Title: Spikotay
Rating: PG-13
Codes: C/F, J/M (haven't made my mind up though)
Author: Voyager
Part 2?
Disclaimer: Everything is owned by Paramount, I'm just having some fun; no infringement intended.
Summary: Beaming up to Voyager leaves Chakotay in a sticky situation
Continued from part one
"Captains Personal Log. Commander Chakotay is still lying in sickbay with the head of a spider and there's nothing I can do to help. I have half the crew down on the planet trying to find the one little spider which would help us, but so far nothing. I'm beginning to hate going into sickbay even more now; no one knows about my fears, except Chakotay and there's no way he could help or talk to me, except with a squeaking noise which sounds worse than our Doc when he's singing. It's been two full days now and we're not even close to the half way mark; I'm beginning to think that he may be left like this forever."
Captain Kathryn Janeway sat back from her computer and stretched her tired and sore muscles. Closing her eyes, she sighed as she stood up and went to the replicator for some coffee. Walking over to the couch she sat down and sipped her coffee as she picked up another report, this one a detailed review of the work on the planet. There was nothing in there except the same thing; nothing. Dropping the report on her table, she decided to take a tour of her ship and see how everyone was. So pulling on her jacket she walked out into the empty corridor and down to the turbo lift.
"Deck fifteen" she ordered the lift and leaned back against the wall and watched the lights as they went down. Three minutes later, she stepped out into the darkness and despair of deck fifteen. It was very silent there, everyone who didn't seem to belong in the higher decks was here, doing their jobs and not liking it. Walking slowly, she saw Crewman Telfer; a man who was terrified of everything but was a lot better since his first away mission.
"Crewman" she said gently starling him. He spun around and snapped to attention.
"Captain, I didn't see you there, is there anything I can help you with?" he said shakily. Janeway smiled a warm smile and put a calming hand on his shoulder. He looked scared about something, his eyes darting around and he had beads of sweat around his brow.
"Are you alright? You look more jumpy than usual William." He gave her a small smile and replied looking everywhere but at her,
"I'm fine Captain, thank you for asking." Taking her hand off his shoulder she chuckled and spoke softly,
"Don't worry; I'm only here for a walk. Why are you jumpier then usual?"
"I've been hearing scraping noises around here. I'm just looking for a reasonable explanation to the problem." Nodding her head, she turned around and heard the sound too. A gentle scraping, coming from the bulkheads. Looking at him, she cocked her head and together they followed the sound leading to a Jeffries tube opening. Slowly, she crawled inside and looked into the darkness of the tube seeing nothing. Coming back out again, she straightened her jacket and reported,
"I can't see anything there. I'll get someone down here to check it out later okay?" Telfer nodded and stood at attention as she left and headed for the next floor. She still heard the sound, but didn't think anything of it as she went inside and continued her tour.
The spider crawled around aimlessly in the ventilation shafts of Voyager searching for something. It dropped into a large space full of strange looking creatures, no people it thought as it scurried around trying not to get stepped on. Somehow it knew where it was going and knew what it needed to do as it crawled into another small space. Jumping up a tube, it stopped and heard voices; the sentient part of the spider knew exactly who they were and started to scrape its leg over a bulk head trying to get their attention. It scurried to a hiding place just as the voices stopped but continued its scraping noise as a head popped into view looking for the noise. 'Kathryn! 'Chakotay tried to shout in its voice, but of course nothing came out as the head went away and their voices continued. He sighed as the voices stopped and footsteps rescinded into the background, knowing he lost his chance to get help, but also knowing there was another way. Scurrying away, he/it went to the end of the tube and tried to find another way to get help.
Down on the planet, things were ending for the night and the team were transporting up for a much needed rest. There was nothing new to report, except for a plasma storm which suddenly popped up out of nowhere scaring half the away team into hiding out in caves for two hours and shuddering when they found themselves crawling with bugs. Now that the storm was over, they headed back to the transport sight and began inspections of one another so there would be no accident like before. With nothing on them, they transported up and the relief crew transported down with the warning of the storm and caves.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres fell to the bed exhausted after searching for anything that might look like the spider, but it seemed that every single spider disappeared when they searched for them. Groaning into the pillow, she turned around and sat back up and went to the shower wanting to relax and go right to sleep, but something was still nagging her; what if the spider was on the ship and not on the planet like everyone thought? Laughing it off shakily, she stepped into the soni - shower and stood there thinking of new ways to track the spider down, but nothing came up except those images of the creepy bugs crawling over her during the storm. Twenty minutes later, she went back into her living room and made her report to Captain Janeway. Yawning loudly, she stood up and stretched her tired muscles and went to sleep, still thinking about the spider that got away.
Commander Chakotay was lying on the bio bed with his hands behind his head looking around with his eight beady eyes and squeaking loudly every so often when Lieutenant Harry Kim walked in for a headache remedy, but when he saw Chakotay he froze.
"I can't believe Tom's afraid of him" Harry whispered to himself as he slowly walked his way to one of the bio beds surrounding the far wall and sat down waiting for Doc to come out and fix him quick so he could get out of there fast. Looking around, he wondered where Doc was and said.
"Computer, activate the EMH Program."
"EMH is offline" the computers female unemotional voice responded calmly. Harry stood up quickly and went to the computer terminal looking up the Doc's program; seeing nothing wrong he asked the computer,
"Is someone doing a diagnostic on his program?" the calm voice answered immediately,
"Negative." Scratching his black haired head in confusion he called up Engineering
"Kim to Engineering. Something's wrong with the Doc's program. The computer says he's offline and no ones doing a diagnostic." There was nothing but static over the communications link and Harry was getting pretty scared now. He was so focused over the task of finding the problems with the com link and doc's program that he never noticed Chakotay getting up from his bed and slowly advancing on him.
"Computer, run a self diagnostics on the EMH program." Harry ordered as he tapped commands into the terminal in front of him.
"Diagnostic will take ten minutes to complete." The computer answered as the commander advanced and stopped right behind Harry, antenna swishing through the air like flies around a corpse. Harry must of felt something touch him though, because he froze up and stood stock still, fingers still on the terminal in front of him as he took a slow deep breath and shook his head,
"Now I'm getting the creeps" he muttered to himself as he began working again, trying to figure out what went wrong.
Chakotay stood behind Harry not knowing why he was doing so and grabbed him by the throat pulling him away from the terminal and dragging the rigid form to the supply room.
"Wha?" Harry asked just before the hypo spray went into his neck and he lost consciousness. He dropped him on the ground and looked down and suddenly felt horrible about this, but then the other part took over and he ripped the communicator off the unconscious body and went about hiding him. Slipping him into the cargo container which he had hid there right after taking the crewman's body, he stuffed him in and went about to getting ready to act normal by lying back on the bio bed and pretending to go to sleep.
Skittering over the catwalk, the spider half of the creature now lying in sickbay waiting for a new victim was trying to get to the engineering section and making a message somehow for Captain Janeway to find. He/it knew it would be a miracle if anyone figured out what the message was about, but it was his only choice as it finally found his way to the terminal and began crawling inside it to play with the wires and isolineor chips that would help him in his quest. Taking his legs and pulling gently on one chip, he managed to get it loose and heard the familiar beep which usually followed a malfunction. Skirting away from the panel now, he waited until legs appeared and hopped into the cuff, hoping the crewman would go somewhere he wanted to go; like the Bridge or maybe even the Mess hall.
"Ensign Kim, report to the Bridge" came Lieutenant Commander Tuvok's voice over the comm. link as the ship was hit by an unknown vessel that came out of nowhere and started attacking. There was no answer and that got Captain Janeway's attention as she stood in front of Tom at the helm and watched the vessel cruise past for another attack. Cocking her head to one side, she called out,
"Computer, where is Ensign Harry Kim?" she waited for the computer to answer her and what she got surprised her completely,
"Ensign Harry Kim is not on the ship" everyone's head shot toward the ceiling and Tuvok ran a sensor sweep of the ship and confirmed what the computer already stated; he was missing.
"Tuvok, get security to Sickbay and see if anything's amiss down there. Also find out what happened to Harry, I have a feeling something's strange is going on. Tom evasive maneuvers, let's try to loose our quests." The Bridge went into action as everyone did their job, waiting for another attack which never came as the ship disappeared off the screen and sensors. Janeway moved back to the command area and ordered scans and damage reports. All was quiet as the reports came in; nothing, no damage what so ever. There weren't even ships in the area to hit them, nothing for at least three light-years.
"Captain, I'm getting a report form Engineering; it seemed there was a problem with the sensors which was only found two minutes ago. The ship we encountered wasn't there at all. It was a 'Phantom ship' as you would call it. They have fixed the problem. Also, there is no sign of Ensign Kim anywhere on board." Tuvok reported five minutes later as they settled back into orbit around Suvian and continued the search party.
"Thank you Tuvok, I'll be going down there myself, inform the Doctor." Janeway replied as she stood up and headed for the lift. Nodding his head, he looked up suddenly and exclaimed in his calm voice,
"The Doctor is off-line. I can not reach him." Tapping her combadge Janeway ordered,
"Well, let's put the ship on yellow alert just in case we find something we won't like. I'll be in sickbay if you need me. Janeway to engineering, B'Elanna meet me in Sickbay."
The grumpy voice of B'Elanna rang out,
"On my way Captain; Torres out." Nodding to Tuvok she turned the Bridge over to him and walked in to solve the mystery.
In sickbay, B'Elanna watched as Janeway walked in looking confused about something. She knew what of course and said,
" The sensor problem was easy to fix; it was a lose isolinear chip. Someone tampered with the Doc's program, put a lot of useless algorithms in and it overloaded the holo circuits. It'll take a couple hours at least to fix, but Captain, I found this under the console." She handed over the smashed communicator to Janeway, who hefted it in her hand and frowned. Looking closely at it, she eyed Chakotay, who was sleeping soundly and said,
"Any ideas about what did this? It looks like someone stepped on it. Who's is it?" B'Elanna shook her head and sighed as she followed her captain's glance. Looking back, she tapped more commands into the console and answered quietly,
"It's Harry's sir. It also has the commander's DNA on it. I think there's something going on, something very strange." Janeway nodded and slowly put the ruined comm. Badge on the terminal and stated,
"I'll get a search party out for him; he has to be here somewhere. Get on the problem and fill me in when you have Doc running again." Under her breath, she added so only B'Elanna could here,
"I'll have guards posted in sickbay, incase anything happens."
"Yes sir." B'Elanna answered nodding her head in understanding. Janeway walked around to Doc's office and noticed the mobile emitter missing also, and made a mental note to include it in her report. Taking her time, she walked slowly around to Chakotay and took a good long look at him. His head was on it's side as if he was in deep sleep, but somehow she knew better; hands on his chest crossed over like a 'X 'and his feet straight. He almost looked like he was dead, you couldn't see his chest rise or fall, but every so often a little squeak would erupt form his lips?.