Chapter 1
Klingons of Boreth Sins of the Father
Planet Tingrand
Deep Space
The iridescent glow of the full moon played its silvery light over the soft desert sands making them shimmer like a thousand points of lights. In the distance two figures moved in tandem with each other almost like two dance partners. The tall muscular one lopped almost like the four legged one that trailed beside him. Together in perfect harmony, the two advanced on the small settlement that lay at the base of the foothills of the tall mountainous area. Their approach had been in stealth and seamless. The two-legged homid one paused looked to his companion, who was nose bent to the ground and sniffing. Lifting the long snout, the thick luxurious furred one of the homid companion shadowed the ground. Catching the scent, the four-legged one bounded towards the settlement, paused to peer back with yellow feral eyes and waited for the homid to catch up with her.
Reaching the outcropping of rocks, the four-legged one pressed into the shadows and waited. When the younger looking HmfiC had caught up to her, she shimmered back into homid form and crotched down on her haunches. HmfiC followed Bi'Anka down to the ground and spoke softly in his guttural Klingon words. "When we go in are you going as you are now or will you go back to Volkain?" Bi'Anka sifted her head around and looked to the settlement then back to HmfiC.
"I plan to stay in this form for now. I am tempted to play with my prey when I am in Volkain form. That is what got us in trouble the last time. This quarry will be waiting for us to show up. We don't have an advantage this time, you look too young and a threat. Maybe I should be the first to enter they will think me not that much of a threat if I go in first. I know Ce'Zar is aware that we are tracking down all of his brothers and that Daedalus has a price on his head so he is going to be prepared."
HmfiC thought a moment and smiled, he remembered Ce'Zar and he never liked him. He was just a carbon copy of his brother Daedalus. "I will take the kill through a challenge of honor with Ce'Zar, you can have his son Lorton. He will be a worthy challenge. Our resources say that both are in the cantina tonight and they will be drinking heavily. But we do not underestimate them because they hold their liquor well."
Bi'Anka frowned, she did not like the idea of taking a son but he was close to her age so she could easily assuage her thoughts on this point. "Ce'Zar is Paraquin's oldest son correct?" She saw the nod of HmfiC long dark hair, gone was the wizened age creases in his face, the slightly salty look to his hair and facial hair. He stood a strong and healthy warrior thanks to the healing waters of the pool.
Just thinking of the deal M'lar had made with Janquin had given her chills. Just the thought of being an incubator for those silly elders made her skin crawl. At least she was able to gain HmfiC's release and he did not have to forfeit his life. Directing that intent gaze of hers back to the settlement she reached behind her in the shadows to the backpack she had stashed there earlier in the day. Pulling out her diginocs, she scanned the area getting a digital read out on the lenses as to which building was the cantina. Smiling she handed the diginocs to HmfiC, who took them and scanned the same as Bi'Anka had.
"We know which building, you ready?" Bi'Anka could smell the DNA of the one she sought in the air and she was ready for battle. Standing she shifted her shoulders, unbound her hair and let it dance down her back to sway against her hips she turned and winked at HmfiC and with a subtle sway of her hips she entered the settlement with one purpose and one destination in mind.
Planet Abarrath
Aboard the Tori
Janae did not like he was being used as a puppet but if he got more tech and was able to sell it to the cleric what the heck, he could put up with being used a little. What had gotten his attention was the Minorit; Seneri had said it was best to leave them alone. He would want to find out more about this group of homo-borg prototypes he was sure they had something he could use to bring in a little more money. Not that he was greedy he just liked lots of credits to his name so that when he did decide to retire he would be flush enough not to have to worry and if he wanted to buy his own planet then all the better as far as he was concerned. Currently, he was interested in the tech that could allow you to shrink. If they could take your molecules and displace them, why not be able to miniaturize them?
He sat at his ready room com and let his fingers thrum lightly on the console while he thought about what Seneri had told him earlier. She was going back to her place of origin so that they could try and make peace with Xenoliths and Abbraths. If they became friends what could he gain from this association? His mind was trying to work out the details when Mara's voice disrupted his chain of thoughts. "Janae, we are about six parsecs from the planet how do you wish to approach them?" She had not wanted this job and it was evident by the sound in her voice.
"Why not send out a general hail to them, see if they will allow me an audience with a person in charge and then have Seneri meet me in the transporter room." It was a simple enough solution and usually Mara had already done what he had anticipated, why was she dragging her feet this time. He had an uneasy feeling about that communication from his operations officer. Rising he turned and stopped standing in the door way shimmering in translucent format were two men in silver suits with bluish tints to them.
"You are Captain Janae correct?" The taller of the two blue heads spoke in a mechanical type voice.
Janae nodded, "And you must be Abbraths?" He was just as emotionless as they were when he has spoken the obvious. He watched them nod.
"Why have you come? We detect some of our Tech is on your ship," The second blue head spoke and Janae crossed his arms and studied the two images that were not actually on his ship but their holographic images were.
"I come bearing gifts, or rather a gift. Something I stole from the Xenoliths. I thought you might like it back since she says she belongs to you." He turned and hit his open com button. "Seneri, I have guests in my ready room would you join me please?" The two blue heads turned and began to converse in a language that sounded like clicks and whirring sounds.
Seneri entered his quarters walking through the two images, paused, pivoted turned and began to communicate in the same manner as the two blue heads. They paused looked at her and from the distance a blue light emanated over her body freezing her in place and appearing to shut her down. The two blue heads stopped speaking looked at Seneri, and then to Janae and in a flash of blue lights, Janae and Seneri were transported to a sterile looking lab. Both Janae and Seneri were frozen in place.
For Janae the transport had caused him to see flashes of bright lights and it took a couple of minutes for his vision to clear. "Ahh good I see that you are getting your senses restored. Good. When you are able to move, follow me." A slender blue haired, blue faced woman of some considerable beauty and note stood patiently for the affects of their transport to wear off.
Janae blustered he had hoped that Mara, Modak and the rest of his crew had tracked him here otherwise he knew he was in deep trouble. "What the hell happened just now?" He asked the blue haired woman.
"You were deep spaced teleported to this location. We had only a minor problem with getting past your security measures which was impressive but not impossible to breach."
"I see, mind telling me what your name is?" He felt his body starting to respond to being in a more stable and normal environment. He found by blinking his eyes continuously, he was able to get a clearer image.
"We do not go by 'names' here Mr. Janae, we go by designations, I am BASU 10922. You are being guided and debriefed by me because I am a Biological Armed Soldier United designation as 10922. I am the ten thousand nine hundred twenty second unit that had been designed to take care of terrorists or potential terrorist and my job is to see if you are telling the truth. I will take you to b scanned to make sure you do not have anything undetectable in the form of a weapon that could harm any one of us here, while we take your 'offering of the obviously now outdated Bio-Borg prototype to be examined."
Janae relaxed somewhat they were going to scan him, he could not help himself but to quip, "Thank god you are civilized enough to not want to do an anal cavity search, don't know what I might be packing up there." He chuckled and when his little joke was not responded to he felt a little insecure. "Um you are scanning right?"
"We do not do cavity searches here Mr. Janae, we do those at the medical out put unit. There you will be sedated and the BUAMSU on duty will do whatever internal searches are necessary. The good part is you will be unconscious and not even know what is happening when they examine all your cavities." He did this affected mechanical sound that was very much akin to a soft chortle. "We always wish those getting ready to undergo internal searches to have sweet dreams, we find that amusing." Again with the mechanical sounding soft affected chortle.
Janae closed his eyes and moaned, "What the hell have I gotten myself into now?' He muttered, Seneri turned to look over at him with her own fear edging her eyes. She forced a faux smile to her lips.
"Relax, at least you will not be dis-mantled, they are preparing to take me apart circuit by circuit. Before you go, I wish to thank you for returning me home and it has been a pleasure learning about you and making your acquaintance. I fear the next time we meet, I will be an entirely different entity to you Janae." She almost appeared ready to cry, which he knew was impossible. She was nothing more than circuits with an artificial activated emotions chip. Still he felt sorry for her.
"Strange I am reading emotional sadness from this one for her." A tech behind BAMSU10299 advised while she was reading the console she stood behind. The look was curious and for a moment he caught of flicker of sympathy for him from that female unit. So they were not totally unaffected by other species and their emotions. She like BAMSU10299 was dressed in a silver jumpsuit, with a hood over her hair, which appeared to be a deep purple color peaking out from under her hood.
Next to her was a similarly dressed female unit and she spoke softly, "The Bio-Borg is displaying emotions as well, it is most odd that a Symbian such as the Bajoran should have feelings for a Circuit designed Bio-Borg." This female was also looking from Seneri to Janae. She wore clear gloves over her hands as she touched the panels. Her hair appeared to be more mauve and it spilled out of her hood over her shoulders and apparently down her back.
BAMSU10299 looked from Janae to Seneri, "It would bother you to see this one dismantled?" He was curious, the difference between him and the two females was he wore a tight cap over his head and appeared to be bald under his covered head. Janae had noticed the room had a sterile feel to it and he was the one that was really out of place here, the others belonged to this room, that was clean with clear tables and no visible signs of of how they were operating the table they stood in front of. To him it was all clear solidified plexus-glass with their fingers dancing over what looked like inscribed scratches. The touch panel did not display anything externally so he figured they must be connected to the tech and was seeing the images they needed visually in front of them in their minds eye.
That would cut down on theft, if they were biologically and technically attached to the machine they commanded with a single touch. He was not for that so much, it must mean they had implants in their brains and that was a scary proposition for him. BAMSU10299 walked to the front of Janae tilted his head sideways with a look of curiosity. "This one is most expressive which is interesting." He withdrew a slender clear strip of plastic and ran it over Janae's forehead. The touch of the plastic near his forehead sent a tingling sensation though his body.
Turning he handed the slip of plastic to the mauve haired female. She removed her clear gloves took the strip, ran her fingers over the strip. Oddly she smiled nodded slowly then inserted the strip into a narrow slit on the panel, Janae watched fascinated as the strip glowed and then she spoke softly, "Transmitting." All of them closed their eyes and lifted their chins, they all began to chuckle softly, the two women squirmed uncomfortably. All of them opened their eyes at the same time turned to look at one another and smiled. It was the first genuine emotions that Janae had seen from this group in a long time.
BAMSU10299 turned to Janae and smiled, he almost had seem to relax. "Come Mr. Janae, this is the way. We are beginning your debriefing and exam now." The BAMSU10299 almost appeared to feel familiar with Janae and was acting more like his friendly tour guide than his captor.
"Wait what about her?" He nodded to Seneri. He was not going anywhere until he knew she was going to be all right. All three Abbraths turned to peer at Seneri.
"She will be reprogramed but not dismantled. It would do grievous harm to her systems to tear her down or scrap her. She has many improvements we feel can be accessed through diagnostic downloading. Now please come with me." He had suddenly become more amenable to Janae's way of thinking. It immediately relaxed Janae. It seemed oddly out of place that the three that had greeted him and Seneri when they first were teleported into this sterile room was acting more humanoid with each passing minute.
This was something that Janae had not expected and was curious as to why the sudden turnaround in the way he was not being assessed and treated. He was one not to question a good thing when it fell in his lap so he let it go. When he was led from the room, the two females turned to one another and smiled. "We need to find this M'lar he has thoughts of extorting more funds from her. I would like to experience her feelings, she seems interesting." They looked at Seneri and smiled. "You have done your job well BAFIU 1. Perhaps through these new contacts we can find what we bred out of our lives and finally return to what we were."
Seneri smiled and it was a corrupted sly smile. "I will tell you both this much, these new emotions are uncomfortable in the beginning but once you adjust to them you can learn to control them. I have to say this has been an exciting time for me and that is more than I can say has happened in my short and brief lifetime. He is an interesting one is he not?" She walked with a sensual sway to her hips. "These actions, this new knowledge is worth more than any new tech we could create."
"I hope the director will allow us to experience what you have so far BAFIU1. It would I feel make us more creative and it would push us to find new ways to improve on our interaction with other species. I am for once ready for a change." Since the transferences of Janae's memories and emotions to the others, they all were beginning to relax that stiff technical and clinical way speaking and reacting, they were beginning to adopt vicariously through what they had experienced with Janae. A genuine smile edged their lips.
The purple haired one spoke softly and thoughtfully. "He has a great deal of mixed emotions towards the one Klingon female called Bi'Anka, she is most interesting. She can shape shift, and become a killing machine as an animal. How exciting is that?" Her eyes had taken on a sparkle of excitement. Do you think they will bring her here? I would love to meet her in person. She really must be a real challenge for all the emotions she evokes in Janae."
Mauve haired on slipped her clear gloves back on and smiled, "He certainly likes the ladies what with all the ones he has ever been with in a biblical sense. I would wonder what that experience would feel like? I mean to actually have physical contact with another?" She rubbed her hand over her stomach and closed her eyes. "To give birth, to feel the touch of another in tenderness or pain would be new and exciting. It has been so long and we have been kept aside and in a virtual tube of sterility for far too long." Her voice had gone so soft and she had felt for the first time in a very long time that their lives were going to have meaning again.
Seneri chuckled. "I can assure you both once it starts our lives will never be the same and it is all thanks to Captain Janae. My brief stay with him on his ship I managed to see a lot of emotions that our first ones thought were too messy and I wanted to be a part of that mess. It was so much more than I could begin to explain. We should bring his first mate Mara Jade LaRue down here she is volatile, passionate, and I suspect is in love with Janae but does not want him to know.
Both women turned to look at the prototype undercover agent and were perplexed. "Why would she not wish him to know?" That was a curious reaction. "I mean he is so filled with testosterone and apparently from his memories virile and he has so much passion that he feels he needs to spread it around to the willing female partner." That was the purple haired BAFSU that was expressing her new found curiosity feelings.
"I think it is because she fears rejection, we will know more once they think they have penetrated our defenses and make contact with their captain. Once we probe her memories we will know what this curious emotion called love truly is. I believe the director will send out Collector Units to bring back the others that dominated his life for a while. We understand that the Klingon race on Qo'noS is very barbaric and relies heavily on brute force, but those on Boreth are warriors superior in intelligence to the ones on Qo'noS. I look forward to studying them and learning from them."
Planet Tingrand
Outside the Settlement
Bi'Anka fluffed her hair shaking it out so it fell down to her hips brushing the top of her well-muscled butt. Shaking her shoulders she got a look in those green eyes that showed she liked playing this part to get to her objective to kill him. She wanted him dead as badly as she wanted Daedalus dead. "Are you ready?"
HmfiC glared up at her and did not like this new attitude she as displaying. "I thought you hated playing a vixen?" He stood towering over her and glared at the settlement. He was sure she was pure bred warrior this was a new look, one he had seen M'lar adapt many times and wondered if that was what she was drawing on.
"I am playing the part of a female that is stupid and wants nothing more than attention. That does not make me a vixen and if it gets the attention of those in that bar so we can meet our objective the better off we are. If you had not swallowed the damn water, you could still be playing the old man warrior which had worked out just fine until now." She snapped back and he smiled. There was the Bi'Anka he had remembered and loved. "You should be glad that the little amount you swallowed will only last you another six moons and then it wears off. Now will you quit your bitching and lets go."
She stepped out of the outcropping of rocks near the base of the settlement and began to walk with sultry easy sway of her hips towards the low lying building where a lot of light and noise was coming and she could tell that a fight was on. She smiled, she liked bar fights that would make her entrance all the more dramatic and maybe if she did what she has seen M'lar do for years she would command the attention of those in the bar. She just was not about to expose her cleavage. She would use and she thought a moment and smiled, 'animal magnetism'. Walking up to the doors she paused peered through the frosted panes and saw bodies slamming into other bodies. This on other circumstances might have been a place she would have liked to visit.
She timed it to a point where there was a lull in the fighting and then she shoved the door in and stood paused in the middle of the door. The ones on the floor felt the pressure change and they looked up, the ones standing likewise felt the pressure change in the room and they too looked up. All eyes were now on the very striking female in a tight fitting dark suit, booted feet and long fingers that danced over the side of the door. Remembering how she loved a good battle, she allowed that smile to slowly edge her lips and her tongue snaked out as she caught the scent of Ce'Zar. Letting those eyes shift over the stunned looks of the men in the bar, she spotted him in the corner sitting with a bottle of Nintie in front of him.
Stepping further into the room, she felt someone grab her arm. That was a fatal mistake for him; she deftly shifted her weight, turned her hip and sent him flying across the bar in a barrel roll toss. Another arm grabbed her, and she once again shifted thrust her leg out and kicked the groin of the one holding her. Continuing she walked towards Ce'Zar pulled the chair out from across him, her eyes locked to his, she sat down and reached for his bottle. He grabbed her wrist and smiled. "It is only polite to invite a lady to drink, you don't have to take, I will share."
She smiled and then from the door a bellow erupted from an extremely large and fierce looking warrior. "MAG'NEQ! WHERE ARE YOU MY BE'NAL! BE' SHOW YOURSELF. YOU CANNOT START SOMETHING AND JUST WALK OUT!"
Ce'Zar ignored the bellowing male warrior and poured a drink in to the glass he had been drinking from then shoved it over to Bi'Anka. She smiled lifted the drink and lifted the glass to her lips just as HmfiC approached the table and smacked the glass out of her hand. "I found you, now you come home with me!" He reached for her and found his wrist snagged by Ce'Zar, who had narrowed his eyes.
"No need to be rude, she just got here and was going to have a drink and I can easily invite you to drink too." He had stood and that was the signal. From under the table, Bi'Anka pulled her disrupter and fired point blank into his thigh sending him crashing to the floor in a grunt of pain. HmfiC was faster than the others in the bar, he put a transporter pin on Ce'Zar's jacket and they both transported from the room. Bi'Anka stood and smiled the room belonged to her now and she was pretty sure she would not need any back up from this point on.
The men that had belonged to Ce'Zar all stood in a semi circle and Bi'Anka counted six. This was a walk in the park. The angry looks on their faces shifted from anger to absolute fear as they watched the beautiful Klingon female begin to shimmer and then reform into one large yellowed eyed Volkarian wolf she bitch.