A Little Exploring" (Part 2 of 2)

The *Runabout Nile* stopped twenty-three metres in front of a piece of the Borg cube that seemed to be it's own little ship. Harris knew that he had to go aboard the ship to see if there was some Borg alive and that made his somewhat nervous. If he was to find some, however, then he had to eliminate them like he did the Jem'Hadar on clean up operations.

"Kirk. Keep a lock on us and if something doesn't go right. You have orders to fire micro torpedoes." Harris said standing up and grabbing the MP5s next to his seat. "Ensign Lewis saddle up ! You're with me. Take these plasma grenades and extra ammo."

"Aye sir. Should I bring my tricorder ?" She asked nervously.

"Yes Ensign."

The two beamed over and landed on a catwalk in the middle of a great forty-five metre hole that dropped into space. Grant looked around and saw thirty four Borg in alcoves and three working at some panels. "Ensign. Can you scan to see what they are doing?"

"Yes sir. Just a second." She said unfurling her tricorder to take readings. Lewis carefully walked 36 metres to the working Borg and scanned the panel. "Sir. They appear to be repairing this sector of the cube. I assume to make space worthy."

Grant asked himself why this section of the borg cube what could be so important while he looked around. He noticed a dead drone that had half of his body gone. Pointing at the dismembered drone Harris ordered, "Lewis. Lets find out that Borg's designation."

After a quick examination, Lewis discovered something very disturbing she gasped slightly. "Um.. Sir. It says 5 of 21."

"My god ensign. We're in the queen's sector." Grant remembered something that he had read. Since a cadet, Harris had a morbid fascination similar to the Hansen's centered on the Borg and the Borg Collective, but it was more for a destruction standpoint. His only interest in them was to destroy them, eradicate the entire race and to do that he had to know the Borg. Ever since he witnessed the Battle of Wolf 359, he made it his goal in life to destroy the Borg so he doubled his efforts and found minute facts thanks mostly to the works of the Hansens. . "Fascinating. How do you know so much about me, Lieutenant Harris?" A female voice said out loud where everyone could hear. Grant was taken back by the response.

"So will you show your self or will you hide like the coward you are." Grant said out loud defiantly.

"Bold words for such a fragile species." Then a female drone walked out of a room, twenty nine metres to the right of Harris. She had cords coming from her head to her body and her skin was bluish in color.

"We've beaten you this time, it's only a short while before your whole race is gone, Lieutenant."

That angered Grant. The insolence of the Borg caused him to bark his reply, " Look around you we have destroyed everything except this small section." She walked up to him and touched his face Grant jumped back. "Touch me again and I'll rip off your head."

Harris heard Borg emerge from its alcove and notice that it came from behind him. He waited for a moment and back kicked it then turned around. As the drone staggered backwards by the momentum, Harris drew a dagger and threw it hitting the Vulcan drone in the throat just about the protective "armor". During the commotion, the Borg Queen had moved silently behind Ensign Lewis and with little strength snapped Ensign Lewis' neck. This caught Harris off guard. Usually, the Borg were more interested in assimilation of an individual not exterminating them. However the queen who was the embodiment of the collective acted quickly and ridded herself of the one threat. Grant ran forward and kicked the borg queen in the face twice in rapid secession as the lifeless body of Ensign Lewis slipped to the floor. He then unloaded his MP5 on full automatic into the few drones that surrounded him.

The queen stood up and screamed, "No!"

Grant seeing her anger and almost a slight fear, took pleasure in killing her drones watching her suffer. The queen charged Grant and round house punched him in his nose breaking it. She tried to hit him again using some assimilated Klingon hand-to-hand techniques, but fortunately he was versed in different evasive maneuvers. With a small duck and parry, Grant grabbed her arm as she tried to hit him again and snapped it at the elbow. She yelped in pain as her arm now had an organic bone protruding from it. As she was in what can be referred to as shock, Harris kneed her in the stomach. She fell to the ground. Taking this opportunity, Grant kicked her in the face and kept kicking her till yellowish 'blood' oozed from her mouth and nose. He picked up the unconscious queen and tapped his combadge. "Mr. Ambrose! Lock on to my combadge and transport three to the *Nile*."

[Aye Sir]

In the *Runabout Nile* the three rematerialized and as they did Harris bellowed, "Computer level 12 force field around the Borg. Kirk. Lock weapons on that thing and blast it out of space." Kirk launched the torpedoes and they detonated, blowing up the "ship". Then he turned around in his chair to face Harris.

"Sir what the hell is that?"

"It's a present for the captain. Open a comm channel." Harris said. Ambrose pushed a few buttons and the view screen displayed Captain Devore. "Captain Devore. I have good news and bad news. I've lost the young ensign but caught a Borg queen."

[Very good Lieutenant. Get back to the Leviathan! We are pulling out.]

"Understood. Sir. Meet me at the shuttle bay."

[Negative. Once you are in transporter range, beam the queen directly to the brig. Devore out.]

"Kirk take us home."

"Aye sir."