Author's note: For those of you who are reading this and wondering what the heck Space Cases is
go to: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/9643/sccrew.html If you want more info than what
it has on the characters, email me and I'd be glad to give you more.

Also, I'm using "House at Pooh Corner" as a supplement to this story because I was trying to think
of songs that dealt with the loss of innocence or the growing up of children, and I thought that this
would be a perfect example.

Changes

By Sambrea

"Christopher Robin and I walked along

Under branches lit up by the moon

Posing our questions to owl and Eeyore

As our days disappeared all too soon

But I wandered much farther today than I should

And I can't seem to find my way back to the wood"

Quinn and Wade went on their honeymoon a few days later.

What they were planning on doing was exploring a ways beyond Luna's system in one of the
directions that hadn't been explored.

There weren't any other families going on the trip, as they had requested.

They both knew how to use their vehicle of choice, an RV outfitted with warp capability and a
powerful communications system.

A few days later they came upon a large nebula (they found out what it was after contacting Luna).

They stayed nearby for a couple of hours, collecting data for the databanks on Luna.

++++++++++

In another dimension, the Christa moved closer to an exact duplicate of the nebula Quinn and Wade
were seeing.

Mrs. Davenport had instructed Harlan to take them as close as possible for an up-close study of it.

Everyone groaned. Another wonderful science lesson. Nobody liked any of her lessons except
maybe Rosie, who often knew all the answers.

This time was no different from those previous lessons. Rosie was happily and enthusiastically
answering the questions and the rest of the crew looking absolutely bored.

Catalina, a human look alike except for her rainbow colored hair, looked down at her panel in the
middle of the lesson and saw something she didn't like. "Co... commander! The nebula..."

Commander Goddard turned his head from the interrupted lesson and looked directly at Catalina.
"What is it?"

"It's...it's engulfing us!"

"What?! How can that be?" he asked walking over to her.

"I don't know Commander. What I do know is that it has complete control.  I can't do anything!" she
said, shaking her head.

"Harlan," the Commander said, turning to a young African-American looking man standing at the
controls.

Harlan shook his head. "I can't do anything either sir. We're being sucked in too rapidly."

"Everyone hold onto something. It might be a bumpy ride. Let's hope we come out the other side,"
Commander Goddard said.

Everyone grabbed their console and a minute later the turbulence picked up.

It didn't last more than five minutes, but the damage was massive.

++++++++++

Quinn was looking at the nebula when his console beeped.

Wade came up front and sat down next to him, coffee cup in hand. "What's going on?" she asked.

"There's something coming through the nebula," Quinn said, pushing a few buttons.

"From where?"

"I have no idea. I don't even know how anything can survive that mess."

A moment later, they got a good look at the vessel.

"What the heck is that?" Wade asked.

Quinn was already working hard at his console. "I see four life signs on board, all in the same area."

"I'm going to contact Luna. They need to know what's coming through, and maybe they have some
idea as to what it might be," Wade said, standing up and moving towards the back.

"They said to be careful. Have you tried to contact them?"

"Yeah, but it's as if their all unconscious or something. We should transport them over or go over
there. I'm reading one human, and the rest the computer doesn't recognize."

"Let's go over there then. I'll grab a medkit."

++++++++++

Ten minutes later they materialized on the bridge of the Christa.

The people Quinn had seen on the sensors were strewn all over the room.

"I count seven people Quinn."

"So do I. It seems like not everyone made it," he said, squeezing her hand.

"Does the RV have enough power to tow it back to Luna in case we can't get the engine started?"

"The engines are only slightly damaged. With a few hours of repairs they should be in working
condition," said a voice behind them, causing them to spin around.

Before them was a strange looking creature partially covered with metal.

"Who are you? Or more to the point, what are you?" Wade asked.

"Wade," Quinn murmured warningly out the side of his mouth.

"I am Thelma, a Technological Human EmuLating MAchine."

""It's very nice to meet you, Thelma. Your friends are in pretty bad shape, so let's start helping
them."

"May I ask you a question?"

Quinn nodded.

"Who are you and where do you come from?"

"Fair enough. I'm Quinn and this is my wife Wade. We're from Luna, a world not too far from here,"
Quinn said as he walked toward the nearest person. Wade did the same opposite from him.

They quickly discerned who was alive and who wasn't.

"Quinn, does it look like these people are children to you?"

"That is correct. Almost all of the crewmembers aboard the Christa are children," Thelma said.

"How can that be?"

"I don't know but some of them are hurt really badly. I can't do much for them here. Why don't you
go back to the RV Wade and contact Luna. We need them to bring the Doctor out her as soon as
possible. Or maybe...Thelma, can we use the communication system here?"

"Yes, the communications system is working."

"Your going to have to show me what to do," Wade said.

"I've already been in contact with the computer aboard your transportation and located the
coordinates for your home system. You can communicate with them now."

"Umm, thanks Thelma. Wade to Luna..."

"Uhh..."

Quinn looked around, and found the source of the sound to be a little girl with a red face. He hurried
over as she tried to sit up.

"Relax, you're hurt," he said, trying to lay her back down.

The girl laid back down and when she realized the voice wasn't familiar darted back up and
immediately regretting it. "Who are you?"

Quinn sighed and pushed her gently back down again. "I told you to be careful. I'm Quinn and my
wife Wade's over there. We were taking scientific data of the nebula when your ship came through.
Your the first one to awaken."

"Can you turn on the lights? I can't see anything."

It was then Quinn noticed a sort of faraway look in her eyes that he knew could be attributed only to
blindness.

Quinn cleared his throat in embarrassment. "The lights are on."

The girl was silent for a moment. "Does that mean I'm blind?"

Wade kneeled down next to Quinn. "Honey, what's your name?" she asked.

"Rosie."

"Well, Rosie, it might just be temporary. We don't know what happened to make you blind so we
can't say. Their on their way," she said to Quinn.

"Who are?"

"Friends of ours. Can you tell us what happened?"

"Mrs. Davenport asked us to get as close as we could or dared to teach us a lesson."

"A lesson?"

"She's basically our teacher. Anyway, we got sucked into it. I'm not sure how long we were inside it,
Thelma might be able to tell you that..."

"Exactly ten minutes and 32 seconds."

"Umm, right. Anyways, it was a pretty bad flight. I'm surprised any of us survived."

Actually, not everyone did, Rosie," Quinn said gently after glancing at Wade.

Rosie sighed. "If you can describe them to me, I can tell you what the names are of the people who
survived."

"There were two adults, one female and one male, and a young man with spiraled ears."

"Well, there goes our chance of getting home. The man's Commander Seth Goddard and the
woman's Mrs. Davenport. The young man was Radu. Can you tell what happened to them?"

"Their bodies couldn't take the beating. I'm not sure what happened to Radu though. What about
your other friends?"

"The girl with the rainbow colored hair will be Catalina, the human is Harlan, and the boy with
antennae is Bova."

"There is a small spacecraft approaching at a high speed," Thelma said.

"USS Phoenix to Quinn or Wade."

"Can you patch us through to them?"

"Yes."

"Quinn to Kathryn."

"Go ahead Quinn. What's going on?"

"One of the children is awake now but we still need help. The adults of the crew are dead and now
all that's left are children."

"How many are there?"

"Four children, 2 dead adults and another dead child and an artificial intelligence."

Kathryn glanced over at Chakotay and mouthed "An android?!"

Chakotay just shrugged.

"We'll be over there in a few minutes with the Doctor, Quinn."

"Quinn out."

++++++++++

That basically and effectively ended Quinn and Wade's honeymoon. They took in all four of the
children into their home. Rosie, who found out from the Doctor that her blindness was due to the fact
that she had landed when she fell on a metal panel. The Doctor wasn't sure if she would ever regain
her sight. Harlan lost his right leg to a falling control panel. Catalina got caught under a conduit and
lost the use of her legs, requiring a hoverchair; and Bova lost an arm to another control panel.

Author's note: I realize changing the characters from Space Cases that radically is not necessary, but
it seemed like a good way to add a twist and some variation to the series and not just have 17
people living in one house which to me sounded boring in the first place.

The Doctor was able to fix the broken limb easily, but it took longer for Harlan and Bova to get used
to their prothstetic limbs and for Rosie to get used to the complete darkness.

It was quickly established with information from the Christa and Rosie that the crew was from an
alternate universe.

There was a small service a few days after the remaining crew of the Christa were happily situated
on the New Beginnings Ranch as it had been recently been named.

The Christa disappeared from orbit not long after that. "She's moved on to find a new crew,"
Catalina said. "She saw us to a place where we're accepted for who we are, and has moved on to
find a new group of misfits who need guidance."

They were all sitting on the porch that evening, talking and watching Phoebe and Elizabeth explore
the porch by crawling.

Kathryn glanced at Chakotay when Catalina said this. "What do you mean?"

"Well the Christa is a living organism, surely you knew that."

"Well no actually. That would explain the readings we were getting though.   But what about all the
damage she took?"

"She has the ability to heal herself. We've found that out for ourselves these last few years," Harlan
said.

They continued to talk for a while longer that night before all went to bed.

"So help me if you can I've got to get

Back to the house at Pooh corner by one

You'd be surprised there's so much to be done

Count all the bees in the hive,

Chase all the clouds from the sky

Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh"

Chapter 2

Over the next month things got back to somewhat normalcy. Everyone helped out around the ranch,
even Rosie. Wade found out she was pregnant a couple months after the honeymoon. Rembrandt
proposed to Maggie not long afterwards.

The ceremony was not much more than an exchanging of vows at the request of both Maggie and
Rembrandt, neither of whom wanted to make a big deal out of it.

Erin took her leave a couple weeks after that to go home with a few other women who weren't
feeling comfortable in the futuristic setting.

The professor was sad to see her go but did not attempt to convince her to stay.

Phoebe and Elizabeth continued to grow, learning to both walk and talk around the same time.

Without a true school system on Luna and many children of school age on the Star Dreamer (SD)
side, they started their own.

That prompted the people at Memory to start thinking about the eventual need for the same system.

It did not go unnoticed that two sets of school systems were needed: one at Memory and one near
the ranch.

At that point it was just a preschool but it had the room to expand when it would be needed in a few
years.

When the call came for people willing to be teacher both The Professor and Wade volunteered.

The Professor had never taught children, but he had been reading the recent history of the
Federation and what Voyager had gone through, and was gladly accepted to teach both fundamental
science and history at San Francisco and moved there not long after. He still kept in touch with his
friends on the ranch though.

Wade was also accepted as a teacher at the school near the ranch. Catalina and Rosie volunteered
to be teaching assistants and also were both accepted.

Quinn started a campaign to get a fighting force put together in case the Kromaggs ever invaded.

"I would not wish that life on my worst enemy, for it is no life at all. You all saw the women who
came here that night. They were all in pretty bad shape. That was not a result of sliding, that was a
result of the Kromaggs treatment.

"I do have a brother out there that is looking for a way to beat the Kromaggs. But there is no
guarantee that he'll ever succeed or even that he's still alive.

"It might still happen that one day that a vortex will open and he will arrive with the news that the
Kromaggs exist no longer. Even if that day comes tomorrow we must be ready for the fact that it
might never. If we can put a force on each inhabited continent we should be in good shape. I can
show people how to track vortexes coming in and how many people are arriving. If you want to
preserve your way of life here, now's the time to start planning, not later on when it may be too late."

Not surprisingly, his speech brought a strong reaction from people all over Luna. He had broadcast
it live on Neelix's morning show after all, and there was no telling how many people watched that
every morning.

There was a cry for Quinn himself to lead the forces himself to lead the forces but he declined the
honor noting that: "There are many more people on this planet who have combat experience than I.
Me and my friends can tell you what to expect but we can't lead you."

The badly unused communicators were put back in use after that. Volunteers in the fighting force
wore them whenever they left their home, even if it was to go visit another volunteer. Some even
wore them in their own home to ensure they would get a call to duty much faster.

Almost every adult, both men and women on Luna and many of the former prisoners of the
Kromaggs volunteered, surprising the former Sliders who had never expected such an outpouring of
support. Almost all of the non-volunteers were pregnant or nursing like Wade who didn't want to be
caught on the battlefield at such a time in their lives.

The continent the ranch was on got their own Doctor a couple weeks after the successful campaign.
She was originally on the medical staff of the SD but when asked to become the much needed
doctor on the continent of New York. The continent Memory was on was named Song just because
it was the most liked and the least confusing name suggested. The continent San Francisco was on
was named United.

Kathryn was sending almost daily messages to the Alpha Quadrant with news of her adopted family
and Luna in general.

She was also getting messages from both her mother and Starfleet Command almost daily, despite
the fact that she had officially resigned her commission over six months before.

She found it strange that her mother hadn't mentioned Phoebe for some time and asked her about it,
but never got an answer to that question. Rosie's sight was not getting any better. She wasn't happy
about it, but there was nothing the Doctor could do for her and she was starting to find her way
around the ranch by herself s it was.

"Being blind is like having your eyes closed or covered all the time," Rosie said when a curious
preschooler asked.

All the curiosity in blindness and also in Catalina's paralyzed condition prompted Wade to do a
whole unit in disabilities which included bringing in Harlan and having him take off his prothestic leg.

Harlan had lost the bottom half of his leg, ending at what would have been just above his knee.

When word got out about the unit, teachers all over Luna asked all four of the kids including Bova to
come to speak to classes and schools after a lot of them realized that it would be a good idea to
introduce the kids to diversity of all kinds, not just between species.

For Harlan that meant spending more time on one leg and Bova able to do less. Bova's left arm was
missing just below the shoulder, so he really wasn't able to do much at all.

All four of them took turns doing the speeches so a school or class never knew exactly who they
were getting till pretty much that day.

Wade was about five months pregnant at this time and just barely showing.

Quinn and Wade had already formally adopted the four kids from the Christa.  It became obvious
they needed a third house as it was getting pretty crowded.

The house was built in two months and soon after Maggie and Rembrandt moved into the new
smaller house but still had a few extra bedrooms, in case they got any more unexpected visitors or
for when Rembrandt and Maggie had their own children.

Wade and Catalina started to build a mother/daughter relationship with each other. Catalina
meanwhile continued to build her upper-body strength and was now able to lift herself out of her
chair.

Chakotay got the idea in his head to give each kid from the Christa a horse to both ride and take
care of. Everyone thought that was a great idea even though both Catalina and Rosie would need
help.

Chakotay ordered a specially equipped saddle for Catalina so she wouldn't fall off when riding. It
did take some convincing to get the kids to go along with it though. Harlan and Bova both
complained that they didn't know how to ride while Catalina and Rosie complained that they just
plain couldn't ride.

Chakotay amended this by explaining that part of the concept was to teach them to ride. He also
explained to Catalina that it was possible for her to ride in a modified saddle, and that Rosie could
also ride, but on a lead tied to another horse.

Elizabeth and Phoebe both wanted their own horses, but Tom explained they were a little too young
and promised that they could have their own horses when they were older.

The next day, they all picked out horses. Harlan picked a young bay stallion he named Clark that
Chakotay said he could train himself. Bova picked a feisty young black stallion with white stockings
that he named Christian (Yes, in case anyone picked up on it, I did name Christian after the Christa).
Catalina picked an older tan mare that was more docile than the other two and was probably one of
the best candidates for being taught how to be directed without the use of legs named Maeve; Rosie
with some help picked a white mare named Gabrielle who was docile enough to be led around
instead of just ridden.

Author's note: The horses names all come from other TV series that aren't going to be added to my
Luna series, but that I really enjoy. Try to name the series and if you can't, feel free to email me at
smooth@ticon.net

It only took about a month to train all of the horses with the help of Chakotay and Tom.

++++++++++

Winnie the Pooh doesn't know what to do

Got a honey jar stuck on his nose

So he came to me asking help and advice

And from here no one knows where he goes

So I sent him to ask of the owl if he's there

How to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear

So help me if you can, I've got to get

Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one

You'd be surprised, there's so much to be done

Count all the bees in the hive

Chase all the clouds from the sky

Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh

Back to the ways of Christopher Robin and Pooh

Back to the ways of Pooh

The End

Author's note: Sorry about the abrupt ending but I couldn't think of anything else. For everyone
who's reading the whole series I'm adding one more crossover (bringing the total up to four series in
all for those interested) and then the climax in maybe one or two parts (haven't gotten that far yet)
and then a couple closing parts that I already have a couple ideas for! Hope you enjoyed it!