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 6: The End is Nearly Here
"Report" the Captain shouted as she and Lieutenant Hartstone stepped out onto the bridge
"A transwarp conduit has opened directly in front of us and a Cube is emerging" Tuvok reported from the tactical station.
"All phasers and torpedoes at the ready" the Captain ordered
The cube came to a stop directly in front of them everyone expected to be attacked instantly but it was like an old fashioned stare down between mortal enemies
"There is a transmission coming through Captain from the Borg"
"Lets hear it then"
"It's a visual transmission Captain" this shocked her a bit she expected it to be the same old spiel about lower shields and surrendering her ship
"Lets see it then"
Like lightening the Borg queen herself appeared on the monitor
"Hello Captain Janeway but your not the one I am here to address, 3 of 12 how are you?" Everyone looked around for a second before Lieutenant Hartstone stepped forward
"The name is Simon Hartstone and what the hell do you want"
"You have become separated from the collective, you were abandoned and considered not able to survive outside the collective a mistake on our part" the Queen smiled slightly at the end of that sentence.
"Well frankly it was the first time I was glad to be abandoned" Simon smiled right back
"We have had enough of this vendetta you have against us, we have given your family perfection and now we wish to offer you a chance to rejoin this family"
"For one thing you have given nothing to my family but slavery and as for your offer you can go and fuck off, I'd rather die than return to the collective"
"The offer is not a request it is more mandatory, you have tactical data on us that would add to our own perfection COMPLY with our request"
"Kiss my ass"
"Fair enough we will make you another offer comply with our request or your ship and the Voyager crew will be assimilated we will give you 5 minutes to think over your decision"
Lieutenant Hartstone took one look around and then made for his weapons and started attaching the holsters back to his body.
"What are you doing" Janeway looked at him with a puzzled look
"I intend to face them, looks like this is the final fight for me time to implement Plan B
"And what is plan B" Seven said
"Plan B stands for Blow Up the cube Seven of Nine" Simon turned to B'Elanna and said "Time to test your theory, Lieutenant if I overload the phaser banks it would generate a warp core breach also before that happens it will loose a rather large phaser bolt right into the inside of their ship crippling it"
"And then" Seven asked
"Boom!" Simon shouted catching everyone by surprise "A warp core breach blows the ship into teeny tiny bits, I will also need to cause a distraction aboard the cube while this all goes on, I'll have to beam aboard the cube and start causing a ruckus"
"You will also be killed in the explosion," Seven pointed out the obvious
"Yep" Hartstone said simply
"What about your torpedo's?" Tom spoke up "They could cut through their hull like paper"
"I would if I had some but I used the last two I have got destroying that sphere and it takes a hell of a lot longer than 5 minutes to make more." He hooked his combat knife to his chest for easy access to it.
"But we could beam you off before the explosion happened provided you haven't already been assimilated" Harry put forward his idea
"I couldn't ask you to do that it looks like the Borg are wanting me either back in the collective or dead, if you took me aboard Voyager would be constantly hounded by Borg vessels"
The all lowered their heads they knew that was quite probable. Mr Hartstone slid towards the turbo lift doors before turning back and saying "You know I started this fight for Starfleet but some people have been saying things and they are right this fight has now degenerated into revenge for me, the only way to get my kicks" Simon looked straight into the Captain's eyes as he said this. "Well looking around looks like this last fight is back for the reasons I started for, Starfleet"
"He turned and walked into the turbo lift with the Voyager bridge crew looking back at him"
Suddenly the Sword powered up and moved away from the cube before doubling back and opening up a volley of phaser fire on the cube, the cube came back with some hits with its own weapons before locking a tractor beam onto the Sword. He tried to re-modulate the shield frequencies but the cube kept is hold. The cube started to reel in the Sword at which point Lieutenant Hartstone began the overload sequence and masked it as a small power surge while looking like trying to break free of the cube's tractor beam.
A transporter beam activated and a man materialised inside the cube and he was armed to the teeth, shotgun's machine guns, pistols he had it all. Simon just thought to himself that today really was a good day to die and before he knew really what he was doing instincts kicked in and he pulled out the shotgun, his favourite weapon and opened up on a Borg distribution node and he just thought the end is nearly here.