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.

29. 29: The First Duty Part V: Double 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 29: The Gamma Mission And First Duty Part V: A Nova Double Agent

"Captain, please, it's not what you're thinking here, as to why now, I knew you were going to figure it out and when you did. I was just dropping the act, and it's because we, Josh and I, came to the same conclusion, the very same psychosis in his case. As you did, but we decided to do your investigation and act as your plants on the team so with that, I lost my partner, but I still did it."

"So it's not what you're thinking, I'm undercover, you needed a set of eyes and ears in the team, and I chose myself to do it, I'm your plant. But the accident was the unintentional add on and the one meant to have him expelled. But I'm working for you and the academy inquiry, to end that maneuver's use, for good, Sir." he said and they watched Picard's double freeze up at that information.

"You decided to go on our unspoken request to be the plant on the team, that's why you tried to step in now. But if you were going to tell me the truth and waited till the boys and I figured it out. And till we figured out what caused the accident and reported in at the same time I figured it out." he said and Wesley nodded to him as he answered him gently as he went into parade rest then as he said it.

"Aye Sir, after three attempts to try it and they all killed a cadet or more then one, Josh and I. We decided we were ending this now and make that sure this maneuver wasn't used. And until after we got out of the academy as we had more training under our belts, but the stupid fools. The ones that keep trying it are first generation star fleet borns and the rest of us, we're second to fifth."

"But I read up on Jackson's way of handling it now and then decided we were taking it several steps further. I'm your plant on the team Sir, in truth now, we, as Starfleet cadets and Starfleet born officers. We decided to do your investigation and your under cover mission for you at the moment. So until you arrived we had to wait, because Josh and I were afraid Derek would blow it."

"So as Star-Fleet borns we decided if the next one was attempted we just made it clear to every future member of Nova that the use of this maneuver is now banned. And we had a petition written up and every Star-fleet born in the academy signed it, to end this one. But the accident was the unintentional add on, and the one that resulted in another death and accident."

"But we, my real team: but the girls, Charlie, Jake, Josh and I decided to set a trap for them by leading them right into your's: yours and the admiral and inquiry's, trap. But the act of being a good Nova, or a bad Nova, and we decided if one of the girls were killed. Then we'd tell you the truth from our own interpretations and if one of us: the surviving partner gathered the evidence."

"As the team started digging themselves into the hole as you were slowly digging into the analysis and when you hit it and the catalyst. We'd tell you now, but that sums it up, mom's remark right now: regarding these guys just hit the table. But me: I'm a good Nova and doing the right thing, by turning them in, and I'm telling you exactly what happened up there as well too."

"But them: Hajar and Nick are bad Novas, they're both heading in the direction of turning into NID agents right now. And as a result and Sito is on the edge of going back and forth. She knows she should tell you, but she's scared of what the consequences are going to be. But the act of using someone for ther own agenda, it's crossed a line in my eyes that they can't take back now."

"But I can't keep this from you, I did it on my own, because if Derek was trying to catch me, that blows the entire operation. As he told them I'm working for you, and I can't risk that until the mission is done and they get the results." he said gently and Picard nodded firmly as he answered him. "That's the issue with undercover operations and conspiracies, but now that you told me that."

"Alright tell me what's going on, if you were acting like this at the moment right now?" He said and Wesley sighed in relief at that as he said it. "Like the no winner test, I was working as the decoy, but unknowing or not. Our current trouble makers answered mom's question to whether or not. They'd be good Novas or bad Novas and the question just got answered at the moment here, but with it."

"The trio, Sito is hanging in line between good or bad, knowing she should come forward and is scared to do so. Because of her fears of what the consequences are going to be, Nick and Jean, Cadet Hajar, they crossed over and went NID. As for me, I'm being a good Nova and coming forward right to you, my captain, Sir, but with those words in mind now as your plant on the team here."

"But I had to make you think I was involved in this Sir, but the real truth is I'm a double agent, it's a split case, just to make sure he got expelled now. Because the conversation is heading in the direction of his choosing the cadet version to O'neill's remark to Jackson. After Q told us that the timeline was reset here, but it's the exact same fight now, I'm leading him into that mistake."

"So once you hear that recording there's no taking the words back and he's gotten himself expelled, and the girls twice the limit here. I had one chance to come forward and when you called me up here, I decided to do it now, but the added side effects. And the probation, I'd rather do that up here, my rank, flight status and credits, I can earn back, but your trust, I won't lose it."

"Your's or mom's I'm not losing it for them, I'm being a good Nova and turning them in, but not, I'm a Gamma and we decided on taking Commander Jackson's idea. And shoving it five steps forward, so that by the time you did figure it out..." he said and Picard nodded as he got it as he finished it. "So make us think you were involved in a cover up and them that you were siding with us."

"And until they said the words that effectively destroys their careers in the academy as he says it, you were working for me and Brand all this time. By doing our unasked orders and being our eyes and ears on the team now, Lieutenant?" he said and Wesley nodded to him. "Aye Sir, and rather then a normal undercover agent catch here, I then decided I'm doing a double agent motif."

"Sir, I was waiting for you to figure it out, before I told you now, but I'm working for you and the admiral. In fact Sir, that omission was to get you to figure it out, duty to the truth, I'm keeping my oath. They're on duty to your friends, but I'm not lying for them, this is for Josh. But my loyalty is to you, Josh, and the crew, the committee, I won't lie, ever, fact of the matter here."

"Is the fact when I took on my training I made an oath to tell the truth now to you if I ever ended up in a situation like this. Well I'm doing that now, but I've been shoved into a case of entrapment I need the escape hatch. Before they do permanent damage to our bonds here at the moment, though with that in mind that's why I had to let you know this." he said and Picard nodded to him gently.

"So you wanted us to figure it out and when we did you were going to tell us?" he asked and Wesley asked and he nodded to him. "Aye Sir, but they've ran out of time, but this catch has crossed several more lines when in training and as Star-fleet cadets it was our duty to report this to you. And the admiral, well I'm being a good Nova and turning them into you, Sir nothing's changed, I'm still."

"And in many ways, your son, but I had to finish my mission now, but it's getting things worked out now in this, but I just got them into the hole. You just figured it out, and it goes to stage three as he says the words now. The words that effectively end his career now, but I'm your son and student. And nothing, and I mean nothing's ever going to change that fact, for either of us."

"But he doesn't matter to me, you, mom and the quintet do, I swear it, the next and final step to seal their fate. Comes with this conversation, so you figure it out, bust us, send him that ultimatum, through me. And he says the words that end their careers, but I'm working for you and the committee. All this time, I've been working for and thr admiral now, Sir." he said and Picard nodded to him.

"So I figured it out, everything from what caused the accident to the motive, why would he choose this one exactly?" he asked and he waved him to sit on the sofa and Wesley sat down. "Before I explain this, get mom, the chief and the quintet in here, they need to hear this too." he said and Picard nodded to him. "Doctor, could you and the rest of the team, and Chief O'Brien come in here."

"It seems that what we thought is not it at all." he said and five minutes later they walked in. "Alright what's going on, honey if you chose now to break the truth to us?" she asked and he explained that to them. "Well to start this off at the moment, do you recall your remark to Derek 4 year ago, before I left. On whether or not he was going to be a good Nova or a bad Nova?" he asked and she nodded to him.

"Well I chose the first, the act of being a good Nova, but not, I'm not a Nova, I'm a Gamma plant on the team, as was Josh." he said and she smiled at the news. "Well this is what Nick would have done, pretend he's Nova leading into the reveal, so I take it that you took his idea and shoved it several steps forward?" Will asked him and he nodded to him smiling as he looked between them gently.

"Reason being they decided to use my friendship as way to coerce me into doing something that I would never do. The duo, Nick and and Jean, she's Cadet Hajar, mom, they're bad Novas, because of this. As they used me to get back at Charlie and Robin, because they got it stuck in their heads. She was cheating on him with Charlie, and neither of them realize it, but this crossed one line."

"The next is about to be the point of no return in my eyes right now at the moment." he said and she crossed her arms at that. "If they still think that they're out their minds and they're not fit to serve. And it's because Josh knew that truth you and Robin had been together for close to 2 years. And she's pregnant with your baby as well right now." Deanna said sternly and he nodded to her then.

"Yeah I know and that's when it hit me, he's got the usual issue with the lime-light and everything I described, regarding Derek, was exactly it. As if that's not enough, that's the Hanson cousins psychosis as well. And Shelby's regarding me, Charlie and you, dad, but that's the motive now. Into why he'd choose this one, but the analysis is the part that I was going to give you right now."

"But I knew it and I decided on the second you figured it out to tell you right now in it. But I'm acting as the eyes and ears of the investigation team and the inquiry. Your undercover agent right now, but that's what I meant when I told you that, because I'm working as your plant. On the team now, but I'm leading him in the direction of saying the words he can't take back, recorded."

"The other thing was I'm not a member of Nova at all, the guys, Robin and I decided on using your idea. Commander Jackson's idea, and shoved it five steps forward now. But we came to the same conclusion you did in why he chose this one, and he chose the starburst. But like Derek's cousin Peter, he did it again, and it's clear to me he never learned from one mistake and made another."

"It was two weeks before the accident, and he did choose the starburst, but Josh and I were discussing this. Before I realized why he wanted to attempt this one right now. But it's because of the same reason that Derek tried to arrest me and got arrested by Data. And Shelby kept crossing you dad, and we got in touch with Charlie, and we decided on doing your undercover work for you."

"We got the first half of it right, but he got it off by the same diameter that O'neill did when he tried it before Reynolds was killed in the blast. But to put this bluntly and I'm telling her this as well, but they thought we could do it, they thought we could do anything, but we're not. And we can't and as a result he was killed, but I warned him we weren't ready for this and he had it off."

"But he wouldn't listen to me when I said we had to pull it back at the time here, before I said to him that Josh and I weren't doing it. And Jean, Cadet Hajar, popped off with the same remark that the main character, in Starship Troopers, the narrator's team mate. I'm the other team mate, he's playing Rico, and Jean Hajar was the team mate that killed the one that had the problem."

"But that sums it up she's the one that shot their team mate by accident and said, but same remark, but their arrogance and idiocy is the reason he's dead. Hajar's engine nuked his in the plasma ignition last week, but to put this gently. Remember when you said that if you got it off by even a foot to five, that it could kill someone in the explosion, and if you weren't wearing a helmet."

"That it could knock you unconscious?" he asked and they nodded and he nodded and said it. "That's what happened, to put this more easily, but we got the first few pieces of it right, but..., alright give me a sec." he said as he activated the image a second time as he set it in front of them as Geordi rested his hand on his shoulder then as he pointed out the areas in the maneuver as he said it then.

"We got this part and this one right, but it was the plasma burst that blew it, but everything he told her after they got us down from there was off. The catalyst is his fear of not getting picked and sent to the best ship. And everything he wants, like Derek wants right now, Charlie and I. We already have it: the placement, your trust and approval and Robin we have it all, here."

"But we have all of it, Derek, before you arrested him, had told them, I was really working for you, but he didn't believe him whatsoever. But he's hoping to lie his way out of this and by callig you a liar right to your face. But the stupid idiots never watched this episode to know what the penalty was going to be. Once you caught them in the act of lying to the enquiry right now, Sir."

"And they're crossing lines not meant to be crossed, but he crossed it so far that his envy and pride was the trigger that blew up the gun powder now. To put this bluntly it's the scholarships and crew evaluations gone cadet version. Right now and he's getting antsy and scared about not getting picked as he's stuck on earth as an officer right now and the others end up-up here now."

"While in my case I have my placement already waiting for me and with it, everything I wanted, I have it all right now. But that's the envy of these guys, they want what I have and they're crossing lines not meant to be crossed and crossed it so far it killed another cadet now. But I'm a good Nova and turning them into you." he said and Picard nodded as Will answered him gently at that.

"Great, his fear at the scholarship selection process just resulted in killing another cadet and nearly kills you while doing it." Will said and he nodded as Picard finished that remark firmly. "Alright tell us what we need, because once we see the accident through your eyes now. That's going to contradict what he told her and John and is enough to dig him even deeper into expulsion here."

"While the girls twice the amount of time they deserve, but in yours once we get this, your mother and I can sign to restart your training up here. But it's back to the beginning and your flight status of the shuttles and starfighters are being deactivated along with this year's credits." he said and Wesley nodded as he answered him gently as he looked between them then as he said it to him.

"Well the ship's didn't collide with each other after the plasma burst and it wasn't an automatic explosion either. The blast knocked him unconscious and us 15 to 20 feet away from each other. And I got a blow taken to the head after getting slammed into the wall of my cockpit. And I turned mine in time to see his engine was on fire, because the flash lit up his exhaust vent, Sir, mom."

"I told you that to get you to figure it out on what caused the accident, before giving you the motive. But to sum this up its for incompetence of command, for failure to abide by safety regulations when in a live flight exercise. And for negligence that contributed to the death of a team mate. And it just gets worse from there for them as to why now, I'd never lie to you, mom, Sirs, ever."

"But for lying to a superior officer, for peer pressure of the surviving team mate, for falsifying a report, coercion, emotional blackmail. But they're on duty to your friends, but when telling them what was going to happen. I also made it clear what was going to happen when you figured it out. And they never even bothered to ask me what the consequences were going to be for this."

"Because they're afraid they're going to be expelled, exact words being, 'what do you think we should do, go in there and tell them the truth.'. 'We might as well turn in our uniforms and pack our bags.'. But the thing is they decided it was duty to your friends, and decided on lying their way out of this. But I'm not being a party to that, I chose duty to the truth even before I said it."

"They're not even considering telling you the truth, but I told them I can't do this, I can't lie to you. And her next remark after I was done injecting the same tone you did, year 1, dad. After you let the Ferengi landing party that attacked the four of you at the outpost in our first year. But same tone in my voice that you did, our captain, my captain and crew, but I'm still a member of the crew."

"In regarding my claims to the ship and you into my voice and I told her, I told them, I can't do this, I can't lie to you. And she said I don't have to lie, just don't volunteer any new information to you. But I know his next remark's going to be once I tell him you busted them is to lie to her, by calling you a liar. And I won't do it, he can't make me do it, because I made my choice it was you."

"But his remark to my telling him that I choose you and that I'm telling her the truth is I'm making a command decision and it's by turning them in. I'm not lying to you again and I'm not living with the knowledge now. That there was only one chance to fix this, our bonds and your trust. And it was by coming forward, before you figured it out now, but that's going to do it in his eyes."

"As I can't lie to you, I can't live with this, I have to be the one to decide, who the hell am I here. Although he's not going to like the answer to that question when he realizes I made my choice now. And it was really no choice at all right now, because I'm a Star-Fleet officer up here and I'm doing my duty, but we just met like six months prior, but I was always with Charlie and Robin."

"But the main motivation now in this was he thought this was perfect payback at Charlie, as he's on the psychosis that Charlie stole Robin from him. And as I'm Charlie's best friend now, but for him it's the same psychosis I named off regarding Derek and as if that's not enough right now. He's three months away from graduation and he's scared about where he's getting placed."

"But he wanted you as his placement, Sir, just like Peter Hanson and Derek does and did, and Marks blew it like they did it. But Kate told me everything and here's the real kicker, it's a repeater of the last few times you busted Derek. And they stretched your, and Brand's, trust so far it snapped finally now, and they're undergoing evaluations later." he said and Picard nodded firmly to that.

"I get it, but if I said this once, I said this 100 times, and you I handpicked as a member of my crew as I knew you wanted to stay. And that if they wanted the best training station or just be assigned to me. It was by actually getting to know us and not showing off, and if that was his intention. And he just screwed it up badly, because instead of pulling it off and getting it right finally."

'And it killed another cadet, but they break the restrictions of a rule my age group gave on this one, and because they're trying to show off. And again, we said this once and 100 times, but we have zero tolerance for showing off, hot-dogging, going by their gut instincts. Or they're trying to act like a hero, they want to make it on my ship or out there, then rein it in right now rookie."

"But his actions kill one cadet and nearly kills you while doing it and he's trying to lie his way out of this, but that loses points with me as well now. You knew what I wanted from you and you did it, because you always anticipated what I and Will were thinking. that's what we look for. And more then these kids that keep trying to show off to us and are trying to figure out what we want."

"Instead of trusting their instincts and if they'd just relax they's realize that, but you, it's not out of playing favorite and as I said I saw your potential. And I was convinced you'd be an outstanding officer, and hearing you again took the initiative. That just proves to me, that, once again, you're going to best your father in skills and if you continue in this direction now."

"You're going to beat Jackson in the case of being overly qualified in this case." he said and Wesley hid a smile at that. "Believe me, I understand that, but it's not by loyalty, it's by the amount of time spent together. But you, and the rest of the crew, you practically raised me yourselves. We've been together so long that, that's the shade of difference, time frames now here, Sirs, mom."

"But close to 7 years here with you, them, just short of 7 months, so who's going to win the test of loyalty now in this case, when you six helped mom raise me?" he asked and Geordi answered the rhetorical question gently as he hid a smile at the question. "That's simple we would, and that's not a trick question either, they lost this the second we kept you home for the last 3 years now kiddo."

"But that's exactly their problem, their pride was what killed Josh wasn't it, and you're deciding to come forward right to us. Because the four of us were the ones that were taking care of you, while your mother was at the medical department on earth." he said and Wesley gave a nod as he looked between them and O'brien crossed his arms at the news as he answered him as he said it firmly.

"He really expects to get away with that, when we took over your training, you never lied to us before. And you knew we only wanted the truth to what you were thinking, Wes, if he really expects to get away with this. Well then he'd better think again, because the shade of difference. Is the amount of time spent together and us it was six years, Wes?" O'brien said sharply and he nodded to him.

"Yeah, that's exactly the point, them, I've spent only a few months together with them, but you. I've lived on the ship and been working with all of you since year one. We've been together so long, that it's a no choice necessary, but it's the same old crap, excuse me. But yeah I know what it's like to trust others with your life, but the shade of difference is the amount of time together."

"And with the fact I've had my uniform all this time, it's the more direct approach as I've been on duty to the truth since you started my training. I never lied to you, not once, but they want me to, to save the damn team, but the only chance to save themselves. And is by duty to the truth, and their not considering that, because they're more worried about duty to your friends."

"But I'm not going along with that, and that, it's I come forward and tell this directly to you and I know the exact consequences. And said consequences I'd rather do that up here for not telling you sooner regarding this in what I was doing. But either way, I tell you the truth now and I get off on six months probation, flight status deactivated, and credits made up and that's it now."

"But those things don't matter to me, but not losing your trust, that's more important to me, but the pressure of things since the game. They started again, but between this and possibly a case of graduation jitters, I need a another Sabbatical. I'm not dropping out or resigning, I just need a break and I can finish out the following year." he said and they nodded as Picard answered him.

"That's why you waited till now to tell us this, they used emotional blackmail on you, that's illegal there at the academy as is coercion." he said and Wesley nodded to him. "Yes Sir, because if I don't do it now I think we both know whats going to happen here in the next 2 years. Because of them right now and I want to head it off before it does." he said and they nodded to him gently to that remark.

"So you wanted to tell us right from the start, but they coerced you into keeping quiet and then used emotional blackmail on you. Let me take a guess, you were hoping to tell us, the second we got into your dorm room, but you were still in shock from the accident. And when he walked into your room you were hoping I'd decide to bring you up here so you could tell me then, being your father."

"But every time you tried to tell us, he was always there to prevent it?" he asked and Wesley nodded to him. "I think they were hoping if they delayed long enough and once you figured it out it was made to look like I was involved in a cover up. Like I said duty to your friends, one of us goes down, then we all go down, but I never wanted to be on Nova anyway, I wanted to be with Charlie."

"On Gamma, but if Derek told them I was likely to turn Gamma, they wanted to set me up so that by the time you figured it out. I was made to look like I was one of them and you can't trust me anymore, but they don't mean anything to me. But you do, you guys matter more to me then all of them together." he said and Picard nodded to him as Beverly said it to him gently as she went over it.

As Will rested his hand on his shoulder at that. "Mom, this situation took the same turn we had as when you asked Derek that question, but coming forward when you arrived. It was made harder, because every time I tried to tell you I knew he was going to head it off till the moment. Till I was made to look like I was involved in a cover-up, and not like I was under-cover at the moment."

"But you know me, I'd never lie to you on something this serious, but with the fact you busted them and called me up here to confirm this. I decided I was just telling you this now, but the direction the fight and debate was and is about to take. It's leading in the direction of O'neill's fight with Colonel Jackson when he got turned into a drone, as we had Q drop in after that."

"And with it learned that added truth, as they were our past lives, but learning from past mistakes and no matter how many times they get into trouble they won't. But Nick and Derek are O'neill, I'm Colonel and Commanders Jackson and the fight is heading in that same direction. Same fight, only the cadet version to it." he said and she nodded firmly to that news as she said it to him gently at that.

"Yeah we know you and we'd know you'd never lie to us on purpose here, just like when we had to deal with the aftermath to the game. It's happening again, and twice to do the right thing here and both times I nearly you. And it's because you're being used by someone to their own deeds. Well I had enough of this crap at the moment, so they want to screw with your life right now."

"Well they've just ticked me off and I had enough of this crap, I'm not losing you because of these people and their agendas. So if you want that sabbatical in year seven in whoever of the girls that joins the crew. Then that's fine, you're not going to disappoint us, but yes you need a break from training. At the moment and we can take care of it, especially if there's more you didn't tell us."

"But they're not getting away with this, like I said you didn't do anything wrong, but trying to keep quiet until you revealed the truth to us. That was getting harder by the minute wasn't it?" she asked and he nodded as he looked down as he said it then to her at the question then gently. "I never wanted to lie to you guys, but to make sure Josh had justice, I had to go it alone here."

"If we could go back to that day I would have opted out, but we had to make sure no one attempted this one ever again. Three generations of Nova and they keep getting it wrong and at the very same measurements. And there was always one or two good Novas that got killed while doing it. Or get hurt, and as a result the rest of the team's under investigation and I'm breaking the chain."

"And collaring this maneuver before it kills anyone else, because they're trying to show off to you to get the right placement. And we decided on an undercover operation and the accident was the unwanted add on as a result. But at the moment I hate him right now, I don't want his friendship. Duty to your friends, because of him I nearly lose you guys, because of him, Josh is gone."

"But they took advantage of me by pulling this ploy, friends come on, they are not my friends, you are. As are the trio, but she used me to get back at Robin, he used me in the same way to get back at Charlie. But what happened was part of the mission, we decided if one of the girls was killed. Then we come forward together and turn in the duo now to you when you arrive as we did this."

"But if one of us was killed and the surviving partner was gathering the evidence to get him expelled from the academy and the others. With the time extension as they never bothered to ask me what the consequences were going to be. While the surviving partner did that time extension on the parent's current assignment, and you being on the Enterprise, I'd rather do it up here."

"We decided on this together, but we had to make it binding at the time two weeks ago, before we got started. So we and Charlie, Jake and Robin decided on doing your investigation and undercover operation for you. But it's not one member or another, but we took your idea, dad, but you. You and Commander Jackson, and we shoved it five steps forward here that day."

"But as you told me if you don't get it exactly right and are off by even a fraction of a foot, that was going to kill someone. Or knock them unconscious, because they weren't wearing a helmet when doing this, but to explain this again. After the Yeager loop we tried it, and we got the first half of it correct, the circle formation, but when we reached the star formation that day now."

"And despite the fact we said he had it off he wouldn't listen to us, before I told him that Josh and I weren't doing this. Before Jean snapped off at me in the same way that Rico's team mate did, before she accidentally killed their friend. And I warned him that if this went wrong it was on his head, as you're a doctor, and I've been put through enough in your eyes, and to you now."

"His recklessness and arrogance could have killed me if it does go wrong as I'm all you two have left of dad. And to you, all of you, and Commander Alberts, this was enough you'd kill him yourselves that you'd want him expelled. And if he'd survived, both of you would have yanked us for a sabbatical. Just so we could recover from the damage this did if it did go wrong at the time, as a result."

"But the blast knocked us 20 yards apart and the blast knocked Josh unconscious and I hit my head. And it lit up his engine, I was going to put it out, but before I could do anything the plasma ignition went a second time. And threw me into the wall of my cockpit, but that explains this now." he said and nodding to his arm and she nodded as she summed it up in what he told them at that.

"You certainly read our thoughts right in that remark, after the game and the aftermath to it. But you've had enough injuries to last us a life time at the time here. Because we had the life scared out of us, because if was way too close. But adding this to it, if we lost you, I'd have his head for it right now son." Picard said sharply to that remark and she nodded in agreement to that as she said it.

"So you and Josh tried to get him to pull back a bit, he didn't listen and one of the girls popped off to you in the same way the narrator's friend did. And before accidentally killing his friend, and you're the team mate. The one that dropped out of their own guilt, is that what you're telling me?" she said and Wesley nodded to him as he explained that to him gently as he looked between them.

"Yes and Sir, after I came around I told him, Deladier, that I relieved Nick of duty when Deladier showed up and got us down from there. But I taped the conversation between them after the blast knocked me unconscious, but broken arm, concussion and electrical burns in my case here. But if you and mom saw the expression on my face, it's because despite the fact we agreed here."

"We agreed that we wouldn't lie to you he gave you the truth in a half truth one is coercion and the other is emotional blackmail get ready, he's crossing the line with the next one. But I'm keeping to your oath, and doing my duty, and a duty to the truth, you remember our conversation over this last year, Sirs, and I would tell you immediately?" he asked, looking between them at that remark.

"They never asked you, before they decided on this, what the consequences were going to be, because with the fact you told us now. The final alternative to what's coming is going to be probation on the ship here now. But it means I'm holding back your original rank I gave you 18 months ago. So you're going to have to earn it back." Picard said and he nodded as he answered him softly.

"My scores, flight status and rank doesn't matter to me, you do, they're not destroying our bond just to get themselves out of trouble. But either way it's making him say the words he can't take back now." he said and the quintet hid a smile to that remark. "Sirs, I'm finishing this with the fact it's getting him to say the words that effectively end his career." he said and Picard nodded him gently.

"Sir, mom, guys, you guys matter more to me then Nick or Jean right now, I can't live with lying to you and knowing there was one chance to make it right. But Sito's one chance is by just coming forward and hearing the truth from me at the moment, but the penalty is a black mark on the record. Our flight privileges revoked and credits are revoked and we get hold back a year."

"But come on, that is better than being ragged over the fact we lied to you and the enquiry and nobody letting us forget it. But I'm not letting you down, You matter more to me then he or Hajar do and you're my parents. And parental friends, they can stay mad at me all they want, so long as I never lose you. I can take what's coming now." he told them and Picard smiled proudly at that.

"I knew we trained you well Wesley, but that's what I wanted to hear from you, what's your plan, now regarding Locarno?" he asked and Wesley smiled at him. "It's getting him to sign his own death warrant, by getting him to admit it, that he doesn't want to come forward or tell you the truth. And Jean with him, Sito, I tell her the truth and she sees the final episode on the team now in this."

"It's she going to see this as she'd rather gain your trust and keep it, we both get probation under you and she learns by doing it for real for 18 months. Me, I return to duty and though my flight privileges regarding the shuttles and fighters are revoked. I'm back to flying her once again and I'm with my wife in her next seven months." he told him and Picard nodded as he answered him then.

"Yes alright, so we finish this in one way, that my latest training lesson to you was one that influenced you enough to turn on them. When in actual fact, you're my son, and I've been telling you this for five years since I kept you home from the academy. After we got the test results back and quite honestly, if they never saw the ring on my hand, then the quartet doesn't realize that it's true now."

"The rumors he created about us are true, we got married 7 to 8 months ago, before you returned to the academy. And I am your father and your mother left you with me when they transferred her back to earth. And you chose to stay with me and your godparents as a result at the moment right now." he said and Wesley nodded in agreement as he looked into his eyes then as he answered him gently.

"Yes, but we stage act the rest of this for them as we do the final reveal up here, but could you and mom call Admiral Brand. And make it seem as though I never told you any of this till I show you the evidence on the holodeck. In the same way I did regarding the riot when Sarek was here. Because you're seeing him, and in the way you described me, right now, because your remarks here."

"You weren't saying that to me, you were talking about him a bit ago, because everything that Boothby said about him just was and will get contradicted. And when I reveal that I've been working for you all this time now?" he asked and they nodded to him. "Prevent a fight up here by having us surrounding you, before you tell them I, or rather we, gave you orders to do this, alright."

"We go it your way, but I want to see your side of this story so we can get you off on 18 months, but like I said you're going to have to earn your rank back. But your flight status to the shuttles and star fighters are being deactivated and your going to have to earn your credits. For this year, back and you won't be able to advance with your class till you do." Picard said and he nodded softly.

"It doesn't matter anyway, so long as I don't lose your trust or our bond never gets destroyed, I'm taking that consequence, but lesson learned. I wasn't ready for the maneuver anyway and frankly so long as I can fix the damage. That they did to us, then I'll take the consequences here now, dad." he said and Picard nodded as he answered him, as he looked him over gently then as he answered him.

"Alright you better get back down there, tell him I called you up here, because I caught you in the act of lying. And say that if you all don't come forward and tell her then I will in this. But make it sound like we don't have the evidence to back up the claim, until he says whatever it is that gets you to make you choice." he said and Wesley nodded as he stood up then as they ended the meeting at that.

"Alright the first half of the conversation after I gave him Admiral Brand's decision regarding Locarno and his decision in how to get them out of trouble. Because this portion leading into when we do this, it's getting changed to he tells me the truth in the first fifteen minutes, of the information he left out prior. But that ties it up in what we need now, because it's the entire conversation that we need in that."

"After I do that, just as the episode comes to a close, it gets another 20 minutes added to it, as he tells me, Admiral Brand, his mother and Commander Alan Alberts the truth. And as the evidence another added touch and he reveals every memory of the situation, from his point of view now. Because we're playing back the previous conversations when he does that." he said and it appeared on the screen then as they watched it.

"Well let's add his going into this debate with you and then you reporting it to both us, Allan, John and Andrea. As we come to the conclusion here, they're screwed now with the fact you're playing them for fools, although Sito was in on this the entire time." Picard told him and he nodded with a smile to him. "You always mattered more to me, my mentor and the closest thing to a father I have, both of you are, he wants me to lie."

"Forget about it, won't do it, I love you like a son to his father, you matter most to me, you both always did. I have family right here on the ship, I'm not destroying my career for some silly litte girl who wants to look handsome in her uniform. And not when I'm engaged to someone, I belong to someone else anyway, and that someone is carrying my unborn baby." he said and Picard shook his head smiling as Robin hugged him at that.

Watching him as he pretended to be a nervous wreck and was pacing back and forth as he waited, before they heard a knock on the door and he went to get it. "Your message said it was urgent." Locarno said and Wesley nodded as he answered him in fast remark. "They know Nick, they know what we did." he said quickly and the older boy looked at him at that remark as he answered him at that gently.

"Calm down, calm down, now tell me exactly what happened." he said and Wesley sighed. "Captain Picard called me aboard the enterprise, he told me he knows, the Kolvoord, the cover up, everything. He said if I didn't come forward and tell them, he would." he said and Locarno nodded. "Does he have any evidence?" he asked and Wesley shook his head as he answered him at that quickly.

"No, but he knows exactly how it happened." he told him and he nodded and Beverly's eyes narrowed as she saw him smile at that. 'Here it comes, this is the evidence I need to get him to incriminate himself. And he doesn't even realize that the camera is still on in my quarters. You're screwed now, Nick, you just incriminated yourself by your own words, and you don't even realize it.'

'I've already resigned from the squadron, I'm working undercover and you're exposing yourself. Mom, Sirs, I'm doing this for you, if it's a choice between you and the team, I choose you now. I will not lie and I have had enough of this. You matter more to me, they're not my friends and they never were, my place is with you, on the enterprise, at home.' They heard softly and she crossed her arms.

"Oh I know where this next remark is heading and young man, don't even think about it right now. They're never going to believe whatever lie you come up with regarding this, because we're all veteran officers and secondly. He'd never go along with that, he's my son, he's never turn on me or lie to me whatsoever." Picard said with a stern growl and Wesley nodded firmly as he heard the remark then as they exchanged looks.

"Captain Picard doesn't know anything, he has a theory. So let him tell the inquiry what he thinks happened, they'll ask us, is it true, we'll say no sir. There's no evidence, so there's no case, we'll get off with a reprimand." he said and seeing the shocked look on Wesley's face as he looked at his version, he knew that did it, as he answered the remark in disgusted shock as they heard it mentally.

While seeing another play back of everything from year two to that point flash through his mind along with several images of year one when they got back together and knew he made his choice then. 'You have got to be kidding, he's been there for me since I was 15, saved my life, rescued me. No, no forget about it, I won't do it.' they heard in answer to that, as he said it out loud at that remark as he looked at him.

"I can't call Captain Picard a liar." he said to him and the other boy sighed. "Wesley we have to hang on just a little longer, than this will all be over." he said to him gently. "It's wrong Nick." he said to him firmly at that as he tried. "Wesley." Locarno started to say. "I'm going to tell them what happened." he said and Picard smiled at that, before they saw the other boy lean back and cross his arms then at that.

"You're going to tell them what happened, alone, you, you're going to decide what happens to me, to Sito, to Jean, you're going to tell them?!" he said slowly and Will sighed. "Uh oh, in his eyes, this is a severe betrayal now." Geordi said to him and he nodded to that as Wesley moved between them. As Jenson rested his hand on his shoulder and he smiled at that as he answered him gently at his remark.

"18 months to 6 1/2 years, did he really expect me to just forget everything that happened since you decided to keep me home. I mean honestly you're the assistant coach to the squadron, dad the full coach. I earned the right to my leadership position on the team and I was making a command decision here to save the team, Dave." he said to him and he nodded as he went further at that as they exchanged smirks at that.

"But yeah, he was beginning to realize that Derek was right at the time here, I'd been around you guys so long. I'm not about to break the rules, and like I said, up here was the straight and narrow, you had me on a regime that kept me strong. I followed my regime and I was with you, mom, being my doctor, I could never break your trust. But around them it was temptation, I needed to be with my own kind, here on the ship now."

"But too late, it was too late for them by this point, to repeat your words right now, Sir. You gave them chance, after chance, to save themselves and if they didn't have the will to come forward. And tell the truth about what really took place, then they don't deserve to wear that uniform." he said and Picard looked at him and rested his hand on his shoulder as he answered him gently at that as he looked at him then gently.

"Yes, but seeing that you had to do this alone without telling us sooner you were really stage acting this entire time. You certainly did earn the right to wear that uniform, but that lecture is not aimed at you, Wesley, I see that now. I was talking to them this entire time, we gave them chance after chance, after chance. Just to come forward and tell us the truth." he said to him and Wesley nodded as ue looked at him smiling softly.

"Yes and your trust means more to me then they do now, but by saying that there was no taking the words back. He just destroyed his career at the academy for good, and I was about to give the lecture you told me Sir. As your words were spoken in my voice at the time as I let him have it then. Making it clear, that I wasn't turning on you at the time, for him, no matter what he thought now, a choice betwen you or them."

"It was you and it would always be you, and I made my choice long before the event ever happened now, and after close to five years together now. But the facts remained now for me that even though I never got the chance to tell you, it's that the scales. They landed in your favor, and my crew up here, I've been in training for 5 1/2 years. And I was finishing my mission in getting them to incriminate themselves now by this."

"I'm a Starfleet officer I have a duty to the truth, be it scientifical, ethical or responsible and this is considered the third. A starfleet's first duty is a duty to the truth, to betray that is to betray who I became under you guys at the time. And you decided, ever since we figured out what the traveler's plan was to make your own decisions. And the pressure eased up since, as I came into it as a teenage version of Commander Riker."

"And my decision, now, was I'm not going to lie to you, I never lied to you guys before and I'm not going to start now. I was stage acting this situation Sirs, as I said I was a plant. But this was to get him to sign their death warrants, he signed their warrants here." he said and they all nodded as they heard it. "And that's exactly what I want to hear right now, Wesley, you never lied to us, before, so why start now exactly."

"You knew what I wanted even though we never had to say anything, but that's what we keep talking about. The crew with the strongest bonds is the one who beats the odds everytime now, but we have a connection that nobody else does. Because our past lives were all members of the Atlantis expedition crew." Picard told him smiling gently and he nodded as they waited for his response then, knowing this was to bait him then.

"And it was clear here right now to, to you, I'm your father in the same way Will was, but by then if your thoughts are heading where I think. Then your mother and I got married, before this happened, so to you, you never lied to me before I became your father. So why start now exactly, you always told me the truth, and I mattered more to you." He added as he waited for the response he was about to give him at the next sentence.

"Do these fools not realize that they triggered something bigger then themselves, by screwing with me when it comes to all of you. You four in particular are my family, we're close to the edge of you adopting me now as your own, Sirs." Wesley asked and and he nodded. "Evidently not, son, but then then, in four years since your choice to stay with us, the remark of family emergency makes perfect sense now here, as to why."

"It turned into just that, we're trying to get you off on probation here right now and these fools don't realize I adopted you already as my godson. Let alone that by now your mother married the captain the year before this happened. Though that happens for real and Derek just got caught by the officers and parents he didn't want to be. As the rumors he created about you are true now." Will told him and Picard nodded to that firmly then.

"And we're going to now at the moment, once Hanson and his friends are off the ship, but everyone of his rumors, regarding your mother, me and you. I really am your father now and he doesn't realize he just crossed me now, if this happens for real. But it's I'm adopting you and 2) once things change directions and this comes to an end." he told him and and Wesley nodded to him then at the news gently as he hid a smile at that.

"I'm not going to lie to them again Nick, I can't live with it." Wesley said to him, quoting his double and they nodded to him as he said it to them. "Yeah I can't live with the act of lying to you and not knowing what I could do to fix this between us. But mom, Sir, guys, I was coming forward and telling you the truth, they no longer mattered. And to me, I would never lie to you, I would never participate in a daredevil stunt willingly."

"Nor lie to cover it up, but this, this was the last and final straw for me, I wasn't calling you a liar. Not after everything you ever done for me, Sir, Commander, while you gave me the confidence I needed. Just to get what was left of the anger regarding things in the game out of me, and this, and it was over with now." he said and they nodded and that did it, as they saw Locarno lose his temper at his remark then firmly.

"You can't lie to them, you can't live with this, you have to be the one to decide, who the hell are you?!" he snapped at him. "Nick." he said and he over rode him. "You're going to turn us in." He snapped at him as he tried to stop him at that. "Wait a minute." he started to say and Locarno snapped back at him. "No you wait a minute." he said as he turned around and and ran his hand through his hair at that.

As he turned around then. "You better get ready for this one, because he crossed the lines in Comparisions now at the moment." Wesley quoting his double in the image then. "He got to you didn't he?, Picard, he told you some big story about duty and honor. Well it must have been good enough speech to make you turn your back on your friends." he said and Wesley stood up at that remark as he said it firmly.

As he shook his head in disgust ad he said it to Picard and Will firmly at that. "Wrong answer, you been telling me that for years, it's the first duty of every officer we have a duty to the truth. I promised I would never lie to you regarding something this serious and if I was in trouble. Then I would tell you automatically, aside from that in the training regimes, and you, Commander Riker, mom and Counselor Troi set the standards."

"If they get sent to our ship, Derek, Colin and his friends screwed up their chances at making a good first impression on you guys. And they blew their chance to stay on the Enterprise, well now the trio blew their chances at this, regarding this incident. Just to be making a good first impression on you, now that there's no going back." Wesley said to Picard and he nodded in agreement as he and Brand crossed their arms then.

"Get ready for this next piece, not only was I giving him the lecture you gave me, but I was passing forward your ultimatum to him while doing it, Captain. But I was altering the added condemnation remark we had in your ready room. As I made it clear what everyone was going to think now if he didn't come forward at the time." he added and they nodded to him gently as they heard it, as Picard crossed his arms as he said it

"We are Starfleet cadets, we have a duty to the truth, I was born a Starfleet cadet, I have a duty to the truth, Nick. I'm not lying to them: him, the quintet, my mother, they mean more to me than you think. I have a duty to the truth, to them, to Josh, and with it, it's the only way. But if I lie, there's no going back right now, I have a duty to the truth, to them." he said to him sternly then at that.

"You already gave them an answer and that answer was a lie, do you recall when you arrived here, and since you took control of the team. Everyone saw you leading with grace and wisdom, and they never doubted you'd be a fine officer. And until this moment that belief was never shaken until the accident, and the captain figured it out, regarding what caused it in the first place."

"The first duty to every Starfleet officer is a duty to the truth, be it scientifical ethical or responsible. And it's the founding principle in which Starfleet was based, now if you don't have the will to stand up and tell them what really took place. Then you don't deserve to wear that uniform right now, the captain gave you and the girls a chance right now to save yourself and made it simple, Nick."

"Now either you come forward and tell her what took place, or we will!" Wesley said to him sternly as they heard the under current of command in his voice. "Yes that's good, that's really good right now Lieutenant." Jenson said with a smile as Picard said it, with a bemused smile as he commented on his approach as he answered him smiling. "Altered slightly but that's what I said to you, when I called you up, Wesley."

"But yes you definitely turned into me by saying that at the time. Although I think you took your command training when you were still up here, just a little too seriously right now. Because he's a cadet and he doesn't realize you're a full lieutenant on board the enterprise, let alone that, as we all just promoted you to full Lieutenant. Now, that he's been deactivated and is about to lose everything in a couple of hours now."

"And as the leader of the team and you were now the one in charge of the team you made a command decision. And he decided they were to try and lie their way out of it right now." he said and he heard his student say it firmly then. "And while I'm at it, this was the final test needed, in leadership training, in honesty. To stay we have to tell them the truth, I have a duty to the truth, Nick, it's that simple."

"Being honest means we get to stay, lie like you have been doing and you're digging yourself into a hole you can't get out of. And look at the results, I told you the captain was going to figure it out sooner or later. Well my decision was made, I have a duty to the truth, to him, to Josh, I'm not going to lie to them again, Nick." he said and that did it as they heard the answering response to that.

And he emphasized the next remark. "Oh yeah, well what about your duty to your friends, I got you on this team. I gave you a chance when there were upper-classman just waiting in line, I said he wouldn't let us down. He was on the enterprise, he knows what it's like to trust someone with your life. I guess I was wrong." he said and Wesley said it sternly at that as he said it to the image then.

"He probably said that after Derek told him that there was the likelihood of my turning on them once I was away from them and Josh with me at the time. He wanted to believe it so much that he decided to use the last remark as a parting shot. Before I gave him my final decision now, and he's now seeing Derek was right all along." He said and the quintet nodded as Picard answered him for all of them at that remark.

"Just give me one damn good reason for him to violate my trust, you've been separated from him for three years in a time dilation field. But you're just a helm Jockey, Wesley is the one to surpass you in ranks as you grow up right now. But I know my son, he would never break my trust or lie to me, on purpose right now, young man." he said with a stern growl as they heard him say it with a with a firm tone of submission then.

"If we all come forward together and tell Admiral Brand." Wesley said and the boy scoffed. "Oh boy, well that crossed a line he can never take back right now at the moment. Because we're taping this entire conversation from my computer, and Lal hardwired herself into the camera. In his dorm room, and then jumped back to the holodeck to prepare for this." Dayton said quoting his and he nodded to that remark.

"As you said, if he doesn't have the will to come forward and tell her what really took place. Then he doesn't deserve to wear that uniform, and with him the girls, I made my choice, I was coming forward and telling you the truth. I was going to do what was right, and with that, I earned my right to keep my uniform. But him, he doesn't deserve to wear his." Wesley said and Picard nodded then as he answered him then at that remark.

"Yes, you're correct, and that attitude goes against everything we stand for in Starfleet and this child doesn't deserve to wear that uniform right now." Picard said sharply to his remark as they heard Wesley's mental remark to that as they heard a tone at that. 'Alright just go ahead and say it, you're speaking for all of you, so just tell them the truth.' Wesley quoted as they heard it in a firm tone at that remark as they waited.

"We don't want to come forward, Sito, Jean and me, we do not have a problem with this. But if you do, than resign your appointment to the academy and walk away, but don't make us pay for your guilty conscious." Lorcarno said and Wesley looked at him in shock. "You'd do that, you'd let me throw away my career, just to save your neck." he said in shocked disbelief and he emphasized the remark at that.

"To save the team, that's more important than you, and it's more important than me, and if I was in your place. I would do so, and without hesitation, but that's just me." he said and left the room and watching Wesley, they saw him smile coldly as he waved a second time at the camera and it blinked blue at that to him. "Times up Nick, I'm going to finish this and you're going to be expelled for it now."

"Alright Lal, redirect one last time, after he leaves the beam me and the enquiry on board the ship as we stage act the last of this." he said and it switched to him tapping his communicator. "Lal, beam me, Sito, and the enquiry on board the enterprise, we're finishing this, before we stage act the rest of it now for the duo." he said and he left the room in a flash, as Sito beamed on board the ship then at that.

As she looked at him in confusion as the enquiry also beamed in at that. "Nice timing Mr. Crusher, so what's going on exactly?" Captain Seltak asked him and he explained it. "The test results just came back, Captain, he flunked, you got the info needed to expel him now, but that's why I brought her on board. So I can explain to her the consequences of this one." he said and the enquiry nodded firmly.

"So he blew his chance huh, we gave them chance after chance, after chance to come forward and they still won't do it, hmm. Well there's no chance of his getting a second chance now, but you always knew what this was going to result in. But then you were in on the job training since you were 15, you know better then they do." Brand said sternly to him and he nodded to her at that gently.

"Yes Sir, but like dad or mom, I'm not losing your trust anymore then I want to lose their's, but he just insulted you by attempting to sneak this past you. But come on, all it takes is hearing the one sentence and you know what it was. And in which maneuver he chose that resulted in killing Josh now. You're all veteran officers, you know every trick in the book, and all it takes here, now."

"Is just hearing the words 'ignite the plasma' and all of you know which maneuver calls for that part of it. And as it killed two people already in our generation, and another in my godfather's, you know what he pulled here. But then, you didn't make this rank by getting reckless. And you know they're trying to sneak this passed you at the moment." he said and they nodded in agreement.

"Dad already caught it, and I completed the explanation, before you figured it out and he told you, so I'm off the hook, and for one reason only. I'm working for you, and as a result, I just set him up, but he said word for word. In what what his double did in the show, as a result I made it clear. That his only chance to stay was by coming forward, but he just screwed himself over, Sir."

"You know me, I would never lie to you on purpose and secondly with the fact that though I got involved in it. Josh knows the truth, regarding me and Robin, but that's the problem he sacrificed himself to keep me alive. Robin's pregnant, two months in, Sirs." he said and she nodded to him. "Locarno nearly killed you in the process and Lefler is pregnant?" Seltak repeated and he nodded to him then.

"Who's the father exactly, Wes and why didn't you tell me sooner?" Sito said in shock to the news and he sighed and she paled. "I am, it happened three months ago, that's why I decided to come forward, I'm not destroying my life for him, or for Jean. Robin and I are engaged, my entire life is right here on the enterprise now." he told her and she nodded as Deladier answered him gently.

"You did the right thing son, I know that this seems like a betrayal right now, but at times, it's they cross the line we have to take charge. But three added years, regarding training and here's the result right now. But chance, after chance after chance to come forward and the time is up, so what's the verdict?" Deladier asked and he crossed his arms as he answered him then firmly at that.

"Dad just came to the conclusion and he just checked out the only maneuver that resulted in the accident and we went over this as I told him everything. What happened and how it happened right now, it's done, but I told him the truth, that with the fact I was waiting for him to figure it out. I'm working as a double agent, for you and the enquiry, as well as the investigation team."

"But the conversation I had with Nick, went the same way we expected at the moment. He's trying to lie his way out of this by calling dad a liar, but that did it for me, I'm not calling my father a liar, I'm not living with this on my head. Nor am I living with the fact I told you the truth in a half truth, it's not happening. I choose you and dad, he's just blown his chances as a result for that remark."

"But what do they take you for exactly, you're getting to the bottom of this either way. And aside from that, I made it clear that when something like this happens. My crew turns into an investigation/detective agency, I've know this for years, but I'm never lying to you again and he's screwed. And it's because he just incriminated himself by his own words, himself and Hajar now."

"But he's blown his career at the academy." he told her and she nodded firmly as she crossed her arms at that remark as she answered him. "Indeed, do they take us for fools here, all it takes is just hearing that one sentence told to us. And by you or Commander La Forge and we know what it was that killed Joshua. But then you need every subject in high school to make it into the academy now."

"But that's why, next to Charlie, you were our prize pupil, and I knew I could count on you to do the right thing, but then, it's because you're free. And of the traveler's opinions, we chose to follow our own instincts. But I know Jack would be just as proud of you as we are now, and like Jean Luc, Beverly, William. And Deanna, John and I know you better then anyone, and we're proud of you."

"Like I promised, you get that probation here on the Enterprise as a result of you doing our undercover work for us now. But Locarno is getting expelled for this while the girls get the same punishment you do. But go ahead and tell her the truth, you're the Starfleet born cadet and you've been in training. And since you were fifteen, so tell her the truth." she said and he nodded to her, smiling.

"Admiral, it's alright, I made a promise to both of you and dad, I would come forward and I will. But we finish this in the way we did in the case of our doubles." he told her and she smiled at him softly. "You are my prize pupil, it doesn't matter what Hanson tries, but he's also blown his career. They both have, I'm sending Hanson, both of them and Hajar here for that next episode."

"The next one focused on the team, but best to tell her the truth of that, before she commits her fatal mistake, you went against the whole. And you're getting that probation here under the supervision of your father and godfather. So tell her the truth of where this is heading if you go against the whole. And tell us now and before this comes to an end." she told him and he nodded as Sito said it.

"Tell me what, Wes, what's going on, why am I up here?" she asked him and he explained it to her. "Before I answer that question, I need you to understand, that before we hit this point. I already told them the truth, everything and they let me off the hook as a result of that. Because I'm really working for them, the investigation team and the enquiry, my parents are the ones doing it."

"But I told them the truth already, and they're giving me 18 months probation on the ship, for waiting till the halfway point to tell them. It's not what you think here, but it's a black mark on the record, loss of this years credits. And our flight privileges revoked, all in all it's probation and a black mark on the record." he told her and she looked at Brand, Deladier and Seltak in shock at that.

"You told them the truth, but when did you find out about the consequences?" she asked and he explained that to her. "When I was up here at home, like I said I've been in on the job training, since I was fifteen. And they told me what the consequences were going to be, just after Derek got arrested. In regarding something, but our predecessors from the Commander's age group."

"They tried this as well, but duty to the truth is the only way you can stay, just coming forward now. I already told my parents the truth, and with them the enquiry and we discussed this already, this morning. But trust me, though they give you a second chance, you're on probation for a while as a result. But lying to a commanding officer is enough to disqualify you here now."

"And in the Captain's eyes, but listen to me, the Captain takes the rules like this seriously and as does the Commander, my godfather. I got a connection to the duo, that is much stronger then you'd expect right now. But in year two when mom left the ship I chose to stay with them, to them. I was their prize pupil, their best student, so as a result I saw past the rumors here.."

"Trying to show off is, to him, an annoyance, but let me show you what I mean, Lal, go ahead, it's time." he said and the holodeck activated with him and Picard in the middle of a fencing match. Playing chess or them in the middle of training session in languages and she smiled slightly at that response. "So to him, it's the truth and being open with him, seeing past the rumors made about him or the others."

"I, I thought we were getting expelled for this, I'm a first generation Starfleet officer, I didn't know any of this." she said and he nodded to her. "Nick asked what I thought we should do, and it's to come forward and just tell them the truth. Listen to me, but you want anyone treating you with scorn, and never letting you live it down until you graduate, you come forward and they understand."

"But though they let you stay, you have to make it back up and you're grounded till you earn your flight privileges back now. But that's it as lesson learned and we learn not to try it twice till we have more experience under our belts. But duty to the truth is your only chance at getting through this. And without all the scorn and ridicule that's coming if you chose duty to your friends right now."

"Sito, the punishment if we all come forward, together, though we get to stay, the penalty regarding it, is loss of our credits. Our flight status for the fighters and shuttles, that is revoked and we don't get to advance. And with our class, but that is duty to the truth, by coming forward now, long before it ends. And before the end of the hearing, we tell them now and the conclusion here now."

"Is they give us a reprimand, but with it comes loss of our credits, our flight status gets revoked and we can't advance with our class." he said just as Picard walked in at that remark. "How did you learn that exactly and when?" she asked in shock at that news and he explained that. "As a starfleet born, it comes with knowledge of every sector in starfleet, I was in the job training for four years."

"Being a Starfleet born cadet came in handy, but I knew this for years, and I had this conversation with my captain and my godfather last year. To keep their trust, I had to tell them the truth, but I promised the captain. If I was in trouble I'd tell him immediately and secondly I would be his undercover agent. But Nick doesn't realize I'm their undercover agent, I'm working for the enquiry."

"But Nick's determination stems from a psychosis, regarding Charlie and Robin, Robin is his ex girlfriend. To get back at Charlie for taking her away from him, he chose me, and secondly is he studies, Colonel John O'neill's policy. While the three of us follow Colonel Jackson's, as a result. It's the need for the lime light, and getting out of Charlie's shadow." he explained and she nodded to him firmly.

"The added truth to why I look like this right now, is my ship was in a time dilation field. I just lived my entire 3 years from the game to when I dropped out here on the ship. Q, he is really the Tollan refugee leader SG-1 rescued at the time, but he was helping us along with this charade. So as a result, I built the bond so strongly to them, that I'm more Starfleet then Nick is now.

"I knew the rules for something like this, but what just happened, a bit ago was stage acting I set him up for incriminating himself and Jean by his own words. So with you being the only one that knows what the hearing results in, you're getting a second chance as we reveal to the entire academy. We're both working for the enquiry, as double agents." he said and Sito nodded as she said it.

"The captain figured it out already, didn't he, that this was why Nick chose this maneuver and in the process. That the exact measurements weren't taken and that killed Josh and nearly you with him?" she asked and they nodded to her. "Yeah he did, and he called me up, what Nick told you a bit ago was stage acting. And at the moment, I already arrested Derek, so he can't tell him this now."

"But I already told him, my mother and the enquiry the truth, and we're stage acting the rest of this right now, but I needed you to understand this. But the duo, Nick and Jean, mean nothing to me, the crew, him. My mother, them and my friends mean everything, that's including you. We get this one chance to keep their trust and we earn back our credits, but we have to tell them now."

"I've been working as a undercover agent for the enquiry ever since I came back, but the psychosis here, is regarding Charlie. But I already watched this episode, but you and I lost their trust and respect. And the fall out resulted in killing you and my dropping out of the academy, but not going to happen now." he told her and Will and Picard crossed their arms at that as she looked at the group.

"Listen to me, there is no reason to lie right now, or hold back information, we do that and it just digs a deeper hole right now. The captain and enquiry gave the duo chance, after chance, after chance to come forward right now. For us, they know we can't take living with the guilt and not telling them to truth. So best just to say it and get it out of you now." he told her and she nodded quickly.

"Added truth here, is he is my father, if you never saw the wedding band when he and mom came to my room to check on me. They got married last year, Sito, but even then, we had a father/son relationship, because I spent one year with him. And we developed the bonds so strongly, that we acted like a father and son." he told her and she looked at Picard's hand and saw the wedding ring then.

"Why didn't you tell me any of that, and sooner?" she asked and he sighed gently. "Because I had to report in and I ended up catching Derek in the act, but I told them. Before they came to the conclusion of what caused the accident to begin with here. But a case of brains over brawns, I heard what Daniel Jackson pulled and took it five steps further." he told her and she smiled in relief as she said it then.

"It's okay, added side on is if you take Josh's place as my partner that keeps you out of trouble here and as you're working for them. By that I mean the enquiry and the investigation team right now, but that just adds on to it. The probation, as you get a chance to keep us together now. And as you spend 18 months by doing it for real now." he told her and she nodded in amazement then.

"Doing it for real, you mean here on the Enterprise, the captain and the enquiry are offering me this chance. But though I'm on probation, I'm serving my probation here on the enterprise under your father and godfather's supervision?" she said in shock and he nodded. "Yeah, once in a lifetime chance to come forward with this added to it." he said and she nodded as she clarified that.

"That it, just that, we get to stay, but we lose our credits and flight status, I wished I asked you that in our team meeting. And sure he had to do something, but the damn fools convinced themselves that Josh panicked at the time. I should have just asked this question, but I'm not making the same mistakes twice, so with that right now." she said and turned to Brand and the enquiry then.

"That's it, so we come forward and tell you the truth, now, and you give us a second chance. But we lose this years credits, and we don't get to graduate for another year. And if I take Josh's place as his team mate working for you as your spies on the team. You're offering me this chance to serve under you, here on the Enterprise, Sirs?" she said and Picard and the enquiry nodded to her gently.

"Yes it is indeed young lady, so what is your choice now, but consider it carefully, because this chance is not being offered twice. But once you make that choice, Andrea has chosen me as your future placement. As you build the bond he and the others had with me, for him, it's because he couldn't lie to me ever prior to this, I'm his father." he said and she nodded to him as she said it.

"Stepfather, how long was it that you got married, exactly?" she asked and he explained it gently. "In truth, he wasn't missing and in on the job training on sabbatical for 18 months, it's been three years. We got married last year, but even then the rumors Derek Hanson gave you were half true. He decided to stay with me and his god parents, when his mother was transferred back to earth."

"But we had that talk over what the results were going to be if something like this happened and he chose duty to the truth immediately. Jaxa, regarding things in this truth, everything he told you, regarding this is true. Though given a second chance, if you come forward immediately, you're on probation. But we'd let it go after a few months as things continued in your training now."

"As a result, in my case, he chose to remain under my command to keep us, his mother, me and him, together right now. But he wanted to remain under my command right now, but with the fact he told me. And before the conclusion of the hearing, that keeps our bond and my trust in him intact. But that's what he meant by duty to the truth right now in this, but duty to your friends now."

"That results in the consequences that were chosen for Derek and Peter Hanson, Locarno and Hajar. But the results are in addition to what he just told you, that everyone on campus is never going to let you live it down. My ship had stricter rules regarding this as a result and during crew evaluations. But we believe in duty to the truth and following the prime directive on this ship."

"But attempting what Nicholas is trying is enough I would not let it go, even after several years as you got chosen for the ops position. I'm not sure I trust the person after what happened here at the academy. And even after a few years, as you lied and pretended that it was an accident. And one that impeded on an investigation into your team mate and fellow cadet, as I look into it."

"But Andrea would send the victim to me so I can run evaluation over the victim that got sent to me. During crew evaluations as a result, you come forward and tell us and after a few months we let it go as you grow into your training." he said and the enquiry nodded. "Yes, we would let it go it you came forward now, as time went on, but attempting to pretend it was just an accident, we would not."

"But lying to cover up the accident is considered impeding upon an official investigation of the accident. Wesley knows this and he decided to just remind us he was working for us and was running the investigation. What with the fact Josh is gone, but to him, it's justice, Nick is being expelled. And for murdering a fellow cadet and several other charges." Brand added to her and she nodded then.

"Well that's a load off my mind Sirs, so just tell you the truth and I get to stay, these things are not much, as I can it make it back up. But I never lost your trust, that matters even more now, alright I'll tell you the truth in what happened here. But Nick just screwed himself over, right after he charged out of Wes's room he told us, before you told me here in the penalty was going to be."

"But hearing that it's not what we expected here at the moment, that's a real load off my mind, at the moment he just decided to lie to you. Regarding the captain's findings at the moment, but before you told me this. It's a matter of telling the truth if this was a test and I'm just passing that right now. But this team is taking sides, our fifth is dead and Wes and I are coming forward."

"The duo decided to stay silent at the moment, but whatever the results of the follow up episodes to this situation are. I'm jumping over it right now, but as he's squad leader, he's about to get it right now. Once Wes and I tell you this, at the moment, but Sir, what's the finding's?" she asked and he said it. "I concluded it was the Kolvoord Starburst and it was the star formation, that caused it."

"Before Wesley told me that's exactly what happened and showed me and my crew that parts that blew it, again. Because Locarno's best friend tried this at the same measurements and it killed his team mate. Commander Riker told me it was at the same ones, regarding Jack O'neill, same results and and this is the third time in 15 years this had happened." he said and she nodded as she said it.

"I know I'm going to regret asking this, but what are his charges as he's facing expulsion here for this?" she asked and Picard crossed his arms as he said it. "For incomptence of command, for failure to abide by safety regulations. During a live flight exercise and test, for negligence that contributed to the death. Of a team mate and the near murder of a second, and it gets worse from there."

"But for lying to a superior officer, for filing a false report, regarding the death of said team mate. For peer pressure against the surviving team mate, anyone of these could result in the penalties that we have chosen. But pack all of them together and he's being expelled while the rest of you are getting the first four." Picard told her and she nodded as Alberts finished firmly at that remark then.

"Wesley is correct, regarding the penalty, but coming forward and telling us this now, and before the conclusion of the hearing, means you get to stay. But it's loss of your flight privileges, your credits for this year are revoked. And you get held back a year, but lesson learned now as a result as it is. I know the duo are trying to lie their way out of this, but we gave them chance after chance."

"After chance, to come forward and they still haven't done it right now, to me, Wesley was, and is, our prize pupil, and the best friend of my son. And I'm beyond proud at the fact he decided to just get that out of the way now, in truth now. It was Josh sacrificed himself, just to make sure that stunt is never pulled again at the academy." Alberts told her and she nodded to him, sighing at that.

"The damn idiot never took physics or chemistry to understand how dangerous this gets, Sirs, I may not have grown up on a space ship. Or was a science and mechanical whiz kid, but I knew that we were taking a big risk at attempting this one." she said and they nodded. "I suppose the motive was correct, he wanted the glory at the fact he was the first to get in right in over 100 years."

"That he wanted to graduate with honors and become an academy legend, Cadet Sito." Picard asked and she nodded to him. "Aye Sir, that's it exactly, Wes said he had the measurements wrong and to pull back another five meters. But he claimed he had it right, before Wes made it clear that if one of us was killed. And it was on his head." she said and sighed as she finished sadly as she said it.