Author's Note: Hope you are enjoying the story! Here's another chapter! Took a little bit because I was in the hospital again. Star Trek is not mine... still.

"Commander, these readings they're not like anything I've seen before! This can't be good." Cubius stated.

"Centurion-"

Cubius disappeared and Zorek sat up in his chair looking alarmed.

"Centurion?! Cubius!" Zorek exclaimed looking around and not seeing him.

The other crew members looked around also alarmed. Many of them exchanged worried and fearful looks.

"Check the ship's scanners!" Zorek exclaimed.

Sorya looked at the scanners, "He's not on the ship, sir. He's gone. No sign of him anywhere"

Zorek looked down sadly, "Oh no."

(STAR TREK)

Cubius looked around shocked to find himself on a lifeless planet. It was cold and snowing. The ground was looked like metal covered with ice. Lightning flashed in the distance and the thunder boomed loudly.

Cubius shivered in the cold not really thinking much of how he got here in the first place. He walked carefully across the metal ground avoiding ice toward a cave. Once he was shielded by the snow, he got out his communicator and tried to call anyone from the ship, but the communicator didn't work. He tried outside the cave as well to the same result. Cubius shivered more violently once inside the cave again.

"What do I do?" Cubius asked to himself.

It seemed only to get colder and Cubius looked around for anything to help him start a fire to keep warm. He found a few rocks and some sticks and managed to make a small flame. The fire was warm, but the outside temperature got colder.

"I got to keep moving. If I freeze to death at least it'd be slower." Cubius said to himself standing up and pacing around the fire.

A growl echoed through the cave and Cubius looked around fearfully hoping it was just his imagination, but it wasn't. A big creature jumped out of the darkness of the cave right at him. Cubius ran out of the cave followed by the creature. The creature pounced onto Cubius and he felt a pain shoot up his spine.

Cubius acted fast maneuvering around as best and as quickly as he could to get out his deflector and shot at the creature. Luckily, the creature was hit by the shot. Hurt, the creature whined and ran away from Cubius and further into the cave.

"Guess this place isn't totally lifeless," Cubius said to himself, "Guess I should probably find a different shelter before that thing comes back to get me."

Cubius moved as carefully and quickly still feeling the pain from when the creature pounced onto him. He went rather slowly across the metallic surface hoping to find a shelter or anything that could help him build one, but the planet looked barren.

Just when Cubius thought things couldn't be more bleak, he slipped and feel hard onto the cold icy ground. More pain shot through his body and he could hear a sickening crack of his bones breaking. He yelled out in pain and the sound echoed across the landscape without an answer.

"No, please. No," Cubius said trying to hold back tears of despair.

He tried to stand only to discover what he feared most. His leg was definately broken. Cubius desperately dragged himself across the snowy icy surface determined not to give up. He shivered in the cold. He began to notice his skin turning a greyish color. He began to lose hope of making it back alive.

"Elements please grant me strength," Cubius begged over and over again to no avail.

Cubius abruptly began to feel really hot and looked at the snow confused. He rolled up his sleeves and began feeling like he was on fire yet it was snowing hard. Cubius loss total sense of where he was. What was once a snowy metallic landscape seemed to become a scorching hot and very dry desert.

Cubius, completely out of it, began stripping down till he had nothing on at all. In reality, it still snowed and the temperature was incredibly low, but Cubius continued to have very powerful hallucinations. He no longer knew where he was or what was really happening.

"Dammit, itstoohot." Cubius slurred covering himself with snow, "Maybe ifshield mewitdirt."

Soon, everything began to look darker around Cubius and images had begun quickly flashing through his mind. He felt an odd sense of cold before he felt a comforting warmth. In the long darkness, he saw a light and slowly began to drift toward it.

(STAR TREK)

"I think we found Cubius, sir, but he's barely alive. He's dying out there. Even if we bring him back, he might not make it." Sorya said sadly.

"If you can get a lock on his signal, send him straight to the healers," Zorek said standing up and running to the healer's room hoping to see Cubius there.

Zorek watched with horror as Cubius was beamed aboard. Cubius's uniform was gone, his skin was pale and grey, and he looked much more dead than alive. Zorek broke down into tears seeing his comrade in such a dire condition. Part of him knew, it was extremely unlikely Cubius will pull through.

"Oh the Elements!" Zorek exclaimed.

The healers quickly covered him up and had to give him several hyposprays just to keep him alive.

Tenya, looking at Cubius, had a grave expression over her face, "Sir, even if he does pull through, it will take a while to get him back and it won't be easy for him."

"I will give the crew a chance to see him just in case." Zorek stated.

"Good idea, sir. It might help increase his spirits, if he stops hallucinating." Tenya said.

Zorek looked at Cubius both sad and worried. He walked up to Cubius who was awake, but not aware to what was going around him. He was muttering incognizantly and looked lost and confused.

Zorek took Cubius's cold hand gently and whispered into his ear, "It will be alright my friend."

Cubius continued to look uncomfortable and tossed quite violently back and forth. Zorek stayed by him tears falling down his face hoping his comrade would pull through alive. He took out his communicator preparing to notify his crew of the worst. He prepared to send the message of Cubius's death.

Author's Note: Well... don't forget to review. Please?