Lexx and the mother of all crossovers (Part Two – Additional

[SadGeezer]

BOWCATZ
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[b]BowCatz[/b] walked slowly down the winding hallway and made mental notes of where she turned to enter new areas of the Lexx. After an hour, she stopped and placed her hand against the wall. Under her hand, she could feel a slight pulsing from what looked to be large veins appearing and disappearing into the curved wall. The ship was alive!

“Amazing. Absolutely amazing.” She patted and stroked the veins and walls. “Lexx, can you feel that?”

Sheets of what appeared to be skin stretched from the wall to the floor. It felt soft like rabbit fur and stretched springy like a thick spider web when she pushed into it. Not wanting to harm the Lexx, she only pushed a little.

The hallway widened as she walked towards the end of the ship. From the floor to the tall ceiling, BowCatz viewed veins of various sizes threading in and out for hundreds of feet into the darkness away from her; large sheets of brown and pink skin partially covered them , too.

BowCatz observed that the large purplish veins were nearly three feet wide on the floor and that they graduated to green and blue veins about six inches wide at the top. Metal bars supported and separated the larger veins into shelves easily fifty feet deep. What appeared to be electrical wires were woven around some of the veins nearest the wall.

BowCatz pushed and pulled carefully onto smaller feeder capillaries sprouting from the veins about shoulder high and could feel a warm liquid flow through them. “You have blood,” she said stunned, “…a spaceship that bleeds.”

It was from the corner of her eye that she noticed something like heat waves emitting from the darkness. BowCatz turned and witnessed a dirty, grayish large cottonball of hazy light emerge and grow brighter into strands of pure white light that quickly began to form an orb that filled the entire width of the hall.

BowCatz reached around her waist and unsnapped her hunting knife. Kai wasn’t here, so she was going to look out for herself. It was then she remembered her small .22 magnum caliber pistol stuffed into her calf high hunting boot. The tiny pistol only had four rounds of ammo though. She hadn’t brought any spare rounds, either.

“Lexx. Lexx. What is that?” The Lexx did not respond. “Lexx, answer me. You answered Captain Stanley, why not me?”

For a moment or two nothing happened as the light seemed to grow and become focused then partially fade out. Through the forming hazy orb, she could make out three human-like forms frozen in a walking stance. “They look like outlaw bikers,” she said knitting her brow with concern.

BowCatz didn’t know if these new people were enemies or friends. Looking up the stack of bulging veins, she grasped to hoist herself to the top to hide among them. It was a good idea, too. Just as she crawled in-between a narrow gap of the uppermost veins, three Klingon warriors with wild dark hair and armed heavily emerged from the light. On their faces was a mixture of surprise and the hardened experiences that many kills in battle do to the face. BowCatz’ uncle (who raised her after her parents died) had that same look in his eyes when he spoke of his tours of duty in Viet Nam with his drinking buddies.

BowCatz held her breath hiding in the shadows. She felt like a little cat suddenly finding itself in a den of hungry wolves.

“So, that is what it looks like,” she thought trying to get her mind off of the sight below her. “It isn’t instant, either. Good. I’ll let Captain Stanley know as soon as I can. And that Kai fella, too. He seems to be the ship’s cop.” BowCatz slowly wiped a tear pooling under her eye.

Her thoughts and emotions raced hot with concern for the others to was it all a dream again. Was she a fallen unconscious heap beneath a pinetree freezing to death or was this really happening? Her survival instinct kicked in as a Klingon looked upward and straight at her.

…it’s real. Deal with it.

“Oh, God in Heaven, please don’t let them see me.”

She didn’t know the language the hardened men spoke, but the way they carried their weapons filled her heart with dread. The biggest one had a face full of scars and barked something at the other two. The other two obeyed the order and touched something on the long weapon they each carried that made it click and hum as if something turned on.

With professionally trained military precision in their stride, the men in full battle gear moved towards the area BowCatz had come from. All BowCatz could do at that moment was watch them leave.

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[ 23-03-2002: Message edited by: BowCatz ]

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ARANIA
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Circe had been laying on the strange bed for a bit, thinking and trying to erect better mental barriers to block the cacophony of the other minds. She shot straight up when she felt the presence of violent, battle ready minds within the LEXX. She gathered herself and cast her teleport spell reappearing on the ship’s bridge, almost on top of Stanley.

“Sorry about that Stan. Kai, there’s someone hostile in here with us, not on the bridge but wherever that Bowcat girl went. Lexx, where is she?” Surprisingly the giant ship answered her. Stan gaped at her.

“She is in one of my passages Circe. There are three others coming to the bridge, I have never seen anything like them before.” Kai coolly nodded and faced the tunnel that Bowcat had left through, arming the strange weapon coming out of his arm, and prepared himself. Circe muttered some words in a language that none of them had ever heard before and saw a glow coming from her hands, surrounding each person in the room, but after she finished chanting, she collapsed at Stanley’s feet.

“That should protect all of you. I can’t cast again for a while, but it will help.” She closed her eyes to wait for what was to come

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BOWCATZ….
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Her hunting experiences had taught BowCatz the importance of silence, good camoflauge, being as scent free as possible, patience, and timing. More than once in her wild woods, she had been stalked by fierce wild boar intent on killing her and these men reminded her of wild boar.

“They’ll move forward towards the bridge. They will want control of this ship.” BowCatz listened for a moment. “Yes. Think, BowCatz, think.” BowCatz said to herself then rubbed her temples. Her brain felt like soft little cat feet were gently massaging her frontal lobes. “These kind of people have purpose. Yes, they will want to control the Lexx and will probably kill anyone who stands in their way.” BowCatz rubbed her temples again. “What is that sensation? I hope I’m not about to stroke out. Not now.”

Feeling stronger, BowCatz swiftly climbed down the bulging veins. Something was happening to them, too. It was like the Lexx’ pulse had quickened. “Lexx. Lexx. Can you hear me?” She patted the veins, but the Lexx gave no response.

She listened for a moment and heard nothing. Looking up and around the great hallway she said, “I wish I could turn the lights out in this area and all the way to the bridge.” Tugging at her boot, she pulled the small pistol from its ankle holster and cocked the tiny hammer. It seemed too small to do any good, but maybe the sound of it might alert the men on the bridge that hell in black leather was headed their way.

“But where can I shoot it without hurting this living ship?” It was then the lights went out in the hallway and BowCatz smiled with relief. “Ah, the darkness. I can hunt well in the dark. Thank you, Lexx.” As stealthily as a bobcat, she moved aided only by a light up ahead.

It didn’t take her long to catch up with the Klingons. They were so close to the bridge now and only around the curve of the hallway from her. I hope those guys on the bridge are ready for a big surprise because these fellas with the mustang hair are out for blood.

The scar-faced Klingon stopped and motioned for the others to spread out. One laid on the floor to shoot upward and the other prepared to shoot from a downward angle into the bridge. Standing there quietly, the leader of the pack pulled a small flat metal box from his belt and held it away from him. He studied it as if reading information from the blinking lights.

BowCatz moved out silently from the wall in the shadows less than twenty feet behind them. With the small pistol cocked and her arm raised, she began to mentally see herself taking out the leader first. She played the scenario over and over in her mind like her uncle had taught her from his stories as a soldier in Viet Nam. He was right, it actually calmed her. Steadying her breathing, she waited for them to make the first move. Holding the box up in front of him, the leader of the Klingon trio slowly turned around and faced BowCatz hiding in the shadows. She knew that he knew she was behind him in the dark. The little box has told him so.

He brought up his weapon fast to kill her, but BowCatz fired first. The little pistol sounded like a cherry bomb firecracker going off in the hallway. Sparks from the magnum round shot out two feet and the little piece of lead landed solidly into the resistant vest the Klingon wore. He swore in his native tongue because of the piercing pain from the impact of the lead, but his vest never lost integrity to BowCatz’ horror. BowCatz backed up a step without realizing it.

Determined, BowCatz cocked the pistol again and fired higher, but the veteran of many battles only ducked as the lead hit the wall over his head. He laughed at her as the Lexx cried out from the pain of hot lead and BowCatz felt a deep regret for harming the bug ship. She couldn’t grieve but for a second—the three Klingons were after her firing their weapons. Screaming in terror as blue pulses of light just barely missed her shoulders, BowCatz turned back into the darkness of the hallway and ran for her life, but only for a few paces. In the darkness, she hit the firm wall and the impact sent her backward onto the floor and dazed her. Her pistol still grasped firmly in her hand, she shakily stood up and listened for the murderer’s footsteps she knew would be following her. The sounds of hand to hand battle just a turn of the hall behind her greeted her ears.

As she turned back to help in the life and death struggle, an arm attached to the long Klingon weapon went sliding past her feet. There was a strange rasping noise, men shouting, and the sounds of someone falling or being pushed hard to the floor. BowCatz stopped and pulled the long weapon from the dying hand then turned it over looking for a trigger.

Kai was hard to make out in the dim light, but the other men in the lighter colored uniforms brought the other two Klingons down hard to the floor. The Klingons fought hard. Kai raised his right arm and the brace’s pincer shot forward and killed the Klingon by piercing and breaking its neck. The last Klingon on seeing this stopped fighting and started singing at the top of its lungs. BowCatz instinctively knew it as a death song. She moved into the light as Kai raised his arm again. The Klingon saw her and spit at her and then returned to singing looking Kai straight in the eyes.

With grace and poise, Kai dispatched the last Klingon mercifully. Captain Kirk had a murderous gleam in his eye as he heard the cracking sound of the Klingon’s neck while he pinned him to the wall. “Bas****s,” he said under his breath and threw the lifeless Klingon body down. He wiped the dead warrior’s blood off his hands onto the Klingon’s clothes, rose and returned to the bridge. Janeway put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him for she knew the Klingons had killed his son.

“A snack for the Lexx,” chirped Stanley entering the hall. “Why didn’t you guys tell me you were going to jump them?”

“You are too important to be killed, Stanley.” Kai said calmly turning to look at Stanley who jumped when a dead Klingon twitched. Turning to BowCatz, he said, “Thank you, BowCatz. That was very brave, but it would be better if you stayed with the others on the bridge.” Xev walked out from the bridge and over the dead bodies without giving them much of a look.

“Are you all right, Kai?”

“Yes.”

Kai motioned for BowCatz to enter the bridge. She stood for a moment then after replacing the tiny pistol to its ankle holster, she looked at the Klingon weapon she had slung over her shoulder with its strap and back at Kai. “May I keep this weapon?” BowCatz patted the weapon affectionately. “I always did like guns.”

Kai gave her a steady look and held out his hand. “Let me examine it first then we will see, BowCatz.”

BowCatz turned over the weapon to Kai slighty miffed.

“Are you all right, BowCatz?” Xev gently brought her hand to BowCatz face. “You have a bloody nose.”

BowCatz wiped at her nose and looked at the fresh blood on her fingers. The camoflauge paint came off with the blood. “Xev, is there someplace I can wash my face?”

“Yes, that room is down this way.”

BowCatz gave Kai a wink from behind her painted and bloody face as she followed Xev. Waving at him as she passed him she said, “Thanks for helping, Kai. I couldn’t have done it without you.”

“You’re welcome,” replied Kai.

“Sassy little thing, isn’t she, Kai,” remarked Captain Kirk as he and Janeway stood at the entrance to the bridge.

“Maybe too sassy for her own good.” Kai watched the women leave then entered the bridge with the weapon . Captain Kirk would show him later how it worked.

The young women walked quickly and BowCatz spoke again, “Xev, they fired on me point blank and the pulses went around me like I had a glass bowl or something covering me. It was so weird. I should be dead now.”

“I think Circe did something. She said something and the whole room suddenly felt different.”

“I will have to ask Circe, after I clean up. This camoflauge paint is drying out and it itches something fierce when it does that.” BowCatz rubbed her face and felt the slick blood slide under her fingers. She noticed her hands were still trembling slightly—not that she would tell anyone though.

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Circe, feeling stronger for a moment, was sitting leaning against Captain Hunt who was kneeling beside her with his arms around her. “Was Lexx able to turn out the lights?” She felt so tired. “Oh, I wish I were stronger.”

“Stand back, all. Let her breath.” Captain Hunt’s orders were followed. “Yes. The Lexx turned out the lights and that made all the difference. BowCatz is alive and is safe.” The ladies fanned Circe as the men gathered around Kai and Stanley to look at the weapon BowCatz had picked up in the hallway.

“Where is BowCatz and Xev?” asked Circe. She held her forehead gently with one hand and half closed her eyes from the fatigue and dizziness. There you are, BowCatz. No, I won’t tell anyone your hands are shaking. Circe smiled at BowCatz’ quip to Kai still tracing through BowCatz’ mind. Circe sighed from relief.

“BowCatz has bloodied her nose and wants to wash her face.” Kai replied calmly. Captain Kirk requested to hold the weapon and Kai obliged him.

“Oh, gawd. Not in that same room where the toilets are. Ha, I bet that country girl has never seen a creature like the one that lives in the loo.” Rose said laughing unabashed. Rose and Daisy then giggled without restraint. Richard just rolled his eyes.

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ARANIA
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She looked up as Bowcatz returned with Xev. Her face was clean, but her nose appeared a little swollen. Fortunately, Circe had convinced the others to dismiss non-essential people from the bridge for the time being. Her mind was whirling a lot less, and she had regained some strength. Bowcatz came over to her.

“Mind telling me why I wasn’t hit? Not that I mind or anything.” Laughing a bit, she sat down next to Circe at the foot of the pedestal Stan had been standing earlier.

“Not at all. You are from earth, either the same on as me, or one similar, so you should know about Atlantis. Well, that is my home, I cast a few defensive spells around all of us when I felt the presence of those violent minds.” She smiled a bit.

“Then I take it that the lights were your doing too?” They looked up to see Xev walking over to them as they talked.

“Yes, I was able to talk to the Lexx, because of the fact it is an insect, a natural creature.” Xev sat with them.

“I see, that was how it listened to you in even though you don’t have the key.” She nodded. “Feeling better?”

Circe nodded, and looked at Bowcatz’s nose. “Here…let me do something about that.” She gently laid two fingers on the bridge of her nose. They glowed for a few seconds, and when she pulled away, there was no sign she had been hurt seconds before. The swelling and redness were gone.

Bowcatz and Zev smiled. Circe cocked her head and projected into the minds of all the ones talking about thir current situation.~~I can guarantee you that whatever brought us here is not magical in nature, past that I really do not say~~ With that she turned back to the others sitting with her.

“I have enough in me for a few more small spells, but nothing more than what a child could do. I’ve been away from the Earth for too long. Are either of you hungry?” With a small wave of her hand, she was holding a small bowl of fresh fruit, and Xev, since she hadn’t seen fresh food in a while, happily took a banana.
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BOWCATZ
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BowCatz had butterflies in her stomach and declined the fruit after thanking Circe appreciatively. Watching Xev eat brought a question to her mind. “What happened to the bodies of the soldiers?”

“Oh, they were given to the Lexx,” replied Xev casually as she picked up the cluster of sweet red grapes and began to pull them off one by one to eat. You could tell she was savoring every flavorful minute of it, too.

“Lexx? What does he do with the bodies?”

“He eats them like this,” said Xev and gobbled the entire end of the grape cluster in her mouth. Smiling, she chewed the sweet fruit while a red liquid glistened on her full lips.

BowCatz grinned at Xev’s playful demonstration, but she found the thought a little disturbing. Circe must have noticed it and placed her hand gently on BowCatz knee as a way of saying, “It’s all right, BowCatz.” BowCatz nodded that she understood Circe and dropped the discussion. She remembered what she had been told about the Lexx being an insect that ate. She just didn’t make the connection with people as food until at that moment. So that is what Stanley meant by a snack for the Lexx.

Stanley entered the room with Kai close behind him. “Ladies,” he said rather cheerfully, “Captain Kirk has invited us all for a feast on his ship. ” He rubbed his hands together while visions of roasted meat and good wine drifted through his imagination. “He said that he knew some women on his ship who would want to meet the captain of the most powerful ship in the two universes, too. Meet, greet, and eat tonight, kiddos. Sounds good to me.” Stanley’s face broadened into a wide self-indulgent smile.

“Oh, that’s wonderful, Stanley.” Xev stood, but Circe and BowCatz remained seated.

“Is that such a good idea, Stanley?” BowCatz looked at Circe then Kai concerned. “We watched the Enterprise disappear completely a little while ago for a few minutes.”

“That was a little while ago, BowCatz,” admonished Stanley. “I’m hungry and they have fresh food. Real food. Something we do not get often on the Lexx.”

“Maybe they could bring it over here to the Lexx,” said BowCatz standing. She looked at Kai, who returned her gaze listening intently. Kai doesn’t want us to leave, she thought. I see it in his eyes. “Kai, couldn’t they beam it over here the way they first appeared on the Lexx’ bridge earlier today?”

“I mentioned that to Captain Kirk, but he insists that we all go over to his ship.”
Kai spoke in his usual calm manner, but BowCatz sensed a measure of strength added to his tone. His gaze was becoming stronger as if saying, ‘Agree with me. Talk the others out of this.’

BowCatz looked at Circe, “Circe, what do you think? Is it safe to leave the Lexx? I mean, we might be disappearing and reappearing, too. We could wind up stuck over there.” Circe looked away for a moment as if remembering something and did not answer immediately.

BowCatz stood on her toes briefly waiting for Circe’s reply then continued, “Why is it so important for all of us to go over to the Enterprise?” BowCatz became increasingly agitated at the thought of leaving the Lexx. This is where she “landed” after her trip through the space-time continuium. “Kai,” BowCatz placed her hand on his arm, “I don’t want to go. I want to stay here. I might miss my only opportunity to go back to my place in time if I go over to the Enterprise.”

“BowCatz, if you like, stay here.” Kai placed his hand over hers and squeezed it gently. Circe watched all of this without speaking. She knew what was going on with this plan of the Enterprise captain the minute Stanley mentioned going over to feast.

So Captain Kirk wants to know ” ‘what makes the Lexx tick. ‘” She narrowed her eyes at Stanley. You’ve been talking too much, Stanley, she thought. You’ve got him very curious about this powerful ship of yours. He’ll take it, too, if you let him. Circe’s thoughts completed with something she had noticed her whole life. What was it about her that attracted the foolish? Not the young and inexperienced like BowCatz, but the absolute fools of the universe. Circe stood and took BowCatz arm to steady herself. BowCatz put her arm around her to help her stand. Then Circe spoke and all listened and knew she spoke the truth for Circe was wise and caring and knew how to correct foolishness with a firm discipline balanced with love.
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Arania
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In Stanley’s hunger and thoughts of women, was his weakness. Circe, still leaning on Bowcatz some closed her eyes and focused her mind, managing to speak with Kai and her alone.

~~I need to borrow your strength of mind, Stanley, while stubborn, is actually quite weak willed. Usually this would not be a problem for me, but my strength is waning. I, with your strenght, can get him to change his mind, but he’ll still think it’s his idea.~~ Kai nodded, a barely perceptible nod, and had she not been in his mind when he agreed, she never would have seen it. Bowcatz replied with her mind, a yes.

Circe focused more, probing into stanley’s mind, drawing strength from them, as though through tendrils, bringing the knowledge of kirk’s intentions to the front of his mind, making the food seem less important.

Stanley stood on the platform by where the girls stood, Xev watching him.

“Captain Kirk, this is Stanley.” Xev lookedover to see Circe’s eyes still closed, her mouth moving without sound, she also noticed the movements matching what stanley said. “We cannot leave the Lexx at this time. Would it be possible for yuo to bring the food over here?”

Captain Kirk’s face appeared on the view screen, and he was frowning. “I do not know if that is possible Captain Stanley. Allow me to consult with the other members of the crew.” The screen went black for a moment, then Kirk’s face reappeared on the screen. “All right, we can bring over the feast, and the crew who were going to attend.”

Stanley smiled and nodded. “Very good. We’ll see you in a little bit then.”
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