[On the Bridge]
The Voyager returned to the planet. Seven had gotten Lil, who felt much better when waking up again, and they both joined the captain on the bridge.
"Hail them", Janeway ordered.
Icheb's father was on the viewscreen.
"We didn't expect to see you again, Captain. And I didn't expect to see my son's former mate again."
"We'd like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind."
"Questions?"
Yifay was on the viewscreen now too.
"Regarding Icheb and the circumstances of his assimilation", Seven answered.
"We've already discussed that." (Leucon)
"The story you told me was inconsistent with our data." (Seven)
"We don't owe you any explanations." (Yifay)
"In that case, I'd like to talk to Icheb", Janeway demanded.
"He's not here."
"Where is he?" Lil spoke up.
"That's not your concern", Yifay snapped.
"Scan for his bio-signs", Janeway ordered.
"He isn't there", Lil whispered, earning a confused look from Seven.
"He is not in the settlement", Tuvok said.
"I'm detecting a Brunali transport vessel, distance, nine million kilometres. It's heading for the coordinates of the transwarp conduit." (Paris)
"According to these readings that ship is travelling at warp nine point eight." (Chakotay)
"It only looks that way. It's been designed to emit a false warp signature strong enough to penetrate subspace." (Paris)
"They're using it as bait to attract the Borg."
"Icheb's on that vessel, isn't he?" Lil wanted to know.
"He's fighting for his people." (Yifay)
"Alone, on an unarmed transport?" Lil raised her voice, the Vulcan side of herself showing, eyes darkening to a black color.
"We don't have particle weapons or powerful starships at our disposal. We're forced to use the only resource we have."
"Your children?" Seven accompanied Lil in the angry mode.
"No. Our genetic expertise."
"Icheb's not bait. He's a weapon. The first Cube that captured him was infected by a pathogen. Icheb was the carrier, wasn't he?" Janeway wanted to know.
"Every time we try to rebuild, begin to make progress, the Borg come and take it away from us."
"Tom, set a course for that transport vessel. Full impulse."
"Aye, Captain."
"You have no right to interfere."
"We're trying to save our civilisation."
"By taking away Icheb's future. And the chance for him to have a family on his own."
Lil's blood was boiling, the anger being close to break through. Seven laid a hand on the young girl's shoulder, trying to calm her down a bit with this simple gesture.
"If we don't stop the Borg, the Brunali have no future." (Yifay)
"Captain, a Borg ship will emerge from that conduit at any moment. You'll be destroyed." (Leucon)
"We'll take our chances. End transmission. Red alert. Battle stations."
They broke the contact to the two Brunali and the Voyager then left orbit.
"We're coming within range, Captain", Tom said.
"I'm picking up Icheb's life signs. Bio-scans indicate he's unconscious", Harry reported.
"Transport him to Sickbay", Chakotay ordered.
"I can't. There's some kind of interference", Seven meant.
"It's the conduit. By my estimate, a Borg vessel will emerge in less than forty seconds", Tuvok said with his full-time serious voice.
"Transfer auxiliary power to the transporters", Janeway gave the next order.
"I still can't establish a lock, not at this distance."
"Thirty seconds", Tuvok started to count down.
"Tom, get us closer to that ship."
"Yes, ma'am."
"The conduit's opening. Twenty seconds."
"Seven?"
The blond woman tried again to beam Icheb to the Voyager, but failed yet again.
"Still out of range", Seven replied.
"You heard her, Tom."
"When that Borg ship comes through I'm going to have a hell of a time getting away from it", Tom meant, nervousness evident in his voice as he directed the ship closer.
"One problem at a time", Janeway replied.
"Ten seconds, nine, eight", Tuvok still continued to count down.
"I've got a lock", Seven exclaimed.
"Seven." (Tuvok)
"Transport in progress."
"Five", the Vulcan got back to the countdown.
"He's in Sickbay", the former drone reported.
"Three, two, one."
"Get us out of here, maximum..."
Janeway was interrupted by the Borg Sphere, which grabbed Voyager and the Brunali shuttle with a tractor beam.
"Target their tractor beam generator." (Janeway)
"Phasers targeted." (Tuvok)
"Fire", Janeway ordered, a serious voice.
"No effect."
"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
"Perhaps not. There is a way to get a weapon through their shields", Seven meant.
"I'm listening."
"Transport a photon torpedo to the Brunali vessel. Set it to detonate soon as it's inside the Sphere", Lil shot.
Everyone looked to her.
"What you are not the only ones that know about these things."
"That will occur in approximately twenty seconds. However, Voyager will be inside less than three seconds later."
"Tom, full reverse thrusters. It might buy us a couple more seconds. Do it."
"Transport complete. Detonation in ten, nine."
Voyager turned on a sixpence.
"Five", Seven did the countdown now.
"Tom, go to warp on my mark."
"Three, two."
"All hands, brace for impact", Chakotay said.
Lil gripped on Seven's arm.
The shuttle exploded in the entrance, funnelling the shockwave outwards.
"Now, Mister Paris!" Janeway yelled.
"The Borg vessel has taken heavy damage. They are not pursuing", Tuvok reported.
Everyone let out a breath. Lil let go of Seven's arm and ran for the sickbay.
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Spock's daughter
Fiksi PenggemarPleeeeaaaase read this story. :) Icheb x OC After many centuries she was found. When she wakes up, she had gone to missions and dealt with conflicts, many attempts of flirting and the new present time. But what will happen when the ship vanishes thr...
