The Bonds Of Friends And Family TNG Season 5: The Game Aftermath I

by BazzCatgirl03

After breaking the control the K'tarian rebel Etana Lol had on the crew, they realize that the side effects of the game are not over. Deciding to look at what his future holds, the senior staff check the tv show focused on them. As seeing the truth to what the traveler had planned, Wesley decides to bring in the members of his squadron and the descendants of SG-1 and their friends.

28. 28: The First Duty Part IV: The Agent

The Bonds Of Friends And Family

Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.

Warnings: For this chapter they're going over the way things are going to change in his future regarding his being on Nova. As they rewrite the time he returns to the academy, before they see the added aftermaths to that situation in year 7, both for him and the other member of the team that joined the crew.

Chapter 28: The Mission And First Duty Part IV: A Nova Double Agent Part I

"Nicely done Wesley, I'm very proud of you, alright we need to hear the entire thing to what happened up there." Picard said and he hid a smile at the remark then. "Aye Sir, but after we're done here, I'm telling this to the enquiry, what with the fact that Lal is our ace in the hole. Just to prevent the trio and any outsiders not involved in our circle eavesdropping." he said and the seven nodded gently.

"Alright let's have it, if you're telling us this now before we come to the conclusion now, Wes." Will said for the three of them at that. "What the heck happened up there, she said there was a collision. I need to hear your side of the story in this, before hits stage three." she added and he sighed. "Before I answer that mom, I need to hear exactly what Boothby told you, Sir."

"Sir, what's your theory regarding why he chose the said maneuver. Now that you just figured it out as we're going to confirm that theory after you say it?" he asked and Picard crossed his arms as he answered him as the quartet moved into position then. "To answer your first question, he quoted the remark in exactly the way Charlie phrased it when we had this discussion in sickbay."

"Exact words being, 'he watches out for them, he keeps them together, Nick is what made the team special. He's their coach, best friend and father all rolled into one. A natural leader, the members of the team love him and would do anything he asked them to, even following him right over a cliff.'. Hearing that my thoughts took a new direction and I was thinking he chose a maneuver."

"One that was illegal, since there's five of two hundred in precision flying that the academy banned from use after it killed several cadets. But something about the accident didn't make since and my conclusion is he chose one that involved over heating the engine. But if you just confirmed on the coolant hatch and the plasma ignition, I'm thinking he was trying to break a new record."

"So that he wanted to finish his academy career in a blaze of glory and he talked you into learning and attempting the Kolvoord Starburst. If it worked, it would thrill the audience at the commencement demonstration. And he would graduate as a living legend at the academy." he said and Wesley nodded. "Well here's the added piece to it, your theory Sir, in addition to that right now."

"It's a desire to remain in the lime light, as he becomes the academy champion for finally pulling off the Kolvoord Starburst. And upstaging the academy, academic champion, said champion the second in command of my team here on the ship. But it's every rival's exact remark, when they been the best and brightest at everything they do and once they arrive at their duty station now."

"Expecting to impress the leaders of said ship or department, thinking that they're going to be able to keep the lime light. But then learn that someone else already has it, and they see no matter how hard they try. That they can't get passed their rival's shadow no matter how hard they attempt it. As the jealousy and resentment cause them to go to extremes just to get some attention now."

"For me it's Derek, for the commander it's Shelby and Nick, it's Charlie here, but Charlie has gotten the highest grade in every class he'd ever been in. Won every award he'd ever been up for, and they been comparing him to Charlie ever since he walked in the door. And he could never quite seem to measure up in their eyes, and to top it off he lost his girlfriend to his rival as well."

"So he decided if he pulled it off finally in the starburst, he would go down in academy history as the squadron leader that attempted. And pulled off the Kolvoord Starburst, and upstaged the academy champion once and for all. That's the motive for the accident for their conclusion and we've gone to engineering forensics as a result, but here's the rest of it now, Sirs, mom."

"But despite the fact I said he had the measurements off in the second part of said maneuver. He still wanted to try it at that angle, but the coolant hatch for the plasma was open. Because he chose the maneuver that your age group banned from use after it killed five cadets 100 years ago and killed Commander Reynolds." He said and Picard nodded slowly to that remark as he answered him then.

"Before they came to the conclusion and told me, you're telling me to confirm my theory on it Wesley, because that's enough to get you by on light sentence. As you're telling me as I'm investigating this right now, inside evidence, are you saying that Josh wasn't killed by accident. But he died in the line of duty to make sure this maneuver I'm thinking of is never tried again anymore."

"You two were doing the mission we asked you and the trio to do, and you're letting me know that and you're telling Brand that next later?" he asked and Wesley nodded. "Aye Sir, I was going to tell you that when you walked into my room but I wasn't kidding. When I said it was too soon for me, because I was still in shock at the time, the explosion, it was like seeing the Yamato blow."

"I tried to save him, but before I could do anything the secondary explosion went off then and it slammed me into the wall of my fighter. And fried my controls, resulting in all three injuries that the nurse told you at once. It's like the loaded gun remark and they left me holding the bag, I was turning them in." he said and the sextet nodded as she answered him then gently at the explanation.

"Well that explains why you didn't want to explain right when we arrived, you were still in shock and it's also survivor's guilt, am I right Wes?" Deanna asked and he nodded with a sigh. "Yeah, Deanna that's it exactly, seeing the explosion, I felt like I was seeing the Yamato go after the Iconian software. As it infected the ship I warned him if it didn't work and one of us was killed it's on his head."

"But the blast knocked him unconscious and set the engine on fire, I had 20 seconds before it went a second time. But I before I could do anything it blew and the ship exploded, but the trio took off and left me holding the bag at the time." he said and she nodded before they exchanged looks and Picard answered that as he crossed his arms as he answered him at that explanation then firmly.

"So despite your warnings that if he got it off by whatever parameter it was that he used for it. And it was on his head, he still wanted to try it at that angle?" he said sternly and Wesley nodded to him gently. "Aye Sir, I was going to tell you the truth the second you and mom walked in the door, but it was the plasma ignition, to this bluntly it's the starburst, he chose the starburst."

"And at the exact same parameters that O'neill tried it at when the commander was our age, but it's a repeat performance of Reynolds. They tried to ignite the plasma, in the way it would have worked, if we'd been the commander's age. But he got the parameters off by five meters, the explosion threw us 20 yards away from each other, and lit up the gas tank in the process on Josh's ship."

"I had maybe 20 seconds before the plasma ignition went a second time and the blast knocked Josh unconscious. And I went to put the fire out, but before I could do anything, the engine and fuel tank went then, and fried my controls in the process." he said and they looked at him in shock. "You're lucky to be alive right now as a result of that young man, you got the evidence for this."

"Because we need to see your memories." Picard said and Wesley ran his hand through his hair. "We've reached the next part, but stage acting, I've got to get him to admit it, and it's by telling him I'm telling you guys the truth. But once we hit the final piece and I'm going to be in the garden, but that's the tie up. And it's because I'm dropping the bomb on them in the secondary hearing, Sir."

"Make it seem like I never showed you any of this, and you and the enquiry asked me to do it when you arrived the scandal is having him. And the girls, stripped bare to the entire school to show their not the heroes everyone thought they were, but liars and cheaters. So from here, I'm going to be in my apartment and pretend you called me aboard the enterprise for a confirmation."

"Sir, please just trust me, it's the only way to get his application to the academy permanently revoked. I'm reporting to Brand's office and telling her this as well, but we have to make it seem like I'm still involved in the cover up. I'm still just like dad, you know that, but it's going to the added reminder now to why. So we have to make it seem like I just caused you to break your faith in me."

"So you know what I'm saying here: the first few weeks of our time as a crew, after we saw each other again and just before I demonstrated my added skills to you, we have to. We have the entire episode facts, but we altered it slightly, but we have to finish this, make him think that you got to me. And by what you always used to tell me here, but I'm a Starfleet officer, I have a duty."

"A duty to the truth, we have to finish this in the way we decided 18 months ago. I'm telling him, I'm telling you and Brand the truth and I'm getting him to incriminate himself by his own words as he nails the coffin. And of his career at the academy, shut." he said and they nodded with a sigh. "I know I said you were going to be a fine officer and I never doubted that at the time here now."

"But having you go through this portion of it now, just to ensure certain maneuvers are never used again. But deliberately reminding you of things when we saw each other again, and saying that. That goes against everything I've come to see in your training right now at the moment. This is just making it more clear that you're not just like your father, but you're like me as well."

"And this is becoming more clear by the minute Wesley, so from beginning to end, and we do every part of it. Alright we finish this and play out the entire episode from beginning to it, until we hit our separation. He loses control in the secondary hearing and you get hurt and he's finished. Alright report to Brand, I'll call you up when we hit that stage act." he said and Wesley nodded to him.

And beamed out at that as he reappeared in his quarters then as he grabbed the stuff he needed and headed for hearing room then. Seeing them still at the table he smiled and walked up to the quartet gently. "Admiral I know you wish for some new information, I can give it to you now. In regarding the accident, but you deserve to know this." he said and she nodded to him as she answered him gently.

"Well let me take a guess Cadet, whatever they said, it's 'you don't have to lie, just don't volunteer. In any new information.', and you told us the truth up to a point, so here's the part we needed to hear, as you never lied to me. Or the admiral before, why start now, I knew we could trust you to do the right thing." Deladier said smiling gently and she nodded as Wesley smiled as he answered him.

"Aye Sir, like the crew and captain, my loyalty is to you two, the committee and the crew. I never lied to you since I came back and my staying up until two months ago. It just sealed the trio's fate, but I was right, Derek told him I was getting ready to turn them into you. And Nick thinks it's all a joke, but his faith in me is about to become his undoing now." he said to him softly and they nodded.

"What new information do you have for us, regarding this, as I was commed by Jean Luc a bit a go?" she asked and he smiled in relief then. "Hang on a second, Lal, soundproof shield on the door please." He said and it flashed red in response and she chuckled. "Data's daughter jacked into the room's security and A/V mode in here, that's incredible." Morrison said smiling at that and he nodded to him then.

"With the fact that the enterprise is parked right above the academy, she tapped into the main auditorium for the hearing here Sirs. And so we get some privacy, before the mission truly begins and the rest of Nova don't hear this conversation. Because I'm turning them into you and my parents now, before the second half to my undercover stint begins." He said and they nodded to him.

"Nice thinking cadet, so just to prevent everyone else but us and your crew from finding out. You had Lal activate the academy's security mode in covert conversations as this... Wait a minute, you mean to tell me Josh's death wasn't just an accident, he died while working on a mission in case whatever happened up there did happen, Cadet?" Deladier asked him firmly and he nodded to him.

"Aye Sir, prior to my parents telling you I was doing the previous 18 months on the enterprise, we scanned the episodes. But it was enough as we learned our counterparts in the 20th century created several shows. The same title but different versions of each generation involved in it. But the first on our predecessors, the next on my crew, deep space nine and voyager."

"Well my crew took the week of the attempted incursion by the K'tarians to now out of the equation for me. Just so I could tighten my bonds with my parents and everyone I'm friends with on the ship. But during the little site search we found several episodes focused on Nova squadron. And the added side effects of this now in training for the commencement demonstration."

"And before the captain did his speech at the time as well, just to see what was coming had we not done that. And there were three focused on Nova, one was focused on this investigation, the second on who ended up on the enterprise. And after three years of living life as a pariah here at the academy and the third me if I hadn't chosen now to drop the act and tell you before hand now."

"And I dropped out as a result and I possibly tried again ten years later, but not going to happen. As the previous twenty months just saved my career and I'm more Starfleet officer then they ever will be now. As to that I'm telling you the truth right now Sirs, but this mission was planned before hand. And during my medical sabbatical, but we were getting ready for leading into the accident."

"But my ship based squadron we decided on being the Starfleet career officer based version to Nova's rivals. As you heard the no winner topped the highest scores in the academy when done for real, well this was Gamma's next mission. Undercover work and and forensic investigation into a scandal at the academy, and this is the said scandal, I'm working an as a double agent right now."

"So with that Captain Deladier, I'm keeping my promise regarding telling you that truth, but this was to shake them up in case what happened did happen." he said and passed him the papers then. "What's this exactly, son?" He asked and he sighed as he looked between the sextet gently. "There was a slight miscalculation in this situation, the trio are not telling you the truth, Admirals, Captain."

"In total honesty, they thought we could do it, pull it off finally, they thought we could do anything. But we can't and we're not ready for that maneuver and as a result, Josh was killed in the line of duty now. Not as a member of the team, but we were Starfleet officers doing our first undercover mission. Said undercover mission was ordered to as well 20 months prior to this."

"And on orders by the captain himself as Captain Picard's investigation in this, but I'm an undercover agent for him. And in the middle of said undercover mission, he's killed because they got too cocky, missed the measurements and it killed him and nearly killed me in the process. I'm not lying to you for them, I'm telling you the truth, but to them it's trying to hide the truth."

"Not me, I was born and raised a Starfleet officer and I have a duty to the truth." he told them and the quartet crossed their arms. "You're telling me, you decided to be the plant on the team for us as the enquiry. As you're running the investigation and Jean Luc was doing the forensics for us. And that the accident was not do to a collision, but to measurements gone wrong that day."

"Alright if there is cover up in this then its getting them in serious trouble, if you're trying come forward. And they're trying to save their own necks right now, so you're saying. That you're playing both sides of everyone not in our circle, but you're pretending we asked you to do this before the hearing started." Admiral Hamilton said to him and he nodded to him as he answered him then.

"Aye Sir, that's exactly what I'm saying right now, Sirs, the accident was part of the undercover operation, in case what happened did happen. But if one of us was killed in the accident the other finished the job, but here it is now. I already promised Captain Picard if what happened did happen. Than I would tell them and with it Robin, the guys and I decided on being the ship version."

"And of Novas rivals, so unspoken decision, and if Derek told this to Nick he thought he was kidding, regarding us turning on him that fast right now. But we, Josh and I, decided if it worked we were telling you he broke the restrictions. Said restrictions were that though you banned this one from use since the 23rd century, and when it killed five cadets at the time here."

"And it just took two more in 19 years, but we decided if what happened did happen. Then the surviving member was finishing the job in collecting the evidence here, and the rest of our squadron. That is Gamma squadron was tape recording the evidence needed, but we just hit stage three. And it's play acting now, but we were plants on the team for you, we were taking the initiative."

"And were doing what had to be done, I'm not saying that as though I'm Maxwell. But just that I'm a teenage version to Commanders Riker and Jackson, not extra credit. But being the Starfleet born we were, it's there no middle ground now, I created my crew on board my ship. And into the ship version of Nova's rivals, so Gamma was ship based and Starfleet raised cadets."

"Nova was earthborn and the group are like the hotshots that caused us to get marked by the Q. But I had it, with Nick and his act of pack behavior, but that's why my parents kept me home, I needed to recover from this. And what being on the squadron was doing to me physically at the time. And I'm beyond relieved you had my best friend on board the ship at the time as well."

"Now it's time for that truth to come out, but here it is, when we created our own version of gamma we all decided if what happened did happen. That we were the ones running an undercover operation, so this way. And with the fact, I relieved him of command, he's going to be acting like Josh was scared. And as he told you at the time right now at the moment here in this now."

"But he told you a lie, regarding Josh in the accident, we had a little conversation in my dorm room. And they all convinced themselves that he panicked and the accident was his fault. But he and I both know that we weren't ready for this, but that's why I was looking at him in disbelief. Despite the fact we all agreed not to lie, he told the truth, in a half truth, Admiral."

"And so will the girls to alleviate themselves of the guilt, but the accident was no accident at all. But I'm working for you, but we just hit stage one, the fact that he walked into my dorm room when my parents were checking on me was enough to make it clear, he's scared of being exposed. So if he does it again in the middle of this conversation that's only making it more clear now."

"Because he chose an illegal maneuver and he doesn't want the truth to come out right now, Admiral. But Josh and I were acting as plants for you on the team this entire time, but this was an undercover operation we planned out in advance. But Josh's being killed was the add on we knew was going to happen, we knew someone was going to be killed when this happened."

"But if it was one of us then we decided to tell you and my crew, the senior staff, ahead of time, before the investigation started, Sirs. I'm your plant on the team Sirs, I chose this on my own as did Josh, we were working for you, but we got to play this to the letter, so though they think I'm getting punished. And in the way the girls are, in reality I'm taking another out of academy attendance."

"And sabbatical on the ship, I'm asking to be put on probation to their way of thinking, so I'm on the ship. And earning my credits and flight status back, but in reality I never lost either, because I'm taking that third year on the ship. The reason being, Robin is pregnant with my baby and with that in mind now." he said and the committee nodded and she smiled in amazement to that news.

"You need to be with your family, we understand and with that in mind, you chose this ahead of time. In regarding being an undercover agent and with you was Joshua." She repeated and he nodded. "Yes Sir, but the truth, by Nick and the girls, was a half truth, I told you the truth, but what I didn't get to. And yet, is the said maneuver after the Yeager loop, was he chose the starburst."

"That's coming out in stage three, but we're entering stage two here, stage acting, I told the sextet before hand. But it's stage acting and improv to make it seem like his normal explanations in what he taught me the last five years. And it's now turned, in Nick's eyes, into a lecture here and scare tactic. And they either tell the truth to you, or the captain will." he said and she leaned forward.

"He chose the starburst and you, before Lal told me you returned to the enterprise. So you reported in early to tell them this, before you told me and the sextet here?" she repeated and he nodded. "Aye Sir, you remember the captain mentioning how they created a tv show focused on my crew. After I stopped be a regular in year four I did the occasional appearance."

"For the next three years and three of four episodes on me focused on Nova squadron, before and after the accident?" he asked and she nodded to him. "Well we're doing a playback on it, but I'm doing a double agent motif here. I just turned the trio into the captain and the crew. Just before Robin told me my suspicions were confirmed, I'm an expecting father and with that in mind."

"It's finishing the episode as I'm a plant and stage acting for both sides, so to make everyone not involved in this scenario. That is you in the enquiry, my crew, gamma squadron on board the ship. And anyone the captain is questioning about it, I'm having them all thinking. That I'm involved in a cover up, and vice versa, the trio, I'm turning them into you out of my own guilt."

"We didn't know who was going to be the lost team mate, so if it was one of the girls. Then we were doing it together, and telling you the truth from our own interpretations. If it was one of us, the surviving member in our partnership in this was finishing what the other started. Their opinions about Josh are to alleviate themselves of the guilt, but Josh never let us down, not at all."

"In truth regarding that part, they pushed him into doing it when he wasn't ready for this and I wasn't either, and we didn't have years of training to try this either, it was only a few weeks in training. We got the first half right, but it was the star formation that lead to a serious problem. But the second resulted in the explosion, but with that in mind I'm telling you the truth ahead of time."

"But I know that the captain was going to be questioning everyone, regarding the squadron and Nick. As I'm working for you in this, though they don't know that the moment here, and I told this to the captain already right now as well. But to make sure my position is never effected with either you and my crew I'm just telling you how we see the squadron, in our, as the rivals of Nova in truth."

"Well in our eyes he's a masochistic fool and the girls are sheep, in truth being part of this team is like being in a wolf pack. And I was the latest wolf to join the pack, Admiral, I guess you saw how lonely I was after Charlie graduated?" he asked and she nodded. "Yes I saw that and I knew you were happier with him and Robin Lefler and I decided to fix that by sending them to the enterprise."

"But that's the side effect when you're as gifted as you are, you stand out and when around adults all the time stand even more. But having a squadron of your own and said members are as gifted in science and engineering as you are. That's what Jean Luc and I were trying to help you with, but it looks like it worked a little too well, during the attempted incursion 3 years ago now."

"Because he said you, the duo and Jacob Kurland were acting like a bunch of playful teenagers with each other." she said and he smiled and nodded. "Well despite the fact we told him that it was too close together. But he still wanted to try it at that angle, said angle the one O'neill tried it at. And in result the blast threw us 20 yards away from each other and knocked him unconscious."

"I tried to put out the fire, and before I could though the ship blew and that's what killed him. He never pulled away that fast like they said, in fact the blast knocked us 20 yards apart from each other at the time. He was knocked unconscious in the explosion and I tried to put out the fire. But before I could do it, the plasma ignition went a second time and his ship exploded then. "

"But being the Starfleet officers we are, we chose this ahead of time to act as plants on the team now. But duty to the truth, duty to our friends and our friends are the rest of our squadron, on board the enterprise. We're not Nova Squadron at all, we're Gamma squadron, and we had a job to do now Sirs. I'm just saying this, but we're going to a undercover operation, so double agent."

"I'm leading them into incriminating themselves, by their own words, and in his voice as he's the leader of the squadron. So he's saying it for all of them here, but the reveal is after you tell him your decision. And once he thinks they're getting off in a reprimand here, but I'm just telling you the truth. To get them to admit it, but the ''we', is really aimed at the trio, I'm Gamma squadron now."

"In truth he asked me what they should do and I didn't have to say it, because the longer they wait to come forward. Commander Riker and Captain Picard already told me what they were, but they never learned from one mistake and made another. Said another thry never asked me what the consequences dare going to be if we came forward now, but I knew all along, but they're Nova.

"And now the question is are they going to be a good Nova and a bad Nova and they're leaning in the direction of bad. And the more consequences are going to build up, but you gave them chance, after chance, to come forward. And the captain is laying the ultimatum of they come forward. And tell you what took place, or we, him and I would, but the trio, it's about to turn into us and them."

"But 'we' don't want to come forward, 'we' don't have a problem with lying to stay here at the academy. But if 'you' do, then resign your application to the academy and walk away, but don't make 'us' pay for your guilty conscious. That's the subtext here later in the tape recording, we: Josh and I, told him none of us were ready for this, not yet, they didn't listen and here's the result."

"So undercover operation and there's only one maneuver that calls for a plasma purge and ignition, Sirs. And the captain is going to know it when he hears the words igniting the plasma, but I just told him ahead of time. I don't care if I'm betraying their trust, I'm a Starfleet officer, I have a duty the truth. To these guys, and Derek Hanson, it's what about your duty to your friends."

"But there is no duty to your friends when they're trying to get you to be dishonest and especially with a superior officer. My loyalty is to you, Josh and my crew, I'm Gamma squadron, not Nova, I never was. As to that I have no compunctions whatsoever in turning them into you for an illegal maneuver. And then lying to you to cover it up, I'm a lieutenant in Starfleet, I will not lie."

"But my captain is Captain Picard, everything that Boothby said about Nick, I already had it, with the captain and Commander Riker. I'm not losing that, just so the trio can get off with a clean slate right now, Sirs. But he and I already discussed this and we decided on making it look. And as though he's talking to me in the reprimand here, but he's really talking to Nick in this."

"We're play acting the first memory he and I had together, which was the day the three of us were reunited with each other. And I was looking over his chair controls, then a month later came the Tsiolkovsky and the virus. And I demonstrated my abilities to him in the split second thinking. And when you had no time to think here, but remembering that I know he's thinking hard."

"In regarding dad, as I remind him a bit much of him now, but we're play acting this in shaking up in his beliefs. And that I could be even better at this then my father, before it hits first duty lecture and everything that comes with it. Before the reprimand hits and it's going to a dressing down. And in regarding telling you the truth and up to a point now at the time during the hearing today."

"Along with the 'I know you're a fake and cheater' speech and the added to go with it 'why you're such a failure in training' speech as well. But I dropped the bomb on him just before they figured it out. So it's going right to a confirmation in theories and confirming the maneuver, when he cracks what the heck happened up there." he said and she nodded in understanding then to his remark.

"In other words the lecture Jean Luc gives you once he figures it out is really aimed at Mr. Locarno. But he's not really talking to you, he's talking to Nicholas, yes alright I understand, and thank you for telling us that ahead of time." she said to him smiling as his ship predecessors answered that. "Sirs, this was to prevent it from ever being attempted, again." He added and the duo nodded gently to him.

"You did this to prevent that maneuver from ever being attempted again at the academy Cadet?" Spock said to him and he nodded to him. "Aye Sir, I know you always took the acts of cheating seriously when it came to Koyobashi Maru test. As you ran that test when you were at the academ, but this is enough to make even worse, and when your generation, and Captain Picard's generation."

"Did the same the same in putting a restriction and banning the maneuver from use at the academy. But the stupid fools that keep attempting this one, are all from O'neill and Maxwell's grouping and never took chemistry. Or physics, to know this, as O'neill tried it at five meters apart. And it killed Commander Reynolds, and it's the same Nick, he did the same way and it killed Josh."

"Just to make this never happens again, I'm turning them into you now, and I'm going to make sure the mission is complete. Ambassador, I understand why you and Admiral McCoy never wanted this attempted after it killed several in your year. Well just to prevent it again, it's doing this in only one way, now, but I'm dealing with Josh's loss still, he's my best friend, this is to honor him."

"By making sure that the maneuver never takes another life at the academy, but I'm getting them to incriminate themselves by their own words and in his voice. But it's getting him expelled and marginalized and that's it now, he says the words and there's no going back, or taking them back." he said and the senior enterprise crew members all nodded to him as Alberts said it for all of them.

"Only a true Starfleet officer would go against his team in advance and Josh chose to die in the act of being a Starfleet officer?" Alberts repeated and he nodded to him softly. "Aye Sir, we decided to keep our promise to you we'd never break the rules and instead of winding up on the receiving end of the consequences. Commander Alberts, he and I wanted you and my mother to know this now."

"Before I dropped the bomb and came forward here, after Captain Picard caught them in the act. But we're stage acting this until he loses control in the follow up hearing. We're helping you to make sure they get the consequences and being the cadets we are and in my case. I was already apart of two teams before the accident, but the enterprise crew and Gamma squadron."

"You never needed to ask, Sirs, we chose this on our own, that we were turning them in by being the Starfleet officers we are." he said and the group nodded gently. "I'm sorry for not getting to him fast enough Sir, the idiots froze up, I was the only one who tried to save him. But we were all too close to the blast, and the blast knocked me unconscious as well, along with the added injuries."

"But what happened was the blast nuked his engine and the engine caught fire, I had only 20 seconds before the coolant went off a second time. And he was knocked unconscious as a result, I tried to get to him, to put it out. And before I could do anything the fuel went then and the ship exploded. The jolt threw me into the wall of my cockpit and that explains the added damage you saw."

"When you were examining me, before my parents arrived that day, I'm sorry Commander I did my best to try and save him. But the explosion happened before I could do anything Commander Alberts, I'm sorry. But he never did what they said to you, it wasn't all five ships either as well. In fact it was just Josh's and my controls were fried in the explosion, as a result here now."

"But he risked his life to prove that Nick didn't have what it takes to be in Starfleet now. As did I and with it now, he's letting his arrogance get in the way, but to quote the narrator on Starship Troopers. And he never learned from one mistakes, makes another and it kills a team mate. If I was anything I'm the narrator after he learned from his mistakes, and I'm doing double duty."

"But Nick is him, before and after he got the dear john letter and here's the result." he said and Alberts nodded as he rubbed his shoulder. "I understand and thank you for telling me that truth now son, as I said. He thought of you as his best friend, but I know he wouldn't want you to blame yourself for not reaching him in time, Wes." he said and he sighed and nodded as he answered him.

"It's not just getting justice now for his being killed, it's survivor's guilt, the last time I felt this was after the Yamato blew up 4 years ago. And I lost three friends, one being my mentor, in four years, though with that. That's the other reason they're getting ready to pull me out. So I can heal by being with what's left of our squadron, we had six, Katie Higgins being one of them at the time."

"But four boys and two girls and we lost our sixth thanks to Nova squadron, I'm not letting that go." he said and they nodded and she answered that gently. "Yes alright thank you for telling me that now. And I intend to help you heal by getting Miss Higgins on the enterprise as well. But regarding you're undercover mission now Wesley, by taking the initiative this was part of command crew."

"Leadership training, we didn't have to ask this, you decided to do it though we never said it out loud Wesley?" Brand said and he nodded. "Yes, but I resigned my commission to the team, as did Josh, long before this happened. They never found the papers for it, but this was created 7 months ago." he said and pulled a packet of papers out and gave them to her as she saw the words top secret printed on it.

And read out the contingency plan his ship bound squadron decided on and hid a smile as she looked at him then. "But it was after we finished the first mission by preventing the trio's plans from getting off the Enterprise. That we decided on our next mission: attempted scandals at the academy. And planned this out in advance at the time, before I came back and Josh returned to the academy."

"During the time when I was still recovering on the enterprise, and this was his handwriting and I was finishing the job. So whoever was killed in this operation, the surviving partner finished the job that the lost team started, but here's our resignation forms to the team. We're not Nova, we're Gamma squadron, as when I was recovering from my injuries and the detox."

"And the guys, Robin and I recreated our junior crew into the ship lined version of Nova's biggest rivals here at the academy. The captain promoted me to full lieutenant after my team and I ended the incursion before it got off the ship. But the ending results were the added plant on the ship just barely killed me after driving it back into the extension shaft at the time, Sir."

"In truth at the moment that eighteen months with the crew back on the enterprise has sealed their fate, With my telling you this now, all I ask is to be given probation, I can do it on the enterprise. Keep to your original decision, I'm not haggling their futures at the academy, Sirs. Their lives are what they make of them, so be ready when you hear my side of the story here."

"Because we're doing the extent of the episode till before the captain and I separate, but that's the altered ending to the episode. As for why, it's because I know he was trying to keep this hidden until the captain figured it out, calls me up there. And decides on the ultimatum of if he doesn't tell the truth then the captain will, but there's no need, because I'm gathering the evidence needed."

"So they can incriminate themselves by their own words regarding this, because he's giving them an ultimatum. Just before the end of the hearing: so it's either they tell you the truth or he will. So I'm acting like the lieutenant I really am, but my captain, I'm not losing his trust, or yours so they can get off without consequences." he said and she nodded as the committee exchanged smiles.

"Thank you for telling us Lieutenant, so instead of his planning on them just getting off with a reprimand, you're making sure he gets expelled. So what are the charges I'm looking at if this had continued before you could tell me this right now?" Brand asked and he named them off. "For incompetence of command, for failure to abide by safety regulations during a live flight exercise."

"For negligence that contributed to the death of a team mate, and from there it only gets worse. But those three are on his head, but here's the others, for peer pressure of the surviving team mate. For use of coercion of said surviving team mate, for lying to a superior and falsifying a report. For breaking the restriction by a superior officer, by using a banned flight maneuver that was prohibited."

"I know that any or all of those is going to have him get the consequences in the way you decided. But pack them all in together and he's getting expelled and the girls the decision you chose sir, and with the fact I told you this now. And the duo the added consequence and before you ask, the captain told me what you chose so I know, but they're afraid to tell you the truth right now."

"As they're scared they're going to be expelled, which he is, but they're getting the consequences in the way you decided them Sir. Like when Robin, Charlie and I pulled it off, regarding the attempted incursion. I'm playing both the decoy and plant on the team: decoy by using Lal in my place in my quarters. As she's controlling the A/V mode so they think I'm in my room at the moment."

"And the plant, so I can report into you and the crew on how my mission is going right now. As they continue to dig themselves into a very deep hole till they can't get themselves out of it now. But I just got to get him to incriminate themselves by his own words." He said and she nodded, as, looking at the admirals, he knew they were more then proud of him that he told them as she answered him.

"I see, so you're distracting them by using of your computer program so they don't know you're in here or on the ship telling us this in advance. And you're acting as our plant on the team so we know what is they're up to. Alright I understand and you're correct Wesley, I decided that the consequences. For this was loss of this year's credits and they couldn't advance with their class."

"As well as their license to pilot was revoked as a result, you know that, you made us proud and I know this decision was hard, but you did the right thing. And there is no duty to friends if they're trying to get you to be dishonest with a superior officer." she said and he nodded. "Yes Sir, but again, as I'm playing double agent and to their way of thinking I'm also in trouble for lying to you."

"It's you give me the same decision, but I'm going on the alternative of doing it at home on the enterprise. I can earn my credits and flight status back, but what matters even more is getting their trust back the crew. So I'm in a different version of their punishment, but I'm a second year in real life now. I'm back in training at home and I'm doing it up there, and with that in mind."

"I know and it's a choice between duty to the truth and duty to my friends, and I chose in advance 18 months ago. At the time when the senior staff crew contacted you regarding the foothold that day. But I chose being who I am, I'm a junior crew member I have a duty to the truth. And I will not lie to you, my captain, or my crew, as to that, though I lost Josh, I didn't lose the trio now."

"As for Derek, and he asked me that question and I know who I am and I know that code in being a Starfleet officer and I told that to Derek. But evidently he told that to Nick and Nick thought he was kidding and still considers me his friend. Unfortunately for him at the moment now, his faith in me is about to become his undoing, and like you said there is no duty to your friends."

"And when they're trying to get you to be dishonest, and especially to a superior officer. My friends are in one place, said place is on the enterprise. I'm not letting my career be destroyed just so he can get off on a clean record. At end of the episode just before I returned to the ship, because it's going to a follow up hearing after I tell Wesley the enquiry's decision."

"I'm just quoting what the captain keeps telling me regarding the first duty of every Starfleet officer. And the first duty of every officer is to the truth: be it scientifical, ethical or responsible. We do not lie, whatsoever, and his decisions, they're decisions is complete mockery of what it means to be in Starfleet. So last few steps now, it's stage acting and I'm pretending like it hit me hard."

"The captain's reprimand, that the last and final step is to get him to admit to it for all three of them, that they don't want to come forward. He quotes the words in the way I just told you now, that's nails the coffin, in their applications to the academy, shut. But he says the next remark also in the way I said it and he's toast, you're hearing those words spoken on the holodeck later on."

"But I tell you the truth, before you bring your decision to close the investigation and your decisions in this without a concluding testimony now. And you're putting a reprimand into our records, but I'm telling you before that happens, as I tell you exactly what happened up there. Ask him is that true, everything I just told you, is it true, and the five of you watch him carefully."

"And we let him make his own decision, because he's being stripped bare of everything. But that's after I show you everything, every shred of evidence to have him expelled the girls getting twice the time you chose, and me. For me to protect my career and my relationships. With both you and the senior staff crew, I'm serving my probation on board the enterprise now."

"Before I drop the act and tell him we had this planned from the get go and he loses all self control as he's stripped bare to the entire school. As everything everyone made him out to be is contradicted by that outburst. And that he's shown to be outside of the team as the liar and cheater he is now, that's Gamma squadron's plan." he said and they nodded with a gentle smile at that.

"You've done admirably Wesley, I'm very proud if you right now, alright we finish this in the way you decided. I'm also promoting you early to Lieutenant Commander of the JV crew starting today you earned this now. Your squadron on the enterprise just got their promotions as well. And Charlie and Robin Lefler are being promoted to lieutenant, Kurland to junior grade and Higgins."

"She's a full ensign starting the day of her graduation, and you're all undergoing training for wargames and battle drills right now. Because the concerns over the Cardassians seem to have gotten worse. Since after the last incursion or two after Maxwell's breakdown. But Nacheyav is getting antsy regarding the Cardassians right now." she said and he nodded to her then at that.

"I know and Admiral Haden, what my captain reported to you regarding Captain Maxwell's psychosis and Robin, Charlie and I just realized it. In why there was a science station in the Cuellar system to begin with out there. But they were creating those games and that was the attempt into the federation. By getting it to earth, and right to the academy, so Starbase 67 resulted in the captains."

"The ones of every ship that lost their previous captain to spread it further. The Endeavor and in my case right to the academy, and that's the attempt, an incursion without violence." he said and Haden nodded with a sigh as he said it. "Yes and in the process they just barely kill you while doing it. So was that what the pills were meant for, we had two plants in the federation here 18 months ago."

"And they're both working for the K'tarians and the Cardassians in an attempt to infiltrate the federation?" he asked and Wesley nodded to him. "Aye Sir, yes they were, but that explains why my mother and the sextet were so furious. But this plan cooked up, it wasn't just the Ktarians, or the Cardassians. But the alliance was between Aldea, the Cardassians and the Ktarians, but it's this."

"They're intention of a incursion without violence was by sending that guard to my ship. I'm on break at the exact same time she gets the game on Commander Riker and then the topper is I'm the chosen host. The one that was meant to get it into the federation by getting it into the academy." he said and they nodded with a firm look at the news then as he answered him as he crossed his arms.

"Great, your mother's already furious enough you've been in recovery ever since you went on leave, but it's been one too many injuries. Now, in the side of 3 years and if this results in another your mother and godparents are going to kill him. Especially if this puts you back in the emergency room for another second degree concussion if the added act of this is if he loses his temper."

"And when you drop the bomb and you end up back in the emergency room and his goose is cooked later." Hanson said with a sigh and he nodded as Haden answered that. "So undercover operation now, yes alright with what you're about to tell me next. If we make this loud enough he's stepping in before you can tell me, but what's the motive if he chose the one I'm thinking here right now exactly."

"When we banned this one from use after it killed five cadets and just killed two others, Lieutenant. Though Joshua risked getting himself killed to get these kids the consequences for breaking orders after McCoy specifically forbidden that one ever since?" Haden asked him and he sighed. "Nick's rival was Charlie, but it's the same argument and debate, that Major Hailey had 367 years ago."

"With Colonel Carter, the same one that Commander Shelby had with my godfather. It's the same old rant every rival has, when they're arriving at a new place and discover they're not the best anymore. But highest grade in every class he took, won every award he'd ever been up for. And to him the psychosis was you'd been comparing him to Charlie since the day he walked in the door."

"And he could never quite seem to measure up Sir, I got that same problem with Derek Hanson right now as well. And he decided after he lost everything he ever worked for that if he could get it right. Then he'd finish his career as the squadron leader that pulled it off for the first time. And upstaged the academic leader, but I knew this was his grevious at the moment right now."

"Alright hang on, Lal activate A/V mode back the enterprise, we're finishing this right now. I'm in here to a get a bit this off my chest, but it's hearing the Captain's tone when he's in business mode that I'm afraid of right now. But it's time to tie it up, I came to see you to talk as I learned from you, now. In what the consequences were going to be for that maneuver at the moment."

"So we go from there, I'm telling them what the possible consequences are going to be, before the captain calls me up. Shows me he just figured it out and gives them his ultimatum: either tell you the truth to what happened. Or he will, and I'm calling Nick into my room to forward that to him. And I don't doubt his next remark is to call the captain a liar, though he does that, it's over."

"As you gave them chance after, after chance, after chance to come forward, and he threw it in your face and then tries to lie. So I'm just give the very same lecture, you, you and the captain, but your words in my voice. So he either tells you the truth or, we, the captain and I, will and he's toast." he said keeping his voice low to them and they watched the camera flash red and they nodded softly.

"Yes alright we go from there at the moment, because he tells us what he figured out and Nicholas tries to lie his way out of it. And by calling Jean Luc a liar and none of us going to buy that lie, as we've know him better then Nicholas does. And I know you, you'd never follow through with that, you've never lied to us or the crew before and why start now, remember that."

"And being honest saves you from a court martial, but they have to admit to it, so we do it your way, so Jean Luc is calling you back up there in 20 minutes. And after he does it, I want the camera in your quarters hardwired to Lefler's computer. As we hear his side of it, but I'm just saying this and I know Jean Luc is going the say the same, that he's only getting one chance, tell us the truth."

"And he's getting off with the same consequences you and the girls do, but he crosses the line with whatever he says next and that's it. No more chances and he's being expelled, but we have to finish this exactly to base it with whatever our doubles did, until the ending of the episode after that. Because the ending gets changed to a secondary hearing and the added evidence turned in."

"As we get everyone in here as I now have the added evidence and I ask him that question a second time. But just relax, before we drop the act and you tell him the truth, you've been working for us all this time. So the remark of actions speak louder the words takes hold as he loses control. And you get hurt and that's it, he's being expelled and marginalized." she said softly and he nodded.

"Aye Sir, and you're right, I've never lied to any of you before and why start now, I'm finishing this and he's getting his goose cooked. I'm just revealing the added truth when Robin and Charlie come down, she's wearing a promise bracelet I gave her. And Nick is seeing Charlie standing next to me with her arms around me, as the message becomes clear at the time now."

"So he gets it, I'm the rival, since she was assigned to the ship, Charlie was protecting her with me down here, and I'm dropping the news then. That's she's pregnant with my unborn baby and I'm going to be a father. So he's lost everything: so his career, his reputation and his girlfriend to his ex- team mate now." he said and they nodded in agreement to that remark gently at that statement.

Watching it as it ended at that, Picard smiled as he said it then gently. "Alright, the final tie up is I need to see exactly what my double said. Had he'd left at the end of this mission instead of 18 months later, so we can get the wording right. So show my double after I realized it then, if he hadn't told me before hand." he said and it activated again as he was carefully viewing the screen and Wesley sighed at that look.

"Well I've seen that look on your face before, and just after we had the terraformers on board and you were trying to figure out what killed Malencon at the time here. But do those idiots not realize that you know every maneuver at flight training. You were a cadet once yourself and the previous academy committee in your case forbid the use of this one since you were a cadet." he said and Picard nodded as he answered him gently.

"I may not be a forensic scientist, but I know what pieces in engineering are used when attempting more reckless stunts than the Yeager loop you started with. But a daredevil stunt like this is one I know and recognize, because I heard from Andrea. Regarding this that O'neill tried this one at the same measurements. And I decided I wasn't having him on board when we had children on board the ship." he said to him and Wesley nodded.

Hearing his door chime he said it curtly then. "Come!" he said firmly and they saw Wesley walk into the room. "Captain." he said and he looked up at him. "Can you tell me what this maneuver is?" he asked as he turned the computer around as they saw an imagery of five ships performing the Kolvoord Starburst and Wesley nodded. "Yeah my double knows they're busted and he's trying to answer you at the moment."

"Though seeing the look on my face I'm trying to keep from blurting it out to you, then, that this wasn't my idea. And I wanted to come forward and before you figured it out, and before I could tell you then." he said and Picard nodded as he saw his student's double try to keep from swallowing as he answered him. "It's a Kolvoord Starburst, Sir." he said and Picard's double nodded to him as he answered him firmly.

"Five ships crossing within in ten meters of each other and lighting their plasma trails. One of the most spectacular and difficult maneuvers in precision flying there is. And it hasn't been performed at the academy in over a hundred years. Can you tell me why exactly?" he asked and he sighed. "It was banned from the academy pending a training accident, Sir." he said and Picard's double nodded.

"A training accident in which all five cadets lost their lives." he said as he closed his computer and set it aside as he went further then. "I think that Nicholas Locarno wanted to end his academy career in a blaze of glory, that he convinced you into learning and attempting the Kolvoord Starburst, if it worked. You would thrill the audience and Locarno would graduate a living legend."

"Only it didn't work and Joshua Alberts paired the price, am I correct..., I asked you a question cadet, am I correct?" he said, as they heard a stern tone enter his voice at and Wesley's double tried to keep from swallowing as he answered him. "I choose not to answer, Sir." he said to him and Picard stood up at that remark. "You choose not to answer, but you already given an answer to the enquiry."

"And that answer was a lie." he said and they watched him say it. "I said the accident happened after the Yeager loop, it did." he said and Picard nodded as he countered that remark. "What you failed to mention was that after the loop your team attempted a maneuver that wad a direct cause of the crash. Yes you told the truth, up to a point, but a lie of an ommission is still a lie."

"Do you remember the day you arrived on the ship?" he asked and Wesley sighed. "Yeah that's going to be a hard memory to bring up, it had been ten years, since we saw each other and just making a good first impression. And when we're under pressure leaves manners a lot to be desired here, Sir, as I just came out of the holodeck. When we saw each other, before mom brought me up to the bridge at the time."

"But this was to get me to remember everything we've been through together now." he said as he heard his double answer. "Yes Sir." he said and Picard's tone turned into a slightly bitter tone as he said it. "You even sat in my chair, I was annoyed, presumptuous child playing on my ship. But I'll never forget how you knew every control, every display, you behaved as if you belonged on the bridge."

"And then later I made you an acting ensign, I was convinced you'd make an outstanding officer, and I never questioned that conviction..., until now." he said as his tone went stern then. "The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, be it scientifical, ethical or responsible. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based." he said as he said it firmly to him then to finish it.

"If you can't find it in yourself to stand up and tell the truth, then you don't deserve to wear that uniform. Now I'm going to make this simple Mister Crusher: either you come forward and tell Admiral Brand what took place, or I will." he said and they watched him as he started to say it as he looked at him then to say it then. "Captain." he started to say and he said with a stern dismissal.

"Dismissed!" he said and they nodded to that. "Well we just hit the a chance to change the episode from there, because the directors in our grandparents century possibly sabotaged me. Because they didn't know what to do with my story-line after the traveler came into the picture. So with that, if this was a round robin and the crew ended up in a century before and leading into when they created the show we can fix that."

"Alright stop the episode and than put the truth in right then to him, Lal, say it as I would tell, even before he caught it. And with it have my double say everything as I would tell him now, because he and I both know I never lie to him before and to us it's why start now. Since I started my part time job as a member of the crew, I've never lied to them or my mother so say it." Wesley said and it reactivated as Wesley stayed put.