Mission 12: "When It Rains..."

[Larial]

Larial looked at the Captain,

"Oh I meant no offense Captain."

[Taurik]

"Very well. Inform the doctor to tell me if there are any significant health issues caused by the jumpdrive."

Taurik sat back in his chair at the center of the bridge. "Engage jump, Petty Officer."

[Holographic Officer Beta]

Beta powered the phasers to 50%, and set them to the exit path of a craft flying out of the shuttlebay, just in case, and linked himself to the tactical station's systems, allowing himself limited control while not at the station. He then sent an electronic message to various points throughout the ship:

<center>\\Attention://

Security Team Beta to Shuttlebay

By order of Ensign Beta
Chief Tactical/Security Officer

\\Message Ends//</center>

"Consider it done, Captain." he said, as his holographic image disappeared from the bridge, reappearing at the armoury nearest the shuttlebay. Grabbing a rifle, he walked the rest of the way, setting the weapon to stun.

[T'lana]

It was at this point T'lana decided to speak up.

"What you described is the exact light years radius of what Humans call the Andromeda Galaxy. The Milkyway Galaxy's closest neighbor at two million light years distance."

[Chaya Sar]

Chaya Sar sensed a whisper in the force and slowly walked over to Taurik, talking quietly she stated.

"Taurik, we are not alone, I sense two beings on this station that have a negative feeling towards the rest of the beings here."

Chaya Sar moved her hand toward her Lightsaber and accessed the force. The atmosphere around the Away Team became slightly charged with static-electricity.

[Chaya Sar]

"I shall do my best T'lana."

Chaya Sar grabbed her Lightsaber and ignited it. Moving taking the turbolift, to the nearest deck where the Borg were, she quickly dispatched a drone nearest her.
Coming across another drone she attempted to dispatch it using her Lightsaber, which was blocked by the Drones personal shield. Careful not to let it touch her she used force push to knock it away, successfully pushing it into a bulkhead. The drone got back up again and attempted to grab Chaya, leaping over the Borg she force pushed it again.

To Chaya, this wasn't getting anywhere so she grabbed her Blaster, at the highest level, she fired the weapon. The coherent burst of light-energy passed through it's shields and straight through it's body, destroying it.
Chaya moved on to the next and the next, using the Blaster, it wasn't until the next Borg that proved the Blaster to be now useless. Re-holstering the Blaster and deactivating and hilting her Lightsaber, Chaya saw no other way but to use a power she thought she would never have to use; Force Lightning.

Before Chaya could think of the consequences of using force lightning, a dark-side power, another Borg rounded the corner and nearly had her. Raising her hands, arcs of devastating bio-electric energy flowed out from her hands, penetrating the Borg's shields, flowing through and around it's body, quickly draining energy from it and electrocuting it simultaneously. Force Lightning is the only force-user power that is uncontrollable. Once used, anything in the path of the arcs of bio-energy is decimated, making force lightning the worst force power there is.

feeling the rush of power, Chaya Sar went from Borg to Borg,  deck to deck, destroying each one with force lightning, until no Borg was left on the Rivendell.
Chaya collapsed with exhaustion and euphoria, it is very tempting to use the force to it's fullest potential, but as the saying goes; Power corrupts, absolute power, corrupts absolutely. Chaya never truly understood that, till now.

Regaining her strength, Chaya went back to the Bridge, trying her best to control the godlike euphoric feeling she was having now, trying desperately to remind herself of the Jedi Code.

"It is done." She stated to T'lana, who was unable to follow Chaya's progress since she used the lightning ability.

[THE BORG COLLECTIVE]

The Borg Cube intensified it's Neuralitic Field and while Taurik was regaining his strength, a drone placed a Neural Inhibitor near Taurik's Temporal Lobe.

<UNIMATRIX 01>

The Borg Queen was watching and analyzing the playback and telemetry from the events on the USS Rivendell. The Borg Queen was fascinated by it all. She wasn't afraid, worried or anything like that, she was simply fascinated. With this fascination, came a plan.

<BORG CUBE 3933723>

An image was projected into Taurik's mind, via his Neural Implant, the image was of Chaya Sar and what she had done to the drones.

"THIS SPECIES IS UNKNOWN TO US, WHAT IS THIS BEING'S DESIGNATION? YOU WILL COMPLY."

While the Hive-Mind was speaking to Taurik, the Borg Cube activated it's Transwarp Drive, headed for Unimatrix 01. The Borg Sphere still had the Rivendell in a tractor beam.

Taurik has been granted an audience with the Borg Queen.

[Chaya Sar]

"Please, call me Chaya." Chaya Sar said, smiling slightly.
"I would be pleased to Taurik, may I call you Taurik? Anyway, I sense more than just curiosity."

Jedi Knight Chaya Sar sat down in the chair opposite Taurik, with an air of extreme power, mixed with youthful naivety and an inherent vulnerability. Like most of her kind, the aura force-sensitives have seems to excite electrostatic particles that naturally occur in an atmosphere.

Those who are not "gifted" feel uncomfortable being around those that are, inversely and those that are "gifted" can sense the change in the atmosphere - specifically the aforementioned electrostatic particles.

"I sense you have more abilities than your fellow crew, it's in the ways of the force, but different."

[THE BORG COLLECTIVE]

"SETTING NAVIGATION, UNICOMPLEX, ENGAGING TRANSWARP DRIVE."

Royal Transport 01 engaged it's transwarp engines for the Borg Unicomplex, exiting transwarp a few moments later.

Once at the unicomplex, the Royal Transport reconnected with the unicomplex, attaching it's umbilicals and powering down it's Gravimetric Engines and Transwarp Drive.

The Borg Queen looked at Taurik, "An alliance between the Borg and the lesser species would be difficult. Our vast superiority can be intimidating, I know. But I do believe that an alliance with you lesser species and your federations and empires, would have a better chance of success against the Na'Jigat. So your suggestion does have merit, or as you species 3259 are fond of constantly saying, it is quite logical."

The Borg Queen continued, "So yes, the Borg Collective accept your alliance. You may return to your vessel."

The Borg Queen directed one of her drones to remove the neural suppression device from Taurik's temporal lobe.

"Bare in mind Three of Twelve, once the Na'Jigat have been neutralized, the alliance will be dissolved. If we meet again, you and yours will be assimilated."

With that said, the Borg Queen beamed Three of Twelve - Taurik - back to the USS Rivendell.

[Morgan Freeman]

Morgan looks up from his station to see Larial walk into engineering.  "Hello dear girl, yes we could use your help.  If you want to join the conduit repair team I am sure you can increase there productivity."

Turning to T'lana "Repairs are coming along at a very nice rate,  we should be fully operational in two days."

[T'lana]

"You're welcome ensign, dismissed."

[Morgan Freeman]

"Perhaps your right my friend, It would appear that would should only worry about what is in the realm of our influence.  You will be proud to know that my engineering crew defended themselves very well against the Borg."  Morgan sipped on his root beer, it was stupid to be addicted to the drink but he loved it.

[Morgan Freeman]

"So the question is, do we want to loose the jump drive or adjust the relays and hpe we don't experience the power loss that we did before?"  

Morgan began activating the equipment in the room in order to begin the testing process.

[Taurik]

Taurik raised an eyebrow. "I am sure the engineers at Utopia Planetia Shipyards would... appreciate the input."

[T'lana]

"With your permission Captain." T'lana made it clear with a gesture that she was going to go down to the Shuttle Bay.

As the Captain nodded, T'lana headed for the turbolift, looking at Morgan as she went.

"Chief, your with me."

T'lana waited in the turbolift as Morgan, herself and Captain Taurik, headed for the Shuttle Bay.

=A=T'lana to Medbay=A=

"Chief Medical Officer to Shuttle Bay One."

=A=T'lana Out=A=

Commander Morgan Freeman, Captain Taurik and Lieutenant Commander T'lana arrived at Shuttle Bay one, meeting the security contingent on the way.

T'lana and Morgan walked up to the vessel, that was clearly some form of highly advanced Starfighter and looked around it. T'lana noticed ladder ingresses in the fuselage and climbed up to a seating position on the forward section near the canopy.

Taking out a Tricorder, T'lana seemed to always keep on her person, she scanned the canopy and it's occupant.

"Captain, the pilot appears to be a female humanoid and definitely in some form of suspended animation. The stasis she is in appears to be congruent with the cockpit, opening the canopy should bring the pilot out of suspended animation."