Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:25:17 +0000 From: James Leete Subject: My Maquis Lover Chapter 13 Disclaimer: This story is based in the "Star Trek" universe. The use of anything related to "Star Trek" in this series is not intended to infringe upon the rights of Paramount Pictures. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. All other content or otherwise are works of my own imagination. All events are fictitious in nature. Any similarities to persons living, dead, or otherwise are purely coincidental. This story contains strong themes of homosexual content, if this offends you in any way, please refrain from reading further. If you are not of legal age to read this, please leave now. Ok as well before we start this is based on the series Star Trek Voyager but with a twist from the original story line and i hope you like it. Chapter 13: He's Missing As I sat in the mess hall with Garren, Tabor and Luke eating lunch all I could think about was Tom. The captain sent him to survey a nebula and he was due back in the next few hours. "What do you think Jack?" asked Tabor. I came out of my trance and looked up, "Sorry what?" I asked. "Were you evening listening?" asked Garren. "No, I'm sorry I was just thinking about Tom." I replied. He smiled and said "Don't worry he will be back soon." "What were you saying?" I asked. "About Luke trying to get with Crewman Morris, they have been eyeing each other up for ages." Said Tabor. I looked over at Luke who was blushing deeply. "I think he should." I said. The doors to the mess hall opened and of all people to walk in was Crewman Morris. "Speak of the devil." I said as Luke and Garren turned around. I smiled when Luke put his head in his hands going very very red. Morris walked over said "Can I join you?" I looked up and said "Sure, please." I said taking another sip of my coffee. "How are things going?" I asked. "All good, just finished sorting out the weapons array on the delta flyer." He replied. "Sounds like fun." I said looking over at Luke. He hadn't said a word so I looked over at Garren and he said "So Luke, how long is it going to be before you tell Morris that you like him?" I almost choked on my coffee. "Subtle" I said to Garren. We all started to laugh when Tabor chimed up saying "And Morris how long is it going to be before you tell Luke that you want to jump his bones, I think that's how you put it the other day right?" I looked at the both of them and they were blushing very badly. "I don't know maybe tonight over dinner; say 19:30 in my quarters." Said Morris to Luke who smiled and replied saying "Sure, I'll be there." I got up and said "Well seen as my match making is done, I need to get back to the bridge." "Okay see ya." They all said. I strolled out of the mess hall and up to the bridge. When I got up to the bridge everyone was looking at me and not really saying much. "Jack, can I see you in my ready room a moment." Said the captain. I looked at her and said "Sure." I followed her into the ready room as we walked in she went over to the window and looked out with her back turned to me. "What is it?" I asked. "Okay, 10 minutes ago we received an automated distress call from Tom's shuttle. We tried to hail him and we got no response. We can't locate him anywhere on sensors and I have decided to take Voyager over to the nebula to investigate, but I ask that you don't raise your hopes too much until we have something." Said Janeway. "Oh my god, Captain we have to find him." I said breaking down and crying. She replicated me a tissue and consoled me. After an hour she said, "Feel like going back out there." I dried my eyes and said "Yeah, I have to find him." "Captain's log Stardate 52481.3 we have been searching for Ensign Walker for 5 days now and still have found no sign of him. I'm worried about Jack; I don't think he is taking this very well. We have managed to locate pieces of debris from Tom's shuttle and Jack has spent a lot of the time analysing the debris. Fortunately the doctor has informed me that there was no sign any organic material on board at the time the shuttle was destroyed which leads me to believe that Ensign Walker was abducted and..." was all the captain managed to get out. "Captain Janeway to the bridge." Said Tuvok. She stood up and walked out of her ready room and stood on the bridge. "What is it?" she asked noticing the ship had gone to red alert. "There has been an unauthorised launch of the Delta Flyer." Explained Tuvok. "Who's on board?" she asked. "Lieutenant Carter." He replied. Janeway stared on the viewscreen as the flyer went to warp. "Track his course." She ordered Kim. "I can't he's masked his warp trail, he's gone." He replied. "Good hunting Jack." Said Janeway silently. In a way she could understand why he was doing this, but that still didn't excuse him taking a shuttle. Assuming he came back she wouldn't be too hard on him. She probably would have done the same thing herself in his position. She thought 20 MINUTES EARLIER I was sat in the science lab going over the sensors logs from Tom's shuttle which were heavily damaged. "Computer access the backup sensor logs from the shuttle." I said. The computer chirped and brought them up on the monitor. I trolled through them and I wasn't expecting to find anything. To my surprise there was a warp signature on the screen. "Computer analyse the warp signature currently displayed and cross reference with any matches in the database." I said. The computer worked away. A minute later the computer announced "Analysis complete, match found." I looked on the screen and couldn't believe my eyes. I thought we left those guys behind a little under 3 years ago. It was the Voth. I was hardly surprised because of their transwarp abilities. The Voth were essentially dinosaurs who left earth over 20 million years and settled in the delta quadrant. I transferred the data to the delta flyer and then accessed the transporters. I initiated a site to site transport over to the flyer. I had to do this alone. Bringing the systems online I modulated the warp core to mask my warp trail. That way Voyager couldn't follow me. I then overrode the security systems on the shuttlebay doors and they opened and I flew the flyer straight out. I could see that Voyager had detected me and was moving to follow. "Computer scan for the warp trail I transferred from the science lab." I ordered. "Trail detected." Said the computer. "Lay in a course and engage at maximum warp." I ordered. The computer chirped and away I went. "Computer what's our ETA?" I asked. "1 hour 43 minutes." The computer replied. "What is the vessels current status?" I asked. "The Vessel is holding position in orbit of a Class D Moon." The computer replied. "Adjust our vector to conceal our approach." I ordered. "Acknowledged." Said the computer. The next hour and a half went by really quickly as I planned what I would do. "Approaching designated co-ordinates." Announced the computer. "Drop out of warp and go to one quarter impulse." I ordered. The computer chirped and we began our approach. 11 Minutes later I could see the ship ahead of me. I had gone into a low orbit of the moon which had a paramagnetic core which masked my energy signature. I scanned the Voth ship and noticed that from there were only two people on board and Tom. Tom was being held in a cargo bay which was one deck below where the other two were which was obviously their command centre. I checked and saw that their shields were down. This was too easy. I put the ship on auto pilot and grabbed a phaser and tricorder. Attaching them to by belt, I worked a control panel, setting the co-ordinates of Tom and ordered the computer to transport me over there and wait for my signal to beam me back. "Computer Energise." I said. I dematerialised in a blue hue and rematerialised in the alien cargo bay. I saw Tom tied up on the floor. It was then that I heard their intruder alarm going off. I withdrew my phaser and went over to Tom. I pulled the gag he had over his mouth off and started to untie his hands. "Am I glad to see you." He said. "I'm surprised the captain let you transport over by yourself." He added. "Erm, me to" I said. I had his hands untied and was just pulling him up when the doors to the cargo bay opened and the Voth came running in and one of them fired his weapon. I grabbed Tom and we ducked behind a container and fired my phaser to which they ducked. I tapped my commbadge. "Computer two to beam out." I said and we dematerialised out and reappeared on the flyer. "The flyer? You came here by yourself." He said. "Yeah." I said. "You idiot you could have been killed." He replied. "Well you're bloody welcome and after 5 days of trying to find you I couldn't stand not being with you." I said. "Warning, Voth Vessel approaching." The computer announced. "We don't have time to argue. Take the helm." I said. He went down and took the seat while I went over and took tactical. "Red Alert." I said and the computer activated the alert. I charged weapons and raised shields, while Tom took us up and initiated evasive Maneuvours to try to avoid being hit by the Voth weapons. "The Voth are charging weapons." I said. They fired and we took a hit. "Shields at 73%" I said. "Take us about, we can get under them." I said. Tom flew us about and I targeted their shield matrix "Firing phasers." I said. I fired multiple shots and they hit us back "I've lost warp drive." Said Tom. "Evasive action pattern omega." I said. He flew the ship and I fired multiple spreads of photon torpedoes taking out their shields. "You knocked out their shields. Target them again." Said Tom. "I will just fly us as close as you can." I said. They fired on us again and we took another hit "Shields at 32%" I said firing another set of torpedoes. I hit their port nacelle and they took heavy damage. I then fired phasers and hit their starboard nacelle and crippled both of them. They couldn't go to warp now. Tom brought us within direct line of their impulse engines and I fired disabling them. Tom flew us above their ship and I didn't have time to argue as they fired and took out our impulse engines. "We've lost engines. Thrusters are still online." Tom said. "Then bring us about I want to take out their weapons." I said. He flew us over and I took out their torpedoes and took out their phasers but not before this hit us again. "Their weapons are down, but sadly we've got major damage and we need to set down to make repairs." I said. "They are in worse shape than we are; they have..." was all tom got out before my console beeped. "Tom full thrusters now." I said. "Why?" he asked. "Their core is about to breach." I said. He moved us away but we needed impulse. I watched the timer countdown and soon their ship imploded and we were caught in the shockwave. I was thrown from my chair and landed on the floor. After a few seconds I stood up and brushed myself off to see that the cabin had some smoke lingering from where consoles had ruptured. I looked over at Tom who stood up and said "You okay?" I looked at him and smiled. "Of course." I said. "Well it looks like we're in trouble." He said. "We need to find somewhere to set down. Start scanning." I said. He nodded and went back to work. After finding a suitable planet which was Class M and uninhabited Tom looked at me. "I've found a planet, but it's 2 light years away. We need warp drive." He said. I checked what the problem was with the warp drive and it turns out that the computer had shut it down when it detected an overload in the EPS Grid. "I will bring the core back online." I said. I explained what the problem was as he helped me sort out the core. There was a gentle hum as we heard the core power up. "The core is online, set a course maximum warp." I ordered. "Aye Aye" said Tom. After about an hour at warp Tom announced "We're approaching the planet." I looked it over and said "Take us down." He turned in his chair and a look of worry appeared on his face. "What?" I asked. "I think I should tell you, while I'm a great pilot, I was never able to master the idea of landing a shuttle this size on a planet surface. If we were in a Class 2 then I could do it but not in the flyer." He told me. I rolled my eyes and said "Fine, I'll do it." I said taking over the helm. I set the decent and began to take us down. We eventually entered the lower atmosphere and I said "Find us a landing site." Tom located one and gave me the co-ordinates and I took us there. I extended the landing struts and set us down, taking engines offline and performing the right procedures associated with landing a shuttle. "Okay we're down." I said. We opened up the hatch and exited the shuttle and took a look around. We had landed in the middle of grassy field and it was a glorious day. I went back into the shuttle while tom was walking around the shuttle. I grabbed a tricorder and a phaser and went back outside. "Here." I said handing him them. "Why the phaser?" he asked. "Just in case we aren't alone and it's procedure." I replied. "Okay well let's get started on getting a damage report." He said to me. We walked back into the shuttle and I went over to the engineering console and pulled up a damage report. "Why don't you get out the emergency supplies." I said grabbing a padd and downloading the damage report. There were fused relays in the impulse engines, the weapons were offline, shields were down, structural integrity was at 86% and we had a small hull breach. Those were our main priorities everything else could be sorted out back on Voyager. "How's it look?" asked Tom. "Not as bad as I thought. Two good things though. The replicator and sub space transmitter are online." I said. He smiled and said "So we don't have to eat rations and we can send out a distress call that's all good." Said Tom. I handed him the report and said "Take a look while I send the distress call." I went down to the helm and worked the controls bringing up the distress call and encrypting it. I then opened the channel and said "Delta Flyer to Voyager, this Lieutenant Carter, I've located and rescued Ensign Walker but we have taken damage. We've made an emergency landing on the surface of a planet. Request immediate assistance." And closed the channel. I then saw the display register that it was being transmitted on all subspace frequencies. "Alright let's get to work." I said. We had been working for a couple of hours and hadn't really spoken as we were too focused on trying to make repairs. The sun was really hot and I had stripped down to my vest. "Here." I heard tom say. I was on top of the flyer sealing the hull breach. I looked down at him and said "Hold on." I slid down the side of the flyer and landed on the nacelle sitting there and taking a glass off him. "Thanks." I took a big swig and tasted cold lemonade. "So how have you got on?" I asked. "I got the impulse engines back and brought the phasers online. You?" he asked "I sealed the hull breach and replaced some relays in the shield matrix. It's back online." I said. "That's good." He said. He took a swig of his drink and said "By the way thank you." I looked at him. "For what?" I asked. "Coming and rescuing me." He said smiling. "Didn't quite work out the way I planned. Look at us, Voyager has no idea where we are and I managed to damage the flyer." I said. "Yeah Paris is going to be pissed." He said. I smiled and said "I think you're right." He came up and sat next to me on the nacelle. "You took a big risk taking the flyer." He said. "Yeah but you're more important. Besides we need to have that baby next year." I said smiling. He kissed me and said "Count on it. And just to let you know you look really hot right now. It makes me want you even more." I looked at him and said "Well we are all alone." I rolled over and lay on my stomach dressed in nothing but my vest and underwear and I looked at Tom who was laid out in the sun. We just had amazing sex on an alien world out in the open. It was unbelievable. "Seems like you two have had a productive day." I heard a voice say. I turned over and Tom opened his eyes to see the captain, B'Elanna and Tuvok stood over us. I immediately stood up and said "Captain." She smiled and said "We got your message, now put some trousers on and fill us in." I grabbed my trousers and put them on as did Tom, I then scrambled to put my socks and boots on and grabbed my belt which had my phaser and tricorder on. I put it on and walked inside the flyer where the captain and B'Elanna were checking through systems. "The impulse engines are back online which is a good thing. We can get the flyer back to the ship without any help." Said B'Elanna. "Good. Ah Jack, good work on repairs. Fancy going home?" she asked. "You bet." I said. "Then take the helm." She said. I took the helm while everyone else took their posts and grabbed the supplies which were outside before Tuvok sealed the hatch. "The hatch has been sealed. We can take off." He said. I brought engines online and took us up and set a course for Voyager. "Janeway to Voyager" said the captain. "Go ahead Captain" said Chakotay. "We found Tom and Jack along with the flyer and are on our way back to the ship." She said. "Understood we'll prepare for your arrival. Chakotay Out." He replied. A few minutes later we were back in space and I flew us in to the shuttlebay and set us down. I took engines offline and we all left the shuttle. "You two get to sickbay and have the doctor check you out; I'll join you there in a few minutes." Said Janeway. "Aye captain." I said grabbing my jacket and shirt and leaving the shuttlebay. It was good to be back. We rode the turbolift up to deck 5 and eventually arrived in sickbay. "Ah Jack, Tom you're back." Said the doctor grabbing his tricorder and gesturing that we sit on a bio bed. He scanned us both and gave me an injection to help counteract the sun burn I had taken by being sat on the hull as the captain walked in. "Doctor how are they?" she asked. "They are both in fine condition apart from Jack getting a bit sun burnt." He replied. "Good, how are do you feel Tom?" she asked walking over to us. "Fine thank you." Said Tom. I looked down at the floor and she came over to me and said "And as for you Jack, we need to have a word. I am very very very..." she paused and looked at me "Proud of you. Not many people would have had the guts to take on a Voth Ship and actually be able say they survived it. You both did a fine job and I'm placing a commendation in both of your permanent files for handling yourself well under pressure." She said smiling causing me to look up. "On two conditions, first you get me full reports on you're away mission, and the second being that you repair the flyer. I want that shuttle sparkling." She said smiling. "Count on it." I said. "Good, then you're both dismissed and I will see you both at 07:00 tomorrow. You earned yourself a break." She said. "Can we go?" I said to the doctor. He looked up and said "Of course." I smiled and said "Thanks doc" and we both exited sickbay. After arriving back at our quarters we showered up and got changed and went up to the mess hall to have something to eat. I was famished. As we entered the mess hall I saw Luke and Crewman Morris sat eating with B'Elanna and Paris at the big table in the corner. B'Elanna waved us over and we went to Neelix and grabbed some food and some coffee before making our way over. "Well if it isn't our resident hero." Said Paris. "I'm not a hero." I said. "Well you are my knight in shining armour." Said Tom. "Stop it." I said kissing him. "That's enough of that for today." Said B'Elanna. "What do you mean?" asked Paris. "Oh did you not hear, Tuvok, the captain and I found these two stretched out on the grass in nothing but their underwear after obviously having s..." was all she got out because I cut her off by saying "Thank you, that's enough." And everyone just burst out laughing. "Well at least we did it." Said Tom gesturing to Luke and Morris. Morris looked up and said "Actually we did, last night on our 2nd date." "It took you up to the second date, Tom and I did it on the first." I said. "So did we..." said B'Elanna. Paris looked at her and smiled. "Well maybe we're not all as easy to get into the sack like you guys." Said Luke. We all laughed and carried on talking and soon we all went our separate ways. Tom and I went back to our quarters where I checked the time 21:00. "Fancy going to bed, I'm so tired." I said yawning. "Same." He said. After stripping off we climbed into bed and tom pulled me into him and kissed me on the neck. "Good night my hero. I love you." He said. "Goodnight my love. I love you too." I said. I turned out the lights and as soon as my head hit the pillow I was gone.