Chapter 9: Vader Vs. The Borg
The super star destroyer shook with intensity as the Borg continued their attack on the Imperial flagship. Vader walked down the the steps of the bridge of the gigantic destroyer with fear burning deep within him. "Admiral Janeway is there a way we can destroy or cripple the cube in our present condition?" Vader asked with a hint of concern in his voice.
The Vice Admiral spun around to face the sith lord, "Not in a million years Vader. We have changed phaser frequency's, Used all types of Photon and Quantum torpedo's and we even used your ships original weapons systems and all have failed." The ship shook with intensity as the Borg struck once more. Janeway caught herself on a station and Vader had somehow managed to stay on his feet. "Shields at 56%!" bellowed an Imperial sergeant from below.
Vader looked out of the bridge window at the ominous Borg cube ahead and began to speculate. "Admiral Hefton." the sith lord called in a strict tone of voice.
The plump Imperial admiral ran up next to Janeway and Vader, nodded to both and replied, "yes my lord?"
Janeway looked at Vader, gave him an odd look, "Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" she asked.
Vader looked at her nodded and turned back to Hefton "Do we have enough power to use the Transporters to beam myself and twenty of our best men onto that pile of junk?"
Hefton nodded, "Yes we do sir but you better hurry, time is of the essence."
"I know how much time we have Admiral so don't go lecturing me on that subject is that clear?" Hefton turned bright red, nodded to Vader in agreement and sprinted away to get the transporter up and operational. Tons of Starfleet and Imperial personnel were running back and forth through the bridge of the Destroyer trying to find a way out of the very dangerous situation they were all in.
The noise of all the excited and concerned personnel was almost as loud as an army of wookies but that did not stop Janeway from giving Vader a piece of her mind. "It's absurd, you cannot possibly think that you and twenty of your storm troopers can last on a cube filled with Borg. Oh and by the way if you haven't already forgotten they adapt so your troopers will be able to fire three to four shots at the most." Vader tilted his head and began to study the Starfleet Admiral in his presence. Normally if someone spoke to him as she did he would have killed them where they stood but since she was a member of a war time ally he could not have that honor and instead went to arguing.
"It is the only way Admiral. If you are not blind you can see that we have no chance against them unless we infiltrate them from the inside. I have just read a mission report from Picard and I know exactly what I am going to do." Vader said through the deafening sound of the bridge personnel.
Janeway fell silent and began to think, The Admirals face brightened up, "So you are planning on taking out the distribution nodes that are on the Borg ship? Clever but that will be no easy task."
The sith lord nodded in agreement, "That is why you are coming with me."
Janeway smiled, "I had a feeling you were going to say that." Vader and her walked side by side onto the transporter pad along with twenty storm troopers. Janeway looked at the plump Imperial Admiral who was operating the transporter "I hope he knows what he is doing." Vader didn't say a word to her and nodded to Hefton.
"I will drop the shields for one millisecond to beam you out and then you are on your own." Hefton announced, Right after the Admiral said that they began to break up into tiny pieces of matter and reconstructed on the Borg cube.
When the transport sequence was done Janeway stood with Vader and the troopers while they swarmed the area. "Tell your men to lower their weapons, they will only attack if they see us as a threat." A Borg drone walked toward a group of five storm troopers and shoved its assimilation wires into his neck.
"They won't attack?" Asked Vader in an amused tone as he used the force to make the drone explode which took out the assimilated trooper with it. Janeway couldn't help but let out a terrified yelp as she witnessed the drone explode like that. Vader then ignited his red tinted lightsabre as he rushed through the halls of the Borg cube taking out every distribution node he could find. Some Borg drones came to stop him but he simply cut them in two or let Janeway and the nineteen remaining troopers use their phaser rifles on them. One trooper fired off another volley but it just bounced off the Borg drone as it smashed in his skull. Soon one after another the distribution nods were destroyed and the Borg cube began to stop entirely. Vader stood in triumph over the bodies of many dead Borg drones and pressed his federation issued combadge that was on his chest, "Vader to Hefton."
"Yes Sir?" the admirals voice crackled from the communicator.
"has the cube stopped firing?" Vader asked.
The Admiral took a minute to respond but replied happily "Yes, my lord you did it."
"Beam us back to the ship. Once we are on board make the jump to hyper space immediately." Vader, Janeway and the remaining 18 storm troopers appeared on the ship and began to speculate their situation. Vader and Janeway knew that they would be going to the heart of the Empire to meet with Rebel, Cardassian, Romulan, Klingon and Federation leaders along with the Emperor of the Empire himself. But the future was uncertain. Vader had contacted his master earlier and found out that his master could not read the future on this occasion and that was very troubling indeed. He himself had tried countless times to see the future and if they would be victorious over the Borg and the rebel alliance but now he was no longer certain and that stabbed at his very soul. All Vader could do was wait and see what they would plan with the emperor once they arrived at their destination and that is something that he himself never had, patience.
