Forgotten Time

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The familiar, dispensing hissing sound was heard as the turbolift doors opened, revealing an unusually bright Janeway. 'Is she glowing?' Chakotay thought to himself, as he examined the beautiful woman's beaming smile.

"Report. What is are current heading?" Janeway questioned, flashing her forceful self.

"We're on a course to rendezvous with the away team. Our present speed is Warp 6." The response came from a female ensign, currently manning the con.

"Estimated time to arrival, four hours and twenty minutes." Chakotay piped in to fill the ensign's unspoken sentence.

The Captain nodded to the responses cheerfully, then handed off the bridge to Chakotay and walked in the turbolift.

"Engineering."

Janeway had gone over the reports on ship operation's last night. Two things concerned her, Voyager's power supply, and the coma.

"Belanna, I need a moment." Janeway stated to her Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Belanna Torres.

The half-Klingon, half-Human set down the flashing datapad she was holding and walked over to her Captain. She was expecting her to complain about an onboard problem affecting the ship's functionality, and ruin the perfect week of no problems. 'Well, it had to come to an end.'

"Belanna, how are our power reserves. I noticed in your report that we are getting low." Came the totally unexpected response.

Belanna had completely forgot about the rapidly depleting fuel, deuterium, and the other thing. Lately, the power level was dropping much more than it should have. At first, she had assumed it was just her imagination, but the reserves had hit critical levels. Barrels of deuterium that were stored in the Cargo Bay 1 were disappearing.

"Captain, we're nearly out of deuterium."

"What? We just restocked before the away team left." Janeway's surprised response resonated out of her mouth.

"I can't explain it. First one barrel disappeared, now ten are missing. But that's not all, Captain. Eight dilithium crystal's are missing."

"Dilithium! How could this happen?"

Janeway was concerned about this. The precious, semi-rare crystals were the only thing that kept Voyager going which was hard to find. Deuterium, the most commonality in the Galaxy, was only a problem in the beginning of their journey.

"I don't know! We just noticed it last night." Belanna was now furious that not only had the hard-earned, rare Dilithium disappeared, but she was looking incompetent in front of the captain's eyes. 'Pa Tock!'

Janeway tapped her combadge, opening her personal, tiny communicator.

"Janeway to Tuvok, report to Engineering."

"Yes, captain." Tuvok responded.

Lieutenant Commander Tuvok was one ofKathryn's closest friends, and had been for many years. Tuvok, one of the logical, emotion suppressing Vulcan's, had done many things which were illogical for her. The captain had risked her life for him, as he had for her.

"I'll let you brief the Commander, Belanna." Came the unusually snippy remark.

The captain swiftly brisked out of Main Engineering. Her thoughts resided on what had happened to a perfect day. 'Shattered, just like that.' She walked into a nearby turbolift, dreading what was to come.

"Deck Five."

A/N: I still promise to finish this story. I can't judge it's quality because I am the author so PLEASE review! I love reviews! Even negative ones! The next chapter may take a while to get up but it will be long so that explains it. By long I mean maybe 5 days; completing it plus posting it. I'm sure you can tell, but this is my first story. And the reason it took this long to update this short chapter is because there was a problem with this website and I couldn't even access my account. I got it working though... I will start writing the next chapter soon, but I have summer assignments, so just add this story if you're interested to your story alert so you don't have to keep checking.