Be sure to read my one-shot of these characters 'A Vulcan and A Human'
I am also rewriting these so they will be broken up and or changed a little or a lot.
I would also like to thank Catstop who has agreed to help me with the characters Alyssa and Saruk when it comes to southern sayings and variations of words... I suck at it... ENJOY!
Alyssa Landers never saw herself in Starfleet Academy when she was little.
She never saw herself one day soaring through the stars at high speeds.
But now at the age of twenty she was playing number one to a cadet who took the role of the captain in the Kobayashi Maru simulation they were running. As she sat in the communications chair her heart felt like it was about to give out every time the bridge lurched violently. Alyssa wondered why she was even filling a position for communications when she was a science student and she wished she hadn't volunteered to even help for this particular test. She wished she that she was back in her room, studying for a different test that was coming up for her Xenobiology class in a few days instead...
The fake bridge shook as a 'Klingon' war ship fired on them and Alyssa gripped her console tightly, fighting to remain seated as some of her other fellow cadets were knocked to the floor. Then the bridge gave another violent lurch and their 'captain' took a fall, knocking his head on another piece of equipment and stayed down…
'Oh great.!' Alyssa screamed in her mind as she stood and stumbled to take command.
"Number one… I m-mean CAPTAIN! Our rear facing shields are down and the Klingons are not responding to our hails! What now!" Another cadet shouted as he plugged away at the buttons, trying to figure out what to do. Alyssa tried to think through all the shouting of damage reports and alarms, but it was difficult as voices got louder and louder, it was driving her nuts!
"WILL Y'ALL JUST SHU'UP!" She screamed, her southern accent thicker than usual as she slammed her hand down hard, the shouting stopped, and all eyes were on her. "With y'all shouten at once I can't think! Its maken me madder than a wet hen!" After a few silent moments she breathed and pointed to the cadet that had taken her place at communications.
"Ok Flore continue to try and hail them just in case they do decide to talk… Cadets Roger and T'Prim reroute energy from the rear phasers to the shields! Everyone else evasive maneuvers! Ready all remaining weapons and prepare to fire!"
Once she took control the fake bridge shook less violently, and the screaming stopped.
Up in the observation room stood Captain Falion and First Officer Lieutenant Saruk of the U.S.S. Rexburg, along with a number of professors.
Saruk watched Cadet Landers take the role of captain and his eyebrow rose so slightly when she shouted at her fellow cadets, one would hardly notice. Captain Falion on the other hand had noticed the slight movement as he glanced at the young Vulcan from the corner of his eye before looking back at the simulation. The cadets were now reaching the climax of the Kobayashi Maru and desperation was starting to settle among the makeshift crew and the female cadet playing captain began typing away at the controls at communications as the cadet who was there before broke down from the stress. Order after order falling from her lips as she stared at the screen, unblinking.
"Cadet Landers is… Sufficient." Captain Falion said. "What are your thoughts lieutenant? Is she U.S.S. Rexburg material or should we continue looking?" He asked and Saruk cleared his throat.
"I would be an illogical choice to seek such an opinion from. I have grown up with her thanks to the close friendship of our fathers and have acquired a close bond with her. This fact runs the risk of me boosting credibility in her talents to help assign her to the same ship as I." Saruk answered and Falion chuckled.
"Or maybe such a close relationship and a deep knowledge of her past and personality can help another person better understand her ability's in real life situations on a real ship and whether or not she has what it takes. Remember lieutenant I am seeing her through my eyes and I am watching her in a simulation. Though the Kobayashi Maru is famous for its unbeatable no win scenarios it seems she is doing well at staving off the conclusion… She might even break the record of thirty minutes at this rate." He said as the simulations light flickered violent before one of the cadets managed to get them under control. Time moved on and he noticed that his Lieutenant kept looking at the clock hanging on the wall.
"How long has it been Lieutenant?"
"It has been Twenty-Five Minutes Thirty-three seconds and counting." Saruk said and they watched at Alyssa Landers finally called it, shouting to the cadets to finally abandon ship. All but two rushed out happily while the remaining two were hesitant to leave, looking unsure if they should abandon their captain. It took the southern girl shouting at them once more to get them to rush out with the others. Once the doors to the fake bridge closed the simulation was cut off and the flashing lights ended. Alyssa left the fake bridge rather quickly without so much as a goodbye or a thank you which surprised Saruk but he didn't dwell on it for long. He spared the unconscious cadet one more quick glance as academy medical officers rushed in to get him on a stretcher.
"Twenty-Three minutes… She didn't break the academy record but impressive non-the less. Do you agree Lieutenant?"
"Yes Captain I do find her performance to be very impressive."
"Good… I will be going to retrieve her academy files, so I can read up on her academic ventures… Why don't you go enjoy yourself, I will call you when it is time to return to the ship."
Saruk watched his captain leave the room before turning back to the now empty simulator, remembering his own Kobayashi Maru.