Story:Star Trek: Conflict/Mirrored Fates

An ion storm takes the USS Admonitor into the mirror universe.

Chapter One
Edward Shield is due to relinquish command of the USS Admonitor to Lianna Young and resume his old post. He is not all to pleased about it, but his ship needs him. He reports to the transporter to be beamed back aboard the Enterprise-C when an ion storm erupts around them. Shield then returns to the Admonitor's Bridge and sends a transmission to Young that he can't beam back due to the dangers faced by transporting in the middle of an ion storm. Her ranting about his desire to take her place is suddenly cut off. Shield asks Nox to re-open communications with the Enterprise, but he tells him that the Enterprise-C is no longer with them. Just then, another ship, bearing the designation NCC-1701-C, but with ISS Enterprise proceeding it drops out of warp. The captain of the vessel, Lianna Young, hails the Admonitor with an ultimatum: lower shields and prepare to be boarded or prepare to be destroyed.

Chapter Two
Shield instantly recognizes some differences with the Lianna Young before him: firstly, she is wearing a black leather uniform with a bare midriff and very low neckline, her uniform is also bearing the emblem of the sword in Earth, and this Young has a patch over her right eye. She tells him that, though he might be a Terran, she won't hesistate to kill him in order to take what she wants. Shield cuts off the transmission and begins asking his crew for answers: Jenkins says that James T. Kirk once made a cross-over into a mirror universe due to a transporter accident caused by ion storms, and therefore they might be in the same place.

The ultimatum is sent again, and Shield relents. The shields are dropped and Captain Young and her bodyguard board the USS Admonitor. After looking about the ship, she says that this will be just what the Terrans need to turn the tide against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Shield asks what this is, since he knows nothing about the mirror universe. Young first chides him for his "stupidity, a flaw all men share" and then proceedes to tell him about Terran history since the first crossover. Apparently, the Terran Empire fell apart due to Intendant Spock's reforms, allowing the Alliance to overthrow it. Young then goes on to say that there are some Terrans who refuse to be slaves to the Alliance, and therefore have started to rebel against their oppressors.