Sorry it took so long. My attention got divertied with a few new stories, and some RL developments. But, after watching both classic Doctor who stories and Star Trek Voyager, I felt the inspiration return.
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Captain Janeway stared in shock and disbelief as the newest "addition" to her crew, the strange man who went by strictly as "The Doctor" glared at Queen Anir, who appeared to be as unhappy to see her as she was to see him. Suddenly, he turned and began to look around.
"So, wheres your latest scientific monstracity? Let me guess, turning fruit into psychotic midget minions? Better not be stealing sanity from people again. No can't be that, the native people of this planet are much too calm. Whatever, I'l sure I'll come across it soon enough, where is it?" The Doctor stopped pacing around and faced Queen Anir, who looked mildly amused at his outburst.
"Are you done yet?" The Doctor visibly calmed down and straightened.
"Yeah, I think so." Glancing behind him at the hole he left in the wall, The Doctor saw that Seven, Naomi and Neelix were walking in through said hole. Captain Janeway swallowed and tried to salvage the negotiations.
"Queen Anir, I am so sorry for what The Doctor has done. He did this without the-" Her apology was cut off by Queen Anir, who turned to her.
"Captain, I know this man in ways that you can't imagine. You have no need to apologize. He and I have a….history. He's insane, but not that out of it." The Queen turned and looked at Seven and the others as they walked over. "I must say Doctor, you certainly travel with a much bigger entourage then last time we met."
"When last we met'? You mean when you shot the tardis out of the sky and forced me to regenerate?" he asked, opening a door in the hallway and closing it quickly. "So sorry madam, looking for evil monsters. My apologies."
Seven's attention was caught once the Doctor said the word "regeneration". She then remembered that he had a dislike to the word when she used it. Perhaps he would reveal more of his secrets.
Naomi looked up at Seven, whose head was tilted in obvious curiosity at the interaction between Anir and The Doctor. Speaking of the Doctor, the strangely dressed man had taken an intreast in The Queen's exotic throne, much to the displeasure of the royal guards. One of them, a particularly sour looking boulder of a humanoid, grunted and stomped over to pull him away. The Doctor looked up and grinned, before hiding behind the throne. The Guard looked behind the throne, then spun around in anger and confusion, the Doctor had apparently vanished from right in front of him. As the guard began walk away from the throne, the Doctor reappeared and jumped onto the throne.
"So where were we Rani?" He asked, a serious look on his face. The Queen walked over and looked at the hole in her wall.
"You're an insane traveler and I'm an evil scientist?" She deadpanned. "Why did you blow a hole in my wall?"
The Doctor tilted his head as he looked at her.
"You did hear me remind you about how you shot my Tardis out of the sky and cost me one of my lives? A hole in the wall is the least of your concerns. Now, what are you doing here?" Anir nodded, as though he just told her where she left a piece of clothing. Everyone in the room wondered what they were talking about.
"After our last encounter I decided to look for someplace new. I traveled to a new dimension and found this planet. I could do scientific research without some of the…consequences previous experiments have. The natives witnessed one of my regenerations, and decided I was one of their religious deities. I saw an opportunity to do some good."
The two looked at each other before the Doctor rolled his eyes.
"Your TARDIS's control systems have been damaged pretty bad. From the brief peek I saw, I doubt you have the ability to fix it without help from another Time Lord, and you're an exile, so your stuck here."
Queen Anir didn't even blink.
"Being marooned helped my decision to help people." The Doctor chuckled humorlessly.
"Of course it did. If people found out what your like to do, theyd come after you. And with you unable to leave, well….need I say more?"
Janeway was unable to contain herself any longer.
"Queen Anir, with all due respect, what exactly are you and The Doctor talking about?"
The Doctor clapped his hands and jumped off the throne.
"Yes, right. Explinations are in order I believe. I'm The Doctor, that is the Rani. I'm a Time Lord, and she is a Time Lady. We're from the planet Gallifrey. I'm over 1400 years old, not sure about Rani, time travel makes things hard to keep track in that sense."
Janeway looked at Chakotay, then Tuvak, obviously wondering if The Doctor is telling the truth. Chakotay noticed that Seven and Naomi weren't in the least surprised by the claims. He made a mental note to talk to them later. Meanwhile, the Doctor continued.
"What I don't get is, why didn't I sense you when I entered this dimension?"
"I was thinking the same thing. Curious indeed. But enough with fond memories and the such: has the Time Lord Council sent you to bring me back?" She asked. They all watched as the Doctor seemed to deflat.
"You don't know."
"What don't I know?" She asked, concern slightly entering into her voice. The Doctor sat down on one of the chairs around the throne room before continuing.
"Their gone: Gallifrey, the council, everything." Queen Anir inhaled in shock, then walks to him.
"What happened?" The Doctor looked up and opened his mouth, then stopped and stood up.
"It'll be easier to show you. Contact." He told her, closing his eyes. After a second, the Queen closed hers as well.
"Contact." The two stood still for several seconds before they opened their eyes, the Queen looked shaken and slowly made her way to the throne. "I….I see. So, if their gone, why are you here?"
"What I always do. Travel, fight bad people, eat sweets." Queen Anir smiled slightly.
"'Bad people', like me?" The Doctor shook his head.
"You were telling the truth, you may have been stranded here, but you have done a lot for the people of this planet. I see no harm in letting you stay. And may I say that I never expected to say those words while thinking of you. But if I pop back in for a visit, I better not find any sign of your…experiments."
"You won't. I got out of that field a long time ago. Last time you arrived and disrupted my work….the results were very unpleasant."
Over the next few hours, Queen Anir and the Doctor talked extensively, with the crew of the Voyager interjecting whenever they had a question. As the day began to wind down, an officer from the planet ran in.
"My Queen, our sensors detect the borg is approaching." Everyone jumped to their feet, following the Queen to a surprisingly technologically advanced sensor room. According to the sensors a pair of borg cubes and a sphere was rapidly approaching.
"These guys won't let up. Every few years the borg come to try and assimilate us. We've been able to keep them away, but each time it becomes more difficult."
Seven turned and studied the sensor reading.
"The borg are no doubt adapting to your attempts to keep them away. You will be unable to keep them away forever." Queen Anir reached behind her and unzipped her royal gown, revealing a blue outfit, much more functional then her previous attire.
"I know. Well Doctor, any chance I could ask for your help?" She asked.
"I suppose that I can put off my nap for a couple more minutes." He said as he looked at one of the monitors. The Queen turned and began pacing.
"Well, most important thing is to make sure you and I aren't assiminated. If they get Time Lord secrets, then they would become unstoppable." The Doctor paused and looked at Seven.
"We should add Seven of nine over there to the list. She's gotten a good grasp of Time Lord machinations and Temporal Mechanics. She doesn't know all the secrets, but enough of them." Anir nodded and turned to the Doctor.
"What if we use our TARDIS's forcefield barriers and combine them, and ampify it over the city?" Rani suggested. The Doctor nodded.
"That could work, but we'd need to come up with a better solution for the long term though. That wouldn't stop them forever." He replied as he reached into his pocket. Taking out of Starfleet com he was given he tapped it and was beamed directly to the cargo hold. After a few minutes, the blue police box Captain Janeway had often seen suddenly materialized next to the throne. Anir, who many were already mentally calling Rani, stepped behind her throne, which began to change its shape into a larger black cube, much to the surprise of the crew and the royal guard. Rani stepped out of her cube and walked into the blue box, followed by Seven of Nine and Naomi.
As the three geniuses worked on ampifiying the power of the TARDIS shields, The Doctor looked up at Rani.
"Lets just make one thing clear, I haven't dismissed the possibility of the Borg being some experiment of yours gone wrong." He told her. She looked up, about to reply, but after a moment nodded.
"Ok, that's fair I guess." Seven and Naomi looked at each other. If Rani was so blasie about possibly creating borg, then they both wondered what exactly was the history between them.
Rani checked the scanner and shook her head.
"We need some more time. Any ideas?" She asked. Seven thought hard, trying to come up with an answer. The Voyager wouldn't be able to hold off that many Borg Vessels and the planet didn't have any real battle ships. After a few moments, The Doctor's eyes brightened and he grinned.
"I have an idea. You three head over to Rani's Tardis, and I'll hold them off."
"How are you going to do that?" Naomi asked. The Doctor spun and grabbed his hat.
"My usual charm of course. Run along now. Go!" Rani immediatly walked out of the tardis, with Seven and Naomi following. As soon as they were out the door, the Tardis dematerialized. Once the three were inside Rani's Tardis, they began to apply the formula's they had devised, increasming the shield stength of Rani's Taridis.
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As the Borg Queen overlooked the status od her vessel, ships sensors began to go off, indicating an intruder.
This planet had been much more irritating to assilmilate then it should have, but it seemed their luck had run out. As she went to see what triggered the intruder alarm. To her surpise, it appeared to be a strange blue box. As she appraoched, the door opened and a tall man in black pocked his head out.
"Ah, hello." Stepping outside and closing the door, he looked around."So, these are the Borg are they? You guys remind me of some chaps I know called the Cybermen. Same sort of shtick."
"Who are you?" The Borg Queen asked. The man spun to face her and took off his hat.
"Ah, yes very good question. I am known as The Doctor." A Borg Drone appoarched the Doctor, to assimilate him, but The Doctor sidestepped him and tossed his jacket onto him before pointing a strange tube at him, causing the drone to fall. "Thank you for taking my jacket my good...man? Anyway, as I have stated, I am The Doctor. and I am here to negotiate your immediate retreat and promise to leave these people alone. Would you like a jelly baby?"
The Borg Queen stared at him as the Collective noted his unusal body structure and technology.
To Be continued...
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