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.
As the situation from this episode starts foreshadowing the rest of the season as they decide to make changes to the next episode focused on him. Before he returns to the academy and they keep him home as he returns to on the job training as the term starts, as he's in recovery for three months and then in month four Sito Jaxa, Kate Higgens and Josh Alberts Joins the young crew as they start training now in that as she gets a glimpse of her possible future now.
Chapter 20: The Second Attack And Added Reactions
"Wait, wait, wait a minute, what are the chances we have a few security personnel who still have the secondary on them right now. Wes may have set up the security on their quarters, but as security crew, we can disable a lockout easily?!" Greyson said quickly and Beverly felt her heart turn over. "Will, Worf go check and take Derek, Jack and Eric with you." she said and they nodded as they left and got up to the Crushers quarters.
'God son, I hope you're alright, because enough is enough right now, you're just beginning to recover and this just got added to it. Etana, I mean it, you come near my cubs with any of your drones, and you'll wish like hell we had killed you before I get through with you.' he thought with a firm growl as they got out of the turbolift and headed for her quarters as they arrived and the sextet pulled their phasers.
Just as he was typing in his entry code they heard a scared shout followed by a crash and something glass breaking and finished punching in the code as they came in. And saw Wesley lying half on the floor as he turned over then and backed into the bed. And with Ensign Jack Douglas standing in front of him with the game in his hand. And that did it as Worf grabbed him and took him down, as he watched Wesley carefully then.
'Wesley, don't, don't, calm down, calm down, it's alright, it's us, it's alright you're safe.' Worf thought to himself then seeing the fear in his eyes and knowing why as the young man backed away from them as he backed into the wall. 'No, I'm not going back, stay away from me.' he saw in his eyes as he quickly turned at that to see MacGregor. "Damn it MacGregor we told you to stay out of this, just get out of here, you're scaring him."
"Just get out of here damn it, get out, get out now." Porter snapped at him as Wesley backed into the corner at that as he heard the one of their female team mates say it. "Easy baby, shh, it's okay." she said gently as they were all thinking that themselves. 'Oh god, not again, son, don't try it, it's alright it's us. Easy, easy, it's alright, it's okay cub, it's okay, it's us.' Bates thought gently and knowing what it was that was wrong then.
'Deanna, I think the left overs from the last 20 hours just over ridden his control. MacGregor, came in. But he took one look at him and backed into the corner, it's the same as when he tried to head him off. When he escaped into the tunnels, but he's getting ready to bolt, he's on the fight or flight response. At the moment now, and it was a security guard that attacked him here.' Will said quickly as he watched him carefully.
As he heard a fast response from her. 'Snap him out of it, before he makes his ankle worse, because this starts a third time or even fourth. And that near dislocation could turn into a real one, he's in no condition for this right now. But 2 attacks in under an hour and he's panics now then he's going to have it. As his system crashes on him, he's on the median, if he has a panic attack it could hit him.'
'I think that this sudden attack triggered it, and it gets triggered every time he sees MacGregor, stay put. And don't make any sudden movements, or he's going to bolt, just calm him down, but don't try anything.' she said and he hid a nod to the orders as they watched him gently then. 'No not again, easy son, easy, it's okay, it's okay.' They thought together as they saw his eyes shift to the shaft hatch.
Seeing the shaft door hatch was open, Will realized his student was getting ready to bolt this time despite his ankle. And he quickly moved to him as he looked into his eyes as he said it gently then. "Easy, easy, it's okay, it's okay, shh, it's okay, it's us, it's me son, it's okay." he said softly as he crouched in front of him, seeing the scared look play on his face, he knew the added side effects were beginning to kick in, as he said it again.
"Easy, it's me son, it's okay, you're safe, shh." he said softly as he looked into his eyes as he rested his hand on his knee and in response he moved into his arms. And buried his head into his shoulder as Will tightened his arms around him then as he sighed at that. Feeling him shaking, he knew that whatever response he had to the guard trying to arrest him hit him a second time, and that the young man needed him to protect him.
'That was too close this time, alright if this happens a second time, and it's when he's suffering the effects of whatever plan this is. It's we've got to restrain and break the effects of that trip, before he hurts himself anymore then he is already. Shh, it's okay cub, it's me, it's really me this time, you're safe.' he thought to him softly and in response, he felt him lean his head against his shoulder as he rocked him gently.
'Shh, shh, it's okay, it's okay, you're safe, it's okay.' he thought to him softly as he rocked him then. 'Great, as if trying to catch him twice isn't serious enough, we just got a direct demonstration to having MacGregor seeing him and trying to arrest him. This happens again and he's suffering a fever this time, it's breaking the delirium and getting him to focus.' he thought to himself as he looked at the sextet surround them gently.
"Like I said she's turned him into a kid not much older then Mason or Harry, but this happens again and it ends up in the extension shaft. If he has another fever that high, it's I'm going to need back up and who's team is he on exactly if Wes panicked like this right now?" He asked with a low growl and Porter answered that. "He's on MacGregor's team, but what caused that reaction?" he asked and Worf answered that firmly.
"As he said, to them MacGregor is nothing but Radue, dressed in a red Starfleet uniform, and we just barely prevented him ending up in the shaft a second time. If it wasn't just his ankle but the landing on that table also caused him to land directly on that shard. He's injured right now, and he's scared, but to him and the sextet, MacGregor and his team are Radue and several of his guards, and with that if he has a black out."
"As well as whatever happens with it, it's making sure that the injuries don't get any worse right now." he said and Will nodded in agreement. "Yes and with it, if the effects of this third plan they have, if this portion doesn't work. It's resulting in the scenario we discussed on the bridge last year at the moment, guys if the trio aren't around for it. I need one of the six of you involved and the others on standby when we figure it out."
"And by one I mean the pair who spent the most time in helping us train him in this portion of it." he said and the sextet nodded as he heard two more sets of running come charging into the room then as he looked over his shoulder to see Data and Geordi. "Medical team to the Crusher's apartment, repeated medical security alert in the Crusher's apartment." Geordi snapped as he charged over to him as he said it then.
"I don't know if he landed on the second shard or not but the table is broken and these tables are made of glass, if that really did stab him in the leg. And I'm really going to be ticked, we just made it just in time and the repeater is he was ready to head for the shaft. Before I got through to him, but of our team, we need two in here in case anymore secondaries try to get in here, and I'm not leaving him alone right now."
"But best to have a security team in here to keep him company, so he's not likely to have that happening again. If Charlie was spooked, Wes is across between the nightmares he was having regarding Aldea and this latest issue right now. Last night and this morning was bad enough, but now, if his system crashes I'm really looking at that for real. And our conversation over this just hit the table, he's drained too much energy here."
"This keeps up and they cause him to have a relapse nothing is saving them, whoever the plant is, from ending up in sickbay and a detention cell himself right now when I get through with them." Will told him and the trio nodded in agreement and the sextet exchanged looks and Porter nodded as he said it. "With my being the one in here investigating things in here after last night, I'll do it." he said and Will nodded to him.
"Data and I are staying with him, that is if the cat doesn't choose to do the same right now, but the last time we saw him like this, that spooked, was the aftermath to Aldea." Geordi said in answer to that. As he turned around and put himself in front of Wesley then firmly. "Close the damn hatch and lock it this time, because we're not leaving him alone right now." Geordi added as he heard the answering response from Jenson.
"I just checked his body temperature, on the system corrections on whatever Wes told you earlier, his body glowing yellowish orange on the system. Who was it who attacked him exactly anyway?" Jenson asked and he explained that. "Ensign Jack Douglas, he attacked him by coming in through the ventilation shaft. But two last night, two tonight, Dave how many do we have that have that color exactly?" Bates asked him at that.
"In total we have fifty four, but until they try to attack we don't know who it is yet, but two last night, two tonight. And when I was checking the equipment, I also saw fifty more glowing like that, but everyone else is greenish yellow. So that's fifty with the secondary and we arrested four in the side of 24 hours since the axe fell last night, Commander Riker." he said and Will nodded as he answered him as he looked at him.
"What about MacGregor, who was the one who got thrown into the wall exactly, because Wes said that the plant was glowing reddish orange. Although if his system crashes and we have to deal with a real one, regarding him, and if the programming causes a blackout in addition to his system crashing. Then we're going to have to pull this for real, but it's like we discussed here at the moment?" he asked and Jenson sighed as he said it.
"Whoever it was took off, before Anthony could check to see who it was right now, but I think they know the minute we check the system once this starts for real. And he's dead meat when we find them whoever it might be right now at the moment. But this time it's not just his ankle in addition to the amount of abuse his body has dealt with. But now they just made it worse, if he's hurt." he said and Will nodded as he answered him.
Before he could say it though he felt his student shift as his head leaned against his shoulder as he felt him shaking. "Shh, easy son it's okay, it's okay you're safe now, what happened exactly?" he said to him as the sextet subdued the inflicted guard and he tried to help him stand before he collapsed into him. "Whoa easy, easy, come on, let's get you onto the bed son." he said as Davidson helped him over to it as they helped him onto it.
"It wasn't through the front door, he came in through the shaft leading into my room, but he tried to catch me off guard and threw me into the wall. And I landed directly on my ankle, I don't know if that did it or not, but I can barely move it now. I wasn't standing on it I promise, I was just getting ready for bed. Lal teleported my p.j.'s on to the bed I was just preparing to settle in, before I have this guy attack me at the moment."
"What now, the trio and I can't be left alone anymore if Charlie was attacked when working on it and I get it next?" he asked and Geordi hid a sigh as he pulled him into a hug and felt the young man bury his head into his shoulder. "Damn it, alright I'm staying with him until you get back in here, Commander. But it's better if we don't leave him alone in case that happens again." Porter said and Will nodded in agreement to that.
"You better make it your entire team, Eric, but Jack, Mark, our teams and I are dealing with anymore secondaries and lock the damn shaft for the night. If they're coming in through the extension shaft and ventilation with the front door locked. And security scrambled we have to do the same on their shafts leading into their quarters right now. The duo were newly arrived and right now with them separated from their parents."
"We're their guardians now at the moment." Greyson said angrily at that. "Geordi, you're with them, I'll be back in forty minutes, I gotta report this to the captain now." Will added to him and he nodded to the orders, before Beverly and O'Brien came into the room. "Wes didn't you leave a clean set of pants on the bed after you did that last night, because I just found the ones you used in your theatrical debut here at the moment."
"Evidently she can't tell the difference between real and stage acting, because I just found the one you used on the floor in that shaft. Not to mention the dressings you used when you simulated the injury as well." Bates said to him and he nodded. "Yeah I did, but if he just jumped me I think he was making it easier for her to get it on me. If..., wait a minute, is anything on the table missing from last night here."
"I left the latest the indications sitting on the desk, before I left for real, but the two pieces were covered in dried blood and rust and I took care of my tetanus shot last night for you mom." he said before looking around the room of his living room as he finished that remark. "Wait, I left the shards on the table last night, when Porter checked in here." Wesley started to say before feeling a jolt of pain shoot through his leg.
Just as she he was answer, Geordi's eyes narrowed then, as he touched his upper leg and the pulled back as he looked at his hand then. "He's bleeding, what happened before we got in here exactly?" he said and thinking fast the guard moved him onto the bed. And he leaned back, as Beverly grabbed the secondary dressing and wrapped it around his leg as Worf explained that to him firmly as he looked between the three of them firmly.
"The table's broken, the smaller of the two is over there." Worf said firmly and she looked at Wesley then. "Found the other, this time it did gouge him in the leg. " she said and Wesley nodded as he looked at Porter then. "And it's still in there, Eric, give me that added dressing, mom is going to have to do it for real this time right now. But tetanus shot taken care of now, so minor surgery, again, in here, and after that."
"It's staying put in bed right now, because I need to be off my leg anyway." he said and she sighed as she answered that as she said it. "I take it you weren't standing on it when he attacked you?" she asked and he shook his head. "No, Lal had my p.j.'s laying on the bed I was just getting ready to settle in here. When he comes in through the ventilation shaft, attacks me from behind and then threw me across the room."
"I landed on the table, not realizing the landing had me landing directly on top of the bigger shard Porter saw lying on the table last night. I think her plan was turning me into a host, before he called you and told you I was injured and I needed medical attention. Before they tried a second time in getting a foothold started on the ship again, by turning you into the latest queen bee, as it started a second time here on the ship."
"But first me, then you and you infected the rest of the senior staff crew, by having the ones with secondaries start ganging up on the ones recovered from this." he said and the quintet nodded firmly as she exchanged looks with Will and Worf at that. "And we prevented that a second time by my realizing this, before they could get it on you and Charlie." Greyson said with a furious paternal growl at the news as he looked at him.
"Which is what the narrator on the book dealt with, he got turned into a host before he told his father that she beat the crap out of him. And his father sent him home and the parasite started on their mission to get more of their species out. Before they arrested him and got the damn thing off of him so he could recover from that." Bates said with a low growl at that and she nodded as she looked at them as she said it.
"Alright that does it, until Will and I get back in here, Eric, lock that door. If it takes turning our quarters into a fortress. And until the secondary gives out and whatever this back up plan, that she has, or they have, starts. I'm not taking chances right now at the moment right now, either with him or the trio. With what just happened and with that in mind, if it means the quartet are protected from now until their third plan starts."
"I'm not leaving my son or the trio alone anymore, either." she said, before they heard a warning growl and then a furious screech then at this. "Oh boy, the cat knows what just happened here, I know that tone." Geordi said as they both turned to see Spot standing in the door with her eyes narrowed and her fur standing straight up then. "Mrrrrooooowwwww!" she said warningly to the man they arrested and Bates took over.
"Get him out of the room before she springs damn it, enough is enough tonight." Bates snapped at the added four members of his team. And they nodded and dragged the man struggling out of the room, as he looked at her gently at that. "Alright, easy girl, we got this, calm down." Will said to her gently as she gave a meowing sigh to him at that as she walked over to the bed and jumped on it then as she looked at Wesley softly.
Before resting her paw on his hand which was turned up. "Mew?" she asked him and he nodded as Beverly hid a smile to that. "I'd say she's acting like me when you're seven to eight years old honey, she's claimed you as her kitten. If she was coming to check on you repeatedly, and her reaction to Douglas losing it a bit ago at the moment." she said and he nodded as the sextet of guards hid a smile as they exchanged looks at this.
"Now what's that supposed to mean right now, I've never seen her acting like this with anyone before?" Bates asked as he hid a chuckle to her response with his student then. "Cats can tell the difference between who's a cat person and who's not. My mother was a cat person and I like cats and she knows this, so with that in mind right now. To any cat the child of their owner is their own kitten growing up, so to her, I'm her kitten now."
"To answer you girl, yes we had another one lose it right now, but that makes four and a teenage case of rebellion in orders. Who was the first target if they tried me next exactly, As Robin went to check things out after we heard the alarm go off?" he asked and and Will answered that. "Barcley was the previous reaction and he tried to get that on Charlie, before Eric arrested him again and we sedated him until the effects wear off."
"Though I know the reason for that panic attack this time, but two tonight, two last night this keeps up and it's going to be a very long week right now. But if this was the plan the trio had in mind it's turning our generations against each other. But not going to happen, until the secondary and the back programming get deactivated, for good, no ones going anywhere at the moment." he said and Wesley nodded as he looked at the cat then.
"Data how old is she exactly, if she's acting like this?" he asked and the cat looked into his eyes then. "She's 2 1/2, so to her it's either you're her younger brother or just her kitten, but at this age she's getting overly territorial with you kids right now if this keeps up honey." Beverly said and he nodded as the cat gave a meow of agreement and he chuckled as she curled up next to him then as his mother got to work then.
"Well the mama bear syndrome just kicked in with both of you right now, mom, after she barely let Lieutenant Bates have it this morning. I think she's beginning to tell the difference between the drones suffering the added secondary programming and the ones acting like themselves right now." he said and Spot gave a meow of agreement as Will looked at Data at that and he translated the remark with a bemused look.
"She said 'he's right I can, with the fact all of you are surrounding him and the quartet shoved that cat out of the room, I know he's not acting like himself right now. Though this keeps up and I'm not leaving my kitten alone anymore at the moment. And kitten is also hurt in the lower paw, I'm not going anywhere while you're working on it." He said and Beverly hid a chuckle to the remark at that as she answered her then.
"You check on Jake, Spot, with Robin and Charlie in sickbay right now?" she asked and she gave a second meow. "She said 'yes I did, and he's barricaded the cat door and added door in his room at the moment. Kitten's mate and playmate are back to studying that toy that turned you all into bad cats. And the other vet has the guard cats on high alert right now.'." Data said for her and they all nodded as Will sighed gently to that.
"Mate and playmate?" Davidson repeated and Wesley hid a smile. "She means girlfriend and best friend, Ensign, Charlie's my best friend. And Robin and I just started in our relationship, this situation just cemented it and I think she knows that Jake is a member of my squadron up here. So to her, it's my litter, and with the way we are together, she's just realized what the trio are to me now." he said and the man nodded to him gently.
"What Deanna and mom said, regarding Tasha and the knack, was true though, the knack at times can have lasting effects if you're suffering the loss of a loved one. Which explains why mom was so ticked at the trio for breaking the pact we all made. And with the fact I now know why Derek is trying to sabotage me. And it's because his cousin happens to be Marks himself." he said and the man nodded firmly to the news at that.
"It was after I was recovered I told the quartet and the sextet, but they and Guinan were the only ones who knew about why I was getting irritated at the time. Colin had this jealousy regarding me, but he was the second to top of his class. And arrives, hoping to be seen by the duo and Data for his fast thinking and reflexes. But they're too focused on Jake and me in our 'thinking our way out of the box' and mental strategy as a result."
"But everything you saw on the holodeck, that's what dad was really like with the captain, the captain is my parents best friend. But dad was just like Commander Riker in personality and to him seeing me at this age he's seeing the duo on duty." he said and Davidson nodded in understanding to that. "That's what Eric meant, he said Derek instigated the fight regarding these rumors he's been saying about you two."
"And the captain, your explanation to Charlie on the bridge, that's the truth, Jack was the captain's first officer on the Stargazer. And he was honoring Jack's memory and doing a favor for your mother in year two and when Dr. Pulaski was here, that's it?" he asked and she nodded. "Yes that's the truth, our friend in common with each other was Captain Walker Keel, but he's my best friend and our bonds are beyond close."
"Though the added side effect of that is when you helped raise the said child, you start thinking of said child as your own. Which explains why they all lost their focus after he left and me with them, he's my cub, so first born cub leaving the nest." Beverly said to him and he nodded gently to her. "I take it you're new here Davidson if you said it like that, when did you arrive?" Wesley added and he explained that to him gently at that.
"How long was Eric here, if he did 18 months of your training, and he was going paternal in the way he was talking about you?" he asked and Wesley explained that. "It was just after mom returned to the ship, and we had Stubbs here that he arrived at the time. But he was around for Roga Danar, he was the inspiration to how and why this was taking so long." he said and the older man nodded as he quickly answered him then.
"I arrived not long after you left kiddo, so that explains that photo you have of yourself with him and the quartet here. He's been part of your officer's training, since you were 17 at the time?" he asked and the quintet nodded as he answered him. "Yeah that's right." he said and the man nodded. "Alright, who was the character exactly, if you used his tactics?" he asked and Wesley sighed as he answered him at that.
"He was an Angosian solder we encountered and one who his people turned into a drone, unless he's provoked he's harmless. But trigger the programming you better get out of the way and quick. As to why the ones who had to arrest him were the duo, Lieutenant Greyson, Ensign Perkins and Chief O'Brien. But the added side effect is pointing your phaser at him and he starts going berserk after that which is what Worf figured out now."
"Instead of trying the stun setting on him, which was ineffective, they had to go to hand to hand. After Tony nearly got his shoulder dislocated, Chief O'Brien shot him in the back and when the duo arrived Tony caught him from behind. Before they got him backed into the corner and that ended it finally. But that's the most memorable manhunt we had on board the enterprise and it's one I decided, without weapons to use at the moment."
"Because he was cloaked to the sensors, and the only way to block our signatures in this case was to remove the communicator badges. But on and you're a dot hiding among the other dots, with close to 1,500 people on board the ship. And the added bad news for her is our furry friend here has a tracking beacon inputted into her collar. So try and trace me into the extension shaft, and go and check and instead of me, you'll find her."
"But that's the other clear flaw in the plan, because the tracking beacons got put into the cats dollars in case one of them got stuck in the lower levels after we had four on board. And she's the latest one as well, but to her meeting me switched things around at the moment." he said and Davidson nodded as he saw the proud looks on the quintet's faces at him as Geordi looked at the cat at that remark as she gave a mew to him.
And he chuckled as Will said it with a bemused smile at his remark. "I'm lucky you weren't in the shaft or you'd be the thermal spot we locked onto, you little fuzzball." he said and she looked at him, bemused. "Meow." she said in answer to that as they ended it at that. "I suggest you don't do that conversation with her in front of the kids or you're going to have them die laughing later, Sir." Wesley said in answer to that remark.
"I'll be coming back in here after we get in touch with the committee to tell them what happened up here this time, pal. But with you running on fumes I'm in here until your mother gets off duty tonight." he said to him smiling gently and Wesley nodded to him. "If it wasn't for the fact that they turned me a couple years younger, I'd see this as you're on father/son time till mom got off tonight." he said and he smiled at him at that.
"At the current moment after this close a call, I think we both need it, though if whoever the plant is and whatever this plan to infiltrate Starfleet is. They'd better watch it or the father bear is going on a rampage to protect you Cubs." he said and Wesley hid a smile at that as Beverly hid a chuckle as she refocused at that. As she looked at angle the shard went in then and sighed as she looked at him gently as she said it to him then.
"You're lucky you took your booster last night, because it hit the vein here this time, let me take a guess, you knew where the damage was even though you didn't see it. I'm going to have to do this in here, but considering I left some of my equipment in my office that comes in handy, alright Eric. I need that bandage he created, because the second I get this out, it's going to be coming quickly." she said as she tapped her communicator.
"Allysa, I need you in my quarters, we have a medical emergency to deal with, and I need 10cc's of antibiotics. I have the equipment needed, but I need you in here for the added help at the moment." she said and they heard Allysa answer her at that. "Yes Doctor, I'm on my way." she said and and Wesley sighed. "I think after this latest one the adrenaline just quit, so stuck in bed now." he said and she nodded with a soft sigh.
"Great, that's just great, you poured every ounce of your energy just to keep it going until she walked right into your trap and that last dose she gave you lasted this long. And one attack by some drugged security officer drains every ounce of energy you have left. Alright I'm doubling the rest period in your case pal, until it's done you're on light duty, but you're staying off that ankle, understand." Will said and Wesley nodded to him.
"Well at least we got five days rest between planets after every battle, but this time, I'm beyond fatigued and I didn't need a mission this soon after coming home for break." he said and the quintet nodded in agreement to that. "How did Ro take it on things when she saw things on the system were connected. If it is still as that was one way to get passed Etana's crew without being seen and the other is the tubes themselves."
"But that's why I did, if it left the system connected still, I was able to get passed her, as Lal reactivated the systems control." he said and they nodded as Porter shook his head smiling. "After hearing why Reg got arrested this time, she caught the reason we were still irritated at him, but she was impressed with your skills. But then your training test proved how good you really are." Geordi said smiling and he nodded to him gently.
"But tried to arrest you and gets arrested by me for reckless endangerment, honestly that child's bravado is going to kill him if he keeps this up." Data said and Will and Geordi nodded to that remark. "Trying to get out of my shadow doesn't help at the moment, but with the programming. It's he was relieved your attention was on me for once, but I am Daniel and he is Johnny, no matter how many times they stick to the psychosis."
"Your attention of training is always on me, being your go to cadet now." he said and the crew nodded smiling. "Yes and we are beyond proud of you, you know what to do and do it without getting reckless. We been testing his team, which we designed SG-3 itself for the better part of 7 months since you left. Can't get higher then 75%, no matter how hard they try, as every test was part of your program." Greyson said from the door then.
"Yeah well you taught me well Derek." he said and they smiled at the first name basis between them finally. "With you at full lieutenant now, go ahead and call us by our first names though you already do with with my team, Wes." Geordi said and he smiled. "That's why he's jealous, but their team is on the 'think on your feet and think fast', but my team is 'relax and look at all the ways it could go wrong, before a right choice.'."
"Hammond gave me the books he gave you and I viewed the tapes of every conclusion to these missions at the moment. That's the clear psychosis, in adult, I'm you in cadet form and it's nothing changes here. And no matter how old you get in Starfleet/SGC and the renegades Novas/NID." he said and they nodded. "I got no argument with that baby, but take it down a few notches after this scare." Beverly said with a bemused smile at that.
"Well she just made her situation worse in her case, but she's just turned on the side of you that Marks turns on himself last year. But both sides of your personality from year one to now just combined together at the Moment." he said and Will crossed his arms. "If she did that to me, she did it to the captain as well, but you're my cub. And she's just turned on the overprotective father bear mode now." he said and they nodded to that.
"Once I deal with your leg, I want you keeping that ankle propped up for the night, though with the fact that Lal has the medical prescription Eli would have prescribed. I want you to eat dinner and just rest a while, but starting now, you're on light duty until you're fully recovered, okay." she added and he nodded to her as the nurse walked in. "Good grief, just what happened in here exactly?" she asked and Beverly said it then.
"We had another attack and this time, there was an injury." she said and Allysa nodded as she saw the cat there with her paw on his hand and hid a chuckle at that. "I take it she came in just before they dragged him out of here." she said and he nodded as Wesley switched subjects. "Sir whatever Robin told you is right on target, it's not one planet or another, it's an alliance trying to get a foothold into the federation.
"But as I said the line is all construed to the same anomalies, each thing happened in 7 months including Maxwell's breakdown. Though I doubt it's Macet, but some other Gul, the target was the captain in his or her's case. But the pills were prescribed 7 months ago, MacGregor gets assigned here 7 months ago. The science station in the Cuellar system also 7 months ago, and Ensign Loffler arrives at the academy 7 months ago."
"That's one to many anomalies for this to be a coincidence right now, but to put this bluntly that science station was working on the games, passed them to the Ktarians. After their attempt to kill the Klingon ambassador didn't work, they were reading through Geordi's long term knowledge so they could try again. So they knew you were scheduled to go on leave, and not long after the chief's daughter was born and with it."
"The anticipation of my coming home for the next month, they saw the anticipation and happiness in him that I was returning and decided this was the perfect time to try it. And it's no coincidence she was on Risa at the same time you are, it was planned to get this started. So you're the first, Deanna, mom, Data gets deactivated and the trio and the rest of the ship are next and the only ones left standing are a trio of teenagers."
"And as I just headed it off, it's going on the 3 out of 4 attempts until they give it up right now, but each situation gets harder as this keeps up right now. My squadron had the easy part now that Data and the duo arrived, well now it's you guys who have to deal with the rest." he said and they nodded. "Yes and whatever tv show they created about us, you left right after this episode ended, but that's the alternate reality now."
"Because you're here until the episode prior to the accident pal, and I'm not debating this after what happened today and last night. They want to get into a debate over this they're going to lose that fight later, because your mother and I are both full commanders and he's a fourth." he said and Wesley nodded. "He's a second class on the edge of first, Commander, at the moment I'm a fourth class on the edge of a third."
"But I'm not thinking twice about this, he breaks the restriction, he's the leader of the team and I'm turning him into you guys, if the flight test run kills another cadet. But if it's a choice between you or them, it's no choice needed, I choose you." he said and the duo nodded to him softly. "You can tell us your plan later regarding this, because if Derek turns that information over to Locarno we're going to have a serious problem."
"And like I said that maneuver is the hardest one in precision flying there is, Wesley, it takes years of training to get it right. The first two pieces are easy to get right, but the plasma burst, no, you need more then flight training, you need physics and chemistry for that particular maneuver. You get it off by even of a fraction of a foot it can and will kill someone, but it happens and he heads off our conversation, before you can tell me ."
"If Lal jacks into your computer if we're parked right above the academy it's enough she can turn your room into a soundproofed booth in the way she did last night and today. This way you can tell me what happened without your academy based squadron stopping you, but if you're planning an undercover operation. We need to know that so we can change the decision in your case if you get hurt again." they heard and he nodded.
"Yes Sir it's not a problem, I don't give a damn what Nick or the girls say here, 5 1/2 years makes a difference right now at the moment. I'm not a member of Nova and I never was, I'm Gamma, but Sir, I'm drawing up a set resignation papers from the team. This way, I'm not the one getting the consequences, though they are." he said and Picard nodded with a gentle smile on his face as he answered him then at that remark.
"So we're really doing this, you're my man through and through in this situation, son." he said and Wesley nodded. "Aye Sir, always have been, and always will be now, but their problem is that they think we can do it and pull it off finally. And they think we can do anything, but that's the case lesson in pride, you think everything is going fine. Until something goes wrong, and then another, and another and you try to fight back."
"But the harder you fight back and the deeper you sink, until you're in over your head, like quicksand. Though my ideas have gotten us out of the situations we get ourselves into, I'm not letting my accomplishments causing me to get too over confident. Or that's going to be my downfall now, and you did tell me the consequences as well. For a situation like this and what happens when you break the rules at the moment as well."
"And that's going to be his undoing, he never thought to ask me what the consequences are going to be, because he's trying to save the team. But in the wrong way, but if I was him, I'd tell you the truth and on the very first day, but that's just me. You did teach me the biggest points in the job for close to four years and if they'd been smart. Then they'd have asked me as a Starfleet born here." he said and Picard nodded to him, smiling
"Indeed, and that's a clear flaw, if they're on the second to third strike, but pride is dangerous." he said and Wesley smiled. "Well with 18 to 20 months the fact that our bond matters more to me then they do. But that's Nick's problem now, he doesn't think I'm as close to you as I say I am. Because it's clear that rumor Derek made up about mom and you, that's their undoing when I show just where rumors like that get you."
"Because to me, our bonds are so strong, I'm not having them destroyed just so they can stay, he makes me choose, it's a no choice needed, I choose you, the crew and the admiral and Deladier It's not something I'm losing, because they want to get off without the consequences." he said and Picard nodded. "So with that in mind, I suggest you write up those papers in seven or eight months." he said and Wesley nodded to him smiling.
"Aye Sir, Sir, did you keep the regime like it was for me and Jake when the duo arrived and Derek started, because that regime is needed right now. And I'm adding a 6th rule to it, but you want to train on board the enterprise here. Though it's the norm, but what I will say now that in order to pull this off..." he started to say and looked past Picard and his eyes narrowed as he switched subjects in mid sentence then as he raised his voice.
"And I really do think you should send him to the academy, he needs to get over this need. To always be in the lime light, there are better ways to get attention by a superior officer and they are by following orders and not getting reckless. Though if anything, this act of loyalty to your friends could be his undoing if he doesn't get it under control here right now." he said, raising his tone slightly and Picard turned to find Hanson there.
"I thought I ordered you to your quarters, Cadet, did I or did I not say to report to your quarters for the night." Will said sternly to him. "Sir I was hoping on night duty." he started to say and Picard answered that with a stern tone. "No young man, you're a cadet, you have a curfew and you need to get some rest for the night. Like Lieutenant Crusher said, we need to lower our metabolisms to recover from this and the detox."
"And that recovery doesn't include doing night duty, or graveyard shifts in the middle of the night, let alone taking in stimulates, and again. I catch you in ten forward and they tell me you are intoxicated and they arrested you for another altercation. And you're being transferred to simulation training at the academy, understood." he said and Hanson nodded as he looked at Wesley with a look of jealousy at that remark.
"Don't give me that look Derek, I'm not the one that got your friends and cousin transferred they broke their training period and they blew it themselves. But your loss of your athletic scholarship into the academy is because you got in trouble three times. And twice is for speedballing and once regarding the Potts brothers, your life is what you make of it, I'm not responsible for your failures, you are so again and with that."
"Get over it now, there are more important things at stake right now at the moment then the fact you're ticked I'm choosing this." Wesley told him and he looked at him coldly then as he went further. "I can't believe you'd actually turn them in for an accident like this." he said to him and Wesley crossed his arms. "Whatever you're planning it's not going to work Derek, just like last night, I outsmarted you last night at the time."
"When you tried to arrest me, and it because I've been serving on board the ship for years now I'm making it clear. That duty to the truth is the only chance, you allow duty to your friends to cloud your judgement and it's going to get you kill or captured. You ever read up on the reason there was a family feud between the Jacksons and O'neills?" he asked and the other boy shook his head at that remark and he explained that to him.
"Hammond, Carter and the quintet showed us everything, but he convinced himself that everything they told us was a lie now. The Farley twins and their friend with them, we don't care they can't accept, it just shows how sick in the psychosis they are. Just like they are that your mother and I are very close to getting married. And out of jealousy, you made me proud son, you always did." Picard said sternly and he nodded in disgust.
"So you convinced yourselves that everything the admirals said was a lie, well with that attitude I'm not surprised the crew is still this stern with you. Tried to arrest me to get out of my shadow, no go, I was listening to the radio at the time. Your desperation to get involved, all it screamed was your were jealous I beat another test and you. But your heroes turned traitor and mine was raped by the Symbiote queen Hathor now."
"Your heroes tried to turn it around for months, but no go, as they convinced themselves he was a traitor, that he tried to kill himself. But the evidence was splattered all over the camera, just like mine was, tried to lie and yours is based on cruel rumors. Mine on hard cold evidence, enhanced by the men and women you're annoying the hell out of. But for 6 to 7 months it's always Jackson this and Jackson that they decided to sabotage him."
"O'neill's grandfather condemned Jackson's to a POW stint, only if the lunatic interrogator had fallen in love with the victim the second they saw him from the waist up, unclothed. To a soldier in the 20th century this is their worst living nightmare, because it means being drugged, and a more playful version of torture, say our childhood weakness. But after getting back to the base, his system had impacted and crashed as a result."
"Because to counteract the drugs, he was running himself through the technology repeatedly, but it was going in the run around, until he got them off the planet. But he had a flashback the second he was in the sickbay showers. And Anenzi's counterpart was a surgeon and the rehab Doctor, and Jackson immediately turned O'neill in. And Warner contacted the mental and medical council, for attempted murder and aiding a POW."
"Morrison's 20th century counterpart and Briggard's, had him, O'neill, placed under a psyche evaluation for that and after he turned him in. But the psychosis was a different wording to your argument, Jackson had a duty to the truth. He was ordered by the committee to wait till their captor was on his last legs. But there are times you have to do things you can't always stomach, like taking your friends place as the victim."
"But O'neill sold him out and then turned a blind eye to it, it took Q's 20th century counterpart, and Martell's to get the truth out. And you know what happened, O'neill and his friends, of the all soldier type in the next department became plants and a different version to you. But Nova, as adults, they turned into the NID, as a result, there's no line they're not willing to cross the save earth, but if you took their argument over this."
"And their Cardassians, do you know what the fight sounds like in a cadet wording, and their acts of their cardinal rule 'nobody gets left behind?" he asked and the boy shook his head. "Well in our wording, that's 'what about your duty to your friends.'. But let me tell you, being a good officer means you have to think about these situations. Jackson had a duty to the truth, said duty, is making a judgement call to save the rest of the team."
"But that resulted in O'neill getting captured for going by their cardinal rule, why, well it's because in your eyes it's a matter of 'what about your duty to your friends?'. Well that duty can be your undoing if it gets you arrested by the enemy. And turns you into POW, or in this case, it gets you thrown out of the academy for breaking orders. And there is no duty when they're trying to get you to be dishonest with a superior officer."
"I'm a Starfleet born cadet, I have a duty to the truth, to my parents, the captain, the enquiry and I will not lie to save this team. That's the difference between us Derek, so go ahead and tell him that, and he's going to think you're joking. Regarding Josh and me turning them in until the sting operation is done, but he thinks I'm his friend. And he can trust me with his life, and his faith in his friends will be his undoing now."
"But your over confidence is your weakness and his faith in his friends happens to be his and both will be your undoing if you don't get it under control. I'm the character if he stayed good and did his duty to the Jedi order here. You're him once he succumbs to his alter ego, but let me make it clear, but fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. And hate leads to suffering, you ever wonder what his mentor really meant by that remark."
"And why I'm using everything he says in this?" he asked him firmly and he shook his head. "Well fear to lose something leads to anger at what causes it, anger at that loss leads to hate at the person that caused it, unintentional or intentional it doesn't matter. And hate at that victim that caused it leads to you doing something you can't take back, say killing in cold blood for the first time ever and with those words in mind right now."
"The title character when he was our age was just like me, he showed his abilities, the order gave him a chance. And now he's got his abilities and his title being thrown at him every time he turns around. He's being given special treatment and he's sick of being singled out, but that's why the senior staff just caught it now. And decided enough is enough, but you're the character if he had the villain continue with this."
"Till he self destructs and turns into his alter ego, me, I'm the character if he stayed good and the council decided on he's off limits the following 3 years. And I grow into my skin and I become everything the council and my mentor wanted me to be. But everything of ancient history is why I studied the past, but learn from the past to create a better future. If you don't study how can you expect to advance in training right now."
"Which is and was the villain's thoughts over the lead actor's faith in his friends, but that's the difference between us. What I will say right now is that I've served under him longer then you have, he's got a low tolerance for breaking rules. As does the commander and my mother, if you think I'm destroying our bonds. And over your cousin's best friend here, you better think again, because I won't, whatsoever here."
"And while I'm at right now cadet, I'm just finishing Charlie's lecture in your case for him right now at the moment. Regarding you coming onto the bridge when you're drunk and you get caught by the rehab Doctor at the moment. And with that in mind right now, because they're all getting sick of this right now, regarding arresting you for that right now." Wesley said as the trio crossed their arms as the sextet did the same firmly.