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belong to Paramount and me. Confusing isn't it?
Safekeeper part 1
A Maquis ship called, Kaay, waited in the Roughgrounds. Like all Maquis ships it was a temporary name, named after the captain. It used first two letters of the first name and the last two letters of the last name.
Kaay's captain, Kathryn Janeway, was on the bridge, waiting for a ship to come.
"I don't think they are coming," said the main security officer, Tony Boe, "I think they left us to be caught by Starfleet."
Kathryn shook her head, "If we were left to be caught, I think, Starfleet would have caught us already. We have to wait, we need those supplies."
"It is possible," said a security officer, Annika Hannsen, "That they were caught by Starfleet themselves. Especially considering..."
"Tuvok," Kathryn called her first officer, "Go talk to our...friend, and see what you can find out."
"I doubt you'll find anything," Tony said angerly, under his breath.
Tuvok nodded and started to leave, but Kimberly Doet spoke.
"Captain I'm detecting the Vendor."
"Finally! Hail them."
"I'm detecting something else, an energy wave of some sort. It heading in our direction!" Kimberly said.
"Helm, move us."
"It'll hit us in 5 seconds."
Kathryn sat in her chair and grabbed the armrests. "Brace for impact!"
Kimberly counted down the seconds. After one, the ship was hit, it rock violently. And seem to disappear.
"Captain's log, Stardate 48315.2. Voyager has now been assigned to find the Maquis ship, Kaay, that disappeared in the Roughgrounds 23.82 hours ago. On the ship was a Starfleet spy. Starfleet asked someone who had been in the Maquis to help us find them. Another man, who recently graduated the Academy requested to be on this mission. To be truthful, I don't think I want either of them on this mission."
The Captain sat in his waiting room. His Starfleet uniform, black except for the shoulders and collar. His collar was orange indicating his rank of captain. At the shoulders the color was red indicating command. He was one the first of his kind to be a Starfleet captain. In fact he was one of the first to be a Starfleet officer, he was a hologram. He had been told many times how he looked like his creator, Chakotay. The Captain himself, had no name, and whether he acted like Chakotay, was a matter of opinion.
A soft chirp sounded.
The Captain looked up, "Come in."
Harry Kim walked in. His collor was gray, the uniform at the shoulder was green, this indicated other, so he was not command, medical, security, nor engineer. "You wanted to speak to me, Captain?"
"I was looking at your Academy records. You did very good your the first three years. One of the top cadets. What happen in that last year?"
"I passed." Harry said quickly in his defense.
The Captain stood up and moved around his desk, "Barely. Besides that wasn't the question, Ensign."
"Sir, if I may be honest?" Harry waited for the Captain to nod, then continued, "That really isn't any of you business, sir."
"Others deserve this job more than you do. They can do your job just as well as you, if not better."
"I can do just as good as them, and no one else requested it." Then added, "Sir." He continued, "Also, switching me with someone else would take more time. And we need to find out what happen to the Kaay as soon as possible...sir."
"Why did you request to be on this mission?"
"I do believe the answer to that would be the same as the last answer, sir"
The Captain was getting irritated. "Fine, but do your job. One mistake and you'll be replaced." He moved back to his desk.
"Yes, sir."
"We'll be arriving at a planet in two hours. When we do, go to the planet and find Louis Zimmerman, and ask him he accepts the offer."
"Yes, sir."
"Dismiss."
Harry left, he went to the turbolift, and requested deck 4. No one else was there, so he started complaining as soon as the doors closed. "Who does that guy think he is asking me personal questions. Threatening to find someone else to do my job and insulting me. And why did he give me a task that has nothing to do with my job."
The doors opened, but we wasn't about to let that stop his complaining. "How anyone could even think the Captain acted like Chakotay. I know Chakotay, he was my teacher at the Academy. Taught about holograms. He was strict, but fair, nice and would never call anyone, 'Ensign. ' "
He was angry with worry, and anything, like the talk he had with the captain would set him off.
Louis Zimmerman sat at a table fiddling with a broken instrument when a man walked up to him and said, "Louis Zimmerman."
Louis looked up, "Yes, and you are?"
"Harry Kim. I am here to ask you if you except some offer."
"Ah, the offer to help Voyager find the Kaay." Louis stood up and held out his hand for a handshake.
Harry ignored him and said to himself, "So that's what this is all about."
Louis jerked his hand from mid-air, "I think I will take the offer."
"Think?"
"Ok, I will."
Harry nodded as he watched Louis, he didn't know Louis, only of what he did. Louis was the first (and only) person join Maquis, then go back to Starfleet, then back to the Maquis, then back to Starfleet. He was finally caught and sentenced to prison for ten years.
"May I ask a question?" Harry said, "What did Starfleet offer you in return for helping find the Kaay."
"Four less years in jail."
Harry, nodded, "Report to the Captain when you get on Voyager." Then he softly added, "Don't be surprised if you're yelled at."
"I will. Speaking of him. Is the rumor I heard about him true?"
"You mean about him being a hologram? Yes it's true."
Louis frowned and sighed, "I hate holograms."
They returned to Voyager, Louis checked in with the Captain, got lectured, then started on his way to his quarters. On the way he saw Harry and someone he never saw before. They were arguing. Curious, Louis watched, and neither person saw him.
"I would have never came on this ship if I knew you were here," the stranger said.
"Then leave," Harry replied, "Pick another ship to take advantage of free room and board. Or a planet or anything, as long as it's not this ship."
"I will! The thought of being on the same ship as you is-is."
"Can't think of what to say. Are you as stupid as you are lazy?"
"At least I-" the stranger started but stopped when he heard a muffled laugh from Louis.
Both men turned to look at Louis. Harry shook his head angrily and left. The stranger looked angry at first, then he smiled and approached, "Guess you like listening to arguments."
"Not usually," Louis said, then held out his hand, "Louis Zimmerman."
The stranger shook his hand, "Tomas Paris." "Nice to meet you Mr. Paris."
"Tomas will do. Not that it matters since I'm leaving."
"We already left the planet and I don't think we're stopping anywhere else. You probably have to stay during this mission."
"No. I can't stand to be on the same ship with Harry."
"I take it you hate him."
Tomas nodded, "Yeah, to be honest I forgot why. But if you don't mind I'd like to talk about something else."
"Of coarse."
Voyager arrived at the Roughgrounds in 32 hours. It was scanning for what could be Kaay or debris from Kaay. The Captain sat in his chair. "There was rumor the Kaay was waiting to receive supplies. Mr. Zimmerman where do the Maquis usually wait for ship here."
Louis was on the bridge, "They find a place to hide in the plasma. One place often used-"
"Captain," said the operations officer, "An energy wave is headed towards us."
"On screen, helm try to move us out of it's way."
"It's too big to dodge," the ops officer said, "We'll be hit in 8 seconds."
The Captain opened a comm link to all of Voyager, "This is the captain, brace for impact." He did so himself, a human instinct programed into him.
The wave hit the ship and flung it like a bat would hit a baseball.
Tomas crawled down a Jeffery's Tube to get to sickbay. He had a headache and wanted it to go away. He knew he'd probably be the last to be helped. There were probably many injuries on Voyager, probably a few deaths too. Not many, he hoped.
He opened the hatch and crawled out and into sickbay. He looked around, "Hello?" He looked around. "Dr. Virog!" He finally found the doctor laying by a wall. Tomas walked towards him checked is pulse. The doctor was dead. One by one Tomas found the bodies of the medical staff. They didn't have a big staff in the first place. Now they had no staff.
Suddenly Tomas heard a soft hiss somewhere behind him. Life. He quickly turned and followed where the noise came from. Another hatch had opened, and out came Harry. Tomas frowned slightly.
Harry looked surprised to see Tom. "Why didn't you leave?"
"I couldn't, Voyager left the planet and didn't stop anywhere else after that."
Harry started looking around.
"The entire medical staff is dead," Tomas said, "So you have to live with whatever injury you have."
Harry grabbed a medical kit and went through the tools until he found a hypospay. He put something in it and used it on his arm. "No I don't."
An unknown voice called, "Someone help me!"
Harry and Tomas quickly followed the voice. They found a woman, at the door carrying a man.
"Put him on the bed," Harry said.
The woman did as she told.
"The medical team is dead," Tomas said, "No one can help him."
"What?!" The women cried.
"He should be fine," Harry said.
"Can you save him," the women asked.
Harry started giving orders and the women did her best to follow the orders. Tomas had no idea what they meant.
Suddenly the Captain appeared in the middle of the room, "What's going on? Where's the medical team?"
"Medical is dead," Tomas said, "That guy is injured."
The Captain walked over to the bed, "How much do you know about medical?!"
"About half what there is to know." Harry answered as he worked.
Tomas folded his arms and muttered, "Show off."
"We not in the Alpha Quadrant anymore," the Captain said to both men and the woman.
"What!"
"We're in the Delta Quadrant. 70 lightyears from home."
"On the other side of the galaxy," Harry said softly. Worried. "The Kaay?"
"It's here too," the Captain answered grimly.
Harry nodded, then kept working quietly.
Tomas couldn't believe what he heard, "Why? How?!"
The Captain was about to answer that they didn't know the answers yet.
But, suddenly they disappeared. The Captain looked up, "Huh?" He called the bridge, then he called for anyone on ship. He didn't get an answer.
to be continued...
Safekeeper part 1
A Maquis ship called, Kaay, waited in the Roughgrounds. Like all Maquis ships it was a temporary name, named after the captain. It used first two letters of the first name and the last two letters of the last name.
Kaay's captain, Kathryn Janeway, was on the bridge, waiting for a ship to come.
"I don't think they are coming," said the main security officer, Tony Boe, "I think they left us to be caught by Starfleet."
Kathryn shook her head, "If we were left to be caught, I think, Starfleet would have caught us already. We have to wait, we need those supplies."
"It is possible," said a security officer, Annika Hannsen, "That they were caught by Starfleet themselves. Especially considering..."
"Tuvok," Kathryn called her first officer, "Go talk to our...friend, and see what you can find out."
"I doubt you'll find anything," Tony said angerly, under his breath.
Tuvok nodded and started to leave, but Kimberly Doet spoke.
"Captain I'm detecting the Vendor."
"Finally! Hail them."
"I'm detecting something else, an energy wave of some sort. It heading in our direction!" Kimberly said.
"Helm, move us."
"It'll hit us in 5 seconds."
Kathryn sat in her chair and grabbed the armrests. "Brace for impact!"
Kimberly counted down the seconds. After one, the ship was hit, it rock violently. And seem to disappear.
"Captain's log, Stardate 48315.2. Voyager has now been assigned to find the Maquis ship, Kaay, that disappeared in the Roughgrounds 23.82 hours ago. On the ship was a Starfleet spy. Starfleet asked someone who had been in the Maquis to help us find them. Another man, who recently graduated the Academy requested to be on this mission. To be truthful, I don't think I want either of them on this mission."
The Captain sat in his waiting room. His Starfleet uniform, black except for the shoulders and collar. His collar was orange indicating his rank of captain. At the shoulders the color was red indicating command. He was one the first of his kind to be a Starfleet captain. In fact he was one of the first to be a Starfleet officer, he was a hologram. He had been told many times how he looked like his creator, Chakotay. The Captain himself, had no name, and whether he acted like Chakotay, was a matter of opinion.
A soft chirp sounded.
The Captain looked up, "Come in."
Harry Kim walked in. His collor was gray, the uniform at the shoulder was green, this indicated other, so he was not command, medical, security, nor engineer. "You wanted to speak to me, Captain?"
"I was looking at your Academy records. You did very good your the first three years. One of the top cadets. What happen in that last year?"
"I passed." Harry said quickly in his defense.
The Captain stood up and moved around his desk, "Barely. Besides that wasn't the question, Ensign."
"Sir, if I may be honest?" Harry waited for the Captain to nod, then continued, "That really isn't any of you business, sir."
"Others deserve this job more than you do. They can do your job just as well as you, if not better."
"I can do just as good as them, and no one else requested it." Then added, "Sir." He continued, "Also, switching me with someone else would take more time. And we need to find out what happen to the Kaay as soon as possible...sir."
"Why did you request to be on this mission?"
"I do believe the answer to that would be the same as the last answer, sir"
The Captain was getting irritated. "Fine, but do your job. One mistake and you'll be replaced." He moved back to his desk.
"Yes, sir."
"We'll be arriving at a planet in two hours. When we do, go to the planet and find Louis Zimmerman, and ask him he accepts the offer."
"Yes, sir."
"Dismiss."
Harry left, he went to the turbolift, and requested deck 4. No one else was there, so he started complaining as soon as the doors closed. "Who does that guy think he is asking me personal questions. Threatening to find someone else to do my job and insulting me. And why did he give me a task that has nothing to do with my job."
The doors opened, but we wasn't about to let that stop his complaining. "How anyone could even think the Captain acted like Chakotay. I know Chakotay, he was my teacher at the Academy. Taught about holograms. He was strict, but fair, nice and would never call anyone, 'Ensign. ' "
He was angry with worry, and anything, like the talk he had with the captain would set him off.
Louis Zimmerman sat at a table fiddling with a broken instrument when a man walked up to him and said, "Louis Zimmerman."
Louis looked up, "Yes, and you are?"
"Harry Kim. I am here to ask you if you except some offer."
"Ah, the offer to help Voyager find the Kaay." Louis stood up and held out his hand for a handshake.
Harry ignored him and said to himself, "So that's what this is all about."
Louis jerked his hand from mid-air, "I think I will take the offer."
"Think?"
"Ok, I will."
Harry nodded as he watched Louis, he didn't know Louis, only of what he did. Louis was the first (and only) person join Maquis, then go back to Starfleet, then back to the Maquis, then back to Starfleet. He was finally caught and sentenced to prison for ten years.
"May I ask a question?" Harry said, "What did Starfleet offer you in return for helping find the Kaay."
"Four less years in jail."
Harry, nodded, "Report to the Captain when you get on Voyager." Then he softly added, "Don't be surprised if you're yelled at."
"I will. Speaking of him. Is the rumor I heard about him true?"
"You mean about him being a hologram? Yes it's true."
Louis frowned and sighed, "I hate holograms."
They returned to Voyager, Louis checked in with the Captain, got lectured, then started on his way to his quarters. On the way he saw Harry and someone he never saw before. They were arguing. Curious, Louis watched, and neither person saw him.
"I would have never came on this ship if I knew you were here," the stranger said.
"Then leave," Harry replied, "Pick another ship to take advantage of free room and board. Or a planet or anything, as long as it's not this ship."
"I will! The thought of being on the same ship as you is-is."
"Can't think of what to say. Are you as stupid as you are lazy?"
"At least I-" the stranger started but stopped when he heard a muffled laugh from Louis.
Both men turned to look at Louis. Harry shook his head angrily and left. The stranger looked angry at first, then he smiled and approached, "Guess you like listening to arguments."
"Not usually," Louis said, then held out his hand, "Louis Zimmerman."
The stranger shook his hand, "Tomas Paris." "Nice to meet you Mr. Paris."
"Tomas will do. Not that it matters since I'm leaving."
"We already left the planet and I don't think we're stopping anywhere else. You probably have to stay during this mission."
"No. I can't stand to be on the same ship with Harry."
"I take it you hate him."
Tomas nodded, "Yeah, to be honest I forgot why. But if you don't mind I'd like to talk about something else."
"Of coarse."
Voyager arrived at the Roughgrounds in 32 hours. It was scanning for what could be Kaay or debris from Kaay. The Captain sat in his chair. "There was rumor the Kaay was waiting to receive supplies. Mr. Zimmerman where do the Maquis usually wait for ship here."
Louis was on the bridge, "They find a place to hide in the plasma. One place often used-"
"Captain," said the operations officer, "An energy wave is headed towards us."
"On screen, helm try to move us out of it's way."
"It's too big to dodge," the ops officer said, "We'll be hit in 8 seconds."
The Captain opened a comm link to all of Voyager, "This is the captain, brace for impact." He did so himself, a human instinct programed into him.
The wave hit the ship and flung it like a bat would hit a baseball.
Tomas crawled down a Jeffery's Tube to get to sickbay. He had a headache and wanted it to go away. He knew he'd probably be the last to be helped. There were probably many injuries on Voyager, probably a few deaths too. Not many, he hoped.
He opened the hatch and crawled out and into sickbay. He looked around, "Hello?" He looked around. "Dr. Virog!" He finally found the doctor laying by a wall. Tomas walked towards him checked is pulse. The doctor was dead. One by one Tomas found the bodies of the medical staff. They didn't have a big staff in the first place. Now they had no staff.
Suddenly Tomas heard a soft hiss somewhere behind him. Life. He quickly turned and followed where the noise came from. Another hatch had opened, and out came Harry. Tomas frowned slightly.
Harry looked surprised to see Tom. "Why didn't you leave?"
"I couldn't, Voyager left the planet and didn't stop anywhere else after that."
Harry started looking around.
"The entire medical staff is dead," Tomas said, "So you have to live with whatever injury you have."
Harry grabbed a medical kit and went through the tools until he found a hypospay. He put something in it and used it on his arm. "No I don't."
An unknown voice called, "Someone help me!"
Harry and Tomas quickly followed the voice. They found a woman, at the door carrying a man.
"Put him on the bed," Harry said.
The woman did as she told.
"The medical team is dead," Tomas said, "No one can help him."
"What?!" The women cried.
"He should be fine," Harry said.
"Can you save him," the women asked.
Harry started giving orders and the women did her best to follow the orders. Tomas had no idea what they meant.
Suddenly the Captain appeared in the middle of the room, "What's going on? Where's the medical team?"
"Medical is dead," Tomas said, "That guy is injured."
The Captain walked over to the bed, "How much do you know about medical?!"
"About half what there is to know." Harry answered as he worked.
Tomas folded his arms and muttered, "Show off."
"We not in the Alpha Quadrant anymore," the Captain said to both men and the woman.
"What!"
"We're in the Delta Quadrant. 70 lightyears from home."
"On the other side of the galaxy," Harry said softly. Worried. "The Kaay?"
"It's here too," the Captain answered grimly.
Harry nodded, then kept working quietly.
Tomas couldn't believe what he heard, "Why? How?!"
The Captain was about to answer that they didn't know the answers yet.
But, suddenly they disappeared. The Captain looked up, "Huh?" He called the bridge, then he called for anyone on ship. He didn't get an answer.
to be continued...