I stepped onto the U.S.S Enterprise and took a deep breath. I was finally getting somewhere in this crazy world. "Hello." A man wearing a blue shirt said, smiling down at me. "What is your occupation on board?"

"Astrometrics Officer." I said, looking up at him. "Where do I report?"

He pointed to a hallway which led off to the right. "There is a map down this hallway, it will lead you to your department, from there you can speak with your department head and they will give you a uniform and assign a cabin."

"Thank you!" I called as I rushed out of the way. Quickly I made my way down the hallway (which was much larger than I originally thought), and found the map. I stared at it for a long moment, attempting to find my department. Once it finally clicked, I brisk fully walked down to my new department and home.

"McCoy to Westfall." My communicator roared to life. "Artemis?"

"Yes?" I asked, pulling it off of my uniform. "Bones?"

"Can you come down to Medbay?" He asked, sounding exhausted. "I could use some extra hands."

"I'll be there in a moment." I said, returning the communicator back into place. I stood from my stool, and then exited my small office. Grimacing, I tried to remember how to get to get to Medbay, but I must admit to having to look at the map a few times. Once I finally found the large Medical Bay doors, I sighed with relief and walked inside. I looked around for a moment, and then spotted Bones. "Dr. McCoy!" I called, waving slightly. He rushed over and grasped my arm.

"I need you to keep an eye on Jim." He drugs me over to a cot where Jim was unconscious.

"What the hell happened?" I demanded, glaring at Bones.

"I needed to sneak him on board," He lowered his voice. "Because he is on academic suspension he isn't supposed to be here. Just sit here and make sure he doesn't have an allergic reaction."

I was sitting there for about half an hour before I heard Chekov's voice come over the monitor. "May I have your attention, please? At twenty-two hundred hours, telemetry detected at an anomaly in the neutral zone. What appeared to be a lightning storm in space. Soon after, Starfleet received a distress signal from Wulcan High Command that their planet was experiencing seismic actiwity. Our mission is to assess the condition of Wulcan, and to assist in the ewacuations if necessary. We should be arriving at Wulcan within three minutes. Thank you for your time."

Jim jumped up and gasped. "Lightning Storm!"

"Yes," I sighed, pushing him back down. "There's a lightning storm. You need to relax." My eyes wandered down to his hands. "McCoy!" I called. He came over, holding a clipboard.

"Jim how are you- Good god, man!" Bones exclaimed.

Jim looked confused. "What?" He then raised his arms them saw his oversized hands. "Ah! What the hell is this?"

"A reaction to the vaccine!" Bones shouted, pulling out a scanner while Jim rewound Chekov's message. "You were supposed to be keeping an eye on him." He snapped at me.

"We need to stop the ship." Jim growled, standing and rushing out of the room.

"Go on. I'll grab the medicine and catch up " I told McCoy. Shaking my head. He shot me a livid look then took off after the fleeing man.

By the time I caught up with the boys, Jim was shouting at Uhura about…. Something?

"Whombulans." He said slowly, using his enormous hands to try and convey how important the butchered word was. Uhura shook her head as he tried to say it again. "Romulans."

"Romulans?" Uhura asked, looking back at me. I shrugged as Jim nodded excitedly. Just then Bones reappeared, grabbed the hypo from my hand and shoved both into the blonde man's neck.

"Quit stabbing me in the neck!" He shouted as he ran towards the bridge.

"What is going on?" Uhura asked me as we ran at top speed, trying to keep up with the swollen Jim who was still three strides ahead of us.

"I have no idea." I admitted. "Dr. McCoy asked me to come help in the Medical Bay and it just escalated from there."

Just then Jim pushed a button and he fell into the bridge. "Captain!" He shouted.

Bones came up behind Kirk and barley had enough time to stop himself from running into him. "Jim, no!" He groaned.

Jim ignored our protests and had his entire attention trained on the captain. "Captain Pike, we have to stop the ship!"

Captain Pike looked astonished as he realized who was standing in front of him. "Kirk, how the hell did you get on board the Enterprise?!"

Bones decided to try and do some damage control before Jim got all kicked out of Starfleet. "Captain, this man's under the influence of a severe reaction of a Melvaran flea vaccine, completely delusional. I take full responsibility."

Jim ignored his friend and continued his protest. "Vulcan is not experiencing a natural disaster. It's being attacked by Romulans. "

Pike sighed. "Romulans? Cadet Kirk, I think you've had enough attention for one day. McCoy take him back to medical, we'll have words later."

Bones nodded. "Aye Captain."

Bones grabbed Jim's arm, but that didn't stop Kirk from speaking. "Look, sir, that same anomaly.-"

Spock made his way over to the mess we had unwittingly created and frowned at all of us. "Mister Kirk is not cleared to be aboard this vessel."

Jim pulled himself away from Bones and stepped closer to Spock. "Look, I get it, you're a great orator. I'd love to do it again with you to."

Spock turned to his captain. "I can remove the Cadet?"

Jim took another step closer to Spock. "Try it! This Cadet is trying to save the bridge. "

Spock raised a pointy eyebrow. "By recommending a full stop mid-warp during a rescue mission? "

Jim shook his head. "It's not a rescue mission, listen, it's an attack."

Spock looked unimpressed. "Based on what facts?"

"That same anomaly, a lightning storm in space that we saw today, also occurred on the day of my birth." Jim explained. "Before a Romulan ship attacked the USS Kelvin." He then turned to Captain Pike. "You know that, sir, I read your dissertation. That ship which had formidable and advanced weaponry was never seen or heard from again. The Kelvin attack to place on the edge of Klingon space and at twenty-three hundred hours last night, there was an attack. Forty-seven Klingon war birds destroyed by a Romulan, sir. It was reported that the Romulans were in one ship, one massive ship."

Pike frowned. "And you know of this Klingon attack how?"

Uhura stepped forward and joined the conversation. "Sir, I intercepted and translated the message myself. Kirk's report is accurate."

Jim shot a thankful look towards Uhura, then turned back to Pike. "We're warping into a trap, sir. The Romulans are waiting for us, I promise you that."

Spock turned to the captain. "The Cadet's logic is sound. And Lieutenant Uhura is unmatched in xenolinguistics, we would be wise to accept her conclusion.

Captain Pike leaned back and called out. "Scan Vulcan space, check for any transmissions in Romulan. "

The technician called back; "Sir, I'm not sure I can distinguish the Romulan language from Vulcan."

Pike turned to Uhura. "What about you? Do you speak Romulan, Cadet?"

She nodded. "All three dialects, sir."

Pike smiled slyly. "Uhura, relieve the lieutenant."

Uhura nodded. "Yes sir."

Pike turned to a woman manning another computer. "Hannity, hail the USS Truman."

The woman, name Hannity, frowned. " All the other ships are out of warp, sir, and have arrived at Vulcan, but we seemed to have lost all contact. "

"Sir," Uhura called out. "I pick up no Romulan transmission, or transmission of any kind in the area."

Jim rolled stepped closer to Pike and lowered his voice. "It's because they're being attacked."

Pike thought for a moment. "Shields up, red alert."

"Here we go." I murmured, watching the screen, ready for anything.

Pike cursed as he received the status of his ship. "Without transporters, we can't beam off the ship, we can't assist Vulcan, and we can't do our job. Mister Kirk, Mister Sulu, Engineer Olson, Miss Westfell, will space-jump from the shuttle. You will land on that machine they lowered into the atmosphere that's scrambling our gear. You'll get inside. You'll disable it, then you'll beam back to the ship. Mister Spock, I'm leaving you in command of the Enterprise. Once we have transport capabilities, communications back up, you'll contact Starfleet, report what the hell's going on here. And if all else fails, fall back, rendezvous with the fleet in the Laurentian system. Kirk, I'm promoting you to first officer.

Jim frowned. "What?"

Spock matched Jim's expression. "Captain, please, I apologize. The complexities of Human pranks escape me."

Pike smiled. "It's not a prank, Spock. And I'm not the Captain, you are. Let's go."

Jim turned to Pike. "Sir, after we knock out that drill, what happens to you?"

Pike smiled. "Oh, I guess you'll have to come and get me." He then turned to Spock. "Careful with the ship, Spock. She's brand new."

We were suited up and leaving the ship within five minutes. We were all wearing pressurized space suits matching the color of our uniforms. Pike leaned back to us. "We're approaching the drop zone. You have one shot to land on that platform. You may have to fix this to pull your 'chute as late as possible. Three... two... one. Remember, the Enterprise won't be able to beam you back until you turn off that drill. Good luck. " He pulled a lever and we all flew out of the shuttle and began plummeting to Vulcan.

We fell into silence as we fell. I heard Chekov in my earpiece. "Approaching the platform at fifty-eight hundred meters. "

Jim hailed the Enterprise. "Distance to target, five thousand meters."

Sulu joined in. "Forty-two hundred meters to target."

"Three thousand meters." Olson recited.

"Two thousand meters." I stated, starting to get nervous.

"Pull your chute!" Sulu shouted. Sulu, Jim and I pull our chutes and our bodies slowed from terminal velocity to a moderate speed as we became close to the drill.
Olson cheered. "Two thousand meters!"

Jim shook his head and shouted. "C'mon, pull your chute, Olson!"

"Not yet!" Olson whooped. "Fifteen hundred meters!"

"Open your chute!" Sulu cried as Olson got dangerously close to the drill.

" One thousand meters!" Olson cheered as he finally pulled his chute, however it is too late and he slams into the drill. He seems to have a handhold, but his chute was pulled into the energy beam, pulling Olsen in with him.

"Olson!" Kirk yelled as he realized what had just happened. "Kirk to Enterprise, Olson is gone."

I heard Chekov curse in his native tongue, but we had no time to grieve, we needed to finish the lands first and is immediately attacked, Jim lands second, and a large gust of wind grabs his chute, threatening cause another causality on this mission. He slammed his hand into his chest as I landed and his chute was pulled back into the container I rushed over to help him up, but just as I reached down to help, I heard heavy foot steps behind me and whirled around.

I swung my fist, which the Romulan dodged easily, I swore and went low, wrapping my right leg around his kneecap. He was caught off guard and fell heavily to the floor. I grabbed the gun from him and kicked his head, hard. He reached up and cupped it. I knew that he wasn't unconscious, however I couldn't bring myself to shoot him. I rushed over to Jim just as Sulu got there and we help him up.

"Olson had the charges!" Sulu shouts over the roar of the drill.

"I know!" Jim yells back.

"What do we do?" I asked, looking around as more soldiers came out. I swore and yelled back to them. "Disable the drill!" I lowered the gun and shot at the two approaching solders. One fell to the ground and the two rushed me. One came at me with a staff and I hit the ground. As soon as it was over my head, I jumped backup and my fist connected with his face. Just then the other solider came up and I slid under his legs and hopped up behind him. I jumped onto his back and pulled on his neck. I lowered the phaser to his head, closed my eyes and pulled the trigger. We fell to the ground and he fell on top of me. I was pinned under the enormous body as the other solider came over to me.

He chuckled, and raised his boot to smash my head in. Just them he was thrown to the side by a phaser blast. I looked over and saw Jim rushing over. "My god, Artemis." He rolled the dead Romulan off of me. "When did you learn to fight?" He helped me up.

I smirked. "I'll tell you later."

He knitted his eyebrows together. "You are slightly terrifying."

"Thanks?" I asked, cocking my head to the side as Sulu called out for help. We rushed over and began shooting the drill. Suddenly the energy beam stopped. "We did it." I sighed, out of breath. Just then a high pitched whirling passed us. We rushed up to the edge and watched the device enter the Earth.

Jim brought his wrist to his mouth. "Kirk to Enterprise. They just launched something at the planet, through the hole they just drilled." As the device fell into the planet, everything became unstable. "Kirk to Enterprise. Beam us outta here!"

Just then, the drill started moving towards the ship and Jim and I jumped back, Sulu fell forward.

"Sulu!" Jim called, then looked at me. "Stay here, get beamed back. I'm sorry." He ran over to the edge and jumped just as the ship materialized around me.

"Damn it!"