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 5

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Chapter 5: A Friendly Voice

The guard walked into sickbay with the dead Ranstain over his shoulder he walked into the part of sickbay that was kept for the dead crewmembers until they could be given a proper send off. He pulled out an empty draw and laid the dead body onto it and closed the draw again. He turned and walked out of the room. A figure then materialised in the centre of the room.

"Hmm looks like I had a visitor as he checked the sensor logs" The doctor walked over to the morgue and pulled out the draw containing the dead guard. He looked at the guard for a second and smiled slightly while as a doctor he was supposed to care for all life, this was an extreme situation where the ship had been commandeered by a hostile force. "Massive blood loss due to a slashed major artery as he looked down at the dead guards neck, I wonder who done this" the doctor thought and he could only come up with two possible conclusions "His death was punishment for some major mistake by his people, or a member of the crew has escaped detection"

The Doctor shut the draw again and sat down as his desk and he called up a sensor sweep of the ship, all the crew were held in Cargo Bay 1 or there were some crewmembers held in the brig. The Doctor recognised the bio-signs as belonging to the senior officers. He decided he had open a comm channel to see if anyone was out there it was risky but he knew he was going to save the ship by himself and he knew he wasn't going to save the ship by playing it safe.

The Doctor opened a secure Starfleet channel a routed it through the internal comm system. "Doctor to any Starfleet crewmember please respond" the channel remained dead he decided he should try again "Doctor to any anybody please respond" the channel still remained dead and the Doctor was about to close it for fear of detection before a voice came through

"Doctor this Lieutenant Hartstone I'm here "

"Lieutenant!" the Doctor almost screamed, "I'm glad to hear a friendly voice"

"Same here Doctor, you may want to hide some guards are bringing some of my work your way"

"Your work?" the Doctor looked confused, but then he looked at the draw containing the dead guard "They have already deposited him into a draw in the morgue so that was your doing"

"Yep" Simon answered simply

"You couldn't have incapacitated him in some other way and not straight out killed him" the Doctor said a little of his compassion coming out

"Well Doctor he was trying to kill me, so I had to make a judgement call and frankly I intend on lining up his 19 buddies next to him as well"

"Ok Mr Hartstone, I understand killing people is going to be part of this"

"It sure as hell is Doctor"

"Where are you"?

"I'm heading towards Deck 8 Doc"

"Can you come here I think we need to come up with a plan of some sorts"

"Agreed but first I have to go to my quarters and secure my weapons so I have something to fight with"

"Ok Doctor out"

The turbolift deposited Simon on Deck 8 and he poked his dead out of the door with his phaser drawn and he slowly made his way down the corridor. He was thinking about how he was going to get himself as well as an extra one hundred and fifty people out of this. He was so glad the deck was deserted as he made his way to his quarters and keyed in the open command, the doors opened and he looked around before he slid through the doors and they closed again.

"Computer seal the doors" he walked over to the chest of drawers and he pressed the button to open the top draw. He removed all his clothes all over the floor and he got to the bottom and there were his Desert Eagles resting with the holster, he grabbed the holster and he put his arms through the straps and strapped it to himself before picking up the weapons and putting them onto his coffee table. He then opened the second drawer and emptied out all of his clothes and he pulled out his shotgun and he opened it and checked the barrel before snapping it shut.

He walked over to the replicator and programmed it by hand and a few seconds later eight rectangular boxes appeared on the replicator platform. "Good thing is I can near enough replicate clips whenever I need to" he said to himself before he picked up the Desert Eagles one by one and jammed and clip into each of them and cocked each of them.

He put the spare ones in the section of the holster reserved for extra clips to be put. He then he did some more programming and a box appeared which read 'Shotgun Shells Capacity 50' on it he opened the box and opened the shotgun and slid six shells down the barrel before snapping it shut again.

He looked in another draw, two combat knifes and the sheaths for them. He took of the belt holding the phaser and his tricorder and wrapped the belt round his waist and fastened it, he then put both the knives into their sheaths, which were both horizontally across his waistline. He then went to his wardrobe and pulled out his beaten leather black jacket that dropped to the floor and he put it on. He walked over to the box of shells and he pulled the remaining shells outand he jammed them into the inside pocket of his jacket.

Simon was about to move out of the door before he thought a second and he then went into his bedroom and under the bed he tugged out a box and he opened it and he pulled out three grenades, he turned them to look at the side which said 'Flash Bang' on them. He smiled and pocketed them and then he picked up the tricorder and phaser he has taken from the dead guard and stuffed them into the other pocket of his leather jacket.

"Computer unlock the doors to my quarters" and he poked his head out of the door again. He pulled the tricorder out of his pocket and he scanned for a second "No life-signs" he said to himself and he put it back in his pocket. He walked down the deck to an intersection where there was a Jeffries tube access port, as much as he wanted to use the turbolift he could not risk it as he might be discovered. He threw the shotgun inside first before he climbed inside himself and thought now he was got to climb up to sickbay and going up was always going to be harder than going down. He crawled along the tunnel until he found an access ladder to deck 7 and he started to climb.