4 months after the twins had been born Enterprise soon came to a planet and Captain Archer was leading an away team down to the surface. Marlaya hadn't left the ship since she had arrived and thought that some fresh air would do her some good. The shuttlepod landed in a field and the away team got out.

"Ok, let's spread out. Malcolm, Trip, Marlaya, you take west. T'Pol, we'll take east and you two will take North."

"What about south?" Marlaya called over to him.

"It's coast about a mile to the south, no point in going that way." He replied and the teams soon moved off. Trip, Marlaya and Malcolm soon came to a forest. It was quite a dense forest, but they decided to start trekking through it anyway, see if they could find anything of interest. As they were walking along Marlaya kept looked at her scanner. As they came close to a river something on her scanner caught her eye.

"Trip." she said quickly.

"What is it?" He said turning to look at her. She didn't reply, her face just starred at her scanner. Slightly cocking his head to one side he called for her. "Marlaya?" this time she responded.

"I thought I saw something on the scanner."

"What? A bio-sign?" Malcolm asked turning to the pair.

"I think so, I'm not sure. It was there for a slight second and then it was gone." she replied as she watched as Malcolm took out his scanner and began to look at it trying to see if he could see anything.

"You got anything?"

"No sir. The place looks empty" He looked between Trip and Marlaya.

"I was sure there was something. It may just be a glitch. Or maybe just my mind." She said shaking her head, but still keeping her eyes fixed on her scanner.

"Yeah, but still, keep your eyes and ears open." Marlaya and Malcolm nodded and they began to move forward. They had only moved a couple of meters when suddenly an electromagnetic surge sent Malcolm flying backwards and he slammed into a tree.

"Malcolm!" Marlaya quickly rushed over to him and helped him up. He was quite dazed and had a bit of trouble standing. He leant on Marlaya for support. Trip stayed starring. He carefully moved his arm forward and soon it hit the barrier. He quickly withdrew his arm in pain.

"Some type of energy shield. Must mean something's here!" He touched the barrier gently again, and withdrew his arm sharply as pain was sent through it.

"It's a force field." Marlaya called as the pair of them moved back over to Trip.

"Well we can't go any further." Trip looked at Malcolm and got his communicator out.

"Tucker to Archer."

"Go ahead Trip." Came the reply from John after a few seconds as he got his communicator out of his pocket.

"Err, Cap'n. We've run into something. We've come across an energy field of some sorts in a forest about 2 miles west of the shuttlepod." Trip said and he turned slowly round in a circle looking at his surroundings.

"It's a force field!" Marlaya said a little annoyed Trip hadn't taken any notice the first time she said it.

"We've come across one too. About 3 miles east of the landing site."

"Anything from the other two?" Malcolm asked as he went and picked up his scanner from over by the tree he hit.

"Not yet." While Trip was talking to John, Marlaya had scouted around the trees and soon found what she was looking for. A rock. She picked it up and hurled it at the forcefield. As it hit the forcefield Trip and Malcolm took a step back from it and looked at Marlaya. She watched where the electric pale blue ripples went and quickly realised what had happened.

"Captain, we've haven't found two forcefields." Marlaya called looking up at the sky.

"What do you mean?" John was confused by what Marlaya was saying.

"It's one, and we're inside it. It's like someone was waiting for us to come down. A trap. Activated when we landed." Trip raised an eyebrow at what Marlaya was saying. She was indeed quite a bright, smart young woman. What she was saying wasn't impossible. Trip looked at Malcolm who had also raised an eyebrow. They both smiled at each other noting the other one's expression.

"We'll meet you at the shuttlepod."

"Understood." Trip closed his communicator.

"Commander!" Malcolm suddenly called. They both turned to look where Malcolm was looking and there was a group of people with weapons pointing at them. There were about 5 men, each holding what looked like a plasma rifle and had a couple of knives stashed in their leather belts that they had round their waist. Each of them had short dark brown hair, a little lighter than Malcolm's. Their facial markings very similar to that of a human's except for the fact that on their foreheads each of them had a swirly pattern that was a greyish tint, and on their cheeks the pattern was repeated. The markings looked more like they were tattoos than facial features they were born with. They walked forward and walked right through the force field. Marlaya looked at her scanner quickly and realised that the biosigns had suddenly appeared. The people grabbed the three of them and pushed them back through the forcefield. They were led off to a settlement and into one building where they were taken to a room and left on their own. It was then obvious that the room they were in was some sort of prison cell.

"That's what I saw on the scanner." Marlaya said as Trip and Malcolm looked at her in bewilderment. "The scanner can't scan beyond the force field, what I saw wasn't a glitch but one of these people walking through the force field."

"They must've had some sort of device that alows them to walk through it." Trip stated and he looked around the room. there wasn't much. a couple of chairs, a table, what looked to be a bed... at least they wanted them to be comfortable. Malcolm looked at one of the chairs and sat down in it. his legs were getting a little tired after the tre they had taken to get there.Trip could see that Marlaya was getting annoyed with herself for letting this happen. "It's not your fault Marlaya. You weren't to know that something like this would happen." He said placing his hands on her shoulders.

"Well, it certainly feels like it's my fault." She moved away from Trip and his hands fell to his sides. The two men looked at each other with a look to say 'Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.'

"Marlaya, would you just listen for a minute." Marlaya turned to face him. At that moment the door opened and they all turned to look at the men who had just entered. Malcolm stood up out of the chair and both he and Marlaya went to stand next to Trip. Each ofcaptors who had just enteredhad the swirly patterns of the forehead and the cheeks, and each of them carried the same weaponry as the men who had brought them here. One man carried a long pole. He moved forward so he was a few feet away from the prisoners.