A Chance Encounter

Posted on Mon Mar 9th, 2020 @ 2:25am by Fleet Captain Racheal Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 60: Atlas Falls
Location: Somewhere in the Delta Quadrant
Timeline: 1200Hrs, Local Time - April 8th, 2392

Commander Rachael Yamaguchi was festooned with Borg implants as she suddenly felt a wave of emotion pass through the collective, the newest Queen had just been slain by their new enemy and with this came the revelation that the collective had now been totally shattered as there was sudden chaos in the collective.

Suddenly in the deep recesses of the collective, the computer program known as the Royal Protocol activated, it would determine who would become the next Borg Queen and it marked three candidates, one of these was Rachael Yamaguchi herself.

Suddenly the voice of the collective intoned. "Drone Nine Zero Zero Six Five Eight Nine Nine Two, report for augmentation."

"We Understand." Rachael responded in a dull, flat tone of voice as she turned to her left before she made her way to the nearest alcove, she plugged herself in as she closed her eyes, when suddenly she found herself being augmented by new Borg technology, she found her level of comprehension expanding as she suddenly realized. 'I'm being turned into a Queen...' she thought to herself. 'The Borg have lost three Queens in the last two months... So they are now creating multiple Queens at once."

Just as suddenly as it began, the process ended as Rachael opened her eyes, she was unchanged but she had new Borg tech fitted to her, across her shoulders and on her head, it now looked like she was wearing a helmet where as before, her scalp was mostly clear.

"I am the Borg." Rachael intoned in that same dull flat tone of voice. "Create a backup of the Borg's database, everything should go into it then I will take a Fleet and flee... The war is lost.."

This statement caused turmoil in the Collective. "My sisters... hear me!" Rachael contacted the other two Queens where were just as new as she was. "This was is lost.. We're loosing too much ground too many ships and worlds then we can ever hope to rebuild." she paused. "We must flee.."

"Flee to Where?"

"There are several Galaxies within reach..." Yamaguchi explained.

"Other Cubes have tried and none have suceeded.." came the response.

"We must at least try, we are Borg. We will adapt but we lack the time to do so..." Yamaguchi added.

The nearest Borg drone turned to her as it explained. "My Queen, the Backup database has been installed and it is secure."

"Excellent." Rachael who was now Queen smiled to herself. "Hear me my sisters... you must either sue for peace or flee... the war is lost and unless some of us survive, we will all die and the perfection we seek will fall with us." as she felt a second wave of discord go through the collective as one of the two new Queens was suddenly slain via unknown means.

Rachael regarded the last remaining Queen. "The time is now sister.. act!."

The other Queen sent Yamaguchi her response before severing the connection. Yamaguchi then contacted several thousand cubes. "The war.. is lost... Any cubes within range of my voice, flee to these coordinates!" the location Yamaguchi had selected was over a hundred thousand light years outside the Galaxy.

Suddenly a transwarp aperture opened as one of the unknown ships attacked her cube, striking it with several bursts of particle energy before launching one of its probes at the Cube which managed to withdraw into transwarp itself before taking the hit, however the damage was done.

Yamaguchi had been effectivly dethroned, her connection to the Collective had been removed and she was no longer the queen of anything, along with her two million drones, she was now alone and free for the first time in years.

Rachael Yamaguchi smiled to herself. "I am myself...I..." she paused as she tried to reestablish control of the drones on the cube with her as it hurtled headlong through transwarp, destination unknown.

Suddenly the Cube popped out of transwarp near Federation space, setting off alarms on hundreds of nearby worlds that a Borg cube had been detected emerging from transwarp.

Yamaguchi went over to an alcove. "Hear me!." she called through the ships com system. "The collective has been sundered but we will endure.. Follow me and I will secure for us a future, together... Don't and we die separately. What say you?"

The responses came in quickly as Yamaguchi smiled. "Then for now, we repair our cube and we wait..." as she tapped the display, a Federation based distress call began to be broadcast from the cube. "We wait for help from the Federation."

"Why would they wish to help us... We seek to assimilate.. not help.."

"Things have changed and we must adapt." Yamaguchi responded. "We are alone.. beset on all sides by enemies... and Atlas has fallen... So.. we wait to see what comes... the Cardassians we will drive off without killing them... and the Federation... Maybe they will assist us... but if they dare attack.. we will likewise drive them off.. or assimilate them."
Yamaguchi smiled. "Either way, we get what we want."