Captain Kirk and Spock walked for about an hour searching for Scotty on Decks 1 and 2. After those attempts failed, Captain Kirk and Spock decided it was close to lunch time and needed a break. They assumed searching on empty stomachs wouldn't help find Scotty any sooner.
Captain Kirk and Spock sat at a table eating their food, discussing the current situation with Scotty.
"I can't believe Scotty disobeyed a command; he's never disobeyed a command I've given him!" Captain Kirk exclaimed.
"This certainly isn't normal behavior for Mr. Scott, Captain; something doesn't seem right about this whole situation." Spock stated.
"How so, Spock,"
"Given the facts that Mr. Scott has never, not once, disobeyed a command you've given him, why would he start now?"
"Love can make a person crazy, Spock; you know that very well of humans."
"Correct, Captain; but Mr. Scott has never disobeyed nor lied to you about such things, even when considering his current relationship with Miss Medford."
"You're right…even before now, Scotty always obeyed my orders, even when he wanted to take Sabrina out for dinner or whatever the reason being."
"Affirmative, Captain, which I don't think this is all entirely Mr. Scott's doing."
"You think something happened to him?"
"I don't know, Captain, all I can be sure is that this is not normal or typical behavior for Mr. Scott. He would've simply went to Engineering and never questioned your orders afterwards."
Captain Kirk nodded then grabbed out his communicator.
"Mr. Sulu," Captain Kirk spoke.
"Helmsman Sulu, here, Captain," Sulu answered.
"Mr. Sulu, can you try to locate Scotty's point of location on the ship?"
"Captain, I've tried that; our machines aren't registering anything."
"Are you sure, Mr. Sulu,"
"I've had Chekov run about seven scans of the ship; we simply can't pinpoint his location."
"Can you locate where he was last seen?"
"…it seems he was last seen on Deck 5 by a crewmember; he described Mr. Scott as disoriented, stunned, non-coherent, and in some state of psychosis."
"Alright, thank you, Mr. Sulu,"
Captain Kirk hung up and looked at Spock.
"You were right, Spock," Captain Kirk answered, uneasy.
"Just seems so odd; what could've happened to Mr. Scott from the time of leaving the break room earlier this morning until now to put him in a state of psychosis?" Spock questioned.
"We'll have to ask Dr. McCoy; he'll know, maybe."
Spock nodded, and followed Captain Kirk out of the cafeteria off to Sickbay to converse with Dr. McCoy regarding the new information they had regarding Scotty, and his current state of mind.
Just as Captain Kirk and Spock left the cafeteria, Scotty and about four other men, dressed in Romulan clothing, walked into the cafeteria.
"Sit over there, lads," Scotty stated to his crew.
The four men in Romulan uniform, sat down and waited for Scotty to give them their next command.
"Now, we only got five of us…this won't ever do." Scotty spoke, diabolically.
"What do suppose we do, Scotty?" A man asked.
"We need more members of the group, otherwise our plan will never work." Scotty answered.
"How do you suppose we do that?" Another man questioned.
"Same way we got the five of us, so far; hypnosis." Scotty answered.
All four men nodded in agreement.
"If this all works out, I will have each and every one of yah have yah own planet at the end of this." Scotty spoke, menacingly.
The four men cheered.
Scotty started laughing menacingly, and the four men joined him.
