The Three Sisters: Gathering

By Voyager Queen

AU, you probably should read the first part but just to fill you in, Caldik Prime never happened and Tom is very highly trained.

* * Important Information * *

Tom and Harry became fast friends. Tom often thought Harry and Steven were a lot alike. Many were intimidated by Tom because he was a Lieutenant at such a young age, he has a spotless record, and to top it off his father was an Admiral. Harry was never intimidated by Tom, although he did seem intimidated by most everyone else. Voyager's mission had been to track down a rebel Marquis ship. The Marquis is a group of outlaws illegally fighting a war with the Cardassians. The ship was commanded by an ex-Starfleet Commander, named Chakotay and Janeway's Tactical officer, Tuvok was a Starfleet spy supposedly under Chakotay's command. When Voyager traveled into the Badlands searching for the ship a displacement wave hit them sending then to the other side of the Galaxy. The crews of both the Starfleet and Marquis ships were taken to be tested by an entity caretaker. The caretaker was the one who brought them to the Delta Quadrant. Two crewmembers, however, were not returned with the others. Ensign Harry Kim and a Marquis renegade, B'Ellana Torres. Chakotay and Janeway were forced to work together along with the help of two Delta Quadrant natives. Neelix a garbage trader they met up with and Kes an Ocampan that Neelix along with the help of Voyager rescued from the Kazon. The Ocampans were a race of telepaths living underground that the caretaker had sworn to protect. With the help of the unlikely pair and Chakotay's outlaw crew Janeway launches a rescue mission, transporting down to the Ocampan city to look for the missing crewmen. Tom Paris, of course, had volunteered to help retrieve the two missing people. Once in the underground city, Tom, Neelix and Kes split from the others to look for Harry and B'Ellana.

It turned out that the caretaker had abducted the two crews to see if they would make a compatible mate. Since the caretaker was dying he wanted an offspring to take his place as the guardian of the Ocampans. He knew that if no one were here to take care of his 'children' the Kazon would invade, enslaving the Ocampans and stealing their water. The caretaker soon realized however that Harry and B'Ellana weren't compatible either and began to seal the underground city. This made it impossible to transport the away team out from below ground. Harry and B'Ellana both ill from the testing and also in the Ocampan city had effected an escape of their own and were traveling up an ancient stairwell to the surface of Ocampa. Tom and the two natives were already climbing up the stairs trying to catch up to B'Ellana and Harry when Janeway contacted Paris to tell him she was coming along with Chakotay and Tuvok and that the only way to the surface was by the stairs. Tom found Harry and B'Ellana and along with Neelix and Kes he helped them up the remaining flights to the surface. When the other three didn't join them Tom began to get impatient.

"Paris to Voyager, lock onto everyone here except me and beam them aboard."

"You're not going back there?" Neelix had cried incredulously to which Tom had nodded. Neelix then sighed, "The fool needs company."

Tom quickly took off his combadge and Neelix's and placed them on Harry and B'Ellana telling Voyager to transport the remaining combadges aboard.

Underground the stairwell was falling apart. When Tom and Neelix reached the three, Tuvok and Janeway were trying to stand on the rocky platform. Tom told Neelix to get them out and then turned his attention to Chakotay. He was clutching what appeared to be a broken leg and sitting on a collapsing section of the stairs. Tom swallowed and lowered himself down.

"What are doing?" Chakotay rasped.

"Getting you out of here."

"You'll just kill us both."

"Maybe," he replied nonchalantly as he pulled Chakotay to his feet. "Or maybe I'll end up getting both of us out of here."

"Unlikely," he snapped as they began to reach a more stable platform.

Tom smiled as he pulled Chakotay's arm tighter around his neck, "So, I don't suppose your life will belong to me if I get us out of this."

"No, that's the wrong tribe."

"Right."

The two collapsed onto the sturdy platform just as the one they were previously on came loose and fell to the bottom of the tall stairwell. They calmed their breathing and made it to the surface relatively unharmed, a few bruises and Chakotay's broken leg.

Janeway and Tuvok transported to the caretaker's array attempting to get him to return them home but he died and told them that if they didn't destroy the array that the Kazon would destroy the Ocampans. Janeway decided that they must destroy the array and their only way home. When the Kazon realize what Voyager was planning they tried to stop them. Chakotay sacrificed his Marquis ship to disable one of the Kazon ships. Given Chakotay's distraction Janeway was able to destroy the array and escape the Kazon.

Janeway had lost a lot of her crew, including her 1st officer, her medical staff and the Chief engineer but she also gained the survivors of Chakotay's Marquis ship. The two crews decided to work together and form a Starfleet crew. Chakotay became Janeway's 1st officer, the Emergency Medical Hologram became the Chief medical officer with Kes as his assistant. Neelix also stayed on Voyager becoming a guide and the cook. B'Ellana Torres a young half-klingon half-human engineer became the Chief of Engineering over a Starfleet Lieutenant because of her talented flare for engineering. B'Ellana became close friends with Harry while they were captives on Ocampa and ended up spending a lot of time with Tom Paris as well. They became like the three musketeers. B'Ellana had felt an instant attraction to the sandy haired pilot but covered up her feelings by starting constant mock fights and verbally sparring with him. Tom was oblivious to B'Ellana's attraction, seeing her as 'one of the guys'. He saw their sparring as a game.

* * During the next year. * *

Tom Paris breaks the Warp 10 threshold, uncovers a deadly spy and rescues the crew from exile on a dangerous planet.

* * After 1 year in the Delta Quadrant: Voyager * *

The dark figure snuck through Voyager's corridors as silently as a shadow. Doing the impossible by evading all of the passing crewmen. It reached its destination and entered the quarters undetected. The figure hid under the cover of darkness and the door opened once more to admit a striking young man. He walked to the desk, no doubt to check for messages.

He noticed something in the reflection of his screen. He opened the top draw of his desk and slowly pulled out a phaser. He spun and aimed it at the figure in the shadows.

"Care to show yourself?"

The figure stepped into the light and the young man gasped.

"Now, now Tom, put the weapon away. You won't shoot me, will you?"

Tom was to stunned to respond. He felt someone behind him a moment too late. Something pressed to his neck and he fell unceremoniously to the floor.



To be continued. Finally I'm finished with all the boring background stuff. Hopefully you understand my wacky Alternate Universe. And please review!