Chapter one
And there they were...2 Romulan Warbirds decloaked right in front of the Federation starship Voyager. Both were powering weapons and neither of them were responding to Voyagers hails...they were prepared to destroy them. Captain Janeway looked out the view port and asked "Whats our status Mr.Tuvok?" Tuvok looked at his console."Our shields are at 99.9 percent forward phaser banks are on-line and we have a complement of 32 photon torpedoes."
"I don't think thats not going to be enough." Janeway said as she pounded the arm of her chair and tried to think of something they could do."Janeway to engineering do you have the warp core back online yet?"
Be'lana's came over the comm."Not yet captain we're recalibrating the plasma injectors and thats going to take at least another hour or two."
DANG it! Without the warp core we're stuck with no hope of escape. Then she thaught of something. "Tom how good of a pilot are you anyway?" He swiveled his chair around and faced her."It depends on what the situation is."
"Well this is a pretty desperate situation. I was wondering if you could get us out it."
He sat back in his chair and smiled. "You bet I could." She leaned forward in her chair and glared at him. "Well then I'd like it very much if you would get us out of it cause there are 150 people on this ship who will die if you don't!" Tom swiveled back around to face the conn. "Fine fine no need to get angry."
"Actually Tom this IS a time to get angry."
Paris turned his head towards the captain as if to glare at her but instead put an evil look on his face that made Janeway wonder what the heck she had just done. He reached under the conn and pulled an X-wing control deck from under it and placed it on the console. Two fiber optic cables from the bottom of the control deck latched on to the surface of the console and plugged themselves in.
"What are you doing Tom?"Janeway asked with worry in her voice.
"Just getting ready for the ride.Why?"
She looked at him as if he had hot dogs falling out of his ears and hoped in her heart that he wasn't about to do what she thaught he was going to do. "The Romulans are opening fire" Tuvok said right before a disruptor blast hit the shields.
"Shields are down to 85 and holding captain." Harry Kim said from his station as they suddenly accelerated. Paris had jacked the throttle to full and now had his hand on the joystick that was attached to the X-wing control board on top of the conn. They went forward at full speed right at the 2 Romulan Warbirds. Paris hit the rudder right at the last second turning the ship on it's side and speeding in between the two Warbirds. "TOM WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Janeway yelled at him.
"Doing what you said captain. Getting us out of this situation."
He had jacked the inertial compensaters down to 95 so he could feel every tight turn that they made to get the feel that he was flying an X-wing instead of a 100 ton starship.Unfortunately so did everybody else.
They pulled into another tight turn and sent Harry Kim to the other side of the bridge and held him there by the shear force of the turn until they came out of it.
They now faced the Warbirds and plunged towards them at full speed.
"Take THIS!" Yelled Paris as he pulled the trigger and fired all of the phasers at one of the Warbirds.
"The shields on that one Romulan ship are down to 65 captain"A frantic Harry kim said as they passed them.
"Tom I told you to get us out of the situation and not get everyone killed!"
"What do you think I'm doing captain?" He said as the Romulans finally caught on and began to pursue. She kept quiet as they were suddenly hit by a disruptor from one of the pursuing Warbirds.
"You want a piece of me? Well lets see about that."
He reversed the throttle so fast that tuvok fell over his console and fell into the captains lap. She pushed him off and stood up relizing to late that she just made a horrible mistake. Paris put the ship into a barrel roll and set throttle to full forward again.
Janeway was sent flying to the ceiling and fell down as they accelerated towards the unsuspecting warbirds.
Paris opened fire on the other Warbird this time with 16 photon torpedos that buckled it's shields and caused severe damage to it's left flank.
They continued to plow forward. Janeway looked out the view port and screamed as they grazed the shields of the the other ship.
Harry Kim once again scrambled to his station to check everything. "Shields are down to 15 captain!We can't take another hit like that!".
"Tom Quit this foolishness right NOW!!" He didn't hear her as he fired the last 16 photon torpedos at the Warbirds.The first five hit the already damaged ship and tore it up.
5 of other ten slammed into the other Warbird and took down it's forward shields just as the remaining five came and slammed into the same place one right after another tearing the ship apart from the inside out.
Tom cut throttle and disengaged the X-wing controls. He turned his seat around to face the captain and put a smile on his face.
"Whoo! Well that wasn't so bad was it?" He immediately wiped the smirk off his face as he saw the pure anger in the captains eyes. She looked as if she was about to blow all over the bridge.
"Tuvok?" Tuvok got up from the floor and stood in front of her. "Yes captain?"
"EscortTom down to the brig and keep him there until further notice"
"Aye captain." He said and took Paris by the arm. "That's gratitude for ya"Tomremarked as the turbolift door closed.
"Chakotay you have the bridge while I go beat my head aganst my desk." Janeway had never been so tired in her life.
The last thing she heard before the door to her ready room closed behind her was Chakotay saying "Yes captain".