The Bonds Of Friends And Family
Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs tome and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.
Warnings: For this Chapter it's showing the added side effects of the mission Wesley and Robin took on as they, Kurland and their friend create a new team. As they're going over things, as the truths of the added side effects of the games start coming forward. They see that the further they dig into and the more sinister that the Ktarians plan becomes as they're discussing things.
The true findings of the side effects make themselves clear to the senior staff crew. As things shift course, as they all realize just what causes their added problems were, while the added side effects make themselves known now as his diagnostics reveal the added damage to his body. And they take charge while the group gets a chance to deepen the bonds now.
As Wesley gets a chance to be with some new friends and having everything he wants now as an adult. As the episodes from here stay the same, Unification gets jumped, as they're dealing with the aftermath of this episode. So it jumps the cliffhanger and goes right to the next episode of the season, before it hits the next few episodes in the season, as things start picking up now for them.
Chapter 15: Dangerous Rivalry And Furry Arrivals
"Yeah Doctor that's exactly what I mean, Charlie told me what happened, Harry, were you and Mace in the hall when the fight broke out at the time?" he asked and the duo shook their heads to him. "No thank god, but what would you describe this as if we hadn't arrested him at the time?" Mason's father asked and he sighed. "The murder/self defense in 'The Outsiders', Lieutenant Hatchison." he said and they nodded to him then.
"So let me take a guess, Robin was Cherry, I'm playing Twobit, Jake was Johnny and if one of the duo was in there, the youngest of the gang. And with Derek's behavior when drunk, I'd class him as the Soc that ended up dead at the time. Because he just barely killed the kid when trying to drown him, you know Derek. If it hadn't been for the fact I got the group up there, you'd have traumatized the sextet for life if they saw that."
"But you want to get yourself in trouble repeatedly for jealousy here that's fine, but just because we're the ones getting all the attention. It doesn't give you the right to get plastered and breaking the rules left and right. Us junior crew are under a strict regime, we follow it and we move up the ladder in intership politics. And if we don't and we get jumped by someone else, that's how it is." Dayton said to him and the adult crew sighed.
"Alright subject change before this starts another fight and son, you better stay put for a while, because that ankle just barely got dislocated in the jump in there. But if that happens again and it could blow it out next time. And repeated injuries like this are enough to cause permanent damage. And if you don't stay off of it right now and for the next month, okay." The orderly said and Wesley nodded as he scanned his leg then.
"Great, that's just great, it wasn't a sprain, but a near dislocation, alright she's really going to get it when I get through with her later. Honey stay off that leg, and when working I want you sitting down and I mean it. You want to get your job done, you can do it by data pad and from the terminal. But you're not walking around on that leg for the next month, okay." Beverly said and he nodded as Anenzi switched subjects then.
"Alright in this case..., Lal, for the time being I want it on, for the next month until his ankle heals, repeated site to sites. Or at least till whatever plan this is of theirs to activate and once it does disable it after the first one. Once it gets started so we don't have her trying anymore of his pattern. While we're looking for him if he's the primary target in this plot of theirs." he said and they heard a beep followed by a meow at that.
"Alright don't start that again and don't encourage her Lal, because this is neither the time nor place for this right now." Wesley added and Worf said it with a bemused smile to that. "Was that what you meant, by the cat/computer version of a bickering match right now?" he asked and they heard a second beep and Spot answered with a meow at that and that did it for the quartet as he said it a second time to the four of them.
"Alright again don't start, because we're not having a fight break out between you so can it already." he said to his computer based team mate as the kids all started laughing at that as they looked at the door to see Spot walking into the room. "Hey girl decided to check in as well?" he asked and she gave a mew to him and walked up to his bio bed and jumped up next to him and curled up there next to him and they chuckled at that.
Looking up at him the cat pressed her forehead to his with a gentle purr and Beverly smiled at that. "Yeah I'm not going anywhere for a while mom just set my recovery duration I'm staying for the rest of this term and half of the next. So if you want to drop in, in my quarters, that's fine girl." he said as she brushed her forehead to his as she answered him with a gentle look. "Mew?" she asked and he nodded to her gently.
"Slight hurt paw and exhaustion, but otherwise I'm okay right now, girl." he said and she gave mew to that, before seeing the pill bottle and looked at him. "Meow?" she said sternly and Dayton hid a shudder. "I think that one means, 'if those are the reason you're looking like this, you're in serious trouble, kitten.'." he said and Wesley nodded as he answered him with a bemused look then as he said it to him.
"Yeah that's what she's saying alright and to answer you girl, no I'm not taking those, but that's one reason I'm staying in my kennel for the next 20 months." he said as he went further and Beverly hid a smile as he answered her. "There's two versions of catnip for humanoid shaped cats, one is based off natural catnip in food. The other, like the one he's taking and is more dangerous, and my mother is a vet, I learned to deal with it."
"So fix the jolt by taking in my own version of kitten snacks that has the necessary level of both versions of human catnip. That bottle is empty and I stopped taking them five months ago, but that's why, the other is the kittens in my litter at my school. They dismantled my regime, my sleep and eating regime, so, she's keeping me home. As I'm a suffering from weight loss and a different version to the catnip he's on."
"But this is basically like your version of catnip, his is a more dangerous version that causes a violent reaction. But I have too much built up in my system and I lost my cat naps because of bad dreams. So I'm on bed rest and light duty with me still a kitten in their eyes." he said and she gave a mew to that. "I really hope these don't have more then your catnip in them, because if they do and whoever causes you to get worse."
"And I'm scratching the heck out of them, as for the guard cat, he comes near you again and I will, I love kittens, and you're mine now. But I'm a very protective mother once I find my owners kittens so whoever is still under the influence of that toy. They better stay away from you, or I will put them in the vet's office." She said through Data in response as she leaned her head against his leg and started purring protectively.
"Well I think that just made our point, she prefers children to adults, because we're still just kittens to her. Us four, we're kennel born in her eyes and to her, she's protecting us from the possible dangerous cat on board the ship right now." Robin said to him in response and he nodded as Harry reached out and she looked at him. And then brushed her head against his hand and he started petting her as she started purring at that.
Before pressing her forehead to his and he smiled at that. "I think that's the kittens connected to her kittens now as the six of us are your baby brothers and sisters along with Molly now, Wes." Katie said and he nodded. "Yeah that's an understatement, Keiko, is she okay?" he asked and Keiko O'Brien nodded gave him a gentle smile and nodded. "Yeah she's fine, but I get the feeling with you four, and the sextet now in this case."
"To her, you're her big brothers and sisters now, but like always, it's the same, you're protecting the kids from someone getting beyond reckless and causing an injury. Though that's why I was furious, because if she'd been in the hall and saw that. That is if she was Alex's age and that would have traumatized her beyond belief. But for a girl cat the kittens connected to her own, belong to her to." O'Brien said and he nodded to him.
"Uh what does she mean by kennel born kitten?" Alexandra asked he smiled. "How long have your parents been in Starfleet, you six in particular. I mean, I'm 3rd generation Starfleet born through my dad. But second through my mother, so what about you guys. As you're the youngest members of my litter and she met the trio and the quartet already so how many generations." Wesley said and they nodded as her mother said it.
"I'm fourth generation." she said and the quintet nodded as they gave off their's. "Third" "Fourth" "Second" "Third" "Second" Bernard said and he nodded. "Well that's what I mean, you guys, kids, are too young to be working in the field as a part time job. My coach, before we arrived on the ship, he had me in training since I was 13. But four years of training on the enterprise, to her that's my kennel, the ship is my kennel."
"And I'm barely 2 years old in her eyes, and she is 2 years old, so to her I'm a kitten, kennel born kitten, protecting the entire kennel from a very dangerous cat. And possibly a case of strays with everyone suffering the secondary and not knowing who's who yet. So to her, she's watching who does and that's why she was gave that warning growl to you guys, she knows it's you and not your alter ego now." he said and she gave a meow.
"He's right, I can see you acting normal, I know you're yourself again, but rival kitten over there, he's got to get his jealousy under control. And before it puts him in his own kennel for a week." she said meowing, as she gave a growl at the pill bottle. "After you study those, destroy them, kitten needs a chance to heal and before this makes him worse." she added and Anenzi nodded as the trio hid a smile as Beverly said it gently.
"I think she made it clear now, to her, you're her kitten, mess with her kitten and someone is getting the claws." she said and Wesley nodded as he stroked the fur on her head and she purred protectively at that. "If we had a cat in year two, I had a room mate, with you gone and she was keeping me company until you got home." he said and they nodded as his medical guardian answered his remark gently at that.
"Yes and I think she's grown too attached when she just met you, but this is ridiculous." Michaels said as she started laughing at that remark. "Hey Wes, would this damage to the wall have anything to do with why you talk about this girl like that. Your tone goes cautious every time you mention her?" Dayton asked and he and Pulaski looked up and saw several burn marks and what looked like fingernail scratches next to the monitor.
And they both nodded as she answered that question. "Yeah it does, and it's because Jamison suffered a slight life threatening disease I had contained. And learning what he had her bodyguard decided if I wasn't going to neutralize that contagion then she was. And morphed right in front of me and into a Bigfoot style creature, before I called Worf and the captain in here at the time." she said and they nodded as he finished that.
As the cat looked at the wall and started growling as her fur started standing up as she backed into him protectively and they nodded. "Shh, it's okay girl she's not still on board, it's okay." he said softly and she mewed and rested her head against his leg and he started petting her as they sighed. "Well that makes it clear, she's not having you get hurt with Anya or Salia's real form on board." Will said to him at that response gently.
"At the current moment, I think that just made our point, then again, I wish that when we were on earth that first year, before you left. I wish I adopted a cat and at least this way, it's not quite as lonely in there. Though if she saw Salia in her natural form and the reaction is she's going to fight to the death, regarding me. When I'm only 16 and a just short of a one year old kitten in her eyes." he said and Pulaski nodded to that gently.
"What the heck was Salia if you're saying it like that?" Robin asked and Pulaski answered that with a sigh. "She's an allasamorph, they're shapeshifters, but her bodyguard was a slightly older woman a year or so older then me and his grandfather. And she's, in our eyes, making the perfect bodyguard in this case, but seeing her change. And for the first time, it's still enough to scare the heck out of you." she said and the duo nodded to her.
"The captain told me right after they saw a near fight break out in here that day, and I agreed to stay away from her. But Salia, she didn't want to leave me and snuck out and came to see me." he said and Will covered his eyes. "Well that explains why the security alarm went off in your quarters, she just barely got you killed by doing that." Pulaski snapped in shock and he nodded as he answered her gently at that remark.
"Yeah, well Anya thought the situation was in reverse, but I followed orders and that was that I would stay away from her. But her, she couldn't over rule her head that week, she wanted a last time to see me. But I think the act of playing a humanoid teenager in love for the first time over ruled her head. Sorry mom that second year with her around, it was easier for me to open up, but she understands the trauma the knack caused here."
"But you better combine forces for whatever the added after effects are going to be here, but dad was right, added case of attachment here. And things after the knack resulted in the bond deepening and they knew I still needed them. Though I'm fully recovered from that, or I was before Soong hijacked Data last year and causing us to realize. Now, that the side effects are stil there, but that's the other reason she came back at the moment."
"Brand considered the possibility that whatever this is that the planet triad decided on was going to reactivate it and if I'm the said target meant to get it into the federation. And the knack combined with it, they had to take charge and fast. And before our conversation over this last year activated in the process." he said and Beverly nodded. "I get why, but these characters need to understand that though you love someone."
"You at times have to let them go and she broke your heart by revealing her true form to you and after repeated traumas over the previous 15 months. That this is enough to tick us as your parents and guardians off at the moment, because if I had her powers. And knowledge of knowing what the bodyguard would do and I'd just take orders. And leave you alone, before her guardian lost her temper." she said and he nodded to her gently.
"Well, trust me an allasamorph on allasamorph fight is too much right now when the only human in the room never saw this for themselves and their legal guardians did. Salia snuck out of their quarters, came to our quarters and Anya arrived in their natural form, before I saw Salia do the same thing and I called the lieutenant to my quarters. And before I got caught in the middle of it then." he said and they nodded in shock to that.
"I can't believe she did that, because with you having your mother transferred back to earth, followed by us dealing with Devin on the ship. These kids creating that stupid rumor and it causes you to over do and now this. If it was a human teenage girl it's one thing. But an alien shape shifter is another and then to top it off, is you're just getting over a trauma, then you have your heart broken." Pulaski said firmly to that news.
"Yeah no kidding I know you didn't like the fact that Devin threw his knack on me without realizing or maybe he did. And decided if I could help him it was worth it, but not breaking it, and before he died was going too far. But you had it right the first time, it was four to five days and as a results that's why I looked like that. But first Aldea, then this and Salia, one thing or another could be accepted but two traumas and now this."
"In your eyes, that is the six of you the rest of the group I'm close to, this is going way too far right now, but you were the ones trying to protect me. And from having my heart broken, and at first I thought she was a normal girl till Anya showed up. As I got the truth and I saw her change right in front of me, but it was close in there." he said and they nodded as the engineering crew exchanged furious looks at that news
"Jesus, you're lucky there was wasn't an altercation in there or that could put you in here for an injury honey." Barnfield said in shocked disbelief at the news. "Tell me about it, I mean hearing what this is is one thing, but seeing it is another. And being the victim that winds up in the middle, that's crossed the line between truths. And breaking orders for their own safety and the sextet were trying to protect me too, before she violated it. "
"Dad, the captain, Worf and Dr. Pulaski told me what she was and I decided I wasn't taking chances right now. But I was letting her go, but I think her love for me was too strong and she didn't want to let go that easily here right now." he said and Picard nodded. "Either way, if she just followed orders that we and Anya agreed to, she wouldn't have just put you at risk, you're 16 years old and my responsibility right now."
" I'm not losing you because of a love struck teenage alien shapeshifter and her not willing to follow orders. Because she's letting her heart over rule her head and put the entire crew at risk right now for the sake of her own feelings right now. I know that they say that she can't help her feelings, but at times you have to. Or they get completely out of control and put others at risk, case in point is you nearly ending up in the middle."
"But you're with the right one now and we can all agree that this is better as she was future leader of her planet. And you're a young officer, your other half is a fellow officer, son." he said to him gently and he nodded in agreement to that. "At the moment with the fact you said that Lieutenant, she understands. She may not completely understand, but she gets the gist of my condition right now." he said and she nodded as she sai it.
"Yes I think she got the message, to her the trio are now the bad influence on you and she's acting like me when I had you on strict regime when you were home. But that was a good way to explain it, and as a medical born prodigy you knew what needed to be done. To end those jolts aside from that, ever since you started training you never broke your regime." Michaels said and Beverly finished that remark smiling slightly at that.
"I think she decided that she was your cat as well honey, if she was sleeping next to you last night and was trying to protect you this morning." Beverly said with a smile as the cat looked at Robin and Wesley smiled. "She's my girlfriend Spot, the duo are my trio, and she's my girlfriend." he said and she mewed. "Meow?" she asked and he nodded. "My home squadron, the duo were my litter at my school, girl, but the duo."
"We met and we became a trio, but they're my true litter, us four, we're kennel born kittens, learning our training from 11 months and up to now. But we're 1 1/2 years old and had our training cat reunite us after I returned home. They're my litter, my playmates, she's my mate, my new mate." he said and he saw a gentle smile enter her eyes as she pushed her head into her side and Wesley hid a smile as he said it gently.
"Well that's a relief, for a second I didn't think she'd let me keep you, cats get very territorial with their owners, especially the kittens, so girl cat, and human teenage to young adult boy. She's going to act like I belong to her only, if it was a boy cat and human teenage girl same thing, the male cat, once they see the guy she's dating. And sense the said boy is not the right type in the way the fathers do, then stand back."
"But she just made her decision, she likes you and knows you're my exact match, so to her, you're my mate, and the guys my trio and playmates. And together you make up my litter in her eyes now." he said and Robin nodded. "The wording got her attention, she didn't realize one litter was the reason you looked like this. And the other is the reason you're bonded so tightly to the duo and Jake, home litter, that's a good way to explain."
"And besides I prefer you with others just like you then this trio on your team right now, if they're being a bad influence on you. And she's going mama cat now, but for the boys, you better stand back as said male cat acting like a father and at times, if they still had claws, tended to attack the suitor. And through the railing of the stairs in the 20th century." Beverly added and Data looked at her at that bemused.
"Why the heck would the cat do that exactly?" Hanson asked and she explained that to him. "It's adult male cat language for, 'you ever touch my daughter like that and you're getting my rifle pointed at you for getting my daughter pregnant, so hands off.'. You get said cat when they're no older then 18 months and your daughter is still just a child. By that I mean Alexandra when she was still a little girl and we just started out."
"And the results are from that age to teenager if you got said cat at the exact same time from 10 months old to 18 months, he starts acting like a furry bodyguard. The results are if they're always together and the said cat starts acting human and gets protective. But if they, the cat, was Spot's age and it's a boy and he sees the child of their owner that young they see the child of their owner as their own kitten growing up after that."
"And are on kitten duty for life after that, and after said kitten enters the young adult kitten years and goes away to school. Before coming home on break and said adult male cat meets the new suitor and responds in the same way the father would. If the father knew his daughter was not the type to cross base two and the suitor wanted to. So for the father it's a firm chat and warning him to keep his hands above the hips now."
"While for the cat, same warning, but in cat language as they get overly territorial with their humans as a result. But with the fact she just met my son and she knows how Data sees him and to her that means he's an adoptive kitten now. And he's belongs to her now as a result, with him together with Robin, she can share." she said and the quartet nodded with a bemused look as Robin looked at her as she rubbed up against her.
And she smiled as she started petting her as they heard a gentle purring coming from her at that. "Should have seen that coming, I didn't have to hear the words, he decided to bunk in Data's quarters, but that was a case of subterfuge. So just to prevent the trio from checking the bedroom, but to go into that Aunt Beverly, regarding her though. Was she allowed to go wondering around the crew quarters and the sickbay decks here."
"If she knew where we were?" Dayton asked they nodded. "Yeah, but though we have two or three cats on board the ship, it's making sure they don't get passed deck 11. Because from that deck and down the areas get more dangerous at the moment here." Geordi said with a bemused smile on his face at this. "At the current moment why would she come in here as we're discussing this?" Will asked and he chuckled as he answered.
"I told her there was a likelihood of me staying longer and she decided to double check that, she was worried when she saw my clothes. And tried to prevent me from leaving her apartment this morning, but I told her once you were back to normal. That once you heard the exact reason that you're deciding on the duration. That you're keeping me home for, and she wanted to know how long." Wesley said and he nodded, bemused.
"Mew?" the cat added and she smiled. "Yeah he's staying for a while girl, in fact until you're four years old, so if you want to visit him in our quarters, that's fine." Beverly said and the cat gave a mew and he chuckled. "I'm staying till I'm 20 months, you're close to 3 years old, so I'm staying until you're 4 now, girl." he said and she purred happily at that and he chuckled as she rubbed her head against his arm as he petted her.
"Good word for it, one year is 16 in human years, 2 years is 24, and she's close to 28 in human years, so by the time you return to the academy you, the four of you. And in her eyes, are just short of two years old and and she's nearing 5 by that point. So to her better stand back when it comes to you guys later." Michaels said as she started laughing at and he smiled as he answered her gently at that remark smiling.
"Looks like she prefers us kids to adults if she's like this around us, though why I'm not entirely sure yet. Then again like we said mom, girl cat and teenage boy, she's acting like a mother with her almost 2 year old kitten and anyone that tries to hurt said kitten. You better stand back or they're getting the claws when she lays eyes on them later." he said and they nodded as Spot leaned against him as Beverly looked at him smiling at that.
"If I had a cat when you were still with me up here that's the response, if it was girl honey, but to her it's that she's just met her owners friends. But she didn't understand why Data had several photos of you, but I think she realized it. That its your job to help us protect the kids if there's trouble and she's decided on doing the same as a a result." she said and Wesley nodded as the fourth security team leader looked at him.
"What are the side effects if the doctor had to bring you into Sickbay just to double check?" Robertson said and he sighed as he told him, and his team the truth. "Ever since I joined the squadron they've been sabotaging the regime. That Commander Riker, Captain Picard and Counselor Troi set up for me when mom left at the time. And the test results came back as extreme exhaustion, hypertension from stress, malnutrition."
"And my blood sugars levels were off the scale, as is the caffeine levels, to retranslate that now, as I'm a medical/scienc and engineering prodigy. It's I'm suffering malnutrition, sleep deprivation and caffeine withdrawal, just to recover. And end these dreams I've been having ever since the O'briens married and Data got Spot. It's I need to get out of the school and restart my training up here, and I'm calling it right now."
"I need a sabbatical from the academy, before they put me in the emergency room, because I'm so exhausted that one mistake. And it could get someone killed here, but imagine some teenager at the controls of a car in the 20th century and the effects of the energy drink they took in gave out. If they used certain equipment like the gymnastics equipment, were a swimmer and in the pool or just anything that has to do."
"With any dangerous machinery what would their coaches or supervisors decide once the said student got ratted out. And by their team mates just to prevent them from ending up in the hospital?" he asked and Roberts nodded. "Pull the plug and get the kid in rehab before he collapses at the wheel or breaks a bone. Or worse, when on the equipment, and I get it, and that why you had to tell us." he said and Wesley nodded to him.
"Yeah it is, instead of the duo telling my mother, I decided to do it for them, but tell them when they're compromised and I'm telling Etana what the heck's going on. Etana doesn't understand human anatomy to understand what she was seeing through the duo's eyes. Which explains the medical alert earlier, as Worf and Commander Riker saw the spent look on my face, realized that I was suffering from a possible system crash."
"And called it in, but between the four months lack of rest and the real food my body needs, and what just happened earlier, both together just drained 3/4's of my strength, if we have further problems..." he said and they nodded as Bates covered his eyes. "Your systems are gong to crash and it could land you in here for real, if we don't take charge now regarding this." Anenzi said and he nodded as Beverly looked at him then.
"Eli, with you being the rehab Doctor, you better cover that portion of it. I've got basic medical, you cover substance abuse, and this is what I'd consider that as well at the moment. Though the rest of us are clean and no one is having a nervous reaction to that thing as of yet, but we don't know when it's going to get started here." Beverly said with a sigh and he nodded in agreement to that as she sighed in exasperation
"For crying out loud, I knew that conspiracy was going to mean trouble, but having to combine three different scenarios into this, it's enough we got to watch the ones who aren't strong enough in case they suffer a nervous breakdown. Or just the outburst from to much ethanol or drugs. Alright everyone when on duty in every branch, watch for any signs of erratic behavior, you see anything strange report it, immediately."
"Though in your case, you're in recovery from having your strength depleted and in recovery from a week's worth of all nighters you two, so with that. Jack, you and Derek are with them, Geordi and Data in the engine room, he's staying off the conn position till he's fully recovered, but I want them watched in case one of them falls asleep on the job." she said and the quartet nodded to the medical orders and he looked at her.
"It keeps up like this and our invisible assailent could make it worse, if those pills I mentioned are on a timer here. Though that's true and it's the rest of the programming, she's trying to finish what she started in your case, by using me, or us to do it, mom." he said and she nodded. "If the assailent lands you in here for worse than what you described to me, nothing is saving him from winding up on my operating table later."
"If this is the beginning of your relationship the person is ending up dead if they touch either, or all of you, like that. Or just wind up with the beating of his life by the guys when we learn he's more than what we think. Though if that's why he's here and he's a dead man, after what I saw earlier regarding Alex, when MacGregor walked in." she said with a dangerous growl then as the sextet nodded in agreement to that remark.
"And neither is she, while we're on the subject, if these things are all in the exact time frame you just told us son." Will added to him and he nodded. "Yeah I realize that at the moment, but regarding these time frames, but the pills. I stopped taking them four months, when did MacGregor start working here exactly?" Wesley asked and he explained that. "Also four months ago, dad, when did this conspiracy get worse exactly."
"If Morrison and Haden sent you to tell us exactly?" he asked and he crossed his arms. "Also four months ago son and when did the forgeries in the academy medical department start?" he asked and Wesley explained that that to him. "Four months ago, but is anyone seeing a pattern here. Remember what you once told me, this many clues and anomalies aren't normal, so there's more to this mystery then we think."
"And said mystery is if the Risans and and Cardasians are in this together at the moment, there's some sort of hostile take over bid. And doing it without violence too, as to that, if they chose to our ship, they were trying to create a pocket for the infection. And have this expansion start spreading, without the use of lethal force and with that in mind right now at the moment, if MacGregor is also here at the moment as well."
"Than the Aldeans are also involved it as well but it gets better though mom, every adult that was exposed to this thing is compiled to the families that Radue screwed with. Think about why the quartet came to me and then look at the fact that, of 7, I seem to be the one that is being chased around by this lunatic, as he made your job harder by locking up the extension shaft tunnels and following that is the level I set the shields.
"You know what I'm saying here, mind manipulation, mind control, Stockholm syndrome, and like then I wasn't giving in till Data got me out. But here's the problem, and it's, if MacGregor is also from Aldea, we have a possibility that he's after the sextet, let alone me. Though that's true it explains why they came right to me, the side effects of the kidnapping are getting worse here" he said and she nodded as she answered him.
"So what else exactly honey, the kids flourished in their given expertise, as did you, but now you're telling me. That she's got connections to a planet that took the seven of you away from us briefly that year?" she said, looking at him and he nodded. "Yeah and either that or he has a relative that looks just like him aboard this ship. At the moment I don't need that memory, though he decides to try again and she's in league with him."
"And with my being the one who was resisting their techniques the most I'm the one he's determined to get back. Because the sextet are four years older then they were then, and it's now gone in reverse. What else to do, but break the attempted indoctrination technique by getting Data back on line. And secondly risk an injury just to keep from getting taken a second time, but that explains the uneasiness you felt, Deanna."
"When I saw MacGregor, the thought crossed my mind he transferred here from Aldea. But he looks like Radue, in fact he looks like his younger brother or cousin, if she had further plans for me. It's by bringing that memory back, and if she or someone else got a hold of another one, it's Maxia all over again." he said to her gently. "That explains why you moved closer to me, you're scared of him." Will said and he nodded to him gently.
"He's been tailing me ever since I got back, I don't know what his problem is, but his behavior is starting to scare me now. With you, that I could take right now and with it just insuring you, or our parents, don't get taken next. But it's like he, that is Radue, is determined to get his hands on me again. I'm the ringleader of the seven of us, so with those words in mind now Sirs, mom, and this is a metaphorical question."
"But what's the best revenge against the four of you, but getting his hands on the one that means the most to the six of you, because of our bonds, you're practically my adoptive parents and to you. Anything happens to me and you're going to do a lot of damage to the person that caused it. Case in point is your threat to her after you arrested her at the moment." he said and the sextet nodded as Worf stood up at that.
"Indeed and we will, if their plans result in an injury and land you back in the emergency room. But it's making sure that doesn't happen, but if you get hurt and the ones who did it are going to get it." Picard said with a low paternal growl as Beverly answered that. "I don't know why I never thought of that before, Harry, is every member of the group, that is the seven of us, in here?" Beverly asked firmly, looking at the the man then.
From across the room and he looked around to see the other five families from that situation looking back at him and nodded as he answered her. "Yeah, we're all here Beverly and we all got hit, again. Well I see where this is going to cause a problem later, if she's got anymore plans for us. If the ones dealing with this are your son's crew." he said to her gently and she nodded in agreement as Robin looked between them at that.
"That's why the girls went to me actually, they missed their big brother." he said and she looked at the sextet who were smiling at him. And he gave a reassuring smile back to them and he answered the question in their eyes. "Don't worry guys, I'll be fine, but I'm staying home for the next year in on the job training now, so you have all of us now." he said and they nodded with a smile as she hid hers as she went over that.
"Well that's one half of it, but what aren't you telling me Wes?" Robin asked him and he sighed and ran his hand through his hair. "I dealt with a hostage situation when we were kids, and one of their attempts at keeping us there was mind control, that's why I was putting up so much resistance today. I'm not risking having my mind tampered with and not when I dealt with it when I was fifteen and not when the kids needed me."
"Back then, it took Data, Commander Riker and me breaking down the shield, but the sextet just had a very faint reminder of that situation, only in reverse. The guard I've been staying clear of looks like him or a younger version of him, because of this. And you can fit the pieces together yourself regarding him and his team. That's why I spend so much time around Ensign Bates and his team not to mention the command staff."
"Before they all got taken the night we went out, it's because of that memory. And I'm not having our families torn apart by having our parents, let alone our adoptive family, as we come to see the senior staff, turned into drones." he said and Beverly exchanged looks with the sextet that the said situation entailed as they remembered that. "MacGregor's making you uneasy about this right now?" Deanna repeated and he nodded as he told her the truth at that as he answered the question then gently at that.
"Four years and I still haven't gotten over that, but that explains the forcefield, the entry tube tunnel system being locked out. And why I panicked earlier, I thought it was him not you guys, but you being programmed is just as bad. And when I don't know who's after me, her or him and they're possessing you. That did it, but he just barely missed me twice, before she used you to try it." he told her and they nodded to him at that.
"I see why, hostage situations take time to get over, but for you kids it's even more traumatizing. Because they decide to, if going for non violence, it's indoctrination and Stockholm syndrome by giving you what you wanted most. Of you, but you were waiting for us to break down the front door and get you out." Worf said gently and he nodded to him and they exchanged looks at the news as Robin went into that with him.
"Who in here was part of that if you're bringing that up Wesley?" Robin asked and he sighed. "Aside from me, it was the Bernard's, the Hatchisons, Davidsons, Mathesons, Andrews and Hortons. But me, Mason, Harry, Katie, Alexandra, Rosie and Tara, that's the seven of us, to put this gently the shield was puncturing holes in the ozone layer above their planet and they were all suffering radiation poisoning at the time."
"And sterility was the latest symptom, they brought us there, because they wanted several children to stabilize their culture. And though our parents refused, they took us anyway, and the seven of us were ranging from five to fifteen. And, of us, Harry was beginning to give by the time mom figured out what was happening to the planet inhabitants." he told her and she nodded as Picard sighed as Geordi said it for him.
"Aldea, you have got to be kidding me, that's why you were stalling this long till we picked you up on the scanners finally?" Geordi said in shock and he nodded. "Yeah this situation just went in reverse, the kids are from nine to fourteen now and I'm the oldest of the seven of us. Mind manipulation, indoctrination, brainwashing, it's Aldea again, but in reverse." he said and the sextet all nodded as Will answered him at that.
"What are the chances of that happening for real right now, it's been five years and suddenly we get a very real reminder of our second mission together. And when we were just starting out as a crew and in this situation I was the last one standing. And these situations are dragging up and keep dragging up memories from our first year together repeatedly today?" Will asked and he looked at him as Data answered him.
"With our luck extremely high Commander, I believe with the way this is going after the virus, I get the feeling it's about to get out of control with our first year scenarios. Along with Danar, but three in one day, this keeps up and it's going to result in constant reminders of our first three years together, before he left. And though we lost Tasha, the rest of us are still here." Data said and Wesley nodded in agreement to that.
"He's right, with what happen now, in these situations it's ranging two from year one and one in year three to get it started at the moment, though this keeps up now. Along with a science fiction story from our planet and it's just the beginning now. Because if this isn't over yet, than things are just getting started regarding our first three years, before I left and if that's what it means now, and this wasn't a coincidence."
"Than the scenarios are going to start breaking down the front door from that year, along with adding the book to it as well here the moment. So two reminders in one and with it, if it keeps up several more, before we dealt with that conspiracy and the Romulans. Though this keeps up and I'm betting it's heading towards the big ones the rest of the year, if the trip back takes another shift now guys." he said and Geordi said it to that.
"You're right, this keeps up and I'm looking at several situations rolled into one along with flashbacks and waking nightmares rolled into it next. Though that happens and I'm going to kill her for that, it was one too many close calls our first year and if this keeps up its heading towards the Ferengi and that mind manipulation thought making device." he said and Beverly ended the conversation at that as she looked at the duo firmly.
"You keep taking like this and we will boys, now relax. We don't need to be jinxing this situation or we're going to get hit by several all at once here. And I don't need a reminder of that situation on Aldea after they kidnapped you kids, because I told them we weren't giving you up. And I was ready to kill Radue for taking you from me at the time, though if this is another reminder of that situation I see why you stalled this long."
"If you're that determined to not have your mind tampered with, though she even does try that and I'm killing her myself." Beverly said and they both looked at her and nodded. "Yeah and where you're concerned the mama bear syndrome really takes control with my being your only child to." he said and she nodded. "Yes and any sick person even touches you they're getting blasted when I get through with them." She said and he nodded as Will looked at her in bemusement as he answered her at that.
"Alright, alright, everybody pull yourselves together, it was a close call today, but we don't need to get testy with each other, so relax. But if that's what she pulled, someone is in big trouble here, every member from that group got hit, but you're the only who's taking training in mind control techniques and with what just happened here. The situation is not over yet if she's got anything else in mind for us, let alone you."
"And with that in mind now, what are you thinking right now, son?" Will asked and he sighed as he looked at him as he explained that to him and Picard. "If this situation was any kind of indicator, it's they're about to try and start a war between us, and as to why exactly. I've just prevented their games from getting off our ship, so with that in mind, it's mind manipulation, or something like the Battle of Maxia next."
"Brainwashing, mind manipulation and what comes next with the fact you told me about the diamond here exactly?" he asked and Picard nodded. "I'm looking at someone getting turned into another assassin or just the headsets have another hidden agenda. And they're trying to turn one of us into the drone so they can use us for something here." he said and finished that with next remark then as he looked at the sextet.
"Yeah well it gets better Sir, a medical technician at the academy is forging signatures of the secondary CMO's of every ship in the fleet for the cadets. The ones who's parents are working aboard the ship, and Dr. Anenzi, yours is the latest on the list now." Wesley said the doctor looked at him in shock. "You have got to be kidding, I'm not breaking orders and I would never prescribe whatever was given to the cadet that was it was given to."
"What was prescribed here that made you report that now exactly and who's the..., wait never mind, you're the patient this time if you told me that, right. What with your mother being the CMO aboard ours and that's why you had to tell us that now. Alright what's the problem and why would this be needed if you had to tell me that, especially since your mother is the CMO on the ship?" he asked and he nodded and explained that.
"Yeah it's me and it's why Data and I had to ransack the medicine cabinet Doctor, during the encounter I got hit by the same pained jolts you get from dealing with a narcotic withdrawal. But I'm not dealing with anything, I don't drink or take drugs, though this is where you're not going to take it well. But to answer your second question its caffeine pills doctor, though mom would never let that happen anyway and she's furious enough."
"And that's why this is more serious now and was why I had to report this to you, because mom would never allow you to do that whatsoever. Where my health is concerned it's not taking anything to push me that far. Let alone I'd never cross that line either. I don't drink, and I would never take this stuff, if I had no choice. It's just that I've been having frequent nightmares and the squadron is having me up all night."
"And fooling around, they're up until three in the morning screwing around, but I'm not a hotshot I'm a scientist and when I'm supposed to be studying in my room. And frankly between both I'm losing sleep over this the last four months. But that's why I have to get away from those three, bad influence at the moment and peer pressure. What with the fact I just drained a good deal of energy just from that one chase alone.
"Being around the trio is going to finally going to do it, between the sleep deprivation and this together I'm beyond exhausted." he told him and he nodded firmly as she looked at him in shocked amazement. "Yes and that's not the first time we saw you looking like this, not least of all is when you were recovering from the effects of the knack." Pulaski said sharply and he nodded as he looked between her and Beverly.
"But this is what my previous scan read out earlier, so you better compare it to what you just did guys." he said and passed her the read out and she read through it and he felt his anger rising by the minute. "I'm seeing this like I'm seeing some kid suffering from having repeated nightmares regarding a mental homicidal maniac here. These are reading out the exact same indications." Anenzi said in with a furious growl as he read it.
"If I wasn't sure before, I am now, you need to be here to recover from this, before they land you in the emergency room here. What's the print out say if you're that furious Doctor?" Will asked him and he answered that with a growl. "His blood pressure is bordering on pre hypertension out of stress. And from there his seratonin/melatonin levels are spiking, blood sugar and caffeine levels are through the roof as well."
"He's lost weight and whatever else is in these pills are still in his system and he's been in recovery for the better part of 2 1/2 months, before he came home. But evidently what's in those pills hasn't completely left his system yet or is just refusing to right now. Alright with that in mind, your mother and I are taking control in medical protocols as of now in your case." he said and Wesley nodded as he answered him with a low growl.
"The reason for the spiking levels in caffeine, sugar and my serotinn/melatonin levels is because of three members of my squadron. I was intending on sticking to my diet that mom and the trio put me on, not to mention the regime they set up, before she left. But they've been screwing with it the last five months and those nightmares I mentioned are just making it worse." he said and the quintet all nodded as Will said it for them.
"They keep it up and and you wouldn't last long, but if your system is getting weaker, than just hanging around with those little brats. Then this is going to put you in the hospital if you don't get the rest you need right now." Will said slowly and he nodded. "Between both and possibly I'm the primary target to finish the job, than its enough I'm going to have to take that sabbatical Sir." he told him and he nodded gently to him.
"Are you kidding me, I never allowed you to take in more than medium safe dose in either caffeine or sugar and kept you on a balanced diet since you were five honey. Just what the hell is the reason for this exactly at the moment?" she asked and he sighed. "One or two alnighters studying at the time. But it's just the caffeinated soft drinks that I've been using or a cup of coffee, but that, no I don't take those, but here's the thing."
"But whatever dreams I'm having have me up all night and the doctor, or rather the medical technician that prescribed me these said he got Dr. Anenzi's permission from you to prescribe them, mom." he told her and she nodded as Anenzi said it in shocked disbelief then. "What, I never did any such thing and I would never break your mother's medical decisions regarding you either here as well, and as for that crap."
"You have got to be kidding, taking in too much of that crap can and will do permanent damage, because the maximum safe dosage, daily, is 400 to 500mgs of caffeine, in any form. How strong are those pills and did you bring a copy of the bottle if you're reporting this to me now, because we've being framed here, but your team just made it worse." he said and Wesley passed him the bottle and he checked the level and nodded in shock.
"Your team is making your condition get more dangerous by the minute, this keeps up and you're going to be in rehab for four months kiddo. Beverly, code 265 medical intervention protocols, we've got to get him out of the academy on sabbatical. And for the next 7 to 11 months, before these kids put him in the emergency room. Because this keeps up his system could crash." he told her and she nodded as Picard answered him.
"If it takes 6 to 11 months away from those three, if Alberts not in on it, I'm over riding basic protocols and having you train from up here till you're fully recovered from all of this. If this isn't over yet at the moment, though if the host is hiding in plain sight, than I'm not have you left alone anymore till we find the person who is the host." Picard said sharply and Will nodded in agreement to that remark. "You're my commanders Sir, as well as my legal guardians so with that, you still have authority to do that right now."
"Though if the secondary host can't get near me, he's going to try something else, but depending on how long we got, best to be around you now, by either on the bridge, or in the engine room from here on out." he told him and Geordi looked at him. "If it takes being surrounded by me, Data and the rest of the engine room crew you're not being left alone till its time to get off duty and even then." he said to him firmly at that remark.
"Before you say it, that was stopped two months ago and the refills haven't been used since Ensign Ro arrived here at the moment. The refills are in my stuff, but I haven't touched them and I'm not about to start now right now. I don't get migraine headaches, and I'd never mix this stuff with painkillers anyway. Not unless I had no other choice, but if that's her plan now, it's framing me for over doing it regarding proper nutrition."
"In fact I've only been taking in the medium safe dose in anything regarding both that and sugar products. But whoever's screwing with my sleep patterns since I wrote myself up and got ready to go on leave. But if she, the technician and MacGregor are all in this together, that could be her next plan now." he said and the quartet all nodded. "If it is, than we're ending it with you in recovery and making sure you recover."
"And if need be, I'm restarting your officers training and getting it on whatever extension is needed till you're fully recovered and things are back to the way they used to be, before you left for the academy." Will said to him as he looked at him. "Sir I have reason to believe this was not a mistake, if the technician is trying to frame the doctor. And it ended that quickly, it seems too easy right now, because she just gave up too easily."
"And it's like someone is trying to trigger a walking time bomb here, though I stopped taking it. But if there's a link between my dreams, the game and why I suffered that dizzy spell we better figure it out. Because I haven't had a good nights sleep in nearly four months and the dreams keep getting worse right now. I've fallen asleep at my desk, in my dorm room, ten times in three months mom and suddenly they quit all at once."
"And I mean all once, once I got back, I'm not sure why, but she's been trying to catch me in the act all week and finally did when I busted her last night. But I'm guessing she flipped the switch on those spasms, to make me it look like I was suffering withdrawal from narcotics. To have a reason to raise the alarm and an excuse to have me arrested and turned into a drone." he told them and they nodded to that as he went further then.
"But we've had one conspiracy shooting up through Starfleet four years ago, another this past week and now a medical conspiracy. Just what the heck is going on here, is this some sick joke or are the conspirators choosing the second I'm on a month long leave to try another scheme. And destroy the prime directive if there's more than forging medical orders involved here, and our ship gets the most attention at the moment anyway."
"I'm looking at the next attempt being the entity and Maxia next if this keeps up like this Sirs. And with it probably Aldea as well, MacGregor is tailing me right now, but that sums it up now. I haven't taken those pills since Ensign Ro arrived, I'm clean, but somethings very wrong here, if I'm suffering from a caffeine crash. And just barely three hours after we end this foothold situation, but it's close to 24 hours since this started here."
"And it's not the caffeine crash that laid me or loss of blood, but the fact she caused me to try that. But I got a very good look at his eyes and whatever this conspiracy that Maxwell mentioned at the time. At the moment it's looking like it's connected to this at the moment right now." he said and they all nodded as they exchanged looks as he went further at that remark as he said it to them as he looked at the senior staff crew.
"Mom, what's even worse is that though I stopped taking these three months ago, the effects still feel like I got it in my system here." he said and she nodded. "Alright that explains the dizzy spell, the caffeine crash combined with the adrenaline, gave out and drained most of your strength as a result. This is no coincidence right now, she deliberately drained your strength for reason, and it's to make you more a viable target."
"But what for I have no clue yet, but if this isn't over yet, it's to make it easier for you to comply with whatever she programmed into the one she put on you. Before Data deactivated it at the time, but that's what worries me at the moment, because if that's the case whoever the secondary host or plant is. Than he's to make sure you finish the mission she ordered us to do." Geordi said with a furious growl, as Robin finished that.
"But that's not a coincidence either, it's intended now, but here's the question: why choose the week you come home to get this started, why put the first on Commander, and most of all. Why are every item on the list, the pills, MacGregor and the dreams are all corresponding to the exact same date and time, 7 months ago. Who's the secondary host and where is he hiding exactly." Robin said sharply to him and they nodded firmly.
"I never looked at it like that, but you're right, why choose this past week to start this, if that's not an indicator there's more to it than this. Why is everything corresponding to the exact same time frame right now, just who is the target and who is the secondary host working for the hive, who is it and who is the target now. That's a very good question right now." Will said and Picard nodded in agreement as he answered him.
"Nothing is a coincidence right now, because nothing happens by accident, it's right on schedule here right now, like before you always managed to get us out at the last minute Wesley. But this time it's become even more, since I assigned you to the forward conn position. But if they had plans at getting back at me, because though we did it together, I'm the captain of this ship, they'd be using our bond against me."
"In every situation, Radue, the Daimon, the entity, you figured it out and if it's one or all of these, why stop at a foothold situation. And not go straight to attempted kidnapping or mind control and destroy the crew that's been a thorn in their side ever since we shipped out that year. By starting a war between our ship and their planet, by using the youngest of the senior staff to do it." Picard said and Will nodded in agreement to that.