A/N- You all know the legal mumbo jumbo. Voyager and all characters belong to Paramount, except the Janeway children.
In the Paris residence, Tom had managed to wrestle the engine schematics from Miral and begin working on them some more while B'Elanna and Miral were deciding what to wear for Taya's party.
"What about the blue dress?" B'Elanna said.
"My eyes are blue, they'll clash." Miral said.
"Ok, green?" B'Elanna suggested.
"Taya's wearing green." Miral said. B'Elanna sighed.
"What about the purple?" B'Elanna said, holding up a purple dress with a layered skirt, each a paler shade of the colour.
"Ok. I'll put it on and be ready in a minute." Miral said.
"Ok, I'll see you downstairs." B'Elanna said. She walked out of her daughter's room and went to join Tom.
"Has she decided what she's wearing?" Tom said.
"Finally." B'Elanna sighed again.
"Well, she takes after you. You can never decide what to wear." Tom said. B'Elanna hit him playfully. Then Miral came down. Her parents just looked at her.
"How do I look?" Miral said.
"Like a little princess." Tom said. He rushed around and scooped his daughter into his arms and twirled her around. She giggled. B'Elanna smiled.
"Ok, daddy, but you have to get dressed now." Miral said.
"She's right, Tom. I'm sure the engine specs can wait for a few hours." B'Elanna said.
"It looks like I have no choice. I'm out numbered 2 Klingons to one measly human." Tom said.
"Part Klingon." Miral said with a pout.
"I stand corrected." Tom said. "She's definitely your daughter."
"Go on, get out of here." B'Elanna laughed.
"Alright, I'm going. I love you." Tom said.
"I love you too." B'Elanna said.
"Love you daddy." Miral said.
"Love you too honey." Tom said. Then he went upstairs. He was up there for 10 minutes when B'Elanna came to him. "What are you doing here?"
"To spend a minute with my husband." B'Elanna said.
"Where's Miral?" Tom asked.
"She's playing downstairs. The doors are all locked. She's safe." B'Elanna said. Then they heard something. Miral screamed.
"MOMMY! DADDY!" She screamed.
"MIRAL!" B'Elanna screamed. She and Tom bolted down the stairs, but by the time they got there, she was gone.
"Miral!" Tom called. There was no answer. They searched the house and the surrounding areas frantically, but she was nowhere to be found.
"She's gone, my baby." B'Elanna sobbed hard. She clung to Tom, whose eyes shone with tears.
"Who could have done this?" Tom said.
"I don't know, but when I find, I will make them regret it." B'Elanna said.
"We can't do this alone. We'll go to Starfleet, see if they can help us and if not, go ourselves." Tom said.
"When we find those responsible, Tom, don't expect me to hold back." B'Elanna said through her teeth before burying her head in Tom's shoulder and sobbing hard.
Back in Indiana, Chakotay had managed to heal Janeway's shoulder with a dermal regenerator.
"How does that feel?" He asked.
"Much better, thank you. Why would they do this, Chakotay? Why would the Borg take our children and not assimilate the planet?" Janeway said.
"I don't know." Chakotay said.
"I should have done more, but I couldn't help them." Janeway said as she started to sob again. Chakotay pulled her into a hug.
"You did everything you could. They ambushed you and came out of nowhere." Chakotay said, teas brimming in his eyes.
"For all we know, they could be in Borg maturation chambers." Janeway said.
"Kathryn, I don't want to hear you speak like we've already lost them. If there's even the slimmest chance of saving them, it's a risk worth taking." Chakotay said. He kissed her.
"You're right. I'm sorry. We need to do something." Janeway said.
"I know, but we don't even know where to start." Chakotay said. Then, as if in response to Chakotay's statement, the computer beeped indicating an incoming transmission. They activated the screen and saw the groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy, Boothby.
"Boothby? I'm sorry, but this is a bad time. What can we do for you?" Janeway said.
"Captain Janeway, thankfully I found you. I'm not the Boothby you know from Starfleet Academy." Boothby said. It suddenly dawned on them.
"Species 8472." Janeway said.
"That's right and before you think we've come to invade you, we're actually here to warn you." Boothby said.
"Warn us about what?" Chakotay said.
"The Borg are coming and they have a devastating plan in store for your people." Boothby said.
"The Borg have already been. They took our children." Janeway said.
"I was afraid of that. We got here as fast as we could, but obviously not fast enough." Boothby said.
"You said that the Borg have a devastating plan for Earth, can you tell us what that is?" Chakotay said.
"And what it has to do with our children?" Janeway said.
"We've been developing advanced cloaking technology and we've been monitoring the Borg when we intercepted one of their damaged vessels and extracted an information node from the ship. We found that they plan to adopt a new plan of action since their last few direct assaults on the Federation have proved a failure and inefficient, as they put it. They decided to attack what you cared about the most." Boothby said.
"The children." Janeway almost whispered.
"Yours aren't the only ones who are missing. They also found a more efficient use for the children. Assimilated adults if separated from the collective are easier to reinstate into society and also become defective earlier." Boothby said.
"Children will grow up as Borg and last longer. They'll also be a hell of a lot harder to reintegrate into society." Janeway said.
"You'll remember the trouble you had with Seven of Nine." Boothby said.
"So what do we do?" Janeway said.
"We want to help you, and we know you still a virus that would attack the cybernetic implants of the Borg." Boothby said.
"But how do we rescue the children?" Chakotay said.
"I don't know yet, but it would involve you going back." Boothby said.
"Where?" Janeway and Chakotay said together.
"The Borg's domain." Boothby said.
"The Delta Quadrant." Janeway said.
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