Disclaimer: This one refers to the entire story once completed. Star Trek is not mine, surprisingly, and I make no claim to it. However, two characters are mine; Nick Connor and Nazira Thalyn.

A/N: If you would please leave reviews and let me know what you think. It can be simple; my most important question that I'd like you to answer is if you'd like to read the rest of it. No use in publishing if no one wants to read it. I think it's worth reading, but I wrote it; I don't count.

*It has been brought to my attention that my description was not as clear as it should have been. This involved the crew of Voyager but the two officers in question are *not* of the main cast but are the two characters of my own creation. I prefer to utilize the concept of fan fiction with characters and circumstances of my own creation since it offers more possibilities. If you wish to read about the traditional crew, there are plenty of other very well written stories on this site. I apologize for any confusion.

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Through a lonely stretch of empty space, the Federation Star Ship Voyager slipped between the distant stars. It was late into the night shift; most of the windows that gazed upon the great blackness were black themselves.

Black as the space that surrounded it, another ship approached the sleek silver ship from behind. As invisible to sensors as to naked eyes, the new ship was easily five times the size of Voyager. Sliding up to the smaller vessel, the black monstrosity pulled Voyager out of warp as one catches a fly by the wings. Its capture went unnoticed by the caught fly; there was no sign of panic or struggle as the black ship began pumping soldiers through a long black protrusion, not unlike a proboscis. Only when the soldiers had control of nearly a third of the ship and the commander had come aboard was the alarm sounded.

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Nazira Thalyn lay awake on her bed, eyes to the ceiling. Something had woken her up and she was trying to figure out what. Focusing her antennae towards the hallway outside her quarters, she listened closely. There was scuffling and she distinctly heard a yell that sounded like someone in pain. Immediately afterwards red lights began flashing in her room.

"Intruder alert, intruder alert. We are under attack, repeat, we are under attack," came a voice through the comm system. Leaping out of bed, Nazira went immediately to the top drawer of her dresser. Inside was her andorian phaser pistol. Gripping it tightly in her hands, she ran to her door and after a deep breath, raised the phaser level to her eyes and opened the door.

Outside her quarters the hallway was dimmed, sparks from holes in the wall hissing menacingly. There was a body a few meters away. Leaning down but careful to keep her pistol up, she checked for a pulse but found none. With a grimace, she tread carefully down the hallway. Still in her nightdress and barefoot, she wasn't quite battle-ready but if there were already bodies in the hallway, then she had to do what she could fast.

Farther down the hall she heard phaser fire. Walking quicker until she was running, she turned the corner to find two injured crewman attempting to take on three incredibly large humanoids armed with nasty looking rifles. Green bolts from the black weapons had already taken down three other crewmen. Carefully aiming, Nazira caught one in the chest; he fell with a great racket. His companions suddenly noticed her and one began to focus on her while the other continued to fire on the remaining crewman. Ducking just behind the curve of the hallway, Nazira continued to fire, the blue bolts from her pistol meeting with green and orange. Between the three of them, the Voyager trio managed to take out the two remaining intruders. Nazira crept up to them.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know," gasped an ensign, his arm injured from a rifle burn. "They just appeared. Someone just now managed to activate the alarms, but it could be too late."

"Get yourself down to sickbay if you can. Keep an eye out and be careful," Nazira replied. The two crewmembers nodded and raising her pistol she continued down the hallway searching.