Star Trek
Immortal Coil
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1 A very large pink and purple Nebula existed a couple Sectors too deep into the Beta Quadrant. A Federation Steamrunner Class Starship, the MERCEDES, sped from out one of the clouds inside the Nebula. They were scanning and taking in molecule samples. A Klingon Bird of Prey, the TETEKEN, sat peacefully up in another area of the Nebula, also taking in samples. They monitored the excited MERCEDES. Thorn: "Puh! Humans..." The MERCEDES curved left and upward, dodging a current of white energy. The Nebula had many diagonal currents of energy that just existed within it. This was not a problem. Sith: "How are we doing?" Lisa, tactical: "Great. The Sinate Particles are collecting." A Borg CUBE suddenly came out from a cloud above. It followed the MERCEDES. Lisa: "Captain!! A Borg Cube is approaching!" Sith, runs over to the helm: "What the hell?? Get us out of here!" Ace: "I'm on it!" The MERCEDES swung left, but the Borg CUBE matched thier movements. It fired torpedoes, hitting directly onto the ventral hull of the MERCEDES. The TETEKEN shot out from the clouds above, firing disrupter pulses at the Borg CUBE. The CUBE stopped and fanned a Tractor Beam around the TETEKEN. The MERCEDES looped around and blasted phasers into the Borg's emitters, knocking the Tractor Beam out and releasing the TETEKEN. Sith: "I can't believe the Borg are here!" #Thorn, excited: "This is much better than molecule samples!" The MERCEDES and the TETEKEN sped through the clouds side by side as the Borg CUBE took off after them in the distance. It then matched thier trajectory and acceleration, following close behind. #Borg: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated." The MERCEDES and TETEKEN broke off in opposite directions, swinging around and firing at the CUBE's sides. A Tractor Beam fanned out and slowed the MERCEDES to a stop. Sith: "Damn! We can't be fools. We don't stand a chance against them!" Five Drones beamed onto the Bridge. The TETEKEN blasted a trilithium warhead into the CUBE. A big explosion left a crippling hole in its side. Pieces flew out everywhere. The TETEKEN circled around again, firing more pulses at the other sides of the CUBE, breaking the Tractor Beam to the MERCEDES. Ace flew the MERCEDES around. A Drone grabbed an Officer and assimilated him. Crewmen Raine grabbed the arm of an attacking Drone and kneed it in its stomach. She slammed the Drone against a console and dismantled its mechanical hand. Officers fired phasers at Drones until the Drones adapted. More Officers arrived with phaser rifles, blasting Drones away. A Drone grabbed Raine from behind and assimilated her. Sith: "Ugh!!" The Captain was picked up by a Drone, as tubules shot out from the Drone's other arm into his neck. The TETEKEN blasted another trilithium warhead into the CUBE, exploding another side of it. The Borg thought they had proper defenses to these. The CUBE fired at the TETEKEN, knocking thier shields offline and exploding a part of thier right wing. The MERCEDES then came around firing into the CUBE's fore navigational systems just before the CUBE ran into one of the Nebula's currents of energy. The CUBE exploded into large pieces as the TETEKEN and MERCEDES impulsed the hell out of there. The two ships shot out the nebula into space, on a course towards Federation Territory. Thorn hailed the MERCEDES during Warp. >Thorn, on screen: "You fought with honour. That battle was great!!" He saw the pieces of Drones scattered around the Bridge. A fallen Drone laid beside Captain Sith. Sith was on his hands and knees in pain having been pumped with nanoprobes. Thorn entered the MERCEDES' Sickbay where Doctor Carlina activated the biobed around Sith. Thorn: "Long-range scans indicate no Borg are after us." Sith, lying down: "Trilithium warheads? Those aren't allowed, Captain!" Thorn: "Modified trilithium warheads! Besides, we were no where near Federation space, and the nebula was no threat." Sith then felt a surge of bio-electric energy throughout his body. The biobed opened and he sat up, staring at his skin. It seemed like some kind of string of vines cabled around his body. It wasn't much, but they stood out in a green color as veins, but on the outside of his skin. Sith: "What the hell is going on??" Carlina, scans: "You have some kind of parasite in your system. It's manifesting itself naturally." Sith: "Damn! This must be a way for the Borg to test out some new assimilation technique." Carlina: "Actually... My scans show this parasite has been dormant within you for the past week and wasn't going to start growing for another month. The nanoprobes just accelerated it." Thorn, steps back: "Is it... contagious?" Sith, glancing his disease: "Jee, thanks for the vote of sympathy." Carlina: "I doubt it. Although I have no idea what it is or where it could have come from. I don't think there's anything I can do for you." She glances over at Sith. Sith: "...I know, I know. You want to conduct more scans." The MERCEDES and the TETEKEN speed through Warp. |
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