Chapter 3

Surprises

The next day, Kirk comes over to my cell. I look up at him, studying him.

"We are leading an inspection… You'll be coming with me. If you're lying we'll expose you and hand you over."

"You suspect it isn't that way though… You aren't going to bind me."

"No. But trust me any false moves we will…"

"Good. Neither of us has anything to worry about."

"I am breaking so many regulations allowing this. So you'd better be right."

"You read the files," I state. "There's no way I could have made it up… I wouldn't make something like this up. And you know it is too intricate to be made up."

"Yeah… We have to keep quiet about this. Only a few of us are going."

I nod. I then watch as a few officers come in. I recognize them as the landing party minus one only giving them four people. All of them are armed.

"This is Uhura, Spock, Bones, and myself…" Kirk then looks at Uhura and me. "You two better behave."

"Alright," I say with a nod.

"No guarantees…" she says at the same time.

I look at her coolly and she returns it with a glare.

"Uhura…" Kirk says warningly. "I will get someone else to fill your place on this mission if you two can't get along. Is that understood?"

"Yes sir…" She gives me one last glare and then turns so she isn't looking at me.

"Alright… Shall we go?" I ask.

"Captain we have no guarantee that she won't attack us as soon as she is free," says Spock.

"Mister Spock… If my intentions were to bring harm to you I would have killed you all on Kelma…" I look at each and every one of them. "My intentions are not so cruel… I only wish to free my people from persecution. Surely you don't begrudge me that."

"Of course not," Kirk says. He then presses a button and my cell opens. I step out slowly so not to make them think that I'm up to no good. I can't afford anymore suspicions or enemies. I already knew that I couldn't be left alone with Uhura. I don't trust her. She'll try to kill me if she gets the opportunity. I know that deep in her heart she would do anything to avenge her family just like I'd do anything for mine.

"Let's go…" I say. I am then put in formation with them. Stuck walking behind Kirk and Bones and in front of Spock and Uhura. I know that this is the standard procedures for criminals but I can't help a shiver run down my back. I am a criminal. I feel Uhura's eyes burning into the back of my head.

We then get to the transporter room and I look around I see a man at the controls and I see him and the Captain exchange a whispered conversation. I can make out that they will keep an eye on my location at all times and be able to beam me back most likely if the need arises.

I then step onto a pad and wait standing perfectly still. I think my complete calmness is unnerving them more than if I showed the slightest bit of emotion. They saw how destructive I could be and I'm sure they were worried that this was the calm before the storm.

Well they are right in fearing me, although I have no intentions on bringing them harm. Although I cannot guarantee that I will not harm any of the scientists of Kappa 5. I especially will have no hesitations on killing Dr. Plak, Dr. Mia, or Dr. Shea Hoff. They all took place in the murders of my crew. I will not be remorseful if I end them.

We beam down and I see that we are in an empty room and I look around. I smell the harsh scent of chemical cleaners. I see that the room had been recently scrubbed of anything that would indicate the tortures that would have occurred here.

I then lead them through this level and I see that all the rooms are like this. I feel slightly baffled, where is all of the prisoners, experiments, where is anything?

I quickly go to a computer system and type in a code. Dr. Mia's profile pops up on the screen and I confirm it. I see his records have been scrubbed clean. It looked like an average science log. I look through a few of the other logs and find the same thing. They knew we were coming…

I turn around. The back of my hand hovering inches from my mouth, which is slightly agape in shock. I see the slight smirk at Uhura's lips. I turn around 360 degrees. I then take my hand away from my mouth and feel a strong mix of emotions.

"You betrayed me…" I look straight into Uhura's eyes. "You told them we were coming. You warned them! They hid everything…" I look at all of the Starfleet officers. "You don't believe me…" I feel fear stab at my heart. "I swear I'm not lying!"

"It appears that you are."

"Appearances are deceptive, Captain…" I feel a sudden panic. "They are destroying the evidence… They're going to eradicate my people!" I take off running down the corridors. I hear them shouting protests and them chasing after me. I don't care. I run as fast as I can until I get to a door which is locked and blocked by an insane amount of security codes.

I get in a moment later and see I'm in a room full of pods. Upon closer inspection I see that there are people inside of the pods. I see a few people on the other side of the room and are pressing buttons to kill off the life forms inside of them. Only six of the pods still are glowing with life functions still working. I attack the three officers and I knock them unconscious except for the third one, which I accidentally killed by his neck snapping when he fell onto a pod wrong.

I quickly push any regrets aside and press a few buttons to open the pods of the living ones. These must be the remaining Augments. I hear rapid footfalls and I see a guard running towards me. I quickly try to find the way to close the door and lock it.

Unfortunately it's too late for that to work and the woman came in aiming her weapon at me. I quickly snatch her weapon away from her. I pull her to face me, aiming her gun under her chin.

"Tell me, where are the Hybrids?" I ask through a clenched jaw.
"I don't know what you're talking about…"
My hand tightens around her neck. "Let's try this again…" She winces in pain. "Where are the Hybrids?" She remains silent. My grip tightens and the girl cries out in pain. "I grow tired of this question… Make it easy on yourself and just tell me."

"I- I-" The girl looks defeated. "They're down in the lower levels."

"Thank you. You've been most helpful," I say sarcastically. "Which level? Where are the scientists?" I feel rather annoyed when she doesn't answer me, and my annoyance often leads to cruelty. Perhaps a broken bone will serve as a good reminder to speak when spoken to. I grab her arm violently and start to twist it back. There is a cracking noise and she cries out in pain. "I said; which level?"

"E-26!" she cries out.

"Thank you…" I toss her aside to nurse her broken arm and I quickly look up and see that the few Augments are exiting their pods. I walk up to the one that seems like he could be the biggest threat to me. He's tall, muscular but not ridiculous looking. His dark, almost black hair is in complete contrast to his pale skin and the longer strands fall in front of his ice blue eyes. It is also obvious that he is the leader of the others, or that they at least hold him in high respect. I can tell that their long rest has made them all rather disoriented and somewhat groggy. I smirk. Although the group could pose a threat to me I know I could out-smart them.

"Now as customs go I ought to let you know that I'll be the one in charge, after all I am the one who awoke you. I also prevented your complete extinction…" I pause to see if they understand this information. "Now I have a plan for escape…" A lie but at least they seem to believe me. "I will find my crew and I will get all of us out of here. Unless you fancy a stay with the scientists…"

I see all of them have turned to the leader looking to see what his plan is. He looks me in the eyes and I hold the gaze.

"Who are you? And why are you helping us?"

"My name is Erebus. I'm a genetically advanced human, known as a Hybrid. Long story short we're a lot like you Augments but slight differences are present… They have experimented with us, tortured us… I am going to topple the Federation and bring about an era where we will be free from persecution and we can take place in the universe as free men and women not slaves to the Federation… So are you with me or not?"

I see the five Augments look to the leader and he nods to me. "We will."

"Good. That makes things a little easier…"

"I am Khan," the leader says. "This is Kione, Taj, Falan, Diara, and Marek."

"Pleasure to meet you all… Now the time for chatter is over. We must get out of here. I will find with my people and then we will get to our transportation."

I see Khan nod in agreement and I then lead them to E-26.

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