHT to destroy my daddy's ship!!"

    "We have every right. They would have destroyed US! As it was, our host was attempting to restrain us from taking over his systems!" it answered. Yes. IT. Stephanie couldn't consider Unit Y2J a HIM anymore.

    Suddenly, the thing grabbed its  head, and let out the high-pitched modem scream that Stephanie had heard once before. It's eyes returned to normal.

   "GET THE HELL OUT OF MY BEAUTIFUL BODY!" Lieutenant Jericho shouted. He seemed to have regained control of his systems for the moment.

    "Oh... you're back..." Stephanie replied, feigning disappointment, "The nanites were a lot more interesting..."

    "Then maybe you'll be happier when they totally take over my systems!" he snapped.

    "When the Titanprize comes after us, they'll get them out!" she stopped, "WAIT! The nanites told me they set the warp core to explode! We have to warn the Titanprize!"

    Lieutenant Jericho turned to Stephanie, "No can do! The nanites set the shuttle to go into emergency warp the moment your dad fired on us. The engines need time to recharge!" he shook his head, "That wasn't exactly the NICEST thing your dad ever did! "

    Stephanie frowned, "Hey, you kidnapped me! What did you expect him to do?"

    "First of all, it wasn't ME who kidnapped you! And secondly, if your dear sweet daddy KNEW you were aboard this shuttle, he WOULDN'T have fired!"

    "Oh... " she replied, then began to pout, "But then that means he won't be coming for me!" she turned to him, "The Titanprize is going to explode, and I have no way to tell my daddy!!"

    Jericho swore under his breath, "If I can get to the HEAT's engines..." he stopped and looked at Stephanie, "Hmmm... maybe I CAN make you useful after all!"

STARSHIP TITANPRIZE - ENGINEERING

    "Where is my daughter?! I've been paging her for the last twenty minutes!" Captain McMahon snapped as he walked through engineering.

    "Sir..." Ensign Crash, who was at his usual station, spoke up, "Don't you know?"

    "Know WHAT?" McMahon asked.

    "The Y2J Unit took her, sir!"

    "WHAT?!" McMahon shouted.

    "If you find the Y2J Unit, you'll find your daughter, sir..." Crash offered. "Uh... what happened to his shuttle anyway?"

    McMahon went pale, ignoring Ensign Crash's question, "No!" he gasped. "NO NO NO!!" He let out an agonized shout, "DAMN YOU, JERICHO! DAMN YOU! My Stephanie! My precious Stephanie...!"

    The Captain left engineering, muttering to himself incoherently.

SHUTTLECRAFT HEAT

    Commander Stephanie stared at Lieutenant Jericho, "What do you mean you can make me useful? WHAT, exactly, are you planning on doing?!" she asked, and backed away, thinking the worst, "I mean, the nanites DID seem interested in me..."

   Unit Y2J looked at her, and frowned,  "Oh you only wish!" he replied, then sighed, "What I mean is that YOU are the Chief Engineer! And if you actually have the training to go with the title, then you can fix the engines, AND get these nanites out of me!"

    "Of COURSE I have the training!" Stephanie replied, relaxing. "Daddy may favour his family, but do you honestly think he would hire someone as Chief Engineer who DIDN'T know what she was doing? HMPF!" she sighed, "But to fix the engines, I'm going to need your help! You're totally useless when those stupid nanite things take over!"

    Jericho quickly put the ship on autopilot and opened up the shuttle’s tool kit. He handed it to Stephanie, "First things first, then. Get these damn things out, and we'll get back to the Titanprize and fix whatever damage they may have done! Now I'm going to shut myself off..." he stopped and shook his head, "And I can't believe this, but I'm actually going to TRUST you to turn me on again..."

    "I can turn ANY android on!" Stephanie replied, "Now lie down and let me get to work!"

    Lieutenant Jericho looked at her, trying not to analyze her last statement too much. It sounded WRONG somehow.

    He sighed, "Ok. Let's just get this over with..." He lay down on the floor of the shuttlecraft, and looked up at her, "Oh... and don't try to tamper with my programming. I have my Walls of Jericho on. Any tampering will be detected, and my body will automatically restart -- though whether it be the nanites in control or myself, I don't know. So I suggest you DON'T mess with my lovely head, got it?"

    "I got it. I got it! No shut yourself off already!" Stephanie snapped.

    Unit Y2J closed his eyes... and within seconds, his body was lifeless.

STARSHIP TITANPRIZE - BRIDGE

    "Commander!" Ensign Jeff spoke as he looked at the current occupant of the Captain's chair. All the McMahon's had gone off duty to morn for the loss of Stephanie. The crew, however, didn't seem too torn up about it.  "Sensors just detected a faint warp signature where Unit Y2J's shuttle was! I think they went into warp just as we fired and the nanites managed to trick our sensors!"

    "So?" Commander Austin replied.

    "SO? That means they didn't get destroyed!"

    "Oh hell no! That means that damned 'ho is alive!" Commander Austin sounded disappointed.

    "But the good news is that it means Lieutenant Jericho is alive too, sir..." Ensign Jeff spoke, noticeably relieved.

    "Yeah... him too. Whatever." Commander Austin replied.

    "Think The Rock should inform the McMahon's?" Lieutenant Rock spoke up.

    "Naw. Let the bastards sweat it out a bit more..." Austin replied.

    Rock nodded, and turned back to his post.

SHUTTLECRAFT HEAT

    Stephanie ran the tricorder along Unit Y2J's body, trying to locate the nanites.

    There they were!

    She took the next tool out of the bag, and began to reconfigure it. The nanites would be pulled right out from Lieutenant Jericho's body.

    She was only disappointed he would sleep through the painful extraction...

WWF TITANPRIZE - BRIDGE

    "Where is the shuttlecraft!" Captain McMahon demanded as he shoved a lounging Ensign Edge out of his Captain's chair.

    Someone had apparently informed him of the latest situation.

    "We don't know, sir..." Ensign Jeff explained, "Unit Y2J has managed to avoid our sensors."

    "Well, find my daughter, damnit! Find her NOW!"

SHUTTLECRAFT HEAT

    Commander Stephanie read the readouts on the instrument in her hand. Apparently, all the nanites had been cleared from the Lieutenant's system.  She quickly restarted his program... and waited.

    Slowly, Unit Y2J sat up. He looked around, somewhat dazed.

    "Come on. The nanites are all gone! Now let's fix this shuttle and get back to the Titanprize!" Stephanie commanded.

    Lieutenant Jericho jumped to his feet, and followed her.

SHUTTLECRAFT HEAT- ENGINEERING

    Stephanie looked over the engines in the small back room of the shuttlecraft. There was barely enough room for both her and Unit Y2J. Shuttlecrafts were notably smaller then the Titanprize.

    Unit Y2J stood behind her. She handed him some tools and told him what needed work. "Now go over to the other side. Good. Together we can override the engines and speed up the recharging.  Now, see that handle there? Get ready to pull it when I say so."

    "And...?" Lieutenant Jericho asked.

    "AND... make sure you pull that handle the moment I say so, that's all!" she replied.

    "That’s it? It was just a matter of pulling a handle?!"

    "Hey, smartass... I need to do my part at the same time! I only have two hands you know. Now get ready. 1... 2... 3... PULL!"

    Within seconds, the engines powered up. "Great... now let’s get out of here!"

    The shuttlecraft HEAT quickly made its way back to the Titanprize

WWF TITANPRIZE - ENGINEERING

    Stephanie burst into engineering with Y2J, the shuttlecraft HEAT safely docked. She tapped her comm badge, "Engineering to Daddy! There's a bomb aboard the Titanprize! I'm going to to attempt to disarm it!"

    Without waiting for her father's reply, she headed to the warp core, and removed the panel. There before her was the most complicated smart bomb she had ever seen.

    "Here... let me do this!" Lieutenant Jericho said, and knelt in front of the exposed panel. He touched one of the wires.

    "Careful! You touch the wrong one, and we're all gone!" she shouted.

    "I know what I‘m doing..." he replied, and began to unhook and rehook the wires before him.

    "How do you know so much about bombs?" Stephanie asked.

    There was a pause, then Jericho spoke again, his voice somewhat different, "I know many things..." Lieutenant Jericho stepped away from the panel, "All finished now..."

    Suddenly, the ship jerked, and after a moment of confusion, everything returned to normal... except... "All ship operating systems rerouted to engineering, station 5," the computer voice spoke.

    "What??" Stephanie gasped, "But I didn't do anything!"

    "No..." Lieutenant Jericho began as he stood up, "I did..." he turned to face Steph, and smiled a cold smile.

    Stephanie looked at him, and saw his eyes. There were BLACK, "NO!" she gasped, "I extracted all the nanites! What's happened!?"

    "You missed one..." Unit Y2J replied, his voice strange and distorted.

    Stephanie tapped her badge frantically, "Commander Stephanie to securi---"

    Unit Y2J grabbed her, clamping a hand over her mouth, "I am afraid I just cannot let you do that!" He pulled a phaser from his pocket, and threw Stephanie down. He turned to the other crewmen in Engineering, "Now... I suggest you all work with me... or things may get a bit messy..." he brought the phaser towards Stephanie, "That includes you too. If you make one false move, I will give your lovely little face a free facial... and it will be quite painful, that I can guarantee..."

    Unit Y2Nanite opened the comm systems throughout the ship, his strange distorted voice void of any emotion, "This is your Captain speaking...." it began, "The Engineering crew is currently at my mercy. Should anyone chose to play hero, there will be great suffering in all of Titan land!"