Authors Note: I wrote this a LONG time ago, so don't expect this to be a representation of my work AT ALL. But nevertheless, it is quite entertaining, im just moving this into chapter format so it's easier to read. Please R&R!
Earth
was glowing beautifully as ever. It's white fluffy clouds and blue oceans. I
looked back at it for my last time and closed my eyes. My name is Jonathan
George Norway, Ensign Norway. I am the youngest Starfleet officer in the
Federation- 13. I stood in my quarters looking out the window. I can smell the
new replicated leather of my sofa next to me. My sister also stood next to me
looking not at earth, but at the moon. Adriana has more connections from the
moon that earth.
"Welcome passengers. For those who don't know, this is a newly
commissioned Intrepid-Class starship. Our mission is to take our guests to the
Project Hawking. The location of where we will be going is classified. But once
we exit Federation space, the ship will engage to warp 9. The trip will take
less than 3 days. Enjoy you stay!" said the Captain of this ship through
the intercom system.
The door beeped. I was awakened from my staring of the earth. I am never going
to see it again. This mission would probably take up most of my lifetime. Well,
I guess it's worth it, I don't have much left in the Alpha Quadrant anyway.
"Come in," I said.
Catherine walked in my quarters. She looked nervous, excited and sad all at
once. We are the same age, and we grew up together on Kirk City in Mars. The
city was named after James T. Kirk. He was one of my favorite heroes when I
grew up. I always wanted to command a starship.
A month ago, I got promoted to Ensign on Earth. The Admiral Ross asked me if I
wanted to go on a special mission. I asked him what type of mission it is. He
told me it was classified, but I would be far away from Federation space and
the name was The Hawking Project-that I will find out what it was when I got
there. I told the admiral I would think about it and give her the answer as
soon as I can.
My duty as a new ensign is to patrol Mars with a Federation Titan Class
fighter. I am very talented in piloting ships.
When I was doing my job, I got a short-range subspace transmission from
Catherine. It was 1300 hours and Cathy should have been at school. I pressed
the commutation panel and Cathy's face appeared on the screen.
"Hi", I greeted her.
"Hey, look, um there is something I have to tell you."
"Yes?"
"I am afraid... that I am not going to be able to see you anymore?"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
Tears started to roll down her eyes and she continued, "Both of my parents
got assigned to the Hawking project or something and they are forcing me to
come..."
Didn't the Admiral asked me if I wanted to join the Hawking Project? Well, if my
life-long best friend is going to go there, I guess I would to. Besides, most
of my friends were killed in the Federation- Dominion War. I said, "Don't
cry, I was also asked to join the Hawking project. If you are going, then I
guess I will go, we're even get to see each other more often."
She cheered up after that, but she didn't say anything.
It was Admiral Ross, "We need to know now, if you are going or not."
"I'll go, but may I please bring my sister."
"I am afraid that she will have to remain, this is a top priority
mission."
"I know, but she has no relatives... and I need to take care of her."
"Very well," said the Admiral, "meet me at Starbase 5 in a
month."
"Hi," Cathy said. She was wearing the regular civilian clothing, but
I noticed a black pip on her collar and a combage on her shirt. The number of
pips means what rank the person is. According to the pip, she was a midshipman
or cadet (mine's was a gray pip). I stared at her black pip. "Oh,
wondering how I got this, huh? Well, Starfeet gave it to me because since I am
going to be in the Hawking Project, I will need some ranking. Don't worry, I
asked Starfleet and the crew consists of only Ensigns and above so your sister
and I will be the lowest rank in the Project." She gave a little chuckle.
Kathy's dad is a very skilled doctor and her mom is a scientist. Our families
have been friends. Good friends. But now, after the Dominion War, out families
are scattered and dead. There is little point now. Nevertheless, it is still
our home.
Then she noticed Earth out my window. She sort of stared at it and filled her
eyes with some tears. I didn't say anything. I can see that we are both very
sad to leave our home behind.
I gave Earth my last long hard stare. The ship started to break orbit around
earth. In about twenty seconds, Mars came into view.
"Look, our home," I said softly as Mars swung out of site.
"I'm going to miss home," she said and hugged me tightly.
"Me too" It was a long hug, about maybe two minutes.
The announcement of the ship said, "We have cleared the asteroid belt, we
will engage warp now."
I could hear the engines powering up, soon stars turned into spectrums and we
were going faster than Einstein could have ever imagined.
"We are at warp 7," the announcement said. Then, the stars started to
go by faster. Wow, I have never been this fast before.
We stared out the window for a long time; the spectrum of stars flew past us.
She looked very sad now, I know it will be useless in comforting her.
Suddenly, she said, "I'll go back to my own quarters," and left. I
guess I know why. I decided to take a nap...
I woke up by the familiar sound of a red alert. "Mr. Norway, please report
to the bridge," the captain said as the ship shook a little. I touched my
combadge and said "Aye, Aye, sir."
I took the turbolift and walked into the bridge.
"We are being attacked by two renegade Dominion warships," The
captain explained, "since you are the best pilot on the ship, I want you
to pilot this.
"Yes sir"
I took the place of the helm, and asked, "If we were traveling at warp 9
how did those ships catch up?"
"We didn't, at least, not yet, the Dominion ships concentrated power on
our warp engines and disabled them."
I intensively dodged all of the shots fired by the Dominion warships.
"What should we do now?" asked the Tactical officers.
"Arm quantum torpedoes, Tyler." Said that Captain
"But that will be disobeying the treaty," I commented.
"We tried hailing them, but they won't respond," explained the first
officer.
"Sir, I just picked up one more renegade Dominion ship off our port
bow," Communication said.
"How many Titan-class fighters do we have?" I asked the captain.
"Three, why?" asked the captain.
"I have flew Titan-class fighters many times, I think if you launch those,
the Vivian will draw fire from the dominion ships and the three fighters can
destroy them," I said.
"Well, normally, we wouldn't launch our fighters unless it is an absolute
emergency, but very well. Mr. Norway, I want you, McCloy and Stanley to go and
fly those fighters. Mr. Duran, please take the helm."
I ran down to the shuttle bay as the Vivian's internal dampers are trying to
compensate and sat in a familiar fighter bridge. "Ready to launch," I
said.
The Titian Fighter flew out of the shuttle bay swiftly. I was now in real action.
I have done this a million times in simulation; this shouldn't be any
different. I looked at my console; the Vivian's shields are down to 67%. Damn.
I brought my ship about.
"Titan 2 and 3, attack the Dominion ship on your port side, Vivian and me
will take the lead ship." I commanded.
I looked at my panel again; my ship confirmed quantum torpedo lock. I fired.
Three torpedoes flew from my ship to the enemy's. I disabled the enemy's
shield. The Vivian fired multiple quantum torpedoes at the lead Dominion ship.
The Dominion ship exploded in a huge shockwave, rocking my fighter some bit.
"Norway, my shield is down by 34%, I need assistance!" McCloy
exclaimed.
"Coming," I said, as I turned the ship about. I looked at McCloy's
ship, one more shot and it would be dead. The Dominion ship got a lock on him.
Shit! Suddenly, I remembered the Picard Maneuver. I had three seconds to plot
in a course that I can block my ship from the Dominion torpedo. I quickly
plotted in a course. The Dominion fired their torpedo to finish McCloy off. At
this instant, my ship went into warp for a very brief moment. I looked around,
I was right in front of McCloy's ship. The torpedo still had a split second to
impact. I quickly moved my ship to starboard. The torpedo hit my ship and
McCloy's ship was fine. I was relieved that McCloy is safe... from now.
However, the torpedo made my ship rock heavily. I looked at the damage report.
I still had 74% shields but I lost torpedo launch controls. Damn!
I looked at my panel and saw that the other Dominion ship has locked on to me.
I quickly accelerated and piloted right on top of the other Dominion ship. I
looked at this ship's status, one shot and it would be dead. The torpedo came
at me. I quickly maneuvered my ship to port and circled the Dominion ship I was
on top of very closely. The torpedo missed me and hit the Dominion ship. It hit
the warp core. I quickly accelerated to avoid the explosion of the war core
breach.
One more ship to go... Stanley's ship already lowered the last ship's shields.
I told McCloy to return to the Vivian and I locked phasers and fired. It seems
to me that the Dominion ship targeted me the most. To avoid being hit, I
piloted my ship at full impulse. I strafed the ship each time I went by. All of
their phasers missed. Finally, Stanley fired a quantum torpedo at the Dominion
ship and it exploded.
When I got back to the ship, everyone congratulated me on how well I did. I saw
Cathy and smiled.
"Glad you made it back in one piece," she said and hugged me.
"Impressive piloting," said Kathy's dad.
"Thanks."
The repair crew fully repaired the warp drive and we are back on our way to
Project Hawking.
When we got there, the only thing that was there was a runabout waiting by a
nebula.
The runabout hailed us. "This is Admiral Wong, we are here to take your
guests to Project Hawking. Please have your Project Hawking guests beam aboard
my ship."
As we walk up to the transporter platform, the captain of the Vivian smiled and
said "I wish you good luck on Project Hawking, Goodbye. Energize."
As usual, I see a stream of white light around me and I appear on the bridge on
the runabout. Strangely, the Vivian just went to high warp as soon as we got
here.
The Admiral told the pilot to head towards the nebula.
"Greetings, I will explain things as we get there, please sit down."
As soon as the runabout enters the nebula, we saw a huge dry dock with any
unfamiliar ship-class in it. I estimate that the ship was around 1000 meters
long.
"Wow!" I exclaimed.
We walked on the dry dock and the Admiral took us to a huge presentation room
on the dry dock.
"Welcome to Project Hawking. This project was named after a famous
scientist I am sure you all familiar with, Steven Hawking. The ship you saw in
the dry dock is the USS Hawking. This is a highly secret ship. I will begin
with the reason for this ship. About three months ago, we were able to contact
the USS Aries. In the Delta Quadrant. As you know, the Aries is a Constitution
Class starship was lost at Sector B-8. It is surprising that it was able to
survive that long. They have vast amounts of knowledge on the Borg and how to
fight them. They told us that the Borg will be planning an invasion force on
the Federation. Unfortunately, We lost contact, as they were about to give it
to us the information. They have given us coordinates in the Delta Quadrant;
they are on the other side of the Delta Quadrant from Voyager, in case you
wondered. Knowing this vital information can help us on the upcoming Borg
attack. This Hawking class starship can sustain the speed of warp 9 for one
month without polluting the space-time continuum. Your mission is to find the
Aries, gather the information on the Borg and escort it back. We predict that
contacting the Aries will take only a few months, but you must escort it back,
and that can take years, that is why we have made this ship.
"I will now begin the schematics of the Hawking class starship. This ship
is one of the largest classes every built by the Federation. It is 1015 meters
long. Like the Prometheus class warship, this starship has the same attack
formation. However, this ship is significantly easier to pilot. This computer
system uses the similar gel packs from the Intrepid class starship, but much
faster. The maximum speed is warp 9.985-fastest in Starfleet. It can be
sustained for 5 minutes at this speed. Like the intrepid class, the two main
nacelles will also fold. This ship has an additional nacelle on the primary
hull, but that is not used during warp flight unless the speed exceeds warp
9.4. There are also two mini nacelles inside the bottom of the engineering
hull. These pop out when you use multivector attack mode. This ship has three
warp cores. Its main warp core is at the primary hull. There are two smaller
cores in the two parts of the engineering hull where it separates. Unlike the
Prometheus class starship, each part of the ship has it's own computer core and
each section can connect to each other if one section gets destroyed. This ship
has the newest developed shielding system-the multi special shielding system.
This shield is 240% more powerful than that of a sovereign class. However, in
separation, the three sections will use the shielding system similar to the
defiant class. This ship has all the weapons that Federation ever developed.
With a standard complement of 430 quantum torpedoes and 150 photon torpedoes.
It also has a weapon replicator aboard. In addition to that, it has the new
singularity torpedo and the pulse phaser. Since this ship is so big, it has
turrets mounted on the hull. These are pulse phaser turrets-the same weapon as
the famous defiant class warship. This starship also has five Titan class
fighters Mark II and twenty shuttles at your disposal. On the bottom of the
primary hull is the bay for Federation's newest scout ship-the Zeus class
starship. The Zeus class starship is not a shuttle, but an actually starship.
Use this ship in combat situations and emergencies. In order for this ship to
work, we installed a new type of cloaking device on this ship. This way, you will
not be detected in Federation space. The Zeus class starship also has out new
cloaking device."
The Admiral explained more on how the ship operates and it's new sensor array
and stuff. After that, the Admiral took us on a little tour of the ship. I looked
out the window of the dry dock. The Hawking was very streamlined. It is a
pretty ship. The primary hull is similar to that of the Intrepid class, but
much bigger. There are a huge engineering hull. Also very streamlined and
looked very aerodynamic. Then I noticed turrets onboard the ship. I figured
these must be the new pulse-phaser turrets. I looked at the phaser arrays; it
seems different than before. It must be the new particle fountain phaser I
decided.
Our first stop was the bridge. When I got to the bridge, I was surprised. The
bridge was two decks. The top deck of the bridge was a huge transparent dome
with a whole circle of controls circling the dome. There was a stairs and a
lift from the bottom and the top of the bridge. On the lower level of the
bridge, in the center, were two chairs. It must have been the captain's chair
and the first officers. There was a huge concave monitor-bigger than I ever
seen on the viewing screen was. The rest of the bridge was pretty standard-the
helm, communications, science, tactical and the whole bunch. However, this
bridge was much larger than the ones I saw before.
Our next stop was main engineering. The warp core was huge. However, besides
the big warp core there was nothing special about the warp core.
After that, the admiral showed us the holodecks, the sickbays, the other two
warp cores and the primary ship functions.
I was assigned to my quarters to unpack my personal belongings. I took all my
stuff from Mars because I knew that I might not return. When I opened the door,
I gasped. My room was huge. There were three enormous windows on of the front
of the ship. My quarter was on deck eight. There are five main rooms for my
quarters. One living room, an office, my room and my sister's room. There was
also the standard two bathrooms. Then, I noticed another room behind my living
room. I walked in. Wow! I had my very own personal holodeck!
As I was unpacking, I noticed a holo-picture of my family-mom, dad, Adrian (my
sister), my older brother and the Thomas family (Cathy's family). It was in
front of our apartment in Kirk city. I was only 9 at that time. I took the
picture and placed it by my bed.
The Hawking will be leaving in about three hours. My job aboard this ship is
the ship's chief of fighters. Although I was only an ensign at 14 yeas of age,
I was the second best pilot on the ship. I am also part of the senior staff,
which is pretty cool-- I have to say. Normally, my job is on the bridge-I am
the co-pilot of the ship. However, during a battle situation, I would be flying
the new Titan-Class Fighter II. I am also the wing leader of this squadron.
There are 34 children/teenagers on board these vessel (including me), 985
humans (not including children), 3 kinglons, 16 bajorans, 121 vulcans and 237
other species. I have to say this is a pretty diverse ship. This is also a huge
ship; It has twenty holodecks (not including the personal ones), 15 sickbays,
28 science labs, 7 classrooms and etc... According to my observations, our
journey can take decades.
There was a beep at the door.
"Come in," I said.
The chief of security stood at the entrance of my doorway. He was bajoran, I
could tell by his mild ridges on his nose. "Greetings he said, I am Lt.
Commander Miriro, the chief of security of this ship."
"Good morning, sir," I responded.
"Please just call me Miriro, I want to show you the Titan Class II
fighter." He said as he led me to fighter bay 1.
The Titan Class II fighter was significantly larger than the original Titan
fighter. It had a multi- spacial shielding, similar to the Hawking. It was
about 15 meters long. I looked at it in wonder. This was starfleet's newest
fighter. It had a standard complement of 25 quantum torpedoes; single pulse
phaser, 2 particle fountain phasers and two torpedo launchers. It also had a
standard cloaking device and some other new stuff onboard. The fighter was
meant for two pilots, unlike the original Titan. One person would be the
pilot/tactical. And the other person would be engineering and science.
After explaining the Titan Class II fighter, he took me to a holodeck to run
some simulations. The new fighter was extremely maneuverable and easy to pilot.
On the bridge, I sat next to the main helmsmen of the Hawking. We were ready
for a brief shakedown cruise. I cloaked shakedown cruise I might add.
"Mr. Norman, take her out," the captain ordered.
"Yes sir!" my partner, Norman said.
I intensively looked at the front view screen. The dry dock slowly moved away
from our ship.
"This is Captain Miranda to Admiral Wong, we are ready to go," the
captain said.
"Good luck on your mission!" Admiral Wong said.
"Miriro, activate the cloaking device," the captain ordered.
"Aye, sir."
After the shakedown cruise, we were ready to go on our mission. The main
helmsman went for his lunch break. I was in charge of helms now.
"Mr. Norway, set a coarse to the Delta Quadrant, warp 9," the captain
ordered.
"Yes sir," I replied. I plotted in a course and engaged the warp
drive. As usual, the stars became to blur and they fly past us at high speeds.
Almost three weeks has passed by. We disengaged our cloaking device because we
were far from Federation space. We also decided to give our ship a little rest.
I was on my personal holodeck giving Kathy a lesson on how to fly a Titan Class
Fighter II. We were just fighting over on who would get the controls on who to
do the helm in a Borg simulation.
"It's my turn, you just fought the Klingons," I protested.
"But I never fought the Borg before, you did!" she said as she pushed
me off the chair.
"But still... you have to play fair," I smirked and said.
As we were pushing the each other, my hand accidentally touched the holographic
console.
"Warning: self-destruct Sequence in two minutes," the computer said.
"Oops," I laughed.
Suddenly, the ship shook heavily.
"What was that?" Kathy asked, "That was not the
simulation."
"Mr. Norman, please report to the bridge, we are under attack by a Borg
Pyramid."
The Borg Pyramid-I thought. That is one of the newest Borg Cruisers. What is
the Borg doing in this part of the Delta Quadrant? It was a cruiser-class
starship designed for escort and flanking. As I recall, it is 600 meters long
on each of the sides... The ship shook again. "Come with my Kathy," I
said to her.
On the bridge, I took my station. I saw the Borg Pyramid on the viewscreen.
"Status?" I asked.
Their shields are down to 80% and ours is at 92%. I looked at Kathy who is
standing next to me, she smiled. I have to concentrate, I thought, can't think
about her now. "Can I suggest multivector assault mode?" I suggested
to the captain.
"Okay, activate the multivector assault sequence," ordered the
captain.
The Hawking suddenly split into three sections. Each with it's own ship
systems. Two warp nacelles unfolded out of the lower engineering hull.
"All sections, arm quantum torpedoes and charge the particle fountain
phasers, attack pattern Beta" commanded the captain.
The two sections of the ship quickly split formation. The lower engineering
section went to the Borg's starboard side and the upper engineering section went
to the Borg's port side. Out ship still stayed in front. Suddenly, three green
energy balls flew out of the Borg ship.
"Sir, the Borg just fired three quantum torpedoes at us!" Miriro
said.
"Evasive maneuvers!"
Our ship suddenly swayed left and dodged two torpedoes. However, the third hit
the ship. The bridge shook violently.
Kathy fell down and bumped her head on a console.
"Kathy! Kathy!" I yelled at her. She was unconscious. "We have a
medical emergency on the bridge!"
"Report!" the captain ordered.
"The torpedo hit our starboard phaser array, shields down 50%, structure
integrity down by 93%, three wounded."
"All ships fire at will!" commanded the captain.
Suddenly, all three sections of the Hawking fired white quantum torpedoes and
the new particle fountain phaser. At this point, Kathy got transported to sick
bay and I'm concentrating on my job. The Borg fired another phaser at us. I
quickly did a loop and it missed.
"Report on the Borg!"
"Their shields are down by 23% and they are trying to adapt to our
particle phaser, but it is not working for them. I also noticed that the Borg
targets us mainly because we have the primary warp core. We can activate the
Corbomite Reflector to reflect the Borg's phaser."
"Do it," ordered the captain. The Corbomite Reflector is a special
defense for the Sovereign Class Starship. It is able to reflect any energy
weapon back to the enemy ship. However, activating the Reflector requires
significant amount of energy. As soon as the Reflector was activated, there is
a huge blue mesh around our ship. The Borg fired another phaser at out ship.
Instead of the usually green mesh of shields, the phaser reflected back the
Borg ship.
"Sir, that shot just destroyed their shield generator, their shields are
down!" the tactical officer said.
"All ships, finish them off!" commanded the Captain.
There are three blueish-orangish beams emitted each of our ships. As this
happened, the Borg ship exploded into a yellowish shockwave.
I immediately walked down sickbay one. Kathy was sitting on a medical bed, and
the EMH was just regenerating her cells. I was so glad she was all right. I
smiled at her. "Hey," I said.
"Hey"
"So, are you all right?"
"Yea, I just got a mild concussion, nothing serious."
"We defeated the Borg pyramid. I must admit, this ship is mighty powerful,
you should have been there. The maintenance crew is repairing the minor damages
for this ship, nothing serious."
The captain said I have a day off. Wanna go watch a movie on my holodeck?"
"A what?" Kathy asked.
"A movie, it's a late-twentieth century entertainment. I can be really
fun. They we can stroll around twentieth century New York City."
"Sounds fun, I'll be there in five minutes."
"Cool, see ya there," I said and walked to my quarters. Wow, my first
date with Kathy, well, sort of. She didn't accept it as a date, but going to
the movies is typical dating in the twentieth century. I don't know... I lately
have had some romantic feeling about her...I am really interested in the
twentieth century. It is very surprising from a hundred years, mankind got from
riding horses to computers and space travel.
"Computer, activate program New York 1999 Alpha," I said to the
holodeck's computer. Suddenly, the grid of colored lines turned into twentieth
century New York in a blink of an eye.
Kathy walked in the holodeck with twentieth century clothing. "You look
nice," I complemented her clothing. She was wearing a what they call, a
T-shirt, and some sort of bluish-colored pants called jeans.
"Wow, so this is New York in the twentieth century, huh?" she asked.
"Yea."
"The buildings seem much shorter here."
"Well, at that time, they still did not develop anti-grav
technology."
"What is that?" she pointed to a vehicle with four wheels attached to
it.
"That is a car, it is one of the most common transportation at this
time."
She asked many questions about the twentieth century. I tried to answer them as
best as I can. We got to see a movie called America Pie. The movie was pretty
funny, but I did not understand some of the humor involved in it. Anyway, I
know my parents, if their here would never allow me to see such "primitive
insensibility".
One more month has passed on this ship. We are finally in communication range
with the Aries. Although we are still tens of thousands of light years away, we
are still able to communicate with Federation's newest communication device.
The hyper-subspace array. It opens a very micro singularity and transmits and
receives subspace transmissions.
I am on my station at the bridge when we entered communication range with the
ship.
"Activate the hyper-subspace array," commanded the captain, "and
hail the Aries.
Suddenly, the view screen showed a captain dressed in old the old Starfleet
uniform.
"Greetings," the captain said.
"Hello, this is Captain Miranda of the Federation starship Hawking. And
you are?"
"It's so nice to see a familiar race again, captain. This is Captain
Smith. I assume you are the ship that has been sent by Starfleet to escort us.
However, our sensors do not detect any Federation starships in the area."
"New technology, however, I thought that Captain Katzman is commanding
this ship?"
"I am sorry to say that he has been assimilated in a Borg attack fifty
years ago. I am now sending you the ship's log and all the modifications made
to this ship for the last hundred years."
It is surprising that an old Constitution class starship can sill survive the
Delta Quadrant for all these years.
"I am also sending you all the news and technology updates for the last
hundred years," said that Captain merrily, "you can make
modifications to your ship to update technology. However, we need the Borg
information on how to defeat them."
"Okay, I am sending it now, this modification made to your weapons will
render the Borg's adaptive shielding useless, however, now you'll have to deal
with the ship like it has normal shields. And..."
The transmission has been cut. Someone closed the wormhole...
"Damn it," that captain said.
"At least will still have all the information we need, I am sending it to
Starfleet, now," the communication officer said.
At my quarters, I reviewed the logs of the Aries. It seems that the ship has
gone through a major refit. It appears that their warp speed is now upgraded to
warp 9.3. Its phasers have been upgraded thoroughly. The ship's size has
increased by 60%. Although it still has the Starfleet design, the ship is
significantly larger. It had numerous different technological advances from
different races...
The next morning, it was my birthday. I was going to a little party, but first
I went to get Kathy to show her Titian Class II fighter like I promised. When
we got inside the fighter, I heard a loud clunking sound. It must be the
multivector assault mode. The ship turned into red-alert, there was sirens
flashing. Suddenly, the whole ship shook (or at least my part of it) shook
heavily. I was knocked unconscience.
The next thing I remembered was Kathy whispering, "John! John!" I
opened my eyes.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Your head hit the console and your were knocked unconscious. I had to
read the medical database on this fighter to find out how to treat you. You
were like this for only 3 minutes, I had to revive you fast or we'll be
assimilated."
"Computer, report," I asked the computer.
"We have disabled the Borg's tractor beam generator. However, this section
of the ship's shields are down, the Borg is attempting to assimilate this
section of the ship. Other sections are still in battle. The Borg cube is
damaged."
"Computer, open fighter bay doors."
"Unable to comply, the Borg has taken over the doors."
"Okay, then we'll blast through. I rather fight than be assimilated, what
a birthday!" I said to my self. "Kathy, hold tight, I am going to
blast this door."
I fired phasers at the fighter door. An opening formed as I launched the ship into
space. In space, I saw the battle going on between the primary hull and the
upper secondary hull against the Borg cube. Other fighters were also launched.
Suddenly, a crazy idea popped into me. This can destroy the Borg cube easily!
"Computer, what is the shield statues of the Borg ship's ship bay?" I
asked the computer.
"That area of the Borg ship's shields are down."
I took my ship about to find the ship bay of the Borg. Once I found it, I
blasted it with every weapon I had until I made a hole big enough foe me to go
through.
"Hold on tight, because it is time to whoop some major ass!"
My shuttle flew into the opening. "Cathy, I want you to control the
standard phaser emitters of this fighter. I'll do the rest," I told her,
"and by the way, thanks for saving my life!"
It appears to me that the Borg cube is very vulnerable inside. Some internal
tractor beams were thrown at me, but it was easy to dodge them. As my ship
flies past different Borg passageways inside the ship, Kathy and I lay a path
of destruction within the ship. I suddenly stooped at a huge circular sphere.
My sensors ready trans-warp generators and mater-anti mater reaction chambers.
This must be the primary core, I thought.
"Cathy, I want you target your phasers at that huge sphere, we are going
to blow this thing"
"Okay," she replied.
As bluish- yellowish particle fountain phasers were fired at the sphere, I
launched all my quantum torpedoes, photon torpedoes and fired the pulse phasers
like crazy. There are explosions after explosions as firepower pounds the huge
sphere.
"The containment field is destabilizing, this thing is going to blow in 5
seconds!" Kathy yelped.
I turned the ship around and turned on maximum thrusters.
"I am reading tachion distortions within the passage way ahead,"
Kathy said.
"I am turning shields to full power, see if that can disperse the
field."
There is a huge explosion following my ship as I zipped my ship towards the
tachion field. Suddenly, the fighter shook heavily. Our ship bounced off the
field and is going towards the explosion backwards! Suddenly, I read a
trans-warp conduit inside the explosion. Perhaps I can maneuver my ship to that
conduit.
Putting thrusters at full reverse, I piloted my ship to the trans-warp conduit.
There is a huge blue mesh of energy around my ship as it is being pounded by
matter-antimatter explosions. Shit! Shields are failing! I just hope structure
integrity would last...
Inside the conduit, I turned the ship around; I also managed to contain the
shields to protect my fighter for the trans-warp tunnel.
My ship appeared in normal space a few seconds later.
"Computer, report!" I said.
"Long range communications down. Life support will be offline in ten
minutes. Shields are down. Long range sensors are offline. Escape pod destroyed.
All engines are down..."
"Okay, Okay, I get the point."
"What happened?" asked Kathy.
"No time to explain, you must help me get life support back online."
Kathy and I started to repair life support systems...
"Well, at least I got the air filter to work, however, heating is down to
10%, meaning it would be very cold. I also activated a distress beacon, let's
hope they can find us. That last anti-matter explosion breached a hole in the
aft section of the ship; we can't get to the living quarter for supplies. Other
parts of this ship are too badly damaged. So there's only one thermal blanket
so I'm afraid we'll have to share one," I said.
"Okay, we better get into the thermal blanket," she said.
We placed the thermal blanket near the wall and sat on top of it, then we sat
up straight and covered it over us.
Once we got settled, she said, "Hey, thanks for saving my life." Then
she smiled; it was the sweetest smile I ever saw.
"You're welcome, besides, you saved mine," I said and stared into her
dark brown eyes.
Then closed my eyes and leaned over to kiss her. It was a pretty long kiss.
When we pulled away, I stared again into her wonderful brown eyes. She kissed
me back.
Then we stared into the stars through the fighter's forward window for about an
hour.
"John, it's kinda cold... for me..." Cathy said.
I took off my prized (but torned) Starfleet uniform and wrapped it around her.
"Is that better?" I asked her.
"Yea, thanks."
We both fell asleep.
When I opened my eyes, I noticed a bright light in the room I'm in. I still
feel week, though. "Where am I?" I asked.
"You are onboard the USS Tiber's sickbay."
"Where's Kathy?" I asked.
"She is doing fine," the medical officer with the old uniform said.
"What is a Federation ship doing this far out in the Delta Quadrant?"
I asked.
"That's what we were going to ask you. Anyway, when the Raven disappeared,
my ship was assigned to search for it. Unfortunately, we ran into some unknown
alien race and it started to attack my ship. Then, a Borg interceptor came and
destroyed all the alien ships. Then, the interceptor detected us and put a
tractor beam on us. Then, we went into some trans-warp conduit. We managed beam
aboard the Borg ship and capture all the Borg. We made them back into their
regular self again. However, the last Borg detonated himself and destroyed the
Trans-warp dive. We savaged the whole Borg ship and made many improvements to
this ship... Okay, sorry I got too carried away with my story, anyway, I am
Captain Madison. You are onboard an Excelsior class starship. Well, totally
upgraded Excelsior class, anyway. And where are you from?"
Is said, "I am Ensign Jonathan George Norway of the starship Hawking. We
were in a battle with the Borg and well, we went into a trans-warp conduit and
appeared here. Out mission is to escort the USS Aries back home."
"If you don't mind me asking, how was your little shuttle be able to
escape from the Borg?" the captain asked.
"It's not really a shuttle, it's a class II Titan fighter. And well, I
destroyed the Borg ship inside out but I was blocked on my way out and was
forced to go into a trans-warp conduit. Then I appeared here, when my ship was
heavily damaged."
Captain Madison was a very nice officer, he showed Cathy and I the
modifications he made to the ship. His engineering crew must have been very
impressive, I thought. He added sections of the Borg Interceptor on his ship,
but then later redecorated it like a Starfleet ship. When I saw the ship
schematics, I was amazed. The ship had 4 nacelles instead of only 2. It was much
larger, yet on the out side, it looked like a regular Starfleet ship.
After the tour, I said, "Um, I need to get back to my own ship, can I used
your communications array, please?"
"Sure, be my guest," the captain said.
"And my ship?" I asked anxiously, trying to not sound cynical.
"We got to repair it, but there are some technologies we haven't seen
before."
When we got to the bridge, the comm officer said, "I am not reading any
Federation starships on long range sensors."
"That is because my ship uses a rotating EMP field to disrupt scanner
readings, may I please make the necessary adjustments?" I asked.
"Sure, be my guest."
I walked up to the console and changed the scanners appropriately. Hmm...
that's strange, I don't see the Hawking anywhere, and it should be only 20
light-years away.
"Sir, an ship is decloaking off our port bow," the tactical officer
said.
"Raise shields, power phasers and red alert," the captain said.
"Sir, it's a Federation ship!" the tactical officer exclaimed.
"Off course, that is the Hawking!" I happily said.
"Oh my god, look at that!" the captain said. He stared at the view
screen to see a beautiful streamlined Starfleet ship.
As soon as my ship came, Kathy, Captain Madison, and I beamed onboard the
Hawking.
As I walked up to the bridge, I noticed crewmen repairing the damaged systems.
"How did you manage to get the Borg off the ship?" I asked Captain
Miranda.
"There was only twenty drones onboard lower engineering hull. We used our
newly modified phasers to defeat the Borg. The Borg also only got control over
lower engineering computers, they barley assimilated anything." The
captain responded, "We noticed a huge explosion within the ship before it
got destroyed, it was you who did it, wasn't it?"
"Yes, with the help of Catherine." Then I smiled at her.
We entered a turbolift. "Main bridge lower section," Miranda told the
computer.
The turbolift whirled and we appeared on the main bridge.
"Impressive bridge," the captain of the Tiber said, "What is
this ship's class, may I ask?"
We walked towards the briefing room.
"This is a Hawking Class Starship, the first of its class."
"May I ask, what are you doing this far in the Delta Quadrant?"
"Yes, please come with me into the briefing room, we should catch up with
each other. Your crew is allowed to come onboard this ship as they
please."
The briefing door opened. A large room with an elongated gray table in side it.
There is a big sideways dome that showed the stars at the end. A small metallic
area is next to one side of the table. On the other side, is a gigantic
monitor.
"Please, sit on the side of the table so you can face the
holoemmiters." Miranda said.
Kathy, Madison, and I sat.
"This is an important briefing, even for you, ensign and Kathy."
"Escorting the Aries back is only half out mission, observe." The
metallic area suddenly turned into a 3-D model of out galaxy, showing all four
Quadrants. "Our other half of the mission is to establish a miniature
Federation in the Delta Quadrant. This information will be classified at all costs
because I am not ready to inform the crew that this mission might take more
than just a few decades. Once we have established a foothold in the Delta
Quadrant, we will try to make a new Starfleet and spread the peace in the Delta
Quadrant. Once we have a sizable military force, we will strike the Borg."
I gasped. So that is why there are so many Borg ships pursing us.
"I understand," Madison said.
"That is why I ask you to join this ship, and help us with our
mission."
"But captain, forgive me, but we have been trying to get home."
"I know, but we will be making a new home here, in the Delta Quadrant. We
will attempt to build an artificial wormhole, linking the two quadrants. We are
still able to communicate."
Finally, Captain Madison agreed. I personally agree in this mission. We should
spread out peace to other worlds, and destroy the evil that lurks in this
galaxy. I looked over at Kathy and smiled, I think she is also thinking the
same thing.
