Chapter 18
I got kicked off the ship T.T Review so I can be happy?
- Cat
Cat POV
Once again, being friends with Jim ending up being a terrible choice. I woke up groaning as I attempted to sit up. My head was pounding like it was some kind of bomb about to explode. I took in the location around me and froze. I was in one of the shuttles, the shuttle itself seemed broken if the large glacier that peeked through the entire front was any clue.
To my left was the window, which just showed miles of ice. To my right was Jim, snoring away, as well as the shuttle door. Behind me was the emergency supplies, so I crawled towards it and opened it. Inside was of course the basics, food and water, however it also had some clothes for colder planets, and some communicators. I took out a jacket, gloves, hat, and boots for me and Jim. I checked his size using the tags on the clothes he currently wore. Then I dressed myself and went to wake Jim.
Jim stubbornly refused to wake and smacked my hand away as I was shaking him. So being his closest friend I opened the shuttle door and dragged him into the snow. I at least put on his gloves before I did it so that when he went to get up his hands wouldn't get as cold. He jumped up as soon as the snow touched him and yelped in surprise. I stood in the doorway of the shuttle laughing as I packed my pockets full of the supplies. He quickly figured out what happened and glared at me as he stood up. I stopped what I was doing and handed him his jacket, hat, and boots. He grumbled like Bones but forgave me and quickly dressed.
"Where are we?" I asked Jim trying to shake off the headache the was still present at the back of my head.
He walked over to the control panel "Computer, where am I?" He asked.
"Location: Delta Vega. Class M planet: Unsafe." The soft robotic feminine voice of the computer chimed in "There is a Starfleet outpost 14 km to the northwest. Remain in your pod."
"Oh, you've gotta be kidding me." I said completely aspirated. "Can you believe Rebecca would knock me out and allow Captain Spock to marooned us here"
"Yes, I actually can." He told me. "Doesn't she have some like crush on him or whatever?"
"I would call it an unhealthy obsession." I said. We then fell into a compatible silence and plowed through the snow. I couldn't help but noticed how much snow and ice-covered this plant. Up above you could see a beautiful blue sky that contrasted with the white on the ground.
I tuned back in to listen to Jim talking into his communicator "Star date 2258.42. For... for whatever reason. Acting captain Spock has marooned me and Caitlin on Delta Vega. What I believe to be a violation of security protocol 49. Governing the treatment of prisoners aboard a starship."
He stopped and looked around I waited for him to absorb the situation and twiddled my thumbs. He took a minute, but then made his plan to survive. As he made the plans I finished getting the emergency supplies and took my communicator. When he finally finished he said "Okay, you got the supplies. We'll walk northwest towards that large mountain and maybe get a better view of where we are."
"Of course Captain." I replied and messed with my communicator and tried to contact anyone for help. By the time we reached the mountain we figured the signal was blocked by the storm that was starting. Jim surveyed the area and I continued to mess with the communicator. While I did this, Jim somehow managed to piss off the largest creature possible. So we desperately ran, adrenaline pumping through us and fell down a steep slope of the mountain.
"JIM why must you always make the creatures mad?" I angrily screamed out as we tumbled down the mountain.
"Who cares, just RUN!" he answered as we got on our feet and ran towards a nearby cave. The creature sadly followed us into the cave and ended up grabbing Jim by the ankle with his tongue. I watched in horror as it dragged Jim closer to his mouth. I was desperately trying to find something that would take the monster down but with no luck, where was the phaser when you needed one. It seems like the odds were in our favor today because this man came out from the back of the cave with a torch in his hand waving it in the air like he just didn't care.
The creature did not like this one bit as it let go of Jim and went running away. The strange man who I now realized was a Vulcan and looked oddly familiar, but who cares, He had a kind of had a triumphant look on his face and he turned to look at us. I decided I needed to lighten up the mood as I threw my hands up in the air and screamed "Yay, I did it!."
The two chose to ignore my outburst sadly. The old Vulcan had an astonished looked on his face as he went to speak "James T. Kirk. and Caitlin Brizell"
"Excuse me?" Jim responded and took a step back on the slippery floor of the cave almost falling in the process.
"Wow, I had no idea I was so famous." I said striking some ridiculous pose. I could feel the eye roll they gave me.
"How did you find me?" he said still astonished.
"How do you know my name?" Jim questioned back.
"mhmm" I added snapping my fingers. I was only doing this because I felt left out.
"I have been and always shall be your friend." the old guy said as if that was supposed to mean anything.
"Caitlin?" I heard a voice that I recognized right away.
I turned and looked at the source of the sound to find an old Vulcan woman. When I realized who she reminded me of I ran over to her, dropped to the ground and wrapped my arms around her legs. "Rebecca!, What happened to you." I cried out "You are so old, I will find a way to turn you back to your wonderful young self." I finished this statement by whispering "The horror~."
I looked up at her to see her smiling at me for a moment before she kicked me off me off her legs "Get off." I heard her mutter.
"Who are you?" Jim asked the man.
"I am Spock." The man said
"Bullshit." Jim stated.
"It is remarkably pleasing to see you again old friend." He said kindly "Especially after the events of today."
"Sir, I- I appreciate what you did for me today, but If- if you were Spock, you'd know we're not friends at all. You hate me, you marooned me here for mutiny." Jim said sounding rather confused about the whole situation. He looked at me for help and I just simply shrugged my shoulders.
"Mutiny?" The Rebecca look-a-like asked. She never did clarify if she was or not.
"Yep" I told her popping the P. "And you did the same thing, missy!" I yelled pointing an accusing finger at her. I enjoyed her reaction at the outburst as both her eyebrows rose up.
"You are not the captain?" Spock inquired.
"Ha, Jim the Captain on this mission, we were not supposed to be on the ship at all" I laughed at him.
"No, no, You're the captain. Pike was taken hostage." Jim said pointing to the older Spock.
"By Nero?" the women stated rather the asked.
"What do you know about him?" Jim asked narrowing his blue eyes at the Vulcans. Rebecca seemed to since his distrust from her past statement and throw her hand up in a mock surrender.
Old Spock started walking down into the deeper part of the cave till we reached the end. There was a nice fire and I quickly ran over to it to try to get warm. The woman came over and sat down on a block of ice. "Are you Rebecca? You never answered."
"You never asked, but yes I am, but not this time period's Rebecca" She explained.
Old Spock and Jim walked over and Spock started to explained "He is a particularly troubled Romulan. Please, allow me. It will be easier." He sauntered over to Jim.
He reached up to touch Jim's face, but he jumped away "Whoa, whoa, what are you doing?"
"Our minds, one and together." Spock explained. Jim still looked confused, but let him touch his face.
"What are they doing" I asked Rebecca after waiting for them to say or do something.
"A mind meld, Spock is showing Jim the memories on how Nero and us got here." She told me
"Aw, I want to see!" I exclaimed.
"I can tell you what Spock is telling him if that helps, but I will not go in your mind. I don't wanna know how you think." She said
"Alrighty" I eagerly replied awaiting for the story of a life time.
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- Rebecca