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 5: Q & A with Captain Janeway

The Captain was sitting in her ready room trying to work but not getting anywhere and drinking more and more coffee, thinking about what Seven of Nine said more and more.

The bell chimed and Lieutenant Hartstone stepped in being escorted by Tuvok

"Lieutenant Hartstone Captain"

"Thank You Mr. Tuvok your are dismissed"

"How's that new eye working out for you Mr Hartstone?"

"Good Captain I can see better than if I had two human eyes thanks to the Borg I suppose," he grunted out the last end of that statement

"I just have a few questions about your life"

"Shoot"

"Why do you do, what you do surely your family would want you to be happy but your purposely make yourself unhappy, you've been living off ration bars for the past five years why?"

"Ration bars require the least amount of power to replicate" he answered "As for why I hunt out Borg vessels well someone has too"

"That's not a valid answer to my question"

"The Borg are a menace, a plague to the universe, Starfleet only came out of their altercation with the Borg after massive damage to the fleet as well I have heard about other races being tossed aside by the Borg like paper no one has developed a real way to defeat them."

"Seven of Nine accessed your tactical database she said you have been personally responsible for the destruction of at least 5 cubes and 10 spheres if not more, that's thousands of people you have killed."

"Well what did you think I have been doing for the past five years, I don't hunt Borg vessels to give them a telling off and to never do it again."

"But the people"

"Drones, Borg Drones better off dead"

"There are drones that have been liberated from the collective you're a walking example of it as well as Seven of Nine and Captain Picard"

"I was an accident and plus don't you think I know that, don't you think I might have tried that, myself and Seven of Nine are rare but not rare, we are not rare because I have seen many liberated drones but we are rare because we are the only ones who want to stay as individuals, most of the other ones I have seen have become so dependant on the collective so they either go crazy from the loneliness without the others and commit suicide or grab a ship and fly into the path of a cube either way they are dead." Simon dropped his head like he almost felt sorry for them, and he did.

"For a certain amount of time at least you have to make the decisions for them, Seven of Nine at first wanted to rejoin the collective but we took care of her and now she is a human being with free will"

"I haven't got the time to play wet nurse to ex-borg drones, I'm all about the fight at the end of the day its what I live for."

"But you have to try"

"I have tried plus I am not a doctor, I don't have the expertise of your Doctor hell I don't even have any expertise at all about being anything except a killer, I cannot pull out all the Borg implants hell I wouldn't know where to start" Simon was starting to get angry a lot of the other ships he had saved had not stopped with the thanking him although he did not want to be thanked all the time, he did not care for the thankless.

"Maybe you could take them to a doctor that can"

"There isn't enough time like I said they go nuts without the others, I even had one guy die from multiple force field burns because he kept trying to walk through it"

"Why do you think you have the right to decide whether these people live or die?"

"I don't have the right, I didn't join Starfleet to kill or be killed but the other person I blame for this I cant get my hands on the other egotistical, omnipotent scum of the universe." Janeway thought for a second about that before just thinking of one person

"Q"

"I see you have met him," Lieutenant Hartstone said, Janeway could only find a wry smile

"We have had a couple of run-ins" Janeway could put it that way

"Well if I ever meet him I'll put my fist so far down his throat I'll be able to tear the label of his damn underpants" the Lieutenant emphasized this more by slapping his right fist into his left palm.

"One enemy of the Federation at a time, surely you have done enough to make the Borg notice you, you could go back to Starfleet and share your innovations and with the collective of humanity behind you the Borg would never threaten humanity again"

"I have thought of that" his head bowed "but I can't ignore this quadrant either there are people here too captain, good people who don't deserve to be drones or dead.

"You'd be helping strangers people you haven't met never likely to meet" Captain Janeway couldn't believe she said that, strangers were the reason she and her crew were here.

"Also I got the more details on why you're here, destroying something that potentially get you home to save another race from being attacked." Captain Janeway thought that Lieutenant Hartstone must be a telepath of some kind to pick up in the one fault in her argument. "I asked around I was curious as to why you're here as well as me, I also found out that you have had dealings with another Federation ship in this region of space the Equinox, I agree that they needed to be hunted down after what they were doing to those aliens but handing the crew over to the aliens was not an acceptable compromise"

"We didn't hand over the crew most of the Equinox crew now serve aboard Voyager after the Equinox had been destroyed"

"But not all of them, 3 or 4 crewmembers including the Captain were left to die either killed by the aliens or killed by the explosion either way its murder"

Suddenly the lights dimmed and the klaxons sounded

"Red Alert all hands to battle stations" Commander Chakotay's voice came over the com. The both bounded out of the Captain's ready room and onto the bridge.