Not exactly my best. But that's all right.
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Captain Archer shifted his eyes, he didn't like his crewman converging. Not at all. In fact, not one bit.
He also didn't like the way Hoshi smiled at him when she passed him in the hall. All eerie like she knew something he didn't.
He felt an ice cold shiver rake down his spine.
And the way Malcolm laughed personally…to himself. Malcolm rarely laughed with anyone else, let alone himself.
And Trip! Don't even get Archer started on Trip! Him and T'Pol were conversing and looking at him. And T'Pol pointed and then they laughed. Well…Trip did anyway.
The buzzer to his quarters went of suddenly. He jumped and sat up. He hit the key pad, "yes?" he said tentatively.
"It's Travis," the Ensign's voice crackled over the intercom.
"What is it?"
"There's uh…" There was a pause and the sound of muffled talking, "something wrong on the—" more muffled talking, "I mean, there's something wrong, somewhere. Sir."
Archer made a face. Something wrong somewhere? The ship was pretty big, Archer hit a button and door whizzed open. Archer shrieked oddly like a school girl at the sight of the small alien child known at Minly.
"Hewwo," she said waving, her blue tail was twitching. She looked so out of place in the drab hallway. So tiny.
"What are you doing here?" Archer asked kindly, crouching down beside the cute alien girl.
Minly shrugged, "I dunno." She blinked with large crimson eyes and smiled, showing pointy teeth. Just like Ajla.
"Where's Hoshi?" Archer asked.
"I think I'm lost," she said batting her large red eyes.
"Well…" Archer said, he stood up. Travis was here just a second ago! Archer realized. So if Travis was there, then so was Hoshi he assumed. "Maybe you could find Trip or Hoshi."
"Me?" Minly wondered, "I don't if it's safe to let a child roam around Enterprise all by herself. It's probably against some safety hazard." Minly said matter of factly. "Or what if I get stuck in a…John—no Jack—tube thing."
Archer heard a snort and he scooped Minly into his arms and leapt around the corner. Except no one was there!
"What the?" Archer wondered. There was another snort and he turned around. Atom was standing there now, chewing on a finger.
"Hi!" He said happily.
"Ass!" Errin giggled as she walked beside Atom.
Archer shifted his eyes…they were surrounding him! What could he do? What would he do?
To find out…tune in next Chapter for all the (exciting) details. Ps: I know Archer isn't like this, but hey, its for the comic element. So anyways…R&R and lemme know what you think.