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Ch. 2 What Borg Dare Do

The Captain looked around his bridge and noticed that all eyes were on him. He began to become even more confident, knowing his crew all counted on him. Then Data swatted off the huge spider on his head as big as his fist. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to their computer consoles.

Daniel sighed, most of the confidence somehow strengthening. He started to wonder if this ship could take them all on. He smirked and ordered them to fire their forward phaser banks at the nearest Cube. The effect was amazing. It blew into millions of pieces. The other cubes started to fly around like a nervous bee.

After all, there were 26 different phaser banks on the front. The Borg stopped all of a sudden and started to fly off. Daniel immediately issued attack commands and most of the Borg cubes were destroyed. However, then everything changed.

The seismic-wave inducers started up and started to destroy the planet. The captain ordered that the planet be shown on the view screen. Immediately, they saw a piece of land fly out of the ground and float out into space. Captain Daniel ordered that the quantum slipstream drive be turned on immediately. The ship started moving and space bent around the ship as it pushed through normal warp speeds and entered to something even faster.

They smoothly entered the slipstream. Daniel breathed a sigh of relief and got up to go to his waiting room. As he rose, Daniel changed his mind and he walked over to the turbo-lift and said aloud, "Ten-Forward."

The turbo-lift came to life and took him down to the corridor leading to Ten-Forward. He walked in after learning all the corridors, about a total of 2 hours, and saw Guinan serving some engineering officers. After she took their orders, she walked over to the captain bringing her wave of knowing with her.

She was with Captain Jean-Luc Picard until he had moved into a science vessel. She looked around and chose a crew to be added to. She chose Daniel's crew because she said she had a "feeling" about it. That sometimes made Daniel uneasy when he wondered what the feeling was.

"Do you need anything?" Guinan repeated to the captain, who was yet again daydreaming. "GUAH!" He yelled out after being woken from his daydream. Guinan stared at Daniel and gave him a kind smile and she asked him, "What's on your mind, buddy?" Only she was allowed to do this. If anybody else said that, then they would get in serious trouble.

"I wanted to ask you something about your people. You know, what your people were like before the Borg had destroyed or assimilated them." He smiled as he asked this. She gave him a questioning look and then shrugged as she answered, "I don't remember much. I was young when we were attacked by the Borg."

"GUINAN, RUN!" her parent's shouted out as the Borg started firing at the crowd of people that were fighting back. Some Borg picked up the wounded and went back to their ship. Others continued the merciless onslaught.

Guinan ran as fast as she could, trying to get away from the menace. She ran inside and blew through the teleportation room door. She set the coordinates for somewhere, light-years away from her fallen planet. As, she jumped in, the Borg blew through the door.

She saw them scan the room with their knowing sensors and then locate her bio-signature. Right then, the transporter kicked in and, since she had rigged it to explode, it did such, enveloping the room with hot, fiery flames.

Guinan shuddered from the memory. It was the only one she could actually recollect. She told Daniel about the other two people they needed, Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher. Beverly was teaching a University on Earth and Jean-Luc was out on a science vessel, finding a new possible power source that would be even more efficient than dilithium crystals.

Beverly was needed for her expertise in the Borg techno-organic implants and Nanotechnology. Daniel nodded as he started off back towards the bridge. Then he stopped and said, "Can I have a root beer?" Guinan smiled as she fixed the Captain's favorite drink. He sat down for a while as he sipped his root beer, not wanting to spill it on his uniform.

He thought about who was closest and decided to go and pick up Jean-Luc Picard first. He was in the Veriend quadrant, hoping to find a new way to power ships of Colossus-model. He finished his drink and, with a nod toward Guinan, walked out to go to the bridge.

Once he made it up there, he sat in his seat, becoming thoughtful. I have to get there ASAP, he thought as he watched the screen. After all, Picard was once Borg, and even though he fought them twice and hated it both times, he needs to help us again.

He sat in the captain's chair for a moment before looking out the viewscreen and the slipstream they had entered. He looked over to Lt. Cmdr. Charity and said," Bring the ship to full stop." Immediately, her hands flew across the console, bringing them out of the slipstream.

"Set course for the Explorer-" Captain Daniel stopped as he smiled inwardly at the fact that Explorer was a perfect name for Captain Picard's vessel. "The Explorer is a day's trip from here."

"Number One, you have the bridge." The captain said out of customs, walking to the turbo lift and walking inside. As an afterthought, Data said, "Yes sir." Daniel noted how difficult it was for Data to keep in his excitement, for he loved to receive control of the bridge.

Daniel said, "Captain's Quarters." He remembered just in time that the turbo lift ran through all of the living rooms of each living quarter. He arrived in his room, took off the red jacket part of his suit, which signified what he was supposed to do, and he walked to his bed and said, "Computer, wake me up when we reach the Veriend system."

And with that, he lied down and went to sleep, waiting for their arrival to the system and the famous captain.