NOTE: Finaly I am posting a new chapter for my readers and my stats say there is some. I have totell you how sorry I am that I cannot post more often.The true of the matter is that up until chapter nine or so the story waswriten beforeI posted chapter one so it was not that hard to keep the new stuff comming out now I have to end book one and it not easy. I am very nearthe endall it is needed now is time to do some editing.I make no promise but by the end of summerI should have all of bookone posted it about twenty chapters long so their is six more to come more or less depending on howI will edit the remaining stuff.

Chapter 14: Title: Old friends

Ambassador Spock stepped down from the transporter pod.

"Welcome aboard the Muad'ib Mr Spock." Said Mr Scott.

"Captain Scott I did not expect you here." Reply Spock

"I just resumed my commission for this project." Said Scotty.

"Project?" Ask Spock.

"Carson did not tell you. This ship and many others are being refitted as we speak, they are to be sent to..." Said commander Crusher.

"The subject of our mission is classified commander!" Interrupted Sela.

"Even here this must not be spoken openly. Don't worry I would explain everything myself to the ambassador." Said Captain Scott.

The Vulcan followed his old engineer.

"It been a while ambassador."

"Two years six months and five days since doctor McCoy left us." Said Spock with some emotion in the voice.

"I am still amazed that he manages to live that long."

"In the end I think he never believed that Jim was dead that why he managed to hang around that long." Said Spock.

"So when the Captain turns up dead on Veridian..." Said Scotty.

"Leonard could go in peace." Ended Spock.

"Amen." Said Scotty.

"What is this mission here Mr Scott?" Ask Spock putting the conversation on more recent events.

"You sure you want to know?" Respond Scott

The old Vulcan give Scotty a look of concern.

"I am not proud of what we are about to do but this is necessary." Said Scotty.

"In all these years we served together on the Enterprise, I never heard you say you were not proud of what you were doing." Said Spock.

"Times change. And peoples too."

He is ashamed of what he is about to reveal to me what is Starfleet planning. Thought Spock

"Not that much." Said Spock hoping against hope to be wrong on what he was sensing from his old friend.

"We are planning a bloody war of extermination." Said Scotty grimly.

The silence that follows was hard to take for the old engineer.

"I will not argue the morality, but what about the logic. Start from the beginning, who is it that Starfleet wants to exterminate?" Ask Spock.

"We manage to get our hands on a very big ship carrier that can take many ships the size of the Muad'ib to the Delta Quadrant." Ended Scotty. Giving the obvious answer.

"You are going after the Borg. Are you?" Said the Vulcan needing all is control to keep is voice steady this was even more insane than he expected when the old men used the term extermination.

"Yes we are... The No-Ship is almost ready to launch this ship is one of the last to be refitted for the Federation fleet, the Klingon and the Romulan are sending their own force for the second wave." Said Scotty.

Since the end of the Dominion war Spock heard a few rumors about secret negotiation between all sides on a mutual defence pact. Spock believed at the time that they were just rumors. Of course most of his contacts inside the high level of the Romulan government were kills when Shinzon seizes and lost power five months ago. That was the main reason of his presence here, the underground organisation he was leading was taking a bold step forward but the news he just receives may change all that.

"Commander Idaho is supposed to start fighting the Klingon in less than an hour." Said Spock just to change the subject.

"Yes and he would be back ten minutes later." Said Scotty.

"Crusher and Sela agree with you. I am not so sure Klingons are by nature very deadly in hand to hand combat." Cautioned Spock as they steped on the bridge.

"What the Commander can do no human in this universe will be able to for at least a hundred thousand's SY." Responded Crusher having heard the last part of their conversation.

"Fascinating." Said Spock at lost for word.