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Chapter 7 - "Crisis"
U.S.S. Division
Izzy arrived at the Division sometime after her talk with her father and guessed that Jim as well as Dean would probably board their crafts at the same time. The landing crew told her that Captain Rose and the commanding crew were waiting in the conference room. So she was on her way there. She arrives after minutes and enters the room. The sounds of the klaxons got her the whole attention of the room and the talking died down. She steps through the door and declares. "Reporting for service, Sir."
The whole room glances at her word and waits for the Captains reactions. "Ah … Commander O'Neill, please take a seat." and gestures to a place beside him.
She does as told. Yeah she was already commander, her hard work and experience got her that rang. The first rang in the Star Fleet Academy is an ensign, which normally was every first and second year cadet. After that came Lieutenant, then Lieutenant Commander and then Commander, before finally being a Captain. She received her Lieutenant rang with entering her second year and becoming commander was normally only possible form third years if you have the exams for it. But she got it during her time on the U.S.S. Division for the peace treaty she negotiated, because the people on that planet lived at war for 50 years and she could negotiate the peace, which was hard work. As a bonus for that Captain Rose promoted her. The other two cadets of her year already with rang of a Commander in the fleet are of course Jim and Dean.
"Thank you for having me. Capt …" she wants to say more, but she stops in the middle of the word as she looks at him, because he wears the attire of an admiral. So he got promoted, that is why she corrected herself. "I mean Admiral." but there was a question in her mind, who was the Captain.
"Pleasure. As I see you are asking yourself, who is the Captain?" he answers, was she that obvious, maybe yes, because she was a little shocked he wasn't Captain anymore. But the real shock only come moments later. "I have talked to the admiralty and they go with my judgement on this one so I hereby promoting you to Captain."
"What?" was her shocked reaction? She would have never guessed that. With only 23 years she was Captain all of a sudden. She always figured that Jim and Dean would be Captains before her. Not because she wasn't as qualified as them, but simply because of being a woman. Even in the 23th century gender equality isn't established as well as it should be at least in a military organization as the Star Fleet. That was always the reason why she worked twice as hard as the men to show them, what a woman could do. It looks likes she was successful.
"Don't be surprised Captain O'Neill, you earned It." he says proud and something else she can't quite place.
That made her a little wary of the whole situation. So she would be on her guard. "Thank you, but what about Commander Bishop." she asks the room. She saw in Michaels face that he also was proud of her, but not envious in any way. But she had to ask that, because he was longer on the Division then her and he was a good first officer. He has earned to get the chair.
"I don't want it Captain." Michael says to her with a sincere smile.
"Okay." was all she could say to that.
Admiral Rose saw that she needed a moment to gather her thoughts. "We give you some time, be back in 10." he says to the commanding crew, they nodded and left. He himself wouldn't be there, because it was now her ship. "Congratulations Captain." and hold out one of his hand.
Now she was more irritated then before. "Do we have time for that Sir? We are in a Crisis."
"That may be true Captain, but the Division has to say home, because of malfunctions with the warp core."
"Understood." was her first reaction and then she adds. "Thank you for your congratulations, Sir."
"No Problem. Take a moment to gather you thoughts and then speak to your commanding crew." he advises her. She nods as answer and he walks away. She follows him with her eyes until he was gone. As soon as he was gone she fell back into her seat and put her head into her hands. She can't believe it, she was Captain now and of the U.S.S. Division nevertheless. It was overwhelming, but she only has 10 minutes to gather herself so, she starts to work through everything that needed to be done.
Izzy tries to bring her Captain duties in order, but something doesn't sit right with her. Why would Admiral Rose give her the vacant Captain position to her, a cadet with an unfinished education and on top of it a person he doesn't like? During her time he was the only one, who had a problem with her. Even if he tried to hide that fact by promoting her, she and the commanding crew pick up on it.
So something is missing here and he gut tells her that it can't be good. She has to keep on her toes and get ahead of these things, whatever it is. She almost called Jim and Dean, but they have more important things to do, than to talk to their girlfriend. But their input is always helpful, because they inspire her to think more outside the box, then she normally does. Three pair of eyes for glancing at a problem is better than one and so more can be discovered. She could need this inspiration right now, but she has to work with what she knows. So she has to find out more. The meeting would be a good beginning.
U.S.S. Impala
Dean strides away to the bridge, he already wears his yellow shirt, because he is part of the commanding crew. At the door to the bridge he took a deep breath, before he enters. He slowly let his eyes glide over the other people, who were already working to make the ship ready for departure. He doesn't have much time to take a good look around his dream ship, because time was of the essence in a crisis situation. So he steps to the Captain, says and salutes. "Commander Winchester ready for order."
The captain looks at him, before he says. "Ah Commander I already waited for you."
"Sir?" he says in a questionable way, because he doesn't know what he could have done this time.
"You see my pilot was ordered to report to the U.S.S. Enterprise for duty and now I need a new one." he says cryptically.
Dean has a slight idea where this is going, but this is part of the game some of the superiors play with their crews. So he simply declares. "Yes, Sir."
"An old buddy of me Commander Skinner told me that you currently are the second best pilot of the Academy only a second year with the name Castiel Williams is better." he continued like Dean hasn't said a thing.
"That is true." he commanded to that. Flying was his hobby and shouldn't it possible to become Captain for him, he always could be a pilot. Izzy and Jim often fly with him, but they don't love it that much as him. They often use that time to take a short vacation the three of them alone.
"So than go to your position as pilot Commander Winchester." he says in an annoyed tone like Dean should have figured it out by himself without being told.
He may be having a problem with his leading stile, but he didn't want to piss of his commanding officer on his first mission. That could put stones in his way of becoming Captain. So he simply salutes and says. "Yes sir." with that he walks to his consoles and activates the necessary engines for the start of the ship.
It took him only moments and that the U.S.S. Impala was ready. "Sir, we are ready for takeoff."
"Good, all personal to their stations." he orders his crew and they followed. After he was sure they were in position he told Dean. "Punch it Commander Winchester." Dean activates the engine for warp and the ship was on his way course to Vulcan.
Dean concentrated on his consoles. Not that the ship needed his assistance during a warp course, but safety first. You never know what happens next.
"Commander, when will we arrive at Vulcan?"
After a look at his calculations, Dean declares. "We should arrive in approximately 5 minutes, Sir."
"Good, start a ship wide transmission." he orders Dean and he does as ordered. After a moment of thinking you could hear the Captain over the ships com. "We received a distress call from Vulcan, we don't know what it is about, because the communication broke up shortly. The only thing we know is that they saw a lighting storm in space. So all stations on high alert, we arrive in a short time." with that the transmission ends and the ships alarm go on.
Lightning storm in space that phrase reminded Dean of something. But he can't point his finger on it, even if he didn't really knows what, he knows that it can't be good. He has a bad feeling of the whole situation, so to be on a save side, he acted on impulse and without orders, he deactivates the autopilot course after they would left warp. This way he could stir the ship manually. That could be problematic, because the Miranda Class isn't a shuttle, but Dean can fly everything if he sets his mind to it.
After he enters the commands, he keeps the consoles in his view while he searches his memory about anything connected with a lightning storm in space. Sometime he hates that Jim and Izzy and he want to be Captains, because that means that they never would be on the same ship and simply could rely only on themselves. Instead of working together with his other two halves, because they are almost unbeatable together. Izzy was without a doubt the brains of the operations, while Jim and him act on their gut feeling. Jim … Jim than it hit him that such a storm was present at the day of his birth together with an advanced Romulan ship, which destroyed the U.S.S. Kelvin.
"Shit." Dean exclaims loud.
"Commander." the captain shouts in a louder tone.
"My apologies sir. But we have to contact the Enterprise." Dean declares.
"Why Commander?"
"We are flying into a trap."
"How so?" The captain asks unbelievable, but as a good superior, he tries to hear his crew out and sometimes they bring valid points. So let's see where this is going.
"The lightning storm in space was last seen as the U.S.S. Kelvin was destroyed."
It took the Captain only moments, to understand the severe of the situation. "Lieutenant Nell, contact the Enterprise asap."
The communication officer nods and follows his order, after a moment he says to the Captain. "I can reach them."
"Try again."
"That's the problem I can't reach anyone Sir. Not even Vulcan. We are blind." he declares.
"Commander Winchester get ready for evasive maneuvers." he orders Dean.
"Already in motion."
"Good." then he activates the ship wide com again. "Attention crew, we go on red alert. So stay on your stations and be battle ready immediately" with that the red alert starts ringing through the ship.
Dean display signals him that they reach Vulcan in only seconds. "30 seconds till Vulcan, Sir."
"Get ready to get us out of here. We don't have the capacity to withstand an attack." the captain order Dean.
"Eye, sir." he takes the steering wheel in his hands and as they were only 10 seconds left, he starts to count out loud. "10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1" The view on the front window changes and Dean sees a battle field ahead of him or better the odds and ends of other federation ships, who only reached the destination sooner. But Dean hasn't time to admire the view, as he called it with sarcasm. He has to get them out of here. Before they left the warp he searched for a destination, where they could hide. He found a hideout on one of the near moons, which is behind them at the moment. So they need to turn around for almost 180 degrees and also without bring the attention to them. So he stirs the ship into an almost vertical left curve as he activates the impulse at the same time. First only on half impulse, to get them not to fast into the curve, but he should have been faster, because they were hit and the ship vibrates under the impact. Everyone, who wasn't belted, was catapulted through the ship. Out of the corner of his eyes Dean saw, that the Captain was one of them. He lies still on the ground of the bridge. As soon as his maneuver for the turnover in the right direction was over, he activates the full impulse and starts a zig-zag-course through the wreckage and also to give the attackers a false course to follow.
Beep, Beep, Dean hears the signal but now is not the time for a chat. So he ignores it, he knows someone else will take it. "Engineering is trying to reach us sir." the communication officer yells at him. Because form the looks of it the Captain is out cold and according to the chain of command that makes him acting Captain now.
That can't be good. Dean tries to hold the ship on course, while he asks. "What do they want?"
"Commander Singer has found a tracker on a part of the ship."
"Can he deactivate it?"
"No or better he needs permission to blow this part of the ship away, because they can't reach it otherwise."
If the engineer thinks that is the best idea, who is he to challenge it. They treat the ship on which they are stationed like it is a lover. So Dean decides to go for it. "Permission granted, but he has to make sure that the section is evacuated completely."
"Eye, eye, Sir." with that he walks away.
"Wow, you have some balls, Captain Miller would have had Singer in the brick for that." the guy besides him says.
"Yeah, what can I say, I like to think outside the box." Dean answers.
"Good to know. I am Ash, by the way." he declares. For a moment Dean looks away from the course. He was surprised to see a punk besides him, but something tells him not to judge him by his cover and that they could be a good team.
"Dean … Sorry I would shake your hands, but I am a little occupied." he tells him as he looks back at his consoles.
"Saving our lives, I know, but we be should at the hiding place soon. So you can activate the auto pilot." he says.
"That may be true, but as long as I don't know that the tracker is gone, I keep my hands on the wheel." In the moment Dean tells him that, they hear and feel an explosion. So Singer must have gone rid of the infected section. The communication officer confirms it only seconds later, so Dean activates the auto pilot.
Dean stands up and looks around. Total chaos he sees. Some of the bridge crew is injured, so he orders. "Bring the injured to sick bay." The crew starts to follow his orders as he walks to the Captain. He lies still on the floor in a pool of blood and didn't move. As Dean kneels down, he sees a head wound and he tries to find a pulse, but can't find one. But he didn't gives up. He gestures to the crew member in his reach as he says. "You call sick bay, we need MO Harvelle on the bridge now." with that he starts CPR.
He continues for as long as it takes the medical team to reach them. But it was too late, as the MO activates the tricorder she learns that the head injury was too severe, it affected the neck. Now Dean really was the Captain.
"That makes you Captain." Harvelle declares and with that she stands up, orders her team to bring the old captain to sick bay for an autopsy, standard procedure on every Star Fleet vessel in the event of the Captains death.
"Thank you." Dean looks around and his eyes land on Ash, his uniform tells him that he is a Commander and would be his new 2IC. So he walks to him. "Ash call the heads of the sections I want them ready in 10 mins for a meeting in the conference room. Please secure the room. You are my second in command now."
Until this point Ash nods to every order, but as Dean declares him to 2IC he pales. Ash looks nervous around for the other personal, which could be in ears dropping reach, but they were all to engrossed in their work. So he looks at Dean and says in a whisper. "I am sorry to say that, but I am not allowed to become your 2IC."
"Why?" Dean wants to know, because such a thing is more than unusual.
Ash scratches his neck before he says. "It is one of my conditions of probation after I hacked the admiralty."
"Oh." Dean says. That makes sense, but he needs a 2IC and he knows that not many of the commanding crew fit that profile and he also doesn't know whom he can choose as his second in command, so he needs legal advice. "Ok find me Lieutenant Winchester he is part of the science team and tell him to be at the meeting as well."
"Yes Sir." with that Ash starts to follow his orders. Dean takes a short glance around the bridge before he left to prepare himself for the meeting.
U.S.S. Enterprise
As soon as Jim heard lightning storm in space over the ships com, he started running. First he searched for Uhura, because he remembered that she had received or intercepted a transmission from a Klingon prison world some days ago. Jim wanted to know, whether the attacking ship was Romulan, which it was. As soon as he knew that, he was on his way with Uhura and surprisingly Bones hot on his heels.
The doors to the bridge open and he spoke directly to Captain Pike. "Sir, we have to stop the ship."
"Commander Kirk, what are you doing here, you should be on your station." was his answer without mentioning his statement.
"We have to stop the ship." he says again and like him he didn't acknowledges his statement other things are more important than that, like saving the crew and such.
"Commander we are at full Warp. You had enough attention for one day."
"Sir I can remove him from the bridge." Jim's new best friend points out. But Jim wouldn't be Jim would he let something like that go.
"Try it, but I am trying to save this ship." he declares in a loud voice. Now all the crew eyes were on him.
"On what grounds?" Chris wants to know, because he knows that Kirk would never act this way without good reasons.
"Sir …" Spook wants to interfere, but Chris stops him with his hand and it worked. With a nod he encourages Kirk to go on with his explanation.
"Sir, Vulcan, they are being attacked, the reason I know that is that the lightning storm also happens at the day of my birth. The Kelvin was attacked by a Romulan ship with advanced weapons. The same ship wasn't seen again until some days ago as they attacked a Klingon prison world. 47 Klingon war birds were destroyed. It was reported that the Romulan were on one ship, one massive ship."
"And you know that how?" Chris asks the Commander.
Instead of answering directly Jim looks at Uhura and implicates that she should tell him. Because let's not forget she was the one, who intercepted the transmission. She sighs before she says. "Sir I personally intercepted the transmission and made the translation. Kirk is accurate."
"Ok, Commander Spook what is your opinion?" Chris asks him.
Spook looks with a side glance at Jim, before he declares. "An attack is possible and Lieutenant Uhura is an excellent Xenolinguist." 'Of course he would only praise the other cadet, even if I was the one, who connected the pieces' Jim thought.
"Communication officers scan Vulcan space for transmission in Romulan." Chris orders.
"Sir I don't know if I can distinguish Romulan from Vulcan?"
Chris looks at the cadet as he asks. "What about you Lieutenant Uhura? Do you speak Romulan?"
"Yes sir, all three dialects." with she walks the communication station and listens for a moment before she says. "Sir I can hear any Romulan transmission or any other transmissions for that matter."
"Because they are under attack." Jim declares
Pike acts fast. "All personal to their stations, red alert." after some moments the ringing of the alarm can be heard in ears of all the crews, the Captain turns to the pilot. "Zulu bring us out of warp."
"Eye, sir." and with that he simply does that. What they see after they left warp shocked them all. There was so many wreckage of Star Fleet vessels it was like a minefield out there. For a moment Jim fears for Dean and hopes that he is still alive. But now is not the time to forget his duties, because of his lover, so he banned that from his thoughts.
As Zulu sets the Enterprise under a big tile Jim holds on to the railing so he wouldn't lose his footing. Even if Zulu was from the looks of it a good pilot he still grazes the other ships parts. He maneuvers the Enterprise out of the field.
"Captain they are locking torpedoes." Spock said.
"Shield up." Chris order, Zulu tries to avoid the torpedoes, but at least three still break the shield.
"Shields at 32%, another hit like that …" Zulu tells the Captain but let the rest hanging in the ar.
"Inform Star Fleet." Chris orders.
"We can't the ship uses a device against the planet and it appears that it blacks all our communication." Spook declares.
"All power to the forward shield. Prepare to fire all weapons." Chris orders as the young officer besides Zulus declares.
"Sir, we are being hailed."
"On screen." Chris orders, stands up and a Romulan appears on screen. "My name is Captain Christopher Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise. To whom am I speaking?"
"Hello Christopher my name is Nero." he interrupts the captain.
"You are on Federation Territory and declared war against us in the name of the Romulan empire."
"We don't speak for the empire … we stay apart … like your Vulcan crew member Spook."
Spooks steps into the field of vision as he asks. "I can't remember to make your acquaintance."
"No were not … not jet. Spock I want to show something. Captain Pike your transporters have ben disabled as you can see by the rest of you armada you have no choice, but to man a shuttle and came on board the Narada for … negotiations." with that the screen went blank.
It was silent on the bridge for a moment as Captain Pike tries to weigh his options. He starts to walk and Commanders Spook as well as Kirk speaks at the same time. "They kill you, you know that." Jim says, while Spook adds. "Survival is unlikely."
"Captain we gain nothing by diplomacy. That's a mistake." Jims argues further. Not only will it probably cost the captain his life, but also Jims head. He made a promise to Izzy and he intends to keep it.
"I agree, you should rethink your strategy." Spook points out. 'That's a new one the pointy ear bastard is with me on the same page, interesting' Jim thought.
"I understand that. I need officers, who are trained in advanced hand-to-hand-combat."
"I have training, Sir." Zulu says.
"I come as well." Jim says, because if the Captain really is doing this, he will be at his side as long as possible.
"Ok follow me. Chekov you have the con." he say and with Spook, Kirk and Zulu on his heels he starts his way to the shuttle bay. "Without transporters, we can't beam off this ship, we can't assist Vulcan. We can't do our job. Mister Kirk, Mister Zulu and engineer Olsen will make a space jump out of the shuttle on the device that scrambles with our technology to destroy it, than you will beam them back to the ship. Mister Spook I am leaving you in command of the Enterprise. Once we have transport and communications back up again, contact Star Fleet and tell them what the hell is going on. And if all fails fall back with the rest of the fleet in the Lautrentian system. Kirk I make you first officer."
"What?"
"Captain I apologize, but the complexity of human pranks escape me."
"It isn't a prank Spook and I am not the Captain … you are." with that Pike walks into the turbo lift and let the Vulcan come to grasp with the new development on his own.
Jim and Zulu follow him into the turbo lift. "Sir, when we take out that thrill, what happens to you?" Jim wants to know.
"I guess you have to come and get me … Spock careful with the ship she is brand new." Chris says as the doors of the lift close.
Jim turns to the Captain and say. "I will bring you back sir, because she will kill me, should I fail."
Chris has a half smile on his face as he says. "I know. So I guess you better bring me back, because you aren't ready to face her and her mother."
"Eye, sir." Jim says as he follows him to change into his gear for the jump. But he has to swallow, because Izzy alone is a scary, but together with her mother, he walks to his own execution without trial.
As he puts his gear on, Zulu, who was beside him, asks Jim. "About whom were you talking to the Captain?"
"His daughter."
"You know his daughter."
"Worse … he dates her." Chris says from the doorway with a smile.
"You are brave." Zulu says.
"Thanks I know … Come on get this show on the road." with that they walk to the shuttle and take their seats. But he wasn't as brave as Zulu thinks he is, because Jim knows as well as Dean that they didn't have a change in matters of Izzy. She was their sun and they need her and would face every obstacle for her with a big smile on their faces, even if that obstacle is called Captain Christopher Pike. She is worth it, all of it. Neither he nor Dean have a problem with that. It is like Dean declared after their first night together, she is it for them. She broke them from womanizing men to one woman men and they love everything about it.
As the shuttle starts, Jim remembers the last night they shared together. To think that it only was yesterday was crazy. He needs their faces to face what he is doing. Not only to have a clear head, because he does things to keep them save, like they do for him. But also to relax himself, he hates space jumping. Jim Kirk may be an adrenaline junkie, but everything has its border. But with Dean and Izzy by his side, even just in his mind, he can do everything.
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