Title: Stepping Through The Darkness part 3/?
Author: Danielle (babyflirt5785@hotmail.com)
Rating: PG for minor language
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Thanks: To my beta readers Naaz, MenaryJ, rustic_furniture, and piper_maru.
Disclaimer: See previous parts.
Summary: Two people board, and two people mysteriously disappear from Voyager.

"Mr. Paris." commanded Janeway, "Get us out of here. I don't want to find out what the combined power of those two ships can do to us just yet." Janeway was confused and astounded. She could not believe this. She had never seen anything like this before, and she wasn't about to fight this new ship without knowing anything about it and it's capabilities.
"Aye, Captain." came Tom's voice. "Warp drive is off-line Captain, proceeding at full impulse."
"Damage report." The captain had snapped on her best Captain's-mask to hide her confusion as she addressed her bridge crew.
"Injuries reported on decks three through eleven," a shaken Harry Kim started, "warp drive is off-line, hull breaches on decks five and seven, external communications down, but the internal are coming back online, repair crews have been dispatched to decks two, five, and six to fix some fused gel packs."
Chakotay took over as the captain stared at the view-screen watching the mega ship slowly start to fade. "Harry, seal the breaches." he said as he stood up. He tapped his com badge, "Bridge to engineering."
B'Elanna's voice came through along with the sound of people hurriedly making repairs, "B'Elanna here, but I'm kind of busy."
"How long until the warp drive is back on-line?" Chakotay moved forward to stand next to and perplexed Captain Janeway.
"If I had to take a guess," she said in a slightly louder voice than usual so she could be heard over all of the commotion, "I'd say by 0600 tomorrow if everyone pulls longer shifts."
Chakotay couldn't believe that those two ships could do this much damage. He didn't even want to imagine what the bigger one could do, and without warp Voyager would most likely have no chance. "See if you can't get it back sooner. I don't want to take any chances right now. Chakotay out."
Kathryn looked at Chakotay and let out a deep breath as he put his hand on her shoulder. "What is that thing?" she asked.
The image on the screen wasn't fading anymore. Instead it was growing larger. Janeway snapped back into command mode, "Tuvok, what's going on?"
"It appears," he stated, "that the ship is pursuing."
"Tom evasive maneuvers." Janeway ordered.
Tom answered, "Yes ma'am, engaging evasive pattern beta-three."
She moved back to her command seat and Chakotay followed to his. She stared as the ship started to fade again, but then was surprised when Paris spoke up, "They are speeding up and matching our course. Initiating evasive pattern gamma-five." Tom tapped frantically at his console, "Captain, they are matching course again and increasing speed. We can't stay ahead of them for much longer."
"They are powering weapons." stated Tuvok.
Before the captain could respond the ship shook violently sending some of the bridge crew that were standing to the floor. "Return fire!" commanded a now very angry Kathryn. These people had no purpose to be attacking them, and she sure wasn't going to let them get away with that last hit.
"Firing photon torpedo," Tuvok stated as he tapped a few controls and the bridge crew turned to watch the impact, "no damage to the other ship."
"Fire all phasers." Janeway shouted. They watched as the ship was hit by the phasers.
"The phasers have penetrated their shields," Tuvok stated almost with a hint of confusion in his voice. "Captain," he announced, "they are retreating."
"Tom," Janeway said, "keep us going in the opposite direction as they are, full impulse."
"Aye, Captain" came from Tom who was now plotting a course away from the ship.
Janeway turned to Chakotay, "Commander, my ready room."
He nodded and rose to follow her off of the bridge. They stepped into her ready room and Janeway immediately began asking, "What the hell happened? How did those two ships merge into one?" She moved over to the view port and started pacing back and forth.
Chakotay leaned against her desk and answered, "I have no idea how that happened. What are we going to do now?
"I don't know." said Janeway who was starting to sound a little frustrated, "One things for sure though, we need to find out as much as we can about that ship before we can even think about going anywhere. It's just our luck that the ship would happen to form in the direction that we need to go."
Before Chakotay could respond the computer started sounding an alarm, *Intruder alert, Intruder alert* Janeway headed back onto the bridge followed by Chakotay, "Mr. Tuvok, what's going on?"
Tuvok answered, "There has been an unauthorized entry in the shuttle-bay. There are two humanoid intruders. I have sent security to apprehend them."
Chakotay moved over to his chair and started tapping at the console in between the command team's chairs. He spoke out loud to everyone, "I want to know why we didn't detect this ship."
He didn't get to listen for an answer as he felt the familiar tingling of a transporter beam. The bridge crew was stunned as they looked up and their command team was nowhere to be seen.
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To be continued...