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Ok as well before we start this is based on the series Star Trek Voyager but with a twist from the original story line and i hope you like it.
Chapter 9: The Borg
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency" said the doctor as I walked into sickbay with Tom. "Hey doc, we're here for our physicals." I said. "Have a seat on separate bio beds." Replied the doctor. I hated this time of year. Being poked and prodded by the doctor and subjected to his annoying wit. He picked up his tricorder, scanned Tom then scanned me. He then went ahead and checked my throat, my muscles and then my ears. He did the same with tom before picking up a padd and inputting some information. "Okay so you're both healthy, just time for your regular injection, so that you two can continue to be intimate." He said. He injected us both and I was just about to breathe easy and walk out when he said "I need to speak with you Jack, it's of a personal nature, regarding your medical files." I looked at him and said "Well I have nothing to hide from Tom. We've been together for almost three years." "Alright, what do you know about your family history?" he asked. "Not that much why?" I replied. "Because you have something I think you should be aware of. Something that most doctors have seen and never been able to explain. You see three years ago when I first examined you I discovered something in your genome something which was not typical for a normal man." He said. "Care to be more specific doc?" I asked. "You have ovaries, a uterus and the ability to breast feed." I just stared at him. "Errrrr.... what...how... you can't" was all I got out. "How is that possible, he has a penis, trust me I know" said Tom. "I have determined why." Said the doctor. "In the 22nd century, Commander Charles Tucker was the chief engineer aboard the first warp five starship. On a three day mission he went on, Commander Tucker became pregnant carrying an alien child. 3 years later, he met a member of your family. Needless to say they procreated and she ended up bearing his child, without his knowledge. However due to the fact that Commander Tucker had been pregnant, his DNA was slightly altered. It was altered in a way that allowed all the males of his family to conceive and give birth to a child. Now as your family line goes, your family has traditionally been that of a mother and a father. There has never been a gay member of your family since 2014, which was before this happened..." I cut off the doctor by saying "Doctor my heading is spinning what are trying to say here?" He looked at me and said "Should you two choose to start a family in the future then this an option open to you, however what it means is that you have to be more careful when you are intimate, if you don't want an unexpected arrival" I looked at Tom stunned. "Oh My God!" I said. "Jack this is fantastic, we could be parents." He said. "Yeah, that's great, Doc just to ask how do I get pregnant?" I asked. "Through the normal way, the only exception being that it would be during Anal Intercourse." He said without so much as twitching. "Okay, thank you so much doctor we will take it under advisement. In the mean time please do NOT mention this to anyone or I swear I will delete your program so fast you won't know what hit you" I said the anger slowly rising inside me. "Dually warned" he said. At that we exited sickbay with Tom smiling like a Cheshire cat. "Okay, I am noting getting pregnant, but at least we can have some options." I said. "Okay I know but maybe one day in the future we can" he said. "One day." I replied kissing him.
As we walked into engineering Tom went over to his console while I went up to the second level. As I went over to the command station to bring up the telemetry from the long range probes we sent out two months ago. This was part of my daily routine to check the telemetry to see what was to come. I accessed the probe and started to check through the sensor reading. I accessed the visual sensors and what I saw sent chills down my spine. "B'Elanna I need you here now" I said. She came running over to me and said "What is it?" she asked. I played back the sensor logs and her face dropped. "Inform the captain." She said. "Engineering to Janeway, please report to main engineering." I said. "On my way" she replied. I then went down to the main level and walked over to a console where Tom was with B'Elanna. "Tom excuse us" she said. I noticed the captain and Chakotay walk in when Chakotay said "What have you found?" "Some bad news," I said. "The long range probe we sent out two months ago has stopped transmitting" I told them. "At first I thought it was a problem with the communication grid but then Jack got the last few seconds of telemetry, take a look at this" B'Elanna said. I activated the monitor and showed something horrific. What was showing was a series of images, first was a Borg cube, then was the inside of a Borg cube and the last was a Borg drone deactivating the probe. "This could be it captain, Borg Space!" said Chakotay. "Alright, senior staff meeting now, Jack I want you there to. Mr Walker you have engineering. Let's go" said the captain. We marched out of engineering and rode the turbolift in silence. With it I had my report which the captain was reading. "You'll brief the senior staff on this jack, this is good work" she told and I smiled.
"We don't know how many vessels are out there but their space appears to be vast, it includes thousands of solar systems... all Borg, we are no doubt entering the heart of their territory. There's no going around it but there may be a way through it." Kathryn told us all. The meeting consisted of myself, Tuvok, Paris, Neelix, Harry, Chakotay, The Doctor thanks to his mobile emitter, B'Elanna and the Captain who nodded at me to start briefing the rest of them. "Before the probe was disabled we picked up a narrow corridor of space devoid of Borg activity. We nicknamed it The Northwest Passage. Unfortunately the passage is filled with intense gravametric distortions, probably caused by a string of quantum singularities." I told them. "Better to ride the rapids than face the hive" said Paris. "Exactly, we're going to set a course for the corridor and go into full tactical alert. Where do we stand on weapons?" asked Chakotay. "I've re-programmed the phaser banks to a rotating modulation, but I suspect the Borg will adapt quickly." Said Tuvok. "We could use every edge" replied Chakotay "Ensign?" he asked Harry. "I've already configured the long range sensors to scan for transwarp signatures, an early warning system." He explained. "Good work. Doctor how are you coming on the medical front?" asked Chakotay. "I've analysed every square millimetre of the Borg corpse we recovered three months ago, I'm closer to understanding how their assimilation technology works and I think I may be able to come up with some sort of medical defence." He explained. "Re double your efforts, this is your top priority." Ordered Chakotay. "Jack, until further notice I placing you in charge of engineering" said the captain. "B'Elanna I want you on the bridge at all times when you're on duty in case we need to take over a critical area. If something happens to myself and commander Chakotay over the course of this, then Lieutenants Paris and Tuvok will be taking command of this ship. If this occurs B'Elanna will take over tactical and your orders will be to get the hell of Borg space as fast as possible." Explained the captain further. "Does anyone have any problems with these changes?" she asked. No one spoke. "Neelix, I doubt we can resupply the ship anytime soon." Said Chakotay. "That's no problem sir I've been working on a way to extend our food and replicator rations." He explained. "We have to act fast, the Borg have captured one of our probes, they know we're out here. We'll do everything in our power to avoid a direct confrontation, but if and when we do engage the Borg I'm confident that we'll be ready. I have faith in each and every one of you. Let's do it" ordered the captain.
As soon as the meeting ended B'Elanna and I walked out and she turned to me. "Just remember I'm still the boss, but that room is yours for now." I smiled and said "I know." At that I turned and walked into a turbolift just to be followed by the captain. "Alright, let's get your engine room sorted." She told me. "All Engineers report to engineering" I said over the comm. As soon as the turbolift stopped and we exited I found the engine room bustling with engineers from both the day and night shift. "Alright, everyone quieten down" shouted the captain. "As of this morning we now know we are going to be entering Borg Space, I placed Jack here in charge of the engineering department while B'Elanna works on the bridge. This ship is on full tactical alert. Security will be coming round and issuing hand phasers and riffles to everyone. Jack has his orders. Get to work" she said and walked out. "Alright we need to check every system on this ship and we have a lot of work to do. I have got this list here. Everyone take a look at a console because I'm about to upload what each shift will be doing." I said and everyone scrambled to find a console so they can see what they were meant to do. I went to my console and uploaded it and everyone started to read. It was a very long list. "Alright everyone let's get started." I said. At that people just went right to work and got started. Those people who were on the night shift left knowing their orders and the day crew got started. Tom and I were working together on checking the impulse reactors. After a few hours security arrived and started to issue phasers "Lieutenant, we're here to issue phasers on captain's orders" said Hayes from the security team. "Alright everyone take a phaser and find out where the phaser rifles are being stored for emergencies." I said. At that my staff went and queued to get phasers, with me being the last.
At 13:00, Tom and I finished the impulse reactors and decided to head up to the mess hall for a late lunch. It was kind of weird to walk the halls and seeing people armed. As we entered the mess hall, I walked over to Neelix and said "Hey Neelix, what's for lunch?" he smiled and said "Jack, Tom, well we have Leola route stew or I can make you something in particular." I looked at tom and said "Well, I just fancy a sandwich." Eventually Neelix came back with two cheese and ham baguettes with a bowel of chips and two glasses of ice tea. As we ate the captain came joined us. "How are things going in main engineering?" she asked. "Very well, by tomorrow we will done." I told her. "That's great" she said "I expect a report by 17:00 tomorrow then." Once lunch was done we headed back to engineering and continued to work. Everyone was running around trying to get their tasks done and giving me reports. I was more now checking through the reports and checking peoples work. At 19:00 I said "Alpha and Beda shift you're relieved. Gamma and Delta shift take your posts and get to work with your tasks" I announced. Ensign Gates walked over and updated her before leaving with an arm load of reports. As I walked into my quarters with Tom, I placed the reports on my desk on collapsed onto my couch. "Oh My God!" I said breathing a sigh of relief. "Yeah that was a tough day. Do you want anything?" he asked "Coffee" I replied. He went to the replicator and got me some coffee and then handed it to me. I took a few sips and said "Ahhh that it so nice." I got up and went to my desk and drifted off into work. The next thing I know I have tom shouting at me "Errr Jack, JACK!" I looked up and said "What? I'm trying to work." He smiled and said "Dinner." I looked at him and the table and he had laid out a table with candles and plates and glasses with a giant pizza in the middle and a bottle of wine. "What's this?" I asked getting up from my desk. "Well seen as your busy I decided to make you a romantic dinner." He told me. I sat at the table and we chatted about different things when he said "I can't believe you could have a baby." "Okay, look I won't be having a baby for a long time, if at all!" I told him. "I know, I know I'm just excited that's all" he replied. I got up and went back to work after he volunteered to clean up. I had no idea how it happened but time seemed to fly by as I was reading through the reports and inputting information into the computer. When I finished the last report I put it down and leaned back in my chair and breathed a sigh of relief. I looked around to see where tom was and found him lying in bed fast asleep. I checked the time to see it was after midnight. I got up and stripped off and climbed into bed next to him. "Finally, I was wondering when you would get your arse to bed" whispered Tom. I looked at him and said "I'm sorry babes; you have been so great tonight." I replied. I kissed him and fell asleep in his arms.
When the computer woke me at 05:00 Tom and I both got up "Computer activate the sonic shower and configure for two people" I said. As we shared a shower and got dressed Tom and I spoke for a long time about different things. When the day started at 07:00 in engineering I walked in and said "Gamma and Delta shift your relieved, Alpha and Beda shift take your stations." The day started off smoothly. I read the reports from the night shift and started on my own report for the captain. By this point it was around 13:00. I had heard that Kes had some kind of telepathic experience this morning. "Red Alert" came Chakotays voice. Everyone went to their stations and I saw that we were dropping out of warp. I looked to see why. "Bridge to engineering what's going on down there? Asked the captain. "I'm not sure captain, some kind of subspace turbulence is preventing us from creating a stable warp field" I reported. "I'm reading two Borg vessels, make that 3, 4, no 5... 15 Borg vessels, distance 2.1 light years and closing." I heard Harry say over the comm. I ended the channel and we all got to work. There was no way in hell we could survive against 15 cubes. That was suicide. A few minutes went by and the ship rocked. I checked the sensors and saw that they were flying right by us. One cube stopped and scanned us. Engineering was filled by a green pulse. They scanned us. The cube then rejoined the others and they all took off. The ship stood down from red alert and I checked to see if we had any damage. None thank god. Another hour later and B'Elanna came in. "Hey you, how's things going?" she said to me. "Just peachy." I replied. We chatted and I filled her on different things and she left. At around 16:00 the ship went back into red alert and I saw we were on route to the Borg debris field from the same 15 cubes we saw earlier. Around 30 minutes later, the captain called me up to bridge to take over at Tactical while B'Elanna was at ops. I went up and I learned that there was an unknown weapons signature in the debris and that Chakotay, Kim and Tuvok were over on some part of the cube. They kept reporting when the doctor called the bridge and told us to get the away team out based on a vision Kes had. B'Elanna tried to beam them out but couldn't gain a positive lock on them. Finally she tried a skeletal lock and beamed them out just as Harry was screaming his head off. "Captain the bio ship is powering up like it's charging some sort of weapon." Said Paris. Kes then fell back and Janeway eased her into Chakotays seat. "Mr Paris get us out of here maximum warp." Ordered the captain. I was about to speak up that the alien ship was about to fire but before I could they got off their shot. They hit and the ship started to fall. I was thrown to the floor and had a hard time trying to get up. I saw B'Elanna trying to get up when the ship stabilised and went to warp. "The alien ship is not pursing" I reported. "Kes?" asked the captain. "I could hear its thoughts. The pilot of the bioship was trying to communicate with me" she said. "They're a telepathic species I've been aware of them for some time now the premonitions. Captain it's not the Borg that we should be worried about its them." She went on to say. "What did it say to you?" asked the captain. "It said the weak will perish." She replied. Tuvok and Chakotay soon came back onto the bridge and the captain asked "Where's Mr Kim?" Chakotay breathed loudly and said "In sickbay he's injured." "Mr Carter here's Mr Kim's tricorder, please download it and find out what you can." Said Tuvok. I took the tricorder and went to Engineering.
"Engineers log supplemental. It's been 12 hours since our confrontation with the alien ship. The captain has held our course as the Northwest Passage is only one day away. I have been sorting through the information that Mr Kim brought back from the Borg data node and believe I may have something. It's just not what I was expecting. End Log." In those 12 hours I had managed to grab a few hours sleep. I didn't want to leave my post as there was too much information to sort through, so as it stood I was surviving off coffee and adrenaline. Tom hadn't left my side. I could see in his eyes that he was terrified. Strange for a man who looked the cardassians in the eye every day. I had been to see Harry and saw what had happened to him. The alien, who attacked him, was leaving him close to death. The cells from the alien were consuming his body from the inside out and the doctor had no way to treat him. I had assisted the doctor is dissecting a Borg nanoprobe as he believed they were a cure for Harry. I didn't like the idea of having Borg technology inside Harry's body but if we did nothing he could die. Chakotay and Tuvok came in to engineering and joined me on the second level as I was thinking all this. "Report" said Chakotay. "We've analysed the Borg's tactical database. They refer to these new aliens as species 8472. Over the past 5 months the Borg have been attacked by them on at least a dozen occasions. Each time they were defeated quickly. The collective has very little information about the species." I told them "Is anything known about where they come from?" asked Chakotay. "I'm afraid so" I said. I brought up the image and Chakotays face fell in horror "Get the captain." He said. "Carter to captain Janeway, please report to engineering" I said. "On my way" she replied. She was not going to be happy.
"The northwest passage" said Janeway looking at it from the viewscreen. I was spending my time on the bridge now that Torres was at ops. Tom was in charge in engineering. "It's clear of Borg activity for a very good reason" said Chakotay. "I'm detecting 133 bio ships, more are approaching." Reported Tuvok. "From where?" asked the captain. "They seem to be coming from a quantum singularity" reported Tuvok. "I'm localising the gravametric distortions" I reported. "On screen" said Chakotay and there it appeared. A hole is subspace and ships were flying out of it. "Kes anything?" asked the captain. "Yes I can hear them. They're in a place where they're all alone nothing else lives there." She said. "Some kind of parallel universe?" asked Chakotay. "I don't know. I feel malevolence, a cold hatred. The weak will perish" she said. Those words just sent chills down my spine. What did she mean by that? "It's an invasion. They intend on destroying everything" Kes said. Question answered I told myself. Just not what I wanted to hear. "Tom reverse course maximum warp. Take us 5 light years out and hold position." Ordered the captain. "Aye Captain" he replied. "Maintain red alert" she then said. "Commander" she said to Chakotay and they both walked off the bridge and into her ready room. B'Elanna came down to see me. "How you holding up?" she asked. "I'm tired and restless. All of this is freaking me out" I replied. "Jack you haven't slept in over 30 hours you should head off duty. You're not even meant to be here" she said. "I think I will thanks." I said. I got up from my console and headed for bed. When I woke up next it was 09:00. I had been asleep for 8 hours which wasn't bad. The duty shifts were out the window when the ship was on alert. Senior staff just worked and got sleep whenever they could. "Mr Carter report to the briefing room" came Tuvok's voice over the comm. "On my way" I replied. I quickly had a sonic shower grabbed some coffee and got dressed and was in the briefing room in 15 minutes. As I entered I saw all the senior staff. "An alliance with the Borg" said Paris. "More like, an exchange. We offer them a way to defeat their new enemy and in return we get safe passage through their space. In developing a treatment for Harry the doctor has found a way to attack the aliens at the microscopic level." Replied Janeway. I couldn't believe what she was saying. "It's still in the experimental stages captain I've only made a few prototypes." Replied the doctor. "Never the less if we teach the Borg how to modify their own nanoprobes, they'd have a blueprint to create a weapon to fight the aliens." She told us. "In theory yes" replied the doctor. "Jack, it's clear from the Borg database that they know practically nothing about species 8472." Said Janeway to me. "That's right, the Borg gain knowledge through assimilation, what they can't assimilate they can't understand" I told her. "But we don't assimilate, we investigate and right now that give us the edge. We've discovered something they need" said Janeway walking around the room. "But the Borg aren't exactly known for their diplomacy how can we expect them to co-operate?" said Neelix. "Normally the answer would be no, but if what I've learned from the aliens in true, the Borg are losing this conflict." Said Kes. "In one regard the Borg are no different than we are, they're trying to survive. I don't believe their going to refuse an offer that will help them do that." Janeway said again. "What makes you think that Borg won't attempt to take the information by assimilating Voyager and its crew?" asked Tuvok. "Because that won't get them anywhere. Doctor you're on the only one on board with full knowledge of the nanoprobe modifications, I want you to transfer all of that research in to your holomatrix" ordered the captain. "certainly" said the doctor. "You're my guarantee. If the Borg threaten us in anyway, we'll simply erase your program. But I won't come to that doctor, it's in the collectives own interests to co-operate. Voyager is only one ship; our safe passage is a small price to pay for the help we're offering in exchange. Jack assist the doctor with his transfer" ordered Janeway. "Aye captain" I replied. "Mr Paris, locate the nearest Borg vessel and lay in a course, they shouldn't be difficult to find" she said again. "Yes ma'am." He replied. We looked at her hoping she would ask us to express our opinions. "Dismissed." She ordered. We all turned and left. "Doc, let's get to sickbay so I can get you sorted" I said. "Lead the way" he replied. "What do you think to the captain's plan?" he asked in the turbolift. "I think it will succeed provided that the Borg co-operate" I replied. We remained in silence for the rest of the trip there.
I was back on the bridge as we entered the Borg system. On the viewscreen we could see loads of cubes flying around. "There are three planets in this system. Inhabitants, all Borg" said Tuvok "A vessel is approaching" he then said. "All stop, shields up" ordered the captain. "They're hailing us" said Tuvok again. "Open a channel" said Kathryn standing up. "We are the Borg, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile" came the Borg voice. They locked on with a tractor beam and the ship shook. "They've locked on to us with a tractor beam" said Tuvok. I hated it when he stated the obvious. "Borg Vessel, this is captain Janeway of the starship voyager, I have tactical data regarding species 8472. I want to negotiate" spoke the captain. "Negotiation is irrelevant. You will be assimilated" said the Borg. Janeway nodded at me as a sign to transmit the data we had ready for them on the Borg nanoprobes. I did so and the screen read DATA TRANSMITING. "Borg vessel, what you are receiving is a sample of the knowledge we posses. If you don't disengage your tractor beam, I will have that data destroyed. You have 10 seconds to comply. We know you're in danger of being defeated. You can't afford to risk losing this information. Disengage your tract...." was all she got out before she and I were beamed away. We found ourselves on a walk way inside the Borg Cube. Why me? I can understand about Kathryn, but why me. "State your alliance." Said that horrible Borg voice. "Why have you brought Mr Carter here?" asked Janeway. "He possesses information we believe may be useful" they replied. "Very well, I want safe passage through your space. Once my ship is beyond Borg territory, I'll give you our research." Explained the captain. "Unacceptable, our space is vast. Your passage would require too much time, we need the technology now" said the Borg. "If we give it to you know you'll assimilate us" I said aloud. The captain nodded. "Species 8472 must be stopped. Our survival is your survival, give us the technology." Said the Borg. "No, safe passage first or no deal" said the captain. "State your proposal" said the Borg. "Let's work together, combine our resources. Even if we do give you the technology now you're still going to need time to develop it. By working together we can create a weapon more quickly if you escort us through your space we can perfect the weapon as we...." was all Janeway said before the cube shook. I was caught off guard and found myself hanging over the railing of the bridge, holding on with one hand. I looked down and saw the drop. I would die. The captain grabbed me and tried to pull me up. "Help him!" she shouted. The Borg then transported me back onto the bridge we were on. "Are you okay?" asked Kathryn. "I think so" I replied. "What's going on?" I asked the Borg. "We are under attack by species 8472" said the Borg. We felt the ship move as the cube took a huge jolt. "What going on?" asked the captain this time. The Borg didn't answer. All we felt was the cube move. "We accept your terms" announced the Borg. "We will take you towards the alpha quadrant and you will help us design a weapon" they then said. "Very well I want my tactical officer to help." Said Janeway. "Very well, however you must remain here to do so. You will work in grid 92 of sub junction 12" They said. "Agreed" replied Janeway. "Your vessel is trying to beam you out." Said the Borg. "Block it" said Janeway. "Hail them. I need to speak with them." Said Janeway. A holographic screen appeared and we saw voyager. As soon as it happened Chakotays face appeared along with the rest of the bridge. "Commander cut the transporter beam." Ordered Janeway. "Captain?" asked Chakotay. "Do it." She then said. He nodded at B'Elanna and then I said "We've come to an agreement with the collective, we're going to help them design a weapon against species 8472 in exchange they've granted us safe passage across their space." Chakotay looked at me funny when Paris said "The cube is altering course their heading towards the alpha quadrant." "That's part of the plan. We're going to work on the weapon on route; once we're across their territory we'll give them the nanoprobes. They appear to be holding up their end of their of the bargain, I suggest we do the same." Said Janeway. "How do you propose we begin this collaboration?" asked Chakotay. "Jack and I are going to work here on the cube; they have technology that will make the job go faster I want to take advantage of it." Replied Janeway. "It's not necessary for you two to stay there, we can set up a comm. Link with the Borg and..." said Chakotay, I cut him off by saying "It's part of the deal we work here." "Alright, as long as we're co-operating maybe the Borg would be willing to disengage their tractor, we can match their course with a leash." Said Chakotay. "I'll propose it, Mr Tuvok transport to our co-ordinates." Said Janeway. "Understood" he replied. "We're going to make this work commander. Janeway out" she said harshly before the channel closed. I looked at her and said "What was that about?" She smiled and said "We argued when I decided to ally Voyager with the Borg." I smiled. "Lovers tiff?" I asked. "Jack, I told you before there is nothing between me and him." She replied. Just as she said it Tuvok materialised with a case of equipment. "Captain, Lieutenant." He said. Two drones appeared and lead us to the work unit we had been assigned.
As we walked through the cube Tuvok handed me a padd, and I read through it. It was analysis of the bio ship. "So what do you think Lieutenant?" he asked. "Have you compared this with the doctor analysis of the alien tissue?" I answered. "I have." He replied. "The aliens and their ships are made of the same organic material." I replied. "Does that mean they will be vulnerable to the modified nanoprobes?" asked the captain. "Yes, I believe they are" I answered. By this we had stopped and spoke and this was when the Borg drone behind us started to push us to move us along. We then entered a chamber where we saw a number of drones re-generating. "You have entered grid 92 of sub junction 12. Proceed." Said the Borg voice. "Alright." Said the captain. "Jack." She said. "We've analysed one of the alien bio-ships and its composed of the same organic material vulnerable to modified nanoprobes. I suggest we begin thinking about a large scale delivery system. A way to infect their ships at the..." was all I got out when a drone grabbed me and threw me to the floor. "We will begin" said the Borg. "What are you doing?" asked Tuvok. "A neural transceiver is required for maximum communication. We will work as one mind" said the collective. "No that wasn't part of the agreement." Said the captain. "The neural link is temporary, you will not be damaged." Said the Borg. "I don't care I prefer to communicate verbally thank you" said the captain. "Your primitive communication is inefficient." Said the Borg. "I beg to differ, we work better with our individuality intact, surely we've proven that to you by now" I said. "Irrelevant you must comply" said the collective. At this point, a drone attached something to my neck. "We must do nothing, tell your drone to remove the transceiver" said the captain. They didn't answer and I could feel the link being activated. At this moment, I could sense the thought of the captain and Tuvok as well as the collective. Their voices weren't coming through very strong but the captain's was. I could feel her lust for Chakotay very strongly. I knew it. "What about locutus?" I said mentally. "What about choosing a representative, a single Borg we can work with and talk too directly?" asked the captain. "Elaborate?" said the Borg. "You've done it before, when you transformed Jean-Luc Picard in to locutus. We will not be assimilated choose a representative or the deals off." Said Janeway. I feel the Borg thinking about it and then the link was deactivated. They removed the devices from our necks. Tuvok and I were dragged up while the captain was allowed to stand up alone. One of the drones opened a passage and a female drone was in an alcove with conduits leading into her body. They started to spring off and the drone stepped out of the alcove. "I speak for the Borg." She said
"I'm Captain Janeway; this is Lieutenants Tuvok and Carter." She said. "We are aware of your designations." Replied the drone. "What's your designation?" I asked. "Seven Of Nine, Tertiary adjunctive unimatrix 01. She said "But you may call me Seven Of Nine." She added. I looked at the captain and smiled. "You are proposing a large scale weapon, we concur." Seven said. "I thought you might." Said Janeway. "We could encase the nanoprobes in some of our photon torpedoes." Said Tuvok. "In essence turn them in to bio-molecular warheads." He added. "Your torpedoes are inaccurate, they lack a range and dispersal force" said Seven. "Do you have a better idea?" I asked. She looked at me and said "We are Borg." I was ready to reply but she walked away to which we followed. She worked a console and brought up an image. "A multi-connetic neutronic mine. 5 million iso tonne yield." Said Seven. "An explosion of that size could affect an entire star system" Tuvok noted. "Correct. The shockwave will disperse the nanoprobes over a radius of 5 light-years." Said Seven. "That's somewhat larger than I had in mind. You're proposing a weapon of mass destruction." Said the captain. "We are" said seven. "Well I'm not. You'd be endangering innocent worlds." Janeway added. "It would be efficient." Said Seven. At this point I was working out how many nanoprobes we would need. As she was walking away I said to seven "We need almost 50 trillion nanoprobes to arm this mine. It would take the doctor several weeks to replicate that amount. You are losing this conflict are you willing to risk further delay?" She looked at me and I could feel the tension between us. "Right now your enemy believes it is invulnerable. If we create smaller weapons using our torpedoes and destroy a few of their bio-ships it may deter them, convince them to give up this war." Offered the captain. "You are small and you think in small terms, however the present situation requires that we consider your plan" said Seven. She came back and worked a console before bringing up our weapons inventory. "Voyagers weapons inventory. Photon Torpedo compliment 32, class 6 warhead, Explosive yield 200 iso tonnes." She read off. "How did you obtain this information?" asked Tuvok. "We are Borg." She replied. "Naturally" I said and the captain gave me a concerned look.
As we worked on the cube for the next few hours, things were going fairly smoothly but I had this troubling feeling that something was wrong. I was working with the drone trying to find out how many nanoprobes a standard torpedo could take in order to destroy a bio ship. "We must analyse the bio ship your data." She asked. I handed her the padd and the captain looked at me. "Your human aren't you" I asked. "This body was assimilated 18 years ago, it ceased to be human at that time." She replied. "I'm curious what was your name before..." I got out. "Do not engage us in further irrelevant discourse." She told me. The captain walked up and said "just chatting I see." The cube then made a funny sound and Seven of Nine said "we're being hailed by your vessel." She walked over and activated a monitor and the captain and I went over. "Commander?" she asked. "It's Kes; the doctor believes the aliens are trying to access her memory." He told us. "If that's true then they may already know what we're planning" I said. "I've ordered long range scans for bio ships nothing so far." Chakotay told us. "We should alter course try to through them off." I suggested. "Agreed." Said Seven. She went silent, obviously doing it through the collective mind. "Our course and heading has been changed" she told us. "Match them and keep me apprised of any changes in Kes" said Kathryn. "Chakotay out" he said nodding. The screen went black and walked away with seven and she said "We now require one of your photon torpedoes and the nanoprobes." I looked at the captain. "One step at a time we're not safely across your territory yet." I told her. "We must construct and test a prototype now." She replied. The captain nodded giving me the privilege to argue with this very annoying drone. "Irrelevant we have an agreement, you're asking us to give up the only guarantee we have. I won't risk it." I told her. "Are you willing to risk a direct confrontation with us? If we transport 500 drones to your vessel to you believe you could offer sufficient resistance?" she asked. "We'd die trying" I told her. "That won't be necessary, we need to construct a launching system to accommodate this design" said seven who went back to work. The captain patted me on the shoulder and we began to work again. After about 20 minutes there was another alarm but this sounded more dangerous. Seven looked up and said "We're under attack!" I took a tricorder from the equipment case and monitored voyager. The cube fired and fired going in a round motion. "Voyager has taken heavy damage" I said. "We cannot let the nanoprobes be destroyed." Said Seven. "We will sacrifice our vessel to protect yours, but we need to move to your ship." She added. "Very well" said the captain. The ship got hit and an energy beam went through the ship I went running following the captain and we crouched near a conduit in the hopes it would protect us. The beam came through the hull and struck the conduit which split and hit us both and we were sent backwards. I was barely conscious and could feel the pain. At that moment the entire section of the cube including us was transported as I could feel the cube explode. At this point I fell out. When I next woke up I found myself looking at the doctor. "What... what" I said. I tried to sit up until I felt this wave of pain. "You were hit by an alien energy discharge just like the captain. I'm going to have to induce a coma to protect your higher brain functions while I try to repair your neural injuries. I must warn you however you may not regain consciousness." He told me. "I understand" I said. "I can I speak to Tom?" I asked. "Bear with me" he said. He went away and I saw the captain next to me she raised her hand. "I'm sorry Jack" she whispered. "Don't be" I replied. She smiled and closed her eyes. Chakotay came to talk to the captain as tom came to talk to me. "Baby... oh my god. Don't die on me." He said. "I won't, after all we need to have those kids" I said trying to smile. "Promise me something" I asked him. "Anything." He replied. "If I don't come out of this, meet someone else who will take care of you like you did for me" I told him. He cried and kissed me. "I will" he said. The doctor came over and said "I must begin." Tom left and the doctor activated something and I was gone.
When I opened my eyes I found myself in a white space. Everything around me was white. I looked over and saw the captain. "Jack?" she asked. "I have no idea." I said. "So we're in a comma. How is it that we can see each other?" she asked. "I don't know but we are. What's the last thing you remember?" I asked. "The doctor and Chakotay." She said. "Okay so seen as we're here. Let's talk." She added. "First I need to ask what's with your thing in your head that I heard on the cube when we were connected, you can get pregnant?" she asked me. "Long story." I said. "Well we have time" she said with a grin. I told her the story and she said "Wow, this is incredible. I heard about Commander Tucker, but I didn't know you were related. So does this mean you and Tom will have kids?" she asked. "Maybe one day." I replied. "But I need to ask, you lied to me didn't you. When we were connected on the cube I felt your lust for Chakotay. Are you attracted to him?" I asked. "Yeah I am and if you mention this I will kill you. But yes I find him cute and charming and funny." She replied. I laughed. Suddenly I felt this strong pull on my body.
I opened my eyes and saw the doctor and Kes looking at me. The captain was sat up and looking at me. "Doctor?" I asked. "Your fine Lieutenant" he answered. I looked at Kathryn and she said "Do you remember?" I smiled. "Yeah everything. But it didn't last long." I replied. "What happened?" asked the doctor. "We were connected somehow" she answered. "That's understandable. Your brain waves were connected to the computer in a special storage bank. It's likely that you got mixed up with each other." He told us. I smiled and the doctor left. Kes came back with some coffee and something to eat. Once we had eaten and drunk, we went separately to use the shower in sickbay and change into fresh uniforms. Once we were done the doctor brought us up to date, about how Chakotay had ended the alliance with the Borg and then jettisoned all but one of the Borg into space, and that we were trapped in fluidic space. He also told us that they had made no headway on the weapon. All of this was in a report which he then gave us both and we read it and I said "I can't believe he did this." Janeway looked at me and replied "Likewise." "Doctor get him down here" she told him. "Sickbay to Commander Chakotay report to sickbay at once" the doc said over the comm. After a few moments Chakotay appeared and said "Jack, Captain." The doctor smiled and said "As you can see I've repaired their neural injuries. Mr Kim, Mr Carter, the captain. I'm doing well." I looked angrily at the commander as did the captain. "Doctor if you can excuse us" she said. He looked around and said "Very well. Computer deactivate EMH program." "The doctor brought us up to speed. But he couldn't tell us what we really wanted to know. Why?" I said. "Jack if you don't mind I think this is between me and the captain" said Chakotay. "No Commander he helped with this, he deserves to know." She answered. "Very well, the collective ordered me to reverse course, travel 40 light years back the way we came. What would you have done?" he asked her. "I probably would have reversed course, maintained the alliance as long as possible" she told him. "In my mind the alliance was already over" he told replied. "You never trusted us, you never believed this would work, you were just waiting for chance to take matters into your own hands. You selfish son of...." was all I got out before Janeway cut me off saying "Jack that's enough. I understand you're frustrated, I am to, but he's still your superior officer and when this is over we have to work together" I looked at Chakotay and said "I'm sorry" he smiled and said "That's okay, but trust had nothing to do with it. I made a tactical decision." He said. "And so did we" she said pointing to me. "They've been taking advantage of us since day one" he said. "We made concessions, so did they." I pointed out. "They lied the Borg started the war with species 8472. We've only got one Borg left to worry about, we should try to disable her and get back to the delta quadrant. We might be able to duplicate the deflector protocols they used to open a singularity." He told us. This was news. We had no idea that it was the Borg who started this war. "No I won't be caught tinkering with the deflector when those aliens attack. It's too late for opinions it's too late for discussions, it's time to make the call, and I'm making it, we fight the aliens in full co-operation with the Borg." Said Kathryn. She was angry. "I was linked to a collective once remember. I had a neural transceiver in my spine, I know who we're dealing with here. We've got to get rid of that last drone and take our chances alone." He said raising his voice. "It won't work" I said. "This isn't working either there are two wars going on the one out there and the one in here and we're losing both of them." I added. "It will be your undoing." Said Chakotay. "What?"I asked. "Our conflicted nature, our individuality. Seven of Nine said that we lacked the cohesion of a collective mind. That one day it would divide us and destroy us. And here we are, proving her point." He told us. "I'll tell you when we lost control of this situation, when we made our mistake it was the moment we turned away from each other. We don't need to stop being individuals to get through this, we just have to stop fighting each other" Janeway said. An agreement finally.
As I sat on the bridge at the engineering station, I was happy to see the captain back in the command chair. The turbolift doors opened and Tuvok and the drone Seven of Nine walked out onto the bridge. Janeway stood and looked at Seven. "Captain Janeway." She said aloud. "I've relieved Mr. Chakotay of his duties and confined him to the brig. I'm back in command." Janeway told her. "And you understand the situation?" seven asked. "Completely" replied the captain. "Tuvok, Jack give her the nanoprobes. Work with her. Build as many warheads as you can. And start modifying our weapons systems. I suggest we think about enhancing our defences as well. If we're going to fight this battle I intend to win it." Ordered the captain. "We are in agreement" replied Seven. "Good. This is the plan, we engage the enemy here, in their space. We show them what they're up against. If they have any sense of self preservation they'll back off. Pull their ships out of the delta quadrant. That's provided the weapons are effective, if they aren't... it's been nice working with you" Janeway told the bridge. "We've got to get this ship armed and ready in under two hours. We're going to War!" she added. At that I got up and went with Tuvok and Seven of Nine down to the torpedo bays to get the torpedoes ready. I made a detour and went to sickbay to get the doctor and the nanoprobes which he had been preparing.
2 HOURS LATER
I was back on the bridge after having spent the last two hours sorting out the torpedoes whilst Tom in engineering had been working with Harry trying to get the Borg modifications online in time. We now had hull armour, new torpedo launch tube modifications and shield modifications. I stood at the auxiliary engineering console directly above the captain and first officer's chair. From where I was stood I had a clear view of the bridge. To my left was Harry, to my right was Tuvok and behind me was the aft engineering stations. The captain had brought Kes up to the bridge to be in communication with the aliens. "Borg modifications are complete" announced Harry. "Bring them online" ordered the captain. I could feel the ship power up. "Torpedo launch tubes active, Hull Armour engaged, Shield Enhancements stable." Harry reported. "Mr carter?" Tuvok asked. "Bio-molecular weapons are ready. 13 standard photon torpedoes and one class 10 armed with a high yield warhead." I reported. "All hands this is the captain, ready your stations, seal all emergency bulkheads and prepare to engage the enemy. Standby for my orders." The captain announced. There was a pause on the bridge and then Paris announced "4 bio ships have just entered sensor range." This was it. "Battlestations" ordered Janeway. The klaxon sounded twice. "I've got a visual." Reported Kim. "On screen" Janeway said. I looked up to see the ships on approach flying through what could only be described as Green Jelly. "I can hear them, they wanna talk through me" said Kes. "They say we've contaminated their realm." She added. The captain looked. "Tell them we had no choice, that we were only trying to defend ourselves" Janeway told Kes. Kes breathed loudly and then said "They say our galaxy is impure. It's proximity it a threat to their genetic integrity." What the hell did that mean? "Tell them we have a weapon, a devastating weapon that can destroy them at the cellular level, if they don't stop their attacks on the delta quadrant then we'll be forced to use it" Janeway told her. "They said your galaxy will be purged" Kes told us. I looked at Janeway as the ship took a hit. But this was no ordinary hit. They hit us hard. The ship rocked and people on the bridge were thrown from their seats. Conduits over head ruptured creating sparks all over the place. I saw Tuvok thrown completely over his console and land part on the steps down to the ready room and part on the floor. He was unconscious but alive. Other people were trying to regain their balance. Fortunately for where I was stood I held on to the railings which had no effect of me. I could see Seven of Nine doing the same. "Shields and weapons are offline" shouted Kim. I ran over to tactical. We had come too far to be stopped now. I would fire those weapons even if I had to push them out. "Re routing emergency power to the launchers" I reported. "Their coming around for another assault, I've lost thrusters" shouted Paris. "Engineering to bridge we have severe damage here, we can't survive another hit" reported Tom shouting over the comm. "Bio-molecular warheads are charged and ready" I shouted over the noise. "Fire" ordered Janeway and I did just that. 4 torpedoes fired from the tubes and hit each ship. "Direct hit on all four vessels, no effect" I reported. Damn. This meant one thing. Death. "There charging weapons." Reported Kim. Oh crap. It was then that I noticed two of the ships slowing. They then froze and exploded. The other two did the same and rocked the ship. "The nanoprobes were successful if not prompt. All four ships have been destroyed." I reported. "I think we made our point. Now open a singularity and get us out of here." Janeway told Seven of Nine. She looked at her, and then walked over to the aft engineering console where she pushed the ensign there to one side and worked the control. I saw the rift open and Tom flew us out.
As we emerged from the rift, I just started to breathe easy when sensors picked up more bio ships. This time dozens of them. "Captain" said Paris from the conn. They were behind us. "Kes are you still in contact?" asked the captain. "Yes" she replied. "Tell them if they continue their attack we'll use the weapon again" Janeway told her. "They're not responding." Said Kes. "Evasive Maneuvours." Ordered Janeway. "Aye captain. They're in pursuit"" Replied Paris. "Prepare to fire the high yield warhead. Aft Torpedo bay" she told me. One of them fired on us the ship was shook. I armed the torpedo and it was ready. "Ready captain" I told her. "Do it" she said. Working the controls I aimed straight at the centre of those ships and pushed the fire button. The torpedo was away. It detonated right in the centre of the ships and a number of them exploded on detonation. The ship rocked hard again. "13 Bio ships have been destroyed. The others are in retreat." I reported. Seven of Nine then said "I've regained full contact with the collective." I looked at her as Janeway said "What are they saying?" "All remaining bio-ships in the delta quadrant are returning to their realm. The Borg have prevailed" she answered. "With a little help from us" I added. "Now it's time you fulfilled your end of the agreement. Tell the collective we expect safe passage from here on out, we'll give you a shuttlecraft, you can head for the nearest Borg ship" Janeway told her. At this point Seven of Nine had come down and was now facing Janeway. "Unacceptable. This alliance is terminated. Your ship and its crew will adapt to service us." She said turning and heading for the helm. Paris stood up and fired a phaser at her which was deflected by her Borg shields. She pushed Paris aside and he hit the floor. "Resistance is futile" She hit the console with some sort of interface from her arm. "Captain she's tapping into helm control. She's trying to access our co-ordinates." Kim reported. "Shut her out" Janeway said. "I can't" Kim replied. "Bridge to Chakotay. Scorpion" I said over the comm. This was our plan all along. If seven tried to do what she was doing Chakotay would his ability to get into sevens mind by connecting himself to the collective like last time. But this would be a link between them. While this happened B'Elanna would try to use the power relays to terminate her link with the collective. "We are Borg" Seven said obviously speaking to Chakotay. "Irrelevant, you're appeal to my humanity is pointless" she said again. Seven then stopped and almost fell back. A green light was sparking at her collar. I came down from tactical with a tricorder and just as she screamed out in pain, she kind of sparked and then fell forwards. I scanned her to make sure our plan had worked. "Her connection to the collective is severed" I said. "Get her to sickbay." Ordered Janeway. I nodded to Paris who helped me get her to the turbolift. Thank god the ordeal was over.
As I arrived back in my quarters I checked the time. It was gone 22:00. I looked around and breathed. I sat on the sofa and thought about the last few days. It had been 3 days since our encounter and there had been no sign of any Borg or bio ships. B'Elanna and I had been working on assessing the situation now that our ship looked like a Borg circus. I hadn't seen Tom much either, since he was heading up the night shift for a few days. I went to the bedroom ready to take a shower and low and behold there was tom sprawled out on my bed in nothing but his boxers. "Hey you." I said. "Hey there yourself" he replied. I crawled on to the bed and he got on top and kissed me deeply. "What was that for?" I asked. "Don't ever leave me like you did. I thought you were going to die when you hit that coma." He said. "I'm sorry." I replied. At that he ripped off my jacket and top, pulled off my vest, my boots, socks and trousers and left me in my boxers. He pulled those off and started to work on my 8 inch throbbing cock licking up and down the shaft while he played with my balls. God he was good. After a few minutes we switched and I slowly worked my tongue over the head of 8.5 inch cock and then engulfed it all down to the base. He moaned in pleasure as I continued to deep throat him and massage his balls. I stopped after a few minutes and came back up and kissed him. "Jack I need you to do something?" he asked me. "What babes?" I replied. "I want you to fuck me, just so I know what it's like" he replied. Up to this point, as in the last three years whenever we had sex he was always on top. "Sure babes." I said. I grabbed some lube and a condom from the drawer. I put on the condom and lubbed up his hole lightly fingering it. He didn't mind that and when I said "Are you ready?" he nodded. With his legs in the air, I slowly began to insert my cock into his small pink hole. When the head started to enter and I had about an inch of me inside he yelped. "Am I hurting?" I asked. "A little just give me a second." He said breathing loudly. "I can stop." I said. He shook his head and said "No keep going, I'm fine." I pushed in a bit more slowly each time and I kept stopping to allow him the chance to get used to it. In no time I was all the way in him and I kissed him. "See" I said. Then slowly started to fuck his arse. Going slow he moaned loudly. I know how he felt. This first time he did this to me I thought I was being split in two. Soon he started to enjoy it as he had a huge smile on his face. I picked up the pace and fucked him harder and harder. After about 15 minutes I could feel my knees tense and I was ready to shoot. "I'm gunna shoot" I shouted. I came out of him and tore off the condom. I jacked off and cummed all over his stomach. When I was done he jacked off and within about a minute he cummed all over himself, the bed and I think some even hit my window. "That was amazing" I said breathing heavily. "God yes" he replied barely able to speak. I collapsed onto him and could feel the cum on his chest. We got up and went in the shower before climbing into bed. "I love you baby" I said. "I love you lots more." He said kissing my neck. "And thank you for tonight. You're the first person who has ever done that to me." He said. "Well I'm honoured." I said smiling at him and kissing him. He turned out the lights and slowly drifted off to sleep.
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