Siblings Of Fate

Don't Forget Me

 Ryomai stepped into the captain's ready room, "Captain the shuttle is as fixed as we can make it. If it has to be it is space-worthy. Maria and I will be hailing the rest of our team today. Depending on their answer we will either ask that you leave us with the shuttle and carry on with your journey or we will wait for them to arrive if they will be able to be here in the next day."

"Well, I am sure your people will be glad to have you back." Janeway nodded, "Maybe this can prove that people from Earth can be trusted and that your people can come out of the shadows."

"I am not sure about that Captain. Just because we have gotten along for a week doesn't mean our people will be willing to drop everything and come back to Earth to hold hands just quite yet." Ryomai frowned.

Ryomai returned to the quarters that she had been sharing with Maria for nearly the last week. Maria was standing in front of a mirror playing with her hair.

"Are you trying to put your hair up like seven's?" Ryomai asked with a shake of her head.

"Just trying to see what my sister finds so fascinating with this hairstyle and why she doesn't wear her hair any other way." Maria said stepping back as she let her hair fall around her shoulders, "Are you ready to send out the hail to the rest of the team?"

"I have alerted the Captain of our intentions. We should proceed with the next step." Ryomai nodded as she pulled a case out from under the bed.

"I saw you bring that from the shuttle and had hoped we wouldn't need to use it." Maria placed her hand on the case.

"You know the rules, Maria. You taught me the rules." Ryomai said as she moved Maria's hand and opened the case."

"Never reveal your identity. We revealed our identity so now they need to be hidden again." Maria shook her head as she watched as Ryomai remove vials and read the labels before putting them back."

"Maria you are going to need to figure the best way for us to access the ship's computer systems so that we can run a digital version of the serum," Ryomai said handing a vial over.

"I have been sneaking information from Seven since she began talking to me. I have come to realize that the ship is powered by a bio-neural circuitry we can just inject a version of the organic serum into the computer." Maria nodded as she held the vial in her hands and turned it over, "I will modify the serum appropriately, why don't you go and make the hail."

Ryomai nodded, "I will be back shortly."

As soon as Ryomai was gone Maria analyzed the ship's profile and balanced the vial's requirements so that when deployed it would overwrite any data from the previous week. When that was done she took the vial that Ryomai had been looking at and took a small amount of fluid and ran it through a program to reverse the effects making it an antiserum.

Ryomai returned and Maria made herself look busy with the digital version of the serum. After a while of running tests she closed her program, "Ryomai, I am going to spend a bit of time with Seven."

Ryomai nodded and Maria left the quarters.

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Seven was working in the cargo bay when she heard the doors open and close. Looking around she found Maria sitting on a barrel, "Please announce yourself the next time you decide to come into the cargo bay."

"Well, you won't have to be dealing with us for too much longer. Our team should be on the way shortly or be sending us directions for our next step in the next couple of hours. I have a bit of time so I thought I would come and see you." Maria said jumping off of a barrel.