Battling The Borg And Relaxing Afterwards

Harry and Hermione spent the next day being taken to the many different places on Voyager. The holodeck was a firm hit with both of them, and they spent a number of hours trying different programs. While trying out one of the programs – a flight combat simulation – the ship rocked violently.

Red Alert Red Alert this is not a drill intoned the computer. Borg Cube off the port bow. Red Alert Red Alert. This is not a drill and before Harry and Hermione could react, they vanished in a sea of blue light and found themselves on the bridge.

"They must have traced our warp drive" said Naomi. Harry went to tactical and saw the cube firing on them again.

"Shields are down to 87%" he called.

"Computer!" Naomi called, "Shut down life support to all decks except Deck 1, 2 and 10. Transfer power to the shields" she ordered.

Transfer complete

"Shields are back to full power… and a little over" Harry said. "The bad news is that they hit the torpedo launchers. They are not working anymore" he added.

"Looks like they hit the impulse drive as well" Hermione said.

"Great" Naomi moaned, "So that leaves us with just thrusters" and she tapped a few buttons and Voyager moved and the girl attempted to evade the Borg weaponry. She did manage it come times, but the Borg were faster then she was and soon the ship lay dead in space and drifting. Harry watched the cube start to batter down the shields and he suddenly thought of something that might just work.

"Hermione?" he called over the bridge.

"What?" she shouted back.

"What if we used our magic to defeat the Borg?" Harry asked. Hermione thought for a few moments before nodding.

"I haven't read everything about them yet, but their personal shields might not adjust quickly enough. Assuming they adapt at all" she added.

"Can you beam us over?" Harry asked Naomi.

"I guess so" she replied, and she went to the Ops station where she pushed Hermione gently out of the way and started tapping buttons. "I'm beaming you to as close to the middle as possible. Once you get inside the Cube, try to find the Vinculum. It controls everything to do with the Cube. Destroying that will make the Borg not go anywhere. Sometimes they will self destruct, but other times they won't. I'll beam you back before it blows up though" Naomi said.

"Right" Harry nodded, and he held on to Hermione's hand. "Well Alice, are you ready to step through the looking glass?" he asked her.

"Ready as I'll ever be" Hermione said. With a nod to Naomi, the pair vanished from the bridge and reappeared on the Cube. It seemed that they liked the colours of green and gold a lot, and all around them were people of different shapes and sizes with lots of attachments on them. All wore black armour like casings, and Harry shuddered as he thought about the drones.

"Harry to Naomi" he said, tapping his comm badge.

'Naomi here' came the reply, 'Are you alright?" she asked.

"We've arrived safe enough, and we're going to look for this Vinculum now" Harry said.

"Hermione here" Hermione tapped her own badge. "What exactly does it look like?" she asked.

'Seven told me it looks like a crystal on the bottom of loads of machinery' Naomi said.

"Understood" Harry said. "We'll head towards it now" he added.

'Acknowledged' Naomi said. 'The Borg are not trying to destroy the ship for some reason. Perhaps they are confused by something' she added.

"Whatever it is" said Hermione, "Be ready to beam us back" and Naomi said she would keep the channel open so she could keep a constant lock on them. Harry and Hermione passed the regenerating drones, and they had got to within twenty feet of a large open space when an alarm went off. Drones came out of their alcoves and they headed towards the pair.

"Well lets try this" Harry said. "Avada Kedava" and the killing curse flashed out and hit the Borg Drone which dropped to the floor.

"What have you done?" Hermione said in a panic. "You used the killing curse" and she shot off a couple of deadly curses herself.

"There isn't a Ministry, Hermione" Harry reminded her.

"Oh of course not" Hermione smiled weakly, and she started sending off the killing curses at the Drones. After the first dozen had dropped, the Borg tried to find a way to adapt their personal shields but found nothing would stop the spells from killing more Drones. The pair headed towards the open space leaving behind a collection of dead Borg. The open space was a single walkway that ran over a pit so deep, neither of them could see the bottom.

"I don't see anything that is like what Naomi said" Harry said.

'Look up' came the girl's voice over the comm link. Harry and Hermione did so and Harry whistled at the sight.

"Would you look at the size of that thing" he said in awe.

"I don't know what would take it out" Hermione said. "I was thinking that a couple of blasting hexes might do it" and Harry nodded.

"On three?" and Hermione agreed. "One, two, three and… Bombarda" and identical spells came out of both wands, soared into the air and hit the Vinculum. The spells were so powerful that they tore right through the object. The force of the explosion was so great that it knocked Harry and Hermione to the floor.

'I'm beaming you both back' Naomi said, and the two left the cube and ended up in a transporter room.

"I think that went well" said Harry.

"I suppose it made a change from Death Eaters" Hermione agreed.

'Naomi to Harry' Harry's comm badge went off.

"Harry here" he said.

'Can you come to Engineering?" the girl asked. "I think we need more of this magic of yours' she added.

"We're on our way" Harry said. They went to a turbolift and rode in it to Deck 10, and walked down the corridor to the giant room.

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If the bridge was the brain of Voyager, then engineering was its heart. Naomi and the Doctor were waiting for them by a console with what looked like a schematic of the ship on the screen.

"We've got a problem" Naomi said. "The ship is busted" she added.

"Can you be more specific then 'its busted'. Everything can't be busted on account we're breathing" Harry said. Hermione leaned in closer and examined the screen closely.

"Accroding to this, the secondary girodyne relays and the propulsion field intermatrix have depolarised" she said.

"In English?" Harry said.

"I'm just reading what it says" Hermione replied. She put on what Harry called her thinking face and thought about the problem for a few moments. "We know our magic works here" she said at last, "So all we need to do is to look at a picture to see how the things look like when fixed, and we should be able to use Repairo" Hermione finished.

"Might as well give it a shot" Harry agreed. He and Naomi went off together while the Doctor paired off with Hermione. They set about the repairs to the ship, and they discovered that they could indeed fix the ship to how it was before the Borg attacked them. In little under half an hour the repairs were complete, and the job was done so well that they were able to discover that it was like Voyager had just been launched.

"All that walking around has made my legs tired" Naomi said to Harry as they headed towards a turbolift. Harry thought for a moment, and then asked the girl to stop.

"Would you like to see magic?" he asked, and Naomi nodded eagerly. "Don't tell Hermione I did this" Harry added, and with a wave of his wand the girl rose off the deck.

"Wow" she breathed.

"I'll float you to the turbolift" Harry said kindly. Naomi automatically moved her legs before she simply sat cross legged in mid air as Harry towed her to the turbolift. "Deck 2" he said to the computer, and the turbolift car started moving. They found Hermione in the mess hall attempting to make some food from scratch.

"Hello" she called, and then gave the pan another stir as steam rose from it. Harry suspected that Hermione was making tomato soup from the smell.

"Harry used magic on me so my legs didn't feel so tired" Naomi blurted.

"TRAITOR!" Harry roared good naturedly. Naomi giggled and then hoped up to sit on one of the stools that sat along one side of the counter. There was a little bit of pain in her mind as she thought about Neelix not being the one doing the cooking. The alien virus had overtaken most of the crew before they knew what was happening. Captain Janeway had remained alive long enough to turn command over to Naomi before she died, and she had locked herself away in her bedroom for a long while as she cried. Once the Doctor had coaxed her out, they had buried the crew on a planet that would forever be part of the Federation. Naomi told Harry and Hermione about what had happened, and both of them said the right things.

"Well to move away from the sadness, I think the soup is ready" Hermione said. She found three bowls under the counter and served portions while Harry ordered some bread rolls from the replicator. It was good meal hard earned after the repair work, and Naomi introduced the teens to some exotic flavours of ice cream. When pushed about why so many flavours existed, Naomi said it was number twelve in things Starfleet asked when meeting new alien species: 'What new flavours can you give us?' Harry and Hermione didn't know if she was joking or not. After they finished all of the soup, the three watched as Voyager passed a nebula on its way back to the point where Harry and Hermione had arrived on board.

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"Harry to Naomi" and Naomi tapped her badge.

"Naomi here" she said, "What do you want?".

"This holodeck of yours, does it do beaches?" Harry asked.

"Loads of them" Naomi assured him. "Are you planning on going to one?" asked the girl.

"Me and Hermione were going, and we'd both like to know if you'd join us" Harry said.

"I'll be there in ten minutes" she assured them. She signed off, instructed the computer to alert them if Borg or any other vessels approached them and then went to her quarters to get her swimming costume and towel. She found Harry and Hermione standing outside Holodeck 1.

"We were waiting for you before we entered" Hermione said, and they went inside together. Harry and Hermione were both amazed at what had happened – the holodeck had indeed taken the shape of a beach. The floor was covered in sand, and in front of it there was water - salt water by the smell of it. Small waves were breaking in the shore and returning to the false sea. There were palm trees scattered along the place, a warm breeze, even a fake sun and sounds from seagulls and other creatures, even if there were none in sight.

"Do you like it?" Naomi asked smiling.

"It's like being back home" Hermione whispered in awe. Naomi nodded and took off her blouse and skirt, revealing a pink one piece swimsuit. She folded the discarded clothes carefully and walked towards the water. When she got to the edge she jumped in, followed by Harry and Hermione. They entered it to find the water at a comfortable temperature, rather fresh, but not cold. As soon as Harry entered he was splashed by Hermione. When he regained his orientation he mock-glared at her.

"You know what this means, don't you?" he asked. Hermione put up the best innocent-looking face while Naomi floated nearby.

"No" Hermione said, and Harry's darkened.

"We're at war, missy" Harry replied, splashing her as well. Naomi made a quick decision and splashed Harry, while being splashed at the same time. Harry gave as good as he got, and the two girls couldn't really look at him, or else they would get soaked straight in the face, so they had to just wave their arms and pray both of them were actually hitting him, which They sometimes did. Harry created such an uproar of water, that it gave him the chance to silently disillusion himself. He slowly dived and made his way to be hind Hermione, cancels the spell and slipped behind Hermione. She was only aware of this when she felt herself being lifted and then thrown farther into the water, barely having time to take air in and hold it before re-emerging to the surface.

"That was not fair!" Naomi called. "Actually I'm hungry now" she added, and so they made their way back to the beach. They lay on their towels as they ate the picnic that Harry and Hermione had brought with them. Harry opened the basket and started to serve a vast assortment of food, a covered pitcher of pumpkin juice and some treacle tart. He served a plate for himself and one each for Hermione and Naomi, and they ate as they listened to the sound of the seagulls which none of them could see in the sky. Hermione increased the temperature of the sun by two degrees, and soon Naomi had nodded off.

"I needed this" she admitted as she felt Harry hold her close to his body.

"After what happened at Hogwarts" Harry said, "I think we needed to appreciate the finer things in life" and he kissed her on the forehead before they both lay on their towels and slept also.

A/N:

Well I hope you liked this chapter. Battle with the Borg, using magic to set Voyager back to how she left Utopia Planetia ship yards, and then relaxing. Next chapter will have had a time jump of several weeks and will start off with how things are going back in the Magical world.

For those fans of Star Trek, there is a quote from the Voyager episode "Message In A Bottle". To add more, Voyager didn't pick up the Borg children off the cube. They might pick up Mezoti though – I find her to be an interesting character.

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I will be generous and give you a choice for the next chapter.

Option A: Death Eaters in complete and total control of Magical Britain.

Option B: Death Eaters in control of Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, the Ministry and other key locations. Resistance being organised by the Weasley twins, Lee Jordon, a handful of Aurors and other people. Option B also would have mention of prisoners being abused by the Death Eaters.

I leave it to you.

Regards:

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