Heyyyyyyy! So another update has finally arrived and I would once again like to thank everyone who has read this story. Its really inspiring and motivates me to keep writing. I will probably be updating every other day from now on. But I might update the next day if I'm feeling like it and if I'm motivated enough. Lets see!

With regards to the vote, Chekov's accent won out so I will be continuing to write the accent. Still keep the votes coming in though. I want to write whatever you guys feel easiest reading, so keep voting.

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek, but I'm saving up to buy it!

The shuttle craft entered the Enterprise and gently landed, the other shuttles doing the same. As it landed, the shuttle suddenly came alive as people unstrapped their seat belts and took their leave to enter the main ship. Lizzie and Kirk did the same and followed the large group of people.

The ship was so large and busy, people were getting changed into their uniforms and going to their posts ready to begin work.

Kirk pulled Lizzie out of the busy crowd and took her to a small room just beyond the shuttle landing bay. The door slid shut behind him letting out a whoosh sound. The room was white with a black floor and had row upon row of lockers, wardrobes and benches.

"What is this place" Lizzie asked in wonderment.

"Locker room" the captain replied matter of factly.

"Oh right" she replied, embarrassed that she had got excited by a locker room.

"Well ensign, we need a place to put you to work. I've spoken to Admiral Pike about your test scores from the academy and according to him, you seemed to excel in your engineering exams."

"Well my brother was an engineer, so I learnt most of it from him." Lizzie smiled as she thought of her older brother and the days they would spend fixing up old cars. They would spend hours on them when he came back from work at the garage and drive them around when they were done. They would spend so many days doing this. Lizzie enjoyed those times and knew she would have to savour the memories of them now that her brother was gone.

"Well I have decided to put you in the engineering bay whilst you're here."

"Thank you captain" Lizzie said, beaming, glad that she could put her skills to good use.

"But for that, we need to put you in a uniform." At this he handed her a key with numbers on it.

Lizzie forgot that she was still in her red cadet uniform and so took the key from Kirk's hand.

"Go find your locker and get changed. I'll be waiting outside for you when your done." Kirk then took his leave from the room as Lizzie started searching for her locker.

She found it, locker 6071. She opened it and found everything she needed. A red shirt and skirt, a black under shirt and a pair of knee high black boots. She quickly got changed and put her old cadet uniform in the locker, before running out of the room to meet Kirk. He was leaning on the wall waiting for her.

"Done!" she said, catching his attention. He looked her up and down.

"Well don't we look nice!" he said to her giving her a lopsided grin. As he said this, Bones happened to walk past and gave Kirk a slap round the head.

"Stop it Jim" he said whilst still walking before turning around the corner and out of sight. Lizzie tried to hold in the laughter.

"Come on, we are going to the bridge to let you watch take off before we go down to the engineering bay" Kirk said rubbing the pain on his head as they walked. They entered a large corridor. The Enterprise was beautiful. White walls and ceiling, black shiny floors. It was immaculate.

"This ship is amazing" Lizzie said whilst looking around, taking everything in.

"Aint she just" Kirk replied, beaming.

As they were walking, many people passed them, most just minding their own business, heading to their destinations. Lizzie liked this. As amazed as she was, she was still quite nervous and scared. She didn't want too much bother or for anything to freak her out. She wanted to take it one day at a time. That was until a small Japanese girl suddenly noticed their presence.

"Ahhhhhh, hi Captain!" She came running over to them stopping in front of Kirk and flashed him a big smile.

"Erm, hi Kumiko" Kirk replied uncomfortably, rubbing the back of his neck. Lizzie just looked at her. She had brown hair and brown eyes and was quite short. Almost pixie like. She was wearing a blue uniform unlike her own red one.

"So I was on my way to sickbay to start my shift and I saw you walking and decided to say hi….so HI". she began giving Kirk and small, fast wave. The smile never left her face.

"Yeah, hi" Kirk said to her, trying to think of a way to get rid of her. "Hey, so I would love to stay and chat and all but I got a new ensign to take care of, so I kinda gotta go." He pointed to Lizzie.

"Oh, ok!" she was still rather excited. "I'll catch you later then." And at this she skipped away.

"She seems nice" Lizzie commented as they carried on walking to the bridge.

"Hardly" Kirk said to her. "I slept with her one time and now she wont leave me be. I think she's a stalker!"

Lizzie laughed as they entered a turbo lift. "Serves you right." Kirk smiled after realising he had kind of got himself into that mess.

The turbo lift started moving upwards and in no time at all, the doors opened to reveal a room full of people, computers and a large window showing space in its entirety. Lizzie couldn't help but freeze as she scanned the room.

"Welcome to the bridge" Kirk told her walking past her, out of the turbo lift and sat down into his large blue captain's chair. Lizzie left the lift too and walked to Kirk's side.

"Its, its…..wow" Lizzie couldn't believe how amazing this place was. "Guess I'm not in Kansas anymore" she said to herself.

"Huh?" Kirk asked looking at her with a confused look on his face.

"Nothing. Its an old movie reference."

"Oh, right" he said turning back to his crew.

She scanned the people in the room and began to smile as she recognised Chekov sitting at the front console pressing some buttons, totally immersed in his work. She walked past the captain's chair to go and meet him.

"So this is what you do when your not rescuing damsels in distress" she said to him over his shoulder. It caused him to jump but he put a huge grin on his face when he realised who was talking to him, turning his chair to face her.

"Lizzie!" He was practically jumping out of his seat at the sight of her. "How are you?"

"Well thank you, isn't this ship amazing?"

"Yes, she is wery, wery beautiful" he replied. He looked her up and down, noticing her new uniform. "You look wery pretty in your new uniform."

"Erm, thanks" she replied embarrassingly, a slight red tinge coming to her cheeks. "So what do you do? I mean, they put me in engineering."

"Oh, right, vell I am zhe nawigator."

"Nice" she said to him. They were both smiling.

"Now I hate to break up this lovely little picture" Kirk said butting in, "but we kinda need to take off."

"Yes sir" Chekov replied, turning his chair to face back towards the consol, pressing a few more buttons. Lizzie went back up to Kirk and stood to the right of his seat.

"Mr Chekov set course, Mr Sulu thrusters ready and set her to warp 4" Kirk told his crew, authority pouring from his voice.

"Yes sir" replied the Asian man who sat to the left of Chekov. At this the ship suddenly went to warp.

"Woah" Lizzie said. She noticed how fast they were moving due to the blurred light outside the window but couldn't feel any movement at all. "This is awesome." She heard a chuckle from Kirk, Sulu and Chekov.

After what seemed like only a few minutes, Kirk stood from his chair and turned to face Lizzie.

"Well, lets go meet your new family!"

"Sure" Lizzie replied as Kirk led her to the turbo lift. She gave a small wave to Chekov before the lift doors closed, who in turn waved back. This time the lift went down and opened its doors again after only a few seconds.

"Welcome to engineering Lizzie" Kirk said as they both left the lift. Lizzie took in her surroundings, noticing all the pipes and machines. This is where she felt at home.

"Scotty!" Kirk shouted at the top of his voice causing Lizzie to jump.

"Coming!" a voice shouted back. A few seconds later, a man appeared. He had dark hair on his head, which was obviously balding and he was wearing a red uniform. Lizzie smiled at him politely as he approached.

"Hey Scotty" Kirk said. "This is the new recruit." He pointed towards Lizzie.

"Well hello there lassy. Name's Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineer.

"Elizabeth Woods" she said back to him and she shook his hand. She noticed his accent. Scottish. "Nice to meet you."

"Well this is where I love and leave you Lizzie" Kirk said to her. She turned to look at him. "Mr Scott will take it from here."

"Ok" she said. She was eager to get started.

"I'll meet you in the Mess Hall for lunch later, ok?"

"Ok."

"Good." And with that he entered the turbo lift and went back to the bridge. Lizzie turned back to Scotty.

"Right then lassy, if we start with a tour of the engine bay, that should lead us up to dinner." This brought a smile to his face. Lizzie found this amusing. She knew she was going to enjoy working with Mr Scott.

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The tour finally came to at end when Scotty's stomach began to growl.

"I think its lunch time" he said in his Scottish brogue. Lizzie laughed as they walked to the turbo lift. It began to move and stopped on the floor to the Mess Hall. As they entered the room, Lizzie noticed all the tables full of crew members, some eating, some talking, some laughing. Scotty took her up to the food replicater where she ordered herself a grilled cheese sandwich and turned to find a seat.

"Lizzie, Scotty, over here" came a voice. Kirk was on a table on the other side of the room. The pair began to walk towards him. They took their seats. And Lizzie noticed new faces sat around the table.

"Everyone, this is Elizabeth Woods, our newest recruit. Lizzie I believe you know Bones." Bones looked up from his steak smiled then carried on eating.

"This is Hikaru Sulu, our helmsman." Lizzie noticed it was the man from the bridge. She smiled at him and he smiled back.

" You already know Mr Chekov." She gave him a small wave, which made him blush.

"I told you" she heard Bones say to Sulu. What did that mean? But she just shook it off.

"This is Nyota Uhura, our communications officer." Lizzie looked up to see one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen. She had long brown hair pulled into a long pony tail and chocolate coloured skin. She was wearing a red uniform too.

"Nice to meet you" Uhura said holding out her hand.

"You too" Lizzie said with a smile, shaking her hand. She hoped they would be friends.

"And this is my first officer and the ship's science officer, Mr Spock."

"Its good to meet you - ahhhhhhhh!" Lizzie suddenly screamed, holding her hands up to her mouth. Mr Spock had jet black hair, eyebrows that pointed upwards and pointy ears. Aliens! She would never get used to them. They still frightened her a little.

"It is a pleasure to meet you too Ensign Woods" Spock stated before turning back to his food.

"Was that a hint of sarcasm I hear there Spock?" Bones asked the Vulcan.

"I am not familiar with the human concept of sarcasm" Spock began in his monotone voice. "However, I do understand sarcasm to be the lowest form of wit. Therefore I wish not to lower myself to such levels." He continued to eat.

"Green blooded hobgoblin" Bones said quietly to himself, earning him a snigger from Sulu.

"It would seem that Lizzie hasn't quite gotten used to the presence of non-humans just yet" Kirk said to the table. Lizzie just looked down at her sandwich embarrassed before taking a bite out of it.

Lunch seemed to end quickly and before she knew it, it was time for Lizzie to go back down to engineering. She and Scotty got up, ready to leave.

"Oh Lizzie" Kirk stopped her.

"Yes captain?" she asked.

"When you finish your shift, stop by the bridge and I'll show you to your quarters" he winked at her.

"Erm, ok" Lizzie said a little uncomfortable.

"I'll show her" Uhura suddenly entered the conversation. "If you go into her quarters, she may never be able to get you out!" The table laughed at this excluding Spock who just carried on eating and Chekov who just glared at his captain.

"Fine, stop by the bridge and lieutenant Uhura will show you to your quarters." Kirk said with less enthusiasm this time.

"Yes sir."

When the conversation finished, the whole table got up, said their goodbyes and returned to their posts. Lizzie and Scotty made their way down to the engineering room to begin work.

"Right lassy" Scotty began. "A job for you." Lizzie got excited at the prospect of finally starting work.

"One of the Warp Nacelle Pylons doesn't appear to be giving out as much power as she should be. All I want you to do is tighten up the bolts and get it back online to full power. Think you can do that?"

"Ay sir!" she replied.

"Right lassy. Lets go then" he said leading the way. "And call me Scotty."

"Ok then" Lizzie replied. " Only if you call me Lizzie."

"Deal" he said, laughter in his voice. They finally reached the pylons.

"If you need any help, just call."

"I will Scotty."

He turned and left as Lizzie began her work on the pylon. She took a break after half and hour to wipe the sweat from underneath her fringe. Even though it was hard work, she was enjoying herself and was glad she could be of use.

But she was broken from her thoughts when the ship suddenly jolted forwards causing Lizzie to fall to the floor.

"What was that?" Lizzie asked herself getting up.

Suddenly, Uhura's voice could be heard around the ship.

"Klingon Warbirds appear to be attacking the ship. The Captain had ordered everyone to keep calm and brace themselves for attack." She was cut off as the ship jolted forward again.

Lizzie fell to floor as she saw people running around and screaming. The damage was worse to the ship this time as fires began to break out all over the engineering bay.

She couldn't get up though before a third jolt hit the ship. Lizzie's head hit off of the edge of the pylon.

"Ouch!" Lizzie screamed out reaching for the back of her head. When she looked back at her hand, it was covered in a red liquid. Blood.

But it was the fourth jolt that hurt Lizzie the most as she hit her head again, causing her wound to worsen. This was too much for Lizzie. She suddenly felt dizzy. The last thing she saw was Scotty running towards her before she blacked out.

A/N: shall I keep writing Chekov with the accent or would you guys prefer it if I wrote in plain English and you can just imagine the accent as you read?