And so it begins…

Dr. Hunt had just finished putting her gloves on in preparation for surgery, when the Doctor came into the operating room and readied himself for surgery.

"Enlighten me on the surgeries you have completed already, Doctor" Megan said, eyeing the scars on Seven's body.

"Well as you can see, I have removed what implants I could on her shoulders, abdomen, arms, and legs. I began to remove some of the implants further up her torso; however I came to a point near her sternum that had an unusual implantation. What about the pelvic area…around her hips, and the perineal area?" Megan asked, hoping he wasn't just too nervous to work that area. He was a doctor for Pete's sake.

"With the implants still attached at the torso, I would have removed some of the implants around her hips, but there are implantations that are around her hips and are almost identical to the ones on her sternum."

"That still doesn't cover the perineal area" Megan Hunt stated, now almost glaring at the Doctor. 'What is it with men and female genitalia?' She thought to herself.

"The Borg don't have the same bodily functions as humans do. Because they rely on energy from the alcove alone, so to prevent chaffing, or any excretions being released from the body, the Borg have placed a secondary implant inside each orifice, and these implants are not going to be difficult to remove, but they are attached to primary implants on the outer perineal area, which are not going to be easy to remove without having the hip implants removed first."

"You certainly do have an answer for everything, don't you doctor?" Megan said, grabbing a small laser scalpel and removing some of the outer Borg-wear around Seven's chest.

"Well I am a doctor, and I thought you should be fully briefed on the situa—may I ask what you're doing?"

Megan stopped what she was doing for a moment. "I'm removing the outer implants on her chest so that when we go to remove the implants on her sternum, there will be much less extra to remove."

The Doctor nodded and moved up closer on the opposite side of the operating table. "Now" Megan said, beginning to remove some of the excess implants on the top of Seven's chest. "I see you like to keep some modesty, doctor" Megan said, removing a large chunk of the implant and revealing a fair amount of Seven's cleavage. The doctor blushed lightly.

'Man, she looks almost identical to Kate. This is almost going to be like looking into the looking glass when I get back to the morgue.' Megan thought, slicing rather close to the deep implantation on Seven's chest. 'I wonder if Kate's breasts look this perfect.' The Doctor cleared his throat and Megan looked at him, snapping the thought to the back of her head.

"Because her heart is on the left side of her body, these center implants on her sternum will act as wires to assist her natural pacemaker, so they will stretch further than a normal implant. What I would like to do is cut off the excess implants on her chest that I can, and then I will show you how to remove these implants. If they are woven into her chest like I think they might be, we will have to either stop her heart, or leave the implants and let her have a fantastic heart. If we do leave the implants on her sternum, her human immune system will grow to reject the implants, and within 8-10 years, it will be imperative that the implants be removed."

"I would like to get permission from the captain to do the surgery on the heart implants before we go digging into Seven's chest cavity. How do you suppose we remove the hip implants?"

Megan looked almost stumped for a moment, but then showed the doctor the implants.

"Female Borg are much more complicated than male Borg because of their anatomy. Women have natural 'birthing hips' which when assimilation occurs has to be halted to increase efficiency. These particular implants go almost to the bone, so the surgery will be invasive, but because Seven is so young, these implants will not go as deep as they would if she had been around 30 or so."

The doctor nodded in agreement. "Now, I'm not a gynecologist, Dr. Hunt. I know the basics of the female anatomy; obviously only what information was placed into my program. This next surgery is going to take some more 'womanly intuition' than medicine, Dr. Hunt. What information can you give me on the female anatomy before we begin that surgery?"

"Well" Dr. Hunt began, beginning to slice up an implant running up Seven's thigh. "Obviously, all three secondary implants will need to be removed. For the first few days after they are removed when Seven is awake will be awkward for her. If you wish, I can remain on board to help her become somewhat used to 'awkward' feelings she may have when her bodily functions begin to return to normal. Once we get to working on this surgery, I can give you more information on the female anatomy. I have a few questions myself as to what is implanted where on her anatomy as well…"

"I'm sure Seven would appreciate that, Dr. Hunt. Now, let's get to those hip implants before the Captain has my program permanently deactivated."

"Alright Doctor, but we might need a screwdriver."

Both doctors were able to remove the implants on Seven's body in record time, and Dr. Hunt began her work on Seven's genitalia directly afterward.

Dr. Hunt removed the devices from Seven's body, and began explaining the use of each one to the Doctor as she removed them. "Well you obviously can understand the outer two, those are normal human bodily functions to which the Borg would need to prevent happening." Dr. Hunt said, placing the two devices on a nearby table.

"This inner one might be a little bit tricky, Doctor." She began looking at the device that seemed to latch onto and covered the entire exterior of Seven's labia. "Every female has a monthly menstrual cycle, and the borg easily could have done a couple things to stop those from happening, but it would seem by the looks of this device, her inner genitalia is completely intact."

"How can you tell that?" The Doctor asked, his curiosity peaking. Dr. Hunt managed to remove the device with some ease. "Look at this device. It remains on the outer labia, but by the looks of it, it secretes estrogen directly into the bloodstream. It also prevents Seven from having a natural menstrual period too. The Borg have no use for natural procreation, so they would have no use for a female reproductive system. I'm actually surprised they didn't do a hysterectomy on her."

The Doctor looked at the device Dr. Hunt had just removed. "This is fascinating, Dr. Hunt! Where did you find out all of this?"

"I work in a morgue. There was once some wounded Borg that happened to make it to my table after some angry people realized what they had done to most of the planet."

"How many did you have, exactly?" The Doctor asked. He really could use this information inside his program.

"Three to be precise: there were two males and one female. One male was once a Klingon, the other was Bjoran. The female had been human prior to assimilation. I found her the most fascinating." Dr. Hunt eyed the sleeping woman. "Alright Doctor, let's take Seven out of stasis, and you are going to want to give her some pain killers before she wakes up. Some of her wounds are definitely going to take some time to heal. I would wait about two hours before you wake her completely. I am going to go speak with Captain Janeway." Dr. Hunt removed her gloves and threw them away in the nearest recycler.

Before the Doctor could respond to her statement, Dr. Hunt had already left Sickbay and was now on her way to the bridge to speak with Captain Janeway. "Computer, locate Captain Kathryn Janeway." Dr. Hunt said, getting off the turbo-lift.

"Captain Janeway is in her ready room." Replied the metallic voice. 'Just where I want her…' whispered Dr. Hunt under her breath.

Dr. Hunt made it to the bridge, and whenever she stepped on, both Chakotay and Ensign Kim acted as if they had never seen a woman before, and stood at their posts with their mouths agape. Tom Paris nodded at Megan as she passed by him, and she nodded in return.

Megan rang the bell to Janeway's ready room and once she heard the word 'come' from Captain Janeway, she entered the room.

"Ah, Dr. Hunt…you are just the woman I wanted to see" said Janeway, offering Megan a seat on her couch. "How is my soon-to-be ex-drone?"

"I asked the doctor to keep her sedated for now, to keep her pain at bay. You should have an almost full human being within the next couple of hours." Dr. Hunt said, smiling at Janeway's comment.

"I knew I liked you when I met you. Whatever bad things your boss has to say, I won't believe it for a moment." Janeway smiled, and sat down next to Megan.

"Haha, you don't know my boss." Megan said, laughing, imagining Kate and Captain Janeway having a conversation about her. "Would you care to know what the Doctor and I were able to remove from Seven?" Megan asked, beginning the conversation that would forever have Janeway confused and perplexed at Borg physiology.