Space Trek!

Ok, so here's a recap of last chapter:

Admiral Wartz' team receives a distress call from the small ship, the Federation starship PS118, who are being attacked by the Borg. The Admiral then puts together a crew to save them, the captain being Arnold P. Shortman. When they arrive to save the PS118, there are no Borg ships to be found. Arnold decides to get an away team to look for survivors. They find Captain Lloyd, as well as eight other survivors, and a lone Borg.

Again, if anyone has any questions about what's going on, please feel free to leave it in a review or message! Happy reading!

Disclaimer: Craig Bartlett owns Hey Arnold and Gene Roddenberry owns Star Trek. I do not. Wish I did…

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"Park, five to beam up!"

Then came the bluish fog, surrounding the five. Sickbay disappeared completely and was replaced by the transporter room of the Hillwood. Arnold checked to make sure everyone was accounted for and was glad Eugene had proved him wrong about the rumor at Starfleet about the ensigns who wore red.

"Take these two to our Sickbay! Ensign Park?"

The young Ensign looked at the Borg drone on the floor in fear. Phoebe was still leaning over her, making sure the drone had been properly sedated. She turned to look at Ensign Park, who was actually expecting to see someone else.

"W-where's Captain Lloyd?" Park asked after seeing Phoebe's face.

"What do you mean where's Captain Lloyd?" Arnold questioned. "She was beamed here the first time."

"She was, but she said she needed to get back to her ship immediately afterwards because you were in trouble!"

Arnold scratched his oddly shaped head. He knew they weren't in trouble and he thought she knew they were just looking for her chief engineer.

"Can you track her?"

Ensign Park pressed a few buttons on his computer as everyone else was leaving the transporter room to be taken to Sickbay save for Gerald, Arnold, and Park of course.

"She's in her engineering room."

Arnold crossed his arms over his chest, "That's where the survivors were when they beamed out. Why would she go back?"

Gerald furrowed his own eyebrows, making the ridges on his forehead move slightly downwards. He was trying to come up with an explanation as well.

xXx

"Hold still, please, I'm just going to give you this special shot so you won't feel any more pain in your leg."

Arnold's EMH, Doctor Simmons, was helping Doctor Nadine with the survivors of the PS118 in Sickbay. He took a medical instrument and pressed it against the skin of one survivor's neck.

"There you go!" Doctor Simmons almost cheered. "Good as new!"

The doors to Sickbay opened as Phoebe and Eugene hauled a bulky drone inside. Everyone went silent as they placed her on an unoccupied surgeons table. Doctor Simmons smiled at the new patient, but it was quickly wiped off by the speech about to be dealt out by Nadine.

"Lieutenant, what is the meaning of this?" Doctor Nadine's tone was not that of anger, but fear. "Why have you brought one of them on this ship? We were sent here so we could be safe from the Borg!"

It wasn't that Phoebe did not hear Nadine, she could hear perfectly out of her pointed, Vulcan ears. However, she decided to ignore her concerns. "I need someone to put up a force field around her immediately before she wakes up! Hurry!"

Doctor Simmons quickly reached for his computer and set up a shield.

"Doctor Nadine, after you are finished, I will require some assistance."

"Doctor Simmons, please take over for me," Nadine decided to ignore her fears for the time being and stood near Phoebe. "I'm finished. What do you need?"

"I'm attempting to save her."

"That's Lieutenant Pataki, isn't it?" This time Nadine became concerned. She knew of the girls' friendship.

Phoebe merely nodded, still looking at her Borg friend. "I couldn't leave her behind."

"This is dangerous, you know. The procedure could kill her."

"Look!" Phoebe looked Nadine in the eye. Her expression was a mixture of anger, fear, and a hint of hope. Nadine had never seen her act like this. "Helga is my friend, maybe my only friend, and I am going to try my hardest to make sure this procedure works for her! She is a strong person, she will prevail!"

Nadine was slightly shaken, but nodded with understanding and pulled out a medical tricorder.

xXx

"Get a lock on her!" Arnold said to Park.

After pressing a few buttons on the computer, Park gave a thumbs up.

"Beam her back to this ship."

"Energizing!"

The empty transporter then grew a column of the bluish fog, which dissipated before revealing a flustered Rhonda, looking like she was about to press a button in mid-air. She surveyed her surroundings, but then started to appear furious. Rhonda stepped off of the transporter platform and got very close to Arnold's face. Gerald took out his phaser and set it to stun in case she were to do something out of line.

"What have you done?" She yelled.

"P-pardon? I – ," Arnold was cut off.

Rhonda gesticulated dramatically by throwing her hands into the air. "I was just about to – ! Nevermind," she then pointing her index finger directly at Arnold's nose. "You're going to regret this!"

Arnold was silent for another second before he spoke again.

"I don't understand. What's going on? If you didn't want to leave the PS118, why did you send the distress call wanting to be saved?"

"I'm not the one who sent that call."

Arnold was about to reply, but the ground beneath them began to shake, shifting his thoughts from the subject. Arnold fell backwards as Rhonda balanced herself by holding onto a wall. Park also fell, but Gerald steadied himself without having to do much of anything.

"Ensign Stinky to Captain Shortman!" Stinky's voice was heard.

Arnold lifted himself off the floor and went to help Park. He then clicked on his badge before answering his pilot.

"Go ahead," Arnold gave his full attention.

"I reckon there is something going on in the space between this here ship and the PS118."

"I'm on my way to the bridge."

"Acknowledged, Captain."

Arnold turned to Gerald, who nodded and took a hold of Rhonda's arm. The three of them made their way to the bridge.

"I'm going to be needing an explanation from you, Rhonda."

Rhonda remained silent during their walk to the bridge. As they entered the bridge, Stinky almost got up from his seat in excitement, but refrained from doing so.

"Captain, the object is growing."

"What is it?"

"Basically, it's a ring of energy, but I can't be sure what the heck is on the inside of that dang thing!"

Arnold looked closely at the object on the screen. It looked as if the ring were made out of enraged lightning bolts. On the other side of the ring was supposed to be the small PS118, but when you looked inside of the ring, it was just blank space. The captain's eyes widened with fear.

"That's a black hole."

xXx

"What was that?" Nadine stabled herself from falling by grabbing onto the table.

Phoebe remained silent as she looked at the other patients in Sickbay. They looked just about as shaken as Nadine.

"We'll need to sedate her again," Nadine started. "She's waking up."

Phoebe looked to Helga, and indeed she was starting to show movement. She took a medical instrument, but before pressing it on her neck, she took Helga's hand. "Everything will be ok, I promise."

"Let's turn her over. We can access the link to the Borg that way."

"Agreed," said Phoebe.

Phoebe and Nadine gently lifted Helga so she was on her side. Nadine started to probe through the back of her neck where a large mechanical transplant was inlaid. With her tools, Nadine began working on the implant. It took a few minutes before it opened up for her, revealing Borg circuitry. She stared at the circuitry for a full minute in silence. Nadine then turned to Phoebe.

"You were chief engineer on PS118, Lieutenant. Perhaps you can figure out how to sever her link."

Phoebe nodded, adjusted her goggles, and took a look at the mechanics. Even she was slightly puzzled.

"I believe I have a theory," she said as she held her hand to her chin. "This link cannot be disabled through manual surgery. We may have to do this by producing a strong surge of power and aim it directly on this implant."

"How do you propose we do that here?"

"Perhaps, Doctor, I can alter a weapon for just the purpose we need."

Nadine nodded and got up to try to find some sort of phaser or the like, but was thrown to the ground with another quake, much stronger than before. Helga would have fallen off of the table if Phoebe had not have been there to hold her stable.

"Lieutenant, perhaps we should postpone this surgery until after we move away from whatever it is causing these sudden palpitations! We might risk injuring Lieutenant Pataki if we are caught off-guard when another disturbance strikes!"

Although Phoebe was about to object, she stopped herself. Nadine was right. Doing this surgery for Helga was going to be risky enough without the trembling of the ship. She couldn't imagine what could happen to Helga if the ship shook while going on with this surgery. She nodded her head and gently lowered Helga onto her back.

"Get her strapped up, Doctor, something tells me this is going to be a bumpy ride for Helga," Phoebe said as she tightened the straps on her goggles as if she was preparing herself as well. "And increase the force field in case we won't be able to sedate her during these tremors."

"I'm on it."

xXx

Arnold winced at the sound Sid made after making his observation of the object between the two ships.

"AHH! We're all going to be blown into a million little pieces!"

"Calm down, Cadet," Arnold said patiently. "It's not going to explode!"

"Oh," Sid got up from his sudden fetal position on the floor. "Um, right."

"Ensign Stinky, is that black hole the reason our ship was shaking a moment ago?"

"I reckon so, on a count of when it shook, we ended up slightly closer to the hole."

"Understood," Arnold said. "Let's move this ship out of here."

"Okey-Dokey," Stinky pressed a few buttons in front of him, but nothing happened. "Well this really bites."

"What's going on, Ensign?"

"Well, ya see, I tried turning on thrusters, but I reckon something is taking away our power on a count of I can't turn them on."

Arnold sighed and pondered their options, but his thoughts were disrupted when the floor beneath his feet shook more violently than the first time. Gerald let go of Rhonda in an attempt to keep himself balanced. She didn't need to be held anymore anyway. She wasn't going anywhere. Most of the crew was on the floor by the time the quake ended.

"Report!" Arnold said in a voice louder than normal.

"Wilikers! It seems half of the PS118 just got destroyed, Captain! It seems the black hole," Stinky paused dramatically before continuing in a whisper, "was coming from the PS118 itself."

After everyone on the bridge were finally standing, or sitting back in the chairs they had fallen out of, a lone voice erupted.

"What exactly were you doing with a black hole, Rhonda?" Arnold exclaimed.

"Hey, that's Captain Lloyd to you!" Rhonda snapped back.

Arnold stood up to her, "Not on this ship. You had better explain yourself, or I'll have Lieutenant Johansson throw you in the brig."

Rhonda glared at her confronter, who then pointed at the screen.

"Is that black hole your creation?"

Rhonda's lip quivered slightly at the question.

xXx

Don't you just love my cliffhangers? We still don't know what happened to make the Borg leave so suddenly, but now we know that Rhonda may have something to do with it! And will Phoebe and Nadine get Helga back to her human state? Oh the possibilities!

I'm sorry this chapter was a bit short, but it's technically the filler chapter to add suspense and make way for the next one (which I promise will answer some questions).

Glossary:

Black Hole- in fiction, a black hole is a gateway to another place and/or time.

Brig- much like that of a jail cell or dungeon, but much more comfortable since the Federation is not war-like or brutish.

EMH- Emergency Medical Hologram. When a live doctor is not present, this simulated hologram is what takes care of the patients in Sickbay.

Tricorder- a hand-held device used for scanning the surroundings, a person or alien, and other miscellaneous tasks.

List of Characters by Rank in This Chapter:

Cadet- Sid

Ensign- Park, Eugene, Stinky

Lieutenant- Phoebe, Doctor Nadine (Doctors are usually Lieutenants because of the high amount of medical training they possess), Helga

Commander- Gerald

Captain- Arnold, Rhonda

Admiral- Wartz (Although he isn't really a part of this chapter, I mentioned him in the recap)

A couple other side notes:

It is possible that Doctor Simmons could be a Lieutenant if he were a real person, but the EMH program is only supposed to know what is in the medical field whereas a Lieutenant has more knowledge outside of that field as well as more responsibility around the ship.

I believe every person on the ship has a badge that allows them to communicate. In the Star Trek world, they are called commbadges (short for communication badge). This is why Stinky, who was on the bridge, could talk to Arnold, who was in the transporter room before going to the bridge.