The Bonds Of Friends And Family Season 5: The Game Aftermath Part II

by BazzCatgirl03

While going over the memories of the game from Wesley Crusher's point of view. The crew, security crew and senior staff is trying to figure out what the connection is between the visions and his current condition. Digging deeper into it, they discover a conspiracy and one that if they don't stop. That could not only infect the federation for a second time but could kill Wesley.

1. The Game Recap Part I: Supplies

The Bonds Of Family And Friends

Characters: Wesley Crusher, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, Jean Luc Picard, Geordi La Forge, Data, Deanna Troi, Worf, Miles O'Brian, Robin Lefler, Guinan

Timeline: alternate Season Five: Wesley's rival and his friends leave and his squad mates on Nova join the crew and they're viewing his memories. And Robin Lefler's of the game, as the rest of the crew prepares for the rest of it.

Sypnopsis: Watching the reset of the episode from their student's point of the crew realize that whatever side effects left over there are. From the effects of the games they're about to get worse, as the effects of the game. Now combine with the effects of the mind control ploy used on Wesley in year two. They work at solving the mystery of his visions, before the effects of all three kill him.

Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and everything else belongs to the movie company and the creator.

Warnings: This story is going to pick up where the last one left off, as thry finish viewing things and from here the story turns to what side effects were left over. As SG-1 second generation, Dr. Jane Frasier and Commander Peter Louis Ferretti arrived with Jared Warren the VI and Tommy Martell to join Gamma squadron, while during this thry did through information needed.

The last two chapters are being used for the opening, before the story continues now as this starts

Chapter 1: The Game Recap Part I: Supplies And Half Time Observations

"Alright Lal replicate 20 bottles of water in self cooling bottles, self-refrigerated, each bottle 20oz each." he said and finished the next order as the quartet crossed their arms. "And meal combinations of Ensign Crusher's favorite foods in health foods, if they're cooked, in reheatable tins, and if not, packages are self cooling in staying cold. I want the mixture of these meals exact."

"But carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals for a balanced diet, and a small batch of sugar. And on the side for dessert on the side just to give me a faint boost afterwards. For the meals that are lunch and dinner, in eight days worth, each meal, from morning till night." Lieutenant Wesley Crusher said and finished firmly as he said it, as he thought of the day requirements and nodded.

"In nine days of each meal. But just under three weeks worth of each meal, for two bags worth on every combination that has these exact requirements. And in each of them, and enough for two bags worth of supplies." he said and it beeped in answer to that as he got to work. Getting each of the pill bottles he set them on the floor and read the amount on each one and nodded as he set the pills then.

And into 3 piles for each time frame. "Medical logs for old fashioned first aid when in training, I need the exact contents. Now, to create one when undercover and behind enemy lines., not counting pills, but everything else. That's not included in going camping in the wilderness, but for when you're suffering a severe injury and need to take care of yourself." he said and it beeped as the contents.

And from the stim pak first aid kits of the 20th century appeared and he read through it and nodded. "Don't have gauze or adhesive medical tape, improvise here." he thought gently out loud as he got to work. As he grabbed five sheets and started tearing strips out of them to make home made bandages and set the first set to one side. And then a second on the other, as he dug into his closet then and grabbed two boxes.

"And like you said, the old fashioned ways are better and a time honored way to practice medicine right now. You taught me that, if your real equipment is in the hand of the enemy or just a way for them to find you. Then go to old fashioned ways and you'll never get caught." Wesley said and Commander William Riker smiled. "Yes and that's another point scored right now, nice work son." he said, smiling proudly at him then at that.

Watchin him grab ones the size of a small toolbox as he loaded each item into it and then set the makeshift bandages on top of them, before going to his mother's cabinet and grabbing each of the vitamins, the epinephrine and the painkillers. And the fever reducers his mother used on him when he was suffering from the flu or a cold. As he read the instructions and took each one and put it on the table as he got to work.

"Alright good, that's really good in training, as you did this once already in case of things when in your survival training right now. I don't think she was expecting this right now at the fact that you know so much about human physiology right now. Just to counteract the added side effacts of the pills right now." Commander, Dr., Katherine Pulaski said and he nodded as they watched him grabbing several drug vials from the cabinet.

As he grabbed 25 syringes and put each one on the desk. "Okay two different types now, one with the combination that Data gave me in the lab. And the other the basic one in general stimulate and that's the one I need after I get a recharge now. Lal set the clock for 15:30:00, that's from now until all the major hotspots are clear, because stage four of this, is when I'm stage acting after that."

"And by that point every hotspot is clear, and we're downloading the cure into the computer and throw it forward to every computer tablet and viewscreen. The information panels all over the ship, but from now to 1530 hours tomorrow, okay." he said and he heard a beep at that order gently then as he got to work. "Start the clock in three, two, one..., now." he said and he heard a gently beep in response.

And it was immediately followed by an annoyed shout at that. "Here comes her technician's reaction to your resetting the clock right now. Because that wasn't me thinking this, but him, I was reliefed you chose now to take a break. You needed a chance to rest after running up and down the ship for three hours straight now." Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge said in response to the timer being activated.

And as he heard his voice call out at that, his tone beyond irritated at that as he said it. "What, oh come on, are you kidding me, Wesley. Captain, he's reset the clock." he said and he heard a quick call out from Will at that as he said it, for their captain Captain Jean Luc Picard, to him. "What's the time set for exactly, La Forge?" he asked him gently at that and he heard an annoyed tone as he said it to him.

"It's set for 15:30:00 Commander, looks like this sudden need for changing the time on the clock is so he can get a recharge right now. He's stopped somewhere, possibly one of the crew quarters. And one connected to the entry tube tunnel system and he's getting a recharge and time to rest. Before this starts a second time at the moment, it's I'm looking at another shift change."

"As it's gone quiet for the last hour and suddenly we get a single signal. By him stripping us of the key systems, but weapons, power and communications are gone. But the computer tore the panel off the control systems and threw 30 of the isolinear chips out of the panel. So we're dead in the water right now, and the systems are acting like there's a virus in the mainframe at the moment,

"And the alarm went off in the commander's room, but it's been quiet for the last hour, and it means he's stopped somewhere to either take a break or grab something to eat and then give himself the next dose, Sirs, Doctor." he said and they watched as Ensign Charlie Dayton looked at them at that as Commander Daniel Jackson shook his head, smiling at the way he was doing this gently.

"Well it's clear to me that you took our grandfather's training strategies to heart now here, as Atlantic came under attack by the Genii. Our grandfathers and Johnny Sheppard's grandfather took charge like this at the time. And we did this until we arrested all of them at the time, but nice work boys, Lal, Robin." he said and they smiled at him at that. "Well how could he, we've got every hall and corridor blocked off."

"And he can't come out into the open without getting arrested." he asked and they sighed at that as Beverly answeted him. "I'm not entirely sure right now, but if this turns into a case of playing with the computer further. And it's going way too far right now, it's been four hours since the order came through. And it's turned into a case of bumper tag and a scavenger hunt right now.

"But if it's gone completely quiet since the decoy in T-95, than he's settled himself somewhere and is trying to rest right now. But he's going to let us know, in some way, where he is and it's just waiting for some sort of signal from him right now till we get it. Though if he's still staying away from the public areas it means he's gone to some sort of back up plan now."

"Just to get a recharge." Dr. Beverly Crusher said to him and he nodded as he turned around and closed his eyes and he knew he was getting more worried by the minute. Seeing the sentence and words of the Living room and Crushers Apartment come across the screen, the group smiled then as they remembered this portion of it. "Just wait for this, you're going to love this guys, he actually got on the radio and told her."

"That she and her crew didn't know a thing about earth human ways or bonds. Of being a mentor/student combo, let alone surrogate parents to that student." Ensign Sarah Hailey said and they nodded smiling. 'Wes where are you exactly, it's been going on so long, that they're getting desperate right now to find you. But it's clear that whatever deprogramming plans you made the connection is slowly weakening.'

"And I mean right now at the moment, in fact your mother's Doctor insincts have gone crazy.' he asked and he explained that to him. "I'm in my quarters man, but you're seeing me on the main viewer in a thirty minutes right now. But first I've got to get some work done in here, before the indicator alarm goes off, so hang on, just stand by." he said in answer to that gently as he finished then.

Looked at the amount of supplies he created, and he smiled then as he loaded up the first bag. And then left one of the spare MRE packets he created as a decoy lying on the couch. With the bag open and the supplies he created in the bag with the second first aid kit lying on the floor next to it while leaving the closet a mess and everything that was in the bag scattered around his room, just to show them what he was doing then."

As he grabbed 60 candy bars in both of his favorite flavors and put them in the first bag as well. As he grabbed another and settled at the desk as he grabbed a cup of ice water then. And then dug up ten more and put them in a small sack and put it into the bag as well, before taking a break finally as he tore the wrapper open. As he dug into it and felt his energy levels slowly reactivating then as he drank some water and relaxed then.

As he settled on the couch then as he relaxed, after finishing the candy bar and getting a secondary cupful of water he grabbed the last syringe. And injected it into his arm as he sighed in relief at the sudden boost of energy shooting through him then as he finished then as he smiled. "That should do it, I have everything I need right now for this, well it's been a few hours now, I'm going to give them a surprise."

"Now that they're trying to figure it out right now, but I've got to create four more, yeah alright. But only take what you can carry now and come back for the rest later on. Tonight it's just stopping off in Data's quarter's and eating dinner and sleeping for eight hours. But first a little message, after I get to work as I get to work on my next step and set up the subterfuge next regarding injuries.

"Following that is a little magic act and then start annoying her with playing around with the alarms and then spend five hours going from apartment to apartment as I set up the other five kits next. Hey Data, you think I should tell her where she screwed up with this right now at the moment. As to why I'm saying this right now, it's because the A/V mode is turned off in my room."

"And I've got a soundproof forcefield on the door to my apartment." he said and Sarah lowered her head as she tried to keep from laughing. "God, that was too good Wes." she said as they heard an amused tone in Lieutenant Commander Data's voice as he said it. "You may as well Wesley, just to make it more interesting after you caused that collision in the hallway earlier, but time to up the stakes right now."

"Aside from that, if Pulaski is arriving by morning it's by managing to keep them focused on you right now at the moment. But you better up the act now, in acting in the way she thinks you are by getting reckless in your training. Time to initiate psyche outs in trying to get her to lose control of her fear of you now, with you in control." he said to him and Wesley nodded to the orders gently.

As he smiled as he answered him. "Games in psychological warfare, and the military in the 20th to 21st centuries do this all the time in the normal military." Daniel said smiling to that remark. "Yeah good idea, she thinks I'm getting ready to take her head on, but no I'm not doing that, well if she wants to play mind games. right now, I'm willing to play along, only now it's going to stage acting at the moment."

"And it's acting as though I'm suffering a severe case of paranoia at the moment. Though at this rate it's acting like the mind meld had hit me all at once now at the moment. Lal, deactivate A/V in the Crushers quarters, so they just see me in front of the window right now, but nothing else surrounding me. and deactivate security on my mother's computer terminal in the apartment now."

"And activate a soundproof forcefield on the door. So they don't realize where I'm hiding till the alarm goes on in the room and get ready for stage three after that." he said as he watched the terminal glow. As he pulled his tricorder out and activated the frequency then as he said it. "Lal, go to radio in two way transmission both in the engine room and on the bridge, as well as wherever the sextet are."

"Because I'm telling them where they've messed up in training, with being skilled officers, And the acts of being upstaged by a teenager for real." he said as he heard a beep and smiled as he got ready to say it. "You kids are incredible, not many can do it and pull these ideas right off the bat right now." Commander Peter Ferretti said as he tried to keep from laughing at that as the group exchanged grins at their training.

As the words Engine Room and Bridge appeared next they saw Will and the sextet attempting to break through the interlocks Wesley downloaded into the program. "I'm lucky we forgot where we downloaded it, otherwise I would have yanked it and it's game over." Lieutenant Richard Goldberg said as he yanked Wesley into a hug and he leaned into it as he looked at his paternal figures surrounding him with a smile then.

"Then again, it helps I know you better then you know yourselves here." he said and they nodded softly. "Lal put the screen into 3 pieces, so one image is focused on Wesley, the next on the engineering room and the 3rd on the bridge. Before he shows up on the screen, as she tried to reason with him through me on the viewscreen at the moment." Picard said to her gently and it lit up at that as one image had him at the computer.

The next them working on fixing at breaking the code as Will slammed his hand on the radio to report in. "Well this works when not using the view screen, but then it's a matter of working over it carefully. And the original enterprise didn't have a view screen for internal conversations. Before you updated the software and fixed that problem at the moment here, but it's a matter of only a skilled computer genius can do this."

"And without electrocuting themselves in the process." Geordi said as they waited for the conclusion of the repairs. "No kidding, I was waiting for her first officer and the character that possessed you guys to realize there was no getting passed the interlocks. Because once activated now, the system put's it into a code that is like the one the scientist. On that movie created, so it's next to impossible to break." Wesley said as they waited for it.

Till finally Will slammed his hand on the table and turned on the radio. "I don't believe this, whatever memory he chose in this. Is something the computer's reacting to, but weapons, power, communications. We're being stripped one system at a time right now, at the rate this is going. It's environmental controls that are next on the list and that's in here at the moment and with his sequence."

"He's rejected coming in here, because he know he's going to get arrested if he tries that. But if he's using the maintenance shafts and entry tube tunnel systems. Than it's going to be next to impossible to figure out where he is. And before he tries anything else to keep us grounded where we are at the moment." He said and Picard nodded as he answered him at that gently at that.

Before he could answer, Wesley smiled at that remark. "Lal, activate the added computer functions now, systems wired in the hyperdrive engines, lock down the shuttlebays. But that game is not leaving the ship whatsoever, the connection this goes back to is, is the system lord queen Hathor. She infected the SGC and the girls had to prevent her larva from escaping containment."

"So combination setting of a level IV Contagion and the prevention of the goa'uld larva that were just created. We're in a foothold incursion on this ship, so by orders given to us by the grandchildren of the SGC members. We're ordered to disable rather then neutralize as these are our people." he said as the group in both rooms heard another beep and Geordi checked the system and sighed.

"Oh no." he said and Picard turned to him. "What now?" he asked and Geordi explained that. "He was listening to the conversation between you and Etana, to the ship, she's a different version. And to the alien queen SGC encountered in the 20th century they encountered, to him and the A.I.. The game is the offspring to this queen and to them, it's not escaping containment now."

"Which is why he's disabled all engines, and deactivated the power to the shuttlebays now. The ship sees this as the level IV quarantine and containment of a level IV contagion and by orders to him, by us and Starfleet. He's been ordered to contain the game, which to them is the offspring. And disable us if necessary and neutralize the effects of the game and destroy them."

"Lessons in footholds, but to him we're in a foothold and he's determined to prevent that game from leaving the ship. He knows he's the last one standing that's still clean of the effects of the game and to make sure of that. It's initiating as many ways to slow down our tracing him down. And making sure that we're stuck until he's got back uo coming, or 2) until it switches course."

"That's what the program was for, slow the search to a crawl till his team mate starts or his back up troops arrive. Once done she's getting arrested for attempted incursion, conspiracy and sedition." he said and Picard nodded. "Well then we have to disable the program." Will said to that and he smirked. "Good luck with that, the game is hardwired into every system." Jenson said with a smirk to that.

"Any luck with trying to break the firewalls right now in there, Commander?" Picard asked and he heard a sigh. "None Sir, he's got them locked up so tight I can't find any hole to pick the lock, and it's going on midnight." Will told him and he nodded. "Alright young man that's enough of this right now, it's time to take a break." he said softly under his breath, before they got his answering remark then.

"If you're repeating your last remarks in that order than you ought to remember when it was the last time you said it now, Commander. As to why, because this was a memory from four months prior to the catalysts. And of which you, Lieutenant Worf, Lieutenant Greyson and Ensign Perkins dealt with. Regarding the catalyst for how I escaped so easily tonight right now at the moment."

"A memory you all forgot, but my pattern is based off that manhunt, if it takes multiple reminders till morning and several other stunts than its going to take. Actually another very close call could come in handy, but then it's getting passed the guards so easily. But everyone of those, including the exploding phaser was part of that manhunt at the time, how many more will it take."

"For you to remember Sirs, to realize you're acting like you did when it came to him, every maneuver, I know them all. But you trained me so well it's using that against you and it's working right now as well. But don't bother trying to take this signal, or tapping into my mind right now, my shields are locked up tight. And the security where I'm hiding has been switched from your control."

"And straight to mine, but if you forgot the earlier internal computer pest problems. Than that's a clear flaw in the programming, and it means she's not digging up memories further back than before I left. Case in point said situation like when I took control of the entire ship after we deployed. If she's not seeing the added catch to this, than you blocked out the real connection to it."

"So, if you're still trying to look for me, you better take a break now, because of thirty straight tries you've only been failing in your training right now, Sirs." They heard in answer to that and they all froze up, as they looked around at that. "What's wrong, shocked I decided to choose now to talk to you when I'm safely undercover at the moment right now everyone, huh, well I'm not surprised."

"Because though I'm doing it now, you have no idea where this transmission is coming from right now and with it, who's apartment, if they're a single officer here and with that in mind right now. Well it's because I can see the shock on your faces at that choice and with it, possibly the same regarding the guards too, if they're listening to this broadcast right now at the moment."

"If every adult on the ship is looking for me, than you're hearing this as well at the moment. Right now and with those words in mind, as Starfleet officers we have to insure the internal security of the federation, but in order to do that. It's by being able to be three steps ahead of whoever the opposition is and now it just got revealed that there's another hostile out there at the moment."

"You have 500 officers who are single, and don't have families and all of you are looking for me right now and with that in mind. Did you forget something, if you want to catch me, before I decided to comm you now, you could have by remaining in your quarters right now. But no, instead you just left yourself to being humiliated by a earthborn human teenager and with it now."

"It's this could be considered strike three for the planet that is supposedly neutral. If they chose now to attack in a situation we'd consider the puppet master master notion." he said and they all exchanged looks at that. "What's the puppet master notion, it's considered an act of mind control. And turning your victims into drones and the lone teenage officer to figure it out."

"Now becomes the target, before the puppet master attacks the leadership of the entire federation. Yes, that's right, I know exactly what's going on here. And if you, or rather your programmer never wanted to be figured out, and you never wanting to give yourself away at the moment. And if you wanted to keep your target from realizing you were truly all under mind control."

"Then you should have ordered the computer to disable the A/V link up on the bridge. After you came to check the targets quarters with the said weapon in hand. And do more than check to see if your target was faking it or not, like try and get into conversation, with them. And whoever they were with to make sure that they were actually genuine and not faking it to get passed detection."

"As it is, you flunked that part of the test by not checking." they heard him say as Beverly exchanged looks with Counselor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Worf did the same with Will at that as they heard him go further at that. "Whoever you are lady, if you were a skilled tactician you'd have seen through this. And double checked at the time, and not left the evidence sitting behind your lead drone at the time."

"If you were smart, you'd have thought out your plan a bit better at the time, regarding trying to take your primary target, if you had one, by surprise. When you realized that the target, or targets, had busted you then. And looking at this from an act of 20/20 hind sight now, had you been smart here. You'd have left things unsaid and tried to think through a way to catch your target off guard."

"In actual truth your drone's own training is and was a bit rusty if you forgot a few clear things. Your drones forgot a few things these last eleven months since I left for the academy. And with it, if you studied human ways, and read through the pain and depression, of beung a parent. In the minds and heart of the people you took control of you'd have been able to create a flaw proofed plan."

"But when I started my training, I was trained in the act of conspiracies here, such as it is we had one pop up in the same way that an author. And director on our home planet created in the mid 20th century, the movie was called Body Snatchers, another title for it was invasion of the pod people. Where alien's tried to replace originals, but only the smartest people in town could spot it."

"Which as it turns out is what you just turned this into, I know those people you possessed, better than they know themselves and with that. In the rules of a conspiracy at the time, said rules totaling ten of the most important right now. To get away with a conspiracy, if you met some annoying Lieutanant commander in the past and your mentor is getting beyond frustrated at it."

"But rule 1: in your case, never leave the fact you're compromised lying out in the open where your target can see it. 2: never show fear when said target is watching you like a hawk, because they'll be able to see the inner thoughts of the programmer in your eyes. 3: you want to get passed scrutiny by your target, than never call your target by their student name when, as yourselves."

"You're calling them by name, if they're your favorite students." he said as Picard smiled as his double froze up. 'Oh good lord I didn't think he'd be able to pick up on it that easily. Or realize that I was compromised, so by my own reactions, I just gave myself away now.' he thought, before he heard the answering response to that. "Yes that's right Sir, you just gave yourself away tonight as a result."

"And from there it connects to the rest of you but, rule 4: if you've been working together for so long the actions are practically programmed into your actions. Change those actions immediately. Like say working as a sextet and added friends for four years straight and the added pieces. And of your jobs are being done, even though you're compromised right now at the moment."

"But when not in the engine room you're on the bridge working at the engineering console, Commander. If there's a need for medical reports and doing it over the radio doesn't work, you're reporting to the bridge. Just to deliver it in person, mother, and never leaving the captain's side. And acting as the omega of the bridge crew counselor, as you're always at the captain's side."

"And when on duty, if you're not on the bridge you are dealing with internal security and are always together in a duo, Commander, Lieutenant. When not in the engine room you're working in transporter room 4, Chief. To avoid scrutiny and if you wanted to work this better tonight, never fall immediately back on your original positions, especially if they're hardwired into your actions."

"After four years, 5: you want to get away with the fact that you're the reason the only android on the ship has been deactivated. Than never leave a clear indication you're the reason for it. Because of eight people on board the ship there are only two who know enough about him to try this and since he got deactivated, before it hit the entire ship and you, commander, were clean."

"As it is, there's only seven people who know enough about Data to do this, but two who spend enough time around him to try it. And the third has done his psyche evaluation like ten months prior after an accidental hijacking. And of those people, only one who uses an android version of medical drill to deal with neural surgery and with that, tried to mask the work they did." they heard and Beverly exchanged looks with Deanna at that in shock then as he went further.

"That's the fatal mistake, instead of switching up our normal postures, you immediately fall back into them. Pretending nothing's wrong and everything's normal, but the only two people on the ship who know enough about Data. Just to deactivate him like that are me and Geordi, and Geordi wasn't taken till 2 days later. And by then your plague starts spreading through the ship like a brushfire." Beverly said as he did a alteration to that.

"Yeah that's right mother, you really think I wouldn't figure it out, while Commander La Forge had the skill to check internal diagnostics on him. You had the skill to be running surgical alterations on the human members of the crew. Like the time the commander got stuck behind enemy lines when he was nearly killed on Bajora last year, as if that's not enough right now at the moment."

"If you were really smart you'd have left the damage slightly messy, but no as a Doctor your job is to do no harm. But that damage wasn't from a normal surgical implement, it's from a droid version of a scalpel. And if this was payback for what happened to Willie last year, it's still enough. That this can be considered attempted murder now at the moment here, in her case."

"But I'd call this as a case of the alter ego syndrome as Data's alter ego hijacked the ship and in retaliation for nearly killing a child. When it wasn't his fault, you, all three of you, decided to exact revenge on him for that. By disabling him in a such a way only a computer genius could fix him at the time. But people don't bother trying to pretend you are yourselves right now."

"And I'm delirious, because I over heard your conversation with the person driving you right now. 'The enterprise is secured.', is it, is it really right now, everyone and as for common sense. Because only a technical genius, a medical prodigy could find those sabotaging measures. And in his cerebral cortex connecting from his head to his spinal cord and only a doctor could do it."

"Because those cuts are so clean, so precise that only a doctor could do it, as you're the only one who knows enough about Data to do something like this. And with there being only two doctors on board this ship, and I saw you playing the game the night I was on my date with my new girlfriend, mother. Than you're the culprit for how he got deactivated in the first place here."

"And as I said, if you had an alter ego, she's decided to exact revenge on him for nearly killing your patient earlier last year. While the rest of you were ticked that he took control of the computer, because it was in reverse back then. Well this time all humans and humanoid are locked out of the system, but me. And with that, that moves it on to the next rule everyone so with that."

"6: You want to get a conspiracy going, then never leave a clear trail with the infected host it started with and a pattern when doing it. But it started with you, commander when you got back, hit you Counselor Troi, than you mother. Following that is after Data gets deactivated the pattern hits the engine room and as that leaves one other person to start it off, Commander La Forge."

"You're the one who infected the entire engine crew, while I saw Allysa with it on and that leaves you mother as that infects the entire medical and science department. While you, Lieutenant, infect the entire security team detail, and that just leaves the command crew and that leaves you, commander. And till it hits you captain, but with that in mind it leads to another for junior targets."

"But if the leader of the base, or ship, is now infected and compromised, than no one over the age of seventeen can be trusted. But you made a clear flaw in this as the ones that aren't infected are the ones that aren't here. But the pattern was a clear indication for the first three members of the senior staff crew. Following that is Data gets deactivated and then it started bouncing."

"From person to person, and one by one the rest of the senior staff and crew gets infected with it till only two young adults are left unaffected. And with it is the fact that if you studied your own targets and remembered certain details. You'd have changed strategies immediately before they became aware of your behavior and started investigating the situation as a result of it."

"7: if you want to prevent your targets from realizing this is a conspiracy than act on your normal behavior. Because all of you broke that rule as well, as I was in sickbay running a medical diagnostic scan on myself when you, Ensign, were playing the game. And if you were paying closer attention, you'd have realized this as I was actually trying to get some medical information clarified."

"And after I left the exam room, immediately checked the reports and turned it over to my mother and this wouldn't be turning into a medical alert. Because you'd know the reason I was looking like this, before this manhunt even started." he said and, hearing that, the ensign in question hit the medical logs and read through it and felt his heart fall to the floor, knowing she was going to kill him for that.

"8: you want to get to your two targets never be so insistant when the situation is having everyone looking like they're on drugs, or drunk as well. Or try multiple times in insisting they try it, because that just makes the maneuver more desperate to round up every unaffected. 9: you want to prevent your targets from learning who your programmer and the mastermind behind it, is."

"Deactivate any and all radio transmissions leading off the the bridge and finally and most important. 10: never leave the radio going when you're looking for your target. Or your target is going to hear every move in your attempts to catch them. So all of this added together, you, and your programmers, screwed up big time in combat and training and getting past me undetected now."

"Because of two young adults on board this ship, only one of us was training in on the job training from day one and with it. Knew every rule of a conspiracy to get by undetected. But this may seem strange to your programmer as I chose now to answer your remark. Well it's part of another portion of our history at the moment, 400 years ago, if you had a criminal mastermind."

"Who'd taken an entire building, or vehicle hostage. But no, I'm not doing that, if she dug further into your memories earlier this week. Than you should be realizing what you're acting like, before the mind control kicked in. And with it combining two scenarios together, both in years one. And immediately try to prevent that getting figured out because in this case now at the moment."

"That last conspiracy was a puppet master notion and the one before that, that had every adult over the age of eighteen acting like they were on recreational drugs. And that exact same stunt also resulted in an on the radio call directly to you, from the control room. If you remembered any of this, than you, and she, would know I was completely capable of taking control of this ship."

"And by remote as well at the time too, Sirs. But slightly compromised I can come up with to five good ideas in one hour, but when as myself, you better get out of my way, because by that point. It would take four to five days to beat me and by that point the added help is here and this ends before it gets off the ship." he said and they heard and the entire group covered their eyes at that.

"Rule 11) if you want your secret conspiracy to make it off the ship, maybe you should look at the fact that your target has been trained in every situation such as this, before trying to tag team them. Let alone disable the site to site transporter room systems to prevent your target from escaping. And along with that at the moment, memorize the layout of the ship of the target."

"And said ship you're trying to take control of, I memorized the layout so well that there's no getting captured till I come out into the open. What's the catch, you don't understand anything about human born children. Or you never bothered to read the minds of the people you're possessing to understand that, everything you saw so far was part of earthborn games and books."

"If you bothered to read our minds further you'd be able to anticipate what I'm doing and try to head it off, but no, you didn't. And that brings it to rule 12) this message was a message by a very well known strategist on our planet. But 'know your enemy and know yourself, and you will win 100"battles without disaster', if you're reading me through their minds, there's a few gaps in that."

"Because just one year separation, and emotional damage, can sometimes effects what you know of the person you're trying to catch. And the people you're possessing are suffering from a very common place syndrome on our home planet that happens when the first born child leaves the nest. And the parents start going into depression as a result of that at the moment."

"To answer the unasked question, said nest happens to be the home, or in this case, the ship you lived most of your life on. To explain that to you Lol, as humans, earthlings, our lives, as parents, adults, are devoted to our families, our children. Sometimes when the friends of said parents grow to close to the child of that parent they started seeing that child as their own now."

"As they watch them grow up, the pride in their abilities and skills, if they turned into exactly what you wanted, starts growing. Because they're relieved they grew into what you hoped, but with that pride is a sense of sadness, knowing that the time is coming when they have to let the child go, and they have to leave home." Wesley said and watching the expression on the quartet's faces.

"I guess you never studied the earth human mental/emotional physique, did you, regarding why life is so hard for us humans on earth. And why to an adult it's harder to let go of our offspring. Let alone our baby brothers and sisters, but us earth humans are a curious race to most aliens. With most alien's it's though they take pride in their children, they try to keep it under control."

"For us humans of earth, that's not an option, now, because for us, we don't have as long a life span as you do, so we cherish every moment of our lives and our family's, our children's, as possible. If you saw photos of us crew members together, and me being in several it's because of that now. Why, well it's because of human feelings, feeling of pride, of concern, of happiness, of sad."

"And the act that no matter how old we get, to each generation in the human physiology, from ages teenager to elderly. To the generation before us, be it middle age adult, that stage is 30 years old to 50, to us young adults and children under seventeen, that's our parents age group. Or to the elderly humans, that's our grandparents, in the case of our parents themselves."

"We're still considered their babies, no matter how old we get, but to our parents, we're their Cubs, their children, it doesn't matter we're teenagers or young adults. That's my age as I am right now, a young adult, to our parents we're still their children and they love us. To that point that letting go is hardest on them and seeing us move away from them to another town."

"It's hardest on them now, because they had us with them all our lives and they know that though they want us to stay, we have to leave home now. Leave the nest and begin our own lives. Which as a crew is much the same thing, the ship is a flying colony, and once deployed, our parents have us in school. And we go about our daily lives, but with it is this fact now at the moment."

"For the kids younger than me, their parents have them with them, though in school during the day after their shift ends. They got a normal family life when off duty, leading into when we reach young adulthood. Our parents can be content with the fact that they have time till the time comes when we finish off school in our ship schooling system at the moment now."

"Which to our parents is a depressing thought now, let alone for us students that have been allowed to work on the ship. And with the people connected to our parents, those people are to us, if they take us under their wing and start teaching us. Our mentors, to them, they watched us grow into our potential and they're more than proud of our training and with that in mind."

"When you spend every day together in training, the adults connected to you start growing more attached. And vice versa, leading into when they have to let us go, which, to them, is very depressing thought now, because at this stage. If we started at certain age, say early to mid teens when they met us and decided to train us, this is the hard part now." he said and watched Picard carefully at that.

As Dayton saw the question the programmer, Etana Lol, was thinking then in his eyes. 'I don't understand, why would that be hitting the parents, or anyone connected to the parents, that hard?' he saw in their eyes and then he heard the answering response given to that over the radio. "That stage in human life, if we started at this age and began our training, and in theirs, if they decided to take custody."

"If the child in question chose to stay put on the ship, after their parent, or parents, were transferred. That's the hard part now and as to why that is, they spent a year taking care of and raising us themselves now, and in one year things can change. Why, well at a certain age, we, as earthborn humans, finish school that is meant to prepare you for life, we call it high school."

"On earth and to explain that, us humans go through school our entire lives, till we're adults. And our minds are fully matured now, but we begin at a certain age, once we're old enough to begin. From newborn to four years old, we're being taught a few things, stuff that's necessary to get us into the next stage of schooling, this stage is the step leading into our academic lives now."

"But our lives as students begin from age four to when we reach 17 or 18 and that's our last year's as normal children in life before we have to leave home to begin our own lives. Our lives as students go from basic, to intermediate to advanced, each stage is given a name as well. High school is the advanced courses, preparing us for our careers so we can choose our majors."

"But once the year is over we get a few months to relax and then start school again. But years from age 6-11 is called elementary school, where we learn the basics in life. Ages 12-14 are called junior high, and we start learning things to prepare us for when we're getting ready to leave our parents and ages 15-18 are high school and at that age we can take care of ourselves now."

"Everything needed that we need to learn is at this stage, and it's needed so we can choose which way we want to go, either get into the federation. And join Starfleet to be in the military, or begin living life normally and we go into business for ourselves. After each school year is done with, we get several weeks off and then after several months of down time after the year ends."

"On earth we call it summer vacation, we enter the next stage in life, as we gain the money needed. Just to get into that next stage and then just as the next season starts. We leave home to start our own lives, getting into school for adults, or training in the military and we start our lives. If you got a good look at me through their eyes, I was at the age meant to start that next stage."

"The people you took control of met me when I was at that last stage, for four years they watched me when in my element. To them, it was they were proud of my abilities, and were taking pride in my accomplishments. But at the same time they knew it was going to be hard to let me go now. But that's the way it is for us earthborn human on earth, both age groups as well."

"For us it's exhilarating, but at the same time it's scaring us, because we've had our parents around for emotional support. And we had them around for our accomplishments and everything else. But for our parents letting us go is the hardest thing in the world to do. To them, because we had to depend on them for everything from the time we were born to when we reached a certain age."

"And reached puberty, which is from twelve to seventeen years of age, at that age, on earth. It means that for our parents, the time is fast approaching when we have to leave them to start our own lives. To our siblings it means they don't have us to protect them and give them support, but for the ones. Ones that are only children, that's when it gets worse, because it makes it even harder."

"On earth we call it the first born cub syndrome, and sometimes when the people connected to the parent that child belongs to. Get too attached to their child, they feel the same way the parent does regarding their child. And after spending several years watching them grow up. And they don't want to let go, and as time passes and the time comes closer, they start getting depressed."

"Which is the side effect of the mentor/student bond and when said mentors become the very thing that the student needs. Especially when it comes to the father/son relationship, when said student grew up without a paternal figure, they take their place. And as a result they become everything that the said student needs, if said student is a boy and with those words in mind right now."

"You don't understand our ways, because you never leave your planet and go to earth. And with the fact you're not part of the federation though you allow us to come there, it's counterproductive. So you never come to earth and that's another fatal mistake, you don't understand what it is that I'm doing, because you've never studied earthborn ways." they heard and sighed at that remark.

"Prologue on your double right now, before my last mission. 'But first I must deal with a situation of a more personal matter.'. More personal manner, I am that matter, so direct translation to that remark." he said and Picard nodded as he looked at him. "It's time to tell you that Andrea said there was an opening, and this was the last mission for you. And you're coming with me on this mission." he said sighing, as he looked at him then.

Seeing the looks on the duo in the room with him, he knew that the words were getting to them. 'That's how it is for earthlings, these children are their very life and once they reach puberty. And are looking like young adults it makes it harder to let go now. That's why Riker was so easy to get to, and with him the quintet and everyone else, it's because of this child.' They heard in shock at that information.

As the entire group in the room sighed. "Yeah, though his mother is on the ship, we practically raised him ourselves, as parents or legal guardians, mentors. When raising the said cub from birth or in this case, since puberty now. We grow so attached to our students that we feel like parents that letting our student go is not easy. And he's our first training cub as a result, the duo are our first." Derek Greyson said, for all of them.

As they heard his response to her remark gently as Dayton crossed his arms then at that remark. "Yes, that's right, that first year was enough to change things and as time went on, the people you possessed started seeing me as their own. Because, until the quartet started or arrived, if we had more the one. I was the only JR. officer on board the ship, their star pupil and surrogate son."

"And with it my scores and grades, to them it was something to be proud of, because I was preparing to join Starfleet for one reason, and one reason only at the time. So I could take my place as a true member of the crew and return to them as they had me with them until it was time for them to transfer off the ship. So everything you think you know about us, has several gaps in it."

"Because when in emotional pain, us humans start forgetting things and that leaves out important information needed. And that's your fatal mistake, but not bothering to read through our minds thoroughly. The commander though was acting like he was carefree when you got it on him, was in fact caring a deep emotional pain, and I'm the catalyst." he said and Dayton watched his eyes widen.

"I don't suppose you're connected to Radue of Aldea are you, because I promise you that once I break your hold on our parents, they're going to kill you for that. Those kids and I have been through enough, me especially, my mother, when she's furious, acts like a mother bear. But if anything happens to me, and I get hurt during this situation and she's going to tear you apart."

"As I said I'm her only child, she'll protect me to the death, as for the quintet and everyone else, but if you're connected to those nightmares. I'm having and I find your last piece to this conspiracy on this ship. Nothing is saving you from their wrath when they're back to normal, because a human parent will protect their children to the death." he said and he watched as their eyes widened at that.

Listening to this, Dayton tried to keep his face neutral, but was laughing inwardly at that remark. 'God buddy, just embarass the hell out of her, that she doesn't understand earth human ways, that's too good right now.' They heard from Dayton laughing as he looked at Picard to see the shocked look on his face. 'Dear lord, how could he see all that, and that I messed up in my plans so easily.'

'Where did this child learn to be that observant exactly?' They heard in answer to that remark gently and Wesley explained that. "Well to answer your question, it's I was taught by the people you're taking control of. But once we go into investigation mode, I suggest you work harder to keep your plans from getting out. Because once this gets into the federation and they learn it."

"And what you had planned, this is getting you thrown behind bars for a severe case of charges. My mentors are the two best officers in this case, I was also in training from the time I was fifteen. But everything they, and the crew, forgot is just another weapon against you right now. And sometimes a year's worth of separation is enough to make the people who raised you from childhood."

"Or just the ones who became extended family, forget your own abilities at times. And the people you took control of are those people, you really think I wouldn't realize what the catalyst was that you used against my mentor. Or that you're the one who took advantage of him, before turning him into host. Well guess again, because I did, the man you turned into your first host."

"Was my mentor, he and your other lead drone trained me themselves and with them are the other fifteen people you have looking for me right now. Including the lead technicians on the ship and the head of security. The nineteen are the ones who trained me, but with it, if you have noticed several twists and turns in this, they are enough to keep it going this long, but that's your problem now."

"But separated for a close to a year, it makes them forget your own abilities at times and as a result if the added information is also buried. And your opponent remembers everything that they forgot, well you just dug yourself into a hole. Though you may think you know your opponents thinking strategies when reading it through the people you possessed, you don't, whatsoever." he said and watching them through the camera, he knew it was working as he went further.