Student Captains – Chapter 4

A/N: I finally got around to writing more in this story. Sigh, the rest of this was written about four months ago and I recognize it was a little OOC, let's hope I can fix that! And also – if you find little ugly, nitpicky mistakes from previous chapters, just remember this was before I learned practically everything about the show – (And I'm still learning.)

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"This is the warp drive?" Arnold breathed, eyes wider than baseballs. He stared at the chamber like it was a gift from god.

"Aye, isn't she beautiful?" Scotty sighed, resting a strong hand on the kid's shoulder. "I keep her in tip top shape."

"What's it's top warp speed?" Arney asked excitedly.

"Lad, it's not an 'it', she's a she." Scotty said, splaying his hand to motion towards it. "Ya treat her like you would a lady."

Arnold grinned wide. "She's gorgeous." He whispered, smitten.

"I'd certainly agree-" suddenly there was a loud yelp from a different part of the engine room.

Mr. Scott and the child that stood at his side exchanged glances before running to see what it was.

There towards the entrance was one Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk, buddies and all. Jay crossed his arms and glared angrily at Kenneth who sat, glasses glinting in the light, with eyes watering. He held his wrist on the floor.

"What is going on here, Captain?" Scotty cried, staring at the spectacle.

James Kirk bit his lower lip, embarrassed he couldn't keep his monkey from killing anyone, "Jay, stop that! Biting people is not a way to solve problems!"

Jay stuck out his chin. "Then I s'pose I should use diplomacy, just like Captain Tracy and get my ship blown up!" he yelled.

"That's it. You don't talk back to a star ship captain. We're leaving the engine room." Kirk said with forced adamancy.

"No way! I'm not leaving!"

"Then behave yourself." Jim said through clenched teeth.

Jay stuck his tongue out like he wanted to throw up over him. Kenneth remained sniffling on the floor with an identical bite mark to Kirk's.

Scotty and Spock looked at each other and Jim's face went a light color of pink. "Come on! I wanna see the warp drive!" Jay said, fists at his side, moaning.

Jim, overpowered, walked over to the engine, Jay on his tail.

Kenneth sniffled, and got up, also wanting to see the object.

Spock following, finishing up the line as Scotty and, after, Arnold ran down to make sure nothing had happened.

Too late.

Jay was touching it with his little hands leaving finger prints and…so many smudges! This would take at least a half an hour to clean up!

"Lad, ya can't go around touching this!" Scotty said, almost yelling.

Jay jutted his chin up once again. "Sure I can. I'm gonna be a star ship captain, and I'm with the captain." Kirk squeezed his eyes shut before opening them.

"Jay, Mr. Scott an officer you are to refer to with respect. He is far older than you and you need to learn some manners, mister. We're leaving."

"But –"

"We're leaving." Kirk began to walk out. "That's an order." Jay, resigned, threw his shoulders forward and slumped over, pouting.

"Hmph…" They walked out.

Kenneth's eyes were still bleary but he stood in awe of the massive cylinder containing something like purple lightning.

Timidly, but composedly, Spock asked, "Would you like a bandage for that wound, Kenneth?"

Kenneth looked back up at his Vulcan superior and bobbed his freckled face.

"Mr. Scott." Spock nod as he walked by, on their way to sickbay.

After they left, Scotty and Arnold stared at the Warp Drive, both filled with misery. "Well…" Scotty said, defeated. "We'd better start shining.

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The doors to sickbay squealed open to reveal a girl on a bio bed, waiting as McCoy and Ginger fixed up a tincture for the hypospray that would soon be injected.

McCoy turned casually to see who was at the door. "And what do I owe this honor, Spock?"

Kenneth stood clutching his wrist. "The captain's designated shadow has bitten into the flesh of Kenneth."

Bones sighed. "Great."

"The kid tries to get a date with me, throws a tantrum because he can't eat a piece of cake and now bites another child." Ginger throws her head up to the sky, "God, why me?"

"Well you're going to bandage him up." McCoy said, pointing over to him. "I need to finish the lymopha solution now."

Ginger sighed under her breath and went over to a cabinet that held the bandaging material.

"Where is it?" She asked Kenneth, who pointed to the scar.

She applied a little bit of disinfectant and then was about to put on the bandage when Kenneth said, "Is that cotton or polytant?"

"Cotton." Ginger said and started putting it on.

"Stop!" he drew his hand away, "You should be using a disinfected, iodine saturated polytant bandage. That is most effective for a scar."

Ginger glared up at her with razor sharp brown eyes, "Are you applying to be a doctor, Kenneth?" she said, her tone even and calm.

"No, I'm applying to be a physics, command and science officer." He said.

"Then why don't you leave the doctoring to me." She said sharply before firmly taking his arm with her free hand and applying the cotton bandage.

Bones glanced at Spock, the Vulcan looking oddly amused. "What?" he asked.

"Nothing Doctor, I was merely fascinated by the odd coincidences of fate and similarities of these occurrences." He said.

McCoy rolled his eyes. "Gibberish as usual."

"I would argue, Doctor, that it is not Gibberish. It is the spoken language of English and I am surprised you would-"

"Just shut up, Spock." He sighed before touching the tip of the Hypo into his patients arms and relaxing to it's hiss. She nodded and grinned. "Thank you, Doctor McCoy."

The Doctor gave a little smile. "Anytime, but let's not make it soon." He said, "Bye, Lea."

Lea waved back before walking out the doors. McCoy turned his attention to ginger. "Done?"

"Just about." She said before adding a tiny bit of medical tape and standing back up.

"Let's have a look." Bones knelt down to the fourth grader's height and examined the bandage. "Pretty good," Ginger seemed to lighten a little at the approval, "Of course you'd be doomed if you didn't know how to put on a band aid." He added before sitting back down at his desk.

"Shut up, Lenny."

It still wasn't very funny.

In the middle of the bout of snarky comebacks and sarcasm, Kenneth and Spock made their quiet entrance out of the sickbay, unnoticed.

Spock thought to himself silently, 'The resemblance is uncanny.'

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Well, hoped you liked chapter four!

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