[USS Saratoga, Delta Quadrent. 10 years ago]
The proud flagship of the Omega Fleet was filled with smoke and was constatnly suffering catostrphic damage by the Borg Cube. Decks five through seven were compleatly buckled and the phaser banks were shot. But the Marines of the SSF were ready to fight and if need be die for their General.
Nikolai moved up with the rest of his platoon standing beside his wife and fellow Marine Arie. Both young Lance Corproals knew this was a very dire time for the ship and for the Federation in general. If the Borg task force got past the Saratoga and her support ships they would sweep out through the wormhole and assmilate everything they knew and loved.
General Mitchel had left the tattered remains of the bridge to lead the assualt personally. He stood before the troops blood dripping from his scalp. "Over the years I have asked alot of each and everyone of you, And time and time again you rose to that call. Now I am asking you for one final thing, perhaps the most difficult thing of all." the general stated. "The ship isn't going to last much longer and our weapons are depleated, however there is a chance. We are going to beam over to the flying monstrosity and cripple it from the inside. If we can get to their central power node our own Lance Corporal Arie Trisis has created a plauge that will sweep through and destroy the Borg ship." he said to them as he passed by Arie and Nikolai.
"I'm not going to lie to you, This mission has only two outcomes. Either we suceed and finely stop the borg advancement or we fail and everyone in the alpha quadrent will be part of the collective. Our chances are slim and our survivablity even if we deliever the package is next to none. I wont order any of you on this mission, If any of you want to stay behind say so now." the general said as he looked over his men. Several of them were frightend and looked ancy.
Nikolai stepped foward as his Lieutenant and Saregent were both dead. He marched up to the General and spoke clearly."Sir, First Force MEU Locked and loaded sir!" He saluted and turned toward the rest of the batallion. "MAN YOUR POSTIONS! TODAY WE SEND THEM TO HELL!" he bellowed in his deep slavic voice. He was greated by a monsterous roar and everyone moved toward the massive transporter pads that had been specially made for troop deployment.
[Some time later on the borg cube]
The inital assualt had worked like a charm and the Marines spread throughout the massive borg ship like a plauge. For sometime it seemed like the borg were going to follow their standard opperating procedure and ignore the invaders as not a threat, the all hell broke loose.
The Borg were just waiting until the Marines were deep into the bowls of the vessel and then much to their shock and horror sprung a trap on the Marines. Hundreds of drones detached themselves at once and moved in on the Unit in a impossiable wave of mechanical nightmares. They qucikly drove a wedge betwen the General's section and the second section.
Nikolai and Arie were with the second section as the Borg begain to flood between the groups. "IT'S A DAMNED AMBUSH!!" he cried out as he blasted the head off one of the advanceing drones. "Everyone fall back!" he called to them as the borg contenued to press the assualt.
The Marines fled back away from the onslaught of the borg, Glittering beams of energy flowing from their weapons and smashing into the Drones comeing at them. With in a matter of seconds glowing silver shields errupted from the impact of the phaser blasts as the borg adapted to the modulations. A young Private looked at Nikolai and Arie the two mission specialists and said,"What do we do now Nik?"
Nikolai dropped his now useless rifle and pulled from his back a large bladed weapon similar to a Damascus sword. "Now we fight them hand to hand. We MUST get Arie to the damned central node!" he said as he brought a massive slice down upon a advanceing drones pale white skull cracking the bone and thin metal plates.
The Squad begain to push their way foward toward the central node of the Borg command cube. Each man and woman now had bladed weapons in their hands, the borg couldn't adapt to that. The trek toward the center of the ship was a essey in nightmares as every dark corridor unleashed another torrent of cybornetic zombies. Screams echoed out as severl men and women were caught off guard and drug off into the bowls of the ship.
Nikolai turned in just enough time to sever the arm of a Borg that had about grabbed him from the shadows, however he wasn't fast enough to compleatly miss the blow. The borg's metallic claw scraped out ripping a huge gory gash out of his chest causeing the big man to stagger to his knees. Arie rushed foward with another private and called out, "Nikolai! Are you alright?!"
Nikolai nodded in pain and struggled back to his feet. "Don't stop moving we've got to get Arie to the node everything and everyone else is secondary!" he called out, just like the General would have said. He spit out a gob of sticky blood that smered into his vandyke. Finely after twenty minutes of horror filled walking the arrived at the central node.
The Borg drones milled around it like a daunting moble wall. Only seven men remained of Nikolai's squad one of them being Arie his wife. Fiffteen borg stood next to their destination. Nikolai looked for anything around that might give them a much needed break and edge against the Drones. Finely a grin appered on his lips revealing blood stained teeth."Tovich...You and Miller blast the hell out of that energy relay node to the left..And run infront of those borg bastards. Get their attention and hall ass away to give a us a few seconds." he said to two of his friends.
Tovich a young girl fresh out of the training center in Quantico nodded and stepped foward," We wont let you down guys. Come on Miller...You wanna live forever?" she said in a very feminie voice that had the quality of adolecence to it.
Miller the short muscular man stepped foward with a grin that would have brought anything female to their knees in the right situation."I was planning on it yeah..." he said and then moved off with Tovich. Both of the young marines opened fire on on the energy node causeing it to explode brilliently. The power fickered on the cube breifly as the two ran past the drones guarding the central node. Thankfully a small break happened and several of them gave chase after the running marines.
Nikolai looked at the remained drones and Marines and nodded. "NOW!" he bellowed and exploded from the darkness heading right at the closest Drone. He brought hi sword down in a wide sweeping motion cutting several wires off the creature's neck sending it useless to the ground. The final memebers of the sqaud following suit as their blades crashed into the borg.
Arie moved up past the battle and opened her kit interfaceing with the borg central powernode. "This is gonna take a few minutes! Buy me some time!" she called out to the sqaud as she begin the process of the download.
Nikolai still caughing up blood hacked at another attacker but the damned thing blocked the sword on a compleatly mechiancal arm. The Powerful Russian Marine attempted to put all of his weight down on the sword to cut into the metal bastard before him. The Brog drone broght it's other hand up and slapped the marine to the floor painfully. It didn't finish the job as it lowered it's beam weapon at Arie's back and fired into her.
Arie screamed as she went down to the ground her back sizzleing from the green energy. Nikolai cried out in rage and tackled the nearly immoveable drone off it's feet and ripped the wireing from it's eye socket and neck. A red haze of anger and violence washed over him as he charged the next drone.
Arie crawled foward and contenued to put the commands into the computer. After what seemed a lifetime but in reality only took two minutes the down load sucessfully compleated. Arie turned toward Nikolai and called out."It's done! We have to get out of here." her voice was weak but hopeful.
Nikolai turned toward her and smiled. "Good work my love. EVERYONE BACK TO THE TRANSPORTER ROOM! WE HAVE TO FIND THE GENER..." he started saying, however he was cut off. A Borg slipped up behind him and stabbed him through the right lung. The burly Russian crashed to the floor a look of shock on his eyes as he gasped for breath.
He heard Arie shout and the Marines begain to slaughter more of the drones. He felt himself being lifted but couldn't really attach the sensation to anything physical. Perhaps this is what it is like when you are dieing he said to himself. The last thing he saw through his closeing eyes was Arie and he being laid out on the silver black hull of the Borg Cube. Twenty drones exploded as the General rushed foward with the rest of the Regiment covered in blood. Nikolai grined...Nothing could ever defeat the General, he thought as he slipped from consicienceness.
[USS Saratoga, Sickbay]
Nikolai's eyes fluttered open and he saw the blinding white light above him. He wondered if he was on an assmilation block as he dark dreams had lead him to believe. He tried to raise up eyes still not having focused to the light of the room when a soft hand pushed him back. A very fimaliar voice sung out to him. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever heard, it was the voice of a angel.
"Nik don't try to raise up your still in bad shape." Arie said to him and smiled down at her wounded Russian bear. Nikolai focused and blinked away the light stareing up into her pale and lovely face. He managed to smile and licked his chapped lips."Maya Krasaveetsa....(My beauty) You are alive I thank all the gods that I know of." he said in a weak raspy voice.
She smiled back at him and took his large hand into hers."Yes and I prayed the same for you..But the doctor says the worst is over and we will contenue to be happily married." she said winking at him to keep his spirits up. They were still so new at being newlyweds that it was a shock to them
Nikolai smiled up at her still,"I assume then that we won?" he asked not really remembering much of what happened. Arie nodded, "Yes we won and are being towed to Starbase 220 in the beta quadrent for repairs and to get the wounded off the ship, The doctors have done all they could here but we need proper medical attention and the Ship is a lost cause." she said saidly.
Nikolai nodded and instantly regreated doing it as white hot pain flashed up his spine."No matter where we are as long as we are together Maya Krasaveetsa." he said to her. Starbase 220...Along the Romulan Federation border. It would be a intresting place to recover.
=/\= End Log =/\=
mCapt. Nikolai Chernienko (Then Lance Corporal.)
Platoon Leader.
Uss-Charon.
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