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 7: Security Meetings And Reunions
"Setting my phaser on that level, it was a warning, I didn't want to hurt anyone, so nobody force me into and that's why it's on disable, instead of neutralize. But this was my ship, my crew, I'm not having anyone getting neutralized to save the federation. So with that its get rid of the phaser and use the skills I gained from the engineering and security, but this game was a game of tactics and I won." he said and the duo nodded.
"Damn it, great whoever just did that decided to, despite your direct warnings regarding that force shield and touched the wall and gets blown back in the wall." He heard and looked up to see Lieutenant James Shimoda walking in and he nodded. "Well now I know that wasn't you, with you in here right now with Sarah, Jim. But how much you want to bet, it's one of the new guys of the last 3 to 4 months, because we've seen that."
"And repeatedly one too many times as a result, so who wants to bet it's the new guys rather then the veterans on board this ship?" he asked and the older man shook his head. "Didn't we already have this conversation son, you know I said no gambling." Picard said as he looked at him with a gentle smile and Shimoda tried to keep from laughing at the bemused smile on his face as he answered his teenage friend at that.
"No bet, it's no doubt one of the new guys, because last night reminded me of why I never bothered to test that shield after it blasted me into the wall. Aside from that, before we got used to being a crew, I quickly learned not to test your technology building skills when it was a life or death situation. Case in point is what started this in the first place, Wes." he said to him with a bemused smile as Evans answered his remark.
"Looks like whatever bonehead tried to test your shield got thrown into the wall here, and like we keep saying, always look before you leap." Evans said with a bemused look on his face. "Blasted idiot, what does it take for them to get the message here after Jim got thrown into the wall last night. I mean seriously, we've been together for four years, and you guys know when not to press the issue regarding not taking chances here."
"When your teenage team mate is a computer genius and created the technology that saved the ship five times in four years at the time. What are the chances it's one of the new guys exactly, because the quartet know when not to test my inventions. And when they're on full power, and not after the situation with the virus?" Wesley asked and Geordi answered that question with a bemused smile in his voice as he said it to him.
"Extremely high, because MacGregor and his team arrived just after our situation with the Klingons and before we headed for Darmok." he said and Wesley sighed. "Do these idiots ever learn never test the technology created by a teenage genius. I mean seriously my tractor beam, the programming I created, my experiment. You'd think guys like Marks and his clique would know better when it comes to a science/technical genius."
"And that trying to get past it by disengaging the terminal is a good way to get electrocuted here right now. Especially when these guys just arrived, case in point is MacGregor, and you six have known this for years. But when you have no idea how their mind works or how powerful it is, do they ever learn?" he said and Anenzi answered that as he looked at him with a bemused smile on his face at the rhetorical question.
"Evidently not, but this time I think they got the message Wes." he said to him gently, bemused at that. "Though at the current moment I think the blasted idiot that tried that was trying to test the added strength of those shields you created right now. If we just heard that, and you're only telling us as the senior staff crew. As well as the security teams and said teams are four of five and the engineering team with it at the moment."
"But considering we're the ones you're closest to out of friendship, it just goes to show that the connection is making it easier to understand right now. But we know when not to underestimate you right now." MacDougal said as she tried to keep from laughing. "Yeah well under normal circumstances I'd be finding that funny right now, but I feel like we're in that cartoon, with the coyote constantly being damaged by his own equipment."
"Damn it, alright Tony go check and see who it was, because the added side effects are going to have their body temperature going crazy here." Wesley called out and he heard Perkins answer him at that remark. "Sure thing Wes, but we want to know what the heck it was you created this time to cause it now." he said and Wesley nodded as the trio hid a chuckle at the smile on his face as his team leader finished that remark.
Before he heard Greyson answer that with a bemused tone. "Whatever else you're doing at the moment, is that the end of the games. Or is there anything else coming up young man, because this is getting ridiculous?" he asked and Wesley thought it over. "Wes you're fully focused right now, you better turn off the distraction and diversion ploy and fast buddy." Geordi said and Dayton quickly said it into the radio.
"Somebody had better tell the others to can it with the rhetorical questions though, because..." Dayton started say as they heard a loud crash in answer to that ring out from the wall and they both looked at the latest trio as Will said it for all of them. "Alright all of you pull yourselves together right now, and cool it with that." he said at the silent look of laughter on the trio's faces as Worf has his arms crossed at that with a bemused look.
"Derek if you remember our conversation over that last year, I think you know what I'm about to say next regarding that." Beverly said to him with a bemused chuckle and they heard a bemused tone in the man's voice as he answered her. "Gotcha Bev, alright I'll tell the others, but somebody turn that off now, will you please. Because this is getting ridiculous right now, boys." he said and they nodded to the order smiling.
Looking at each other, neither of them could hold it in anymore as they both started laughing at that reaction. "God, now I really do feel like we're on that cartoon man." Dayton said as he started laughing at that. "I think we took this just a little too far last night and this morning Charlie, but the way we did was like one giant game between us here." he said with a smile and the other boy nodded in agreement to that.
"Yeah well as I said, you're a medical born, as am I and this is something no athlete can pull without getting caught." he said with a smile to him. "Yeah well two heads are better then one. Or in this case, three heads are better then one, but plant, bait and decoy. And our adult peers don't realize they've been played this easily by their own students." Wesley said with a smile and he nodded in agreement to that remark then.
As the adult crew looked at them with a bemused smile on their faces at that remark. "I think these two are way too much alike as it is, if they're like this around each other right now." Geordi said and Will nodded. "Yeah and I think the concept of two heads are better than one just made a come back, if this ended this fast. And only one injury in an otherwise flawless chess game as well." he said and they nodded as he looked at Picard.
"You want to say it or should I, before this turns into a case of practical jokes all night, tonight, Sir?" he added to him. "Alright enough of the games now boys and we're serious. That's enough of this right now, so turn that off now." Picard said and he nodded. "Lal you can turn off the sound effects now." he said and as it went quiet at that as he looked at the duo as he answered the unasked question smiling as he said it then.
"Robin, Charlie and I met at the academy Sirs, you got your wish at the moment that in Jake and I finding the rest of our squadron now. If you got her reaction and us flirting in engineering, it's because we'd been together four months prior to their arriving here. But we weren't sure where Brand was sending them till Charlie told me last night, before the axe fell." he said and they nodded smiling at the news as Will answered him.
"I take it that explains his remark, son?" Will asked and he nodded. "If we were you as teenagers, we're you and Commanders Jackson, Carter and Ferretti now. But our bonds were that of brothers, like Charlie said, he can get in my mind. Now to know what I'm doing and it's because we developed that connection at the academy." he said and they nodded as he said his thoughts over the way MacGregor said his name out as he said it.
"Great the first one acting like he's still under her control is MacGregor, while Bates, Perkins and Greyson are calling me by my nickname." Wesley said and they nodded. "Well if that tells us anything, it's possible MacGregor is the plant, but we just have to wait it out now. As for the guys, they're acting like I normally do with you, Wes." Will said to him and he nodded in agreement to that as Hanson looked at him at that remark.
"I take it you got the morse code in the noise earlier?" he asked and he and Worf nodded with a bemused smile. "Yes, but was that really necessary, I mean if I was your age and in the midst of our current situation. I wouldn't be trying to get the people, looking for me, their attention at the time kiddo. But that's going too far in distraction and diversion here son." he said and Dayton started laughing at that as he answered him smiling.
"And I was trying to keep from exposing myself Wes, was that really necessary, because if Robin was back to normal, I think she was finding that funny. But the two of us were trying to keep from blowing our cover or exposing ourselves here." he said to him as he looked at him with a playful smile and the adult crew hid a smile at that. "You guys better pull yourselves together for now, boys." Beverly said hiding a smile then at this.
"I know you're wired from stopping the incursion, but both of you pull yourselves together, you had the easy part. But from here leave what happens next to us adult officers, because you, buster, need time to recover. And this just went from fun and games and right to possible health endangerment. With you looking like this right now, son, so from here you're on stand down for a while. Will added and they both nodded.
"What's that mean exactly anyway?" Hanson asked and Wesley smiled. "It's at maximum stun, I'm treating this in the way we did with Roga. In case whoever the plant, still on board the ship is, tries to spring her and her crew with her." he said and Picard smiled dangerously at his plan as he answered him. "Yeah I remember that, but trying to break the beam is a good way to kill yourself here at the moment, because if it doesn't work."
"You're likely to materialize between decks or inside the walls and get electrocuted as a result here." Geordi said to him and he nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly and with that after he did break the beam we didn't know what floor he ended up on at the time as a result. Which is why I'm not taking chances with the possibility of a conspiracy and a plant on board the ship when enroute to Starbase 67." he said and they nodded as Will answered.
"What was the level on the charge that was on the forcefield on the control room last night?" Will asked for him and he explained that. "That was setting 4, this one is setting 10, so whoever tries to deactivate it is getting blasted into the wall. And knocked unconscious this time, if we have the added plant still on board right now. If the added conspirator on board is working with her whoever does it is getting arrested."
"Once the guys find them, whoever it might be, lying on the floor unconscious and we're going to know who it is as well. Because the added side effect now, is the plant's body temperature is getting scrambled in the process. Every dot on board is bluish green in temperature, so once their body temperature gets that charge. This is changing from that color to reddish orange and is staying like that until they get caught by Lal now."
"And until they do expose themselves, Lal is staying in charge of the computer system until we find the plant. And get Etana and her crew off the ship right now." he said and they smiled at his idea. "First your computer program and now this, what's next wiseguy, because I'd say this is going for over kill in protecting the crew right now?" Geordi asked with a bemused smile on his face as he watched him smile as he answered him.
"For everyone else, with the secondary program about to activate, the ones suffering the secondary on the thermal sensors are going to start glowing a yellowish orange here. So the plant is bluish green, and if he touches the beam starts glowing reddish orange. The crew members suffering the secondary are glowing yellowish orange and everyone else is greenish yellow." he said and they nodded as Will answered him gently at that.
"And that's not if your condition starts to get worse, but if you're the same temperature as our plant on board the ship is, then it's a matter of locking out the blue dots. And aside from the four of us, Miles, and the security teams closest to you in bonds. That makes it easier as Data can reconfigure the system as we track you by your heat signature." he said and Wesley nodded and he and Geordi smiled in relief at that.
"Well there's something I missed, having you to compare notes with regarding fixing things when it comes to the safety of the crew buddy." Geordi said and he looked at him smiling as he looked at him. "I know, but at least we get another year together this way though, but there's a few things we can go into it. Once I turn off the AV mode in the lounge tomorrow after medical check ups." he said they nodded as Will answered him.
"Added contingency plan Wes?" he asked and Wesley nodded. "Aye Sir, the hindsight is one thing, but this time, best not to take chances until we get to Starbase 67. Because if her plant doesn't understand a thing about how my mind works. Then neither she, nor they, get the fact, that once my inventions kick in then you better stand back. And case in point was after Jim got a taste of it last night." he said and they both nodded to him.
"Acts of the first born cub scenario when it came to training, and until Jake decided on pilot training. I was your original, so that's the added side effect, and it results in the people closest to the parent growing too attached to their kid if you helped raise said child in question. Case in point is why you all lost your focus after I left, with you helping mom raise me, I became your child as well." he said and the seven nodded gently then.
"Yeah well as earth born, that's the added side effect, we've been a crew for four years and your mother. She trusted us enough to leave you in our custody until she got transferred back up here. But the added side effect to that was that it resulted in us bonding so tightly you became a son to us as well in the process." Geordi said to him and he nodded smiling to him as he looked at him as Picard hid a smile at the wording then.
As he answered him. "Alright thank you Lieutenant, as it is, with the fact you pulled this off with Charlie and Ensign Lefler, I'm hereby promoting you to full Lieutenant as of today." he said and Wesley nodded. "Aye Sir and thank you." he said and Picard looked at him. "I know we already discussed this, but with you being the leader of your team, you're reporting directly to me and Will starting now." he said to him and he nodded.
"Oh and dad, the system is set to scramble the coding in case our secondaries try to break her out or attack us with out backs turned." Wesley said, injecting emphasis on the word and he smiled at his now calling him that. "Dad?!" Hanson said in shock and they nodded. "I adopted him ensign, and soon enough your rumors turn true. We are getting married, but he was junior grade and now is a full." Picard said and he paled at that.
"Lieutenant?" Hanson repeated and Dayton smiled as he exchanged smiles with Wesley. "Or more accurately, captain of the team, Derek, you're a training ensign, Jake is ensign Robin and I are junior grade, he's made full lieutenant now. But he and I are sharing the leadership position. So I'm warning you, you ever pull a stunt like this again and you're ending up in extensive training in the simulator for month here till you understand."
"That this isn't like being in school it's far more dangerous, in school you make a mistake and you can try again tomorrow. But up here, where you're close to watching someone die, you don't know what that's like until you see it for yourself." he said to him sternly then. "Before you start griping about the fact I'm advancing through the ranks this fast right now, it's because you follow the rules and climb up the ladder of politics."
"In on the ship politics, you don't and you get jumped by someone else, such as it is, by breaking orders last night, given to you by all of us. You lost your chance at a promotion and you're stuck at training ensign, until you get over that jealousy at the moment. And we have, I've seen it more times than I care to think about and believe me, watching the Yamato explode is a shock I still can't forget." Wesley added to him firmly at that.
"The Yamato, our sister ship?" Dayton repeated and he nodded. "Long story, but the Iconian virus caused repeated malfunctions until it destroyed the ship itself. And I was on the bridge and I saw the battle bridge explode, before the saucer section went next. So that just brings your remark home and be thankful you didn't see the Horatio, because the shock hit my mother and the captain hard." he said and Dayton nodded to him.
"Don't remind me of that, it's been three years and I still can't believe Walker is gone, honey." Beverly said and he nodded to her. "Captain Keel?" Dayton repeated and they nodded. "His closest friends were my parents and Captain Picard, this was during the incursion and command headquarters. But they killed him to keep the fact that there was an incursion running loose in Starfleet, which is where that came into this now."
"And the Comparisions were made clear now." Wesley said and he nodded. "Alright subject change, if that wasn't traumatizing here, then enough this will be after how close it was both last night and today right now." Geordi said to him as he rested his hand on his shoulder. "And to answer your remark here though, if that's going to do it for you it's going to do the same for us Beverly, and it's because while you're his mother."
"While the three of us are training him and we're his mentors, as to that, I hate it when he pulls that type of stunt." Will said and the quintet of other members in the room, listening to their conversation hid a chuckle at that remark. "I take it he's tried to do whatever caused that clang we heard from a different height when on the Holodeck Sir?" The conn asked him and he nodded in annoyance, as he looked at Wesley bemused.
"Yeah and it's enough to cause heart failure, because he keeps trying to push it higher than Worf and I will allow in these situations. Today was an emergency and though I'm annoyed I'm going to let that go, but that's not happening a second time." he said and they nodded. "In this case it won't, if that damn thing has a secondary, she's going to try and retrace my steps though, Sir." he said and Will nodded as he answered him firmly.
"Yes well with Lal in the computer it's tracing your tactics and this time the 13 of us know you better then you know yourself. When programmed and with that in mind, if she thinks she knows what's she's doing she better think again. How many of those bags did you create this time. If you stashed one or both of the ones that you created in your apartment in to the extension shaft?" he asked and Wesley explained that to him.
"I created 7, but did you trace the alarms now with you completely focused?" he asked and they nodded. "Yes, the first to go off was me, then Deanna, the captain and then the commander. Though if we heard the alarm go off a second time in Worf's quarters that's number 5 and the original two are hidden in the Jeffries tubes." Geordi said and he nodded and they nodded as she sighed to that as she answered him.
"To figure this out we need to analyze those pills too, so if there was trouble, I'm willing to take a guess, if they can't do it once. Then they're going to try it twice regarding secondaries and if that doesn't work. Because with us stationed at Starbase 67, there's no getting off the ship, without alerting the base security. Of an unauthorized departure, when said departure is by use of the shuttles at the moment with that in mind now."
"If that was her third intention there's our entire conversation last year here on the bridge right now. And with the possibility of screwing around with my recovery, Sirs, as we got a demonstration of that, you three and Data know me best, in the case of the senior staff. With her screwing with my recovery the side effects of this are possibly to be our entire conversation." he said and Wil nodded as he sighed as he answered him.
"Yeah and with it is the fact that after close to 24 hours on the go, and if they try anything else it's either this or both that and Aldea with MacGregor on board. Though if this results in a repeat of this chase down and I'm really going to be ticked. Especially if it lands you back in there and this time it broke or dislocated your ankle, while its everything we talked about." he said with a growl as they heard another voice say it.
"While it's the same for the six of us in this case, because we've know you longest out of the four groupings of us in the security teams, while Roberts and his team. They arrived a month just after you left and MacGregor did after Geordi was turned into an assassin 7 months ago. But as she yanked your training course out of our heads, it's either that again or she's going to your second one though she tries that next one next."
"It's going to drain you by the time it ends up in the tubes again, when we know your thinking strategies as yourself and better then you do when programmed at the moment. Though she tries that next and it's never mind trying to second guess this, because none of us are letting you out of our sight if that does happen, Wes." he said to him in answer to that gently as Wesley turned to look at the quartet and smiled in relief at him.
"It keeps up like this it will, but I can guarantee, is if she thought you guys were bad when programmed, she's never seen you when you're yourselves when it comes to me. And neither will whoever the plant is at the moment, though at the current moment, it's the added act of dealing with having three star pupils. And one star pilot and number five is trying to make me look bad by trying to show off and with that in mind right now."
"It's, despite the fact every senior officer over ensign told him that his shift was done, he still broke orders and got himself arrested by the only senior officer. And the one who was unaffected by that game and with that in mind it's why would any teenage ensign cross a bunch of skilled officers. You guys, when yourselves always took training seriously at the moment, but you all said the very same thing at the moment right now."
"You all have zero tolerance for showing off, hot dogging, going by his gut instincts or his trying to act like a hero. And definitely not when in the middle of a crisis, and frankly he's still on thin ice for Jake and Willie and the speedballing. But I can see it in your eyes guys, this crossed the line between showing off and reckless endangerment at the moment." he said and they all nodded in agreement to that as he finished that remark.
"In your eyes and with that, I knew better then to try an out right attack, because I know you way too well. For you guys who know their teenage charges this easily and you know my thinking strategies better then he does." he said and Bates crossed his arms. Looking at him gently as the sextet moved to him, Greyson pulled him into a hug and he closed his eyes tightly then as he felt his arms around him as he hold him then.
Looking at the way he was holding him, Beverly hid a smile at that as Greyson answered him. "How bad is the damage this time son?" he asked him as he let him go then. "It's bad enough I'm staying home for 18 months right now. Caffeine withdrawal, malnutrition and sleep deprivation. Some how and I'm not sure how exactly, something has linked me to the captain and I'm seeing through his eyes what's happening to you guys up here."
"And the results are I've taken in too much caffeine and sugar just to block it out, but the reason you saw those readings in my self diagnosis were two fold. The first being because I haven't had any of the food my body really needs in four months. And 2) I haven't slept in close to six since the nightmares, visions, or whatever started. And then to top it off is peer pressure, despite the fact I never wanted to join the team."
"I was chosen to be part of Nova squadron and this has turned into a living nightmare now and as to why right now at the moment. My squadron at the academy has completely dismantled my regime and in truth, I wanted to be with Charlie and his. That's the flight team I wanted to be a part of second generation Gamma squadron and the other reason is because of these." he said to him, pulling a bottle of pills out then.
And handing it to them. "You never took stimulates, before, just what started that exactly?" Perkins asked in shock and he sighed. "It started like a month after I left, after things here were evidently getting more tense by the minute. But it was after Geordi got turned into an assassin that I stopped taking it, and I've been in detox ever since. And even though I did stop taking them at the time, it was even though I did stop them."
"And when I was listening in on the conversation between him and Etana, it was I was about to get to work, and I get hit with the first spasm in months. I don't know what's these are cut with but whatever it is last night could be construed to your repeated arrests of Hanson. But fortunately as a medical prodigy, I decided on the prescription of what Charlie's father and Dr. Anenzi would have prescribed for me in this at the time."
"But between this and my squadron, I just decided on going on medical sabbatical and mom decided I'm staying here to do my training when in recovery. And I got the next 18 months now here at home." he said and they nodded as Porter smiled at the news as Greyson said it for him then. "You always excelled in hands on anyway, so with you back we got two, but you, Jake, Robin and Charlie are our favorite students anyway, kiddo."
"And with that in mind right now, then it's back to the way things used to be now, but if Eli is in here, because Derek is sulking because he got arrested. And we said it 100 times that when it comes to being in training here as well. That we always preferred yours and Charlie's way of doing it, planning in advance to making it up as you go along. And with that, with the fact Data arrested him for reckless endangerment that sums it up now."
"But we have zero tolerance for showing off, hotdogging, going by your gut instincts or trying to act like a hero and definitely now when in the middle of a crisis." he said as they all looked at Hanson. "And with that in mind, you want to make it in training or anywhere else, Derek, than rein it in rookie and get that attitude under control or so help me you're training is at an end, as of now." Wesley said as he opened his mouth to that.
"I've heard that lecture three times since the captain started mine and believe me right now, what you pulled last night is enough to irritate every adult officer. And in all three departments, why well it's simple, you got reckless, you got cocky. And you weren't paying attention to certain factors namely, that despite orders given by five commanding officers, you still broke them and with that." he added and Dayton finished his remark.
"Don't bother saying it Derek, you're in enough trouble as it is, I said you even break orders and you were getting jumped in promotions and Wes said the exact same thing here. But do you know what I see when I look at you right now?" Dayton asked and the other looked at him coldly. "No what exactly?" he asked as they heard the answer firmly. "I see the leader of the quintet you sold that story to and when they were furious."
"And jealous that the duo, let alone the security teams, the senior staff listen to someone with both pieces. I see the leader of the quintet standing in front of me throwing his resentment at me regarding that, that I'm acting like a true model cadet officer. I'm a training ensign sure, but I've lived on this ship since I was fifteen and with that. If you were 24 years old and dressed in a red uniform, I'd see you as Colin Marks."
"But as Marks got busted three times for drinking when on duty, he got arrested twice for starting a bar brawl and then exposed himself to the captain, right after Willy Potts." Wesley said, before he heard a firm tone add on to that as the voice was beyond stern. "And I see the added argument after you lost your temper at me when I reported you to Wes, for the drugs, before he caught you with the rumors and speedballing at the time."
"And that's you right now, so with that in mind right now, that's why you got jumped in regarding second in command of the team at the moment. The captain prefers brains over brawns, as does the commander, they don't accept 'the shoot first, ask questions' later attitude here. And neither does the rest of the senior staff, such as it is, if you want that chance you should have followed orders and stayed off the channel last night."
"So whatever you want Derek, now isn't the time for this right now, so back off." they heard as he turned around to see Jake Kurland standing there with his arms crossed. "Hey bro, welcome home." he added and Wesley smiled as he stood up and Jake gave him a brotherly hug. "You fully focused, because there's 20 to 30% getting secondary programming on board and it's to get it on the four of us here, so watch yourself."
"And I'm serious, us teenagers of the junior crew, we showed her up, and she's determined to get the damn thing back on us. And it's you, me and Robin, a second time and for real in Charlie's you see anyone acting strange, get ready to run. But right now, I need the adult crew protecting me, I have nothing left to even try to defend myself right now." he said and Jake nodded to the orders as he looked at him gently at that.
"No problem, and again Hanson now isn't the time for this so back off and get to sickbay right now." he said to him firmly. "After you got busted for two counts and you get arrested again for speedballing and a near murder. You really expect them to let scrutiny down regarding your attitude. The captain told you repeatedly, he doesn't tolerate the jump forward attitude, that was the point of the reprimand he gave you last year."
"What the duo and I did, that's the point of the lesson and we all got what we wanted as a result, a true squadron. And it's because it's lonely with only two members on the team, and we wanted two more team mates and now we got them. But look at this, last night, and today, we pulled off the impossible, and proved the point. Into what he and Guinan, what our teachers keep telling you in our history lessons at the moment now."
"And if this daredevil stunt was because you wanted to play hero, it's not the way to do it." Wesley said sternly to him. "For the record, I don't have to show off to him or the other, because it's not by skills or athletics, it's by honesty, following our regime. As well as good grades, the ability to follow orders and most of all. It's staying away from the toxic chemicals, but my skills are I just pulled off the point to his lectures to you."
"Amd you not only flunked this test, it just humiliated you in front of the half soldier/half scientist/engineering types. But you know why, it's because I studied the training lessons that they trio and the sextet are teaching us, and by Commander Jackson's grandfather. If Jackson was here, he'd see it in the same way they do and to them, it's I just earned that promotion, but you're studying O'neill's strategy and here's the result now."
"You got arrested, and the results are you failed the exams last night." he said and Picard crossed his arms at the styles comparison as he went further. "But this was our ship, our people, I was getting them back and it's by non violence now at the moment. But 1) the opponent was blocking one route: take another, 2) parent a doctor, of either type: use what they normally had in home medical care since you were a child."
"3) the opponent doesn't give you enough time to prepare, then improvise, 4) if the communicator has a tracking beacon: then ditch it and get yourself undercover. 5) with the opponent possibly using our own people: then get rid of the weapon. And why need the weapon when your best weapon in this situation is your mind. 6) if the opponent is cutting off the route to getting something to eat: create your own supplies."
"7) Cutting off the route to get some rest: same as number six and bunk in one of the room of your compromised crew members if they're single right now. And finally 8) if the reason they were taken this fast was because of the first born cub scenario. Then go to deprogramming by dragging up as many good memories as possible. Said things are the things you did together before you left, and drag up as many as possible."
"But I followed every single guideline to a situation such as this and Charlie, Robin, Lal and I passed this situation with flying colors. Because we didn't use weapons, and why need weapons when the most dangerous weapon of all is using your mind. As for Lal, if she was human she'd be no older then us and with Charlie acting as a plant. And the duo compromised right now, I decided to get my android team mate involved now."
"While her father is busy working on the cure at the moment, but by following the captain's strategy, the commander's, Colonel and Commander Jackson's strategy. I just proved the point to what they and Guinan's double, who was an actress, always said to guys like you, Marks and Colonel and Lieutenant's O'neill right now. And said remark is 'If you want to go somewhere and you want to be somebody then you better wake up.'."
"And pay attention, because the real world is out there and in the real world, they don't care how good you think you are. Or who you're connected to, it doesn't matter to them out here, because if you don't have an education. Then you don't have a way to make it in life, and that's the truth right now.'. And you know what, that's why I passed this test, because I pay attention to the teachers training me and my scores in this test."
"Have just broken the record for the longest running manhunt in the middle of conspiracy and the results are I jumped a level in promotions and earned my rank to lieutenant. Because I followed the rules, but follow the rules in intership politics and you move up the ladder in crew evaluations. Don't and you're stuck at where you are right now, but don't get ticked at me, because you just humiliated yourself in front of them."
"But you broke orders, were inebriated, and armed, and you get found, arrested and sedated by one of the teachers in this test." he said to him and Picard nodded in his opinion gently. "That's exactly the point of this test and the quartet indeed passed it with flying colors, the no winner was the big one at the moment in training. And he's earned his right to wear his uniform as have they and Lal and with that, that's why you fail."
"You don't listen, you disobey direct orders given to you by five superior officers and the results are you fail this test, Cadet. And this was crew evaluations for us to choose the next position of the young crew team and with it now. Which of you, you and Charlie was going to earn that position and the decision had been rendered. Charlie is now second in command of the team." Will said sharply at the remark as he watched him carefully.
"If this doesn't go for destroying your image, because nothing he does changes your thoughts on me, then it's political sabotage next." Wesley said, watching the clear jealousy in his eyes, he snapped at him coldly as he answered him at that remark. "Just what does a red shirt have to do to get some attention around here exactly, when you're showing off to the old man Crusher, Dayton." Hanson said to him coldly at that remark.
And Wesley said it firmly. "You do realize he's in the room with us right now, if this was a college he's running right now, that attitude disqualifies you now. This was a test on crew evaluations and unknowing or not right now, with my test of the no winner coming up. She decided to try it now and as a result, the four of us decided on doing this in a way that's completely foolproof, but crew evaluations in the junior crew, for the next rank."
"Said rank, second in command, as I'm the captain of our team, he was looking for the next rank on the team and last night was the clincher. You blew your chance at a promotion, by breaking orders and getting arrested for reckless endangerment. But even though she didn't realize I turned this into a training game you broke orders. And it gets you arrested by one of the teachers in said game last night, I'm in bed at the time."
"Sleeping off the epinephrine, the general stimulates and the sugar rush, and if you even bothered to listen to the warning. The captain did say if they found you and you were drunk, arrest you and take you to sickbay and Data's the one who did it. But this soon after the adverse reaction, less then three weeks ago since you activated now. What the hell is wrong with you, are you out of your damned mind, that's too dangerous Derek."
"Sure they're compromised right now, but the first pocket cell decided to follow orders after Data released them from her control. And Porter sent Data to find you, but resisting arrest, DUI and armed in a training turned real, you flunked it last night." he said to him, before Bates answered with a stern growl at the insult. "And watch your mouth young man, you're already in enough trouble here at the moment over this training scenario."
"And for deliberately breaking orders, you want to land yourself in your bedroom, then control yourself. But I'm warning you, even try to start another fight and you're ending up back in the tank until the added side effects of that programming wear off completely young man." he said with a stern warning tone then. "If that attitude is because I just showed you up and you got arrested, again, it's not going to go down well here."
" So forget it, Derek, I'm not dealing with your crap right now after I just had the all nighter from hell last night and this morning. And not when I'm emotionally compromised, get out of here and get to sickbay." he said and Will looked at other boy sternly as the entire senior staff, the security teams, and the added members then as Picard said it for him with a beyond stern tone in his voice then as he said it to him then.
Before he could though Wesley stood up then. "As you got yourself into trouble with them than you know what I'm going to say next, but until I debrief them, report to sickbay for medical exams, immediately. Charlie, second in command and Robin is third, but we're the leaders of the junior crew. He's an ensign, I'm commander, you're lieutenant commander, and she's your rank." he said and he nodded as Will hid a smile.
"To repeat that Charles, you got second in command position with Ensign Lefler right next to you and Wesley is your leader." Picard said to him and Dayton nodded. "Aye, aye Sir. Alright again Derek, if you don't want to get arrested for attempting to start a fight between us and you. Report to sickbay for medical exams right now." He said sternly to him and Will and Picard watched the fight start then as Hanson answered him.
"Wait, wait a minute, you only just got started and now you're acting like a senior officer, when I'm the one wearing the rank. You're just a cadet." The other boy said to him and he crossed his arms at that while looking at his uniform, he saw the light grey chest and pants and the darker grey shoulder pads on his shoulders and Wesley hid a nod then. "Guess against Derek, you've just gotten started and you're an acting ensign."
"He's a full ensign, I'm a commander and he's my subordinate, my friend, my team mate and with that in mind right now." he said and Dayton finished that remark. "What's the attitude for cadet, because, compared to me, you're just a kid now. I never got turned, I was faking it, acting on stage acting he, Lal, Robin and I planned this out. In advance last night, but you, if you were smart, never should have played with that, as to that."
"I'm a veteran with what I just had to deal with last night, but I know this ship inside and out. I'm going to know the crew better than they know themselves. And once the sentient programming gets my name added to it and she's going to be answer to me with the fact that as the junior crew. It's our job to take control with Commander Data when the adult crew is compromised or out of commission, and with that in mind."
"And I know those computer systems better than anyone, aside from my partner, but we just did something you can never duplicate as to why, you're a jock, we're scientists and with that its brains over brawns." he said as Wesley stood and Dayton stood next to him. "So just watch it you've gotten yourself in trouble once too often and this is your last and final chance, cool down or you're getting arrested." Wesley said completing his sentence.
"My computer programme just saved the entire federation by a few scenarios that went on when I was fifteen to eighteen and believe me it takes time." Wesley said sharply and Will crossed his arms as he answered him coolly. "I don't see how the trio can listen to you when whatever was going on before you left appears to be more than it seems." he said to him and the quartet crossed their arms at the remark and Dayton looked at him.
"What's he talking about?" Dayton asked and Wesley sighed. "Here we go again, alright Derek after last year's debacle here on the bridge after our parents sentenced you to six months probation. I do believe my mother already told you this information, but he's my mentor, my father was his best friend and in honoring his memory. He decided to have me begin in on the job training and offered, after I decided to stay, his help to her."
"Was by his letting me stay and the quartet worked out in advance my regime and I was under said regime that now has become a total problem at the moment. But this attempt to stir up trouble with the junior crew and the adult crew is beginning to get annoying, both for myself and the adult crew. And with those words in mind right now at the moment, I'm just saying what I did then when we got into it in the hallway that night."
"Uh huh, yeah well why wouldn't the commander, or captain, listen to me exactly Derek, we had this conversation last year after the riot in ten forward and you were drunk that night. Well the answer to that question, if you'd been paying attention when I left and been spending a few months getting to know them, it's he's my teacher, my mentor. With the fact I found my quartet I have my own squadron and I've got friends just like me."
"But he's my adoptive father, fact of the matter is that for two years I have had to fight passed whatever illusion you're evidently being telling people about me and why I hear that more times than I can care to think about right now. But if you're acting like this I can practically hear your voice, just eight years older than you are now. And spoken in a different voice, said voice the catalyst that landed me in the E.R. three years ago."
"Well looks like you've started up again Hanson, if its back to that again." he said and the quartet all looked at him at that. 'Said voice eight years older in a different voice, he's quoting my words regarding our bond and bringing up a catalyst that landed him in the..., oh you have got to be kidding right now. Not again, I'm not having that start a second time right now.' Will thought as he heard him finish his sentence then.
"Commander don't worry, I'm not taking whatever stupid rumors he created regarding his mother and the captain. Let alone his bond with you, yes I'm a little jealous, but it just makes the training a little more fun with a gentle rivalry and team mate back up here now. In fact having him be just like me, we can work the team mate portion and the three of us have our own miniature squadron right here when he's recovering."
"I really don't care about whatever these said rumors are, he's my best friend and practically twin now. I'm not dealing with anyone messing with me or my friends now." Dayton said and he nodded to him and Wesley looked at him in relief at that. "If you're saying that, I can explain those rumors that landed him in the hotseat, last year, because he got arrested for this and speedballing the night of the riot in ten forward."
"But said rumors created are enough to cause a case of hyper tension with the captain, but then they'd never cross that line and or disrepect dad's memory in that way." he said and Dayton nodded to him. "If you're saying it like that and..., you got to be kidding, that's what he's been selling the quintet that landed you in the E.R. that year. And started a riot in ten forward, that your mother and the captain...?"
"But that's against regs, I've seen the way your mother is around him, and they're the best of friends. That's what he's been trying to use as a way to discredit you?" he asked and Wesley gave him a nod. "Didn't you tell Robin that if you dropped in after you got us out of the room, son?" Will said and he nodded. "Yeah I did, but the trio that caused this are all from year one after we got hit by the damn virus, Sir, but the added facts now."
"Are they broke a pact we all agreed to, in earshot of the cousin of the guy that caused Jaan's knack to hit me that hard. It's Ensigns Douglas, Janson and Mendall, they got started like two weeks after we launched, but they're like Taurik. Start talking about something that shouldn't be talked about and as a result at the moment. Here's the consequences as some jerk like Derek decided that if this is enough to cause trouble."
"It's he's using it by trying to destroy the golden boy image in your eyes, but if that doesn't work it's political sabotage next." he said and they nodded as Will said it for all of them. "Time to clean up the loose ends right now, before this gets any worse at the moment and with that, Jack, Derek, Eric, the three of you better get ready. For a fist fight at the moment, because, the adrenaline crash is enough to drain him completely."
"He hasn't a true recharge or night sleep in close to six month and he's in detox from a dangerous amount of caffeine, so get ready, in case this starts a second time." Will said firmly and they nodded then. "And speaking of which, well Taurik hasn't asked us, us senior officers that question Wes, in fact he took the rumor without even validating it. But if this gets worse and whoever in your squadron ends up on the ship."
"The ending results are that it's illogical, in his eyes to hold this against them, whoever it is, aside from Derek here and your team at the academy that got busted. But either way these rumors are getting shut down right now, Lal get those three in here right now. And it's ensigns Douglas, Janson and Mendall, because this is ending right now, and we've all had enough this crap." Geordi said with a stern growl to her and a flash appeared.
As he saw the trio in question as Beverly crossed her arms. "Did we or did we not agree to keep what happened regarding our exposure to Polywater Virus quiet Ensign's?" Beverly said sternly and they all paled. "Would you care to explain to me why you broke a pact we all agreed to, to never, ever bring up what the effects of the virus caused each and everyone of us to do when inflicted with it." she added as the first swallowed at that.
"But Mam, we never expected this to blow up into such a big deal." Ensign Joseph Janson said to her quickly and she crossed her arms. "Yes exactly you don't think about the long term ramifications of the gossip channel. Do you not realize what this makes it sound like to new arrivals like Marks and his clique or to a kid like Hanson. And I don't know what connection Hanson has with Marks whatsoever, but you just caused such a problem."
"That to them it makes it sound like I'm having an affair with the captain and my son got in on a case of quid pro quo. So nice work you three, you basically got my son working himself into exhaustion just to get past the image. They painted him by and you're not keeping your damn mouths shut after we discussed this already. Lieutenant, Yar, before she died, made it clear that what happened was never to be spoken of again."
"But you broke a pact we all agreed to at the time, but like Commander Riker, she is and was my son's mentor. So take a good guess regarding this now, it's been 6 months, since she died, Dr. Pulaski arrives not long after I left at the time. And with that, mentor, as is in surrogate sibling gentleman, you understand just what caused him to be that effected by the knack, it's because he was in stage two." she said and they paled at that news.
"What?!" Mendall repeated and Deanna answered that. "That's right, he was still in stage 2 of grief, at the time we had the summit between the Klingons and Aneel's race. To him, it's he wished he could have figured out a way to save her, but he wasn't fast enough. Devin makes that worse by throwing his knack on him and he's worked until he collapses and he's suffering the after effects of that situation in grief and to be honest."
"The effects of an Elf's knack can have lasting effects, and he's been working over time so he doesn't lose the seven of us. And it's all because of one thing, that you broke a pact we all agreed to now. So congratulations gentleman, you have my godson working himself into a collapse repeatedly. Because you broke a pact we all agreed to, to never bring it up ever again." she said and the trio swallowed hard as Beverly finished it then.
"So with that in mind, you just destroyed your career on the ship, by not keeping quiet about personal medical information on board this ship. I'm hereby relieving you three of duty on board the enterprise effective immediately, and don't go crying to the admirals, because I'm having a talk with Morrson and believe me. He's not going to take this any better that you are the reason a 16 to 19 year old child is working himself this hard."
"Till his system impacts and crashes out of exhaustion, get to your quarters and stay put, you're being removed from the ship once we get to Starbase 67." She said and they nodded and he crossed his arms at that as Wesley turned and looked at Hanson. Looking at him in total disgust, he said his thoughts to him firmly. "I know that, as do they, but though he cares a lot about her, they'd never disrepect dad's memory whatsoever."
"And instead he's given her someone to turn to, instead of dad being the one to tear us apart, he brought us together. But if he had married my mother, than he'd be my father and attacking the child of a superior officer is a death sentence. After they landed me in the E.R. when Jaan Devin was still here. And Derek here is the source of the rumors you've been hearing about this." He told him and Dayton nodded to him firmly.
"So he heard that the virus had your mother and the captain intoxicated to the point of flirting with each other, he decided if this was enough to make trouble, he'd use it. And then created these rumors to discredit you, because you were, in their eyes. The model student and junior officer, and these guys have treated you like this ever since. And simply because they're jealous that the captain, and the trio, spent this much time."
"In preparing you to get into the academy, and at the moment prior to your arriving you weren't ready to leave and let go, and neither were they, right?" he asked and Wesley and the duo nodded and he gave a nod as he went into business mode. "Yes you just hit the nail on the head son, that's everything that sums this up." Will said to him gently. "I don't believe I'm hearing this right now, you really are a sick man aren't you, Hanson."
"Alright I'm just saying it for the commander, but that's enough of this right now, if you over heard some sort of remark that was supposed to be kept quiet. It's not your damn business what goes on in the bonds between the senior staff crew, let alone his relationship with the sextet. And if you were trying to make me get jealous enough to start a fight between us in that way than nice try, it didn't and won't work whatsoever."
"We bonded, we're team mates and brothers, I've found my partner and soul bonded twin brother and nothing is ever getting between us now." he said and Wesley stood up as Dayton helped him stay standing. "So you don't care, because you're not stupid enough to actually listen to this kid, are you?" Porter asked and he nodded to him. "He's my best friend and in truth, we're like Commanders Riker and Jackson now."
"But lies like this, no I hear that crap all the time, in regarding Peter Hanson, but the Hansons are Novas, we're Gammas. But to put this bluntly, I got this information from Jackson as well, but when Jackson's grandfather kept humiliating them in front of the medical and Starfleet administration. Because he was bringing in the results that O'neill and his black ops buddies couldn't in NID, they set him up for political sabotage."
"Because he resisted where they couldn't regarding that alien queen they encountered." he said and they nodded. "Yeah we know, we read the records and Sarah told us the rest of it last year after we had Billy Potts get infected by the parasites of Cove Palm fruit." Geordi said and he nodded firmly. "And that's why I don't buy this crap from guys like this, because the grandfather of my hero was hurt, because of them at the time."
"I take Jackson's opinions more then I do guys like this, like I do yours sirs, in truth, you're the type of mentors I wanted. Because you're like Commander and General's Jackson, it's in our blood, but scientist with scientist, soldier with soldier. But our types never mix and every time they do, it results in conspiracies like this." he said and they nodded as Will answered that as the two boys stood next to each other proudly.