This chapter is the longest chapter I think I every did for Into Darkness and the last story. You guys might be surprised about Jasmine this chapter. I don't know. i just wanted people to see that Jim feels betrayed by Jasmine. I will probably watch the new movie this Saturday. I kind of have some ideas for Jasmine, but I don't want to say anything right now. Only one person commented that Jasmine should be with Scotty in the new film. What do you guys think?

Chapter 7

"What we got?" Jim asked when he, Spock, and Jasmine walked into med bay. Jim wanted Jasmine to stay on the bridge, but as always, she refused.

"It's quite clever actually. This fuel container's been removed from the torpedo and retrofitted to hide this cryo tube."

"Is he alive or not?" Jasmine asked, looking at the frozen man.

"He's alive," Bones answered. "But if we try to revive him without the proper sequencing, it could kill him. This technology's beyond me," he mumbled.

"How advanced, Doctor?" Spock asked.

"This cryo tube is ancient," Jasmine answered before Bones and Dr. Marcus could answer. "Not advanced. Since we developed warp capability, we never had any reason to freeze anyone. This man has been frozen for a really long time"

Bones nodded at Jasmine. "The commander is right. He's 300 years old."

"We need answers…now," Jim marched out of med bay with Spock and Jasmine right behind him.

STID

"Why is there a man in that torpedo?" Jim asked.

"There are men and women in all those torpedoes, Captain," he calmly answered back. "I put them there."

Jim and Spock glanced at each other. "Who the hell are you?" he asked.

"A remnant of a time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior so as to lead others to peace in a world at war. But we were condemned as criminals, forced into exile. For centuries we slept, hoping when we awoke, things when we awoke, things would be different. But as a result of the destruction of Vulcan, your Starfleet began to aggressively search distant quadrants of space. My ship was found adrift. I alone was revived."

"I looked up "John Harrison." Until a year ago, he didn't exist."

"Why don't you asked Commander Kirk about that," Khan looked at Jasmine in the eye.

"Jasmine?" Jim was confused.

Jasmine took a deep breath. "John Harrison isn't his real name. When he was revived by Admiral Marcus to design weapons and ships to prepare for war against the Klingon Empire, he was given the name John Harrison, an English Starfleet commander. I was the one that gave him that name. His real name is Khan Noonien Singh," Jasmine looked at Spock and Jim. "I wanted to tell you guys-"

"You were helping him?" Jim glared at Jasmine. He couldn't believe that his own sister wouldn't say anything and was involved. "He killed Chris, Jas! The man you looked up to and treated him like your father!"

"I wasn't helping him," Jasmine was almost crying. "I was still pregnant at the time and I only 'assistant' some of it. I briefly met him. Admiral Marcus made me swore to secretly that I will never say anything about Khan. I guess since I knew about him, Marcus wanted to look after Grayson for me," Jasmine looked at Spock. "That's why I was so surprised when you said about his daughter on this ship."

Jim turned back to Khan. "Why would a Starfleet Admiral ask a 300-year-old frozen man for help?"

"Because I am better," Khan said.

"At what?"

"Everything. Alexander Marcus needed to respond to an uncivilized threat in a civilized time and for that he needed a warrior's mind. My mind. To design weapons and warships."

"You suggesting the Admiral violated every regulation he vowed to uphold simply because he wanted to exploit your intellect," Spock couldn't believe him, but a little bit of him did believe Khan.

"He wanted to exploit my savagery. Intellect alone is useless in a fight Mr. Spock. You… You can't even break a rule. How would you be expected to break bone?" Khan turned to Jim, "Marcus used me to design weapons. To help him realize his vision of a militarized Starfleet. He sent you to use those weapons. To fire my torpedoes on an unsuspecting planet. And then he purposely crippled your ship in enemy space, leading to one inevitable outcome. The Klingons would come searching for whomever was responsible, and you would have no chance of escape. Marcus would finally have the war he talked about. The war he always wanted."

"No. No," Jim shook his head. "I watched you open fire in a room full of unarmed Starfleet officers, and one of them is my sister. You killed them in cold blood! You could have killed my sister!"

"Marcus took my crew from me," Khan turned his back to them.

"You are a murderer!"

"He used my friends to control me. I tried to smuggle them to safety by concealing them in the very weapons I had designed, but I was discovered. I had no choice but to escape alone. And when I did, I had every reason to suspect that Marcus had killed every single one," Jasmine knew Khan had tears. "So I responded in kind," Khan turned to face them again. "My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family? Your sister? Even your nephew?"

Jasmine heard the alarm beep. "Proximity alert, sir! There's a ship at warp heading right for us," Sulu informed.

"Klingons?" Jim asked.

"At warp?" Khan asked Jim. "No, Kirk. We both know who it is."

"I don't think so. It's not coming at us from Kronos."

Jasmine gasped. She knew exactly who it was.

"Lieutenant, move Khan to med bay. Post six security officers on him," Jim began to run to the bridge.

"Yes, Captain."

"Jim, I'm so sorry about this," Jasmine said while running beside him. "I really didn't mean to do any of this."

Jim ignored her and continued to the bridge.

"Captain on the bridge," Sulu announced.

"ETA of the incoming ship," Jim demanded.

"Three seconds, sir."

Jim sat in his chair, "Shields."

"Aye, Captain."

In front of them was a massive ship. Way bigger than the Enterprise.

"They're hailing us, sir," Uhura informed.

"On screen. Broadcast shipwide, for the record."

"Captain Kirk," Admiral Marcus appeared on screen.

Jim sighed, "Admiral Marcus. I wasn't expecting you. That's a hell of a ship you got there."

"And I wasn't expecting to get word that you'd taken Harrison into custody in violation of your orders."

"Well, we… We had to improvise when our warp core unexpectedly malfunctioned. But you already knew that, didn't you, sir?" Jim asked.

"I don't take your meaning."

"Well, that's why you're here, isn't it? To assist without repairs? Why else would the head of Starfleet personally come to the edge of the Neutral Zone?"

"Captain, they're scanning our ship," Sulu told him.

"Is there something I can help you find, sir?" Jim calmly asked.

"Where is your prisoner, Kirk?" Marcus asked,

"Per Starfleet regulation, I'm planning on returning Khan to earth to stand trial."

"Well, shit," Marcus rubbed his face with his hands. "You talked to him. And let me guess, Commander Kirk also said somethings. This is exactly what I was hoping to spare you from. I didn't want Commander Kirk on that ship anyways. I took a tactical risk and I woke that bastard up, believing that his superior intelligence could help us protect ourselves from whatever came at us next. But I made a mistake. And now the blood of everybody he's killed is on my hands. So I'm asking you, give him to me so that I can end what I started."

"And what exactly would you like me to do with the rest of his crew, sir?" Jim asked. "Fire them at the Klingons? End 72 lives? Start a war in the process?"

"He put those people in those torpedoes. And I simply didn't want to burden you with knowing what was inside of them. You saw that this man can do all by himself. Can you imagine what would happen if we woke up the rest of his crew? What else did he tell you? That he's a peacekeeper? He's playing you, son. And your sister is playing you too, don't you see that?" Jasmine could feel eyes on her. "She pretended to not know anything about John Harrison. Khan and his crew were condemned to death as war criminals. And now it is our duty to carry out that sentence before anybody else dies because of him. Now, I'm going to ask you again! One last time, son, Lower your shields. Tell me where he is."

"He's in engineering, sir," Jim lied. "But I'll have him moved to the transporter room right away."

"I'll take it from here," then Marcus was gone.

"Do not drop those shields, Mr. Sulu," Jim demanded.

"Aye, Captain."

"Captain, given your awareness of Khan's true location in the med bay, ma I know the details of your plan?" Spock asked Jim.

"I told Marcus we were bringing a fugitive back to Earth. That's what we're going to do," Jim turned on the radio frequenices. "Mr. Chekov, can we warp?"

"Sir, if we go to warp, we run the risk of seriously damaging the core!"

"Can we do it?" Jim asked.

"Technically, yes, but I would not advise it, Captain."

"Noted," the frequencies closed. "Mr. Sulu, set course for Earth."

"Yes, sir."

"Punch it," Jim ordered.

The Enterprise warped away from Admiral Marcus.