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* LtJG [[Gila Sadar]] (USS ''Artemis''-A) | * LtJG [[Gila Sadar]] (USS ''Artemis''-A) | ||
* LtJG [[David Flint]] (Amity Outpost - ''PNPC'') | * LtJG [[David Flint]] (Amity Outpost - ''PNPC'') | ||
* Ensign [[Quentin Beck]] (USS ''Artemis''-A)}}Abandoning all sense of self-preservation in order to distract the overwhelming enemy - and get some revenge for the infiltration of her station - [[Robin Hopper|Lt.Cdr. Hopper]] leads her team into the heart of the Cube to locate the conniving Changelings and hopefully in the process distract the Borg enough for the Shield Sabotage Team to be able to do their task in peace. Their journey leads them through the oppressive corridors of the Cube and into a peculiar chamber filled with alcoves occupied by Borg Drones. ''Dead'' Borg Drones. Eager to move on to their destination, the group is ushered through the large room, only for a pair of Drones to bar their progress. Erecting a forcefield to trap the Officers within the chamber, [[Vailani Zoyara|LT Vailani]] realizes that the Borg have changed tactics. They're planning on cutting off life support to the room they have trapped the Officers in. While the Engineers and Security Officers work on foiling the Drones' trap, [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] and [[Quentin Beck|Ens Beck]] are ordered to examine the deceased Drones in the hopes of discovering what the function of the room is, and what killed the Drones still locked into alcoves. This proves more difficult than anticipated, and by the time LT [[Vailani Zoyara|Zoyara | * Ensign [[Quentin Beck]] (USS ''Artemis''-A)}}Abandoning all sense of self-preservation in order to distract the overwhelming enemy - and get some revenge for the infiltration of her station - [[Robin Hopper|Lt.Cdr. Hopper]] leads her team into the heart of the Cube to locate the conniving Changelings and hopefully in the process distract the Borg enough for the Shield Sabotage Team to be able to do their task in peace. Their journey leads them through the oppressive corridors of the Cube and into a peculiar chamber filled with alcoves occupied by Borg Drones. ''Dead'' Borg Drones. Eager to move on to their destination, the group is ushered through the large room, only for a pair of Drones to bar their progress. Erecting a forcefield to trap the Officers within the chamber, [[Vailani Zoyara|LT Vailani]] realizes that the Borg have changed tactics. They're planning on cutting off life support to the room they have trapped the Officers in. While the Engineers and Security Officers work on foiling the Drones' trap, [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] and [[Quentin Beck|Ens Beck]] are ordered to examine the deceased Drones in the hopes of discovering what the function of the room is, and what killed the Drones still locked into alcoves. This proves more difficult than anticipated, and by the time LT [[Vailani Zoyara|Zoyara]] manages to dispatch the Drone on the other side of the forcefield, and allow them easy passage, the medical officers are no closer to an answer.<br><br> | ||
The group makes their way towards the inner parts of the Cube, trying to make a reasonable strategy for dealing with the Changelings and the artifact they stole, but before they have a reasonable chance to make a strategy, they realize they've caught up to their quarry and are approaching a large, important chamber: the antechamber of the Borg Queen herself. The Changelings hand over a piece of technology - the artifact they stole from [[Amity Outpost]]'s restricted basement levels - and the Borg Queen ruminate on the impending destruction of Starfleet, nay, the Federation at large. Before the party of Officers listening in have a chance to escape or make a surprise attack, the Borg are alerted to their presence, and despite their best attempts at mounting a defense, the Borg Queen uses her unequaled mastery of the Collective to entrap them and bring them before her. And then, re-assimilate [[David Flint|LtJG Flint]] - ''Nine of Twenty'' - into the Collective. This action angers the crew from [[Amity Outpost]] who see the ex-Borg officer as one of their own, but their resistance makes little difference. They find themselves herded towards a specific location in the Cube by a multitude of Drones, including [[David Flint|LtJG Flint]]. The room they arrive at is similar to the laboratory they encountered earlier, only without the dead drones, and while there, a number of the Officers are manhandled by the Drones and subjected to an invasive procedure of blood retrieval.<br><br> | |||
As the desperate Officers try to ascertain what the Borg’s master plan is, [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] utilizes a moment of relative calm to stealth-inoculate [[David Flint|LtJG Flint]] with a smaller dosage of the anti-Borg Serum in an attempt to allow him to retake his own mind. The Queen and her Drones realize what she’s done a moment too late, as the serum takes effect and the [[David Flint|LtJG]] is in control of his mind once more. Using his knowledge of the Borg, he disables the Collective’s internal shield matrix in one fell swoop, providing both them and the other team a moment of reprieve to escape their Drone pursuers and do some actual damage to the pursuing Borg. The [[David Flint|ex-Borg LtJG]] leads the team to a keypoint of energy - an Anti-Polaron Distribution Node - and reveals that they might be able to do some severe damage to the Cube’s systems if the anti-Borg serum is injected directly into the Node. The [[Savel|LtJG Savel]], [[Rebecca Iko|LT Iko]] & [[Vailani Zoyara|LT Zoyara]] start shredding the protective layers around the Node, while [[Quentin Beck|Ens Beck]] reveals that he had to dose himself with the Anti-Borg Serum in order to stop a spread of errant nanites. Knowing that there is limited time before he’s rendered unconscious by the medicine, he volunteers for the dangerous task of injecting the serum into the Node itself, and thus being unable to escape the blast radius of the ensuing explosion.<br><br> | |||
The plan goes off without a hitch, and the team watch the resulting explosion as in slow-motion through the blue shimmer associated with transporters... | |||
===On the Artemis (again)=== | ===On the Artemis (again)=== | ||
Immediately prior to the transportation of the Cube-teams, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] and LtJG [[T'Ama]] fight the escaping Tupperware-Changeling. [[Vitor Silveira|LT Silveira]]'s first instinct is to join the fray as well, but he's given stern order to maintain weapons fire upon the Borg Cube, while the rest of the Bridge Team get the Changeling contained. Ultimately, this is done by beaming the Changeling straight to a reinforced cell in the Brig, Tupperware and all. Soon thereafter, the shields of the Cube go down, and [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] wastes no time in ordering the immediate beamout of every Starfleet personnel on the cube. LtJG [[T'Ama]] notes - with some curiosity - that there's more people on the Cube than was originally sent over there, but does ultimately beam out every non-Borg lifesign she can identify. | |||
<br><br> In the Shuttlebay - after successfully venting the Dakora-Changeling into space, Ensigns [[Gnai]] and [[Kel Solas|Kel]] find themselves uncertain of how to proceed. While working to gain access to Intership Communications to hopefully find out the situation on the Bridge, [[Genkos Adea|Cmdr. Adea]], [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] and [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ens Chevalier]] arrive at the Shuttlebay to find the mayhem caused after the Ensigns’ struggles. Initially pleased with the coming rescue, the Officers soon find themselves at a standstill, as the two Ensigns - understandably weary after the threat of their First Officer attempting to kill them - try to ascertain whether their senior officers are actually who they say they are. Eventually - after a series of personal questions - the officers reconvene outside the now landed Shuttle, just as [[Savel|LtJG Savel]] and [[Vailani Zoyara|LT Vailani]] join them to bolster their search and capture of the remaining Changeling onboard.<br><br> | |||
[[Addison MacKenzie|Captain MacKenzie]] soon returns to her Bridge, bringing along with her LTs [[Charlena Vanlith|Vanlith9] and [[Jovenan]]. [[Robin Hopper|Lt.Cdr. Hopper]] joins them as well, hoping to assist the Bridge Crew with analyzing the current situation and figuring out what repairs to prioritize. As the Cube heads to transwarp speeds, the hampered sensors do their best to attempt to extrapolate a course, but the worst suspicions of every Officer is soon confirmed, as it becomes apparent that the Cube is headed straight for Sector 001. Their primary objective must now be to warn Starfleet about the incoming threat, but with long-range communications and warp functionality still not functioning as per the Changelings’ sabotage, there’s a long way until they’re able to warn anyone. Intending to gain as much information about the enemies’ plans as possible, Lt.Cdrs. [[Talos Dakora|Dakora]] and [[Robin Hopper|Hopper]] head to the Intel Suite alongside [[Charlena Vanlith|LT Vanlith]] in order to discern what part the stolen technology from [[Amity Outpost|Amity]] plays in the Borg’s plans for Frontier Day. | |||
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Meanwhile, in Sickbay, the remainder of the crew who had been on the Cube assembled for medical care. There’s a clear divide between the two distinct crews - with the Amity-group more comfortable with taking care of their own - but taking care of each others wounds while the Ship is still being rocked by Borg weaponry has a way of bridging such differences, and soon enough, the two crews intermingle in the interest of getting everyone on their feet as soon as possible. [[Rebecca Iko|LT Iko]] and [[Kaito Moore|LtJG Moore]] turn their focus on how to combat the Changeling saboteur, while [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] enlist the assistance of both the recovered [[Quentin Beck|Ens Beck]] and [[Jansen Orrey|Dr. Orrey]] - the civilian Doctor from Amity - to safely conduct the necessary cranial surgery on [[David Flint|LtJG Flint]]. | |||
Meanwhile, in Sickbay, the remainder of the crew who had been on the Cube assembled for medical care. There’s a clear divide between the two distinct crews - with the Amity-group more comfortable with taking care of their own - but taking care of each others wounds while the Ship is still being rocked by Borg weaponry has a way of bridging such differences, and soon enough, the two crews intermingle in the interest of getting everyone on their feet as soon as possible. LT Iko and LtJG Moore turn their focus on how to combat the Changeling saboteur, while LtJG Sadar enlist the assistance of the | |||
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