This story is based in the Star Trek Voyager universe and takes places in before the events of Unimatrix Zero, during the show's sixth season. Also please note that I do not own Star Trek Voyager or any of it's characters, I am merely borrowing them for the fic so please don't sue me!
StoryCaptain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager straightened up into a sitting position in her command chair for what seemed like the umpteenth time, her hair was a mess and oil among other compounds were streaked across her face and uniform. When she spoke her voice was crisp and impatient,
"Damage report."
The first to respond was Ensign Harry Kim who looked in as terrible a state as the Captain herself. The console behind him indicated that the main EPS relay was offline and the console next to that was charred and no longer functional. However Harry was not concerned with those consoles, it would seem that they were old news. Instead his hands skimmed across the control panels in front of him, tapping the controls, his eyes took note of everything they saw and within seconds he was giving a report to the Captain.
"Plasma conduits on decks seven through eleven have ruptured....."
The ship shakes violently obviously from an impact, Captain Janeway is thrown sideways and once more begins to pull herself up into a sitting position whilst Ensign Kim is thrown to the floor, he slowly pulls himself to his feet whilst a loud voice rings out across the bridge. It is that of the tactical officer Lieutenant Commander Tuvok.
"Shields are offline."
By now Harry has scrambled to his feet and once more he is busy at the consoles that surround him, once more his voice rings out.
"Hull breach on Deck 10, emergency forcefields are offline."
Janeway's response was crisp, just like before.
"Send a repair team to seal it. Divert all auxiliary power to the shields."
Before Harry could perform the order Tuvok spoke.
"Captain, all auxiliary power is currently routed to engineering, it is likely that if we divert it we will lose impulse engines."
Janeway didn't hesitate, she tapped the comm badge pinned to her uniform and spoke out, her words being relayed through the comm system to Engineering.
"Bridge to Engineering, we need more power for the shields."
After Janeway spoke there was almost twenty seconds of silence, silence that was only broken by the hissing of gases escaping from broken conduits and the beeping of consoles as fingers tapped them. After these twenty seconds Janeway once more tapped her commbadge.
"Bridge to Engineering, respond."
Once more silence fell upon the bridge, but this time for no longer than five seconds. It was Harry's voice that broke it,
"Captain, internal scans show no lifeforms in Engineering."
Compassion surged through Janeway as she heard this, her mind recalled images of those crewmembers who had been stationed in Engineering, B'ellana, Vorik, Nicolleti.....she mentally shook herself. Now was not the time for grief, they had to get out of this in one piece first. She turned her mind to the issue of the shields, but before she could come up with a solution to their problem a voice rang out from next to her. It was that of Commander Chakotay, like the rest of the crew both his face and his uniform were smeared with oil, and as he spoke there was a note of desperation in his voice.
"They're firing again."
Instinctively the crewmembers on the bridge gripped the supports near their station, these were different for each person. For some the supports were bars surrounding their consoles and for some they were armrests on their chairs. As Janeway's hands clasped the armrests on her chair she spoke out an unnecessary command, after so many impacts it had become second nature to the crew.
"Brace for impact."
A splitsecond later a shockwave ripped through the ship, far more powerful than the last due to the fact that the shields were down. It was so forceful that Janeway was thrown from her seat to the floor, at the rear of the bridge one of the consoles exploded in a burst of flames and the Ensign who had been working at the station was thrown backwards to the floor. The Lieutenant who had been working next to the Ensign rushed to his side, he turned his lolled head towards him and recoiled slightly at the sight. The explosion had caught the Ensign full on and if the console had come of badly it was nothing compared to what had happened to the Ensign, his skin was charred a deep red and it was obvious that he was dead, however the Lieutenant pressed his fingers to the Ensign's neck before announcing to the bridge.
"He's dead."
Once more Janeway felt that pang of compassion due to the loss of life, but once more she pushed it out of her mind. With Chakotay's assistance she pulled herself back into her chair once more, whilst she had been doing this the crew had been using their consoles to learn of the damage to the ship, she didn't need to ask for a damage report this time. The man at the helm was first to speak, Tom Paris usually tried to brighten any situation using some small joke or simply using a light voice and acting as if he hadn't a care in the world but on this occasion his voice sounded deadly serious, none of his usual lightheartedness could be found in his voice.
"Helm control is offline."
Tuvok followed up with his report.
"As are all weapons and sensors."
The next to speak was Harry Kim,
"Life support is failing to everything below deck three."
Before Janeway could fully process this information another voice rang out, Chakotay's.
"They're loading their torpedo tubes. Captain, we won't survive another hit."
Janeway hesitated for a moment, her head turning as she looked at each member of her bridge crew who were all watching her and awaiting her orders, finally she made her decision. Her had reached upwards and once more tapped her communication pin. Her voice shook slightly as she spoke, yet she knew what she was saying was the right thing to do.
"All hands, this is the Captain. Proceed to the escape pods and abandon ship immediately. Repeat, all hands abandon ship."
Janeway sighed as she closed the communications channel, no-one on the bridge had moved. Tom spoke out first,
"Captain, i think i speak for us all when....."
Her voice was sharp when she interrupted, it had to be to show them that she meant business. These were good people, all of them, and she wouldn't ask any of them to give up their lives.
"Now Mr Paris."
Tom looked her dead in the eyes for a moment before finally standing.
"Yes ma'am."
The rest of the senior officers began to head to the turbolift, at the rear of the group was Ensign Kim, before he entered he turned and looked at the Captain,
"Captain, we have to go now."
"Get out of here Mr Kim and that's an order.....I'm staying."
"But Captain....."
"But nothing Harry, a Captain always goes down with her ship."
A few seconds passed where Harry, as Tom had done, looked the Captain in the eyes,
"Aye Captain."
Janeway watched as he entered the turbolift and the doors slid shut, blocking her bridge crew from sight. A tear trickled from the corner of her eyes as she realised that she would not see them again. Slowly she turned her head to the panel at the side of her and tapped the controls, the viewscreen flickered and an image of a large vessel appeared on it. Four red balls of light suddenly appeared from the ship, it had fired. The four torpedos sped towards Voyager and Janeway could do nothing but watch as they brought destruction towards her ship. Seconds later the torpedos ripped through Voyager's hull, destroying large chunks of the starship, it was the fourth torpedo that impacted Engineering. Fire swept through the entire Engineering section and reached the Warp Core, the computer did not even have time to issue warning of the fire. Within milliseconds the Warp Core had breached and an antimatter explosion engulfed the ship. Just before before the explosion occured more tears trickled down Janeway's face, this was the end. Then the explosion ripped through the bridge, tearing it apart. Voyager exploded, scattering debris throughout space, but leaving no trace of any human remains.
Tuvok let out a very un-Vulcan like gasp as he awoke from his slumbers.......
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!