A/N: Hello! I am back! Sorry about this late post, I have to create this one-shot from scratch.
Now, this one is inspired by the new movie called After Earth with Will and Jayden Smith.
Please excuse the fact if any characters are out of character or if my facts are wrong. If you notice anything, please point it out. It would mean a lot.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Star Trek….
Rescue
"Hang on, everyone! We're going down!" shouted an average sized man wearing a yellow StarFleet uniform; he was soaked in his own perspiration.
His name was Charles Jacobson, Captain of the USS Silent Moon, and he was in big trouble…..
As he sat intensely in his Captain's chair, he witnessed humongous asteroids colliding onto his treasured ship. The sound of the impact from the huge rocks was terrifying. He and his crew had been trapped inside the space storm and there was no way out. They were going to die.
There was one place to land though, it was extremely dangerous and risky, but there was a very slight chance that he and his crew may survive.
Charles Jacobson took that chance and directed his navigator to steer the USS Silent Moon towards the most evil planet there ever was…..
Kronos.
Somewhere out in space, the starship known as the USS Enterprise was bustling with activity. The scientific crew had discovered a new element of the periodic table on a newfound planet. The blue-shirted members of the ship were running around the science stations and experimenting with the new element called Montegium.
Captain Kirk gave an appalled face as a young scientist literally shoved the liquid element in his face. "Ah!" he yelped. "Get that stuff out of my face before it somehow blows up!" he commanded aggressively.
The young man was smart enough to quickly run away with his precious new discovery before security came….
Jim shook his head at the sudden event that had just happened. That was one reason why he was captain and not a scientist.
Unexpectedly, his Chief Communications Officer, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, approached him. She seemed to be worried. "Sir," she spoke. "I'm receiving a distress call from the USS Silent Moon. They seem to be in trouble. The captain is requesting to speak to you."
Kirk nodded back. "Yes, Lieutenant Uhura. Please put the USS Silent Moon on-screen.
Immediately, the screen filtered into place. There was static lingering for more than a few minutes. Finally, a face of a man appeared, he seemed extremely stressed.
The Captain of the USS Silent Moon was a handsome man. He had dark brown hair that swept over his forehead, matching brown eyes to follow, and tan skin. Despite his attractive appearance, the captain was covered in sweat and terror.
The man was breathing heavily. "USS Enterprise," He heaved. "My name is Charles Jacobson of the USS Silent Moon. I am in dire need of assistance."
Kirk gestured back to the horrified man. "Go ahead Mr. Jacobson, what do you and your crew need?"
The man grunted back. "I don't think that you and your ship will be too happy about it..."
"No," Jim replied. "We are happy to help."
"Well," Jacobson said. "The USS Enterprise is the only vessel that is nearest to our situation." He gulped. "You see…. My crew and I have suffered from a collision in an asteroid storm. The storm has taken out our main engines…." The captain coughed hard. "Half of the ship has been torn apart; I may only have enough power for this message. However, the other half is on the other side of the planet we landed on…."
Kirk winced a bit in sympathy for the captain. "Do you need the Enterprise to come and pick you up? I am sure we can get all of your crewmembers." he asked.
"Yes," Jacobson replied. "I would like that… but I do not think that you can do that."
Jim raised his hands. "Sure we can! Where are you and your ship now?"
Charles Jacobson looked as if his whole world was ending. "Somewhere that is highly dangerous. My crew and I had to land or we would burn up in space…."
Kirk frowned. This wasn't going to be happy news….
"Where have you landed Mr. Jacobson?" he asked firmly.
The handsome captain swallowed. "Kronos..."
The entire crew of the Enterprise froze in time, shocked at the terrible news the USS Silent Moon was in.
"I am so sorry, Mr. Kirk," Charles continued. "We tried everything. I understand if there is nothing you can do…"
In the background of the screen, Jim saw another man in a yellow uniform. The man groaned in pain. Kirk thought that he heard him whisper for assistance. "Help me….." he coughed out.
Kirk felt emotion come over him at the sight of the wounded crewmember. He knew there was something he could do. He wanted to do something. He had a crew and supplies to help this poor ship. He decided that he was going to at least try to do something. He couldn't leave them like this…..
He licked him lips in thought. "Mr. Jacobson, I'll see what I can do. Be prepared for some company…."
"Thank you…" the other captain whispered hoarsely.
Kirk nodded back and the screen went back to the uncontrolled static.
The entire bridge burst into chaos. The crew was panicking. Landing on Kronos, home on the Klingons was a suicide mission. If the Klingons found them, they would surely die.
Quick as a wink, Commander Spock was at Captain Kirk's side. "Captain, you do realize you have just made a promise you cannot keep in any way?"
He scoffed. "Yeah, I think I know that, Spock." The captain did not care what his first officer thought right now. He had to save those people.
The Vulcan's eyes widened. "You are putting this vessel's safety in danger. I recommend-"
"What's going on here!?" a voice interrupted.
There, standing in the turbo-lift, was Leonard McCoy, AKA Bones, the medical doctor of the ship. He seemed furious.
"This is the second time…." The doctor muttered as he walked angrily to the captain. "This is the second time you have said, without a thought that we are going to go on Kronos on a suicide mission!"
Kirk nodded his head. "But it was for good reasons."
"Those were not good reasons!" Bones snapped back. "You ended up bringing a maniac on this ship! We almost died!"
Jim frowned. "That time wasn't my fault! I was on orders!"
"Well, who asked for orders, huh?" Bones asked. "Think again, blondie!" the doctor shouted.
"Doctor…." Spock spoke calmly.
"Forget about that, would you!?" Kirk said. He was feeling a bit hurt by his Southern friend. He pointed back to the screen. "I will not let those people die. If they die, they will die on my account. I can do something! I will not just stand here and let them perish!"
Bones suddenly went silent as the USS Silent Moon's name.
Captain Kirk pointed his index finger towards the ground. "We're going down there…. Whether you like it or not…." With that, Jim turned on his heel and left the room.
Precisely Thirty Minutes Later….
"Why do I have to come!?" McCoy complained. "You know how much I hate being on this ship much less being on a totally different planet!"
Kirk shook his head. "Bones," he scowled. "The crew of the USS Silent Moon may need medical assistance. That is why, for the fifteenth time…" he mumbled. "You are accompanying us on this rescue mission."
"I still don't want to go…." The doctor whined. He hated this so much….
Captain Kirk chuckled as he made his way to the transporter room. He had a plan to go down to Kronos, the Klingon planet with Bones, Sulu, and five other men (preferably red-shirts….) to go rescue the crew of the wrecked ship. They planned to go in secret.
They would all dress in black accompanied with heavy armor. Scotty, the head engineer, was to beam them down to the functioning half on the USS Silent Moon's transport station, and then they would assess the situation from there. For safety purposes, five small shuttles were to surround Kronos at a respectful distance in case something went wrong and the Enterprise had to intervene.
Mr. Spock was staying behind as Acting Captain, although Kirk just thought that his First Officer didn't care to experience Kronos' harsh atmosphere. His Vulcan friend had vowed never to set foot on the planet ever again.
Mr. Pavel Chekov on the other hand, had insisted that he be a part of the rescue mission. Kirk had real trouble telling the seventeen year-old "No.". Chekov needed to be in his place at the Navigation Station in case something went wrong, and there was no way that Kirk was to allow that young boy to visit the hostile planet.
In the end, everything was all good to go. What could go wrong with Jim's brilliant plan?
"All right Mr. Scott, we are all ready to go rescue the USS Silent Moon." Kirk said as he stepped onto the transporting platform.
"Aye Captain." Scotty replied with his familiar accent. "Be careful down there…" he said as he began to transport the eight men down.
Panicking with sweat and dehydration, Captain Charles Jacobson worked hastily to bandage his crew member's wound. Desperation was sinking into the captain, was the Enterprise going to save them? Were they going to live?
Jacobson thought of the other half of his crew that was stranded on the other side of the deadly planet. Were they alright?
Luckily, his broken ship had not been disturbed by the inhabitants of the planet. But the captain was sure that he would be found soon enough.
Suddenly, hope sprung in his chest as he heard the sound of someone transporting into his ship. Despite his communications system breaking down, his transporting device was working properly.
He dropped the bandaged arm he was wrapping and made a dash for the beaming room. There, dressed in extremely heavy black armor, were eight men of the USS Enterprise. Among the rescue team was the Enterprise's own captain, James T. Kirk.
The Enterprise's captain nodded. "Mr. Jacobson, I am glad to see that you are well."
Charles smiled. "Thank you so much for coming Mr. Kirk. I am so grateful…."
"You are very welcome, sir." Kirk replied. He began to move toward the control room. "We have no time to waste," he said. "Have you taken account of the wounded and dead?"
Jacobson brushed his dark hair out of his eyes. "Yes sir. I have one linguistics officer helping me with a wounded navigator in the hull of the ship. All the rest are dead." He said sadly.
Jim's eyes seemed to lose its sparkle for a moment. "Let's get a move on." He finally ordered. "Bones, go help that navigator get patched up." He turned around to his doctor and raised an eyebrow. "That is why you're here."
McCoy scowled at his Captain's sarcasm and made his way to find the hurt crewmate.
Kirk smirked at Bones' teenage-like attitude and faced Charles Jacobson. "Are you hurt?" he asked.
"No."
He smacked Jacobson's shoulder lightly. "Great, have you located the other half of your ship?" he questioned.
"Yes, it's about twenty-five miles from here. It may take us a couple of hours depending at our pace." Jacobson confirmed.
"Hmmmm…." Kirk mumbled as he rubbed his chin. "We better get going then."
He walked down the hall to see McCoy wrapping a bandage around a man in a yellow shirt. Kirk could tell that the cut in the man's arm was pretty deep.
"Bones," he spoke.
"What is it, Jim?" he asked.
"Are you almost done there? We have to get going. The other half of the ship is twenty-five miles away."
"Yep, just about done." The doctor replied. He tightened the bandage one final time and helped the navigator stand up.
"Let's go." McCoy announced.
The air was musty and the skyline of the evil planet was tinted black. The eleven StarFleet members trudged in the rocky soil of Kronos. They had been traveling for almost two hours and had not been seen by anyone.
It was too good to be true.
The Enterprise had communicated with them and told them that they sensed that the rescue team was being watched by the Klingons. The Klingons had not yet attempted to contact the Enterprise, the Silent Moon, or the five small shuttles surrounding the planet. The situation seemed strange.
"You know," Hikaru Sulu said. "I heard the funniest joke the other day. The best thing is I didn't know that I would be on this planet. Do you want to hear it?"
Kirk shrugged. "Go ahead, Mr. Sulu."
His navigator nodded back. "Okay then…" the Asian man cleared his throat. "How many Klingons does it take to change a light bulb?"
"A whole army?" a red-shirt guessed.
"Two," Sulu answered. "One to screw it in, and one to stab the other in the back and take all of the credit!"
The eleven humans couldn't help but laugh. However, the laughter was cut short by an odd rustling sound.
Bones stopped laughing. "What was that?" he asked cautiously.
Charles Jacobson's eyes were wide and he seemed freaked out. "Maybe it's the Klingons."
Kirk gathered his senses together. "Let's keep going. If we stop, they might catch up to us."
Everyone agreed and continued walking but at a slightly faster pace.
Precisely Two Hours Later….
"I see the ship!" Kirk cried out. "It's about fifty yards away!"
The other half of the USS Silent Moon was badly wrecked. Who knew if anyone survived the crash? The tail end of the ship was broken in pieces; the windows were shattered and someone had barricaded the broken windows with planks. Kirk surmised that someone was definitely alive if those planks were there.
Behind the wrecked ship was a humongous mountain. It was incredibly steep and rocky. Kirk gulped. The mountain looked very deadly. He would hate to free climb that thing.
The rescue team approached the literally destroyed ship. But before they could get close enough to the entrance, a man in a dark blue shirt darted his head through a still intact door. He looked very surprised.
"Why are here?" he whispered. "Didn't you see the Klingons following you?"
Kirk shook his head. "No, we didn't."
The dark-skinned man pointed a bit off to the side. Inside a small cave was about twenty angry and armed Klingons. The survivor gestured to them. "Get inside, quickly."
Hastily, Jim, Bones, Charles Jacobson, Sulu, and the rest of the team rushed inside the barricaded ship.
"How are we going to get out of here?" the man in the blue shirt asked.
"We'll beam out." Kirk replied. "Get all of your survivors."
The other man nodded and returned with one navigator and three men in red-shirts. "Can we get out of here now?" he asked.
Kirk nodded. "Sure thing." He took out his communicator. "Scotty I-"
But before he could continue, he heard shouting. "baH!"
Kirk frowned. "What does "baH" mean?"
Suddenly, everyone's worst nightmare came to life. The ship started to move slightly and there were loud noises coming from the outside. The other half of the USS Silent Moon was being hit by bullets.
Kirk nodded again. "I don't know what those Klingon savages said, but I'm guessing it meant something bad…..They're attacking us."
The captain of the USS Enterprise raised his communicator once again. "Scotty, beam us out of here! We're being attacked!"
It took minutes before Kirk got a reply. "Sorry Captain, we can't seem to get a read on you! You have to get a better signal, get on higher ground!"
Kirk shook his head. "No, you don't understand! We are being attacked!"
The shots were getting louder and voices in an unusual language were becoming closer. Someone started to pound on the door and shout in a hostile voice. The barricaded shutters were starting to fall apart. The Klingons were trying to break into the ship.
Kirk tensed, they were doomed.
"Captain," a voice spoke on the communicator and Jim was relieved to hear it. "We may be able to distract your opponents by firing at them from the shuttles…." Spock said. "We could also-"
"Just do it!" Kirk ordered. "We need to get out of here!"
"Yes, Captain, most certainly…." The Vulcan replied.
Minutes later, the sixteen trapped people heard missiles descending upon the ground from the USS Enterprise and they heard their enemies yelling in terror. That was the rescue team's cue.
Without a moment too soon, Kirk and his team bolted from the ship with their phasers in their hands.
Kirk didn't want to do the task that was ahead of him, but he had no choice. He and the others began to ascend the treacherous mountain.
The Klingons stopped hiding under cover and began to take notice of the crew trying to escape. The leader of the clan shouted "baH!" again and he and his army began shooting at them very aggressively.
Kirk's head throbbed as he climbed the rough mountain. He was leading the team up the rocky cliff. The mountain had extremely sharp edges. One wrong move and they would be done for. And don't forget about the angry Klingons shooting bullets at them. They were so close in succeeding in the mission. Why did it have to come to this? His thoughts were interrupted by a sudden scream.
"Ahhh!" a red-shirt unfortunately was hit by a bullet and fell down the mountain and hit the two other men that were below him. The three men cried out for help as they fell to their deaths.
Charles Jacobson screamed in agony at the tragedy. He didn't want his crew to die. The captain of the USS Silent Moon sobbed as he continued to ascend the deathly elevation.
Kirk, shocked at the terrible event that had just happened, managed to take out his phaser and began to fire back at the evil Klingons in vengeance of the three red-shirted men.
After it seemed like forever, they reached the top of the dangerous mountain. Bullets were flying everywhere; they needed to get out of there.
"Scotty!" Kirk had to yell over the noise. "Get us out of here now!"
"Aye sir!" Scotty said. "I have the signal now."
"Hurry!" Kirk screamed as the Klingons decided to climb the mountain too and end the lives of the rescue team.
"I am hurrying Captain! There a lot of static going on…"
At the last second, the beaming device began to work and gold swirls began to surround the now thirteen members of StarFleet.
Then everything went black.
Kirk opened his bright blue eyes as he landed successfully into the transporter room. He was back on the Enterprise and everyone was safe.
"Mr. Chekov," Kirk said into his communicator. "Take us out of here!"
The USS Enterprise began to move with ease and they fled quickly from Kronos.
Jim Kirk swallowed, sighed, and turned to his doctor Leonard McCoy. "Bones," he said. "I'm never going on Kronos again."
Bones wiped his sweaty forehead and smiled for once. "You got that right." He laughed.
The End
A/N: I hope you all enjoyed that! Please let me know if I did anything wrong, it would really help.
"BaH" means "Fire." In Klingon, I looked it up!
So yeah, sorry again for the late update…I wanted to make sure that everything was good.
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