Suppressed Love

Posted on Thu Oct 29th, 2020 @ 8:31am by Commander Arrianna Salannis an Vantar & Lieutenant Victor Barclay de Tolly

Mission: Side Mission: The Aftermath of Kronos
Location: Borg Cube
Timeline: Seven Years Ago.
675 words - 1.4 OF Standard Post Measure

Kayala suddenly woke up. She suddenly appeared in this place, she didn't know where she was. Confusion. She activated and stepped out of the regeneration alcove. She once was in her bed with her husband... Now she was... Borg... but...

She was thinking...

She heard voices... a pull to... be borg... be emotionless. She didn't want to be a drone. 'Salom?' She said quietly. Wanting to find him.

Twelve of Fourteen who was born Borg heard a voice but not sure where it came from started investigating the sound. "You must not resist. Resistance is futile."

Salom did not hear the voice but for a half a second he could feel a moment of clarity. In that brief moment it was like a dream ad he recalled the ship he was was searching the disappearance of another ship.

Kayana looked at Twelve of Fourteen. "Salom.. Are we borg? Or are we something else?"

Twelve of Fourteen saw the one who was next to Kayala as thought this was the one. Looking at the drone who was once Ensign Kamala Henderson. He whispers one word to her. "Sleep."

Salom who was about to go to his shift said to Twelve. "Are you malfunctioning?"

"I must sleep," Twelve replied.

Salom looked at Kayala cocking his head a bit as a sense of Deja Vu came over him.

Kayala spoke. "Shlom... It's me. Kayala. You must remember. We're not Borg. We're not." She reached towards his face.

"I am .... I am..... I am....," he said a few times as he felt Kayala's light reaching to touch his.

All of a sudden there was a scream of Lt. Joe Duke gaining full consciousness causing a light change reaction. Salom seeing Kayala revives her as more screaming was happening. He does a "Shhhhh" to her so she will not scream.

Kayala was scared. So much confusion. So many voices. "I am Nine of Twelve, Primary Node of Unimatrix 411. The Voices keep telling me that."

Saying in a low voice, "Others gaining consciousness are screaming. No telling what they will do to them. We must find your brother."

Kayala nodded. "Yes... we need to hurry."

Another scream happened as they heard Petty Officer Dorothy Warren screaming out in pain.

"We must send a distress...", Salom fell asleep.

"Salom!!!?" Kayana noted. She looked around and realized she was falling asleep as well. She picked Salom up and placed him in a regeneration alcove. She turned and entered a vacant one herself. Beginning the regeneration process.

Next day new Borg were brought on board to replace the ones that malfunctioned. Salom was on duty as Kayala was as well. They were doing cartography of this new region of space.

Kayana continued to perform her assigned functions. It became easier... Doing what the voices told her to do. She looked at Salom every now and them. Wondering if she should embrace him. She was confused, was she El-Aurian? Kayala? or was she Borg? She had to keep her thoughts quiet. Or the same would happen to her, but she didn't want to. She could choose to disobey. But she had to obey." She was given new instructions to proceed to repair a power node.

She continued to work. Relentlessly, unfeelingly, She wanted to reach for Salom. But she felt a pull to consider those thoughts irrelevant. She suddenly recieved new commands. 'Nine of Twelve, reassign. Assimilation room 131, Prepare to assimilate.' She turned on her heel and complied. She had to, or she'd loose what was left of herself.

Nine of Twelve entered the Assimilation room. She looked at some kidnapped aliens and received a command. 'Assimilate them.' She looked at them for a few seconds. 'Salom... The voices are telling me to assimilate these people. I don't want to.' Trying to hold onto who she was. She could feel them. She, Salom, and Soran were borg. But they weren't. Why? She wouldn't be able to delay long without attracting the collective's attention. At some point she had to comply.

TBC