Authors Note: This is the third story in what will hopefully be a long line of stories. This story continues the adventures of the Lieutenant Simon Hartstone. While not necessary to read the two stories "Punishment" and "Captured!" it would be advisable to set up why this new character is aboard Voyager. If you read "Training" I should let you know I have decided to take that down considering I don't know where to take the story as well as the fact of the matter is I wasn't too happy with the first chapter I wrote and the second chapter wasn't going so well either. I wanted to write a story that included the whole Hazard Team and not just about Lieutenant Hartstone and I obviously wanted to write a kick ass story as well. Also I don't know how to work out stardates, I have looked on the star trek website to try and discern a pattern for them but their doesn't seem to be one they just seem to be a load of random numbers, I have set this in season 6 after the episode "One Small Step." I wanted log entries to feature more as I think they were a primary way of story setting on most of the Star Trek episodes.

Happiness

Read Chapter 1 for disclaimers and some other junk.

Chapter 8: Trapped

The Delta Flyer broke through the atmosphere of the moon and this is when the butterflies started. Lieutenant Hartstone was in a black combat suit with black boots, he looked at Seven who was in the same outfit. He handed her, her parachute and she strapped it over her back. They had gone through what seemed like thousands of training simulations but Lieutenant Hartstone still felt that there was not a simulation any where in existence that could truly prepare you for the real thing. A call came over the comm system "We are level at 30,000 feet sir." He got up and he handed her a hand phaser and a combat knife.

"This is a sneaking mission Seven, if we can get in and out of the place without alerting anybody then that would be perfect. Keep the phaser on stun and use it only if it's extremely necessary." Seven took the hand phaser and slid it into the holster on her belt; she did the same with her tricorder on the other side. She took the combat knife and she slid that into another holster that was positioned across her upper left chest.

She looked up at the Lieutenant "I understand" she said in reply

Lieutenant Hartstone did the same, with his weapons. Seven also strapped three rods to her side, no more than a half metre in length.

"I have the transport enhancers," Seven reported as the Lieutenant fitted himself with a helmet.

"Good, testing comm system check one, check two" Lieutenant Hartstone said into the microphone that was in the helmet

"I can hear you sir, comm system online" was the report back

"Ok good, right when we hit the ground, its comm silence unless it's an emergency, is that clear" Hartstone said.

"Got it Sir"

"Good, we will call you when we need you" Lieutenant Hartstone signed off and both himself and Seven of Nine proceeded to the rear hatch of the Delta Flyer.

"Open rear hatch" Hartstone ordered and the hatch started to descend with the wind hitting them. Hartstone waited for the hatch to be fully open before stepping to the edge and looking down. He turned around and he looked at Seven and smiled "Yippee Kiay" he said simply before literally just falling out of the Delta Flyer as Seven looked on a little baffled by his last words. She decided to shrug it off as she followed him out of the rear hatch.

Suddenly they were both falling fast as the Delta Flyer was getting smaller and the ground was getting larger. They both spread themselves as wide as they could as the looked at the readouts on their arms waiting to achieve maximum velocity. Both of their readouts blinked and the pulled the ripcords on their parachutes and they both opened without a hitch, as they were both momentarily tugged up as the chute opened to its full length. After a few minutes they could both see the roof of the building where the life signs were coming from and they steered the parachutes so that they would land on the roof. A few minutes more and the both hit the roof, Lieutenant Hartstone hit the roof and fell forward landing flat on his face, Seven hit the ground and walked forward letting the chute fall behind her as, Hartstone's fell on him. Seven disengaged the chute from her back, before shuffling the backpack from her shoulders and dropping it on the ground. She turned around to hear a ripping sound as she looked at the mess of the other chute to find a knife poking through it slitting a hole in it, as it was dragged through the material, when a hole large enough was made, Lieutenant Hartstone pushed his way through it and stood up brushing himself off.

He looked at her and smiled "Every simulation you landed with a feline grace and I hit the ground like I had no parachute at all" He walked to a hatch that led into the building, he opened it carefully pointing his phaser into the opening making sure no one was already in the walkway leading into the building.

"Are you damaged?" she questioned silently.

"No, I'm fine, I just got to work on my landings when we get back" he drew out his combat knife as he led the way into the building. She followed him into the building down a flight of stairs. When they reached the bottom, he drew his weapons close to his chest ready to attack anyone coming round either corner. He looked around the corner, he looked left, he looked right and then he looked left again before turning to Seven. She pointed right denoting that they should go right, he looked around both corners again before going right with Seven following right behind. Hartstone kept to the right of the corridor hunched over trying to keep low with his phaser and combat knife still drawn and pointing forward ready to fire if necessary.

They got to another intersection and he looked round both corners seeing no one, he turned to Seven and she pointed again this time it was left. They both rounded the corner this time keeping to the left, half way down the corridor Lieutenant Hartstone heard voices, Seven tapped him on the shoulder twice, one of the pre prepared signals they had made up before the mission. Hartstone instantly remembered that two shoulder taps meant life signs heading their way. Hartstone looked at a door that was on their left, he opened it and ushered Seven inside quickly, before stepping in himself and closing the door behind them.

The door closed and Simon realised that the room he had chosen was a storage closet, no wider that 2 metres in length. Seven looked at Lieutenant Hartstone with concern on her face at the uncomfortable and compromising situation. Lieutenant Hartstone just looked at her with a stupid grin on his face, as he heard voices coming closer and closer, he turned to the door and he readied his phaser and knife, but the voices just moved away and got quieter and quieter. He opened the door a crack as he saw the two guards rounding the corner and he slowly stepped out, Seven looked at him oddly "Next time I choose where we hide" she just said as they started to move forward again.

"Deal" was all Lieutenant Hartstone could reply with.

They continued through the maze of corridors until they reached a room which according to Seven's tricorder readings had a massive energy readings, the door was open and Lieutenant Hartstone poked his head round the corner, there was a guard sitting at his desk silently snoozing. Hartstone crept up to him slowly and he grasped his shoulder in an attempt to apply the Vulcan neck pinch, however the guard was immediately roused from his slumber and he looked at the two intruders but before he could raise the alarm a left hook slammed into his face and knocked him out of the chair and onto the ground. Hartstone knelt beside him and checked him "Out like a light, I suppose I should just stick to what I know" he looked at Seven and smiled again as she moved to a panel by the cell and she started to tap the buttons.

Hartstone stood in front of the cell "Commander Tuvok, sir can you hear me" Tuvok was asleep on a bed, "Commander can you hear me its Lieutenant Hartstone and Seven of Nine" Tuvok started to rouse as he rolled over to look at who was trying to wake him

"Lieutenant" was all Tuvok could manage

"Don't worry sir, we are going to get you out of here, just hang tight" Tuvok swung his legs over the bed as the force field came down and an alarm klaxon sounded, Seven looked at Hartstone as he did the same. "Set up the transport enhancers" Hartstone rushed and caught Tuvok as he tried to stand, Hartstone got under his shoulder and slowly ushered him out of the cell as Seven set up the transport enhancers. A blast hit the wall behind them as Seven swivelled with her phaser in hand and fired at their attacker hitting him full in the chest and dropping him on the floor. She set up the last enhancer and activated all three of them, Hartstone hit his comm badge "This is the away team to the Delta Flyer, three to beam up and make it snappy" he said as he could hear more footsteps rushing towards them.

"This is the Delta Flyer, a shield was raised around the building, a few seconds ago sir, we can still beam you through it but only one at a time." Crewman Murphy's voice came over the comm

"Take Tuvok first, then Seven of Nine, then myself" Lieutenant Hartstone ordered

"Stand by" Hartstone got to his knees in the transporter field and he fired at another guard as Tuvok dematerialised. Seven was also firing trying to keep the guards at bay. After about a minute Seven also dematerialised, Hartstone kept firing as the guards turned around and ceased fire. Hartstone ceased fire also and stood up as the massive Lord Serbist entered the room, Hartstone fired his phaser but the shots seemed to have no effect of his large frame.

"Hartstone to Delta Flyer now would be a good time for that beam out!" he remarked upping the charge on his phaser to maximum and firing again, when no response came from his comm badge he started to get worried "Hartstone to the Delta Flyer beam me out NOW!" he fired again at the huge Lord but still no effect.

"I'm sorry but we have disabled your communications link with your vessel, and your transporter beam is being blocked, with the help of some of your friends" Lieutenant Torres and Captain Janeway came out from behind the Lord smiling at Lieutenant Hartstone who was sneering with a large amount of anger. "Unfortunately it had been my intention to keep the disbeliever while capturing yourself and your partner at the same time, alas I will have to settle with you"

Janeway and Torres raised rifles at the Lieutenant indicating that he should drop his weapons, Lieutenant Hartstone slowly knelt dropping his phaser on the floor, but when he got up he ran straight at the Lord and span his whole body and extending his right leg for a spinning roundhouse kick, but when he did not spin round fully he looked at noticed that the Lord had caught his leg with surprising ease, he just twisted Hartstone's ankle and he threw him against the wall, which Hartstone hit hard and he went down. Hartstone tried to pick himself up but before he could he noticed two rifles pointed at his head, looking down the barrels at the faces of his former crewmates and the people he was starting to consider his family.

"You really didn't think it would be that easy to free someone from my grasp did you" he laughed to himself as Kathryn and B'Elanna laughed also, "Put him in the cell" Janeway pulled him to his feet and pushed him into the cell with the barrel of her rifle. She activated the force field again and she turned on her heels and left with the Lord and B'Elanna. Hartstone just looked out of the force field at them leaving and wondered what he was going to do now, or more importantly what Voyager was going to do now they had lost another Captain.