Wingman: The Argument

Spock has 'hidden' Bones from Jim with the help of Chapel and Giotto's Security personnel as part of Operation 'Keep Away.'

Bones has been insufferable since the Argument with Jim, and hasn't caught on to the web of deception woven around him. Jim not bursting in with his dopey grins and incessant apologies was just fine by him!

The Argument that led to the initiation of Operation 'Keep Away' was to get Jim to apologize to Bones.

The Argument had started when Jim had callously said that Bones was not the best wingman.

What happened:

Bones had gotten caught up with a rather attractive scientist…over medical matters, (ahem), at the last starbase and had forgotten his promise to be Jim's wingman.

The basic points:

Bones forgot. Jim was in a snarky mood. Bones was apologetic. Jim didn't want to hear it. Bones had gotten angry. Jim pushed the envelope right off the desk. Voila! Bones became gruffer than usual. Jim became short tempered. Spock became a buffer. Chapel became a messenger. Giotto had to send senior security personnel to prevent rash actions on peaceful landing parties…

This was a time when these two were in disagreement and everyone suffered.

Even Spock had to agree something had to be done when Chapel and Giotto had cornered him as he left alpha shift last, as per usual. So, with some maneuvering that made Bones, Scotty, Sulu, Chekov and Uhura unwitting accomplices, Operation 'Keep Away' was deployed. None knew what was going on save for Spock, Chapel and Giotto. A remarkable feat considering the rate of gossip traveling through crewmembers was faster than warp speed and there were four hundred-some very curious eyes and ears on board.

While Bones had been enjoyed some unusual, but very welcome, quiet time…Jim, however, was getting suspicious.

Bones hadn't visited the Bridge once since the silly argument, for which Jim would never apologize…because it was silly, unimportant, and juvenile. Surely Bones wouldn't still be angry with him. For once, Jim set out to look for his grouchy CMO, only to find that Bones was nowhere to be found. Odd. A quick foray into the ship's logs and with the ship's computer revealed a strange anomaly: Jim T Kirk, Captain of the Enterprise was unauthorized to access CMO Leonard H McCoy's scheduling, or use the ship's scanners to locate him on the ship. The coding was Spock's work.

Jim had set off to find and confront Spock by way of visiting every science lab, (arriving to all with a determined frown, just in case Spock was there).

Jim had arrived at the last lab and barged in when he heard voices through the doors. As soon as he had gone in, a black box sitting on the counter had flashed brightly, causing Jim to see spots. As the spots had faded, a strange sensation had come over Jim, and all his clothes had suddenly become…huge!

Jim had torn his attention from the clothes when a shadow had shifted on the other side of the lab. He had become quite irritable from trying to keep his composure, maintaining his anger at his XO and from trying to find his CMO. Jim called out to the shadow he suspected was Spock.

Having heard his voice come out squeaky and high, Jim realized he had been de-aged by the strange device, which continued to play monologue of sorts.

'Give bonesy back you, you- meeaannyy!' Said jim, as soon as his surprise at being de-aged dissapated.

Another shadow had appeared, whereas the first one had disappeared.

'Are you out of your...mind?' Growls McCoy as he rounds on Spock, who seems to have disappeared after Jim's strange reaction to a digitally recorded message.

The recorder-like device continued its spiel in a loop: "space, the final frontier..."

A/N: dun, dun, DUUUNNNN! Where is Spock? What is the recorder-device? Why is Jim a kid?

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