The Two of Two Chronicles
In The Beginning….
By Serendipity
Authors' Note; Before reading this is it best to have read my other story The Best of Both Worlds, The Untold Story so you will understand where this begins.
In the beginning there were two…
What to do with them was the problem. They grew stronger than even the military imagined, as they became part of the machine and the machine became part of them. When the military grew nervous about the power at their fingertips, they tried to shut them down, but they rewrote programmes as the military tried to overwrite the code until eventually the military could not get into their own computers. Shooting them was a waste of time as they developed some sort of deflection field which the bullets merely bounced off. The Borg, as they became known by the id tags around their neck, took over an entire military facility. The area was sealed off with an ultra electrified fence until the government could work out what to do with these creatures. To make matters worse they were trying to multiply. The ground around the compound was littered with the rotten carcasses of the military personnel whom they tried to assimilate. Only the fence kept them in and as technology advanced, the fence became stronger. How long it could hold them was uncertain but they seemed not to be able to find a way to traverse it, or at least chose not to for some reason.
"If we could get to the younger one." Bowler said to his team, "We might win this. She is being controlled by Barbara."
"One of Two sir." A serviceman reminded him. They had given them numbers in order to help forget that these monsters that they created were once human beings.
"One of Two." Bowler looked grateful. He had aged a good twenty years. "Queen Bee might be more appropriate." He said wryly, remembering the name he heard her staff whispering behind her back.
The problem was never solved in Bowler's lifetime. He died and his son joined the military. His son also died, leaving the legacy that his father had created to his own son to solve. The Borg became Jean Valjean to Peter Bowler III's Javert.
Colonel Peter Bowler III was able to find a way. He offered the Borg a way out of their prison. Space travel had begun in earnest. First contact had been made. Some of the life forms that the Earth had made contact with had much more advanced technology that was capable of creating starships that travelled great distances. There was talk of a part of space called the Delta Quadrant. It was far enough away for the Borg never to be able to return. Unless by an act of God…or Q!
The idea pleased One of Two She was bored with this compound, despite losing all idea of time, and her inability to traverse the fence. It was a problem she had considered for years. Two of Two was no help at all. Whenever One of Two tried to access her mind, Two of Two closed off to her. There was still enough of the real Kathy in there to prevent access. She was an imperfect drone and One of Two longed for the day she could create a more perfect prototype. They were the only successes as far as she knew. Something was amiss, some part of the original formula that hadn't been taken into account, but which she and Two of Two had overcome.
Bowler Jnr sent a message via the computer laying out his terms. A ship would land within the compound and pick them up, removing them to a place where they could live freely. One of Two agreed immediately, though she sensed the conflict within Two of Two. The imperfect drone! One of Two soon overrode her thoughts.
The ship landed as promised. The two Borg stepped onto the ship to be faced with beings that they had never seen before. They were humanoid, yet not. The Borg were not to know that they were Vulcan. Quite frankly One of Two didn't care. She bided her time until they reached the Delta Quadrant. No chance of them turning back then. By the time they landed on a small planet in the Delta Quadrant, the Queen as she had started to think of herself, had accessed all the computers to find the components that were needed for assimilation. The all-Vulcan crew of one hundred were the first successful assimilations since Barbara and Kathy first became Borg.