The Bonds Of Friends And Family II: Stargate SG-1 Need Aftermaths II

by BazzCatgirl03

After getting the truth out to the rest of the planet, the commands go over the truths of what life is like in their present, so they know what needs to be changed and where. As they developed a very close friendship and prepare for when they create their side of the Stargate program, as things continue before the time-line resets itself now. Alternate reality of season 2

20. TNG Truths XIX: The Game XII: Training

The Bonds Of Family And Friends

Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and everything else belongs to the movie company and the creator.

Warnings: This story is going to be alternate reality from the end of this episode and forward, as what if the game had far reaching consequences than they were expecting and as time went on the bonds between him and the sextet had deepened even further, as this reaches season seven and his future.

If he'd been part of the enterprise for a following few months and the repeated traumas effect him enough he's choosing to stay longer. But in this story Journey's End to Nemesis never happens and the stories leading into Nemesis never happen and he, the O'briens, Riker, Worf and Deanna never transfer off the enterprise as they stay with the crew and Starfleet after things end.

All characters named that were not in the show, are members of the un-named members of the crew in each episode, but the ones named the most are part of the engineering crew and Geordi's team and the ones Wesley spent the most time with. Aside from a guest appearance from the duo in 'The Naked Now.', and the duo that are his age, next to Robin Lefler.

Chapter 20: The Game Recap Part II: Supplies And Half Time Observations II

Listening to this, Dayton tried to keep his face neutral, but was laughing inwardly at that remark. 'God buddy, just embarass the hell out of her, that she doesn't understand earth human ways, that's too good right now.' They heard from Dayton laughing as he looked at Picard to see the shocked look on his face. 'Dear lord, how could he see all that, and that I messed up in my plans so easily.'

'Where did this child learn to be that observant exactly?' They heard in answer to that remark gently and Wesley explained that. "Well to answer your question, it's I was taught by the people you're taking control of. But once we go into investigation mode, I suggest you work harder to keep your plans from getting out. Because once this gets into the federation and they learn it."

"And what you had planned, this is getting you thrown behind bars for a severe case of charges. My mentors are the two best officers in this case, I was also in training from the time I was fifteen. But everything they, and the crew, forgot is just another weapon against you right now. And sometimes a year's worth of separation is enough to make the people who raised you from childhood."

"Or just the ones who became extended family, forget your own abilities at times. And the people you took control of are those people, you really think I wouldn't realize what the catalyst was that you used against my mentor. Or that you're the one who took advantage of him, before turning him into host. Well guess again, because I did, the man you turned into your first host."

"Was my mentor, he and your other lead drone trained me themselves and with them are the other fifteen people you have looking for me right now. Including the lead technicians on the ship and the head of security. The nineteen are the ones who trained me, but with it, if you have noticed several twists and turns in this, they are enough to keep it going this long, but that's your problem now."

"But separated for a close to a year, it makes them forget your own abilities at times and as a result if the added information is also buried. And your opponent remembers everything that they forgot, well you just dug yourself into a hole. Though you may think you know your opponents thinking strategies when reading it through the people you possessed, you don't, whatsoever." he said to her sternly at this.

And watching them through the camera, he knew it was working as he went further. "Yeah this was a good idea, but like you said, when drugged, you can come up with 4 good ideas in an hour, but thinking straight then just get out of your way. As you're throwing everything you got at whoever possessed us right now or whoever boarded us this time right now." Frakes said as he looked from him to his version with a proud smile gently at that.

"And with that in mind, the game's just gotten a lot harder, because you got decoyed by the only other teenager who actually sees this just as easily as I did. On earth we call this the sheep lead in trick and you fell for it, because she was the bait while I was getting the information needed to find out who you are. But you just got revealed as my opponent and if you want to play games."

"I'll play games, but I will beat you in the game, because that game is not getting off this ship. But I'm not playing any wargames with you, as you tried to turn this into a no winner. Leaving me only three choices, all of which end in the expansion of your game device. Well, if I don't see the option I'm looking for, time to create one of my own, and the men you took control of taught me that."

"And with that if you hadn't figured out my clues to my mentors and everyone else looking for me than you're never going to win this game, because you never leave your planet and go to mine. So every earthborn human references you can't understand and that's the biggest weapon against you. That and the fact that you can't read the layout, but only what you're getting from them."

"You're reading the map of the ship through everyone on board, but everything they blocked out is the part you can't find in these situations. That's the biggest weapon now, and if you could read me as easily as they can, you could have ended this two hours ago. But no you can't, and it's because you only got the last eighteen months of that bond at the moment and with that."

"There are a lot of things that even the people that mentored you forget and this happens to be it. Such as it is, they forgot I ever created that chip and with it the technology that is keeping them out of the control room. But these memories are set three years apart and under orders given to me and the computer by the senior staff crew at the time I created that computer chip."

"That I should start testing you on what got out of them and what you didn't, and so far I see that you have dug the memories. That are connected to my escape route of them yet, or the memories that are connected to that tractor beam. And when and why the computer has neutralized any and all attempts of your regaining control of the ship. So to you I'm running a hostile take over."

"To them, when they're themselves, they recognize the memories and patterns, because everything I'm doing was a piece of my training. But it's hard for you to decipher it isn't it, I can understand why though. You know why, well it's because your drones started blocking out them out after I left, in case this ever happened at the time, Captain." they heard and Dayton hid a nod of agreement.

"And did you forget something else as well all of you, when slightly unfocused I can come up with four to five good ideas in an hour. But fully focused and you better stay out of my way, because you're never going to beat me here. And not when you can't concentrate at the moment either, now I may be slightly worn out, but I'm still fully focused right now, you on the other hand."

"With you drugged and being controlled, let alone emotionally compromised right now. You members I spend and spent the most time with, you all lost your focus right now and and as a result you forgot a few things in the training. And so far, you're losing this game because you forgot to turn off the damn radio. But if you hadn't learned your lesson when I pointed it out, why start now."

'Oh god, I forgot all about that, it's been just under a year since he left at the time, but he stayed for a month and the pain caused me to block it out. And everything we forgot was made clear there, we had this conversation already and in the middle of it. We gave him orders not to listen to us and the computer security medical orders, before he created that computer chip at the time."

"We just ensured the ship's A.I. maintained full control of the computer and the ship. And eleven months apart I knew how good he was and I still forget my own students abilities right now. Wesley don't do this, come on now, pull it over. If you chose now to do this you're not thinking straight pull it over. I know how good you are, but at the moment, but it's been 4 hours and with it.'

'It's you're not thinking straight right now.' Will said repeating the thoughts that shot through his mind. "And this wasn't me thinking this, it was her first officer, he dug only enough that he gathered the last 11 months. But not the entire 3.5 years now by that we all hid that information from her officers that infected us. And while Robin only just activated, on the ship here, but it's enough we were helping you along."

"Though at the current moment, though they thought you were good, they don't know the half of it right now, but this is a case of throwing them off guard. Just to get them to make a mistake right now and I would consider this a pass. And at the issue of mind games and throwing them an unexpected wrench into the works here." Will said in answer to that remark as Picard gave a nod of agreement then as they watched it.

As they saw the panicked look on both their faces at the fact they didn't get how truly good he really was after 3.5 years of training. 'Charlie don't say anything, we have to do this together, wait till I get Porter and Davidson into my apartment than start asking questions buddy. Because you're the one letting me know what the heck's going on, just pretend you're working, because your terminal.'

'Your terminal was mine, before I left, the problem is they're seeing you at every spot they normally saw me in, before I left. With my being their star pupil, before you guys arrived that's the problem right now. I have to make them see that with them focused on our conversation. Go to security procedures gamma 256325, input your codes, if we had another person here now."

"And connected to her here on the ship, your procedures are keeping them here. They're not getting off this ship, so while I'm distracting them input your codes, and make it sound like I tripped off the added sensor relay. Once I change locations, so they think I did that instead of you, so after this is done tomorrow. Tell them that your added command functions with it later and with it."

"Just so I know where the guys are hiding, and they're split into pairs during this too. With you being the plant now, start taking advantage of that, I need inside information, regarding a few things, so I can avoid them even longer. But I'm pulling the novel based off the video game and Jules Verne into the equation. This way it's enough to help out, because we're both bookworms.'

"And we're the exact same time to think it through regarding our moves, so with that. It's the ship's going on autopilot after I get to Data's quarters, but the ship's going on autopilot and hibernation mode for the night till that timer ends.' he heard and hid a nod as he looked at the furious look on his friend's mother's face as Beverly said it with a firm growl then to the ensign who was in there at the time.

"Ensign, how bad is it?" Beverly said with a furious growl and he quickly said it to her. "Severe case of sleep deprivation, and loss of everybody nutrient that he was having very high doses of when he was a child. Whatever else was in his system caused those hotflashes and his body temperature spikes right now." he said and and she nodded slowly to the news as the nurse tried to keep from laughing at thst.

"And you never checked the damn logs to know why he'd need to run that test on himself?" she said slowly and she knew he was scared. "I'm lucky, I'm not the one getting reprimanded for this Bev, but where your son is, concerned, then don't tick you off here." Ensign Danis said smiling to that remark and she nodded."Yeah he's screwed now, she, his her, is getting stronger by the minute right now at the moment."

"But keep it up Wesley, it's working.' Dayton thought to himself gently as they heard the nurse's answer to her as he tried to keep his voice from shaking. "I didn't know Doctor, I didn't realize that's why he came in there, I thought he was going to check on Data. I didn't think he was actually coming to check himself out." he said and she nodded with a furious look at that information then firmly.

"We can discuss this later." she said with a stern tone and she raised her voice. "Alright if you're watching us, I can figure you're now screwing with the camera wherever you're hiding right now. But every public area is blocked, if it's gone completely quiet, you've taken cover somewhere." she said and she heard a chuckle as he answered her, his tone bemused as he answered her smiling.

"Yeah no kidding, because he's not drawing attention to himself by screwing around with the systems right now and secondly the A/V is turned off in where he's hiding. And so you can't find him until the alarm goes off a second time now." MacDougal said in satisfaction as they heard his answering response to Etana's medical officer."Yes that's right, and you're not going to learn where yet and I'm done in here."

"And until after that alarm goes off, yet again, but as it is, that course you have is my training course. This one is make it up as I go now and with that in mind right now, mother, if this was my training game turned real at the moment. I do believe the rules qualified for giving your target enough time to prepare, but again that's another rule you've broken now, but here's the thing.

"In a game there are rules, you follow the rules and you win, you break the rules and get get disqualified. Well you just broke one of said rules a bit ago by not giving me enough time to prepare, so I improvised in that and with that But your opponent doesn't give you enough time to prepare if it's short notice. Than improvise, and that's what I'm doing right now by creating my kits."

"And since noon this afternoon, ever since this started, but like another situation. But it's been just under three days since you, Sir, returned from Risa and in that time we've had two attacks of bodily harm, and one case child abuse as well too. So in a way she's breaking the rules of this game and her training left and right and ever since you started hounding me to try that game."

"That I haven't had anything to eat in twelve hours, that I'm going to improv now and where you're finding out very soon. But again there's three rules in these scenarios, but 1) when off your own turf never let your guard down. 2) Never just accept something from a woman that shows interest in you, if you're on leave, if you're a man and 3), and most importantly here."

"Once the host and patient zero is created, never, if you're victims connected to them just accept whatever they suggest you to try. And once they get back on the ship if they say they brought it back from the planet that burned you once already. If you're trying to focus on something else, like say research or repair jobs regarding the ship itself after it took some damage barely a month."

"Prior to that at the time, and the latest arrival on the ship in question is recently delivered baby as well too. And with that, if you're were distracted by both my returning, and by the fact we had to deal with the research as well. Than you just left yourself open to being turned into a group of drones now, because you all lost your focus after I left at the time here. And with it, if you forgot your own parenting skills."

"As well here." he said to him sternly at this. "Yeah now you ticked him off, if it's personal, it's just gotten worse, as this is me, when I'm on the warpath, and I used that tone on Rondon when I was taking the entrance exams." Wheaton said to Stewart and he nodded smiling. "She maybe humanoid, but all I see her as is another version to Hathor, and I didn't have time for this right now in this case." Wesley said in response and he nodded to him

"Than it's the aggravation of dealing with a recently activated cadet. And when his or her's parents are not on board the ship, and he keeps getting into trouble. And three new arrivals as well, two who are like the cub you want back, and the third an adult version of the cadet that keeps getting himself into trouble with you. So as a result you lost your focus and left yourself open to her manipulations at the moment."

"But as you're trying to catch every member of the ship to make you have everyone part of the grouping, you basically ran the victims, the primary target's reserves dry, to make them an easier target right now. So technically you, or rather she, is the reason I'm looking like I'm suffering from something right now and with it, your inner selves, the you I know." he said to her through him as he went further.

"And I know they're getting stronger by the minute, but your parental instincts are beginning to take back control now at the moment. If you're getting this irritated at trying to find me. But that alibi is not going to work when the authorities show and she gets arrested for child abuse. Though I'm technically an adult, that's not going to work, because I'm on vacation at the moment."

"And once back here on the ship, I'm back under your supervision and here's your problem now. But the supposed plant that caused the entry tubes to be cut off is the reason your job just got harder at the moment right now, Sir. You should have gotten him out if the search." he said as they heard a smirk in his voice and Picard sighed as he answered his remark at that as they exchanged looks then.

"Alright wherever you are, I want to talk to you, young man." he called out and a minute later an image of Wesley appeared on the main viewer. "Yes captain?"he said and he crossed his arms at that as he answered him. "If you got our flaws in training than you ought to know that comming us in the middle of a manhunt is a failure in yours, Wesley." he said and he watched him smile as he answered him at that.

"Nope, guess again right now Etana, that's not a fail, but a pass, just to throw them off guard right now, we did tell him to pull any edge he could to throw you off guard. Long before you hijacked us at the time, well he's following his orders right now. My son is a gifted young man and he knows what he's doing right now." Picard said smiling, with a smirk at her opinion as he and Will crossed their arms in pride at his skills then.

"Not at all captain, in fact it's just the opposite right now, you see I realized that there were four options to choose from in this scenario at the time. Aside from that if you were yourself, you'd find this good as we, my friends and me were working together in this. And like another scenario, it turned into a test of strategic thinking, pitting your skills against ours at the time."

"At the current moment if you forgot the last time you spoke to me like this, on the view screen there on the bridge. It maybe a couple months later, but then it should feel familiar to you, because the last time you did it. It was the day you said your exact remark to Commander MacDougal. Regarding cutting the power on the tractor beam into the room at the time and with it."

"She and Commander Riker were trying to see what was wrong and went to check. While Lieutenant Shimoda was in the room with me, and yanked the chips. But here's the problem now for you captain, that game is a mutation of the very thing that caused the control room to end up under my control. Under your and mother's orders, it's a medical security lock out at the moment."

"Medical security lockout combined with the no winner test and another situation a few weeks later after your original security chief was killed. But under your orders, all three of you, you told me if you all ended up compromised. Then by your orders to activate the computer programming I created in case this happened, well now it has and with that in mind."

"If you're angry that I'm doing what you told me to do, sorry Sir. I'm just following your orders right now, as for the no winner test at the moment. But in the first three choices that were involved in this particular test I saw several things I know you and your programmer never expected me to see. But I did and I read through each option carefully as well at the moment too."

"But I attack you head on by coming into the engine room or the bridge, let alone face to face with the security teams, I get arrested. Try to shoot to kill regarding you, arrested, try to beam on to her ship, arrested. So three options in this no winner and they all result in the expansion, so no getting reckless at the moment regarding this. Aside from that you ought to know me better too."

"Because if I do and try any of these and the wargames in a conspiracy situation are going to result in the expansion, so no. I'm not getting reckless, but sticking to my training in stealth exercise and aside from the alarm going every time I leave the room you have no clue where I am. Because I'm intentionally avoiding a confrontation with any of you just to head that off."

"So with that, if you new guys expected me to get reckless and attack head on you're wasting your time right now, because I won't. And I'm choosing the one least likely to end in failure right now, but if you considered everything you once told me, you'd remember these things. But then as I said, separation for a year does funny things to your memories and with it at the moment."

"It's the added act of one year separation can change the look and personality to the person you trained. And they're better in skills and instincts, let alone knowing you, better than you remember them. It took close to two weeks regarding the stealth test to crack that in your guys's case at the time. And then close to three regarding the training foothold test, before I left last year."

"Because that's the added catch, when slightly out of it, I'm likely to come up with four to five good ideas in three hours. Fully focused and you better stay out of my way, because you're never beating me. And we've already had this conversation last year as well. But as you once told me, you want to win this game than choose the most least likely actions to throw your opposition off."

"And I may look and sound like I'm worn out now, but my concentration is strong you're never going to beat me. Because I've avoided captured for six hours and it's going on midnight right now. If you thought you could catch me off guard in the engine room it didn't work, because I know you better than you think. And I have done that by reversing the attack in the engine room."

"Your programmer picked a game as a way to start a conspiracy, well if she wants to play games, I'm willing to oblige right now. But four years in training has come in handy as does knowing everything about you when you're yourselves right now. If she took the time to read your minds than she just got the last eleven months, but not the first three years and four months."

"Everything you thought you knew and remembered was blocked out of your minds, or forgotten, including things regarding my training. But as I was working on that computer chip to the terminal in case this ever happened. Than you all forgot a few things in the first few years. And the things I know my version of you was blocking out to protect me at the moment from her."

"But that's the clear flaw in the programming and why my deprogramming attempts are beginning to work on you, it's clear you all lost your focus. And when I left you were all running on auto pilot for the following eleven months. And having someone that is just like me in training on the ship, but a bit more hardcore, is beginning to hurt, because you all miss my being there."

"That the advanced training ensign that just arrived and with him was Ensign Lefler. The duo are so much like me that that's reason you lost your focus, why is that, well it's because he carries my exact personality traits, the way we were together. He's able to read the twenty of you in the same way I do and to you, seeing him in my spot gave a link back to me, but though you had him."

"You wanted me back, as your prize pupil, your surrogate son, and I don't have to hear the words out loud to know that regarding this either, Sir. And it's because it's been close to a year apart and the results are though you have him you were seeing me sitting there working at the helm, in the engine room at your sides Commander, Chief, us working out in the holodeck together."

"Us on the pad playing around, me in the lab with you mother when you needed my help and everything else. In every spot since I left you see him and you're remembering everything and how it was before I left. How I took to my training, how I never hold anything back from you, and how I never tried to push it further than you'd allow at times, but all of this you're remembering."

"Seeing me in my element, on the bridge and in everything else we used to do together when in between training sessions and our recreation time. And it's easy to see that this is hurting all of you emotionally right now. But that's the opening that she was looking for and she took advantage of that." he said to him as he felt the pounding in his heart start then at the news as Wesley looked at him then.

"My strategy is one taken from a time when our our forebears were acting on getting around by stealth. And that was a strategy taken from their more militaristic style of training in how to evade detection. Everything you forgot in history, ancient history, I've used, and everything she's digging into your minds for is digging a deeper hole for her right now at the moment."

"But when the planet turns hostile it's time to call it quits in going there and now that it has. It's you broke another another rule in training. But never let your guard down when you leave the ship, or you're going to get some unforeseen side effects. Like say being turned into an assassin, it didn't work then and it won't work now, because your attempt on us got figured out."

"Just before the axe fell, when you decided to come after Robin and me. But you see, that was a trap we planned, while she plays decoy, I'm busy in the medical lab and I see the entire conversation between you and Etana. I know what her plans are right now and with the fact you just shifted courses now. It's making sure her plans never get off this ship right and with that in mind."

"You dealt with another conspiracy at the time and rule 1: you want to get passed detection, make small talk, eye contact and just relax. 2: never separate and 3: and most important now: never tell the possible future compromised where you're going. Or about any health abnormalities you have or the infected are going to find out about it in the process and with those words in mind."

"Did you forget something else right now, act like everyone else, to get by undetected, I created two of those headsets, but their mock-ups. And in the rules of a conspiracy, you get three chances now, but the first was lucky, twice was pushing your luck and three times, get ready to run. Because it's about to turn into a chase down and manhunt and I reversed the ambush."

"Yeah that's right, you all clearly messed up in your training at the moment. Because I knew that you both were in the engineering room waiting to ambush me. So what else to do, but throw you, and your programmer, off by reversing the ambush in there. But this situation turned itself into another game, us human, or humanoid, members play all the time in ten forward or our quarters."

"Or did you forget that, and with it is the fact it took trying to beat each other by throwing each other off guard with each play. But this entire time, you haven't been able to do that and it's because, every time you try to catch me. I'm hearing every play you make and it's digging her into a checkmate faster than she realizes right now, because rule one in this game in normal cases."

"It's never tell your opponent your moves or you're never going to win the game. Because said game sets are either on one board, or just stacked up. I've been playing you since I was sixteen Sir, and as yourself, we've both had some very close wins. But at the moment you've lost all of your key players and all that's left are the pawns now and it's been going on for close to five hours."

"And this game is going to keep going till she gets arrested because by then my reinforcements are going to be here and this game ends in a checkmate, in my favor. Because you forgot your own training lessons in these cases and the fact you gave me certain orders last year before I left. And everything you yourselves, as yourselves, forgot in these situations, as a result."

"And it's because the route of the problem is you lost your focus, you lose your focus and your opponent can easily take advantage of that. And with it, is an act of letting your guard down way too soon. Let alone letting some woman make you forget your own training, when that rule is 'until back on your home turf, never let your guard down', and you, commander, did that right now."

And here's the result right now." he said and Picard nodded, as he said it to himself then. "Yeah you taught me to play chess and here's the result, I've grown so good, I can put her into checkmate without breaking a sweat." Wesley said and he smiled. "If you never played chess you're never going to win and you put her into check this soon was pretty fast now." he said to him and Frakes and Levar chuckled at that remark gently at that.

'Chess, he's turned this into a chess game between us,a lright if that's how you want to play it now, it's reversing the attacks now. Just to catch you this time, but this keeps up and you're going to collapse, come on now Wesley, it's time to take a break. But who the devil is the other piece to this, and where is he getting these ideas from right now anyway, regarding all the distractions.'

"Because this is getting ridiculous and it's been going on so long that he's not the only one getting fatigued now. But that's enough of the moves and counter moves right now.' he thought, as he saw him smile at that. "Guess again he's just starting right now, but this is not going to work out if you're possessing me. And I've played him so many times, it's I know him too well." Stewart said in response to that smiling gently.

"You know for someone who is a skilled strategist, you're giving yourself away way too easily right now. Or maybe she is, I don't know, but everything she doesn't know or doesn't understand. And that's another game being played on earth, she's gambling way too high in getting that game into the federation. And when she thinks she's got everyone on the ship over the age of 18 too."

"But the stakes are higher than she thinks right now, it's the pot has now topped an exact amount of $500,000, and the longer this goes on. And the higher that pot gets till the person winning this round catches the person. And with those words in mind right now, she's lost every round in the last five hours, since this got started, because she's not seeing that ace in the hole."

"You caught Robin and she just assumed that she was faking it, she assumed I had no idea how to work this so easily. But that's her fatal flaw now, her arrogance and with those words in mind. And without digging it out of your heads, to read through the earth information on us, and me. Is just another weapon against her, I can use right now, and as for why that is."

"It's because the K'tarians never leave Risa, the ship is compromised of mostly earth humans, and of 50% mixed planets. And that's her problem right now, she doesn't understand us humans to get what I'm trying to do, or what my decoy attempts mean. She doesn't understand the first game, but with the fact she dug this one out of your heads I can see it in your eyes right now."

"That you're about to change strategies now in order to catch me off guard, and that's another rule broken, you want to win, never give away your hand. Or the person you're playing against is going to bankrupt you in ten second with every dime in that pot. As to that she's flunking with her studies of reading earthborn culture through you at the moment, and that's her fatal flaw now."

"To them, a visit to earth is not an option, they like the quiet utopian like community of their planet and up until now. As did we, till you, commander, get turned into an assassin and then this happens. So two strikes in the side of ten months, and both because this planet is trying to start a war between us and whoever's involved now and while Data caught the first, I catch the second."

"And to them and every planet in the federation earth, earth is less advanced in cultures than they are. And our history of 25,000 years of life on earth is considered unusual as it is right now. What else to do, but to use that against them and take it back to a time when we were just five to ten years old, in technology, war tactics and everything else at the time."

"And test her on that to see what she understands right now to what she doesn't, because the more she doesn't understand. Then the more at a disadvantage she really is. And it's because she doesn't understand anything about earth, take this for instance, to her, and her controlling you now. But to her it's, I'm now planning a hostile take over regarding the ship."

"The ship's responding to my orders, because I created that programming just before I left and we did this test, before I left as well, my last mission was with you Captain. And I saved your life at the the time by keeping you alive long enough to get you back up here and I stayed for another month. Before I left, but like my father, you had grown used to having another Crusher here."

"Working under you, and our bond deepened even further, because he wanted you to forgive yourself for what happened to him. The devil's heart was the next catch, just like the Stargazer, at the time, you're wishing you could bring him back. And seeing me in his place is and was beginning to heal you up, before I left and then you have a relapse in that after you found that jewel."

"And here's the result, you want to bring back my father, give me and my mother my father back and it's hurting you emotionally right now. Sir, I forgave you for that long ago, you can't keep doing that to yourself. Listen to me, what happened was something you couldn't have prevented at the time, it happened too fast for you to prevent, it's not your fault he made the choice to leave."

"He left the ship, and even if you had enough time, it would have killed all three of you, he wanted you to have a second chance with me and here it is. The bond of connection we had was enough that you decided on having me in training till I left. And it's because you, as yourselves, know I'm a skilled computer expert."he said and Picard sighed as he felt his inner self getting stronger at at that.

'Son stop please, don't do this, I need to focus, come on Wesley, don't do this to me, not now.' he thought to himself, and, seeing the emotional pain in his body language, Dayton knew that Wesley's statements were getting to the captain. 'Keep it up Wes, it's working right now come on, keep it up.' he thought as he saw the older man trying to keep his expression neutral at that as he got ready to answer him at that.

Before he could though he went further. "Sir, after four years I remember one of your biggest lessons to me and it's, 'You let your emotions get in the way of what needs to be done and it can and will get you and whoever's with you killed. Bury your feelings deep down, they do you credit, but they could be your undoing.'. And you're right, only I'm not the one who's in trouble here."

"But you are, when in the field we had to keep control of our emotions in a crisis in this case, your emotions are the reason you're in this mess right now. Close to four years together, things change and as I said you help raise the child in question and you never want to let go after that. But at the moment, that depression has resulted in you getting turned into a host now."

"Why else would I choose those things to just to make you, my you, stronger, but to get through to you. It's clear to anyone who was in psychology that my leave has unlocked something else in you and I'm you're surrogate son. To you, letting me go is hardest on you and to the members I'm closest to, it's enough of reason for you to lose your focus." he said and Picard sighed at that remark.

Before realizing it, as he thought it over then. 'Wait a second if he's got a line in here, he must have one to the engine room right now as well at the moment. Alright I'm letting Riker say it for me, if he's getting as frustrated as I am right now.' They heard in response to that remark, and Will saw he was trying to keep his face neutral as he waited for it, and gave a nod as he gave the order then firmly.

"Lal, just land it on him and me now and from here, it's dealing with their trying to get to him through us and vice versa in his trying to break their holds on us right now." he said and it dropped it to a single image at that. 'Damn it kid, I thought I said never try these stunts when in training. Why break that rule now when you're undercover kid, huh, why exactly.' he thought as he answered him then firmly as he said it

"You may say that, but comming us in the middle of this clearly was a severe flaw in your training. I thought I taught you better than that now, but we went over this and the last few stunts. Let alone this was not in the training, what is this, 'make it up as you go' to make this more interesting right now. Because trying it like this is going to have someone catch on to where you are."

"And before you leave wherever it is at the you're hiding right now and along with that is that we've got every corridor blocked and getting something to eat is not an option. And not without getting yourself arrested right now, and the second that alarm goes. You're exposing yourself each time, because constantly setting off the alarms is enough of a failure in your training.

"By telling us where you are, every time that alarm goes off each time and with that. As was the collision you caused between Bates, Greyson and their teams, before Porter nearly caught you. But frequently pulling stunts like this is enough to make it clear that, you're taking some severe risks in your training and that luck is going to run out eventually aside from that, that timer is going to end."

"And soon enough and you're going to be exposed after that, you ought to know that." he said and he watched him smile. Before seeing something in his eyes change as he looked into his eyes gently and Will felt his heart fall slightly at that. "If you were yourself you'd be thinking the opposite right now, Sir. You remember what you used to tell me, you let your emotions get in the way of what needs to be done."

"it could destroy you, but your emotions are exactly the reason you're in this mess right now at the moment. How and why, it's because of me, you miss me more than you know. What about you Sir, I mean from day one, the day we met, you were giving me tips and training me, before I took my position. And as a member of the crew now, after mom left you took it upon yourself."

"Just to act like my father, after the worst portions of the flu were done with, you decided you weren't having me deal with it again. For that entire year, after I met your father, you chose an activity that was a good memory. And of your childhood. And I turned to you for everything that year after she left, though fourteen years apart in age, it didn't matter, regarding your promotion."

"And to Captain and to you it was why leave, you had a life on the Enterprise and you're happy where you are, as you started acting like a father to me. By the time we reached dealing with the Borg, it was enough you were determined to not have me suffering a relapse. In things regarding these guys pushing me into over doing it, at the time and with it was the fact that in training."

"Which as it turned out turned into a repeat later on at the time and as to why I was making sure we got ourselves out of the trouble we get ourselves into. But the damn side effect was the result of dealing with these guys, but to you, you just weren't ready to let me go anymore than I was ready to leave. Because by that point our bonds were that of father and son now."

"But it was after Specialist Riker arrived and you got the news you were assigned as Captain of the Aires, what made you give up that post. Because you and the counselor were back together and that past year. It created an even tighter bond with everyone else, including me at the time. And what did you choose after he left at the time, you chose to teach me your favorite sport."

"And in between training we did this and it just deepened the bond between us. You taught me to improvise when we were dealing with the wargames on the Hathaway, what was the first memory that came back after you got that micro organism in your bloodstream and we had to get it out of you. It was the day we deployed, and you and Data had connected at the time and on the holodeck."

"The fact that in both this and the day that broke down the barriers between us as the original members of the crew who of the senior staff. Aside from yourself, was involved in helping me get us to safety, and you saw my abilities for yourself that day. You should know what lengths I'd go to just to get you all back now, after close to five years together." the young man said to him then softly.

Watching this Will pulled him into his side then gently as they heard it then. 'No I couldn't have just caused him to push himself to this level. I know that look, it's shifted from trying to focus on the matter at hand. And our bond is making it harder for him to concentrate right now and us along with him. No, son stop, please, don't do this to me, not now, Son come on, you keep this up.'

'And you're going to collapse, stop already now, kiddo.' he thought as he finished that. 'My student, my cub, my son, son please, don't do this, please just stop.' he thought feeling the pain of his leaving in his heart growing. "Sir I understand but holding it in is just going to make her grip on you even tighter, don't fight it, just remember, all of you just remember." he heard in response to his thoughts.

As he felt his normal self beginning to grow stronger as he answered him. "And your saying this was working in getting me to fight back, but it was like a tug a war now. Your me was fighting it out to break her control and he's trying to keep his grip on me. And hearing your voice was giving me the strength to fight back. But this next attempt to get to you crossed the line." Will said as Wesley crossed his arms at the remark then firmly.

"As I understand it, if she had this planned, she was trying to catch me in the act of seeing what's causing my condition all this week. But as she doesn't understand what it is that's really wrong with me at the moment. And her thoughts went into you, she's doesn't understand the human anatomy. But you do, if you were yourself at the moment, you've seen me like this before."

"And more than once, and it's till I collapse out of exhaustion, but if you remembered when exactly, you'd see the signs sooner. You, the six of you, and the crew members I'm closest to, saw this before in me three years ago, and your exact thoughts were then you should have pulled the plug. And sooner than you did at the time and with those words in mind right now."

"What she's not understanding here is another reference to our culture, from the late 20th century and a year after Kirk and his crew ended up in 1986. But as the child of a doctor, I know how to fix the gaps in my things if you read my diagnostics a bit ago and I should tell you. There's no use tracing this link or trying to find me right now as I know you're trying to counselor."

"Because it's cloaked and my shields are up so tight, there's no getting through them right now. Four years together, you think I wouldn't know how to block you out Counselor, it's the side effect of being this bonded to a half Betazoid. You lose control of your emotions the power blast is going to be like you threw a boulder into a swimming pool so with that in mind right now."

"Keep up those shields at the moment, but as I said, though, you tried to keep up the charade. If you don't want to get found out, don't start insisting that your targets should try it, it just makes the act more desperate right now to round up every non infected with the said virus. And act normal, like yourselves instead of the way you had been acting lately at the moment."

"You committed the mistakes in your training, but I haven't, like the collision in the hallways. That's one of the things you taught me, to throw off your opponent, pull the least likely move so they had no room to pull out. At the moment you're not going to find me till that alarm goes off. After I relocate, it's time for bed after that, so you better take a break, it's going to be a long day."

"Tomorrow, once this starts again and by then my reinforcements are going to be here. Aside from that, if we have any junior crew members running loose in the halls I suggest you better get them out of the search. Because I'm not breaking my routine here and he's never going to find me either." Wesley said firmly and he answered that as he looked at the viewer gently as he said it to him.

"Just how do you expect to get out of wherever you're hiding, we've got corridors blocked off and the second the alarms goes off, you've been made. You're taking some serious chances with this right now and that luck is going to run out eventually. Aside from that, how long do you expect this last, it's been 4 hours and you're running on fumes at the moment." he said and he saw him smile.

"You remember what you used to tell me here, if the opponent doesn't give you enough time to prepare: than improvise. If they're cutting off one way to getting yourself refreshed: take an alternate route and so on. But as this switched courses, her problem is she never studied the inner layout of this ship, and as I can see you standing at the pool table right now."

"That's another fatal mistake, because those scanners don't dig deep enough into areas that are shielded. And even if you tried to isolate me with thermal scanners, even the smallest reading can be misinterpreted here. Did you forget that we had children younger than five on board, let alone we have a two year old cat as well, if they get into Maintenance shafts it's going to confuse them."

"I learned from an early age how to block my signature and you taught me this yourself. You don't want to be found, don't stay in one place longer than an hour, like the simulations on the holodeck, and nice try Greyson, it didn't work. I knew what you were trying to do here at the time, I can guess if you were trying to pull that, it's you were trying to get me to show myself."

"But no, not going to happen and that little mistake on the holodeck, it was so I could distract you, before I left my hiding place. And that always worked with you guys anyway. But 3.5 years, I know you better than you know yourselves to counteract your maneuvers, but to beat me you have to think up a different way out of this as its 15 hours and counting."Wesley said to him firmly at his remark.

"And whoever's in the halls that are my age, if you're a newly activated recruit you better get out of there right now, because rule one when as a teenager. 'When it comes to manhunts or anything dangerous, leave these things to more skilled officers than you are.'. And I'm warning you right now, if I hear you're breaking orders after Ensign Dayton, or anyone in the adult crew."

"Has already ordered you to stand down and ordered you to your quarters and you're in big trouble once I end this, as I'm the JCL. And that means I'm in charge of the junior crew. And with Ensign Dayton right behind me, but here it is. Because deliberately breaking orders when in a situation is enough of reason to deny you your rank and uniform till you stop acting like a spoiled brat."

"And start acting your age, as this job is a serious business, and if you think you can catch me, you better think again. Because I'm not changing my ways in this and every officer older than you are knows this. And if I was the source of my inspiration and you ran into them, you'd be killed. Or turned into a hostage so with that, and again, stay out of this and leave it to the adult crew."

"So fair warning, you get caught and arrested later, and you're in big trouble for breaking orders. But you continue to break orders and it's you're losing that shot." Wesley added and Picard hid a chuckle. "Just like guys like John: but the fact that you haven't been captured yet. The results are he's going to try to catch you himself, or do something stupid, just like his grandfather." Anna said in response to that, bemused.

And he hid a smile as Will hid a sigh as he said it to him as he tried to take on the tone he normally used with him in training. 'Come on son, you're exhausted and the longer this goes on, you're going to get hurt, just stop.' he thought as he said it. "At the moment we got every public area blocked, so how do you expect to get something to eat. And with that is trying to get a chance to rest at the moment.

As I said you're taking some serious risks here and the second that alarm goes off you're exposed. But the longer this goes on, the more likely chance someone's going to get hurt, or you, yourself, do, and you're beyond exhausted anyway, so it's time to end this, so just pull it over already son." Will said gently and, seeing his eyes narrow in anger, he knew that backfired as he answered him.

"Uh oh, well now he's done it, you think we don't know that's her first officer talking in your voice." Eastman asked and Will nodded in agreement. "I know that's her doing the talking in your voice, Sir. What you think I can't tell the difference between you and her talking to me, in your voice, just what do you take me for exactly. Your specific orders before I left last year, is if you were compromised at the time."

'Than ignore everything you say to me, because, like the computer program, I created I can tell the difference. You think I don't already know what you all chose in alibis to turn me into a drone to get that thing into the academy. To put this bluntly I saw your entire conversation with your programmer. I heard the entire conversation, so though you made this out as whatever alibi you chose."

"And whatever reason you're getting frustrated if you chose this one exactly, if Derek Hanson is still on board the ship. Then he's the reason you're getting this aggravated at the moment if you chose that alibi to arrest me. Well I do know, your mistakes in training are making it easy to avoid you. And I did that once already with Greyson and Porter and now you're pulling emotional blackmail."

"Well forget that, your behavior is clear regarding this, I know what you're trying to do and it's not going to work this time, Sirs. If you were yourselves you'd be calling me by the nickname you always have at the moment. Not by my surname, not my full name, but my nickname with you guys. So that's not you doing the talking as I know you, so forget about it, I'm not giving in.

"As for MacGregor, whatever his intention regarding me, it's not going to work and if he's here, than you should remember this one as well. But to the sextet and me, regarding a previous trauma. As you told him earlier Porter, it's enough that you should know these things, but when it comes to a previous trauma, leave anyone connected, out of it, if you wanted an easier chance to catch me."

"You should have left him out of it, as for everything else it's pretty simple right now, if I'm using that many reminders and as I said. You're trying to control your feelings is just making her grip on you stronger. It's two things here, you for me and me for you, but you know what the real problem is after the entry tunnels got cut off, but something you've been dealing for years, in my case."

"For four years, together, does four years really make a difference in what's she just pulled emotionally in my case. Does it really make enough of a difference to fix the damn trauma, that this situation has or is about to turn into. That you, as yourselves, could deal with, after the last major traumas I've had these last 4.5 years, if you were still yourselves you'd know the answer to that."

"She's just triggered enough of reason for me to do anything I can to prevent that thing from getting off this ship. Because if I don't and you're getting tried for mutiny and shot, so screw it, it's not going to work this time and again. Don't waste your time in trying to trace my emotions, my shields are locked up tight, Counselor." He said with a firm growl as he finished with the next sentence.