Star Trek TNG: Hell Hath No Fury
Chapter 10: Scorched Earth Policy/New Universe, New Rules
Vice-Admiral's Log, Stardate 44297.7: The Ra-Cailum has entered another universe within the span of two months. We're on our way to the Citadel so I can BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF SONIC!
The Ra-Cailum flew past the Salarian homeworld, straight toward the Mass Relay.
The ship was caught in the Mass Effect field and launched toward the Citadel.
On board was a very pissed off Admiral.
One: Sonic had created a rift in space/time over the regular testing field that was used by the Pinkertons.
Two: Sonic had taken a small fleet with him.
Three, and most important for the Admiral: his SISTER'S ship was one of them and it was damaged!
He had pulled out a special sword for the occasion, as he actually planned on KILLING Sonic for this.
His new sword was a two-handed claymore.
The crew were slightly unnerved when they saw him drag the sword onto the bridge.
He was pissed. They dropped out of FTL near the Citadel, right in front of the Enterprise-B and a Miranda-Class ship.
"Is that the Reliant?"
"It is. Contact the Enterprise."
So'tor hailed the Excelsior-Class ship.
"Done. Sonic just gave us his report."
"I'll be in my ready room reading it. And seeing if Sonic will be spared dying."
Citadel
"Well, the Krogan are happy about the genophage being cured, and happier about being sent into another universe."
Sonic chuckled.
"At least the Klingons will have fun with them!"
Riza and Roy were having their ships fit with the same systems as the one on the Enterprise-B, and Sonic was meeting with the Asari and Turian governments for trade agreements with the Federation, as the portal was stable.
The Salarians were more then happy to begin trade talks with the UFP, but Sonic did warn them to curtail the bullshit that caused the Krogan Rebellions, or else the Enterprise and a lot of other Federation starships would be screwing over the Salarians.
General Order One was still in effect on both sides of the rift. Sonic's communicator beeped. He opened it.
"Sonic, be grateful that my sister likes you, otherwise, I would have your corpse hanging from my office door." (1)
That voice was from the most feared man in the universe: a pissed off Ronald Pinkerton.
"Hello, Brother."
"Riza, it's nice to hear from you. Now, I need to have a little talk with you and Sonic."
That was never a good thing.
Rachni Home System
A 5 kilometer cube entered orbit of the Rachni homeworld.
It was deserted and lifeless.
Perfect for setting up a Nexus.
The cube launched two spheres into the atmosphere, and began setting up the Unicomplex.
All of this was sighted by a satellite called X-15.
It sent the images back to the Citadel.
Spectre offices
"What the hell is that thing?"
"I don't know. Get Sheppard on the line: she's got more experience with shit like this."
Then the image of Jane Sheppard appeared on the screen.
"Sheppard here. What is it?"
The Turian sent her the images of the cube.
"What the hell is that thing?"
"You don't know?"
"Wish I did. Try and get Captain Sonic on the line. This might be from his universe."
"Wise idea, Commander."
Galaxy Battleship-Class USS Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A
"You are damned lucky that those..."
The Admiral checked the report for the name.
"Reapers fired on you first, Captain. If they didn't-"
"Sir, that isn't the point..."
Sonic went blank.
"Captain?"
"Voices. Thousands of them. Millions."
Riza gave him a look of concern.
Then Sonic fainted.
The Asari woman from the Normandy, Liara, walked into the ready room.
"What happened?"
"He just fainted."
Riza pulled out a tricorder and scanned Sonic.
"His implants are active."
Liara touched Sonic and a flash of thousands of minds screaming for freedom roared through her thoughts.
Then she heard a voice, or rather trillions at once: "We are the Borg."
"Oh, Goddess!"
The two Pinkertons looked at Liara.
"What is it?"
"Voices. Millions of them. As one."
Riza cursed.
"The Borg."
"I thought we were done with the bastards!"
"We wish."
"Sir, we're being hailed by Commander Sheppard."
"Put her up."
Sheppard appeared on the screen.
"Admiral, I'd like to be put in contact with Captain Sonic."
"He's unconscious, Commander. What is it?"
Then the image of a Borg cube appeared on the monitor.
"That explains that."
Citadel Council chambers
The sight of Admiral Pinkerton and his sister beaming in scared the shit out of all of the Councilors.
"What is it with you people and doing that?"
"Perfectly normal, Councilor. We have an issue."
"That being?"
"The Borg."
Then the Admiral smacked his forehead.
"Right, you people don't have the database."
Then Liara beamed in.
Clearly, thanks to Sonic's mind, she was used to it.
She quickly explained what the Borg were and what they could do.
"So what can we do?"
"You get off your asses and evacuate every planet and station in the galaxy, that's what you can do! We barely fought them off at Wolf 359 and Mobius, so what does that tell you?"
They saw what happened to the Reapers when they ran into the Enterprise-B, and if the Reapers were nothing to them...
"We will contact our governments."
"Do it now, otherwise-"
A booming voice echoed over the load speakers.
"Citizens of the Citadel Council, we are the Borg."
"Oh, shit."
"Existence as you know it is over."
Riza was not happy with the Borg.
They murdered millions of people in the universe that she stayed in.
"We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own."
Udina looked like he was about to piss his pants.
"You will be assimilated and brought from Chaos into Order."
Liara growled.
From the experiences she got from Sonic, the Borg were more evil then the Reapers.
"Resistance is Futile."
The Starfleet officers looked at the Council.
"Get your asses moving, people! You heard those bastards!"
SSV Normandy
"Great. So, why are we evacuating everyone to the Citadel?"
"The Borg, Joker. They want to assimilate us into their Collective. Remember the Collectors?"
"Don't remind me, Sheppard. They kidnapped the crew when you guys left."
"Well, the Borg are a million times worse."
Joker wanted to puke.
"WORSE? Christ, I was only curious!"
Sheppard chuckled.
"Relax, Joker. We're making sure that the Quarians and the Geth get to the Citadel before the Borg do show up."
Liara walked into the cockpit, wearing, of all things, a Starfleet uniform: the same one as Sonic and the Admiral, in fact.
"What the hell are you wearing?"
"The Admiral gave me a Starfleet commission. I'm your expert on the Borg."
"Like hell you're an expert."
"Sonic was assimilated into the Collective 3 months ago. I have every bit of knowledge about the Borg as he does. Believe me when I say it is not pleasant."
"Like what?"
"You're enslaved, but you can't rebel. You can't do anything. You no longer exist. You're just a drone. A husk."
Sheppard shuttered.
"But you nearly remain the same. If anything, it's creepier and more monstrous."
Joker sighed.
"Shit, Liara, you got all of that from Sonic's head?"
"He was one of the mouthpieces of the Collective for over a week. You try and suppress that from your mind."
"Clearly some of his personality leaked into you."
The two fleets-one Geth, the other Quarian-were flying side by side, nervously.
Then again, until the Borg came, they were trying to kill one another.
Escorting them and keeping the peace was the heavily armed Amestris.
When the Quarians and Geth saw the footage of the Reapers getting ass-raped (Joker's words) over Earth, the two races (as Starfleet saw the Geth as a species) they agreed to leave, and now they were being escorted to Sur'Kesh.
Then a Turian dreadnought dropped out of FTL directly in front of them.
"This doesn't look right. Joker, get us ready for a fight. EDI, arm the new weapons."
The Enterprise had supplied the Normandy with new phasers and photon torpedoes, and now might be the time to test them.
"Tell the fleets to head for the rift!"
Then a channel was opened.
"Commander Jane Sheppard."
The voices were Turian, Krogan and human.
And they spoke as one.
"You will lower your shields and transport yourself aboard our vessel."
Sheppard's worst fears were realized.
The Borg had assimilated a Turian ship, her crew and God knew how many others.
Liara spoke for her.
"Go to hell!"
They changed tact.
"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
The Turian ship locked a tractor beam onto the Normandy, but the new phasers destroyed the emitters. "Normandy to fleets: get moving! Turian vessel is controlled by the Borg!"
Then the Amestris opened fire on the Borg ship.
"GO! We'll cover you!"
The fleet picked up speed, and the Turian ship turned toward the Amestris.
Two green beams nearly hit the Defiant-Class ship, but the tiny warship dodged and continued her attack.
"Fucking hell! They've upgraded their armor!"
Then the Normandy fired her Thanix cannon at the former Turian ship the ship was destroyed in that one shot.
"Normandy, I hope you can change the frequencies on that thing!"
"Why?"
Liara gave her the answer.
"The Borg will adapt to it if we don't remodulate the frequency of the weapon."
"And we've got more company: Batarian ships, three of them!"
The Batarians were all but wiped out by the Reapers, and the Borg were assimilating the leftovers.
Two of the cruisers opened fire on the Normandy while the third went for the fleet.
That one was destroyed by the Amestris, which was hiding behind the Rayya.
"Do not fuck with a Defiant-Class warship!"
The other two ran off, jumping into warp.
"Looks like they can't use eezo."
"Or their shit's so advanced they don't need it."
Liara scoffed.
"Not likely, Joker: the Borg assimilate everything they can get their hands on."
"Really?"
Liara nodded.
"Then why are they using those ships?"
"They don't want to lose the ones they brought with them, Joker. I sure wouldn't want to."
Palaven
The Ra-Cailum and Enterprise were in orbit of the Turian homeworld to help evacuate the planet.
Thousands of ships, including bulk carriers, were being used to transport the billions off Palaven.
Some were adamant and stayed to fight the Borg should they land.
Sonic sighed.
"This is insane. We told them about the Borg's tactics! They'll just-"
"Let them. If the Borg decided to invade Earth, my family would do the same. Only we wouldn't just resist. We'd win."
"Your family is the most advanced R&D team in the Federation!"
"It works."
"Admiral, transmission on the QEC. It's the Normandy."
"Put them up."
The face of Jane Sheppard appeared on screen.
With the combination of Starfleet and Alliance technology, the transmission was cleaned up immensely.
No more static.
"What is it?"
"We ran into the Borg, Admiral. They assimilated four ships: one Turian, three Batarian." Sonic scoffed.
"Figured they would do that."
"Get those ships through the rift! Sonic, we're going hunting."
"Understood, Admiral. Normandy out."
Unimatrix 001
The Collective had grown.
Species 8284, (Turian) Species 8285 (Krogan) and Species 8286 (Batarian) were adding to their perfection.
They had noticed X-15, but ignored it, as they did not care.
This galaxy would know perfection soon enough.
"Send Cube 4862 to Sector 7845, Grid 884. Location: Citadel."
Citadel
"You're sure?"
"The satellite doesn't lie."
Roy and Hawkeye walked back to their ship.
The Borg were coming for the Citadel, likely for the people that lived there.
The majority of the task force was still at the Citadel to protect it, but the five Norexan-Class Warbirds were not designed for combat with the Borg, but as smaller ships to support the D'deridex-Class.
Still, the three Defiant-Class ships, the repaired Hawkeye and the rest of the Citadel defense force were ready for combat with the cube.
But a simple question popped into his mind: why not move the Citadel into their universe?
It was simple, and the more people they could save, the better.
"Shit! Borg cube 50000 kilometers from the Citadel!"
All over the galaxy
"Citizens of the Citadel, we are the Borg."
On board the Normandy, Tali, who had just transferred over, watched the sight of the giant vessel. "Existence as you have known it is over."
Over Palaven, Sonic growled.
He was pissed off.
"You will be added to the Collective, and delivered from Chaos unto Order."
Sheppard wasn't impressed.
They sounded like the Reapers.
"Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to those of thousands that have gone before you and added to our own."
On board the Hawkeye, Riza gripped her sword in anger.
"You'll die by my hands, you cybernetic fuckers."
"You will be assimilated into our Collective."
The Geth did not like the Borg at all.
They were unlike anything they knew.
"Resistance is, was and always will be...futile."
A voice answered the Borg.
"Fuck you!"
This voice was joined by thousands of others.
"Up yours!"
"Go to hell!"
"Leave us alone!"
"Damn you!"
What would soon be coined the Second Battle of the Citadel was about to begin.
Constitution-Class USS Hawkeye NCC-72408
"Open fire!" (AN: Play Bloody Rabbit from Pandora Hearts right here)
Photon torpedoes launched from the Constitution-Class heavy cruiser, and fired her phasers.
The Romulans joined in, disruptors and plasma torpedoes firing.
The three Defiants strafed the cube with their pulse phasers, like what would happen with the Defiant 6 years later. (2)
The Alliance and Citadel warships opened fire on the cube, but one of the dreadnoughts was swept aside by a Borg phaser blast.
Thankfully, they had help: more ships poured in to attack the cube.
Two more Normandy-Class stealth frigates attacked the cube, with one using her Thanix cannon to rip a hole in the cube's side.
Then a disruptor bolt hit the closest ship.
"This is the Iwo Jima! We're going down!"
"Hang on, Iwo Jima! We'll cover you!"
The Flemel's Cross and Zurich strafed the cube, allowing the damaged Normandy-Class frigate get away.
Then three Geth cruisers engaged the cube after dropping out of FTL.
The Rae'Cailem'Tet fired at the cube, doing more damage to its' outer hull.
"This is the Norexan! Kilimanjaro, stand clear!"
The prototype ship fired thousands of green bolts into the cube.
Then two more ships, the deadliest of them all, dropped out of FTL: the Enterprise-B and Ra-Cailum. (AN Change the track to Invincible from Two Steps from Hell)
They were quickly followed by the Normandy and Amestris.
Fighters strafed the cube's outer hull while the capital ships fired into the holes they made.
The killing blow came from the Enterprise-B, when she fired four blue-white balls of death into the cube.
The quantum torpedoes exploded inside the cube and destroyed it.
The Enterprise shot out of the debris like a bat out of hell.
"Sonic has a flair for the dramatic, it seems."
In reality, the Enterprise couldn't turn fast enough to avoid the debris field.
Four hours later
"We need to get the Citadel out of here. Just because we destroyed one cube does not mean we can destroy another."
"Most of the fleet could heavy damage from that thing. Agreed."
Garrus and Sheppard were working on ways to move the station when Sonic sighed.
"We can use the Borg cube."
"What?"
"The warp coils on that fucker can move a moon. A station is no problem."
The Admiral sighed.
"We need to seal the rift. That's my issue."
"We blew up the Brasilia last time."
"We don't have a barely working ship to blow up, Sonic."
"Why don't we use a Reaper?"
They all looked at the Prothean, Javik.
"Your power generation technology combined with that of a Reaper's Mass Effect core will destroy the rift."
The Admiral liked the Prothean.
"Nice thinking. Thought you were a soldier, though."
"I am. Your warp cores generate more energy then the Element Zero cores of any ship, according to Lieutenant Prowler."
They all looked at Tails.
"Bragging?"
"Stating a fact, Admiral."
"Problem is, we don't have a warp core to spare."
Javik brought up his new omnitool. It showed the Enterprise-B.
"Captain Sonic's ship carries 11 extra warp cores."
"Because I don't want to get stranded in deep space."
"Then find two Reapers. We'll drag one back to our universe and blow up the other."
4 days later
The fleet, which included the Citadel, made it to the now-abandoned Salarian homeworld.
Waiting for them was the Ra-Cailum.
"Move it, people! We blew up two relays to slow the bastards down, but that'll only work for a few hours!"
The station went through first, followed by the human and Asari ships.
The Hawkeye was towing the Reaper they would use to seal the rift into position.
Then three ships dropped out of transwarp: two cubes and a ship that looked like a diamond.
"Oh, shit. The queen!"
"The who?"
"The collective is controlled by a queen from Species 125! We'll hold them off; get the fleet through!" The Enterprise charged at the Borg ships, targeting the diamond first.
Sonic was planning on destroying the diamond and sending the collective reeling.
Photons and phaser bursts hit the diamond, but Sonic had forgotten something.
Unlike most Borg ships, the slender diamond had shields.
Weak shields, but shields.
The weapons fire did damage the shield grid, however, and Sonic was planning on milking this.
The aft launcher dumped out eight torpedoes, downing the diamond's shields.
Then the Hawke charged in, pulse phasers firing.
Sections of the diamond's hull were blown off, and the Enterprise fired off 6 plasma torpedoes to destroy it.
For good measure, they launched a quantum into the mix.
The diamond exploded, and the Enterprise charged at the cubes.
The last ship made it through the rift, but so did one of the cubes, carrying millions of assimilated beings back to the Delta Quadrant.
They didn't bother to attack the fleet, as they had at least 400 of each species on board.
"Sonic, get back here! We're leaving!"
Another burst of torpedoes and the two ships turned for the rift, the cube hot on their tails.
They went through and the Reaper exploded, sealing the rift for all time.
Holy shit, that was a bitch.
Then again, I did evacuate a universe.
(1) Modified quote from Down Parascope.
(2) Reference to First Contact.
As you have all noticed, there is a Codex on this universe in my profile. I'll be updating it every few chapters.
Next Time on Hell Hath no Fury: An unknown ship appears in the Romulan Neutral Zone and the Enterprise-B and C are sent to investigate.
Ja Ne!