Chapter 1: The Neighbor Theorem
So this will be like Big Bang Theory except with the Star Trek characters. Except that Spock and Jim and them didn't join Star Fleet. No Spirk …yet. Hope you love it. For plot reasons they're all the same age.
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Spock and Jim entered their apartment. It had two grey couches, a tv with various gaming systems and a coffee table which made up the living room area. A few white boards lining the wall the front door was on, and a library of comic books, novels and action figures, that was on the right side of the door. On the left side was a skinny self with a bowl on it. A window was on the adjacent wall. The wall intruded into the apartment and it lead into a hall that led to the bedrooms and restroom. Right next to the intrusion was a kitchen and on the last wall was two separate tables with two laptops, one for Jim and one for Spock. Jim was wearing a plaid shirt and jeans, while Spock was wearing a black tee-shirt and jeans.
"Of course Superman would beat the Hulk!" Jim says as Spock shuts the door and drops the keys on the in the bowl on the shelf.
"That would be illogical, none of Superman's powers can damage the Hulk but if the Hulk were to have say, Kryptonite, then yes Hulk would win," Spock said while sitting down on the couch. Jim walked into the kitchen and grabbed a glass from the cabinet,
"Well, sure when you put it that way…" Jim says as he grabs the gallon of milk from the fridge. He poured the milk into the glass and put the milk up then joined Spock on the couch.
"So, what are we watching?" Jim asked.
"Doctor Who is currently on," Spock answered.
"Yesssss!" Jim said and relaxed.
DoWeeWoo OOooOO The tv played. But right as the 69th Doctor came on screen Spock and Jim heard this: Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. Jim sighs and Spock gets up.
"I'll get it," He says. He walks to the door and opens it up. Bones, Scotty, Hikaru, or Sulu as everyone calls him, and Pavel, or Chekov as everyone else calls him, were standing outside of the door. Bones was wearing jeans and a Flash tee-shirt. Scotty was wearing a Halo shirt and jeans. Sulu was wearing a Spiderman shirt and jeans, and lastly Chekov was wearing a TARDIS shirt and well, jeans.
"Hey Jim!" Bones said excitedly looking over at him, "Spock." Bones was still upset at Spock for deleting all of his recorded Flash episodes claiming that it was the 'logical' thing to do. Bones walked in and sat on the couch. Scotty, Sulu and Chekov walked in and sat down. Spock shut the door and went back to his spot on the couch.
"Still not talking to him, eh mate?" Scotty asked.
"Not until he apologizes," Bones says stubbornly.
"Spock will you apologize?" Jim asks.
"To apologize is to show regret for something that one has done wrong. I, as a Vulcan, do not have regrets for that is an emotion, and I also have not done anything wrong. He had already finished the series he needed more open DVR space for new Green Arrow episodes," Spock informs the rest.
"Great!" Chekov sighs. Everyone just looked at each other looking for something to say.
"Well what do you guys want to do today?" Jim asks after a while.
"Well we can go play paintball," Sulu interjects.
"I would not averse be to that," Spock says.
"Yeah," Bones, Chekov and Scotty say.
"I will agree," Jim says standing up, "If Spock apologizes for deleting Bones' episodes!" He says with a sly smile.
"I will not," Spock informs. Sulu, Chekov and Scotty turn to him with a sad look.
"No," He says once more. They intensify their looks of sadness.
"Fine, McCoy, I am sorry," He says with a blank face.
"I accept your dreary apology. Come on guys lets go to the paintball park!" He says getting a round of cheers. Everyone who was sitting got up and everyone went to get their bags from the wall next to the door. Scotty, Chekov, Sulu and Bones stored theirs there because they always came here before they went to do anything, this apartment was like… like their starship, or that's what Jim would say anyway. As they file out they see an African-American woman across the hall. She was new to the building and she had just got all of her boxes inside of her apartment. She was wearing a Teal shirt and jeans.
"Oh, hi, I guess you're my new neighbors!" She says excitedly, "I'm Nyota!"
"I'm Jim, and only me and Spock," He says gesturing to Spock, "Live there, these people are my friends."
"So how long have you two been together?" Nyota asks. Spock raises an eyebrow curtly.
"Oh, were not a couple just two friends who decided to spilt the rent and share an apartment," Jim responds. Bones walks forward.
"Anyway, hi, I'm Dr. Leonard McCoy but people just call me Bones," Bones says with a smile.
"Hi Bones!" Nyota says. Sulu steps forward.
"Hello, I'm Hikaru, but people usually call me Sulu," He says.
"Well, hello Sulu!" She smiles. Scotty moves to the side a bit.
"I'm Scotty, well, Montgomery Scott, but people call me Scotty!" He rambles excitedly.
"Nice to meet you," She replies. She waits for Chekov to step forward but when he doesn't she says;
"And who are you?"
"Oh, his name is Pavel, but just call him Chekov, he can't talk to women who aren't in his family," Bones explains. She nods like she understands what he is saying.
"Well anyway, where did you move from?" Jim asks.
"Nebraska," She says with a smile.
"Cool," Jim says.
"Jim, I fail to see how the temperature has anything to do with the situation," Spock informs Jim.
"It's just a saying, Spock," Bones says to him, as Jim and Nyota continue talking.
"Jim, I must inform you that if we don't leave now we will miss entry into this round of paintball and we will have to wait an hour to enter the next one," Spock says.
"Okay. Well see you around Nyota!" Jim says and turns and everyone heads down stairs.
By the time they get to the paintball park they nearly missed entry but luckily they were able to get in. They finished signing in at the front desk and went into the main room where they went before going to the field. They looked at the other two groups and noticed Khan was in one of them. Khan was one of the workers at the Pasadena Science University he was rude and a tries to make their life a misery. The group, except for Sulu and Bones, worked at the university while Sulu worked as a pilot and and Bones worked as a Doctor for Pasadena.
Khan was already in the paintball suit. His cocky smile was wiped off his face when he saw the gang walk in.
"Oh, it's you guys. So glad you could join the party!" He says in his sarcastic way.
"Shut up Khan!" Scotty said.
"No, I don't think I want to," He says with an annoying tone. Chekov steps forward but Jim puts a hand on Chekov's shoulder,
"Chekov, don't stoop to his level let's let our shooting do the talking and smoke him in the competition," He told him.
"Like you could you Denebian Slime Devil," Khan said. People oooo-ed and others said 'Oh great, not this again.'
"Oh really well then-"
"Chekov, stop it you know what Starfleet says about with engaging with inferior life forms," Bones says, which was followed by another course of ooo-ing. At this Khan moves forwards to face the group. Up close. They all knew that they could in fact take him if a fight, but it wasn't easy. Khan was a superhuman that wasn't put on the spaceship where the rest of the super-humans went, instead he was buried, and when they found him he, after a lot of reformative lessons, lots of catching up and teaching, went to work for the University.
"Let's not stoop to insults, let's settle this on the battle field," Khan said and walked off with his team at his wake. Khan's group left the main room and went out to the field, followed by Ramsy's team. They all shared a look that drizzled with hate, except Spock who's look was blank, and they knew what to do. They were going to go out there and demolish and destroy Khan and his goons. Jim starts to turn and everyone else turns and follows him.
They go to the changing room that was adjacent to the main room. Lockers lined the four walls. They pulled out their equipment from their bags which included a paintball gun, ammo (and a belt that the ammo could be clipped to), the protective suit, boots and a helmet. They donned the suits and pulled on the boots over the suit. Then they pull the helmets. The team turned to face Jim as he stood in the center of the room, while everyone, including himself, donned their belt and clipped their ammo onto it.
"So today's the day that we will beat Khan and his team of goons. Now Scotty, we need you to stay back the base at the top level. You will cover us while me and Spock go forward. Sulu you go on me and Spock's right flank. Chekov on our left, and Bones you will go a few feet behind us. Me and Spock will sneak around and enter their base from behind and get them all," Jim said with inspiring confidence. He got a round of cheers from everyone except from Spock.
They stormed out to the playing field to see that they still had three minutes of prep to get to their base. They held onto their paintball guns facing down at an angle and close to their chests. They run through a field with grass trees huge rocks and multiple shacks. They get to their destination in about a minute to find Khan sitting on the top of their base.
"You should've gotten here sooner if you wanted your usual base," He told them with arrogance that made the majority of them mad. Jim started to walk forward but Spock placed a hand on his shoulder and said;
"If we want to get another base in time we must go now." Jim looked back and nodded. He was right of course, if they stopped to engage Khan they wouldn't get to their base in time and would be stuck as in the middle of the field as open targets if they don't leave immediately.
"Let's go," He agreed and ran off westward. They all followed him as he ran as fast as he could to the west. They approach the nearest base which they were thankful was unoccupied. It only had one room and no top level but at least it was bigger than the shacks. They noticed that they had about a minute left, so they quickly ran into the small base.
"This base doesn't have our usual top level which means we don't have our usual advantage, so we need a new plan. If we sneak around the outskirts and go to Ramsy's team we could team up with them and take down Khan's team together. They should agree seeing that if they don't they won't have a chance," Jim says with a smile. He looks at each individual and puts his hand in the middle of the circle. Bones was next, then Chekov and next was Scotty. Sulu put his hand in and so did Spock after a sigh because it was 'illogical'. The humans in the group smile with excitement as Jim starts to speak.
"Team Enterprise on three-"
"Is that on three or after three?" Chekov asks.
"After three," Sulu answers.
"That would be illogical, seeing as he said 'on three'," Spock interjects. Bones opens his mouth to object but Jim holds up his index finger.
"We will do it after three, okay?"
"Okay," They all said in union.
"One, two, three!" Jim counted, "TEAM ENTERPRISE!" They joined in loudly. At that precise moment a sound rung across the playing field and it signaled the beginning of the game.
They shared one last glance at each other and charged outside, they all followed after Jim who courageously lead them out of their base …to their death. Some Khan's team was waiting to ambush them because apparently they had followed Jim's group as they ran from Khan's base. Some of the team was up in the trees, some were in the shacks that surrounded the area, but sure enough they were there. Shots rang out as everyone tried to doge. Spock pulled out his gun and shot multiple people. Bones pulled out his gun but stopped as he saw Jim getting shot. He yelled at the team, who didn't see their leader's 'death'. He yelled at them to disengage combat and run. They listened, but while retreating Chekov looked back to see that their leader had 'died' and got shot as he slowed down. Hearing the sound of Chekov getting shot brought everyone's attention to him. In everyone's haste Khan's team caught up to the fleeing group and shot the rest of them.
It was four when they left for paintball and it was now five thirty and everyone was now resting in Jim and Spock's apartment. Spock was sitting on the right side of the couch with Jim on the middle and Bones on the left. The couch was fashioned at a left angle from the tv and on the right couch had Sulu on the left side of the couch, Chekov in the middle and Scotty to his right. In the middle of the couches and the tv was a small coffee table that they usually dined on.
"Great, we got smashed by him," Sulu started, "Again." The comment was accompanied by sounds of agreement.
"We'll get him next time," Jim says in a confident but exasperated voice.
"I do not mean to be unconfident to the group, but statistically speaking we will probably not 'get them next time', Jim," Spock says.
"Great to know your confidence in us is high," Bones says.
"Well, do you guys want watch tv?" Jim asks.
"Sure," Scotty says.
"What do you want watch?" Jim asked.
"Doctor Who?" Bones asked.
"No it's not on past eight on Saturday's," Spock replied.
"You want to play Dungeons and Dragons?" Scotty asks.
"Nah, it's almost six we would only be able to get it set up before we would have to take it down and go get dinner," Chekov says.
"Well, I'm going to get to go talk to our new neighbor," Jim said before getting up and walking into the kitchen. He opens the fridge and removes a box. It was wine, but Spock didn't like him having it so he hid it in a box. He shuts the fridge door. Spock just raises an eyebrow as Jim left the apartment. He of course knew it was line.
He went across the hall and knocked on Nyota's door. He knocked on the door. The door was answered quickly by Nyota.
"Hello," She said a smile.
"Hi," He replied.
"What do you got there?" She asked looking at the box.
"Wine," He answered.
"Why's it in a box?" She asked.
"Spock doesn't approve of me having alcohol," He answered.
"Ah, he's Vulcan, isn't he?" She asked.
"Yeah," He replied, "Hey, do you mind if I come in and share a drink?"
"Oh! Yeah, sure," She said making a sweeping gesture to inside her apartment, he walked into the apartment and made his way to the counter. The apartment was like a reverse version of his, except it was messy, there was boxes everywhere. She closed the door and searched through the boxes looking for wine glasses while he opened the box.
She finally found the glasses and brought it to the counter. He had opened the box and the bottle and poured the wine into the glasses. They grabbed their glasses.
"To new friends!" He said holding up his glass, she clinked the glasses together and took a sip. He finished his sip and set the glass down,
"So, why did you move to Pasadena?" Jim asked.
"I wanted a new start as an actress," She replied.
"Do you have any jobs yet?" He inquired.
"No right now I'm working at the cheesecake factory," She answered.
"Are you out or you VULCAN MIND?" They heard Bones yell from the other apartment.
"That is completely illogical Doctor!" They heard Spock reply.
"Let's just go ask Jim, then!" Bones called out. A few seconds later and there was knocking on the door. Nyota flashed Jim a smile and got up;
"Looks like you're very popular in your friend group."
"Yeah," He says kind of embarrassedly. She treks through all of the boxes, gets to the door and opens it.
"Hi," She says.
"Can we talk to Jim?" Bones asks, Spock was just behind him.
"Oh, sure," She replied and let them.
"Jim can you please tell Spock that Hawk-eye is better than Green-Arrow?" Bones ask. Jim looked from the two men standing in front of him and then to Nyota who's eyebrow was raised in surprise at the source of the argument.
"Spock why do you think Hawk-eye would win?"
"Green Arrow is stronger and has a faster firing rate. He has a stronger and more realistic background, and DC is better than Marvel," Spock says.
"That's an opinion, Spock," Bones replies, "What makes DC better?"
"The characters are more creative and realistic. The backstories are very in depth and it's more relatable. Most of the back stories don't use unrealistic science, and are just motivated humans," Spock says in a matter of fact way.
"That's what you guys are arguing about?" Nyota says in an accusing way.
"Yes," Spock says.
"Isn't that a little childish to be arguing about?" She asks hoping they wouldn't be as geeky as it seemed.
"Not really, it's a fair argument, considering that fact that the characters would never meet," Bones said.
"Jim, can you drive me to go and pick up the pizza?" Spock asked.
"Can't you drive yourself?" Nyota asks.
"I never got my license," Spock informed her.
"Really? Never?" She asked. He just shook his head 'no'.
"I'll drive you Spock," Bones said.
"Thank you, Doctor McCoy," He responded.
"Okay, remember one cheese, two peperoni. Wait, Nyota do you want anything?" Jim asked.
"I'll just take a slice of peperoni."
"Okay, one cheese, three peperoni and don't fight in the car," Jim commands.
"Yes, Jim," They say together. They turn around and leave the room.
"So, you guys are… geeks," She says in a condescending tone.
"Yes, but me and Spock are physicists, Bones is Doctor, Sulu is a Pilot, Scotty's an engineer and Chekov's been on a science trip to space. We're not only geeks, we're science nerds. Also I have a vast knowledge on Earth's history," He defends his friends. Her mouth dropped when she obtained this information. All she has was a bachelor degree in acting and it wasn't even being put to any use.
"Sorry," She apologizes for her superior attitude previously.
"You're fine," He answers
Thirty minutes later and the group and Nyota is enjoying a meal in the living room of Spock's and Jim's apartment. Jim, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Chekov and Sulu are in the spots they were in after the paintball park, for that was where they always sat, and Nyota had pulled up a computer chair.
"The pizza's good, thanks," She says smiling.
"No problem," Jim smiles.
"So anyway, what do you work on as an engineer, Scotty?" She asked, she had always been interested in engineering, but not enough to want to work as one.
"Well, Starfleet wants a new starship that can go faster than warp 15. The fastest warp engine so far only goes past 13," He replies.
"Cool," She says. The rest of the meal the group chatted and talked about random things like science, acting and other completely unrelated topics. By the end of the meal they all had a new friend and a new neighbor.
I will update every Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I may update twice a week or not just depends on how I feel and how much free time I have, hope you enjoyed. Please leave comments and reviews!
