HEARTS OF STEEL
by Gunman
Disclaimer: I do not own Colossus, X-Men, Star Trek (2009), or their characters.
Summary: Colossus rescues Galia from the destruction of The Farragut.
Inspired by 'Caught In The Web' by FrivolousThoughts, and 'Everyone Loves Spidey' by Maximus-Reborn.
I'm not sure that 'Gazera' is Gaila's last name, but I thought it was a good addition.
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Chapter 11
Gaila Gazera
The Farragut continued to be bombarded by the missiles from the massive Romulan ship.
At her station, the lone red-haired Orion woman named Gaila, wearing a red dress that was a little shorter than normal, was jostled and then tossed out of her seat.
"This is the captain speaking! Abandon Ship! Repeat: Abandon Ship! All crews report to their designated emergency shuttles!" the captain shouted over the intercom.
Gaila scrambled to her feet, wincing as she felt a pain in her ankle.
"Oh, great! I twisted it!" she gasped.
Chaos quickly ensued.
Lights were flashing, alarms were blaring, damaged circuits and wires were sparking, several holes had been blown in the hull of their ship and were sucking people into space itself, and all around her crew men and women were running towards the evacuation shuttles. Most of them were ignoring her in favor of their own lives.
I'm not going to make it. She thought. "AHH!" she cried out as someone running knocked her down.
For several loud seconds she laid on the floor of the ship. Helpless and injured as everyone around her ran to get to the emergency shuttles.
Suddenly, she felt her body lift off the ground, a pair of strong arms carrying her down the hallways. She looked up and saw that the person carrying her was a tall and muscular man in a red shirt and black pants. He had short dark-brown hair and blue eyes.
Her first thought, naturally, was that he was incredibly cute.
She also had to admit that it was noble of him to rescue her, as she was sure she didn't know who he was.
She knew she had never slept with him.
The large red shirt eventually reached a shuttle, where five other people were waiting for him.
"Strap in, Pete! We're ready to go!" the young man at the helm shouted.
Gaila looked around and noticed that there was one woman with pink streaks in her black hair and green eyes, amongst the other men. She was wearing a blue dress, suggesting she was on the medical staff.
The first was a man with long black hair and dark rings around his eyes. The second was a dark-skinned man with dread locks and holding a large gun in his lap. The third was a man with short dark hair with a burn scar on the left side of his face. The fourth man who was sitting at the helm had short dark blond hair and his face was covered by a neatly trimmed beard. Aside from that, the pilot was wearing a yellow shirt, while the others were wearing red shirts.
The last was the large man who had saved her life. Gaila was right next to him as the shuttle closed its doors and took off from the exploding ship.
The shuttle was suddenly rocked by the explosion, and started spinning wildly.
"Bobby! What's wrong?" woman in the blue dress shouted.
"The shuttle's sustained damage from the ship breaking up! Engines are out! Life support still functioning though!" Bobby shouted.
"What are we going to do?" the woman asked.
"Right now. Nothing. We can't retreat, and calling for help would be a bad idea. That Romulan ship is still out there. It tore The Farragut apart like tissue paper. I don't want to know what it'll do to us if it finds us."
"So we just sit out here and hope someone comes and finds us?" the dark-skinned man with the dreadlocks asked.
"Looks like. At least the Romulans aren't firing at us." Bobby said.
"Why would they? We're obviously not a threat to them." the crewman with the fire scar said.
"Don't worry, we'll be out of this soon." the large man who had saved Gaila said.
"How can you be so sure?" Gaila asked.
"I can't. I just have hope." he said.
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The shuttle continued to drift through the debris field even as the last Starfleet ship dropped out of warp.
The crew of the shuttle was then shocked to find out that their communications had also been damaged, and that they were missed by The Enterprise when it passed over them.
"Why aren't they coming to help us?" Blink asked.
"Because they're most likely engaged with that Romulan ship." Bobby said.
"So what do we do now? The engines are damaged, and the communications are all but shot." Sunspot said.
While the group was debating their situation, Gaila was quick to realize that this group was different than the ones she had encountered back at the Academy. She didn't know any of them, but they didn't seem any older than herself.
Eventually, she learned just how different and unique they were. Mostly because of the nick-names they used on each other.
Clarice Ferguson was the other woman on the shuttle, and she was a medical officer. Her nick-name was Blink.
Roberto Da Costa, the red shirt with the burn scars, was the engineer of the group, and his nick-name was Sunspot.
Bobby Drake the pilot of the group, was also skilled at navigation. His nick-name was Iceman.
James Proudstar, the red shirt officer with the long hair, was part of the ships security. His nick-name was Warpath. Gaila had seen the trench knives he had tucked behind his back.
Lucas Bishop, the dark-skinned man with the dreadlocks and large gun, was part of ship security as well, hence his red shirt. Most people just called him Bishop.
The last man, the one who had saved her, was named Piotr Rasputin, his nick-name was Colossus.
Gaila wondered if he was called that because he was larger than the others.
"Blink, can you get us onto The Enterprise before it leaves orbit?" Bobby asked.
"It's too far away. My portals can't reach that far." Blink said.
"Portals?" Gaila wondered.
"We need to move the shuttle closer to the ship." Bishop said.
"How?" Warpath asked.
"I can get out and push." Sunspot said.
The group looked at him for a few seconds, while Gaila wondered why no one was laughing at his odd suggestion.
"Okay. Let's do it." Bobby said.
What? They're serious? Gaila thought to herself.
"You won't have but a half-minute, even in your plasma form." Warpath said.
"I know. So I'd better be quick." Sunspot said as he put on his space suit.
Once he was suited up, Sunspot stepped into the airlock and then jettisoned himself outside. Gaila was surprised to see that Piotr was also going with him.
"Alright, Roberto. Get ready to push." Bobby said into the communicator.
"Just tell me in which direction." Sunspot said from outside the shuttle.
"Angle 62 degrees starboard and then straight through." Bobby said.
"Through the debris field?" he asked.
"That's why Colossus is there with you." Bobby said.
Gaila suddenly felt the shuttle moving towards The Enterprise. Looking out the window, she saw the Piotr was on the nose of the shuttle, and was actually knocking large pieces of debris away from them with his fists.
Within less than a minute the shuttle was close enough to the starship that Blink sprang into action. Throwing her hands forward she somehow opened up a hole in space, the other side of this hole looking like the inside of The Enterprise itself.
"Let's go!" Bobby shouted as he jumped through the portal. Bishop, Warpath, who helped Gaila through the portal, and Blink was the last one through.
The portal closed, only for Blink to open up another portal, this time allowing Gaila and the others to see outside into space itself. She gasped when she saw the much larger Piotr carrying an unconscious human form, minus a space suit, in his arms, as he jumped towards the portal. He passed through it with ease and landed hard on the ground, right before the portal closed.
Gaila gasped as she saw that the unconscious human form was Roberto. But what had happened to his suit?
"Blink! Is he going to be alright?" Bobby asked.
"He's not breathing!" she said to him.
"Here! Let me." Warpath said as he stepped forward and placed his hand on Roberto's chest. He then raised his hand up and hit Roberto's stomach, hard.
"OOOMP!" Roberto cried out in pain.
"He's alive." Bishop smiled.
"Yeah. Instead of suffocation, I've got a broke rib." Roberto coughed.
"Sorry, Sunspot." Warpath said.
"Yeah... whatever." Sunspot laughed as Blink and Warpath helped him up.
Gaila looked around and noticed that while they were on The Enterprise, it looked like it had seen better days.
"We need to check in with the captain." Bobby said.
"Right." Piotr said as he removed his helmet.
Gaila gasped when she saw that his face was now pure metal.
"What... what happened to you?" she asked him.
"Oh. This? It's my power."
"Power?" she asked.
"I can change my body into living steel. Makes me invulnerable, and makes me stronger." he explained.
"How much stronger?" she asked.
"Well..."
CRACK!
"Look out!" Bobby shouted as a large I-Beam sudden cracked loose from the ceiling and fell towards them. Specifically Gaila and Piotr.
Colossus moved quickly and held his arms up, catching the large beam with both hands and holding it over himself and Gaila.
The green-skinned woman just gasped as she saw exactly what he had meant by 'stronger'. That beam had to weigh at least a couple of tons.
Colossus set the beam down easy and turned back to Gaila.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"That's the third time you saved my life." she said.
"Third time?" he asked, confused.
"First on The Farragut, then when you cleared the debris field so that we could reach The Enterprise, and just now when you caught that beam. I think I'm in love!" she gushed as she smiled at him.
"Uh..." Piotr stuttered as his friends just laughed a little. "How about we date first?" he offered.
"Oh? A gentleman. I'm up for that too." she said with a smile, but clearly planning something for later on.
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Authors Notes:
And here's another chapter with another pairing. This time, featuring the green-skinned woman from Star Trek (2009) that Jim Kirk was making out with before Uhura walked in on them.
This was mostly me wanting to do a Star Trek chapter with another underused character. Hope everyone likes this.
And I also included the other members of the X-Men team.
I probably should have given them more backstory and interactions, but given the situation, I thought this was enough.
Hopefully, I'll do more later on.
Please read and review.
