Chapter Two: Taking the Reigns

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Cube 1674 dropped out of Transwarp in orbit of a Borg planet. With the Unicomplex gone Alissa had chosen this planet to be the center of the Collective for now. Dozens of vessels were orbiting the planet. In the time it had taken for the Cube to make its way to the planet Alissa had restored her appearance to what it had been. Unlike her predecessor, she had not elected to become a disembodied head.

In one of the cube's many viewing bays the new Queen and the original Queen's hologram were watching the planet come into view.

"Well, what do you think?' Alissa asked. She had regrown her hair and it now reached the middle of her back. Her skin was normal but she was clad in a suit of Borg exoplating like the original Queen. Her left arm was also covered in a web of metal that supported a Borg plasma weapon.

"You look beautiful," her holographic friend replied. The Queen's program was actually semi-sentient. It was a bit less advanced than an EMH but more than sufficient for Alissa. "Now, are you ready?"

"I'm ready," Alissa replied. Her link to the Collective was about to be restored, but this time she would be the guiding voice of it all.

"All right. Here we go." Slowly the voices of the Collective began speaking to Alissa. First just one, then two, three, a hundred. It continued and for a moment Alissa was afraid she would lose herself in the tide of voices. Then it was finished. She could hear them all now. The collective filled her mind.

"I can hear them all," she said. "It's incredible. There are so many of them. They're all waiting for me to tell them what to do."

"Well then, tell them what you want done." Alissa thought for a minute.

"Ok. Well, the first thing we must do is rebuild the Unicomplex. Second we have to rebuild the Transwarp Hub Janeway destroyed. Without it the Collective's movements are slowed."

"WE WILL COMPLY," the Collective answered. Alissa felt the massive might of the Borg move in response to her thoughts.

"Wow," Alissa said. "I just thought of what I wanted and it happened."

"Like I said Alissa, you rule the Borg now. They will do anything you want them to do."

After construction had begun on the Unicomplex and Transwarp Hub Alissa began a review of all the resources under her control. She absorbed an incredible amount of information in just a few hours. The Collective's supplies of raw materials were still nearly full. It would take a fair portion of them to complete Alissa's construction plans, but that didn't matter.

After she regenerated she put her mind to thinking what she would do next. She called the Queen's hologram to her. She was still relying on her to help her. She had been the first person she had met when she had emerged from the maturation chamber and was fast becoming a friend. Her program was also growing, becoming more complex and as a result the two Queens were fast becoming friends. This was only natural sense they were the only two drones with personalities.

"Tell me," Alissa said. "With all the power the Borg have, why haven't we conquered the entire galaxy by now?"

"A good question," the Queen replied. "I knew that once this galaxy was assimilated, the Borg would have no way to reach others. So the Borg expanded slowly over the centuries. Once we found a race with the technology for intergalactic travel the assimilation of this galaxy could begin." Alissa nodded.

"But that approach never yielded results. Perhaps the technology does exist but it either lies with a race we have not encountered yet, or perhaps several technologies we already possess can accomplish that if they were combined."

"Perhaps, but the Borg gain knowledge from assimilation, not by themselves."

"That's about to change," Alissa said. "I am a prodigy, and by abilities have only become stronger since my assimilation. I can do the research myself," she said. "Tell me, what do you think of humanity?"

"They are one of the most resistant races the Borg have ever encountered. They have resisted all our efforts to assimilate them." The Queen replied.

"That is only because we have never expended any significant effort. We only send one vessel at a time. Each of those times they have barely managed to stop us, so imagine what would happen of we sent ten vessels. Once the Unicomplex and Transwarp Hub are back online I'm going to start what the Borg should have done a long time ago," Alissa said, smiling. In the meantime, she had some research to do.

How was that? Sorry the chapters are so short. I promise the next one will be longer. In the next chapter some time will have gone by. I hope you like it when I'm done. Well, see ya in the next chapter, and don't forget to review!

ENTILZA