AN/ Hello? Is anyone there? Yep I'm updating early… just for you people! Now to be honest I'm using every element I can think of in Star Trek and Young Justice. It would be nice to get some reviews to see how well I am or am not doing... Rant over… Anyways I do not own YJ or STE, if I did I would have protested the cancelation of both.

ECS Gallant: Cargo Hold:

Raquel and her crew stared directly into the frightening hold. In front of them two crewmen of the Gallant, were face down, unconscious, as hundreds of huge, hairy, light brown and tan spiders littered the floors, ceiling, and walls. "Holy Crap!" She exclaimed, as the spiders started moving. "C-chief, w-w-what the hell are those things!" The lieutenant already had her silver pistol out and charged to fire.

"I… I believe those are Talarian Hook Spiders. Deadly little things." The crewman replied. The spiders started moving towards the three standing in the doorway. "No way I'm about to let those things out!" Raquel started shooting the spiders randomly causing uproar as the spiders practically crawled over one another to snatch the fresh meat. Her breathing grew ridged as they moved closer and closer to them before finally Raquel gave up.

"Retreat!" Both crewmembers dropped their repair equipment and sprinted down the hall, but Raquel tripped as she turned to run with them. "Help!" She cried as spindles of white thread stuck to her and slowly pulled her back into the dark hallway.

The second crewmember was also caught by one of the treads and also encountered the fate of Lieutenant Ervin. Chief Drake watched as both of his fellow crewmembers, Cassie and Raquel become ensnared by the Hook Spiders. He ran back to engineering to report his findings.

ECS Gallant Engineering:

Lieutenant Wally was taking note of the warp core in engineering. "Phase converters are out of alignment, wires have been eaten through, and there is a broken patch on this cover. Someone pass me a torch?"

Chief Drake knocked a repair crewman out of his way to get to the navigator, "Lieutenant West! We need help!"

"What is it Tim?"

"Cassie and Raquel were in one of the cargo holds when, when-"

"Spit it out man!" Wally faced the babbling chief, "What happened?"

"There is a nest of Talarian Hook Spiders. Over a thousand."

Wally went bug eyed, "Everyone grab a weapon and watch the floors and walls. I need to talk to the armory officer and the MACOs. Only repair necessary systems, we need everyone to be able to carry a phase pistol." The crew followed his orders and within minutes a line of rifles and pistol were aimed at the corridor. Wally charged out of the engineering room and went onto USS Justice.

USS Justice:

Wally ran at his top speed for help, he finally found a familiar blond taking note of plasma flow on C deck corridor.

"Arty!"

"For the last time, idiot, its Artemis. Now what is it?"

"We have a spider infestation on ECS Gallant; Raquel and Crewmember Cassie were abducted. We need every weapon we can get to eliminate them."

Artemis blinked several times before Wally continued, "What weapons can you lend us to help fight these monsters?"

"I… I could see about getting an automatic turret. W-what type of spiders?" Beyond herself and her sister, only she knew that Artemis had arachnophobia. Her fears were multiplied when Wally told her the species.

"Talarian Hooks. Drake stated that they invaded a cargo hold."

"What invaded the cargo hold?" A voice interrupted.

Both Wally and Artemis turned to face Captain Kaldur'ahm who was making the rounds on he ship. His expression was curious as he over heard his senior bridge officers talking about a situation.

"SIR!" Both shouted in unison and clicked their heels to attention.

"I asked what invaded." Kaldur pointed out.

"Well… um… sir, Talarian Hook Spiders have over taken the cargo hold. Lieutenant Ervin and Warrant Officer Sandmark were abducted by several of those things."

Kaldur looked down at the ground and though this over. "Both of you grab weapons and head down. I'll have MACOs come in with heavy support. Try to fight your way to them."

Wally and Artemis clicked their heels and headed to the armory to load up on ordinance. Kaldur made a B-line for ECS Gallant's captain's quarters. He ordered two MACOS to escort him to the captain. He then proceeded to knock on the door.

"Captain Miles, open up!"

There was no reply from the inside. A MACO stepped up to the door and kicked it in before raiding the room. The room was large and full of memorabilia from different regions of the galaxy, however there was no captain.

"Great he's gone. Captain to crew, find Captain Miles and apprehend him."

Kaldur stormed out of the room and upholstered his holdout phase pistol.

USS JUSTICE: Bridge:

Science officer Zatara and Sub-Commander Grayson were at a command station when they received word of an invasion by the Hook Spiders. "So how did the USS Valiant get them off?"

"It looks like a reverse pulsar alarm let them corner the spiders before they burned them with homemade plasma throwers. However there were only 293, not over one thousand." Zatanna pointed out.

"And Hook spiders multiple at a surprising rate, just under that of a tribble."

Dick leaned back and shook his head, "So we are basically going to die because of a billion spiders onboard our vessels?"

Zatanna pressed a few buttons to download several documents. "Yep… And I didn't get to talk to Artemis about something."

Dick cocked his head in an interested look, "What is that?"

"She avoided the subject of a certain redheaded navigator."

Dick smiled, "Is that so? Wally avoided the subject of a blond armory officer."

"Thinking what I'm thinking?"

"They should get together?"

"Mhmmm."

"Way ahead of you," Dick chuckled, "They will be repairing the same plasma regulator to the weapon systems tomorrow… if we survive."

Zatanna sat back, "If we survive." They sat in silence waiting for the data to down load. Both avoided each other's glances until they both sighed and spoke in unison.

"We should-"

"Oops you go-"

Zatanna covered Dick's mouth, "Should we go out sometime?"

Grayson nodded and the both smiled. "We're visiting K-7 next week. I hear they make a great Paella on Thursdays."

"Sounds nice. Formal?"

"Optional dress. And I mean optional."

Zatanna nudged him just as the data finished downloading to Justice's computers. "Okay it looks like a sonic pulse can manipulate several of their senses."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning we could tell them to get back into their cages."

"But the cages are destroyed, remember?" Dick pointed out.

"What about an escape pod?"

Dick was about to comment when alarms started to blare. "Great, Gallant's engine room is under siege. Zatanna, I'll figure out the communications to that, I need you to go down and help fight." The science officer nodded and grabbed a phase pistol from a storage locker before heading down the lift.

ECS Gallant: Engineering:

Wally, Conner, Artemis, some engineers, and several MACOs began their siegement inside the engineering room. Ugly spiders clambered up and down the corridor leading to the cargo bay.

"Holy!" Wally exclaimed as he avoided several spiders jumping over his head, "This reminds me of a movie."

"What movie?" Conner asked as he vaporized three spiders in a wide shot.

"Let me guess… Snakes on a Plane?" Artemis suggested remembering the ancient Earth movie.

"Yeah, it's old but it re-" Wally blasted several from the wall, "-minds me of that old action film. Except its Talarian Hook Spiders, we are on two spaceships, and we actually have modern weaponry."

Artemis slowly began to see something different as the orange generator of the warp coils brought out the redhead in the room, "Maybe its something to see later on."

"Maybe."

The three continued to fight despite the crew retreating to tertiary positions to continue the fight. After three grueling minutes the crew retreated off the deck with their injured, leaving the three to fend for themselves.

"This is it!" Conner exclaimed, "I hope M'gann makes it out okay."

Wally and Artemis only nodded but continued to fight into triple back-to-back positions.

"Dude, just freaking date her already!" Wally told him with laughter despite the current situation.

"It's been a short honor Wally." Conner replied.