Chapter Two- More Complications

The Doctor closed his medical tricorder and thoughtfully tapped it in his hand. The sickbay doors had corroded away completely and the gas had engulfed sickbay. After running numerous scans of the gas, his tricorder finally began to make sense of it. It was composed of several different substances, all of which were not in the tricorder database, and without the interface to Voyagers computer system, the Doctor had no way to cross-reference his findings. He sat down in his chair in his office and watched the gas swirl around sickbay. He glanced down at his blank computer terminal, and then heard a shatter noise. He shot his head back up and saw that it had eaten through several of the hypo-spray medication containers that had been sitting on the exam computer terminal. The contents of the hypo-spray containers had leaked out and were exposed to the gas. Suddenly, the gas started to shift colors.

"What on earth…" He muttered, as he sprang up, ran into the room, and opened his tricorder. The gas in the room started to swirl very fast in all different directions at once, and shift colors from blues to yellows and oranges. Suddenly, it turned deep blue and started loosing composition. His tricorder started to make shrill beeping noises as he looked down. The gas was compressing itself and decompressing itself… and suddenly it started to loose integrity. The tricorder beeped again and then went dead. Suddenly, the gas exploded. "Gaaaa!" The doctor yelled as he was thrown back up against the glass wall, shattering it. He landed on his desk, knocking all of the medical equipment and computer terminal off the desk. The gas explosion started a chain reaction, and spread throughout the ship.

Janeway had retreated to the far area of her quarters, and was holding on to the ceiling of her sonic shower when she heard it. The ship started to shake and there were numerous explosions coming from down the hallway.

"Oh no." She muttered as she slapped her comm. badge. "Janeway to the Doctor!" She said as the explosion reached the interior of her quarters. She squinted her eyes from the bright light, and she blacked out.

"Captain? Are you alright?" Tom Paris knelt down beside Captain Janeway as she slowly came to. He opened a tricorder and quickly ran it over her body. "Look's like you're fine, just some minor bumps and bruises. What happened?" Janeway slowly opened her eyes, and moaned because of the brightness.

"I was hoping you could tell me, Mr. Paris." She slowly muttered. Tom helped her to the turbolift, and moments later, she groggily set foot on her bridge. "What's the status of the main computer, Mr. Chakotay?" Chakotay looked up at her inquisitively.

"The computer? It's fine. What happened down there Captain? We lost communications with you and the Doctor for a few hours, we couldn't get anyone in, not even communications." Janeway frowned.

"Janeway to the Doctor." She waited, and got no reply. "Do you have communications restored with sickbay?" She shot up at Mr. Kim.

He glanced down at his panel and nodded.

"Janeway to sickbay, please respond." Still getting no reply, she turned and dashed back into the turbolift. "Mr. Kim, prepare a sensor report for the past twenty-four hours for me." She said, as the lift doors closed. Ensign Kim looked at Chakotay.

"What's wrong with her? Did something happen that we all missed?" Chakotay stared at the main viewscreen for a moment, then replied.

"It is odd that we completely lost communications with her and sickbay for the better part of the afternoon, who knows what could have happened."

Janeway, now feeling less light-headed, plowed out of the turbolift, turned two corners, and arrived in the main door of sickbay. The room seemed normal enough, nothing looked out of order whatsoever.

"Computer, locate the EM…" She stopped as she saw the Doctors mobile emitter laying on his desk next to the computer terminal. She waked over and picked it up and wiped her hand across it, for the emitters outer casing was charred, like it had been through an explosion. She narrowed her eyes, and glanced around sickbay. "Computer, is the EMH online?"

Negetave- came the response.

"Activate the EMH."

Unable to comply, the EMH core algorithms are in a severe state of data degradation- Janeway reached up and slapped her comm. badge.

"Janeway to Torres!" She hurriedly said.

"Torres here."

"Get up to sickbay immediately, the Doctor's program is degrading!"

"Yes ma'am." Janeway clutched to the emitter, and walked into the main room of sickbay, and just seconds later, B'Elanna transported in the room with an engineering kit.

"You said 'immediately'." B'Elanna said to Kathryn. She quickly tapped into the Doctors program through the sickbay computer. "Oh, my it's a mess in here."

"What?" Janeway asked as she looked over B'Elanna's shoulder.

"I don't know what happened to his program, there are bits and pieces spread all over the computer core. It looks like some of it never made it back to Voyagers computer either, some of it is probably still in the emitter… where is the emitter?" Janeway held it up, and saw B'Elanna cringe. "What happened to it?"

"I'm hoping the Doctor can answer that, if we get him back online." Janeway muttered.

"Well, it will take me a minute or two to put him back together, hold on." B'Elanna worked on the panel for several minutes, transferred the small portion of the program still in the emitter back into the Voyager computer core, and then stabilized his matrix. "That should do it." She said a few minutes later. They turned around from the panel and faced the open part of the room. "Computer, activate the EMH."

The doctor appeared in mid air, screaming. He was flying across the room, and slammed into the Starfleet Medical glass wall that separated the exam room from his office, shattering it. He crash-landed on his desk, knocking off a tricorder and his computer terminal, and finally landed in a crumpled heap at the corner of his office. "Doctor!" Janeway and Torres both shouted as they ran into the other room, and helped him up.

"Are you alright?" Janeway asked as the Doctor straightened his uniform.

"I'm a hologram, of course I am. But you, how did you escape that gas? Wait, where is the gas?" He twirled around in a circle looking around. He grabbed his tricorder off the floor and opened it. "It's gone." He muttered as he closed the unit. "What happened?" Kathryn Janeway looked at the doctor, and shook her head.

"I wish I knew… I wish I knew."

End of Chapter Two.

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