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The shuttle flew through the cosmos faster than light in hot pursuit of the Huron. Sulu sat in the pilot's chair while Spock sat at the science station. Kirk stood in the middle of the room, tapping his foot.

"Jim..." Spock said.

"Yes?" Kirk responded

"Would it be possible for you to cease your foot tapping?"

Kirk smiled and said, "Does my foot tapping bother you?"

"Yes, sir. I am unable to work properly while you are doing that."

Kirk laughed quietly as he stopped tapping his foot.

"Thank you, captain."

Silence fell upon the three officers. A deadly, uncomfortable silence.

"We will overtake the Huron in a few minutes, captain," Sulu said.

"Alright," Kirk said. "Spock, put the ship into grey mode so we can evade their sensors."

Spock nodded and pressed a few buttons on his console. Shortly after, the lights dimmed. Kirk could hear the hum of some of the computer systems lower as the power output of the shuttle was reduced.

"All non-necessary systems have been shut down. All essential systems are now running in grey mode," Spock said.

Kirk didn't respond. His heart rate picked up as the seconds ticked by. If they were caught on board that ship, they would be done for, and the technology onboard would be lost to the Klingons.

"Four minutes," Sulu said.

"Okay," Kirk said. "Sulu, I want you to stay with the shuttle. Spock, get your gear. We're getting on that ship."

Spock rose from his chair and walked to the back of the shuttle. Kirk followed him. The two of them got hand phaser and walked back to the front of the shuttle.

"We are now in transporter range of the Huron," Sulu said. "Luck us; we got here before the next inconsistentcy."

"How long before we reach Klingon space?" Kirk asked.

"About... 45 minutes."

"Enterprise will not overtake her before she reaches Klingon space," Spock said. "It is logical to say that means Huron still has a stock pile the prototype warheads remaining."

"We can't give up yet," Kirk said. "We have to find a way to stop that ship. I'm not going to stand by and let the Klingons get their filthy hands on this tech."

"As Ensign Chekov said, Huron is a piece of work," Sulu said.

"Piece of work?" Spock asked.

"Earth expression," Kirk told Spock. "Go on, Sulu."

"You could upload a algorithem to the ships systems that would disable the warp drive. Enterprise should have her warp drive back up about now, and she could close the gap quickly."

"Excellent idea, Sulu," Kirk said. "Plus, we can check and make absolutely sure about those warheads."

"Captain?" Spock said.

"For all we know, those could all be gone. What reason would they have to still be headed for Klingon space?"

Spock thought for a moment. "Are you suggesting that there could be more experimental technology on board the Huron?"

"Yes, I am. We can't assume anything at this point."

"Captain, I have prepared the algorithem that will disable the Huron's warp drive," Sulu said.

"Good. How long until the inconsistantcy appears?"

"In just a few seconds. Get on the transporter pad and stand by."

Kirk and Spock walked over to the transporter pad as they were told and waited.

"Transport in three... two... one..." Sulu said and activated the transporter.

White particles engulfed Kirk and Spock, and they slowly started to disappear from sight.

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Kirk and Spcok appeared from thin air inside the abandoned torpedo bay of the Huron. The two of them drew their phasers from their holsters and looked over the immediate area.

"It would appear that we are all alone, captain," Spock said. He looked and discovered the torpedo's sitting in the racks by the wall of the Torpedo bay. "There are the torpedo's."

"And there's a computer console," Kirk said and pointed to a console in the wall.

Spock walked over to the torpedo rack while Kirk walked over to the console. Spock started counting the torpedo's as Kirk pressed the buttons on the console.

"Jim," Spock said.

"Yeah?"

"There are two of the experimental torpedo's remaining."

"Two?"

"Correct."

Kirk didn't say anything as he continued to work the computer panel, trying his hardest not to alert the crew to his work. "Run a scan on those torpedo's."

"Jim?" Spock said, baffled.

"You heard me. Scan those two torpedo's. Find out what makes them tick."

"Jim, that would--"

"I know that's against our orders. Just do it."

"I am afraid I cannot."

Kirk backed away from the console, successful in his attempt to plant the algorithem. "Spcok, that's an order. Scan the damn torpedo's!"

Spock drew his phaser from its holster. "I am afraid I must relieve you of command. Put your phaser down."

Kirk put his hands in the air. "Spock..."

"Surrender."

"Spock, innocent people are gonna die if we don't do this!"

"Enterprise is on her way as we speak. She will be able to stop these mutineers."

"They can't stop this ship if they can't defend themselves from those torpedo's. Huron will use those to lower the shields of Enterprise and destroy her. Then there won't be anything standing in the way of them handing over the tech. The Klingons will use it to overthrow the Federation. That means the end of Earth, and I remember you saying that Earth was the only home you had left."

Spock stood glaring at Kirk, deep in thought. He then slowly lowered his phaser. "You are correct. Even if they use these last two torpedo's, they still have the specifications of the them. They might also have more experimental technology that we are unaware of. We cannot afford to lose it."

Kirk breathed a sigh of relief. "Better get scaning. That algo should hit about--" Before Kirk could finish, the ship came to a sudden halt. "We need to get out of here. I tried to mask my trail, but they could still track where the algo was planted from."

"Agreed," Spock said and began to run scans on the torpedo's with his tricorder. "I believe I have discovered how we can set our shields to counteract the effect of the torpedo's."

"Sulu, we got what we needed. Get us outta here!"

'Stand by,' Sulu's voice came over Kirk's communicator.

Kirk could feel the transporter beams start to go over his body. Right as he and Spock were about to disappear, the doors to the torpedo bay opened, revealing two armed guards. They fired their phaser rifles at the dematerializing Spock and Kirk, but were too late to hit them.

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Kirk and Spcok appeared on the transporter pad on board the shuttle. Kirk raced up to the pilots chair and said, "Sulu, get us back to Enterprise!"

Sulu altered the course of the shuttle to take them back to the Enterprise. They raced at full speed.

"Sulu, do whatever it takes to get us back to the ship the fastest we can. It won't take them too long to disable that algorithem," Kirk said.

"Sye, sir," Sulu said. "Rerouting power to warp drive to get us back to Enterprise faster."

"Captain, may I have a word with you in private?" Spock asked.

Kirk nodded and the two of them walked to the back of the shuttle and out of earshot of Sulu.

"What is it?" Kirk asked Spock.

"How are you going to report this to Starfleet?"

"What Starfleet don't know can't hurt them."

"You plan not to inform Starfleet that we have data on the experimental torpedo's?"

"What data?"

"Captain, you are not making since."

"Here's what I'm thinking," Kirk said. "We'll use what you have discovered about those torpedo's to protect the Enterprise. After we stop the mutineers, we destroy whatever was recovered and you forget what you saw. That way, nobody learns about the tech that isn't supposed to, and we stop the Huron."

"Excellent idea."

"See there? I'm smarter than you give me credit for."

Spock raised his eyebrow. His expression almost that of amusement.

"Now, if we're done here," Kirk said and walked back to the cockpit. Spock quietly followed

"We have met back up with Enterprise, sir," Sulu told Kirk.

"Land the shuttle and lets get back to the bridge," Kirk responded.

Sulu brought the ship back into the shuttle bay of the Enterprise. As soon as the ship hit the ground, Kirk, Spock and Sulu all emerged and quickly made their way back to the bridge.

"Captain on ze bridge!" Chekov said as the three officers entered the bridge.

"As you were," Kirk said. "Sulu, resume your station. Set course for the Huron."

"Aye, sir," Sulu said.

"We were able to restore warp, captain," Uhura said. "But we can only achieve warp factor two."

"Thanks to a little plan we devised, Huron is now crawling along at impulse power. We will overtake them easy, even if we can only make it to warp two."

"Now traveling at maximum warp, captain," Sulu said.

"All right, crew. Listen up, and listen good," Kirk spoke to all on the bridge. "While Spock and I were aboard the Huron, we ran detailed scans of the torpedo's on board."

"You scanned ze torpedo's?" Chekov asked, shocked at what he hear.

"Yes, we did," Kirk said as he sat down in the captain's chair. "Now, Spock is the only one who knows anything about those torpedo's. He is going to set our shields to stop their effects so we can stop the Huron. After we clean this mess up, we destroy any data recovered and Spock forgets everything he saw while scanning those things. You are all to refrain from reporting that we have detailed data on those torpedo's."

The whole bridge crew was taken aback by what Kirk had just said.

"Are you sure about this, captain?" Uhura said, putting extra emphasis on the word 'captain'.

"I think the end justifies the means," Kirk replied.

"Lieutenant," said Spock. "The captain's logic is sound. We cannot afford to let any detail of those torpedo's to fall into the hands of the Klingons. They would have the ability to overthrow the Federation."

"Besides, technically we won't know anything about those weapons," Kirk said.

Uhura nodded and went back to her console.

"We are about to catch up to ze Huron, captain," Chekov said.

"Battle stations," Kirk said.

Chekov pressed some buttons on his panel and sounded the klaxon throughout the Enterprise. The lights on the bridge dimmed, and red lights located on various parts of the walls lit up.

"Mr. Chekov, I do not believe you have filled me in on the damage to the Enterprise yet," Kirk said.

"Yes sir. Veapons are partially functional. Shields have been charged back up to 69 percent. One of the torpedo forward torpedo launchers is not functioning."

"In other words, this could be an even fight," Spock said.

"I was thinking the exact same thing, Spock," Kirk replied. "Miss Uhura, how far out are our reinforcements?"

"Stand by," Uhura said. "U.S.S. Executor is just over an hour out."

"Looks like we're on our own," Kirk said.

"It would seem so," Spock said.

"Dropping out of warp," Sulu said.

The Enterprise emerged from faster than light travel. Not far from her was the Huron.

"We have her," Chekov said.

"Give 'em a full barrage of phaser fire," Kirk said.

Chekov did as he was ordered and fired on the Huron. Several phaser blasts hit her, but her shields held.

"Direct hit, sir. Huron's shields are down to 54 percent," Chekov said.

"It would seem that we have caught them off guard," Spock said.

"Incoming torpedo!" Chekov said.

"It's one of the experimental torpedo's," Spock said.

"Lets hope your research really does protect us. Hang on!" Kirk said.

The torpedo hit the Enterprise right in the front of the saucer section. The bridge crew waited nervously for that blue static from the first time. To their joy, it did not appear.

"Shields are holding, captain!" Chekov said.

"Fire photon torpedo's," Kirk ordered.

Chekov fired two torpedo's from the one functioning launcher below the saucer section. The torpedo's hit the star port side of the Huron.

"Another hit. Their shields are about to fail," Chekov said.

"Wait," Spock said. "There is a shuttle launching from the hanger of the Huron."

"They're trying to escape," Sulu said.

"The shields on the Huron are lowering," Spock said. "I am detecting a transporter signature from Huron. One person has been beamed to that shuttle."

"Mr. Chekov, disable that shuttle," Kirk ordered.

Chekov fired phasers at the shuttle, but the shuttle went to warp before the blasts could get there. "Damn! Ze shuttle has escaped."

"Captain, we are receiving a message from the Huron," Uhura said, "They are surrendering."

"Mr. Chekov, get a boarding party together to secure that ship," Kirk ordered.

"Aye aye, captain," Chekov replied.

"What about the shuttle that escaped?" Sulu asked.

"We'll worry about that shortly. First, we need to secure the Huron," Kirk answered.

"We are beaming boarding parties on the ze Huron now, captain," Chekov said. "We should have her secured in shortly."

Several minutes passed by, and the boarding parties secured the Huron. Kirk and Spock beamed over to the ship to interrogate the leader of the mutiny. They walked onto the bridge of the Huron. There, restrained in the captain's chair was Commander Anquan Jones.

"Are you the one responsible for starting this mutiny?" Kirk asked Jones very sternly.

Jones didn't answer Kirk and simply looked away.

"Why did you launch that shuttle then surrender?" Spock asked.

Again, Jones did not answer. His gaze was fixed on one of the walls of the bridge.

"Answer me!" Kirk exclaimed. "Why did you do it!?"

"You may as well execute me now and get over with," Jones finally spoke.

Kirk grabbed Jones by his shirt and said, "Damn you! Talk, or I will have Spock here probe your mind!"

Jones simply ignored Kirk's threat and continued to stare at the wall of the bridge.

"Spock, do it!" Kirk ordered. "Make sure you mess his mind up good."

Spock walked up to Commander Jones. He was about to begin a mind meld with Jones.

"Wait! Stop! I'll talk. Just don't let him do anything to me!" Jones said before Spock began the mind meld.

"Stop, Spock," Kirk ordered. "All right, now spill it!"

"I had nothing to do with this mutiny," Jones said.

"If you had nothing to do with it, then why are you in the captain's chair of a hijacked Starfleet vessel?" Kirk said.

"Because, Captain Alworth is the one who did this," Jones replied.

"Why would the captain of this vessel start a mutiny when he is the one in command?" Spock asked.

"Because, Captain Alworth is a double agent for the Ferengi!" Jone replied.

"What?" said Kirk.

"Before this whole mess started, Alworth said we were going to Ferengi space to offer a 'gift.' When asked what the gift was, he said we were going to generously share our technology with those who need it more. In other words, the Ferengi. Naturally, some of us refused his order to go to Ferengi space, as it was an illegal order. However some others went along with the Captain thinking if they didn't, they would be court marshaled. So, myself and those who knew Alworth had flipped his lid took command of the ship."

"Why were you headed for Klingon space when you could have just contacted Starfleet and informed them of the situation?" Kirk questioned.

"Alworth is a decorated Federation officer since he stopped that Ferengi raid. Naturally, we were sure that Starfleet would take his word over ours."

"A logical assumption, but untrue. Starfleet would not show favoritism in that circumstance," said Spock.

"Why were you headed for Klingon space?" Kirk asked.

"We were going to make sure Alworth didn't hand over the technology to the Ferengi," Jones said.

"You were going have the Klingons blast you and risk getting Starfleet into a war with the Klingons?"

"We were afraid that Starfleet would brand us traitors and arrest us. Sure, some have come out of Federation prison great, but that is still a terrible place."

"Then, Alworth is on that shuttle, headed for Ferengi space?"

"Yes. He and those loyal to him used the rush and confusion of your attacking us to escape confinement and beam himself on that shuttle."

"Crap!" Kirk said. He got his communicator off his belt. "Enterprise, three to beam back immediately."

'Three?' the transporter operator said.

"That's right," Kirk responded as he removed Jones' restraints.

'Affirmative. Stand by.'

Kirk, Spock, and Commander Jones all three beamed to the Enterprise.

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The three Starfleet officers materialized on the transporter pad.

"You trust me?" Jones asked Kirk.

"Help us stop Alworth, and I will trust you. Plus, I can help to exonerate you and those who followed you," Kirk replied.

Jones nodded. The three of them walked up to the bridge very quickly.

"Chekov, make sure there are enough people on board the Huron to get her back to space dock," Kirk said. "We're going after that shuttle."

"Why?" Sulu said. He looked up and noticed Commander Jones. "And who is he?"

"Commander Jones," Spock said.

"It's a long story," Kirk said. "I'll bring you up to speed on the way.

"The crew on ze Huron is sufficient to return her to space dock, captain," Chekov said.

"Mr. Sulu, set course for the Ferengi home world, maximum warp," Kirk ordered.

"Aye sir," Sulu said, and took the Enterprise to warp.

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