"Dark Days Chapter 9"
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Chapter 9:
The ducks were inside the Borg cube and following Wildwing to where the primary assimilation chamber was.
"Hey Wildwing, if you got a plan I wish you'd tell us", said Duke.
"Don't worry, once we get there I'll tell you", said Wildwing. They continued down the endless corridors.
In the primary assimilation chamber Borg drone 1 of 1 (Nosedive) stood looking at the view screen. The cube then came out of the dimensional portal and arrived. The planet that Nosedive was now looking at was Puckworld. And he and the collective were busy planning the unknowing population's assimilation.
The ducks could feel the Borg cube come to a stop.
"I think the Cube has stopped", said Tanya,
"Then we must be at Puckworld", said Grin.
"All right let's keep moving", said Wildwing, "The chamber is just around the corner".
"How do you remember where it is?", said Tanya.
"When I was assimilated, I remembered every detail and corridor of the ship, I guess I just remember it", said Wildwing, "speaking of remembering here we are". The ducks stopped just outside the door of the assimilation chamber.
"So what's this plan of yours Wildwing?", said Mallory.
"I think we should try to get a hold of Nosedive and then...", Wildwing hesitated.
"And then what?", said Duke.
"Well I really hadn't thought about it after we got a hold of him", said Wildwing.
"You mean you were just going to let us go in there and take and you didn't plan what happened next", said Mallory.
"Well I really thought maybe Tanya could think of something", said Wildwing. Everyone then turned and looked at Tanya.
"Well Tanya", said Grin.
"Actually I think I do have something, once we get a hold of Nosedive maybe we can gain access to the collective through his subspace transceiver", said Tanya.
"But what would we do when we got access to the collective", said Duke.
"Maybe we can send a signal to the other drones on this cube to go regenerate in their alcoves", said Tanya.
"What would that do?", said Mallory.
"Well from what I've noticed the Borg collective as a whole is very powerful, so powerful that it requires all of them together for this ship to function, so maybe if they all regenerate we could by some time to do something to deactivate them" , said Tanya.
"Sounds like a long shot but it's all we have", said Wildwing. "Let's go". The ducks took out their portable devices with the strange gas and burst into the chamber. Mallory and Duke took the right angle of the room and Tanya and Grin took the left to cover Wildwing as he went for Nosedive. Nosedive heard Wildwing coming and he turned to confront him.
"Nosedive your coming with us", said Wildwing. Nosedive was resisting and trying to get Wildwing off of him, but Wildwing took out a sedative device given to him by Mallory earlier.
"Sorry Nosedive, but I have no choice", said Wildwing. He pressed the device into Nosedive's neck and he limped into Wildwing's arms. The other ducks were busy fighting off the drones in the chamber as they were advancing on them.
"I've got Nosedive let's go", said Wildwing. He quickly exited the chamber with Nosedive in his arms and with the ducks providing cover until they too exited the chamber. Wildwing led the ducks to a closed off part of the cube. Then he set Nosedive against a wall.
"All right Tanya lets see what you can do", said Wildwing. Tanya began to work. She began to use her tools to tap into the subspace receiver that was embedded just below Nosedive's neck.
"Can you access it Tanya?" said Wildwing.
"I think I can", said Tanya, "there that's it, I'm in". Tanya has accessed the collective via Nosedive's link with it.
"Can you signal the drones to regenerate?", said Wildwing.
"Just a minute I think, yes I got it", said Tanya.
"Are they responding to the command", said Duke.
"Yes they are, there all going to their regeneration alcoves", said Tanya.
"Good now what's the next step?" said Mallory.
"We should try to deactivate the drones", said Tanya.
"Can you do that via the collective link?", said Wildwing.
"I think so just give me some time", said Tanya, "there that's it they're all deactivated" . Just then Nosedive began to shake.
"What's wrong with Nosedive?", said Wildwing.
"His link to the collective has been severed when I activated it, his body is beginning to reject the other Borg implants, we need to get him some medical attention right away", said Tanya.
"Well is there any more threat from the Borg?", asked Grin.
"I don't think so", said Tanya.
"Hey everyone, since we are where we are let's go take a look at the view screen", said Wildwing. He led the ducks into the assimilation chamber. Deactivated drones littered the floor. On the view screen they saw Puck world, the place they had been longing to see for so long.
"It's Puck world", said Wildwing.
"It still looks the same", said Duke.
"Yeah, maybe we could go down there and make sure everything is ok", said Tanya.
"Maybe we shouldn't", said Tanya.
"She's right, with all the time we've spent on earth, Puck World just doesn't seem like home anymore", said Grin.
"Grin's right, we need to go back to earth, somehow it feels like home now", said Wildwing.
"But just how are we going to do that?", asked Mallory.
"I don't know but we had better do it soon, Nosedive needs to get medical attention or he may die", said Wildwing.
End of Chapter 9.
Chapter 10 soon to come.