[Market place]
The crew are in civilian clothes, mingling with the locals. Neelix hands over a vial to Janeway, who scans it.
"We need this completely filled. We don't have time to haggle over price." Janeway said.
"Understood." Neelix replies.
Neelix leaves.
"Captain." Tuvok said.
The local police, in black leather and motorcycle helmets enter. They try to get away but the police grab them. Tuvok stuns one, Janeway, Amanda and B'Elanna fight others.
"Janeway to Voy--" Janeway began.
Janeway is shot in the neck.
"Get up." a guard snaps.
Tuvok, Amanda and B'Elanna are arrested. A guard takes Janeway's comm. badge then a little man comes running up.
"Get away from her!" Caylem yelled.
[Engineering]
"Commander, any word on that tellerium?" Harry asked.
"Not yet. How bad is it?" Chakotay asked.
"The anti-matter reaction rate is down to twelve percent. If it drops below nine, the plasma injectors will lock up and we'll never be able to re-initialise the nacelles." Harry said.
"Options?" Chakotay asked.
"If we're going to reduce our power demands even further, we're going to have to drop the shields." Harry said.
"I don't want to leave the ship defenceless this close to a hostile planet." Chakotay said.
"All other systems are already offline. Life support is at minimal. You asked for options? That's our last one." Harry said.
"All right, power down the shields." Chakotay said.
"That helped. It's only a matter of time. There's nothing more we can do without the tellerium." Harry said.
"Neelix to Voyager." Neelix said.
"Yes, Neelix?" Chakotay asked.
"The rest of the away team is gone, Commander. They've been taken by the Mokra. What do you want me to do?" Neelix asked.
"Did you get the tellerium?" Chakotay asked.
"Yes, I have it." Neelix said.
"Then we need you here. Prepare to beam directly to Engineering." Chakotay said.
"Re-routing emergency power to Transporter room two and energising." Harry replied.
Neelix and the vial are beamed into Engineering.
"Chakotay to away team. Captain, can you hear me?" Chakotay asked.
"Unlock the control conduit." Harry said.
"Amanda, Tuvok, Torres, please respond." said Chakotay.
"Keep an eye on the flow rate." Harry said to a crewman.
"Yes, sir. Rate's holding steady." the crewman replied.
"Reaction rate has stabilised at thirteen percent. Up to fifteen, eighteen." Harry said.
"It worked then. We're all right." Neelix said.
"Maybe. Once the rate is up to normal, we'll try getting the warp drive back online. Then we'll see if there was any damage." Harry said.
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The Other Torres | A Star Trek Fanfiction *Book 1*
FanfictionAmanda Torres is the younger sister of B'Elanna Torres, she was 3 when her parents divorced whereas B'Elanna was six, Amanda lived with her father in San Francisco, her father was a Captain in Starfleet and was promoted to admiral when Amanda was 14...
