"Status" barked Janeway as she strut into the cargo bay.

"He is in full stasis, Ayala helped him into the chamber once Chakotay threatened to throw him in the brig." Be'lanna shouted back from across the room.

Janeway walked quickly to the controls, throwing a death-glare toward Ayala standing sheepishly in a corner, and started to try and cut power.

"Chakotay, or someone at least, has locked out every function on the machine, I can't access anything. Even your command codes are unlikely to breach his lockout Captain."

Janeway soon discovered Torres was right. She tried every command code, Ship's Captain, Level 10, Starfleet Inquiry, even her father's old Admiralty code, but nothing worked.

Frustrated she slammed a fist on the console.

"Lieutenant I need access, now! Get all of engineering down here if you have too. Also get the Doctor and have him send Kes immediately. I need to get him out!"

"I'm sorry Captain, there isn't anything Engineering will be able to do." Torres stood beside her Captain as both their hands came to rest on their consoles. Unable to get a response.

"I will call the Doctor though."

Be'lanna looked at her Captain expecting to see anger, instead she saw her head down arms on either side of the screen, she couldn't believe it but she could swear she saw a silent sob and a quiver in her arms.

"Captain…" Be'lanna walked to her, "Captain?"

Janeway blinked and straightened up, hands staying where they were, but finally turning her head.

"Yes, Ms. Torres?"

Be'lanna was taken aback by the level of sadness and worry in her Captain's eyes. Every time the crew was in danger Janeway took the threat personally and looked out for her crew with the care and love of a protective mother hen. But this… she had seen the same look just hours before, but in the eyes of Chakotay…

"Captain we will get him back, I promise. He is strong, and if anyone can defeat that entity besides you, it's him. Especially when you are in danger." She added.

"What do you mean by that Lieutenant?"

Torres cringed internally at the slip up, "I- I just mean, I know he will take care of his Captain, hologram or not. And I know he did this in order to protect you."

Janeway couldn't argue that point, she could tell Be'lanna wasn't telling her something but decided to let it go.

"Thank you, I know we will get him out, I just hope we can do so with him all in one piece."

Torres was saved from having to respond by a beep from the panel beneath them. They both scanned the information hungrily, Janeway instantly slipping her command mode back into place.

"Look! It's a message from inside the program." Torres began to type in commands to get the message all the way through the system.

"How did he do this?" Janeway asked.

Without pausing in her work the engineer replied, "Most likely he used the same technique we did to send in the panel for me and Harry to exit the program. I just don't know how he is getting away with it."

They both stared as the message came through. It was short, and only text.

It read: 'No time. Send Kathryn. Only way out is through her.'

The women stared at the message then looked back up at one another.

"I have to."

"No! We cannot risk having both members of the command team inside this damned thing at the same time!As much as I hate to I will call Tuvok down here and he will agree."

"Be'lanna!" Janeway's voice had raised above that of Torres, and with the use of her first name, she became silent.

"Be'lanna please, let me help him."

"Captain, we don't even know if this message was sent by Chakotay, it could be fear manipulating the program."

"No, it's him. He used my name, the entity referred to me only by my title in your recount of the incident and the logs of Mr. Kim and The Doctor. Chakotay would know to call me that."

Torres paused, she did have a point, but what if the entity knew that using her name would draw her in? What if he had Chakotay trapped and was torturing him to get this information? What did he have to go through to get this message to them?

Unbeknownst to her, Kathryn was thinking through the same questions, but in her mind it was all her fault.

"I am going in."

"Captain-"

"There is no choice," she tapped her commbadge. "Janeway to Tuvok"

"Tuvok here Captain."

"You have the bridge until the Commander and I return, the only way to get him out is if I go in."

"Understood, I will send a security team to assist you. Tuvok out."

Janeway breathed a sigh of relief that Tuvok hadn't argued with her.

"Right, Be'lanna, contact the doctor and get him in on this,and remember to have him send Kes."

Be'lanna nodded and commed The Doctor.

Janeway walked to the glass case that held Chakotay, she watched his chest rise and fall as if he were sleeping. His brow was furrowed, and as she watched a beeping began on the console near Torres.

"What's going on?!" She yelled.

Chakotay's breath had quickened and he looked more distressed.

Her engineer's hands flew across the console.

"His heart is experiencing severe stress, he's going into shock."

At that moment the doors opened and Kes came running, hearing the alert.

"We must stabilize him." She said in her sing-songy voice.

"How?" said the Captain urgently.

"I am not sure, let me scan him more thoroughly." Kes headed to Chakotay, but before she got there the beeping stopped.

"Now what!"

"Captain, it doesn't make sense but he seems to have calmed his heart himself…"

Kes scanned Chakotay, "She's right Captain, there were no changes made to his condition, he seems to have controlled the shock."

Leave it to Chakotay to calm himself down from a shocked state.

"We can't wait any longer, Kes, Lieutenant, help me into one of these."

With their help she clambered into the pod and Kes attached a cortical monitor to her temple.

"We will monitor your condition closely. If you or the commander start to exhibit signs that may lead to massive heart failure, we will pull you out."

"No, leave us in. We will find a way out." she paused and turned her head to Be'lanna. "Can you create a recall subroutine for us to access when we can?"

"Yes I think so, it shouldn't be too hard to input that command, but it won't appear for very long."

"Send it when you notice a significant drop in our stress levels hm? That should be a good indicator. Hopefully we can get out ourselves, but I would like the backup."

"Yes Captain."

She nodded at Be'lanna, and then Kes. "Send me in."

The case closed and Janeway began to feel sleepy, she closed her eyes and let herself slip into stasis.

When she opened her eyes everything was dark. She stood and noticed she was in civilian clothing, a tan dress with similarly colored leggings. Her hair was down about her shoulders and she had no commbadge.

She began to look for an exit, it seemed the dark room had four walls, but no sign of a door. She continued to fumble along when she heard a yell.

"KATHRYN!"

She jumped at the voice, and then collapsed.

Memories rushed to her mind, the computer synching the copy with the original, images flashed before her, Fear, Chakotay… being trapped in that room.

Her eyes snapped open, when she looked down she had a wound across her middle and a gash on her arm, the tan fabric stained. She remembered everything, and she was terrified.