Chapter Eight: Attacking Starfleet

I was still at Starfleet headquarters since I was not allowed to go back to my room for some reason. No one will tell me and I was getting worried.

"Lydia. You will be next to Admiral Pike and his first officer, Jim Kirk. In this meeting, maybe you can give some thoughts and how you would react to this situation," Admiral Marcus said.

"Of course, Admiral. But may I ask, what is going on?" I asked.

"There was an attack at one of our quarters in London," Admiral Marcus said.

"Thank you for telling me," I said.

I saw Admiral Pike and I walked over to him. I stood next to him and Jim walked over. He stood on the other side of me and I looked up at him.

"Hey," I said.

"Hey."

"Thank you for convening on such short notice. Be seated," We all sat down and I looked at Admiral Marcus.

"By now, some of you have heard what happened in London. The target was a Starfleet data archive. Now it's a damned hole in the ground, forty-two men and women are dead," Admiral Marcus said. As he was talking, I was looking at the pictures they were showing a picture of a man. John Harrison. He looked vaguely familiar. I stared at it in confusion as I tried to figure out on who he was.

I looked at one of the photos and saw the destruction. I looked at it around and saw that he was holding something.

"Something's in the bag," I told Jim. He looked at me and I looked at Admiral Pike.

"What's in the bag?" I asked Admiral Pike.

"Lydia, not now."

I shut my mouth and leaned against the chair.

"It doesn't seem odd to you that he'd target an archive? It's like bombing a library," Jim said.

"Chris? Everything okay there?" Admiral Marcus asked.

"Yes, sir. Mr. Kirk is just acclimating to his new position as First Officer. Ms. Oswald has some comments," Admiral Pike said.

"You got something to say, Kirk, say it. You too, Oswald. Tomorrow's too late."

Everyone looked at me and Jim. I felt a bit embarrassed and I could feel my cheeks heat up.

"I apologize for my behavior," I said before looking away.

"I'm fine, sir. My apologies," Jim said.

"Spit it out, son. Don't be shy," Admiral Marcus commanded.

"Why the archive? All that information is public record. If he really wanted to damage Starfleet, this could just be the beginning," Jim said. Public information?

"The beginning of what, Mr. Kirk?" Admiral Marcus asked.

"Oh my god," I whispered as I realized something. John Harrison planned this so we can all be together and he can attack.

"Sir, in the event of an attack, protocol mandates that senior command gather captains and first officers at Starfleet H.Q., right here… in this room," Jim said. I looked up and saw something red on the wall. I got up and turned around. Jim got up and pushed me behind him.

"Clear the room!" Jim yelled. I got under the table and suddenly I heard the windows break. I saw green flashes and it hit everything. I screamed a bit as one of the lasers almost hit me.

"I got you," someone said helping me up.

They grabbed my hand and they lead me out of the room. We went against the wall and I saw that it was Jim. My heart beat fast from shock and surprise and I saw Admiral Pike on the ground. I gasped in shock and I saw Jim do something. I looked back at Admiral Pike and saw that he got shot. I stared with horror in my eyes and I ran back to Jim. I tied up the rope thing to the gun and handed it to him. He threw it at the glowing, spinning, disk and it went in. The rope started to follow until there was no more.

"Lydia," Jim pulled me back and we got down as soon as the panel broke and hit the ship. Jim held onto me and I did the same. I saw the ship crash down and I was still in shock.

"You alright?" Jim asked. I nodded before looking up at him.

"Admiral Pike," We ran to the room and saw Spock with Admiral Pike.

I stood where I was and Jim ran over. He checked for a pulse before crying. Tears started to fall and I covered my mouth. He's dead. Jim got up and walked over to the broken part of the wall. I walked over to Admiral Pike and started to cry harder.

"Lydia, you're bleeding from the side of your head," Spock said. I touched around my head and felt my blood. I looked at my hand before looking at Spock.

"Okay."

Jim walked back and looked at my head.

"Come on. Let's go get a nurse," Jim said before leading me out of the room. I saw a few people run inside and we went to a nurse.

"She got hurt," Jim said.

"Sit down," The lady said. I sat down and she started to fix up my head. I sniffled a few times from crying and I wiped my tears away.

"Lydia-"

"I just saw someone I was starting to care about die in front of my eyes," I said.

"I'm so sorry, Lydia."

"No, I should be the one who's sorry. You knew him longer," I said looking at him.

"Lydia-"

"Please, let's not talk about this," I said before putting my head into my hands.

"So what's going to happen now?" I asked.

"I don't know honestly."