Chapter 10: Shape shifters and happy endings
Hey guys! This is the end, chapter number 10! I wanted to stop on an even number (because I guess it sounded like a good idea) this is probably going to my longest chapter, and my original and very awesome chapter ten was somehow deleted, and I REALLY pissed off right now (because I have to rewrite the. whole. damn. thing! and I barely remember what I wrote in the first place) :( it's not going to be as good, as the original, but it will hopefully still be pretty decent. I'm kind of sad that this is the last chapter, I had a lot of fun writing it. I actually think that when I'm done writing this, that I might go reread the whole thing :) also please message me for one-shot ideas and regular stories, if you want a list of the stories I'd be willing to write, take a look at my profile, I have a list of my favorite shows on it. Anyway, enjoy! :)
Disclaimer: if I owned star trek do you think I'd be writing fanfiction? :P (I obviously wish I owned Spock and Kirk, I mean who wouldn't!?)
Chapter rating: T (per usual)
Warnings!: well, like one swear word :P and spirk stuff. :D
After talking to admiral Peterson, Jim cut the transmission and sat back in his chair, he had just agreed to a new mission, apparently Star fleet had been receiving calls for help, from unknown persons. the enterprise, being the closest star ship to nebuta III was recruited to investigate.
Jim assembled an away-team, consisting of Spock, Bones, and ensigns Johnson, Rivers, and Roberts. As they walked to the transporter room Jim briefed the team.
"three attempts at contacting us were made, we have established them to be distress calls, we are beaming down to nebuta three" Jim explained, stepping onto the transporter pad, the others followed suit.
"energize" Jim said and they disappeared a moment later.
"I don't see why you had to bring me along" Bones grumbled, looking around at the scenery.
"why are all the houses hovering off the ground?" Johnson whispered.
"I don't know" Jim said, as he started walking towards the first house. He motioned for security to stay behind, in case the inhabitants saw them as a threat.
Jim climbed the ladder that connects to the houses porch, Spock and Bones followed him. The planet closely resembled earth, except for the blue grass and two suns, both being square-shaped.
Jim knocked on the door and it swung open, to reveal a very tall man.
"what do you want?" he snapped, Jim was a little surprised that he wasn't more friendly, seeing as they needed help.
"we got distress calls from your planet for help, whats going on here?"
"distress- oh! Yes of course, umm. We have an issue here…" Spock eyed him suspiciously, but didn't say anything.
"please come in" he said, turning and walking back into his house.
"is there anyone of authority I can talk to?" Jim said, sitting on the couch the man motioned to.
" I guess you could say, me and the wife are the 'authority' around here"
"is your wife here?" Jim said, looking around the small house, it was quite normal, fireplace, bookshelves, the occasional picture hanging on the wall.
"uh, yes. Anna!" he yelled, towards a different room in the house.
"what Norm!?" a woman's voice yelled back
"come here, we have company!" a short woman appeared in the doorway, shot her husband and confused look and walked over to him
"who are these people honey" she asked through her teeth.
"they got our calls for help dear" she gave him a weird look before throwing him a knowing smile.
"ohh, yes of course. We have had some disturbances lately"
"would you care to describe them?"
"yes, umm. It's a creature, this terrible thing that hunts our people in the night, it tunnels underground, and um. That's-that's why our houses aren't built on the ground, because you know, it would destroy our houses and eat us…" she said, twiddling her fingers and glancing at her husband every so often.
"I see, ma'am can you please tell me how many calls you sent to us?"Spock asked, before Jim could say anything.
"why?" Anna asked, but her husband cut in
"I think we tried four times, more or less"
"yes of course, it must have slipped my mind" Spock replied, and bones rolled his eyes, these people obviously didn't know Vulcan's.
"well, thank you for your time." Jim said, getting up and walking towards the door
"thank you for coming to help us, please ask if you have any more questions" Anna said politely, following them to the door.
It slammed behind them, and Anna's smile vanished, and she started panicking.
"we did not send for any help, shit Norm. did you call them?"
"I swear I didn't Anna, why would i?" he said, holding up his hands defensively.
"how are we going to get them out of here?" she asked, pacing back and forth, running a hand through her long red hair.
As soon as they we're out of earshot Spock voiced his suspicion
" those people were lying" Spock said, trailing behind Jim. Jim stopped at look at him
" about what? The calls? Who else could have sent them to us?" Spock gave him a look, translating to 'hell if I know'
"well I agree with Spock, there's something these people aren't telling us" Bones said, jerking a thumb towards the house in the distance.
Bones and Jim were talking about strange-looking flowers when Jim noticed Spock wasn't behind them.
"Spock!" he yelled, whirling around and seeing Spock, chest deep in a hole, with his arms crossed. Jim tried not to laugh as he walked back towards Spock, he squatted down next to the hole.
"what are you doing Spock?" Jim asked, cracking a smile.
"do you think I did this on purpose?" Spock asked. bones laughed at Spock's visible bitch-face.
"there is a tunnel down here" Spock said, ducking his head and walking to the left
"hold it!" Jim said, grabbing Spocks shirt.
"I'm coming with you. Bones?"
"no way in hell I'm going down there, Jim!" he scoffed.
"alright, you can beam back up to the ship until we need you." Bones nodded and flipped his communicator open
"one to beam up Scotty" Bones said, and Spock moved out of the way so Jim could jump into the hole.
"energize"
"good luck Jim" he said before he disappeared.
"well, let's go" Jim said
"Jim, I can see in relatively well in the dark, perhaps I should go first?" Jim nodded and Spock began walking into the black. The tunnels were wide enough that Spock and Jim could practically walk alongside each other.
suddenly Spock stopped, and Jim bumped into him
"Spock, why did you stop?" Jim said, his hand hovering over his phaser.
"I heard something" Spock replied quickly.
"this way" he said, grabbing Jims arm and dragging him in a different direction, Spock picked up the pace until they were in a large room.
Spock grabbed the torch that was hanging on the wall, and lit all the other ones in the room. Bookshelves became visible, Spock began looking in the books, and Jim helped him.
"who are you?" a voice came from another dark tunnel Jim spun around and pointed his phaser into the shadows. A bird flew into the room and perched on one of the shelves covered in cobwebs.
"I'm Jim kirk, captain of the enterprise this is my first officer, Spock."
"ahh, a Starship captain. So you got my messages?" the bird asked.
"you? How?"
"it was very simple really, but that's not important, you have to help me"
" they trapped me down here a long time ago, and Spock already guessed that I am not a bird" the small black bird flew down to the ground and ruffled its feathers
"what are you?" Jim asked, raising his phaser again.
"I'm a shape shifter" Jim scoffed and suddenly the bird turned into a man, the man smirked and leaned against the cave wall.
"what is your name?"
"well, you can just call me… James. I have forgotten my real name."
"alright, James. So you're the 'creature' that terrorizes this town?"
"no, they just don't except me. Once the people found out that I was a shape shifter they locked me in jail, I shape-shifted into a fly and escaped, and now I live underground"
"why did you stay down here?"
"because, if I return to the surface, they'll just try to kill me again" he said, crossing his arms and scowling.
"I believe he is telling the truth Jim" Spock said.
"will you excuse us James?" James shrugged and Spock walked back into the dark tunnel
"Anna and Norm, were obviously lying." Spock said, and Jim nodded
"do you think we can trust him?" Jim asked, Spock glanced at the man over Jims shoulder, he was sifting through a book.
"yes" Spock decided. and Jim pulled out his communicator
"Kirk to enterprise" he said.
"enterprise" he repeated twisting a couple knobs.
"nothing" he said, Spock nodded and walked back into the dim cave
"can you get us to the surface?" Jim asked putting his communicator back on his belt.
"yes, follow me." He said, pushing off the wall and walking into the dark tunnel, Jim and Spock followed after him.
A short time later, Jim could see a light, and James jumped up and pushed himself out of a hole and peered at the sun, rubbing his blue eyes.
"damn, that hurts" he said.
Spock climbed out, and Jim followed. They pulled out their phasers and surveyed the area.
"I am going to go find Johnson and his team." Spock said
"be careful, I'm sure they're going to want to kill you too" James replied. Spock nodded and walked away, Jim watched him for a second before pulling out his communicator
"kirk to enterprise"
"Scotty here" Scotty replied from the enterprise.
"two to beam up" Jim said, and James scrunched his face up.
"don't worry, it doesn't hurt" Jim said.
"energize"
they materialized onto the transporter pad Jim walked off and headed for the door, James just stood there.
"you okay?" Jim asked. James gave him a sarcastic thumbs up and walked off the transporter pad.
"you can stay in the guest quarters" Jim said, motioning to the room, James walked inside
"this is fancy" he said, looking around the room.
"I'd advise you to take a shower" Jim said, and James laughed.
"thanks" he said wandering into the bathroom.
Jim walked away, towards the lift. Spock saw someone laying on the ground ahead, he picked up his pace and kneeled next to the body
"ensign Rivers" he said, shaking the man.
rivers groaned and pointed towards his shoulder, it looked like someone ran a sword through it.
Spock picked him up and carried him over his shoulder. after walking for a while he found Johnson and Roberts standing in front of anna and norms house.
"what happened?" they asked, running towards Spock
"he's been injured, these people are very dangerous" the men nodded and grabbed their phasers from their belts.
"beam us back to the ship" Spock ordered passing rivers to Johnson.
"yes sir" Roberts replied pulling out his communicator, as several people came out of nowhere, with knives, one women had a chair.
"where is it?" they asked.
"you are of course referring to the shape shifter" Spock said, moving to stand in front of the team.
"I'm trying sir!" Roberts said frantically.
Spock nodded and Roberts started twisting knobs while Spock fought off the crazy townspeople, knives flew all over the place, these people had terrible aim. a woman threw a frying pan at them, but Spock caught it. and one man managed to cut him with his knife, before they disappeared.
They materialized on the enterprise, and Spock picked rivers up, he walked out of the transporter room and made his way to sick bay.
"Doctor" Spock said
"Jesus, what happened to him?"
"the people on nebuta" Spock replied, laying rivers on a bed.
"are you okay?" he asked, eying Spocks arm.
"yes, I am fine" he said, walking out of sick bay.
Bones turned his attention back to rivers. The lift opened and Spock walked into the bridge and sat down at his station. Jim got up and walked over to him
"did you find them?" he asked.
"yes, Rivers was badly injured, he is in sick bay"
"did you have bones look at that?" he motioned to Spocks arm, Spock looked down at it.
"no, I did not." Jim rolled his eyes and walked back to his chair. After Jims shift he went to sick bay to check on Rivers.
"how is he bones?" Jim asked, walking over to the bed where Rivers was fast asleep.
"he'll be fine" bones said, putting some tools away.
"where are we going to put James?" Bones asked
"I don't know, we could figure out where he came from and bring him back?" Bones chuckled and walked over to grab some alcohol.
Bones handed Jim a glass and poured some of the green liquid in it. A couple of drinks later Jim was pretty tipsy.
"you know, surprisingly Spock is actually a pretty compassionate person" bones said.
"yeah, he's hot too" Jim said and bones started laughing.
"I'm not kidding Jim, his arm was bleeding, but he didn't even notice, rivers was more important." Bones said, setting his glass on the floor.
"hey bones, Spocks shift is over." Jim said getting up.
"thanks for the drinks" Jim smiled at bones
"yeah yeah, go get your Vulcan" bones said, shooing Jim out. Jim complied, and shuffled out of sick bay, and ran into Spock. Literally.
"hey Spock!" he said, into Spocks shoulder
"hello Jim, are you drunk?" Spock asked lifting an eyebrow at him.
"yeah, sorry" spock shrugged, and started walking, this was very difficult for Jim so he grabbed Spocks hand and walked alongside him.
"where are we going?" Jim asked after a while.
"your quarters, Jim" they got to Jims quarters and Jim kicked off his shoes and his shirt and collapsed on the bed.
"hey Spock" Jim asked, yawning.
"yes Jim?"
"I have something very important to tell you"
"yes?" Spock replied walking around the room, picking up his shoes and his shirt.
"well you have to come here" Jim pointed to where he was laying before letting his arm flop back on the bed.
"there's no one else in the room Jim" Spock said, but he walked over to the bed anyway.
Jim sat up and pulled Spock closer, so their foreheads were touching.
"I love you" Jim said, running his hands through Spocks hair.
"I love you too Jim" Jim smiled and kissed him, it was sloppy, but sweet and he meant what he said. that night Jim fell asleep wrapped around Spock, and every night after that for the rest of their lives.
The end! Oh my god wasn't that the cutest most fluffiest ending ever!? I'm sorry! I had to do it! it's probably because I was listening to cheesy love songs when I wrote this part, what? I like cheesy love songs! Don't judge me. also, i realize that people are getting drunk a lot lately, but no one ever gets drunk on that show so i thought "ehhh, why not?" How did you like the chapter? I know you never really find out what happens with james, make something up! :) I'm so sad this is over, I have loved every minute of writing this, so I hope you enjoyed reading it? and yes, i know "nebuta" very closely resembles "nebula" but whatever.
also, crazy news: I am actually writing a book (whaaat? A book… that isn't fanfiction? That's weird…) its like supernatural mixed with Sherlock, except the main characters are girls. anyway, thank you for all the support! You should really review, because I want to know what you think! Bye!
-R