"Well, at least we know that they haven't changed their minds. But they changed their dialogue however. The first one was less aggressive."
The Borg cube takes a turn and stands directly in front of the first assault vessel. The Borg cube gets a better chance of scanning the vessel and they can finally identify the species as species 133. "They are scanning us, the scanning technology is less advanced than us, and we can block them easily. I made sure that they don't know how powerful our weapons are and I restricted access to our computers." Said the security officer. "Scanning complete captain, the cube has 500345 Borg people on board; most are standing still in very neat rows around the cube. Their weapons are mildly advanced at they have a lot of them. They main computer is located in the centre protected with extra shielding. I can't get through. They don't appear too have a bridge, sleeping quarters or any specific sections, it's symmetric." The tactical officer looks at the captain of the research vessel. "Open a channel too the cube." "Channel opened sir." "This is captain Rickly of the research vessel 'Tresponder'. We come in peace we mean you no harm, if you would…" "They are interrupting our frequency sir, incoming transmission from the cube."
"You will be assimilated, we will assimilate you're technology and absorb it into our own, you're home worlds will be added too the Borg space. Resistance is futile." "How can they assimilate technology?" asks the captain of one of the attack vessels too the captain of the research vessels. "I don't know Captain Todd; they must have special equipment for it. I guess that their way of acquiring new technology.". "And new recruits for their army." Says a researcher in the research vessel through a comm. channel. "According too individual scans of the people on the cube they seem too be the same yet they are no." "Explain." The captain leaves his post and stands next too the scanning officer on the bridge "The people on that cube are all from a different species, I can count dozens but they all seem too have mechanical parts that enhance some of their functions, its actually quite efficiently made." "You mean that those people are all assimilated by this race, that they are used by the Borg?" "That's correct captain, they seems too be working drones. They are assimilated and taken away of their free will so they can serve on one of these vessels and assimilate others.". "My god, we have too get out of here, Captain Todd, we are leaving.". "Roger that. We are departing." The rear assault vessel starts turning around, at that moment the front vessel gets attacked by the Borg cube, 5 phaser beams are shot at the vessel and destroy its front shields.
"We have been attacked, Captain Rogers please assist us, make sure the research vessel gets back." The rear vessel stops his turn and fires a photon torpedo onto the cube which gets a serious beating by it. "Captain, the photon torpedo prototype of the Nautilus did tremendous damage too their hull, it also penetrated some of the systems." "To bad they only had one, red alert." The Borg cube turns around by a couple degrees and fires a torpedo at the research vessel. "Shields are holding captain." "take us back into the asteroid field; they can't pursuit us with their warp technology." "It takes time too plot a safe course through sir, standby." The front assault vessel fires 3 normal torpedos towards the cube but they get intercepted by phaser fire. The vessels align next too each other and fire each 10 phasers too the cube. Its gets hit hard but isn't stoppable. It fires 3 more phasers into the front vessels ship and blows up its bridge. 2 other phasers hit the other vessel and their shields are down. "Nautilus, can you hear me?" "We have lost the Gratius captain; in 1 minute the core is going too blow we must save as many as we can." "Incoming transmission from the Nautilus sir, it's very vague." "This is the assault vessel Nautilus, we are being boarded by Borg drones, they seem too have transporters technology. My crew is being assimilated, it's like they are infected or something, my god. Please do not try too save us, you don't know what's going on. Leave now!" "Mr. Trent, call back our shuttles, we are leaving right now."
The Tresponder takes a quick turn around and heads for the asteroid belt while being fired upon by phasers. The shuttles are heading back but they all get destroyed by the cube that is going after them. Behind them the Nautilus drifts off, then the Gratius explodes taking the Nautilus with it. "I don't detect any survivor's captain, only a few Borg drones are floating around. "Mr. Nexus, order a shuttle to pick up one of those drones, we will get it back with a tractor beam fast enough. We can enhance the shield so it can stand phasers from the cube." "Roger that." The shuttle takes off and gets a hit by phasers immediately, they capture a Borg drone with a tractor and the larger tractor of the research vessel gets them back inside just before they enter the asteroid belt. They are safe.
The Borg cube however goes after them and gets right behind them, being pounded by asteroids. The helm of the research vessel takes a dive and pops up behind a large asteroid. The cube can't evade the asteroid and is crashed right into it. The research vessel comes too the other side of the asteroid belt. "Why did they do that? They knew they can't go through alive." "Sir, the cube was able too scan our sensors and knew the course we plotted." "Be thankful that it's destroyed before it got too the other side."
