Reese wondered the corridors. He had seen a little girl with horns on her forehead earlier and was planning on teasing her about them. As he wondered the halls, he found a series of hatches.

            "Hey… hey… hey!" Reese shouted, trying to get the computer to respond. From behind him, the little girl Reese had planned to pick on walked up.

            "Hello, I'm the Captain's Assistant. My name's Naomi Wildman. If your trying to talk to the computer, you need to say 'computer' aloud."

            "Why would I say 'computer aloud'?"

            "No, you say 'computer' out loud."

            "But you just said to say 'computer aloud'?"

            "Yes, but I meant that you're supposed to say 'computer' before you try and talk to it."

            "Would you make up your mind? First you want me to say 'computer aloud', then you want me to say 'computer out loud', now you want me to say 'computer before you try and talk to it'? For a Captain's Assistant, your not very assistful."

            "That's not even a word!"

            "Oh yeah!"
            "Computer, define assistful."

            "Entry not found." The feminine voice of the computer announced.

Naomi scoffed, then started to walk away, "By the way, that's an escape pod."

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            "Okay, Computer: Rerun simulation Wilkerson Phi-9." Malcolm said. The lights dimmed on the holo-bridge, as the red alert lights came on.

            "Malcolm, I'm detecting a ship. It's Kazon!" Dewey stated from the helm.

            "Raising shields."

            "Too late! They've boarded."

            "Erecting level 10 force fields around intruders!"

            "They've escaped!"

            "I'll transport them off the ship. Damn! They won't transport through the shields, and if we lower them, we'll be demolished!"
            "Transport them to an escape pod."

            ["Wow, Dewey actually had a good idea!"]

            "Can you set a trajectory for the pod?" Malcolm asked.

            "…Nope!"

            "Let me try!" Malcolm said, as he began to type furiously at his console. "I can't get access. The security protocols are online. I have to hack in. Hold on, let's try…"

*                                  *                                  *                                  *

            "Captain, I'm detecting someone trying to access ship functions." Harry Kim stated.

            "Can you lock them out?" Janeway replied, leaning forward in her Captain's chair.

            "Negative."

            "Can you isolate the console?"

            "It's coming from Holodeck One."

*                                  *                                  *                                  *

            "Almost got it… there! Dewey program the pod to launch."

            "Where?"

            "Pick somewhere!" Malcolm shouted. Dewey tapped a few buttons and an escape pod floated by on the view screen. "Anymore?"

            Dewey tapped another few buttons, "Nope."

The bridge around them faded, as Tuvok burst into the holodeck. "Why were you accessing ship functions?" He asked.

"What, we were only playing a simulation!" Malcolm replied defensively.

"Bridge to Tuvok, we detected an escape pod launch. Can you explain it?" Harry Kim asked over the comm system.

"In a minute. What were you two doing?" Tuvok asked.

"We were playing a game where some ugly people called the Kazon attacked our ship, then they boarded us, then we had to teleport them off, but we couldn't, so we teleported them to an escape pod and launched it." Dewey answered, excited

"I think I've found the problem. Tuvok to Bridge."

"Go ahead Tuvok." This time, it was Captain Janeway who responded.

"I believe that somehow Malcolm and Dewey accidentally accessed controls from the holodeck."

"What about Reese?"

"He's not here."

*                                  *                                  *                                  *

On the bridge Captain Janeway stood and said, "Computer, locate Reese."

It beeped, "Reese is not on Voyager."

"Harry, scan for the pod. Why didn't anyone scan it for life signs?!"

"I was trying to find out who launched it… Um… Captain… it's not there."

"What?" Janeway replied, in disbelief.

"The escape pod, I'm not reading it anywhere!"