Ranma thought about what he should do about Ayeka who was currently cursing up a storm in her holding cell. Eventually Ranma decided to just go down and talk to her. It may not exactly be the wisest move he could make, but at least it would spare some poor drone from her temper tantrum. It was his decision that had placed the princess in her current position and there was no way that he wasn't going to accept the consequences of his actions.
As Ranma's body walked towards Ayeka's holding cell Ranma shifted his consciousness to observe Ayeka with the internal scanners. Its hard for other people to understand how Ranma saw Ayeka. When the Borg king first "saw" Ayeka he looked at her from all angles at once. Nothing was hidden from his sight, he knew how many hairs were on her head, her foot prints, her bust line, and he even knew about that small birthmark on the underside of her butt. Nothing was hidden from the internal sensors.
Seeing how aggravated Ayeka was, Ranma decided to use the voice of the Collective to speak to her. Hopefully this would defuse her initial anger by the time his body got to her cell. "FIRST PRINCESS AYEKA OF THE JURAIAN EMPIRE, WHY DID YOU ATTACK US?"
Ayeka was frighted by the booming voice of the Collective and out of instinct she moved to cover her mound and her breasts with her hands. She then started looking around her cell trying to find who was speaking to her. When Ayeka didn't immediately locate the owner of the voice her temper flared again. With her anger plainly written on her face she said, "Who the hell are you to talk to me like that?"
"WE ARE THE BORG."
Even though Ayeka was steaming at the treatment the Borg were giving her, she tried to think if she had heard of a race by that name before. Considering that the Ryu-Oh's database couldn't id the ship it wasn't surprising that she had never heard of the Borg before. Still in a testy tone Ayeka said, "Do you realize what the Juraian Empire will do to you for kidnapping me?"
"THE JURAIAN EMPIRE WILL DO NOTHING. YOU WERE THE ONE WHO WAS POWERING UP WEAPONS TO ATTACK US. WE MERELY DEFENDED OURSELVES. IF THE JURAIAN EMPIRE TRIED TO COMPLAIN WE COULD GO TO THE GALACTIC POLICE AND BRING YOU UP ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED 1ST DEGREE ASSAULT ON A FIRST CONTACT SITUATION. THAT WOULD LEAVE YOU IN A GALACTIC JAIL FOR THE NEXT 200 YEARS AND WOULD CAUSE A MAJOR LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE JURAIAN EMPIRE'S GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF JURAI."
Mentally Ranma was smirking as watched Ayeka's face become ashen white. Thanks to downloading the entire database on the Ryu-Oh the Borg had extensive knowledge of the current Galactic situation. It was absolutely impossible for Ayeka to bluff at all. He had Ayeka exactly where he wanted her, she didn't even have the shirt off her back to bargain with.
Realizing how weak her current position really was, Ayeka tried to find any advantage that she could or at least to weaken the Borg's advantage over her. The only way the she could see to do that was to try and find out more about the Borg. At least that way she wouldn't be in the dark about them. In a slightly nervous voice Ayeka said, "What are the Borg? How are you organized?"
"WHAT WE ARE IS IRRELEVANT. OUR ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IS IRRELEVANT."
These answers frustrated Ayeka enough that started pulling her hair and she said, "Can't you give me a straight answer? Who am I supposed to talk to?"
"THE GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF OUR REPLIES IS IRRELEVANT. IF YOU TRULY WISH TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE, THEN FOR EASE OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN YOU AND US YOU MAY SPEAK TO-"
At this point Ranma's body turned a corner coming into Ayeka's view. The second that Ranma could physically see Ayeka and look at her face he switched off the Collective's voice and said, "You may speak to me. I am Ranma, King of the Borg."
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