"We're going where?" Bones shouted, the bridge agreeing with Bones suspicions.

"We're going to the Omega Quadrant. It has come to my attention that the USS Fargo was sent to the Krillon territory for negations and they have seemed to disappear. Our mission is to find them and bring them back." James said simply, apparently not sharing the concern that the rest of the crew was feeling. The bridge was utterly silent.

"Jim you can't be serious…those things are worse than the Klingons on a bad day!" Bones yelled.

"I concur Captain." Spock spoke the attention switching to him, "Dr. McCoy's logic is sound. The Krillon are a savage race. In order to safely bring the lost crew back we would require a small battalion, which we do not have."

"Chekov, hail Lieutenant Smith." Chekov nodded and punched in the command on his control pad.

Jesse's head bounced in time to the music she was blasting near her as she kept herself busy with the thrusters. She mouthed the words silently as her toes tapped against the bar that kept her up. Monty was shouting something about how dangerous it was for her to be hanging upside down while working with the electrical currents but obviously he had no idea that this was the only way she could access the mainframe. Jesse wiped the cumulating sweat from her forehand using the back of her gloved hand as she held a pair of wire cutters in her teeth. She grabbed another set of wires and began stripping them in order to reattach later on.

"Lieutenant Smith!" James called. The other end remained silent; the only thing the bridge could hear was the odd form of music that was blasting in the engineering room. James cleared his throat.

"Lieutenant SMITH!" James shouted. A scream was heard followed by a loud thud and a long stream of curses growing louder as she came closer to the communicator. Between the curses and clanking of metal, Scotty's laughter grew louder and louder as in between laughs he stated an I told you so.

"Ouch" Scotty shouted, "You little scrap! You can't throw things at me!"

"Lieutenant Smith?"

"What?" Jesse shouted back into the communicator obviously pissed by this point. James began grinning.

"Were you throwing things at Scotty?" James asked humorously.

"Aye Captain she was!" Scotty shouted from the background. Another loud clank of metal could be heard followed by threats from Scotty as a confirmed yes.

"What do you what?" Jesse shouted with no sense of formality or restraint on her rising anger.

"I need you on the bridge."

Jesse groaned, "I'm a bit busy here, what do you want."

"Lieutenant this is an order. Come to the bridge now."

More cursing was followed before Jesse clicked off the communicator and headed off to the bridge. While in the lift, Jesse pulled off the big black gloves and shoved them into the pockets of her sweatpants. The doors whizzed open to the brightly lit bridge. Jesse felt a bit uncomfortable as she stood there in the same tank top and sweat pants, covered in dust while the rest of the crew was there in their clean uniforms, polished and perfect looking. Jesse moved out of the lift and headed towards James who was sitting there with that smug grin on his face. Deep down she had a bad feeling about what was going to happen next.

"Jesse, what do you know of the Krillon territory and race?" James asked. Jesse was a bit taken aback by the fact that he had just addressed her by her first name. She threw that into the back of her mind as she took a moment to gather what information she knew on the Krillons. Taking a deep breath Jesse began, "The Krillons were first discovered by the Federation only a few years after the Federation had been established. The planet itself is quite humid, more like a…what you call a jungle during the day and reaching freezing temperatures at night. They were noted as a very primitive and hostile race, and very superstitious. Despite the fact that they did not possess any serious firearms or really any firearms for that matter, the Krillons proved fatal to many of the Federation with their perfected military tactics and torture. It is a theory that the Klingons were born from the Krillons using their military tactics and hostile nature to spread the same kind of fear in space that the Krillons did on their own planet."

Jesse watched the reaction of the crew as their faces dropped and paled from her precise but basic tale of the Krillons. She felt it was necessary to spare them the bloody details of their history and origins and even their history with the Federation. Although she grew curious as to why she was being asked about the Krillons. It couldn't be that the Federation wanted to start up negations with them again? They would have to be complete idiots if they actually believed that the Krillons wanted to join the Federation.

"Doesn't sound to bad." James finally said with a smile as he leaned back in his chair.

"Are you out of your freaking mind!" Bones yelled, his face nearly red from the pressure building up from James's stupidity. "Jesse just told us that they were basically murderous blood sucking leeches and you still wanna go? Even I agree with Spock, we'd need a battalion to do this!"

"Aw Bones have some faith!" James cried.

"I did, then you fried the ship in the last rescue attempt and it flew out the window." Bones replied sarcastically. James was about to reply before Jesse spoke up.

"Excuse me sir," Jesse interrupted, "You're going down…to the Krillon territory to do what?"

"To find and retrieve the crew members of the USS Fargo. And WE will be going." James turned to Bones, "You're coming too. You can hypospray them all if they attack."

Jesse started laughing, the crew staring at her as if she had lost it.

"It's not if its when. And you can't be serious." Jesse said staring at James who only grinned in return.

"Pack your things Lieutenant. We're planet bound!" James shouted as he walked into the lift.

Jesse stared at him, eyes wide in complete amazement and shock at his own stupidity. "You can't be serious!" she shouted at him as the doors of the lift closed.

Jesse tore off her sweat pants and tank top, standing in her room in nothing but her underwear thinking of what she should pack or wear. The Krillon planet is humid and hot during the day but can become a polar ice cap at night. She threw open her dresser drawers and began rummaging through her clothes. A ding sounded through her room.

"It's open!" Jesse shouted. The door slid open and Bones walked through into her room.

"God, why are you naked?" Bones shouted, turning around hiding his eyes. His face began to grow red in embarrassment. Jesse laughed at the sight of him. Of all people, Jesse would have never pegged Bones as a person that gets embarrassed. She turned and stared at him.

"We'll as far as I know…this is my room and I was changing for going on planet. Am I allowed to change doctor?" Jesse said with a laugh as she went back to what she was doing. Bones turned back around and rubbed the back of his neck, unsure of what to do or really how to act. It was unusal especially since he was a doctor.

"Relax Bones," Jesse said as she pulled out her Starfleet uniform and pulled it over her head. "Whats up?"

Bones cleared his throat, trying to regain his thoughts and composure. "I need you to talk to Jim." Jesse stopped what she was doing and stared at him, confused as to why she was supposed to do this.

"Bones, isn't he your best friend?" Jesse asked, tossing a lock of black hair behind her shoulder. Bones gulped as he tried to keep from blushing even more.

"Because he finds you attractive and I figure if you bat your lashes a few times and talk about how dangerous it is he'll cancel it and wait for back up or something." Jesse laughed again.

"Bones, the more I mentioned how blood thirsty they were James decided he wanted to go." Jesse said as she threw some more clothes into a small duffle bag, sliding the strap over her shoulder as she moved closer to Bones. His breathing began to quicken, and she could feel him growing more and more flustered. Jesse stared up into his eyes and gave a small smile to him like she had done before. She had never noticed before how gentle his soft brown eyes were, they were limitless and so comforting.

"Leonard," Jesse said softly, "I promise nothing terrible will happen to us. I can't promise we won't be completely unharmed," Jesse gently grasped his hand and gave it a gentle squeeze, "but I'll get us back alive."

Bones blinked a few times before he registered what was happening. He took a breath and returned the smile.

"Jesse…I…" Bones couldn't finish his sentence before the doorbell chimed again.

"Open." Jesse called as she pulled back a bit from Bones. Nyota walked through the door and paused, staring at the odd scene that was before her.

"Am I…interrupting?" She asked, a grin forming on her face.

"Bones here was asking if I could talk Kirk out of going guns blazing to the Krillon Territory."

"Yeah good luck with that. Kirk sent me here to get you guys to hurry up to the transporting room." Nyota said sullenly as concern spread across her face. Jesse smiled and gave her a quick hug.

"We'll be fine," Jesse turned the Bones, "Lets not keep the Captain waiting."