A/N: I thank KobaltWolf for pointing out my problem of seemingly randomly switching between past and present tense. So for this chapter and onwards I'll be doing my best on keeping this story in the past tense.

Chapter 2

Uncertain Future

-Bang, Clank, Bang-

"Sun. Of. The. Gun."

-Clank, Bang, Clank-

"Hidan, just stop! Banging your weapon against the door is not going to open it!" screamed Konan, "The alarms are loud and headache inducing enough without your banging and loud cursing added into the mix!"

Hidan stopped and grudgingly put his three bladed sword away. Then he sat back upon the floor and wildly cussed away silently in his head.

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Two beams of light sliced through the darkness. Occasionally the beams landed on empty shuttlepods and then equipment before moving on.

"Hey Alex, did you hear that?" asked Carl, as both security officers moved closer to shuttlepod five, "It sounded like banging."

"Yo, your right man." Alex replied, as he took a small device out from his uniform pocket and activated it, "My scanner says there are ten people in that shuttlepod right now."

Ten, stuffed inside that small of a space! Crazy academy cadets! grumpily thought Carl, as he placed his security code into the number pad next to the shuttlepods left hand side door.

After the number pad emitted two small beeps, Carl grabbed hold of the shuttle's door handle and pulled on it, opening it upwards. Alex meanwhile lifted up the shuttle's right hand side door.

(o ) 0/_\0 (*^_^)

All ten members froze as the alarms stopped and then a few seconds later they heard two small beeps. Hidan who had been lightly hitting his head on the sealed shut door fell backwards when the door flew upwards, opening up.

"Damn great! How did you do it Tobi?"

Tobi who had played around with the controls again only moments ago, "Hidan, I didn't..." he begun to say but never finished due to a loud shout.

"Wait a minute your not academy cadets!"

Hidan growled as he pushed himself into an sitting position, "Like Hell we're not!"

"Who are you?" Tobi questioned the man.

"Starfleet Security and you guys are under arrest." answered the man as he pulled a device out from a hostler that was attached to his uniform and pointed it at the masked man, "Don't try anything funny either."

Tobi concluded rather quickly that the device the security guard held was a weapon of some sort and held back on ordering the other members to attack. The guy is just damn lucky that I can't place an genjutsu on him right now.

The man jerked his head towards the other members of the Akatsuki, "Alex help me with the rest of these guys." he said.

"Yes sir."

Nine members of the Akatsuki jumped up from their seats and begun to do handseals for their jutsu's. Which caught Tobi's attention, as well as the security guards.

It looks like instead of academy cadets, we instead got the case of the crazy whacked out civilian group. thought Carl. To the two guards it looked like the group of nine were making weird and strange symbols with their hands.

Tobi glared at the nine shinobi through the hole in his mask, a flash of red could be seen only for an second and disappeared just as quickly, "No stop!" he ordered.

The nine shinobi quickly listened and stopped forming their handseals.

"Now come on we don't have all day." said Alex, as he placed handcuffs on five of the Akatsuki members while Carl got the rest.

0:_:0 ($_$) (o_\)

Two Days Later

Starfleet Headquarters

Civilian Judiciary Department

"Members of the Coalition Grand Jury we have assembled here today to go over the charges that these ten civilians have been arrested of." said the Judge, as she pushed her slipping glasses back up, "Charges that they have been stand accused of are the following, breaking and entering, attempted thief, damage to Starfleet property, and assaulting an officer."

Pain smirked when he heard the Judge bring up the assaulting an officer charge. The security guard had it coming. We saw an chance for escape and we went for it.

The other members sat in their seats silently and waited to see what would happen next.

Zetsu however leaned over to his left and whispered to the person next to him, "How do you plan on getting us out of this Tobi?"

"We're not going to get out of this." Tobi whispered back.

Zetsu gasped, "What."

"I used a small amount of the chakra that have so far gained back and placed a small weak genjutsu on the judge and our lawyer." informed Tobi.

The Judge lifted up a antique gavel and slammed it down multiple times, "Order in the court!" she yelled.

The combination of the banging and the yelling effectively stopped all conversations in the court room, including Tobi's and Zetsu's whispered conversation. With the room once again focused on her, the Judge placed the gavel back down.

"Now the case will follow in this order. First, the prosecutor will make an opening statement, outlining the evidence to be presented on the behalf of the prosecution's case. The defense lawyer will then make an opening statement, outlining the defense case. Second, the prosecutor will introduce evidence. Third, after all the evidence has been presented, the lawyers will make closing arguments. Then at the end I will decide the case." the Judge informed the courtroom.

Two and a half hours passed by slowly for the group of ten shinobi. Boredom of the trial had claimed half of the group. If the indication of snores that came from bored half of the Akatsuki were any clearer.

The Akatsuki's lawyer leaned over and whispered, "You guys aren't really taking this trial seriously are you?"

"No, not really." answered Tobi.

"Now does any side have anything else to say before the verdict?" asked the Judge.

To Be Continued...