Author's Note:

Greetings and salutations good readers. Another bizarre event in the lives of our favourite starship crew and this time its Hikaru who has to deal with it. Thank you for your support of this story and I hope to have an update soon.

As always I own nothing.

Fluffy Command Crew

Hikaru Sulu was having a very strange day.

He'd been told to come up to the bridge because there had been an incident and knowing what things could be like he had rushed up to see what had happened. What he had found was quite odd even for the Enterprise.

There were several animals on the bridge.

Hikaru gaped for a minute before looking for someone like Spock who could explain what had happened but found that none of the Command Crew were present. He was distracted when a Border collie puppy bounded up to him giving small excited barks with its tail wagging furiously. It was about to jump up at him when it was intercepted by an adult wolf that seemed to gently admonish it and then usher it towards the Command Chair. The wolf then clambered into the chair and sat upright keeping an eye on the puppy that was still bouncing around in front of the chair and occasionally tripping over its own feet. On the chair's right arm a black cat sat perfectly straight and was fixing the wolf with a penetrating gaze, beside the chair's left side there was sat a tiger that was glaring at the wolf like it had done something wrong. The wolf appeared to then grin at the tiger which rolled its eyes as the cat raised a single eyebrow.

Hikaru addressed the replacement helmsman, "Lieutenant, what is going on here?"

The man turned and gave his report surprisingly calmly, "Things were functioning normally Lieutenant when Mr Scott came onto the bridge to show a device he'd been working on to the Captain. He was explaining to the Captain, Commander Spock, Lieutenant Uhura, Doctor McCoy and Ensign Chekov when it suddenly activated and then they were transformed into animals sir."

"Lieutenant, if the six of them are animals where are the other two, I only see four?"

"Lieutenant Uhura is underneath the communications station and Mr Scott is sitting on top of the engineering station."

He looked at the to places the helmsman had indicated and saw a cheetah underneath the comm. desk and a monkey sitting on the other station fiddling with some device which Hikaru assumed was the one that caused the transformations. Now knowing which ones Nyota and Scotty were he quickly worked out that the wolf was Jim, Spock was the cat, Leonard had become the tiger and Pavel was the collie pup and was apparently enjoying himself if his continued excited bouncing was anything to go by.

He made his way over to the comm. desk which Nyota was underneath, trying not to trip over Pavel as he went, and got in contact with science and engineering to get them to send some people up to look at the device. He then had to forcibly order a timid communications officer to man the station in place of Nyota, who had now gone to join the others by the Command Chair. He turned back to the chair to see cat Spock staring at him and he got the feeling that his performance was being rated, Jim wolf had left the chair and was now having a play dog fight with puppy Pavel while Doctor Tiger kept grumpily growling at them. Nyota cheetah was ignoring their antics as she sat next to the right side of the chair which Spock was perched upon and occasionally growled at them when they accidently bumped into her. There was a sudden yelping and clattering sound from the engineering station and everyone turned to see Scotty monkey chattering angrily at the device lying on the station with his fur all standing on end. Scotty then kicked the device and it fired out a load of sparks which caused another stream of most likely very inappropriate monkey language to come out of his mouth.

At that moment the science officers and engineers arrived, stopping only momentarily at the sight before them they headed over to where the device was still lying on the engineering station. When he saw them Scotty monkey snatched the device up and scampered of to a high point of the bridge where they couldn't reach him. He then let out another stream of monkey that Hikaru was certain went along the lines of 'I can do it myself' but with more insulting remarks directed at the less competent engineers. Hikaru tried to reason with him, "Mr Scott, I'm certain that you can fix this yourself but using their help might help you do it quicker."

He was treated more monkey language that he guessed wasn't very flattering to him; he wondered what he could do to appease the furrier CEO when a meow came from Spock. It wasn't a very loud meow but it carried a tone that demanded everyone's attention and everyone dutifully looked to the very well presented cat. Spock's gaze however was fixed on Scotty and he continued to stare the Scotsmonkey down until the engineer let out a huff and came down from his perch, he settled back down on the engineering station and pointed at Ensign Harvard. Harvard and Hikaru quickly worked out what Scotty was saying and the ensign hurried over to the station as Hikaru dismissed the others, Spock also made his way gracefully over to the station to assist the other two and Hikaru left Harvard to try and interpret the wild flailing and chattering of a Scottish monkey and the gazes and occasional meows of an emotionless Vulcan cat.

He turned back to the other four who had stopped what they were doing to watch the scene and found that Jim and Pavel had returned to their play fight. Doctor Tiger had turned his back on them while Nyota cheetah was watching with amusement. Soon Jim wolf rolled into Leonard who must have decided that enough was enough because he pounced on Jim and joined the fray forcing Nyota to hastily pick puppy Pavel up in her jaws to rescue him from the now much more competitive match. She deposited him safe distance from the flailing mess of wolf and tiger and they both settled down to watch the outcome. Hikaru sighed and sat in the Command Chair, knowing that Jim and Leonard wouldn't actually hurt each other and that there was no way he could stop them anyway he took command of the bridge.

It took several hours but they eventually managed to reverse it but not without some incidents first.

Pavel eventually got bored watching Jim and Leonard's never ending wrestling match and managed to escape the bridge. This led to a frantic search of the ship and they found him being menaced by the goose who did not appreciate being bounced by a collie pup. Thankfully Jim, Nyota and Bones had also joined the search and ran to the puppy's rescue growling and snapping at the goose causing it to flee in terror, not even the dreaded goose was brave enough to face off against an angry wolf, tiger and cheetah all at once. The device also shocked Scotty, Spock and Harvard several times leading to the very funny sight of a Vulcan cat with all its fur standing on end while trying to look sensible and calm. Jim and Hikaru also had a falling out over who should be sitting in the Command Chair and eventually Hikaru was left standing while a very smug looking wolf sat in it. Soon after Pavel seemingly used up all his energy and settled down to sleep next to McCoy treating the bridge to the adorable sight of a puppy curled up next to a tiger. When it was eventually reversed McCoy wasted no time in dragging all of them down to Medbay to get checked out and life returned to what consisted as normal on board the Enterprise.

Though after the third time he found a dog's chew toy waiting for him at his station Pavel was seriously tempted to find out who left it there and ram it up their nose.

PS-So I hope you enjoyed that and please let me know what you think. If you're wondering why Jim wasn't scared of Spock when he has a phobia of cats then my excuse is that he knows its Spock and not a real cat.