No one got much sleep that night. Sure the people seemed nice enough to most of the away team, but this was a strange place with people they knew nothing about. Seven couldn't help but feel uneasy. Normally when they came across a new spices she could call upon the vast amount of knowledge she still had from her time with the Borg, but she knew nothing of these people and Seven really hated being unprepared. She was also well aware of how these people felt about her. It was hard to feel relaxed in place that you knew didn't want you there.
While Neelix had gone off once again to help prepare a meal, Harry and Seven worked out a plan for making repairs. They just needed enough get up and go to get them close enough to where they were suppose to meet Voyager for the ship to catch their distress call.
"Breakfast is ready." Neelix announced as he came back into the room. "And I think you will enjoy it."
Harry reframed from saying that the change in cooking was defiantly an enjoyment and simply smiled at his friend. All three of the others followed Neelix into the kitchen even though the Doctor didn't eat and Seven didn't feel like it.
"It has been long enough now that Voyager must know something has gone wrong." Seven said as she stood next to the small table the others were seated at. "I will attempt to contact the ship again before we return to the shuttle."
Nunciata offered Seven a warm smile as she gave Harry more food. "Do you think your ship will be closer now?"
Seven nodded. "They would have begun a search once they were sure we were not just running late."
"It might take them a while to get through all those pockets out there, Seven." Harry spoke up. "Voyager isn't going to have it as easy as we did avoiding them."
The Doctor couldn't help but snort. "You call that easy going, Mister Kim? I think you need to redefine that phrase."
Once Harry and Neelix had finished eating the small group prepared to head back to the small building with the commutations unit. Neelix was working on a trade with Nunciata for their version of coffee beans when Kentaro walked into the room, flanked by several large looking men.
"That's her." Kentaro said as he pointed at Seven.
The sight of the goons and the look on Kentaro's face made all four Voyager crewmen uneasy and the three men all moved a little closer to Seven. The four goons stepped closer and raised their weapons.
"You will come with us Borg." The oldest looking of the men demanded.
Harry and Neelix moved in closer to Seven's sides as the Doctor moved in front of her. "What is going on here?" He asked as he looked at each of the armed men. His thoughts, like Harry's and Neelix's, was to protect Seven. It never really dawned on him that if one of the men fired the beam of energy would go right through him and hit Seven anyway.
The lead goon looked at him stone faced. "We do not have issues with the rest of you. You are free to move about the village and to contact your ship to arrange your departure, but the Borg will come with us."
"Seven isn't going anywhere with you and do stop calling her 'the Borg' she has a name." The Doctor huffed. "She hasn't done anything wrong. She's been with us the whole time."
"Kentaro what is going on here?" Nunciata asked.
Kentaro just moved her out of the way. "The elders have made their choice."
"What choice?" Harry asked.
"Please step aside or we will remove you. The Borg is to come with us." The lead goon repeated.
Seven didn't want to start any trouble, nor did she want her friends hurt in any scuffle that might happen, so she willingly stepped away from her protectors. "Why am I being apprehended?"
The men didn't answer her. The lead man simply raised his weapon and stunned her, causing Seven to sink to the floor. The Doctor quickly moved towards her but he wasn't fast enough. Two of the armed men picked Seven up and dragged her from the house.
"This is an outrage!" The Doctor protested. "Why was she fired upon! I am her doctor and demand to be allowed to escort her to make sure you Neanderthals didn't harm her!"
The lead goon looked at him and snarled. "She is a Borg. For the safety of our people she was stunned for transport. You may come with us and take up your protest with the Elders."
"You go with Seven Doc. I'm going to call the ship." Harry said. "The Captain is going to want to know what's going on as soon as possible."
The Doctor nodded and then followed the lead goon to their transport. He ignored the men's protests as he scanned Seven to make sure she was alright. They were taken to a building larger then the one they called the great hall and then lead to a room with a long table with several older looking Zokinians sitting behind it. Seven was drug into the middle of the room, her limp body hanging between two of the goons, while the Doctor remained at her side. One of the Elders ordered Seven retrained and awoken. One of the goons walked over with a pair of restraints that would encase Seven's hands and forearms. After he secured her he injected her with something while the Doctor protested and demanded to examine it.
"Who is this?" One of the Elders demanded.
"I am the Doctor." The Doctor told him. "I'm Seven's crewmate and friend."
That caused a rumble of whispers in the room. "Borg do not have friends."
"She is no longer a Borg!" The Doctor spat at them. "She hasn't been one for five years, nearly six years!"
The older set of Zokinians looked Seven up and down as she slowly came too.
"What is the meaning of this?" She demanded as she gave her foggy head a slight shake.
Again she was ignored as one of the Elders came over to her to look at her implants more closely. Seven jerked away when he went to touch her. Her actions surprised the man and he returned to his seat. The Doctor and Seven watched as the panel had a conversion but didn't hear a word that was said.
Again Seven spoke up. "Why have I been detained? Why did you stun me?"
The man in the middle looked at her. "You are Borg. You will be held accountable for what you have done to us."
Seven lifted her left brow. "I have done nothing to you."
"You attacked us on our homeworld. You killed and assimilated over half of our population. The people you see here are the only ones left. The only ones to escape you." One of the women said.
"Seven didn't do that personally." The Doctor protested. "You can not prosecute her for what the Borg did."
One of the other men slammed his hand on the table. "She is Borg!"
Seven and the Doctor both opened their mouths to say something but the man in the middle held up his hands. "This is our world and we will proceeded according to our laws. You will be her advocate." He said pointing at the Doctor. Then he looked at his goons. "Have her locked in a secured room."
The goons advanced on Seven again and she felt herself wanting to fight, but she knew better. She knew the rules about overriding alien governmental laws, and she knew that Kathryn wouldn't want her making things worse. So Seven allowed them to walk her to a small room in the lower level of the building and lock her in. She felt her emotions bubble up but she took a deep breath to calm herself. She knew without any doubt that Kathryn would come for her, she just needed to be patient. She just hoped that these people wouldn't allow their fear and anger push them into doing something before Kathryn could get there.