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Chapter 5

He was glad the human woman was, in a way, on his side. Neelix always delivered his meals but they didn't talk much, and Tuvok never mentioned Voyager. It was to be expected, after all.

There was something different in him, now. He had been extraordinarily lucky, so far. He also didn't feel as tired as before.

He spied the Engineering room. He longed to adjust the antimatter flow, but he would do as Voyager asked. He hid and touched his comm badge. "Suder to Voyager."

"Yes."

"I want to adjust the antimatter flow."

"The injector will freeze. They will probably realize no-one adjusted it today and that there is an intruder. No, not yet."

"It's been two hours! We need to slow down the ship, we.."

"The Doctor just told me Paris escaped. There will be a Talaxian attack and you'll need to get the computer to block the discharge from the backup phaser power couplings. That means either you, me or both of us will need to go into Engineering, which is packed with Kazon. Meet me in Holodeck two as soon as you can."

"So we do nothing?!"

"Oh, not exactly. I just planted a surprise in a destroyed plant lab on deck eight."

"Those were my quarters.", he frowned.

"Don't come near them. If by some chance you are captured by a giant, wiggling, constricting plant, use your phaser or simply relax against its hold; it will release you. See you on holodeck two. You will be asked for a password. Just say your name out loud. Voyager out."

He fumed. He just wanted to do something for the ship. Yet, he was also curious about this plant she spoke of. He had become very interested in floriculture and he didn't know any plant in the entire known universe which did that. It sounded more like an animal than plant.

Thirty minutes later, he was on Holodeck two. He had just avoided two Kazon, and the deck was empty. He took a couple of steps and felt the temperature drop significantly, followed by a whisper.

"Password?"

"Lon Suder.", he whispered back, looking around him. As he turned his back again, an old oak door was sliding up from the floor and opened up, revealing plants and a dirty path. Phaser in hand, he entered and the door slammed closed behind him.

"Welcome, Mr. Suder."

"Miss Voyager.", fuck, she was fast. And silent.

"Just call me Voyager. Please come with me."

The woman guided him to a hut and started arming herself with several knifes.

"While you came here I've been sabotaging the ship."

"What! But you told me not to!"

"Yes, but I've been tampering with non-essential systems. The idea is to keep as many Kazon busy as possible at the same time. And annoy them. Make their food disappear or make it too salty or too cooked to eat. That sort of thing. Wear them down, until the attack. The funny thing is that, once they fix the problems, they come right back up, as if they had done nothing.", he stared. How did she manage to do all of it in under two hours?

"Time frame?"

"Every thirty minutes. In the meantime, my plant, Devil's Snare, will keep growing. Of course they'll figure out phasers are a partial solution, but they haven't yet. My plant has already put twenty Kazon out of commission. At least twenty more were feeling under the weather and are feeling like death froze over as they've been having… trouble… finding sickbay."

His jaw dropped. From 89 Kazon, they now only had to worry with nearly half, scattered along a big ship.

"Now, what have you found out?"

"That's why they are so busy. And distracted.", he muttered.

"Yes, I expect you didn't have any run-ins with the present crew." The Betazoid shook his head, his dark eyes glimmering. "Good. The Talaxians must be coming soon. The Kazon won't immediately think the plant was, well, placed by an intruder, because it originated on the deck the explosion occurred. They'll think it broke the plant out of containment."

"Which leaves 49 Kazon scattered along the ship. Seska will be near the Bridge with Culluh. Along with four or five, maybe six, more Kazon."

"We only have to worry about Engineering, really. Still, it is best if we were to improve our odds."

"What do you propose?"

"Well… I was thinking about drawing them here. I believe the Acromantulas won't mind being fed. Kazon might be a little harder to digest, but…"

"Acromantulas?", he asked, incredulous.

"Giant spiders. The hairy, carnivorous type."

"Unreal…", he muttered. "I wonder where you get these ideas from?"

"You'd be surprised.", she smirked. "Now… we are going to need live bait. They need to be lured in… Hmm…"

"I'll go. Please. I want to do something for the ship."

"Allright. Don't get caught, though. Maybe you could sabotage something in Engineering, now. It'll draw their attention. Or do what you feel it's necessary. Simply try to get half a dozen Kazon to follow you. Once you get in here, activate Voyager's Forbidden Forest program. I will make some changes to it, so nothing bad will happen to you. You will be guided out of the deck, once they are in too deep."

"That's all?"

"Don't worry, not a single one of them will be alive when it's over. And they won't be able to deactivate the program, or use their comm badges. I assure you."

"I'd pity them, if I could."

"I'm bringing Vorik, and the crew back. No matter what.", she paused. "Any questions?"

"No.", she touched his shoulder.

"Good luck. If you need help, don't be afraid to call out."

"All right.", he turned and left the hut. It looked like night had fallen, but little flowers were opening along his trek and lightening his way. It was a pretty picture. If he survived, he would ask Voyager about them.

There were no Kazon on that corridor. It no longer surprised him, considering the amount of trouble Voyager had been creating lately. He hid from two men getting out of the turbolift and called them.

"After him!", they yelled. He led them on a chase, trying to gather as many as possible. The alarm sounded.

'Intruder. Alert. Intruder. Alert.'

He had 5 or 6 Kazon behind him, and nearly missed two just as he entered the Holodeck.

"Activate program. Voyager's Forbidden Forest." The little glowing flowers were guiding him in the dark, and he ran and hid as fast as he could.

"In here!", more Kazon were being drew in. With luck, they would be around 10, now. He ran again, and didn't look back when he started hearing shouts, phaser blasts and screams of pain.

He ran towards a door and he was, once again, alone in the Holodeck. He shivered.

Then he hid in a Jeffrey tube and crawled near Engineering, calling Voyager.

"It's done."

"I know. Eleven more we don't need to worry about. We make a formidable pair." There was a thump, the ship moved. "I can't contact the Doctor. I'm near Engineering. I am going to walk in there, Suder, and you are going to seal the door manually."

"But…"

"No buts. The attack has begun. If I fail, it's up to you. Honorable Federation officers would never let a crewmate die alone like that, so they won't expect a second attack in the same place so soon. You know what to do. Voyager out."

And so he did as told. He still couldn't believe his luck. The corridor was a little cold, like the Holodeck had been, and he sealed her in with the Kazon. He hid and managed to enter Engineering, discreetly. He watched the human.

She moved gracefully. She yielded her katana superbly, slicing them across their abdomens, their backs, their main arteries on the neck, dodging phaser blasts and delivering a few of her own. There was so much blood all over the floor. Two of them slipped on it and hit their heads.

Voyager then stopped, all her opponents' dead. For good measure, she quickly hit all of them with phaser blasts, and only then did she approach the console. Hitting a few commands, it was done.

"You can come out now, Suder." She looked at him, cool as a cucumber. "You look disturbed."

"I never saw a human fight like you." She nodded. Both of them made themselves busy. "The Kazon are abandoning the ship.", she kept silent for a minute.

"I'll be back as soon as I can."

"Voyager, wait!", he called. But she was already leaving through the Jeffries tube. "Where are you going?"

"Loose strings. Don't worry."

She crawled into the Jeffries tube and soon reached the Engineering entrance, and unsealed it. Moving towards the turbolift, she soon reached deck eight. Stepping over the dead Kazon, she flicked her wand, vanishing the bodies along with the Devil's Snare, repeating the process in the other affected decks. She apparated directly into sickbay and removed the wards she had set hours ago.

"What now?" she noticed one of the control panels were damaged, and cast a Reparo. Accessing it, she brought the Doctor back.

"Thank goodness, Miss Voyager. They…", she interrupted him.

"I'm sorry, Doctor, but we have already retaken the ship. The Kazon are gone. We are heading towards Hanon system. You're going to have your hands full, soon enough."

"No rest for the weary…", he grumbled.

"Indeed. I'm going to sort out the mess hall. People will need to eat, and I don't even know if Neelix… survived. Excuse me. I'll come back to help you when I can.", she turned her back to the Doctor and left.

Once there, she lifted the curses she had cast on the place. She smirked. She waved her wand and started on some very basic scrambled (giant) eggs. Thank Merlin for Mrs. Weasley's insistence on household charms. She preferred Muggle style cooking, but she didn't have the time. Turning her back on the counter, she scourgified the whole place, leaving squeaky clean. Pausing, she checked the eggs, cooked part of them (leaving plenty to spare and feed a small army) and placed ten of them on a trolley, under a stasis charm, directing it towards Engineering entrance, using a spell very much like the internal mail in the Ministry of Magic. She ate one other dose, and took two others with her, along with two pieces of fruit. Heading toward the Bridge, she found Tom Paris frantically trying to place everything in order, multitasking.

"Voyager! God, I'm so glad to see you. Can you believe it, Suder's handling the ship's engines, but it's getting a little too much for him. I can handle the Bridge. Will you help him? Where have you been?" she gave him a plate. "I'm not supposed to eat while… oh, okay, okay, no need to glare at me like that. I'm eating, I'm eating… Hmm, hmm, 's good stff.", she grimaced and handed him the fruit, turned on her heels and fled to Engineering. The man was eating like Ron Weasley.

"Eat, take a break.", she gave Suder his meal. "Don't argue. You're going to need your strength. We'll stay until the engineers come. When they do, you'll greet them outside, while I stay here. I left some food there."

"They'll want to get to work.", she snorted.

"We'll see if they can resist a properly cooked meal, after spending so many hours in a cold inhospitable planet. Besides, they'll have to huff and puff if they want to clear this place enough to work properly.", she sighed. "I made quite a mess."

"Yes, but if we have the ship back, it's thanks to you."

"And you, you were also very important, Mr. Suder. No, stop shaking your head! I know what it's like to be alone against the world, and it's… disturbing to me. You might not have killed Kazons but your presence helped me. I wasn't so alone, and…", she paused. "Let's just move a couple of bodies out of the way, shall we?"

"All right.", he answered.