The Bonds Of Friends And Family Season 5: The Game Aftermath Part II

by BazzCatgirl03

While going over the memories of the game from Wesley Crusher's point of view. The crew, security crew and senior staff is trying to figure out what the connection is between the visions and his current condition. Digging deeper into it, they discover a conspiracy and one that if they don't stop. That could not only infect the federation for a second time but could kill Wesley.

10. The Game Recap Part X: New Clues

The Bonds Of Friends And Family

Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.

Warning: For this chapter it's finishing the foreshadowing the results of what could have been if they hadn't discovered the traveler's plans for him. As he goes through the situations leading into his dropping out of the academy. As they go through each scene carefully. And this one is the rest of the trial after the accident that caused him to drop out.

And this from this chapter and forward gives a recap of the last book for the trio as they get caught up, but this story is going to be 90 chapters. As it recounts everything she needs to know from the Game to their future on the squadron. Just before the emergency hits and season 5 starts up after these situations in the aftermath of the episode come to an end, as she learns everything now.

Chapter 10: The Game Recap Part X: Checking In And Diversions

Getting In Touch with the Hold Outs and Changing Directions- Wesley's POV

After 8 to 9 hours of rest, Wesley woke up as he saw an orange patch nestled against his forehead and pulled back and looked down, at that. "Well if it wasn't for the fact we weren't ourselves and this was going on just after Soong hijacked Data. And us finding her on the bed with you, I would just leave you alone and let you sleep this off at the time." Beverly said with a slight smile at the look on his face as she saw the cat there.

Looking at her face then gently, they saw her also in a deep sleep as they saw him smile as he looked at the cat asleep and curled up next to his head. And knowing he realized it then as they heard a smile in a tone of realization in his voice at this. 'Our bond must have activated enough that she sees me as her own now, to her. I'm her own kitten, if she's like this with me right now, alright girl, time to wake up now."

"As you need to eat too, as you're holding me down slightly." he thought and he hid a chuckle at that as he ran his hand through the fur on her head, as she leaned her head into his hand. As she started purring in her sleep and he chuckled as he stroked her fur, as he waited for her to wake up. And he watched her shift position as he ran his hand through the fur on her back and at that she shifted position and woke up then.

As he saw her eyes open at that and she looked up at him as she looked up with a smile in her eyes. "Mew." she said to him and he smiled. "Good morning, sleep good?" he asked and she gave him a second mew to answer him and he nodded smiling to that. "Mew, meow?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah me too, and yeah if you want, you can be mine as well girl." he said and she started purring happily to that remark.

"During this conversation the second she heard I was switching locations, she was trying to say, in her own way 'you're not leaving the room, you're still recovering. And from that injury you took the night before.'." he told her and she nodded as Spot rubbed her head against his arm at that. "When it comes to kids and cats, if I had my own, and they were a girl this is the response, but I think you just took their place now."

"As your owner happens to be a surrogate family member. But at the moment, the, in your eyes, cats of the adult crew are not themselves and won't be until we: your father and me. We take care of this as the other kittens in my litter one is compromised, and the others are themselves again. But I have a few things to finish now, before I'm home for the next year."

"And a half girl." he said to her then and she meowed then to that as she pressed her forehead to his and he nodded as he answered that response. "Yeah I'll be careful, but I'm not leaving the room yet, I'm staying in here until I set up the distraction deploy now." he said and she gave a second meow that had a protective tone and he nodded with a smile as he gave her a gentle hug and she burrowed into it.

As he got up and stretched as he checked the time, before he showered again time then, before changing into his fresh set of clothes as he left the evidence lying on the table and she got up and moved to him as she watched him dig through his bag as she watched him. "Mew?" she asked and he nodded. "Not yet, I'm getting ready to set it off, but it's close to 1100 hours, so I'm keeping them busy for a while, at the moment."

"But I've got five hours before the timer ends so I've got to change apartments soon." he said and she meowed at that in resistance as she rubbed her head against his and got in front of him. "I can't, I have to finish this, don't worry, as soon as this is over, I'm staying home for a while." he said in answer to her body language and she meowed as she rubbed up against him purring as he answered her response.

"I know, I know you're trying to protect me, but to protect others you have to let me finish what I started. I'll be okay Spot, I'm staying home for a few months afterwards later at the moment, but I'm not getting started right away right now. In fact after this ends it's the act of being in recovery." he said and said it to Lal gently at that remark, as he petted the cat then as he said it to her.

"Lal how much time do I have left on the timer?" he asked and she explained that to him as she answered him. "We have 8 hours and 30 minutes left." she said and he nodded to her as he thought it over. "I knew this was a way to annoy her even more while telling us you were awake." Worf said to that bemused. "Alright set the clock for 10 hours, we're setting this so the adult crew can get some real rest tonight."

"I just drained a 1/3 of the amount from my system and I've got another to get out of my system right now." he said as she did it and he heard a thunk over the radio and knew that they got the first signal he was now awake then at that. "That was her security officer that did that, you just extending it until nearly 7 that night. That was enough to tick them off at the time." Jenson said and he nodded to him smiling then.

"Lal what time is it exactly?" he asked and she explained that to him. "It's 0930 in the morning, and you had 8 hours of rest now, but between pit stops to do this, you better use these. So they know you're leaving a trail of breadcrumbs until you hide those bags in the extension shaft." she said and he nodded as the cat looked at him as he finished his sentence to her as he answered her question smiling.

"But in order to do that it's by freeing everyone, but everyone I'm getting in touch with now is the first on the list now." he said and she purred at that. Running his hand through her fur she started purring as he logged onto the people he had to talk to the most. "Lal, activate a three image look into my apartment, sickbay and Ten forward." he said and in answer to that he saw everyone in the rooms were also awake.

And eating and smiled as he said it. "All designated shelters, specifically shelters Alpha, Beta and Charlie, this is Ensign Crusher reporting in, can you all hear me?" he asked and they looked at the camera and Hailey smiled as she answered first. "Yeah loud and clear little brother, you alright?" she asked and he smiled as he saw the trio and Satterfield next to her with smiles on their faces then as he answered her.

As she rubbed his back as they listened to their conversation, knowing he was fine now. "Yeah I'm okay, fully rested and ready to go, I wasn't expecting to find the five of you in ten forward though, Sarah, nice touch though at the moment. I just freed what's left of our squadron at the moment in the process in there. Last night, I take it you figured it out with the fact Lal was in the system.

"That Charlie was my added contact and he was playing the plant all this time?" he asked and they nodded to him gently as Porter said it for all of them at that question. "We did, but I didn't remember that you were doing that idea with Lal in the system and with it that we ended up with two more just like you. But who's next on getting freed because if they didn't realize it by now that we're free."

"Then she's essentially been outsmarted right now?" he asked and he explained that to him gently as he looked at them. "Yeah outsmarted and we're waiting for the clock to end so we can end this without a real injury this time." Will said firmly as he listened to them. "It's engineering, but I got to get the commander and Worf out of the room first now, but I'm glad you and Tom are in the room Chris."

"Because I need your help with this next part now, but dad's little idea with the Hathaway, the Talupian maneuver on instrument sighting, we need to blind their sensors so Dr. Pulaski can get on the ship." he said and they both nodded gently to that. "I couldn't have picked a better maneuver then that as I was just arriving to see it play out." Pulaski said with a smile and he nodded to that as Michaels said it.

"Got it, I take it the reason you couldn't tell us immediately was because she already turned Deanna and the commander into drones?" Michaels asked and he nodded as he answered her at that question. "Yeah that's it exactly, I've stopped taking those things like three months, before I signed myself up for leave. But the time limit, I need a year to 18 months, and you read it right, Sarah."

"Our remarks of running into another Hanson there. It just landed itself on the table, Charlie is not the one that started that riot at the academy, he was framed by Derek's cousin." he said and their eyes narrowed to that. "What happened if the captain got half the story?" Jason Grogan asked and he sighed as he answered him, as looked between thr quartetbgrntly as he said it.

"Best I tell you and the captain this later Jase, as to why, it's he's going to be even more annoyed then he is already." he said and they nodded as Jake answered him. "I wasn't expecting to hear this that you ended up running into his cousin there at the time, but hearing you met Charlie before Peter did it." Jake told him and he nodded. "Before you say it, this has to do with your brothers and sisters, guys."

"And believe me, once I tell you this, you're going to want to let Derek have it. Because it's the remark your grandmother gave to Colonel Carter, when they met. But the fight ended up at the tavern and it resulted in a riot, but I'll tell you once we had a check up later, okay." he said and the quartet nodded as Jake answered him as he said it for them gently as they quintet exchanged looks.

"So Derek's cousin's first initials are the same as his, but he uses his middle name to tell him apart from our Charlie?" Jake asked and he nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly, Jake, but Derek's cousin's name is Charlie Andrew Peter Hanson and his best friend is my squadron leader. But with it, I met the duo at the academy while I was there but I found the rest of our squadron while I was there."

"Jake, buddy, whatever reason he had to choose me that I don't know, but maybe Robin and Charlie can answer that question. Although if this was because we have a case of crazy jealousy and someone is in serious trouble. But Robin and I've been together since we met at the academy, but that explains the reason you saw us together for the last few days, in truth now."

"It's she's my girlfriend." he said and they all nodded as Guinan smiled at the news then. "But man am I'm glad to see you bro, missed you buddy." he said and Jake smiled at him then. "You too man, I'm glad you're home, what do you need from me exactly?" he asked and he explained that. "Well for starters, if Lal already tapped the camera view to the other emergency shelter areas."

"Get ready, because I need your help, yours and Sarah's, once we clear engineering next at the moment now. But you guys set up the decoy ploy, and I'm triggering the alarm at the exact same time so, and we have enough time to get her aboard. But when I tell you to do it, trigger the alarm, and tell them that the system had a slight system's malfunction, because the terminal."

"The one in shaft JP-5 is causing sporadic systems malfunctions." he said and she nodded as they nodded, before they saw Spot move into the camera then. "I take it she grew a bit too attached when she saw you last night?" Walters said with a slight smile and she gave a meow to answer him and they chuckled. "I'll take that for a yes, in this case now." Guinan said smiling to that and he nodded to her smiling at that.

"Yeah she's thinking of me as her kitten, but she sees MacGregor and you better stand back right now. But she knows that the seven are my litter and I'm freeing them piece by piece now." he said and Spot looked at them through the camera and asked her own question to them at that. "Meow?" she asked and they nodded. "Are you back to normal now?" Robin said, translating and the group smiled.

"I wasn't sure yet after the repeated issues in this case now, but after seeing the state of his fur. I wasn't risking him getting hurt even more than he is already too, but it was clear this feral cat that possessed you. Just barely put kitten in the vets office, because of a severe injury to the lower paw." she added to them and Walters looked at the cat smiling as he ran his hand through the fur on her head and she started purring at that.

"Not that I blame you for asking that question, but better safe that sorry girl. Like he said every group that is getting freed is closest to him and Jake. As we trained them both at the moment, but the only security cats you got to be worried about are team five." he told her and she gave a mew of agreement to that as Jake answered her question. "Yeah we're back to normal and we're ourselves Spot, but like us."

"Robin and Charlie are also part of his home litter, though rival kitten is on thin ice here." Jake said and she meowed in acknowledgement. "Enterprise, anyone reading me?" they heard and he quickly answered the voice. "Standby by shuttle, stay away for a few minutes, wherever you are just stay put." he said and he heard an older version to Will's voice answer that as he said it to him.

"Roger, what the hell's going on over there, son is that you?" he asked and he answered him. "Honestly we're lucky you called ahead, or they could have used this as the perfect way to get it into the federation. But Wesley left the communications locked into the emergency shelter areas and my quarters right now." Data said and the duo nodded as Wesley answered the comms as he quickly said it to them at the question.

"Grandpa, we've been hijacked, I need to set up a diversion and cloaking mechanism on your shuttle to get you aboard, and Lal's waiting on standby to get you to sick-bay. Just stand by, repeat, we been seized by K'taris rebels and the crew is compromised, so stand by." he said and they quickly answered him. "Added side effect of calling me by a new title by then." Kyle said smiling slightly at that.

"Roger, we got it and we're waiting." he said and he nodded. "Chris, I need the code frequency for sensor codes." he said and she nodded. "The code is 55615-24657525-87596325815, gamma, red, delta, charlie, bravo."she said and he nodded. "Charlie when I do this get ready, because it's triggering a three piece set up and we're going to have the sensors blinded for fifteen minutes now."

"And by a romulan warbird." he said to him gently as he thought to him out loud then as he got an immediate response. 'Got it, and I'm ready, where's the direction it's coming from exactly?" he asked and he quickly explained that. "It's coming from the stern, and my doctor's shuttle is coming in from the bow of the ship." he said and he knew he nodded as he finished typing in the orders gently as he said it to her.

"Nice touch that certainly helps, if the council sent the five of us with Kate and Kyle, we could have done this easily and got into the ship this way. While doing a distraction and diversion what with you being a computer expert at the time." Frasier said smiling and he nodded to her gently at her remark as he said it then. "Doctor, listen to me carefully, I'm using the wargames as a way to get you on board the ship"

"But sensors codes have been shoved onto our rebel's ships systems as well. So once I hit the execute button. Fly in from the bow, and Lal is getting you into shuttle bay six and has two headsets on standby, they're mock ups. Of the real ones, so once you get to on board, pretend you're compromised. And proceed directly to sickbay." he said as he finished that remark firmly then to her gently.

"Sickbay's clear and Dr. Anenzi's waiting for you." he said and he heard two acknowledgements to that. "Lal activate the system's over ride and shove it into Etana's sensors as well as we have a romulan warbird and then a klingon bird a prey ready to attack the ship as they try to make contact with it." he said and the computer beeped at him and he smiled as Will crossed his arms then smiling.

"Year two made all the difference right now for us right now, everything used right now is a result of when Kate was here at the time. But I couldn't have picked a better option then this at the moment to work through breaking through her control. Just to get to the real us." he said smiling at this gently as they watched it then."Initiating in 3, 2, 1,..., now!" he said as he tapped the enter button, as the answering response hit then.

As the alarm started blaring at that, "Captain we have a Romulan warbird enroute towards us." he heard Dayton shout and he heard an immediate response. "We don't have any shields or weapons, let alone communications, bring us about ensign." he said and Wesley smiled. "Lal over ride the terminal for him and swing the ship to port left and open the shuttle bay." he said and he as he waited at that gently.

"Captain, we have another ship approaching fast from the stern, it's a Klingon bird a prey!" he heard and smiled and Wesley smiled. "Lal take over now, and tell them if they don't want a fight right now, to stand down right now. Because the ship is an ally to the federation and they're coming to talk to Etana right then and with her, them." he said and he got an quick response as he listened to them.

"Doctor, go, that's your window, the senior staff crew and the security is distracted, get those headsets and head for sickbay, I'm switching locations right now." he said and he heard a quick affirmative to that. "Alright guys, I'm leaving now, and wait for the alarm to go off and that should do it." he said and he heard 20 acknowledgements to that as he opened up the grate at that remark.

And grabbed the bags and shoved them into it. "I doubt anyone could have pulled this better with you doing it once before at the moment. But only a skiled strategist could do this and not get caught." Picard said smiling proudly. "Lal I need a duffle bag to carrier the supplies here, one bag is for this, the other has the added equipment and the second bag is being placed in the shaft after I unloaded a 4/5's of it."

"But I need a single bag big enough to carry both bags and the first aid kits in it. Just so I don't have to carry two bags at once right now when moving around." he said and a minute later it appeared as he grabbed it and loaded both bags into it, as he carefully named his entire set up off then. "Alright dirty cloths in front of the bed, open MRE next to it, and spent hypo syringe with it, yeah okay."

"Next message set against the bed on top of my pants and that should do it, alright Doctor did you make it?" he asked and he got a fast answer. "Yes Wes we're there, you better get moving because Kyle and I are tracing the alarms so I know where you are as well, just comm me when you get there."

"Because Eli just gave me the prognosis, and I know that the side effects of the knack are still effecting you. So try to stay focused alright, but if the extension shaft is open stay away from it, if you have another one in the middle of this." she said and he nodded to the orders. "Alright, I'm getting ready to get moving so stand by, guys." he said to them under his breath as he got to work as he did it then.

As he left his markers on the bed with her sitting next to it as he ran his hand through her fur and she pressed her head to his in response. "Don't worry I'll be fine, see you tonight girl." he said as he answered her response as he gave her a hug and she burrowed into his arms at that as he let her go. As he moved away from her, and looking over his shoulder at her gently he said it softly to her as she watched him.

"Spot get ready for the room to be stormed in a few minutes." he said and she meowed as she got into position as they waited. "Lal turn on the alarm after I slam the grate door shut and unlock the doors and deactivate the internal security, in 3, 2, 1,..., now." he said to her and that did it as he slammed the grate shut and at the same time the alarms went off at that as he got an immediate response to it.

As the alarm went off for real this time and that did it, as he slammed the grate shut. "Sir he's in Data's quarters." he heard from Will and heard heard Picard answer that as he waited. "Security check Data's quarters." he said and five minutes later and he heard the door open. "I don't believe this Sir, but he was here alright, and I found the set of drenched pants he was wearing last night from his injury."

"As if that's not enough everything was left on the bed and the cat is staring at me with furious maternal look on her face, like she knows where he headed to next." he heard Bates's voice say, before he heard a warning growl. "Mrrreeeooowww!" she growled at that and he heard a fast reply to that response. "That's a warning tone I won't soon forget, but I get the remark right now, girl."

"But that's cat language for 'stay away from my kitten or I'm scratching the hell out of you right now.'. But these bad cats that possessed our bodies, don't understand earth ways. So they don't get that, to you, the child of the cat's owner is the cat's own kitten growing up." he told her and she gave a mew to him. "Easy girl, I'll leave just give me a minute." he said to her quickly as he heard a bemused tone to that remark.

"What was that about lieutenant?" Will asked and he knew Bates was backing up to keep from provoking her. "She's staring at me with a warning look, she's acting like furry bodyguard and she's ready to spring here. She knows where he went, and she's ready to protect him to the death." he said and he heard the programmed voice of his mother answer that as she said it with a bemused tone to that.

"Back up very slowly, but that's a mother's prerogative to protect their children and I think she sees him that way now." she said and Wesley nodded in agreement, as he started moving and headed for Geordi's quarters first. As he unlocked the grate door. "Lal, security arrangements now." he said as he got to work as he unloaded the equipment and created another bag as he gave the orders to her at that.

"Alright same as last night, the orders I gave you last night and I need another bag to create this." he said as the next one appeared and he loaded the next bag as he hid it in another portion of the room. And opened up his own as he ate breakfast, before he took the vitamins with it and then gave himself a dose of epinephrine and then commed them again as he said it to her gently at that, reporting to the medical trio.

"Alright guys, I'm in Geordi's quarters, but get ready the alarms are going to be triggered in order, but Geordi first, then Deanna, the captain and the commander. But that's five now and i'm creating another one and putting it in Worf's before the timer ends and then stage three starts after that." he said and he heard Anenzi answer him as his tone turned worried ad he said it to him gently.

"Son, that dose is not going to last long, once in the shaft take another, before, but it's going to take a tremendous amount of exertion, to make sure we got this out of your system. And that's not if those pills have more then caffeine in them, but you have another spasm. If you're at the shaft entrance then it could cause you to get hurt, so be careful." he said and Wesley nodded to that.

"I will, but if it hits when I'm at the bottom of the shaft, it's only going to slow me down, but we don't have time for this right now. Because I've got to the duo out of engineering, so wait till I trigger the alarm a second and get down there, I need to see you face to face, doctor." he said and he heard her answer him. "Alright see in a few hours." she said and he nodded as he left the next marker.

As he triggered the alarm a second time as he left the room and he heard an annoyed tone in the guard's voice as he said it. "This was good idea to use your training in false trails to annoy them until you decided enough playing around. And it was time to get serious right now, before you reported to Eric and me on this, Wes." Davidson said as he started laughing at this as he listened to the guard possessing Greyson then.

As Will nodded in agreement smiling. "We've been decoyed, but he was here alright, there's scraps from the latest MRE he created all over the table here. But I have no clue here to where he went, but wherever he's heading next. I think the alarm only goes off when he leaves." he heard from Greyson as he said this and knew he chose it then to set it off as soon as he leaves the room at that.

And he heard a sigh from Will as he answered him. "Then we trace the alarms till the timer ends, but this has gone on so long that he's got you going in circles, and we don't know if we've been boarded or not. Right now at the moment, once I tell you, meet me at wherever the sensors trace him to finally and we're going to do this together." he said and he watched as Greyson gave a nod to that.

As he smiled and headed for Deanna's room and got to work. "Lal trigger the alarm in Worf's quarters now." he said and he heard the alarm go off a second time. "Security to my quarters!" Worf called out and ten minutes later he heard the answering response. "Sir there's no one in here, we've been decoyed for real this time, I think he set that off from another apartment." he heard from Roberts and smiled.

"I think he's pulling a case of distraction and division right now, commander." Porter added and he chuckled as he heard an annoyed tone in Will voice at that. "Then I'm not falling for that a second time, if we hear it again from your quarters Lieutenant." he said and he tried to keep from laughing at that. "You people are really stupid if you're not bothering to check as that's not a decoy, but the real one."

"And this time, it was due to his creating seven bags instead of six, you really have no clue how to think like a human right now. The smartest races in the universe can't think like a human, because to them, we're primitives as a result here." Daniel said with an icy smirk as he heard his thoughts echoed then. "Yeah and that's your fatal mistake lady, because it's number seven." he said, before he heard from Porter at that.

"Wes was that just to set up another cache and so they're not bothering to check there for real, after you leave the room when you get up there?" he asked and Wesley nodded to that. "I know us half soldier/half scientist types tend to pull tricks like this, but the longer it lasts right now. And the more it irritates the opposition, but she's just as over confident as Palpatine was and is, if Anakin stayed himself."

"In Luke's own words, her over confidence of victory in this is her weakness at the moment." Peter said smiling sternly at that and the rest of their team nodded to that. "Yeah and she just made another fatal mistake by making that decision, because after I created another one in there. Stage three starts as I'm turning off the timer and activating the sensors." he said and he heard a smile at that.

"Nice touch and the captain and commander, once they're themselves again, are going to love the fact that you are doing this without getting reckless leading into whatever you planned next. But you're going to have to explain to them the reason you didn't tell us immediately. And it's because whatever level you're at here, it's going to be completely drained once that dose wears now."

"But what's the plan in stage four?" Porter asked and he sighed. "I knew you weren't going to like this decision, as I was draining myself into exhaustion just to finish this. But with it, risking an injury just to implicate her right now." he told them and they nodded as they listen to him say it, then. "Setting her up to implicate herself right now, because it's not the loss of blood that has me this worn out afterwards."

"It's the act of draining that final dose, after I redirect and the fact she just barely missed causing me to break a joint in this. But I'm going to have to change course, so this has them realizing, once back to normal that she just crossed a line now. But with the fact that they know how far I've gone in this, the act of trying to finish this before Data arrives and dad is going to kill her."

"When he realizes that and it's the same for mom, when she realizes that she barely broke my ankle or whatever happens in the middle of this." he said and he heard a worried tone from Anenzi at that as he said it to him quickly at that remark, knowing that got their attention. "You're not serious, you land on it the wrong way, and you're going to blow it out doing this?!" he said to him quickly at that remark.

And he sighed as he answered him, as he activated the terminal between them. "She's nearly killed us already, and I'm running on fumes here at the moment. The only option to break it completely now, is by setting her up for being arrested. By Data, you're the mind control expert Doctor, what do you suggest here?" he asked and he heard Pulaski sigh as she answered him at that remark sternly.

"I hate to say it, but you're right, but after this is done that's it and you're on light duty indefinitely after that till we know whether or not. This plan of her's has added side effects or not." she said at that and he nodded. "Well, it's not going to be a direct on purpose action here, but it's twice the number. They normally had it, so if that doesn't do it nothing does." he said to her and Porter sighed then.

As he answered him at that remark. "I get that, but we had it at a third of whatever number feet in the jump you select, so when you do this, keep your knees bent or you're going to either sprain it. Or it's going to get dislocated if you do this for a third time, but report into engineering after you get them out of the room so we can do this, alright." he said and Wesley nodded to him softly at that.

"I will, but at the moment right now, it's getting their attention on me, while Data is getting the programming into the computer of what he used on you last night." he said and he saw them nod. "Alright, I'll see you in a few hours, just be careful son." he said and Wesley nodded to the orders. As he started work on the third bag then, as he said it as he bagged up the duffle bag, before setting his indicator.

As he cut the candy bar he had opened up as he left teeth marks on the piece he left on the table, as he left the other half in the package. And then cut a 2/3's out of the second to make it clear he needed as much of a sugar burst as possible. When he headed for Picard's quarters after he left Worf's then as he did it. As he smiled as he left the bar on the table and a half a cup of water then as he stuffed it into the grate.

As he said it then as he prepared to set off the alarm. "I doubt one of the jarheads in the marines could think this up." O'neill said smiling proudly then. "If you already figured this out Eric, guys, I've decided on a Journey to the Center Of the Earth theme. Leaving indications I was there, but I got a good look at her, she's a K'tarian, and her race never leaves their planet, unless they're in the military."

"What's also in there is these other races in the galaxy can't understand a thing about us right now as we evolved at the time." he said and he heard from Porter at the news. "That was my thought when he told us his play by play leading into this, but all of us, but you, weren't on board atlantis in the case of our grandparents. But you're an SG-1 alumni, Commander." Porter said and O'neill nodded smiling to that remark.

"Nice thinking, their race doesn't understand a thing about earth humans, and that's enough to annoy her. Since you annoyed the hell out of her by embarassing her last night. And now the act of you're doing this is enough to drive her further up the wall right now. Keep it up, but when you get into the shaft, before careful and stay away from the area where the grate closes."

"Wesley I'm serious right now, if you have another spasm that close you could fall through it, so if you get hit by another, back up and stay against the wall until it wears off. Just be careful and if that happens I want you to take another dose of epinphrine, and eat one of those candy bars and just wait it out till you're ready to get moving again, okay." he said and Wesley nodded to the orders

"Lal, activate the alarm now." he said and he moved into the shaft and closed the door then as he hid around the corner. As he waited and he heard the voice of his godfather say it. "Security to Counselor Troi's quarters." he called out and a few minutes he got the answering response to that, knowing the guard got the message as he heard an aggravated tone to his voice as he reported to the bridge and engineering.

"He was here, and I just missed him as well, because the candy bar he left here was half eaten." Roberts said to him and he heard a sigh. "Any indication to tell if he opened that one and left it in the same way he did last night?" Beverly asked and he heard his answering response. "This was starting to annoy the hell out of these guys with the fact you kept leading them in circles at the moment here right now."

"And with it were the different clues and a few others things to the point that the longer this goes on. And the more likely her temper was going to cause her to make a fatal mistake." Will told him and he nodded smiling. "I know, but this was my intention." he said and they nodded. "No, this was opened and half eaten, I'd say he had another one, and decided to end it by a fast sugar charge." he said to her then gently.

"Well so far it's jumped from my apartment to Data's to La Forge's and now Couselor Troi's. I'd say this is going in the direction of us not knowing who's rooms he's hiding these caches in right now. So with that in mind right now Lieutenant, just get ready for the next one now, because if we had us, and Data, then." Beverly said as he smiled as he went to Worf's room as he did it again at that.

As he left the second half of the two pack candy bar out and left the second piece on the table and his initials on the card next to it with a cup of water and left both on the table. "Lal now." he said and she activated the alarm then and he heard annoyed tone at that and knew they were irritated. "This time it's coming from my apartment." he heard from Worf and Dayton answered him and Wesley knew he was hiding a smile.

"What's if it's the real thing this time and not a decoy, best to check anyway, Lieutenant." he said and he heard Will answer him at that remark. "Alright check his quarters and let us know what you find." he said, before he heard the door open five minutes later and then the door opened then. "Yeah this time it's the real thing, Sirs as to how, there's another candy bar here and his initials on a piece of paper."

"I think that first piece was part of a two piece package he ate the second half on the go, and left half of the second full size bar on the table with a empty glass of water here." he said and knew they nodded. "Nice touch at the moment, these characters don't understand earth human anatomy right now." Pulaski said and he nodded to that as she smiled in satisfaction at the way he was doing this.

"Alright stay alert, because this sequence is starting to annoy me, because that makes four, but where are the other's ending up in." he heard from Picard at that as he left his position and headed for his quarters. As he created a fourth one then and set up his initials on a piece of paper, before he moved the duffle bag back into the shaft and said it to her gently. "Alright Lal, do it." he said to her gently at that touch.

And in response then the alarm went off again, as that got the imediate response as they saw Picard reading the security terminal and then cal out from it as he called out to the security teams then. "Security to my quarters now." Picard called out and a minute later he heard the door open up. "Yeah he was here, there's a piece of paper sitting on the table with his initials, Sir." They heard from Bates then firmly at that.

"Well that's four and he created five bags so far, but what's next exactly?" he heard from Watkins, before they heard a loud clang at that and he tried to keep from laughing at that. As Dayton and Robin said it together as they started laughing at that. "You had to ask, you remember what we said, you keep it up in getting rhetorical and she starts getting smart with you, so you want to stop the sound effects here."

"Then cool it with the stupid questions already." they said as they heard Wesley repeat that from the Viewer, as Jake covered his eyes as he tried to pull it together. "You had to ask, remember what I said, every time you start getting rhetorical, and she starts getting smart with you right now. Come on enough with the stupid questions already." He whispered through his laughter at that as he moved on then.

"Alright guys I know you're finding this funny, but you guys keep this up in the practical jokes and you're going to break a rib from holding it in right now. So pull yourselves together, come on, get it together now." Will said for both himself and Daniel as he and his friends exchanged bemused smiles at how well Wesley's strategy was working. As they watched him arrive at the next spot and nodded, knowing he was at his apartment.

Watching as he was getting into his godfather's quarters as he created the fifth and final bag and created his initials then. And on another piece of paper as he shoved the bag into the grate and said it firmly then. As he looked at the picture on the desk and saw them together and smiled, as he left a photo of them and Worf when in training on the holodeck on the table next to it and nodded as he gave the order then gently.

"Alright the last and final time Lal, do it." he said and he heard the alarm go off then. "Security to my quarters, repeat security to my quarters." he heard from Will as he said it and quickly hid in around the corner then at that, leaving the shaft grate open, as he threw the other candy bar onto the floor in front of the grate and quickly hid in the left side of the shaft as he waited before he heard the door open then.

As he heard Greyson and knew he found the grate door open. "Yeah he was here, the shaft door is open and there's a candy bay lying on the floor here. I think this one was an attempt to switch courses, before the timer ends now, Sir." he said and he heard from Will at that. "Well the timer is left in 01:30:00 left until the timer runs out and the system is back online, so I'll let you know, if I need you."

"But that's not long now, until the timer runs out." he said and Wesley nodded as he took the short cuts to the shaft and headed for the extension shaft as he unlocked the grate to find a cargo panel. And smiled as he unloaded both bags into it and stuffed the duffle bag into it as well. "Alright Lal, cancel timer, we're going to stage three now right now." he said as he waited gently and patiently for them to find him then.

Waiting patiently, he said it to Lal as he activated his radio and listened to the conversation. "Yeah alright, here we go, stage three just activated and with it now, he's about to be reunited with us in our team now, Bev. Like the others, we all knew what he was trying to tell us the second we were free of it at the time now." O'brien said and she noded as he listened to his next remark with a smile on her face then.

"Alright Lal, get the site to site linked to Dr. Pulaski, she was our doctor in year two, so the second Data frees them. Get her into the room from the secondary entrance and me two decks above and I'm waiting for them to realize it." he said and knew she got it, as he heard Will say it and knew he, Worf and Robin were at the table as Will said it quickly to Lal, and this was the part he needed now then.

"Lal, do dual screens so we, or rather, Beverly, Deanna and the captain, knew and know what's going on in engineering, while we're we're tracking him down." he said and a minute later they saw him in the extension shaft, waiting for them to pick up his heat signature. And the trio in the engineering room waiting for the timer to turn off as the timer suddenly switched off and Shimoda looked up in time to see that happen.

"Whoa commander, the timer has been cancelled, looks like the games have shifted now." Shimoda called out to them and Will nodded as he, Worf and Robin crowded around the pool table then as he listened to her remark through him. "18 hours and no sign of him except for the blasted alarms right now. How could that be right now, where the hell is he?" he asked and knew her crewman answered that.

And knew her entire crew had possessed his mother and friends as he heard her crewman say it through Worf as he sighed as he answered him. "Issues in this ship are with the communcator you're a sitting dot, hiding amongst 1,445 other sitting dots. And without, you vanish right of the screen and the only way to track your quarry. This is by isolating them by heat sensors." Worf said as his compromised double repeated that.

"I'm attempting to isolate him with thermal sensors." he said and knew Will nodded as he answered him. "Narrow the scan field, go deck by deck if you have to." he said and Will shook his head at that. "You really think he is that stupid right now people, he's better then you think." he said as he and Worf crossed their arms as Worf said it as he answered him with a firm tone as he said it to him at that remark.

"Unfortunately he knows our procedures, he'll avoid all corridors and public areas..., wait Commander, an unidentified heat source. Deck 7, section 23..., there." he said and Will nodded. "It's him, come on." he said and knew he turned to second in command of the team and O'Brien as he said it. "That's it, take the bait, come on, take the bait." Wesley said softly, before he heard Will say it then to them.

"Stay here and keep an eye out if he tries to come in here." he said and knew they nodded as he heard him say it into his communicator then. "Greyson, Bates, Robertson, he's in deck 7, section 23, meet Lieutenant Worf and me down there at the entrance into the extension shaft." he said and they heard two affirmatives then as he thought it gently, as he quickly said it into his radio then at that.

"Data stand by, they're leaving, once they're gone get in there, and bring her with you, I'll be down there in fifteen minutes." he said and he heard two affirmatives to that, before he said it to the computer. "Nice touch case in misdirection, but can Derek do this without staying off the computer. You made it this far without the reckless acts right now, but this is perfect." Beverly said, smiling at his technique then.

"Lal turn off the thermal sensors a second time, decoy shifted, make it seem as if I moved from deck 7 to deck 12. That I'm hiding in deck 12 section 10, alright it's in deck 12, section 10." he said and he repeated the gently. "Repeat my signature moved from deck 7, section 23, to deck 12, section 10. I'm moving to deck 10, section 12 now." he said and he heard an immediate response to that.

As knew they saw his signature moving towards that location and Anna chuckled. "Like the video games of the 80's and 90's in the 20th century, you're Pac-Man and her crew are the ghosts at the moment." she said and he nodded. "Commander, his signature shifted, he's moved from deck 7, section 23, to deck 12, section 10, repeat, deck 12, section 10." he heard from O'brien and heard and immediate response to that.

"Roger, we're on the way there now." he said and sighed in relief as he gave the next order then to her at that remark then. "Yeah alright, Lal, site to site, get me into the shaft, a section above engineering and overhead next to the reactor." he said and a minute later he ended up in that section. As he listened to their conversation from up above them as they saw them standing around the terminal.

"What are the chances he actually does try to come in here." Robin Lefler asked and David Jenson sighed. "Slim at the moment, from the way he's been doing this, and he jumped heading into a public area to avoid being arrested." he said and she nodded, before the lights suddenly went out then. "What the hell?!" Shimoda said quickly, before they got blinded by several very fast bright flashes at that remark.

Shaking his head to clear it then, he looked up at and saw a pale shape moving into the his section of the room and then refocused as his eyes focused on the person moving towards him and felt his relief shoot through him as he saw Data moving to him and pulling him to his feet as he leaned against the pool table. "Data, what the hell did she do to us this week?" he asked and Jenson moved to them with O'brien then firmly.

"It's a mixture of the virus we got hit by and the conspiracy, the one that killed Captain Keel, the trio took the positions. The captain, commander and his mother took and with them, with Charlie being the plant, Lal took the the third position." he said and they nodded as he closed his eyes at that. "That's when it hit me and Jenny said my thoughts out loud and we knew what the problem was."

"Those 18 months after you left had deepened the bonds between us as a result, we were the ones he was closest to. As his coach still, I was taking charge in my eyes as I was waiting for my cub to return to us then." Jenson told her and she nodded to him. "Caffeine withdrawal, sleep deprivation and he's in detox right now." Lieutenant Jennifer Barnfield said sharply and he nodded to her firmly at that as he said it then.

"God damn it, that explains this, he cut off any access to the control room so she couldn't move us out of range." Jenson said sharply and he nodded to him, and as Macdougal and Shimoda both looked at the force field and nodded. And as they looked at the chips scattered into a pile and Macdougal nodded firmly. "Yeah that would be it, once you all remembered which memory that the forcefield conected to then."

"I knew you would remember everything in your memories I was trying to bring back now." Wesley said and the quartet nodded to him. "Dang it, no wonder he panicked last night, Macgregor looks like Radue, and seeing a younger version to the man that kidnapped him. He panicked and locked up the room and with it, turning every room he was in, into a fortress." Macdougal added and he nodded to her.

"Alright son, just relax, we're back to normal now, Lal, activate security procedures now. We're back to normal and deactivate the forcefield into the control rooom." Shimoda said and a minute later it went down and he moved to check and put his hand to the door entrance and smiled and walked into the room. As he got to work at that, seeing the pile assembly on the floor he hid a smile at that.

"Nice choice in a pile up here at the moment, when infected I was stacking them up like this, but doing it in the same way was enough to jog my memories. But her next response was enough to annoy us at the moment. Reason is we were not in the mood for jokes like this at the time now here." he said as he repeated his remark at that. "Lovely, she tore several out of the system, but this is what I did at that time."

"To keep us grounded until we had the cure to that virus, but at least she didn't yank all of them." he said, before two more got launched out of the terminal in answer to that as Macdougal grabbed them and they exchanged looks at that as they tried to keep from laughing and he answered that with a bemused chuckle. "Very funny wise guy, but this is neither the time nor place for jokes like this right now."

"So stop playing with us right now." he said and then saw the terminal light go out and he shook his head at that with a slight smile. Before they heard a voice they hadn't heard in two years. "Jim can you get that fixed after what you guys been through this past week." she said and he nodded as Jenson answered that. "Yeah we can, and boy am I glad to see you Kate." he said and she nodded as she gave him a hug.