Chapter Six: New Allies
The Klingon Bird of Prey Blade of Honor sailed through space at top warp speed. The Blade was one of the last Klingon vessels left. When the Borg had come, the Klingon Defense Forces had met them head on. The Borg's new leader, a human girl it turned out, had actually met the Klingons ship to ship. Still, the Borg vessels were more powerful and far more advanced. The Klingon forces had eventually been pushed back to Quonos. There the Klingons had made their final stand. The Borg Queen had sent a force of Tactical Fusion Cubes which had totally overpowered the Klingon forces. In their last transmission, just before the Borg invaded Quonos, the High Council had ordered all surviving ships to retreat and attempt to link up with other resistance forces.
When the wormhole had first opened, the resistance had worked hard to get a ship through to find out if there any races in the new galaxy that could help them. The Blade of Honor had disabled a Borg scout ship on this side of the wormhole and discovered that humans existed here and that the Borg had not attacked them yet. They had set a course for this galaxy's Earth. Several days later they arrived.
"Captain Krall, we have arrived in high orbit of Earth," his Second Officer reported.
"Scan the system."
"Scanning….. There are one hundred fifty vessels in the system, along with numerous stations and defense satellites."
"Find and hail their military command center. They may have the ability to assist us in defeating the Borg. If the Federation had not been so spineless they could have destroyed the Borg before they came for us." He was speaking of the incident with the drone named Hugh. Captain Picard had had the opportunity to infect him with a virus that would have crippled the entire Collective. He could only hope these humans had a bit more backbone.
On the surface of Earth, the highest military minds were discussing how they were going to deal with the Covenant. They had pulled back every vessel they could in the hopes of finding a way to destroy a large enough Covenant fleet to buy themselves tome time to regroup and reorganize. Suddenly their communications were overridden and the face of a man appeared. He looked human with the exception of a wrinkled forehead and sharp teeth.
"I presume I am speaking to the Earth High Command," he said.
"Who are you!" General Brod demanded.
"I am Captain Krall of the Klingon vessel Blade of Honor. I and my crew have come to warn you of an impending invasion."
"We are already being invaded!" Admiral Pierson replied.
"Not by the enemy we are speaking of," Krall replied. "Observe what I am about to show you."
Krall showed the Earth High Command battle footage of the battle for Quonos. The men watched at the Tactical Fusion Cubes plowed through the Klingon fleet. Next he showed them the footage they had taken from the Borg vessel. The men now watched the Borg invasion of Covenant space. They saw Covenant vessels obliterated dozens at a time by Borg weapons. They watched the Borg actually INVADE Covenant worlds, and succeed. After the last image faded, Krall reappeared.
"That is the enemy I speak of. The Borg Collective. They are a race of cyborgs from my galaxy. They rule from there, where they occupy every planet. They are a race of drones, directed by a queen. Recently a wormhole has opened between our galaxies and the Borg took that opportunity to attack this galaxy. From information we took from a Borg ship we disabled, the Borg have already taken fifty Covenant systems and hold forty-right of them. They are currently preparing a second invasion wave. I have come to help humankind resist them."
"How can we resist an enemy that powerful?" Brod asked. "If they can invade Covenant space and succeed, what chance to we have?"
"If there is one thing I have learned about humans, it is that their resourcefulness is unmatched. I ask permission t come down to the surface."
"What do you have that could help us?"
"Energy shielding, teleporter technology, faster engines, better armor and weapons and our experience dealing with the Borg."
"Very well, permission granted," Brod said a minute later. "But be warned, if this is a trick you will be killed." With that the channel was closed.
While the Klingons and humans were talking, the Borg Queen was beginning the second wave of her invasion of Covenant space. More vessels had arrived from her home galaxy. Her invasion fleet now numbered more than half a million vessels. She was allowing the Covenant to gather fleets to oppose her. That simply made it simpler to eliminate them. Her second invasion wave would beat back their fleets and then take over a hundred worlds. Once that was accomplished, she would fortify them and build up her forces. She had come to like that style of warfare: take, hold, and advance. Soon though, she would have to go after the humans. They occupied only a few systems. Still, they had proven a formidable foe in her home galaxy. She had also sent fleets of science and sensor vessels to scour space for these Halo structures she had learned about. They had the potential to destroy a vast amount of her forces.
"So few enemies, so much time," she said to herself.
How was that? In the next chapter the Humans and Klingons will attempt to collaborate, and the Borg will strike again. Stay tuned and don't forget to review. See ya soon!
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