A New Way
Chapter One: Pawn Into Queen
The light in the Borg Queen's eyes died as they reflected the bright orange explosions beginning to consume the Unicomplex. She had been foolish. She knew that now. She'd been overconfident. She should have suspected that Janeway had a plan. Now though, it was too late. Her last thoughts were of what would become of the collective without her. Then darkness surrounded her and she knew no more.
Outside in space the Borg Unicomplex exploded apart. Connector tubes flashed and exploded, most of the structures exploded from within and the few that were left were annialated by impacts with debris. Across Borg space the Collective ground to a halt. Without the guiding influence of the Queen they were lost.
Then new programming came to them. A program put there by the Queen at the dawn of the Collective in case this ever happened. The Collective would operate on their core protocols, and seek out a new leader for the Borg. The Collective was damaged, but not out. Not yet.
"SELECTION OF NEW COLLECTIVE CENTER PROSEEDING. TEN THOUSAND POSSIBLITLITIES. PROCESSING…………PROCESSING…………SELECTION NARROWED TO ONE THOUSAND POSSIBILITIES. ACCESSING FILES FROM DRONE ONE OF ONE. ANALYZING DATA FROM PONTENTIAL DRONES….PROCESSING……SELECTION CONFIRMED. DRONE EIGHT OF TEN. PRESENT LOCATION: MATURATION CHAMBER SIX ON BOARD CUBE 1674. INITIATING NEW DIRECTIVE.
On board one of the Collective's many thousands of Cubes the doors to a maturation chamber opened with a hiss and a few moments later a form stepped out. When the steam cleared the form was revealed to be a human girl. She looked around twelve years old and was clad in partial Borg armor. Her black hair was thin and falling out from her time in the chamber. Her dark blue eyes were expressionless as she had been undergoing nero resequencing. She walked forward and stopped in front of several drones, waiting for instructions. Then her link to the Collective was severed. This was necessary, for the Borg needed the drone's individuality to reassert itself before the next stage. The former Queen had left behind detailed instructions for what steps to take to create a new Borg leader.
The girl twitched and fell to her knees. Her breathing became sharp and shallow.
"Where are the voices? I can't hear the voices!" She cried. She was just Borg enough that she missed the voices. They had been with her ever since she could remember.
"CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS EIGHT OF TEN," the voices told her. Now though they were speaking to her from the cube's comm. system, not directly into her mind.
"What's happening to me?" She asked.
"Something wonderful," a comforting voice said. A hologram of the Queen appeared in front of her. She had created this program.
"Who are you?"
"I was the Borg. If you are seeing this, then I have been lost. I have left behind this program to assist you in becoming the new leader of the Collective."
"Me, leader of the Borg?" She asked. The Queen nodded.
"The Collective has looked over the data of every drone in the collective and selected you as the best choice. I always felt that if a calm and ordered mind was not the answer then perhaps one full of imagination and creativity was the correct choice. Something I learned during mylife is that ingenuity is sometimes a very powerful weapon."
"But, I'm just a child," she said. Already her individuality was returning.
"Yes, but you are also a very bright child. That is why you were selected. Your data tells that you were a child prodigy. You enjoyed strategy games and were the smartest child in your school. Then you ran away."
"Yes," the girl said, getting a bit angry. "My parents were two of the Federation's top scientists. I was always trying to be like them but I was never good enough! So finally I went off on my own to prove them wrong. That's when I encountered the Borg. Then I was here."
"And now you are about to become the most powerful being in the galaxy. The Collective will never abandon you my child. You now have all the friends you will ever need."
"I'll never be alone," she whispered to herself. She'd never had friends before. She had always been busy with her studies and other children thought she was too snotty. In fact she'd just been trying to pass on her knowledge. She'd wanted to help others but they hadn't understood. "You promise?"
"I promise. You will soon lead the Borg, they will do whatever you command. That is, if you accept."
"Yes, I accept," she said a moment later. She had always dreamed of being able to help other. Now she could help the entire galaxy become great.
"Well then, all that is left is for you to choose your name," the Queen's hologram said.
Her name before she'd been assimilated had been Alissa.
"My name is Alissa, Alissa of Borg."
How was that for an opening? In the next chapter you'll see Alissa become the new Queen and begin her new life. Tell me if you like this story. Don't be afraid to say what you think. Well, see ya in the next chapter, and don't forget to review!
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