Chapter 2

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I wait for a while before anyone comes my way. I then see Uhura walking to me all alone.

I stand up and I look at her calmly while she looks ready to attack me. I walk closer to the glass.

"Lieutenant Uhura…" I say with a slight nod of my head.

"Shut up!" I close my mouth and look at her questioningly but coolly. She glares at me for a few long seconds. I'm certain if the glass didn't have ray shield technology reinforcing it she would have broken in to try and kill me.

"Certainly you have something you wish to say to me… Or did you just come here to glare at me? If you are trying to unnerve me you are failing miserably at doing so." I watch her, I see how she struggles to keep her emotions in check.

"The only reason you aren't dead is because the captain wishes you to live… I would have ended you."

"Tell me… How would you accomplish it? I am physically and mentally stronger than you…"

"And have a stronger sense of arrogance…"

"The tiger doesn't brag that it is stronger than a house kitten. It just is… and it is wise for the kitten to remember that." I continue to watch her with my icy gaze. "Tell me what the purpose of you coming is? Other than your apparent need to glare at me…"

"Why did you kill them? All the innocent men and women, the scientists of the Federation…" I see tears spring into her eyes.

"No one in the Federation is innocent!" I say spitting out the last word. My voice wavers and I swallow hard.

"They weren't even armed!"

"Oh but they were… They are scientists… They are armed with knowledge and hundreds of weapons at their disposal. But no one gives them a second thought…" I look directly into Uhura's eyes and look at her trying to make her understand. "And that will be the downfall… Who owns the scientists? The Federation. What is it they do? An excellent question. Go to Kappa 5 and see for yourself…"

"What?"

"The moon, Kappa 5… There is a base there. A scientist's base…" I was going to say more but my voice quavers again. I shut my mouth and regain my composure. I then study Uhura. She had been crying before she came down here. She was seeking to release vengeance on me.

"You killed hundreds of them…"

"And they have killed thousands of my kind!" I yell angrily. I feel tears prick at my eyes and I turn my back to her.

"No it isn't true!"

"Some of your family was a part of the Federation scientists, am I correct?" I say gently. The only answer I receive is a glare. "Perhaps now we are more alike than I thought…"
"I am NOTHING like you!" she hisses.

"Oh but you are… You now understand the pain of loss…" I shut my eyes and I'm bombarded with memories. I then open them and look into Uhura's eyes and I feel a tear slip down my face so I quickly wipe it away. "You understand the desire for revenge…" I see the struggle her eyes as she battles her emotions.

"My family is dead now… and it's all your fault!" Uhura says, her voice quavers with emotion.

I look down. "There are worse fates…" I say quietly. "At least they died quickly… They didn't suffer for long…" I turn away once more and walk to my bed and sit down. "You will understand my actions-"

"Lieutenant Uhura! You were not given any authorization to speak to the prisoner!" the Captain says as he enters the brig.

"Kirk I am not a child!" Uhura says.

"Go." Uhura looks rather annoyed but leaves.

"Captain…-"

"Shut up!" I look at the captain with a blank face. "You just murdered four hundred and eight people and however many pirates there were!"

I just stare at him quietly.

"Who are you?" he asks.

"HY:13. An experiment that was never supposed to be seen by anyone other than the scientists who created me…"

"Yet here you are…"

"Obviously…" I say dryly.

"If you weren't supposed to be discovered, why are you out?"

"What do you know of Hybrids?"

"I know that Augments had taken over the world back a few hundred years ago and they were exiled as criminal-"

"But what do you know of Hybrids?" I look Kirk in the eyes. "You know nothing, which is precisely what they want. Before you saw this fight you thought I was just some human terrorist… It's what they want you to think…"

"What are you implying?"

"Implying? No… I am informing you."

"Who are you?"

"A Hybrid. One of the Thirteen…" I see Kirk's confused look and I sigh and stand up. "We were once like you… Average humans…" I look at the captain. "We then were bought… Our families sold us to Starfleet scientists to be experimented on for money." I sigh angrily. "We were put through a series of 'modifications' that changed us. Twice times stronger and five times more intelligent than humans… We were created to be the warriors and intellect of the Federation; that was their hope for us.

"But they all grew afraid. They feared us… They were scared that we were too superior to control… I was the one they chose to allow to live as they murdered my friends, the people who are most dear to me…" I walk towards the glass. "Who am I? I am Erebus… The Last of the Thirteen…" I look into Kirk's eyes. "You are hesitant to believe me… Trust me. I have all the proof that you will need to trust me."

"The files that you stole… How can I know that you didn't tamper with them to justify your actions?"

"The bag you took from me. All the files are in there. Have a look. And if you still doubt me go to Kappa 5 and watch what they do…" I turn away from him. "You will understand…"

I then hear him walk away. I know that his curiosity was peaked. Perhaps he'll help my cause but only if he sees the horrors that Starfleet is really responsible for. I at least planted the doubt in his and his Lieutenant's mind.

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~ Maethorni