Disclaimer: I don't own Star Trek, just like I have been saying for all of the other 13 chapters of this story... If you don't believe me, talk to Paramount. Unless, of course, there's someone named Taskemus working for Paramount.....

Spock listened to the advancing noise for a few more seconds, then looked towards the others. They did not seem to notice the noise, most likely because their ears did not pick up many noises. In fact, the human ear could only hear sound frequencies between about 20 hertz and approximately 20,000 hertz. Spock wondered for a brief second why these ears had evolved like this, then quickly turned back to the problem at hand.

The others that had come with him, excluding the nurse, were squeezed around the air ventilation system in the small room which they were in, intently watching the Doctor try to make his way down. They were talking amongst themselves, pacing excitedly, and, overall, making a lot of useless noise.

At this rate, the Romulans would find them in approximately 1.46632 minutes. They would have to make use of their time. Spock instinctively scanned the room for any openings other than the door, and his eyes locked on the vent.

Spock cleared his throat, knowing that he only had 21 seconds to speak if he wished his plan to work correctly.

The humans turned towards him. Spock wasted no time.

Romulans are tracking us. We must exit this room through the ventilation system immediately.

Spock had counted on the humans at first not comprehending this, and giving him many blank stares, as they usually did, but this time he was certain that they heard.

As soon as the words had left his mouth, Lieutenant Sulu was pushing a confused doctor back into the vent, and helping to lift up a terrified Yeoman. Spock helped in lifting the humans into the vent, and when everyone else was up, he paused for a second, stopping to listen to the Romulans' approaching footsteps. He wondered for a moment why he had paused so abruptly, but suddenly understood, as at the last minute he slowly lifted himself into the vent and closed the door behind him. He had stopped because....

Spock paused, as the sound of thick Romulan breathing was heard in the room below them, and suddenly came up with the right word. Thrilling. It was thrilling.

As soon as this thought entered Spock's mind, he pushed it out, and instead concentrated on listening to the Romulans below. From the sound of it, they were slowly circling around the room, inspecting everything that was there.

After a while, one of them spoke. Spock knew very little Romulan, but was able to make out what they were saying.

Do you see anything here, Vriha'Erein? One of them asked, and Spock immediately recognized the voice of the Romulan Captain.

The other in the room took his time to answer. There is nothing much here, Enarrain. Many footprints of the filthy veruuls, not much else.

The Romulan Captain laughed at this, but not harshly. Then they have passed this way. Menkha. I will stop my search here. You, Vriha'Erein, will continue searching for those lost. When you have finished this, you will take the other prisoner to the bridge.



The Romulan Captain began humming again, this time Brahms, and then there were sounds of footsteps, and the humans reacted to this greatly. Lieutenant Sulu sighed, and Yeoman Rand whimpered.

What were they saying? She asked, Are they planning to kill us? She asked this to everyone in general, not really expecting an answer.

Actually, Yeoman, they are not planning to kill us. They do not even know our hiding place. From what I heard, they have captured the Captain, and are still searching for us.

Instead of calming down at this, the Yeoman began to do something quite illogical.

You are a Romulan Spy!She shouted,I knew it! This is all your fault!

Spock rose an eyebrow, searching his mind for the proper response. Fortunately, he had to say nothing. The Nurse had chosen that moment to awaken from her coma. She stared up at everyone blankly.

You're alive!The Doctor shouted, grinning,But not exactly healthy yet. I'll just perform a few medical tests - The Doctor reached for the pack he was carrying with him, but Spock put a hand out and stopped him.

Doctor, I would not advise you to to operate at this moment. I am still questioning your sanity.

The Doctor shook his head at this, and began muttering to himself under his breath. Questioning my sanity! Questioning my sanity! Who does he think he is? Why, even pancakes would tell me it's illogical to question my sanity!

Spock rose an eyebrow, now quite certain that he had made the correct decision, and all six of them began crawling through the Romulan Bird of Prey's ventilation system.

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A/N - Sorry, that was a pretty long chapter, and there wasn't that much humor in it. Oh well.. that can come next time.

Tavia - AAAAH! Everyone's stealing the ventilation ducts! I'm not very good at chapter titles.. glad you liked that one. Funny misery - that's a paradox... at least it sounds like it. Hmmm... what is causing all this pain and misery?

Ms_vegeta_black - Sorry, the Captain's coming next chapter. I kind of forgot about him there for a while...

Blynneda - Ok, this is going to be a really long paragraph. Just warning you. An expert in ventilation... I would be worrying right now if you hadn't been joking. Haha - walking pancakes! Hmm... maybe I should use that... Yeah, I know it's illogical to learn a fake language... but it's fun. Especially because no one really thinks about Vulcan and Romulan (or whatever it's called) much, just Klingon. I'm not that crazy.. thousands of people know Latin! Besides, it's fun - whenever I watch Star Trek now I understand most of what they're saying without sub-titles. Yes.. I like having Bones say completely weird things. It's fun. I just noticed (while reading your review) that this has been kind of drifting away from Spock's POV.. at first there was no plot and so Spock had lots of thoughts.. and now there's a plot, and he doesn't have many thoughts. Does that mean that Spock doesn't think whenever there's a plot? OK, this is REALLY long so I'm going to stop writing now...

Bye! =)