Making your escape

You raised a thorn dagger over your head as shadowy forms appeared in the door frame. It looked like a dozen people were standing outside the room, each with threatening poses. You frown, Borg do not pose threateningly. You were ready to protect yourself and the others in case whoever it was proved hostile to the partially assimilated. You tensed when two kinda short shadowy forms darted forward.

“Mama!” “Kir-kir!”

You suddenly had blue form latched onto your waist, nearly getting knocked off your feet. Laying a hand on the blue haired head, you see that it was Pixel who was crying on your shirt. From the sounds of it, Mariner got tackled by Jessica.

“Mom! I was so scared! But I knew you could beat up the Borg!” Jessica exclaimed as she hugged Mariner. Mariner for her part was rubbing your daughter’s head with her borg implant covered hand. Jessica felt the unfamiliar sensation and pulled back a bit. She looked up at Mariner’s arm and gasped at the metallic lines and nodes. Mariner looked a little panicked but her face blanked at Jessica’s reaction. “So cool! You match Seven of Nine!”

“Yeah, I guess I do,” Mariner gave a smirk as she admired her hand and arm. You roll your eyes before lifting up Pixel and paying attention to the others who walked inside the room. Except for a beautiful Orion, it was all members of your harem including Gwen Stacy and Hera who were remarkably not converted into Borg. They quickly worked on checking everyone with Laura and Gwen Tennyson keeping an eye on the Borg Queen.

“The rescue party is here,” Shampoo commented, waving a slightly dented tonfa in one hand. She looked around at the room, giving the tied up Borg Queen a snort. “I knew airen wouldn’t let himself stay prisoner.”

“Though I wonder why they weren’t completely assimilated,” Tendi wondered as she scanned the Boimler’s ocular implant. Her tricorder let out a chirp. “Looks like a power surge fried the transceivers, stopping the assimilation from progressing.”

“Very interesting but in case we forgot, this ship is being torn apart!” Kyoka reminded you all as the ship shook again and nearby consoles started displaying further damage reports.

“Help whoever can’t walk, hopefully the path back to our ship is clear,” Hera suggested, covering the door with a small blaster pistol.

“It should be, I found what should be a safe path,” Mariner said as she disconnected her PADD with one hand while she used the other to hug Jessica. “By the way, we will be talking about why you’re on a Borg Cube.” Jessica’s smile froze and she hunched over a little and bowed her head.

A few minutes later, the group of freed victims and your rescue party were rushing through the hallways, encountering only a few drones here and there that weren’t a big deal. “So how did you and Gwen S. escape getting captured by the Borg?” You asked Hera after the group finished shooting a group of drones with phasers courtesy of Tendi and the rescue party. Most of the drones were now standing around a bit confused but freed from the Collective thanks to Tendi modifying the phasers to replicate the same surge that stopped the assimilation. The remaining ones were taken care of quickly, you figure the Borg have adapted away the weakness finally.

“Your ship has a few smuggling hidey-holes, when the Borg breached, I was automatically thrown into one.” Hera nodded at Gwen S. “Gwen webbed up quite a few of them before using the vents to move around. We were looking for a prisoner level when we ran into the rescue party.”

“So you were around here for a few days?” You looked closer at Hera and Spider Gwen and noticed the wear and tear of their clothes and the grime on their faces. “Impressive”

“By the way, do you think it was a good idea to bring the Borg Queen with us? You know she’s probably directing more drones our way,” Alex pointed out. The other rescues looked warily at the vine creature you were using to transport the cocooned Borg Queen.

“I doubt she can do much, that scrambling from the phaser messed her up,” you shrug after checking around a corner. “I’m pretty sure the Borg Queen transferred to another backup body already. She hasn’t tried to break free in a while…” You blink as you consider that thought. “That might be a problem for later.”

“Then why are you still bringing her along?”

“StarFleet might be able to bring Jacey back if she’s still in there.” Mariner reminded Alex that the drones were people once. That left the group relatively silent, occasionally dealing with drones and destroyed hallways as the Cube’s shaking got worse.

Finally, Mariner hurried ahead and plugged into a console, allowing a door to slide open.