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Chapter Two

A Phone Call Through A Wormhole

By the time Logan reached CIC everyone was hovered around the communications console. Shelley was seated at the console "Hancock to Cloud Williams do you copy?" Logan looked at her, and she said "Don't you give me that look, I heard Marsha talking to Captain Sanchez, and so did everyone else down here." Logan looked around and everyone affirmed what Shelley was claiming. "Ok" Logan said "let's get turned around and see if we can't get back to the place where you picked up the signal and see if we can pick up their signal again. He called up to the Bridge and instructed the helmsman to make a 180 degree starboard turn and move back to the point where the signal was heard, but to only move at thruster speed. He called Schiff and put them on alert with their sensors to see if they could pick up anything.

"I don't believe that Fleet Command is giving up on them. Logan would never give up on us, and I don't feel like giving up on him and the Hancock is right" Logan heard Marsha say. He immediately ordered an all-stop then he hit the transmit button and said "Marsha, can you hear me?" Marsha kept talking to Sanchez and Logan called Schiff and asked if they could boost the power, they said "go ahead and try again." "Marsha, can you hear me?" Marsha stopped talking and said "I swear I thought I heard Logan's voice" but Ramona said "I didn't hear anything, but there is a lot of noise over here." Logan tried again "Marsha can you hear me?" Marsha realized that she was indeed hearing her former Captain and she said "Logan…is that you?" Everyone was cheering, and Logan said while laughing "Yeah, it is, it is so good to hear your voice." Tears came to Marsha's eyes and she said "It is good to hear from you. Fleet Command has decided to call off a search for you, and Mary and Stephanie as well as Ruth are all upset." Logan said "Tell them dad, Joe and I are all fine. We are in the Delta Quadrant." "What on earth are you doing there?" Marsha asked. "It's a long story, the short version is that Q decided that he wanted to be assimilated so he broke away from his guards and got to a computer console" Logan explained. Marsha sighed and said "I wondered if taking him aboard was a wise idea. Can he get you back?" Logan said "I have him locked down in solitary confinement. I can't trust him. I don't know where we would end up if I let him near one of our computers." "Yeah, you're probably right" Marsha agreed.

Logan then asked "Are you still having problems with the Borg?" Marsha said "You know the weirdest thing happened; right in the middle of a battle, one they were doing very well in, they all just disappeared and we haven't seen hide nor hair of them since." Logan smiled and said "that's because we shot four missiles at Unimatrix Zero One that contained our nano-virus, and then we sat back and watched them return to try to save their home. The last time we saw them we saw their cubes falling to pieces." Logan could hear Marsha giggling like a school girl and he could hear the cheering in the back ground.

Marsha asked "How is it possible that we are able to talk?" "I'm not sure, it could be a worm hole or something like that, but I am going to get off because I am going to give everyone two hours to make a five minute recording and then I will send them to you in a log buoy through this, whatever it is. Can you wait around for it?" Logan asked. "You bet, but make sure you, Joe and Jack get one in for your families too" Marsha replied. "We will" Logan responded.

Logan then got on the ship-wide 1MC and informed the crew to go to a computer console and make a five minute message to their family back home so it could be connected to the log buoy. He then went to his father's quarters to inform him. When he got there Jack was already finished making his recording. He turned to Logan and said, "Anything you want to say to your mother?" Logan said "Yes" then he hit the record button and said "Hi mom, I wish I could talk to you face to face, but I can't. I love you, and Joe and I will look out for dad. We all love you very much." Then he released the record button and said "I guess I'll go and make one for Mary and Stephanie now. I really don't know what to say because I don't really want to tell them that I am going to be stuck out here for the next four to five years." Jack patted his oldest son on the back and said "You'll find a way, I'm sure of it, you always do." About that time Joe popped his head in the door and said "here's my message to mom" and Logan said "take it to Shelley and give it to her and she will upload it to the log buoy. "Ok" quipped Joe and turned around and took off. Logan looked at Jack and said "Don't tell me that I was ever that chipper!" Jack chuckled and said "No, in fact you were just the opposite; you were a bear until you had about three cups of mud down you, but Joe doesn't even touch coffee." "And he calls himself a sailor?" Logan asked grinning. "No, he calls himself a fighter pilot" Jack replied. "Ah, I see, the ship is just a tool to get him to where he can go fly and fight" Logan surmised. They both chuckled, then Jack said "Listen I am going to the bridge so why don't you just use this console and do your message here?" "Thanks dad" Logan said and sat down at the console and gave Jack his disc. Then he inserted a new disc in and started:

"Hi Sweetheart, Hi Steph. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I am alive and well. The bad news is that the ship is in the Delta Quadrant. We can only make two jumps per day or we run the risk of running out of fuel before we get home, so I am going to be here for four maybe five years. Hopefully there will be more of these wormholes and I can send more recordings, but I want you both to know that I love you both. Stephanie be good and mind your mother; don't give her a hard time about anything because she has enough on her plate as it is. Mary I'll get back as soon as I possibly can. I could let Q fix the computer to get us home in one jump, but he's the reason we're here in the first place. He rigged the computer to jump here so he could be assimilated by the Borg. He promised he would get us home, but I can't trust him. I am afraid that if I let him near the ship's computer system again he would send us to who knows where. So the logical thing is to get home the normal way. I love you both, I'll see you when I can."

He stopped recording, took out the disc and left his father's cabin and headed to the bridge. When he reached the bridge he handed his disc to his first officer who loaded it on to the log buoy then he went down the ladder and turned and went down the next ladder until he came to sciff. He signed in and was allowed in. He asked if they knew what caused them to be able to talk and it was confirmed that it was a wormhole, but it was a small one, too small for a ship to go through, but the log buoy should have no problem. When he finished talking there he went back to the bridge to stand his bridge watch.

Two Hours Later…

Shelley came up the ladder to the bridge from CIC and said "the log buoy is ready to launch." Logan asked "did everyone on ship get a chance to make a recording?" Shelley said "Yes, but most just sent it directly to me rather than walk it to the bridge." Logan nodded his head and told her to launch it and to send the signal up to the bridge so he could talk to Marsha. She smiled and went back down the ladder. Logan heard Marsha's voice and he said "Marsha do you hear me?" Marsha said "Yes, I do." "Did you get the buoy?" Logan asked. "Yes, we just got it" came the response. Logan then said "I don't know when I'll be able to talk to you again, but let Fleet Command know that we are in good shape. The ship is undamaged and the crew's moral is good, especially now. Tell them that we will be back as soon as we can, and we will keep an open frequency in case we find anymore wormholes. If we find one large enough for the ship to come home we'll take it, but sciff has informed me that this one is just too small." Marsha said "Will do, and we will do whatever we can to get you back here as soon as possible. And don't worry about Mary and Stephanie, I'll make sure their fine; and your mom too." "Thank you Marsha that means the world to me" Logan said. Then he said "USS Hancock Out." Marsha said "USS Cloud Williams Out." Then the line went dead and Logan turned and looked at the helm and said "180 degree turn and resume course and speed.