Chapter 1 "Discovery"

USS Enterprise

Deep Space

"Those are some fine looking piece of machinery" commented Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, aka Scotty, on the bridge. The captain called him in to give his professional opinion. When he arrived and saw the 8 machines on the screen he instantly became glued, mouth open with his eyes wide, obviously the most curious of the crew on these robots. "If I did not know any better, which I do, I would say that they were built by humans, except that one." He indicated to the most bizarre looking machine, "What kind of designer would put whisker-like-antennas at the mouth guard? If that's suppose to be some kind of joke I'm not laughing. And who decided the paintjob on that one?" He turned his attention to the machine and its dull grey color with golden joints. "All the others have an attractive paintjob and that one is just sad, its guns have a good color so why not the robot itself." He continued his criticism until he was interrupted.

"That all interesting Scotty" said Chief Medical Officer and the captains best friend Leonard "Bones" McCoy, he came up to the bridge to see what all the commotion was about, needless to say when he saw the image on he monitor his first words were 'What the hell are those?' "But I think a better question is 'Where the hell did they come from?'" He turned to Kirk and Spock for answers.

Kirk recognize the serious look on his friend, and this is not his usual serious look, it was his 'I don't want any games' serious look. Turning away he asks his science officer "Mr. Spock, do we have an answer?"

"I apologize to Dr. McCoy but I cannot answer that" Spock said with his usual emotionless tone, but Kirk to tell that he was disappointed. "Sensors do not detect any form of ion, antimatter, or any indication that any ship came through the area recently."

"Are you telling me that those things just appeared out of thin air?" Bones said his voice hard and intense. There always seem to be a hostile aura when he and Spock started to converse.

"That is highly illogical when you consider the fact that air is nonexistent in space" Spock replied with a blank expression but anyone who heard him were shock as they all thought the same thing: 'Was that a joke?'

However, Bones didn't find it amusing, "Listen here you green-blooded son of a.." he was practically growling.

"McCoy come down, control yourself, he didn't mean anything" Kirk said as he got between Spock and Bones.

"It is possible that whoever left them here masked their engine trail so even our sensor cannot track them" Spock finished with his report as if nothing occurred.

At that point Scotty decided to join in the conversation, "But why would anyone leave eight seemingly intact machines in the middle of nowhere?" he asked the next obvious question.

"I do not have an answer for that as well" answered Spock.

Feeling the signs of a headache coming along, McCoy blurted out "OKAY!" That got everyone's' attention, "We don't know about this 'distress beacon' or anything about who left those robots behind. So I ask: What do we know?" he said.

"Mr. Spock" said Kirk hopeful his Vulcan friend had the answers to that question at least.

He was disappointed when his First Officer shook his head and said, "Unfortunately captain our sensors are unable to scan the machines past their armor."

"Could they be jamming our attempts?" ask Scotty.

"There is no evidence to suggest any form of jamming. There are no energy readings emanating from the machines and computers diagnose that our sensors are suffering no form of disturbances. We just cannot scan past the armor but from our scan I can deduce that they were not all made by the same manufacture possibly not even the same people" Spock answered.

"Can you elaborate on that" ask Kirk.

With a nod, Spock walk to Chekov's station and asked to use it. Nodding in confirmation, Chekov stood to the side and Spock type in some commands and on the screen three of the eight machines were highlighted.

Spock turned to his audience and explained; "You see captain, three of these machine's armor is compose of an unknown form of titanium alloy though much lighter and several times more resilient." Typing back on the console, another machine was mark, the only one with no handheld weapons, "And this one is composed of the same material yet in addition it also has an incredibly durable ceramic composite unknown to us as well. Going by this evidence I can theorize that these four were made by the same people with this one" he pointed to the free handed robot "possibly being the most advance due to its superior armor, however the armor is not capable of withstanding an attack by our phasers or photon torpedoes" he finished.

Kirk thought over what his science officer said. While what he said was logical in theory, it raised more question than answers which he decided to put aside for later. "What about the other machine?"

"That is were the diversity starts" typing in commands he indicated to the mech with angel like wings and a large twin barrel cannon griped on its right hand. "The metal composition of this machine is completely unknown but what the scans tell us the material is electrically non-conductive and while it cannot impede our sensors the armor make the robot undetectable to ancient radar used before subspace sensors phased that out. It is actually strong enough to withstand a few hits from our phasers on a low setting; at half power the machine would be destroyed."

He moves to the next one, the dull grey colored machine with golden joints, "This machine is most unusual for its armor is very weak, too weak to consider as a combat machine as something as simple as a small meteorite could penetrate it and yet we can see that fighting is its function. But with our limited knowledge I can only gather that something must occur to enhance the armors strength when activated; perhaps something similar to polarize hull plating used on the old NX-class ships."

"Aye, that a reasonable thought" replied Scotty. "That might also explain its color or lack of it."

Turning back to the console, Spock went on with his report "This ones armor is a form of carbon allotrope" indicating to the machine holding a green sword and an attachment on its left shoulder extending down to its arm.

The captain had to stop him there, "Wait, carbon what?" he asked.

"We know some common forms of carbon allotropes as diamonds and graphite" answered Chekov.

"However this material is completely artificial and like the other machine it can take few hits from low setting phasers" Spock finished.

"The last one is the most unique and not just in terms of design" the last machine was the one with the whiskers, "Scan show that the entire machine is integrated with microscopic devices within its armor if not the entire machine."

"What like nanomachines?" said Scotty with shock in his voice.

"Yes, but for what purpose I believe you can offer credible theories Mr. Scott" said Spock.

Scotty took a moment to contemplate the possibility of having such an armor, "Well the first thing I can think of is that it can repair itself from damage, possibly even strengthen itself in areas that are receiving damages as well. But to what degree on either theory I won't know until I learn more on it." He turned back to his thought before saying "But if I'm right and if we could do the same for our ships…I…ah...the benefits are numerous to say the least."

Kirk just stood there, thinking over everything he has just been told. What secrets these machines have hidden might be a boon to a Federation with the current tension in the quadrant. But what really stuck out in his mind was how these robots would fare in a fight? They were clearly built to fight but how would they fare against starfighters, the Federation has been talking about putting space fighters into its military ever since Nero's attack but it hasn't even been decided yet; for that matter how about against a starship? His thoughts were interrupted.

"Captain, permission to bring in one of those machines in for study" ask Scotty.

Everyone within earshot just stopped and turned to the chief engineer. Captain Kirk looked at him with surprise and bewilderment, "You want to bring one of those giant robots inside the ship? Mr. Scott, I don't mind taking risks if it doesn't threaten the safety of the ship and crew unless I have been given no other choice but I cannot authorize such a request; there are just too little information to believe that bringing just one of them inside this ship is without hazard" he said with great authority in his voice.

"Besides can one of those robots even fit in the shuttle bay" said Bones

"We can fit in just one, I was thinking of towing in the barehanded one" answering his questions, Scotty turned back to the captain, "What about if we fly a shuttle to get up close, find a way inside or locate a computer interface" he said.

What he said was reasonable and if something bad happen the away team could be beam back aboard before any harm happen to them. However there was one problem the captain saw with what Scotty said, "Is there a way inside?" he thought aloud thinking no one would reply but to his surprise someone had the answer.

"Uhh captain" said helmsman Sulu drawing the attention of the captain, he typed some commands on the console and the screen focused on one section on each of the eight machines. There were openings on each of the machines located at the chest or abdomen section.

Scotty turns back to Kirk and with a smile on his face "Well Captain."

Realizing his defeat Kirk says, "Alright, suit up and prepare. You will be bringing a security team if it gets hectic. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to report this to Starfleet and tell them we will be late to our appointment."

Thirty minutes later Scotty was already at the shuttle bay in full EVA suit with three security officers as escort.

Kirk came to down to see them off. "You have everything you need."

Scotty went through the inventory, "Computer to interface with, plasma torch to cut our way through in case we get lock inside, and the suits are monitoring our vitals. If something happens you can us the transporter to bring us back."

"We'll keep a transporter lock on you guys at all times. Learn what you can and get back in one piece."

"Understood captain" with that Scotty boarded the shuttle and they took off to the machines.


Machine with the mustache

As the shuttle left the bay and moved closer to the machines, the pilot and passengers couldn't help but to feel a little intimidated as they approached the giants. The thought of one of these machines waking up and crushing the shuttle with its hands were on the crews mind and then some.

Scotty was practically hypnotize with his mouth open wide and eyes the size of dinner plates. He broke from his trance and turn to see the security officers escorting him and his eyes came down to the rifles they were carrying. 'What are those things going to do against them, give them an itch?' he thought.

The shuttle came to a stop next to the pilot seat of the machine with the mustache. No matter how he saw it, Scotty couldn't considered that machine much of a threat due to its look. Doesn't mean he's not afraid of it crushing him.

The pilot lock the door to the shuttle's driver seat while Scotty and the security team depressurize the passenger compartment and open the door into space.

Scotty was the first out and immediately began taking in the configuration of the cockpit. It's circular with a golden canopy retracted back, the pilot seat was made to support a humanoid being, dull in color yet possessed an elegant design, the chair looked kind of like a spinal cord.

'Kind of looks like a throne' thought Scotty. Against his better judgment he sat down in the seat. Nothing happen. He proceeded to inspecting the rest: what looked like armrests were the handcontrols, gripping them, he noticed they were meant to accommodate human-like hands. Then he noticed something to the left of his eyes, a red blinking light; underneath it was a computer port.

"Well that's convenient" he said as he got out his computer kit. Searching an appropriate plug to interface with his terminal, he chose one that might be compatible and inserted it.

"All right, lets see if we got a bit" he activated his computer and attempted to make a connection with the giant's system.

Then something happen that he didn't expect.

"What the bloody" the moment his computer was connected, the screen changed color and words appeared.

Connection Established

SYSTEM ∀-99 (WD-M01) ∀ Gundam "Turn A Gundam"

Upload In-progress

Scotty was confused. He didn't know what just happen, the only thing he can tell is that the machine has taken control of his tablet computer and is uploading, from the looks of the numbers, a ton of data into it.

"Ah... Scotty to Enterprise" he said activating his com-link.

"This is Enterprise. What going on down there, Scotty?" asked the captain over the line.

"Captain, this machine just hacked my computer and is uploading a massive amount of information all in about 5 second" he reported, a bit of hysteria in his voice.

After a few seconds, Kirks voice came back on: "Has it done anything else, anything hostile" there was worry in his voice.

"Nothing else that I can tell" he said.

Suddenly his computer started beeping. He looked at the screen and it said:

Upload Complete

The screen returned to it default setting.

Looking were he inserted his computer jack, he noticed the light wasn't on anymore.

The connection was severed.

"I just lost the link with the machine" he said as he attempts to reestablish the connection, "I can't get a connection back."

"What did it upload?" asked the captain.

Looking back at his computer, Scotty searched for whatever has just been uploaded.

He didn't know what to expect. A virus? Coordinates? Some really long message?

He found a file simply marked: C.C. File

"That's new" he said out loud.

When he opened the file, he just started that the screen for about 2 seconds before his eyes grew wide.

"Captain, do you read me" he shouted to the comm with great excitement in his voice that he sounds like he's in panic.

"Scott what's going on!" Kirk was obviously worried by his head engineers call.

"You are going to want to see what this guy just gave us" he had a big smile on his face as he looked up at the 'face' of the machine.


This is going to be a two part chapter, I planned on it being one big chapter but I cut it short.

Know some of you are waiting for the other updates to my stories (especially Over-Religious Cousins) but it might take a little longer. Suffering from writers block, games, tv, and above all life.