A/N: This is a crossover with One Tree Hill. The entirety of the story except for the prologue is in the Enterprise Universe. It's entirely to cannon, except for the purpose of my story, at the night of Prom, Lucas, Peyton, Nathan and Haley took a Limo to the prom together. Enjoy!
Unexpected Guests
Chapter 1
May 2, 2004 Tree Hill High School Gym
The two brothers were waiting for their dates, or in Nathan's case, wife, to come out of the bathroom. They were at the Prom, and the girls had decided to take a marathon bathroom break. Which wasn't all that unusual for Haley, her being five months pregnant, but the two of them had been in there for ten minutes!
Just as Nathan and Lucas were about to barge in on them to see what the hold up was, the two gorgeous women came out of the bathroom. "There you are," Nathan said, "They're about to announce the Prom court." (A/N: in movies and tv they only ever have a king and queen, but my high school prom had a king, queen, and three princes and three princesses!)
"Great!" Haley said, smiling, but Nathan could tell that her feet were beginning to hurt. He had been told by the doctor that even after her cast came off, her ankle would get tired easily.
Lucas noticed it too, "You guys want to go sit down at the table for a little bit, give my heart a rest from all this dancing."
Nathan gave Lucas a silent thank you, for he knew that his wife would be stubborn and wouldn't admit her own limitations, but would do anything for a friend, and especially her best friend.
At that moment, the current song ended, and Principle Turner came on the microphone. "Hello graduating Seniors. I hope that you are all having a good time at tonight's Prom. I would like to thank all the chaperones and the decorating committee for doing such a great job. Now, I have the pleasure of announcing the prom court that was elected by your class. Our Prom King is Nathan Scott. Our Princes are Lucas Scott, Antwon "Skills" Taylor, and Marvin McFadden."
The class applauded, Nathan, who was happy to be crowned king, loved even more the look of shock on Mouth's face. Looks like in this case, good guys didn't have to finish last.
The four guys walked onto stage together, as the principle continued, "Now, ladies, our Prom Queen is Haley James Scott, and our princesses are Brooke Davis, Peyton Sawyer, and Bevin Mirskey." The girls walked on stage to join their boyfriends/ husband, and the class applauded as kisses were exchanged on stage.
Two hours later, the Scott brothers and their dates were in the limo on their way home. When for the four occupants, time seemed to stop.
December 6, 2155 NX-01 USS Enterprise
It was 0630 hours aboard the USS Enterprise, and everyone on the Bridge was at their usual best when Captain Jonathan Archer make his way on the Bridge after being summoned. "What is it?"
Commander T'Pol answered, "It is a small alien craft. We have nothing to identify it in the Vulcan Database."
"Any life signs?"
"Four, but they are faint."
"Proceed with Docking Procedures." He turned to the comm. station, "Security team and medical team to docking port B. Hoshi, and Trip, you're with me, T'Pol, you have the Bridge."
"Yes Captain."
Having determined a atmosphere acceptable for humans, Archer lead the team into the smaller vessel. Once inside, he put Hoshi to work translating the ship's database, and then moved down the ship with Trip and the rest. Trip pointed towards the bow of the ship, "The life signs are coming from that direction Cap'n."
Making their way down the back of the ship, they opened the access hatch, and found themselves facing what looked like about two dozen pods. "Trip, can you tell what these are?"
"They look like Hybernation Pods. I can't tell much more than that. I'll need Hoshi's help in translating the control panel, before we can know what to do, if we can help these people."
"Okay," pulling out his communicator, "Archer to Sato."
"Yes Captain?"
"How are you coming with translating the language?"
"Shouldn't be much longer, it seems a very logical and Mathematically based language, much like Vulcan. Why?"
"We found what looks like Hibernation Pods, four containing people."
"Understood, I'll be right there, the UT has enough to translate anything you need."
The Medical Technition looked up from his scanner, "Sir, We didn't catch it before, but there are not four life signs, there are five."
"How come we couldn't tell before?"
"Well, this woman, she's pregnant. I can't tell anything more about any of their conditions until we get them to Sickbay."
"Understood." Archer told the medic, "Trip, work with Ensigns Sato and Clarke see if anything can be done to revive these people safely."
"Yes sir."
An hour later, Archer was called down to Sickbay, as the team had successfully found a way to open the pods and safely remove the newly discovered occupants from it. "Report."
Phlox walked up to him, "Well, sir, the four occupants, who are 18 year old humans, plus one five month old fetus, are in perfect health. I have kept them sedated until we could determine their health."
"How is their health?"
"Well, apart from a heart disorder that is very easy to fix in one of the males, perfect health."
"Good, Hoshi what could you determine form the ship's computer?"
"This particular person was a Sociologist. He discovered earth about two hundred years ago, and spent his life studying earth's various social cultures. In the year 2004, he began a new experiment. He wanted to know how humans would react as a group to an alien environment. So, he landed on earth, kidnapped these four teenagers, placed them in the hibernation chambers and made his way to a planet he knew of that was unpopulated, but had a temperate environment."
"What happened?"
"While on the planet's surface he came upon a virus, the common cold. While humans have built a tolerance to it, the common cold ravaged his immune system and he died within a month. Before he died, he set the ship on a course to his home world. That was the end of the ship's logs, we can only speculate what happened after that."
Archer nodded, then looked up as something occurred to him, "2004? How are they still 18?" Looking at Dr. Phlox.
"Trip and I could determine that the pods placed the occupants in perfect hibernation, which not only slows down breathing, heart rate, and metabolism, but it also slowed down the aging. For every year that passed, inside the pods only an hour passed. So, in the last 150 years they have only aged between 6 and 7 days. That's why the young men have the start of facial hair showing."
"Can we revive them?"
"Yes Captain, I have them sedated, but I can revive them at anytime."
"Let's do it."
TBC…
