Prologue STAR TREKKIN'

"You don't know how much Earth's future depends on him! We have to find some way to replace him."

MiM, or the Man in the Moon, frowned as he watched Destiny pace back and forth in front of him. Usually quite calm, the one thing that got her ranting was someone messing with the time-stream; which by its very nature she could not quite predict. Oh, Destiny knew quite well it would happen in the future, but never could pin-point where the offending machines or people would go once out of time. There were simply too many options.

"You know I don't deal with anything beyond here and Earth," MiM answered easily.

She sighed and plopped down on a cushion of moon-dust. "Yes, but the child wasn't supposed to die of radiation poisoning even with those inconvenient Romulans getting spit out of the tesseract on top of the USS Kelvin! I can't begin to describe how important this kid was to the entire Federation MiM."

MiM narrowed his eyes at Destiny. "Why are you bringing me into this?"

"Could I borrow one of your Guardians?"

"No."

"Come on MIM, get with the times," Destiny answered, "it's not like they're believed in all that much anymore."

"They still ARE believers, and they still protect the children of Earth and we need that now."

"Come on MIM, they're immortal, a few centuries as a seeming human won't hurt them."

"And if there IS a threat I'll have the rest of my Guardians going into battle without a trusted member of the group? No!"

"Oh, if there's a big threat the one whose taking the kids place can get his powers back and all to stop it," Destiny answered easily, "I don't want to imperial Earth until the proper times anyway."

"What a relief," MIM deadpanned. He paused, "You're thinking of Jack aren't you?"

"Of course, it's not like Tooth or Bunnymund would fit in as a regular human would they?" Destiny said, then smiled, "and North, Sandman and even Pitch are bit too- old – for this job."

"It's Jacks choice Dest, "MIM said. "He says no and you find some other way to make everything come out the way it needs to."

"Of course he can't remember anything about actually being Jack Frost unless there's trouble of course," Destiny added, smirking a bit.

MIM just stared at her. "You enjoy doing this a bit too much for my liking."

She rolled her eyes, "oh come on, it's only for a century at the most- that's nothing to us."

"Fine, but I'm warning you now, Jack Frost never travels a straight line for anyone- not even for me or Mother Nature. You might have done better protecting the first child and letting him grow up with his family around him. The path might have been easier for you."

"I'm Destiny," she answered, "everyone follows my lead."

MIM watched as she let herself out of his room to leave the Moon behind. Jack Frost would say yes, but just because he became human didn't mean he would stop being the fun-loving, rebellious and prankish person he had been for centuries. He'd love to take Destiny for a ride just as much as MIM was going to have fun watching it. Now, all he had to do was acquire his agreement and let nature take its course.