Apart

[Ophelia]

"My father created the means to create electricity with human electrical patterns and a few minor dna tweaks." Ophelia said. "If there's a god or goddess in this universe, it's fucking us! That's why I've been conditioning and torturing you... to unlock the greatness that's within you, that your petty morals have kept you from doing. Was this the 'Federation' or 'Alliance' way? Hell no. This was pure, unfettered, raw, primal... iljuna shaking psionic potential you just unleashed. The bloody nose... that's nothing. That's just the weakness escaping you." she gently tickled her mind with the dark ajem side of the Iljuna. "I've kept you sedated and blocked and numbed not because I fear you, but because I wanted you to focus, to break those barriers apart as easily as you ripped a planet apart. You're a planet killer Kinsey."

"And that's more than even your counterpart that beat me was capable of... she could destroy ships, maybe a building but a planet... that's a high she could never achieve because... she thought she had... morals. That lives and worlds meant a damn thing." Dominus said and crossed his arms. "You're not K'n'zy... no... that's not even close. You're something... someone else."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“She really did a number on you but at least you finally stop grouping me together with your slaves.” Kinsey said as she looked him over. Reaching out with her mind she crushed the device Ophelia used to block her abilities. “You don’t need that. We have a deal.”

[Ophelia]

"Indeed. If you didn't perform, then well... there would have been 'other' ways to deal with you, but I would prefer if you worked with us on your own free will." Ophelia said as she wrapped a cloak around her shoulders. "The Brethren will have served their purpose soon enough then we will no longer have need of them. I don't know if they have a myth of a destroyer or an apocalypse, but I think their extinction would not upset the Universe too much."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“No, it won’t and I wouldn’t mind being their destroyer.” Kinsey said honestly.

[Ophelia]

"Not that it matters... but you not only saved your homeworld but successfully eradicated theirs." Ophelia said as she touched up her lipstick. "We think that's their original world or at least one of them."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“Good.” Kinsey said coldly as she moved to leave the airlock. She paused next to Dominus and smirked at him. “You may not be interested in a K’n’zy anymore but you’re curious about me. Goddesses aren’t sex toys.”

[Ophelia]

"Oh I have enough outlet for that these days. I finally produced a true heir, not that waste Jackson." Dominus said. "He could have been so much more. Oh well... " he shrugged his shoulders. "Ophelia is going to recreate the universe long past the time I'm gone. I had a feeling you had much much more than you realized within you."

"I realized it, you questioned it." Ophelia said and crossed her arms. "You know why? Because every other Kinsey was treated like a slave... told they were weak. I told you the flesh is weak, the mind is strong. Not that you have a bad body but it's not all you're good for." she put her hand on Kinsey's shoulder. "Together, we'll reshape this Universe into something else... if it likes it or not."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“First a nap and then a shower.” Kinsey said matter of fact. “Then clothes.”

[Ophelia]

Ophelia snapped her fingers and two face masked aides came to her side. "Take her to quarters and get her clothes, a shower and food." she shrugged her shoulder. "Ajem acolytes, they barely touched the surface of using the iljuna. In a few years maybe they can actually use it. If they screw up, end them or punish them. They're like... interns of the Ajem'dasis."

[Jack Ryder]

Meanwhile --

Jack was meditating in his pod, he had just sent Carly back to her timeline. It felt... good to see her again and he forgot how much life she had lived before he even met that version of her. It was hitting him just how much everyone had sacrificed to attempt to save at least SOME of the people on Terra Alpha from that dark future they had come from, with pretty much the end of all things in black holes. All because they failed at Trill and the Imperium never fell. He wondered if perhaps they had not done enough to secure that. Sure the Imperium was basically all but defeated Dominus and his ilk had essentially taken over with the threat of total annihilation and yet... there had to be a way to stop his threat once and for all. And all the other Dominus counterparts in other realities from simply taking over where he left off.

He shook his head and cleared his mind, he hated when he started 'mentally rambling' while trying to focus. He and Carly had been working on a theory that all psionics had the capacity to potentially navigate time and reality, even achieve what Kinsey was capable of...

Then it hit him like a load of bricks, the wave upon wave of what felt like thousands of voices crying out and were silenced... the destruction of a world and... Kinsey?

His eyes shot open and he fell to the ground...

"I was... floating?" Jack mused as he rubbed his arm and shook his head. "Kinsey... my Kinsey?" he kept repeating to himself. "Kinsey..." he went to the console. "Kinsey... why did i feel MY KINSEY... she's dead... or... IS she?"

"What is it now Jack?" Angel said as she rubbed her eyes and didn't bother to pull her sheet up. "I swear if there's someone else in that control room..." she yawned. "You know I need my sleep... sleeping for three you know. What is it?"

"What if Kinsey isn't really dead...?" Jack said as he pulled his jacket off and looked at his bruised arm from the fall. "I sensed... her. And I sensed a planet exploding."

"That's... disturbing. You think it's another K'n'zy?" Angel raised an eyebrow and pulled up the sheet around her. "Are you sure that this isn't just another 'crazy' thing? I mean... you know how you get with Kinsey..."

"You calling me crazy?" Jack said and cocked his head. "Seriously...?" he shook his head. "I'll investigate it... maybe it's nothing, maybe it's something, either way... I just wanted you to know."

"I could order you to stand down." Angel replied.

"And I could tell you to kiss my arse." Jack said and saluted her. "Anything happens... make sure my kids get into the Academy huh?"

"Don't even joke about that Jack." Angel said and sighed. "Need help... call. Seriously. I don't care if it's future you or AI you or whatever... call."

"Yes mom." Jack said and closed the comm.

Walking to the navigational controls, he set a course for where he picked up the mental impressions of death... hoping that it wasn't just him losing his mind.