The Bonds Of Family And Friends
Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and everything else belongs to the movie company and the creator.
Warnings: This story is going to be alternate reality from the end of this episode and forward, as what if the game had far reaching consequences than they were expecting and as time went on the bonds between him and the sextet had deepened even further, as this reaches season seven and his future.
If he'd been part of the enterprise for a following few months and the repeated traumas effect him enough he's choosing to stay longer. But in this story Journey's End to Nemesis never happens and the stories leading into Nemesis never happen and he, the O'briens, Riker, Worf and Deanna never transfer off the enterprise as they stay with the crew and Starfleet after things end.
All characters named that were not in the show, are members of the un-named members of the crew in each episode, but the ones named the most are part of the engineering crew and Geordi's team and the ones Wesley spent the most time with. Aside from a guest appearance from the duo in 'The Naked Now.', and the duo that are his age, next to Robin Lefler.
Chapter 4: Medical Trouble, Side Effects And Surprises
"Was his condition part of the plan if he's looking like this, weakening him so she makes him an easier target?" Picard asked firmly and Data sighed as he said it to him gently. "I don't know know, Sir, but what I do know is that of close to 300 people I freed last night and this morning among the adults. We had a case of teenage mutiny and two cases of secondaries in regarding thst program last night and to explain that one."
"After I got to Lieutenant Porter and Ensign Davidson, my daughter reported that Derek's communicator was wandering loose in the hall." he said and Derek straightened up at that. "Derek's communicator was wandering loose in the hall last night, Derek if you did what I think you're in big trouble." he said with a stern growl and the sextet looked at him at that as Data nodded and he gave furious nod as he got it it then at the remark.
"Yes it's what you're thinking Charlie, after hearing that, I checked to see if he was armed and that did it. But he disobeyed direct orders and decided to play the hero last night." he said Dayton nodded with a furious look. "Keep going, what happened next." he said and Data nodded to him. "Dr. Crusher gave orders there are to be no weapons and he was asking questions regarding this at the time." he said and they nodded to him.
"Asking questions regarding that, Wes was never going to break our strategy, just what made him think we would, we're not that reckless. And we both knew that the security guards were waiting to ambush him in every public place on the ship." he said sharply to him and he nodded. "Evidently he thinks that just because we were the ones training him, that he was trying to show off to us and the ending results here now."
"Are that his pride and arrogance got in the way and he decided to show off the fact that the golden child, in our eyes, was going to slip up. And when he did, he was going to bust him, but trying it when compromised is the exact remark." Will said sternly and he nodded as Data finished that. "Yes and as a result I arrested Derek Hanson, Dr. Anenzi arrested David Johnson and Ensign Michaels, your team arrested Ensign Gillespie."
"Dr. Crusher, there's a select few getting secondary's, and we arrested two last night along with an adolescent case of rebellion last night. And after you already ordered said student to go to bed at the moment as well. But regarding the ones possibly about to start going through it, we have to keep the quartet surrounded. Especially him him now, as he's too weak fight back now at the moment, but that withdrawal is a relapse."
"Secondary program, is the added side effect of the withdrawal and rebound, and with it trying to get this on the boys and Robin a second time and for real now. That we have to protect them from whoever the next withdrawal and rebound patient is. If her secondary plan doesn't work, which is trying to get it on you boys again. Than it's the final stage and I have reason to believe that would be chapter three of your game novel, Charlie."
"Combined with it was the second portion of that book, regarding turning the trio that were always together into a host. But if the secondary programming doesn't work in the trio's case, she's going to use his condition against him and pull something else and that's chapter three of that game novel. You three had the easy part of dealing with the run around in this regarding the crew at the moment, chapter two has just started."
"And that's regarding with whatever monstrosity she created metaphorically right now with the fact everyone is beginning to recover from the effects of that game. But parts two and three have to be left to us now. Because we've had more experience in these situations and if he's the primary target, we know how he thinks right now to prevent her from getting him off the ship, and with those words in mind right now."
"Stage one staying undercover all night and reverse the attack, stage two trying to get this on you for real and stage three start screwing with his recovery when he's just beginning to regain his strength just to get it off the ship." he said and they nodded. "You mean to tell me that the added secondary programming is now getting this thing on the trio, or quartet, before she tries it again with Wes?" Geordi said to him at that slowly.
Before he could answer the added meaning in his remark hit and Dayton said it sharply then. "Wait, Derek, Derek was in the hall last night, was he armed?" Dayton said in shock at that. "Yes he was armed and the phaser was at maximum as well. But I decided I was the required target, but if it was either of us." he said and Dayton nodded angrily. "That stupid idiot, what the hell was he thinking here, if that wasn't either of you."
"But the inspiration to his distractions he ran into, he'd either be dead or taken as a hostage right now. Just what the hell is he thinking here, because we'd never abandon our carefully laid plan and get reckless like that." he added with a furious growl as Beverly said it in disbelief at that as she repeated that remark as she got it. "You arrested Derek last night in the hallway, before getting to Eli and the others in sickbay."
"Just what the hell was he doing in the hallway?" Beverly asked and Dayton sighed at that. "I'm willing to take a guess he disobeyed direct orders given to him by me and Lieutenant Porter last night just so he could play hero and get back on your good side right now, Aunt Beverly." he said and she nodded. "Maybe, but that's still going way too far and we specifically said stay out of this, as you three were the only ones."
"Who were supposed to be on duty, before the axe fell last night, you three and Jake also knew better than to disobey orders. And try something this reckless as well, as if that's not enough, we also said when it came to something like this. Then don't try anything stupid and leave it to us." Geordi said to him at the news. "Looks like he ignored direct orders Geordi and with that in mind right now at the moment, he's in serious trouble."
"I believe you ordered him to stand down as well Charlie, I mean he's a very fresh recruit with next to no experience. And while you boys and Robin are all seasoned training ensigns, Hanson just started barely 5 months ago?" David Evans asked and Dayton ran his hand through his hair again at that. "Yeah I did, and I tried to do your job for you acting as Wes's second in command and trying to keep the channel clear, stupid idiot."
"Despite the fact Porter and I said to stay out of this he goes ahead and tries to arrest him, himself. Wes, Robin and I are all skilled training ensign's, we all grew up on ships and we're all involved in the on the job training you chose for us from a certain age. And he's just a recently activated cadet, you remember your remark. In regarding if a guy like his inspiration was on board the ship at the time, or whatever happened in 1st year."
"And you hit the climax, regarding neutralizing the, whatever it was?" he asked and they nodded as Will said it for the five of them gently, as he remembered this conversation with Wesley. "Yes and it was that for you kids, we preferred you leaving the dangerous parts of these situations to us. As more experienced officers than you are at the time, since you're too young and you don't have the experience at the moment right now."
"But when we dealt with the Microbrain, just after the latest surge and growth spurt, as it now reached the size of a softball. And it broke out of the glass jar we put over it to study it at the time, we knew that if this kept it up it was going to destroy the ship. Wes got involved in the analysis at the time that day, but left it to Geordi and Data to explain this to the captain and me regarding its weakness and though he wanted to help."
"He left neutralizing the damn thing, before the latest power burst broke out of the lab, to me. And I was across the hall from it, and I was ready in case the spikes broke down the door and through the wall. But that's what we mean though and though you kids want to get involved, you know better and know you're not ready." Will said, before closing his eyes as he got what he meant as Beverly said his thoughts at the realization.
"And..., oh great, that's just great, damn it Derek, we've gone over this, until you're ready you're not getting involved these situations. Well there's our remark alright, with you and Wes, though you wanted to get involved, you know you're not ready. But this time you didn't have a choice and had to work as one, but you both decided. That, never mind the weapons and were using everything in your mental Arsenal to defeat her."
"But you also decided to leave it to us adults officers regarding the next two pieces with the fact we possibly had and are about to have several flip outs for the next week. Though at the moment my young cub is in enough trouble for doing this when he's in no condition for it right now. But after this one, that's the last time he's pulling a stunt like this and we mean that right now." she said and he sighed as he answered her gently.
"By the time we realized what the hell was going on around here and in his condition it was already too late and we had to push forward, Doctor. I'm just saying this for the three of us but what did you expect us to do, we waited any longer the expansion was going to be underway, and we had to push forward. Wes read my mind regarding creating that first aid kit just to keep his body temp regulated at the moment in this."
"But we couldn't tell you that truth without her finding out and it turning him into an easier target, to protect him, and us, we had to keep it quiet. Though if she knew already and she's getting arrested if she's the reason for it." he said and she sighed. "Maybe, but that's the last time you hold something like this back from us and we mean that, understand." Picard said for her and he nodded to him and his orders gently.
"But again you're right while you guys had several years field experiences and know what you're doing when in on the job training and know it's too dangerous. While he decided to jump feet first into it regarding playing the hero and tries to arrest Wes and it gets him arrested by Data and sedated. But this is what we meant when we gave that lecture to him at the time his parents asked us to start his training."
"Because we have zero tolerance for showing off, hotdogging, going by your gut instincts or you're trying to act like a hero, and definitely not when in the middle of a crisis. As to that he just blew his training lesson in this scenario, by not staying off the channel when we had to keep it clear and by doing this. Because if it hadn't been Wes, or Data, but someone far more dangerous, like his inspiration, that could get him killed."
"Or get him turned into a hostage and how could he possibly be thinking that Wes would suddenly switch tactics. And attack head on is beyond me, because neither of you are that reckless, you know better than that." Beverly said and he nodded to her gently. "Yeah I know and we were both thinking that exact same thing mam, we know better than to jump feet first into dangerous situations, but today we didn't have a choice."
"But he did exactly what Wes and I would never do, if we had the inspiration of his chosen decoy attempts, including the simulated blast in T-95, and he was running amok on the ship, Mam. If he just joined the crew, he was trying to find some way to impress you and it's by being the first to catch Wes. And instead gets arrested by Commander Data, sedated and locked up himself till the secondary program wears off completely."
"Sir, as you saw in me since we met, I'm too much like Wes to break your choices in my training, I'd never do anything that reckless and try to deal with the crisis myself. In fact to quote what Jenny told whoever his adult version was, it's 'while he's busy trying to pilot the damn ship. We're the ones most at risk right now with ship Maitenance and security precautions with a bunch kids younger than ten years up here with us.'."
"And I'm not honestly stupid enough to try and arrest whoever the guy was that helped him work this out so easily, because A) I'm too young, B) I haven't had ten years of field training yet. And C) this is to dangerous and it could result in a hostage situation. If this was really that guy, whoever it was, he's lucky to be alive right now. But I think we found my alter ego hiding in closet, if this is what your conversation was about last year."
"Wes and I would never pull what he did last night, regarding getting involved, it's too dangerous and with it. And instead of encountering Wesley in the hall, he gets arrested by the commander for an extremely risky move. But that's the scope of it, if whoever his inspiration was, was still here on the ship, he'd be taken hostage as a result. Though I think he was trying to get back on your good side by taking the initiative."
"Such as it is right now, Wes explained to me regarding the Potts brothers and whatever rumors he created about your bonds with him Sir. And I'm not buying them whatsoever, whatever they might be. But getting arrested three times blew his scholarship, if that's why he's trying to show off in asking you those questions. Before I ordered him off the radio, it's because he was planning on playing the hero and trying to catch him, alone."
"After he got himself in trouble with you again, but going about it like this is not the way to do it." he said and they nodded, bemused at the wording as Picard answered him at that gently. "That's the understatement of the century, we specifically told you kids that when it came to something like this, to leave it to us. At this rate he just dug himself deeper into the hole for breaking orders right now anyway, though you bent that rule."
"And if you were trained in five different areas of the hard sciences, including medical, it's you're my third half soldier/half scientist training ensign with Robin working up here as well. But Derek Hanson, if he'd been in the military, would be part of the all jock/athlete type regarding piloting the ship. You just proved to me, yet again, you're just like Wesley, he never got involved once it got dangerous, though he wanted to."
"And left the dangerous parts to Commander Riker and Lieutenant Worf as well as the security teams. And you're right, at your age getting involved in a manhunt on board the ship, if we had the inspiration to all these distractions and decoys still here on it, is too dangerous, reckless and irresponsible. And aside from playing with the radio, you did very well during things last night and this morning." he said and Dayton smiled gently.
"I guess I made a good first impression on you if you guys think of me in the same way you do Wes, huh?" he asked and she smiled as Picard answered that. "Yes and like your brother, these bonds start getting stronger to the point it's going to be hard to let go after that much time together. You may have been with us for just short of five months, but it's still enough that you three are and have become our favorite students."
"But with the added extension in his case of being kept home now, we've got all three of you and I took more an interest in intellect rather than athletics as well. As to that, that's the message I gave to Derek, if you want to be somebody and go somewhere you better wake up and start paying attention in class. Because in the real world it doesn't matter how good you think you are or who you're connected to in the eyes of your bosses."
"Without an education, you don't have anything, you three have just proven the point of that message by pulling off, together, the mission that saved the entire federation. And you did it without weapons, but just by being yourselves, as teenage scientists, no matter how hard your peers want you to change, you can't. But though you don't change, things do, but the one thing that doesn't is your bonds of friendship and family."
"At the moment with you and Robin separated from your parents, you've got adoptive family up here now. If there's anyone else you wish to add to your mini squadron I'm fine with that." he said and he smiled. "Once he's slightly recovered, we can choose from the academy of the other teams. But if Josh is thinking the same thing Wes is, than he's one and the other is now the fourth wingmen on my squadron, Katie Hilliard."
"But the five of us and Jake make up the entire half and half contingent, but trust me, once the pack gets created, he's going to be seen as number seven on the list in the team and the six of us are always grouped together. While he's got his own friends, and they're like the guys that landed Wes in the E.R. that year. But what I will say is with my being the beta on the team and my alpha is indisposed, I'm taking charge."
"Though I do have a question, was playing chess with you or Data involved in this, because if he added that chess board to the viewer he must have been trying to say something here?" he said to him gently and they smiled. "Yes, in order to defeat your opponent you have to get inside their minds, know their moves. And just know them better then they know themselves, you're just beginning to see past the stories."
"They say about us at the academy, but soon enough it won't be long before you can read us in the way he can after that. With him being raised by us as his adoptive family, and in Beverly's, his mother, it's he knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows our moves, he knows how we think. That's the point of today's strategy lesson, 'know your enemy and know yourself, and you will win 100 battles without disaster.'."
"She decides to go for three out of four, and it's going in reverse, because she's going to use his moves and to try and get him off the ship. But that's not going to work either, because when as ourselves, we know him so well to know what his thinking strategies are. And it's enough he's not getting off the ship, though if this results in our conversation we had last year and it's getting him to focus through whatever."
"Side effects there are and I'm hoping I'm wrong about that, because if I'm not and he ends up back in there, and he's hurt. It's making sure he doesn't have a phaser and calming him down from that panic attack next. But the only ones going in after him are me, the trio, Miles and one of the trio and their teams." Will said and he nodded as the technician at the operations console turned around and looked at them gently.
"I can't believe he actually tried that, if I was Roga Danar he'd be dead right now, that stupid idiot, does he have a death wish right now. Just what is his problem exactly, because this is enough it could get him killed if it was for real?" The lieutenant, at the helm console next to Evans, asked and he sighed as he answered him. "He got in trouble twice prior to landing Charlie in sickbay, so that and to why and how at the time."
"The first was because he got arrested for speedballing with the alcohol and this was just barely three hours after the riot in ten forward, while the second was regarding the Potts kids. He was the designated babysitter during our two day visit to Ogus II, and never reported in, and this nearly resulted in killing Willie Potts. As to why it because he wasn't around to keep an eye on the boys at the time, while was Wes was with us."
"And he was our JCL leader, but ever since Wes blew the whistle on him for both, he's had it out for him, out of jealousy at the time. After we started training him and just before you arrived seven months ago, he was actually trying to gain credits. For the college sports and flight program, he was intending to get into the academy, and it's because he wanted to be a pilot, but after another case of speedballing last month."
"That was enough in our case to revoke his position on the basketball team as he was in their senior year of high school last year. And for medical suspension at the time and he got arrested a second time, but Willie was enough to tick us off. And it's he's just blown his tuition and scholarship into the academy, so strike 3 and he has to work through school." Geordi told him and he nodded to that as Beverly finished that remark firmly.
"Last time it was he got arrested for drugs in the classroom and Jake blew the whistle on him, he instigates the fight with my son after the riot in ten forward. And that's two then comes a case of speedballing with the alcohol and he nearly kills Charlie while doing it. So until my son gets out of college at the academy, Brand is not risking him getting into a fight with the pedestrians at the tavern near the academy, at the current moment."
"And asked that he does his on the job training up here, just to keep him from spreading these rumors he started that caused the quintet he was friends with to started treating my son like this. But what he did was as reckless as it gets if Roga was still here on the ship." She said and he nodded as Charlie sighed as he answered that. "Roga Danar, is he the inspiration for Wes's decoys and stealth training last night and this morning?"
"Wes was in bed asleep last night recovering from fatigue and hypoglycemia, what made him think he'd be wondering around the halls. I mean we both would choose using the entrance tunnels and Jeffries tubes to get around. If this man was on the ship, he'd be taken hostage right now." he asked and they all nodded as Will answered that question. "To answer your first question, he wasn't thinking at all, he jumped feet first into it."
"You guys I trained you to think through your plan carefully and you both scored the highest scores in the training program I set up for you. Him, he's trying to get back on my good side, because he knows I'm not the type to play favorites, but Wes was my godson. And I practically raised him myself when Beverly returned to earth, you, I promised your parents I'd take care of you and like him, I see you in the same way."
"Derek got himself in trouble for making up some very crude rumors about his relationship with the captain. But Wes's father, Jack Crusher, was his first officer on board the stargazer, and the last time he saw Wes was when he was five. After we had a traveler arrive here our first year, the captain decided to give him a chance. And we put him into a dual training program, but his first responsibility was student at the time."
"The regime you and Robin are on happens to be the one we created for him when you guys were fifteen. But Derek seems intent on breaking rules in the regime and the more he does the longer his color designation gets shoved back. Since we specifically forbid drinking at your age and any kind of rule breaking in your regime and your color designation and rank gets shoved further back now, as for your second question."
"Yes, that's him alright, once we get the whole story here we can explain to you and Robin who this guy was. But to explain that one, his maneuvers were the ones Danar pulled, when we were talking about this last year. I suggested using the most memorable manhunt we had and this one happened to be it right now for us. As to why it's because every move and counter move involved, last night and this morning was involved in it."
"And we can explain that further once you and Robin are together and we get ourselves checked out, but for now, I think you better answer his question, son." he said and Dayton nodded as he hid a smile at the address, knowing he had an adoptive brother and father as he felt his heart raise at the new title he called him by then, as he felt his relief that his connection to them was just beginning to deepen.
"To answer your question lieutenant, the problem is that at the academy they're acting like a bunch of hotshots and then when they arrive at the new post. They expect special treatment, because they passed every class at the time. But it's not how good you are or who you know and are connected to. It's the act of your education and your behavior, for us, us members of the half and half department, we know better than this."
"And can think our way out of the box, because to us, it's brains over brawns, your muscles don't count for much where your intellect is concerned. And why need the weapons when you can come up with a way to think your way out of the box and we proved that. For these guys though, once stationed here on the enterprise, they want the captain and commander to look to them for their fast thinking, reflexes and stamina."
"But no they don't, instead they look to us of the alternate grouping for our added skills so we can get us out of the situations we get ourselves into. If we were the military of 300 years ago, he and whoever the quintet that they threw off the ship last year was, they would be in the marines, spec operations. While Wes, Robin and I would all be in the Air Force, as half soldiers/half scientists and they'd be listening to their own kind."
"If Wes said this exact remark when he downloaded that chip into the mainframe, he just read my mind right now. Because Derek is asking to get himself killed right now for jumping feet first into it without looking at the consequences. But one arrest, and two panic attacks last night, but the public areas, they decided that. To protect themselves from getting taken a second time, to go into lock down in the public areas for the night."
"Like us, to fake the fact to Etana to throw her off that her plan backfired, they decided to go to acting like they were still compromised. Until Data hit the entire ship all at once with the modified palm beacon this afternoon, but every hotspot that was compromised was acting as though they were compromised this morning and afternoon. That's including the engine room after he made contact with Doctor Pulaski."
"But it started with sickbay, hit ten forward and then the two lounges last night, after we did that, they all decided to pretend they were still infected, this morning. Although last night to protect themselves they went to sedation to prevent the trio from blowing the whistle on him and me to protect us. And till Wes got on the line with Ensign Nagel and she gave him the code to get the holographic games up and running." he said and he nodded to him as Data finished his sentence as he looked at him with a gentle look.
"Though we had another case of panic attacks in there, and three flip outs for the come down off these games, while I was in ten forward the first one was in sickbay, and he was suffering the withdrawal and rebound from it. And the second was in ten forward and Porter's team mates had to help your second in command in your medical staff. Doctor to get the victim under control, because he had a panic attack."
"But Charlie is correct, the others decided on stage acting this morning till it was safe." Data said and Will sighed at that."Erica, I named her his medical guardian after I left that year, she decided to make my choices for me, if I was still myself and went to arresting the flip out, last night. And before he blew and could blow the whistle on where he was hiding at the time, knowing he needed seven hours of uninterrupted sleep."
"And the caffeine and adrenaline a from running up and down the ship were depleted as well too and with that in mind right now. Derek and we discussed this regarding in case someone had a sudden attack in their phobias, Lal was checking names and land on..., and that included every technician and security officer here knows how to over ride a security lock out on a crew quarters door and emergency key code locks and with that."
"Alright who was it this time if you're telling me that?" Beverly asked and he sighed as he said it. "Gillespie's claustrophobia starting acting up till your medical team, Walters and Jacobs had to sedate him. As it is Dr. Crusher, and before he nearly started another mutiny last night. To prevent him from turning Wesley into you, or more accurately her, they arrested and sedated him, because he knew where Wesley was hiding now."
"And she, like me, decided that if it meant protecting him from her, they were going to make sure that if he was suffering from any side effects. To keep him locked up in the room with them and sedated him, to answer the other reason. He got a hold of Walters phaser and while Nagel was distracting him, the duo tackled him to the floor." he said and they sighed at that as she answered his explanation to that remark.
"Well if that's one way to protect him, it certainly worked now, but I did say disarm, there were to be no weapons in this. And I'm lucky she decided to do my job for me right now with you turning those five spots into designated shelter areas, but this is getting ridiculous right now. Derek also gave direct orders that if someone had a panic attack or were suffering the secondary, to be sedated as well." Beverly said and he sighed at that.
"I think she was half expecting him to attack them head on and then stun him, so they could bring him to you, before I decided on being the designated target. And did the maneuver that I did with you a bit ago Doctor. As to why it was because it was slightly dark in there, but it was dark enough they couldn't see me. And they were expecting him to come in through the ventilation shaft and not through the one of the doors."
"But I out maneuevered her by using using her assumptions against her and again she never suspects that we know what we're doing in these situations at the moment. And on top of that, it was after I got to Lieutenant Porter that he said to activate the added security interlocks in the programming. And someone had tampered with the replicator system, before Lal fixed that and produced a medical kit last night, as to why."
"But after the secondary call in, I order him to lock my quarters down and get some rest, I'm guessing if you found the mess in there. It's because he changed into a set of night clothes, after taking a shower, and got something to eat. But the adrenaline surge in his system quit just after he took a sleeping pill and was in my quarters all night. And she had no clue whatsoever where he was coming from and what direction either."
"But with the distraction and diversion ploy it was enough to put her on the Alpert last night. But it worked enough to give us a couple hundred in crew members, before I got to the engine crew, and thst drove it up to 365 crew members." Data said and they nodded as Picard said it for her. "This kid is too high strung, while the rest of us are used to these things on a daily basis, I've got a technician over reacting to being caged."
"Simply because Eli, and you, gave my orders for me, Data, but that's the second time in a year. And if he doesn't calm down, and relax, I'm going to have to transfer him off the enterprise." Picard said and they nodded to that one. "Yes well Guinan just barely used that blaster on the ceiling a second time to end that fight last night, before I left the room, Sir." he said and the sextet nodded as they looked at their teenage counterpart.
"Oh my god, what is it with these guys, I mean I've been doing what he's been doing since I was fifteen, but this, what is going on with these guys?" Dayton asked as he tried to keep from laughing as she answered that question. "We had a situation similar to this after we got stuck in a Tyken's rift 8 months ago. And everyone was suffering from sleep deprivation, but he was making up a rumor Jean Luc was trying to run an experiment."
"To the group in the room with him and Miles happened to be one of them." she said and he looked at her. "Chief O'Brien?" he asked and she nodded to him. "Yes, and like Guinan, he was trying to maintain order in there, before she called Jacobs and Walters in there, and he started a wrestling match with him, before she used that blaster he mentioned on the ceiling of the room to end the fight and that took care of it."
"But though there's a window in the room, it's still enough to make a claustrophobic feel like they're trapped till we got to sedate them and unfortunately for him. With Data and Eli doing my orders for me, it's this is one case I've got to deal with once too often with him at the moment. My son was suffering from a trauma before he started his entrance exam, but that's what he meant, so having a guard looking like his personal boogieman."
"Said boogieman the man who kidnapped him and the six others at the time, as Deanna said he and the sextet were kidnapped by this Aldean. And he was trying to come up with a way to get them out and us in at the time. But to him, the act of his surrogate parents coming in after him was enough that. He was going to resist their brainwashing techniques, but it's still enough to cause nights out of P.T.S.D. and with that."
"It's enough to trigger a panic attack serious enough we've got to break him out of it, though if she plans to do that next and whoever caused it after he came down the flu is winding up dead if he gets hurt trying to escape the ship." Beverly said and Wil finished that. "Though that may be why he locked the door into the maintenance shafts, because that one door locked into the entire system." he said and Dayton nodded to him gently.
"What's the connection between us turning into now with the fact he just brought back the you he knows now that he's staying home indefinitely for a while?" he asked and the quintet smiled. "Once you get to know us the same way, we do with him, if your parents want us taking care of you we can do that while you're up here. Since you and Robin are the same age he is, but that's the catch and here's the thing now."
"Though you just graduated from the academy a few months ago, and entered advanced training, and though you're an adult. Up here you're a teenager entering college and we're responsible for you, extended family to put it for a better word. I'm your mentor and coach and with that in mind. I'm the one most responsible for you kids now as you're entering your freshman year in college now." he said and Dayton nodded softly.
"Nice touch, he was playing decoy for two spots right now, one giving Commander Data time to get that cure ready to go and the other. Was so nobody realized we had a couple people coming to crash the party and blow the whistle on the rest of her conspiracy, while Data, the engineering team and Dr. Pulaski took charge till the rest of you were back to normal." Dayton said and she nodded in agreement to that as she answered him.
"Alright they must have realized it, if they, he and Robin, dodged us twice, including they're being in my apartment when Worf and I went to check there and he decided to see who was controlling us, though how I don't know. But it's enough he's working over time now and this time it's not just a matter of the ship being at stake. But the entire federation now, and this was an alien version of the hemorrhagic plague.
"Running loose on the ship, and he did describe this to it being like a medical hotzone to me after the Polywater virus was running amok on the ship. Yes I remember this, we had this discussion regarding a medical hotzone where hemorrhagic fever is concerned right now, if one person has it, then ten of them have it..., And if someone gets that off the ship before we destroy the programming, and we're screwed here."
"And the duo and he..., oh my god, there's our conversation last year after we were docked at 416, Jean Luc. This issue of our conversation regarding his taking back control, it's just landed itself on the table and with that in mind now here. The kids were working as one, and he was playing decoy all night and today. Did anyone see the exact pattern after he dodged us in engineering, when he landed in transporter room 3 here."
"Deck 6, and from there the pattern got started, does anyone see that pattern now that we're back to normal here?" Beverly asked and they all nodded. "Yes I do, and she dug deep enough to finally rip it out of our heads. Though we recognized the pattern, we quickly covered up that memory to protect him, because if she dug into it. And then dug into mental files of who it belonged to last night, that was going to end this game."
"She didn't realize it till after the duo left the room this afternoon, and by then it was too late, he'd already had an audience with Katherine, Data and the engineering crew. And went about distracting us to keep our attention on him, while they're getting the cure into the computer. And was continuing to play decoy till the end till she finally caught him and Data took care of the rest." Picard said and Will finished off that remark
"After we reached his ending up in section 23, he must have ended up in there to hide the second survival kit he created. Before we found him and he redirected her this morning." Will said and Picard nodded in agreement. "Who is this guy exactly, it's like he was trying to shove every memory of him forward to you guys, but I don't understand, who is he?" Dayton asked and Will explained that to him gently as he looked at Wesley.
"He was an Angosian soldier, trained in the earth style of spec ops skills, but his genetic structure had been so tampered with he was now invisible to the ship's sensors. He could be completely normal, but when a threat is around or a weapon is pointed at him. The training he was infused with clicks in and takes over and every piece to his life as a normal soldier, strength, memory, abilities, etc, becomes enhanced."
"We had two situations in trying to catch him, but first was actually getting him up here, than after he broke out of the transporter beam. And he was now running amok in the corridors on the ship, it turned into a chess game and every move she used last night. Was ours during that chess game last night, but he decided to use his tactics and she used ours. Starting with transporter room 4 and it moved forward from there."
"He knew our moves, our way of strategy so well, he beat her in the chess game, computer what's the score of this chess game now that it's over and we're back to normal?" Will asked and in answer to that it appeared on the viewer and they smiled at that. "Crusher/Lefler/Dayton 1,750,500, Lol 120, god if that's not adding insult to injury nothing is right now, getting beaten by a trio of earthborn human teenagers."
"Nice work buddy, we did it, we pulled it off last night!" Dayton said as he started laughing and the sextet chuckled. "I never would have expected him to be using three different earth games to pull this last night with the stakes that high. But chess, Strategema and poker, and the scores are so high that you just beat her blindfolded." Beverly said as she tried to keep from laughing at that remark as he smiled at her.
"1,750,500 points in this scoring run, by working together as a team, that's got to be a record. And this is from not using a soldier's way of doing it, but by using a scientist and technician's. And all of you were raised on ships, and are covering five areas of the hardest sciences in the process at the moment. God Brand is going to get a shock when she hears that you broke the highest score there is in this particular test."
"Because no recruits who'd been raised on a ship most of their lives could ever score this high. And not when they hadn't been in training for a few years." she added to him gently and he smiled at her at that as he said it to Will. "Sir did you read the added records, my parents were just Dr. Crusher, always on the go, and my instructor. Just before I got into the academy, he was just like you, same personality, and methods."
"In fact I was trained by Commander Jackson." he said and Will nodded in amazement to that. "Jackson, you mean Nick or some other Jackson?" he asked and Dayton smiled. "His name was Daniel Jackson, but..., is Commander Jackson's middle name Nicholas by any chance?" he asked and Will smiled as he answered him gently. "Yeah, that's him alright, his grandfather was the colonel in Starfleet's predecessor, and his strategy."
"And advice when training training ensign's was going by taking your time and thinking it through, but everyone on board the ship we hadn't lost these last couple years. They're the descendants of the members of the Atlantis contingent team. 80% of the crew are the descended of the Atlantis team, but Nick's grandfather had methods. And ones that beat Jack's' when in training, because he's a black ops, but for the rest of us now."
"It's knowing everything about the people that got turned into drones, because that's one piece to it. The ship and every place to hide on board, being able to stay out of sight and so on now, but everyone in the crew and here's the real kicker. But our grandparents are really our past lives, in addition to everything we taught him. General Jackson and my grandfather trained him his themselves." he said and Dayton nodded in shock.
"I think you three got the highest score in history when it comes to this test, because she obviously wasn't expecting him to be coming up with that many ideas, or bouncing his ideas off of you. Though at the rate this is going, you're going to be equally matched in everything if this keeps up right now. And you guys are a quartet, if you chose to do and did this together last night." She said and he smiled as he answered her gently.
"Wait, wait wait, you, Kate and I were talking in the conference room, before Worf came in from running a heading count after we got them settled. As he reported in, telling us the total was 223 people, and Kate said we had two women. And who were pregnant and due a couple days apart from each other. Before you decided to head for the nearest Starbase, she dragged up how they were going to handle things in our century."
"I said it was going to take time, but they'd learn and adapt and if Danilo was any indication, they'd be running things inside of a week, before the alarm went off. And she was trying to keep from laughing at my annoyance with Danilo. As we heard the alarm go off, he checked on it and we both knew what the reason was for why the fire alarm went off in there, Sir." Will started to say, smiling, before the answering remark hit them.
"Oh my god, alright I get it, cargo bay 7, a fire in there and that ended our conversation, because..." Picard started to say and the trio started laughing as they got it then. "The Bringloidi, yeah I remember that and nice touch Wes, if that doesn't do it nothing ever does right now, but that's ridiculous at the moment. But seriously, was that really necessary at the moment though, kiddo." Geordi said through his laughter at that news.
As Will answered him through his laughter at that. "Evidently right now, because the first half of that mission was a circus, but that's going from creative. And right to over kill in memory recalls right now." he said and Picard nodded as he tried to get it out as he tried to pull himself together at the memory. "And to repeat my remark on that, sometimes you have to bow to the absurd, but our prize pupil chose one of the better memories."
"We had here, before his mother came back now, and then the other two now right now was the device that he used to to get you enough boost. And once the Ferengi dropped in during our wargames, followed by our chosen maneuevers here. And that explains the Romulan warbird this morning, that was you screwing around with the sensor codes. And you, Worf, playing holographic games on me during that as we're doing this at the time."
"But Wesley was with you three on the Hathaway at the time, one too many good memories of that year just after he recovers. From the effects of the knack, when it was just the seven of us, thats why there were so many memories of that year. But Ian, your father and the Klingon ceremony, the Bringloidi, the wargames with the Hathaway." Picard said and the quartet nodded in agreement in understanding as they looked at him.
"His first full year in training and the year our bonds deepened so much he come to see us as extended family now." Deanna said and the quartet nodded to her at that. "I bet that's why Brand sent Kate to see us at the time." Will said and she nodded. "If it is, then we need her here, because she's knows the most about brainwashing. But if the side effects of that mind control ploy are still effecting him right now, we need the help now."
"Because with him working over time, and though Lal was in the computer right now, he was on his own, before he went to bed last night." Picard said and the quartet nodded to that gently as Geordi looked at the young man who was his best friend. When in teenage portion of the crew. "In many ways I missed having my younger brother around to talk shop with when on the job here, but this time he decided to use what we taught him."
"Well now the next question here is what was he doing when he was hiding, because as ourselves we know his abilities in mechanics way too well. But the ship sounding like a cat, an oversized cat, that's happy it was taken care of by his or her owner. Well that's my next question right now, I'd like to why that was at the moment." Geordi said and they heard a bemused chuckle as Sarah MacDougal walked in the room as she said it.
"Well let's find out, because the terminal he fixed was across the hall from Miles's post last night, but first he got Miles out of there and then he got to work on that terminal. So let's check this out right now." she said and he nodded as they headed for their console and she typed it up and chuckled. "For crying out loud I should have known, it's he didn't just get the tractor beam fixed, but he bypassed the terminal when Shelby was here."
"I knew our prize pupil was good, but this has gone good and right to dangerously clever, as I'm the only one that saw him when he was screwing around with that terminal." she said and Evans walked up behind her at that. "Whoa, I don't believe it, man kid where did you learn to do this, because no kid your age has these skills right now." he said as he tried to keep from laughing as he looked over his shoulder at Geordi then gently.
"Hey, Geordi I just found something in the logs here in my console as I was doing a diagnostic check right now. But the engineering department got a complete over haul last night in getting several terminals fixed right now. After Shelby blew the accelerator when trying to escape the Borg last year, but this says that all the terminals. They're all in the green and here's the real kicker, but they're twice as strong as they were before."
"In fact right now the engines, shields and tractor beam all read 500% full capacity." Evans said and Geordi moved behind him at that in shock as he read the diagnostics. "What, I haven't been able to get them passed 300% ever since Shelby blew the accelerator last year, how did he manage that. Because Shelby's screwing around with the engines blew a fuse here?!" he asked in shock and Will smiled as he got it then.
"Did you keep any of the equipment he created before he left for the academy?" he asked and Geordi nodded to him. "Yeah I kept the accelerator he created when we deployed at the time. The one he created during our encounter with the Polywater virus and the meteorite at the time, but if he used that, he was trying to..., whoa. I don't believe it, but four years older and four years wiser in training techniques now."
"And this time it's not just any memory that got yanked here, it's our beginning, the weeks after we just got started as a whole crew. Alright it was after I got incapacitated and he was showing me his power deflector and..., yes. I see what it was he doing and it's he patched it to the machine maintenance lab. And started redirecting the computer systems in there to give us enough of a boost to prevent her from escaping custody."
"In fact, I bet he..." He started to say and checked his terminal and smiled as he looked back at the quartet smiling as he said to them "Yeah that's what I thought alright, he's just fixed the damage that Shelby caused last year. And by use of the equipment he created, captain. But four years older and four years wiser, he just pulled it off in preventing her from getting that thing to earth, our training him, it just paid off, Sir."
"Your choice to have him train up here, it just paid off by him, single handedly, delaying us long enough to prevent that thing from getting off the ship. That timer had us too busy trying to get back control of the computer that he's delayed long enough to free the engine crew and sickbay. And this was a definite ploy now to stop the attack by delaying to the last minute and said delay is the same as Danar, thank god for Danar right now."
"Without him right now and her not figuring it out till this afternoon, we just had several terminals fixed and several other things. But all in all, our training him and us having two new additions to the junior varsity version of the Gamma squadron on board. We just prevented that thing from getting off the ship." he said and they both nodded. "Not just me, Worf or the captain, you letting him in helping you in engineering, it just paid off."
"Everything you taught him back then just paid off Geordi, but whatever sequence in the chips he put into it must explain why we're back to full power. But he did this to get us back to full strength, it's enough that like his downloading that computer program into the ship's mainframe. Than best to have us from having the ship repeatedly hijacked after Data hijacked the ship after our previous encounter with Lore."
"In our right minds we'd never do this, but this time we had no control over ourselves, because we've been turned into hosts. He just prevented that thing from getting off the ship, and by doing it by non lethal means, stealth, distraction, division, and decoy attempts. And it lasted long enough for Data to free the engine crew and Kate to return to the ship. And from there her attempt is shot before it even gets off the ship now."
"Anybody feeling any different right now at the moment, with him home again and we have this going on?" Will asked and they all nodded to him. "Yes, it's like that search just reactivated something in us, almost like..., oh no, not again. The search of him taking back control of the computer systems, him locking us out of the mainframe. The phasers on overload, his engine converter deflector." Geordi started to say and he nodded to him.
"Yeah exactly, the first added side effects were like that virus we all got hit by, and he's screwing around in the engine computer lab. And someone yanked the engine chips and it's now reached that a second time, he's just did it a second time. That was no hostile take over of the ship, it's our back up plan in case we got boarded by hostile forces. Only this time we're, in the computers eyes, the hostile forces and it locked us out."
"He didn't yank the computer chips, he just redirected them, if I'm right and it's put enough of a boost that we can get across the galaxy in just under a week now. While preventing us from taking any more damage by any hostiles while doing it. And he just activated the sentient programming in the computer and it's by getting it to only listen to him and Data till they broke the conditioning on us now, and one by one, listens to us."
"Computer, what did he ask you to do exactly?" Will called out and he heard it answer him. "Are you, as the senior staff crew, back to normal now, before I answer that question, Commander Riker?" it asked in response and the sextet exchanged bemused looks at the question. "Yes we're back to normal, and could you answer my question now please." he said as the seven added members of the room started laughing at that as the sextet exchanged looks at this with amused smiles on their faces.
"Wes asked me to activate the friend vs. foe programming and to keep it up till father was finished with the deprogrammer. And Dr. Pulaski and Specialist Riker arrived just as the countdown ended. They freed the engine crew, but he was keeping you busy, by getting you and Lieutenant Worf out of the engine room, Commander, the reason being was so they could finish it."
"But he just reactivated me when he did that, by pulling my sentient programming, it's been a long time and it's good to see you again." it said and they exchanged looked at that remark as the voice went further. "Wes pulled the added codes and reactivated and then activated the frequency that told me our conversation at the engineering console just started and Father did the rest."
"And initiated it, though if you don't remember father downloading me into the system as well. Then I guess it's been long of enough of delay for you, as the last time you saw me was after father created me at the time." it said and the sextet nodded as they exchanged amused looks at this as the seven added adult members of the crew smiled as Geordi said it for the sextet with a smile in his tone.
"Father, who are you exactly, if you appeared on the main viewer last night?" Evans asked and he heard the voice answer him gently. "Sir, guys, if you recall my working in ten forward at the time, before that Doctor over did it. And with it my CPU was beginning to deteriorate. Before father downloaded me into his memory banks, the last time you saw me, I was a 17 year old doing my part time job."
"My part time job being a waitress for Guinan." she said and the sextet exchanged looks, as Will started laughing at that. "Yes and as a result of the boys downloading you into the system Guinan started getting used to you and her next waitress. And you guys working in tandem with each other kiddo, it's good to hear your voice, honey." he said and a second later the terminal switched over and they saw her looking at them, smiling.
"It's good to see you guys again now, the past few months before he left I'd grown used to talking to you guys like this and I'm glad we can return to that again." she said and they nodded. "Us too, alright guys the reason she was acting as an extension of the ship, is because she's now the computer A.I.. And in essense the ship herself now, she's the enterprise." MacDougal said to the new trio and they nodded.
"Was that why she and Wes had that type of bond, surrogate sister?" Dayton asked and they nodded to him. "Yeah it is, right after he made this suggestion Data downloaded her into the system and the added back up programming was she took control of the system. But the ending results were slight jokes over the radio and it started getting out of hand here, and guys we're not having that bickering match start up again, so don't try it."
"Let me take a guess here, he told you that until we were back to our normal selves, that you weren't taking orders at the time?" Geordi asked and she answered him gently. "Yes Commander La Forge, that game brought out the alter egos in you. Like our last encounter with the alternate version of our ship and yourselves. I was to follow orders given to me only by him until you weren't compromised anymore."
"But until he was done with the recovery beacon that was to return you to yourselves, he was keeping quiet as himself. But father simulated your voices like you are now, including the security code he used when the homing beacon activated last year. But this was a test to see what she didn't know and what she did and it's a long list." she said and they nodded to that as they smiled gently.
"Yes well if I'd been in my right mind right now, I'd have told him to activate you right now, to prevent this hotzone from infecting anyone else. Looks like he's decided to follow my orders and did everything he could to prevent that virus from jumping off the ship a second time. Well there's what the virus mutated into now Jean Luc, boys, it mutated into a video game now." Beverly said and Picard nodded in agreement to that remark.
"First the Polywater virus we got infected by when we were a newly active crew and then that virus. It mutates into a video game inducing the same effects we were suffering before the mind control kicked in. That's the faction's version of a deadly biological weapon by having it infect the entire federation, by landing itself on earth. And infecting first the kids and officers at the academy and then a severe foothold in the federation."
"He just prevented her version of Anthrax or any type of biological weapon from jumping off the ship, by yanking every card that had to do with our internal computer pest problems, a previous manhunt on board. And set the clock for 14 hours and 30 minutes, smart move son, I never would have thought of that right now. If I'd been with you at the time, because under stress is when you start forgetting things, like this."
"Just like when I trying to get into the control room when you were fifteen, you just pulled it off again." Will said and looked at the teenager as he said it to him. "At the moment if it wasn't for the fact that we had been getting ready for this. Then I doubt we'd have pulled it off, because he didn't tell me or Robin that he had her in the system." Dayton said and they nodded as he answered him gently at the remark then at that.