MySchemingMind: I actually did finish my Trek movie collection. Want to
come over sometime and watch all ten Trek movies in a row? LOL Or we could
sit around reading my Trek books... But after the serious ending, I decided
to get a bit silly after last chapter's serious, but it will return to the
plot soon, never fear!
Scifimimi: Thanks for the welcome. I have never read The Return; I shall have to try it. Thank you.
Qwi13: Do not worry, since we will be spread all over America, it will not matter. But this chapter is more silly than realistic, even if it is based partly on DC. Back to the normal plot soon though!
Meakashi Gosterful: My Mom is the same way so I do this she is not looking. Glad you like my story so far. It does get very silly this chapter.
Data: T'Son and Qwi are nice here, but only because this chapter is unrealistic and completely silly. It is based on DC though. And actually, I thought about having Bones be that way because of our talks. You seem to be that way too.
This chapter is purely for fun. I will get back to the real plot probably next chapter. Be aware of extremely silliness and shopping goodness, for all you girls!
Six people materialized out of sparkling, yellow lights. The three teenagers looked around at this new planet in awe, as they had never been on any planet other than Earth. Kirk and Bones laughed softly until a look from Toreth shut them up.
"You three can explore the city. Do not get lost. Be back at the beam-down site by 1700 hours," Kirk told the Trekkie Trio. "Oh, and here are a few credits. Go have fun." The three grinned at one another and set of running. Toreth divided the credits evenly.
"Do not forget, you guys, that it is only 1130 hours. We have to get lunch down here. Of course, you could always skip and save your money, like me," Toreth said.
"It is not money," T'Son corrected her.
"Right, right," Toreth said airily and waved it off with a hand. T'Son and Qwi both said that they would not eat either, and the three started walking.
"Do you think they have malls in the twenty-third century?" Qwi asked. It turned out that they did. T'Son stopped short at the door, but after a very generous amount of persuasion, entered with the girls.
"Trust me, T'Son, even the," Toreth made a face, "boys in my class liked it when we were in the malls on our class trip to Washington DC."
"Okay..." T'Son said, but he did not sound convinced.
"So where is the nearest bookstore...?" Qwi said, scanning an electronic directory. "I am so glad these are no longer the huge things they were in our malls!" Toreth nodded while T'Son looked confused.
"I think Qwi has the upper hand for once!" Toreth teased him. He rolled his eyes.
"There is a store on the third level over there," Qwi said, pointing to the right.
"Third level?" T'Son asked, sounding panicked. Toreth and Qwi grinned at the boy's discomfort.
"Look up," Qwi said, copying Toreth's favorite line whenever they entered a cathedral or some other old building. T'Son looked up... and saw a six-story mall.
"No," he said. "No, we are not doing all this!"
"Be not ridiculous!" Toreth sang.
"Huh?"
"Sorry, inside joke... never mind. What I mean is, of course we are not doing all this! Do you honestly think that I would want to go into the futuristic versions of Abercrombie, Aeropostale, and Limited Too?" Qwi and T'Son looked horrified and Toreth laughed. "Exactly." She grinned.
"Come, you two love bugs," Qwi said. Toreth tried to strangle her, and quite succeeded, and T'Son started calling her his favorite insult: specimen. "Okay... shutting... up," Qwi gasped. Toreth let her go.
At last they reached the bookstore without anymore incidents and saw... rows and rows of padds. There were sections labeled with genres, and then the book title above each stack of padds. The padds, thankfully, were also labeled, as Qwi had a habit of not putting things in stores back where they belonged. The Trekkie Trio browsed the store, seeing if their favorite series were still out, comparing prices, and deciding to buy.
"Look, Qwi!" Toreth said excitedly. "It is the entire Wheel of Time series on one flimsy piece of... whatever these are made of."
"No way! I need to buy one!" Qwi said.
"You can borrow mine," Toreth offered.
"No, I want my own," Qwi said confidently. Toreth smiled, knowing the feeling exactly. They paid for their purchases, the girls losing quite a few credits, and T'Son not as many. They at last found a food court and sat down, watching all the people go by. Toreth grinned as she looked at a familiar Chick-Fil-A and saw a Bolian ordering a chicken sandwich.
"I am not sure if I want to skip lunch anymore," T'Son said, looking at all the fascinating alien restaurants. In the end, T'Son and Qwi ended up both getting dishes from some of the alien restaurants, while Toreth said she could replicate something later and settled for a colorful, alien drink. However, she refused to tell T'Son and Qwi what it was.
Later that afternoon, the Trekkie Trio decided to explore the sixth level. It was completely open, with only a force field to keep out rain... and to keep people from jumping off the roof.
"Do you wish that force field wasn't there, Toreth?" T'Son said cheerfully.
"Nope!" she responded. "I left the depressed and suicidal me back in the twenty-first century. I have not even cut my wrist since we got now." Qwi cheered.
"Don't you mean, 'got here'?" T'Son asked.
"No, I mean got now, because we are talking about time, not place," she said.
"Uh huh," Qwi said. Toreth flashed her a smile and headed toward a store selling Jacuzzis. Midway there, she changed her mind and headed for Claire's.
"Oh no..." T'Son said softly.
"Come on!" Toreth cried. "Now I can finally get that third hole in each ear Mom would not let me have!"
"Please do not tell me you are going to carry through with the belly button hole you were thinking about getting too," Qwi begged.
"You were debating a navel piercing?" T'Son asked in surprise.
"Yes to both of you," Toreth said as she scanned the list of available earrings. "Which do you think would look better, Vulcan IDIC or Starfleet?" She held the two logos up to her ears.
"IDIC," her friends said simultaneously. Toreth burst out laughing.
"You... two... agree," she gasped out. Qwi and T'Son were staring at one another in shock and horror. Luckily, they were all saved as a human with way too much make-up on came over to pierce Toreth's ears.
"I am a Betazoid, not a human, and this is not too much make-up," she said, sounding annoyed.
"Oops," Toreth muttered and put up mental shields. Luckily, Betazoids are very understanding of other species, and she did not take revenge on Toreth's pointed ears.
"Toreth, your ears are bright green," T'Son said as they walked away, Toreth holding a pair of hair chopsticks.
"Thank you, T'Son, and they feel like they are on fire too," Toreth said. However, she was smiling.
"Come on!" Qwi urged. "You have to try on crop tops now and we only have two hours left!"
"Oh right!" Toreth grinned and hurried after her.
"Can we go in a store I like?" T'Son asked. There was no response from either female. He rolled his eyes and sat down to read a padd he had bought about Captain Kirk. Meanwhile, Qwi had a wonderful time helping Toreth pick out crop tops and hip-hugger shorts. She at last decided to wear a silvery crop top and red shorts, and replicate other things at home.
"Now can we please go to a decent store?" T'Son asked miserably when they came out again.
"How about that one," Toreth said, pointing.
"Victoria's Secret!? Toreth, you are a sick-minded individual."
"Hell, the bras I bought there were comfortable."
"Toreth! Did that drink have alcohol?"
"Ummm..."
"Lucky it is time to head back to the beam down point," Qwi mumbled.
"No one cares how old you are here because it is different for all aliens," Toreth explained as they exited the mall. T'Son was not listening.
"We never went in a guy's store," he said.
"We went in that cologne store," Toreth reminded him.
"That was your idea. I do not wear cologne."
"I was looking for presents for Spock, not you, smart one," she said. "Besides, today was great! You two barely argued!"
"You are here. I am happy to see teenagers who are actually punctual," Spock said on their arrival. Kirk looked over his shoulder at them, then he did a double-take.
"Toreth, you never told me you had a belly button ring," he said.
"That is because I did not... until today."
"She was drunk," Qwi said hastily. Toreth gave her a scary look.
"I was not drunk. Mom said I could have one hundreds of years ago."
"Literally," Bones said.
"Besides, every girl has to be wild sometimes."
"Why, oh why, did I ever let you read Mates, Dates, and Mad Mistakes?" Qwi groaned. "Why, God, why?"
Scifimimi: Thanks for the welcome. I have never read The Return; I shall have to try it. Thank you.
Qwi13: Do not worry, since we will be spread all over America, it will not matter. But this chapter is more silly than realistic, even if it is based partly on DC. Back to the normal plot soon though!
Meakashi Gosterful: My Mom is the same way so I do this she is not looking. Glad you like my story so far. It does get very silly this chapter.
Data: T'Son and Qwi are nice here, but only because this chapter is unrealistic and completely silly. It is based on DC though. And actually, I thought about having Bones be that way because of our talks. You seem to be that way too.
This chapter is purely for fun. I will get back to the real plot probably next chapter. Be aware of extremely silliness and shopping goodness, for all you girls!
Six people materialized out of sparkling, yellow lights. The three teenagers looked around at this new planet in awe, as they had never been on any planet other than Earth. Kirk and Bones laughed softly until a look from Toreth shut them up.
"You three can explore the city. Do not get lost. Be back at the beam-down site by 1700 hours," Kirk told the Trekkie Trio. "Oh, and here are a few credits. Go have fun." The three grinned at one another and set of running. Toreth divided the credits evenly.
"Do not forget, you guys, that it is only 1130 hours. We have to get lunch down here. Of course, you could always skip and save your money, like me," Toreth said.
"It is not money," T'Son corrected her.
"Right, right," Toreth said airily and waved it off with a hand. T'Son and Qwi both said that they would not eat either, and the three started walking.
"Do you think they have malls in the twenty-third century?" Qwi asked. It turned out that they did. T'Son stopped short at the door, but after a very generous amount of persuasion, entered with the girls.
"Trust me, T'Son, even the," Toreth made a face, "boys in my class liked it when we were in the malls on our class trip to Washington DC."
"Okay..." T'Son said, but he did not sound convinced.
"So where is the nearest bookstore...?" Qwi said, scanning an electronic directory. "I am so glad these are no longer the huge things they were in our malls!" Toreth nodded while T'Son looked confused.
"I think Qwi has the upper hand for once!" Toreth teased him. He rolled his eyes.
"There is a store on the third level over there," Qwi said, pointing to the right.
"Third level?" T'Son asked, sounding panicked. Toreth and Qwi grinned at the boy's discomfort.
"Look up," Qwi said, copying Toreth's favorite line whenever they entered a cathedral or some other old building. T'Son looked up... and saw a six-story mall.
"No," he said. "No, we are not doing all this!"
"Be not ridiculous!" Toreth sang.
"Huh?"
"Sorry, inside joke... never mind. What I mean is, of course we are not doing all this! Do you honestly think that I would want to go into the futuristic versions of Abercrombie, Aeropostale, and Limited Too?" Qwi and T'Son looked horrified and Toreth laughed. "Exactly." She grinned.
"Come, you two love bugs," Qwi said. Toreth tried to strangle her, and quite succeeded, and T'Son started calling her his favorite insult: specimen. "Okay... shutting... up," Qwi gasped. Toreth let her go.
At last they reached the bookstore without anymore incidents and saw... rows and rows of padds. There were sections labeled with genres, and then the book title above each stack of padds. The padds, thankfully, were also labeled, as Qwi had a habit of not putting things in stores back where they belonged. The Trekkie Trio browsed the store, seeing if their favorite series were still out, comparing prices, and deciding to buy.
"Look, Qwi!" Toreth said excitedly. "It is the entire Wheel of Time series on one flimsy piece of... whatever these are made of."
"No way! I need to buy one!" Qwi said.
"You can borrow mine," Toreth offered.
"No, I want my own," Qwi said confidently. Toreth smiled, knowing the feeling exactly. They paid for their purchases, the girls losing quite a few credits, and T'Son not as many. They at last found a food court and sat down, watching all the people go by. Toreth grinned as she looked at a familiar Chick-Fil-A and saw a Bolian ordering a chicken sandwich.
"I am not sure if I want to skip lunch anymore," T'Son said, looking at all the fascinating alien restaurants. In the end, T'Son and Qwi ended up both getting dishes from some of the alien restaurants, while Toreth said she could replicate something later and settled for a colorful, alien drink. However, she refused to tell T'Son and Qwi what it was.
Later that afternoon, the Trekkie Trio decided to explore the sixth level. It was completely open, with only a force field to keep out rain... and to keep people from jumping off the roof.
"Do you wish that force field wasn't there, Toreth?" T'Son said cheerfully.
"Nope!" she responded. "I left the depressed and suicidal me back in the twenty-first century. I have not even cut my wrist since we got now." Qwi cheered.
"Don't you mean, 'got here'?" T'Son asked.
"No, I mean got now, because we are talking about time, not place," she said.
"Uh huh," Qwi said. Toreth flashed her a smile and headed toward a store selling Jacuzzis. Midway there, she changed her mind and headed for Claire's.
"Oh no..." T'Son said softly.
"Come on!" Toreth cried. "Now I can finally get that third hole in each ear Mom would not let me have!"
"Please do not tell me you are going to carry through with the belly button hole you were thinking about getting too," Qwi begged.
"You were debating a navel piercing?" T'Son asked in surprise.
"Yes to both of you," Toreth said as she scanned the list of available earrings. "Which do you think would look better, Vulcan IDIC or Starfleet?" She held the two logos up to her ears.
"IDIC," her friends said simultaneously. Toreth burst out laughing.
"You... two... agree," she gasped out. Qwi and T'Son were staring at one another in shock and horror. Luckily, they were all saved as a human with way too much make-up on came over to pierce Toreth's ears.
"I am a Betazoid, not a human, and this is not too much make-up," she said, sounding annoyed.
"Oops," Toreth muttered and put up mental shields. Luckily, Betazoids are very understanding of other species, and she did not take revenge on Toreth's pointed ears.
"Toreth, your ears are bright green," T'Son said as they walked away, Toreth holding a pair of hair chopsticks.
"Thank you, T'Son, and they feel like they are on fire too," Toreth said. However, she was smiling.
"Come on!" Qwi urged. "You have to try on crop tops now and we only have two hours left!"
"Oh right!" Toreth grinned and hurried after her.
"Can we go in a store I like?" T'Son asked. There was no response from either female. He rolled his eyes and sat down to read a padd he had bought about Captain Kirk. Meanwhile, Qwi had a wonderful time helping Toreth pick out crop tops and hip-hugger shorts. She at last decided to wear a silvery crop top and red shorts, and replicate other things at home.
"Now can we please go to a decent store?" T'Son asked miserably when they came out again.
"How about that one," Toreth said, pointing.
"Victoria's Secret!? Toreth, you are a sick-minded individual."
"Hell, the bras I bought there were comfortable."
"Toreth! Did that drink have alcohol?"
"Ummm..."
"Lucky it is time to head back to the beam down point," Qwi mumbled.
"No one cares how old you are here because it is different for all aliens," Toreth explained as they exited the mall. T'Son was not listening.
"We never went in a guy's store," he said.
"We went in that cologne store," Toreth reminded him.
"That was your idea. I do not wear cologne."
"I was looking for presents for Spock, not you, smart one," she said. "Besides, today was great! You two barely argued!"
"You are here. I am happy to see teenagers who are actually punctual," Spock said on their arrival. Kirk looked over his shoulder at them, then he did a double-take.
"Toreth, you never told me you had a belly button ring," he said.
"That is because I did not... until today."
"She was drunk," Qwi said hastily. Toreth gave her a scary look.
"I was not drunk. Mom said I could have one hundreds of years ago."
"Literally," Bones said.
"Besides, every girl has to be wild sometimes."
"Why, oh why, did I ever let you read Mates, Dates, and Mad Mistakes?" Qwi groaned. "Why, God, why?"