Empress part 3

Why? She kept asking herself that forsaken question. It had all been normal, almost boring, in space until they had encountered this race. Human in appearance, inhumane in actions. They had immediately decided to tractor Voyager upon its arrival in their tiny hunk of space. Their planet must have been as small as if not smaller than Mercury and as captain, she had decided since that little, pathetic excuse for a planet was M class it would be a good opportunity for relaxation. She'd be dammed if anything went wrong, and of course, in true Delta Quadrant fashion, it had. One minute she had been negotiating, the next Voyager was being attacked, and members of the crew began randomly disappearing until only she and Chakotay were left on the bridge… She then watched as he disappeared right before her eyes and she was all alone. Emitting a heavy sigh, she realized that this was an awkward and vaguely familiar situation…

The "humans" appeared on her view screen again, and she just wanted to blast phasers and photon torpedoes at their little planet until it was destroyed. But her urge was quickly stifled when she saw the faces of her crew, bound and gagged, with phasers, or something like them, pointed at Harry, Chakotay, and even little Naomi Wildman. She felt her eyes water. She couldn't fly home by herself, at least not with out Chakotay, and she had to admit, she didn't think she would want to fly home if it meant Tom wasn't at the helm and Naomi was not tagging along, following her every where… she decided to beam down.

She had met him then, the king of the tiny planet called Destino… Destiny… He had told her they would all die, her whole crew, if Voyager was not surrendered. She fought and argued with him until they had both agreed that if he could not have Voyager, he would claim her captain as his bride. As she beamed back aboard the ship with her crew she could only hope that they made it home… that they would come back for her. Entering her quarters she ordered the computer for the lights. So it begins… she thought as the doors hissed shut.