Jim looked at Spock with shock "What do you mean you saw my father" he questioned.
Spock shook his head "I cannot explain it, but I believe I experienced the life of someone named John Shepherd, he was a friend of your fathers" Spock stated "But the memories were incorrect, John Shepherd witnessed your birth and the transport of your father moments before the destruction of the Kelvin"
Jim's mind raced, his father had died onboard the Kelvin, saving himself, his mother and 800 crewmen. "Those memories can't be real, my fathers Dead!" he shouted.
Spock looked into Jims eyes "Perhaps the memories I retrieved are from an alternate, alternate reality?" Spock announced.
"An alternate, alternate reality?" McCoy questioned.
"We are living in an alternate reality because of what Nero has done, however, what if this John Shepherd existed in another reality, one in which he managed to save your father" Spock pressed.
Jim made as if he were going to reply but then promptly froze as golden wisps of energy engulfed the child. Instead he turned to McCoy "What's happening?" he questioned.
McCoy pulled out his scanner "These readings are impossible, his bodies undergoing cellular meiosis at an incredible rate, he's aging Jim" He stated as the golden halo diminished, leaving behind the writhing body of naked 25 year old male. "It's stopped" McCoy gasped "His cellular readings have returned to normal, he's no longer aging"
Darren opened his eyes upon the new world he had willed himself into. His consciousness had not fully formed during the transit, pure instinct triggering his flight from the storm that would have unmade his very existence. Now, with the help of his mother, his consciousness had awoken and begun to assimilate the memories left behind by his father.
Darren found his surroundings unusual, he was on the floor, its cold metal surface rough against his bare skin. Around him stood 3 life forms, humanoid he noticed, yet one of them was clearly of a different species from the others. They all stared at Darren with odd expressions on their faces. Darren decided to sit up and stare back at the beings.
"Hello" One of the creatures poke, the language was familiar to Darren and he noted it as the standard Earth language of English. He reached out with his mind using senses bestowed upon him by his mother, he could feel the beings curiosity.
"Hello" Darren finally echoed.
"I am Captain James T Kirk of the Enterprise, may I ask who you are and how you came to be on this ship?" the second creature spoke.
Darren froze, unfamiliar with the mind processes of these humans. He searched the memories bestowed upon him by his father and accessed the information on both Kirk and the Enterprise. Immediately memories of the 13 years his father spent with the young man streamed through his consciousness. Darren reached out and touched the mans face, a tear spilling down Darren's cheek as the emotion behind the memories began to flood through.
"It was all for you" Darren cried while staring into Kirk's deep blue eyes.
Kirk looked back at this alien being, returning its eternal gaze and shocked by its words "I don't understand" he replied
Darren withdrew his hand and wiped the tears from his cheek, he had to remember that those memories were from another time, another universe they were not relevant here or now. His immediate need was clothing, and summoning the will, a uniform materialized over his body, created by the nanites that resided within his blood stream, another gift from his father.
"How'd he do that?" Jim questioned taking a step back as the uniform materialized over the naked being.
"I do not know" Spock replied.
Darren felt the apprehension in the air "Please, do not be alarmed" he spoke softly "I mean you no harm"
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" this time Bones pressed.
Darren looked at the older man "I am new, I have come here to survive" he explained.
"Survive what?" Jim asked.
"My own demise" Darren replied.
"How did you come to incubate within my crewman?" Jim pressed.
"She is my mother, in order to escape the storm I had no choice but to make the shift, and the shift lead me to her womb" Darren stated. "I must speak with her"
Jim looked to Bones sceptically then nodded.
Darren was lead to a bed where he found his mother asleep, yet at his presence her mind reached out and touched his own, as she had done in the womb.
Mother he smiled inwardly at the telepathic bond, then froze as the monitors started to scream with alarm and her vitals began to plummet.
"Get him out of here!" Bones yelled as he took up position beside the dyeing women "Get me a crash cart, she's going into cardiac arrest"
Darren tried to reach out, and fought against the nurses who were holding him back until one jabbed him in a neck with a sedative "Nooo!" he cried as consciousness left him, one touch was all he needed, one touch to heal her. But now it would be too late.
"Time of Death 1632" he heard the doctor say just before darkness consumed him.