Nicole fell on the floor and crawled over to her old Vice Admiral uniform. She tapped the combadge, "Somebody help me!"
Her immense size made her virtually unable to move. Robert E. Leo came onto the COMM, "Please state the nature of your emergency."
"This is Nicole Branson. I have a serious medical emergency. Please help me. Please help me.", she moaned.
Dr. Skylight Greene and Dr. Ro Aeron beamed directly to the Little Lakaria house to find Nicole Branson as big as a house laying on the floor in intense pain. Skye and Aeron transported the Chancellor to the McCoy Institute.
"What is happening to her?", Skye looked at Aeron.
"I don't know. Get a scan.", Aeron demanded.
"We need some help in here.", Skye hollered.
The pair were joined by Dr. Casey Larle and Dr. Giancarla Viceroy. Skye looked at Aeron, "We will have to knock her out. The pain on her intense organs is becoming too severe. She could die from the pain alone."
Giancarla looked at the scans, "It appears that a full grown humanoid is forming in her uterus. We need detailed DNA scans. What is happening?"
The ladies were getting frustrated. Nicole was dying right before their eyes. The comm link suddenly buzzed.
"Who the hell is it?", Skye shouted.
"Commodore Elizabeth Coren. Has my daughter arrived?", Elizabeth haunted the McCoy staff.
"Nicole Branson is no longer your daughter.", Skye snapped back at the Federation Advisor.
"Not Nicole, Magenta.", Elizabeth let the plot slip.
Giancarla looked at the wall mounted comm, "Scan for the DNA."
"There is no way she can survive the birth of a full size Betazoid.", Giancarla complained.
"Dammit, I will take any ideas.", Skye looked the room.
Delilah walked into amongst all the chaos. She had been working only as an intern at the hospital.
"Dr. Blue, we are in a serious trauma situation. Please stand back.", Skye looked at the Andorian.
Delilah looked over the situation and at Nicole's failing vital signs. She looked at Skye, "There would be more room if you removed at least one of the lower extremities. This would allow the passage of enlarged embryo."
"Cut her leg off, are you crazy?", Skye looked Delilah.
"Not only cut it off, totally expose the inner lining of limb to create a large gaping opening.", Delilah looked at Skye.
Giancarla looked at the pair, "Nicole is dying! We have to make a decision."
Casey looked at Skye, "Take the god damn leg. Get that thing out."
"Or just let her explode and save Magenta!", Elizabeth shouted through the wall comm.
"Shut that f**king thing off!", Skye shouted.
Casey looked at Skye, "We have to do it."
"What if we can't stop the bleeding. This is 2390. Amputation is meatball surgery. It is barbaric!", Skye snapped.
"I don't care. Take the freakin' leg. Nicole is gonna die!", Casey shouted.
Skye started to tear up as she took out a primitive surgical tour and cut off Nicole's right leg. The blood from the femoral artery spewed throughout the room. The expulsion of blood covered everyone in the room.
Delilah looked at Skye, "Now spit the exposed limb up to her vaginal opening. Create a gaping opening."
Skye was shaking badly. Delilah took the scapel and cut the leg creating a large exposure of gaping red flesh. There was blood everywhere. Suddenly the abnormally huge birth sack fell to the floor bursting opening revealing a naked Magenta Coren-Branson.
Delilah turned to Giancarla, "Care for the birthed one."
Giancarla took Magenta and carried her to another trauma room. She began to aspirate the Betazoid. The coughing was loud enough for everyone to hear.
Delilah and Skye began to feverishly try to put Nicole back together again. Elizabeth and Eugenio, along with Lavender beamed to the hospital. They walked by the blood soaked trauma room. Nicole had lost so much blood. It looked like a war room.
Elizabeth burst in on Magenta and Giancarla, "Sweetie, it's mom."
Magenta looked at Elizabeth and coughed. There was so much amneotic fluid. The pink oily substance spewed all over the place as Magenta tried to speak.
Elizabeth looked at Lavender, "Did the experiment work? Does she know us?"
Lavender looked at her mom, "It will work. It would not have taken if Nicole did not have any Magenta DNA she would not have bloated so quickly."
"Magic, its Lassie. Can you hear me?", Lavender looked at her sister.
Magenta puked some more and then started crying. The pain of vomiting, particularly dry heaving can be excruciating. Magenta was literally bawling like a baby; sobbing. Elizabeth hugged her even though she was covered in pink mucous. Magenta looked at her mother and at Lavender, "Where is Nicole?"
Elizabeth was furious, "Your sister risked her career and her life to bring you back and you ask about that infernal Branson."
Elizabeth stepped away from Magenta, "You were better off dead!"
Magenta fell back on the bed and vomited more pink liquid. She tried to speak screaming out, "Nicole!"
Elizabeth and Lavender left the room. Lavender looked at her mother, "She will come to her senses. She will realize it was us, not Nicole who saved her. She will come home, mother."
Elizabeth suffered the pain of their relationship before. She looked back at the war room that was Nicole's trauma room. The blood was still everywhere. Delilah and Skye were still working frantically on Nicole.
Elizabeth looked in the window, "Won't you die already!"
Elizabeth and Lavender were hoping for a miracle. There was a miracle here today. Magenta is reborn but not in the way that they hoped. She was reborn exactly as she was.
Delilah and Skye took Nicole upstairs. Skye looked at Giancarla, "Sweetie, its just a matter of waiting now. She has to have the will to survive it on her own."
Magenta actually recovered quicker than Nicole. She was soon alert and being shown the horrid images of her decapitation in Kalama. Magenta even vomited as she remembered the incident as it replayed before her very eyes. There are very few people who have the luxury of viewing their own death. Magenta was terrified and feeling alone.
Magenta was in the room sobbing when Taryn Strausser showed up with Brenna. Magenta burst into tears at the site of her daughter. Brenna started crying. It was a Phoenix Colony miracle at Christmas time.
Skye went upstairs with tears in her own eyes. She looked in on Nicole. She heard her moaning. Skye started yelling, "Delilah, help me."
Dr. Blue came upstairs. Delilah and Skye started to help Nicole to get comfortable and to help her to slowly wake up. Dr. Christina Lodge, Nicole's former adoptive parent came up to help her deal with the transition back to being alive.
Over the next 12 hours, Nicole was slowly brought back to life and came to the realization that she had lost her leg. Nicole was told by Skye that she would be given the same regenerative treatments that Colonel Strausser was experiencing. Skye showed Nicole images of Taryn without an arm and now her current position only missing the one leg. Skye promised Nicole that eventually she would have her extremities back.
Nicole looked at Skye, "What happened?"
Skye gave a detailed description of the Lavender Coren DNA experiment and of the bloated very quick incubation. Skye showed Nicole pictures of the blood boltered trauma room. The images were very powerful. The graphic description of blood was horrible. Nicole finally looked at Skye, "I need to try to stand."
Nicole was given some crutches and stood up slowly.
Nicole looked at the floor and took a deep breath. In truth, she really thought she was gonna die. She was very happy to be alive.
Nicole started to move forward. As she started moving, Magenta and Brenna came in. Nicole looked at Magenta and started to cry.
In unison, the girls said, "Hello Mom."
Nicole looked at Magenta. Magenta looked at Nicole, "Well, you gave birth to us both."
"My daughter is my wife??", Nicole looked at skye.
"Apparently so.", Skye started laughing.
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Nicole Branson
Chancellor - Omega Academy
Phoenix Colony
Phoenix Federation
