Subject: Grail - Unexplored Spaces - Nightmares

Kyp woke up to the horrors of the Borg Collective tapping into his

mind. He shot straight up and looked around. Sweat dripped off his face.

He was nervous if not paniced. He looked around the room before ordering

the computer to illuminate the room. Within a split second the room was a

glow, bathed with the artificial light from the room's lamps.

Kyp walked over to the sink and splashed some water on his face. He

stared at himself in the mirror. He could hear the Borg. They were trying

to contact him. They wanted to locate his position. They wanted the ones

that escaped.

"Wait a minute," he said to himself, "if they can contact me then

I'm sure the others have been contacted too. I wonder if..." Kyp stopped

talking and began to concentrate on the Borg signal. He was trying to use

the Borg Collective as an amplifier to find the others of hsi species.

He could see deep into their thoughts. Their plans. Their

weaknesses. He was a part of the collective. He could hear every thought.

He could see the location of every ship, planet, and drone. It was like

seeing through seeing everywhere at once.

He saw Gamma Alteries. The once beautiful planet had been

destroyed. Where the once beautiful capital of Hyrule stood, was now a Borg

collective and drone processing plant.

Kyp dropped to the ground and began to cry. This wasn't happening.

He blocked out the Collective. He didn't want to see anymore. He pulled

himself up off the floor. He looked in the mirror. He saw the faces of his

parents staring back at him. They were smiling.

"Kyp, you must be strong if our race to survive" said his father.

Kyp nodded and looked away for a minute. When he looked back at his

parents, they had become drones. Wires ran everywhere from their bodies,

and mechanical accents were the only sign of life within the corpse like bodies.

Kyp screamed and broke the mirror with his fist. He cried some more

until the pain from his hand set in. He looked down at his fist. It was

bloody. He heard the Borg calling him again. He concentrated on blocking

it but he couldn't block it out this time. He ran out of the room screaming.

As he ran through the corridors he left a trail of blood from his

injuried hand. He ran like a mad man through the empty halls. He screamed

at the top of his lungs, but no one came to his aid, it was as if no one could.

He turned a corner and suddenly he was no longer on the Grail, but

inside a Borg cube. He stopped cold. A shiver ran down his spine and he

broke out into a cold sweat. He froze there. He couldn't move. Suddenly a

Borg stepped off its regeneration alcove and approached Kyp. Kyp took off

in a sprint as fast as he could.

Meanwhile the young ensign that opened his door to help the young

Alterian, stood in shock. It was as if the Ambassador hadn't even

recognized him. He tapped his combadge.

"Ensign Smith to Lt. Castle"

"Castle here go ahead."

"Sir, I just saw Ambassador Firespray run through the halls. He

seems to be terrified of something, and he's leaving a trail of blood. I

believe he is injured."

"Well, go after him."

"Sir, might I remind you that I am only a science officer and not a

security officer. He could quite possibly kill me. I think an armed

security officer is better suited to hunt down our Ambassador."

Meanwhile Kyp continueed to race through the hallways believing he

was inside a Borg cube. He finally stopped after barricading himself inside

a jeffreis tube. He sat there and cried. Through his eyes he was in a

corner of the cube hiding from a pursuing drone.

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