By Sambrea

Author's note: I've always loved Sliders. One of the ways I get into doing a new series in fan fic is writing a crossover. This is
the third part of my "Luna" series. Enjoy!

Disclaimers: Paramount owns Voyager. Universal owns Sliders.

Two weeks later, Kathryn and Chakotay went for another ride, taking the same route they had the day the Star Dreamer had
crashed.

It was another beautiful day, and they had been riding for about half an hour when the wind picked up.

The horses immediately started acting up.

"What is it with us, riding and things happening?" Chakotay said, trying to get Nightmare calmed down.

"I'm getting down," Kathryn said as she got out of the saddle. Chakotay did the same a moment later.

"Where did that wind come from?" Kathryn asked looking around.

"I don't know. But there's something going on. The horses wouldn't be acting up if there wasn't."

As they were looking around, a portal opened in front of them, spooking the horses even worse. Kathryn lost hold of Sunshine,
but Chakotay was able to hold onto Nightmare.

"Don't worry about her, she'll be able to find her own way home."

A moment later, four people rolled out of it a few feet from where Kathryn and Chakotay were standing.

Kathryn and Chakotay looked at each other, and by silent agreement said nothing.

"Ugh, hard dirt. Why can't we land on something soft for a change Quinn?"

The person Kathryn assumed was named Quinn, a tall blondish-brown haired man with blue eyes said: "Like we have a choice
where or how we land.  Colin, how much time do we have?"

The person named Colin took a device out of his pocket, looked at it and blinked in surprise. "We have a...year."

"A year?! That can't be right. we've never had that much time before."

"Guys...we have company," a black man said, looking straight at Kathryn and Chakotay.

"Oh wonderful," Quinn said, helping the one girl in the group up, and looking at the pair.

"Something doesn't look right with them Kathryn. Their accent is rather strange too. " Chakotay whispered.

Kathryn nodded. "I noticed that too."

"Quinn they look normal enough. Except for that horse of course."

Quinn stepped forward. "I'm Quinn Mallory, and these are my friends Maggie, Rembrandt, and my brother Colin. May I ask
where we are?"

Kathryn was silent for a moment, a little surprised at his forwardness.  "My name is Kathryn and this is my husband, Chakotay.
Where do you think you are?"

Quinn blinked. "I'd assume we're on Earth."

Kathryn looked at Chakotay. "Should I tell them?"

Chakotay just shrugged. "It's up to you. If we don't and we run into Be'lanna..."

Kathryn nodded. "Good point, but we don't know how they got here." She turned back to Quinn. "How did you get here?"

Quinn started to say something, but Maggie stopped him. "Quinn, we don't know anything about them. If we tell them about you
know what, we could get in trouble."

"Kathryn," Chakotay whispered. "I just realized why they don't look right. Remember 3 years ago when we were in San
Francisco? The clothes were like that."

"Your right, Chakotay. We have a big problem. What year is it?" she asked Quinn.

Quinn hesitated before answering. "1999. Why?" he asked cautiously.

"Because we have a big problem. Chakotay why don't you go get some more horses. Se if you can't find Sunshine well your at
it. I'll start walking with them back. Tell Tom and Be'lanna that we've got visitors again and warn Be'lanna about them. I'll try to
get them to tell me how they got here."

Chakotay nodded, mounted Nightmare quickly, and left, galloping down the trail.

"Warn her about what?" Colin asked after Chakotay left.

"You'll understand when you meet her. Let's get going. It will take us longer to get home on foot than it took me and Chakotay
to get here on horseback," Kathryn said, motioning to the way Chakotay had left. They started moving back that way.

"Home?" Quinn asked.

"Well, you guys aren't from around here, that's for sure, and at the very least you look like you could use a good home cooked
meal, so you might as well come home with us. You certainly can't stay out here," Kathryn said with a grin. "There's not much
out here in the way of shelter or people of any sorts. So, anyways, how did you get here?"

"We're Sliders."

"Excuse me?"

"We slide from world to world, or Earth to Earth, if you want to think of it that way. We use this device to do exactly that," he
said, holding it out for her to look at.

"You mentioned a year. What does that have to do with it?"

"We never know how long we're going to be on any given planet. If we don't hit the countdown on time, we're stuck on a
world. Sometimes it's less than a minute, sometimes it's a few hours, days, weeks, but it's never been a year."

"How long have you been sliding?"

"About 5 years. We're actually from 3 different worlds. Me and Rembrandt are all that is left from the original team. Our other
two original members either died, or is missing, and we're searching for her. Maggie is from a war-torn world whose inhabitants
were going to slide out. She was left behind since someone had to stay behind to close the slide. We took her with us when we
left that world. Colin is my long-lost brother, who I ran into on one of the worlds we passed through. Apparently our parents
were also Sliders. They were running from the Kromaggs when they left us behind. We've run into the Kromaggs a few times
too. They got Remmy and Wade, who was on our original team, but we got Remmy back. We haven't been able to find Wade,
unfortunately."

"I'm sorry to hear that. I guess I should start telling you where you are.

"Unfortunately for you, you're not on Earth. My guess is that somehow you went through a timewarp/wormhole anomaly of
some sort. The year is actually 2319, and you're about 5 years away from Earth," she paused a moment to let that sink in. "We
are able to send and receive messages from Earth fortunately, so I'm sure you can have the chance to find relatives.

"Since you spoke of Kromaggs you might know that 'aliens' do exist, at least in this dimension. We have quite a few on Luna:
Vulcans, Klingons, a Talaxian, a former Borg, and humans among others. Many of them are at least partially human-like. I've
never heard of the Kromaggs, so my guess is they don't exist here."

"How do you know of Earth if we're so far from it?"

"None of us are originally from Luna. I'm from Indiana originally.  Chakotay's home planet isn't Earth, but he has ties to it, which
I'm sure he'd be happy to explain to you."

"How did you get out here?"

Kathryn grinned. "That would take quite a while to explain. When we have a few hours I'll tell you the long version. Let's just
say we were explorers and we found out that there were some beings that have some amazing powers."

At that moment, Chakotay, Tom and five horses, including Sunshine came pounding up.

"Can any of you ride?" Kathryn asked. Everyone shook their heads.

"That's all right. I picked out easy going horses. They shouldn't have any problems," Tom said, butting in.

"This is Tom everyone. Tom, this is Quinn, Colin, Maggie and Rembrandt."

"Have you learned how they got here?" Chakotay asked as they mounted the horses.

"Yeah. It's a net way to travel, too. But I'll let Quinn explain it."

By the time Quinn had finished explaining what he had told Kathryn they had reached the edge of the farm.

"You might find that we have a rather unusual setup here on Luna. Our farm is rather low-tech except for some of our
equipment we use or have for emergencies."

"Like what?" Maggie asked, speaking finally.

"Well, one of them will come into view when we reach the house which is our shuttlecraft," Tom said.

"Woah," Rembrandt said in surprise. "You don't use cars?"

"Umm, no. Those were upgraded to... other things later on," Tom said, blinking in surprise.

"Too bad. There were some awesome cars."

"I'm sure if we replicated the parts we could rebuild one."

"Woah, hold on a second Tom. Those cars were extremely pollutant. If you start building cars..."

"I'm sure we can find something other than gasoline to fuel it," Tom said quickly.

"I hope so, because I've got a feeling this is quickly going to turn into something where everyone will want one.

"I think the four of you should stay here for the night at least. We have enough room for all of you, and Memory needs to know
about our new residents."

"Memory?"

"Our town here on Luna. Many of the people who don't want to farm live there, along with Tuvok, who took over the task of
leading the Voyager group."

"Took over? From whom?"

"Me and Chakotay. We were Captain and Commander before coming to Luna."

"Well, you guys are full of surprises," Rembrandt said, laughing slightly.

They reached the house at that point. Kathryn dismounted with Chakotay and the other four as Be'lanna came out on the porch
holding Phoebe and Elizabeth. She handed Phoebe to Kathryn as she stepped off the porch next to the horses.

"Thanks," Kathryn said and turned to the group. "This is Be'lanna, her daughter Elizabeth, and I'm holding my daughter
Phoebe."

Maggie stepped forward. "She's cute. How old is she?"

"Thank you. She's about four months old."

Maggie turned to Be'lanna. "It's nice to meet you. It take it from your head ridges your not human. May I ask what you are?"

Be'lanna smiled. Actually I'm half human. I'm also half Klingon."

"I better go get the horses unsaddled and all that," Chakotay said, taking the reins from everyone and heading toward the barn.

"I'll help you," Tom said following him.

"Be'lanna, this is Quinn, Colin, Maggie and Rembrandt. Their inter-dimensional travelers. Quinn, don't be surprised if she has a
lot of questions for you. She was our Chief Engineer on Voyager. Let's get them settled first though, before you start that,
Be'lanna."

Kathryn had seen her eyes light up at the words 'interdimensional travelers' so she knew there was going to be a lot of
questions.

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A hour later, after the Sliders had taken a shower and replicated new clothes, they were sitting on the front porch eating dinner
and talking.

Kathryn had let the Sliders replicate whatever they wanted for dinner, allowing them to have something more from their time
period.

"What are you going to do with us?" Quinn asked between bites.

"Well, it's really up to you. We can always use more help here on the farm, if any of you are interested. There's always the
choice of starting your own business or farm. It sounded like Rembrandt was interested in building a car for instance. He could
start a car building and maintaining business. We do need something like that in between a horse and a shuttlecraft," Kathryn
said.

"I've always liked horses," Maggie said, smiling. "Maybe I'll stay here."

"We'd be glad to have you, Maggie."

At that point the wind picked up. "Quinn, I don't like this," Maggie said, standing up.

"Neither do I, Maggie. Neither do I."

Two vortexes opened. "Damn. It's Kromagg," Quinn said, jumping off the porch after seeing it was red.

Everyone else followed him off the porch, not sure what else to do.

A moment later, people started pouring out of both, but to everyone's surprise they weren't Kromagg, but female humans.

It quickly became apparent why there were two vortexes. When they closed finally, there were about 50 women laying about.

"Damn," Rembrandt said. "Where did they come from?"

Kathryn realized immediately there was something wrong. Almost no one was standing up. "Chakotay, call Memory. Tell them
we need help here now.  Also call New York (what the Star Dreamer people had named their town).  We're going to need
their help too. Call some of our neighbors while your at it. They'll be able to get here faster than anyone else will be able to.
Tom, run into the house and grab all the medical supplies we have including the ones on the shuttlecraft."

"Kathryn... there's only one place all of them could have come from... a reproduction center," Quinn said quietly as he looked
around.

"Damn," Maggie said. "I hate to admit it but your right, Quinn."

"A what?" Be'lanna yelped, surprised.

"I'll explain later. We need to help them first though."

"Is it possible Wade's in the group?" Maggie asked.

"It's impossible to know Maggie," Quinn said as he moved to the closest woman.

A moment later, Tom came running back out of the house with the medical devices. He handed one to Kathryn, who
immediately opened the kit and took out a tricorder.

Chakotay came out a minute later. "Everyone I could get a hold of is on their way. Out closest neighbors should get here in a
few minutes. I also told anyone to bring any medical supplies they had." He picked up a medical tricorder and moved around
the group to start and the back, yelling to Colin to pick up a pack and join him.

Within a few minutes, he had taught Colin how to use it. He called Maggie over, but she was trying to get some of the women
who were standing around to sit down on the porch.

She acknowledged his request with a wave, but didn't leave her self-appointed task.

Chakotay looked around and saw everyone was busy. Quinn had apparently run inside and had replicated his own equipment: a
pad of paper and a pen. As Chakotay watched, Quinn took a flask of water from his side, and warning the recipient to take it
easy, gave it to her. Then after asking her a couple of questions tore off the piece of paper and handed it to her.

Chakotay turned as he heard hoofbeats come up a trail.

The hoofbeats stopped as the riders saw the task before them.

"Where did all these women come from?" a former ensign asked, getting off her horse.

"I don't have time to explain, but you can see why we need help. We need a couple people who can look after any horses that
come in. Why don't you take care of that. Everything you'll need is in the barn."

"Who are the people already helping you? I don't recognize them."

"Meet Maggie, Quinn, Colin, and Rembrandt. They came in the same way as this group earlier today. They might have a tie to
this group, though if she's with them, it'll take a while to find her."

"We'll get started with the horses. Good luck with them, it looks like you'll need it."

Somewhere in the middle of the crowd a woman smiled slightly and closed her eyes, knowing it would be a while before she
was found.

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Chakotay spent the next hour and a half directing volunteers.

Just as he thought he would fall asleep on his feet he was tapped on the shoulder by Tuvok. "Go get some sleep Chakotay.
Kathryn, Be'lanna, and Tom, plus your four friends already heading to bed. We can take it from here."

"Thank you, Tuvok. If you find a woman named Wade, wake us up immediately, even if its ten minutes from now."

"I know. Kathryn asked me the same thing. I've already told the information takers. You go get some rest now."

Chakotay nodded and headed to the house.

He walked onto the porch, and seeing Quinn and Rembrandt sitting there on the side opposite the one where the walking were,
made a detour.

Quinn looked over from his watching as Chakotay sat down across from them.

"How are you guys doing?"

"Tired," Quinn said, and Rembrandt nodded. "But I know I'm not going to get any sleep right now. I can understand why Colin
can sleep, he never knew her; Maggie didn't know her nearly as long as we did, but I can't figure out how she can sleep."

"I can't and neither can Colin," Maggie said, walking out onto the porch with Colin at her side.

"There's too much excitement in the air to sleep, even for me."

"Well, as much as I'd love to sit around and wait I need my sleep. I don't doubt I'll fall asleep as soon as my head hits the
pillow. Good night everyone."

The sliders echoed him, and he turned to the door to go inside when a commotion came from the direction of the crowd.

Two people ran up to the railing, a moment later.

Quinn and Rembrandt were already standing up.

"We found her!" the woman said, smiling.

Quinn immediately jumped the railing, with Rembrandt and Maggie right behind him. Chakotay and Colin took the easy way off
the porch: the stairs, but were right behind them as they went streaming across the field at a dead run.

Chakotay made his way through the crowd as quickly as he could so as not to miss any of the reunion.

"Quinn!" Wade said on the sight of him running through the crowd. She held her arms out to him and he ran into them.

"We never gave up hope we would find you Wade, not once," he said crying.

Chakotay felt a hand on his shoulder, and looked over to see Kathryn join him.

He slipped his hand into hers as they watched the reunion continue.

Rembrandt and Maggie joined the hug a moment later, putting all four in tears and a few watching, including Kathryn and
Chakotay.

Quinn looked up, searching the crowd. He found what he was looking for a moment later. "Colin, come here."

Colin came over, hesitating as he did.

"Wade, meet my brother Colin, the newest member of our group."

Wade looked at him in surprise. "You never told me you had a brother."

"I never knew until last year."

Chakotay mover over to them and kneeled next to the group. "Why don't we move Wade onto the porch, Quinn. You guys can
get away from the crowd and talk more privately. Plus that will give everyone else a chance to help the rest of this large group."

"Sure, Chakotay. I'd like to mover her myself, though."

Chakotay nodded, and stood up with Quinn as he picked up Wade.

"Quinn this is nice and all, but I think I can walk."

Quinn stopped walking. "You want to try?"

Wade nodded and he set her down. After a moment of standing still to get her balance, she tried to take a step, but almost fell
on her face, only being saved by Quinn, who was standing right behind her.

"Okay. That's enough of that," Quinn said, picking her back up and carrying her the rest of the way to the porch.

Even after sitting down, he didn't let go of her, sitting with her on his lap, as if he was afraid that if he let go she would disappear.

Kathryn and Chakotay sat down across from the pair, with Maggie, Colin and Rembrandt sitting on the third.

Quinn still had tears in his eyes, much to the other Sliders surprise.

Only Rembrandt knew how many nights Quinn had not been able to sleep due to his overwhelming grief, since Rembrandt was
a light sleeper. Many a night he had sat up with Quinn long after Maggie and eventually Colin had gone to sleep, helping get
over the loss. For Rembrandt, all those long nights were made worth it just to see them together again.

"You know, you guys are going to have a lot of explaining to do. There are going to be a lot of people who are going to want to
know how you guys got here, along with the 50 women. You are the only ones who know what this is whole thing is about,"
Kathryn said.

"I think we're going to be ready for that, Kathryn. If someone wants to use our timer in a year to check out sliding, so be it,"
Quinn said shifting in his seat.

"Wait a second. You want to make this your home permanently?"

Quinn looked at his companions, who all nodded and smiled.

"Kathryn, we've been sliding for a long time. We've been home once, maybe twice, after all we never didn't have enough time to
find out for sure the first time. And the second time..." he shrugged.

"Q-ball, what about the gate?"

"Remmy, we only had 53 seconds to decide. What if it had been home? If we had had more time..."

"Guys, let's stop that. There's no point in thinking about what could have been. We've found a home now. If that had been
home, we would all have been caught by the Kromagg. I spent two years in a reproduction centre. I would not want to see
what they did to me done to you. Remmy, I'm sure your experience with them wasn't a picnic was it." Rembrandt shook his
head.

"Yeah, no kidding. When we did find him, he was in pretty bad shape. We never did find out all they did to him, but I'm not
sure I'd want to. We won't make you relive it though unless you want to someday. Nor you, Wade," Maggie said, smiling sadly,
and patting Rembrandt's shoulder.

Chakotay cleared his throat and shifted in his seat.

"Oh, geez. I'm sorry. Wade, this is Kathryn and Chakotay. They own the property here."

Wade nodded to the two.

"I've got a story to tell you guys. Wade, as much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but in order to tell the story truthfully,
you must know two things. One, I assume you believe we are on Earth... Well, in fact we are not. This is the planet Luna.

"You are rather lucky. Many of us are human here, though we do have 'aliens' living with us. Also this is not the year 1999, but
in fact 2319."

Chakotay stopped talking for a moment to let her digest that information.  "I'm sure you have lots of questions but I'd like to tell
the story first.

All right?" Wade nodded.

"Actually this is for all of you. Kathryn's already heard it as well as a few people."

"I'm sure you guys have noticed my tattoo..." and he launched into a story about what his beliefs were, about his tribe, the
Cardassians, the Neutral Zone, what happened to his people, the Maquis and finally Voyager.

Author's note: I originally was going to put it in for all those Slider fans who might be reading this, but had too much trouble
trying to work through it. Sorry.

"What are animal guides?" Wade asked.  "They're just what they're name implies: their there to guide you along the path of life.
Every single person has at least one. It's just a matter of knowing how to contact it. Be'lanna is one of the few who have two.
She's also the only person I've ever met who's tried to kill hers," Chakotay said, rolling his eyes.

Wade was leaning back against Quinn at that point, completely relaxed and her eyes almost closed.

"Why don't we go get some sleep? I think everyone's tired," Kathryn said, standing up. "Chakotay, why don't you show
everyone where to sleep. I need to speak to Tuvok before I come to bed. I'll be up in a minute."

"All right Kathryn," Chakotay said, giving her a quick kiss.

Kathryn smiled and left the porch, heading to where she could see Tuvok standing.

"Me and Chakotay are going to bed, along with the Sliders. How are you guys doing?"

"We are 3/4 of the way through Kathryn. We should finish within the next two hours. May I ask how all of them got here?"

"Later Tuvok. Ask Quinn and his friends. They know what happened and you can get the story from them. They've been
traveling the same way for five years. They want to make this their final home."

"What happened to their home?"

"The Kromagg invaded."

"Excuse me, but the what?"

"I've never heard of them either. Ask Quinn. I'm going to bed Tuvok.  Feel free to replicate anything you need."

"Thank you Kathryn. Good night."

Kathryn nodded to him and headed to the house.

Despite the fact that it was almost dawn, Kathryn fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Chapter 2

Chakotay woke up to someone knocking on the bedroom door some hours later.

Quinn stuck his head in the door and fell silent as Chakotay motioned him to be quiet.

Chakotay took his arms from around Kathryn, who was still fast asleep. He silently left the room, closing the door behind him.

"I'm going to let her sleep. She was really tired earlier."

Quinn nodded. "They got through everyone a couple hours ago. Things are starting to wind down now with people accepting
the women for care at their homes."

"How's Wade doing?"

"Sleeping peacefully right now. Something that one of the doctors gave her helped quite a bit."

They walked out onto the porch and Chakotay could see Quinn was telling the truth. Very few women were still on the field.

"Your friends have been using those shuttlecrafts of yours to transport the women." Quinn said.

"They got that done efficiently, and quickly I must say."

"Actually it wasn't that quiet. You guys must have been out cold."

Tuvok walked up to them. "We've gotten the story of what happened.  Apparently your friend Wade led a rebellion to
overthrow their captors on another world.

"The only reason why it succeeded was because of their sheer numbers.  Apparently about 150 captives survived and split up
into three groups, each picking a dimension and sliding into it. This group was the last to leave, about a day later than the other
two, after Wade made a final request for the picking of it.

"She asked for a dimension that had some recent sliding activity, where three or maybe four people who weren't Kromagg had
slid in. She wouldn't tell anyone why she had asked for that, but a lot of people guessed she had a group of friends who were
Sliders."

Quinn shook his head and grinned. "She never was the kind to give up."

"How many went to Memory?"

"23 went to Memory and 27 went to homes."

Chakotay nodded.

"Mister Quinn will be so kind to impart to me how you, your friends and all the rest of the women got here?"

Quinn nodded. "I need to get the timer first. Excuse me a moment."

A minute later he came back out with Rembrandt, and handed the device to Tuvok.

"This is the timer me and my friends use to slide. You'll notice that it's counting down. We have no control over how much time
we have on any given world."

"What happens if you miss the slide window?"

"We're stuck on that world. We've never had that problem but it's 20 some years till the next one opens."

"How many worlds have you been to?"

Quinn shrugged. "We've never kept track. I'd guess about 200. What do you think Remmy?"

"I have no clue either Q-Ball. It might very well be 200."

"How did Wade get captured?"

"It started when we were sliding. Somehow me and Maggie got separated from Rembrandt and Wade. We still don't know
what happened exactly.

"Wade and Rembrandt went home on that slide. Me and Maggie continued sliding, always looking for some signs as to where
they were but never finding any. Eventually, after 3 months we got home, but it was not the same home we had left 3 years ago.

"The Kromaggs had invaded between their arrival and ours. There was a hotel we had agreed to always go to if we got
separated called The Dominion. As soon as we arrived we of course went there, hoping to find Wade and Rembrandt there.

"After talking with the people who ran the Dominion still despite the invasion, we learned that Rembrandt and Wade had indeed
been there, but had been taken right after the invasion.

"I was skeptical at first, since it very well might have been two doubles of theirs but Wade had given them this."

Quinn took a necklace out of his pocket that was beaded with the Wade's name, and handed it to Tuvok. He looked at it and
handed it to Chakotay who also looked at it, then handed it back to Quinn who put it back in his pocket.

"We've all kept little trinkets throughout our travels. A lot of the stuff came from home. Things to remind us of what we had left
behind and what we wanted to find again.

"We were able to find Rembrandt, but as he can tell you, he was in pretty bad shape. I had to convince him it was actually me
before he would come with us...

"The only information we ever found out about Wade was the name of a planet, but without the coordinates for it we were
stuck. We just continued sliding since we didn't have much choice. Now we're basically homeless sliding from world to world
looking for a place to call home. I think we've found one if you'll have us." By the time he had finished telling the tale, there were
quite a few other people listening. Quinn looked around, self-conscious.

No one said anything for a moment, then Tuvok nodded. "We had not expected any more inhabitants to join us, but of course,
you are welcome. What about the others?"

"There's no way to tell. Obviously some will stay, but I'm sure many will want to move on. I'm sure I can build a few more
timers in a few months time. They're not that hard to build, at least not after I built the first one."

"Have you ever had to build another one?"

Quinn shook his head. "Just repair it a few times. But I was the one to invent and produce it."

"Starfleet will be interested in the technology."

"Somehow I'm not surprised, but what's Starfleet?"

Chakotay broke in. "Me and Kathryn will explain later." He turned to Tuvok. "Everything's basically finished here. It shouldn't
be any trouble to take care of Wade. You guys can head back home. Thanks for all the help."

People started moving away from the field which was not in too bad of a shape, just trampled.

After 5 minutes, the porch was deserted with people headed to the shuttlecraft waiting to take them home to either to Memory
or the Star Dreamer equivalent, San Francisco. There were also people heading to the barn to retrieve their horses.

"People sure left fast," Rembrandt commented.

"I think everyone just wants to go home and bed. That's what I want to do certainly," Chakotay said, heading inside. Quinn and
Rembrandt followed him in.

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