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Eventually the cop found me and picked me up, he knew I fell from the building, so he didn't even try to let me walk myself. He brought me straight to a hospital, my comm badge fell off of me and onto the floor, the cop picked it up, but decided not to bother giving it back to me yet. I was transported to sick bay on Voyager, the doctor immediately sedated me. On the bridge: "I've got her, she is in sick bay." Said Harry Kim. "Take us out of orbit Mr. Paris." He took us out of orbit, then someone said something through my comm badge. "Hello aliens, this is Officer Huter Ganu, Naomi Wildman left this thing here, does this thing even work?" Janeway looked puzzled a little, "This is Captain Katherine Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager." "Are you Naomi Wildman's friends who have come to retrieve her?" He said. "Uhh, yes, we are Naomi's friends, we are going to transport her comm badge up to our ship and leave your solar system now." There was no response, he heard Janeway say only my first name, he didn't respond and he went to the President. "President Kalu Hima, they took Naomi Wildman, we must get her back! They say they are her friends, but they insult her!" "How are we supposed to get her back from someone far more advanced than us?" "We have weapons, we can fire at them before they leave orbit of our planet." The President left the room and told his army to get ready to fire all their weapons. He told them to aim at the space ship in the sky, they aimed and fired. Voyager put their shields up, so their weapons did almost no damage. They transported the comm badge to Voyager, Huter Ganu was holding it, it was transported to sick bay, because that is where I was. He saw the Doctor, he kicked the doctor, but his foot went through him. He was frightened, so he picked me up and ran, he left sick bay and put my comm badge on my skirt. He located the transporter room, he transported me to the surface. Security Officers came into the transporter room and captured him, he was fine with it because I was safe on the surface. I was still unconscious, I was transported to the bed that the president had set up for me. A doctor came in and started trying to heal my injuries. Voyager went out of orbit, the cop was brought to the bridge. When he arrived, Janeway looked at him, "We are not Naomi's enemies, we are her friends, we are here to 'retrieve' her, and you are not helping." He responded, "Well, go ahead and kill me then, whenever Naomi Wildman's real friends come, they will destroy you and retrieve her and bring her home to Earth." Janeway looked offended, if only they knew that they needed to say both names. "We aren't going to kill anyone, just let us have her back." He just stood there, "What do you want, I am prepared to negotiate for her release." "I want what Naomi Wildman wants, if she wants to come aboard your ship, I will let her, but she is not conscious, so nobody is going anywhere." He said. "You are not in much of a position to argue, we could destroy all your cities in just a few seconds." He didn't say a word, "Give Naomi back, now!" "Not until she is conscious, and can decide if she wants to come. We also have no way of giving her to you." He said. Janeway knew she couldn't do anything, but she wanted to, she dismissed him. Security escorted him to the brig, they were going to keep him until they got me back. I woke up, I knew I was transported to Voyager, so I was confused when I woke up back on the planet. I saw there was a doctor who was standing a few feet away, doing something. The president walked forward when he saw that I was conscious, "Naomi Wildman... I mean, Naomi, your enemies tried to capture you, they said that they were your friends to take you home, but they were not." I knew I was transported to Voyager, so I assumed they thought that they weren't my friends who came to retrieve me. "Did they call themselves Voyager?" I asked, he nodded, I shook my head and sat up, I was still in quite a bit of pain, my feet were now dangling off the side of the bed. "Why do you think they are my enemies, and not my friends?" "They insulted you, and they took you off the planet without your permission, and they sedated you, so that you wouldn't be able to defend yourself." I knew that they truly believed that Voyager was trying to hurt me, but I also knew that they weren't actually... or were they? After all, I had "stolen" a shuttle 3 times, and all 3 were destroyed, and I "violated" the Captain's direct orders. I shook my head to clear the thought, they were trying to save me, not hurt me. "They are my friends who are here to retrieve me, they took me off the planet to retrieve me, and they didn't think they needed permission. They sedated me to help me recover from my injuries, and if you think they insulted me, because they only used my first or last name, we don't consider that an insult." "Oh... but they are holding Huter Ganu as prisoner." "Don't worry, I can tell them to give him back, I have my communicator right here." I took my communicator off of my skirt, I realized I was still naked besides my skirt, which was embarrassing, but I had been for days, so I just tried to ignore it. I pressed on it, it chirped, "Naomi Wildman to Voyager, do you read me?" A few seconds later, I got a response, "This is Captain Janeway, we read you, can you tell them that we will give them back Huter Ganu if they let you come back." "Oh, yeah, they are allowing me to leave if I want to, so go ahead and beam him down." "The way you say that, makes it seem like you don't want to." Janeway said, then I thought, what if I didn't want to, I would be locked in my quarters, or worse, in the brig. I didn't respond, not even knowing what my answer would be. Janeway was offended, she took my lack of response to mean that I indeed did want to stay. "Fine, if you want to stay, stay, but you only have 2 hours to change your mind, we will leave this system after that." I looked at the president, then at my comm badge, it chirped as Janeway terminated the comm link. Huter Ganu was transported to the room we were in, it occurred to me, only now, that we are seriously breaking the prime directive. I didn't know whether to stay or go back to Voyager, if I could prove my innocence, then I would go back, but if I was just gonna be stuck in the brig, or even my quarters, I would stay here. Nobody said anything, not wanting to be the one to break the silence. I decided to break it, "What do you guys think? Should I stay here with you, or should I go back up to Voyager?" The president responded, "Naomi, I think that you should go back to them, that is where you belong, you are only here because your shuttle crashed." I knew he was right, but they would just confine me to quarters at the very least. "But, they would just keep me in my quarters, I wouldn't be allowed to go anywhere else." I realized that this just further increased their beliefs that they were my enemies. "So they are your enemies!" Said the president, I looked at him, he seemed convinced. "No, they just think I broke the rules, it is a form of punishment, but I didn't do any of it, Tom did." I looked down at my lap, I couldn't go back unless I could clear my name. "So, you just need to prove that Tom broke the rules and not you." He seemed not to have a problem calling Tom Paris, by just Tom, partly because he didn't know his last name, but also because he didn't like him, because of me. He had a hard time only saying my first name whenever he talked to me, he felt like he was insulting me. "I don't know how..." I decided that I would go up to Voyager, regardless of if I was gonna be punished for what Tom did, or not. "I will go back to Voyager... I will miss you guys, though." "I will miss you too," said the president, "I hope you can prove Tom did it." It occurred to me now, that he didn't even know what Tom did. "Thanks!" I said, then tapped my comm badge, it chirped, "Naomi to Voyager, I want to come back now." Janeway said, "Glad to hear it, we are beaming you up now." I looked at the president. "Goodbye!" I said, I was transported to sick bay, still wearing only my skirt, which didn't cover anything. For some reason, being in front of aliens naked, was a million times less embarrassing than being in front of just the Doctor. My face grew hot with embarrassment, not that he hadn't seen me naked before on multiple occasions. |