Marlaya moved off. She soon came to the forcefield. She looked at the device and put her hand forward she took a deep breath.

"I hope this works Nailos." She carefully moved forward. She was quite surprised to find herself walking right through it. "Clever kid." She took the device off her hand and put it in a pocket. She then fumbled through her pockets looking for her communicator so she could contact Enterprise and explain to them what had happened. "Marlaya to Enterprise."

"Go ahead Marlaya." Travis responded.

"Travis, we've encountered a little problem here. We're going to need help when the pod leaves the planet." As she was explaining her little predicament she looked around her to make sure that there weren't any of the aliens waiting to recapture her.

"What kind of trouble?"

"There are aliens on this planet. They've got the others. I was lucky to escape. My helper has gone back to try and help the others."

"Marlaya, we need you up on Enterprise." Hoshi said.

"Why, what's wrong?"

"It's Avide and Seejeah. Something's wrong with them." Marlaya was now worried. Her daughters' lives were probably in danger, and there she was on a planet with no way to get to them quickly. Even though the communicator was working she knew that the transporter wouldn't work though the forcefield. Having grown up with technology like this she knew a lot about it.

"What?"

"Doctor Phlox doesn't know what's wrong with them." Suddenly a weapon shot hitting a nearby tree made Marlaya fall on the floor, closing the communicator as she hit ground. She then quickly scrambled up and began to run off, constantly checking behind her. Dodging trees, rocks, roots and weapons fire, but what she didn't realise was someone was waiting for her up ahead. She took a chance to glance back and when she turned round a wooden plank hit her in the head and she fell to the ground. A large open would just above her left ear, and it was bleeding badly. The others quickly caught up with her.

"You idiot! Kosha said he wanted her alive!"

"I'm sorry." He looked down to avoid their eyes as they shouted at him. All three walked off leaving Marlaya for dead in the middle of the woods with a fatal head wound.

At the pod the others had arrived but there was no sign of Marlaya. Trip was pacing back and forth as John spoke to Nailos.

"Where did you leave her?" John asked the young man who had helped them to escape.

"Back at the borders of the town." He replied, looking away from John's face. "I gave her a device to get through the forcefield. She should be here." he shuffled his feet uncomfortably. having been treated badly by Kosha and his other brothers he wanted get away from them and have a life away from brutal murder, constant beatings and torture.

"She's gotta be out there somewhere. Cap'n, we've got to go and find her." Trip was worried for her, more worried than anyone else was.

"I can make the search easier by powering down the forcefield. That way your ship would be able to locate her."

"Do it quickly." Nailos nodded and ran off. "How are you holding up T'Pol?"

"I am ok at the moment sir." T'Pol had blood dripping down from her forehead as in their struggle to escape she had hit her head against a wall. One of the other crewmen jumped into the pod and grabbed the med kit. He then began to gently clear T'Pol's wound up.

Out in the woods Marlaya was still lying on the ground. Not really moving. Her arms soon began to move and in lots of pain she was able to drag herself up onto her feet, leaning against the trees as she made her way through the wilderness, and it wasn't helping that it was beginning to get dark. She stumbled along getting weaker and weaker as she continued further into the woods, but she knew she had to make it back to the pod. She only hoped she was going in the right direction. She soon had to stop and leaned up against a tree for rest, but she knew she couldn't stay for too long because if she did she could fall asleep and never wake up. As she sat there she didn't notice the scaly creature sliding down the trunk towards her. It's forked tongue sliding in and out of its mouth every few seconds. She was about to move off when suddenly it attacked her. She screamed in pain as the snake dug its fangs deeper into her hand. The green and red snake soon withdrew, sliding along the ground and into the bushes, and left Marlaya feeling even weaker than she had before. She looked where she had the two puncture holes on the back of her hand and was now certain she would never be found. Her face now nearly covered in blood and sweat as the night got hotter and hotter, but still she stumbled along. Soon the venom from the snake began to work it's deadly poison on Marlaya and she collapsed on the floor nearly dead.

Nailos had managed to turn off the force field and finally Malcolm's scanner was able to scan further and Enterprise could also detect the settlement where the away team had been held captive.

"Malcolm? Anything?" Malcolm shook his head.

"No sir. I can't see her anywhere."

"Is it possible that she has been recaptured?" Trip suggested

"We can't rule anything out Commander." T'Pol replied. Soon John's communicator bleeped and he took it out of his pocket.

"Archer."

"Captain, we've located Marlaya. She's about 1 mile south-east of your position." Malcolm glanced at his scanner, pointing it in the direction Hoshi had indicated. He looked at John and shook his head.

"Malcolm hasn't picked anything up on his scanner."

"The signal is very weak sir. She maybe injured or something's blocking the signal." At the mention of that Trip suddenly ran off into the trees.

"Trip! Malcolm stay with him!" Malcolm nodded and quickly followed Trip. The two of them ran through the forest in search of her.

"Marlaya? Where are you?" Trip and Malcolm called as they made their way along through the dark forest, being very careful not to trip over anything.

"Commander!" Malcolm called as he nearly fell over a body at his feet. Trip turned back and found Malcolm checking Marlaya over. "She's very weak sir. We've got to get her to Phlox fast." Trip quickly picked her up and began to run back to the pod. As they came out into the field John was worried to see them carrying her. Nailos had made it back to the shuttlepod safely and he was going to go back with them, after helping the Enterprise crew escape he would surely be killed if he stayed.

"She's nearly dead, she needs help and fast!" Trip cried as he ran towards the pod and everyone jumped in. the pod took off and made its way back to Enterprise. But patrol ships were waiting for them and soon began to fire on the pod. John fired back, but just the plasma cannons weren't having much affect until the phase cannons from Enterprise kicked in knocking propulsion down on the vessels leaving the pod to make it back to Enterprise without further damage.