Punishment

I am introducing a new character to the voyager crew another Borg male who is on a personal quest for redemption after the Borg destroyed his family.

Just so you know I own none of the Voyager characters, the ship or any of the ideas put forth in the series I am just borrowing them for the purpose of this story.

Chapter 3: The Man is a killer

"Please sit down Mr. Hartstone while I perform some scans" The Doctor indicated to sit on the main biobed in the centre of sickbay

"What was it like serving on the Enterprise with those legends" Tom said

"What legends?"

"Captain Picard and Commander Riker and the rest of the Enterprise greats"

Simon laughed and laughed hard "Keep still Mr Hartstone" The Doctor said as he was scanning up and down

"Sorry Doc, I just don't think that Captain Picard or Commander Riker would call themselves greats or legends not yet anyway. Even so I rarely saw the big guns I was a low level Lieutenant on Mr. Worf's security team and call me Simon please I have been alone for so long I don't think rank even matters anymore"

"Mr Hartstone what have you been doing to yourself"

"What do you mean Doc?"

"Your in horrendous health you have multiple un healed wounds up and down your body scars one of kidneys is not working properly and your liver is shot to hell"

"Well Doc when you have spent the last five years fighting the Borg you pick up the odd scar or two and as for the kidneys and liver, well that'll happen when you end up drinking real alcohol most nights"

"Why would you do such a thing?"

"Don't know I have been alone so long I have just been living with the memory that my family is dead for too long and you just do crazy stuff like kill yourself with alcohol"

"Looks like I will have to repair that damage as well"

"If you like Doc" he shrugged he was just going to kill them back with alcohol

"I must tell you Mr. Hartstone that I must link the optic nerve of your new eye into the Borg implants that exist there already so you will have enhanced vision in one eye"

"Ok" he shrugged again

"Lie down, Mr. Paris can you get me a hypo spray of anaesthetic please"

"Sure Doc" Paris crossed over to a table and loaded a hypo-spray and brought it over to the Doctor

"When you wake up Mr. Hartstone you will have two eyes and a better kidney and liver"

"Cool" he said as the Doctor injected him and he passed out

The Captain was sitting on the bridge thinking about their guest in sickbay, looking at his ship on the view screen it looked like some major modifications had been made, and those torpedoes where not Starfleet standard issue photon torpedoes.

She wanted to send an away team over to his ship just so they could take a look around to see what he had done with himself for the past 5 years but she knew sending over an away team without his permission first would be a violation of his privacy.

He said he had been fighting against the Borg for the last 5 years but why, why would he do such a thing, the Borg work on a collective conscience no one was really responsible for their actions as a drone they have no free will, no individuality.

Unless he was trying to get some sense of redemption from it, or maybe revenge the Borg after all took his family that would drive anyone to revenge. Once he got out the Doc's surgery she was going to have to have a little talk with Mr Hartstone about his motives for the course of action he has taken in dealing with his grief and maybe he has been living with that grief for too long.

Chakotay came onto the bridge and sat down next to the Captain and stared at his console for a few seconds and tapped in some controls before turning to his Captain

"Penny for your thoughts Captain"

"Huh what" she shook herself out of her stupor "I was just thinking about our guest"

"I know, I was to, news travels at warp speed, most of the crew have already heard about the man who is taking on the Borg on his own, the crews thoughts are divided while some think the man is clearly unstable and should be locked in a padded cell, others believe this man is a hero and should be decorated by Starfleet I heard Crewman Dalby down in Engineering say 'its about time someone stepped up to the plate and took those bastards on'

"Well I would like to know one person's opinions on all these events who I haven't heard speak up yet" Chakotay looked at her for a second before realising who she was talking about "I'll be in Astrometrics" Chakotay just nodded frankly he wouldn't mind hearing Seven on Nine's thoughts on this man.

Captain Janeway paced down the hallway after jumping off the turbo-lift at deck 8 she entered the door to Astrometrics.

"Hello Seven what are you working on?"

"Before Lieutenant Hartstone went to sickbay he allowed me access to his computer for any astrometric data that could be useful to us as well as I was studying scans of the altercation with the sphere, Mr Hartstone's weapons seemed to be unusually effective against the Borg"

"And what do you think of the man himself?"

"From what he has said to date Mr Hartstone sounds like an erratic individual, he seems to base most of his actions on emotion, anger mostly over the Borg assimilating his family, I do not understand this course of action since there was nothing he could have done in either situation. While his goal is clearly admirable his method of achieving his goal is inefficient"

"What do you think his ultimate goal is?"

"I assume that Mr Hartstone's ultimate goal is to bring down the collective but destroying one ship at a time is inefficient, also I believe the goal is thoroughly unattainable he is one man against thousands of vessels, and worlds with billions of drones"

"Mr Hartstone has based his fight on revenge the Borg have hurt him, violated him and his family so he wants to hurt them back, revenge is a human instinct, a very basic one goes back a long way someone hurt you so you have to hurt them back."

"But this man is no better than the Borg his tactical database over the past five years have recorded over 50 altercations with the collective and has destroyed 5 cubes 10 spheres as well as a number of scout vessels for a man to survive that long must be an excellent tactician but he has committed mass murder on a grand scale over the past five years, there are normally 5000 drones on a cube and 1000 on a sphere the numbers are epic he has murdered thousands of would be individuals"

The Captain stood back a little bit and took it all in, she was right why was this man doing this, she had participated in the destruction of a cube but that was in self defence this man actively seeked out the Borg to kill them. The operation should be over by now she thought and she thought the time for there chat should be now.