SEASON
ONE
CARETAKER
Part
3
Two
Days Previously, the Marquis Ship
As usual, all
was chaotic inside the crew's quarters. Everyone was rushing around,
collecting weapons, and in some people's cases, their lucky charms.
Chakotay marched into the room, and he watched as everyone scrambled around the quarters. They turned to face him as he began to speak.
"Listen up everyone. When we lower the ship's shields we board it and take whatever we can. We will be given a lot of resistance, only shoot to defend yourselves. Am I understood?" Chakotay said calmly.
Some people replied with a nod. A lot of people groaned, what was the point of being in the Marquis if they weren't allowed to go on a Cardassian killing spree?
One boy that looked about twenty put his hand up meekly. Chakotay rolled his eyes.
"What?" he said questioningly.
"Why can't we kill any Cardassians except in self defence? Some of us want a little revenge," the boy asked. A lot of the crew agreed.
"So do I, but this isn't the mission for it. I know a lot of you have had family members killed by Cardassians, but there is no need.." Chakotay said.
"You wouldn't of been able to do it anyway James," Jessie said. The boy just pouted in response.
"I could so. One of those freaks killed my mum," he said.
"How do you know that?" Jessie asked.
"Well there's a high chance that one did. The police guy said there was a lot of Cardassians in the area at the time," James replied.
"Would you two stop gassing, I wanna go and have some fun," a girl the same age said. Everyone showed that they agreed with a few loud cheers.
"Er, Chakotay. Can I leave my son here?" an older woman asked. The fifteen year old lad standing next to her sulked.
"Aw, but mum, I wanna go," the boy moaned.
"Listen to your mother, Craig. It'll be dangerous," Chakotay said.
"Oh fine, she gets to have all the fun," Craig muttered.
"Let's go!" Chakotay announced. Everyone in the room cheered loudly.
The Present, Voyager
"How
come we're this far from Federation Space? It's not possible?"
Kathryn asked angrily. Harry cowered at her glare.
"I don't know, Captain. It may have something to do with that array," Harry replied.
"Captain, the Marquis ship is also here. It's shields are down, and the ship is heavily damaged," Tom said from the helm.
Kathryn headed towards the ops station. "There are no life signs on the Marquis ship," Harry reported.
"What about on that array?" Kathryn asked.
"Our sensors can't penetrate it," Harry replied.
Kathryn turned around to look at the viewscreen. "Any idea what those pulses are that are coming from it, Mr Kim?" she asked.
Tom looked over waiting for Harry's response. He quickly turned back.
"Try hailing the array," Kathryn ordered as she made her way back to the centre of the Bridge.
In: "Carey to Bridge."
"Go ahead," Kathryn responded after tapping her commbadge.
In: "Captain, the Chief's dead. There's a possibility of a warp core breach."
"Secure all Engineering systems, I'm on my way," Kathryn commanded, she headed towards the turbolift.
"No response from the array," Claire said quietly from the Tactical station.
"Mr Kim, get down to Sickbay. Find out what's going on. Lewis, the Bridge is yours," Kathryn said as she left the Bridge.
Everyone but Harry and Tom glanced nervously at the cadet. Claire smiled nervously. "Wow, good work experience," she muttered to herself.
Harry ignored what was going on and he headed for the turbolift. Tom rushed after him. "Harry, wait for me," he said as he did so.
Sickbay
Harry and Tom
rushed in through the main doors. They were greeted by raging fires
in several parts of the room. Harry helped an injured Lee off the
ground. He and Tom immediately rushed over to the other medical
officers. Tom scanned the two injured crewman. Harry picked up a fire extinguisher.
"They must have been right next to the console when it exploded," Tom muttered.
Harry used the fire extinguisher to try and put the fire out.
Deck 11
Kathryn
finished fixing her hair to perfection (hmm, everyone's about to be
blown up by a warp core breach yet she seems to think that fixing her
hair is more important). She walked through the main doors, something
exploded near by. She tried to ignore it as she walked towards Carey
and Faye. The three began to work on fixing the warp core.
Sickbay
"Computer,
activate Emergency Medical Holographic Program," Harry commanded.
An older man, with barely any hair appeared out of thin air. He looked around briefly.
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency," he said in a dull way.
"Dumb question," Lee muttered. He was standing by one of the bio beds where one of the patients was lying.
"Status of your Doctor?" the Doctor said questioningly.
"He's a bit dead," Lee said.
"Point 4 CC's of Trianolene," the Doctor commanded. Lee looked at him with a confused look on his face.
"Erm, can you repeat that?" Lee said questioningly
The Doctor looked impatiently at Harry and then Tom. "Is he the only nurse," he muttered.
"He's only a trainee," Tom said.
The Doctor sighed and he walked over to a medical tray. He picked up a hypospray and he injected the patient with it.
"How soon are a replacement medical crew expected?" the Doctor asked.
"Well, it's going to be a little difficult. We're a little far away for replacements right now," Tom replied.
"Tricorder," the Doctor commanded as he headed over to another patient. Harry followed him and he handed him a tricorder.
The Doctor handed it straight back, and he also gave Harry an annoyed look. "Medical tricorder!" he said.
Harry ran over to Tom who had one, and he passed it to him. Harry gave the tricorder to the Doctor.
The Doctor scanned the patient. "A replacement must be requested as soon as possible, I'm only programmed as a short term emergency supplement to the medical team," he said.
"Well it looks like we're going to be stuck with you for a while, Doc," Tom said.
"There is no need for concern. I'm programmed to cure any injury or disease," the Doctor said. He walked Harry's way. "No concussion, you'll be fine... in a month," he said as he walked away.
Harry looked puzzled as he looked at Tom. Tom just looked at him in a bemused sort of way.
Engineering
Kathryn and
Carey eventually managed to fix the warp core. Kathryn sighed and she
headed towards the door slowly.
In: "Lewis to Engineering. We're erm, being scanned by the array thingy. It's went straight through our, erm shields."
"What kind of scan?" Kathryn asked. The commlink made a strange noise as it cut off. "Bridge? Janeway to Bridge, respond!" Kathryn exclaimed. Most of the Engineering crew were beamed away from where they were working.
Kathryn went over to Faye who was looking rather nervous. "Initiate emergency lock on..." Kathryn said just before she and Faye beamed away themselves.
Sickbay
The Doctor
walked over to one of the biobeds. "You're not seriously hurt.
You can return to your station," he said. The woman on the bed
nodded her head. She began to sit up but she suddenly beamed away.
The Doctor looked around, everyone else beamed away too. He started wandering around, then he tapped his commbadge. He started muttering on to himself when he didn't get a response. He sighed, he was all alone.
The Array
All the
Voyager main characters grouped together, along with some extras.
They came across a farm house.
"Captain?" Tom said questioningly.
"Don't believe your eyes, Mr Paris. We've only travelled several kilometres. We're inside the array," Kathryn said as she looked at her tricorder.
Harry looked at his. "There seems to be no sign of stable matter. It must be some sort of holographic projection."
The large woman made her way down to the main characters, holding a tray with biscuits and glasses on. "Oh you poor things must be tired out. Sit down and have a cool drink," she said.
"No thank you. My name is Kathryn Janeway, Captain of the Federation Starship Voyager," Kathryn said.
"Just make yourselves right at home. The neighbours should be here any minute," the woman said. She looked over behind the crewmembers. "Oh, well here they are," she said louder than before. Several crewmembers turned to look who was coming.
A couple of farm folk were coming over to the farm house. One was the old man with the banjo.
"Now we can get started," the woman said in delight.
"Let's have some music," the old man said as he sat on the farm house's steps. He started playing the banjo. All the farm folk started dancing to the so called music. All the Voyager crewmembers were just looking around all confused.
10 minutes later Tom came back over to Kathryn and Harry after checking around the farm.
"The crew is scattered around this farm, Captain. But they're all accounted for," Tom said.
"Move around, scan the area. See if you can find anything that could be a holographic generator," Kathryn ordered. Tom and Harry nodded and they walked away.
The large woman came over to Kathryn with sweetcorn things on the tray, "corn on the cob?" she said questioningly. Lucky for her, nobody thought she was saying 'corn in the gob," this time.
"Can you tell me why we're here?" Kathryn asked.
"Oh, we don't mean you any harm. I'm sorry if we put you out. Why don't you put your feet up and get comfortable while you wait," the woman replied.
"Wait for what?" Kathryn asked. The woman hesitated and she walked away.
Tom and Harry were walked around with tricorders when a young girl came up to them. "Hey let me show you around," she said. She looked towards where a large barn, and a few fields were.
"What's down there?" Harry asked.
"Potatoes, onions, nothing interesting," the girl replied and she put her arms around Tom.
"Paris she's only a hologram," Harry commented as he headed forward.
"No reason to be rude," Tom said.
Harry's tricorder started making beepy noises. "Woah, I'm picking up sporocystian lifesigns," Harry said. Tom ran to catch up with him. The girl followed and she put her arms around theirs.
They all reached a barn. "What's in the barn?" Harry asked.
"Oh, nothing. A big old pile of hay. Hey, come on let's go and see the duck pond," she replied and she tried to stop the both. "There's nothing in there, it's just a dark boring barn," she said. She went to block the doorway. "Hey, do you fancy a double date?" she asked.
Tom pulled her away from the doorway gently, and he and Harry went inside.
"See, nothing but hay," the girl said.
"There is a lifeform here," Harry said.
"Where?" Tom asked.
"It's everywhere. I'm also detecting a matrix processing device. Could be the holographic generator," Harry said as he walked towards the wall. "Paris, humanoid lifesigns over here. I'm reading a Vulcan and several humans," Harry said. Tom came over to him.
The girl ran over to them and she stood against the wall. "I'm not ready for you yet!" she said angrily.
Suddenly they heard what sounded like a dog barking. Tom and Harry turned around to see a dog baring it's teeth at them. Tom tapped his commbadge. "Paris to Janeway..." the girl punched him in the face and he fell backwards into a wooden fence.
Back outside Kathryn tried to talk to Tom, but he didn't respond. "Come on!" she ordered. She and a couple of others followed her towards the barn.
Tom sat up, and he felt his lip. It was bleeding. Suddenly a group of farm people appeared with pick forks and spades. Kathryn and her team arrived on the scene.
Kathryn went up to the large woman, with her hands on her hips.
"Very well. If you don't care for any corn then we'll have to proceed ahead of schedule," the woman said. She turned to face the wall. As she did so it disappeared to show a strange bright room. There were over hundred beds, less than half of them had the Marquis crew lying on them with needles sticking in them.
Harry looked at some of the beds. He felt a touch of sympathy, some of them were years younger than he was.
Kathryn saw a Vulcan on one of the beds and she seemed saddened. Next to him was a boy who was only fifteen year old. She turned around.
The Voyager crewmembers then all beamed away
Harry woke up and he looked around. He was on one of the beds. He saw a needle going into Kathryn, and the young crewmembers like Claire. He then noticed that a needle was only centimetres away from him. He panicked, it seemed like torture when it pushed it's way into his skin. He screamed in agony.