Missing Day 4
Chapter Eleven
Tom looked up at Captain Janeway from the pilots seat in the Delta Flyer.
"We are approaching the target coordinates. ETA in three minutes." Tom said, as he looked back down at his computer panel.
"Thanks Tom." Janeway replied to him, and looked back at Tuvok and Seven. "Anything on sensors?"
"No." Seven replied. Tuvok consulted his panel, and looked back up at her.
"I have a small power signature in our wake. It just appeared."
Janeway walked back to his station and looked at the readouts. "Can you get a visual?"
"Not yet, although it is gaining on us. Standby, I am attempting to scan it." He replied. Suddenly his panel started beeping loudly. "It's a torpedo!"
"Shields up! Tom, try to evade it!" She yelled, and ran to the panel next to Tom. The moment she sat down however, the Delta Flyer was struck from behind. The shuttlecraft dropped out of warp and spun out of control.
"I have lost maneuvering thrusters!" Tom yelled. "Trying to compensate!"
"Tuvok, where did that thing come from?" Janeway yelled over her shoulder.
-Warning, antimatter containment field is at fifty-seven percent and falling. Warp core breach in thirty seconds.
"I don't know, sensors detected it right when it was gaining on us!" Tuvok replied.
Sevens computer panel sparked, and went dead. She moved to an auxiliary panel behind her station. "Captain, that torpedo went right through our shields. It struck below the warp core casing, I don't think that backup forcefield generator is going to do us any good here!"
"Damn. Tuvok, can you locate the Enterprise? It must be close." Janeway asked as she watched the stars fly by out of control, as the Flyer continued to spin.
-Warning, warp core breach in fifteen seconds.
"Computer, eject the warp core!" Janeway yelled. They felt a jolt as the core was shot out into space.
"Captain, we aren't far enough away to escape the blast!" Tom yelled, concerned.
"Get us as far away as you can. Tuvok -"
"I found the Enterprise!" He yelled down at her.
"Computer, emergency transport! Beam us all to the Enterprise!"
-Transport not recommended. Target coordinates are out of safety range.
"Override! Energize!" Janeway stood up and yelled. She saw the bright flash of an explosion behind them, as the Flyer was engulfed in flames. She winced, and suddenly felt cold. She opened her eyes and found herself standing in a pitch-black room. She couldn't see an inch past her face.
"Are we alive?" She heard Tom stutter.
"I think so." Janeway replied. "Are we all here?"
"Yes." Seven replied.
"I am here as well." Tuvok replied from the darkness.
"Good." Janeway said, as she ran her hands down her sides to check for her tricorder. "Damn, I don't have a tricorder or a phaser on me. Does anybody have any equipment?"
"I have a phaser." She heard Seven reply from somewhere to her left.
"And I have a tricorder." Tuvok replied. There was a bright flicker of light when he opened it, and they could all see each other from the dim backlight of the screen and the scanning lights.
"Ah, light." Tom smiled. "Wait, where are we?"
The four officers looked around the dimly lit room. They were standing in the center of a room roughly the size of Voyagers bridge. They were facing the front, looking at a large viewscreen that wrapped around to the left and the right walls. There were no computer consoles however, or chairs, or even any signs that there ever was any equipment in the room. Just grey carpet and the large viewscreen. They turned to the back of the room, and there was a single door in the center of the wall, with a plaque on the right side of the door.
"This is an odd bridge design. Where are all the consoles?" Tom asked, as he walked around the room. Janeway walked slowly over to the plaque on the wall.
"Tuvok, shine some light on this." She requested. He walked over and held the tricorder up to it.
Janeway spoke softly as she read. "USS Enterprise, Rena-Tora class, twenty-seventh starship to bear the name," Tom and Seven walked over to her and read along. "Registry number NCC-1701-K-C, launched stardate 192348.90.72, Los Angeles Yards, New Earth, Beta Terine Sector, United Federation of Planets & Galactic Interchange Alliance." She covered her mouth. "Good Lord."
Tom broke the moment of silence by reading the quote at the bottom.
"For with every opportunity springs an infinite number of new ones. Choose wisely, and pray the lords of the universe are in your favor."
They stood in silence for a moment, when Janeway finally spoke up.
"We need to get to Engineering and try to restore power to this vessel. The air smells very stale, we are going to run out of it pretty soon if we don't get environmental control online."
"Captain, I found something." Tom said from behind them. They turned around to see him pointing at a small seam in the wall on the other side of the door. "It says 'emergency kit' on the top of the thing. I think we can open this." He said.
"Do it." Janeway replied. Tom pushed his hands against the seam on the side, and a little door slid aside. He reached in, and pulled out a flashlight. After pressing the only button on it, a bright beam of light flooded the room.
"We have a flashlight!" He replied, and handed it to Tuvok.
"What else is in there?" Janeway asked as she crouched down with him.
"Well we have these little wristbands…" Tom replied as he pulled one out. It was a small metallic wristband that clipped open on one end and hinged on the other. He flipped it around and found an ID tag. "Starfleet Tricorder - Starfleet RSD - San Francisco." Janeway raised her eyebrows.
"That's a tricorder? Put it on and see what happens." He clipped it on his wrist and adjusted it. Nothing happened.
"It may be dead." He said after a moment. Suddenly the wristband beeped for a second and a large holographic display appeared, hovering just above his arm. "Woah!" Tom replied and stood up. "Look at this thing!"
"'Tri-spectral multi-phasic quad link sensor net?'" Seven read from the sensor options on the side of the display.
"Try saying that three times fast." Tom replied.
"See if you can scan this ships power network. See if anything is online." Janeway said to him. He nodded, and then glanced back down to the emergency kit in the wall.
"Hey there are ten of these things in here." He said, and grabbed three more. After everyone stood there for a moment trying to learn how to use them, Tom found something. "It looks like everything on this ship is shut down. Gravity works, so there has to be some kind of power somewhere. Wait a second, I think I just figured out how to get to the engine room."
"How?" Tuvok asked.
"Look at the bottom left corner of your screen." Tom said as he reached down and pressed the holographic screen. "These have site-to-site transporters built in."
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There was a bright flash of silver light, when the four officers found themselves standing in another room. Tuvok activated the flashlight, cutting the darkness.
"Look at that." Tom said as he looked up. Four massive rods, each about the size of Voaygers warp drive, were mounted on the ceiling, all running from one end of the room to the other. A smaller array of rods ran up from the floor to the sides of the wall, and into the larger rods in the ceiling.
"It appears to be the propulsion system." Tuvok noted out loud. He pointed the flashlight down and around the room. Again, the floor was a grey carpet. It was a very long room with a large pair of double doors on one side.
"Where are all the computer consoles? The displays?" Seven spoke as she looked around. This room, like the bridge, was completely bare.
"It doesn't look like there ever was any equipment in here. There is no conduit coming out of the floor, no power leads, nothing." Janeway said as she ran her hands along the walls. "We are never going to get power restored if we cannot find a way to access this ships systems."
"In other words, we are screwed." Tom replied to her, as he walked towards the back end of the room. He noticed something in the side of the wall that was eye-level to him. There was an indention in the wall that looked about the size of the wrist-tricorder. "Captain, I found something."
He waited until they all joined him. "It looks like a slot for the tricorder." Seven speculated. Janeway unclipped the tricorder that Tom gave her on the bridge from her wrist and slid it into the slot. A holographic screen appeared in front of them.
ALL POWER OFFLINE COMPUTER FUNCTIONS NOT AVALABLE EMERGENCY GENERATORS DAMAGED TORSION HELIX DRIVE OFFLINE SCANNING BATTERY PACKS BATTERY PACKS ARE CHARGED ENABLE BACKUP ENERGIZER? YES/NO
"Now we are getting somewhere!" Tom said, excited. Janeway looked around at them and slowly reached her hand out. She pressed yes.
The screen went blank, and they stood in silence for a moment. They heard a low toned clank somewhere deep below them, followed by a whirring sound.
"I hope that was a good thing…" Tom said slowly as they listened to the noise. The room suddenly lit up bright, forcing their eyes to adjust.
-Emergency power restored. Main computer restart in progress. AI initialization in progress. A male voice surrounded them in the room. –Molecular Synthesis hardware initialization in progress.
They stood in silence for a moment, when there was a bright flash of light along the walls. There was a silver sparkling light coming out of the floor, and slowly worked its way up. Computer panels and consoles appeared along all the walls behind the sparkling light. Chairs materialized from thin air, and the sleek buttons and screens activated. The silver sparkling light vanished, and the four officers stood in the completed engine room.
"What just happened?" Tom whispered as he walked towards a computer panel against the wall.
-Ship wide molecular synthesis hardware initialization complete. Computer functions are at eighty percent capacity and climbing.
"This is quite intriguing." Seven stated as she walked around the room, glancing at the computer readouts. The entire ship seemed to be re-booting.
-Warning, intruder alert! Engineering section, four life-forms detected. Initiating countermeasures. The computer announced. Tom backed away from the computer panel that he had been looking at. There was a rapid silver flash, when the away team found themselves surrounded by six men in black uniforms, pointing rifles at them.
"Drop your weapons! Identify yourselves!" The leader stepped foreword. Tom glanced at the patch on his black uniform. Enterprise - Strike Force Alpha
Janeway raised her hands, as Seven dropped her phaser to the floor.
"My name is Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager."
"We are the only Federation Starship in this sector." He replied, staring at her from the sights of his compression rifle. "What is your temporal code?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know what…" She started, when he interrupted her.
"What is your service number, Janeway?"
"Janeway five five two nine eight tango sigma." She replied slowly. He lowered his rifle as she spoke.
"The original Voyager? What are you doing in this timeframe? Stand down men." Three of the officers in the strike force vanished through a bright flash. The other two lowered their weapons, and crossed their arms staring at them.
"We were somehow transported here beyond our control." Janeway replied to him. "We were under the impression that this ship was deserted…"
"It is. We are a molecular synthesis security detail." He replied.
"Molecular synthesis? The computer mentioned that when these panels appeared." Tuvok said, and stepped foreword.
The strike force leader narrowed his eyes at him.
"I haven't seen a Vulcan in years." He said quietly. "I am Drew. This is Caleb and Trent." He pointed to the other strike force members. "Molecular synthesis works similar to the holographics of your time. It consumes power to create the object, but after that the object is free-standing, not dependent on the ships resources anymore. The three of us are able to run for seven days before we must be absorbed back into the ships core."
"Incredible." Janeway remarked.
-Warning. Battery packs have dropped below operating tolerance capacity. Initiating systems shutdown.
"Shit! Not again! Caleb, Trent, deactivate!" Drew yelled. They stood up straight, and disappeared. "That should save us enough power to get the Torsion Helix core online. You must help me get the core online! If the battery packs die and we don't get main power online, this ship is as good as lost… forever."
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This was a rough copy, I just wanted to get it out there for you guys since I haven't updated in forever. Review please!