The three women just stood in Gretchen's shuttle staring at each other. Janeway kept looking down at the bio scan that Seven had taken of the young woman standing in front of them, and then back up at the woman herself. Suddenly the smallest things that she had noticed about the young woman made sense, the way she placed her hands on her hips, her like for coffee, the fact she had retreated to Maestro Da Vinci's studio, the fact that she liked Neelix's cooking. Janeway looked over at Seven who seemed to be studying the young woman as well.

"You know this means that someone from the Relativity will be along to rearrange you memory anagrams." Gretchen finally said when the stillness between them became too much for her. "And I know how much you loooove dealing with the Relativity."

"Now is not the time for sarcasm young lady." Janeway scolded. It was such a natural response that it started Janeway a little. By the look on Gretchen's face it had startled her as well, but now the girl just looked amused. "Why didn't you just tell us who you were?"

"I had to try to do this without involving you." Gretchen replied. "And there's the whole temporal prime directive thing."

Seven lifted her left brow at the tone of the young woman's voice. There was something there that sounded to be more then just someone doing their duty, but she guessed that this would be personal for the young woman. She was trying to save the lives of her family as well as her past self.

The command mask had slipped for a moment when Janeway realized she was staring into the face of her adult child, but the situation was drifting back to the forefront of her mind and the mask was once again put into place. She lifted one hand while the other went onto her hip and opened her mouth to say something but was cut off when Gretchen stepped over to a console and started working. Apparently there was a lot of Seven's habits ingrained into the young woman as well. Sparing a glance at Seven she could see the faintest hint of a smirk on her lips.

"Can we save the lecture for oh say thirty years?" Gretchen asked as she unlocked the computer system she had hidden. "Right now you have one of my ex-crewmen onboard and he's hell bent on destroying this ship and everyone on it."

Both Seven and Janeway walked over to where Gretchen was and looked over the information the young woman was calling up. She showed them the bio scans and the signature for the experimental drive. "Not only do we need to find Bruening, who's pretending to be your Markus Delvine, but we need to find the drive he stole. My guess is that it was in the create of dilithum that Lanna said was only half full when they opened it."

"How did you know about the create being only half full?" Janeway asked as she looked over at her daughter. Her head was really starting to pound. Her daughter was in the mess hall with Neelix, and yet there she stood all grown up and beautiful. She was tall like Seven, but more athletically curvy like herself. Her eyes were lighter then her own, but darker than Seven's, and her hair was still red like her own had been as a child, it never darkened the way hers had and Janeway figured it had something to do with Seven's being blonde.

Gretchen blushed. "Um, I've kinda been looking at crew logs and monitoring ship wide communications." Having her mothers know who she was suddenly made Gretchen feel odd about the things she'd been doing. She looked up as Seven started tapping a few buttons on the padd she always seemed to carry with her.

"I believe that we can modify the sensors to locate the drive." Seven reported. "Where you able to locate Delvine?"

Gretchen nodded. "Only though the comm. badge signal at first, but now that the computer has matched Bruening's bio scans to his bio-file she'll be able to track him. Before you arrived she was telling me that he's replicated the rest of what he needs to finish making the explosives and the hub that controls their detonation." Both older women looked oddly at Gretchen when she used the pronoun to describe the computer and a half grin tugged at her lips. "You think the computers are obnoxious now wait till they can interact with you of their own accord. I'm pretty sure one of you, if not both of you, programmed my ship to be a lot like you. Have you ever had a star ship nag you?"

Janeway's head was swimming but Seven was still focused despite her amusement.

"You've been able to established a connection to our computer core?"

Gretchen nodded. "The shuttle may look old and damaged but it's loaded with the advances of my time."

"I can't seem to access your sensors." Janeway announced as she tapped at a few buttons.

Again Gretchen nodded. "Security lock, just in case," She smiled a little. "I got caught. Computer, identify Janeway, Kathryn." A pulse of red light scanned Janeway.

"Acknowledged." The computer replied. "Identity confirmed. Welcome aboard Admiral."

Gretchen flinched as she said, "Computer, indentify Janeway, Annika."

The process was repeated with Seven. "Acknowledged. Identity confirmed. Welcome Aboard, Professor."

"And you yelled at me over the TPD." Gretchen huffed before ordering, "Clear them both for command access, and try too keep any more details from our time to yourself please."

The computer beeped. "Acknowledged Captain."

Seven raised her brow in surprise at the name and title but quickly put it aside as she began working. "I will begin scanning for the temporal drive. I am familiar with the temporal signature."

"Subject is accessing environmental controls on deck eleven section 2B." The computer interrupted.

Janeway wasted no time slapping her comm. badge. "Tuvok, we have an intruder on deck eleven. Lock down that deck and send an armed team to that area."

"Captain we did not detect…"

She cut him off, "You wouldn't he's disguised as Ensign Delvine."

Out in the shuttle bay the sound of gasping drew Gretchen to the hatch of the shuttle. Because the shuttle had it's own environment the changed in the bay hadn't affected them. As she stood there she could see crewmen gasping for lack of air. She didn't even think she simply reacted. She darted out of the breathable atmosphere of the shuttle and into the airless cargo bay. She had a few extra seconds before her body would react to the lack of air so she darted towards the control panel across the massive bay. Her lungs began to burn just as she reached it and she worked as quickly as she could to reestablish the bay's environmental controls.

"What's going on?" Janeway asked as she stepped to the hatch with Seven.

"She is attempting to by pass the bay's environmental controls." Seven reported. "There is no breathable air outside this shuttle."

The two women watched as crewmen dropped and then just as Janeway was about to dart out the hatch herself there was a rush of air. They each ran to a crewman to check on him or her. Janeway was helping a young man to his feet when she heard Seven called out to her.

"Captain." Seven said as she watched Gretchen's knees buckle a bit. They both went over to the young woman.

"Chakotay to Janeway, Captain we just had a ship wide malfunction of the environmental system." The first officer reported. "There's still fog on deck three."

Janeway rushed over to Gretchen and helped her up as she replied. "I am aware of them Commander. Have the senior staff gather in the conference room as soon as possible. We have a saboteur on board."

Gretchen filled her lungs as she shook her head. "We can't tell them everything."

Janeway nodded. "I know, and we won't, but I will not keep my crew in the dark. Not when it comes to their lives"

Gretchen nodded. She felt guilty for having kept this from all of them and that was because she learned what it meant to be a captain, what it meant to be a Starfleet officer from her mother. As the three women headed to a turbo lift once Gretchen could feel both women stealing glances at her. She knew they had questions but she couldn't answer any of them, not matter how badly she wanted too.

As they approached the bridge the lights in the turbo lifted flickered. When the lift doors opened the three women stepped out onto the bridge to find it lit by emergency backup lighting. "Report!" Janeway ordered as she made her way to the railing just behind her chair. Her first officer was just about to fill her in when the ship suddenly shook.

"There's been an explosion on deck twelve!" Harry reported. "We have a hull breach on that deck section fifteen."

Gretchen could feel her heart sink when she realized what that was. She turned to look at her mother as she said, "He's been using the malfunctions to distract you. He's placed bombs all over the ship."

"How do you know this?" Tuvok asked with a raised brow.

Gretchen looked over at him from where she stood beside her other mother. "We've used this tactic before." Then she looked at Janeway again. "There will be a central triggering hub that will regulate the explosions. Now that the first one has gone off others will follow. He's using a staggering pattern to give him time to get to the shuttle he plans on using for his escape."

Janeway nodded and then turned to Tuvok. "Lock down all shuttle bays and transporters."

While Janeway gave orders, and while Seven scanned for the shuttle with the stolen drive, Gretchen slipped back into the turbo lift. "Computer," She called out after tapping her comm. badge. "Site to site back to the shuttle."

When Gretchen appeared in her shuttle she quickly tapped into Seven's scans. "Computer, when the shuttle with the drive is located override all command codes, access remote helm of the shuttle and drop the force fields around the shuttle bays. Launch this shuttle as well as the drive shuttle and set a course that will take both shuttles away from Voyager and maintain distance." She thought a moment before going over to her command console and tapping in the rest of her orders.

The computer beeped and hummed. "This course of action will leave you stranded, Captain."

"I know but I'll deal with that if the time comes." Gretchen replied.

"Commands confirmed."

Gretchen nodded. "Good, now find Bruening and show me on an overlay of Voyager's layout." She looked over the map quickly and was able to pin point where he was going. She then pressed her finger to a section on the map and commanded. "Site to site to this area."

Janeway looked around the bridge and then up at Seven. "Where'd she go?"

Seven scanned the ship and then looked up at Janeway. "I believe she is her mother's daughter."

"And what does that mean?" Janeway huffed while everyone else on the bridge looked at the two of them oddly.

"I believe she is taking a calculated risk and is attempting to handle the situation herself."