The Bonds Of Friends And Family
Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.
Warning: For this chapter it's finishing the foreshadowing the results of what could have been if they hadn't discovered the traveler's plans for him. As he goes through the situations leading into his dropping out of the academy. As they go through each scene carefully. And this one is the rest of the trial after the accident that caused him to drop out as Daniel is with him from here on in.
And this from this chapter and forward gives a recap of the last book for the trio as they get caught up, but this story is going to be 85 chapters. As it recounts everything she needs to know from the Game to their future on the squadron. Just before the emergency hits and season 5 starts up after these situations in the aftermath of the episode come to an end, as she learns everything now.
Also with this chapter from here on in, the sextet from the past change to their real names when still as SG-1 and their extended team mates now. So SG-1 go by their past names as their real selves, and the same is said for Frasier and Lou Ferretti, though they're stuck in their grandchildren.
Chapter 40: Journey's End Rewrite I: The Uncertain Path
"Well that takes care of that, but let's see what would have happened if we changed things and I've decided that it was time you needed a break right now kiddo. And we go on a father/son mission before Kirk comes back into the picture, huh?" Daniel said smiling and he nodded in agreement. "Yeah after 5.5 years mom trusts you more then that traveler and I see you in the way I see dad." Wesley said and the crew smiled then.
"After everything you did so far, it's a matter of you trying to keep us happy by keeping it up, but what would make you happy now finally, that's the question here." Picard said as he got what he meant by that remark. "I'm not quitting training Sir, I just need a break, so a sabbatical for a year and then finish what I started." he said and Picard nodded gently as Beverly smiled in relief as Daniel made it clear at that remark then.
"Like I said, we know you're gifted, that's very apparent to us, but what you don't need is your skills or your title thrown at you every time you turn around. Wes, time to test the link, if we got the type of bond that the duo had this would be it. I am exactly matched to you as your mentor as a human ancient now." he said and Wesley nodded as he pressed his forehead to Daniel's and then felt like he got zapped as he saw them in later years.
Seeing them six years down the road he just finished his training, he now had the uniform of a full commander then as they were like himself and Will then. Pulling back, he shook his head and looked into his eyes then. "If this is what my double in the movie felt if he ever bothered to do this with his version you. It's just been made clear, you're the one who was to be my mentor." he said and the SGC department nodded, smiling.
"Then this kid two years older then you is Ferus Olin, and Jean is Tru Veld." Sam said and Daniel nodded sternly. "You know what you have to do kiddo, duty to the truth, we matter more to you, we always did, you never lied to us before, so why start now." Will said and he nodded as he pulled him into a hug and he tightened his arms around him. "Why do I get the feeling his rival never let it go with John, Sir, if you told them."
"Said it everything, from Hathor to Denali's grandfather and right into Pyrus?" Jack asked and Hammond crossed his arms. "Because you're right, Jack, Hanson is set on the same case of self destruction over getting arrested by Wes. As Johnny was when you guys resisted her charms and he sliced his arm open trying to cut the zip cuffs off." he said and Janet shook her head at the news as they exchanged looks at that remark.
"God I swear they never know when to quit at the moment, and to answer the other question is despite trying to convince me he was out of his mind. I only listened to Daniel and the General and General Carson were the same way as he never raised his voice. Or attacked anyone, we had a severe hatred for the NID ever since then. And knuckled down harder on them or their cadet versions." she said and Jack nodded sternly to that.
"Great, then that means he's going to try and sabotage us next at the moment, it never worked before, why would it now, Wes, have Lal jacked into your computer. And create a back door, I did that when I escaped the base by Janet, me and Harper doing it. You're me as a teenager near young adult, so use that, we can think rings around these guys." Daniel told him and he nodded to the orders smiling as Geordi said it to him then.
"Better start with the arrival when you been stuck on earth for twos as if you never got the chance to tell us the truth here. As we saw things as though what would have been if we never prevented them sabotaging you." he said and Wesley nodded to him, as the SGC saw him looking beyond exhausted and irritable when coming in. "Thanks ensign, hey Wes, there you, are, come here a second I got something to show you."
"Come on, come on, you've got to take a look at this, now remember how we always used to talk about improving quantum efficiency. By using a plasmadyne relay, well take a look at this." he said and Wesley watched his double at that as he answered him as he looked at it. "You've only got one micro fusion inter-relay in there, your converter will never hold up." he said and Geordi's double said it firmly.
"Hey I ran these diagnostics myself, this baby, it will withstand over 500 cochranes of warp field stress." he said and Wes watched his double at thst remark. "I don't think so, you better put a secondary phase inverter in there. Look at your processer, matrix, it needs an over haul." he said and Wesley froze it at that. "Under normal circumstances, I remembered what you used to tell me here, Geordi."
"And that was don't get cocky, we had to check every single sequence, before we put it to use and my tractor beam was a trial an error we had to use. But there's no reason to start an argument over this device when you asked for my opinions here. Sheesh Billy, calm down and control your temper, before he sends us to our room here, man." he said gently to his double and Geordi nodded in agreement to that remark then.
"I'm 35 and you're 21 in this image and it's clear that the fact he lost his confidence in who he used to be since they sabotaged him is getting to him now. He wants to talk shop with me like he used to now, but instead of going over this gently. It's he's getting confrontational with me now, but there's no reason to lose your temper. Or raise your voice at me, we had that talk before." he said and Picard nodded in agreement gently.
"Keep it going, because if this was the first fight, I'm not going to like what our argument turns into right now at the moment. Then again if this was the episode and you on the edge of dropping out at the time. Something was wrong and we were too close to you to get you to open up, so in many ways now. The fact that the duo sent the team here was a miracle in disguise now finally." he said and Wesley nodded in agreement to that gently.
"Yeah, but the reason is I was sick of living up to everyone's expectations, there was something missing in my life I needed. Said was I was so busy trying to keep everyone else happy I forgot about myself at the time. What would make me happy, answer: I take a sabbatical and return to being a civilian for a while. And then get back to work in a year, to kep us together." he said and Picard nodded as he turned it back on at that.
"Yes and we're granting that sabbatical so a year off then you pick up where you left off as you graduate and return home again." Brand said smiling at that and he nodded. "Well that maybe your opinion cadet, but I stand by my work." Geordi's double said and they nodded. "Oh no, bad word for it, you've been a ensign since Laxwana was on board the ship 4 years prior and I stripped you of that rank after the accident."
"The fact you lost your rank and we still treated you like we did Cadet Sito, the situation was grating on your nerves. You wanted our trust back and that was making you so moody you were lashing out for days now." Picard said as they saw his eyes narrow in anger at the title then as he answered him. "Read the latest paper by Dr. Vassbinder, he has brilliant new theories on repulser propulsion relays."
"He says all this stuff has become obsolete." he snapped and Geordi nodded. "Well I don't have to see my double's eyes to see that he's shocked at that outburst. Aside from the Bendii syndrome you never raised your voice at me like this at the time now." he said as his double answered his young friend's double. "Look I don't know what's gotten into you, Wes." he started to say and he snapped back at him at that remark then.
"Do you want my help or not." he asked and Geordi sighed. "When like this, no I don't, I missed you and things like they were between us. When you left for the academy, but the academy took away the you I know. And Locarno did the rest, I want our bond like it was before." he said as his double finished it with a stern tone. "With this attitude, no absolutely not, you're dismissed." he said and he left the room at that.
"Just do the rest of it, but leave out our issues with the tribe and the Cardassians, because if this was James's version to my life. We're the team connected to the Abydonians, the Cardassians are the mining company. And the tribe is Sha're's family and her themselves before I get seen as a traitor at the time now." Daniel told him and he nodded as it switched to the conversation in his new quarters between him and Beverly.
"Ever since you got back you've been moody, sullen and rude, what's going on?" Beverly asked him sternly and they nodded. "You think I did something else that was against the rules, if I'm acting like this right now." he said and she nodded as his double said it firmly as they watched it then as he said it then. "This stress in your case is very concerning to me and I'm getting ready to ask." she said and he nodded as he said it.
"Nothing, I just want to be left alone." he said and she said it firmly to that. "That incident in engineering was inexcusable." she said and he stood up. "That is my business, I don't need you to tell me how to behave." he said and she said it sternly. "I shouldn't have to you're a fourth year Starfleet cadet, you should have a level of maturity." she said and he snapped at her at that remark then finally.
"Maybe I'm sick of rules and regulations, maybe I'm sick of living up to everyone's expectations, did you ever think about that?!" he snapped at her and left the room and she watched him leave. 'Baby, what's happened to you?' they heard as she watched him, he said it then. "Something's happening to me, I'm not the officer I should be, I want more, and I know I shouldn't." he said in answer to that with a sigh.
"The stress, you can't trust me anymore, that's the show version to this situation right now and 16 months. And before you activated the gate to go to Abydos, I compared my situation to yours, Commander, but the duo are just as bad. Said as Makepeace and your brother, Commander O'neill, to the point that they been trying to discredit me. And ever since I got them arrested for speedballing and starting a riot in ten forward here."
"And I reached my limit here." he said and they nodded. "I'm undergoing my trials whether I know it or not and now you go and tell the captain what's going on." he said and they nodded as he closed his eyes. "I'm close to the edge here, it's getting worse, either I stay or I leave and whatever's happening to me. I have to get it out of me. And fast before we a repeater of you, as we have to see what he did to pull this, and now."
"Alright who the hell did you impersonate to get me to drop out, because with the fact I got a mentor who is just as powerful as you are, if not more so. Then you got a war on your hands, and while you got my counterpart, on the little holodeck, you lost me. As I got a life, family, a mentor and calling, right here on the ship, so go ahead. Give it your best shot, Daniel knows me even better then you." he said as he drove it forward then.
"Wait, if this happened with another person, just as strong as you, we go to my conversation with whoever it was first, before we do you and dad." he said, before he realized what he just said and Picard smiled at the new title then. "Well that just changed it forever, you been trying to stay professional for years and that's the slip up. That you wanted to call me by a parental title, ever since we developed our bonds deeper."
"And that was the very beginning for us now, with your mother and me getting married in mid season one you can call me that all the time now. But Will and I are your father, to you nothing would ever change that by this point with our memories back." he said and Wesley nodded as Beverly and Will hid a smile at the slightly embarassed look on his face as he did it then gently as he activated it on that gently finally then as he did it.
"And again, just who the heck is this guy, if he is that interested in you right now." Will asked and he crossed his arms. "I'm not sure, but if he starts talking in riddles, I know he is just like Oma, answering questions with more questions. Is an annoyance, when my adult version was not in the mood for it, like I'm not in the mood for it. And I was trying to find a way to tell you I was taking a sabbatical." he said and the crew nodded gently.
"Taking a sabbatical is better then resigning as we talk things over and you return to who you used to be at the moment. And I would agree with that, you need a break for a few months and you earned it as you told us the truth. You were never in on their decision to lie to us or the enquiry at the time, hearing that. As you told us everything that fixes the damage that Locarno caused for us." Picard said and he sighed in relief at that remark.
Watching him come running into ten forward he said it quickly then. "Sorry I'm late." he said and Beverly sighed. "Yes I'm still irritated at our conversation right now." she said as she heard her double say it. "We'll talk about this later." she said and he nodded sighing as he sat at a empty table. "Wesley Crusher?" he asked and Wesley nodded. "Yes." he said and the indian guide sat across him and he said it gently at that.
"I am Lakanta." he said and Wesley nodded in welcome to him then. "Nice to meet you, can I get you a drink or something." he asked and Lakanta shook his head as he said it gently to him. "I have known you were coming to us for the past two years, two years ago. I went to the habak and went on a vision quest, while I was there. I saw many things, talked to many animals, many spirits."
"And I saw you." he said and Wesley narrowed his eyes at that as his double said it to that. "I don't understand." he said and the indian guide said it kindly. "I know why you came to us Wesley, you want to find answers to your questions." he said and Wesley stopped it at that remark. "Now that is a bit strange, he saw me on a vision quest, answers to questions I have, he knew I was coming to their planet now."
"This man is not normal, that sounds like something that the ancient that chose Colonel Jackson would say, but to rephrase that in their way. And I was thinking about this the entire time since the inquiry, thinking of taking a sabbatical. Thinking of taking a year off, and in their language that is, 'If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.'. Translation for us in our generation now in this case."
"If you been thinking long and hard about something, then the decision was made, before you even made it. Whoever this Indian is, he's leading me in circles, as instead of answers, he's answers me in questions like..., that's it." he said, slamming his hand on the table. "The Indian guide is the traveler, so you think I'm falling for it don't think so, you know the good thing about learning from the past is you don't make mistakes."
"You don't make the same mistakes twice, I'm being who I'm meant to be now, I have someone just like me aboard the ship training me in the ways if this now. I have friends and a family and you expect me to leave all that behind and for absolute power. Uh huh, don't think so, you failed buster, I'm a Starfleet officer, I'm staying with my family. On my ship, you failed in your plan." he said and the sextet nodded to the news gently to that.
As Beverly watched herself and Picard in his apartment then. "I just don't know what to do anymore Jean Luc, it's like someone took my son. And left a stranger in his place." she said and he nodded gently to her as he answered her. "But in a sense, that is just what happened, Wesley left the enterprise three years ago. He was a boy and now he returns a young man and that can't be easy for a mother."
"Or a son." he said and she nodded sighing as she said it to him. "It's gone beyond the two of us." she said and he noddd. "Yes, I heard about the incident in engeering with Geordi." he said and she nodded to him then as she said it. "Have you heard at what's happened at the Academy? I spoke to Admiral Brand today. She said his grades are dropping, that he's become remote and defensive."
"That if he's not careful, he going to wash out next term, maybe you should talk to him, Jean Luc, maybe it's the kind of thing a boy. A man needs, to discuss it with another man." she said and he said it kindly to her. "I don't think he wants either of us to talk to him, right now." he said and she said it gently. "But he needs help." she said softly and he nodded as he gripped her hand as he said it then gently.
"Beverly he's got to want that help, if he doesn't, then any efforts on our part can only push him away, he need to work it out on his own." he said and she sighed and nodded. "He's right mom, at this stage without someone like me, this would result in me quitting, you both helped me before, but I need someone like me. Daniel is it, he's my version of of the kid's mentor." he said and she nodded as Picard smiled softly.
"Alright let's see who he decided to use to as a way to get to you in a vision now." Picard said and he nodded as he reactivated it. "Lakanta is the alias he's using." he said and they nodded as they watched his double then. "That's a habak, it's a focal viewing point, it's like smoke hole that people used to see truths and have an epiphany." Picard said to him and he nodded to him and he watched himself drop into the hole then.
"This is the habak, it's a focal point for our lives, strangers are not welcome here." he said and Wesley crossed his arms. "If strangers are not welcome, then why'd you bring me in there, I asked you to come here you said it would be...?" he said trailing off as his double repeated the second part. "When I asked to come here, you said it would be..." he started to say and the man answered her gently at that remark.
"I don't think we need the added conversations, with us getting the truth, we knew if we let this continue, then we lose you now. But you're my favorite student, I'm not ready to let you go, Wesley, we watched you grow up, but this character took it too far. But if Teal'C was involved this meant that while I was guarding the saucer section. Teal'C and Tasha are with the captain as the crew is back in one piece now in this, but for now."
"Never mind the added conversation, cut to the chase." Worf said with a growl then. "So what do I do?" Wesley's double asked and the traveler answered him. "Make a fire then sit and wait." he said and his double quickly said it to that. "What am I waiting for?" he asked and the man said it gently. "This is your journey Wesley, I can open the door, but only you can walk through it." he said and they nodded firmly to that.
"Keep it going and jump over us." Picard said and he nodded to him as he jumped over the next set of commentary then as he went to the rest of his episode. Watching as he sat in front of the fire a figure walked out then. "That, that looks like..." Picard said leaning forward over his shoulder as he got a better look. "Wesley." the figure said and his double said it. "Dad." he said and the trio straightened up at that as she said it.
"Nice try you're not taking my student from me Lakanta." Daniel said with a low growl at that as they watched it further. "You reached the end, Wesley." he said and his double asked it gently. "The end of what?" he said to him and he explained that to him gently then at the question. "Your journey, the one you started when I left you and your mother." he said and Wesley crossed his arms to that remark firmly then.
"Don't want me to follow you, fine I won't, I have found a journey that is my own, I have my family, my friends, this is where I belong. But don't follow my father into that, uh huh, okay, I won't. But that's exactly your problem, pal because I'm smarter then he was, I think before I act. But in this case, I'm not having my crew torn apart, we stay together, I have a life, I'm engaged to my girlfriend now, I have a best friend, or three."
"But why should I let that go, if Daniel had stayed together with Sam, then the results would've changed the future. I can save my crew, my ship, and my friends with these powers, all I have to do is practice." he said with a growl at that remark. "Best keep that going now, because if Guinan heard a conversation like this. Then she's going to know that your catch is the same as Daniel's right now, but you're talking to your double here."
"And as if this was you right now kiddo, take it down several notches buddy, I get you here." Goldberg said and the rest of the engineering team chuckled and nodded in agreement. "Issues of dealing with your past and present, we can't know too much about our future, but the loophole in that is by these movies. And these tv shows that way we can learn and change what sequences are needed." Wesley said gently as Will said it.
"Too late Rick and Wesley, you already got everything you need from me and Daniel now, in many ways I am like Morgan, But my position was the Mentor of their trio, in this other space saga, Daniel was his student, you are the youngest of the trio. You don't have to change to save us or the others, just keep it up like you have been doing." she said and he smiled and nodded as he looked at his adopted and extended family smiling at that.
"And there's the you I know, you never would have lied to us before so why start now." Sarah asked and he nodded smiling and he gave her a hug. "Issues in the adopted extended family, you better get someone to talk some sense into the victim. And before he makes a mistake that destroys him, were it not for whoever was killed, my double. He never would have turned at all here." he said and the crew nodded as Will answered that.
"No not the end, just the beginning right now, my best friend can teach him, but he doesn't have to leave Starfleet just to learn this stuff. Wes, just relax, see if you can move anything." he said and Wesley nodded to him as he closed his eyes and he heard a surprised shout. " Uh whatever I did, it won't happen twice, so put me down please." They heard from Joseph Ronson and he heard a sigh of relief at that and hid a chuckle.
" Sorry Joe, didn't mean to do that, just flexing my mental muscles right now." he said and the man nodded bemused as he answered him. "I get that, but next time do that when alone in the room and not surrounded by us, would you please." he said and Wesley nodded. "At least it wasn't the fork getting launched across the room by accident." Sarah said and Ronson nodded in agreement to that thought gently bemused.
"I thought you were working downstairs, Joe?" he asked and the man smiled. "I was retrofitting our holodecks for the next week, before the timeline resets at the moment. Adding new programs and a few other things, this way, when we start a second time, all the updates that are in the system are ready to go. As we're now dealing with the ship acting like a smaller version to Atlantis later." he said and Wesley smiled at his idea then.
"I take it you were checking to see if there were still some side effects of Reg's choice of playing with the system and without telling us, Joe?" Kurland asked and he nodded. "Which explains why that basketball and Billiard ball ended up in here, I'm still trying to disconnect the link till after he's recovered enough so they can do it again. When in the survival test now that the quintet are here." he said and they nodded to him, bemused.
"But science and training expeditions, we can still do it, as, if the tribe is the first people we start with, as Commander Jackson's my tutor. I'm on a training mission, to become a human traveler, but the higher planes don't get involved in the lower. But the loophole there is they can if they're both from the same planes. And they never ascended, that's what this is, he's training me to ascend." Wesley said and they nodded gently to him.
"So my grandfather Jack Robert Crusher, to my namesake, and it went down the generations from my namesake to me in the male bloodline. I'm descended from a bloodline that carries the ancient Gene and Commander Jackson is too. I need him, he's me, as an adult, he can train me, alright freeze it, Lal show us the movie series focused on something similar to this." he said and a movie title card with six movies appeared.
"Uh let's see, the boy's origins, when his mentor found him, he found his future wife, the Jedi masters that trained him and then appeared the alter ego to their group's religion. Lal drag it down to the end of the movie when this parasite realized the amount of power the boy had, what did he say to him?" Picard asked and the lines flickered until it stopped on it and he read it out for himself and the group gently as they nodded then.
"And you, we will watch your career with great interest.'. Translation is as close to what the traveler told us as possible." he said and Will nodded as he counteracted that remark sternly as he said it then to that firmly. "'Yes we know that, we all know he's gifted, that's very apparent to all of us, but what he doesn't need now. Now that he just pulled it off, on what some think is the impossible, is having his abilities and title thrown at him."
"And every time he turns around, and his education in the case on the ship is up to his mother, me, the captain, the committee. Or the rest of the crew here, and you're not family so stay out of our business. As his mother left me in charge of him, and this is family business and you're not family so as of this moment. Just stay the hell away from him your excellency, you're off limits." he said and Sarah nodded as she answered him.
"Best jump over my debate with you when I told you our given orders and go right to your fight with the captain over this. If it was meant to prevent a fight breaking out between the Cardassians and the tribe that helps. So my team and I don't end up in the middle of it here." Worf said and Picard shook his head. "No do both of us, Wesley, because what Nechayev pulled could also have damaged our bonds as well now."
"If this is the same argument that Jackson had with Hammond, before they got the truth thrown in their faces regarding the Eurondans. It's enough this just barely tore apart our bonds, but you still felt like you had to keep proving yourself to us. But the sarcophagus and Euronda was him, they framed him for a mental breakdown. And his morals, and the Novas did the very same thing to you." he said and Wesley nodded as he did it then.
"Add the final argument and you're reasoning to quit the academy training and that's everything, plus the realization that you reached the level they wanted." Beverly added and he nodded as he activated it then. As they saw him walking out Worf walked over to him. "Are you alright Mr. Crusher?" he skied and Wesley's double nodded to him. "I'm fine Worf." he said and he nodded as he looked at a woman on his team.
"Lay out a confinement beam trace around the southeastern side of the village, be discreet, we do not wish to alarm these people." he said and Picard sighed. "Here it comes, there's the fact I'd normally never do this, but that's it, I'm not putting up with Nechayev's decisions any longer. Haden's my direct superior, my order come directly from him, and I'm getting them right now." he said at that response gently.
"And you won't have to now, my grouping is the same as the joint chiefs, so we take it to the federation, the president, IOA and over rule it right now. As they go under Cardassian rule and Wesley takes a sabbatical from school as he and Danny. They take 11 months in traveling around the galaxy and with supplies to last them 2 years between them. On a sort of father/son camping trip." Hammond told him and they smiled at the alternative.
"We lose one planet from the federation, but we keep the peace this way, it's now a win/lose situation, we lose one and we win one. As though we lost a single planet in the federation, we never lost what mattered more in our eyes, and said. That was our prize pupil and surrogate brother and son, in our eyes and your stepson in your and Beverly's cases now, Sir." Will said and he noded in agreement as they watched the ensign say it.
"Yes Sir." Ensign Harris said with a sigh as she quoted her double then. "I don't blame you for that annoyed tone, none of us wanted to do this, but it's trying to prevent a fight now in this. But if it doesn't switch from the fight between the Cardassians, and to us and someone's going to get shot." Greyson said in response to that and they nodded. "That's why I possibly did that, so we don't have them killing each other at the moment."
"Once I heard the direct orders, but this crossed a line, we're taking sides in a situation that's none of our business. They got to work this out on their own and before that gets us caught in the middle. Because we're doing more harm then good, at the moment here right now, Daniel. He realized the exact same thing, but their planet is in flames and we're offering gasoline, so how does that help." he asked and Picard crossed his arms.
"It doesn't and you saw this in the same way, Daniel was right all along, during Euronda and in the end you quit and at the academy. After the truth got thrown in our faces, this was a damn set up, the traveler, Nechayev and the Cardassians. They were in this together, keep it going, we're finishing this situation so we can rearrange it now between us." he said and Wesley nodded as he reactivated it at his double's remark at that.
"Worf, what are you doing." his double asked him and he explained that. "We are laying transporter coordinates for a security permeated. It may be necessary to remove these people by force." he said and they saw his double look at him in shock. "Worf, we can't do this, these people deserve better then to be taken from their homes." Wesley said and Worf shook his head at that as he answered him then gently.
"I understand, but now is not the time or place to talk about this." he said completing the remark that was at the cut off. "Yeah and when is, you want this turning into a shoot out right now, it's like the alter reality stories in the Stargate novels. Before the show was created, Lal book 1 after the movie." he said and a minute later they saw a similar argument break out between them, before Jackson's double lead them in a strike.
"Yeah and now I get the point, I'm a medical doctor and this is a case of peace keeper and to prevent a riot. Or someone on our side from getting shot once they realize the group's are caught in the middle at the moment. But we're the soldiers connected to the tribe and the general in charge just started something. The Cardassians, they're the mining company and the tribe is the Abydonians." Beverly said in response to that firmly.
"Do you know what they're trying to do, they're preparing to beam you away and take you to their ship. You're not going to let them are you?" Wesley's double called out and they heard the automatic response from one of the members of the tribe. "No we won't, leave now!" the man snapped at the security detail. "Alright that's enough of this, I see the same situation right now beginning to develop right now."
"The final argument now, with my being, back then a colonel and you're just a cadet, and this is enough to annoy me right now at the moment after I got you back up here. So hit that portion, but leave out the next portion with me and the Gul on board that ship." he said and Wesley activated it then. "Inexcusable, you defied the orders of a ranking officer on the scene, you put the lives of the entire team in jeopardy."
"And you made an already tense situation worse, your actions reflect badly on this ship and this crew. Now I want an explanation, Mister Crusher, and I want it now!" Picard's double snapped at him as Wesley stood at parade rest then. "Well this reminds of me when you busted us." Wesley said and he nodded to him. "Indeed, and it's clear that 3 years separation only made it worse now, you wanted my trust back."
"Had my double calmed down at looked at the real reason you chose sides he's going to see you did this just to protect the team. But whoever did this episode really screwed up now, because, no matter a good deed, it's just shredding the bonds further between us. And till you quit on me and drop out of the academy, it's clear that whoever wrote up this episode doesn't realize the emotional side effects now of being the only teenager."
"To young adult that's this gifted or the only teenager on the senior staff or the cast now, fortunately they were useful for something at least. And just to prevent the same mistakes twice, we discussed this repeatedly and you're home for three years so problem solved." he said and Wesley nodded to him gently to that. "What you're doing down there is wrong, these people are not some random group of colonists."
"They're a unique culture that predates the federation and Starfleet." he said Picard's double said it sternly. "That does alter the fact that my orders are to." he started to say and Wesley stepped in then. "I know admiral Nechayev gave you and order, and as did the council, but it's still wrong." he said and they sighed at that. "Captain listen to me a second, please, but you recall our learning strategy."
"Learn from the past to create a better future, you taught me that, it's happening again. And we're simulating what nearly caused Jackson to quit the Stargate program. Direct orders without looking at the consequences, we do this and it's like we're throwing gas on an inferno already out of control. Our direct orders are we don't go getting involved without knowing the who, what."
"Where, why and when, but Starfleet policy dictated non interference, and don't fight others battles for them. And that's what Nechayev wants you to do, we can't do this, otherwise we're doing more harm then good right now. We're breaking our own policies by this order." Wesley said as he added that to the tape deck then firmly and Picard nodded in agreement to his thoughts gently at that remark.
"And that just goes to show how much you truly learned from us, Starfleet policies, we go against policies and we're no better then the NID. Thank you for telling us that right now at the moment, but when you describe this like that. It just demonstrates that when a cadet teaches the mentor the partnership in bonds was directly in target. And I never been more proud of you son, nicely done son." he said, squeezing his shoulder then.
"Yeah and for years you made the correct decisions, but now they're asking you to go against your own morality and I'm trying to head that off. Because to the tribe leader, it's a matter of old blood and at the moment matters of the situation. It's the civil war all over again, but you're from France, and their tribe was with the English." Wesley said and he nodded as he got the point gently at the remark as he looked at him gently then.
"So you heard the conversation between me and the tribe leader?" he asked and Wesley nodded. "I did, if your ancestor was the one that did it, he feels like this is the second in 700 years that you forcibly remove him and his people from their land. She's asking you to do it again, but in her and the NID's eye's, it's you do it or she will. And she and her coalition will kill them all if they resist." he said and he nodded with a furious look then.
"Blast it, why didn't I see that coming, their tribe was descended from the Iroquois, and my country was side with their tribal enemies back 1863. To the tribe leader it's like I'm doing it again and the civil war just 508 years prior to this right now. But that catch, my double doesn't realize his next words seal your fate in quitting at the academy." he said and as his double finished his remark sternly then as he looked at Wesley's double.
"That decision is not yours to make cadet, I don't know what's gotten into you lately and right now, I really don't care. But I will tell you this: as long as you wear this uniform you will obey every order you're given. And you will conform to Starfleet regulations and rules of conduct, is that clear." he snapped and they watched as Wesley's eyes hardened at that remark as he answered him.
"Yes Sir, it is, but I won't be wearing this uniform any longer." he said as he removed his communicator and they saw Picard double's eyes barely widen at that. "It wasn't for 18 months it's right after I blew your trust. But you told me that we had a duty to the truth." Wesley said at that and Picard nodded. "You should have altered the remark." Picard said sternly to his double as he realized just who he sounded like then.
"I'm resigning from the academy." he said as he put it on the table firmly. "As I'm resigning, I think it's time for the truth to come out now. But I was never in on their plan to cover up the accident, in total honesty now. I told them our only chance at staying at the academy was by coming forward. But they were too afraid to and then when you made your threat to them, through me, Sir."
"I told him that truth after he decided to call you liar, which is what I would never do, I'd never turn on you at the time. I wanted to come forward right from the start, but if you just given me the chance to say it. I would have told you everything and the real truth, is I was a double agent. All that time, I'm a double agent, they kept delaying me until you figured it out and that was it."
"The damage was done, but you remember what you once told me just after the accident, Sir, the first duty. Well I wanted to come forward right from the beginning, Sir. I warned them that the second you figured it out, that they were screwed. I was going to tell you before you dismissed me, that I'm a double agent, I'm working for you." he said and Picard's double froze up at that news.
"But the first duty, I can't deny my place in my truths, but now you're asking me to deny who you trained me to become. Duty to the truth, I was an undercover agent, for you, they sabotaged me all that time. The Novas are NID, I'm not a Nova, I'm a Gamma I can't do that, do you understand now. Do you understand just who you truly sound like, you sound like Hammond."
"Just before he got the truth thrown in his face about Euronda, what's the other part you always used to tell me, huh what. Learn from the past to create a better future, but if you can't remember your own lessons. And since I was 15, what's the point of staying, what's the point, I'm resigning, from the academy." he said and left the room at that as Picard's double picked it up and closed his eyes.
"By denying his truth, it sealed my decision in stone, you taught me duty to the truth, I can't lie to myself, I can't. But you and the committee are asking me to go against everything you trained me to be." Wesley told him and he nodded. "I think my double is starting to feel like a failure of a mentor now that yours dropped out at the moment. But I would never talk to you like this after year two, we've been planning this for months."
"To just prepare for what's coming it's we've been planning on things for 3 years, but that's not going to happen." He said in response to that as Beverly sighed. "Alright last and final step, our conversation and leading into the shootout right, if he was waiting for you to do it, but the traveler. He told us never tell you what he told Jean Luc, regarding you and he told me before this started right now." she said and he nodded gently to her.
"It was probably better I made this decision now, now rather then later, I was getting ready to go on sabbatical and Daniel was taking me with him. But the first planet we're starting with to make my powers stronger was on this planet. So you knew I wasn't just abandoning my career, but I neeed a break right now at the time. Like the kid on the movie, he needed a break and if his mentor decided to take him with him now."
"Then he never would have broke and turned to the darkside, as his parental mentor told him the truth. As there was no need to sell his soul to the devil, he had found the power needed to save her. But no fate, 'the future is not set, there is no fate, but what we make for ourselves.'. he does nothing and she lives. He tries to save her by using this lunatic and she dies, it's the same for me now." he said and she nodded in agreement then.
"Yes exactly, the future is not set, the only fate is what we make for ourselves, and that is what destroyed him in the end, kiddo. Don't make the same mistakes or we're never going to see you again, but there is a way, I can teach you the powers you need. But it means taking a sabbtical from this day till you're ready to start a second time. And finish what you started at the moment." Daniel told him gently and he nodded as Jack smiled.
As he moved it to his quarters as he was packing up. "Why are you doing this?" her double asked and he said it gently. "I told you, Starfleet isn't for me." he said and she caught him by the arm as she said it. "Look, I may not be able to stop you from throwing away your entire life. But you're going to at least explain the reason, you owe me that much." She said and he sighed as he told her the truth then gently.
"I saw dad today, he told me not to follow him." he told her and she gasped. "You what?" she said and he said it then. "I was participating in an Indian ritual and I had a vision, and Dad came to me. And told me not to follow him, he told me and thst I had to find my own path." he told her and she sighed. "If it wasn't for the fact we know that they can get into our heads, I'd have this reaction to that remark."
"But it's adding on to that conversation right now, I want the real truth to why you been this moody and aside from what you just said right now." Beverly said, regarding that remark and he nodded. "Is that what this is about, a vision told you to leave the academy and you're just packing up your bags?" she said and he shook his head. "No, no it's more then that, but I knew for a long time I had to do this."
"But I just never been able to admit it to myself." he told her and she said it gently. "But you always said that being at the academy was the greatest thing that ever happened to you." She said and he turned around as he told her the truth. "That was before the accident, the enquiry and I lost your trust, mom. But the truth is I never was involved in that cover up, I wanted to come forward and tell you."
"And right from the start, I'm a double agent, I've been trying to tell you that for months, if you just given me the chance to call a retrial. You'd know that at the time, but first that, I lose both your trust and the captain's. And that did it now, but as time went on and graduation got closer. I started feeling really depressed, I thought it was the workload and the stress of being away
"And from home, but it wasn't, and it didn't go away, it just got worse." he said and she nodded as she answered. "Why didn't you say anything?" she asked and he sighed. "I didn't want to disappoint you, or Captain Picard, or my friends, you guys were all so proud of me." he said and she sighed. "I'd be proud of you no matter what you were doing, I love you Wesley." she said and he nodded to her.
"I know mom, I guess the truth was I was just afraid of disappinting myself, which I did when I did that. When at the inquiry as they forced me into joining in their lies at the time, I never lied to you before and this was the real problem. I can't do that twice now right now, I never questioned the fact I'd be in Starfleet, but when dad said not follow him, it just made so much sense."
"Everything is so clear." he said and she sighed at that. "Maybe it was partly my fault, we didn't realize the type of pressure we were putting on you. To be exactly what we wanted you to be at the time." She said and he nodded. "I don't blame you at all, it was my decision, it always has been." he told her and she nodded as she answered him gently at that remark as she looked at him then.
"You know that alien from Tau Ceti, the one that could control warp fields with his mind?" she asked and he nodded. "The traveler?" he said, supplying the name and she nodded. "He told Captain Picard a long ago that were special, like Mozart, and that were destined for sonething quite different the rest of us, maybe this is the first step." she said and Hammond crossed his arms at that as he answered that.
"That was to get him special treatment, he would have been better off, if you told him what you just said, like we did, Jake Daniel's father did at the time now here. You know he's gifted, that's very apparent to you, but what he doesn't need here. Right now, is having his powers or his title thrown at him every time he turns around. And this is family business and he's not family, so starting now, stay the hell away from us."
"He's's off limits." Hammond said and she nodded. "At the moment, it's back to setting the trap here for the Nova/NID agents starting now. We can set the trap for Nechayev and her coalition and let them walk right into it, any means necessary. 'If they give you trouble, kill them all.', not going to happen, as I am returning to the ship. Before we hit this episode Jean Luc." he added and Picard nodded in relief at the news gently at that.
"As we expose our traveler." he said to him as they heard Wesley's recorded voice say it then. "I love you mom." he said and she hugged him tightly. "That's part of it, I'm this close to graduation and it's a choice of what's best for me now right after the traveler. Well instead of going with him, I'm taking a sabbatical for a year and finish up as I returned to the ship after we get it repaired." he said as he said it to the duo then gently.
"The traveler had effectively put so much pressure on me right now, that I decided enough was enough, I need a sabbatical or at the very least try again in a few years. But with being my parents and the quartet my godparents, you're making that very clear." he said and she nodded. "Well thank god for the loophole in that truth here at the moment, if not for our counterparts in their century, we never would have caught it in time."
"But the people of the timeline couldn't understand what to do with your character, after the traveler came into the picture. So they sabotaged you until you leave and you make a reappearance in a few years after, which would be around the time. Now Will and Deanna get married and the five of us and you were at the wedding. And as you now had the insignia of lieutenant junior grade, so we just take pressure off you and that's it."
"But our current space in time is that you've scored so highly in the no winner test, or the other tests we gave you, that's enough to get you into advanced training. Though now it's onto the honesty test, and the accident is that test, we're looking at things. But survival, bonding test, the no winner and of course the honesty test. It's a matter of preparing for the duration right now, but 3 1/2 years of training we spend that time."
"In refresher courses of everything we did so far, but the survival test we take a line off that from normal training and do it. By going through each planetary environment, match your supplies to the correct environment and as team leader. You know that though we're watching from the engineering room, we decided to put your skills to the test. As 2 of 5 members of your team are set, Jake and Lal, just before we get the girls now next."
"And with them, Josh and Charlie next now." Picard said and she smiled as she ended it at that. "Just what does he takes us for, a complete idiot, you've hated getting singled out ever since Kosinski and the traveler were here at the time. Erica, get that trio in here and I mean right now, this is as close to Hathor as you can get right now." Janet said, as she crossed her arms and Wesley nodded in agreement at that remark.