Chapter 18: Child's Play:

Author's Note: Another chapter for anyone who cares. Enjoy! And remember I don't own romulans or Star Trek.

A few months after the borg incident passed pretty uneventfully. Zorek noticed that Jalad seemed cheerful.

"Did something good happen, Jalad?" Zorek asked.

"No. Why do you ask?" Jalad replied.

"You seem cheerful."

"I do?"

"Yeh."

"Hey, I just thought of a funny joke-"

"Jalad, are you alright?"

"I apologize for my behavior, sir. I haven't joked around since I was young. I don't know why I tried to tell a joke right now."

"It's fine. I think you should talk to Tenya though about the urge to joke just to be safe."

Zorek began crying.

"Zorek?!"

"I'm sorry I'm not good enough for you, father."

"Zorek, I'm going to get Tenya and bring her here. Just hang on."

Jalad raced to get Tenya. Kelaar came in laughing but his laughter fades when he sees Zorek crying. Before he has a chance to question it, Jalad brings back Tenya.

Tenya immediately looked at Zorek worried and scanned him and looked shocked. She scanned Jalad too.

"It seems that something is affecting your brains. Basically, making you kind of like younger versions of ourselves. Except Zorek has it more extreme than you do. I think I'm going to scan more people and hopefully I can reverse whatever this is."

"What about Zorek?"

"I'm sorry Jalad, but until I figure out what happened to you two, there is nothing I can do for him."

Kelaar busted out laughing and Tenya quickly scanned him, "It's affecting Kelaar too! Maybe it's everybody. I'll look around the ship and see what I can find out."

Tenya went around scanning people around the ship finding the same strange results. Many of the people were acting somewhat like children. Some people were just acting wierd. Everyone else was thought they were younger and were no longer in reality. Tenya was worried. She suddenly got a brilliant idea how to change all of this, but Sorya stopped her looking sad. She was wearing a short sleeve shirt and mourning marks were all over her arms.

"Have you seen my son?" Sorya asked.

"Sorya, snap out of it, please. I need to go and do something before this madness consumes me as well."

"Have you seen my son?"

"No, I haven't. I'm sorry you lost him."

"Can you tell Nether to stop blaming me?"

"Nether is not going to do that. You should just let him go."

"Do you mean I should divorce him?"

"If you must. I suggest you do. He's tearing you apart."

"Okay."

Sorya left, and Tenya sighed in relief. She worked for hours changing the magnetic field of the entire ship. It took her a while because she was interrupted constantly and she had no help but she succeeded and everyone seemed to slowly return back to normal behavior. It took Zorek the longest to return, but when he came around, Tenya smiled.

"It's good to have you back, sir." Tenya said.

"What happened? Why did I act the way I did? Why did I think I was back home with my father?" Zorek said.

"Something was affecting our minds sure, but I surrounded the ship with a magnetic field to protect us."

"Did you do it all by yourself?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Well all the people that could help me were out of their minds even Jalad. He wouldn't stop telling cheesy jokes."

"So, this affected all of us."

"Yes, even I started feeling different. It was hard to focus on the task I was doing."

"Should we get away from this area before we start acting strange again."

"I suggest we do, sir. Even with the ship protecting us we could still end up affected by whatever it was."

Zorek moved the ship and luckily they were able to escape what was causing the disturbance. Tenya smiled glad it was all over.

Author's Note: Done. I know it was weird, but I like it so... yeh.