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 12

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Chapter 12: Decompression

The senior officers where being lead down towards Cargo Bay 1 on deck 11, they were being herded through the door like sheep through the sliding double doors. There were placed behind a force field and their captors raised their phaser rifles and walked out the door. While another man stood guard the officers looked around the room before Neelix came pushing through the crowd.

"Report Mr Neelix" Chakotay said

"Well Commander, people have been a little scared especially Naomi but I have been trying to keep their spirits up but with not much luck" Neelix looked on solemnly

"Don't worry about it Neelix" the Commander consoled "I'm sure you did your best"

"Thank you commander" he paused for a second "Where is the Captain"

"I don't know they took her to another location but they herded the rest of us here"

"Do you know why they brought you here sir" Neelix inquired

"No but I bet Mr. Hartstone has something to do with it"

"What, Simon I thought he was with you"

"Apparently he escaped and has been fighting with guerrilla style tactics against our captors but we haven't had any news in hours I hope he is ok"

"Well we didn't know anything about him, everyone just assumed he was with you or he was dead" Neelix looked around other people were starting to take interest in the conversation but considering it was the senior officers people did not want to add their take on the situation or even look like they were eavesdropping.

"Ok here's what's going to happen" the Commander suddenly taking charge "Ok department heads" he turned to the other senior officers "I want you to get your departments together Tuvok and B'Elanna your obviously security and engineering, Tom I want you to take the Biology department, Harry I want you to take Geology department, Seven I want you with Neelix and Samantha I want you to take Naomi to the back and keep her out of the way."

"Are you planning a breakout sir" Tuvok asked

"No Mr. Tuvok but if opportunity presents itself I want to be ready"

"Yes Sir" they all broke off and they all went off to their respective tasks.

"Hello there again Captain how are you" the Leader smiled as the Captain was escorted out of the turbolift with the tip of a phaser rifle in her back as the Leader drew a phaser and pointed it at her. The other man turned and re-entered the turbolift, the Captain looked round as the turbolift doors shut and then refocused on her host.

"Why have you brought me here"

"Well I thought you would want a front row seat for this"

"For what"

"The death of your crew" the Leader smiled while the Captain looked horrified. The Leader directed his attention to the man still at Ops.

"Open the comm frequency"

"Channel open"

"Mr Hartstone I believe I have something that may perk up your interest" the Leader smiled

"I have rounded up all the crewmembers including the command officers except the Captain in Cargo Bay 1 in 5 minutes I will begin the decompression sequence for the Cargo Bay at which point in time the entire crew will be sucked out into space" the Captain looked on completely horrified "And that begins right now"

Simon was still on deck 9 he decided to take another rest when the call came in, considering he could not have known he was still on deck 9 he must have broadcast that little message to him over the general broadcast system.

He pulled himself off his feet and we ran to the nearest turbolift

"Deck 11" he shouted, there was no time for climbing through Jeffries tubes anymore. He cocked his shotgun ready for a fight. As the turbolift travelled the relatively short distance he thought that all that had happened over the course of the day.

"Computer what is the time"

"0634 hours" Simon laughed, and all this had started with a party he thought. The turbolift started to slow down as it reached its destination and Simon took position on one of the sides of the door as the door opened a phaser shot whizzed past him into the turbolift wall. Simon wheeled round through the door knocked the phaser rifle out of the guards hand and promptly planted a shotgun shell in his belly and point blank range.

The man collapsed on the floor obviously dead, as Simon picked up the phaser rifle and slung it over his shoulder. He continued down the corridor and poked his head round the corner to a phaser shot that hit the bulkhead, the sparks flashing in his eyes. Two guards stationed outside the Cargo Bay as another phaser shot hit the wall. He needed a better position and he knew it, Simon dived across the corridor to the other side dodging two phaser shots. He picked himself up as two more phaser shots hit the bulkhead, he pressed his back up against the wall he waited, but the thing was they were waiting for him.

He decided to take the initiative as he wheeled round, jumping out from round the corner and firing his phaser, the shot planted into the belly of the man closest to him. He dived back to his previous hiding place as another shot whizzed past him. He pressed his back up against the bulkhead before wheeling round and again but this time he dived onto his belly and when he hit the ground he fired catching the other guard directly in the head. The man fell and Simon pulled himself to his feet and ran up to the Cargo Bay the customary doubled doors he pressed the open sequence on the panel and the doors slid open as he wheeled into the room. His rifle raised he scanned the room and seeing no immediate dangers he shouldered the rifle and ran over to Commander Chakotay who stood at the front smiling as most of the crew was doing as well

"Mr. Hartstone good to see you"

"Thank you Sir, sorry I am a little late but I think pleasantries can wait till we get out the door"

"We heard they are going to decompress the Cargo Bay but we are stuck behind a force-field" he raised his hand and touched the field to make his point. Simon sighed they weren't making it easy

"Computer how long till the decompression sequence begins"

"3 minutes and 45 seconds" the computer responded politely" Simon walked over to a console and started tapping controls. As Simon was working another figure came up behind him.

"Simon watch out," Harry screamed as Simon was clubbed over the back of the neck.