Evolutions I: An Act of Betrayal
Part Seven
"Excellent, I believe that we have a deal Captain," Carkonas said, smiling.
"Oh yes, I almost forgot to ask Carkonas, why are these half-breeds so important to you?" Janeway questioned.
"It is impossible for my species to mate with others. Even when the Borg assimilated us we remained separate both physically and mentally. Their implants simply could not maintain a stable connection with our bodies. These mongrels," Carkonas said as he pointed to the hybrids, "fascinate my kind. And before I forget, there was one more piece of technology that your doctor might find interesting. Consider it a bonus for providing us with such high quality merchandise."
Carkonas handed the captain a small device that looked similar to a removable hard drive used in old earth times.
"What is it?" Janeway questioned.
"It is all the knowledge we currently have on creating replacement bodies," Carkonas stated. "With some small modifications, you will be able to create an organic body for your doctor. He will be completely human."
"This will completely change the way medicine is practiced on my world, thank you." Janeway said, staring down at the small storage device in awe.
"I must be leaving now, Captain. The scientist in me simply cannot wait to begin my experiments. The technology will be integrated into your ship over the next week, during that time please enjoy your stay at space station Kisoden III. Calico, beam myself and the chattel to my lab." Carkonas said as he pressed two fingers to the side of his neck.
In a shimmer of blue sparkles Carkonas, Seven, B'Elanna, and Naomi disappeared.
"He must have an implant in his neck," Janeway said. "Perhaps we can create the same technology for ourselves, it would be much safer that having comm. badges that could easily be lost in a struggle."
"I will see what can be done about it Captain," Tuvok said as he left the shuttle bay.
"Shall I prepare the shore leave schedule, Captain? This space station would be an excellent place to acquire supplies and give the crew a much needed break," Chakotay asked hopefully.
"Yes, I for one could use a break," Janeway said as she and Chakotay began to make their way to the bridge.
Carkonas walked into his lab to find the three women had been transported to a cell in the far corner.
The cell was made of a clear polyueronic alloy, and the floor and ceiling were a pasty white. The liquid duranium had been removed from the prisoners. The short one with the dark hair had her arms wrapped around the taller women and the child protectively. She was obviously the alpha female of the group.
This was proven when she stared defiantly at Carkonas before demanding, "What the hell do you want with us?"
Carkonas smiled, "My people have not seen hybrids in a very long time. The information that I will gain from my experiments on you will be quite valuable."
"Seven can't survive without regenerating," the alpha female said pulling the tall blonde closer. "If you don't let her go she will die."
"I have been preparing for this for the past two months. This cell was specially designed for her. A low level energy is being transmitted into the cell that will recharge her implants. For obvious reason the cell will not recharge them fully. Your Captain said she would be much easier to handle this way."
"How long are we to be your prisoners?" Seven asked speaking for the first time.
"That all depends." Carkonas said "If you survive the experiments you will be released, provided that I collect all the information I require."
"Voyager's doctor has detailed medical files on all of us, wouldn't that information provide you with the information you require?" Seven asked.
"It was actually because of your medical files that you were selected, and it would have been impossible for your doctor to perform the required experiments with your primitive technology."
"How long will it take for you to complete your experiments?" Seven asked.
"It should not take more than five days and Voyager will remain here for one week. You can be returned to Voyager after I am finished, but that is enough questions for today, get some rest. The experiments begin tomorrow morning, you will need your strength," Carkonas said as he left his lab.
In sickbay unusually large groups of crewman were standing around the doctor, and the group seemed to be getting larger by the minute. The entire crew seemed to be complaining of headaches and nausea.
"Come now, I'm sure that you can all tolerate a few mild headaches," the doctor stated in his usual cocky manner. "I have much more important things to be dealing with. Our benefactors have given me the technology to create an organic body, and that is a little more important than this. Just take these with a glass of water the next time you have a headache," The doctor handed each of them a bottle full of white pills.
The crewmen left quietly after that, and the doctor turned back to his data pad as he searched for a way to adapt the procedure to suit his needs. "This probably would have been a lot easier if B'Elanna and Seven were still here," the doctor mused.
Tapping his comm. badge he said chirpily, "Captain, please report to sick bay. I believe that I have found a way to adapt the procedure."
"I am on my way," sounded the Captain's voice over the comm. badge.
The doctor smiled as he read over the data pad again, "If this works I can have a human body in 18 hours," the doctor thought happily.
Just as the doctor was about to continue fantasizing about all he could do with his new body, the doors to sick bay opened, and Janeway entered rubbing her forehead.
"Doctor, can you give me something for this headache?" Janeway asked as she rubbed the sides of her head.
"Certainly Captain," the doctor said as he inserted a hypo spray into the Captain's neck. "I have been speaking with Carkonas, he believes that he will be finished his experiments on the hybrids by the time the new systems are installed on Voyager. He said that if we do not want them back he can terminate them for us."
"We have already decided to keep them. I still haven't finished with Seven." Janeway said with a smirk.
"They can be used for dangerous away missions, and even with the upgrades it will take us quite some time to return to Earth," the doctor agreed.
"I just hope the memory disruptor works, or when we return to the Alpha quadrant they will report us all to Starfleet. Need I remind you of what happened to Captain Ransom," Janeway said.
Captain Ransom had killed alien life forms to use as fuel in his warp engines. It had ended with the creatures fighting back and Voyager taking the crew members that survived.
"I have been thinking about that as well Captain. I do not believe we even need the memory disruptor. If the entire crew says that the hybrids' minds were altered during the attack and a partial assimilation was preformed on them it will cast considerable doubt on their story. After the computer logs are changed, they will have no proof that we did anything."
"The only problem is convincing Starfleet that the Borg would go through all that trouble for the hybrids," Janeway said thoughtfully.
"Actually Captain, Seven was a part of Unimatrix 01, to the Borg queen she is extremely valuable. B'Elanna Torres is a very competent engineer, the queen would find her worthy of assimilation."
"What about Naomi, she's only a child? What possible use could she be to the Borg queen?" Janeway asked.
"Seven of Nine was assimilated as a child, a little younger than Naomi is now. Seven was groomed from a young age to be a part of Unimatrix 01, Naomi could be as well. She is also the only child on Voyager. It will help to back up our story."
"Alright Doctor, you've convinced me. I just hope that we can control them, otherwise we'll have to terminate them."
"Yes Captain," the Doctor said smiling, "but enough about them. Take a look at this, if we start now I can have an organic body in less than a day," The Doctor handed the captain his data pad.
"I've just had another thought, when Seven comes back to Voyager she will have her full Borg strength, she may try to get even." Janeway said a little worried.
"There is nothing to worry about Captain. Ensign Kim has altered Seven's alcove to produce muscle relaxants. As long as we do not allow Seven to repair her alcove she will be easy to control."
"Excellent, Doctor," the captain said, smiling in relief. "I should be able to finish what I started with Seven before Carkonas interrupted without any problems. Do whatever you need to do to finish your project, and then talk to Chakotay about getting some shore leave," Janeway said as she left sick bay.
The doctor happily began to gather his tools then made his way to transporter room 2.
In transporter room 2 crewmembers were transporting to Kisoden III in large groups, happily discussing the fate of the three hybrids, when the doctor strolled in carrying his tool box.
"I am afraid that you are all going to have to find other means of transport to Kisoden, I will need this transporter to create myself an organic body," the doctor said happily.
"What are you talking about, Doctor? You're a hologram, how can you have an organic body?" Foster asked in confusion.
"It is actually quite simple. I don't know why I didn't think of it before. The only problem is that it can only be done while we are docked at a space station as it requires quite a bit of power to accomplish..." the doctor started to explain.
"Yeah, sure Doc, we'll just get out of your way," Foster interrupted. "Alright people, let's go to transporter room 1," Foster ordered, thankful that the doctor didn't start another one of his long-winded stories.
The other crew members quickly followed Foster out of the room.
"Well, I thought it was interesting," the doctor said to an empty room as he opened his tool box and began work.
"Let's see," the doctor mused. "First I'm going to have to connect the transporters to the replicators."
The doctor opened a panel at the bottom of the unit and pulled out the middle circuit board and began making his alterations, and almost seven hours of steady work later, the first set of alterations was complete.
"Alright, now I have to make a transporter log of my physical parameters," the doctor thought out loud as he input the commands into the console. He stepped onto the transporter and shimmered out of existence for a few seconds before re-appearing.
"Now I have to alter the log of my physical parameters from energy based to carbon based," the doctor said as he pulled out the alien information storage device and hooked it up to the console. After three hours the physical parameters had been changed.
"Finally to create my human body." the doctor said to him self, "Computer, initiate program human doctor."
The familiar blue light of the transporter suffused the room as the replicator created the raw materials for a human body and the transporters converted those materials into a living, breathing human. When the transporter finally finished its work, the doctor's human body lay on its back in the center of the transporter pad.
"Computer, beam my human body to sick bay," the doctor said triumphantly.
The doctor quickly made his way to sick bay almost skipping with excitement. When he entered sick bay he found his body lying on the bio-bed, looking as if it were asleep.
"The Doctor to Paris," The doctor said tapping his comm. badge.
"Yeah, what is it Doc?" sounded the voice of Paris.
"I have created my organic body and I now wish to integrate my consciousness into it. I will require your assistance."
"On my way, Doc."
"I will expect you shortly," the doctor said as he tapped off his comm. badge.
"And now to convert my program into brainwaves," the doctor said as he attached the alien storage device to the sick bay console. He watched as the program was installed onto the computer.
Just as it finished Paris walked into the sick bay. "How long is this going to take Doc? I have shore leave tomorrow."
"This should not take long Mr. Paris, I estimate in two hours, I will have a human body," the doctor said proudly.
"You know it's times like this that I miss B'Elanna," Tom said thoughtfully, "this really is something she would be better at."
"Then you will be happy to know that she will be returning to us when we are finished with the improvements to Voyager," the doctor said as he started the program.
"What are you talking about, Doc?" Paris said, shocked, "I thought the Socadan were going to keep her."
"They are only needed for a few experiments, after that the Socadan will have no use for them," the doctor said, frowning a little.
"I've been thinking about it for the past few days Doc, what we did to her, not to mention Seven and Naomi, was pretty bad," Paris said sadly.
"Are you feeling well, Mr. Paris? Have you been having any headaches or been nauseous recently?" the doctor questioned.
"Yeah, now that you mention it, I have been, but I thought it was just Neelix's cooking," Paris said thoughtfully.
"Here," the doctor pressed a hypo spray to Paris's neck, "this should take care of it."
"Thanks Doc, I'm feeling much better now, I was really out of it there for a minute. I actually felt sorry for those half-breeds," Tom said with a sneer. "If they're going to come back to Voyager they're going to have to start earning their keep, and they better not say anything to Starfleet."
"You don't have to worry about that, if they say anything nobody's going to believe them anyway. With the story the captain created they won't be able to prove anything," the doctor said cheerfully.
"Now look at this." the doctor said as he pointed to the screen, "This is the program that will integrate my consciousness into the organic body. It will run from 0 to 100 percent over the next two hours, there should not be any problems, but if something does happen abort immediately and I will return to my holographic body."
"Sure thing Doc, you've got nothing to worry about," Paris said reassuringly.
"Computer, initiate program," the doctor ordered. Immediately his matrix shut down as the computer started converting his program.
After the computer finished converting the doctor's program into human brain waves the hard part began; transferring those brain waves into the human body. Finally, two hours later, the program had completed flawlessly.
The doctor slowly opened his now human eyes, then quickly stood up, "It worked, I'm human!" the doctor shouted triumphantly to Paris
Six Socadan scientists entered the lab and pointed their phasers at the three hybrids.
"Time to wake up," barked Carkonas, "we have a lot to do today," he smiled as the other scientists pulled the women to their feet.
To be continued... (It just wouldn't be my style to do this any other way)