A Voyager Into The Unknown

Harry shot off a curse at his attackers, and then pulled Hermione round the bend in the corridor behind them. He tried to ignore the pain of his broken arm and badly cut leg. Death Eaters came at the pair of them in waves, and Harry hoped everyone was out of the castle. Voldemort had attacked the entire country in one fell swoop, and McGonagall had initiated a total evacuation of the castle through Floo and house elf travel. Harry and Hermione were the last two to leave, and they had been trying to get to their Portkey point when the Death Eaters had cut them off. The pair of them cast spell after spell as they ran away from Voldemort's followers, but the two only succeded in getting trapped in a high up charms classroom.

"This is it!" Hermione said simply.

"Looks like it" Harry replied grimly. There was no way that they would escape from this situation, and he began regretting the fact that he hadn't done anything apart from trying to defeat evil.

"We're going to die" Hermione sobbed. Harry didn't know what to do. A thought occurred to him that he might kill Hermione so that she wasn't raped or tortured. "I'm sorry I failed you!" Hermione continued, "We're both going to die" and at that moment a brilliant flash of white light filled the room. It was so bright that it forced the pair to blink.

"Maybe not" Harry replied. He looked at where the light had come from, and he saw what looked to be some kind of living area. "I have no idea why this just appeared, but it can't be any worse then what our fate here is" and Hermione nodded. "I'm going through… will you join me?" and his girlfriend said yes.

"I'll follow you to the ends of the earth – or wherever this is" and just as the classroom door burst open they jumped through the curtain of light

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INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT

"What is it?" asked the young voice.

Two unknown beings just board the ship. Deck 2 Section 3B. the voice that answered sounded mechanical.

"What are they doing?" asked the voice.

Intruders one and Two have left Crew Quarters, and have entered the corridor. They are now moving forward towards the Mess Hall.

"Are they going to hurt me?" asked the young voice.

Unknown. Please restate the question

"For the love of…" the voice calmed itself. "Do they pose a risk to the ship?" she asked.

Unknown. They do not appear to have any detectable weapons. Both intruders are wounded and in need of medical attention. The owner of the voice – a young girl thought to herself.

"Beam me to a location that is near to them, but do not place me in front of them" she instructed.

Acknowledged. There was a shimmer of blue before the girl vanished from her location, and then she appeared in what looked like crew quarters.

"I don't see anyone" said a male voice.

"Maybe they are all asleep" said a female voice.

"I doubt it, Hermione" said the male, "They would be in bed. I have no idea where we are, but anywhere is better then back there" and the female – Hermione – snorted.

"Got that right, Harry!" she said.

"Lets find somewhere to hole up" said the male – Harry.

"We should find someone" Hermione said. "We're both injured and have to get treated somehow" and the girl decided that they were not any threat to her or the ship. She keyed open the quarters' door and slipped outside into the corridor.

"What do you want?" she asked them. Both of the humans turned and pointed bits of wood at her as if they had weapons. They looked at her, then at the pieces of wood and then at each other.

"I apologise" said the one that had to be Harry. "We've been through a lot recently, and thought you were one of those after us" and he and the girl tucked the wood into pockets of their strange clothes. "I'm Harry Potter and this is Hermione Granger" he did the introductions.

"My name is Naomi Wildman" said the younger girl. "You are both injured quite a bit. You better come with me to sickbay" and Harry nodded.

"If that is some kind of hospital, then that's exactly what we need" he smiled. He and Hermione followed Naomi along corridors and into a turbolift. They ended up inside a large well lit room with beds lining one side of the place. The left side of the room had some kind of office behind a screen.

"Ah, Miss Wildman. I trust that you are feeling be… oh. Who are you?" a nearly bold haired man stepped out of somewhere and approached them all.

"They need your help" said Naomi. The doctor looked at both Harry and Hermione and picked up some kind of unfolding box which whirled and beeped.

"The male has a broken arm, broken leg, numerous cuts and some minor internal organ damage" the doctor said as he passed the box over Harry. "The female has a broken arm, some cuts and bruises. I have no idea what has happened to either one of you, but you should get on the bio beds at once" and Harry and Hermione looked blankly at each other. "The beds lining the wall" the doctor explained. They moved over and took a bed each.

"Can you tell you tell us where we are?" asked Hermione.

"You are on the starship Voyager" said Naomi at once.

"Starship?" asked Harry.

"Yes" put in the doctor. "Lie down, stay still and allow me to do my job. Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant, but it is on its way to Earth" and Hermione looked alarmed by this news.

"We are not anywhere near Earth?" she said.

"No" said the doctor. "We're very much away from there at the moment. That was why I was surprised to see you here. You are the first humans we have had contact with for many years" and he continued working over Harry. As he lay down on the bed, Harry felt everything inside him start to get better – as if the doctor was doing surgery without cutting him open. This was some very advanced technology indeed.

"We've been travelling here for years – since before I was born" added Naomi.

"What year is it?" Harry asked.

"I said to be quiet" the doctor said sternly, "And to answer your question, the year is 2376" and Harry nearly shot up with horror.

"We're in the future!" he and Hermione said at the same time.

"Oh oh" said Naomi, "I guess this makes this a little difficult" and the doctor nodded.

"I would imagine it would" and he finished working on Harry and moved to work on Hermione.

"Is there someone that we can talk to? Maybe the person in charge?" Harry said.

"There isn't anyone" the doctor said. "At least not anymore" and Naomi's eyes started brimming with tears. "Nearly the entire crew was wiped out several weeks ago" and the displaced persons looked at each other.

"I'm… I'm sorry" Harry said.

"Thank you" said Naomi quietly.

"Right – both done. I'd advise some rest, but you are both in need of some food" the doctor said.

"Do you have any pumpkin pasties?" asked Hermione.

"No" Naomi frowned.

"Cauldron cakes?"

"No"

"Butterbeer?"

"I don't think I have ever heard of those" said the doctor. "I think you should get something to eat from the replicators" and Harry and Hermione looked at each other.

"Replicators?" said Hermione.

"You don't know what they are?" Naomi asked.

"How many years have you come forward?" asked the doctor.

"Before we came here, the year was 1996" Harry said. "Now I want to know one thing: what is your name?" and the doctor smiled.

"I don't have one" he replied. "Everyone calls me The Doctor or Doctor for short. I am a holographic projection" and he spent a little while explaining himself – filling bits of Voyager's trip so far. The Doctor finished explaining the deaths of the crew. "We buried the bodies on a planet and put up warning beacons that would stop anyone from landing" and Hermione nodded slowly.

"Can we get something to eat?" she asked.

"I'll take you to the mess hall" Naomi said. "The replicators can make you something to eat" and she took them to the mess hall – bidding the Doctor goodbye and leaving him in sickbay.

"Why do I have the feeling we'll never go back?" Hermione said to Harry.

"Dunno" said Harry.

"How did you get here?" Naomi strode out a turbolift and down the same corridor they had first met in.

"We were fighting a desperate battle against our enemies, and they took over our entire government, our… security forces were destroyed, and they attacked our schools and hospitals" Harry said.

"We tried to get everyone out, but we were trapped. But before they could kill us, we saw the ship through some kind of portal. Harry and I decided to jump through it and that's how we found you" Hermione finished the story. "I just wish we could have magiced them all away" she added quietly.

"Magic? As in fairy tales?" Naomi said as they went into the mess hall. Dotted around the room sat tables and chairs, a three sided sofa with small coffee table and what had to be a kitchen of some kind.

"Damn" said Harry. "This is going to take some explaining to do" he said.

"Lets do it over dinner shall we?" Hermione said, "I could eat an entire elephant" and Harry smiled.

"Tomato soup" he ordered.

Hot or cold?

"Hot" Harry said. "Hot tomato soup" and he shook his head.

In what style? Plain, with spice, with herbs, with rice, Bolian style…

"Plain!" Harry said firmly. "Hot, plain tomato soup" and before his very eyes, a bowl of plain tomato soup appeared in a little recess under the panel of lights.

"I want a salad comprising of earth vegetables. But do not add spicy things in" Hermione said, and a salad appeared where Harry's soup had been. The three of them sat down at the nearest table and the new arrivals ate as they took turns in explaining everything about magic.

"If we are in the future, then can we find out what happened to our friends?" Harry said.

"Perhaps. I still don't know what is in the computer memory" Naomi said. "If you had something in mind, then it would narrow down the search" and Harry and Hermione thought about it. She also told them how to use the computer.

"Computer!" said Harry, "Locate any records of a location called Hogwarts on Earth" and there was a pause.

That location is not known

"Oh" Harry remarked, "Well search for records of any person named Dean Thomas in the year 1996 in the United Kingdom" but the computer had nothing to give them at all. After one question from Hermione, it looked as if they had gone to another dimension as well.

"Do you want to change your clothes?" Naomi asked.

"I think we should" Harry said. His clothes still tears in it from the fight at Hogwarts. "After that, we'll start on a way to get back to our own timeline" and Naomi said that she would get the Doctor to look over the sensor logs to see if anything could help.

"Do you know how to do everything on this ship?" Hermione questioned her.

"Not everything" came the reply, "But I've had to learn a lot of stuff on Voyager. I'm the only kid on board" Naomi said. "I suppose that puts me in charge around here" and she put the dishes back in the replicator which made them vanish into thin air.

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"Well at least something is going right" Harry muttered. Naomi had taken them to gust quarters where she had gotten the computer to scan the clothes that Harry and Hermione were wearing. Each quarters' replicator had made them new outfits – identical to what they wore except these had no holes in. they took the chance to have a shower, but both of the displaced people felt it odd to not have water touching them. He and Hermione managed to get to somewhere called Astrometrics, with help from the computer, and met the Doctor and Naomi there.

"Hello, you two" the Doctor greeted them. "You do look better" he added.

"Thank you" said Harry politely. "Did you find anything that might help us?" and the holographic man nodded.

"Sensors indicated that there was a large quantum energy burst as we passed through this proto nebula" he said, and he tapped a few buttons and the nebula came up on a giant screen.

"Why do I detect a problem in that?" Hermione said.

"Sensors are saying that levels are increasing, but it will take three weeks to get to a level where you can get back to your own dimension" the Doctor said.

"Ah… well that isn't so bad" Harry said. "For a minute I thought you was going to say that it would take years" and he breathed a sigh of relief. Now he and Hermione could start planning on what to do. If they had been believed to be killed, or otherwise vanished, it was likely that Death Eaters would not be looking for them around the castle. "Don't know about the rest of you, but I could do with a good nights rest. So I'll try to make…" the deck rumbled below their feet.

"What the hell?" Hermione said aloud.

This is an automatic Red Alert. Borg cube off the port bow. Borg cube off the port bow. This is an automatic Red Alert

"Oh no" the colour drained from Naomi's face.

"I take it you are not friends with these Borg?" Hermione said.

"They have tried to wipe out the Federation a number of times" the Doctor said. Ship rumbled again, and everyone was thrown off their balance.

"Well we'll see what we can do to help" Harry said.

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The ship shook as they entered the bridge, and Harry and Hermione marvelled at all of the computer consoles in the place. On the viewscreen was a huge green shaped vessel that was a cube – exactly as had been promised.

"What can you two do then?" asked the Doctor.

"Well I can fly, but nothing like this. I wouldn't know where to start" Harry said.

"Oh. Perhaps you better go back to your quarters" said Naomi.

"Sorry" Hermione apologised as the ship rumbled and pitched again.

"I can shoot though. Your technology might be more advanced then ours is, but I'd now how to target things any day of the week" Harry said.

"Take tactical and tell me what the console screens say" the Doctor said.

"Right!" said Harry, "But which one is it?" he asked.

"The one to the right" said Naomi, and Harry went to it and studied the controls in front of him. The panel was lit up like a Christmas tree, and he took a moment to figure out which was the target and fire buttons. The target was easy to find – all he had to do was to press the little symbol of the cube and press TARGET. The fire buttons came with three modes- Phasers, Torpedoes and combined. He didn't know what phasers were, but the torpedoes had to be something like the torpedoes he knew about.

"Shields are at 95%" Harry said. "Torpedoes are locked on, and phasers are standing by" he reported. The ship shuddered violently to port, and several consoles at the back sparked badly. "I might want to change that" Harry added.

"Target the cube, and fire phasers" Naomi said.

"Firing" and Harry pressed the button marked phasers and then fire. On the screen, a red beam of energy came from Voyager and struck the cube dead centre. "Direct hit" Harry said, looking at the console. "Cube shields are at 98%. Our shields are at 87%".

"Doctor, get us away from the cube. We need to use the torpedoes" Naomi said.

"Torpedoes are offline" said Harry. Then the ship was hit so hard by the Borg, that it did a full spin to starboard.

"Hull breach" Hermione called out, and Harry saw her at a station on the left of the bridge. "Deck 8 section 17B" and Harry fired the phasers again. This time they caused no damage at all.

"No damage to the cube" he said.

"They've adapted!" Naomi said.

"Shall I get us out of here?" asked the Doctor.

"Please" said the young girl. Harry regretted the fact he couldn't simply cast a blasting hex…

"Bringing her about…. Warp drive engaged" the Doctor said, and the stars bent and then started rushing past as speeding blurs. The damage turned out to be less then what was indicated by the computer, and Harry and Hermione went to their quarters and slept for the next 24 hours solid.

A/N:

And that's my new fic for you to read. I need something big to do after I'm Not Going and Leaving Home are finished (not all that far away) – apart from True Friends 2 that is. I'm almost done with L-H and ING, and so I want a biggish fic to work on so I can swap between it and TF2. (The other smaller fics don't count – they are nearly completed as well)

Now as for a little hint about TF2 Chapter 3, I would suggest you watch the Star Trek TNG episode called "Measure of a Man" as it will be based heavily on that.

Anyway…

As most of my first chapters are, this will not be as good as later chapters but give it a try please?

I know the Chapter is slightly wrong, but that's what I want it to be as…

I'm tweaking canon here, so this is my canon – everything up to Seven's arrival happened. When Seven encountered the Borg children, only Mezoti survived and was taken in as part of the ship's family. (may or may not bring her back onto the ship)

As some of you will guess, Harry and Hermione will make it back, but they will also ^$£!£&*(%£^" (sorry – computer malfunction! Will have to wait to read what happens). Rest assured though, that Harry and Hermione do engage the Borg in combat… they won't know what hit their collective arses!

Well then, please give me some good reviews. All flames will be stored for future use against Dumbledore, Molly Weasley and the others.

Regards

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