Startrek USS Jaguar
By Elfman
Chapter One: Discovered
All was quiet in the sector, a stray Borg Cube was searching the area for a Starfleet ship, and undetected by the Borg, The USS Jaguar was hiding out in a particle storm playing dead. All was silent and nothing moved. And then without any note of recognition, the Cube turned stooped in space for a few seconds, and then disappeared in a flash of green light. As it came closer it couldn't help but give itself away to the Jaguar's sensors, large and ominous it was too large to miss.
Bryan looked down at his console, which was flashing like mad, and stared at what it indicated and sighed, he knew it couldn't last; most things were too good to be true, and unfortunately this seemed to be the case for them. He quickly tapped a few buttons to confirm his thoughts then quickly drew breath and looked at his captain, David immediately turned to look at him eyeing him nervously
"Sir" said Lieutenant Bozeman "long range sensors detect the Borg Cube, they've located us, and are on course to intercept",
"Damn" said David "How long until they reach us?"
"Approximately two minutes until they intercept us captain". Bryan could tell this news had put the captain's mood down a great deal.
"Two minutes, how on earth? Why didn't we detect them sooner" Asked the captain
"It seems" said Run'vok "That the anomaly we are in is interfering with our sensors"
" I was sure this would work, Ensign, plot a course for the Berius Sector and engage at maximum warp", ordered the captain. Ensign O'Brien quickly plotted in the course and the ship burst into life as its warp drive came online. In a second nothing was left but a thin ion trail where the ship had once been.
"Red Alert" the captain ordered, "all crew to battle stations, Parnell" the captain said to his second in command "Get weapons back online as soon as possible and beam Amadeus straight to the bridge". John Parnell looked at his captain, who was trying to hide his nervousness under a thin smile.
"Aye aye sir" he replied. And within seconds a fiery ball materialized on the bridge and squeaked in delight as it jumped about the captain's lap. Amadeus was a Tribble and the Captain's personal furry mascot. David started hit his combadge
"Engineering," he said "how long until you can get the Phutonic Array back online?"
"Err" Came a nervous voice over the intercom "I need at least two hours max".
"One minute until interception captain" said Bozeman,
"Are we in firing range?"
"Yes Captain, phasers are already locked on," stated second officer Parnell.
"Good" said David with triumph "fire at will".
A long beam off energy fired from the underside of the great ship, and crawled off in a straight line heading for the Borg ship, as soon as it came within 30 metres of the ships hull, it was deflected by their shields.
"Captain, the Borg have already adapted their shields, no visible effect", stated Parnell sadly. Amadeus started growling as if trying to scare the Borg away.
"Approximately twenty seconds till we are in their firing range," said Parnell. Everyone got a small glimpse of a fiery green ball of light heading towards them, but then it hit the shields exploding, and shaking the whole ship, the whole bridge shuddered, sending Amadeus into a frenzy of chirps.
"Make that zero seconds" corrected Parnell.
"Shields down to 76 percent" came the voice of Commander Run'vok.
"Captain, we are being hailed by the Borg" Came Ensign Billings voice, then a hundred different voices rolled into one began, to speak in a emotionless tone, "We are the Borg, lower you shields and surrender your ship, your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own, your culture will adapt to service us, do not resist, resistance is Futile" Everyone shivered at the voice and then returned to their jobs. Captain David Gill looked down at his crew who looked extremely nervous, all except Run'vok who as always was suppressing all emotion. Again the ship shook as Borg Phasers hit the hull with extreme force. A couple of consoles exploded and began spitting sparks.
"Lock Quantum torpedoes onto their primary weapons systems and fire" ordered the Captain. A few seconds later a spread of blue balls of light burst forth from the ships flying over the vast gulfs of space and miraculously penetrated the Borg's shields exploding, and ripping a great chunk from their hull.
"That was unexpected," said Parnell,
"Sir, it appears some of the particle dust from the storm has help weaken the Borg's shields," said Run'vok
"Arhar, success" shouted the Captain "fire a spread of Quant."
"Their shields are back up again," shouted Run'vok.
"It's now or never, Bozeman get us out of here" Shouted the Captain. The Jaguar began to float away from the Cube and then without warning sped of into the distance.
"The Borg are in pursuit," Parnell told everyone.
"Put all emergency power into the Phaser Banks, and lock onto that Weak spot in their shields" Said The Captain. He didn't need to say fire, as he opened his mouth a beam of red light erupted from the ship, thicker and more powerful then anyone had seen so far. The lights began to flicker, and Parnell felt a small change in the gravity but no one seemed to notice. The beam held strong and spit through the shields hitting the same spot, but his time the effect was immediately recognizable. Lights began to go out around that area.
"Their shield are back to 100 percent but their weapons are down to 20 percent" Shouted Parnell. For the first time the captain began to relax in his chair, this is how life should be like.
"Things seem to be going our way" He exclaimed, "Lets hope they don't get them back up"
"Err, Captain," said Lieutenant Bozeman "The Borg have accelerated to ramming speed"
"Intriguing" said Run'vok raising his eyebrow "This is not normal behaviour for the Borg"
"I kind of guessed they weren't normal Borg, when they knew exactly were to fire to disable the Phutonic Array" replied the Captain. David now looked extremely strained, 'What can we do' he thought, then as if agreeing with himself he nodded and opened his mouth again.
"Okay, All Decks brace yourselves" he ordered, "Prepare to fire Interspatial Torpedoes" David only had enough time to take another breathe when he was slammed to the floor by another almighty crash, another console exploded sending Lieutenant Bozeman crashing to the floor.
"Report" Shouted the Captain
"The Borg just hit us Captain," said Commander Parnell "There are ruptures in decks 3,5 and 9, Sickbay reports there are 18 injuries, mostly minor. Emergency shields are in place"
"Engineering to the Bridge, Interspatial Torpedoes are being loaded, we can fire them on your command" Came a voice over the COM.
"All decks prepare to enter the Wormhole" Shouted David. Out of each the ships sides came identical green balls of light heading towards each other at a tremendous speed, hurtling through space each heading for the same place, except one was ahead of the other. Everyone on the bridge looked out of the main screen as they disappeared out of sight. Then, without warning, an enormous burst of light erupted from the spot they'd last saw the torpedoes. Everyone was temporally blinded, after blinking several times they could see a wormhole, entirely white, spiralling around up and down, and then a second later there was another burst of light, this time everyone shielded their eyes. Then the wormhole went jet black, and was almost hidden from view, and then it came back in full force, glowing a dark grey.
"Wormhole is stabilized Captain" said Run'vok.
"Drop a spread of Quantum Torpedoes behind us, that should slow them down, we can't have them following us" ordered David.
A handful of torpedoes headed for the Borg vessel, but no one was watching,
"Set course for the other end of that wormhole and Engage at maximum warp" Said David. The nacelles at each end of the ship started turning, then the Jaguar sped off into the wormhole, and away from the Cube. As they entered the ship began to rumble, and shake. The ship kept changing course trying to keep in the centre of the wormhole, which kept changing shape.
"Shields at 93 percent and holding Captain," said Parnell "The Borg cube is not in pursuit"
"Now that's unusual as well," pondered the Captain.
"Captain the particle dust that helped us earlier is destabilizing the wormhole" Said Run'vok.
"That's why they didn't follow us in, they knew this would happen, change course, head back" Ordered the Captain.
"Attempting to sir, we seem to caught in a gravitational pull"
"Sir" came Parnell's astonished voice "The Wormhole is collapsing"
"What" said David with astonishment "Reroute all emergency power to the Warp Drive"
"It's not having any effect" Said Run'vok "May I suggest." He didn't have enough time to finish, as everyone turned to look at the view screen, the end of the wormhole pulsed and began to shrink, the little shred of hope everyone had died, as the wormhole entrance and exit disappeared completely. Everyone looked up, half expecting to see a bright light.
"If this is death, I'm extremely disappointed" came Parnell's Voice.
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Ooooh, trapped with no return aye?
R & R
Elfman
Chapter One: Discovered
All was quiet in the sector, a stray Borg Cube was searching the area for a Starfleet ship, and undetected by the Borg, The USS Jaguar was hiding out in a particle storm playing dead. All was silent and nothing moved. And then without any note of recognition, the Cube turned stooped in space for a few seconds, and then disappeared in a flash of green light. As it came closer it couldn't help but give itself away to the Jaguar's sensors, large and ominous it was too large to miss.
Bryan looked down at his console, which was flashing like mad, and stared at what it indicated and sighed, he knew it couldn't last; most things were too good to be true, and unfortunately this seemed to be the case for them. He quickly tapped a few buttons to confirm his thoughts then quickly drew breath and looked at his captain, David immediately turned to look at him eyeing him nervously
"Sir" said Lieutenant Bozeman "long range sensors detect the Borg Cube, they've located us, and are on course to intercept",
"Damn" said David "How long until they reach us?"
"Approximately two minutes until they intercept us captain". Bryan could tell this news had put the captain's mood down a great deal.
"Two minutes, how on earth? Why didn't we detect them sooner" Asked the captain
"It seems" said Run'vok "That the anomaly we are in is interfering with our sensors"
" I was sure this would work, Ensign, plot a course for the Berius Sector and engage at maximum warp", ordered the captain. Ensign O'Brien quickly plotted in the course and the ship burst into life as its warp drive came online. In a second nothing was left but a thin ion trail where the ship had once been.
"Red Alert" the captain ordered, "all crew to battle stations, Parnell" the captain said to his second in command "Get weapons back online as soon as possible and beam Amadeus straight to the bridge". John Parnell looked at his captain, who was trying to hide his nervousness under a thin smile.
"Aye aye sir" he replied. And within seconds a fiery ball materialized on the bridge and squeaked in delight as it jumped about the captain's lap. Amadeus was a Tribble and the Captain's personal furry mascot. David started hit his combadge
"Engineering," he said "how long until you can get the Phutonic Array back online?"
"Err" Came a nervous voice over the intercom "I need at least two hours max".
"One minute until interception captain" said Bozeman,
"Are we in firing range?"
"Yes Captain, phasers are already locked on," stated second officer Parnell.
"Good" said David with triumph "fire at will".
A long beam off energy fired from the underside of the great ship, and crawled off in a straight line heading for the Borg ship, as soon as it came within 30 metres of the ships hull, it was deflected by their shields.
"Captain, the Borg have already adapted their shields, no visible effect", stated Parnell sadly. Amadeus started growling as if trying to scare the Borg away.
"Approximately twenty seconds till we are in their firing range," said Parnell. Everyone got a small glimpse of a fiery green ball of light heading towards them, but then it hit the shields exploding, and shaking the whole ship, the whole bridge shuddered, sending Amadeus into a frenzy of chirps.
"Make that zero seconds" corrected Parnell.
"Shields down to 76 percent" came the voice of Commander Run'vok.
"Captain, we are being hailed by the Borg" Came Ensign Billings voice, then a hundred different voices rolled into one began, to speak in a emotionless tone, "We are the Borg, lower you shields and surrender your ship, your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own, your culture will adapt to service us, do not resist, resistance is Futile" Everyone shivered at the voice and then returned to their jobs. Captain David Gill looked down at his crew who looked extremely nervous, all except Run'vok who as always was suppressing all emotion. Again the ship shook as Borg Phasers hit the hull with extreme force. A couple of consoles exploded and began spitting sparks.
"Lock Quantum torpedoes onto their primary weapons systems and fire" ordered the Captain. A few seconds later a spread of blue balls of light burst forth from the ships flying over the vast gulfs of space and miraculously penetrated the Borg's shields exploding, and ripping a great chunk from their hull.
"That was unexpected," said Parnell,
"Sir, it appears some of the particle dust from the storm has help weaken the Borg's shields," said Run'vok
"Arhar, success" shouted the Captain "fire a spread of Quant."
"Their shields are back up again," shouted Run'vok.
"It's now or never, Bozeman get us out of here" Shouted the Captain. The Jaguar began to float away from the Cube and then without warning sped of into the distance.
"The Borg are in pursuit," Parnell told everyone.
"Put all emergency power into the Phaser Banks, and lock onto that Weak spot in their shields" Said The Captain. He didn't need to say fire, as he opened his mouth a beam of red light erupted from the ship, thicker and more powerful then anyone had seen so far. The lights began to flicker, and Parnell felt a small change in the gravity but no one seemed to notice. The beam held strong and spit through the shields hitting the same spot, but his time the effect was immediately recognizable. Lights began to go out around that area.
"Their shield are back to 100 percent but their weapons are down to 20 percent" Shouted Parnell. For the first time the captain began to relax in his chair, this is how life should be like.
"Things seem to be going our way" He exclaimed, "Lets hope they don't get them back up"
"Err, Captain," said Lieutenant Bozeman "The Borg have accelerated to ramming speed"
"Intriguing" said Run'vok raising his eyebrow "This is not normal behaviour for the Borg"
"I kind of guessed they weren't normal Borg, when they knew exactly were to fire to disable the Phutonic Array" replied the Captain. David now looked extremely strained, 'What can we do' he thought, then as if agreeing with himself he nodded and opened his mouth again.
"Okay, All Decks brace yourselves" he ordered, "Prepare to fire Interspatial Torpedoes" David only had enough time to take another breathe when he was slammed to the floor by another almighty crash, another console exploded sending Lieutenant Bozeman crashing to the floor.
"Report" Shouted the Captain
"The Borg just hit us Captain," said Commander Parnell "There are ruptures in decks 3,5 and 9, Sickbay reports there are 18 injuries, mostly minor. Emergency shields are in place"
"Engineering to the Bridge, Interspatial Torpedoes are being loaded, we can fire them on your command" Came a voice over the COM.
"All decks prepare to enter the Wormhole" Shouted David. Out of each the ships sides came identical green balls of light heading towards each other at a tremendous speed, hurtling through space each heading for the same place, except one was ahead of the other. Everyone on the bridge looked out of the main screen as they disappeared out of sight. Then, without warning, an enormous burst of light erupted from the spot they'd last saw the torpedoes. Everyone was temporally blinded, after blinking several times they could see a wormhole, entirely white, spiralling around up and down, and then a second later there was another burst of light, this time everyone shielded their eyes. Then the wormhole went jet black, and was almost hidden from view, and then it came back in full force, glowing a dark grey.
"Wormhole is stabilized Captain" said Run'vok.
"Drop a spread of Quantum Torpedoes behind us, that should slow them down, we can't have them following us" ordered David.
A handful of torpedoes headed for the Borg vessel, but no one was watching,
"Set course for the other end of that wormhole and Engage at maximum warp" Said David. The nacelles at each end of the ship started turning, then the Jaguar sped off into the wormhole, and away from the Cube. As they entered the ship began to rumble, and shake. The ship kept changing course trying to keep in the centre of the wormhole, which kept changing shape.
"Shields at 93 percent and holding Captain," said Parnell "The Borg cube is not in pursuit"
"Now that's unusual as well," pondered the Captain.
"Captain the particle dust that helped us earlier is destabilizing the wormhole" Said Run'vok.
"That's why they didn't follow us in, they knew this would happen, change course, head back" Ordered the Captain.
"Attempting to sir, we seem to caught in a gravitational pull"
"Sir" came Parnell's astonished voice "The Wormhole is collapsing"
"What" said David with astonishment "Reroute all emergency power to the Warp Drive"
"It's not having any effect" Said Run'vok "May I suggest." He didn't have enough time to finish, as everyone turned to look at the view screen, the end of the wormhole pulsed and began to shrink, the little shred of hope everyone had died, as the wormhole entrance and exit disappeared completely. Everyone looked up, half expecting to see a bright light.
"If this is death, I'm extremely disappointed" came Parnell's Voice.
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Ooooh, trapped with no return aye?
R & R
Elfman