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Captains Log Supplemental: After a close call with the Softmicron and Species 8472, we are travelling in a Borg transwarp conduit. The Resistance has told us that they have a ship repair facility on a planet nearby, so we'll be dropping out of it very soon.

Voyager, The Bridge:
"Captain, the Resistance is hailing us," Harry said.

"On screen," Kathryn commanded, she climbed out of her chair.

Korok appeared on the viewscreen, "Captain Janeway, we will have to exit the conduit now. Just follow our lead."

"Right, we'll inform the others," Kathryn said. She glanced at Harry, he nodded his head.

The Borg ship flew out of the conduit, with the others right behind it. They all flew straight into a Softmicron fleet.

"Holy shit," Kevin stuttered.

"Stole the words right out of my mouth," Ian said.

"Mr Clarke evasive maneuvers!" Chakotay yelled just as the ship shook violently. The science station exploded, smoke filled the entire room.

"Aye sir!" Kevin yelled back.

The Lillyia Z5:
Emma entered the bridge via the turbolift, Lilly glanced back at her. "Glad you could join us, can you kick some Softmicron butt?"

"No problem," Emma replied. She stood behind the tactical station.

"I know this is a long shot but what about our new weapon?" Scot said questioningly.

"It's only a prototype Scot," Lilly said.

Scot pulled a face, "it's only a prototype Scot."

James 2, aka Johnstone, glanced at them nervously. "Can you two quarrel later?"

"Fine," Scot muttered.

Lilly passed him a mean glare, "fine whatever, Emma fire the weapon."

"Which one?" Emma asked.

"She's been on the Enterprise, of course she doesn't know what it is," Scot said.

"Press the red button instead of the usual button," Lilly said.

"Oh, ok," Emma said. She pressed the button with glee.

Enterprise:
Everyone but Jessie stared at the viewscreen looking shocked. "Ok Voyager has the nanoprobe weapons, the Lillyia has a cool weapon that seriously kicks Softmicron ass. What do we have?" Bryan asked.

"We have a warp core shield," Tom replied. Everyone laughed despite the situation.

"I wouldn't say the Lillyia's kicked a single ship's ass just yet. They're having an overload," Jessie said.

"Every ship for themselves Jess, can you just concentrate on firing weapons and shields?" Lena said.

Jessie glanced down at her station, "yeah I can do that."

Tom glanced in Lena's direction, "we haven't been at war for more than one day and you're already snapping at your crew."

"Shut up Tom," Lena muttered.

"See, oh wait, you always used to say that," Tom said.

Triah glanced back at them, "you said every ship for themselves, didn't you? This maybe helpful to us then."

"What, what maybe helpful?" Lena asked.

"80% of the Softmicron fire is directed at the Borg ship," Triah replied.

"This is their space I suppose," Bryan said.

Lena stood up, "ok here's what we're going to do." She turned to Jessie, "double the amount of weapons fire at those ships. Try to block the Borg ship if you can Bryan."

"Are you crazy woman?" Bryan said.

"Sane people never win, so yes. Just do as your told," Lena said.

Bryan turned around, "dad she's nuts, the way we're going we'll remain intact while causing damage. Her way will get us killed."

"We need the Resistance intact, just do as she says," Tom said. Bryan nervously turned back around.

"God I thought she was better than Janeway, no she's worse," Bryan said under his breath.

Voyager:
Kathryn fell back into her chair, "Ian, divert the Softmicron attack to us. When they do fire at the same time."

"Yes ma'am," Ian said.

Harry shook his head, "it's no use, the Borg ship is badly damaged. The Softmicron seem to know exactly how to fight them."

"Contact them, tell them to prepare for transport," Kathryn ordered.

"I wouldn't advice that. We'd have to lower shields, the Softmicron will prey on that," Harry said.

"Plus there are thousands on that ship, we can't get them all here," Ian said.

"Fine, contact the Enterprise and the Fleet," Kathryn ordered.

Ian shook his head, "too late."

"Ian lower shields, Harry get as many..." Chakotay quickly commanded.

The Borg ship exploded, a small shockwave emanated from it. It collided with one of the Lillyia ships. The ship's shields disappeared.

"Yep, we're getting our asses kicked," Kevin said.

"Captain, the Z4's shields are gone," Harry said.

"Ok, get their crew out of there," Chakotay ordered.

Ian nodded, "lowering shields." Harry nodded. "Softmicron are firing, raising shields again."

"Wait one or two more seconds," Harry stuttered. The Tactical station exploded, more smoke took over the room. "I've got them."

Kathryn looked over at Tactical, all that was left was blackened mess. Ian was lying on the ground nearby severely burned. Kathryn tapped her commbadge, "Janeway to Transporter Room, beam Ian Richards to Sickbay."

Chakotay tried to ignore what just happened, "re-routing Tactical controls to my console, raising shields again."

Kathryn sighed, she glanced over at Harry, "how many did we save in those two seconds?"

"Twenty two," Harry replied, while trying not to look guilty.

The Enterprise:
"Voyager's took heavy damage, we have to retreat," Triah said.

Lena and Tom ducked as a console behind them exploded. "Good idea, Bryan get us out of here."

"Wait, can the other ships follow?" Tom asked.

Triah nodded, "all can go at least at warp 4."

"Good enough, go," Lena ordered.

"Yes ma'am," Bryan muttered.

Tom went over to his chair, he brushed off some rubble and sat down. "Damage report Jess."

"Well our 'brilliant' warp core shield went down first again, we only suffered minor damage on lower decks. Nothing serious."

Lena turned around, "is our friends following us?"

"No, they're probably saving another beating until later," Jessie replied.

"No, I meant Voyager and the Lillyia," Lena said.

"Oh, yeah they are. What's left anyway," Jessie said.

Triah shook her head, "we've barely been in this space a day or two and we got our butts kicked badly. How are we going to survive several months?"

"Maybe they'll lose interest, I mean they declared war on the Borg Resistance. We were just with a Borg ship," Tom replied.

Lena sat down on her own chair, "they don't see it like that. They must know there's Slayers on the ship, or they would have left us alone. Ships without Slayers aren't a threat to them."

"Well we can't really surrender all the Slayers to save our hides," Jessie said.

"You would say that, you're married to one and conceived two others," Triah said.

Jessie rolled her eyes, "fine. If you want to surrender all the Slayers to the Softmicron, why don't you do it personally."

Triah stared blankly in both Jessie and Lena's direction, "I was just pointing out."

"Now that we got all that cleared up, we can check on Voyager and the Fleet," Tom said, trying to sound cheerful.

Lena nodded, "yeah I'll leave you lot to it, I've got to see some people." She stood up and headed for the turbolift.

Two months later:
Voyager, the Enterprise and the Lillyia Z5, all looking really badly damaged, flew out of a nebula, quickly followed by three Softmicron ships. One Softmicron ship fired on Voyager.

Kathryn pulled herself out of her chair, she looked in Harry's direction. "You told me that the nebula would hide us from their sensors."

"I know Captain, I don't get how they found us," Harry said. The side of his panel exploded, he quickly got out of the way.

"We're running out of sensible options now," Chakotay said quietly as he stood next to Kathryn.

"Any insane ones?" Kathryn said questioningly.

"A few," Chakotay replied.

The ship shook more violently than usual, several consoles sparked, one at the back exploded. A large bit of metal fell down from the ceiling, it landed in front of Kathryn and Chakotay.

"I'm willing to hear them out," Kathryn said.

"According to Lena, the Softmicron are only attacking us because of the Slayers. Maybe if we try to prove to them that they're dead," Chakotay said.

Kevin pulled an annoyed face as he turned around, "well I'm still alive, my sis is still alive, and I'm sure all the others are too."

"Do the powers that be only give strength to you Slayers?" Chakotay muttered.

"He brings a good point to this topic Chakotay, to prove that they're dead they'd have to be dead. I'm not about to let that happen," Kathryn said.

"Um can we discuss this when we're a little safer?" Harry stuttered, one bit of metal landed on his head. "Son of a..."

"No, we have to do this now. We can simulate an explosion nearby the Enterprise, they can jump to warp while the 'explosion' is going on. Haven't we simulated a ship explosion before?" Chakotay said.

"Yeah but a few Slayers are on Voyager," Kevin said.

"And Emma's on the Lillyia," Harry pointed out.

"They don't know that. They only know Slayers are on Voyager and the Enterprise because of all our previous encounters. They won't know where they are exactly, if they did they would have attacked a long time ago," Chakotay said.

"So we just tell them when we 'destroy' the Enterprise that all the Slayers are dead. Gee, they'll fall for that," Kevin said sarcastically.

The ship shook violently again, Harry looked really nervous, "uh Captain. Maybe we should use Voyager instead."

"Why?" Kathryn said.

"Because we won't need to simulate it, there's a warp core breach in progress," Harry stuttered.

Kathryn looked in Chakotay's direction, "evacuate the crew quickly. We'll try your plan."

Chakotay nodded, he tapped his commbadge, "Bridge to all hands, abandon ship. Everyone head for the Enterprise and the Lillyia. Transporters only."

"Um did anyone hear me, the Softmicron won't fall for it. They'll notice us evacuating," Kevin said.

"Not when we're using transporters. We can pretend a few crewmembers were left behind, plus we'll pretend to lie about the Slayers condition," Chakotay said.

"Ok we're going to tell them the Slayers are alive, just so we can create the illusion of them being dead. Talk about double lying," Kevin said.

Enterprise:
"This is not good, there's eighty crewmembers to transport over. That'll take a few seconds, without shields we're screwed," Jessie said.

"We ain't got a choice," Lena said.

"Can't they eject the core?" Bryan asked.

Lena raised her eyebrow, "they would have done it by now."

Tom covered his face with his hand, "this can't be happening."

Jessie shook her head, "Softmicron firing, raising shields already."

Voyager:
Chakotay came out of the turbolift doors, there was no turbolift there at all, "transport is going slow, the Enterprise and the Lillyia keep having to raise their shields."

"How long have we got left Harry?" Kathryn asked.

"Two minutes," Harry replied.

"Kathryn if the Softmicron keep firing on the Lillyia and Enterprise like this we'll not get everyone off," Chakotay said.

Kathryn tried to remain calm, "screw this, send as many crewmembers onto shuttles and escape pods."

Chakotay nodded, "yes ma'am." He climbed back into the shaft.

Kathryn looked around the room, "all of you go, there's nothing more to do here."

"But Captain..." Harry said.

"Harry, now!" Kathryn snapped.

"Yes ma'am," Harry muttered, he headed for the shaft.

Kathryn looked in Kevin's direction, "you too."

"I have to pretend to be dead don't I. Never been good at playing dead, plus you still need a pilot. You know to get the ship to collide into a Softmicron ship when the core blows," Kevin said.

"I can do that," Kathryn said.

"Well I'm a better pilot, there are more Slayers than Captains so I think I should stay, so there," Kevin said.

"I'm not leaving this ship," Kathryn said.

"Fine god, but I'm staying," Kevin groaned. He turned back around.

Enterprise:
"Twenty seconds till breach, there's still thirty people left," Jessie said.

Tom shook his head, "we can't stick around Voyager for any longer. The Enterprise won't be able to take a breach."

"Now would be good, ten seconds," Jessie said.

"Full shields, Bryan get us out of the way," Lena ordered.

Voyager:
"Have they got out of the way?" Kathryn asked.

"Yeah, collision time," Kevin said.

Enterprise:
Everyone on the bridge watched in horror as Voyager smashed into a Softmicron ship, there was a massive explosion that took out Voyager, and two Softmicron ships.

The shockwave collided with the Lillyia and the Enterprise. Everyone on the bridge fell to the ground, the Tactical station exploded, sending a few sparks everywhere.

Jessie pulled herself up, "shields are gone, well I think they are." She ducked just as the console behind her exploded.

"I don't think the last Softmicron ship's noticed that, they're retreating," Triah said.

Tom pulled himself to his feet, everyone else did the same. "Damage report, Lillyia too," Lena said.

"Can't. I said I think the shields are gone, meaning that the Tactical station is a bit fried," Jessie said.

"Suggestions?" Tom said.

"I think we should do a head count, we lost about thirty people and we don't know who they were," Triah said.

"I'll do that," Tom said. He headed for the open turbolift doors.

Lena sighed, she turned to Jessie. "Set up tactical control at a less important station."

Jessie nodded, "good idea, on it."

Several days later:

Lieutenant Commander Paris' Personal Log: We have spent over two months in Borg space. Ever since Voyager was destroyed a few days ago the Softmicron haven't bothered us. The entire crew have all experienced some kind of loss; the Captain, Chakotay, Kevin. They were all lost when we lost Voyager. There's no doubt about it, this is our second year of hell.

Conference Room:
The entire main cast, of the movie by the way, that were left were sitting at the table. Well except Lena, who was pacing back and forth.

"The Lillyia's shields maybe back up, but ours aren't. If the Softmicron come back for us, god knows what'll happen," B'Elanna said.

"There must be some way of getting them back up," Tom said.

"Tom there isn't. We barely have any power, the shield emitters are fried and all of our equipment isn't going to do the job," B'Elanna said.

"May as well face it guys, the Enterprise is screwed too," Harry said.

"Not really, the Softmicron haven't bugged us for days. They might think we're not a threat anymore," James said.

"And we could send some of the Lillyia's equipment over, it might make a difference," Lilly said.

Harry rolled his eyes, "oh yeah right, we're all ok now. Once the Softmicron notice they only killed one Slayer they'll be right back. Even with the shields up we won't last very long. We're just wasting our time."

"What do you suggest we do, Harry? Sit around and let death come," Tom snapped.

"No, we haven't gotten very far in the last two months, I say we go back," Harry said.

"Are you crazy? We were travelling at warp at some points, also transwarp via the Resistance remember. We haven't got enough power to go to warp now. It'll take ages to go back," Tani said.

"It'll take even longer to get to the other side," Harry said.

"Yeah but if we go back it'll be like saying, 'hey dead crewmembers, you died for nothing just because we're so cowardly and stupid'," Jessie said.

"Either way they'll have died for nothing. They died to save the butts of some lazy ass Slayers who never really do anything anyway," Harry said.

Lena hit her hand against the side panel, breaking it in the process. Everyone looked at her. "That's enough out of you Harry."

"Oh come on Lena. Including you and not including Kevin, who by the way had the guts to sacrifice himself for us, there's five strong Slayers, two useless kid Slayers and an odd few only trained ones. Compare that to how many lives are at risk, and how many have died," Harry said.

"Who are you calling useless kid Slayers, Harry?" James said, getting rather angry.

"Your kids. Don't lose your temper with me, it's the truth. They won't be able to help save people's life via Slaying until they're teenagers. Are they teens, no," Harry said.

"Ok that's fair. You're suggesting that because you think they're useless, we should just hand them over to the Softmicron," James said.

"There are over hundred lives at risk here. Seven bloody Slayers are not worth that," Harry said.

"For fucks sake," James muttered, he got up and left the room.

"He's speaking some sense. Not James, I mean Harry," Triah said.

Craig thumped the table, he cringed afterwards. "Triah how could you, two of them are kids."

"And one's your pretty girlfriend, that's all you're angry at me for," Triah said.

"Ok we do a poll. Who thinks our lives are more important than two generations of Slayers, who will probably not survive this anyway?" Harry asked.

Tom groaned, he threw a bit of rubble at him, "shut up Harry."

Harry glared at him, "what was that for?"

"Everyone has their opinion, but it's too late for that. We are all supposed to be in this together," Tom replied.

"Thanks Tom, glad you're with us," Lena muttered.

"For goodness sake, carry on like this we're all dead anyway," Harry said.

"Look I wouldn't mind dying to save the crew right now, but the Softmicron will want all of the Slayers dead," Lena said.

"Besides, we don't know for certain that, that's all they want. They probably thought the entire fleet was a threat, not just because of the Slayers," Tom said.

"Why would this fleet be a threat? It's the damn Slayers," Harry said.

Emma groaned, she smacked Harry in the back of the head. "Shut the hell up."

"We do need to think up a plan though," Tom said.

"There is no plan just yet, we're wasting time by just talking about it. If anyone comes up with one, you can come to me. Just for now get the ships fixed the best you can. Dismissed," Lena said.

Everyone slowly got up and left the room, leaving Lena on her own.

Engineering:
The entire room was chaotic, everyone there was either rushing around or busy fixing blackened mess and other things.

James came in through the main door. B'Elanna and Tani noticed him, B'Elanna nodded at Tani, she went over to James. "Just here for an update," he said.

"Figured. We're getting nowhere, even with the Lillyia's equipment. We've got enough power to keep up forcefields around holes in the ships, but that's it. The shield arrays are all fried and there's nothing we can do without replicators," Tani said.

"Harry did have one point in his ravings, we're screwed," James said.

"Not really, the Lillyia stands a better chance. Their shields are at 10% only, it'll still be a bad battle," Tani said.

"I'm still hoping the Softmicron have left us alone thinking they got all the Slayers," James said.

"Hate to burst that bubble but they're not that stupid. Look I need to get some more torches from a supplies room, I need someone to get the doors open while I carry about ten torches," Tani said.

"Sure," James said.

A little while later:
The Bridge:
Lena stepped out of the Ready Room, "anything to report."

"Nope," Tom replied. He stood up, "look Lena, you don't have to keep coming back to the bridge. I'd imagine you'd need some more time alone."

"Hey, nobody objected when James offered to go all the way down to Deck 16 to check on Engineering status, just to save using the power for the comm," Lena snapped.

"I know but he's already lost what he thought was his mum years ago, he's not evil so that means he can deal with the grief. Anyway he and his real mum weren't that close anyway," Tom said.

"Since when does that ever matter Tom, and since when did you know everything about him," Jessie said. Tom looked her way. "He may not have been close to her but he was upset about it. For god's sake he was upset when his abusive jack ass of a dad died, originally."

"Thanks Jess, you get it," Lena said.

"Ok you're younger than him," Tom said.

"Look Tom I'm fine, really. If you're not just doing this so you can be in command longer, then I appreciate your concern," Lena said.

"Well at least you kinda get that I'm concerned," Tom muttered.

"Guys, there's something you've got to see," Triah said. Tom, Lena and Jessie went over to opps. "Opps was badly damaged in the last attack, and well it's not really up to speed. You see the sensors says a ships out there, but I can't see it via the viewscreen."

"Softmicron or 8472 don't use cloaks, so there's either a visible ship out there or there isn't," Tom said.

"If we can't see it then it mustn't," Jessie said.

Lena's eyes widened, "oh god."

"What?" everyone said in unison.

"Softmicron don't use cloaks, but they use something else that seems invisible for a while and then appears out of nowhere," Lena said.

"A Game Cube?" Jessie said questioningly.

"Uh huh, they can go in space but since they can't land anywhere they just damage anything it hits," Lena said.

"Yeah and very badly too, Damien's Pegasus ship got hit and went flying, I'm sure they had shields at the time," Jessie said. Lena nodded.

"Why weren't we warned?" Bryan asked.

"We are in space Bry, there's no sound in space," Tom replied.

The opps station beeped loudly, "there it is again, putting it on viewscreen."

Everyone looked up, they saw a purple and blue mist forming nearby the Lillyia. "I knew it, quickly inform the Lillyia," Lena ordered. Triah nervously nodded.

"Here it comes," Jessie said.

Lena looked back up, a cube emerged from the mist while the Lillyia was slowly moving away. The cube hit the side of the Lillyia, the shields disappeared and the cube ripped a huge part of the hull off.

"Woah," Bryan commented.

"Uh huh, let's stay out of its way. No gravity will leave it free to float anywhere," Lena said.

"Yes ma'am," Bryan said.

The Lillyia:
"Damage report," Lilly ordered.

Johnstone waved his hand around to clear the smoke, "forcefields are down on micro decks ten to fifteen, and we have a hull breach in micro decks nine to twenty."

"Evacuate quickly," Scot commanded.

"Already on it," Johnstone said.

"The cube is floating its way towards the Enterprise," Emma said.

"These things are not supposed to just have a mind of their own after coming out of that mist. It seems really convenient that it came out and hit us, and now it's heading for the Enterprise," Scot said.

"You're right. Do we have any torpedoes left?" Lilly asked.

Emma nodded, "two why?"

"Contact the Enterprise to get away as fast as possible. When they're out of shockwave range, fire those torpedoes in the cube's path. The shockwave should knock it elsewhere," Lilly ordered.

"Good plan," Johnstone said.

"Wait, something is coming out of the cube," Emma said.

"That's not possible," Lilly said.

Enterprise:
"Softmicron ships are coming out of the cube," Triah said.

"Nothing can come out of the cube until the game ends and leaves. The game can't end if hasn't started, in other words landed somewhere," Lena said.

"Maybe it's their new toy," Bryan said.

"Wait, it's just one," Triah said. She giggled nervously, "sorry."

"Just one can really do some damage right now," Lena said. She looked in Bryan's direction, "try to evade any weapons fire." Bryan nodded.

"They're powering weapons," Jessie said from the new tactical, which was now Tom's chair and console.

Lena tapped her commbadge, "bridge to all hands, Red Alert, we are under attack. Try to stay in the inner part of the ship."

"Good warning, and I mean it," Tom said.

"Wait, they're going for the Lillyia," Triah said.

"Must be the strongest link," Tom muttered.

"Great, we're the weakest. Was Voyager the first?" Lena said. Triah shrugged.

"Should I fire something?" Jessie asked.

Lena sighed, "doesn't matter who they fire on first, we're going to get battered. Go on."

"Right, but we only have phasers," Jessie said.

The Softmicron ship was hit with two torpedoes from the Lillyia, and some phaser blasts from the Enterprise. The Softmicron fired one shot at the Lillyia, it swerved to get away but the blast hit one of the warp drives. It exploded, sending the Lillyia hurtling towards the Enterprise.

"Oh crap, we're dead," Triah stuttered.

"Bryan move quickly," Lena ordered.

"I'm trying, it's still going to hit us, port side," Bryan stuttered.

"Another Softmicron ship has come out of the cube," Triah said.

Lena tapped her commbadge, "Bridge to the port side of the ship, evacuate the area. Repeat, everyone on port side, evacuate area."

Everyone standing were thrown to the ground, everyone else fell to the ground nearby the consoles. One of the consoles exploded, a fire started.

Meanwhile:
Everyone started to pull themselves to their feet.

James stood away from Tani, "are you ok?"

Tani put her left hand over her head, "yeah, what the hell was that?"

"Maybe a hull breach," James replied.

The lights went off, the side panels all switched off. "That's not good, I hope the turbolifts..." Tani muttered. Two people switched on torches.

James put his hand up, "shh, do you hear that?"

Tani stepped forward. "Yeah I do, it's like a windy noise." She went closer to the damaged wall, she placed her hand on it. "It's coming from behind here."

"Get away from it," James said.

Tani moved away from the wall, "maybe it was a hull breach."

The whole area trembled like there was an earthquake. Everyone stumbled into the wall or someone nearby them. The shaking stopped.

The Bridge:
Tom looked around him, all he could see was fire and smoke. He pulled himself to his feet. Once up he could see more clearly. Lena was lying nearby him, Jessie, Bryan and Triah were pulling themselves up.

"Is everyone ok?" he asked as he went over to Bryan.

"Yeah," Triah replied.

"I'm in one piece," Jessie muttered, as she put her hand on her bleeding forehead.

Tom looked back down at Lena, who hadn't moved. He knelt down beside her.

"Is she ok?" Jessie asked.

Tom went pale, "no, she's dead."

"The Softmicron are firing again," Triah said.

"Moving again," Bryan said. He shook his head, "it's not going fast enough."

"All hands brace for impact," Tom said after tapping his commbadge. The ship shook, but not as bad as before. "Damage?"

"Hull breach, forcefield's contained it. Severe casualties," Triah said.

Enterprise Bridge:
Tani pushed some metal debris off of her, she made her way over to James. "Hey, are you ok?"

James pulled himself up, "yeah, what happened?"

"I think the ship moved, the blast still more or less hit the wall we were nearby," Tani replied. She placed her hand over the side of her face, which was badly burnt.

"No I know that bit. You pushed me," James said.

Tani shrugged, "well you seemed too shocked to move, someone had to do it. No big deal."

"No big deal? You saved my life," James said.

"What kind of person wouldn't. I didn't do anything huge, just something someone else would have done instead," Tani said. She cringed as she tried to stand up, she sat back down. "Crap, that stunt did actually hurt my leg, it's worth it."

"Maybe if I was someone else," James said, shaking his head. He tapped his commbadge, "Sickbay, can you hear me?"

Tani looked around, "well at least everyone's alive."

"No response from Sickbay means that either nobody is alive in Sickbay or comm is down," James said. He tapped his commbadge again, "Stuart to Janeway."

In: "Paris here, um... Lena can't talk right now."

In: "Nicely put."

"What, why?" James asked.

In: "Well Lena's dead."

Tani gasped, "oh god."

"Look um, we need to get some people to Sickbay. We were nearly hit by the Softmicron's weapons fire," James muttered.

In: "Well um, transporters are down and I wouldn't recommend going down from where you are. Just come up to a higher deck."

"Ok, but I'll have to drag myself along," Tani said. James stood up, he knelt back down and picked her up. "Or someone can carry me."

In: "Deck 2 is stable for now, Paris out."

The Bridge:
"Ok this is a long shot, but I have a plan," Triah said.

"Listening," Tom said.

"If we concentrate our fire on one particular area, the Lillyia too, it might just weaken their shields," Triah said.

"You're right it is a long shot. but do it," Tom ordered.

The Lillyia:
"The Enterprise has sent us some instructions," Emma said. Lilly made her way over to her side.

"Sounds good, do it," Lilly said.

"They're firing, so am I now," Emma said.

"Ok, put it on screen so I can see those bastards blowing up," Scot ordered.

Johnstone nodded, he keyed in some commands. The viewscreen changed to show one of the Softmicron ships. A few more phaser shots hit against it's hull, it then exploded.

Enterprise:
"Yes! We won!" Bryan screeched, clapping his hands. Everyone stared in his direction. "Sorry."

"There's still one left and this time it ain't retreating," Triah said.

Tom leaned on the back of Bryan's chair, "have we got enough power to do the same to that ship?"

"No," Jessie replied.

"Suggestions?" Tom said questioningly.

Triah's console started beeping madly, "here's one. Get out of the way."

"Why?" Tom asked.

Triah pressed a few buttons, the viewscreen changed to show the last Softmicron ship coming towards them.

"Oh, Bryan," Tom said.

"Don't rush me," Bryan stuttered.

The Lillyia:
"Uh, the Softmicron ship is on a collision course with the Enterprise," Johnstone said.

Lilly stepped closer to the viewscreen, "can they get away in time?"

"Not sure, doesn't look like they can move very fast," Johnstone replied.

"Keep firing on that ship, we may be able to divert their attack," Lilly commanded.

"Right," Emma said. The bridge shook, "well we diverted the weapons, but they're still going towards the Enterprise."

"Keep trying," Lilly said.

"It's not working Lill," Scot said.

Enterprise:
"Crap, crap, crap," Bryan muttered.

"Watch your language," Tom snapped.

Triah glared at him, "for god's sake."

Everyone was knocked to the ground or against the consoles again, more consoles exploded. Tom pulled himself up first, "ok that wasn't as bad as before."

Triah lifted her head off the console, "Bryan was very close, the Softmicron crashed into the port warp drive."

In: "Torres to Bridge, we're leaking coolant at an alarming rate, we may be fac..." An explosion was heard over the comm. "Ok, we are facing a warp core breach."

Tom tapped his commbadge, "Bridge to crew, abandon ship."

"Good news, when the Softmicron ship hit us their shields went down," Jessie said.

"Fire on them," Tom ordered.

"I am," Jessie muttered.

"The Lillyia's in the way, telling them to get out of the way," Triah said.

"They'll be out of range, we can't evacuate until the Softmicron have gone," Jessie said.

In: "Torres to Bridge, we only have one minute left. We've tried to eject the core, but there's not enough power."

"Is this really necessary?" Craig's voice asked.

Two months previously:
"Not really," Lilly replied.

"Hang on, how come you are able to tell this story when you weren't around in every scene?" Lena asked.

"Don't point out the plot errors," Lilly muttered.

"So who survived the core breach, I mean how many?" Chakotay asked.

The future cast glanced at each other nervously. Faye looked at Chakotay, "um well, not many."

"Yeah you see, the core breach went a lot faster because of the Softmicron explosion. The Lillyia only had a few seconds to transport people, they only got about twelve crewmembers," Lilly said.

"Oh my god. I know I was dead, but god, probably everybody we know are dead," Lena said.

"Yeah well that's why we didn't really want to tell the story, with some present company," Craig said. He glanced over at James, he rolled his eyes.

"Gee, you lost Lena, your mum, did everyone else take up the twelve?" Tom asked.

"Don't ask that, for one thing he has normal eye colour," Chakotay whispered.

"The Lillyia transported the kids first, all of the kids. We got all the living ones," Lilly said.

"Yeah Duncan and Sasha got beamed to the Lillyia with me and the others, Jessie, Yasmin, Kiara. They didn't," James said.

"So why aren't you evil?" Tom asked.

"Shut up you moron," Lena snapped.

Lilly sighed, "he did nearly lose it, luckily I had a plan, and Tani had a good contribution to it."

"Yeah that kind of helped calm me down," James muttered.

"And me too," Craig said.

Tom tried not to laugh, "ooh Evil Slayer's Boyfriend."

"Don't give him any ammo," Chakotay whispered.

Kathryn stood up, "now this is lovely really. I think I've heard enough, this plan we'll do it."

"I bet it's because the coffee will die too," Lena said.

Kathryn's eyes widened, "how dare you, that is something to be upset about but my kids didn't survive in that reality, well two of them anyway, and well I died first anyway."

"No Ian died first," Faye pointed out.

"Whatever, let's get on with it," Kathryn said.

Captains Log Supplemental: We are heading back to the place where we first encountered the new alliance, we have programmed the deflector to open up a realm to Softmicron space. It is only ten minutes until battle, and the whole crew are nervous about what's to come. But I know whatever happens this time round, we will fair a lot better than the other reality.

Voyager, The Bridge:
"Shields?" Kathryn said.

"100%" Ian said.

"Deflector," Kathryn said.

"Fully operational," Harry said. James 2, who was standing next to him, pulled a face. "Ugh fine, you take control of it."

"Co-ordinates set?" Kathryn said.

"Ready to press the button," Kevin said.

"Coffee?" Kathryn said.

Chakotay rolled his eyes, he lifted up a coffee flask. "Safely contained in a flask."

"Right, we're ready," Kathryn said.

"Borg ship is leaving the conduit," Kevin said.

"Good, you know what to do," Kathryn said.

"Aye aye Captain," Kevin said.

Lilly 2 leaned on the banister behind Kathryn and Chakotay, "I'd do it straight away. It maybe quieter on the border, but they could easily send some ships through another portal."

"I thought the one we're going to open is the only one around here," Chakotay said.

"Yeah, I'm guessing they have an opening every few light years," Lilly 2 said.

"We're out," Kevin said.

"Firing the deflector," James 2 said. Harry yawned like he was bored. James 2 elbowed him just for the hell of it. Harry left the station and stood next to Lilly 2. "Lilly you were right, two ships heading our way."

Lilly sighed, "we got their attention already, crap."

"How long until the portal opens?" Kathryn asked.

James 2 looked up at everyone, "it's open now."

"Yeah let's rock and roll," Kevin said. Everyone but he and James 2 looked nervous.

"Um, Janeway to Transporter Room," Kathryn said.

In: "Stuart here."

"Creepy," James 2 muttered.

Kathryn smiled nervously, "James, is the team ready?"

In: "Yeah, plus we have Daniel with us, isn't that great."

"Wow, sarcasm. I remember sarcasm," James 2 said.

"Ok, stop that. One is enough," Harry said.

In: "Yeah, please stop that. It's really creepy. Oh and Harry, if I survive this..."

"Yeah yeah," Harry said, trying to keep a straight face.

Chakotay grinned, "I hate to interrupt, but the portal is safe to go through and we have Softmicron almost in weapons range."

"Look buddy, I've been going towards it for a minute now, and we're in now," Kevin grumbled.

Kathryn glanced back at Lilly 2, "will the Lillyia be able to fight them off long enough?"

Lilly 2 nodded, "sure thing."

The room started shaking slightly. Kathryn sat on the edge of her seat, "what's that?"

"Just some turbulence, we'll live," Kevin replied.

"How long till re-entry?" Chakotay asked.

"Thirty two seconds," James 2 replied.

"I guess we'll find out soon whether we were right or not," Craig 2 said. Lilly 2 nodded her head.

"What if we were wrong?" Faye 2 asked nervously.

"Then we're just as dead as before. This is a one way ticket for us, since we only got the readings of the opening on that side," Lilly 2 replied.

"Great," Faye 2 muttered.

"Here we go," Kevin said. The shaking stopped, the viewscreen showed normal space and a planet.

James 2 looked back up again, "well, welcome to a different galaxy and the Softmicron homeworld."

Lilly 2 glanced in his direction, "are you sure?"

"That planet is populated by three billion Softmicron, I'm sure," James 2 replied.

Kevin turned around, "should I join that team Captain?"

"If the Softmicron attack us here, we'll need a good pilot," Kathryn replied.

"I'll go," James 2 said. He headed for the turbolift.

Kathryn pulled a face, "I didn't say he could, he's my backup just in case."

Chakotay raised an eyebrow, "what a loving mother you are." Kathryn glared in his direction. She snatched the coffee flask off of him.

The Softmicron Homeworld:
Lena, James, Sandi, Emma, Daniel and Zare rematerialised in a long bright corridor, all with weapons.

"Bloody hell, this is close. What's far away like," Daniel muttered.

Lena shook her head, "the scanner said it was only a few metres away from the transport site."

The group started heading down the corridor. "Um just wondering, can we make the game we go in a chain-saw fighting game?" Emma asked.

"Sorry Emma, we have to do an easy game just in case," Lena replied.

"Oh come on you wusses, we have three Chosens, two naturals and a watcher. We can't do any better than this usually," Daniel said.

"What about four Chosens," James 2 said. Everyone turned around.

"Oh this is going to be interesting," Zare said sarcastically.

"Can we have chain-saws now?" Emma asked.

Lena rolled her eyes, "can you guys keep it down, we don't want to attract..."

Several Softmicron in their cute form appeared in front of the group. Zare raised her eyebrow, "these are Softmicron? They're so cute."

The Softmicron glowed and changed into seven foot tall scary looking demons. "Cute, really?" Sandi said nervously.

Daniel grinned, "yeah, this'll be fun. Let's go gang." He charged for one Softmicron, he started hitting it with an axe.

The others looked at each other. Emma was the first to move, she jumped onto one and started stabbing it with a big knife. "This is so cool!" she yelled before getting pushed off.

"You can tell Emma hasn't killed anything recently," James said.

Zare stepped forward, "neither have I." The rest of the group joined in the fight.

The Lillyia Z5:
A console behind Lilly exploded, she turned to her new tactical guy. "Fire that damn weapon, I don't care if my future self said it would overload the system!"

"Yes ma'am," the tactical guy stuttered.

In: "Z4 to the Z5, Lill how is it going?"

"We're firing the weapon, the damn shields aren't in a good mood," Lilly replied.

In: "Acknowledged, should I tell the others to move too?"

"Yeah good idea," Lilly replied.

"We can't delay any longer, the realm will close in ten minutes," the opps girl said.

"We'll keep firing on those creeps until the last second," Lilly said.

"Um yes sir," the girl said.

A little while later, Voyager Sickbay:
In: "Transporter Room to Sickbay, incoming casualties."

"Yey," Lee muttered sarcastically.

Doctor Jones shook his head as Emma and Sandi rematerialised on two different biobeds. Both had massive scars on their faces, and across their stomachs.

"I hope the rest of the team doesn't get this too," Lee said.

"Yes, can you get me the regenerator?" Doctor Jones sighed.

The Softmicron Homeworld:
Lena stood up looking grossed out, "ugh, messy."

"Uh Lena, behind you," James 2 said.

Lena rolled her eyes, she turned around. "You know this is getting boring."

Daniel cut one Softmicron's head off. He took out a tab, and lit it up. "What are you doing?" James asked.

"Duh, lighting up the fight," Daniel replied. He threw the match in another Softmicron's face.

Lena went over to where James was, brushing her hands on her leg. "Look behind you," she whispered.

James briefly glanced behind him, he saw a large door. He glanced back at Lena. "Right, it'll probably need hacking."

Lena nodded, "I'll watch your back."

They both slowly stepped closer to the door. James turned towards the panel beside it. Lena stepped behind him, he handed her his axe as she did.

Meanwhile James 2 was trying to pull Zare off a dead Softmicron. "It's dead Zare," he was saying.

"But, oh," Zare moaned. She stood up fully, while pushing off James 2's hands. "Oooh another one." She jumped on top of another one.

"And I wonder why she was put in the Evil Slayer camp," James 2 muttered.

"No, I wonder why they released her," Daniel commented.

"You released her dumb ass. Oh wait, you have no memory of it," James 2 said.

Daniel shrugged, "who's the dumb ass now."

"Uh guys, can we have some fighting please," Lena said while swinging the two axes around into oncoming Softmicron.

"Ok, but I can't really kill anything, remember?" James 2 said. He turned around and started beating up another Softmicron.

"Oh I'm bored," Lena muttered. She threw one axe towards a group of more oncoming Softmicron.

"You're right, this is too easy now. I thought they were supposed to be really tough," Zare said, pushing her hair out of her face.

Another group of Softmicron in their original form appeared, they changed into much taller demons with knives attached to them.

"Zare!" everyone yelled.

Zare pouted, "sorry."

"Wait, I got it," James said.

Lena briefly glanced at him, "ok guys, you keep them occupied while we go in here."

"No problem," Daniel said with the tab in his mouth.

The large door opened, James and Lena went through it and ended up in a large control room. Several Softmicron were there.

"Oh of course, I should have known," Lena said.

James glanced at her not looking happy, "you threw away one of the axes."

Lena tried to ignore him, "leave the killing to me."

The Lillyia Z5:
"Captain, the portal is closing," the opps girl said.

"Ok, let's go helm," Lilly ordered.

The side of the helm exploded, "um, can't. The engine's are down."

"Shields are gone too, that weapon caused an overload," the tactical guy said.

The room shook violently. "Hull breach!" tactical guy yelled.

"Seal them off," Lilly ordered.

Meanwhile, the Lillyia Z4:
Scot got out of the chair, "try to divert the attacks to us, block the Z5."

"Aye sir," the helm guy and tactical girl said in unison.

A huge flash of light took over the entire room briefly, the Lillyia Z5 then exploded.

The bridge shook lightly. Scot stared at the viewscreen. "Sir, what should we do?" the tactical girl asked.

"Retreat, we'll come back when we have a good weapon to kill those bastards," Scot replied.

"Yes sir, I'll tell the rest of the fleet," the opps girl said.

Voyager Bridge:
"They've done it. A Game Cube is about to emerge," Harry said.

Tactical started beeping furiously, "Captain, Softmicron alert. Coming right from the surface."

"The awayteam, we have to beam them back," Chakotay said.

Kathryn stood up while wiping coffee from her mouth, "engage the Softmicron. Tell the Enterprise to stay out of the way and get the team back."

"What about the Game, we haven't got time," Kevin said questioningly.

"Just head for it Kevin, avoid fire from Softmicron and fire on them while we do that Ian," Chakotay ordered.

"I'm the Captain," Kathryn moaned.

"Just drink more coffee," Chakotay said.

"Ok," Kathryn said, she sat back down.

Enterprise Bridge:
"Have you got the awayteam?" Tom asked.

"Yeah, I just got them," Triah replied.

The room shook madly, a few consoles consoles. "Crap, raising shields," Jessie said.

"Impulse engines are off line," Bryan said, glancing back at Tom.

"Go for the Game Cube, we may just make it," Tom ordered.

Voyager Bridge:
Chakotay stood up, "Blue Alert. Engage landing struts."

"Ok, I'll figure out how to do that now," Kevin said, shaking his head.

"Enterprise status," Chakotay said.

"Impulse engines are down, they're getting here on thrusters," Harry said.

"The portal has closed," Ian said.

Lilly 2 glanced back at him, "the Lillyia."

"Well this is one big disaster," Craig 2 muttered.

"We are receiving a message though, someone just managed to send it through the portal," Harry said. He went pale just as the ship shook again.

"We've landed," Kevin said.

"Captain, the Z4 sent a message, the Z5 was destroyed," Harry said.

Everyone glanced over at Lilly 2. "Looks like you're the only one of us who's going to keep that temporal implant," Faye 2 said.

Lilly was about to say something but she was interrupted by Harry, "Game's almost on us, the Enterprise has only just reached the atmosphere."

"Take us up, we can't leave them," Kathryn ordered.

"Can't, the Game's too close," Kevin said.

"Eight seconds, six, five, four, three..." Harry said.

Enterprise Bridge:
"Crap we're not going to make it," Bryan said.

"You think!?" Jessie snapped.

Bryan cringed, "I'm doing the best I can."

"Doesn't matter, the Game's landed," Triah said.

Lena and James stepped out of the turbolift. "How's it going?" Lena asked.

Tom turned around, "we missed the Game, Voyager got in, and the Lillyia Fleet didn't get through the portal. Oh and the Softmicron are attacking us."

"We can go back and program another Game," Lena said.

"No need, another one's appeared and it's heading for us," Bryan said cheerfully.

"We didn't program two," James said.

"Crap, get us out of here," Lena ordered.

"What why?" Bryan asked.

"Some Softmicron were just coming in when we were beamed up, they probably programmed a nasty one for us," Lena replied.

Bryan went a little pale, "oh right. Taking us up."

Triah shook her head, "no it's too fast, it's about to hit us."

Lena sighed, "land underneath it. If we hit it in mid air we could get serious damaged."

Bryan nodded, "yes ma'am."

A few seconds later the ship shook, then there was large thud resulting in everyone standing to lose their balance.

"Oh yeah, does this ship even have landing capabilities?" Lena muttered.

"Game landing now," Triah said.

A little while later, Voyager:
Nearly everyone on the bridge looked rather worn out. "Wooh, that was a fun game," Harry commented.

"Oh come on, that's their easier games, yeesh," Kevin said, shaking his head.

"Of course it was easy for you, you were born to do this," Ian commented.

Chakotay shook his head, "where are we Harry?"

Harry's eyes lit up, "oh my god, whoever programmed the Game knew what they were doing. We're in a quiet area on Earth."

"Someone catch me, I'm going to faint," Kathryn said. She fell over despite Chakotay's not so evident attempt to catch her, ok he wasn't trying to catch her.

"What are we going to do though? The Enterprise is stuck in that other galaxy and well the Lillyia Fleet is in the Delta Quadrant," Ian said questioningly.

"There's nothing we can do at the moment. Let's just contact Starfleet Command, that's if they haven't noticed us by now," Chakotay replied.

"Anyway I'm sure the Enterprise will be fine. They can get another Game," Kathryn said while standing up.

Meanwhile the Enterprise:
Lena pushed some hair out of her face, "ok people, is everyone ok?"

"Just," Triah replied.

Tom brushed himself down, "the Game wasn't that bad, the catch must be the place we are now."

Triah sat back down in her chair, she fiddled with the console. "Oh well, yeah it is."

"Please don't tell me we're back where Voyager started years ago," Lena groaned.

"No worse, you see I have no idea where we are," Triah said.

"Then we must be still in that galaxy," James said.

Lena slammed her hand down on the banister, leaving a dent. "That's the last time I listen to any people from the future."

"Look on the bright side Lena. Voyager's home, and well both ships are intact unlike that alternate future," Tom said.

"Wow, I agree with Tom, must be something wrong with me," James said.

"Fine, get us to a safe area to make repairs. Before we go too far we have to figure out exactly where we are," Lena ordered.

"Aye Captain," Bryan said.

Voyager:
Admiral Paris was on the viewscreen, "well welcome back everyone. It is very good timing, we had this major war going on a while back with another dimension. It's a good thing you missed that."

"Oh well we were there, but got thrown back to the Delta Quadrant," Kathryn said.

Paris furrowed his brow, "I see, you didn't happen to see the Enterprise? That disappeared, and the area where it was last seen, there was some strange readings like with Voyager had in the Bad Lands."

"Yes that's where the rest of the crew is, including Tom," Chakotay said.

"How come they didn't get back?" Paris asked.

"We were under attack when the Game was landing, the Enterprise lost their impulse engines so they couldn't get in the Game in time," Chakotay replied.

"Well ever since the Game Cubes became more public, we've had the ability to do more research on them. It was too top secret to let any of our top scientists know about them. Maybe we could find a way to bring the Enterprise back with them," Paris said.

"I don't think so. They are controlled by a species, they're not just random anomalies," Kathryn said.

"Still they are just computer programs that are visible, we maybe able to do something," Paris said.

Lieutenant Barclay appeared on the screen, "if I might interrupt. The fleet have arrived to tow the ship to the docking bay. You didn't land from the cube very well."

Kevin looked embarrassed, "well I didn't land very well before the game."

Chakotay shook his head. "Ok, we'll see you in person, Admiral," Kathryn said.

"Yes we will. Paris out," Paris said. The viewscreen switched off.

"Well we're home everyone. Is it just me, but doesn't it seem unreal?" Ian asked everyone. Everyone nodded, except Harry who just fainted near his station.

Chakotay sighed, "the Enterprise should have at least been able to be here."

"I know, but if we got Voyager home, I'm sure the Enterprise will get back too. I mean they are at Game Cube central. How hard can it be?" Kathryn said.

The Enterprise, Astrometrix:
"Using Nikki's Tolg knowledge, we've had a stab at guessing where we are," Tom said.

"Well?" Lena said.

"James was right, we are still in the Softmicron's home galaxy. But we're two thousand light years from the actual homeworld," Nikki said.

"Meaning it would take two years to get back to Softmicron's home," Tom said.

"I know that, I'm not stupid," Lena snapped.

"Sorry," Tom muttered.

"Tell Bryan to set a course when he gets the co-ordinates," Lena said. Tom nodded, he left the room. "Nikki, send the co-ordinates to the helm. We've got another two years of travelling to do."

Nikki nodded, she keyed in some commands and she left the room. Lena just stayed where she was, staring at the Astrometrix monitor.

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