Author's note: Once again I do not own Star Trek or anything affiliated with Star Trek (much to my displeasure). Please no one comment if I do not have all the lines correct, because I never have seen the whole movie thorugh. Perhaps the necklace breaking on the bridge will be explored maybe not...who knows? I do.
Chapter 2"He doesn't quit does he?" I said as McCoy and I raced down the hall after Kirk, this time we both had a hypospray and we were going to get him one way or another.
"Locate Cadet Uhura," Kirk said quickly, and after he found out from the computer he went racing to the communications area where Uhura was.
"Jim, stand still..." McCoy said injecting him again.
"Stop it!" Kirk snapped at McCoy. Kirk then went to Uhura's station. "Uhura..."
"Kirk...what are you doing here?" Uhura said standing up from her post.
"The transmission from the Klingon prison planet..." Kirk started to say.
"Oh my god what happened to your hands?" Uhura said looking at Kirk's swelled up hands.
"It's who is responsible for the klingon attacks..." Kirk said ignoring her question. Meanwhile McCoy and I had our scanners out, trying to find out what was wrong with Kirk. "Ship...Romulan"
"The ship, what?" Uhura said not getting what Kirk was saying, and I wasn't either.
"Listen what's happening to my mouth?" Kirk said garbling his words.
"You got numb tongue?" McCoy asked him.
"Numb tongue?" Kirk said becoming incoherent.
"I can fix that..." McCoy said disappearing again.
"The ship, what?" Uhura said a little more kind to Kirk.
"Romulan..." Kirk tried to say.
"What?" Uhura said not understanding Kirk.
"Romulan" both Kirk and I said.
"Romulan?" Uhura said catching on.
"Yah" Kirk said.
"Yes" Uhura said trying to confirm what Kirk had said.
"Yes," Kirk said as McCoy returned and handed me the hypo. I injected it into Kirk and he flinched again (such a baby).
"God dammit!" Kirk shouted, well more mumbled. Then he started running towards the bridge with Uhura, McCoy and I tailing him.
"Kirk, this is crazy you are not even supposed to be on the ship let alone go and inform the Captain that we are headed into a trap" I shouted to Kirk but he just kept going. "As usual no one listens to the logical one..."
"Don't take it personally he doesn't listen to anyone" McCoy said in an annoyed tone. When we reached the bridge everyone seemed surprised that we came barging, even Sarah.
"What are you doing on this ship, Cadet?" Captain Pike said to Kirk when we entered the bridge.
"The electrical storm isn't an electrical storm" Kirk said quickly.
"It would be best if you continue Kirk, they don't understand. Hell...I don't understand" I said.
"Twenty-five years ago the USS Kelvin was attacked by a Romulan ship that appeared out of an electric storm. Uhura, do you remember that Klingon distress call that you translated a few weeks ago?" Kirk said trying to explain himself, I finally got it and so did Uhura.
"I received and translated a distress call from a fleet of Klingon ships that was attacked by a Romulan ship shortly after they ran into an electric storm. It was full of static and half of it was inaudible but I was able to translate most of the message" Uhura said standing up for what she had found.
"The attack on the USS Kelvin was preceded by an electric storm, from which appeared the Romulan ship that destroyed it. Captain, you did your dissertation on the attack" Kirk said to Captain Pike. I had to smile; Kirk was actually intelligent if he tried (imagine that).
I walked over to Sarah and started talking with her as Kirk continued to convince Captain Pike.
"So how was the bridge?" I whispered to Sarah.
"It was hilarious, Sulu couldn't get the Enterprise into warp speed because he didn't disengage the external inertial dampener" Sarah whispered back with a quiet laugh.
"Sounds fun...I got to inject Kirk with a hypospray" I whispered to her, she glared.
"Lucky, do you think I could borrow one?" she whispered in a sickly sweet voice.
"No, that would be inappropriate" I said looking around the room, my eyes falling on Commander Spock for some reason.
"So are you finally going to be interested in guys now...or are you still going to be spinster" Sarah whispered, and I opened my mouth to answer.
"I think that you are right," Captain Pike said finally agreeing with Kirk, and then he started to give the orders for everyone to go on full alert.
We arrived near Vulcan and went out of warp speed to see a sea of wreckage from all the star ships that arrived before us.
"Oh my god..." I said quietly putting my hand to my mouth.
"That covers it..." Sarah said in awe as well.
"Evasive action, Lieutenant Sulu" Captain Pike said. The ship was being hit by the wreckage and another ship firing on us.
"Med-bay is destroyed Captain and the engine room is on fire" a cadet said.
"I guess that is our cue..." McCoy said as we both left to see what could be done with the injured people now that there was nowhere to treat them, but Captain Pike stopped me.
"Stay here, Dr. Swan" Captain Pike said; I was glad that he wanted to use the term doctor rather than Cadet since I was a doctor.
"We are being hailed Captain" Uhura said, and I finally noticed that she had been given the task of communications (after all she was the one who got the first signal).
"Put them through...this is Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise and you are?" Captain Pike said when the Romulan was on the screen.
"Christopher, I am Nero" the Romulan said calmly, as if it was a garden party not a battle ground.
"You are aware that this is considered an act of war by the Federation...The Romulan Empire" Captain Pike said.
"I no longer follow the empire, Chris...Ambassador Spock, what a lovely surprise" he said seeing the Commander in the background. "It must be comforting to have another Vulcan on board with you..." he said.
"To whom would you be referring to...as I am sure everyone on this bridge is well aware of their heritage" I said raising an eyebrow, while Sarah mouthed 'what are you doing?'.
"You Dr. Swan...your behaviour confirms it" Nero said smugly.
"I see a flaw in your logic, as I clearly am not of Vulcan descent" I said in a dead pan voice.
"Really, ask your mother then Doctor, or you could just bleed since it would be a new shade of green. You may not have their ears, but your hair is the same as your Vulcan mother. She was always odd for a Vulcan" Nero said, trying to make me angry.
"I believe that you are mistaken..." I said stepping back to stand near Kirk. I could see everyone looking at me, especially Commander Spock.
"Send a shuttle to the Narda and I will leave your ship in peace; I'll see you soon Chris" Nero said then he severed the connection.
"Who hear is trained in combat?" Captain Pike asked and then he told them to follow him, "Doctor, you will wait in the transporter room so that you can assess any injuries when they return; Commander you follow too."
"Kirk, Sulu, and Olsen will accompany me on the shuttle. As we pass over the drill you'll drop from the shuttle and disengage it. I will go aboard the ship and try to negotiate a peaceful end of this battle. Until then, Commander Spock, you are the captain and Kirk, you're the first officer" Captain Pike said as they headed to the shuttle.
"You better not screw this up Kirk, or I will personally give you a strain of a disease that requires a hypospray every hour" I threatened; I couldn't believe that he promoted Kirk to First Officer.
They left, so Spock now Captain headed for the bridge and I headed for the transporter room. I couldn't help but feel guilty that I couldn't help McCoy with the casualties, and what Nero told me. I just prayed that my parents made it off the planet before something bad happened. Then all of the sudden a kid wearing a yellow uniform came in yelling something about how he "could do that!"
Then Kirk and Sulu ended up energizing to the transporter pad with a thump.
"Thanks..." Sulu said out of breath.
"No problem..." Kirk breathed out.
"Are you to alright? No injuries?" I asked.
"We're fine," Kirk said getting up from the pad.
"I knew that being here was a waste of time," I said to no one in particular.
"I agree, Doctor" Spock said from behind me moving to the transport pad.
"You can't go down there the planet is going to explode!" Kirk said trying to get Spock not to go.
"The High Council would be in a cave to protect them from danger if memory serves, Captain" I said stepping on the transporter pad beside him.
"That is correct Doctor, but you are not authorized to go" Spock said in a tone void of emotion.
"Permission to accompany you Captain...my parents would be with the high council" I said using the same tone.
"Energize," he said and I nodded to him.
The planet was beautiful; what had not already crumbled that is. I followed Spock as he raced towards the caves, then from tunnel to tunnel until we reached the main chamber.
"We must go" Spock said and everyone followed us.
"Mother, where is father?" I asked realizing that he was not present.
"A tunnel collapsed..." mom said and I knew from the look in her eyes that he was gone. We all made it outside, and Spock told a Chekov to beam us up. Some of the rocks gave way when we were being beamed up, and a woman fell into the gap in the earth. Then I remembered that Spock had called her mother...
Everyone got off of the transporter pad, and I shared a look with Spock to acknowledge that we both had just lost someone. I knew that he would not want a public display, so I left him alone. I felt numb...I never completely got along with my father but I could not imagine what it would be like without him. I had more important things to worry about right now though...
"Mother, tell me the truth..."