The Past Meets The Future-Changing History
Disclaimers: I don't the the shows, the story belongs to everything else belongs to the creators and the movie companies.
Warning: This is going to be the aftermath to the trial as the academy leader sees the truth. While Wesley is cleared of all charges, while the girls are exposed for the liars they are when the truth comes out now. But within the new timeline there's going to several of the key episodes in this, leading up to the season eight and Ra's forced off earth for good.
But the episodes used are going to be the pilot episode, Enemy Within, The Nox, Enigma, the Orbital attack series. When Jolinar makes an appearance, and the episodes that did damage to the team's bonds with him. As the trio get a chance to fix their original mistakes with him in Steven Raynor's case. As they deal with things over the years, as Daniel is now working in the military.
He's around to help them out, but he, Catherine Langfod and Ernest Littlefield, as well as the members that we saw in the movie, are going to be in the expedition. Although Elizabeth Weir is joining the team as well, and they and their team head for Atlantis later on.
But from here, the preparations start coming faster as they deal with the loose ends before the reset now. As each event in the duo's lives together takes place between the accident to the activation of Ra's Stargate. The events will start speeding up as they meet their allies, before the movie.
Chapter 36: The Truth Comes Out Part III
"This is Cadet Alberts to Ensign Dayton, priority one message." he said and five minutes later they saw Dayton appear and he smiled as he looked at the duo. "Hey guys what's going on if you contacted me?" he asked and Wesley explained that. "Nick's obsession with trying to get passed your image has resulted in serious problem here, Bill, he's trying to beat you as his rival and as for why now."
"He decided, for the commencement demonstration, on attempting the Kolvoord Starburst here." he told and he quickly answered that. "What, is he out of his mind right now, it takes years to get that much training to pull it off here. I mean it works and sure, but if it doesn't one or all of you could be killed." he said and Wesley nodded as he answered him at that remark as he said it to him.
"Yeah I know, but we may have to go to undercover work here at the moment, because if it does, and we're him reporting for breaking orders. It doesn't and another cadet is killed it's the same and I'm turning him into the inquiry. As the academy psychologist does it and sees him as he's suffering an inferiority complex regarding you, but the girls decided to go with it at the moment."
"But it's either he's speaking for himself or al three of them once the aftermath of this hits. But if one of us is killed in the line of duty here, at least we have them recieving the consequences for breaking orders." he said and Dayton nodded. "Yeah alright you want me to tell the sextet or just wait on this?" he asked and they both sighed as he answered him as he said it then.
"No don't tell them, not yet, if I'm the one who has to be the undercover agent, I'm telling the captain if and when he figures it out. Getting passed them, once I tell Deladier that I'm relieving him of squad command is the biggest problem. And you're getting in next week, so with that, if he keeps interfering in my telling them, it's just making it clear he's desperate to keep the truth hidden."
"And from getting out, so just wait till I see and we and Robin and Jake can finish this together. But either way, it's not going to turn into that added problem, because I'm not Nova, I'm gamma and I'm making sure they get the consequences for this." he said and he nodded. "Yeah alright, ill see you next week, just let me know how it went." he said and Wesley nodded to him.
"Will do, see you next week man." he said and he nodded as the transmission ended and he looked at Josh. "Alright we're doing this, but we can't tell the inquiry till they figure out what caused the accident if there is one. But it either works or it doesn't. But either way, they're getting the consequences and we're turning them in." he said to him and Josh nodded in agreement to that remark as he said it.
"Well we better get to work on this now." he said and Wesley nodded as they left his quarters. "To answer the unasked question we were going to join the others for practice in this, but we started off easy with the Yeager loop and then tried it. But we got the first half of it right, before we tried the plasma blast." he said and she nodded as she crossed her as she answered him at that remark gently as she said it to him.
"At the current moment I wish you told us what you were doing, so we could prevent this incident from getting out of hand. Alright show it to me." Brand said and he nodded as it moved forward then as they saw him in space. As they watched the quintet performing each maneuver as they watched him perform the loop, before they tried the maneuver, before they heard the debate then as they saw a close up view of Alberts.
"Nick you got it too close together, pull back a bit." They heard from Josh as they heard him then. "No we got it right, this is how Commander O'neill tried it." he said and Geordi looked at him. As he said it, in shock, at that remark as he repeated that. "How J.J. tried it, the idiot doesn't know the first thing about physics here, he's a helm jockey, not a physicist, that stupid idiot tried it at this angle 14 years ago."
"And it nuked Damian Reynolds's engine when it happened." he said and Wesley nodded as he repeated that remark. "No we don't, it's supposed to be another five meters apart, pull back a bit, now. The angle needs to back another five meters, pull back another 15 feet, Nick. Listen to me, we try it at this angle, it's going to nuke someone's engine, pull back." he said sternly and he snapped at him at that.
"No I'm the leader of this team, if this doesn't work, we try again." he said and Wesley sighed as he looked at the crew and the committee members at that. "We never got that second chance, because it never worked. The squadron was destroyed after this his arrogance did the very same thing that Rico caused on the movie." He said and they nodded to him as he heard his voice snap at him at that remark to him.
"You idiot, this could get us killed, we have to pull back, Damian Reynolds was killed when they tried it at this angle. So forget it we're not making their mistakes or it could kill us as well so forget it. Josh stay put, we're not doing this. Aside from that I'm reporting this directly to the admiral for your breaking orders." he snapped and they heard Jean quote the lost cadet's remarks at that.
"Any time something goes wrong, it's always you, Crusher!" she snapped at him coldly at that. "Yeah and that's maybe because I don't take un-necessary risks Hajar, this is illegal. If we don't get it right, it could kill one or all of us..., Nick I mean it, if this goes wrong and it's on your head." he snapped as they watched the duo swallow as they got the first half of the maneuever right as they went to it.
"Oh dear god no, pull back boys, pull back." Alberts said as they watched as they went into a star formation, before they let loose the plasma burst, as the explosion threw Wesley ten yards away from it as it lit up Alberts's engine causing it to catch fire. "Josh, turn on the flame retardant, your engine's on fire, do it now!" Wesley shouted, before they saw a close up view, his head lying against the wall of his cockpit.
"No, Josh wake up, Josh, Josh!" they heard him scream out as he tried to fly to him as his ship exploded as the blast threw him into the wall of his cockpit as he was knocked unconscious then. "Oh my god, that's what happened, you tried to save him and before you could get to him, the blast threw you into the side of your cockpit. The medical report the nurse gave me was the explosion ended up breaking your arm."
"As well as second degree burns from your starfighter instruments exploding and a second degree concussion. From getting knocked into the cockpit wall." Beverly said and he nodded as they nodded softly. "So my son got knocked unconscious and you were going to put the fire out on his engine, but before you could do anything. The ship exploded and you were knocked out yourself?" Alberts added and he nodded to him.
"To save him I risked my own life, but they froze up, I was the one willing to save his life by risking my own. But it's their fault, I tried to tell them that the maneuver was too close together, had I been killed in the explosion. And you all would have sued their parents for this and they'd be expelled from the academy anyway." he said and sighed as he turned to Picard as he finished his remark gently as he looked at him.
"When you came to the academy, I decided that I was going to show you what happened at the time. I didn't give a damn if he thought I was betraying them, because I warned him what was going to happen here if that did happened. But his arrogance, incompetence and negligence cost Josh his life and I was turning them into you. Your opinions are what mattered most to me at the time, but regarding the no win."
"It hit me hard enough I felt like I was seeing the Yamato when it exploded, like always I always needed you regarding these things, but this time. I wasn't just in shock. I was beyond sick to my stomach that his decisons cost Josh his life and I had to see you Sir, I needed to get it out of my system. So I had to see the seven of you right then, but here's the aftermath of the explosion." he told him and Picard nodded to him gently.
"You were remembering the Yamato when you saw his ship explode?" Deanna repeated and he nodded. "It was like two hours later that I went to talk to the captain, he was giving me the guidance to stay focused. But the guilt, and the grief, was eating away me now, and I knew one thing and only one thing. And it was I needed you six right then, this was no accidental explosion, now, the maneuver was full of flaws here."
"It's like the Iconian computer virus, but this time thanks to reckless endangerment, ill conceived timing and negligence the maneuver cost another cadet his life. I tried to save him and I'm nearly killed in the explosion as well, so one way or another, I had to see you guys and fast. I needed all of you more than I needed those fools, because of a single thing, because of the way we were together in year two during my training."
"You pulled me through then, and I needed you now to recover emotionally from yet the loss of another friend. With one of our crew now gone, and mom back, it was, if anyone could help me heal from this emotionally, it was and would always be you guys. The me you remember then in year two, and after the aftermath of the game had shoved this me out of the way, and I felt like a 15 to 16 year old boy who needed his parents now."
"Real and adopted, I needed to see you now so I could get it out of me, because you were my family, the ship was home. And his decision, like Etana's attempt, nearly took it away from me. Though I don't doubt, had we chosen this to reset the timeline, the guilt, the fact that I felt like I let all of you down would have me choose to end my career. 18 months before graduation at the time, if the traveler was interfering in my training."
"Choosing the quick and easy path, but not going to happen now, I get that second chance to fix our bonds here." he said and the sextet nodded softly as Geordi gripped his shoulder gently at that. "Added side effects of growing that close together at the time, the attachment reaches the point you never want to let go now. We spent one year growing closer and I think we both knew what was going to change when it did."
"Because it only made us overly protective of us you at the time, but were you just waiting for us to realize what caused the explosion. And you were going to tell us to confirm that information at the time?" he asked and Wesley noddded. "Yes I was, but trying to get out of their manipulations was getting harder by the minute now. I was going to tell you right off the bat, but he laid that one liner to me."
"And I said I can't do what they want, but she said I didn't have to lie, just don't volunteer any new information." he told him and Brand crossed her arms as she answered him. "A lie of ommission is still a lie though, you want to tell me the truth of the accident. So this was why you asked Captain Deladier to contact your mother and Jean Luc. You were going to tell us the second your crew arrived at the time."
"And even before I asked your crew to run the investigation, correct?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Aye Sir, to me I grew up a Starfleet born cadet, as a Starfleet born I knew the rules regarding this and I decided I was doing the right thing and turning them into you. Hearing my remark regarding this situation, it's, to them, the act that you squeal on your team mates and you're considered a traitor after that in their eyes."
"We've read up on history to know what this does, I tell you the truth, Sirs, and they think I'm a traitor, I don't and I have to live with the guilt of his death on my conscious, for life. I wanted to come forward all at once, I was trapped between a rock and a hard place. Till the captain gave me the nudge I needed to get passed this, and I was turning them in for lying to you and every other charge there was Sirs, but here it is."
"Josh never let us down, he agreed with me that the maneuever was too dangerous and we tried to tell him that. And he still wanted to try it like that, Josh never pulled away that fast, but they convinced themselves that the accident was his fault. To relieve themselves of the guilt, I was being the Starfleet born I was and coming forward. And telling you the truth, but I tried to tell him that the only chance of coming out of this."
"Was by coming to you, and telling you the truth together, but his attitude was, and he was saying this for them as well. They didn't want to come forward and they didn't have a problem with this. But if I did, then resign my application to the academy and walk away, but don't make them pay for my guilty conscious." he told her and she nodded slowly to the news as the original enterprise quintet crossed their arms at that.
"Yes I know and I heard that portion of the conversation when I was with Daniel, but that's still crossing the line. As Starfleet officers we have a duty to the truth, be it science, ethical or personal, we never lie and a lie of ommission is still a lie. With the fact you're the first one to come forward, that ends the trial in your case. But here's where it gets more serious for you girls." Picard said sternly at that as Geordi got his attention.
"Whoa, whoa wait a second here, Sir you better have a look at this, even though he was unconscious it was still filming, this must be the recorder, images now." Geordi said sharply, watching as he flipped the radio, before he slumped forward into the controls. They heard the conversation as he saw the trio turn as they heard the next remark. "We have do something here." They heard from Jean, before they heard Sito's remark.
"Josh's gone, we can't get Wesley back down to earth, without them asking why he's unconscious right now." she snapped at her, before Locarno snapped at both of them at that as they saw the pale look on his face. As they saw three starfighters come flying at them. "I take that was Deladier and the medical team coming to get you after the explosion?" Jenson said as he crossed his arms and Wesley nodded to him.
"Never mind, we have to tell them that the blast knocked him unconscious and fried Josh's engine." Locarno snapped as they heard their flight instructor say it sternly. "What the hell happened here, you three, and there better be a damned good reason at the moment." he said sharply to them. "The maneuver backfired, Josh was killed in the explosion and it knocked Wes unconscious, captain."
"We're fine though Wes was knocked around his cockpit." he told him and the older man nodded with a furious look. "Wesley, son, can you hear me?" he said gently as he watched him lift his head weakly. "Captain, Aye Sir, I can, but it's bad, I'm not sure how bad my injuries are. But I need my mother, now, if my ship is coming to the academy for the commencement demonstration, next week."
"I'm out of commission, physically and emotionally, the blast killed Josh, it nuked his engine, so I need to see my crew. And get Commander Alberts, he needs to know this as well. But this wasn't an accident, they chose a maneuver that back fired and one that was illegal, so with that in mind right now. I'm taking command of Nova squadron and we're on stand down till the hearing."
"Sir, if could you get word to my ship, let them know I'm injured and I need to see them, immediately. As of this moment, I'm relieving Cadet Locarno of his command effective immediately right now. And before we do the inquiry, and I'll explain what happened then, but I have to see the crew first. My captain and commander are not going to take it well when they hear this, believe me."
"In regarding broken rules and regulations, because this is as illegal as it gets, and despite the warnings, they still tried it." he asked and the older man nodded, not noticing the panicked looks on their faces at the remark and Picard nodded to that firmly. "Sure thing son, alright, you're now in charge of Nova squadron, and before you start arguing young man, ladies, my decision is final right now."
"As of this moment, Cadet Locarno, you're hereby relieved of duty of Nova Squadron, you three get back to earth, now." he said to them and they nodded. 'Alright forget this, I'm going right to my crew for this, I never wanted to be in the squadron anyway, I have to tell my mother and the quartet. The captain will know what to, but I'm not lying to him, I'm telling them when they arrive.'
"And when mom and the captain get into my room, they need to hear the truth regarding this, this was not my idea. The crew matters more to me, their lessons, I'm a Starfleet cadet. I have a duty to the truth, I have to tell them the truth. No matter if it's against being a friend in their eyes, a lie of omission is still a lie, I will not lie to my crew or the admiral in something this serious.'
"I'm telling mom and Captain Picard, I'm showing them the accident from my point of view.' they heard and the seven nodded firmly as Picard looked at him at that. "You were going to tell us the second we arrived, but before you could. He walked into your dorm room while Beverly was checking your arm. And I was making sure you were alright, you had to tell me as your captain." Picard said sharply and he nodded to him.
"Aye Sir, my captain, my crew, I lost two people I cared about and two friends, several issues on the job, but the one constant in my life was always you guys. After mom and I were transferred to the enterprise, you always told me if I was in trouble. Then to tell you what was wrong and I was going to do that, I was keeping my promise. But I needed your guidance and reassurance in this, before he screwed it up at the time."
"What you taught me was always so clear here at the time, as Starfleet officers we have a duty to the truth, be it science, ethical or personal. And a lie of omission is still a lie, I've never lied to any of you before and why start now. Because we investigate explosions or accidental murders, case in point was the Microbrain. It's we turned into an investigation agency, I knew the Admiral was about to ask you to get involved in this."
"So just to end it all at once, I was going to show you what happened and tell you the key details regarding this. And then be the mole on the team, the plant, as they incriminated themselves by their own words. But resign from the team offer to be the plant for you and expose the accident for what it was at the time. I was waiting for you to arrive and I was going to ask if you could bring me up here when you did."
"I was going to tell you the second you were in my room, before he walked in the door and I was hoping one of you was going to say, that I should be back up here. So you could hear the entire story, so I could get away from him and I could rest and recover in my own quarters. While at the same time I'm resigning from the team and telling you everything regarding this." he said and they both nodded as she answered him firmly.
"Well that explains a lot, after you woke up, you immediately asked to see us, knowing we weren't going to take it well when we heard this. That you're injured and you're suffering survivor's guilt and you're beyond ticked that because of them, Josh is dead. You needed to see me and Jean Luc immediately, and if I had thought to consider this, I'd have left Geordi in charge, as we did this." Beverly said with a growl at his remark.
"That's what happened, you tried to get to him so you put out the fire on his engine, but it exploded before you could do anything?" Deanna asked and he nodded to her sadly at that. Looking at him as she saw the tears pouring down his face, Will rested his hands on his shoulders gently. Before Wesley turned into him and he pulled him into a hug as he felt him shaking in grief as he said it to him gently as that as he said it softly.
"Shh, it's okay, it's okay, it's going to be okay, son." he said and he heard Wesley say it through his sobs then. "We should have headed back to earth regarding this, I told him what could happen if we tried it. One too many close calls regarding you, and though it was close I always had you six and mom, the team and the others. Everything was fine regarding training, not till leaving the ship, do I suffer my first true failure in this."
"And it's because I wasn't fast enough to get to him, one of my best friends is dead and it's because of him. I can't take lose anyone else and I won't now, I'm not letting go now." he said, through his crying as he buried his head into his shoulder. And Will nodded with a sigh at that. "Alright that tears it, Admiral I'm bringing him home, he needs to be with me and my friends and his crew, we have five days till the reset."
"And none of us are ever going to remember this after that, new start and a second chance, Dan is an ancient prodigy and from what Will told us. He's got the ability to control the elements, being able to control fire, and this was fire combustion. That's the only chance to prevent this from happening again and killing anyone." Beverly said and she nodded as they waited gently, before he settled as they switched it then.
"I don't want to remember any of this anyway, if Commander Jackson is carrying Doctor Jackson's memories regarding these things, it's enough. That, in addition to having the commander being my mentor, I've got someone, just like me. Someone that understands right now, I've never taken my phaser off stun since you started training me and why start now I, like Jake, Robin and Bill, are half soldier/half scientist, I'm not a soldier."
"I'm self defense, I don't do aggression that way." Wesley told her and she nodded as Will said it to him gently. "Yeah well it's not just him or Teal'C that are going to be here, you're also meeting the rest of my squadron when I was your age, but they're holding Sam and Lou Ferretti. You're meeting them in year two during your part time job on the ship that summer, as if that's not enough at the moment right now."
"The trio you met: Dana Satterfield, Jake Grogan and Sarah Hailey, they're grandparents are also joining the crew. So you got people just like you to hang around with now, though I can guarantee that Derek tries that twice and Marks and his clique start up again with treating you like that. It's enough they're all getting ejected before you told us the truth of your collapse when Devin was here." he said and Wesley nodded to him.
"Nice, though that one full year together with the duo here, it's going to be the same way regarding Tasha." he said and Geordi answered that. "You're not going to lose Tasha, because by the time we hit Armus, Daniel is going to be skilled at bringing people back from the dead. But the blast he hit her with knocked her into a coma, and in this time line, had she survived in our timeline, she'd be on life support for life after that."
"But in the next, he's bring her out of a coma, she's going to be fine here, so our senior staff crew is intact after that, and she's a supporting cast member after that. To answer your unasked question they're the names that come up after us. In the opening credits of the tv show, but the eight of us were the stars of show they created about us. Till you left for the academy and it was just your mother and the six of us after that."
"So with that, Guinan and Miles were our friends and our supporting cast members, she's joining them in this from now on after that. But everything of the last six years is getting redone now and with Daniel and Teal'C here, we've got two added hands to help out now. And it's less likely to turn into what it did now?" he said and Wesley nodded to him as Jake Kurland, who walked into the room behind them, decided to lighten up the mood.
"Hey Wes, you remember the group just behind us in high school up here?" Jake asked and Wesley nodded. "Yeah why exactly?" he asked and he smiled. "Because they blew up the science lab last week in chemistry class." he said and Wesley started laughing at that as he said it to him. "What happened to cause that exactly, because Fieldman made it clear to pay attention to what we're doing and not to screw around in there?"
"And watch what is we were doing, but so far in four years we had five, and it's always for the same reasons. So who was it this time, and what components were used, if they blew up another bunson beaker." he asked and Geordi chuckled as he answered him then. "It was Charlie Jacobs, Eric Taylor, they were both on the basketball, as for why and what happened this time, the duo were on academic probation on the team."
"They weren't paying to Fieldman in class and combined three chemicals that weren't compatible. With each other, into a bunson beaker and set the burner on high, I was talking to Jenny and Miles when we heard the explosion. And I saw the fire blast come flying down the Jeffries tube two minutes later into engineering that day. After running an investigation analysis on the beaker I saw that the chemicals were incompatible."
"With each other, but the chemicals combined together were potassium, sodium and glycerin." he said and he nodded. "Aw god, they're lucky they didn't hurt anyone, but you had that list on the wall since I was in high school. Regarding which ones were and were not compatible with each other and these three together. But setting the bunson burner on high with these three together was dangerous and you told us for years."
"Not to try that, I guess the guy that did was failing his class and if he wanted stay on the team. He had to get his grades up and wasn't paying attention to Professor Fieldman's lecture to know that these chemicals are a dangerous combination when set on fire." he said laughing and they nodded. "Yeah that's what happened alright, but Daniel and Sam had the very same reaction you did when they heard this information."
"And they're looking forward to being part of the crew now as a result of it." Will said smiling and Wesley nodded. "Jake I swear, you trying that with the shuttle was enough to give us all a heart attack. I know you felt like you were ready to try this without adult supervision, but you were still in training regarding flying lessons here at the time." Geordi told him with a bemused look on his face and he nodded with a sigh.
"My best friend was taking his entrance exam, I wanted to be with him." he said and Will ran his hand through his hair as he answered him. "I realize that, but to do that you had to be below the atmosphere, not right on top of it. You're lucky you got the engine going again. But you stalled out the engines on the car here, and you were still working on auto mechanics and flying lessons here regarding this." he said to him gently at that.
"Yeah alright here's the next piece right after you guys arrived then, but this was just before the first half of the hearing now." Wesley said to them and they nodded. As the image showed the quartet in Wesley's room then. As he was looking at them gently as Wesley took charge as he looked at the trio firmly then as he said it. "Alright as we agreed you guys, we tell them the truth in what happened up there."
"We're Starfleet cadets we have a duty to the truth, we don't lie." Wesley said and Locarno nodded to him. "Yes we don't lie, agreed." he said and they nodded as they saw Sito shaking. "You nervous?" he asked her and sighed. "No, yes." she said and he nodded. "That's okay, so am I, but we're going to be alright, we got some tough times ahead of us, but we'll always come through for each other."
"Whatever happens I want you to know that leading this team has been the high point of my years here at the academy. No one could ask for a better team, or better friends, lets go." he said and they nodded. "So despite the fact that you all agreed not to lie to us, he decided on telling the truth, in a half truth in this to me and the inquiry?" Brand asked and he nodded as he went further then as he said it to her.
"You want a repeater of our conversation in the court room, Sir?" he asked and she shook her head. "No Cadet, I remember that explanation as easily as you do right now and with those words in mind right now. So move it forward to when you were back in your quarters as you were taking this over. If this is the reason you were continuing to keep up the uncover stint at the moment." she said and he nodded to her softly at that.
"This is the part, the extended part, after he gave you the ommission in the truth Admiral, but I'm now suffering the side effects of Johnny Rico's accident. As he accepted that he made a mistake and was willing to fix that said mistake by admitting it and coming forward and I was going to do that. But he was cutting off every route to tell you my side of the story, Sirs." he said and they all nodded to him gently at that.
"At the current moment the damn traveler is the reason you have so much pressure piling up on your shoulders here right now. Yes you were meant to do great things, but I should have stepped in the second he told us that. Having you help us on occasion was more than enough, we didn't need the stress and pressure piling up in your shoulders till you were ready to crack anyway." Will said firmly and Wesley looked between them.
"Well that's the next biggest mistake we need to fix here and now, because having this destroy our bonds, I'm not taking that chance anymore, we're not losing you now." Geordi said as he looked at the 19 year old then. "Whatever I would have said if this kept up, I take it back, you're my best friend in the senior staff crew, Geordi." Wesley said and he nodded as he answered him at that remark as he looked at him.
"I know, and with that, it's just making sure we get the pressure off your shoulders before it causes a serious problem. You're like my brother, I'm not losing you." he said and Wesley felt his heart lift at his remark as Beverly said it. "If what I read up on Daniel's records was anything to go by. It's that the fact that the duo wrecked their relationship was enough of a reason for him to stop trying and want out finally and..."
"That's what Oma wanted, for the pressure to start piling up on his shoulders, him thinking there was no way out till she gave it to him. And by ascension, the pressure of trying to live up to our expectations is doing the very same thing to Wes. Alright enough is enough, if it takes pulling him out of the academy after Jaxa ends up here. And with that, that was our biggest mistake now, at this situation, he felt like a failure ever since."
"And with that, just seeing his side of the story is enough to reverse the damage this caused for us and our crew. And with it, it's by getting him away from the trio and getting him to open up to us now and we kept him home for several months. Well we're doing what we should have here regarding this, just to get him away from them. And between situations, he's spending several years back to the way things once were."
"We didn't have a chance to think this through and instead of removing him from the academy before he told us this, just after you busted him Jean Luc. It's we're fixing the mistakes we've done in hind sight and two. It's by keeping any outsider interference from putting too much pressure on his shoulders at the moment." Beverly said to him then as Wesley turned to look at Picard as he went into that remark.
"Sir what's this mean now, once we do this over again exactly, regarding the traveler?" Wesley asked and Picard said it gently. "Daniel told me he was acting like the emperor on the movie, getting you into special treatment and outside interference in this. But not this time, I'm not allowing his interference in this and not when. Or if, you don't want to be given special treatment at the moment and with now at the moment regarding this."
"So I think that last test, had I not had the bomb dropped on me, was to result in you taking sides in a border dispute. But these characters use any reason for trying to tamper with your future, and with it now. To prevent that, after the accident, just tell us, and Daniel how you really feel, if you don't want to stay at the academy. Than we can continue in training you here, and with Daniel teaching you to use your abilities now."
"When this started I made you an acting ensign, which was the same as an honorary Major in the Air Force which was what the joint chiefs did for Daniel. Until I promoted you to full, but at the academy you were a cadet, on the ship you were a real officer. And doing everything by doing it for real at the time, and having the added pressure of us being told you'd excel at you training was an added pressure you didn't need now."
"Listen to me, I know you've been trying to live up to everyone's expectations, trying to live and act like the maturity that got shoved on you ever since the engine tests. But that's not the case anymore, prior to his arriving, we already got the plan in motion, but this is your part time job. You're a student officer, student first, you weren't ready for that many responsibilities at the time, so we just take things slow now, alright."
"But I'm not letting him get in the way of making our decisions for us in these scenarios and with added help we can fix our bonds so that solves the problem. I'm seeing where we messed up and it's by having this traveler give us that news. But you were only fifteen and just starting out now, and the more work you put into it. And the harder it became to back out of this after the first call in regarding your acceptance at school."
"But was that the problem, you were trying to keep it up so you could keep your mother and me happy till the stress became too much and you decided to quit. By staying with group involved in that border dispute?" he said and Wesley nodded softly. "I've been holding it in ever since the accident, in truth. I was coming to doubt continuing in this, but if the border dispute was the final test in this situation now at the moment."
"Then if Daniel was meant to be my mentor, I'd rather learn my new abilities under him, the stress of being at the academy, trying to keep it up. My grades would have plummeted as a result, but not this time, I think the only chance we have of preventing that now. And have things like we once had them, back here on the ship, before the Traveler gets to me that way, Sir." he said and Picard nodded as he looked at him softly.
"just what did he say, because I never asked for you to give me that chance, you gave it to me, and I just helped where I could. Case in point was when the ship got infected with the Polywater virus?" he asked and she crossed her arms. "He said you had a affinity for greatness, had I known just where this was going to lead. I'd have told him to stay out of this and let me be the one to see you as you work with the engineering crew."
"As you showed your abilities to me and when we needed you too, allow you to get involved, but your career, working on the bridge, in the engine room. All of this was your summer job, and you still had to complete high school at the time. But my added problem was we were short staffed and as a result I didn't have the time to hear what you had to tell me, but we can fix these things in the reset later and with that."
"We shall do so, Admiral, you mind if I retake his training back up in this regarding things. Because though every kid says they want to get into Starfleet, there are not that many that wish to say they've given up in their training. And that being in Starfleet is not for them and with that in mind, Wesley is in that same predicament. And ever since the accident now, but it's best if he's back to the way things used to be during year three."
"Leading into graduation, he needs to get what he's wants to say out of his system and I can continue with his hands on training up here. Two years now, and he left a young teenager, and came back a young man, but the final episode of that movie series. Has resulted in destroying the title character and turning him into his alter ego. And I will not lose my son, because the stress levels are becoming too much for him to take now."
"I'm not sure what was to come regarding things, but what I will say now, is that for that 15 years, it's my job to make sure I don't lose my son now. And with that in mind right now, there's going to be a couple of occasions where I have to keep him out of the academy to recover here in these situations. And with Commander Jackson on board the ship we can keep him on his path now." he said and the quintet all nodded to him.
"Son?" Jean said in shock and he, Deanna and Will all nodded to her. "That's right, when he told you that, he wasn't kidding. But his father was my best friend and my first officer on the Stargazer. As a favor to his mother and in honoring his father's memory, I decided to have him train from up here, until there was an opening at the academy. Had I known what his arriving at the academy would do for him at the time, young lady."
"I'd have requested he stayed here and continued finishing his training and he's the same young man I remember as a child. It had been much easier when he was up here, instead of having you screw around with his life. And we just barely prevented you from completely destroying his life at the time. He didn't join up, because he was trying to impress some silly little girl like you." Picard said firmly and she swallowed at that.
"Sounds familiar Jean, because you're the girl that caused Rico to destroy his life, before his parents were killed. Well I'm the girl that talked some sense into him, before he left the compound, you played him for a fool. And he belongs to me and your boyfriend has been expelled from the academy for lying to a superior officer. So was it worth it now that you just got figured out at the moment?" Robin asked with a low growl at that.
"Starship Troopers metaphors now, young lady?" Brand asked and she nodded to her. "Aye Sir, fact of the matter is up until he left for the academy his life was slightly normal, he was a young career officer, on the edge of making full lieutenant. And by the time he hit the age he was, his ideas have saved the crew five times in four years. And at one point saved the federation by the three of us preventing that game from jumping ship."
"Doing a comparision of the two of us, I'm his team mate, the one that was helping him stay focused on these situations. She the ex-girlfriend who, now that they were separated was now romantically involved with the rival high school captain of his football team. And that explains the fight at the tavern right now, but word for word, regarding things and Bill was my childhood best friend, and Nick's mind took the same turn."
"But the ending results are he never learned from this mistake, made another and it destroyed his life and future. Wesley was the character after he did and it results in ending this pretty fast, but the added side effects are it damages his bonds with his mother and the sextet. Until Colonel Jackson dropped the bomb on us of what happened up there but we do those changes and fix this, that solves that." she said to her gently.
"They make these alterations to their past, we make them to our future and that should do it, Jean Luc. Wesley, were you happier in training on the ship then you were at the academy after the accident?" Sulu asked him and he nodded. "Aye Sir, I would have been happier here at home, the trio destroyed my life. And I want a second chance to get it right now, said second chance is by continuing with my training up here now."
"Back under their command, just a sabbatical from the academy during the time, during and after the accident, so 1) it doesn't destroy my bonds with with the crew. And 2) if Robin gets pregnant with my baby, I'm not thinking twice about this and I can finish out my academic career here on the ship afterwards now." he said and the quartet nodded as McCoy looked at Brand and gave her a nod as she answered him then.
"Jean Luc, are you sure you didn't set it so we can fix this before it happens, in regarding our own memories now?" she asked and he shook his head. "No, but with the fact they have every episode of the show. They can tell us the important parts, and we fix the mistakes that my crew and I missed when we do this again, Sir." he said and they all nodded as they exchanged looks as they watched as the system shifted images.
"To get back to this, that pretty much confirms what we come to suspect now at the moment. Though hearing Wesley's explanation to me now, it's clear he tried to prevent this, but they got it too close together when the explosion ignited the plasma. Throwing him 20 years away from the plasma burst, while it knocks Joshua unconscious in the process, and ignites his engine while doing it." Data said sharply and he nodded to him.
"So what we saw was your truth to what really happened that day, you tried to tell him it was too dangerous, he didn't listen and Josh was killed in the explosion. And before they could do anything, Captain Deladier arrived and brought you around then. And you asked him to contact your ship, because with a previous trauma. Just seven months earlier, you had to see the seven then and you were going to tell them, and me this immediately."
"Regarding what happened up there, but with them always around you, you were trying to figure how to do it. And after we got you back to the academy, you requested again, that you had to see your mother and crew. And you asked for me to contact your mother and Jean Luc and get them to the academy. And you were going to tell us the truth, but he kept interfering and then lied to me?" Brand asked and Wesley nodded to her gently.
"Aye Sir, with the fact you remember what happened when you were asking us questions here's the aftermath of the first portion of it. Because he lied to you, and I let him have it in the intermission before the second portion of the hearing." he said and she nodded. "Alright show it to me then, because with the fact that truth is coming out now, it's enough to get them kicked out of the academy here." she said and he nodded to her.
"You shouldn't have said that Nick, Josh wasn't responsible for what happened." Sito said to him and he sighed as Wesley sighed in annoyance at this. "I had to do something." he told her and Will saw the look on Wesley's face at that, knowing that the thought of lying to him, and the sextet didn't sit right with him then. "Mom, Sir, guys, if you were paying attention to my double's responses here now."
"I was already thinking over what I had to do to get myself out of this mess they got me into. Weighing my options, regarding beaming back up here and right when you figured it out. But the added act of trying to keep up the undercover stint, without Josh, he was preventing me from returning to the ship I could tell you the truth here that I was working under cover and to that that trying to stay focused was getting harder."
"By the minute right now, because I was in stage two of grief and it was getting worse by the minute by that point. I needed to see the trio with Josh dead. I had to tell you and we go it further. Thinking up an option that could be my only chance of breaking free from the entrapment they put me into now. By temporarily resigning from the team, but our argument was the result, I was planning on setting him up in the next clip now."
"And do it before Boothby gave you that lie about Nick." Wesley said and the eight nodded as Will hid a sigh at that remark. "Just coming forward at once was getting more difficult by the minute, as to why exactly. It's because every time I tried to sneak out so I could get to you, he or the girls were tailing me. They were determined to keep the truth from getting out, and this is just the beginning." he added and they all nodded.
'Come on son, I know you, you'd never lie to me, just make it clear.' Will said to him softly as they heard it."Nick we agreed, you said we wouldn't lie to them, we all agreed we'd never lie to them and you did to the admiral, you lied to her." he said to them firmly. "I didn't lie, everything I said was the truth." he told him and he said it angrily. "The accident wasn't Josh's fault." he told him and he sighed at that remark then as he said it to him, before Wesley finished that remark.
"You think the duo are not going to realize you're lying right now, how long before my friends come to the conclusion. In case you're not realizing it, the admiral has requested my captain to be involved in investigations. Once we got something like this comes up, the crew becomes a detective agency. And from there the truth is coming out, I know the trio and my mother better than you."
"And to the captain, where I'm concerned, after something like this, he's digging into it and getting to the bottom of it no matter what. He's the best captain in Starfleet, but it's because he's looking at all the factors here, but his flight and combat skills are better than you think. And once the captain realizes you chose a banned maneuver for the commencement demonstration."
"He's going to present that information to them, but either way, the truth is coming out, by us or by him, it doesn't matter which. If you're really thinking this, he's going to realize when checking the stories of everyone on campus and he figures it out and you're screwed, as for me, it's done with. He's my parents best friend, my mentor, you think he's just going to accept this right now."
"I've never lied to him since he appointed me for hands on training and we already had this discussion the year before I left. The same is said for the commander and with it now, is the fact that our bonds are more than you think. And in case you mind isn't firing on all cylinders right now, that's what this photo really was, they're my mentors, my teachers, my friends."
"Nothing is going to change that, and with it ever since I got that chance, I made a promise to them. Said promise is if I was in trouble come forward and tell them what it is, and now that it has I keeping that promise. Everything they taught is so clear it's enough I'm not violating that trust, that bond, for you, so forget it." he snapped at him as he went further as they heard his tone firm up.
"Before you say it, I've never lied to the seven before, why should I start now, because this is enough to get us in trouble any way, Nick. You lied to them whether you want to admit or not. What happened was not Josh's fault and this is an insult to his memory right now." he told him and he watched as his eyes firmed at that. "Look he was my friend to Wesley, I helped get him on this team."
"But the truth is he panicked." he told him and he said it firmly."We don't know that Nick." he said and Locarno crossed his arms. "Of course we do, none of us wanted to say it out loud, but we all had the same thought here, haven't we." he asked and he watched as the girls nodded. "He must have pulled away too soon, I think he got scared." She said and he nodded in agreement to her opinion.
"Sito?" he asked and she nodded as Wesley said it firmly then, his tone furious as he said it. "So just blind themselves to the fact that their errors killed my son and they're trying to figure out a way out of this. And you know the only option is by coming forward together and telling us the truth is the only chance to come out of this unscathed, Wes?" Alberts asked and he nodded as they listened to his remark as he said it firmly.
"Aye Sir, in truth they were trying to convince themselves that he panicked up there, to relieve themselves of the guilt. But I knew that the longer this went on, the more they were going to keep digging themselves deeper into that hole. But it was after I said we all had to come forward that he spoke for the three of them. In saying they didn't want to come forward and they don't have a problem with lying to all of you at the time."
"But to them, if I did, I should resign my commission to the academy and walk away, but don't make them pay for my guilt conscious. But that did it, I was dropping the undercover stint as I let you have the truth then as I exposed him for the liar he was to you at the time. To me, I had to tell all of you the truth, but either way it looked, I let you guys down, I let them down and the results are id given up by that point."
"But we got the truth out, but she, they, he and Jean destroyed my life, now and I wanted everything I lost back now." he said and his mother crossed her arms at that. "Did you really think you could get away with that ladies, because if you thought you could you're dreaming, because when he told us that truth. And by showing it to us this way, you were screwed from the get go, once we heard it in his words in this situation."
"And saw the accident, but you ended the Alberts line and just barely destroyed the last piece of my family in my family. Did you honestly think you could get away with this, because with the fact that the company that made their show. And ours, that revealed the truth and you were screwed once we got a look at this episode and heard the entire conversation, in our double's voices." she said to them firmly as he went further at that.
"But fact of the matter here is that every charge that got wracked up in the movie was just the very beginning and I'm naming them off right now. But: for incompetence of command, for failure to abide by safety regulations during a live flight exercise. For negligence that contributed to the death of a team and the near death of another. For lying to a superior officer and falsifying a report, for use of peer pressure."
"And on of said near team mate, I knew that just one of each of these, on their own was enough to wrack up the charges you gave us, Admiral. But pack them altogether and all at once and it's bye bye tuition and they were getting expelled from the academy. Especially if they got caught by a superior officer once you called an investigation for this and as it happens, the ones to crack it first are my crew." he said and they all nodded.
"And said superior officer had to be your own captain as a result and you were looking for anyway to get that truth to us. And before we figured it out on our own no less, yes alright keep it going, Wes." Beverly said firmly and he nodded as he reactivated the debate as they crossed their arms. As the duo watched, feeling their hearts dropping with every scene as they saw as Robin wrapped her arm around his waist.
"My captain is going to see through the deception immediately, you may think he's not as smart as he looks, but you don't know him at all and the same is said for the guys. Data, Commander La Forge, I know them better than they know themselves, and they know me better than I know myself. How do you suppose they're going to take it when I'm being evasive here, huh."
"You think they're not going to realize it, they raised me for a year themselves and with it. I came to depend on them for everything after mom left to return to earth. The Commander is my godfather, and Counselor Troi my godmother, he's my adoptive father, the guys my trio, Lieutenant Worf, my other mentor. No forget it, I'm not lying to them now, not after everything I've gone through."
"As I said they practically raised me themselves after mom and I joined the crew. They trained me in the ethics and beliefs that made up Starfleet and this goes against everything we stand for right now as well. We're Starfleet cadets, we have a duty to the truth, be it scientitific, ethical, or personal. And this choice and decision goes against everything we stand for too."
"I swore to them I'd never lie to them, I never lied to them before, I'm not about to start now, Nick. Captain Picard is my captain and has been since I was added to the crew myself, his trust and respect mean more to me than anything you could understand. I'd never break his trust in me and in case you haven't figured it out, that's why they kept me home for a month."
"So I could recover from two months lack of sleep, they're already ticked off enough regarding that. That my joining the squadron has landed me back in my mother's care for sleep deprivation and malnutrition. But do you honestly think he's going to let this go when I'm suffering from recovering from a broken arm and a concussion, no he's not, he's going to be furious at that."
"And it's because your decisions cost one cadet his life this week, and with him nearly a second one too. But do you honestly think that the sextet are going to stop at nothing to get to the bottom of this. And not when they know I'm in trouble, they're going to see that I'm feeling guilty. And try and get me to open up to them here, and what's that going to do." he said to him with a firm growl.
"Morgan was this the extended edition in the episode, because I'm hearing the parts of the episode, we didn't before. Like we heard mine a bit ago?" Daniel asked and she nodded."Yes and he's making it clear that he doesn't want to lie right now, but they're trying to force him into silence right now." she said and Wesley watched as the image of Picard crossed his arms at that as he heard the clear tone of pride in Wesley's voice when it came to his claim to him.
Seeing the determination in Wesley face, she nodded."Jeez, he sounds like me when I was dealing with the Ferengi that attacked us on that planet in year one. But I said it with the same tone of claim in my voice, 'our' captain, 'my' captain. There's no denying it now, he still sees us as his crew, though he's gone and at the academy, and the thought of lying to us is eating him alive right now."
"He practically told them what we are to him at the time and our bonds matter more to him. And he's right if he was on board the ship, just like when the Nanites were screwing around with the systems. His guilt at that was clear and we got him to open up more than once. If I'd gone down with you and got him to open up to me, that would do it and he'd tell us everything regarding this."
"But at the moment, I think he was wishing he was back in his quarters back on board the ship right then, instead of there on campus. So he could think it through, out of their influence and back on board the ship, surrounded by us and with that in mind. We should have brought him back on board after we arrived, and he's surrounded by the seven of us, up here for the weekend."
"The trio are a bad influence, we were the straight and narrow, they're temptation, our lessons were always so clear to him and they're trying to weave doubt into that." Will said and Picard nodded to that. "Yes Sir, that's it exactly and it's why you saw me collapse right after we arrested Etana. These three are party animals, I didn't start at the academy to be fooling around in training at the time."
"I wanted to continue with what you taught me all this time and your lessons, everything you two taught me was always so clear at the time. But though separated for close to eighteen months, and although you kept me home for six weeks. The fact remained that nothing changed in the way I saw you both at the time here at the moment. The acts of trust and friendship, being my mentors, and you're my godfather and surrogate family."
"Nothing changed for me in this regard, I still see you as my commanders, and trying to come forward and tell you that truth was getting harder by the minute. As Bill said the way Bothby described him to you was the way everyone else saw him. To me and Josh, he's the alpha and as the youngest wolf to get inducted into the pack. Trying to find a loophole in the alpha orders was getting harder by the minute right now."
"But that's it exactly, it's peer pressure, Bill was a fellow medical born Starfleet cadet, he and I were completely matched and he was my best friend. We already knew each other, before Nick chose me out of 320 upper classman, simply because I was under your command, but I was happier up here regarding things. I had Robin, Bill and a crew of my own, we were completely equal, but we decided on being our own version of Gamma."
"I wasn't kidding when I said that Sir, to make it clear, that you tried to get me to open up and their screwed at the time. Lying to you didn't sit right with me and I've never lied to you before. Our bonds of mentor/student, father/son, they were all that mattered to me, I knew what the consequences were going to be for him at the time. If we didn't come forward together." Wesley said and Brand nodded to him gently at that.
As she listened to the image carefully then as his double finished his remark. "You consider why, it's because his father was a Starfleet officer, as is my mother. Do you not get that, I was raised on following the rules, orders given to me by a group, one and to six ranks ahead of you. As if that's not enough, regarding being in Starfleet, we don't lie whatsoever, Josh is my complete equal too."
"But we both grew up on starships, the maneuever was too close together, Nick. Doing it that close together is way too dangerous, you had the damn calculations off and it could have killed me in the process. And how do you suppose my mother, let alone Captain Picard, would react once Commanders La Forge and Data figure it out exactly, huh." he said to him sternly at that remark.
"Because they figure it out and bring it to the attention of the committee you're toast for lying to them after that. Aside from that our parents, his and mine, would sue you for murder this way anyway and you'd be expelled from the academy, one way or the other. The choice is clear, we have to tell them the truth, and again, I've never lied to my mother, the sextet, or the crew, before."
"And I'm not about to start now at the moment here either. Not after the last few traumas I've had and this is right up there with dealing with a repeat of the damned justice panel, regarding the commander. The first duty of any Starfleet officer is we have a duty to the truth, be it science, ethical or personal, and this is considered the third right now." he said and Locarno sighed as he answered him.
"Wes I know you want to protect his memory, we all do, but we have to think about ourselves right now. What do you want us to do, walk in there and tell them everything that happened." he asked and Picard crossed his arms at that. "You should have done that in the first place Nicholas, as he never wanted to lie to me." he said with a stern growl at that remark as he heard the blond Bajoran girl say it.
"We might as well turn in our uniforms in and start packing up our bags." she said and he heard the young man answer that as he pulled the recorder out then."Are we ready for that, we'll take this one step at a time. This is the preliminary report from your flight recorder, it was so badly damaged in the crash that the lab could only retrieve a third of the telemetry on the recorder."
"And all of it was before the explosion, we shouldn't have a problem." he said and Will thought it gently. 'Come on Wes, don't give in, remember cub, remember.' he thought softly at that. "You didn't have to say the words out loud, dad, I was practically hearing your voice in my mind. Saying don't give into their manipulations, I never would have lied to you if I was with you up here, so I could focus and I would never do this."
"As you considered your lessons were always so clear to me, I wanted to just take that weekend leave, just get away from them for two days. The ship is locked out to members that are not crew members and my bio signature was still in the transporter at the time." Wesley said and they nodded as his double said it again, his tone wavering. "I'm not sure I can do this." Wes said again to him and Sito swallowed then.
"You don't have to lie, just don't volunteer any new information." Sito told him and his eyes narrowed at the next remark given then at that as Locarno answered him. "The first night I met you Wes, I knew I wanted you on the squad. You, more than any of the rest, would understand what it means to count on someone, because you you've been out there, putting yourself on the line.
"You know you got to be able to count on the people on your team, because you're life is in their hands, their's in yours. We made a promise to each each other. Right in the beginning. That we'd stick together, we were Nova squadron, nobody else could say that. And even after we graduated we'd try to get posted to the same duty. That we're going to be together."
"A team, for a long time. Josh can no longer be part of that dream, but I think he'd want us to stick together, what do you think." he said and Will crossed his arms at that remark firmly. As he answered him at that in a stern tone as he looked at the girls as he said it firmly. "I think that the act of being a true team is taking the fall together, a crew is a team. A team is a family, and though we already have a family."
"Once deployed we become each other's family, but it doesn't mean pressuring your family into doing things they'd never normally do. And definitely not just to save yourselves from getting in trouble together, young man." he said with a stern growl then as he quoted what he said along with his recorded self at that. Looking at Wesley, he gave his shoulder a squeeze at they as the admiral answered that.
"At the current moment regarding this, if you'd come down with the duo and decided, when he walked into the room. To do my exams on board the enterprise. I would have said yes immediately, but he's a cadet, you're a full officer. So who's going to win the fight when I choose to resign from the team and come forward all at once now. Instead of waiting till the last minute to do it." he asked and Will nodded in agreement to that.
"If that doesn't make it clear to why you were so nervous, nothing does at the moment. Getting past a team leader who's an alpha is hard when he's cutting off every possible way to get the news out at the moment." Brand said with a stern growl at that. "I was getting ready to resign from the team right then, and expose this for what it was for you." Wesley said and she nodded as Picard answered him gently at that remark.
"You were intending on being the plant by taking that weekend leave up here, Wesley?" Picard asked and he nodded to him. "Aye Sir, it was after this portion of it, I was trying to figure out a way out of this, but I knew, if I tried to speak to you personally, Admiral. He'd come to deflect it, I was weighing my options in trying to get on board the ship and going straight to Commander Riker, as he's my godfather, my mentors, friends."
"But temporary resignation on the team, being the plant for you and expose this for what it is by pretending I wasn't going to come forward and get him to incriminate them by their own words. Because he just said the entire plan by holding my recorder and later by this next portion you're going to see, I would have suggested a sting operation. And acting as though I was choosing sides now." he said and she nodded to him gently.