Sparhawk, Fulks and Merriell crept around tha half assimilated starbase in hopes of not being detected. Sparhawk and Fulks had their phasers drawn while Merriell kept his tricorder open. Out of the three of them, Sparhawk was the only one who had any run ins with the Borg. He was aboard the USS Thunder Child during the battle of Sector 001. During that time he had to fight off Borg intruders but other than that he didn't have much experience. If anyone aboard the Alexandria would have any experience with the Borg, it would be Dustin Zofchak. He knew that Zofchak has had several encounters with the Borg during his tour on the Enterprise. The three away team members ducked behind a pile of debris that looked like useless junk thrown to the side by the Borg drones. Sparhawk peered over the pile and saw several drones working on the side of the starbase. From his position, he knew that those were former starfleet officers that were now minions of the Borg, doomed for the rest of their lives to do the bidding of the collective. Sparhawk tapped his communicator.
"Sparhawk to Alexandria."
"Go ahead." Allensworth said.
"The entire Starbase has been assimilated along with the crew."
"Can you see what they're up to from your position?"
"From what we can tell from here, sir, is that they are just doing what they can to assimilate the Starbase. There are thousands of drones down here. It looks like they're trying to build another ship. We're going to try and get closer."
"Understood. Keep me informed and be careful down there. Allensworth out."
Sparhawk tapped his comm badge to kill the communication. He returned his full attention to the task at hand. Merriell saw an access panel across the way.
"Commander, we might be able to figure out what they are planning if we can get to the panel." Merriell said motioning to the panel with his tricorder.
"Let's do it." The first officer said.
The three officers darted from their position to the access panel. Sparhawk and Fulks stood guard while Merriell opened the panel and went to work. Alex pressed buttons with one hand and held his tricorder in the other. Messing with Borg technology was new to him and he half expected to press a wrong button and a pair of tubes would come out to assimilate him. As he was pressing buttons, Borg drones stopped their tasks and headed for the intruders. They came into view and zeroed in on the away team's position. Sparhawk didn't like the look of their guests.
"Hurry up, Alex." Sparhawk said.
"I think I almost have it, sir."
"You better have it, now."
The drones were only feet away from them.
"Stand by."
"I can't." Sparhawk said as he aimed his phaser and fired.
Fulks did the same against his Borg attackers.
"Remember to reset your phaser frequency so they don't adapt." Sparhawk said.
"Way ahead of you, sir." Fulks said.
The drones kept coming regardless of how many fell before them. Fulks shot another drone in the chest but the beam was absorbed and the drone kept walking. Sparhawk did the same and ended up with the same result.
"Damn it, they've adapted." Fulks said.
Sparhawk tapped his comm badge.
"Alexandria get us out of here now."
Sparhawk was expecting to be grabbed and assimilated. Instead, he felt the familiar feeling of dematerialization as he, Fulks and Merriell were transported away. The away team rematerialized on the transporter pad aboard the Alexandria.
"Cuttin' it close." Sparhawk said.
"Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to take too long." The transporter chief replied.
Sparhawk noticed that the transporter chief looked a bit tense and that he worked as fast as he could to get them out of there. All that mattered is that the three of them were able to get back to the ship without any harm done.
"We'll skip the court martial this time." Sparhawk said with a grin.
The transporter chief relaxed a bit to Sparhawk's humor. The first officer looked to Merriell, who had a bit of disappointed look on his face.
"I wasn't able to access their systems to figure out what they were planning, sir."
"It's all right, Alex. I'd rather be up here without the information than to be down there and assimilated with the information." Sparhawk said.
Suddenly, the red alert claxon sounded and the three away team members darted out of the transporter room and headed for the bridge.
Allensworth stood in the center of the bridge. The planet killer wasn't paying any attention to the Alexandria. It was focused on the planet. Sparhawk, Fulks and Merriell rushed onto the bridge and went to their respective stations. Kell Perim stood up from her station just as Alex got there to take over. She walked to the back of the bridge to witness the events unfolding. Allensworth could see Sparhawk's surprised expression no matter how hard he tried to hide it.
"Is that what destroyed the Borg fleet?"
"It sure is." Allensworth said. "So far it has completely ignored us but its currently going after the planet."
"Mr. Fulks, fire a spread of photon torpedoes to see if we can get its attention."
"Aye, sir."
Fulks entered a few commands to his tactical console and the Alexandria launched multiple torpedoes that hit the planet killer.
"No damage, sir." Fulks reported.
The tip of the planet killer glowed as it released its destructive beam upon the planet that housed the assimilated starbase and the Borg drones. The bridge crew looked in awe as the beam destroyed the planet and consumed the debris from the planet.
"Were there any other inhabitants on that planet other than the Borg?" the captain asked.
"Negative, sir. All Borg."
It was unfortunate that so many Starfleet personel was assimilated but everyone knew that they'd rather be dead than to serve the collective. It did, however, help out the rest of the galaxy that eighty some thousand Borg were wiped out in a single strike. Allensworth's stomach dropped when he saw the planet killer turn and face it's new target, the Alexandria.
Shit.