Once they arrived at the medbay, Khan walked over to sit on one of the biobeds and the officers surrounded him. Harry stood next to the bed, as he saw Dr. McCoy walk over with a tricorder in hand. Dr. Marcus was also in the medbay looking over the cryotubes. Harry saw Khan wince at seeing her studying them, but didn't react walked over to the doctor before he made it to the bed, putting up a temporary ward around them so that no one else heard their conversation. The head doctor looked at him questioningly.
"Harry, what are you doing here? I thought you had gone back with Jim," McCoy commented.
"Doctor, I suspect something happened to Khan before he came to us. Something bad, but I don't know what it is," Harry replied. He looked over to where Khan was sitting, for all purposes, patiently. However, when Harry looked closer at him, he could see the augment was minutely hunched into himself, as if unsure as to what would happen to him. He turned back to reply to McCoy. "I think Admiral Marcus did something to him."
McCoy turned to glance at the man in question. He was about to say something when they all heard Marcus's voice over the intercom. Jim was questioning him about the circumstances that had led to the enterprise's warp core being damaged. Marcus admitted to knowing Khan's name. Telling Jim to get rid of Khan immediately, as he was very dangerous. Jim replying by practically accusing the man of sabotaging the Enterprise, or having it sabotaged. Marcus ordering them to turn Khan over to the USS Vengeance or else. Jim telling him that the Enterprise's transports were down; that Khan was in engineering.
Harry narrowed his eyes at hearing Marcus's voice again. He had thought it familiar when he went to see the admiral back on Earth. But he couldn't place it.
Harry grinned at that and then felt the entire ship start to go to warp. He glanced over to Khan to check on him, only to see him staring into space. He walked over to the bed, joined by Carol and McCoy who started to scan Khan with the tricorder. Harry only a little hesitantly reached out a hand to place it on the augment's shoulder in reassurance. No one was going to boot him off the Enterprise, if he didn't want to go. Especially since Harry figured if they were going to give him to Marcus, he would put up a fight... Though when he glanced into Khan's green eyes, he saw them narrow and there was a feral grin on his face, though he quickly masked his expression.
He suspected that whatever had happened to Khan by the Admiral, Khan had promised retribution. Fuck, whatever had happened to Khan, and Harry had started to suspect that it was bad, he realized that he was inclined toward revenge on Khan's behalf.
"You won't be safe at warp," Khan stated.
McCoy and Carol stared at him for a minute, then Carol ran off, presumably to go warn Jim and Spock.
"I never heard your answer," Khan asked, staring pointedly at Harry.
"Answer?" Harry said, raising one of his eyebrows at him. McCoy was still scanning Khan with his tricorder and his expression was getting grimmer by the second. Harry inched over to McCoy's side to look at the doctor's PADD when there was a big explosion somewhere in the ship. It reverberated through the medbay and Harry could feel it. He could see nurses steadying themselves on tables. It was followed by more hits to the ship by impressive weaponry. By this point, Harry figured that the shields weren't even up anymore. Klaxons started to sound on the intercom, signaling red alert.
"Excuse me for a minute," Harry announced and then walked over the door to the hallway. He reached out a hand and placed it on the wall right next to the door and extended his magic into the whole ship. He pushed his magic into the shields around the ship, having enough to spare to raise the shields to 75%. He wouldn't be able to stop every missile and torpedo but he did stop most of them from doing a lot of damage. Once he felt that the shields were back up, he could hear that there were no more hits to the Enterprise.
"I take it this is Admiral Marcus's doing?" he yelled over to Khan. The alarms were still going and injured crew members were already flowing into the medbay. It was chaos, but as Harry could see, it was controlled chaos. The crew members knew what they were doing; they knew what to do in a fight.
"Yes, you would be correct in your assumption," Khan replied, looking fascinated by the sight that Harry made. The augment was staring intently at him.
"How are you doing that?" Khan asked him. "I've never heard of anyone that could interact with a ship that way."
Harry was well aware of what he was doing and the sight that he made. Whenever he pushed his magic into powering a ship's systems, wherever he made contact, it glowed. It was something to do with whatever was powering the ship that had it interact with his magic this way. He also was able to sense what was wrong with a part of the ship, too.
"It must have been during the time that you were in stasis that those damn books came out," Harry started. He would have continued, but that was the exact instant that Jim walked into the medbay. Jim glanced at Harry, started walking toward Khan then did a double take and turned around to really look at the wizard.
Harry grinned sheepishly and withdrew his hand, but not his magic. He had ended the connection right before he withdrew, so the magic wasn't drawing on him anymore, but it was still in the ship, powering the shields.
"So, I presume you are to thank for the shields powering up at the last minute and saving our asses?" Jim asked. "Though it wasn't enough to stop Marcus from powering up his weaponry," he muttered to himself.
"Uh, yep. That was me," Harry replied.
"Jim, what do you need?" Harry asked, seeing his expression. Their captain was pale and Harry could see that he was about to do something stupid and desperate.
"Tell me everything about that ship," Jim glanced determinedly at Khan.
Harry heard Khan list off most of the technical details about the USS Vengeance. It allowed Harry to add another clue as to what had happened to Khan before they had met. The augment had presumably worked on the Vengeance, but whether it was forced labor or not was a whole other story. He was inclined to say Khan had been forced to work on it, through blackmail, otherwise he wouldn't be inclined to take revenge on the man.
"Are you coming or not?" Harry heard Jim ask Khan when he tuned back into their conversation.
"Whoa, what are you two doing?" Harry exclaimed.
"We're going to take that ship and to do that, we have to do it from the inside. The plan is to travel through space straight to one of the vents on the USS Vengeance. Scotty will open a door for us. He's in there now," Jim replied. "Do you want to come?"
"Oh, hell no. Being outside of a ship and just in a spacesuit? Just the thought of it scares me. No," Harry argued.
"See, Jim? Another person shares my precise feelings about the matter," McCoy said, looking at Jim, while gesturing at Harry.
Harry accompanied Jim and Khan to the trash suit that they were going to get vented out of the Enterprise in. Once they got there and were suited up, Harry stayed where the security officers had left them.
"I will, however, send help with each you," he commented down toward them. Both Khan and Jim glanced up at him, curiously.
Harry cast his special patronus charm and the transparent wolf and the jack russell terrier hopped out of his wand. They looked at him expectantly.
"Follow Jim and Khan; make sure they get to the Vengeance safely. Answer to them and only to them," he ordered. The wolf floated down to Khan's side and the terrier went to Jim's side. Khan's jaw dropped at seeing the two patronuses and reached out a hand and when it went straight through the wolf, he looked back up at Harry, quizzically.
"I'll answer your questions after all this is over, Khan. Just get back in one piece," Harry grinned at him, then stood back to watch the humans get vented out of the Enterprise. The wolf and the terrier following.
