This is the second 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 story "Punishment" it would be advisable to set up why this new character is aboard Voyager.

Captured! Chapter 2

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Chapter 2: To Serve or to Die

"Who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing on my ship!" Captain Janeway stood forward domineering as she always was. A man stepped forward about the same height as her but with ridges over his chin and bald and his ears stuck out from his head.

"I'm sorry Captain Janeway for my lack of manners but this is the only way we can achieve our goals"

"What goals"

"You have entered the space of the Antillians, your ship will be stripped for weapons, technology and your crew will be re-trained to service us. They will make adequate housekeepers and servants as well as the mines can always use a few more strong arms"

"They would rather die"

"Well execution is another acceptable option," the stranger said, suddenly a voice came over the comm channel

"We are ready leader," the voice bellowed

"Transport the crew to Cargo Bay 1, except the senior officers they are to be held in the brig" all the crew shimmered out of the mess hall and into their respective locations.

"Why hold the senior officers separate leader"

"The nature of this crew and race means that the rest of the crew look to the senior staff for orders and advice in a crisis, if you take that away the rest of the crew will not know what to do and will be more manageable" they left the mess hall and headed for a turbolift "Make sure you remove the crew's comm badges and make sure they do not have access to any technology that may facilitate an escape"

"Yes leader, this particular ship has a lot of Borg technology as well as a Borg crewmember"

"I know I read the report, according to the Captain's logs she is headstrong and very strong willed, she may have to be executed I doubt she will take to servitude like some of the others will."

"Yes leader, shall we execute her now"

"No she will be given the choice like the rest" they both stepped into the turbolift "Bridge" the leader said quite loudly

Crawling through the intestines of a ship was Simon not knowing where or what he was doing.

"Fuck why didn't you stop them Simon" and he thought to himself before answering his own question "because you'd probably be dead you stupid idiot think what the fuck do I do"

Simon stopped and he tried to calm down he sat in the Jeffries tube for a second "right lets list the things one has to do. Number one acquire a weapon, number two find out what the hell is going on, number three stop these assholes" with his purpose found he crawled and found a ladder he knew there was an armoury on deck 6 but without an access code he wouldn't be able to gain access. His quarters was on deck 8 and he had some weapons there he thought that was the only place to go but climbing through 6 decks of damn Jeffries tubes didn't sound like fun but it was something he had to do

"Why do these things always happen to me, saying I'm done fighting and then what happens I have to fight for my life and the life of the crew" he thought about that for a second as he climbed down "I have never had to fight for a crew before, I have always been fighting for myself and plus these people probably aren't prepared to die"

Simon had been climbing for what seemed like a hour but was only about 15 minutes really before he reached a hatch with deck three and a down arrow written on the wall beside the hatch. He tapped the open sequence and the hatch opened dutifully and he proceeded through it.

Captain Janeway held a somewhat less than formal meeting from inside a brig cell with all the senior staff looking at her as she paced up and down.

"What I want to know Mr Tuvok is how the hell the intruder alert alarm did sound as soon as they came aboard"

"Well Captain from what I can discern it seems that they managed to hack the main computer and re-route internal sensors, as well as several other key systems"

"Damn it, options"

"There isn't much we can do Captain" Chakotay put forward "I believe we can only watch the enemies movements and wait for an opportunity to escape and re-take the ship"

"What about Simon" Tom spoke up

"Well he left shortly before we were taken he might of escaped"

"Yes but he could have been captured and taken to Cargo Bay 1 with the rest of the crew or he could have been killed" Tuvok spoke up "Mr Hartstone is not the kind of man to let himself be captured its quite likely that he may have been shot"

"What about the Doc" Harry spoke up this time

"The Doctor does have experience in fighting hostile forces like the Kazon but he still lacks a lot of tactical experience," Tuvok said

"Ok well I'd like to look at the optimistic view at the moment Mr Tuvok" the Captain spoke "I'd like to think Mr Hartstone has escaped and is currently formulating a plan to save us as for the Doctor well I'm hoping Mr Hartstone will remember the Doctor and try to contact him somehow"

The Doctor was worried, he didn't know if he was originally programmed to worry but he was damn worrying now. He had managed to hide from the armed men that stormed sickbay he quickly de-activated his program. He had also managed to mask his program with some other files hoping that the program would be overlooked.

"Why was I not programmed with a tactical subroutines?" he complained to himself as he paced up and down sickbay. Of course the Doctor had been part of the force that took over the Kazon, but at the time he didn't have his mobile emitter and he didn't do any of the legwork that Lon Suder did.

"Well I should be the perfect solider I cant be harmed by phaser fire," and then he looked down at the part of him that could be harmed by phaser fire his mobile emitter, if that was damaged his program could be permanently damaged or completely lost.

Although it pained him to do it the Doctor did the only thing he could do in the situation he decided to hide, if he remained hidden he might be able to do something later. "Computer" he said in a solemn and quiet tone "De-activate EMH" and the Doctor shimmered out of existence.