A Trek to the Hellmouth by Antonio CabaƱas

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: Star Trek in all its incarnations and all related characters are property of Paramount Pictures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. I'm only borrowing them for fun. Tony Castro and the USS Corsair were created by me, other adventures of her can be found in my site http://www.geocities.com/borg31de777/fanfic

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Summary: a month after the events of Star Trek: First Contact, remnants of Borg technology aboard the Enterprise launch the ship to the moment when Buffy destroyed Adam.

USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-E.

San Francisco Space Yard, Earth's Orbit.

December 2373

Captain's log

Stardate 50951.3

After being finally cleansed of all the technology that the Borg installed aboard, the Enterprise-E has been finally recommissioned. Our first task seems quite simple, we have to carry Admiral Castro to Starbase 580.

- What do you think of the new Enterprise, Tony? - asked Jean-Luc Picard to his old friend, Rear Admiral Antonia "Tony" Castro.

Tony was being given a tour through the ship by the captain. They had finally reached the rear shuttlebay, and they were now heading back to the turbolift.

- It's an awesome ship, Jean Luc. And I have seen that they let Scotty have a hand in the repairs, I have recognised his style in several of the systems. -

- Yes, LaForge was very happy to have Captain Scott lending a hand. - said Jean-Luc when they entered the turbolift. - He said that they had been a similar problem in the Enterprise-A. -

- Oh, yes. The ship was hijacked by androids built by an extinct civilisation and they installed their technology aboard. They were still looking their masters to destroy them, without realising that they had killed all of them millennia ago, after a rebellion of the androids. -she shook her head, remembering the incident.

In one of the cargo bays of the ship a crewman deposited a box before an innocent-looking computer terminal, and left. The computer terminal then opened, revealing ugly black machinery, which released a robotic arm toward the box. After opening the box began to build a device with the components that were inside.

When they reached the bridge, Tony went to one side of the bridge, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, while Picard sit on his chair. The Enterprise has been sit idle on Earth's orbit since the first flight after the repairs, and now was time to get the ship back to her home, deep space.

The ship ignited her manoeuvre engines and began to slowly abandon the shipyard where she had been last month. When they reached the security distance from Earth, the impulse engines were started.

- A better acceleration ratio than a Galaxy-class starship, even better than a first batch Intrepid-class. I'm impressed. - said Tony

- It's a good ship, Tony. - said Jean-Luc, a hint of pride on his voice.

Tony smiled, remembering the many time that she had heard Jim talking with that same tone of voice of his Enterprise. Jim and Jean-Luc were almost as different as night and day, but this was the same on both of them, although Jean-Luc relationship with his Enterprise lacked the "mistress" angle that Kirk's had had.

The Borg mechanism had built a small mobile device with the pieces that were inside the box. Then the robotic arm linked the computer of the Borg mechanism with the computer of the device that had just built. Small black mechanisms began to protrude from the just-built device when the nanoprobes injected started to do their work, reforming the insides of the machine. When the work finished the machine resembled a giant insect. The robotic arm went back to the machinery inside the computer terminal, which closed itself. The small robot crawled between the boxes, while the inner workings of the computer terminal began to run its program, locating the few remains of Borg technology aboard and activating them.

- Mr. Styles, set course toward Algol Prime, warp factor 5. - said Picard - Engage! -

The new helm officer nodded and keyed the commands on his console, unaware that her orders were being rewritten by the Borg program that had just been activated. When the ship jumped into warp, a chroniton beam was fired from the deflector dish and the ship disappeared in a shining flash of energy.

Initiative Complex, Sunnydale CA

Spring 1999

Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, now possessed by the primal force that her friends had invoked extracted the power core of the cyborg Adam and disintegrated it, dispersing the energy in the space.

Solar System

Spring 1999

The Enterprise appeared between Earth and Mars, and with the Borg program breaking havoc in the computers aboard.

- I can't control the ship, captain! There is somebody trying to take over the ship!. - said Styles, keying frantically on her computer terminal.

- Sir, the program that they are using to penetrate our systems is very similar to the Borg penetration program used when the Borg transported over to the ship after we destroyed the Borg sphere. I think that... - Data stopped to talk when he saw the pain on Picard face.

- Jean-Luc, what's happening? - asked Troi, feeling the distress in the mind of the Enterprise captain.

- I... can... feel... them... trying... to... take... over... me... again...- said Picard while he clutched his head with both hands. - Picard... I'm... Jean-Luc... Picard... Im Jean-Luc Picard! I'M JEAN-LUC PICARD! -

Admiral Castro put a hand in the back of Picard's head, while Riker walked toward Data position, to hear what the android had to say. -

- Jean-Luc, hear me. - said Tony in an odd tone of voice. - Your mind is strong, you can overcome the Borg. -

- Commander, the origin of the program must be a Borg artefact on board. But not one of those that we know, because we thoroughly checked them in the repairs. -

- And were should it be? -

- I have found three possible locations. On those three places Borg drones were found to have survived some time after the destruction of the Borg queen. -

The Borg crawler found its objective, a cargo transporter pad. Contrary to the transporter rooms in the primary hull, there was nobody guarding the pad. The Borg program in the main computer of the Enterprise found the co-ordinates of the origin of the energy pulse that the sensors had detected and feed it to the robot, which began to operate the controls of the pad.

The ship was nearing Earth. The security officer had assembled a team, and they were sweeping the cargo bays, where the anomalous Borg drones had been found. The first try had been a failure, but they were detecting very strange readings from a computer terminal in another cargo bay. Then the terminal exploded, revealing a Borg contraption inside, that began to fire green energy beams to them.

Initiative Complex, Sunnydale CA

Spring 1999

The Slayer, her friends and the surviving soldiers had abandoned the complex. The noises of fight were dying down outside, thought Adam. He was paralyzed, his internal systems running in the last drops of energy from his batteries. Then he heard a whining noise and he felt something crawling over his chest, and introducing itself in the place where the power core was.

Enterprise-E, Earth's Orbit

Spring 1999

The security officers in the cargo bay were returning fire, to no avail because the borg contraption seemed to have adapted already to their phaser rifles.

- Damn! Help me over here! - said the lieutenant in charge of them, in the door of the cargo bay, and opening the guts of his rifle.

- What are you doing, Boris? - asked the Bolian that was besides him.

- That thing must be connected to the main computer and so is able to get the frequency of our phaser rifles, Clixx. I'm trying to disconnect it from the computer and set the frequency manually. - he began to rewire the inner guts of the rifle and guarded a isolinear chip on his pocket. - It's done! I hope that it works. -

He signalled the others to go with him

- Now! -

The lieutenant fired his rifle at the thing, destroying it.

Enterprise-E, Earth's Orbit. One hour later

- I have introduced a search and destroy program in our main computer to purge it of all remnants of the Borg penetration program - said Data.

- Very well, Data. - said Riker.

- How is the captain? - asked the android.

- Physically he is fine, but Deanna thinks that he is troubled by the experience. -

In the Captain's Ready Room of the Enterprise Jean-Luc and Tony were talking

- I'm not going to ask how you did that, Tony, but thanks. -

- It has been nothing, Jean-Luc. But I feel that you are still worried about something. -

- When that Borg thing was trying to control me, I could feel part of what it was planning. I'm afraid that it was trying to do the same thing that the last time, trying to assimilate...-

- ...Earth in the past. I have read the report that you filed to Starfleet Command. And I think that you are right. -

- Captain, we have found that one of the cargo transporter pads on the same cargo bay where we found that thing was used soon after we were transported to this era. - said Riker, entering the Ready Room with a PADD on his hand. - Unfortunately the destination co-ordinates were erased. -

To be continued...