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.
Warning: And this from this chapter and forward gives a recap of the last book for the trio as they get caught up, but this story is going to be 90 chapters. As it recounts everything she needs to know from the Game to their future on the squadron. Just before the emergency hits and season 5 starts up after these situations in the aftermath of the episode come to an end, as she learns everything now.
Chapter 36: The Game Recap Part I: The Conspiracy Begins And Data
"Wait, wait, wait, before we start, Lal activate the teaser opening trailer to this, when Etana gave me that game and I got hit by the first dose. And get rid of her seductress type attitude with me this was a clear trap, it was like Hathor and Nick's grandfather. But things are in reverse right now in this at the moment, so do it." Will said and it activated on that as they saw her produce the game and put it around his head then at that.
"Hold it, hold it, we should do this on the holodeck, so..., Lal combine holodecks one and two together and activate the start of the episode. And recap from my and Robin's point of view leading into the manhunt. Energize." he said and they beamed out of the room as they reappeared in holodeck one. "Yeah I forgot you downloaded that into the system, but again, you keep that up and you're busted." O'brien said as he started laughing then.
"The computer programme ties into every system in the ship, so this was why he was driving her and her crew crazy. Because he was hopping from deck to deck without being seen and the system over rides the transporter room functions. So once Macgregor caught sight of him he jumped into the platform and beamed into my bedroom." Will said, explaining that and the sextet nodded in amusement to the news then gently.
As he ran his hand through the hair at the back of Wesley's head gently at that. "Come you better stay sitting down, you shouldn't be on that ankle for long." Anenzi said and he nodded to the orders then. "Meow!" they heard as Spot appeared in a flash of light as well and they chuckled. "I guess Lal is now interpreting what she says and she asked to join us in here and Lal brought her here." Dayton said and they nodded to that gently.
Before a black panther cub no bigger then Spot walked in then and Daniel shook his head as she looked at the cub. "Spot this is my cat Denali, Denali this is Spot." he said and they gave a meow and gentle growl to that as they looked at each other then. Looking at each other as Denali pressed his forehead to hers and she started purring at that. As she pushed her head under his chin and they chuckled at that as they watched them gently.
"He's cute, so this is an Urm Mah Ghal." Robin asked and he nodded to her. "They age slowly, but in human years, he's 13 to 16 years old, his grandfather now. He passed 18 months ago, and he belonged to my grandfather, so like their normal cat counterparts. My family kept two cubs per litter that their parents or grandparents had, my brother has his sister." he said and they nodded as they refocused at that remark as she said it.
"We're driving Etana and her crew crazy and that frustration is going into you guys right now." Robin said and they nodded firmly. "Yes, but in another time and place this would be amusing, but our internal selves, as we were ourselves. We'd all be find this funny right now, but when possessed right now. It's trying to figure out where you guys ended up and what you're planning next." Deanna said to her and they got started then gently.
"What is this?" he asked and they heard a tone of glee in her voice. "It's a game, everyone here is playing it, it's fun." she said and Robin said it in disgust. "Fun, more like dangerously addictive and mind control." she said and Wesley slammed his hand on the table at that. "Gotcha, that was no Risan game, it was manufactured by the science lab in the Cardassian Rebels." he said and Will nodded to him as he heard his voice.
As she got it into place then as he remembered this. "Do I keep my eyes open or closed?" he asked and she explained that. "Open." she said and Daniel nodded. "It penetrates the brain through the octicular nerve to control you, Will. She needed you to keep your eyes open, that's how the mind control activates at the moment." Pulaski said and he nodded to her at the news as she turned it on and they saw the view screen.
"Looking at it now, I'm seeing this as we should have been more careful, but it certainly was not fun and the game was boring. But it's..., thats it, it's throwing doses of epinephrine into our systems every time we get a hit. Getting us addicted to it and all the while activating the mind control, starting with me and I in turn infect the girls. But like you said it's drugs and we're all trying to get you to try the drug we were addicted to."
"And you're the one putting up the most resistance thanks to your capture by Radue, so with that. It's that's a good enough reason here to be wary when off your home turf right now. Said home turf our ship, the ship is home, and sure we may go down on shore leave. But to us in the space navy, Starfleet, the ship is always home, so once home life is safe and normal." he said go him and they nodded as they watched it further then.
"Or at least it was till we had this situation happen right now, but we're stuck in a time dilation field for the next 3 years now. We're safe and protected, because the rest of the year is on a hold until the situation over my recovery and the game is resolved. But we locked down engineering and put up a sound proof shield. Derek may try to tell them we all went Gamma, but Nick is not going to believe it." Wesley said and the duo nodded.
"And once I see why exactly, I am going Gamma, to protect our friendship I'm siding with you, Sirs, Wes told me. Now that the penalty for us coming forward immediately was our flight status gets deactivated. Loss of our credits for the year and we get hold back one year and can't advance with our class, if we all come forward together. Is that true, since I'm in training by you now as a real officer?" Sito asked and the adult officers all nodded.
"Yes it's true, it's what we consider duty to the truth, but as Starfleet officers, our first duty is a duty to the truth, be it scientifical, ethical or responsible. Andrea, John and I are making it clear, we are giving you this chance, but just remember. Once in a life time chance as you put our bonds to the test later once you three to the academy. That seals your appointment to the Enterprise, but once in a lifetime chance and consider carefully."
"As this chance will not come twice Cadet, so make your choice when we hit that twice, you're watching the alteration we made to the episode after this. We never lie, to save your career you have to come forward and tell us what happened now. To keep our trust and bonds like they are once we get to know you three, you have to tell us the truth, understood." Picard said and she nodded in understanding as she said it to him smiling.
"Well I can just lead them in that fear until he says the words that effectively end his career, but Jean whatever you did and you're screwed. Because said maneuver was banned pending a training accident 100 years ago." she said and he smiled in pride. "Yes and that training incident, resulted in killing the entire squad 100 years ago. But as Gammas we believe in duty to the truth, Cadet, but as a result now this was why."
"In why I decided to set up Jack until he committed the fatal mistake, but if I know my teenage self he's using my ideas and taking it five steps further now. Said accident killed the entire squadron back then, it happened again when we were your age and again when Derek's cousin tried it. As such it's understanding where and when to see it and when you're a starfleet born too." Daniel told her and she nodded to the news gently.
"Who was killed in your age group?" Josh asked and they sighed. "Jack Reynolds, he's part of the family legacy, but we're the descendants of the SGC Alumni. After what Jack's grandfather did to mine, they threw him out of the collective. Just before they found out that Jane's grandmother got turned into a drone and just days before the timeline reset." he told her and she nodded as as the quartet all walked in then and the seven smiled.
"Hey guys, welcome aboard the enterprise." Sarah said and Daniel smiled and gave her a hug and she hugged him tightly at that. "Long story short we just had a case of excitement the past month that just ended, but you're seeing the reason why in a second. And this time it wasn't our squad that did it, but his, but we tried to help out here at the moment right now." Jason said to him and he crossed his arms at that.
"You didn't try what your grandfather pulled during the foothold test, did you?" he asked and he shook his head at the question then gently. "No I didn't and are you ever going to let me live that down, Daniel?" he asked and they shook their heads. "You nearly gave our grandfathers a heart attack, if we were our grandfathers, for jumping over the railing. And barely missing breaking your ankle in the bars of the bannister, sure you're 21."
"But you're not indestructible, so cool it with the daredevil stunts before you scare us into a heart attack, Jason, I'm serious." he said and Picard said it then gently at that. "Alright boys that's enough of that and we can discuss training strategies at a later time. But let's get on with this now, shall we right now." he said and they nodded. "Yes Sir, sorry." they said together as Daniel looked at Wesley's squadron with a bemused smile on his face.
"Alright laugh it up cubs and I know you're finding this funny as we were all members of Atlantis in our past lives, but can the pranks and practical jokes. And with us in a time dilation field right now okay, but this is neither the time nor place for this conversation." he said as the seven all started laughing at that. "Nice way to lighten up the mood Dan, but that's going a little too far here." Geordi said to him smiling and he nodded to him.
Watching as she activated it, they saw blue flashes enter his eyes. "What the hell was that exactly?" Daniel asked and he crossed his arms. "It activates the game so I can visualize this while playing." he said as they saw the playing field, a cone and a frisbee like disk. "What am I see here." he said abd she explained that. "The playing field." she said and he nodded as he tried to get more information then gently from her.
"Now what do I do?" he asked and she explained that. "See the cone and the disk?" She asked and he nodded. "Yeah." he said and she said it gently. "Make the disk go into the cone." she said and he sighed. "How do I do that." he said and she chuckled. "That's not an amused chuckle, it's a she's waiting for you relax and get the first dose." Kyle said and Will nodded to him then as Wesley crossed his arms at that.
As she answered him then gently at the remark. "Just relax and let go, you'll get it." she said as he tried the first shot, missed, scored the second and got hit by it. As he jerked and they nodded. "It's like screwing around drugs like speed and you just got hit by the first dose, Will, it's if that was intravenous it takes effect faster. But that was directly into your nervous system." Daniel told him as he crossed his arms at that firmly.
"What was that?" Will asked and she smiled. "Your reward for clearing the first level." she said and he nodded. "How far does this game go?" he asked and she gave another chuckle. "As far as you can take it, would you like to go for level two." she said and he ended it at that. "Well that sums up how it ended up on board the ship, and why the quartet suddenly got hit a week later." Wesley said and he nodded to him softly.
Watching them, they watched them talking before it activated. "You wouldn't believe whats going on in engineering, Commander La Forge and the others. They're all crazy about some new game." she said and he nodded. "Yeah, what kind of game is it?" he asked and she explained that to him. "Some new Risan gadget that fits around your ear." she said and he nodded to her as he answered her remark then.
"Have you played it?" he asked and she shook her head. "Not yet." she said and he nodded. "My mom has one, she keeps trying to get me to play it." he said and she nodded. "It's everywhere." she said and they looked at woman. "That's Hamilton, playing around with it, if us medical personnel had caught on. As the secondary CMO, I'd call it out and check into it." Anenzi said sharply to that and he nodded to him gently.
"See what I mean." she said and he nodded. "Don't you think that's slightly strange, everyone playing it all the time." he said and she nodded. "It's a fad, it's here this week next week we won't even know it existed." she said quoting her remark with her recorded self as he finished that. "And that's before we realized what this thing was, and the side effects are still oncoming." he told Picard and he nodded.
"Better listen to this exchange between us as she just met all of you she was wondering who each of you were." he added and they nodded to him. "Issues in being the star pupil, Derek never took the time to get to know us, but you know 3/4's of us in the crew. And so well, that you call us by name then by rank in some of our cases." Anenzi said smiling and Picard crossed his arms with a proud smile as they listened to him.
"Who is she exactly?" she added and he explained that. "Ensign Mina Wilcox, she's Dr. Elijah Anenzi's assistant and he's a rehab medical doctor, a family friend. My mother is a normal E.R. medical doctor, but that explains why I never relaxed at school. Health wise when at the tavern, mom, she's my medical doctor and I'm a premed medical born." he said and she nodded to him at the news as he said it.
"I hope you gave her the reason why Derek was on such thin ice with us, because by then we reached the limit of our patience with him and these health violations. We had strict rules about health with you still cubs in our eyes." Anenzi said, before he and the medical department got the answer to that question. "So as a result, it was this and secondly as Charlie is just like me here, we, and with us, was Jake Kurland."
"With our parents medical experts, we stayed away from the toxic chemicals, ate right and took our vitamins. Did the crew give you a specific regime to follow." he said and she nodded to him at the news gently as he went further as he said it. "That's the catch, they got strict rules on health, but Mina is Erica Michaels best friend at the time, the girls were the ones helping Eli in looking after me."
"While Kate Pulaski was here, long story, but mom gave a specific health regime we had to follow. And stay away from the toxic chemicals." he said and she nodded. "So you know everyone by name rather then by rank?" she asked and he nodded. "Four years does that, but after seeing what I could do and in year two, we grew close." he explained and she nodded to him at that remark smiling gently.
"There are things on us you and Jake know that she and the other new arrivals didn't know, but that comes from being observant here." Picard said and he nodded. "With us off duty that night, she needed a way to know who was who, so she asked. But she just met all of you, so who best to ask about it, but the cadet officer, the student. And said that knows every one of you personally." he said and the crew smiled at the point given.
"That's an understatement, but nice wording, as only a premed knows how dangerous some of the stunts you did in the trek in the chase down get. I take it she knew that with you back, that she could get the rest of us in names, when in engineering. And as she only knew me and Miles, Wes?" Geordi asked and he nodded, smiling at him. "Yeah that's it exactly, I know all of you and we're beyond close." he said and the crew smiled at that.
"What about the duo over there?" she asked and they watched as he looked over his shoulder and smiled at the bar tenders and host and hostess. "Ben Hawkley and Guinan, after ten forward was created we chose the duo." he said and she nodded. "Is there a reason why Guinan keeps giving Q that death glare here?" she and the trio chuckled as he explained that to her as Worf shook his head at the memory.
"They had a few dealings, but she's stable, he's mayhem and when they get ready to start going at it, get out of the way. She's just as powerful as he is, so it's like clash of the titans and coming from personal experience. It's that the captain had to prevent them from shooting each other in ten forward, before our run in the Borg. I'm not sure what sort of cosmic being she is, but when in a good mood she's fine to deal with."
"But when ticked off, you're likely to get blasted, it took just hearing that the Captain was in ten forward, for the duo to realize what happened. And knew he made his appearance after our last encounter with him." he said and Picard shook his head at the memory. "Yeah I remember that, and just hearing he was in there and it was enough to tell us both he was back after testing me after turning me into a Q the year before."
"Though I at times find him amusing, he pushes his limits just a little too far here at times." Will said with a chuckle and Picard nodded. "Anyone want to chance that happening again?" he asked and Worf said it firmly. "No." he said and Geordi hid a smile. "And him?" she asked and Jenson smiled, knowing he was who he was looking at as his guess was confirmed and as he looked up at his double smiling with a look of pride then.
"Lieutenant Commander David Jenson, he and La Forge lead the team in engineering." he said and she nodded in amazement. "I'm also Will's assistant coach in training the trio, that's the boys and Lal, last year as a result. But deep bonds and he wasn't kidding when he told you this, but my counterpart. He's on that kid's hockey movie, their coach, that's me when I lose my temper." he said and Jake started laughing.
"You mean the JV high school hockey coach, Dave?" Jake asked and he nodded with a bemused smile as he answered that. "Yes and laugh it up wise guy, you knew never to tick me off and to repeat their coach, it was a damn good thing. That I wasn't Hanson's basketball coach or he's barred from training until the following season starts. When on the ship, you knew the rules and followed them." he said and the duo nodded, smiling.
"My double in personality traits was this guy, so my little holodeck double was him." he said and his double appeared. "And this guy, who played the star team's new coach is me in my personality traits, but the boys love me like another another father." he said to her and she nodded smiling at the news. "You get your coach and assistant coach getting terroritorial with your students expect trouble from that, but the boys are high school."
"Marks and his clique are college, borderline graduate school students and the boys never got into the academy yet. So to me, or Dave, it's mess with our students and you're getting taken down right now, if you're drunk or speedballing." Will added and Jenson nodded in agreement sternly at that. "And you had me in here, just waiting for the blow up as a result, Will." he said and Will nodded as they waited for the explanation to her.
As they heard his remark repeated in Wesley's voice as he wrapped his arm across his shoulders in a one armed hug then as he said it. "He's also Riker's assistant head coach in training me and couple of my friends, before we met actually. And trust me, he's just as bad as the JV high school hockey coach here. When he loses his temper in a health vio, as Hanson and his friends found that out the hard way."
"And just before a riot in here, so still getting to know everyone?" he asked and she nodded. "Let me take a guess but vio, is short for violation, health violation, he broke the rules and starts a fight with you. I try to break it up and it starts a riot after Marks knocks me into the wall?" Jenson asked and he nodded. "Been here for six months prior to your coming home actually." She said and he nodded as he answered her.
"Honestly, you knew 3/4's of us all your teenage life and in some cases when still a child in my case, but we helped your mother raise you. And I am practically your stepfather, though we're about to make that official right now." Picard said and he nodded to him. "I did, just wait for it." he said as they heard that repeated in Wesley's voice. "Honestly I know 3/4's of the crew personally, they help my mother raise me."
"And to me, they're adopted family and the captain's practically my stepfather." he told her and she nodded in shocked amazement then at the news. "Unofficial before, but official now." Picard said, smiling gently. "No wonder they were distracted, you are practically the first born son. To every single, non parent crew member on the ship." she said and he nodded as he switched subjects so he could refocus at that.
"I wonder how it works." he said and she smiled. "Why don't you try it and find out." she said and he hid a chuckle. "I'd like to know a little more more about it, before I try it." he said and she nodded. "I bet if we worked together, we could figure it out." she said and he smiled at her as he said it to her then gently. "Yeah we could hook it up to one of the computers, the medical program's in the lab."
"We can set it up to emulate human responses." he said and she nodded. "I noticed that it comes with visual interface, we could connect to an optical sensor." she said and he nodded as they left the room then. "Nice thinking if this was our grandparents, we'd be throwing theories back and forth right now. But that's exactly what we and Jane would do." Commander Anna Samantha Carter said to her smiling.
Watching them in the lab gently, they saw her hook it up to a neural processor as he said it to her gently at that. "I've loaded a neuralogical behavior programme, so this sensor pad should display and allow the computer. Time to process whatever information, that the game sends to it." he said and Picard crossed his arms then. "Alright lets see what happens." she said and Pulaski nodded as she answered that.
"I'm lucky you're a jack of all trades honey, because without me here, you have no one but Data to compare medical notes with right now. You need me here to help you end this." she said and he nodded. "Yeah that's why we did your research as a mind control expert for you at the time, but they broke the first rule. Never accept anything unless you know what's in it or what it does first." he said and she nodded in agreement.
"Yes, I knew you should have been more careful, regarding that thing, Will, before you started playing around with it. But this was a very clever idea, before doing anything check the neurological effects, because you never know when something you find. Is actually a mind control devices guys, nicely done, Lal start the point collector. I want to see how they got the points in their skills." she called out and it activated then gently.
"Okay." Wesley said and Robin nodded as she said it. "It's activating the reticular formation." she said and he leaned forward at that. "Thats the neural mental control mechanism, screw around with that and it makes the mind compliable. To mind manipulations, keep it going baby, come on honey." Beverly said as he focused on it. "There's heavy sypnaptic activity all over the place." he said slowly to that remark.
"I wonder what happens after prologued exposure." she asked and he said it firmly. "Speed up the processor and lets find out." he said and Picard nodded. "That's the you I want to see now, a young commander taking charge in his training. And before it gets off the ship, son." he said as they watched it carefully. "The effect seems to be centered around the frontal lobe." she said and he nodded to her at the news.
"Lal, enhance frontal lobe, full spectrum." he said to her and it activated and she looked at him. "She was in the system from the very beginning, before I met her now, because normally you call it out as though it's a it, not a her. You're acting on the notion of working with her, before we really started our mission?" she said and he nodded. "Yeah she was in the computer from the day I put her in there, but they forgot that."
"After I left, they stopped talking to each other." he said and she nodded gently to him. "It's stimulating to septal area." she said and he nodded. "That's the pleasure center of the brain, whatever it does, it must feel pretty good." he said and she nodded. "No wonder it's popular." she said, before his eyes narrowed. "That's an indicator for recreational drugs, but this is just a hunch right now for them."
"That that's why they're wired to it, peer pressure one by one, they want us to try the drug they're addicted to, next question is why." he said and she noded as she activated the next sequence. "Look at this, seratonin levels are way off, let's a run a neurochemical analysis." he said and she nodded. "I'm seeing widespread bonding to neuroreceptors." she said and he nodded as he answered her gently.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but that look like a psychotropic reaction." he said and she looked up at him then. "Are you saying the games addictive." she asked and he nodded. "What's going on in the prefrontal cortex?" he asked and she nodded. "Doesn't that area control higher reasoning?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah it sure does, I better go talk to the captain." he said and she nodded to him at that.
"Nicely done that was very well thought out in getting to the bottom of it now, so how did you realize that Charlie was up here, as you didn't realize she was here?" Picard asked him and they smiled. "I got a very good look at him after he arrived on the bridge, but it wasn't until that night did I reveal I was here as well. To him, this was a big relief, he needed back up and from here it started getting worse as we realized it then."
"But this was how we found each other, before he busted her, but his temper of over protectiveness regarding her was the alpha male syndrome now. Because she now knew we caught on to her plot and she had to get all of us." he said and they nodded to her him as they watched as he went to the bridge, he heard a gentle call out. "Hey Wes!" They heard and watched him turned around to see Dayton and nodded to him.
And Dayton motioned with his head and he walked over to him then. "You getting as spooked about this as I am?" he whispered to him and he nodded. "Yeah, Robin and I are getting some work done, if you called me over, you better start faking it with them. Because if this is some sort of conspiracy, rule one, act like everyone else. Just be careful..." he started to say and Dayton finished his sentence gently.
Looking at him smiling, he said his name. "Charlie, Charlie Dayton, if the three of us had been together at the time you got into the academy. Four years ago, we'd have kept you away from Locarno and before you say it. It's because the last time you saw me, you looked like, for the last month had you looking like your systems were getting worse and you wanted to be a regular student again."
"It's going to be a very long night if this turns into what I think though, I'm going to have to tell your parents. A small bit of it, but you don't have to tell me why you look like this. I already know, but Nova is no team at all, it's a pack, a gang, and you're the youngest wolf to join the pack. To get you off that team to recover, I have to tell her the truth and it's we already know each other."
"I am, or I was, on Gamma squadron, C.A.D. leader of the opposing Squadron." he said and Wesley nodded to him. "Wes, remember, just before I graduated Nick chose you, before I could tell you Kate and I got the others to agree to let you into Gamma. I became your best friend, before Nick screwed it up, but the tavern, we saw the guys get into it." he said and smiled as he finished that remark.
"Before Peter shot the ball right off the table, it flying across the room, killing two shot glasses and the pitcher." he said to him with a smile and Wesley smiled at the memory as he quickly answered him. "Charlie, Charlie Dayton?" he said and the other boy nodded to him smiling. "Charlie Andrew Dayton, I didn't think I'd ever see you again, so you and Robin got stationed here, nice timing."
"If Brand chose this as a surprise for me, it's working, I'm glad I got you back buddy, you were my best friend before he came into the picture." he said smiling and Dayton nodded him as he answered him gently at that. "I know, I missed you too buddy, you can tell me regarding Nick later, but at the moment. We have to focus here, in this situation is what we think right now, you better pull it here."
"In the added reverse psychology, because if whoever this is, doesn't realized that on earth we see this all the time on earth. When we use that against her, but once you're done with this, get yourself checked out in a self diagnostic. Wes is there a reason you're trying to remain inconspicuous here though bro." he asked and he sighed as he dropped his voice so low nobody else could hear it.
"Whatever reason they're trying to push me into playing it's always when I'm just returning to my quarters, mom's always in the living room. If this means what I think whoever this programmer is, is trying to catch me in the act. Sleep deprivation, and I'm not entirely sure, but this could mean. Now, that we're close to trouble in my case." he told him and and he nodded to him gently at thwt.
"Well if this was some sort of trap, it's by whatever's in your system is going to hit you sooner or later, activating her only chance at getting her hands on you. You may not be up to this, but you don't have a choice right now, she just forced your hand and mine, we don't have a choice but to push forward here. But listen to me carefully get Data back online now, tell him what's going on."
"And we do a fast reverse attack and take them of guard here, but once undercover, if it takes heading back to your apartment. Get medical kit and take a break there, while you're getting a survival kit, but I can't leave the bridge right now or they're going to bust me next and I'm trying to help you. I'm doing night duty tonight so I can watch and see what happens here."
"but we have to do this together, if Data is out, it's us four together, but I'm working undercover Wes. If you're about to do what I think here, watch yourself. I can't confirm it myself now without giving myself away to them. So you have to turn on the damn camera in the doctor's office at the moment. She's not in there she's still in your quarters right now, but once she gets up here."
"We do it then, because we're enroute to certain spot rught now,mbut where and why, I'm still trying to figure that out right now at the moment. And it's because our course is taking us somewhere at the moment bro. and probably right to the mastermind if this is a conspiracy, so stand by and make it quick. We don't have long, but here's what I gathered now in who it started with."
"But this started just after the commander got back, it hit Counselor Troi next and then after you got back. It hit your mother, if she's the doctor, and it's either Data got deactivated or he collapsed on the job, but from there it started spreading through the ship like a brushfire. But every adult, our age and up is affected by this thing." he said with his tone so low in that as Wesley moved closer.
And that the other adults in the room couldn't hear their conversation and Beverly said it firmly to that. "Lal edit and bring his voice to normal speaking level so we can hear this it's been two weeks and none of us are feeling anything, so we're clean." she said and a minute later they heard his voice at the normal level as Wesley answered him. "Yeah alright thanks for telling me that man, stand by, and whatever you do now."
"Just make it as hard as you can on them at the moment, listen to me, I know exactly what's going on here. And it's because there were two situations involved in this, one that was the reason the Horatio was destroyed. And the other the catalyst for the rumors that Derek as well. If he's still around made up about me here, but to go over the first and that's where you come in now."
"The mission regarding the foothold four years ago, the people that did it were the captain, commander and my mother. Mom figured out a way to break the control and then invented a way for the commander to infiltrate the meeting. The commander was the plant, acting the part so easily it was tough to realize he was actually faking it while the captain was the decoy at the moment."
"And with that in mind, we just hit it now, but Robin and I are finished with studying the damn thing, but we're running a test on the captain. But to them, once back to normal, they'd consider this as a case of teenage mutiny now. When on board the ship when 3 of however many training ensign's they have when on the ship are now taking matters into their own hands right now."
"And one of them is possibly in need of medical attention and with those words in mind right now. Mom was the scientist in that situation regarding these aliens, the commander the plant and the captain decoy. So we're going to stealth training, but the duo, and the sextet training you. They were the ones who trained me, but that's the fatal flaw, if they're being programmed here."
"As to why exactly right now the mastermind has my training course that was chosen by the sextet, the commander and the lieutenant. This one is make it up as I go along and they're not going to realize it till after I got them. So whoever we're heading to meet, that's the piece I need so I know. In who I'm playing against as the decoy on board this ship, I can't tell you everything right now."
"Robin for sure, but if she gets it, I need you have to pretend for a while that you're under their control. Whoever it might be, but that computer program, I created was for this reason exactly, so stand by when I activate it. But I know enough about Data to get him going again, but with Robin next. It's you, me and Data after that and we go from there, but I've been on this ship so long."
"That I know their, the sextet, but their thinking strategies better then 'they' do, even when programmed right now, but that's the catch. But every manhunt or chasedown on board the ship there's always one needed. And they're not going to recognize it till after they're back to normal here. And without it putting you at risk, so with that, just wait till I reverse the ambush."
"And we go from there, you're playing my godfather, so grab his ideas here. Because if I'm the primary target on the ship, with my being at the academy, it's making sure this lasts all night and into when we get reinforcements up here. So I'm got a few tricks up my sleeve, you just do your part and irritate them as much as you can man, tonight, because it's going on 8 p.m. right now."
"Just act like you're compromised bro, but I'm leaving a way for you to tell me what's going on. And it's because with both of us having parents that are M.D.'s than it's acting like we've had further problems, but you're my equal. And we have to do this together, so you act like you're compromised." he said and Dayton nodded to the orders and he patted him on the shoulder then as he straightened up.
And went to Picard's office and activated the door alarm. "Come." he heard from the captain and walked in. "Sorry to bother you, Sir." he said and Picard smiled at him gently. "It's no bother bother Wesley, please sit down." he said and Wesley nodded. "Thanks." he said as he answered him as he watched him as he went over it as he went the mental standoff as he kept his gaze locked with him then as he thought to himself.
'Nice try sir, but this is not going to work. I can see the device over your shoulder, you're playing the game, you're compromised.' they heard him thinking as Picard went to an alibi. "How are the preparations for the survey going?" he asked him and he smiled gently. "They're coming along fine, but that's not what I came to talk to you about." he said and Picard noddedto him gently at that.
"What then?" he asked and Wesley got started as he said it to him. "There's a game going around. It's one that Commander Riker brought back from Risa, it hooks around the ears." he said and Picard nodded. "Yes, I've seen it." he said and Wesley watching him carefully, saw him try not to shift position then. 'Yes just give yourself away Sir, you are compromised.' They heard as he answered him at that remark.
"I did some preliminary tests on the game and what I found leads me to believe. That it may have some harmful side effects. Specifically sir, I think it's psychotropically addictive." he said and he watched him lean forward at that. "Addictive, what have you discovered?" he asked him and he explained that as he locked gazes with him as they watched Picard's eyes firmly at that remark then.
As he saw the fear in his eyes then of whoever had programmed him then. 'Blast it, if he and whoever he was fraternizing with knows. I must stop this from getting out, or my plan will never work.' they heard in answer to that remark. "Well she knows she's just been caught right now by my son." Beverly said and knowing it was the inner thoughts of their programmer they heard as he answered that mental remark.
'Whoever you are, if this means what I think, I'm making sure that your plan fails before it gets off this ship.' They heard as he answered him gently at that news. "The game initiates a seratonin cascade in the frontal lobe of the brain, now I know that's nothing conclusive. But it could explain why everyone is so attracted to it, and at the same time it stimulates the brain's reasoning center."
"I don't know what that's all about." he said and Pixard nodded. "I'll start an investigation immediately. Thank you Mister Crusher." he said and Wesley nodded to that remark. 'Strike two, he doesn't always call me that, he calls me by name, whoever you are, as does the quartet and everyone else, they call me by name. Well if you hit the third strike regarding this, and your plan is over now.'
"And before it even begins, because my family is is not getting taken away from me. And not by some power hungry sycophant, whoever you are.' they heard firmly as he answered him. "Thank you, Sir." he said and got up to leave. "Wesley, it's good to have you back again." he said and Wesley nodded as he left, knowing the older man had just put it on, as they watched him reach behind the books and pull it out.
"Did you really expect him not to see that Etana, my son is more intuitive then you think madam, as such right now, I trained my son well. And you're never going to win this game right now, as to why you just comitted three mistakes in ten minutes. And with it trying to cover up a slip up doesn't work either." Picard said smiling in satisfaction to the fact his student was this good at that and as he heard his remark in reverse then.
'Well you're screwed now, because you just committed three mistakes in ten minutes, and with it, trying to correct a slip up doesn't work either.' They heard him think to himself as he went upstairs. 'Charlie's right, I have to check myself out, because if the gets any worse, I've got to correct the imbalance just so I can heal.' he thought as he entered Sickbay and walked up to the male medical technician.
"Ensign Danis, I'm just going into the medical exam diagnostics room, I have to check on something." Wesley said and the nurse nodded to him as he entered his mother's medical diagnosis chambers. "Computer, run diagnostics on me, heart rate, blood pressure, the full work up, and volume level to 2.5 decibels please." he said and the computer scanned him, and after five minutes he got the diagnosis then.
"Here it comes I know I'm not going to like this, but you've been in recovery for 2 weeks and this was 2 weeks worth of checking your diagnosis." Beverly said to that as she heard the full report then. "Heart rate: 130/90, blood pressure: pre-hypertension from stress, body temperature: 102' degrees, weight: 110lbs, blood sugar level: 305/caffeine level: 475, serotonin/melatonin level: 475/585."
"And slight indication of foreign chemicals in blood stream still. Diagnosis: extreme exhaustion, stress, weight loss from malnutrition, mild fever from possible virus and acute substance abuse recovery." he heard and nodded with a sigh then as he said it to himself gently. "Translation, caffeine withdrawal, sleep deprivation and your system is close to crashng." Pulaski said firmly at the news then.
"Oh my god, this is why they kept you home for the last two weeks, why didn't you tell us sooner Wes?" Josh snapped in shock. "We have a possible spy at the academy, I couldn't tell you without them telling her and I'm in no condition for this situation. I didn't have a choice, and I was playing decoy all day that day." he said and they nodded. "Yeah and scaring us out of our minds in the process." Bates said in exasperation then gently.
"I'm suffering dizzy spells and muscle spasms, I've had got to be suffering several mineral deficiencies right now, but what. Alright computer, what vitamins and minerals from my diet am I missing and which ones are dangerously low and I need to revitalize?" he asked, as they got it a minute later. "Key nutrients missing are calcium, iron, vitamins A, B, C, D, K, potassium."
Chronium and magnesium. All nutrient levels are dangerously low. Vitamins C, D, and K, potassium, iron, magnesium and Chronium. Levels are in the dangerously low and need to be replenished immediately. Patient is endanger of severe muscle spasms and severe case of anemia. Calcium and vitamin D are needed immediately as well." it said and he nodded with a sigh at that news.
"Well that sums it up, we needed to keep you home from the second we heard this, and this is compiled. And to the nightmares you keep having about the last 7 months right now. But that's the nightmare on Elm Street catch, thats the dream stalker storyline our grandparents put into their files that we referenced at times. We needed a reference and Fred Krueger was that reference, but us members that know culture background helped."
"But kid seriously right now that's crossing the line if my unit had been here, you had us watching your back." Commander Peter Louis Ferretti said in gentle annoyance and Will nodded in agreement to his thoughts at that as the cat turned her head to look at the camera. "Meow?" she asked and a second later a different image appeared as they saw the said character. "Mreeeooowww!" she screeched at that as she leaped off the table.
And landed in Wesley's arms at that. "You okay girl?" he asked and she buried her furry head into his neck in response. "I'll take for a no, she sees these jumps scares and we're having that happen repeatedly right now, alright. When we want to watch monster movies, then do it when we're not being kitten sat at the moment." Katie said as she tried to keep from laughing at that and Jake nodded as he exchanged smiles with Josh.
"Okay, memo to self: make sure she's not in the room when watching scary movies or that's going to happen again." Jake said laughing at that as Sito pulled her hand back at that as Wesley brushed her fur back down at that gently. "And again no one is watching anything with crude language when we got kids younger then you on board this ship. So I catch you with that on and you're busted." Will said to the eight and they nodded then.
"You said she adopted you?" Anna asked and they nodded. "Yeah to her I'm her kitten, and she's now taking my being home from school for all it's worth here. After 26 attacks she's acting like a furry body guard now, but mom and I are cat people. And she knows this but the connection got cemented that night after I crashed in Data's quarters." he said and they nodded as Spot rubbed her head against his cheek and they chuckled.
"Damn it, Charlie was right, I'm in no condition for this right now, and thanks to us being on a short time limit, I've got no choice. Sorry dad, I've got no choice, I know you made me promise to tell you if I wasn't up to this automatically but this time, I don't have a choice in the matter. Not with all of you compromised, it's draining every ounce of energy and strength I've got to prevent it."
"That thing from getting off the ship, I've lost my entire regime, mom had me on a specific health regime from the time I was four and I've never broken it. And before I left for the academy, I stuck to it not easing up till I started at the academy, and thanks to the nightmares and being on the squadron. I've had just landed myself in seven months to eighteen in recovery."
"And this just added on to it." They heard him think to himself out loud softly as he finished that. "That's what I was afraid of, hanging around with the trio has cost me 2 things my body needs and it's rest and the real food my body needs right now. Mom is going to kill the trio when she hears this later here, she had me on a normal diet all my life and now the trio have about landed me in the hospital."
"One decision makes all the difference, but I want out of the squadron for a while after this, dang it why didn't I join Gamma. Well too late now and with that, though once my folks hear why I look like this, let alone the trio. And Geordi's team and the security members I'm friends with. But once they hear this they're going to kill when they're free of the programming."
"If there's more to this than that." he said in an undertone then as he sighed as he finished to himself. "I take it that's when you decided to hide this until I got better look at you and she realized it." Will asked and he nodded to him. "And it's not substance abuse, but over use of the damn caffeine, and my sugar and caffeine levels. They are ridiculous right now, I need real food and I have to lay off this stuff."
"I've lost weight and my serotonin/melatonin levels are spiking, from lack of rest. God, dad is going to kill me if this turns into what I think it's going to and I have to get reckless in evading capture if this is what I think it is." he said sighing in exasperation then as he hid the printout in his data pad then firmly. 'Once they hear what ten months separation is doing to me right now.
"they're going to be pissed right now at this, why'd I even bother leaving home, I was happier up here, I'm was in much better shape up here, I'm not a cadet. I'm an ensign serving among the stars, why can't you idiots get that right now. I'm not a damn cadet, I'm an ensign, the only reason I came to the academy is to get my training done and return to my ship, my home at thr moment."
"And you're sabotaging me by trying to get me to act like you. Mom, dad, I need you guys, and whatever it is. That is going on with you, I'm reversing right now, whatever it might be now. Dad, just what the heck is going on with you guys, I've never seen you like this before. It's like you're drugged, what is going on with you.' he said softly and Will sighed at the remark gently as the trio looked at him.
"Dad?" Sito asked and they nodded. "I'm his godfather and Deanna his godmother, though his mother was here we, Geordi and the captain practically raised him ourselves as soon as the crew was in it's second year. Though now that you're on board the ship, the ship is in a time dilation so it's double that now, and it's a consideration. And of us getting back together in my and Deanna's case and them getting married in their's."
"He loves the captain like a father in the same way he does me, like a father now." Will said and Sito nodded. 'Love you Sir and if this is any type of scenario that I'm hoping to god I'm wrong regarding it, I'm doing whatever it takes to get you back. Though if it is, I'm not doing that portion of it.' he said to him softly then as he left the room and tried to get passed the members that had the headset on.
"Alright here's where she started getting more desperate now, but you better listen to this after I came into the room and the chief was asking a question to Robin before I did." Wesley said and they nodded. "Have you tried this." O'brien asked her and she nodded. "Yeah it's great." she said as it switched back to his point of view then. After getting stopped twice in the hall he made it to ten forward finally at that remark.
And he walked up to Robin. "Where have you been, everyone's after me to try it?!" she asked in a whispered undertone of fear and the adult crew nodded. "This is starting to scare her right now, in how serious this is getting. No wonder she panicked that night after Lol caught her in the act." Greyson said slowly as he put his hand on her shoulder protectively and Wesley nodded as as they heard his response to her then gently at that.
"I know, me too, I got stopped in the corridor twice, I spoke to the captain, he's going to look into it." he told her and she nodded as she answered him at that. "Well I hope he makes a ship wide announcement or something. Because this is really beginning to give me the creeps." she said and he nodded, before he could answer an ensign walked up to them at that and Mina Wilcox walked up to them gently.
"Did you forget your games?" she asked and Robin smiled forcefully. "We left them in our quarters, wanted a night out together." she told her and she took hers off at that. "Well then, use mine." she said and Robin shook her head. "No thanks." she said and when that didn't get rid of her, the woman tried again. "Try it." she said and he stood up. 'Alright that's it.' They heard at that as he answered her at that remark.
"She said no thanks Ensign, now stop fooling around and get back to work." he sternly and he grabbed Robin's hand and they left the table. "Was that really necessary, if this is a conspiracy, you're going to have the entire ship after us to get us to try it next. Look I get you're stressed out, but loosing your temper out on them is not going to help right now, Wes." She said to him softly and he sighed.
"The entire crew is addicted to that device. You know what else is strange, if this game is so addictive. There's only one person on board we can be sure of that wouldn't be affected by it." he said to her and she nodded. "Data." she said and he nodded to her. "And that's when it hit me now." he said to them as he said it. "Right, and he manages to get injured right when the game is brought on board."
"We better have a look at him." he said as they left the room, not noticing they were being watched or that the rest of the room were looking at them with neutral looks then. 'You evaded us once, but it won't last long children.' They heard the group thinking as they waited for their orders from their programmer then. "Guess again, my students are more creative then you'd expect right now." Will said in response to that remark.
"Her crew just jumped into us then, they're getting desperate to get to everyone on the ship, because once the kids realized it, Etana was screwed then. Keep it going cubs, before your mother and the Lieutenant walked into your apartment, Wes. Your training in situations like this is getting really good but we need to see everything from your point of view from here right now." Porter said and he nodded to the orders at thst remark then.
"And our conversation from last year if we reminded of you of that, I need to see everything, because from here you'd been in therapy from having to make that choice. And a choice and situation you'd never should have been put into, you can't make that choice without us leading you like we always have now." Picard said, crossing his arms as he watched it carefully as they went back into Sickbay to get a good look at Data.
"Lal add mistakes compile to this as well in regarding Etana Lol and her attempt to capture the ship. And in regarding the kids ways to handle this, because Wes said he was naming them off so start her mistakes and her crew's mistakes from here. Starting with her possessing the captain and my not paying attention in sickbay." the nurse said and it activated on that as they saw him standing over Data, with his hand on his shoulder.
As the caption Sickbay appeared in the corner and they nodded. "So it jumped from ten forward to sickbay, Lal, I need you to set up a caption through out the entirety. Of the revised episode right now, so as us, we know where he was going. If she tries this particular route we can trace the route more easily." Will said and it beeped and Spot gave a meow. "Alright don't start that again." he added and his friends gave a chuckle.
Looking at Data, Wesley quickly said it to her. "Maybe you should look again." he told her and she went back to check, before returning to him. "The nurse is still playing the game." she told him and he nodded. "I don't know what to make of this right now. There's brain activity, all of his systems are working." he told her and she looked at him in disbelief as she answered him then at thst remark in shock.
"How could that be, he's unconscious?!" she said in shock and he nodded. "Maybe there's a signal breach between his brain and body. Let's map his nervous system and see if we can find the weak link." he said as he pulled a scanner out and ran it across his spinal cord then. "Patch the neural output to that station." he added, before his tricorder beeped and he quickly said it at that in relief then.
"Here!, the signal stops just below his cortex processor. There's some damage." he said finished as his eyes narrowed. "It's almost undetectable, let's get a closer look. Bring it up on the viewer." he said and she activated the computer. "Wesley look at that." she said and he nodded. "It looks like some of his positronic links have been severed." he said and she nodded as Beverly crossed her arms then.
"There are only two people on the ship who know everthing about Data to try this and they are me and Geordi, but we would never do this to him. Ever, so with that, that's the next question, why do this when you know us better then we know ourselves honey?" she said and he nodded as she answered her remark. "I know we realized this, but our thoughts were turning toward foodhold and incursion." Robin said and she nodded firmly.
"And that's exactly where they should have headed now, we'd never, in our right minds, start attacking our own crew members like this. Though we got annoyed that once again he got hijacked, we'd never hold that against him right now. But this was putting him into unconsciousness so that by the time you realized it, it was too late. But she never expected he knew enough on Data to fix him." Will said and she nodded to him gently.
"The cuts are so precise, look at how clean the edges are. Computer increase magnification factor four." she said and it zoomed in then and he thought it over carefully, as he looked at her then firmly as he read it out then. "There are only two people who know enough about Data to do something like this, Commander La Forge and my mother." he told her and she looked at him in disbelief at that.
"But why would one of them do this to him?" she asked and he sighed as he said it to himself. "There's a reason for it, but it's not just to prevent it from getting out of the ship. There is a conspiracy going on here, but of what kind and why Data is out is beyond me. You've been exposed to repeated computer viruses buddy, why would they take you off line, just what is the big secret, is this for fun."
"Or is there something more sinister than this going on right now." he asked him gently, as he checked it out he thought it over. "It happens right when I come home, my entire group is compromised, my friends. My surrogate family, and Data is disabled and why is that?" he asked as he thought it over looking at it from a new look, they watched him as Wesley looked at Data then firmly as he said it to them.
"That's when it started hitting me, there was only one reason it felt so familiar, it was the aliens that acted like Goa'uld. And that we had a case of the Puppet Master invasion yet again and I was the only one realizing this." he said gently and they nodded as he looked at his friend as he said his thoughts out loud then. 'Oh dear god no it can't, please it can't be, not again, Walker, old friend, if your legacy just made a come back."
"I'm ensuring that this time your legacy lives on and your sacrifice was not in vain.' They heard him think to himself then as he thought it over then, as he did a recall. "Data, why Data, come on remember there were two situations that year that would cover something like this, the insistence in their voices. The fooling around too much, a lright back to year one: six weeks after we shipped out."
"I was just beginning to adjust to things and being around the captain as we got used to each other again finally. The nine of us, we were just beginning to get used to being a crew now at the time, we come across one of our ships and then we also all get infected by a..." he started to say and it hit him then. "Here it comes, it's cross between the virus and Walker." Picard said and he nodded to him.