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 4: Tricks of the Trade
"May we join you?" a voice said from what sounded like afar but in fact was only a couple of metres away
"Huh, oh yeah sure" Harry, B'Elanna and Tom filled out the rest of the seats in the table
"How's that new eye" Harry decided to break the ice after a few seconds silence between the three.
"It's a bit weird seeing with two's eyes Ensign Kim is it"
"Harry please" he said in response
"What were those torpedoes you fired at the Borg they caused massive damage, I don't think the Captain would mind having some of those the next time we run into the Borg." Tom decided to jump in and ask what they were all really thinking, but Simon didn't mind a bit.
"Armour Piercing torpedo's with a antimatter charge of 80 kiloton yield, designed by myself naturally, also having a delayed explosion of 10 seconds also kind of helps."
"Why Armour Piercing" B'Elanna came back after ordering a drink from the replicator
"Why not, an explosion of that magnitude is much more effective on the inside of a ship, that's why I decided to build torpedoes that could pierce hulls and detonate inside the ship instead of outside the ship and not realise the destructive potential"
"How did you come up with that?" Tom asked and Harry nodded obviously thinking of the same thing
"When you have 6 years just thinking of ways to beat the Borg, you normally come up with something" Simon said with a slight smirk
"What about those pulse phasers I have never seen anything like it"
"Pulse Phasers were standard issue for the Defiant class, I just managed to up their power and rate of fire by tying them directly into the warp core"
"You do know if your phasers overload, you'll have a core breach in a matter of seconds" B'Elanna put her engineering spin on it
"Well lets just hope my phasers don't overload then don't we, I have also tied the warp core into the shields for extra strength, as well as fixing on extra hull plating to create some ablative armour"
"You must be some kind of weapons expert!" Harry chimed in
"Well I don't like to say expert but I do know some shit!" Simon smiled
"What about personal arms I saw some pretty odd looking weapons when you were in Sickbay" Tom took the line of questioning in another direction.
"Ancient Earth weapons known as handguns or pistols" he drew one out of the holster and removed the clip "Uses a small amount of a substance known as gunpowder which ignites and pushes a small piece of metal down the barrel." He help up the clip "This is known as the clip or magazine, I get 15 shots in that before I have to reload" by now everyone in the mess hall had crowded round as the Lieutenant explained himself "The gun was called a Desert Eagle although I have never found out why."
"Why don't you carry standard hand phasers surely these are prone to malfunctioning?" a young crewman from the back spoke up
"I have found rotating modulation phasers to be ineffective in fighting the Borg in the early days I found that I managed to push a rotating modulation phaser to about 14 shots but that was it. To answer your second question these are actually less prone to malfunction than a phaser all they need is a little care"
"Surely the Borg must have adapted to such a weapon" another crewman joined in quite a crowd was forming around the table as Simon was giving a demonstration on how to arm the weapon.
"No they haven't, that's the thing when fighting the Borg I believe the more primitive the weapon the better they seem to have to trouble adapting to being shot by physical objects such as bullets or even arrows." He got up, after reloading and holstering his weapon "I also carry a burst weapon known as a shotgun as well as an assault rifle and the relevant ammunition for it."
"So you have boarded Borg vessels?" Harry said, as Simon sat down again after holstering the weapon the readjusting the holsters.
"A couple yes, normally when I need something normally tactical information for example"
"We did board a Borg sphere once and stole a transwarp drive" Tom said with a slight brag in her voice.
"Now that is bold, I have never done that I don't think I any one man could do that."
Once as he said that Mr. Tuvok stepped in and was slightly taken aback by the show before he stepped in.
"Mr. Hartstone the Captain would like to see you." Tuvok said in his usual monotone voice.
"Of course, and they both stepped out of the door" Simon stood up again and the crowd parted to let him through as most where just making their way back to their seats.
They walked down the corridor before Tuvok spoke up
"What was the nature of the conversation that had the crew so captivated?"
"Old war stories, some of my methods and tactics and the weapons that I have developed" As they got into the turbo lift Tuvok turned to him and said
"I would interested to hear some of your tactics as well as your technologies could benefit Voyager in its journey home …. Bridge"
"We'll have to set up a meeting" Simon smiled but Tuvok naturally didn't show any emotion.
The turbo lift opened onto the bridge and they stepped out before Tuvok's final words
"I'm sorry Mr. Hartstone I cannot let you before the Captain so armed"
"I was interested to see that you didn't take them off me when I beamed aboard" as he removed the holster holding his desert eagles and his ammunition belt
"Admittedly a failing on my part as chief of security of this vessel but you did not seem to pose a threat as you had just saved our lives"
"I didn't think Vulcans made those kind of snap judgements about people"
"Normally we don't but serving with Captain Janeway has always taught me sometime I have to trust instinct as well as logic"
Simon smiled again as he went down to his ankle and removed an dagger he kept tied to his ankle
"Thank you Mr. Tuvok I will take that as a compliment"
"Take the statement as you wish Mr. Hartstone however it is the truth." Simon smiled Tuvok rang the bell