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Chapter 10 - "unforeseen"
Shuttle Alpha
Those are some interesting news. Could it be that Rose tried to cover his tracks, because Gabe was on his heels before he went missing? That leaded her further to the assumption that Rose started to carry out his plan and for it to put as much blame on Izzy as he could, because he didn't know that Gabe is missing. But why was the SCC looking into him? "Why are you interested in Rose?" she wants to know. It is never wrong to learn as much as you can about a topic or in this case your opponent, to never underestimate him if you want to win the game. Something Rose already did, he underestimated her and that will be his downfall, she will make sure of it.
The chess game has started, but who will be the victims of this particular game? While Izzy will try to keep the collateral damage at minimum, Rose will not do such a thing. That is a problem itself and Izzy not only has to anticipate his moves, but also to keep his manipulations in the back of her mind and take counter measures against them. That is why she needs everything on him that she can get.
For a moment G and Sam look at each other and have one of those silent communications between partners, before G sighs and explains. "It all started two years ago. With the terror attack on the Star Fleet Base Trinity near the Romulan neutral zone. A Romulan extremist group took credit for it, but a secure source approached us with information's that it was an inside job. A Star Fleet officer was apparently part of it; he supported the group with the needed Intel to make the attack possible." Izzy remembers the attack, five bombs exploded inside of the base and over 30 people died, among them were five children. This put an early stop to the treaty negotiations between the Federation and the Romulan Empire and nothing in that direction happened ever since.
"We started to investigate, off-record of course, we didn't want to tick someone off and after six months of research we found out that the connection between the Star Fleet and the Romulan Empire was the U.S.S. Division or at least someone on board the vessel." Sam explained further. The plots thickens, Izzy already knows that Rose is corrupt, because her own crew has proved it to her, but the question for her is, how far his corruption goes.
But it didn't explain how or why Gabriel was involved with this investigation? "What does that have to do with Gabe?" she asks them further.
G smiles at her, he knows that she hates if she can't find a connection between elements herself. "Patience, we get there. We tried to get some of our agents on board the ship, but we were blocked on every turn. We don't know by whom, so Gabe had the crazy idea to get the information on another way, by infiltrating the Romulan Empire."
"His mission was to get as much info as he can find so that we hopefully can establish a link between Rose and the terror attack through the Division. Funnily enough the day you started your internship on this vessel "Izzy wasn't surprised in any way that he knew, when she started her internship, it was his job to know such things, so she simply smiles at that. "he started his mission." Sam goes on. It is fun to watch them finish each other's sentences, like an old married couple, but after seven years of being partners, she expects nothing less.
Nevertheless that is one hell of a coincidence, but her parents both taught her if it quacks like duck and walks like a duck it is a duck. So it can't be a simple coincidence. Her suspicion must be written all over her face as G said. "Yeah, it wasn't a coincidence, because as soon as Hetty learned you got stationed on the vessel, she somehow made you his contact person. Which would explain the communique you received, but it still is suspicious."
"So let me get this straight, he should have contacted me in case he got discovered." she recaps.
"Yeah." Sam and G say at the same time. Than they look at each other with a stop doing that look. It is always funny watching them work.
"Why?" she wants to know, beside the point, why she wasn't informed of it.
"I think you know the answer, baby girl?" G says. She normally likes when he calls her that, but here as Captain of the Star Fleet it is a little embarrassing. But he is the only one besides her parents, who is allowed to call her that. She let it slide for the moment and tries to find a solution with her smart mind.
The best way for her is thinking out loud for her. "This way the Romulans don't learn that the SCC is onto them, because it goes to the ship that is their partner in crime."
"A sharp mind as always." G smiles at her conclusion. He knew she would figure it out.
"Why wasn't I informed about being his contact person?" she asks next.
"Hetty didn't want Rose to know that we know each other." G answers and to Izzy that was a good reason. One that will help her now, if she make it work for her. That brings her to the next step. "What is the plan?" she wants to know from them.
Sam's mysterious answer was. "We have a plan."
It took her only a moment to figure it out. That only means one thing for her. "You are not planning something with me in the loop." Her voice was angered. It is her ass on the line, so she should know what they were planning and probably be a part of it. G knows his goddaughter very well and knows that if he can't calm her down, she will lash out soon and he will get the full hit of it. He was sure of that. Some would call it a temper tantrum that would follow, but he knows that is actually a manipulation. She uses her intelligence in every possible way she can. That is nothing he wants to see today, so he gets up, walks to her, and puts his hands on her shoulder to ground her before he goes on the same eyelevel as her. He knew, how she feels, he feels the same, if someone puts himself in danger for him. But there is a reason, why they couldn't tell her. Logic is always a good way to get her back on track. "We can risk you knowing should Rose smell something. It's called possible deniability and we can't put a target on your back, because you are our back-up plan."
"What does that mean?" she wants to know, because she can't deny that his logic is sound and damn does she hate that.
"You know Hetty, she doesn't put all her money on one horse, she wants you on the Division on standby, but off-the-record. Should problems with our team arise, you will start an investigation on your own with orders from the SCC, so that your actions are legal." he tells her in a calm way. He can see that she is pissed at his logical explanation and he has to smile at that.
"How do I know, when and if I set my plan into motion?" she asks him next. She needs to be calm, she knows that, but she hates to be in the dark. But at the same time she has to be on high alert, as the back-up plan.
Before G or Sam can answer Birkhoff reappears to inform them. "Izzy, we touch down in only moments."
With a smile she orders. "Good, tell Michael, Alex and Shawn we will meet them in the conference room ASAP."
"All right, boss." he says with a smile.
"That is ma'am to you." Izzy gives back.
"Of course, eye Ma'am." and salutes for a better teasing effect.
The other two only shake their heads at the antics of the crew she is commanding. But on a vessel like the Division, which is designed to spy work it is very important to have a friendly environment, almost like family. Family means teasing each other, having inside jokes and feeling comfortable with all the others. Those people have your backs after all. The ship is like a family and that makes the betrayal of Rose even worse. But G and Sam can see that the crew will have Izzy's back and that is important to them.
Izzy attention was back at them with a questionable look. They know what she wants to ask without having her to ask the question again, as G answers. "Sam and I." he points at himself and then at his partner. "Are here to talk about a possible plan for your actions and when you can set it into motion. But it will only be the frame. We can't know the details so that we don't compromise your mission."
Fantastic, Izzy thought. Hopefully it will be easy. But nothing in the last six hours was easy, so she wouldn't bet any money on it. A good plan needs preparation and that is what they will do. As soon as the shuttle landed they were on their way for a good old planning session.
U.S.S. Impala
Dean tries to rap his head around the fact that Jim was somewhere out there, because of mutiny without any backup. He can't believe that Spock would do that. But there are more important things they have to consider. At the moment the Impala is still death in space, but Dean knows his crew is working on it. Still Earth needs to know of a possible threat to start counter actions. So he turns to Ash and asks. "Which vessels are still around Earth orbit?"
Ash looks at the service console to find an answer for Dean's question. After a moment he answers. "There are only 3 vessels still near Earth. The U.S.S. Remington, the U.S.S. Akimo and the U.S.S. Division, but that vessel is in the repair dock. They have problems with the warp core."
It was good to hear that Izzy wasn't a victim of Nero. The decision which vessel to hail was an easy one for him. "Ash contact the Division and tell them that I want to talk to Commander O'Neill."
"Eye, Sir." with that Ash follows his orders.
It took only moments before someone answered. A person was displayed on the screen, but it wasn't the one Dean wanted to see. Even if he had met him only once, he knows at who he is looking. It is a face that he will not forget in a long time. After all he helped Izzy to teach them a lesson some months ago. His uniform tells him that he is the Commander on the Division, "Commander …"but without a name he has to let the other person fill in the blanks for him.
"Bishop." he provides and gestures with his head to go on.
"Bishop, I am surprised … I wanted to speak with Commander O'Neill."
A small smile starts on Bishops face as he answered. "Captain O'Neill." 'Captain O'Neill, she was Captain now too?' Dean asks himself proud. But he questions, how she received this rank, hopefully it is answered differently than the chain of command, like it was for him. That is something he has to ask her later, after this crisis is all over. "is on a mission now?" The tone Bishop uses as well as Deans gut is telling him that something is amiss at the moment. "What can we do for you Commander Winchester?" he asks at last.
"It is Captain." Dean corrects him. The question also reminds him that even if he knows or feels that Izzy is in some sort of trouble, he doesn't have time for it at the moment without neglecting his duty. "I want to inform you of the possible threat, a Romulan called Nero. He could be on his way to Earth and I would advise to get counter measures started immediately."
"Is one man such a threat?" The commander wants to know.
"You can say that. He destroyed Vulcan." Dean declares with a heavy heart.
"What?" Bishop exclaimed as well as the rest of the people on the bridge with him.
"Yeah, they created a black hole that consumed the planet. Vulcan is no more." he explains. Without giving them a chance to react to it, he goes on. It is always better to bring all the bad news at once. "We don't know how many survived … we rate that not even one hundred thousand survived." But it would even be a wonder if it would be this much. All, who saw the planet implode in front of them, are on the same page with that assumption.
"Fuck." Michael exclaims.
A little perplexed Dean glances at him, not because of the reaction itself; it was his reaction to that as well. But that the Commander reacted this way was surprising to Dean. The Commander appears that he normally has his countenance better under control. "You can say that again." was Dean's answers after a moment.
"I will tell Izzy, what happened or is there more?" he wants to know.
For a moment Dean looks at the floor, before he sighs and says. "Captain Pike was captured by Nero."
With a deep breath and in an irritated way Michael asks rhetorically. "Why does everything have to happen at the same time?" Not that all could hear it, but Dean understood his mumbling and he was sure that the Commander wasn't only referring to the situation at hand. But that on the other side of the communication link something was happening as well. A glance at Bishop tells Dean that he doesn't want to give away what. The details have to be too delicate, otherwise he would elaborate further. At the moment Dean has other problems, which have priority, but he will find out what is going on with Izzy.
"Besides that can you tell her that the pointy eared bustard." everyone, who knew about who he was talking about, is looking at him perplexed. Simple for using such a wording in reference to another Star Fleet officer, but they have the feeling that there is more to that particular story. In Deans opinion they have to get used to his habit, Dean isn't someone, who would automatically fall in front of someone in an uniform and higher rank. No for that you have to earn his respect and not many Star Fleet officers earned that by now. Spock definitely wasn't one of them, so he ignored the outraged looks of his crew. "Removed Commander Kirk from the Enterprise for mutiny."
"Okay." was Michael's bewildered answer.
"Please use the exact wording." Dean orders him.
"Eye, Sir." he answers, because Michael knows an order when he sees one.
"Thank you." with that they cut the connection and Dean took a look around at his crew. They still stared bewildered at him. But before he could say anything to it the doors to the bridge open and Sam walks in. He sees the bewildered faces of the crew and asks himself what has Dean done now, because that can be the only reason that they look at him like they saw the yeti.
It probably is a good idea to change the mood of the crew by giving them something new to think off. "Dean we are finished with the repairs and I have a possible course."
Dean looks at his brother and knows what he is doing, probably not the worst idea to distract the crew. He sends him a grateful glance, before he orders. "Thanks, Sam. Please, give the coordinates to Ash so he can set the course." As answer Sam nods, walks to Ash and gives him the input.
"All set." Ash declares after some moments.
"Good, punch it." Dean tells him as Sam takes the seat of the pilot. Dean knows that he needs every advantage against Nero he can get. So he declares. "Sam you have the con. I will be in engineering." without waiting for an answer he makes his way to the section.
Maybe Bobby has an ace up his sleeve with which they could increase the weapons. So that they would have more impact on Nero's ship than the others had or they have now.
As fast as he can he makes his way to his destination. Only minutes after he left the bridge he reaches engineering. As he enters Bobby is working on one of the consoles. As he heard the doors open he looks up. He was surprised to see Dean back in his area so soon. "What can I do for you?" he asks him after he covered up his surprise. But Dean saw it nevertheless, but didn't react to it.
He simply steps to his side and asks him "Do you know or have a way to improve the weapons?"
"Why?" he wants to know.
"Because with what we have now, the next engagement will not end differently than the first one." was Deans answer and Bobby nods in understanding, especially because he himself thought the same. But he didn't have anything that could improve the weapons, so he shakes his head in defeat. Dean sighed, that wasn't what he wanted to hear. But if he can't improve his active measures, maybe they can improve the defensive elements. "Ok and if I ask you to strengthen the shields?" he ask after some moments of thinking.
That was the right question, because on Bobby's face starts a feral smile, like he wanted to be asked that. Bobby answer was. "I was working on increasing the shields for a long time, but Captain Miller hated my experimental ideas so he never let me put them in motion."
"You have a go now" Dean says to that. While he asks himself, why many of the Star Fleet Captains only accept the status quo and don't use the knowledge of their crew to improve the status quo. He would never make that mistake. Dean knows that he only is one man, who can make a difference, but for that he needs help on the way from all sides he can get. The crew and him or better his attitude would need some time to get used to each other, but he believes that they will see and learn that he will take their ideas in consideration. This situation with Bobby is a way to show them that. But time is a factor at the moment so needs to know, how long it will take. "How long?"
Bobby thinks a moment about his answers. He only has to implant and activate the new modules which he created in his spare time and that shouldn't take long. "20 minutes tops." he estimates.
That is way shorter than the trip to Earth with warp speed factor one. Dean didn't want to left too many elements behind so that they can't be spotted as easy. So the time Bobby needs to increase the defensive modes is not a problem. He welcomes it. "Good, go to work." he orders.
"Eye, Sir." Bobby says with a smile, because he is happy that he finally can test his inventions and make the ship better in the process. Bobby likes this new Captain more with every moment. Dean isn't one minded, thinks outside the box and isn't as formal as other Captains. In other words a man he easily can respect. With that he steps away from his Captain and begins his work. Dean lets him be and makes his way back to the bridge. On the way he changes his direction for another destination.
Delta Vega
It took some time stomping through the icing desert, not really in matters of time but exhaustion, they only were on the move for 10 minutes. But the low icy temperature gave Jim the impression like he walked for hours and that was exhausting. They didn't talk, Jim just followed Spock. It still was so unbelievable to Jim that Spock apparently now has an older self in this time. Time travel is so fucking confusing and altering apparently. Everything has a good and bad side, but Jim is more than happy to have Dean and Izzy in his life, even at the cost of his parents.
After walking for some time they reached the outpost, which was almost as good as an oasis in the desert to Jim at the moment. It is simply too cold, at least this time they weren't mistaken for food and simply could walk their way. After they entered they tried to talk to the alien being, but it simply starred at them before it turned around and run away from them. Of course Spock followed, so Jim had to follow as well.
But he wasn't so sure that this outpost was inhabited in any way it simply could be an abandoned by the Federation. As they walk into a large room, that looks more like a hall to Jim, he was surprised to see that he was wrong. There really was someone here, even if it only was one person. They step to him, but before they even can say so as much as a hello, the person says in outraged way. "What?" his face looked offended. "You realize how unacceptable this is."
Spock didn't react to it as he says. "Fascinating."
At the same time Jim asks after he looks with an unbelievable glance at the Vulcan. "What?" Because why would someone be outraged by meeting them at the first time. Not even Jim himself has such a reputation at least not that he knows of.
"I am sure you are just doing your job, but could you not have come sooner. Six months I been here, living of star fleet protein ration and the promise of a good meal and I know what exactly is going on here. Punishment isn't it, ongoing, for something that clearly was an accident." he says while he takes a sip from his drink.
"You are Montgomery Scott." Spock says matter-of-factly.
"You know him?" Jim wants to know, but he gathers that Spock probably knew him in the future or something like that.
"Yeah that's me. You are in the right place or is there another hard working starved Star Fleet officer around here." Scotty points out.
"Me." The creature states, like he doesn't want to be overlooked and defiantly crosses his arms in front of his chest.
"Shut up. You don't eat anything, you eat like bean, that's it and you are done, I am talking about food here, real food." Scotty tells the creature in a mock outrage, before hopefully looks back at Spock. "You are here now, thank you, so where is it?"
Spock simply ignored it and goes on like nothing else happened. "You are in fact the Mr. Scott that postulated the theory of trans-warp-beaming."
It is good to be recognized for his work, with a smile Scotty answers. "That's what I am talking about. How do you think I ended up here?" A rhetorical question of course, but it got Jims interest. "I had a little debate with my instructor about relativistic physics and how I apply it to subspace travel. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a grapefruit from one planet to another planet in the same system is hard, what is easy by the way and I told him I could do it with a life form. So I tested it on Admiral Archers priced beagle!"
Wow, that really is interesting; Jim thinks and hopes that Scotty didn't test his theory on the nice dog, but h gut is telling him otherwise. "I know that dog, what happened to him?" tells him.
A little embarrassed Scotty takes a sip from his drink again and says with slightly less proud in himself tune. "I tell you, when he shows up again. I feel a little bit guilt about that."
Ignoring Scotts rambling, Spock declares. "What if I told you that your trans-warp-theory was correct? That it is indeed possible to beam on to a ship that is traveling at warp speed."
Scott looks unbelievable at him. "I think if that equation would have been discovered, I would have heard about it." he states after a moment. Jim simply watches the interaction between the two them; it was almost like a tennis match.
"The reason you haven't heard about it, is because you haven't discovered it yet." Spock declared matter-of-factly.
Now Jim was shocked, he didn't think that Spock would tell him about him being from the future. But Jim looks at Scotty to see his reaction, but he surprises him. The man in question simply states as in a casual way like he asks about the weather. "Are you from the future?"
Not to be up stood by Spock like that, Jim declares in the same way. "He is" pointing at Spock, before he goes on. "I am not."
That is all Scotty needed to hear. "That's brilliant, do they still have sandwiches there. …" A joke always is a good way to accept a new reality and to learn that time travel is possible is definitely a new reality for the Star Fleet engineer. But he isn't the only one, who has to rap his head around that fact. But Scott is a science officer and as such he has a little idea, what is or could be possible and not in physics.
Again, Spock ignores the other men stoically. He doesn't have time for such childishness at the moment. Nero is at large and still on the rise. So he declares. "We need you to get to the Enterprise." With that Spock walks further into the hall to take a look around and fond what he was looking for. After some feet he turns around and says. "We will use that." he points at the shuttle. "To beam on the Enterprise."
Accepting the fact for now, Jim and Scotty follow him. Scotty always was a man, who hates tension, tries to lighten the mood a bit. "Well the Enterprise is a wiped doggy … So the enterprise had her first voyage, she is one well and nice lady, I like to get my hand on her nibble hand cells if you pardon the engineering parlors." They enter the shuttle and Scotty watches Spock work on a terminal, as he starts to pace through the room as he declares. "Except that thing is even if I believe in where you from and what I have done, which I don't by the way, we are still talking about beaming on the Enterprise while she is traveling faster than light without a proper receiving pad. The motion of trans-warp-beaming is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet while wearing a blind fold while riding a horse." he ends his pace on Spock's side and takes a look at the equation on the screen. His curiosity was peaked as he asked. "What's that?"
"You equation for achieving trans-warp-beaming." Spock tells him.
Now Scotty was perplexed and that doesn't happen often. "Imagine that, it never occurred to me that space is the thing that was moving."
With that equation Scott can accept that it will work. The numbers speak for themselves, so he accepts his faith. Jim and Scott get ready on the transporter. But Spock didn't so Jim had to ask. "You are coming with us, right?"
"No Jim that is not my destiny." was his answer.
That is bullshit of a great magnitude, like Jim had never heard before. He knew that without this Spock here, Jim will have problems explaining himself. Yeah, fat chance that Jim will land himself in the brig this way. "Your destiny … he, the other Spock, is not going to believe me, you have to explain what is happening."
"Under no circumstances can he be made aware of my existence. You must promise me this."
"You are telling me I can't tell you that I am following your own orders. Why not, what will happen?" This whole situation is getting worse and worse by the minute, Jim thought.
"Jim this is one rule you cannot break. To stop Nero you alone must take command of your ship." Spock declares vehement.
"How, over you dead body?" Jim asks sarcastically. Not that he didn't like to kill the Vulcan once or twice, since he had the pleasure to meet him, but he wouldn't follow this urges, no matter, how hard Spock tried to get on his nerves, which he does all the time.
With a slight smile Spock says. "Preferable not." So far Jim has to say that he liked this version of Spock better, than the newer model as the other man goes on. "However there is Star Fleet regulation 619." Jim groans, where is Izzy when you need her. Regulations are not Jim's fortune. "619 states that any commanding officer, who is emotionally compromised by the mission at hand must resign said command."
Yep, here comes the brig for him, Jim thinks to himself, but he plays it down. "So you are saying that I have to emotionally compromise you."
With a sentimental voice Spock declares. "Jim I just lost my planet, I can tell you that I AM emotionally compromised. What you must do is to get me to show it." If that would be so easy, but if Jim can do one thing very good, that it is to annoy the hell out of people, if he wants too. So he should get the new Spock to show his feelings. Let's only see what will happen to him after he pulls that stunt.
Scott, brings Jim out of his thoughts again as he says. "Eye laddie, ride or die, let's get this over with."
That sums the situation up like nothing else, but one thing Jim has to get off his chest, before they went on their merry way. "Coming back in time … changing history … that is cheating." It felt so good to say it.
Spock took it with humor. "A trick I learnt from an old friend." We will see about that, Jim thinks. Not that he believes that he would ever see eye to eye with Spock. But never say never, because you never know; his relationship status is the best example for that. "Live long and prosper." With the activation of the beamer, they were on their way.
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