Lizard Breath : Part IV
Worf pulled open the hatchway leading to the skull. Inside hundreds of
drones worked on assimilating the captured colonists and recharged. Kebron
whistled.
"So this is why this thing has such a high rating on the power scale," he
muttered. Worf grunted and moved forward to a control panel. Kebron moved
beside him and smiled. Well, if a Brikar _could_ smile. "You sure you can
understand this?"
Worf scowled at him, the scowl that meant he was ready to bust your head
into little bits, Brikar or not.
Lieutenant Soleta ran some simulations on the phasers and their effect on
the Borg cubes. "That's IT!" she yelled with uncharacteristic enthusiasm.
The Vulcan woman turned to see the stares of everyone except for McHenry on
her. She blushed a greenish shade slightly and put her calculations up on
the main viewer. She highlighted a few equations and smiled. "If we adjust
our shields and phasers to these, then the shield disruptors should have no
effect on us and the Cube would be damaged to the maximum extent possible."
Captain Calhoun shook his head. "Say that again?"
Soleta smiled again. "If we make these adjustments, then the shield
disruptors will have no effect. If we make these, the phasers will shred
the Cubes into space dust."
Calhoun smiled. "Good. Send the data to Burgoyne and to the other ships."
A minute later there was a call from Engineering. "Calhoun here. What is
it, Mister Burgoyne?"
"Sir," the Hermat said, "it's impossible to make these adjustments and
keep everything online. This is worse than the Marquis Phantom maneuver."
"You'll find a way," Calhoun said to hir.
Burgoyne struggled with changing the shields and phasers. S/he worked
frantically, altering plasma injectors here, dilithium matrices there, and
who knows what else. "Burgoyne to the bridge. I don't know how I did it,
but the adjustments are made." Burgoyne then turned to a view of the Borg
cubes. "May the Great Bird of the Galaxy roost on your planet. And hatch
early!" s/he yelled as the first phaser volley lanced out and started
explosions on the nearest cube. All the ships swerved in and concentrated
fire on the cube. The cube quickly exploded under the strain. The other
cube made towards the planet.
Kebron slammed a drone into another one. More piled into its place. He
bellowed a war cry then used his phaser rifle as a club. He slammed it into
the nearest drone's head, taking it off. He then rammed it into another
drone's torso, creating a gaping hole there. The other drones started to
re-evaluate their strategy. One charged a modified phaser and prepared to
shoot them. Everyone was suddenly thrown off their feet as GodzillaBorg
tipped over, ready to fall. Worf slapped his badge. "Worf to Defiant! Beam
us up NOW!"
Kebron scrambled for a handhold as the transporter took him.
Kebron got up from the diagnostic table in the Defiant's small medical
bay. He watched a viewer, ignoring Bashir's hands trying to drag him back.
The cube shot away into a transwarp conduit, leaving this quadrant of the
galaxy. Kebron and Worf walked out of sickbay to the transporter room, with
Bashir trailing behind. They stepped up onto the pad with Sisko and several
others and beamed across space to the planet below, ready to start clean-up.
End
This Story Thanks To : Ken Raymond
