Chronicle of the Guardian: Chaos Factor

By THE Xenomorph

I own only the character of Vile, Catlina Flores, the Hybrids and the Scions

Star Trek Voyager is © Paramount

Aliens vs Predator is © Fox

Omega Again

The lights dimmed red as I woke up. Another attack, great. I waited for the ship to rock but it didn't. Then the lights went to normal and Janeway came over the comms.

"All hands we under a code Omega. Senior staff and Vile please report to the conference room."

"Awww, no shower?" I mumbled as I headed towards the door.

"Should I go to class?" Niall asked as he peeked out from under his fort of blankets he used to sleep in.

"I'd just as soon assume you stay here when the lights go red. If they have the class they'll come for you." I snorted. "But study just the same."

"Awww..." His voice sank a bit and I smirked as I left, then it fell as I remembered Robin complaining similarly when I was done before her at school work. I held it in though and continued down the halls and turbo lifts until I was at the conference room

I walked in to see an omega symbol on the screen nearest the door. I yawned, completely disinterested, but alert because I had a feeling some bad news was on the way.

"Vile, please sit." Janeway motioned to a large gap between chairs for me to sit in.

"I feel special." I smirked as I sat.

"Vile, do you know what an Omega Particle is?" Janeway asked in her captain voice.

"The horrible thing of the week I have to fight?" I asked, slightly confused and slightly hopeful.

"This is going to take a while." Tom Paris sighed.

"An abbreviated summary would best suite Vile's needs at this point." Seven seemed to glare at Paris and then continued. "The Omega particle is the most powerful particle known. One molecule of this particle has energy equivalent to a warp core."

"Well..." I blinked once, twice and then a third time, truly astonished by this. "That's a big boom."

"One that also destroys subspace." Janeway smiled knowingly as I put two and two together.

"I'm not fighting this thing am I?" I asked, knowing the answer.

"No." Janeway shook her head. "You'll be helping us obtain it so we can destroy it."

"That's all?" I asked confused by the simple nature of the task.

"We will be ignoring all standing Starfleet orders while doing so." She continued to explain.

I stood up and nodded to Harry. "Whoever made this shit just interrupted a ship's grieving process." I growled. "Point me at them and let me know who lives."

"Not precisely what I wanted to hear, but I'll take it." Janeway sighed.

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I smirked as I walked into the team's specially made armory. Everyone was suiting up, though they didn't seem happy about it. I couldn't' really blame them though, we were supposed to be used for kainde, but the Captain had obvious need for us now and we would deliver.

"Vile, how we doing this?" Harry asked as he walked in behind. "We testing the hard suits?"

"Seems as good a time as any." I shook my head and the teams cheered as Harry announced it. Armor was mostly shed as they fit the personal shields over their torso.

"Now remember, these are experimental and Seven isn't sure if they'll hold out long enough so you may want to keep some armor on." Harry shook his head.

Groans rippled.

"You heard the man." I grumbled, "Unless you want to be a nice stain on the wall use armor to boot, it wont hinder you any more than it already does."

"So what are we looking at resistance wise?" Chell asked.

"So far the Omega has been traced to a single research facility on a moon. We're to strike, retrieve the Omega and retreat."

"I'll be going in first to throw them off balance." I smirked, "You lot come in and suppress them as best you can. Don't be afraid to let the phasers fly, if this lot is so intent on blowing up subspace they kinda got it coming."

They seemed to nod and slowly roll their armor back on with minimal complaining.

"You know, part of me wants so much to remain on the bridge." Harry shook his head, frustration lining his face.

"So stay behind, it's not a kainde run, we can manage." I shrugged.

"No..." He sighed. "I mean this isn't what I was expecting this to be like."

"What, you thought you'd be on the bridge guiding us or something?" I chuckled. "Right."

"I just never thought I'd be on the ground..."

"What's wrong with being a ground pounder?" I arched an eyebrow his way.

"Nothing." He shook his head, "It's just when I took this assignment, I don't know, I didn't expect to be involved for so long or to like it that much. Still, I want to command a ship some day, you know be a captain. I don't know if commanding this group will get me there."

I stayed silent as I watched him mull his thoughts over. I couldn't really argue with him, leading others was not a specialty of mine, but Harry has some talent for it, it just needed to be nurtured and I wasn't sure this group of converted jar-heads was the best way to get that experience.

I sighed and watched the units chat, share stories and give advice to one another. Then I watched Harry mournfully put his gear on. Then the world lurched.

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"Captain, I really do think..." Chakotay was cut off by a glare from his commanding officer.

"We do that we give our position and tactical advantage away." She sighed as if to resign herself to a fate far worse than she had anticipated.

"Missiles on inbound trajectory!" The crewman at the ops station shouted.

"Missiles?" Janeway blinked

"They've detected us." Chakotay sighed as he braced himself.

"On screen." The man at ops nodded and the view screen filled with the image of four approaching missiles. "Blow them out of the sky."

The ships phaser banks lance out and penetrated most of the missiles through and through. The last one however took the hit and kept coming.

"Torpedo that one." Janeway ordered. A torpedo leapt from it's bay and sought it's target only to pass through it.

"Captain, there seems to be a small probe near the last missile."

"A hologram." Chakotay said.

"Why a ho-" The ship shook with several impacts.

"Captain shields are down to fifty percent!"

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"Remind me to thank these asshats for that." I growled as I stood up. "Everyone to the shuttles!"

The teams emptied out save for Harry and myself. Then Another volley of whatever was being fired at us hit the ship and I saw the tear in the hull begin.

"Fuck me!" I shouted as my tail wrapped around Harry and I ran for the door and ordered the bulkheads to seal after we left. The decompression of the room sealed my foul mood. "We just FINISHED that place!"

"Well at least you're in the right mindset for the mission." Harry sighed with a small smile. "Let's go."

"I am so ripping someone's spine out.." I growled as I made my way to the shuttles.