Scotty was still running through the ship, trying to avoid being found while he held his communicator in front of him, still in shock from what Jim had told him. "You want to do what?"

Two red shirts were in front of Khan and Jim, and two behind them, making sure there was no way Khan could try to pull something. Jim sighed before answering Scotty, knowing he wasn't going to be in favor of this idea. "We're coming over there. Sulu's maneuvering the Enterprise into position as we speak."

"To this ship? How?"

Jim turned to look at Khan, giving him a cue to speak. "There's a cargo door, hangar seven, access port 101A. You need to find the manual override to open that airlock."

Scotty continued to run through the ship to find what the mysterious man was talking about, but this idea was mad. "Are you crazy?" Scotty paused, wanting to address the man's name, but he had no idea who this person was. "Whoever you are."

"Just listen to him, Scotty." Jim assured, trying to ease Scotty's worries in any way. "It's gonna be all right."

"It is not gonna be all right." Scotty sighed, his voice filled with annoyance. "You want me to open an airlock into space, whereupon I will freeze, die, and explode!"

When Spock and Luna got back to the bridge, Spock went directly to Uhura. "Lieutenant, from our current position, is it possible to establish contact with New Vulcan?"

She was confused by his request, but she was going to follow orders "I'll do my best."

"Thank you."

Spock turned around to see Luna standing near the captain's chair with her hands on her hips, trying to assess the situation. "Mr. Sulu, what is the status of the other ship?"

"Their systems are still offline." He reported while slightly turning around to look at her. "I'm aligning our ship now."

When Spock joined Luna, the two looked at each other, Luna taking a deep sigh before nodding toward Uhura. "What was that about? What do you want with New Vulcan?"

Spock sighed as he moved to sit down in the captain's chair. "I need advice from a trusted confidante." Luna's eyebrows knitted in confusion as she still watched Spock, he simply shrugged, knowing he was confusing her. "You'll see."

As Jim and Khan got prepared to be shot out of the ship, Jim looked to the small microphone in his suit before talking. "Scotty, how we doing over there?"

"Captain, I wish I had better news." Scotty sighed out. "They've locked out access to the ship's computer. They'll have full weapons in three minutes. That means next time I won't be able to stop them destroying the Enterprise." He sighed before running off, trying to find a way to disable the weapons. "Stand by."

On the bridge, Sulu turned to look to the captain's chair. "Commander, our trash exhaust is aimed at access port 101A of the other ship."

Luna looked down at the button Spock pressed while sitting in the chair, ready to pass the information onto Jim. "Captain, the ships are aligned."

"Copy that." Jim spoke with a nod before going back to Scotty. "Scotty!"

"I'm in the hangar." Scotty reported just as he ran in. "Give me a minute." Scotty ran down the long hall, wheezing as he did. He wasn't used to this much running on the engineering deck. "I'm running. Stand by." When he finally made it to the end of the hall, and saw the size of the door they were going to jump into, he began to fill with panic. "Whoa, whoa, hold on, now, Captain. This door is very wee. I mean, you know, small. It's four square meters, tops. It's gonna be like jumping out of a moving car, off a bridge, into your shot glass."

"It's okay." Jim assured him. "I've done it before." Khan slowly turned to look at him with a confused face, leaving Jim to mutter out his previous experience with something like this. "Yeah, it was vertical. We jumped onto a..." Khan didn't look impressed with him at all, so Jim was going to try one more time with an explanation before giving up. "It was a..." Still nothing. "It doesn't matter. Scotty – "

Khan, done with all of this, just wanted to get on that ship. "Did you find the manual override?"

"The manual override," Jim cut in quickly, wanting to be the one in charge of this mission. "Scotty."

"Not yet, not yet." Scotty complained while running to the control board.

"Captain," Jim perked up at the sound of Luna's voice in his ear. "Before you launch, you should be aware there is a considerable debris field between our ships."

"Not now." Jim commanded to her, taking Luna aback on the bridge. "Scotty, you good?"

"It's not easy!" Scotty yelled to them angrily. "Just give me two seconds, all right, you mad bastard!"

"Jim," Luna spoke again. "The debris."

"I know, Lieutenant Commander." Jim sounded annoyed with her in that moment. "You've already said it."

Luna let out a loud sigh before speaking again. "Be careful."

"Are you worried about me, Luna?" Khan turned over to look at Jim again with the same annoyed face.

Luna just rolled her eyes, deciding to talk to him once more before letting him get prepared for the jump. "Just shut up and watch out for the debris."

Khan slowly kneeled down so he was prepared for the jump, making Jim nervous. He wasn't sure if he was threatened by him or if he was scared he would turn on him, but he was going to do what Luna said. Be careful. He slowly went down as well, watching Khan intensely before looking directly in front of him.

On the bridge, Bones moved over to Spock and Luna, kneeling closer to Spock as Luna continued to stand there while holding onto her hands nervously. "Tell me this is gonna work." Bones pleaded without looking at either of them.

Spock slightly shook his head before answering him. "I have neither the information nor the confidence to do so, Doctor."

Both Bones and Luna rolled their eyes at his response before Bones stood up. "Boy, you're a real comfort."

Bones moved to Luna, the two grabbing each other's arms while staring at each other. "It's gonna work." Luna seemed to say it more to assure herself than to assure Bones, but he was going to take any comfort his nerves could get.

"Okay, okay!" Scotty finally reported with excitement. "I'm set to open the door."

Jim didn't even turn to Khan before speaking to him. "You ready?"

"Are you?"

Jim gulped, knowing he was nervous, and that Khan was able to see that. He took a deep breath before giving off the signal. "Spock, pull the trigger."

"Yes, Captain." Everyone on the bridge turned to look at Spock, everyone's anxiety seemed to be focused on this one action. Luna broke out of her father's grip on her arms before slowly walking over to stand besides Spock. She took a deep gulp before giving Spock the nod he was waiting for. "Launching activation sequence," he reported as he typed on his keypad to release them, "on three, two, one."

Everyone held their breath as they watched the two fly from one ship to the other. "Sir," Spock, Bones, and Luna each turned to the red shirt with terrified looks on their faces. "Kirk is headed for collision at .432!"

Luna immediately moved her hand to her ear piece as she turned back to watching them through the windshield. "Captain, there is debris directly ahead."

"Copy that." He swerved out of the way, jeopardizing getting to the door in time.

Bones hurried to the map displayed slightly behind the captain's chair. "Whoa! Jim," he exclaimed as soon as he was able to see the projected landing point, "you're way off course!"

"I know, I know! I can see that." Jim's voice was more annoyed than anything as he tried to swerve back into the correct course.

Scotty continued making a few last-minute preparations to make sure he didn't fly out of the door when he let them in. That's when he heard a phaser behind him, making him go stiff. "Don't move."

Scotty got up with his mouth dropped, just staring at the man, not sure what to do. This was going to ruin the entire plan. "Scotty, you're gonna be ready with that door, right?" he heard Jim from the communicator, making him even more worried that the guard was going to piece together what he was doing.

"What are you doing in here?" the guard asked, keeping his intense stare with him.

Scotty just began bouncing on his heels, trying to make it look like he wasn't doing anything wrong, but Scotty wasn't the best when it came to lying or being sneaky. "Wee bit of maintenance on the airlock console." Scotty then looked the man up and down, thinking again about his size. "You're big."

"Mr. Scott," Jim called again, in a voice that screamed desperation. "where are you?"

"Captain, he can't seem to hear you." It was Uhura that time, and Scotty was just hoping they could all try not to blow his cover for a little bit. "I'm working on getting his signal back. Stand by."

As Jim continued to fly, he was more focused on getting back on course than anything. So as he swerved to get back, some of the debris Luna had warned him about earlier flew directly into his helmet. "Damn it."

Everyone paused for a moment, not sure what else could possibly go wrong. Luna slowly brought her hand up to her ear piece, taking in deep breaths from fear of the unknown. "Jim, what is it?"

"My helmet was hit." Luna gulped, not sure what to do, but Jim wasn't going to give her time to freak out. "Tell me you have Mr. Scott back."

Luna immediately turned around to Uhura as she worked madly away at her station. "Uhura?"

"Not yet. I'm still working on a signal." Luna turned back to the ship's windshield, her eyes scanning the area as fast as they could move. "His communicator is working. I don't know why he isn't responding."

On Marcus's ship, the guard has his phaser pointed at Scotty, but he was beginning to hear the noise from the communicator directly behind Scotty's back. "What is that?"

Scotty just looked him over, knowing he was going to have to keep him as distracted as possible until Jim got close enough. That was the only way it was going to work. "Are you Starfleet or private security?"

"Show me your other hand." The man demanded.

Scotty just had to keep him talking long enough for this to work. "Because you look like private security."

Luna was getting frustrated with Scotty, wondering what the hell was going on in his head, but she knew she had to continue on with her job. "Imminent collision detected!"

"Khan," Spock called out, not really caring about what happened to Khan, but Jim needed to use him for this plan to work, so Spock was going to make sure he made it. "use evasive action! There is debris directly ahead."

"I see it." Khan reported instantly as he swerved out of the way. And that's when Khan's signal went down.

Luna and Spock didn't know what to do for a moment, it was like he just disappeared. They needed Khan alive for this to work. "Mr. Sulu, did we lose Khan?" Spock asked in a panicked voice.

"I don't know, Commander." Sulu was just as baffled as the two commanders. "I'm having trouble tracking him in all this debris."

"Was Khan hit?" Jim asked, matching everyone else's panic.

"We are trying to find him now." Spock told him as calmly as he could.

"Captain," Luna spoke into her earpiece, knowing she had to continue to keep Jim calm if he was going to survive this. "you need to adjust your target destination to 183 by 473 degrees."

"Luna," she gulped at the sound of his voice, he sounded like he was trying to say goodbye. "My display's dead. I'm flying blind."

"Captain, without your display compass, hitting your target destination is mathematically impossible."

"Spock," Jim simply sighed out at his friend's response to that information. "If I get back, we really need to talk about your bedside manner."

"Commander," Luna turned to Sulu, hoping there was something, anything that would help assure Jim's safety. "he's not going to make it."

Luna shook her head, not wanting to believe it, but not being able to fight with the data in front of her. She was losing her hope slowly, and her breathing was just getting heavier. She pushed her earpiece in again, knowing if this was going to be the last time she talked to Jim, she had to say something to him. "Jim," there was so much to say, but there was only one way to say it all, "I – "

Just then, Khan appeared back on the screen, taking everyone by excitement and shock. "My display is still functioning. I see you, Kirk, you're 200 meters ahead of me at my one o'clock. Come to your left a few degrees and follow me."

Jim quickly moved to be positioned right next to Khan, and when he did, Khan gave him a little smile. Jim wasn't sure how to read it. He didn't know if he was falling right into his trap or not. He decided that right now, he needed to focus on getting into the ship without dying. "Scotty, we're getting close. We need a warm welcome. Do you copy? Do you copy?" There was still no answer. "Scotty?!"

"If you can hear us, Mr. Scott," Spock called, "open the door in ten, nine,"

"Scotty!" Jim yelled, more angry than before.

Back on the ship, the guard was trying to look behind Scotty's back where his communicator was linked to everyone yelling at him to open the door. "That person counting down, what is that?"

"Eight,"

Scotty shook his head, trying to keep this as low key as possible. "I think you're hearing things, mate."

"Seven,"

"Mr. Scott, where are you?" Jim called again.

"Six, five,"

Another cadet on the Enterprise was watching "1,800 meters. 1,600 meters."

"Scotty," Luna almost yelled, "where are you?"

"Three,"

"Do you copy, Scotty?" Jim yelled, finding himself completely desperate at this point. "Please!"

"Scotty!" Luna yelled in a frazzled voice, knowing that in two seconds, if he didn't respond, Jim would be dead. "Scotty, god dammit! Open! The! Door!"

"Two,"

Scotty dragged a breath in, giving the guard a sympathetic smile, knowing he would rather have him dead over Jim. "Sorry about this."

"About what?"

"Mr. Scott, open the door!" Spock yelled, losing his patience.

"Open the door!" Jim yelled out desperately.

"Mr. Scott, now!" Luna screamed in her last attempt to get Jim saved.

Scotty turned around, and slammed the button, letting Jim and Khan fly in with ease as Scotty held on to the rope to keep him from flying out. For the guard, he didn't have that luxury. He flew out of the door as Scotty shut it with the press of another button. Jim and Khan fell to the floor, rolling from the sudden stop.

Right before they stumbled into Scotty, they were able to stop, lying on the ground, breathing heavily. Scotty smiled at the two slightly when Jim looked up at him. "Welcome aboard."

"It's good to see you, Scotty." Jim spoke, still trying to get his breath back.

"Oh, thank god." Luna placed her hands on her knees at the sound of that greeting. Everyone was cheering as Luna let out deep, terrified breaths.

Scotty turned to look at Khan, not recognizing him at all, and he looked frightening. "Who is that?"

Khan was already standing up, not as drained as Jim was from their tumble. Jim let out a groan of pain before turning back to Scotty. "Khan, Scotty. Scotty, Khan."

Scotty gave him a polite nod and smile, but still wasn't sure how to feel about him. "Hello."

"They'll know we're here." Khan spoke as he stood up, not caring about the greeting Scotty had given him. "I know the best way to the bridge."

The three of them were able to get their phasers together, Jim slowly handing one to Khan, still not totally sure if he could trust him. "It's locked to stun."

"Theirs won't be." Khan said it like Jim was dumb for thinking that setting the phasers to stun was a good idea.

Jim simply turned to him, his face blank of emotion before speaking. "Try not to get shot."

Uhura turned around to Spock, breaking the conversation he and Luna were having. "Commander, I have that transmission as requested."

Luna turned to look at Spock with a confused glance. Spock just nodded before moving to the captain's chair. "On screen, please."

"Stand by." Uhura announced.

Luna moved closer to Spock with confusion on her face. "Who did you call?"

Spock just continued to look at the screen. "You'll see."

Luna was still confused, opening her mouth to speak again when the person they hailed appeared on the screen. Luna's jaw dropped at the look of him. An older Spock. The man gave a slight smile before addressing the commander. "Mr. Spock."

Spock nodded to the man before addressing him back. Mr. Spock."

Bones and Luna turned to look at each other before looking back to the screen. "What the hell?" She whispered, not able to wrap her brain around the fact that there were two Spock's talking to each other like old friends.

Scotty was still distraught from what Khan had said earlier about the phasers. This seemed like a death sentence. "They're going to have full power and we're walking? "

"The turbolifts are easily tracked and Marcus would have us in a cage. This path runs adjacent to the engine room." Khan stopped at one of the computers beginning to type into it like he knew exactly what he was doing. "They know they won't be able to use their weapons here without destabilizing the warp core, which gives us the advantage." Khan began running again, leaving Scotty dumbfounded as Jim kept watching Khan for fear of sabotage.

Scotty turned to look at Jim, still confused. "Where'd you find this guy?"

Jim sighed without looking at Scotty, knowing he couldn't take his eyes off of Khan for even a second. "It's a long story."

Luna, and the rest of the crew was still dumbfounded about the appearance of a second Spock, not sure what to do. "I will be brief." Spock spoke, tearing her concentration away from the screen to the Spock sitting right next to her. "In your travels, did you ever encounter a man named Khan?"

The name seemed to send a shudder down the older Spock's spine, causing him to need a moment to collect his words before speaking. "As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk, and yours alone. You control your own destiny." Luna turned back to the screen while her eyebrows knitted together at what he had said. Spock's head fell slightly, but the older Spock knew that facing Khan, they would need all the help they could get. "That being said," Spock perked up slightly, waiting to hear what he had to say, "Khan Noonien Singh is the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced. He is brilliant, ruthless, and he will not hesitate to kill every single one of you."

Luna looked to Spock, sharing an expression of fear before Luna looked back to the older Spock, wanting to ask him the question that was burning in her brain. "Did you defeat him?"

Spock turned to a friend who had been dead for ages, wanting to just tell her to turn around and get off the ship before anything happened to them, but he knew Luna. Her own life didn't matter to her right now. Only the safety of the crew. "At great cost." He told her slowly before offering her a nod. "Yes."

Spock just stared at his older self, wondering how they actually achieved this. "How?"

As the trio walked through the ship, Scotty was beginning to feel uneasy at the lack of crew walking around the ship. It all felt too...easy. "I don't mean to tempt fate here, but where is everybody?"

Still, Khan continued to walk forward, not turning to address Scotty. "The ship is designed to be flown by minimal crew, one, if necessary."

"One?" Scotty asked incredulously. "I – "

Before Scotty could finish his sentence, private security came from a nearby corridor, trying to punch Khan, but Khan was able to keep his own in a much brutal way than the other two were used to.

As Scotty and Jim began to step back, more security came to take them on. Jim fought them as best as he could, but the security was a fair fight. Khan on the other hand, he wasn't even breaking a sweat. When Jim had successfully knocked out his guard, he turned to Scotty, helping him up from the ground. "You all right?" Jim asked while looking him over.

"Yeah." Scotty nodded before looking to where he had last seen Khan. That's when he realized, he had disappeared. "Where's Khan?"

Jim followed Scotty's glance, beginning to feel panic. He knew he couldn't trust Khan, and now he was just gone. They had to find him as quick as possible.

Spock stood up after the transmission ended while everyone else on the ship slowly turned to look at Spock. Based on what Spock Prime had just said, someone was going to die facing Khan, but then again, he also said that they control their own destiny. Spock turned to Uhura, devising a plan. "Lieutenant, I need you to assemble all senior medical and engineering staff in the weapons bay."

Uhura was confused by what he said but decided to comply. "All right."

When Spock turned around, Luna was standing directly behind him. She nodded a little at him with a smirk growing on her face. "I think I know where you're going." She then turned around to her father that was quickly advancing towards them. "Dad, you inadvertently activated a torpedo. Could you replicate the process?"

Bones just stared at her blankly, not sure what she was thinking. "Why the hell would I want to do that?"

Spock simply moved to stand next to her, happy that for the first time since he offered his life as a sacrifice, they were on the same page. "Can you or can you not?"

Bones leaned even closer to the two, becoming angry. "Damn it, man, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!"

The two only stepped closer to him, knowing that if they were going to pull one over on Khan, this had to work, and they needed Bones' help. "The fact that you are a doctor is precisely why I need you to listen very carefully."

Jim had his phaser in front of him, knowing Khan was going to do something awful when he wasn't under Jim's supervision. Scotty followed behind him closely, getting that exact same vibe. "Where is he?" Scotty asked in a terrified voice.

Jim stopped, remembering the phaser he gave him was set on stun. If he knew Khan, he knew that he was going to be off somewhere switching that. "Shit!"

"This way." They both turned around quickly to see Khan fiddling with his phaser before dropping it to his side and sticking it in his holster.

Khan continued the way he knew to go, leaving Scotty and Jim alone for a moment. Jim didn't take his eyes off of Khan when addressing Scotty. "The minute we get to the bridge, drop him."

Scotty's eyes got wide, not sure that he would be able to do that. Khan was cunning, he would be able to see Scotty coming for him from a mile away. "What, stun him? Khan? I thought he was helping us."

Jim shook his head before moving in front of Scotty to follow Khan. "I'm pretty sure we're helping him."

As they hurried to the bridge, the power came on, making them all run this time. "Power coming online, sir!" one of the cadets told Marcus.

"Retarget the Enterprise now." As soon as he gave that command, Jim, Khan, and Scotty made it to the bridge, trying to shoot whatever equipment they could to keep that from happening as well as stunning the cadets. Carol took advantage of the chaos, deciding to punch the guard that was holding onto her, and hurry to her friends.

Together, Jim, Khan, and Scotty stunned every officer they could, leaving just Marcus. The three of them advanced to him, giving Scotty the perfect shot. Scotty stunned Khan, letting him fall to the floor as Marcus continued to watch, not sure what they were going to do next.

"Make sure he stays down." Jim commanded.

Scotty nodded before squeezing past Carol with a small, "excuse me," while hurrying to Khan.

Carol was standing close by as Jim held his phaser up to the admiral with fiery eyes. "Admiral Marcus, you're under arrest."

"You're not actually going to do this, are you?" Marcus didn't even look remotely threatened, he continued with his icy stare.

"Admiral," Jim began calmly, knowing that he had to keep his cool when dealing with him or he was going to get heated very quickly. "get out of the chair."

Marcus let out a dark chuckle before addressing Jim. "You better stop and think about what you're doing, Kirk. You better think about what you did on Kronos. You made an incursion onto an enemy planet! You killed a Klingon patrol." Scotty turned to look at the two, realizing how bad all of that sounded. He didn't want to admit it, but Marcus was right in a way. They were in big trouble no matter how these events shaked out. "Even if you got away without a trace, war is coming. And who is going to lead us? You?! If I'm not in charge, our entire way of life is decimated! So, you want me off this ship, you better kill me."

Jim continued to keep his cool as he stared down Marcus which he had come a long way to achieve. "I'm not going to kill you, sir. But I could stun your ass and drag you out of that chair. I'd rather not do that in front of your daughter." Carol was continuing to stare hateful daggers at her father when Jim turned to look at her. "You all right?"

She continued staring at her father, wanting him to know how upset she was with him. "Yes, Captain."

Scotty was still looking over at the drama that was unfolding, giving Khan the perfect chance. He knocked Scotty down, and began to move to Jim and Marcus. "Jim!" Carol screamed out in a warning, but by the time Jim turned around, Khan had tackled him to the ground.

Marcus tried to run away as Khan attacked Jim, punching him over and over again in the face and gut before throwing him to the side. He then advanced on Carol, throwing her down with ease before snapping her leg with a simple stomp.

Marcus was still trying to scurry away, but Khan had reached him. He grabbed Marcus' head, beginning to pull him away from the door while squeezing his head ferociously. He pushed Marcus down into a seat, continuing the pressure on the sides of his head as Marcus screamed from the agony. "You..." Khan was like an animal in that moment, the only thing driving him was primal rage, and every bit of humanity he had left flew right out of the window. "You should have let me sleep."

With one final squeeze, Marcus' head had imploded under Khan's hands, leaving his skull a crumpled mess as blood poured out of the sides of his head like a spout. Carol let out a deafening scream at her father's bloody mess as Jim just looked at the scene in disbelief. He knew something now. Khan was going to kill every single one of them without any remorse. Jim knew that he was going to have to keep him on this ship, away from his crew for as long as possible. Even if it killed him.

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