Captain Janeway had already debriefed the Wilkersons about their trip. They were told all their protocols and such. Now they were assembled in Transporter Room One, on the transporter pad, ready to be beamed home. Chakotay stood before them, ready to see them off.
"Now, before you go, I need the boys to hand over their comm badges." He said.
"But I like mine! I want to keep it!" Dewey whined.
Lois smacked him slightly on the back of the head, "You are going to give him the badge, and you are going to like it!"
Begrudgingly, Dewey handed him his comm badge, followed by Reese's and then Malcolm's.
Depositing them in a pouch on his waist, Chakotay tapped his comm badge and stated, "Chakotay to the Captain, we're ready in Transporter Room One."
"Acknowledged Commander, we'll signal when ready." Janeway replied.
* * * *
Captain Janeway sat in her Captain's chair. Behind her, Seven of Nine stood at a station on the rail.
"Ready the warheads." Janeway commanded.
"Warheads armed and ready." Seven replied.
"Charge phasers, and target the flexure. Fire on my mark."
"Ready Captain." Tuvok replied.
"Keep a transporter lock on the general area of the Wilkersons home."
"Got it." Harry Kim replied.
Captain Janeway tapped her badge again, "Captain Janeway to Transporter Room One. Everything's ready, set the transporters now." Someone on the other end replied with an "aye ma'am." Janeway's eyes widened slightly as she ordered "Fire phasers!" On the view screen, the orange laser collided with the flexure, causing it to glow slightly.
"They're gone Captain!" Chakotay's voice stated over the comm.
Not replying to him, Captain Janeway turned to Seven. "Launch the warhead!"
As a pulsating light discharged from Voyager, Seven stated "Warhead fired."
On the view screen the Chronospatial Flexure pulsated slightly, then imploded on it's self. Steam practically flew from Janeway's ears, "THAT'S IT?!" She bellowed, "NOT EVEN AN EXPLOSION! The Borg must have lowered their standards somewhat."
The silence around them was deafening. Now that the Wilkersons were gone, it seemed that Voyager was fairly quite.
That is until Janeway's comm rang again, "Chakotay to the Captain. We have a problem."
"What kind of problem?" She asked, looking slightly startled.
"You'd best meet me in sickbay."
Everything was quite again as Janeway walked to the turbolift, until Tom stated "It sounds like they left us a present."
* * * *
"I wondered why my mobile emitter had miraculously disappeared. So, while waiting, I ran a little scan of my own, looking for the Polydeutonic metals in it. Well, I found it. Imagine my surprise when it turned up in Transporter Room One in our very own Chakotay's hands alongside two comm badges." The Doctor stated, looking both very grim and very upset as he circled Captain Janeway.
Janeway held out an arm to stop the Doctor, "Please, get to the point."
"We're short one comm badge. It seems Malcolm thought it would be a good idea to disguise The Doctor's mobile emitter as his badge. Not only that, but we're also short one PADD." Chakotay stated.
"My God! This family is more trouble than what its worth. They Temporal Prime Directive more times than I can count." Janeway groaned, "What could he want with that?"
* * * *
Malcolm sat in his room. A comm badge was on the desk in front of him, and he had a soldering iron out. Next to that was the PADD he had "borrowed" from Voyager. Malcolm prodded the badge with the iron, sending sparks into the air.
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Author's Note: Yes, sadly this is the end. But I plan on doing a sequel. What can you plan for? Well, first you'll learn why Malcolm stole the comm badge, and what the use of what was on the PADD is. Also, you may find an area never before explored by Malcolm in the Middle, something that will most likely earn the story an R rating (I'm not quite sure if I want to include it). You'll meet Hal's most intelligent nemesis, and he's an insect. All this will take place both in the Malcolm universe and most likely in the Malcolm in the Middle Fan Fiction section.
