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 7: A Family ReunionCertainly opening up on that distribution node had really gotten the Borg's attention because drones were starting to close on him from all sides, Simon had decided to not let them surround him so he started to move forward, 2 shells and 2 dead drones, he pulled out a tricorder and scanned the surrounding area. He managed to modify a tricorder to lock onto the Borg queen's signal and he progressed forward towards that signal.
Of course the queen would be killed by a big fat warp core explosion from the Sword but he always dreamed of taking the queen on and taking her down with his own hands not through some silly warp core explosion he wanted to stand their and gloat over her fallen corpse. Of course something will probably step in and fill the gap another queen would take her place giving order to the chaos he was about to create but he was creating chaos already.
He moved forward another two Borg surprised him from a side passage knocking his gun down he managed to get a shot off which sheared through one of the drones legs which fell over instantly before he could raise it though another drone had moved into his personal space and raised his hands to Simon's neck.
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"Where is he" Janeway barked
"Sensors say he progress towards an area with a huge chamber most likely the Borg Queen is there Captain" Tuvok said in his usual emotionless tone
"If he moves into that chamber we won't be able to get a lock on him there is a dampening field around the chamber" Harry added to the conversation
"Well let's do our part to rectify that situation Mr Tuvok, lock all phasers on their main power generators and fire"
"Phasers firing, direct hit their power is fluctuating"
"Fire at will Mr Tuvok bring it down"
"Yes Captain
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Simon had managed to deflect the hand temporarily but it had started to come back at him, he dropped his shotgun and drew his combat knife, sparring for a little while before managing to chop the hand off, the drone reeled back and he used the opportunity to bury the knife deep into the Borg drones head. Another drone surprised him from behind, he managed to push off a bulkhead and slam into the opposite bulkhead before jabbing his right leg between the drone's legs and twisting away and in one fluid motion both hands on the drone's head and all Simon heard was the snap of a broken neck as he twisted the drone's head to the side.
He retrieved his shotgun and looked at the drone that was now missing a leg and he pumped another shell into the chamber of the shotgun and the chest of the Borg exploded with a yellow alien blood as he put a shell into the damaged drone's chest. He walked over and looked into the cold dead eyes of the drone with a knife sticking out of its head and proceed to extricate the knife and with a squelching sound came out with a little bit of brain end trailing on it. He absently wiped the knife on the back of his leg before returning it to its sheath.
The ship rocked once more and Simon thought that the phasers couldn't have overloaded this quickly, he wondered what was going on he stopped at an access panel an accessed a visual of Voyager firing phasers
"What the hell are they doing" he tapped his combadge "Simon to Voyager get the hell out of here you've have 2 maybe 3 minutes before this ship goes boom"
Janeway responded "And we intend on getting you out of there before that happens but you have to move away from that area now"
"I can't do that Captain me and the Queen we have some issues we need to work out, I intend to work them out with her, preferably including multiple bullet wounds to her torso"
"Your are crazy its one thing to sacrifice your ship for mine which I am grateful for but sacrificing your life is really crazy"
"I'm a pretty crazy guy Captain, years alone and all my thoughts bent of blowing the queens brains all over a bulkhead have all that have kept me going" Simon cut the commlink and proceeded to move forward he looked at his tricorder, he was close
He looked at the door to the Queen's chamber and thought he couldn't pick locks, but he could sure as hell blow the lock and the door up. Simon set an explosive charge on the door and set it off and the huge explosion ensuing blew two drones off their feet, Simon stepped through the wreckage, putting the final remaining shotgun shells into the two drones that were trying to recover from the blast, both their chests exploded in a more familiar red display.
"Knock, Knock anyone home" the Queen stepped forward and moved through some of the wreckage that had been blown far enough to her feet.
"You know I would have opened the door for you" she retorted
"Yeah but I wanted to make my entrance more dramatic" she waved off the apparent humour wanted to get down to business
"Ready to rejoin the collective" Simon thought about reloading the shotgun, he had the shells but it would take to long, also he needed to surprise the Queen if he was going to get her.
"Nope and I'm here to take you out of it" right then a massive explosion rocked the ship the Queen looked into the air away in her own little world for a second, communicating with the drones aboard the cube.
"You have overloaded the phaser banks on your vessel and your vessels warp core is going to breach."
"If your trying to blow it back out into space don't bother I have generated an inverse warp field you'd have to send your drones to push it out of your docking bay" he smiled a cunning smile
"You would kill yourself to kill me?" she questioned a little puzzled but this act.
"Don't flatter yourself Queenie, I'm going to be alive when you die" right then he dropped his shotgun and drew his Desert Eagles and let fly with everything they had.
The Borg Queen with a wave of her hand a force field came up protecting her from the onslaught as Simon emptied the smoking clips onto the ground he raised an eyebrow
"We may not have been able to adapt to your somewhat archaic weaponry but that doesn't mean we don't have a few tricks ourselves"
He reloaded he thought he just needs another shot at catching her off guard maybe a little more witty banter will help and he cocked the weapons and he lowered them again smiling.
"Oh well then looks like I am going to die at the same time as you never mind, you dying that's the goal here"
"And your family will die as well" at that moment his brothers stepped out from behind the queen "Of course your mother and father were killed by the Borg that was unfortunate but still your family stands before you, can you kill them before the end" she gestured her hand "Assimilate him"
Lieutenant Hartstone's only family moved towards him menacingly with only one intention on their minds, Simon backed off slowly he couldn't do it and the Queen knew it, he couldn't murder the only family he ever had. Simon had time to pick up his shotgun again and force six shells into the chamber but he couldn't pull the trigger, he tried again nope something in him was stopping him do it.
"You'll be one with us before the end and killing me will not help there are drones specially groomed to take my place if I die. Your tactical data on us will still serve the collective as well as your unique way of fighting us. We will adapt and become more perfect because of you" They were almost on him he wanted to pull the trigger, he knew he should but he couldn't they were Borg but they were still his brothers.
They were about on him assimilation tubules ready when something snapped in him he screamed out in a death cry and fired at them both taking them both out in one hit and he shot again making them reel further he pumped and shot again and again. His brothers dropped to the ground, he took the time to give one last final gesture to the Borg Queen one she didn't fully understand the meaning of putting ones middle fingers up at someone.
"Fuck off Queenie time to die" and he bolted out of the chamber and down the corridor
"Hartstone to Voyager, I know your there, you shouldn't be there but you are, and I would like to formally request to be a member of your family"
Janeway could only say "Permission Granted Mr. Hartstone stand by"
"Stand by Mr Hartstone" Harry's voice came over the comm link
Lieutenant Hartstone saw the explosions started to happen all around him, combined with the warp core breach and Voyagers phaser fire the structural integrity was going to fail in about 3 seconds. 3,2,1 and all he could see is white. The cube exploded in a spectacular way, as Voyagers nacelles rose up and went to warp just as the shockwave from the explosion hit.