A/N: Yeah… It's been only a few days ago but I just had to update. I've mostly written action, adventure, sci-fi and humor, but this chapter will be quite angsty and a bit sad (but still with a little bit of humor). This will be one of the most important chapters in the entire story, so please don't forget to review it, your support is what keeps this stressed (and hungry…I still can't find my cookies) authoress going.

Chapter 20: Resistance is futile

"Shields are down, weapons are offline!"

"They locked on to us with a tractor beam!"

"Captain, we're being hailed!"

Captain Janeway tried to look as calm and collected as possible, hoping to trick her crew into thinking that she had everything under control, even though she knew they were not buying it.

"On screen!"

The view of the Borg cube that had been attacking them, was replaced with static.

"Our sensors are damaged Captain," Kim stated, "I'll try to…"

Harry was interrupted by a female voice, Kathryn knew all too well.

"Hello, Captain…"

The static vanished and the Borg Queen appeared on the view screen, smiling at the terrified crew.

"It's been to long…"

"What do you want?" Janeway snapped at her more harshly than she had intended. Nice job keeping your cool there, Kathryn… she thought to herself.

"Tsk, Tsk!" The Queen chided. "Where are your Starfleet manners, Captain? What I want is… information"

Janeway raised an eyebrow, curious about the Queens request.

"Go on?"

"When we arrived in this dimension, and scanned for your location, we picked up something quite interesting," she paused, "if you have been watching Earths television, then you probably have seen this strange, almost grasshopper-like being that has been hunting the inhabitants"

Captain Janeway was confused. A grasshopper that terrorized Earth? First, she thought that the Queen was talking about the androids, but then she remembered that Goku told her they looked like humans. She was not eager to inform her that their sensors were broken, but she had to know what was going on here.

"We had some… technical difficulties I'm afraid"

"A strange electrical interference? Yes, we had similar problems, but we adapted"

"How fascinating"

The Queen scowled at the Captains sarcastic response.

"This being is the main source of the interference, however, we have detected another source on Voyager"

Captain Janeway felt her blood run cold. Goku! She was talking about Goku!

"We would like to meet it," the sinister woman continued. "Comply, or be…"

"Over my dead body!" Janeway shouted. She turned to Harry. "End transmission!"

"The Borg are firing weapons," Tuvok reported

"Torres to the bridge!"

Kathryn tapped her combadge

"Janeway here"

"I just finished repairing the escape pods, but their shields are barely functioning. If we launch them now, there is a risk that…AAAAAAAAAAAAARRGH!"

"B'Elanna? B'Elanna?" She franticly tapped her combadge again, "Janeway to Engineering, please respond!"

There was a response alright, not just trough her combadge but it could be heard trough the entire ship, sending chills down her spine.

"We are the Borg, existence as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile"

"We'll see about that…" she mumbled. "Tuvok, send a security team down to engineering to check what's going on there. Maybe…"

"Captain!"

She was interrupted by Naomi, who came running onto the bridge. Tears were streaming down her face. Captain Janeway tried to comfort her.

"Shh…shh… it's alright" she said as she held her.

Naomi cried. "The Borg… they suddendly appeared on the holodeck. Goku tried to protect me, but they…assimilated Neelix and when Goku saw that, he mumbled something about 'needles' and fainted…" she continued to sob heavily. "they took them! They took Goku and Neelix!"

No… the Captain thought. Impossible…

"How did you…"

"I panicked… Flotter distracted them and I crawled into a Jefferies tube…I just left them there to… to…. "

Kathryn looked at the crying child. "Naomi listen," she said, while sitting down on one knee and putting a hand on the girls shoulder "you are a very valuable member of this crew and we can not afford to lose you to. You did the right thing there"

It looked like this made Naomi feel a little better.

"Come on, I'll get you to sickbay." She turned to her first officer. "Chakotay, you have the…"

Before she could finish her sentence, over fifty Borg drones appeared on the bridge and started to assimilate everyone in sight. Ensign Kim was the first to fall, completely surprised by the intruders. Luckily, Tuvok saw what was happening in time and managed to shoot three drones that were closing in on him, but after his fourth shot, they adapted and added the Vulcan to their collective.

A scream echoed throughout the bridge as a drone tried to assimilate Naomi Wildman, but at the last moment, Janeway pushed her aside, causing the drone to plunge his assimilation tubes in her own neck instead.

"KATHRYN!" Chakotay screamed, while hitting the drone as hard as he could, knocking it unconscious.

"O no…"

He kneeled beside his fallen friend, but there was no response. Her face was turning pale and implants already started to sprout from her cheeks. He looked at the bridge and saw that he and Naomi were the only ones left.

"Seven of Nine to the bridge!"

"Chakotay here!"

"The Borg have boarded Voyager"

"I know, there are almost thirty of them closing in on me" he said, while knocking another drone to the side.

There was brief moment of silence on the other side.

"I'm heading for the escape pods, I think the best think to do would be to activate the self-destruct sequence and meet with me at…"

Chakotay heard a surprised gasp and then nothing. He lowered his head. His love… they got her. Suddenly, he felt a tug on his sleeve, it was Naomi.

"Commander!" she yelled "they're coming!"

He came back to his senses. Quickly, he grabbed Naomi and left the bridge. After a few minutes of dodging drones and jumping over fallen debris, they finally reached an escape pod. He noticed that all of the other pods were still in place, the Borg had caught the crew completely off guard. This could not be happening...

"Quick, get inside Naomi!"

"But…"

"Now!"

They entered the escape pod and took off. After a few minutes, it looked like they were out of the woods until…

"Oh no, the shields!" he growled, "They're failing!"

"Why?" Naomi asked, the Borg were for some reason not firing at them so what could be causing them to drop?

"I don't…"

Chakotay paused mid-sentence. Suddenly, he remembered what B'Elanna had said about the 'barely functioning shields' and what the Collective, thanks to her, also knew. That's why they didn't attack their pod! Why waste energy? He looked at his sensors and to his relief, saw that they were so close to Earth now, that there was a small chance of reaching the Doctor.

"Chakotay to the Doctor! Can you hear me?" he said, but there was no response. "Chakotay to the Doctor! The Borg have followed us through the rift, they assimilated Voyager, Naomi and I fled in an escape pod. Everyone else is gone, they even got Captain Janeway and the transporters are…"

He only heard the faint sound of a girl yelling something (it sounded like Lara, but he wasn't sure) and then nothing. Even when they were this close, the interference was still too strong.

He turned to Naomi, but she suddenly disappeared in a flash of green light. Shortly after that, there was another flash and Seven of Nine appeared in the chair beside him. She looked at him with an empty stare. He knew why she had been send. The Queen had assimilated her memories, and probably hoped that he would not fight his former love. The small confinements of the escape pod would make it impossible to escape (or at least try to and do a lot of damage in the process), what was probably the reason he wasn't transported to the cube like Naomi.

The Queen appeared on the view screen.

"Where is she!" he yelled at her, even though he already knew the answer.

"She's with us now. Just like her mother, your dear Captain and the rest of Voyagers crew… they are all Borg"

"That's what you think," he heard himself say

"You are talking about your doctor and those Uranians?" she smiled, "Yes, they have not been added to our perfection yet, but they will be soon. When you tried to hail them, we traced the signal of your doctors combadge and pinpointed their exact location. Over 800 drones are now on Earth, tracking them down as we speak. It will only be a matter of time"

He knew she was right. Susan and Lara were extremely fast and they could fly, but 800 Borg? There was no way those two could escape and the Doctor would probably not fare much better. The only thing he could do now was…

"Computer! Activate self-destruct sequence, authorisation code…"

"It's too late for that" the woman on the view screen interrupted him, "we have already taken control of your vessel"

Shocked, he looked at the female drone beside him. She had plunged her assimilation tubes in a console and it already started to emit a green glow.

"Seven…" he tried.

"Seven of Nine… ANNIKA!"

He grabbed her arm, but she just glared at him for a brief moment and continued. The console started to look more and more like it belonged to a Borg cube.

"No…this is not happening…this is not real…" he whispered to himself

"You are alone Chakotay," the Queens voice darkened. "Resistance is futile."

The transmission ended and he felt a familiar hand on his shoulder. He looked at her. She was still exactly the same. Her skin was pale and small implants had sprouted from her neck, but she still had hair, two eyes and all of her limbs. He could not fight her, he was still in love, even though she wasn't Seven anymore. She was Seven of Nine, Tertiary adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One. He had expected her to attack him, or say something 'dramatic' like "join us, Chakotay!" or "you must comply!" but she just sat there and slowly relocated her hand to the side of his face. Unable to take it anymore, he let himself collapse into her arms, crying silently. It was over…

"BULMA! HE KNOWS YOU'RE HERE! RUN!"

"YOU LITTLE….!"

Bulma and the Doctor came out of hiding and saw Lara clinging to Cells head like she was riding a bull in a rodeo show. Unfortunately, Lara never was very good with animals (the Doctor still remembered the "petting zoo incident" when they were celebrating their shore leave on Kalari Prime three weeks ago), or evil androids that tried to destroy the world.

"What are you still doing here! GET OUT!"

"come on, Doc!" Bulma grabbed his holographic arm an dragged him away from the scene before the bio-android could spot him too. She had no idea what to do next. Lara was going to die if they left her there, but then again, what could they do? Annoy Cell to death? She just hoped Susan would forgive…

"OWW!"

Bulma suddenly bumped into someone and fell flat on her behind. She looked up and saw a strange woman blocking their path. She was wearing a tight fitting white bodysuit, with a lot of pockets and a few wires here and there. Attached to it, were her boots and gloves, no loose parts except for her matching white helmet with a blue visor that made it impossible to see her face. She even doubted for a moment that she was female, but the Doctor assured her that she was (ahem…).

"You have to get out!" she ordered, her voice was twisted by a device in her helmet. It was obvious that she didn't want to give away her identity.

Bulma scowled, "That was what we were trying to do, until you…"

"Listen up and listen good because I only have time to explain this once: you can't take this corridor, you have to turn back and go through the cafeteria. When you see the men's room, go left, NOT RIGHT! Then just go straight ahead until you see emergency exits nr. 3 through 7. Be sure to use only nr. 4 or nr. 6, and get away from this building as far as you can"

"WHAT?" Bulma exclaimed, "that will take us at least 20 minutes extra!"

"If you don't do as I say, you won't reach the exit AT ALL!" the woman hissed at her. She turned to the Doctor. "If you take a look at that console over there," she pointed at a small monitor that was embedded in the wall, "you'll see what I mean."

Curious, the Doctor glanced at the screen. It was a thermostat and showed the environmental stats inside the building. After punching a few controls, his pupils dilated when he saw the temperature.

"But of course..." he said in a sarcastic tone, "very funny".

"What? What's going on?" Bulma asked

"According to our friend here," he rolled his eyes, and threw his hands up in a dramatic way, "the Borg have somehow transported down here and…". He stopped making fun of her when he noticed that she wasn't reacting at all. He could not see her face, but even though he was a hologram, he could almost feel she was getting angry.

"You…you're not kidding, are you?"

"No."

"Borg?" Bulma asked, getting tired of being ignored, "sounds Swedish…" (A/N: Hehehe, sorry… I've been watching 'Star Trek: First Contact' yesterday)

"I'll explain later, let's go!"

The Doctor grabbed Bulma's hand and headed for the cafeteria. Just before they turned around the corner, he looked back. She was gone...

A/N: Goku! Voyager! NOOOOOOOO! Will Bulma and the Doctor get out of Capsule Corp. in time? Will Cell kill Lara? Will anyone even survive this AT ALL? And who is this mysterious woman with the sexy outfit? Find out next time, on DBZ!