This is set about 1 month before Voyager is visited by Admiral Janeway… so they are almost home. FYI - Oh, and I own the story. Not Star Trek or any of the characters. Ohwell.

Chapter One- Hazardous Chemicals

Captain Kathryn Janeway woke with a start. Grunting, she rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, although it was in vain. Laying there, she tried to see herself back on the farm in Iowa, and then she though of her dog. She smiled, and got out of bed.

"Computer, lights." She said as she slipped on a pair of Starfleet fuzzy slippers that she personally designed in the holodeck, and then had Ensign Kim replicate from the holographic template. The lights flashed on and she slowly walked to the bathroom. Moments later, she padded out of the bathroom and into the living area of her quarters to the replicator. "Computer, coffee." She mumbled to the device as she ran her fingers through her hair.

Unable to comply, this replicator unit is malfunctioning.- Came the reply from the computer. Janeway rolled her eyes and slumped on the wall.

"Can't even make coffee? Computer, run a level one diagnostic on this replicator unit," she said, then finished, "Its too damn early for you to break."

Level One Diagnostic in progress, please stand by.- Came the reply. Janeway nodded, and worked her way to her desk. She picked up a security report padd from Mr. Tuvok, and glanced over it.

Diagnostic Complete, this Replicator terminal is operating within normal parameters.- The Computer responded.

"Well, make me a mug of coffee then." She spat at it.

Unable to comply.-

"Clarify!"

All replicators aboard this vessel are offline due to a power re-route.- It responded. Kathryn tugged at a loose string on her robe for a moment, then looked up.

"Great. Janeway to Engineering, B'Elanna, if you reroute power to something from the replicators, do it after I get my coffee next time, ok?" She threw the padd down on her desk, as the computer butted in again.

Attention, the communication system is offline.- Janeway stopped dead.

"What?" She said to herself as she started to jog to her closet.

The communication sys--

"I herd you the first time!" Janeway snapped. She quickly got dressed, grabbed her comm. badge and a science tricorder, and ran to the door. The only problem was that the door did not open, and she ran right into it. Immediately backing away from it she started to hit her comm. badge, only to be interrupted again.

Warning, Main Computer core failure. Backup subprocessors are not responding. Estimated time until complete core failure:three minutes.-

"Damn." Janeway replied. She slapped her comm. badge. "Janeway to Engineering." She stood there facing her un-opened door and waited for an answer, and got none at all. She tapped it again. "Janeway to bridge." Still nothing. Completely frustrated, she pressed in her access codes at the door panel, and then pressed the open button. Still nothing. Janeway grunted, and fumbled around for the emergency door opener. Pulling it out of its compartment holster, she firmly pressed it up against the door and pulled with all her strength. The door cracked open, and a green gas leaked from the hallway and into her room. She immediately saw it, swore under her breath, and pulled the door closed.

War-war-waaarnning! Hazeerrdouss cheemiical deecteeed.- The computer slurred. It seemed like the processor was overloaded and it couldn't handle speech anymore. Janeway backed away from the now sealed door and pulled her tricorder out. She scanned the gas as it dissipated, and then looked down at the scanning device. It registered 'unknown'.

"A lot of help you are." She muttered at the tricorder, and then closed it. She propped herself up against her desk thinking… when her comm. badge crackled.

"Doctor to anyone on this damn ship that can hear me!" Janeway grinned because the doctor hardly ever used profane words unless he was extremely agitated. She reached up and tapped her badge to link the two badges.

"Janeway here. What's your status, Doctor?"

"It's about time! What on earth is going on? I can't get a hold of anybody and…" Janeway herd something on the other end. It sounded like a fizzing sound mixed with raw electricity. "…oh dear. My matrix is destabilizing." Janeway stood up.

"Doctor, the main computer is failing, transfer your program to the mobile emitter, hurry!"

"Yes Ma'am." She herd his feet thud through her comm. badge as he ran into his office. "Computer, transfer the EMH program to the mobile emitter!"

Standby.- Came the reply from the sickbay computer. "Standby? Captain what's going on? What if it doesn't get my program transferred before it goes offline? Oh my, there is green stuff leaking into the room! Captain are you alright?" He frantically rambled.

"Doctor calm down. I'm fine, you're the only one I've been able to talk to, I don't know what the green stuff is, I've encountered it already too, the computer says it's hazer…" Janeway was cut off by the computer's voice coming through her comm. badge.

EMH Program sucesssssfullllllllllllllllllllllllll- And then it quit. "Doctor?" Janeway cried in alarm.

"Still here. It did it at the very last second… I think the computer went offline." Suddenly Janeway herd the warp reactor go offline. The lights in the room flickered, and came back on. Janeway suddenly felt herself lifting off the ground, due to gravity loss.

"Doctor, Voyagers systems are failing one by one, first we need to find out what this gas is and neutralize it so we can get around the ship. Can you get a sample of it and find out what it is? I can't touch it since it's hazardous. Besides, my tricorder couldn't make heads or tails of it."

"I can try, maybe a medical tricorder can make better sense of it. I'll contact you when I find anything."

"Alright, don't take too long though, life support won't be too far down the line."

"Yes, Captain. Doctor out." Janeway floated around the room for a minute, and then fixed her eyes on the door. Suddenly she smelled something unsettling. She looked down to the carpet where the gas had leaked in by the door, and then she realized, the carpet was disintegrating… the gas was eating right through it.

End of Chapter One.

I hope everyone likes it… this story is going to be quite a bit longer than my last one. This story also will jump ahead into the future when Voyager will have been back in the Alpha Quadrant for quite some time. Just a heads up. Please Review, give input, etc.