Author's note: Ah! The first chapter is up, just watch where the story is going ^_^
I still work with the different pov's.
And keep R&R -ing the thing. I know this is not a very long chapter, but that's because of the little thing called 'homework' (hate, hate, hate). Summer holiday is almost there so I'll make it up. ^_^
Disclaimer: Characters not mine (waaaah) the story is (yaaaay) don't sue please) etc...
Summary: Tuvoc is haunted by strange visions that may endanger the entire ship, and B'Elanna gets involved into something she never thought she'd ever do.
Chapter 1,
"...and furthermore, it's not advisable to train without using proper safety..."
"Oh shut up!" B'elanna snapped annoyed.
The Doctor looked hurt but continued to examine her cheek. "If I didn't know better I'd say this isn't an ordinary cut" he mused. "Well...I'll give you some painkillers first"
He went to the back and B'elanna was left even more annoyed.
The fight, well training, started nicely, she'd exhausted his power in a couple of minutes, or at least she'd thought so, and she didn't attack his legs this time, since he'd noted her attacks were predictable. But just when she'd thought he went down, he simply gave her another kick and she'd landed a few feet away slamming her head against the wall. But still she was very pleased, because she had him pinned down for over five seconds and that was an eternity, if you fought a Vulcan.
She yawned but quickly stopped, her cheek hurt! She carefully brought her hand up to her cheek and touched the cut; it was bleeding.
She pulled away her hand and looked at it. Her hart almost stopped.
"Doctor!!!"
***
"The sensor readings show there are three class M planets Captain"
"Inhabited?"
"The first two have no life signs...the third one however has...that's odd"
"What is it?"
"The third one is very close to the suns, too close technically to have life, or fluid water supply, still it reads as a class M planet."
"On screen"
A yellowish planet appeared with a white south pole, and just yellow and red to the north. It had two moons. But all in all it didn't look like anything could live there, for long.
"That pole, that's strange, especially for a twin star system" Chakotay noted.
"Are there any life signs whatsoever?" Janeway asked.
"Yes, readings show a highly populated area on the north pole"
"Perhaps we could ask them if they have some bimerathon, we're running out" Chakotay said showing Janeway the supply logs.
"Perhaps...what's your advice Tuvoc?" Janeway turned around.
Tuvoc heared the question, but somehow it didn't seem important enough to answer. The planet seemed awfully familiar. He had seen it before, and he knew exactly where.
It was hot and the sandstorm was getting worse every second. But she was sitting there. A Vulcan girl, in her twenties, she was sitting there, in the middle of the storm, she was meditating. But suddenly she opened her eyes, they were blue! Blue eyes without blinking, looking up, through the sandstorm and straight at him. The contact lasted for a few seconds, but he could see it clearly, the planet was mirrored in her eyes.
Then he felt a sharp pain in his head and woke up...
Blue eyes...
They haunted him in his dreams the past few weeks, those eyes, and the planet...
"Tuvoc...?"
He snapped out of it, he noticed he was staring at his control panel...but worse, the entire bridge was staring at him. He looked up slowly and turned his head to Janeway.
"Tuvoc are you alright?"
He opened his mouth...closed it and simply nodded.
"Perhaps you should go to sickbay" Janeway said concerned, getting up and walking towards him. It took all his strength just to shake his head.
He felt like his strength was drained...suddenly he lost control over his body.
"Tuvoc!" Janeway yelled, as he fell on his knees and collapsed on the floor.
Janeway checked his pulse and hit her combadge "Janeway to sickbay, we have an emergency!"
***
B'elanna looked at her hand in shock. Where there should've been red blood, there was slightly purple blood.
He was with her in a second. "What is it?"
"M-my..."
He looked at her hand. "Oh that..." he sighed "I told you, you don't want to mix blood, especially not with a Vulcan"
"B-but just two seconds?"
"Well, to be really honest I can't explain why your blood colour has changed so rapidly, it should've taken weeks. But it's a simple matter of the haemoglobin in your blood mutating slightly into a more evolved shape. Vulcan blood is very aggressive"
"Simple! Evolved! Aggressive blood!" B'elanna wiped her hand and let the Doctor heal the cut in her cheek.
"Really nothing to worry about" he insured her one last time. "There you go...no problems from now on, and if you take these painkillers, you will be fine!"
B'elanna nodded. That training sure knocked the wind out of her. She was feeling more and more tired. She got off the bed and went to the door. But the feeling in her legs started to disappear...she tripped and grabbed on to a bio bed. All her strength was being drained, and she felt like she was falling...and falling, just before everything went black, she saw was a young Vulcan woman with two blue eyes and she heared Janeway's voice in the distance yelling "Janeway to sickbay, we have an emergency!"
***
She looked at him, her blue eyes shining even brighter now. Everything was brighter. For the first time he had a clearer image of her. She was young but her face was scarred with a cut across her eyebrow down to her cheek. She had some bruises too...
Then, also for the first time, she blinked, lifted her head and opened her mouth. She didn't speak, but he knew what she meant. The words echoed in his mind...
'Help me'
Then a sudden sharp pain behind his left eye made him wake up.
He opened his eyes and looked at the stunned faces of the Doctor and Captain Janeway.
Janeway clapped a hand to her mouth "Oh my..." she gasped.
He sat up straight and swung his legs over the edge of the bio bed.
"Oh no you don't" The Doctor said, "You're going to stay with me, I need to examine you thoroughly"
"I feel fine!" He said loud, he had no time for this, he had to go down to that planet, now. The Doctor and Janeway exchanged looks.
"You obviously don't" the Doctor stated and looked at B'elanna who was lying on the other bio bed.
"There must be some connection" he sighed.
"Tuvoc, do you know what happened?" Janeway asked.
"No" he said very quickly.
He shouldn't tell her. This was something he had to do alone. A mental distress call was very rarely used and only if matters were life threatening.
"Why won't you tell me?"
Still confused, Tuvoc tried to find an acceptable answer, but was saved by B'elanna who woke with a start on the other bio bed.
***
The Doctor ran over to her and stated examining her.
"What?!" She yelled. Her head was hurting like mad. And she felt like her hart was beating at double speed. The vision of the blue eye was burned in her mind. She couldn't ignore it, someone called for help.
"How?" she started.
But nobody ever answered the question because the next thing, the entire ship started to rock wildly and the lights went off. They were hit by something.
Janeway's combadge bleeped "Chakotay here, come to the Bridge immediately Captain, we're under attack"
"On my way!" Janeway exited sickbay in a hurry.
Another hit, and the Doctor's image scrambled a bit, he started disappearing.
"What is going on?" he exclaimed. Another hit.
B'elanna hopped off the bed, but he pushed her down and examined her. "Even if this is an emergency, you're not going anywhere. You're in a serious condition, BOTH of you!" he said severe, looking at Tuvoc who was about to jump off the bed again.
He looked at his tricorder. He frowned and looked at B'elanna in worry
"This cannot be, this is impossible"
Another hit, and the Doctor disappeared for a few seconds, the tricorder fell on the floor. Tuvoc jumped off the bed and grabbed it. When the Doctor appeared he looked around but didn't see his tricorder anywhere.
"Lieutenant Torres, where is my tricorder?"
B'elanna glanced at Tuvoc who was sitting on the bio bed again with his eyes closed. There was something different in his behaviour. Stealing the Doctor's tricorder for once, but he didn't seem his calm usual self. She decided to stay still, he must have had a good reason to take it.
The Doctor looked around went to get another one from the back.
"It's very important that I take you for some tests...both of you, I've never encountered something like that...Mutations are very rare because..." Suddenly he disappeared.
B'elanna looked up "Doctor?"
Tuvoc got off the bed and went towards the exit. But B'elanna wasn't going to let him off the hook so easily. First she wanted some answers about those visions for example, Tuvoc knew more about it, she felt it. She cut in front and blocked the door.
"Where do you think you're going!" She yelled, and then she too clapped her hand to her mouth. "Tuvoc! Your eye!"
He closed his eyes for a second, drew a deep breath and asked with an unstable voice
"Please get out of my way"
She was taken aback by his rather emotionally response, but didn't move.
"No, tell me, who that woman was"
This time it was Tuvoc's turn to be slightly surprised.
"I saw her, she was a Vulcan, but her eyes were blue...your eye..."
Tuvoc blinked again, it looked like he was struggling with something, she looked at him, but this time he didn't avert his eyes, he stared right at her. His gaze was cold and B'elanna felt her adrenaline rush, she was scared to death. She'd never been more overcome by fear. The walls started closing in on her and she was heaving trouble breathing. She almost fell, she needed to move away from the door, she had to get away from the door.
She dropped just when Tuvoc grabbed her wrist and dragged her with him.
His grip was firm, it hurt and she suddenly realised that he'd never fought her at full strength in all those training sessions. The wave of panic was subsiding and she ran with him, tripping over her feet. But they weren't going to the bridge, they were going to the transporter room.
"Tuvoc!" she gasped trying to prevent herself from falling.
He didn't listen. When he entered he saw an Ensign at the controls. He let go of her wrist and started encrypting the access to the transporter room doors and erasing their traces. The Ensign asked what was going on and when Tuvoc didn't answered he pulled a phaser.
"Shoot him" Tuvoc commanded.
B'elanna didn't hesitate, there was something in his voice that made his request unquestionable. She pulled her phaser and fired at the Ensign. He fell to the ground, stunned. Tuvoc went to the control panel, entered some commands. Then he went to the transporter and B'elanna followed.
"Computer Energise!" Tuvoc said. And they disappeared.
***
The bridge was in chaos. Kim, who'd burned his hand after he put out a fire, still tried to tap the control panel. It hurt badly, but he refused to budge, since nobody else who got hurt did. Janeway had a cut in her forehead and still shouted orders. Chakotay had severely burned his face, but had taken over Tuvoc's post and tried to fire phasers. They didn't say a word about their injuries. So Harry decided to shut up about his.
"Captain, someone disabled the computer. It's encrypted, I lost phasers, sensors... everything. Only our engines are online. We can't defend ourself. We're like sitting ducks!" Chakotay exclaimed.
"Right! Mister Paris, take us out of here! As fast as you can!"
"Aye aye Captain, warp 8"
The three ships that were attacking them followed. Still firing phasers.
"Now why would they attack us without any reason?" Tom asked, about an hour later, when the ships had turned around.
"I don't know, but we've got other problems right now, remain course and speed. We need to find out who disabled our computer, and why they let the engines online"
"Working on it" Kim said, tapping the controls...he let out a suppressed yelp now and then.
"Harry, perhaps it's better if you go to sickbay first" Janeway suggested.
"But..." he was the last one who needed to go to sickbay, the others were hurt even worse.
"Go on Ensign" Chakotay said
"Aye" Harry sighed. They still thought of him as the baby of the crew, whatever he did or tried.
When he entered sickbay, there was nobody there.
"Hello? Doctor? ... Computer, activate EMH!"
Nothing, not even a reply.
"Computer!"
Silence.
He tapped his combadge "Kim to Janeway"
"What is it?"
"We've got a problem, the Doctor's gone and the computer isn't responding"
"I see, we need to fix the Doctor quickly. How's B'elanna doing?"
"Captain?"
"Is there nobody in sickbay?"
"Completely empty"
"Well, how's that hand of yours?"
"Not too bad. I'll live"
"Go to Engineering, find Torres, search the ship"
"Aye Captain"
"Chakotay, you take the bridge, I'm going to find Tuvoc...Report to me when you've found her Harry, Janeway out!"
Harry sighed...nothing ever seemed to go right here. He exited sickbay and went to Engineering. No B'elanna. He decided to search the ship systematically. He walked through the corridors entering every door, asking everyone whether he or she had seen her.
Someone mentioned her and Tuvoc going in the transporter room direction. So he decided to go there too, leaving the rest of the search for what is was.
He almost slammed into the door, it didn't open. He tried the manual release, no effect.
"Kim to Janeway"
"Janeway here, you got her?"
"I think so, Ensign Marron saw her and Tuvoc going to transporter room 2, and well, someone encrypted the codes and the door won't budge."
"On my way, well done Harry"
Harry sighed. He didn't understand any of this.
***
They appeared in the middle of a desert. The first thing she felt was a sensation of pain.
There was a sandstorm, the wind was throwing sand at her, and it hurt her face.
She held her arms up and looked at Tuvoc who didn't even seem to bother covering his face. It was very hot and damp, she could hardly breathe. He looked at her, it send a shiver down her spine, one brown eye and one bright blue. It freaked her out all right. He took her combadge and his and simply started walking into a direction, his tricorder (rather the Doctor's) in front of him. She followed. He was going way too fast for her.
"Tuvoc!" she yelled in order to make herself heared through the wind.
He looked at her and took her wrist again. They went through the storm.
"You have any clue what you're doing?" She yelled.
He stopped, and stared at something in front of them. She could only see sand. But there was something. A silhouette in the storm of someone sitting on the ground.
They walked towards it and she quickly saw that it was the Vulcan woman she'd seen in her dreams. Tuvoc handed the tricorder over to B'elanna.
The woman opened her eyes. They were brightly blue, she looked at them, got up, walked towards them, stopped a few inches in front of Tuvoc and smiled.
B'elanna was stunned. She'd never seen a Vulcan smile before.
"Greetings, I am P'Tarra" she said, looking at B'elanna then turned to Tuvoc
"Matters have become worse, I thank you for your reply"
"It is my duty and I will always answer"
"You have my gratitude, follow me"
They both looked at B'elanna now, P'Tarra turned around and started moving away. Tuvoc stood still and offered B'elanna a hand. She took it.
***
The door collapsed. Janeway and Harry went through the nicely cut hole and entered the transporterroom. The looked around.
"Captain!" Harry had found the shot Ensign. He ran over to him and felt his pulse, he looked up at Janeway in disbelief. "He's dead, he was shot"
Janeway stood up. "Why? He posed no threat"
"Apparently he did" Harry sighed. "Why would they use the transporter?"
"The computer is offline, but my guess is they went down to our friendly planet for some reason. We've stopped for now, but we can't go back for them, the ship is still damaged. And without our Chief Engineering we'll have a hard time prepping her up so fast."
"What can I do?"
"You can go to sickbay and have Tom fix your hand, then get some sleep"
"But Captain..."
She glared at him.
"Oh alri... I mean yes Ma'am" He left.
Rush-hour in sickbay was almost over. Tom was just fixing some cuts, and Harry was the last one. He sat down on a bio bed.
"Hey Harry"
"Hi"
"Let me see" Harry showed Tom his hand.
"Oh, a little burn, I'll fix it. By the way, I haven't been up to date the last hour. Where is B'elanna exactly? And what's with Tuvoc's encryption code on the transporterroom doors?"
"You call that 'not up to date' you know about all of it"
"Well, not all"
"Ok, well, after burning a hole in the door it appears Tuvoc and B'elanna killed the Ensign that was at the transporter controls and beamed themselves down to the planet with the friendly people on it."
Tom dropped his equipment. "Wha?"
"Pretty amazing isn't it? Senior Bridge officers running amok"
Tom shook his head. "And there I was thinking about meditation"
"Meditation?"
"Yes, meditation! Or as B'elanna would put it, fight eachother on the holodeck as some form of control training. Jeez, and I believed her!"
"I still don't get it"
"Don't you see? For the last four weeks B'elanna kept going on about meditation sessions and training stuff. No wonder she spent so much time with him, they were planning something."
"Tom, calm down..."
"I knew it!"
"Tom...please, you're making this into something..."
"Damn!" He punched the bed and exited sickbay.
Harry sighed annoyed, Tom could be so...so wrong sometimes. The last thing he'd see Tuvoc and B'elanna do was plotting some weird scheme in order to leave the ship.
Now what? The Captain had ordered him to get some sleep. He was tired, but he didn't want to sleep. He needed to get Tom to calm down first, before he did something radical like taking a shuttle and...
Oh no!
"Kim to Janeway! Tom is going to steal a shuttle!" he said running towards the shuttlebay. Suddenly someone grabbed him and pulled him inside a room.
"What do you think your doing!"
Harry relaxed a little "Tom!"
"I was going to invite you politely to come, but now you have to"
"Wait!" But Tom dragged him to a shuttle.
"No, you squeal on me fine, then you'll be my partner in crime"
"Tom this is madness"
"No it isn't" He powered up the shuttle. "It's called sanity"
They left Voyager and Tom set a direct course towards the planet.
...
Author's note: Hehe ^_^ What's gonna happen next?
Suggestions are always welcome, and keep R&R -ing.
Note to reviewer I know how to spell Tuvok and B'Elanna.
This (and all my other stories) is an Alternate Universe story, I did it on purpose, and for the text that's so hard to read. I agree with you on that. But it was my computer's fault, since it decided one day it won't create anymore html files I had to do the entire thing in txt, and there it won't automatically skip one line. I only noticed a moment ago.
If you want the full story behind it I was too lazy too fix it immediately ^_^
Thank you for pointing it all out to me ^_^
I still work with the different pov's.
And keep R&R -ing the thing. I know this is not a very long chapter, but that's because of the little thing called 'homework' (hate, hate, hate). Summer holiday is almost there so I'll make it up. ^_^
Disclaimer: Characters not mine (waaaah) the story is (yaaaay) don't sue please) etc...
Summary: Tuvoc is haunted by strange visions that may endanger the entire ship, and B'Elanna gets involved into something she never thought she'd ever do.
Chapter 1,
"...and furthermore, it's not advisable to train without using proper safety..."
"Oh shut up!" B'elanna snapped annoyed.
The Doctor looked hurt but continued to examine her cheek. "If I didn't know better I'd say this isn't an ordinary cut" he mused. "Well...I'll give you some painkillers first"
He went to the back and B'elanna was left even more annoyed.
The fight, well training, started nicely, she'd exhausted his power in a couple of minutes, or at least she'd thought so, and she didn't attack his legs this time, since he'd noted her attacks were predictable. But just when she'd thought he went down, he simply gave her another kick and she'd landed a few feet away slamming her head against the wall. But still she was very pleased, because she had him pinned down for over five seconds and that was an eternity, if you fought a Vulcan.
She yawned but quickly stopped, her cheek hurt! She carefully brought her hand up to her cheek and touched the cut; it was bleeding.
She pulled away her hand and looked at it. Her hart almost stopped.
"Doctor!!!"
***
"The sensor readings show there are three class M planets Captain"
"Inhabited?"
"The first two have no life signs...the third one however has...that's odd"
"What is it?"
"The third one is very close to the suns, too close technically to have life, or fluid water supply, still it reads as a class M planet."
"On screen"
A yellowish planet appeared with a white south pole, and just yellow and red to the north. It had two moons. But all in all it didn't look like anything could live there, for long.
"That pole, that's strange, especially for a twin star system" Chakotay noted.
"Are there any life signs whatsoever?" Janeway asked.
"Yes, readings show a highly populated area on the north pole"
"Perhaps we could ask them if they have some bimerathon, we're running out" Chakotay said showing Janeway the supply logs.
"Perhaps...what's your advice Tuvoc?" Janeway turned around.
Tuvoc heared the question, but somehow it didn't seem important enough to answer. The planet seemed awfully familiar. He had seen it before, and he knew exactly where.
It was hot and the sandstorm was getting worse every second. But she was sitting there. A Vulcan girl, in her twenties, she was sitting there, in the middle of the storm, she was meditating. But suddenly she opened her eyes, they were blue! Blue eyes without blinking, looking up, through the sandstorm and straight at him. The contact lasted for a few seconds, but he could see it clearly, the planet was mirrored in her eyes.
Then he felt a sharp pain in his head and woke up...
Blue eyes...
They haunted him in his dreams the past few weeks, those eyes, and the planet...
"Tuvoc...?"
He snapped out of it, he noticed he was staring at his control panel...but worse, the entire bridge was staring at him. He looked up slowly and turned his head to Janeway.
"Tuvoc are you alright?"
He opened his mouth...closed it and simply nodded.
"Perhaps you should go to sickbay" Janeway said concerned, getting up and walking towards him. It took all his strength just to shake his head.
He felt like his strength was drained...suddenly he lost control over his body.
"Tuvoc!" Janeway yelled, as he fell on his knees and collapsed on the floor.
Janeway checked his pulse and hit her combadge "Janeway to sickbay, we have an emergency!"
***
B'elanna looked at her hand in shock. Where there should've been red blood, there was slightly purple blood.
He was with her in a second. "What is it?"
"M-my..."
He looked at her hand. "Oh that..." he sighed "I told you, you don't want to mix blood, especially not with a Vulcan"
"B-but just two seconds?"
"Well, to be really honest I can't explain why your blood colour has changed so rapidly, it should've taken weeks. But it's a simple matter of the haemoglobin in your blood mutating slightly into a more evolved shape. Vulcan blood is very aggressive"
"Simple! Evolved! Aggressive blood!" B'elanna wiped her hand and let the Doctor heal the cut in her cheek.
"Really nothing to worry about" he insured her one last time. "There you go...no problems from now on, and if you take these painkillers, you will be fine!"
B'elanna nodded. That training sure knocked the wind out of her. She was feeling more and more tired. She got off the bed and went to the door. But the feeling in her legs started to disappear...she tripped and grabbed on to a bio bed. All her strength was being drained, and she felt like she was falling...and falling, just before everything went black, she saw was a young Vulcan woman with two blue eyes and she heared Janeway's voice in the distance yelling "Janeway to sickbay, we have an emergency!"
***
She looked at him, her blue eyes shining even brighter now. Everything was brighter. For the first time he had a clearer image of her. She was young but her face was scarred with a cut across her eyebrow down to her cheek. She had some bruises too...
Then, also for the first time, she blinked, lifted her head and opened her mouth. She didn't speak, but he knew what she meant. The words echoed in his mind...
'Help me'
Then a sudden sharp pain behind his left eye made him wake up.
He opened his eyes and looked at the stunned faces of the Doctor and Captain Janeway.
Janeway clapped a hand to her mouth "Oh my..." she gasped.
He sat up straight and swung his legs over the edge of the bio bed.
"Oh no you don't" The Doctor said, "You're going to stay with me, I need to examine you thoroughly"
"I feel fine!" He said loud, he had no time for this, he had to go down to that planet, now. The Doctor and Janeway exchanged looks.
"You obviously don't" the Doctor stated and looked at B'elanna who was lying on the other bio bed.
"There must be some connection" he sighed.
"Tuvoc, do you know what happened?" Janeway asked.
"No" he said very quickly.
He shouldn't tell her. This was something he had to do alone. A mental distress call was very rarely used and only if matters were life threatening.
"Why won't you tell me?"
Still confused, Tuvoc tried to find an acceptable answer, but was saved by B'elanna who woke with a start on the other bio bed.
***
The Doctor ran over to her and stated examining her.
"What?!" She yelled. Her head was hurting like mad. And she felt like her hart was beating at double speed. The vision of the blue eye was burned in her mind. She couldn't ignore it, someone called for help.
"How?" she started.
But nobody ever answered the question because the next thing, the entire ship started to rock wildly and the lights went off. They were hit by something.
Janeway's combadge bleeped "Chakotay here, come to the Bridge immediately Captain, we're under attack"
"On my way!" Janeway exited sickbay in a hurry.
Another hit, and the Doctor's image scrambled a bit, he started disappearing.
"What is going on?" he exclaimed. Another hit.
B'elanna hopped off the bed, but he pushed her down and examined her. "Even if this is an emergency, you're not going anywhere. You're in a serious condition, BOTH of you!" he said severe, looking at Tuvoc who was about to jump off the bed again.
He looked at his tricorder. He frowned and looked at B'elanna in worry
"This cannot be, this is impossible"
Another hit, and the Doctor disappeared for a few seconds, the tricorder fell on the floor. Tuvoc jumped off the bed and grabbed it. When the Doctor appeared he looked around but didn't see his tricorder anywhere.
"Lieutenant Torres, where is my tricorder?"
B'elanna glanced at Tuvoc who was sitting on the bio bed again with his eyes closed. There was something different in his behaviour. Stealing the Doctor's tricorder for once, but he didn't seem his calm usual self. She decided to stay still, he must have had a good reason to take it.
The Doctor looked around went to get another one from the back.
"It's very important that I take you for some tests...both of you, I've never encountered something like that...Mutations are very rare because..." Suddenly he disappeared.
B'elanna looked up "Doctor?"
Tuvoc got off the bed and went towards the exit. But B'elanna wasn't going to let him off the hook so easily. First she wanted some answers about those visions for example, Tuvoc knew more about it, she felt it. She cut in front and blocked the door.
"Where do you think you're going!" She yelled, and then she too clapped her hand to her mouth. "Tuvoc! Your eye!"
He closed his eyes for a second, drew a deep breath and asked with an unstable voice
"Please get out of my way"
She was taken aback by his rather emotionally response, but didn't move.
"No, tell me, who that woman was"
This time it was Tuvoc's turn to be slightly surprised.
"I saw her, she was a Vulcan, but her eyes were blue...your eye..."
Tuvoc blinked again, it looked like he was struggling with something, she looked at him, but this time he didn't avert his eyes, he stared right at her. His gaze was cold and B'elanna felt her adrenaline rush, she was scared to death. She'd never been more overcome by fear. The walls started closing in on her and she was heaving trouble breathing. She almost fell, she needed to move away from the door, she had to get away from the door.
She dropped just when Tuvoc grabbed her wrist and dragged her with him.
His grip was firm, it hurt and she suddenly realised that he'd never fought her at full strength in all those training sessions. The wave of panic was subsiding and she ran with him, tripping over her feet. But they weren't going to the bridge, they were going to the transporter room.
"Tuvoc!" she gasped trying to prevent herself from falling.
He didn't listen. When he entered he saw an Ensign at the controls. He let go of her wrist and started encrypting the access to the transporter room doors and erasing their traces. The Ensign asked what was going on and when Tuvoc didn't answered he pulled a phaser.
"Shoot him" Tuvoc commanded.
B'elanna didn't hesitate, there was something in his voice that made his request unquestionable. She pulled her phaser and fired at the Ensign. He fell to the ground, stunned. Tuvoc went to the control panel, entered some commands. Then he went to the transporter and B'elanna followed.
"Computer Energise!" Tuvoc said. And they disappeared.
***
The bridge was in chaos. Kim, who'd burned his hand after he put out a fire, still tried to tap the control panel. It hurt badly, but he refused to budge, since nobody else who got hurt did. Janeway had a cut in her forehead and still shouted orders. Chakotay had severely burned his face, but had taken over Tuvoc's post and tried to fire phasers. They didn't say a word about their injuries. So Harry decided to shut up about his.
"Captain, someone disabled the computer. It's encrypted, I lost phasers, sensors... everything. Only our engines are online. We can't defend ourself. We're like sitting ducks!" Chakotay exclaimed.
"Right! Mister Paris, take us out of here! As fast as you can!"
"Aye aye Captain, warp 8"
The three ships that were attacking them followed. Still firing phasers.
"Now why would they attack us without any reason?" Tom asked, about an hour later, when the ships had turned around.
"I don't know, but we've got other problems right now, remain course and speed. We need to find out who disabled our computer, and why they let the engines online"
"Working on it" Kim said, tapping the controls...he let out a suppressed yelp now and then.
"Harry, perhaps it's better if you go to sickbay first" Janeway suggested.
"But..." he was the last one who needed to go to sickbay, the others were hurt even worse.
"Go on Ensign" Chakotay said
"Aye" Harry sighed. They still thought of him as the baby of the crew, whatever he did or tried.
When he entered sickbay, there was nobody there.
"Hello? Doctor? ... Computer, activate EMH!"
Nothing, not even a reply.
"Computer!"
Silence.
He tapped his combadge "Kim to Janeway"
"What is it?"
"We've got a problem, the Doctor's gone and the computer isn't responding"
"I see, we need to fix the Doctor quickly. How's B'elanna doing?"
"Captain?"
"Is there nobody in sickbay?"
"Completely empty"
"Well, how's that hand of yours?"
"Not too bad. I'll live"
"Go to Engineering, find Torres, search the ship"
"Aye Captain"
"Chakotay, you take the bridge, I'm going to find Tuvoc...Report to me when you've found her Harry, Janeway out!"
Harry sighed...nothing ever seemed to go right here. He exited sickbay and went to Engineering. No B'elanna. He decided to search the ship systematically. He walked through the corridors entering every door, asking everyone whether he or she had seen her.
Someone mentioned her and Tuvoc going in the transporter room direction. So he decided to go there too, leaving the rest of the search for what is was.
He almost slammed into the door, it didn't open. He tried the manual release, no effect.
"Kim to Janeway"
"Janeway here, you got her?"
"I think so, Ensign Marron saw her and Tuvoc going to transporter room 2, and well, someone encrypted the codes and the door won't budge."
"On my way, well done Harry"
Harry sighed. He didn't understand any of this.
***
They appeared in the middle of a desert. The first thing she felt was a sensation of pain.
There was a sandstorm, the wind was throwing sand at her, and it hurt her face.
She held her arms up and looked at Tuvoc who didn't even seem to bother covering his face. It was very hot and damp, she could hardly breathe. He looked at her, it send a shiver down her spine, one brown eye and one bright blue. It freaked her out all right. He took her combadge and his and simply started walking into a direction, his tricorder (rather the Doctor's) in front of him. She followed. He was going way too fast for her.
"Tuvoc!" she yelled in order to make herself heared through the wind.
He looked at her and took her wrist again. They went through the storm.
"You have any clue what you're doing?" She yelled.
He stopped, and stared at something in front of them. She could only see sand. But there was something. A silhouette in the storm of someone sitting on the ground.
They walked towards it and she quickly saw that it was the Vulcan woman she'd seen in her dreams. Tuvoc handed the tricorder over to B'elanna.
The woman opened her eyes. They were brightly blue, she looked at them, got up, walked towards them, stopped a few inches in front of Tuvoc and smiled.
B'elanna was stunned. She'd never seen a Vulcan smile before.
"Greetings, I am P'Tarra" she said, looking at B'elanna then turned to Tuvoc
"Matters have become worse, I thank you for your reply"
"It is my duty and I will always answer"
"You have my gratitude, follow me"
They both looked at B'elanna now, P'Tarra turned around and started moving away. Tuvoc stood still and offered B'elanna a hand. She took it.
***
The door collapsed. Janeway and Harry went through the nicely cut hole and entered the transporterroom. The looked around.
"Captain!" Harry had found the shot Ensign. He ran over to him and felt his pulse, he looked up at Janeway in disbelief. "He's dead, he was shot"
Janeway stood up. "Why? He posed no threat"
"Apparently he did" Harry sighed. "Why would they use the transporter?"
"The computer is offline, but my guess is they went down to our friendly planet for some reason. We've stopped for now, but we can't go back for them, the ship is still damaged. And without our Chief Engineering we'll have a hard time prepping her up so fast."
"What can I do?"
"You can go to sickbay and have Tom fix your hand, then get some sleep"
"But Captain..."
She glared at him.
"Oh alri... I mean yes Ma'am" He left.
Rush-hour in sickbay was almost over. Tom was just fixing some cuts, and Harry was the last one. He sat down on a bio bed.
"Hey Harry"
"Hi"
"Let me see" Harry showed Tom his hand.
"Oh, a little burn, I'll fix it. By the way, I haven't been up to date the last hour. Where is B'elanna exactly? And what's with Tuvoc's encryption code on the transporterroom doors?"
"You call that 'not up to date' you know about all of it"
"Well, not all"
"Ok, well, after burning a hole in the door it appears Tuvoc and B'elanna killed the Ensign that was at the transporter controls and beamed themselves down to the planet with the friendly people on it."
Tom dropped his equipment. "Wha?"
"Pretty amazing isn't it? Senior Bridge officers running amok"
Tom shook his head. "And there I was thinking about meditation"
"Meditation?"
"Yes, meditation! Or as B'elanna would put it, fight eachother on the holodeck as some form of control training. Jeez, and I believed her!"
"I still don't get it"
"Don't you see? For the last four weeks B'elanna kept going on about meditation sessions and training stuff. No wonder she spent so much time with him, they were planning something."
"Tom, calm down..."
"I knew it!"
"Tom...please, you're making this into something..."
"Damn!" He punched the bed and exited sickbay.
Harry sighed annoyed, Tom could be so...so wrong sometimes. The last thing he'd see Tuvoc and B'elanna do was plotting some weird scheme in order to leave the ship.
Now what? The Captain had ordered him to get some sleep. He was tired, but he didn't want to sleep. He needed to get Tom to calm down first, before he did something radical like taking a shuttle and...
Oh no!
"Kim to Janeway! Tom is going to steal a shuttle!" he said running towards the shuttlebay. Suddenly someone grabbed him and pulled him inside a room.
"What do you think your doing!"
Harry relaxed a little "Tom!"
"I was going to invite you politely to come, but now you have to"
"Wait!" But Tom dragged him to a shuttle.
"No, you squeal on me fine, then you'll be my partner in crime"
"Tom this is madness"
"No it isn't" He powered up the shuttle. "It's called sanity"
They left Voyager and Tom set a direct course towards the planet.
...
Author's note: Hehe ^_^ What's gonna happen next?
Suggestions are always welcome, and keep R&R -ing.
Note to reviewer I know how to spell Tuvok and B'Elanna.
This (and all my other stories) is an Alternate Universe story, I did it on purpose, and for the text that's so hard to read. I agree with you on that. But it was my computer's fault, since it decided one day it won't create anymore html files I had to do the entire thing in txt, and there it won't automatically skip one line. I only noticed a moment ago.
If you want the full story behind it I was too lazy too fix it immediately ^_^
Thank you for pointing it all out to me ^_^
