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Chapter 12 – "pulling together"

U.S.S. Division

The screen in the meeting room turns black. All the people behind her wait for Izzy to say something first, even if they desperately want to say something. They all were scared, in awe and shocked by her performance, even proud. The crew members of the Division are happy that she is on their side, they never want to cross her. They have the feeling it would be the end for them. Probably the destiny Rose will see in no time, so they lean back while enjoying the show of his down fall.

But the most impressed was G Callen. He always knew that she would be a force to be reckoned with, but what she displayed just now, topped all his expectations for her. She is living up to her potential and she still has room for more things to go on. For her the sky is the only limit and he is so proud, just like she would be if she was his own daughter, instead of the daughter of his best friend.

After the screen was black Izzy took a moment to compose herself. The meeting or discussion was a little tiring. She hated that she had to do that, but she knows that it is better for the Federation this way. It is now on official record that she didn't believe that Commander Spock is good material to be a Captain. She believes fully in her assumption and will state that in front of the admiralty, if she has to. She knows that these actions will make some waves, how that will end for her only time will tell. Only because you are smart doesn't mean that you can lead. That isn't the only trait a leader needs in her opinion. For her he needs the ability to listen to his gut as well as make people follow him without being questioned. Both things Jim and Dean have in mass.

The silence crept on and nobody wanted to break her concentration. They can see, that even with her displaying that she has balls and doesn't back down from a challenge, that it is a hard job and can be tiring. That makes her a good person, accepting it without problems would speak for a bad character, it would mean that she doesn't care. But she cares, they all know it and that makes her a good leader.

Lingering for a moment longer in the silence she takes a deep breath, before she turns around, takes a seat and says like they didn't just witness her take down another Captain of the Federation. "Where were we?"

Of course she knew that only, because she didn't want to talk about what just happened, they others wouldn't let it slide. No, that isn't, how the world works. She also was sure that she knew who would speak first. But with Birkhoff in the room it had to be clear to her that normal circumstances don't count. "You know you took away the balls of your boyfriends." he points out.

Izzy couldn't help it she started laughing. It was so far from the truth. She never could take away the balls of her men, they wouldn't let her. To others it may look that way, but they are a unit and they all know there places in it and even if they all are smart, they all know she is the smartest and that is why they would follow her lead in such situations. Let's not forget her two men are also hotheads and as such sometimes only see red. That is why she is the voice of reason for them. They balance each other out in every way.

After a moment of laughing, she turns to Birkhoff and say. "Believe me they didn't see it that way and if I know them as much as I do, I think they quite enjoyed it." She is sure she will be rewarded for it when they are together again. Besides even if she wears the trousers in public in their relationship, they all know that in bed they were the bosses. But they are equals in all elements of life, even if it would look different to outsiders.

"But you made fun of them … in front of their crews." Birkhoff pointed out like she did a great misstep.

This time it was G, who answered. Normally he is the first to find his voice in such situation, but with Birkhoff in the mix things apparently are different. "That may true, but it wasn't a way to make them look bad, but to lift the tension, after what she just did."

That made surprisingly sense, even for Birkhoff. "Ok." But he still has to ask, curiosity was biggest flaw and advantage at the same time. He never could keep his nose out of others people's business. "So they will not be pissed at you for that."

"No." she says without thinking. But she kept to herself that she will be rewarded, because what they do in their bed only concerns them. He accepted that with a nod.

"I like them." G says, after Izzy looks at him with a smile and adds mischievously. "I can't wait to meet them." then he turns to Sam and says. "What do you say we have to threaten, them to treat our Izzy right?"

"Naturally." was Sams answer.

She groans at all the overprotective men in her live. Not only are her boyfriends that way, no her father and godfather are the same way as well as many of the friends of the important males in her life like Sam. That looks like a pattern to her and she was in the middle of all of it. The others in the room laugh at her misfortunate. "We will see, after this crisis is over." she tells them. For her them it implies her own crisis, not the whole fiasco with this Nero guy, but of course she knows that the others would see it in a different light.

That statement also told the room that they should stop talking about this and go back to the topic at hand. With a nod in acknowledgment, G says. "As we already told you we can't really tell you what we have planned for Rose, but we can give you some of the information we gathered." He opened the tablet he brought with them; it wasn't connected to the vessel or any other wireless station, because they didn't want this information to get out. He slides the tablet in front of her, so that she can read the additional material to the ones they found. "As said all started with the terror act on the Federation Base Trinity and according to the intel we got that it was an inside job."

"Who is the source?" Izzy wanted to know.

Both sigh. "That is something we don't know." Sam answers instead of G.

"Why did you believe him?" Michael wanted to know.

G looks at him and says. "We could stop a second attack with the Intel. So we followed his advice."

"Which was?" Izzy asks.

"To look at something that looks normal, but isn't, because it works in a different way." G says.

They saw the bewildered faces of the others, so Sam declares. "Yeah, we didn't get it either at first. But as soon as Hetty told G that you started on this vessel as intern." He points around the room to emphasize his point. "The metaphorical light bold went on and we looked into the Division."

"We were part of an investigation?" Birkhoff outraged wanted to know. It feels different to be on the other side of the window apparently. He wasn't the only one in the room, who didn't like that.

"Not all of you." G tries to calm the science officer a bit. "But after we learned who the Captain of the vessel is, we concentrated on him, especially with you." he pointed at Izzy. "on the ship."

"What does it have to do with me? Besides that he choose me to be his fall guy." A good question, Izzy has the feeling she is getting nearer to the answer to that.

A sad smile starts on G's face as he answered. "Rose hates your father."

"I learned that from Michael." she absent mildly pointed at her first officer.

"Yeah, but you don't know why? You see … Rose and your mother dated, until I introduced her to Chris. I never liked Rose and he wasn't good enough for Elli. Rose was pissed that your father won her heart and tried to outshine him after that moment on. Of course with a personality like his, Chris always would be the better man and with you here now he thinks that he can take you down, instead of your fathers, because he is a"

"A chauvinist." Nikita, Alex and Izzy say at the same time.

All the man in the room smile. "Yeah, that." G says.

"I still don't see the connection." Izzy concludes.

"That is because he only chose you after he learned that you would be his intern as the person to take the fall for him." Michael surprisingly concluded. All makes so much more sense, at least to him. As the first officer he knows Rose best, he was his right hand for over six years after all.

"I was just the person there at the right time on the right ship." Izzy sums up. It makes sense that Rose would cover his bases to take her down. She is the easier target in Rose's eyes and as bonus it would hurt her father more, should she be declared guilty. That doesn't make it better; no it made her angrier, because apparently without her father she wouldn't be on Rose radar at all. But she would teach him, that he should have never underestimated her.

"That sounds about right."

"Ok, anything else I should know?" she asks.

G looks at his goddaughter and says. "Sorry, baby girl that is all we can give you for now."

Before she can answer Sam points out. "But we can tell you that you should prepare a mission should our plan fail. So best get as much Intel on the terror attack in the past you can gather, especially because you have the resource here. Connect it with the data you have on the ship." he points around the room.

That would mean that Rose would be so dumb and hide his information on the vessel. She shakes her head that simply would be a dumb move, he wouldn't do that, she argues with herself. But Sam has a point to look into it, probably wouldn't be a bad idea. She turns to Birkhoff. "Nerd, I want you to check our system for everything you can find on the terror attack." he nods, but after a moment she adds thoughtful. "Make it wider gather as much information as you can find on the ships logs about Rose, there has to be something there." She turns to Alex. "Help him Alex; you are the second best on hacking we have."

"Eye Ma'am." both say, get up and start their task.

That was a good start, but there are still other things to be considered, before she somehow can take a breath again. The long day is getting longer and an end is definitely not on the horizon for now. But she will not let Rose win, never.


U.S.S. Enterprise

The screen went black and the tension on the ship was high, but they also could take a short breath for now. Even with Izzy's move to lift the tension, it only worked marginal. But Jim doesn't have time for that. He takes place in the Captains seat, before he can start with his first order of business, Uhura steps to him and says in a disgusted voice. "I hope you know what you are doing?" Oh she is pissed, Jim can see that, he doesn't really know why, but he has a feeling it has something to do with Spock and her position here instead of the Farragut.

But he has more pressing matters to attend, so he answers. "Don't worry." He may sound cocky, but he felt like it at the moment. The two people, he loves most in the world believe in him and that is one hell of confidence bust. Hell, his girl even helped to take down Spock and man was that a turn on. After a moment he adds. "Lieutenant hail the U.S.S. Impala."

"Eye, Air." was her answer through gritted teeth, he can hear that she hates that she has to call him sir now. But she has to get used to it. So he accepts her hatred with a smile and watches her walk to her station to fulfill her orders.

As soon as she enters the command into the computer the classic rock song "Highway to Hell" starts blasting through the speakers. Uhura turns to him and says. "It appears we can't hail them directly without activating this song."

Somehow that makes Jim smile. He doesn't know how, it looks like someone on the Impala made it impossible to call them without hearing that song. How can they reach them now? But he shouldn't have been worried as he hears from Zulu a moment later. "Sir, we are being hailed."

"On Screen." he orders without getting up.

A smiling Dean appears on the screen, which gets bigger as he hears the song. Instead of greeting them, he turns to one of his officers and says. "Nice work Ash, but can you deactivated it for now."

"Of course Sir."

With that Dean turns back to the screen and looks at Jim. "Sorry, that was a gift for pointy ear." he mocks Spock and Jim simply has to smile.

"I thought as much." In that moment the music stops and Jim adds. "Thanks, way better."

"No problem." he hears from one of Dean's officers, probably Ash. Jim likes him. Anyone with taste in that kind of music was good in Jim's book.

"So let's get started." he turns to his crew and asks. "Do we have an idea where Nero currently is?"

Instead of one of his crew answering it was Sam, who stepped to the screen with a tablet in his hand and says. "According to my probe which we send after him, he almost is near Earth. My calculation tell me he will be there in an hour tops." For a moment he works on his tablet, before he adds. "I send my data to you so that we work with the same information's."

"So that means we have to get moving." Jim concludes, before his attention was turning to Dean. "Are you already on rout." he wants to know.

"Yes, but we are a little slower, we took a hit at Vulcan. Repairs were done, but are still don't at 100% capacity." Dean says as he steps to Sam's side. Even if Jim didn't know that Dean's ship was hit, he still was worried for him for a moment, before he reminds himself that he is ok.

"We should meet up!" Jim tells him.

"Yepp." Dean answers. "Where?" he wants to know. That is what he thought as well, because he knows that the Impala alone isn't a match for Nero's ship. They need more firepower.

Before Jim can answer, Bones points out to them. "Guys I am all for saving Captain Pike, but we can't go in there guns blazing."

"Thank you for being the voice of reason, Bones, I wanted to say the same thing." Sam yells from his position. He moved back to his seat at the pilot terminal, after he gave his input. All who watch the interaction between the four of them can see that they are good friends and work well together.

"Someone has to be." he gives back sarcastically.

Dean and Jim ignore the two of them and ask at the same time. "Any ideas?" The question was directed at all people present on both vessels.

Like busy bees they all started to type on their terminals. Dean and Jim watched them while they worked. Not that they weren't working on a solution as well. On the contrary they were already at the next step and work on an idea to get Captain Pike off that ship. Without talking to each other both know that a visit will be part of it and that both would be on the rescue team.

After a moment of working, it was Jim youngest crew member, who brought him back to the present. "Captain, Captain."

"Yes." Jim ponders for a moment, before he asks. "Chekov was it?"

"Yes." he says and from there he directly goes to his explanation of his plan. "Based on the calculated course from Vulcan with the help of Commander Winchesters data I have projected that Nero will travel past Saturn. Like you said we need to stay invisible to Nero or he will destroy us. If Mr. Scott can get us to warp factor 4 and if we drop out of warp behind one to the Saturn's moons say … Titan, the magnetic distortion from the planets rings will make us invisible to Nero's sensors. From there as long as the drill is not activated we can beam on board the enemy ship."

Scotty steps onto the bridge with a towel and says. "Eye that may work." That was good.

Always the pessimist Bones walks to the kid and asks. "Wait a minute, kid. How old are you?"

As the dutiful officer he answers with a smile. "17, Dir."

"Good he is 17." Sarcasm was loud and clear hearable to all.

It was Sam, who points out. "Bones I am not much older than him and I worked with Chekov before at the academy, he is good."

"Thank you." Chekov says in a quiet voice.

With a defeated face, Bones says. "Fine."

That is the moment another voice brings the attention to himself. "Mr. Chekov is correct I can confirm his telemetry." All eyes were on Spock. They didn't expect him to come back. He still was a little pissed with the whole situation, but his discussion with his father made clear that all the three Captains were right. Not that it didn't hurt his ego less, but he will work through that later. "If Mr. Zulu is able to maneuver us in position, I can beam on Nero's ship, steal the black hole device and if possible bring back Captain Pike."

"I won't allow you do that Mr. Spock." Jim spoke, what Dean thought. They both would be part of that team.

"Romulans and Vulcan share a common ancestry. Our cultural similarities will make it easier for me to access the ships computers to locate the device. Also my mother was human, which makes Earth the only home I have left." Spock answers and Jim can see how hard it must be for him to declare defeat this way.

Jim has to give him that, he has balls and he can respect that. The respect for the other officer grew a bit. That is why he declared. "Then I am coming with you."

With a raised eyebrow a little bugged Spock says. "I would recite regulations, but you will simply ignore it."

A smile starts on Jims face as he claps Spock on his shoulder and declares. "See we are getting to know each other."

"Yeah nice, but if you two think that I let you walk into that hell hole without me, then you have another thing coming." Dean states with a huge smile on his face. Jim knows that smile that is his I-don't-give-a-fuck-what-you-think-smile-and-I-will-do-what-I-want.

Jim shakes his head at his partner and says. "I wouldn't think otherwise." Considering that he already took his part into account.

"Good. That is why we meet at the Nero's ship." Dean points out.

"What?" Jim wants to know, didn't they want to meet before.

"Yeah, someone has to take out the drill, so that we can beam on the ship."

"And what makes you think that the Impala is better equipped than the Enterprise."

A mischievous smile starts on his face as he says. "The simple fact that my chief engineer updated the defensive shields during our discussion so that we can stand more hits."

"That makes sense."

"You don't have to sound so surprised." Dean teases. Jim simply smiles at his lover. "Ok, I see you later." he winks before he ends the connection.

Jim turns to his crew and says. "So let's get started." He claps his hands and starts to work. Even with a doable plan he still has some things to do. So he and his crew get to work.


U.S.S. Impala

As soon as the screen was black, Dean turns to Sam. He currently was the pilot of the ship. A position he only fills for now. Dean knows that Sam is better positioned as the Head of the science team. That is why he will recruit a new pilot as soon as this crisis is over. But Sam is good enough for now. "Are we one route?" he asks his brother.

Sam looks at him with what do you think glance before he answers. "As soon as you told Jim your plan I made the corrections of the course." Then he types somethings into the terminal and adds. "The computer will inform me as soon as we are in proximity. I set it so that we leave warp as close as possible to Earth. That should put us in firing range of the drill."

With that Dean claps his brother on the shoulder and says. "Good work, Sammy." his brother rolled the eyes at him. "I knew I always can count on you."

"If I didn't do it, who would help you?" Sam smarted back at his brother. Some would see it as subordination, but Dean wasn't normal and Sam was his brother. So for him it is teasing and his brother's way to make light of things between them.

"Ash you have to con." with that Dean leaves the bridge and hopes that Sam understood that he shall follow him. Which he did only moments after Dean left the bridge Sam appears on his side. Together they walk to Dean's quarters quietly. Dean has to talk to Sam and he doesn't want that anyone else is listening in.

A moment later they arrive at his room and enter. As soon as the door is closed, Sam asks. "So what do you want?" Sam knows his brother as good as Dean knows him. The only other two people, who know Dean as good as Sam are Izzy and Jim.

Instead of reacting to it, because he knew that his brother would have asked that. He concentrates on the matter at hand, so he orders. "As soon as we have destroyed the drill I want that you fly us to the coordinates your buddy Chikov."

"Chekov." Sam corrects him.

"Yeah him calculated. I think, no scratch that I know, that Nero will follow us, because he will be pissed that we destroyed his drill."

"I think so as well." Sam interrupts him.

"Good that we are on the same page on this." That was the easy part, but now comes the hard part. "As soon as Jim, Spock and I are on Nero's ship I want the Impala back on his route to Earth."

Sam would have expected everything but not that. But he should have known better, his brother always would take the people, he cares about, out of harm's way. There was no doubt for Sam that Dean cares about the crew of the Impala. But he still was shocked. "What?"

A small smile starts on Dean's face, he knew that Sam would react this way. "Yeah, I want the Impala out of the way and in defense of Earth if needed." He left unsaid, should he and Jim fail. But the message still was clear to Sam.

"But what about you?" Sam asks him, because so many things can go wrong with this plan.

"I will be with Spock and Jim and the Enterprise in reach."

"Ok, why are you ordering me this here?" Sam wants to know.

His tone tells Dean that he accepted his order much sooner then he would have expected. "I thought you would put up a fight." he answers him truthfully.

Sam snorts. "Dean you are the Captain and I know you better than the rest of the crew, so I know that you will not budge from this so as your first officer I will do as ordered." It was good to hear that Sam would follow his lead. That makes the things better for Dean and helps to concentrate on the things ahead of them. "As your brother I tell you that I will kick your ass seven ways to Sunday after Izzy had the pleasure should you get yourself hurt." Sam adds after a moment with a huge smile on his face.

With a laugh, Dean declares. "I do my best."

"That is all I can ask."

"Good, let's get me equipped." without another word Dean goes to his own weapon armory in his room. The Federation may be a peace keeping organization, but that doesn't mean to be unprepared and Dean always takes some weapons with him, concealed of course. He don't want to alarm the opponent. Considering that you can lose a phaser very fast and it is good to have backup, a knife is always a good idea. With two knifes on his body just in case, Dean and Sam walk back to the bridge to be ready for the fight.


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