Chapter Nine: Khan's Revenge

As Sadie and Scotty followed Khan Sadie was unaware as Scotty fell back receiving a comm from Jim, "Scotty as soon as you reach the bridge drop Khan, stun him and make sure he stays down."

Scotty nodded, "Yes Captain." He then caught back up with Sadie and Khan. He spoke up, "They're going to have full power and we're walking?"

Khan nodded, "The turbolifts are easily tracked and Marcus would have us in a cage. This path runs adjacent to the engine room. They know they won't be able to use their weapons here without destabilizing the warp core, which gives us the advantage."

"Where'd you find this guy?" Scotty asked turning to Sadie.

Sadie snorted, "It's a long, long story."

~Meanwhile on the Enterprise~

Spock was speaking over a transmission with Spock Prime, "I will be brief. In your travels, did you ever encounter a man named Khan?"

Spock Prime sighed, "As you know, I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk, and yours alone. That being said, Khan Noonien Singh is the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced. He is brilliant, ruthless,

and he will not hesitate to kill every single one of you, except for Sadie."

"Did you defeat him?"

"At great cost. Yes."

"How?"

~On the Vengeance~

"I don't mean to tempt fate here," Scotty spoke up after noticing the halls were empty, "but where is everybody?"

"The ship is designed to be flown by minimal crew, one, if necessary," Khan replied.

"One? I..." Scotty was cut off by a man coming and attacking Khan, Sadie grabbed Scotty's arm and began pulling him backwards. Then they were attacked by another person, and Sadie began punching at him fighting him off, a second one came at Scotty and more a Khan.

Scotty was knocked to the ground as Sadie used her training to knock out their attackers, once they were unconscious she turned to Scotty helping him up. "You all right?"

"Yeah," he nodded, "Where's Khan?"

Sadie looked around not seeing the other man, "Shit. Come on."

They began walking with phasers out, Scotty asking again when they couldn't find him, "Where is he?"

Suddenly Khan appeared behind them, "This way."

They followed Khan soon reaching the bridge, they began running once the ship began to power back on, and they reached the bridge and began stunning everyone but the Admiral and Carol.

Then Scotty turned and stunned Khan, Sadie frowned but stayed quiet, Jim must be awake and giving orders. She wasn't sure if Khan would stay down though and the fact Scotty did that worried her.

Scotty walked past Carol to guard Khan, "Excuse me."

"Yeah," Carol replied in shock.

Sadie looked at Marcus from down her phaser, "Admiral Marcus, you're under arrest."

"You're not actually going to do this, are you?" Marcus asked.

"Admiral, get out of the chair," Sadie replied.

"You better stop and think about what you're doing, Kirk. You better think about everything you've done, what you did on Kronos. You woke up a madman, you made him a Starfleet officer. You're a traitor. Your brother made an incursion onto an enemy planet! You all killed a Klingon patrol. Even if you got away without a trace, war is coming. And who is going to lead us? You? Jim? If I'm not in charge, our entire way of life is decimated! So you want me off this ship, you better kill me.

"I'm not going to kill you, sir." Sadie grinned, "You told me and my brother to do all of that, you're the traitor. But I could stun your ass and drag you out of that chair. I'd rather not do that in front of your daughter."

She then glanced at her friend, "You all right?"

"Yes Sadie," Carol barely nodded.

Then Khan leapt up knocking Scotty down and possibly out, Carol screamed out Sadie's name as Khan leapt over the console knocking her to the ground, they began grappling and fighting with each other. Then Khan began choking Sadie who clawed at his arms and face, "It wasn't me."

He stood up and left her going over to Carol who tried to speak to him, "Listen! Wait!"

Khan just threw her to the ground breaking her leg making her scream out in pain. Sadie lay watching dazed and trying to regain her breathing, he used all of his strength so it was taking her a minute. He then went over to Marcus grabbing him by the head and squeezing, "You...You should have let me sleep."

Marcus screamed out as Khan concaved the bones in Marcus's skull crushing it between his hands, killing the man.

~On the Enterprise~

"Where is the Sadie, Mr. Sulu?" Jim asked worried for his sister.

"Our sensor array's down, Captain. I can't find her."

Then a transmission came through oh Khan holding Sadie by her neck, "I'm going to make this very simple for you."

Both Jim and Spock ran up and called out, "Sadie!"

"Your crew for my crew."

"You betrayed us," Spock stated.

"You are smart, Mr. Spock."

"Spock, Jim, don't…" Sadie cut off with a groan as Khan squeezed her neck tighter with his arm.

"Mr. Spock, Kirk, give me my crew."

"And what will you do when you get them?" Jim asked.

"Continue the work we were doing before we were banished." Khan replied.

"Which, as I understand it, involves the mass genocide of any being you find to be less than superior," Spock said.

"Shall I destroy you, Mr. Spock? Or will you give me what I want?"

"We have no transporter capabilities," Spock pointed out.

"Fortunately mine are perfectly functional. Drop your shields." Khan ordered.

"If I do so, I have no guarantee that you will not destroy the Enterprise."

"Well, let's play this out logically then, Mr. Spock. Firstly, I will kill Sadie, to demonstrate my resolve. Then if yours holds, I will have no choice but to kill you and your entire crew."

Sadie froze, Khan would never kill her, would he?

"If you destroy our ship, you will also destroy your own people," Spock replied.

"Your crew requires oxygen to survive, mine does not. I will target your life support systems located behind the aft nacelle. And after every single person aboard your ship suffocates, I will walk over your cold corpses to recover my people. Now,

shall we begin?"

Jim ordered, "Lower shields."

Then with a few pressed buttons the shields were lowered Khan grinned, "A wise choice, Mr. Kirk."

Sadie was tossed to the side, she went over touching Carol's hand nodding at her as Khan kept talking, "I see your 72 torpedoes are still in their tubes. If they are not mine, Commander, I will know it."

"Vulcans do not lie. The torpedoes are yours."

Khan began to transport the torpedoes onto the Vengeance, "Thank you, Mr. Spock, Mr. Kirk."

"We fulfilled your terms," Jim frowned, "Now fulfill ours."

Khan turned to Sadie smiling, "Well, Sadie, it seems apt to return you to your crew, but I need my First Officer." Then began to transport Scotty and Carol back to the Enterprise, Sadie quickly grabbed onto Carol going back with them making Khan scream out in anger.

Sadie, Scotty and Carol all ended up in the brig where Khan had been locked up, Scotty kicked the glass, "Let us out of here now!"

They were all rocked to the side as Khan shot at them. Then over the ships comms Spock spoke, "Crew of the Enterprise,

prepare for imminent proximity detonation."

Scotty asked as they walked Carol to the medbay, "What's he talking about? What detonation?"

Sadie grinned, "The torpedoes. He armed the damn torpedoes!"

They got to the medbay and Sadie called out Leo's name until he looked.

Leo then called out, "Nurse!"

Nyota and a nurse came over helping Carol, Sadie caught sight of Jim down there, and she ran to him hugging him, "I'm sorry."

Jim smiled hugging her back, "It's okay."

Sadie pulled away looking to her fiancé, "You helped Spock

detonate those torpedoes?"

"Damn right I did." Leo grinned.

"He killed Khan's crew!" Sadie frowned not happy with that.

Leo shook his head, "Spock's cold, but he's not that cold. I've got Khan's crew. Seventy-two human popsicles safe and sound in their cryo tubes."

"Son of a bitch!" Sadie smiled running up and kissing Leo.

Suddenly the ship became dead in the air, then seconds later it became caught in Earth's gravity. Jim, Sadie and Scotty all began heading down to engineering, Scotty complaining, "One day I've been off this ship! One bloody day!"

Then the gravity systems began to fail, Sadie and Jim held onto one side of the corridor, Scotty the other but soon they slipped and were falling.

The automated female voice began speaking, "Attention, all decks. Evacuation protocols initiated."

A crew member fell past them screaming, they tried to grab her but it failed, as the automated voice kept speaking, "Proceed to exit bays and report to your assigned shuttle."

They began panting as they began righting themselves with the ship as Scotty spoke, "There won't be time for evacuation

if we don't get power to stabilize the damn ship!"

"Can we restore it?" Jim asked.

"Only from engineering," Sadie replied knowing that much.

"We have to get back to the warp core," Scotty nodded, he looked up seeing the damage, "Jim…"

"Scotty we have to get the power back on, come on!" Jim ordered and they began to run.

A/N:

Hey guys! Here's chapter nine! I've got one more chapter of the movie then possibly an extra chapter because I can then the epilogue!

I hope you all liked it and the surprise comes next chapter! I hope I'm keeping you all on the edge of your seats though!

Love,

Savannah!

PS I will be finishing the story tonight, but I'll give a couple of hours between each chapter because I do need some suspense then to make sure they are good to go!
Also thank my amazing husband for getting the chapters restored! He managed to get EVERYTHING I had been working on onto a zip drive so I have it all and on my new computer!