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 11: Medical Situations, Exams And Pillow Fights
"Beverly I think he decided to act on your unspoken orders here, regarding an outbreak of level four diseases at the time. Medical control over ride in the engine control room, yank the control chips and we stay put till you come up with the cure. Because he was already in there by the time Sarah and I realized we'd been decoyed. That day, as he activated everything we saw last night" he said and she thought it over and smiled.
"Nice touch honey, medical quarantine on this ship by the one viable option and it's by pulling a quarantine over ride system control of the entire ship. And he locked you guys out of the control room while doing it and put up that forcefield. And till I got the cure ready at the time, but with us never checking episode we didn't know. As we had to look at these things more clearly before we start jumping the gun, but that was no prank."
"It's the voice mimic gimmick we had last night and with it was using everything he learned in that situation, the Nanites, the Iconian virus and of course the homing beacon. But three out of four he pulled it nearly single handedly by taking the initiative at the time, but several of these were from years, a few from years 2 through 4. In fact it's getting a chance at taking initiative by saving the entire crew in two ways now."
"First by locking up the spots on the ship that were likely going to kill someone if they start screwing around with it and number two was by giving us just enough of a nudge to get us out of range of that meteor and we were safe. He may have been infected himself, but he still pulled it off." She said and he nodded to her. "Man kid how many times have you pulled a stunt like this if you're that well known." Jenkins said in amazement to that.
"That was my thought after we had the Microbrain on board the ship and he was with the trio at the science terminal that day. But I was listening to their debate while this was going on, halfway through analyzing things Worf's final remark was enough. That I tried to keep from laughing before Davidson called me into the engineering room." Will said and looked at him. "What remark exactly." he said and Worf explained that one.
"After figuring out the last component to the Microbrain I was trying to figure out whether or not the darn thing was alive or not." he said and in answer to that the computer answered that. "And as I said back then the probability is positive." It said and he looked over his shoulder at the computer. "Wiseacre and that's enough of that right now." O'Brien said to the terminal as he tried to hold it in then at that remark.
As Worf finished that remark as he looked at the terminal. "And to repeat what I said then, I wasn't asking you that question either when I said that, now enough already." He said in answer to that with a bemused look on his face and the new officers started laughing as that as Beverly looked at him. "Hey you started it, Lieutenant." it said in response and she covered her eyes. " No I didn't." he said in answer to that remark.
And at that she held up her hand to forstall the oncoming vocal fight then as MacDougal said it for her as she looked at Data's terminal, bemused as she answered that remark. "Alright I hear a bickering match get started and you're getting turned off, now cool it already. Well that's twice in five years, but this is neither the time now place for it right now at the moment." she said as Barnfield tried to keep from laughing at that remark
As she finished that remark as she looked at him then. "Worf just relax, we don't need this turning into a bickering match and not with the computer." She said and Pulaski nodded in agreement to that as she said it for Beverly with an amused look on her face at this. "Alright there's no need to start a fight with the computer right now Worf, relax, and for the time being turn off alright." she said as she heard a sigh at that statement.
And saw the red light on Data's terminal turn off then as she tried to keep from laughing at that. "That's the conversation you had with the computer that year, for gods sakes here, I never knew that just one instant. That it's enough for him to decide to turn the computer into a smart Alec now." he said and the computer light turned back on at that as Geordi hid a smile as he looked over Data's shoulder at the computer terminal.
"Don't say it right now, this is neither the time nor place for this conversation at the moment." Geordi said and the light turned back off at that. "Oh my god this is getting ridiculous, alright pull yourselves together right now guys." Beverly said as she started laughing at that. "Alright everyone get it together alright, pull yourselves together now." Will said as he tried to keep from laughing at what this was turning into then.
As he went further at that remark as he explained to the duo gently. "But for this first one, Wes decided to prevent that: but someone fooling around with the life support. Let alone blowing the escape hatch, or worse, to keep from happening. For a second time on our ship by over riding control of the systems to his control at the time. Before the effects hit him, though I'm guessing Shimoda talked him into letting him into the room."
"And he yanked the control chips just to prevent this from getting worse, because those chips and that terminal they were connected to were for the repulser/warp engines." he said and Picard sighed as he realized it then as Wesley shifted position as answered him. "That's the part the you forgot dad, Geordi was in my apartment, before Tasha brought him to sickbay, with the fact I was exposed, now, and before anyone in engineering."
"Came down with it next, I decided to do what mom would have ordered and it was by over riding controls in engineering and locking up the control room." he said and Picard crouched down next to them as he answered him. "Smart move Wesley, if I'd been thinking more clearly I'd have realized this after Geordi infected Tasha next. And with her was Counselor Troi, we realized that Geordi infected you first as you took charge first."
"But while we had control of the bridge, you yanked the junior officer/medical intervention card of dealing with a serious hotzone on board this ship. And if I'd been focusing on why you decided to choose that moment to get Commander MacDougal out of the room. Then I'd have seen that sooner and left you in charge of the engine room while your mother was dealing with the virus as a result right now in that."
"But with every adult on the ship becoming infected by that point, it's hard to focus on these things right now." he said as he looked at the young man gently. "Looking back on that now, I don't know why I didn't see it back then, but why else would he pull that trick. But to prevent someone from killing themselves or us with them at the time, and by screwing around with the environmental controls or getting to the emergency hatch."
"But that virus was like hemorrhagic fever gone aerosol form, once one person has it, ten others have it and it got off the ship. And we were going to infect the entire federation after that as a result and like now you took charge for us to prevent. So only one option was by a systematic over ride and even infected. He knew he was doing what the rest of us can't and pulled off a solution to give Beverly time to get the cure done."
"And by yanking the over ride it was preventing anyone from getting off the ship by either the transporters, let alone the shuttlebays. And it's a systematic over ride now and his taking control of the ship at the time. Though having Jim yank the control chips was not in the cards here, but it's enough that he was giving us time to work out the cure. But if he told me we could have pulled this together, and I wish we had your friends."
"Your squadron here, Commander, because if we did, we could have changed the sequence of that episode. And the rest of the season as you said what we drew all thinking, before this turned into such a mess. As he prevented that rumor from ever get started, even as we prevented the infected from infecting anyone else off the ship here guys." MacDougal said and he nodded to that remark, but before he could answer that.
Wes did it for him and shifted position and leaned against him as Will pulled him against him gently. "Great, just like Soong's hijacking us, if it's not the fact that Data gets hijacked and I'm sleeping off the side effects, then it's this. And this time, I'm not even in sickbay, before that hits me." he said to her gently. "Easy, easy, just relax." Beverly said as Will helped him sit up and then pulled him against him to steady him then.
"That was no hotflash or dizzy spell mom, it's another case of hypoglycemia, it's six hours after she tracked me into the extension tube. But at the moment we're coming up on 2000 hours, and the last energy burst from my lunch had just ended. We just missed dinner, so after settling in after the meeting in sickbay in a bit now later. I've got to get some real food into my body, but the MRE's were like the military rations."
"But at the moment, my nutrient levels are way too low, but I'm possibly suffering an iron deficiency right now, in addition to several other vitamin deficiencies and sleep deprivation." he said and she nodded to him. "We got him out of the room so you can focus here now regarding this. And again until your strength starts coming back, your on light duty till further notice." Pulaski said and he nodded as he looked between them.
"And to answer your statement regarding the situation back then, yeah that's what I was doing alright. When mom told me what had happened I decided to prevent someone from getting into the engine room. But this time its not a case of a super nova, but a case of a severe gravity well, because we were in range of a meteor, but back then." Wesley said and Wil finished that remark gently as he said it firmly at that.
"During that situation, was we just gained a front row seat to what his true abilities under pressure were at the time here. But it was the occasional help with these situations, until that traveler showed up and we started his training with small jobs. But this was the very beginning as we all got to see how good he really he was. Though had my squadron been on board the ship that would help too as we took care of this."
"And after he used the repulser deflector engine he created to push off against the Tsiolkovsky and deactivate the tractor beam at the same time. While we got the engines back online and after that it was finished. But after ending it like this and I'm guessing the side effects were four days awake, that the detox process. And the exhaustion started hitting the entire crew and he was in the room with me when it hit him then."
"For a fifteen year old genius, though I was slightly annoyed at having a loss of control, because this virus acted on the entire crew like it was a recreational drug. Which was his terminology for it when we talked this over after Derek's cousin and his friends were transferred off the ship. Just after Data had a homing beacon hijack the ship last year at the time, but to us knowing this in the aftermath we weren't taking chance now."
"But seeing my crew mates and my young protege with a definite loss of control at the time, it's enough of an impression. That we see his first invention put to use, as he then takes the initiative and starts doing our job for us. It's getting this ship under control was a severe problem at the time that week and after that. We just had to work through the kinks as the weeks went by, but that was our first indication to his abilities."
"But it was after the traveler that we learned he was even more gifted than we thought. Because his knowledge of working through something was unsurpassed. But trust me, what you saw last night doesn't even come close to it, the captain gave him permission. And once, just this once, to pull that stunt a second time in case the entire crew, older than nineteen got infected and compromised." Will said and she nodded to him then.
"They also said if the entire crew got hit, ignore everything they're saying when compromised and I decided to take my orders to the max. Though I decided to pretend this was our training games and that explains the amount of prank phone calls. And the amount of noise you heard going on in this ship, leading into stage IV. After I got you guys on board this morning." Wesley added and the duo nodded gently to him at that.
"Honey you okay?" Beverly asked and he nodded to her and she sighed. "If you checked the vitamin pills I had them set for every meal time, I think we better double it. Because every vital nutrient you had me on high doses up growing up, they're dangerously low. And it's the iron levels that caused that." he said and Pulaski said it for her. "He's suffering anemia, and loss of blood, supposedly only makes worse right now."
"Wes, did you hit a vein or artery when you did that last night, because though you were stage acting it's still a real possibility?" she asked and he shook his head to her. "No, but it's a combination of anemia and the added side effects of the caffeine to go with it. I just did another 1/4 of it, but it's still enough to drain my reserves right now, but I'm okay." he said and they exchanged looks at the remark as Will pulled him closer to him.
Seeing the exhausted look on his face, Will's eyes narrowed gently as he said it to him, feeling his paternal side growing as he answered him gently as he looked at him. "No you're not, son you're exhausted, with what just happened. It's best you better get yourself checked out, in fact, alright everyone who was hit by this, in sickbay, right now." Will called out and as their commander repeated that as he got on the radio.
As he pulled him to his feet and Worf caught his arm to keep him from collapsing a second time as a secondary dizzy spell shot through him and they nodded. "It's the blasted side effects of the syndrome, but it may not be a concussion. But this is just as bad right now, but one alnighter from hell, plus the added side effects. And of the syndrome and to finish that off is the side effects of a caffeine crash right now, alright."
"Attention all hands, all decks, everyone that was exposed to the game headsets, report to sickbay for further screening right now. And senior crew staff that was here in the first year of deployment staff meeting between the senior staff and the junior staff." Picard said over the radio as he pressed the button on the console and they looked at Wesley, who froze up, as he tried to figure it out then on what caused that dizzy spell.
'Whatever's wrong with me right now has to do with the caffeine pills and with is my exhaustion. But with them figuring that out, I'm know I'm on a sabbatical for who knows how long if this is just the beginning now." he thought as he saw the look on Will's face and knew he was thinking it as something else. 'Five, four, three, two, one.' Will was thinking as he waited for the response he normally got then at that as he looked at him.
'Uh huh, yeah alright nice try pal, we gone over this how many times now son, every time we all get infected, we all report to sickbay. So you're no exception to that rule, though Data is, and with that in mind, you're not giving me any argument.' he thought as they got ready to leave as he looked at the younger man gently. And feeling his care and concern growing as he finished that sentence softly as he looked at him gently.
'Whatever else you haven't told us yet is serious kiddo if it has you this worn out, and how long have you been awake. And because that chase through the ship, couldn't have drained you this quickly, but that's why you need to be up there yourself pal. As to why you're asleep on your feet and you just did some damage to your ankle. I have to make sure, that is if there's not more to this than what we could see and what you told us.'
'And everything you did tell us, so far, so come on now.' he thought as he watched the others leave as he did a headcount. "Eric, you got Hanson under security watch in there, if he's still spooked at the fact that we caught him twice in a month. And for breaking his rehab right now?" Beverly asked, tapping her communicator and they heard an immediate response from Porter as he answered her with a firm tone then.
"Yeah we do, but he's on the edge of another sedation if he doesn't control that temper here after Wes collapsed on us tonight. And we have further problems and what's left of Wes's strength is going to leave him for the rest of the night tonight." he said and they nodded. 'Damn it, alright I'm not letting him out of my sight until we're sure of what the heck's going on here.' Will thought to that remark firmly.
"Five years, I know we grew close, but for the commander, he always took it seriously once mom left, that one year had twenty close calls and it's only gotten worse now that I'm stuck on earth. I know they can take care of themselves, but I can't help it, but be worried, they're my family, I'm not letting go." Wesley thought softly as he looked at the sextet, not noticing that Will had paused at the same time he did as he watched him.
'Ten, fifteen, yes I see the catch kiddo, we all leave and just as we're getting there we don't find you, well not this time, I'm not letting you out of my sight, not after what just happened in the tunnel shaft.' Will thought to himself as he locked gazes with the quartet and they all nodded. As they reached the mid section between the command deck and sickbay then as he saw him start falling behind them and hid a smile then.
'Here we go again, three years of this and the routine just never gets old here.' Will said to himself as he tried to hold it in as he waited for the attempted get away then that his young student normally pulled, knowing he hated being in sickbay at the time as he exchanged smiles with the quartet. And knowing they all thought the same thing as he exchanged amused looks with his captain as he said his thoughts to himself as well then.
Looking at him, as he tried to sneak away from them, he hid a smile as he watched him try to leave, without them seeing him do it. 'This child just doesn't know when to quit, we have to get this under control if he winds up becoming a full time member of my senior staff in the future. This boy has secured a place in my heart, I'm not letting go now.' Picard said to himself with a gentle smile as Will said it for him then.
"Uh oh, here we go again, we got another escape attempt here regarding medical exams. Even though he knows we already got it last night, looks like this situation is about to get even more out of hand again." he whispered to the trio and they turned around to look then and he watched as they tried to keep from laughing at this. "Not again, alright kiddo so it's back to this again huh, you keep this up and you're busted."
"Because we're not going through this every time we have to check your blood sugar levels the next few weeks, while you're in detox. After you just scared us out of our wits we're not letting you out of our sight here, so get over here, young man." Greyson said bemused and the duo nodded in agreement to that smiling, as he exchanged looks with Perkins and the five of them, as Deanna said it for all of them with a slight smile.
"Yes here we go again alright, teenagers, alright young man, exactly how many times do we have to do this with you huh. Did this just turn you back into your fifteen year old self here at the moment?" Deanna said with a gentle chuckle as Geordi tried to keep from laughing at this. "Evidently, but it's back to cub watch duty again here." Perkins said in answer to that smiling and Beverly hid a chuckle at his remark as she answered that.
"Teenagers, and I thought dealing with a group of kids younger than ten were a handful, but this is getting ridiculous where trying to get medical exams are done. And even being gone for 11 months and nothing ever changes here." Beverly said in answer to that as she tried to keep from laughing at her son's demeanor then. As the security officer answered her remark with an amused smile on his face as he looked at her at that.
"I thought he grew out of that by now?" Bates said in an undertone and he shook his head smiling. "Evidently not, though I think with the fact that we just ended that foothold, Etana turned him back into his 15 to 16 year old self now Jack. Although in this case it's finding anyway to get out of heading for Sickbay. He's beyond exhausted right now, but it's back to keeping him from missing his medical appointments again."
"Though if the cat gave you that warning growl get ready she's walking in there next at the moment." Will said and he tried to hold it in at that as Geordi said it for him as he started laughing at that. "For gods sakes this kid just doesn't know when to quit doing that at the moment, exactly how many times do we have to go over this with him. It's one thing when he's completely healthy and another with him in the condition he's in."
"And having to chase him down repeatedly is an annoyance at this rate and we got enough on our plates. And without chasing him down here as well, but this is getting ridiculous right now at the moment. But with us being ourselves again, it's meaning that the added stealth test is not going to work this time. Especially if we have to chase him for a fifth time now?" Geordi asked with a chuckle and Worf shook his head, smiling.
"Honestly this child needs to quit doing this and you're right, I've got enough on my plate here. Without tracking down my young student right now as well after a situation like this. Though considering the amount of scrapes, bumps and bruises he's dealt with during training on the holodeck. That's one thing when you're completely healthy, but now he's not up to his best." Worf said with a tone of amusement and he nodded.
"Yep, and at the moment I think she turned him back into his 15 to 16 year old self now if it's back to this again. And again, how many times do we have to go over this with him, after another outbreak like this?" Geordi asked smiling and Will and the girls chuckled as he answered they remark. "Once more often than we need to evidently, our cub hates being in sickbay, but he pulled off the rescue and stopped the attack."
"But to us, he's still our young student and this kid is not getting out of this. He's trying to get out of line to hide, but he's not getting passed us this time now." he said smiling and they nodded in agreement. "With him in this condition there's no getting out of that trip to sickbay right now and with that in mind. If he thinks he's getting away this time, than he'd better think again at the moment, because he's good, but you're better."
"And with him in this condition, he needs to be checked out at the moment, I don't believe this, they just figure it out. He's coming down with something and they choose now to pull this stunt, that's not only reckless, but completely irresponsible right now. There's no getting out of that trip to sickbay right now." Deanna said to him and he nodded as Beverly looked at the three of them with an amused smile at her son.
"Somebody better let him know he's stuck though." Beverly said with a chuckle to them and he nodded. "With everything going on right now and what he just told us, best to take charge regarding his physical and emotional health right now. Beverly you better get Eli involved here, because if those pills are bio-engineered that's his area. And he's possibly in need of a severe sabbatical from the academy and with that in mind."
'You want me to head this off, before he tries it again, because we've had to page him to sickbay when he missed a medical exam more than once here while you were gone. And it's trying to track him down to get him to his medical appointment with Katherine at the time. But he hates being in sickbay and at the moment this is no exception to the rule right now with the fact he over did it, again?' he asked her and she nodded to him.
As she looked at him smiling as she answered him gently. "Please do, because from what I can see he's running on fumes and is beyond exhausted. And whatever Data ran over in his exam! I have to run thoroughly to see what's going on here. But it's seeing what the nurse who let the Ktarian medic do these decision didn't see now. So with that in mind here, you better head off his attempted escape attempt here, yet again."
"Though I think she turned him back into his 14 to 15 year old self, when we met you, but if that's what happened, it's just made it more necessary now at the moment. It was one thing when I was treating him when he was still younger than ten, but this time I have to make sure. If there's more to that programming in the one he gave me, than its enough I have to see what the added side effects are and with it what combining them."
"When with those pills he mentioned and what they are doing to himm but whoever is not watching him is in serious trouble right now at the moment. And with that in mind here, it's back to my being his medical doctor as we look into this right now. But Kate's the expert on the knack and we need to know everything right now regarding this. But these mind control plots only make the younger members condition worse, so with that."
"Get behind him, before he does try to take off now, because he's not skipping out on his medical exam this time Will, because I'm running medical diagnostics on him. So I can see what the problem is here and I'm laying into the nurse myself for not seeing this." Beverly said to him in a whisper smiling and he nodded as he moved quietly to the back of the group as she hid a smile then as she waited as the quartet hid a smile at this.
'You, buddy, are not going anywhere here regarding this, I know you hate being in sickbay, but you just over did it, again, young man.' he thought smiling as he got directly behind him as he got ready for it as he watched him. 'Alright I think I'm in the clear here, just have to get out of line.' he saw him thinking and hid a chuckle. 'Guess again kiddo, you're stuck.' he thought to him as Picard hid a chuckle as they waited for it.
Watching him fall back slightly he smiled as he said it to him gently as he put his hand on his shoulder as he said it smiling. "Ahh, nice try pal, the only place you're heading is Sickbay kiddo, and we're not debating this, come on." Will said as he placed his hand on his shoulder at that and the young man froze up in response and the sextet hid a smile at that reaction as they watched him look over his shoulder at the older man then.
"Busted buster, you're not going anywhere here." Geordi said to him smiling as the flight officers chuckled at the remark as the one on the left answered him at that. "At this age I'm not surprised, but are you always like this with him?" he asked and the sextet all nodded. "Yes, at the time we spent one year looking after him ourselves, with him being a minor and to us, it's acting as parents the whole time, though she's got back up."
"He also hates being in sickbay as well as a result of being caught for several alnighters and repeated injuries in training up here. But this time it's thanks to that game and with that. So if the entire ship gets hit by whatever comes through, I wind up having to take charge to prevent him from not having himself checked out in these situations. But with him it's not serious in the way it is with Derek Hanson, as for him it's the scholarship."
"But he, Farley and Parker were trying to get a good recommendation to get into the academy and crossed several lines to do it. For him, it's the act of working over time, repeatedly, and you young man are not getting out of this, now come on let's go." Will said and he nodded as the second conn went into that with a bemused smile as Geordi hid a chuckle at this as Evans answered him with a bemused smile at that.
"Is he always like this?" he asked him gently and Geordi chuckled. "Unfortunately yes, with one year working two positions, one under me no less. I'm used to it, and again, hold it, freeze buster." Jenson said as O'Brien looked at the teenager bemused as he went further. "He's right, Wes, you're the last one to be exposed here to it. So the only place you're heading is Sickbay, come on." Geordi added to him gently at that remark.
And he nodded with a sigh then as he went with them and a minute later they were all in the sickbay. "At the rate this is going I think your catch of letting down your guard is the reason we keep having these problems right now dad. But rule 5) when off your own turf when on sabbatical never let your guard down. Rule 6) if they say it's made just for you, never take it because it's probably drugged." Wesley said and they nodded firmly to that.
"And rule 7) if you notice the person acting like their drugged or they're insisting you to try it, catalogue that for future reference and decide to check it out. And what this device is really doing before you start screwing around with it, I broke the first rule. And it starts, as everyone was more focused on the research, of the circuit. We were supposed to be studying and the fact you were coming home this week at the time as well too."
"So she read my thoughts, realized you were coming home, and decided now's the perfect time to start the foothold. Because she thought you wouldn't realize this, but Geordi was more focused on the issues of the research the day before you came home. And as the guys were talking about what you three would be doing together, before Robin moved over to me and I think Brand knew that it was time to set up your plan."
"Because I saw a wary look in Robin's eyes even though she was smiling at me when I was talking to her. Well that's the catch isn't it right now, Robin and Charlie got themselves into place, even before her planet to hit the entire senior staff activated now. As the trio were preparing for when you came home, Data had the very same orders, before she finally got to Deanna and during the party she got to your mother next."
"Data, did Brand tell you she suspected a foothold about to start and pretend you were taken off guard when you got deactivated. This was a case of cross and double cross right now?" he asked and Data nodded. "Aye Sir, the committee said that there was the possibility of a conspiracy running loose here and it's possible. Now that the first cell was likely to be the enterprise, so I was to pretend I didn't know what was going on."
"Until Wes told me that the entire ship was infected, as he dropped the act and the boys and Lal took charge and Robin was the bait. Make you think, or rather her think, that you had every young adult their age under her control. As Wes was the decoy, Charlie was the plant, keeping him several steps ahead of her and Lal was now the Enterprise. As we turned the plan around and here's the result." he said and they sextet nodded gently.
"Days like this I swear it doesn't pay to let your guard down when you're on a planet visiting, because we've done that once too often and we keep getting burned." Will said in annoyance and Beverly nodded in agreement. "Why did it have to be a repeat performance of that virus that put all of us out this time. Data was immune to the game this time, but we weren't." Beverly asked and he sighed as Wesley explained that.
"It's because the virus lowered your immune system slightly to be affected this time, to him it was like being affected by a computer virus and he's immune now to it. In mine, I was too focused on the problem at hand to let anything distract me, including letting it hijack me when I don't need it to. But it's like drugs, one dose and you want to try it, repeatedly, after that." Wesley told her and she nodded as she answered him.
"So half the virus and half recreational drugs and it intoxicates the entire ship by the time you meet Robin. And while you're so focused on each other and trying to figure it out, you start draining your reserves till you finally over do it in the final run through. If I wasn't sure before I am now, you're too much like your father and Commander Riker to give in without a fight honey." she said to him and he nodded to her smiling.
"You think it's bad now just give it ten years mom, because it's really going to become clear. But the next problem we have I don't doubt Q is going to try something else like a repeat of when we met the sextet at the time. Only this time, you replaced dad as the captain's closest friend now." he said and she hid a smile and nodded in agreement. "If that tells me anything, he's going to continue aggravating us till we finish his next test."
"But this just gets better and better, that first year resulted in one heck of a starting point and four years later and we're still winding up with the problems that we had then." Will said and she nodded as Geordi said it for her. "At this rate I'm getting sick of that guy. Sure they're powerful aliens, but they don't need to lord it over us. Our race has come along way in 10,000 years." Geordi said and Wesley chuckled as he answered him.
"That's probably what the ancient humans were feeling over the gods of ancient times Geordi. I mean every culture had different theories over the gods: Rome, Greece, Egypt and so on. To them they all thought they had the power of life over death over their worshippers and it results in a major holy war between the Christian church. And ancient Egyptian deities in Exodus, but that's the catch and why we had problems here."
"As a result, that's what we're dealing with regarding Q, and Q was really Omac, the Tollan leader SG-1 encountered, before he died. He became the leader of the Q, while the others went into hiding as they changed and evolved. But the Q are like the ancients, by that I mean the ones that are like General Jackson, Merlin and Morgan La Fey." He said and he nodded as the quintet chuckled at the comparison as he answered him.
"I take you did further research after Q revealed our grandparents were really our past lives Wes?" he said and Wesley nodded. "Yeah I did, and the back logs were so screwed up I decided to look into grandpa's records, but while doing that. I suddenly saw myself on the training deck with the general and the commander's grandfather. While taking the four of us, Sarah, Jase, Chris and Brad's grandparents through a foothold drill."
"And seeing these, I decided to use what grandpa pulled and the results lasted for close to three days, before they arrested the character that attacked them. Jackson, he was my grandfather's best friend and mentor, in the way your mine, dad. And to the point that everything he and the 7 pulled, I decided to use that and it worked. But like you said, learn from the past to create a better future." he said and and Picard smiled then.
"I never considered that here with him, but that makes a very good comparision, but if that says anything, and I'm the Moses of our culture now. And next question is what is coming if he's about to bring it to a full circle between us." Picard said to him and he shrugged. "I'm not entirely sure, but if what happened today says anything, it's preventing another cataclysm between us and another planet now is next on the list."
"Our first year together resulted in some interesting scenarios, but if these aliens had plans for anything else. Than it's hitting you at your most vulnerable and to be frank, someone is trying to screw with your control of what you're seeing next. Like when you were flashing back and forth between the enterprise and when you were in the Battle Of Maxia, Sir." Wesley said and Will nodded in agreement as he finished his sentence
As he looked at Picard, before looking back at him at that remark then. "But if that tells me anything it means we got another repeater of one of our situations, or two. And when during our first year together, and now the question is, which one is it, and who's the target?" Will said and he nodded in agreement to that thought as he exchanged looks with the quintet then at that as he answered him gently at the remark at that .
"Good question, so far we've had several hijackings, identity crisis, the holodeck going crazy and having our minds messed with. And most of that was in our first year alone, so which one is it and who's the intended target now? Because I'm fully recovered from my encounter with that bloody diamond and if it's regarding the stargazer. Year two starts our further problem and then year three we have added situations so with that in mind."
"The next decision is that whoever the intended target is needs to be watched, just in case this gets worse." he said to him and they looked at each other. "If any of the scenarios we had that year are coming to the fore it's we had that blasted virus already, and it if keeps we have something else coming up next. Though if that's what it means it's an inside job." Worf said to him and he nodded in agreement as he answered him.
"Yeah you're right, but if Etana is sadistic enough, she and her planet are going for one of our previous missions here when I was still apart of the crew. But if the virus is any sort of indicator now, I think they're choosing missions from our first year together. Now the next question is which ones here, because the ones that are apart of it. Since we had two foothold situations, our bodies getting hijacked and having our minds messed with."
"So if that says anything here, and I'm taking a guess now with Tasha out of the picture, it's the ones I told the trio on the bridges earlier. And that is if we don't have multiple references to that year if this keeps up, Sir." Wesley and Picard nodded. "If we do I hope Q isn't one of them, because we don't need our previous problems from our first year together breaking down the front door right now." Will said to him and he nodded.
"Yeah and I don't blame you for that, that man is a menace." he said and they hid a chuckle. "Alright guys that's enough of that, we keep this up and this month is going to be having several of that year's scenarios come flying at us all at once if we keep talking like this." Geordi said and he smiled. "He started it." Wesley said playfully and Will looked at him at that with a bemused smile on his face as he answered that remark.
"Alright you wiseacre, you're not getting me into a bickering match right now, Buster and I'm serious about that. And keep that up and I'm really going to let you have it. You're really pushing it with me and you keep that up and I'm going to let you have it, now cool it already." he said and Geordi and the two conn officers started laughing at that. "Alright laugh it up guys, we're not doing this right now." he added and the young trio smiled.
"What's that connection between you guys exactly if he's talking like that to you anyway Sir, Commander La Forge?" Robin asked as she started laughing at that and he smiled as Will answered that. "Aside from being his mentor, I took on the position of a surrogate father, during the year his mother was off the ship. But as a result, he started acting these last 2 years like I really was his father when he was around me now."
"But I'm his godfather, so we tend to act like this when around each other when not on duty right now. What's also in there is that he spent most of his time around the four of us and it leads to joking around with each other when off duty. And at times he tries to get playful in the conversation with us, though there's a limit to that at the moment. As a result now and starting a bickering match is something we try to prevent here."
"Which is why I said that to him now, because I'm not getting into a bickering match with him right now. Though at the moment getting cheeky with me is asking for some playful punishment now, if he keeps up the wise guy attitude with me." he said smiling and she nodded as she started laughing at that. "Uh oh, alright Wes, I think you better lay off now, you're on thin ice here." Robin said with a smile as Deanna smiled at that.
"If I wasn't sure before, I am now young lady, you're the perfect match for him young lady." Beverly said to her smiling and she smiled as he wrapped an arm around her. "You expecting trouble out of this?" Dayton asked and she smacked him in the head with her pillow. "Alright I'm sorry, I take it back." He said to her and they started laughing at that. "Was that really necessary right now, you guys?" Jake asked them through his laughter.
"Alright guys, we don't need these exchanges getting turned into a pillow fight get it together." Beverly said in response with an amused on her face at that response. "Whatever the commander told you if they caught you was right, to avoid detection act like everyone else Robin. And secondly make eye contact and just relax. You let your nervousness show they're going to realize you're not one of them, and force you into it."
"That's why I was able to avoid it this long and it's also why I jumped it the first time, but they caught me in the second. I was going on the advice Allysa Ogawa told me regarding it. To fake it like I was suffering the side effects, till the chase through the ship, everything used and I did. I was going on the training of the duo and what they taught me." Wesley told her and she nodded as she looked at him smiling then.
"You made the same mistake when you joined me Wesley, you didn't look at me." she said and he smiled as he answered her. "Uh oh, I see where that's going right now, but get ready, in case that happens again right now." Keiko said with a chuckle to her response as he answered her question then smiling. "Yeah well I was making sure Data was back to full control, and making sure they didn't get the drop on me here."
"And are you trying to start something here." he asked and the sextet, Barnfield, Jenson and Bates were trying to keep from laughing at their conversation. "No, but you started it." she said and he smiled at her as the engine room personnel started laughing at this. "No you started it." he said in answer to that as the adult crew exchanged amused looks at this. "Didn't" "Did" He said before a pillow hit him in the back in response to that.
And he turned and looked at Dayton who had a playful grin on his face and he nodded as he responded in kind. "Alright wise guy that's it." He said and hit him in the head with it before he smacked him back before she answered that by hitting them both in the head with her pillow. "Alright guys knock it off." she said and he smiled at her. "He started it." Wesley said and Dayton smacked him in the head with his pillow in response to that.
"No I didn't." he said and he hit him back. "Yes you did." he said as he got ready to take a swing at him, before she hit them both a second time. " I don't care who started it, I'm ending it." she said in answer to that as the engine crew exchanged bemused looks at this as Jenson said it for all of them. "Alright guys break it up." Jenson said bemused and they smiled as she said it. "He started it." She answered him and Wesley looked at her.
"No I didn't." "Yes you did" "No I didn't" he said in answer to that as Dayton smacked him in the head with his pillow before he retaliated at that, and then Robin hit them both in the head in response. "Did" she said in finality and O'Brian covered his eyes at this as he tried to keep from laughing. "To repeat that I don't care who started it, I'm ending it, now that's enough of this already guys." Goldberg said in answer to that, bemused.
"Alright Cubs, you keep that up and you're all going to get it." Greyson said with a bemused smile at the way their students were acting. "I think Brand really started something here by putting the quartet together, if she decided help them out. As to why I'm saying this, it's because I've never seen him and Jake like this before at the moment." Bernard said as he ducked a pillow and looked at his son at that.
As the pillow that was thrown hit Wesley and he smiled at the 13 year old playfully, as the quartet exchanged smiles as they looked at the sextet. "Alright wise guy, you asked for it and now you're going to get it." he said in answer to that as he threw the pillow back at him in answer to that before another went flying and hit him in the back and he turned and saw Katie with a smile on her face and Robin got ready to throw it at her.
And Bates, after seeing the ten exchanging playful looks as Mason grabbed a third, he quickly said it at that as he and the rest of the adult crew exchanged looks at the answering response. "Guys, we have a pillow fight getting started in here right now and you're all ending up in your dens for a few hours. And I'm not kidding, now cool it already here." he said as Greyson finished that remark with a bemused smile.
"And I hear another bickering match get started and the person who started it, is going to get it, and I'm not kidding, now enough already Cubs." he said and they exchanged smiles at that as the entire assembled senior staff crew exchanged looks at this. "I think somebody started something here, first bickering matches. And now pillow fights right now, we got to get it under control." Worf said and the engineering crew nodded.
"Can you blame us right now, with the fact we got our big brother back and he's home for 18 months, lieutenant." Katie asked him and he hid a smile as Will answered that. "No, but doing these playful fights when we're in the room with you, is going to have us ending up in the middle of it. And again, try it and you're all going to get it young lady, and I'm not kidding, so watch it." he said with a gentle smile as the 11 exchanged looks.
And with a bemused smile on his face. "You keep that up and you're all going to get it, you three, now cool it already." Jenson added and the trio exchanged smiles and the adult crew sighed in bemusement as he said it for them. "Oh boy, I remember this one, alright whoever starts this is in big trouble, and boys, you're on thin ice. And you keep that up and you're both going to get it and we mean that now that you three."
"Now again that's enough." O'Brian said and Picard looked at him at that as he thought it over then and then got it. "Alright you two, we don't need this turning into a bickering match, pull yourselves together, now. And boys, I see a pillow fight getting started and you're all in trouble." he said with a bemused smile on his face at the trio when they were together and he could tell they were about to start laughing at this situation.
"You better let them go at it now, otherwise they're going to break a rib from holding it on Jean Luc. Though where being mates are concerned this is normal after what just happened earlier. Let alone a trio, though in this case, if one of them starts it, get ready to hit the deck, or we're getting caught in the middle of their playing around. Then again I'm not surprised he's acting like this now that they're together right now."
"As he's 19 and he should be acting 19 now, since the duo got thrown feet first into their training and now they get act like kids in college again." Beverly said to him. "So long as we can keep it from getting started a second time I think so. But you two pull yourselves together already, I know you're glad here. That you're squadron is finally assembled, but you don't need act like high schoolers." Deanna said as Will repeated that remark.
"Alright you two, I know where this conversation is going next, don't try it and pull yourselves together." Will said as he was holding it in as Geordi finished it. "Uh oh, here it comes, alright you guys don't start." Geordi said as he tried to keep from laughing as it got started then. "She started it." "No I didn't" "Yes you didn't" "No I didn't" "Yes you did" "No I didn't" "Did" "Didn't" "Did" "Didn't" Did" Didn't" Did" Didn't" Did" "Didn't" "Did"
"Didn't!" She said to him and smacked him in the head with her pillow and Will hid a chuckle at that as he looked at the smile on the duo's faces. And then saw Dayton as he was trying to keep from laughing at the final reaction she gave him. As he saw the look of laughter on Wesley's face at that last part. "Alright laugh it up wise guy." Wesley said to him and smacked him in the head with his pillow at that in response.
And Picard ended the conversation at that as he said it with a bemused look on his face then as he looked at the young couple. "Alright I don't care who started it, I'm ending it, now that's enough you two. And to repeat my remark, I see a pillow fight getting started and you're all in trouble now that's enough of that." he said as the group started laughing at that as Will finished his remark then with a bemused smile on his face.
Then at his junior crew members as he tried to remain stern with them, though he was about to start laughing at this himself. "Whoever started this conversation better end it now you guys, because you're on thin ice right now and with that in mind here. And while I'm on the subject I see a pillow fight get started between you in this. And you're really going to get it if we get caught in the middle of it you three and I'm serious."
"And with that, alright you two, that's enough of that." he said and they looked at each other and smiled as they looked back at him as he tried to hide a chuckle as he answered that look. "And I'm not getting into a bickering match with you kids, now again, that's enough of that, you keep that up and you're busted, buster." he added to him smiling as Geordi looked at him as he answered that remark with a bemused smile.
"Alright now I think they started something here, because this is getting ridiculous right now." Geordi said smiling as he started laughing at this situation. "Did anyone get the cross exam in this conversation to know who it started with. Because this is getting ridiculous right now at the moment here." Shimoda asked and he nodded. "Yeah I did, but watching them now that we're back to normal, I think it just got worse."
"And again, whoever started this conversation better cool it you two and I'm not kidding, young man you're on thin ice here. And you keep up the wise guy attitude with me and you're going to get it, now again, that's enough of that already." Will said to them gently as he saw the sextet start laughing at that as Bates answered him. "At the rate this going, I think Brand really started something here." Bernard said from across the room.
"And that's an understatement, I never seen my son or Jake like this since we activated their training, but adding two more members to the squadron. And now I'm seeing this as though it's not my son or the trio, but you guys when still at the academy. Will, is this what you guys were like when you were their age?" Beverly asked and he nodded. "Yeah it is and I think it went from us and right into them if they're acting like this, Beverly."
"Alright who started this conversation anyway, because this is getting ridiculous right now." He said as he tried to keep from laughing as O'Brian answered him at that with an amused smile on his face. "I'm not sure, but at the rate this is going we got to end it, and don't get that started again. Or it's going to start a second time, and both of you that's enough of this already." O'Brian said smiling as Geordi finished his remark then.
As he tried to keep from smiling at this as he said it a second. "Whoever started it, better end it now, otherwise you're both going to get it, now cool it already. Young man you keep that up and you're really going to get it, now enough already." he said firmly then as Beverly interjected at that with a slight smile. Looking at the young couple and their friends as she and Deanna tried to keep from laughing, she finished his remark then.
"Yeah I think they started something here alright, and honey you better stop now, because you're on thin ice with the duo. I know you're relieved that you ended it, but starting jokes like this is getting out of hand and you're testing his patience. And with that so again, you'd better cool it now, and before he really lets you have right now." Beverly said smiling as Worf answered that remark with an tone in his voice then.
"Indeed, and he used that tone with him all the time when he was fifteen to sixteen, though I recognize that tone in his voice as the fatherly warning. Just before the playful attack, so Wesley if you're trying to get it again, you're going about it very well right now, but I wouldn't test him with remarks like that. And definitely not after we spent one year looking after you ourselves." Worf said to him with an amused look on his face.
"Well that is one way to get levity into this conversation, but this is getting ridiculous right now, and pull yourselves together guys. Enough already, let's get back on track here." Deanna said as she and Beverly started laughing at that as well. "I think they started something, after the urgent urgency of this situation is over, but this is getting ridiculous right now." Barnfield said to her from across the room at that remark.
And she nodded in agreement to that as they all started laughing as Jenson answered her smiling. "We should have seen this coming when he came home, but then, we were dealing with the fact he was back and we could at least see this as life returns to normal. But now our Cubs are now acting like high schoolers right now at the moment, and then to top it off is the fact it's been repeated pranks, games and jokes all night here."
"One too many jokes and pranks, let alone redirects in the bowels of the ship, it's been a week of playtime this week. Thanks to Etana and the headsets, but now it's time to get serious here. We have to destroy those things and get back to work on our duties here, because I'm sure somethings about to start going haywire with the amount we created." Jenson said to her and she nodded as the second medical doctor answered that.
"You're right about that if the amount we replicated is enough to cause every replicator on the ship to start acting up its enough we have to get this ship back in working order now. So with that in mind now, alright guys I think we've had enough games and jokes for one day, and with that in mind here. Boys, young lady, you're on thin ice here so pull yourselves together here, alright." Anenzi said and Geordi finished that smiling at that.
As he looked at his team leader and team mate, before he could say it though a pillow went flying as it hit Wesley and he turned and looked at Dayton who smiled as they waited for the explosion to hit. 'Uh oh, alright guys don't start right now you two.' He thought as Wesley threw it back at Dayton as it hit him in the head, before the answering response hit him in the back as he tried to keep from smiling.