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 12: Playful Bonds And Training Test Result Evaluations
As they watched the trio started going at it then. "I think someone started a pillow fight here, so get ready to duck." Bates said as he ducked the pillow that he threw back at him then. Looking at the direction it came from they saw Jake with a playful smile on his face at that. "Oh boy, alright somebody started something here right now." Geordi said and Will turned and then had to duck as a pillow went flying over his head.
"Yeah no kidding, guys hold fire alright." he said as he tried to keep from getting hit as he watch as Robin smacked Wesley in the head, before Dayton threw the pillow at her and she threw it back at him. Before he had to duck the pillow that got launched across the room by the fourth member of the young crew as he answered that remark. "Yeah get ready to duck alright it's about to turn into a warzone in here and with that."
"Boys, honey, cool it, already." Jenson said as he tried to hold back chuckle at this. "They're acting like a couple of ten years old right now, you want to say it or should I." He added and Beverly and Pulaski looked him as he ducked the next pillow thrown at him. "If they'd grown up a quartet this would be the response right now, but the trio are acting like a group of brothers going at it and the girlfriend wants to get involved."
"And just decided to add on to it right now, but if we don't want to get hit, now might be a good time to stop this. And before one of us gets smacked by an airborne pillow at the moment." Barnfield said in response to that, before she ducked the pillow that went flying in response to that remark. "You had to say that, cool it with the rhetorical remarks, before that does happen Jen." Beverly said in answer to that, to her.
"Alright Cubs, hold fire alright!" Greyson called out as he ducked the pillow thrown at Jake before having to duck it a second time as it was launched back at Dayton. "Good word for it, I think that their thirteen to fifteen year old cub phase reactivated here. But if we don't want to get hit, then now might a good time to stop this, before one of us gets hit here." Porter said as he ducked the next throw, as Beverly answered him.
"Whats gotten into them right now?" Bernard said as he looked at her. "I think whatever connection he and Charlie had at the academy it just activated now." she said as Worf ducked the next pillow before she saw another go flying. "Lal if you're the one throwing that put a hold on that, otherwise the next time the kids want to get into it. Then us adults are going to get caught in the middle." she said as she ducked the pillow then.
Before turning and then tried to keep from laughing at seeing the bemused look on Rick Goldburg's face as he set the pillow behind him at that as he went to a rhetorical question. "Who threw that pillow at me?" Goldberg asked and she shrugged. " I'm not sure, but one of them really started something here, but my cub just found his pack and he's acting younger than he really is right now." she said as Deanna answered that.
"Yes I think the little boy in him just came out, if he's acting like this with Charlie and Jake right now at the moment." she said and he nodded in agreement her thoughts at that. "Yeah well I think the word cub just took on a whole new meaning with the trio here, because they're all acting like middle schoolers to high school students here." Bates said in answer to that before ducking the pillow that went flying then.
As Jenson got hit next and he sighed at that as he set the pillow on the gurney next to him as Will looked at him with a slight smile at that. "Got hit I take it?" Will asked him bemused and he nodded to him in answer to that. "With you being the full coach, you want to say it or should I, commander?" he asked and he nodded as he looked at his students at that with a bemused smile on his face as Beverly looked at the duo.
As she injected her usual tone into her voice with her son. "Guys don't start right now you two." Beverly said with a warning tone then as he got ready to throw it back at the Wesley. "Alright hold it guys." Bates said as he ducked the second toss that got thrown back at Wesley as Will took charge at that. "Hey watch where you aim that wise guy." He heard as the pillow got launched across the room a third time as he ducked it.
Just before a fourth hit him in the back and he turned and looked at the culprit at that and saw a guilty look on Robin's face and smiled at her and she looked down before a fifth went flying and Data caught it and put it down as he, Geordi and Will looked at the duo then. "Alright who started it now?" Will asked and Wesley smiled. " He did" "No I didn't" "Yes you did" " No I didn't" "Yes you did" " No I didn't" Yes you did"
"No I didn't" Dayton said and the adult crew exchanged bemused looks at this bickering match as Will said it for all them as he looked between his students. As they saw the sextet that were with Wesley then, and who were all trying to keep from laughing at that. "Boys, I see another pillow go flying and you're both going to get it. So don't try it cubs." he said, looking at Harry junior and Mason and they both nodded to the order.
As he and the quintet all looked at the quartet as he tried to keep a stern tone with them, as he was trying to keep from laughing at this. 'God I haven't seen Wesley like this in years, but come on, enough already guys.' he thought to himself as he said it. 'Guys seriously you keep this and you're both going to get it.' He added softly to that. "Alright I don't care who started it, I'm ending it and with it, I see another pillow go flying."
"And across the room and you're both going to get it, now that's enough of this already Cubs, now cool it already. And young lady, I get hit a second time you're going to get it now again that's enough of this already." Will said firmly as Geordi finished that as he hid a smile. "Aw come on papa bear, can't we play a little longer. " Wesley said playfully and he looked at him bemused at the nickname he called him by after the years.
The three years they spent together, before he left as he answered him. "No and again I see another pillow go flying. And you're both going to get it now that's enough of this already cub, now cool it already." he said in answer to that as he looked at the rest of the adult crew who were looking back him with a slight smile at that. As he answered their silent remark then with a bemused smile on his face as he said it to them.
"His having an adopted brother, or maybe just triplets just turned him four years younger than he really is at the moment, if he's saying it like that and watch it Cubs. I see another pillow go flying across the room and you're both going to get it." He added and they nodded as the adult crew hid a chuckle at that. "Cubs?" Dayton repeated and Wesley smiled as Will watched him tried to hold back a laugh as he answered him.
"He's taken on the father bear notion with us buddy, though at the moment that's his tone for 'keep it up and you're getting tickled tortured if you hit me in the middle of this with that pillow and I get hit I'm letting you have it next'. He used that one on me all the time. But with us being his students, get ready that tones being used all the time now." Wesley said and he chuckled and nodded and Will answered that.
"And I mean it too boys, you hit me and the cub who does it is getting it hard, so again, I see another pillow go flying across the room and you're both going to get it." he said and they nodded as he watched them trying to keep from laughing as he looked at them as Greyson exchanged bemused looks with Bates at this conversation as he said it for all of them. "What is going on with you guys, exactly right now anyway huh?"
"I mean just fifteen minutes after you meet and already you're acting like a trio in everything here, take it down a notch guys, will you." Greyson said as he started laughing at that. "I think that the fact that they pulled it off together is what caused that little playful burst with each other." Deanna said to him and Beverly finished that remark. "I also think their act of finding someone who is just like them is the reason for this."
"Like us, Brand knew he was lonely, because he didn't have anyone just like him, decided to fix that and here's the result. Her trying to help him just worked a little too well now at the moment right now. Added side effects for kids this gifted, it makes them stand out easily, but always around adults it just makes you stand out even more. We added two more members to the junior crew and Wes and Jake have team mates just like them."
"Although now that the four of them are together, I think it worked just a little too well at the moment right now, if they're acting younger them their real age right now." she said and Will finished with a bemused smile. "And as a result the kids just won their first victory, and it's because they have someone just like them to hang around with now. At the moment, although if this tells me anything it's about to get worse right now."
"Though they have each other to hang around with, they still need us right now, which is why he pushed it to the limit last night and this morning. To explain why is Dr. Crusher is his last remaining parent and those of us who been here since our conception date helped raise him. But that explains why the quartet are acting this way with each other right now, because they just pulled off something no recently graduated cadet could do."
"But if we don't get this under control one of us is winding up in the line of fire if we have another pillow getting thrown across the room next and with that in mind..." Will started to say, before getting hit in the back and he looked down and smiled at the look on Wesley's face. 'Oops, aw man, sorry sir, I wasn't aiming for you.' He saw in his eyes and nodded. "And again, I get hit and you're really going to get it so watch it pal."
"You keep that up and you're busted later cub." He said firmly in answer to that and he watched him as he looked down as his head was resting against his chest at that and he hid a smile at the reaction. 'Please sir, not again, you let me have it one too many times that year. Please, not again.' He could see him thinking at that remark as he saw the same amused smiles from the others at the reaction then to his remark.
'Dang it, I'm busted and with my being too worn out right now, once I'm in bed there's no getting out of this. And I'm stuck later, man I hope he doesn't try it tonight, but come on, please, enough already dad.' He saw in his body language at that as he hid a chuckle at the response. 'Yeah my cub is back to being his 15 to 16 year old self with me right now and that's what he was like with his father as a kindergartner."
"And when he was still a cub, well this just caused a gentle reaction, I've been acting like his father since our second year together. And that's his response to my gentle warning now, well my papa bear notions are having him acting like he's really a cub right now. And he just got caught by his father bear for accidentally hitting me this time with that pillow, he's showing his ten year old cub side with that reaction to my remark."
"Alright again cub that's enough of this already, I get anymore smart remarks from you tonight or you're doing something you're not supposed to. And when you're supposed to be resting and you're really going to get it this time and I mean that now.' He said as he looked between them as he finished that remark gently. 'God I swear you kids are going to get it if you keep this up, I know you're just nineteen at the moment here."
'But you're acting like you're 9 years old and you need to take a break here right now. Cubs come on, it's been a very long day and you cub have just scared me out of my wits earlier so enough of the games now alright.' He thought gently as he looked at his own cub and finished that remark as he ran his hand through the hair at the back of his head and in response he leaned his head against his chest as he hid a smile at that.
As he finished with a mock stern tone in his mental voice as he said it to him gently. 'Yes that's right cub you're really busted with me now and when I get you alone and you're really going to get it later." he thought smiling as he saw the guilty look on the teenager's face as he looked at him as Geordi finished that. "Enough already here guys." Geordi said as Picard answered that remark as he looked at the duo.
"He's right, and I don't care who started that, I'm ending it you two and that's enough of that. Enough of the jokes, let's get back on track here, all of you." He said with a bemused smile on his face at where the conversation between them was heading then as he answered him, before he could though Robin looked at Wesley to her question then knowing this was going to answer her question regarding the name he mentioned.
"Alright I really have to know this, but where did you get the ideas to avoid detection till the last minute, I mean phaser in the hallway, transporter into the Jeffries tubes. Getting into the Jeffries tubes and coming out on deck 7 section 23. Guessing games with the phasers being placed at each spot as well to no less, Wesley that was amazing. I didn't think you had enough skill to dodge the sensors that entire time let alone the rest of it."
"Because no cadet can come up with these ideas on the fly if they're trying to escape being the last one standing. And not when the entire adult portion of the crew, older than eighteen or nineteen, was compromised?" she asked and he smiled as he answered her then. "No cadet that wasn't raised on board a ship can do it, but the ones who've served four years on one can, if they dealt with a previous manhunt, could and can Robin."
"It was after the traveler that Captain Picard and Commander Riker had me set up in a dual layer in training here. So half of it I was working as a member of the crew and the other I was in high school in the living quarters section of the ship. It was in my second full year of training as a member of the crew that I gained these details due to a manhunt on board the ship, but prior to that the engine crew taught me this."
"The communicators have tracking beacons on them, remove the beacon and you have have to be tracked by heat and life sign signatures. But it's figuring out who you're looking for from couple hundred other people on board the ship, when your quarry is the only one running loose in the hallways next to the search parties, that's the tricky part. But here's a key tip: the Jeffrie tubes are shielded, so you want to escape capture."
"Go into the areas that only engine room and maintenance crew do. And secondly, to avoid capture don't stay in one place for too long, to throw off your opponent, you don't want to be found, don't be there. Greyson found the decoy and I was already headed for the entry tubes to get into the cargo bay." he told her and she nodded in amazement. "Alright who taught you this and secondly where did you learn that from exactly?"
"If you know so much about evading capture to the last minute?" she asked and he smiled as he answered her, before Will did it for him as he remembered that year as he hid a smile. "You walked in when we had this conversation Robin, but those first few lessons he got from me and Worf as for the other, his tactics were the result of another manhunt we had on board the ship two years ago at the time as to how and why."
"The spots he chose were a pattern from that previous manhunt along with the transporter and the Jeffries tubes, though getting into the extension shaft wasn't. When he escaped, he planted one in the hall just outside the turbo lift that was nearly destroyed by an overloading phaser. Before, rather than going into engine room, because we were looking for him. But everything was in reverse of this manhunt that we dealt with at the time and to answer the unasked question to why we knew this.
"We dealt with an escaped soldier two years ago, his name was Roga Danar, after arresting him after we got him on board, he tried to escape to avoid being left on his planet's penal colony. But his tactics included leaving an overloading phaser in a turbolift, using the transporter in the cargo bay to get into the Jeffries tubes. Though we flooded the cargobay with a sedative to knock him out, he got a pressure suit on."
"But from there he knocked out the internal sensors so we couldn't find him and he took a secondary transporter to get into the police shuttle that was just outside our ship. Between my training him, his knowledge of our procedures and Danar, that's how he was able to delay till the last minute, Danar was like Jack's grandfather. But Danar was using tactics that the 20th century soldiers specializing in covert operations did."
"And they were trained to fight mind control techniques, but human mind control techniques now. Most alien's have mind control that 2 to three 3 more powerful, take Hathor for instance, she's the Goa'uld version of Etana, same situation now." he told her and she looked at Wesley in shock at that. "And Captain you remember the field records on the NID and what we read on what they did to Commander Jacksons grandfather."
"Because of Hathor, and the mission they: O'neill and Makepeace wanted, to get that GDO back, that they wanted to the mission to go to them. And instead of them, the committee, they gave it to General Jackson and Dr. Raynor. Well in a normal cadet in training style, you just hit that a second time regarding me, Charlie and Derek right now." he said and Picard nodded as he started narrowing it down firmly at the news.
"Oh damn it I should have remembered that, we may not have lost you from having our minds tampered with right now here. But to the members that watched you grow up and helped raise you that's close enough in comparision right now at the moment. My 20th to 21st century counterpart is Hammond's grandfather, you're Daniel's, and Will's like his grandfather, while Peter Feretti like his and..." he started to say at that remark gently.
"Technically I'd say that if our grandparents really were us, they decided to use the training by example touch and Wes took Jackson's approach to this. Because going in there guns blazing is going to result in a mass case of casualties. So it's brains over brawns right now and once again the Novas get humiliated by the Gammas here." Commander Jared Warren answered him and he nodded as he said to that remark.
"Yes and once again, we see a classic case of political sabotage, because Daniel fought tooth and nail to the effects of Hathor's control drug. And the officers like Johnathan, they gave in immediately to further the humiliation in that. He lets his hormones do the talking and he gets turned into a Jaffa as a result right now. But if that stupid fool had been smart, he'd never have taken that cake or gotten that close to her at the time."
"Though with that in mind anyone that was a true scientist could do this make it last longer then several hours. If they took their time now and we go from there right now, though with that in mind right now, son, as a result here." he said and Wesley nodded as he looked directly at Hanson. "And if you were really smart about this and trying to find me, think like a scientist and not a solder." he said and Picard finished that remark.
"It's a mixture of, possibly 636 and Hathor at the moment, you're the one fighting tooth and nail against the control drug. The one Hathor used on the male members of the base, but while everyone else gave in, he didn't and the all soldier types of the NID. They try political sabotage to get rid of him at the time, but I never thought. That helping the Angosians would come in handy at the time." he said and Wesley nodded to him then.
"And it's to prevent another foothold incursion when at HQ at the time Sir, because if I hadn't remembered that, we'd be toast right now. But here's the the thing, I took pieces from several foothold scenarios and hostage situations some by the NID as well, and that includes Daniel. General Jackson, but he made a comment that if they created an alternate reality to that situation aftermath on 636 at the time it's like what we just did."
"As if that's not enough, like I said it was like the Puppet Masters, the fact that our planet's leaders were comprised to San Fransisco at the time here. And here's the bad news now Sir, the president was meeting with the council at this time on earth, they're at command HQ right now and Admiral Brand is with them. But as a result that's why they sent the duo, the committee knew something was wrong and I took a sabbatical."
"So first they sent me home to check it out, and when the four of us were undercover, just after you, or rather she, deactivated Data. I told Lal to send a code red level V emergency right to the academy. Priority 1 message, level blue, so she could send the duo as Pulaski was keeping an eye on this as the effects wore off. But hearing this the entire committee went to mobilization of the entire fleet in case we blew it now."
"And the entire group of Federation leaders was at the Capitol this month, just before she tried this." he told him and they nodded in shock then. "By stopping it from getting off the ship, you prevented this from getting to the federation leaders and the academy all at once today. You just saved the entire federation by us dealing with Danar at the time, and it's by using his tactics." Picard said in shocked disbelief and he nodded.
"Yes Sir, I knew if she and I didn't prevent this from getting off the ship, that the game was going to over run, first earth and then the rest of the federation. Which in essense is what the first portion of the story was about. But it just entered the second portion of it with him getting taken next and now the next question is who is the intended target now?" he said and they nodded in agreement to that remark at the news.
"Good grief, I never thought that the manhunt would come in handy now, but it certainly was needed now to prevent you from getting taken till the last minute now." Will said to him and he nodded to that. "Yes and reckless and dangerous stunts were part of the M.O. in this case as a result, just to prevent these things from getting off the ship. And with it was getting you back to normal, as if that's not enough here."
"It's making sure you're not taken to the last minute and not till the cure is ready, but you recall our first encounter with this guy. I mean we lock on to his shuttle and he turns it towards us in response making his intention clear: 'let me go or else'. That's what he was trying to say here. The shuttle pointing upward at the main window was trying to say: 'Let me go or I'm going to attack, release my shuttle now'."
"You remember your remark regarding this guy, when he was getting ready to ram us, I mean just hearing Data say that I knew he lost it completely. And you said my thoughts out loud when we exchanged looks at that remark?" Wesley said to him and he nodded. "Yeah I remember and I thought this guy lost his mind completely, a shuttle going up against a federation starship, if that's not suicidal nothing is right now."
"But trying to arrest him was like I was dealing with someone who taken in one too many in the ethanol. Or just doing cross chemicals and that's dangerous enough here and flying when doing it. I thought he'd collapsed at the helm when he turned the shuttle at us. But then it takes trying to get him to the floor finally and Worf is even stronger than I am here." he said and he nodded in agreement to that as Dayton looked at him.
"If this guy was like a rhino, it's taking ten people to corral him, but getting him backed into the wall after tackling him helps too here. Like what you did Worf, once you rolled him into the wall that was it. And he'd run out of maneuvering room to keep going here, before the commander got a hold of him. With a normal human if cornering them before they try to make a break for it." he said and Hanson looked at him in confusion.
"Why would he try making a suicide run at the ship exactly?" Hanson asked and Wesley smiled. "Diversionary tactic, making us think he's trying to ram us, but in reality he launched himself out of it by an escape pod. But he's cunning to the point of recklessness, he's a spec ops soldier that was genetically enhanced here. And to the point he was turned into the perfect killing machine by his home planet of Angosia."
"But when you don't try to provoke him he's harmless and he'd never attack if the people threatening him are cowards. His reckless behavior is to the point of being suicidal and once you provoke him, get ready for the altercation. Because it would take 15 or 20 trained security officers and trained officers, twice our age. To handle him in order to take him down and that's not an exaggeration either as to how and why here exactly."
"It's because he barely dislocated Ensign Perkins shoulder in the fight, the phaser was on medium stun which is still enough to trigger a concussion. And Chief O'Brian got hit by it and it took the quartet to get him under control finally. But this is why I knew what I was doing, I was using his tactics the entire time and as to how I know this." He said and he looked at him as he stopped him at that as he answered his remark.
"Are you just trying to show off now, you weren't even in the room for that." he snapped at him and Perkins answered that remark sternly as he sighed as he answered him. "It doesn't matter if I was, I was watching from the computer in the kids lounge. As to how I knew what he was doing, it's because I studied ancient history to the point. I knew what the soldiers, if they're full soldier do in tactics." he said and Picard took over at that.
"Before you say it Ensign Perkins, the connection regarding Sarek has gone haywire so watch out for anyone losing it in the detox right now. Everyone with the fact that with the sudden come down from the games has all our concentrations off. My connection to Sarek has just over ridden my control, so everyone of you try to stay focused now. Understood." Picard said and they nodded with looks of aggravation at the news.
"In other words, tempers are going to be uptight with each other till someone causes another bar brawl and riot in ten forward, is that it Jean Luc?" Guinan asked him and he nodded. "Afraid so Guinan, could you do me a favor when Robin and the boys are in there and keep an eye on him. He's recovering from a severe case of exhaustion, so no more caffeine now, he's going to be recovering from up here for the next 18 months."
"And he's on sabbatical starting now, but I know this situation with the games is just starting so if the secondary doesn't works she's got a third plan. But if said third plan hits him in the room when he's with you, I want to know about it. Because it could also mean his system crashed, again, so he's on light duty until the danger is passed and he's under supervision." Beverly said and she nodded to the request as they looked at Hanson.
"Sleep deprivation, is that what has him this exhausted right now, if you're going for..., alright no caffeine/low sugar levels I can adjust that. In what to give him when he and the duo are in the room with me. Though with the fact I connected to Ro, if he has whatever spasms that she used to trigger our medical alarms I'm sending Ro to you. In case it results in whatever else she has in mind." Ben said to her at that remark gently.
"You better be on the look out in case we get another repeat performance here, with the captain not able to control it, it's adding fuel to the fire. When we're the ones that beat the test here." Wesley added and they sighed. "God, fast tempers, this is like having a split personality traits right now, alright, sorry Wes. I'm trying to focus here, but it's getting tougher by the minute, and I know none of us can control what we're saying."
"Regarding that, so I'm just apologizing advance for that buddy, nothing is getting between and nothing will. Including Derek." Dayton said to him quickly and he nodded to him gently. "As for that remark young man about his not being in the room for the fight, we didn't want him in there, or he was going to get hurt. As to why, this is a full soldier of the type that acted like assassins, to handle it, it was us fully adult officers here."
"And he didn't have to be young man, because just judging by our reactions makes more an impression then by seeing him face to face here. And I barely get my shoulder dislocated, before Miles shot him in the back distracting him. Before the commander and Lieutenant Worf arrive to help me get him under control finally. Because I dragged him into the hall when we did this." he said to him firmly as Wesley finished his sentence.
"The duo are two of said members I'm friends with along with Lieutanant Greyson, they were here from day one. Their teams are four years old now and frankly we all were here from the very beginning so to us it's the norm on this ship. Acts of trust and being extended family when on deployment and to them. It's just preventing him from getting out of the transporter room decks was to prevent him from taking anyone hostage."
"And when they did this, I was at my console listening to the Chief calling for added back up, because I knew they couldn't do it alone, and yet. In this, it was a piece I decided to leave to the more experienced members of the crew. When they're more experienced then I am at these things." he said as he turned to look at the Irish officer gently as he smiled at him as the older man gave him a gentle smile as Greyson looked at him.
"That's what you were trying to get us to remember, when we walked down the hall I didn't realize we ended up in the same one we arrested him at-at the time son. But I got the message you were telling us." The security officer said to him gently. "Yeah and like the sextet, it would take jogging your memories regarding this, but with the fact she didn't understand what I was trying to tell you, that only worked in our favor."
"But I didn't want to have to consider hurting anyone just to prevent that thing from getting off the ship. But that's what I meant, 'I'm not getting taken alive and I don't want to hurt anyone, so nobody force me into it.'. With you compromised the thought of having to shoot to kill, I didn't want to consider it at all." he said and the older man nodded as he gave his shoulder a squeeze as O'Brian switched subjects.
"I'm just lucky this kid here wasn't involved that day when we did have Roga on board, or he'd be dead right now. Because it took five on one to get him to the floor finally and dealing with him when you're at the age you are is completely reckless. As well as extremely dangerous if this wasn't simulation and in practical." he said in aggravation and he nodded as the group surrounding nodded in agreement as he sighed gently.
"I take it, he's aggravating you guys to no end, when I just left it to you at the time, chief in situations like this. But then, I spent most of my time in the lab or at the console anyway. And seeing the aggravated looks on your faces when you reported in was enough to tell me it was getting pretty tense down there at the time?" Wesley asked and they nodded to him as Will said it for all of them with an aggravated and bemused look.
"Yeah he is at the moment and it's because he keeps rushing the net then thinking it through every time. Like I said you rush the net and it's going to hurt or kill someone, so it's better to think about your moves than rushing right into it. And you're the one we knew was going to pass their hands on training because you've been at it for four years here." Will said to him and the security guard finished his remark with an amused smile.
"And with that is the fact you had another responsibility and it's looking after the kids in case he did try to break out of there. But then you never were the one to go for leaping before you looked anyway and that's exactly what we looked at when gaining new applicants younger. And I mean younger than we are for the duty stations son, as to that, it's just another test passed when we had him on here." Greyson said to him softly.
"Four years of training and I get stuck in a situation and choice that I never wanted to make, not after four years together here and it's enough, that I'm not going through that choice a second time in simulation. And not when I just dealt with it for real..., and the ship and crew in question is my own." he said to him and he felt his heart clench at that as he exchanged looks with the other guards and O'Brian at the remark.
'God that hag did more damage to him than I thought here, I ever see her again, I'm going to kill her myself.' he thought as he looked at him gently as he answered him. "At the moment though I knew you were hovering around once you remove the badge. You're invisible to the ship's sensors, but having it last this long is like we were playing chess with Roga that day and with that in mind." He said to him and hid a smile at that.
As he watched him as he chuckled at that as he answered him then. "Yes well being a skilled scientist I was going on an old line, but the remark that anything that can go wrong will go wrong here comes to mind here and with him on the rampage in the halls. And you already posted me to watch for the kids in the recreation lab we had set up for them and I was waiting for your signal of the all clear." he said to him and he nodded.
"Yes precisely and we knew you were more worried about the kids than about playing the hero at the time and that was another test passed back then. And by following orders and waiting for us to give you the all clear. And that's exactly what we're talking about: you decided to protect the younger kids instead of acting that recklessly here. By locking the door and waiting patiently for us to let you know that the coast was clear."
"Before coming back out, because the safety of the children came first in your eyes after we dealt with what happened regarding you and the Aldeans." Picard said to him gently. "Four years of trials and setbacks, just insuring the kids are safe came first over trying to show off to you Sirs. And it's why I always took it so seriously, the sextet were at the age where he'd see them as perfect bait and I wasn't having that with him on the loose."
"Hearing you sound the general quarters alarm, I knew he escaped and he was running loose in the halls. Hanson went to the attitude problem of asking where I was going and I answered that firmly as I closed the door on him. But I was doing my job and it was protecting the kids younger than we were by five or six years. And I quickly went to the kids recreation lounge and did a headcount of the ones over the age six years old."
"While Lieutenant Hanson had the nursery. I had to make sure every kid younger than me by five years was accounted for at the time here to make sure we weren't missing anyone. What with the quintet being just under me by five to seven years in age at the time, but sending a message to the chief, to let him know I was in the kids lounge. Just so he could tell you by realigning the computer and sending a printed message."
"And once I saw we had everyone in there, I told them they had to stay put. Locked the door and then scrambled the security codes to prevent him from breaking in, and then locked the secondary grate. As I patched the computer to the internal security system as I tracked his movements myself as watched from there. And just waited for you to let me know that he was either captured or he'd escaped at the time."
"But Data taught me to patch CG life signs detector by activating the heat signatures and I relayed it to him, Worf, the engine crew and the search teams. Before hearing that he got into the Jeffries tubes and quickly redirected so I could send thst by computer to you and you got the message as you were looking for him. Radio silence is one thing, but I patched my link to the engine crew computer and straight to Data after that."
"But either way protecting them and the others younger then fourteen came first. As to that, if I'm not in the search physically, I'm at least keeping tabs on him like you are Sirs, so he doesn't get the drop on me and I wasn't having another situation like Lore." he said and they nodded with a smile at that. "Nice trial and error in these situations Wes, you anticipated what I was about to tell you to do and did it without orders."
"And that's the act of knowing exactly what your commanding officer is thinking and doing it without questioning it in these situations when it comes to a possible hostage situation in these circumstances. And again you did exactly what we wanted you to do, think about the kids first, maintain radio silence and wait for the all clear." Will told him smiling and he nodded with a smile to that remark as he answered him.
"And like you said, rushing the net can and will hurt or kill someone, so with that best to plan out your moves than rushing it and secondly here. Rather than barging into it, wait it out and work together." he said and Greyson started laughing as he remembered that as he said it. "Yeah I remember that, instead of telling me that information, you patched it directly to our tricorders just to get the CG protocol alignment set up."
"Maintaining radio silence, but still quietly involved in the search that's what we wanted from you, if not involved physically, the loophole is by through the computers and you send it by sending it to us by computer. But then in this case it's knowing you this well that makes all the difference, because I didn't have to see your faces to know it was you at the time, but you just missed me, I was hiding in the maintenance room."
"We should have gone with twenty guards when we arrested this maniac at the time." O'Brian said to him and he nodded in agreement to that. "His level of training and I was trying to figure out how our sensors never picked him up during what happened earlier and then it hit me. It's the metal chip he's got surgically connected to his forehead next to his right eye, it's blocked out his heat signature and his life signs."
"What they did to him could be considered inhumane to our way of thinking, but he was created to kill, but it's going by the level in which they did and going by what he told us, you keep from trying to provoke him. Then he'll come quietly, trying to shoot or point your phasers at him is just asking to trigger the self defense programming." he told them and they nodded as Will said it. "With his level of training it would a take skilled officer, cop or just thirty soldiers to take him down, but it's not by skill or training."
"It's by trying not to provoke him here and with that in mind. I think it's because any skilled soldier from that time frame are, if they're that violent, it would take a syringe full of sedatives just to take him down. But that was ridiculous, dealing with him was like I was dealing with a man who was doing cross chemicals here. Or just trying to arrest an escaped patient from the maximum security wing." Will said to him and he nodded.
"I'll say, with getting his arms down finally that did it finally, trying to subdue him was like dealing with an escaped mental patient. As such, it's if three fully grown wasn't enough, it was taking six to get him to the floor. But Dr. Crusher should have been there to sedate him after we got him to the floor finally. I mean Worf is one thing when he loses it, but this guy, that's ridiculous." he told him and he nodded in agreement.
"The stupid fools trying to arrest him, if they were younger than you guys are just asking to get hurt here regarding trying to arrest him. But then you're all career officers long than fifteen years and it takes someone who actually knows what they're doing in order to handle someone like him as for our first encounter with this guy. Uncontrollable bouts of violence is the understatement of the century that day when the minister told us this."
"I mean I didn't have to see this guy to know why you were so furious when you walked back on to the bridge with Worf, because he's reckless to the point of being suicidal. He's so violent and cunning you'd have to be a skilled soldier yourself and it would take a syringe full of sedatives just to take him down. And finally with that chip implant he's vanished right off the sensors and it's going to tracking him by his fooling around with the equipment, before anyone, child or woman, encountered him in the hallway."
"And any kid trying to act the hero, if they were my age would be easy bait, we don't have the training it's suicide. So it's best to leave it to career officers who actually know what they're doing. Though if Nova, like Nick or Derek, in their squadron ever tried this then it would get them hurt or killed. Or just get them kicked out the academy, because trying to get involved is dangerous, and foolhardy to any seasoned career officer."
"So best to leave it to the career ones older then they are to handle it now, and all of you have dealt with this at one time or another on previous assignments. So to you and this was normal for you, so again and with those words in mind now. It's best to just leave it to a career officer, and stay out of the way till you got the character confined after that that." Wesley said to him and he nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Indeed and your right Wesley, for any kind of male subject at that level and type of skill and cunning it takes. And would take someone who's got more experience and training, not to mentions years, to handle a man of this caliber. Your choice to stay put was indeed the correct one and it's another test passed. In regarding training when on the job training, and without knowing it too." Worf said to him and he smiled at the news then.
"These tests you were giving me, however unread out, are enough that now, that I'm able to see where the solution is with being told. Had anyone else been in my position they'd have flunked out of on the job training here on the ship and washed out of the academy automatically, once they're there. Training times time and patience you get too impatient you fail to see things and it could get you or someone else killed.
"So taking time to think about your next maneuver works better than rushing right into it. Than again, I'm training under the two best career officers there are here and after three years worth of on the job training. That it's enough that I can see things that my counterparts at the academy can't, because they're not in the thick of it, though Charlie is the exception." he said and Will hid a smile at the remark as he looked at him at that.
"So what's the first thing you learned here in a situation like what you did today, because this is part of your training at the academy and what we were teaching you back then?" Picard asked him smiling and he explained that to them. "In a no win situation, there's always a choice, but choosing the right one is up to you. Just relax and take your time in thinking out the solution and then do it." he said and they nodded to him smiling.
"Yes exactly and nicely done. That's the skill of a warrior, so here's a tip regarding that: you rush the net and it can and will kill you and your comrades. You take your time to think out your moves, work together and you will beat the opposition. If it's a game is strategy, know your enemy and you know yourself and you can win 100 battles without disaster." Picard said to him and he smiled and nodded to him gently.
"And in the words of Sun Tzu, 'he will triumph who known when to fight, and when not fight.' And with that in mind, this was insuring that the device never gets off the ship, but stealth and avoidance detection works better than rushing right into it. No cadet if they hadn't grown up on a ship when their parents were stationed aboard it, could do this and not get caught till the last minute as to that and sometimes not alone either."
"It takes being in the thick of it all the time and working out your next move just to ensure you never do till your team mate is ready. And what also works here is knowing the ship better than the enemy does works as well." Beverly added to him smiling and he looked up at his mother smiling and she looked at him proudly. "Nicely done honey, I'm very proud of you." she added and he smiled as he answered her gently.
"Thanks mom, at the moment with the possibility of staying home for several months the training just shifted gears and if this isn't over yet, expect trouble now. Because the lamebrain who hasn't been here longer than a month to five is just asking for trouble. If he's not realizing just what the heck he's doing when you're looking for the secondary host." he told her and the sextet nodded in agreement as Hanson looked at him angrily.