Lizard Breath : Part I
The ground shook. The buildings exploded. Beings died in the flames. A
thirty story monster stood above a smashed construction dome. Borg drones
swarmed over it, placing Federation member beings into specially
constructed stasis chambers as the behemoth crashed its way through the
colony. Help would not come for some time. The creature had eaten the
subspace transmitter first, assimilating it into more stasis chambers and
bodily components that made the thing what it was. It was a monster out of
story, a creature of fiction brought to reality. It was Godzilla. Godzilla
of Borg.
The Eowyn barreled through warp speed past stellar clusters on its way to
an outer-lying Federation colony. It was to rendezvous with the Enterprise
E, the Defiant, and the Excalibur out there, the latest site of a Borg
attack. The Eowyn dropped out of warp there first, with the Defiant close
behind. Its commander, Elizabeth Shelby swore several choice Terran curses
as she saw the veritable Borg armada in orbit. Three Cubes. Why in space,
sky, and land did the Borg need _three_ ships there? Shelby got her answer
quickly as the Eowyn's science officer showed her an up-close scan of the
planet below. Nothing could stop what was happening down there except for a
few photon torps and a full phaser barrage, and that would end up killing
hundreds more than it would have helped. A monstrous Borg was down there,
in the shape of a gigantic
dinosaur-like creature. The name Godzilla popped in her head, from ancient
monster holo-movies. The Eowyn and the Defiant immediately started strafing
runs after beaming down half their security staff to secure the planet.
Where were the Excalibur and the Enterprise?
Worf body slammed a Borg into a jagged chunk of tritanium, impaling it. He
laughed, the tubules never came near him. He drew his phaser and swept it
across the terrain, disintegrating hundreds of Borg. He had never felt so
_alive_! Not even during the Day of Honor battle ceremonies. A Borg
suddenly tackled the Klingon from behind, sending the warrior sprawling.
The tubules approached his neck. Worf flipped over, sending the Borg on its
back. He spun it like a sadistic child would spin a turtle. With the Borg
disoriented, these feelings passing through the Collective, Worf pressed
his advantage and took out another large group in a single phaser sweep.
The Borg had the advantage. Sisko yelled across the bridge, "Initiate
evasive pattern Gamma-Dax-Delta-Two! We won't lose to the Borg! Not ever!"
The Defiant performed a gut-wrenching spin as it automatically avoided the
Borg energy beams. Phasers, shield disruptors, and torpedoes criss-crossed
space, leaving little room to maneuver. The Defiant's computer managed,
though, and found safe pathways through the phaser fire. Then the Defiant
shuddered. Damage reports came streaming in from around him. And status
reports. Eowyn was damaged, its main phaser battery taken out. The officers
and crewmen on the surface were being overrun.
End Part I...
This Story Thanks To : Ken Raymond
