"Shields are down to 40 percent." Ensign Kim yelled over the sound of the crackling control panel.

"Warp core is offline, aft thrusters are down." Paris called up after him.

"Convert power to the shields, it looks like we are going to have to stand and fight." Another burst hit the ship making it shake, alarms sounding off as the captain nearly lost her balance and fell. "Q you picked a damn fine time to be away." She yelled partially to herself and partially in hopes he would actually hear her and get the ship out of here.

"Shields are down to 30 percent."

"Tuvok, fire at will." The ship shook again as it was hit again, a piece of the bridges ceiling crashing down and nearly hitting Janeway in the back. Chakotay pushed her out of the way knocking them both to the ground. It was for a brief moment that the ship was completely still, a moment the captain almost felt like they might have been safe. "Report." She yelled up from the floor, slowly hoisting herself back up.

"Captain, they are boarding the ship."

Q had been gone less than a few minutes but when he returned the ship was in shambles. Walking down the hall towards the captains quarters he opened the door watching as Rowley came running over. His tail pinned between his legs. "Great I put you in charge for a second and you let this happen? Bad dog." The red lights flashed in the halls behind him as he turned on his heels. "Kathryn." Turning back to the dog he nodded his head. "Come on mutt, lets hope that stubborn master of yours is on her bridge taking care of this." Moving down the hall again with Rowley at his side Q stepped back and pressed his back into one of the far walls. Two Vidiians were walking his way holding their strange weapons in hand. "Let me handle these primitive beings." Q growled and stepped into sight. One of the Vidiians raised his weapon to fire on Q only to have the omnipotent begin snap his fingers and make him vanish. Turning to the comrade he smile, "Best put that down before you hurt someone or I'll send you into the same supernova I just moved your friend to." Without a word the second Vidiian dropped his weapon and stepped back. "Good choice."

Walking past him he whistled to the dog, the pup bouncing happily past the second Vidiian. It seemed with Q's back turned he had gathered up some more courage and grabbed for his weapon once again. Aiming it at Q's back he fired only to have the beam phase right through and hit the wall in front of Q. Snapping his fingers the second Vidiian vanished in a flash of light, Q's tone falling to one of annoyance. "I gave him fair warning Rowley. When she yells at me about this you tell her that." Stepping over a fallen piece of the ship Q could hear someone in trapped behind one of the doors. "I don't have time for them Rowley, go fetch someone to get these poor fools out of there. I'm going to the bridge."

The captain rushed up beside Tuvok as he looked over the ships readings. "Captain, they are now on decks 10, 9, and 8."

"Seal off those levels, keep them from moving to the upper decks. Get everyone out of there. They won't be harvesting anyone on my ship today."

With a flash of light Q came in standing next to the con and turning to face Janeway. "Ah, Kathy I have been looking for you."

"Q, you picked a fine time to show up. Do me a favor would you. How about you use those powers of yours to snap those Vidiians off my ship."

"I thought you'd never ask." He smiled and snapped his fingers. A look of confusion crossed his face before snapping his fingers a few more times with no result.

"Captain they are making their way to the bridge."

Janeway turned back to Q stepping away from Tuvok. "Q, now would be a good time."

He continued snapping his fingers furiously and yet nothing was happening. "Kathy this might be a bad time to tell you but, I can't."

"What do you mean you can't?" She growled back.

Tuvok turned around pulling while the doors to the bridge opened up. Four Vidiians walked out onto the bridge firing and Tuvok and Chakotay. Janeway went to grab her phaser when the Vidiian aimed at her. "Drop it."

Q grabbed Kathy forcing her to throw the weapon down and holding her back so she wouldn't try to fight back. "Q, what are you doing?"

"Keeping you from getting shot." He grabbed her arms and struggled to keep her from fighting with him. She shouldn't be this hard for him to restrain but when she got pissed she could be a real firecracker. Two of the Vidiians were scanning her crew already but didn't seem too interested in harvesting them just yet. It was when one scanned Janeway that he turned around to the man who seemed to be the leader. Scared face twisted with a look of joy.

"Sir, these readings coming from the female. I have never seen anything like this before. This, this can't be possible." He walked over to share the findings from his scan, the two talking quietly for a while. Slowly Q tightened his grip on her, his ear inching closer to her ear as he kept his voice low.

"Kathy you have to get out of here, run."

"I'm not leaving my crew behind."

"I don't care about your people, you need to get out of here before they..."

He was cut off by the leader of this little party. "Take the human female, tell our men to get back to the ship immediately. This is top priority."

"Understood." With two vidiians coming towards Kathryn Q pushed her back behind him and stepped up to face them. Throwing a punch at one he missed and was caught by the other. His arm bent back and his face struck hard with one of their weapons. He let out a scream more in surprise than in pain as his nose broke under the force. Blood rushing down his face. He wasn't suppose to bleed. Staring down at his bloody fingers a moment he turned back and swung again. This time a knee came up to his ribs knocking the wind out of him and making him collapse to the ground. The two vidiians grabbed Janeway restraining her quickly and injecting her with something that made her fall over into their arms.

Q tried getting back up, the pain in his side making him fall over again. "You put her down or I promise, there won't be a corner of this universe you can hide that I wont find you and make you wish you had never seen Voyager." He growled as the leader turned around and fired his weapon at Q. The beam burning into his shoulder and knocking him out.

"Take the female back to the ship, prepare us for takeoff."