Chapter 12

Meanwhile, Data was on board of Lore's cube. He pretended to be Lore and the Borg seemed to believe in him. He tried to understand how many ships formed their fleet, but it was difficult… The systems on board were off line and the Borg were very slow in the maintenance… Data tried to not speak too much with them in order to not be discovered…

-"Sir, we have done. All the systems are on line now. We are ready to follow the Enterprise…"- a drone said to Data.

Data forced himself to speak as Lore: - "Well, good work. How much time will be necessary?"-

-"I think that we should arrive to the target in two hours at Warp 7, sir."- the drone answered.

-"Good, do it."- he said coolly.

-"Yes, sir."- the Borg answered and went away.

Data went unnoticed in Lore's apartment and tried to access to the secret files in order to determine the real entity of the enemies' forces… He found out rapidly that they had at least 12 cubes in perfect conditions and 8 spheres… A similar fleet could destroy all the Starfleet's forces in that sector and perhaps they could menace the Earth too…

Data was ready to self sacrifice if it was necessary. He thought that he could send easily the Borg fleet in a sector where nobody was in and then destroy them with a lethal virus… But he couldn't escape, therefore he thought to send his testament in a secret message to Cindy.

-"Dear Cindy, I love you with all my heart. But I am an officer and I must destroy this lethal menace…Kiss the babies for me, please, and say to them that I will love you all forever…Goodbye, darling."- This was the secret message sent to the Enterprise.