Disclaimer: Don't own 'em. CC, Fox, 1013
Productions, and the actors do. Just
borrowing 'em. No hard feelings, huh? Oh,
I also don't own the characters from Star
Trek: The Next Generation. Paramont
and the actors do. And Rick Berman does.

Spoilers: none

Keywords: XF/Star Trek:TNG crossover
Mulder/Scully romance

Rating: I guess you could say PG.

Summary: Mulder and Scully get beamed into
the 24 century where they meet an enemy we
all love to hate.

Author's Notes: It's not really a
ST: TNG crossover. It doesn't take place
during the series. More along the lines of
after ST: First Contact, acually now, after
ST: Insurrection. You know, Data has
emotions, Worf now back at Deep Space 9,
that sorta thing.  It just has the characters
from the series (except Worf).  Enough of my rambling,
let's get started.

So It IS True
by: The 'ONE' ( xftngds9vb@hotmail.com )

It was dark. There were no stars twinkling in
the sky. Why did they have to have a stake-out
tonight in the middle of a forest? Oh
yeah....Mulder, Dana Scully's partner, dragged
her out here. Dana was exhausted. She wanted
to go home to her bed. "Scully?" That voice
sounded so distant. "Scully?"

"Huh?" Dana said snapping out of her reverie.
"You okay?" Mulder asked, concern crossing
his face.
"Yeah...."
"You were kinda fadin' out." Still concern
showed on his face.
"Was I? I didn't notice."

Mulder and Dana sat silent for awhile.
Mulder, looking out a window, spotted a
strange light. It was moving across the
black, empty sky. "Scully, did you see
that?"

"See what?"
"There was some sort of light moving
across the sky."
"Where?" Scully asked.

They got out of the car and looked up at
the sky. "There it is," Mulder said when the
light came into view again. "What is it?"

"It could be a comet or an astroid," Scully
scientifically said.
"Why would it orbit the planet?"
"A satallite?"

But before Mulder could answer, there was a
strange light on the ground. Mulder and
Scully were drawn to it, but before they grew
too transfixed to it, people began to form
out of the light.

"I think we made it to the correct time
zone, Sir," a strangely colored man said
after hitting a pin on his shirt.
"That's good to know, Mr. Data. Are they
anywhere around you?" a voice that came from
nowhere said.

The strange man looked at Mulder and Scully.
"I think we found them, Sir. Enterprise, standby."

Scully was the first to say something. "Who are
you?"
"That is an interesting question. We are from
the 24th century. I am Lt. Cmdr. Data and
these are my shipmates," the man said
indicating to the people behind him.

"Ummm.....Shipmates?" Mulder asked cautiously.
"Yes," 'Data' said pointing to the little
light moving across the sky. "That is our
ship, the Enterprise."
"You have to be kidding," Scully said in
great disbelief.

One of so-called Data's shipmates;a woman
with long brown hair stepped forward and
said, "I know how you feel about all this
but I assure you, it is true."

"How could you possibly know how I feel?"
Scully asked, sarcasm in her voice.
"She's not exactly human. I, mean, she's
part human and part Betaziod. They're a
telepathic species," a red-haired woman said.
She appeared to be a human, but Mulder and
Scully weren't so sure.
"Okay...I don't suppose you have any proof
of this....." Scully started but stopped
when she realized that she didn't know this
woman's name.
"Beverly. Beverly Crusher. I'm the ship's doctor."
"I'm the ship's counselor," the brown-haired
woman said. "My name is Deanna Troi."
"And I'm Geordi LaForge; the ship's chief
engineer," the African American with the
oddly blue eyes said.

"I--Mulder--please tell me you don't believe
this," Scully demanded.
"Can you...umm...prove these...acussations?"
Mulder asked the strange people.
"Of course we can. Why would we travel back
centuries in time and not have proof?!" Data
said starting to loose his temper.
"Data, remember what we talked about? About
controlling these outbursts?" Deanna asked him.
"Yes. Sorry Counselor. I will try to control
them better."

Mulder looked at Scully with a weird look on his
face thinking that this man, or whatever he was,
was completely unstable. Data turned back to
them. "Sorry for my outburst. Yes, we have proof.
Data to the Enterprise. Five to beam out."

"What do you mean 'beam out'? Mulder asked
when they were engulfed in blue. When the
blue dissappated, they were no longer in the
forest, but in a room of sorts. There were
two men standing in front of the platform
they were on and there was a man at a control
panel that was at the back of the room. One
of the men in front of them was fairly
older than the rest and had male pattern baldness.
The other man was several years younger than
the man next to him. He had a beard and dark
brown hair. The man in the back startled
Mulder and Scully the most. He looked a lot
like a human, but his face was emotionless
and he had pointed ears.

"Welcome to the Enterprise. I am Captain
Jean-Luc Picard," the older man said.
"Scully, are we seeing things?" Mulder
asked very confused.
"I have no idea."

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"I'm sure that you have many questions to ask
us," the man who called himself Captain Picard
said. "I'm putting my first officer, Commander
Wil Riker at your service," he said as he
introduced 'Riker'. 'Picard' turned to
'Riker', "Number One, I'll be on the bridge.
Mr. Data you're with me."
"Aye, Sir."

When the captain and Data left, Commander
Riker said, " If you'll follow me, we'll go
somewhere where we can talk." Mulder and
Scully, seeming to have no other choice,
followed the man. They went through a door
that magically opened when they stepped in
front of it and into a very narrow corridor.
In the corridor were several people dressed
in pretty much the same fashion. Their clothing
was either blue, red, or a greenish-yellowish color.

Riker stopped at a door and pointed to little
bity words that were written on the door.
"The room identificaion jis on every door.
It'll tell you where you are if you happen
to get lost. Or you can ask the computer."
The door opened. "After you."

Mulder went in first, followed by Scully
who was followed by Riker. Once inside,
Riker led them to a little table in the
far corner. As they sat down, Riker asked,
"What questions do I have the honor of
answering?"

Mulder, being the one who believed in
that sort of thing, had several questions.
"I know you're human, right?" Riker nodded.
"OK, of the people we met, whose human, whose not?"

"Well, the humans are Captain Picard, Geordi
LaForge, Dr. Beverly Crusher, and myself of
course. Deanna Troi is half human and half
Betazoid; she's telepathic. Lt. Cmdr. Data
is an android; he has emotions in case you're
wondering. But of course, he still wants to
be human. And Ensign Zakal, he was the one
at the back of the room where we met you
with the pointed ears, is a Vulcan."

"...Sure, fine, whatever," said a very
bored and skeptic Scully.

Mulder, being completly oblivious to what
Scully was saying, kept raiding Riker
with questions. That is until Riker was
called away to the bridge and Ensign Zakal
was assigned to give them quarters.

After Zakal gave them their quarters, he
mentioned something about them having a
meeting in the Observation Lounge at 0900
hours. Mulder looked around his quarters
and finding nothing that grabbed his
attention, went to Scully's quarters.

"Hey, Mulder, do you know what this is?"
Scully asked standing in front of a weird
looking device that was implanted into the wall.

"I think that Worf guy said it was a
replicator," Mulder responded.

"Okay, whatever."

"It's supposed to make food. The 'voice'
called him out before he had the chance
to tell me exactly how," he said with humor
in his voice.

Scully walked over to the sofa and looked
out the window at the stars.
"This *has* to be a dream. Soon I'll wake
up in my own bed.

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Mulder and Scully were awoken then led to
the little room off the side of the brigde
 called the observation lounge.

"Agents Mulder, Scully, thank you for
joining us," the Capt. said. He pointed
to a couple of vacant seats. "Please have
a seat."

Mulder and Scully looked at each other
with a weird look on they're faces,
then took a seat.

Deanna felt an overwelming feeling go
through her. It seemed to be that of a great
love and it was emminating from Agents Mulder
and Scully. Instead of speaking up right
then and there; that would be very rude;
Deanna decided to catch Scully after the briefing.

"Okay, the two of you may be wondering
what's going on--" Picard started to say.

"No, man. We were perfectly happy about
getting kidnapped," Mulder said anger rising
in his voice.

"We didn't kidnap you," the Capt. protested.

"Technically, we did, Sir," Data said. "We
took them against their will. It is perfectly
understandable why Agent Mulder is mad. I would
be mad if I was in the same situation...Sir"

"Okay, so maybe we did. But we have a perfectly
good reason for doing so. Mr Data, " the
Capt. replied.

Data started to explain every thing. About how
someone went back in time and sided with the
evil Consortium, how this person, whoever it
was, was planning to kill them for the Consortium.
While Data explained this, Mulder and Scully sat
in shock. Why did They always do this to
them. They just wouldn't stop torturing them.

"Let's dicuss this later," Deanna said looking
at the Captain, who understood why she said that.

"OK. Fine. Mr. Data, Counselor, I want you to
tell them everything later tonight," The Captain
said.

"Aye, Sir," both Data and Deanna said.

"Dismissed."

Scully managed to leave without being caught
by Mulder. She didn't want to face him. At
least not now. He would go on about how They always
did this and how he was going to get them
someday. She couldn't deal with that right
now. "Agent Scully?" Deanna's voice called.

"Yes?" Scully responded.

"Could we talk in private?"

"Certainly."

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Deanna led Scully to her office. Again, the
doors opened automatically.
"Do you love him?" Deanna said when the doors
closed.

"Excuse me?" Scully asked taken aback by
the question.

"Agent Mulder. Do you love him?" Deanna
tried again.

"Yes."

"Ok, Agent Mulder. Exactly how long have
you known this?" Riker asked.

"Ever since our first case 5 years ago."

"You should have seen him in those glasses,"
Scully laughed in spite of herself. "But it
can't happen."

"Why?" Deanna asked.

"It's against FBI policies," Scully said
with a sad look on her face.

"But it's not like I ever followed policies,"
Mulder added with a chuckle.

"But it's not like Mulder's ever followed
policies," Scully said with  a chuckle.

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"So you can recreate our office?" Mulder
was asking as he and Scully were following
Deanna and Data to what they called a 'holodeck'.

"Yes. All I need you two to do is to tell
me what it looks like," Data said.

Mulder began telling Data what it looked
like and Scully piped up,"Don't forget messy."

Mulder gave her a look. "What? I'm just
stating the facts," Scully responded. Deanna
stifled a laugh. These two practically acted like
an old married couple.

"Okay. Messy," Data said. Mulder then
finished describing their office and they
stepped inside. It looked exactly like their
real office. It was amazing that it was just
a hologram.

"This is not real?" Mulder asked in shock,
amazed by the details.

"No. Television was eliminated a long time
ago and was replaced with the holodeck," Deanna
explained.

"Ah."

Mulder looked around his office and sat
down in the desk chair. "Hard to believe
this was burned down a few months ago, huh?"
he asked no one in particular.

Scully was about to respond when the room
started to shake. "Ummm, Mr. Data, what is that?"

"We are being attack," he responded grimly.

"By what?" Mulder asked.

"All hands to battle stations. Repeat. This
is the Captain, all hands to battle stations!" rang
through the air. Data motioned for Mulder and Scully
to follow him.

When Data, Mulder, Scully, and Deanna arrived
on the bridge, one man yelled, "Captain, we
are now being hailed."

"On screen!" Picard yelled.

Instead of showing a ship firing at them, the
screen showed a man who looked exactly like Data.

"Ahh. Brother!" the man called when he saw Data.

"Lore, you son-----" Data started to say but was cut
off by the man he called Lore.

"Data, dear brother, since when did you have
emotions?"

"Enough! When and how were you reassembled,
Lore," Riker asked.

"The great Admiral Maddox reassembled me. It
was a great joy. Wish you could've been there, Brother."
Lore said with a evil grin on is face.

"I would have seen to it that you would
have never been reassembled. More along the lines
of being *completely* destroyed," Data roared
with anger.

Mulder and Scully stood in the back watching
this mirade flashing before their eyes.

"Ah. I see that you have brought the merchandise.
You, Merchandise, I have a suprise for you. Meet
your long time enemy," Lore said moving out of
the way. A smoking haze filled the room. Through
the smoking haze stepped a man no other than the
so-called 'Cancer Man'.

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Mulder and Scully's mouths dropped open. How in
the world did he meet this Data look-alike?

"Agent Mulder, so we meet again. I suppose you're
wondering how I accomplished this wonderful act?"
'Cancer Man' said through puffs on his Morley
cigarrette.

Mulder stepped out from behind the tactical
position and in front of Scully. "No, actually,
I was thinking on how I was going to kill you?"

"Now, now Mulder. Let's not be hasty."

Picard stepped forward. He didn't want to continue
this meeting hiding behind viewscreens, but rather
face to face. "Why don't we continue this meeting
face to face, Lore."

"Oh, I got a better idea," Lore said then he and
the smoking man disappeared from the screen.

"Thank God, they're gone," Mulder said but
unfortunately, that was a little premature.
Scully started to disappear. Mulder looked over
at her, fear crossing his face. "Scully, no!!"

Data went to the bridge transporter to see if he
could get her back. "Captain, I am attempting to
get a lock on her."

Mulder looked at Data hopefully. <Scully *has*
to come back. Please let her come back.>

"Damn!" Data cursed as he slammed his fist
into the console.

"What?" Picard asked.

"I am unable to get a lock on her, Sir," Data said.

Mulder's face fell. How will they get her back? He
needed to tell her how he felt before it was too
late. To tell her that he loved her. But now it
may be too late. <No, Mulder. Don't let yourself
think that!>

"Sir," Data said. "His ship's shields are
down we can transport over. If I know my brother,
he probably will not notice a thing."

"OK. Prepare your away team Data. Bring her
back home," Picard said.

"Dr. Crusher meet me and Ensign Zakal in
transporter room three."

"Let me go," Mulder begged. "Please let me come."

Data nodded. He, Ensign Zakal and Mulder went to
meet Dr. Crusher in the transporter room.

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"Set your phasers on stun," Data told Mulder(who
was unfamiliar with phasers), Dr. Crusher, and
Ensign Zakal. When everybody finished setting their
phasers, Data told the chief to energize.

Once on Lore's ship, they whipped out their
phasers in case of impending danger. When there
appeared to be no danger right now, Data led
everybody down the corridor of the dark and gloomy
ship. It perfectly matched Lore and the 'Cancer Man's'
life of living in the dark.

"What are those?" Mulder asked Data when he saw
several humanoid forms. The forms looked like
they were part machanical and part biological.

"They are Borg. Fire on my mark," Data ordered. "Now!"

Phaser blasts filled the room. Bodies fell. When the
smoke disappeared, Ensign Zakal was on the ground.
Dr. Crusher ran to him to check him out. After scanning
him, she looked up with a look of despair on her face
and shook her head. He was dead.

They moved on, not risking contacting the Enterprise.
The next room they entered appeared to be the bridge
of the ship. And in the corner was Lore and 'Cancer
Man.' In front of them was Scully being held by two
Borg. Mulder started to move towards Scully but was
stopped by Data. "Let me get Lore and the man's attention.
You and Dr. Crusher get her out of here," Data whispered to
Mulder and Dr. Crusher. They nodded.

Data moved behind Lore and 'Cancer Man' and
pocketed his phaser. "Well, well, well. You are
pretty stupid Lore. Leaving your shields down
where we can beam over or destroy you.
Well, you always were stupid."

Lore turned around and ran at Data. Data whipped
out his phaser but Lore tore it out of his hand. While
the two brothers fought, Mulder snuck up behind 'Cancer
Man' and slugged him on the back of the head with
his phaser. The man fell hard on the ground.

Lore's Borg followers now let go of Scully to run
and protect The One. "Agent Mulder!" Dr. Crusher
yelled. "Fire at them!"

Mulder turned and fired at the first Borg;
Dr. Crusher fired at the second. After the
Borg fell, Mulder ran to Scully who was on
the ground semiconscious. "Mulder?" she called
out. "I'm here," he said reassuringly. Mulder
looked at Dr. Crusher. "Will she be okay?"

"Yeah. The scan shows no life threatening injuries.
She's just a little out of it," she responded with
a smile.

But the reunion was cut short when someone was
thrown in front of them. "Dr. Crusher, Mr. Mulder
do you think you could help me here?" Data asked
obviously having a hard time beating his brother.

"Oh, sure," Dr. Crusher said as she went to Lore
who was on the floor apparently having a difficult
time getting up. Once at Lore, Crusher flipped him
over and flipped the little switch on his back which
deactivated him.

"Now that that is taken care of, we can get the
hell out of here," Data said. "Data to the
Enterprise, four to beam up."

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Scully was laying on a bio bed in sickbay, sedated.
Once seeing that Scully was safe and sound, Mulder
went with Data to the bridge. Data had said that he
had something he needed to do once and for all.

"What are you going to do?" Mulder asked Data in
the turbolift. "I should destroy that ship and
Lore along with it," Data responded.

"Why, he's your brother."

"True. But Lore is nothing like our father
wanted him to be. Father had to dismantle him
because he turned on him. He should have stayed
that way. But I was too inexperienced in life
and curious about where I came from to know better,
so I reassembled him when we found him," Data replied
with guilt.

"Well, why don't you kill that smoking man
along with Lore," Mulder said.

"No problem."

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Picard, Deanna, and Riker sat in their seats
looking at the ship that appeared on the
viewscreen, wondering what had happened out
there since Data hadn't been to the bridge to
report to them.

"I hope they got Miss Scully back okay," Riker said.

"I hope so too, Number One," Picard said.

The turbolift doors opened and all three of them
looked hopefully at the door. Sure enough, Data
stepped out of them followed by Mulder.

"Did you get her back?" Deanna asked.

"Yeah. She's with Dr. Crusher right now,"
Mulder said.

"Ensign Zakal did not make it, Sir. He was
attacked by Lore's Borg followers," Data added.

Picard and Riker hung their heads. Why did they
always seem to lose the good officers to the Borg?

"Sir," Data piped up after a moment. "Permission
to fire at that ship."

"Why, Data?" Riker asked.

"I just need to do something that I should
have done a long time ago."

"Permission granted. Let's get rid of that
ship," Picard answered.

"Torpedos away." There was a loud blast.
"Direct hit. They are gone, Sir. Dead."

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Scully sat on the couch looking out at the stars.
They were so beautiful up in the sky. And there
were so many of them.

*BEEP!*

"Come in," Scully said tearing her vision from
the stars to fix it on the door. The door opened
to reveal Mulder. "Hi."

"Hi," Mulder said as he walked towards her.
"How you doing?"

"Oh, I'm fine," Scully said honestly.

"Are you sure?" Mulder said to make sure.

"I said I was fine."

Mulder nodded and sat down next to her. He
looked into her eyes. They were a beautiful
shade of blue. Like an ocean. You could get
so lost in them. And he was doing just that.

Mulder cupped Scully's face in his hands and
looked deeper in her eyes. "Mulder-"

"Shhh," Mulder said his finger on her lips.
"I've been wanting to say this for a very
long time. I love you."

"I love you, too," Scully said with a smile. Mulder
moved in and their lips touched. The kiss was gentle
but the love was there as it always was.

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"Agent Mulder, agent Scully?" Data's voice rang
through the room. "Yeah," Mulder said. "We are
ready for you to go back to Earth. Meet Captain
Picard and Cmdr. Riker in transporter room
3. Data out."

Mulder looked at Scully. "Let's go back home."

"Okay."

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"I trust that you had an interesting time here?"
Picard asked Mulder and Scully when they entered
the transporter room.

"You could say that, yeah," Mulder said holding
Scully hand when they stepped on the pad.

"Well, I'm sure that you'll see more interesting
things in the future," Riker said with a grin. They
had no idea what was to come.

"Energize," Picard said.

And Mulder and Scully disappeared back to earth.

"Mr. Data," Picard said. "Take us back to the 24th
century.

"Aye, Sir. With pleasure."


el fin


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