"Qui etes-vous?" She finally said. Hoshi was suddenly very surprised. Archer noticed this and turned to her.
"Hoshi?"
"She speaks French!" Hoshi exclaimed.
"Trip, qu'est-ce qui s'est passe?"
"Bonjour. Je m'appelle Hoshi. Comment t'appel tu?"
"Je m'appelle Marlaya."
"Her name's Marlaya." Hoshi said turning to Captain Archer.
"How do I greet her?" Archer asked his translator.
"Bonjour, Je m'appelle and then state your name." John turned to face his guest.
"Bonjour Marlaya. Je m'appelle Captain Jonathan Archer."
"Bonjour Captain." She slightly nodded her head at him. She looked a Hoshi. "Ou est nous?"
"Sur le navire des etoile Enterprise." Hoshi replied to Marlaya's question.
"Hoshi, it would be easier if you turned the translator on. Then we could all talk to her." Archer suggested. Trip smiled as Hoshi snapped back into reality upon hearing her Captain's order, and the reason why she was down there.
"I'm sorry sir." She said with a smile working on the U.T. "It's just I haven't spoken French for a long time I just wanted to get a bit more practice in." after pressing a few buttons on the translator she nodded at Captain Archer. "She'll be to understand us now." Archer nodded in acknowledgement.
"I hope you weren't too frightened when you woke up."
"No sir." She replied.
"I'm sure you already know two member's of my crew. Commander Trip Tucker and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed." Marlaya nodded her head. "How old are you?"
"19. 19 years old. My people have 24 hours in a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, equalling 365 days a year."
"That's what we have on our planet. We're from a planet called Earth." He smiled at the way she had given the information.
"Earth. I have not heard of that planet before."
"Where are you from?"
"A planet called Tarnisia. 4 years ago I was kidnapped by the Gregtarnans and brought to the prison camp." Marlaya looked away from the gaze of everyone as she began to speak about her past.
"In that case we shall do our best to locate Tarnisia and take you back to your family."
"There is no point captain." Archer looked at her with confusion on his face. "The planet was destroyed by those that took me prisoner. I have reasons to believe that I am the only one of my species left." Everyone in the room was shocked by Marlaya's words
"Other's could've managed to escape from the destruction." Trip commented.
"If they had then I would know. It is hard to explain why captain."
"How long until she can leave sickbay?"
"Now if she wanted to. Her injuries have all healed nicely. I have no reason to keep her here."
"How does a nice walk sound to you?" Marlaya smiled at him and nodded her head. Trip helped her off the bed and put her jacket on her shoulders. It was a very thin blue jacket, floaty. The rest of her clothes were also blue. John went round giving her a tour of the ship. The only place they didn't take her was the bridge. Down in the Mess Hall they found Lieutenant Reed eating his lunch. He was onto his desert, a fruit salad, containing pineapple.
"I see you're enjoying yourself Malcolm." Reed looked up from his food to his superior officers and noticed the girl.
"Yes I am sir. I'm glad to see that she's all right."
"Yes. We're just giving her a tour of the ship. Luckily it's easy for us to communicate with her because she speaks French."
"I thought her language sounded familiar." Suddenly at that moment tactical alert came on.
"Everyone get to your posts!" Archer yelled at everyone in the Mess Hall, and they all quickly began to scatter out. Archer and Reed quickly began to leave.
"Cap'n! Where should Marlaya go?" Archer turned and looked at her.
"Come with us." Trip nodded his head and together the five of them left. Up on the bridge Hoshi quickly moved into her seat, as did Malcolm. T'Pol jumped out of the Captain's chair as John entered. "Report!"
"2 unknown vessels have dropped out of warp and are on an intercept course with us. Their weapons are charged." She said taking her place at the science station.
"On screen." The 2 vessels appeared on the screen.
"Those are Tarnisian battle cruisers!" Marlaya said keeping her eyes fixed on the screen in front of her.
"So that means some people are alive?" John turned to her.
"Their bio signs however do not match yours." T'Pol said looking at Marlaya.
"Do you recognise them?" John moved over and put a hand on the rail at the top of T'Pol's desk as he waited for an answer.
"They are the same species as the one on the planet where Commander Tucker and Lieutenant Reed were being held prisoner."
"Gregtarnans. I wonder what they want with us." Trip said looking at John.
"It may not be 'us' they want Trip. It might only be Marlaya they're after." John turned to face Marlaya. "What can you tell us about those ships?"
"Their defensive capabilities are very strong. They have a special power grid that surrounds the ship and prevents any objects from reaching it. It's called a shield. I don't know if you've heard of them before, or if your ship is equipped with one." John just shook his head." Their weapons consist of E.M. pulse cannons, plasma turrets, and photon torpedoes."
"Sounds like they mean business." The tactical officer said.
"We've had to be well equipped to deal with Gregtarnans, but in their attack that destroyed my homeworld, they used a weapon we had never seen before."
"Do you want me to bring weapons online sir?"
"No." Archer replied shaking his head. "If we don't show signs of retaliation we might not be attacked."
"We're being hailed." John looked at Marlaya.
"You should stay out of sight." Marlaya nodded her head. "Trip, take her into my ready room."
"Aye sir." The two of them quickly moved off John turned to Hoshi and nodded his head. In the ready room Marlaya sat down in a chair but Trip stayed standing, looking out of the window at the vessels. "So, why do you say that you think you're the only Tarnisian left alive?"
"Like I said Trip it's hard to explain."
"Can't ya try?" he turned to face her. Marlaya looked into his eyes and sighed.
"Our minds are linked together, so we can easily sense if another Tarnisian dies, so all Tarnisians, even if they didn't know the person personally, they all have a period of mourning, and that's quite often."
"And right now you can't sense anybody else?" Marlaya nodded. "Well I understand that perfectly. You certainly underestimate humans." The young girl smiled.
Suddenly the ship was violently shaken and suddenly all power cut out. The ready room became very dark. As soon as the lights went out Marlaya stood up out of the chair and grabbed Trip's arm for protection.
"They've fired the E.M pulse cannon!" Marlaya shouted, she was now getting scared. Trip went for the door and began to pry it open so they could get onto the bridge, but suddenly 2 Gregtarnans beamed into the small room and shot both of them unconscious, all four of them dematerialised.