Kirk, Nadi, and Serek were at the meeting table. David was still unconscious and Spock was having his wounds being tended to by Mccoy from his earlier fight with David. Kirk was staring at Nadi's bandaged hand. He was at the fight, but didn't join it as he was keeping an eye on the droids David told not to interfere.
"what the hell happened to your hand?" Kirk asked
Nadi looked down at it, as if she just has paint on her hands "The boy developed a countermeasure against the Vulcan nerve pinch, but he didn't take into account that mind melds could also render him unconscious."
Kirk furrowed his brows in thought. Another thing David shouldn't know. How the hell would he know about the Pinch when I withheld all present day information to avoid screwing with the past.
"Captain," Nadi brought Kirk back from his thoughts "is... is that teenager truly David Lord?" She asked hesitantly, not believing it herself.
When Nadi had first asked when they met, he had told her that he was a teenager, but didn't tell her he was from the past, seeing as how starfleet kept it secret. but, now...
"Yes" he answered.
Nadi just shook her head. "But that can't possibly be true. He's... too young. He has already killed hundreds and outsmarted almost everyone who has challenged him, including me and you. why, he's young enough to still be a cadet."
Kirk tried to answer but she stopped him.
"not only that, but if you truly did somehow transport him from earth, I highly doubt that starfleet would just allow him to become a member of the cre-"
"he was NOT a member of the crew, Captain Nadi." Spock's voice said from behind Kirk as he turned to see him entering the room.
Spock was still sporting the bandage on his forehead, and Kirk could also make out a dark line around his neck, where David had tried to strangle him with that...weird tentacle thing. Kirk could also make out an outline of the bandage on his chest underneath his shirt, where David had Slashed him. Kirk would've helped Spock when David started winning, but that's when the droids started firing at Kirk, in order to let David win. Though, they immediately started running when Spock actually won. Though you think'd they actually save their 'father' when he was in danger, considering their his kids.
"Where's Mccoy?" Kirk asked.
"He realized he couldn't stop me from leaving, and decided to just check on David."
"How is he?"Kirk asked.
"Frustrated that I'm ignoring his medical advice."
"No I mean David." Kirk corrected.
Spock didn't take a seat at the table, his eye drifting to everyone as he hesitated.
"Spock, what is it?"Kirk asked.
Spock looked at Kirk. "Captain...when...When I melded with David on the surface of the planet, I was able look into his mind."
Kirk's eyes widened "then that means you know every-"
"I'm sorry Captain, but I was losing consciousness at the time and was not able to learn anything aside from what his goals were."
Kirk deflated visibly and sighed. Damn, things would be a helluva alot easier if we knew Davids every next move.
Kirk looked back at Spock. "What did you learn anyway?"
"Captain...James, if he escapes...He will kill Everything"
Kirk Paled "...What?"
Spock sighed "...He will go to planet to planet killing Everything. Every species, every plant, every animal, every city, every world will be cleansed... and replaced."
Spock Looked at everyone "...That aircraft he was flying in... he calls it a remaker. He designed it like a virus. It will travel star to star, world to world, gathering materials and replicating more of itself, leaving entire worlds...Remade."
"Hence the name Remaker." Nadi added.
"Correct." Spock looked at Kirk "Captain...What do you plan on doing with David?"
"I haven't decided yet."
"Might I add a suggestion." Spock asked.
"okay."
Spock's eyes narrowed. "Throw him. Out. The airlock."
Everyone just stared at Spock with mouths agape, except for Serek who just stared curiously. Wow, he couldn't say that anymore bluntly.
"First officer Spock," Serek said "are you having problems suppressing your emotions?"
And now I can tell that this guy's going to be a problem.
"I can assure you that there is nothing wrong-"
"Captain!" Mccoy interrupted through the communicator, banging being heard in the background "Davids awake."
Ah fuck! my head! I opened my eyes only to close them. God-fucking-damn it! turn out the fucking lights! I opened and closed my eyes repeatedly in order to get use to the light. When they finally did, I looked around.
I was in Khan's old cell, with white everywhere and a clear glass...Window?Door? I don't know what the hell to call them, but it looked damn futuristic.
"Hey Fuckers!" I banged at the glass.
"I have rights! I want my Lawyer! and I want my Phone call!" the nanites formed a hammer in my hand. I hit the door with it.
It almost bounced out of my hand. I looked at where I hit the glass. Fuck, nothing.
I just keep banging at it for a while, hoping it starts cracking, or someone notices me.
After a few minutes of banging at the glass, Mccoy comes from...somewhere from the left, and just looks at me as I freeze, holding the hammer up.
He just stares at me. I stare at him, then I glance at the hammer, and then I start banging again.
"Let me out of here you MOTHERFUCKER!"I shout at him through the glass.
He just shoots me a deadpanned look and pulls out his communicator "Captain! Davids awake."
"On our way." I heard Kirk respond.
After that, Mccoy just stands there with his arms crossed staring at me. Still banging the glass though.
After a while, I stopped, looked down, and sighed from exhaustion.
"so...How's Scotty?" I asked.
...he ignores me.
"Where's my ship?"
...ignores me again.
I sigh. Well, I was curious about...
"How's Nyota?"
"Don''t call her that." He said angrily. "You don't have the right to call her by her first name."
I shut my mouth. We just stood there for awhile, him with his arms crossed and an angry expression on his face and me with my hammer still in the left hand.
Finally, Kirk came in, along with Spock and two other Vulcans I now recognize are from The T'pol.
"...Hello Clarice" What? I couldn't help it.
Kirk just ignores the comment.
" David Lord, I, Captain James T Kirk, Hereby place you under arrest, to stand trial in court on Earth."
"Wow, I didn't think you were one with the formalities, Kirk." I said with my arms crossed.
"Captain! I'm Advising you that it is too much of a danger keeping him on this ship!" Spock said "We have to throw him out the airlock!"
"WHAT?!" I shouted.
"Spock I already told-"
"OH HELL NO!" I summoned a second hammer and started banging at the glass with both.
"LET ME OUT OF HERE YOU ASSHOLES!" I stopped and pointed at them with one hammer "preferably NOT out through the FUCKING AIRLOCK!" I resumed banging.
"No one is throwing anyone out the airlock!" At this I stop banging.
"Spock, what the hell is wrong you with you!" Kirk yells at Spock.
"What do you me-"
"Oh stop with the denial. Ever since Nyota you've been turning into something that can only described as insubordinate!" Kirk shouted, shocking me. Spock, Insubordinate? now that's funny.
"Captain, I-"
"Just shut up."
Kirk looks but back at me. "David, what in the hell did you do to natives down on the planet?"
"Did something happen to Nyota?" I asked, Dodging the question.
Mccoy glares at me. "I thought I told you-!"
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT HER!" Spock actually turned angry.
Spock was getting ready to somehow break through the invincible glass, when that Vulcan girl grabbed his arm, holding him.
"First Officer, Control your emotions!" she shouted. I ship it. I ship the fuck out of it.
After a while, Spock calms down. She lets go, and walks closer to the glass, facing me.
"I remember you...you're that captain, of the T'pol." I say.
"Captain Nadi...Are you truly David Lord?" She asked, hesitantly.
"In his glorious Nanite covered flesh." I said.
I don't know how, but all of a sudden she got extra cold. Like colder than a vulcan usually is...or should be.
"Then, under starfleet you will be tried and convicted, and most likely be sentence to a penal colony, where you will be forced to work hard labor in the mines. Considering your crimes include hijacking a warship, mass murder, piracy, sapient experimentation, and polluting comets with toxic waste, you will most likely be sentenced with life imprisonment." she said, In an absolutely cold way.
Everyone was surprised at the way she said all this, except for Spock who had a very small grin on his face.The sadistic bastard.
I, however, wasn't phased at all by this, having met my fair share of Tsunderes in my life.
"Gee, that sounded almost personal." I chuckled "What? Did I kill your father or something?" I asked sarcastically.
I was surprised when she actually clenched her fists and scrunched her eyes in anger. "...are you fucking serious? that is-that is a cliche!" I even injured her hand... I hope she's not my daughter or something.
Sulu then interrupted on Kirk's communicator "Captain! come to the bridge, the Vengeance has returned."
Returned? RETURNED?! Those fuckers left without me?!...well they did return.
Kirk and company minus Mccoy returned to the bridge.
On the screen a certain Enterprise duplicate was shown.
After defeating David during the fight on the planet, the droids beamed to the ship, left the planet and entered warp, leaving David , they're back.
"Their hailing us Sir!"
"On screen" Kirk ordered.
On the screen, a golden droid appeared, sitting on the chair.
"Captain Kirk, we meet again!" it said in a sinister deep monotonous voice.
"...What? who the hell are you?" Kirk asked, not recognizing the droid.
"Wha-Don't you remember! While the lord and the vulcans were fighting we engaged in a battle of wits!"
"We were staring at each other making sure the other won't interfere!"
"FUCKING WITS!" Kirk winced as the calm looking droid suddenly became incredibly vulgar.
the droid pointed at kirk. "Return Thy Lord or ELSE!"
"Or else What?" Kirk asked, unknowingly goading him.
"Or else we'll nuke the FUCK out of YOU!" he said.
"Bitch, where's my TOAST?!" another voice in the background said.
"TOASTIE GET THE FUC-" The screen suddenly cut off.
"sir! We're getting reports of mechanical failures all across the ship!"
"What?!" Kirk yelled.
"Engines down!"
"Shields down!"
"Weapons down!"
"Hey, can I ask you something?" I ask Mccoy through the glass. He was glaring at me the whole time Kirk and Co. had left. "Why do you guys play your hails over the intercoms?"
He sighs "Well, if you must know, it keeps all crew members aware of the situation, and if they should prepare for any hostile action."
"well, that is actually innovative and clever...Except for booty calls."
"What?"
"Oh you know how Kirk is. I wouldn't be surprised if the janitors had to Hourly Clean up vomit from the floors of The Enterprise."
Mccoy just looked at me incredulously "that's not-"
"Captain Kirk, we meet again!" A familiar voice sounded through the intercoms. Wait. Isn't that...
"HAHA!" I point up at nowhere in particular "That's one of my badass droids! He's a FUCKING GENIUS!"
"...Or else we'll nuke the FUCK out of YOU!"
"...he's a fucking idiot." I muttered. "Hey Doc?"
"What?"
"Does this cell block signals?"
"Yeah."
"That's what I thought."
What the good doc probably didn't know was that my clothing constantly emitted nano spores that quickly set up colonies of nanites wherever there are electronics. The nanites are capable of disabling any electronics with a signal, but the cell blocks signals...but not sound. Fortunately, I had the perfect contingency for this.
I cupped my hands around my mouth, and shouted. "...REEEEEECOLAAAAAAAAAAA."
"...What?" Mccoy said.
Then, the lights started to flicker, and the intercom went out.
"How-?"
"NANITES BITCH!" I shouted.
I held out my wrist as it turned into a communicator, hoping the nanites deactivated the signal jammer "This is your one and only lord!"
"My Lord!?" the voice of a pilot came out.
"BEAM ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" I shouted. Lights flowed around me as I appeared in the transporter room...then I realized I had to run all the way to the Bridge.
"FUCK!"
As the doors to the Bridge opened, I stopped running, panting. OH, MOTHERFUCKER...
"My Lord!" A droid exclaimed. At this, the golden centurion, Who I hereby name goldie, stood from the chair.
he was about to speak, when I-"NOT...ANOTHER...FUCKING...WORD."
He got out of the way as I sat on my chair. I activated a screen on my wrist and deactivated the nanites on board the Enterprise. I looked at the screen of the bridge and saw that the T'pol was floating next to the Enterprise, weapons trained on the Vengeance.
I hailed the enterprise, and after a while they were able to pick up. Kirk appeared on screen, and looked completely shocked at seeing me sitting in my chair instead of Goldie.
"Hey, how's it going?" I said.
"DAVID?! how did you-?"
"Oh Captain, did you really think that that heavenly prison could hold me! HA!" I pointed at him " I'm always going to be one step ahead of you, so you may as well-"
"My lord! An incoming ship is leaving warp!"
"What?! Who the hell could that be?!" I asked, astounded.
On screen, a large ship could be seen leaving warp, a ship that looked...like the FUCKING VENGEANCE WHAT THE HELL?! There's no doubt about it. The ship was an exact duplicate of the Vengeance, a bigger, darker, and heavily armed version of the Enterprise.
"Their hailing us my Lord!"
"On screen."
On the screen a man in...the Sect 31 uniform, of course!
"I am Captain Kellas of the USS WRATHFUL," The Captain said " I presume that you are David Lord?"
"You presume correctly, and I presume that you are also with Section 31."
"You also presume correctly," Wow, that's a of lot presumption "I'm shocked that you have heard of us."
"Well I know lots of things." I said. "How can I help you?"
"well I-"
"hold on" I pressed a button and Kirk joined in the on call. "Kirk, section 31. Kellas, the Enterprise."
"David what the hell's-"
"ah ah" I stopped him. I looked at Kellas "you were saying."
"...well, I believe the more appropriate question is how can I Help You."
"...I'm listening." I said.
"We adapted your holodeck techniques to our weapons research and discovered that having virtual Scientist poking at things is much more effective than having real scientists poking at things, and have decided that adding your brilliant mind into our fold proves beneficial for the both us." he said, perfectly copying the tone of a salesmen instead of a military officer.
"Beneficial? What do I get out this?" I realized that saying this to a military type guy was the same as saying 'go fuck yourself' but... This guy seemed different.
"Unlimited resources and a full pardon for your crimes."
"HA! there's no way David would agree to those terms!" Kirk said. As they started arguing, I looked at a monitor near me, showing a cluster of objects headed straight for us in the orbit of the planet. I realigned the trajectory using my fingers to intercept the Wrathful.
I looked back up at the screen "You, my friend, have got a deal."
"There's no freaking...wait. What?! you're serious?!" Kirk said.
" Kellas, What are we going to do about These two?"
"Kill them, obviously."
"works for me. You get the Vulcan ship, I'll handle the Enterprise." I said. I cut off the signal and deactivate the nanites suppressing the Enterprise's defenses.
"Fire at all non essential parts of the Enterprise, I want to inflict as least damage as possible."I order.
"yes, my lord."
"uh, why the hell are we working with Starfleet?"
"Why are we not beating the shit out of Enterprise?"
"AND WHERE THE FUCK'S MY TOAST!"
I look to my left and see the three fuckups who rescued me after abandoning me. I point at each individually "Smarty, Goldie, and Toastie."
"Sir! All weapons and shielding are back online!"
"Good, start firing at the-" Kirk was interrupted when the ship began shaking.
The vengeance had started firing at them, and the Sect 31 had started exchanging fire with the T'pol.
Sect 31 then fired torpedoes at the T'pol. when they hit the mark, instead of exploding, they sprayed strange black stuff that grew along the hull. Then, black spikes erupted everywhere around the ship. Sect 31 fired all energy weapons, and the Bridge watched as the T'pol was smashed into pieces, bodies flung out of it.
"NO!" Nadi had shouted, devastated at her entire ship being destroyed. Serek put a hand on her shoulder, but she shook it off.
"The Section 31 Ship is locking on us!"
Kirk stood from his chair "Prepare all weapons to block any-"
Before he could finish, several massive explosions hit the Section 31 ship, but they didn't came from the Enterprise or the Vengeance. Kellas and David appear on the screen again.
"What the HELL was THAT?!" Kellas demanded.
"What? that? Oh, that was just a nuclear mine field I set to orbit the planet. Luckily, the Enterprise and the T'pol both missed it when they came here." David answered.
"Lucky?! Their the enemy, they shouldn't be lucky!" Kellas yelled, losing his salesperson tone.
"lucky that they didn't get wasted on them so I couldn't use them on you!"
"What?! We had a deal!"
"a deal? A DEAL?!" David stood up as the screen followed his face."Unlimited resources and a Pardon?! Bitch, I have a ship that literally has unlimited resources that come out of a fucking MICROWAVE! And I live a nomadic life, so I don't really need a pardon when all I really need is on this ship."
"FIRE NANO TORPEDOES AT THE VENGEANCE!" Kellas orders.
The section 31 ship launch the same torpedoes it used to destroy the T'pol at the Vengeance. But then, the Vengeance erupted in a black smoke, covering the entire ship. The black smoke then spun itself into a tornado, and when the torpedoes reached it, they became covered in a black rock coating, and they veered off course, spinning around the Vengeance, and being shot into space.
"WHAT?!" Kellas shouted, as he was still in conference with David and The Enterprise.
"Thanks to your little demonstration earlier, I was able to develop the perfect countermeasure against those torpedoes." David said, wearing a Shit eating grin. "Now, I want you to meet my child. The enterprise had already met his brother."
In the black smoke, a massive skull with glowing purple eyes and mouth appeared, flying in an intercept course with the Wrathful. The wrathful tried to shoot its energy weapons at it, but it blocked the blasts with huge tentacles. The tips of its tentacles reached the Wrathful, and like huge jackhammers, spiked points pierced the hull. Purple glowing veins starting to grow across the ship.
"Sir, we are losing contact with all levels of the ship!"
"Weapons and shields are down!"
"Dammit! get all-"Kellas was interrupted when a Terrifying screech sounded through the bridge. He pulled out his phaser and began firing "NO! GET AWAY! GET AWAY!" he was tackled as corpse-like figures piled over him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" his screaming stopped when the transmission cut off.
"Well, it's a good thing I made an extra Remaker that spent most of this time growing." David said, and looked at a screen somewhere on his side. "It's also a good thing that ship came. I could use this ship to carry Remakers. That's actually the one thing I couldn't include, was a warp drive on a remaker, as their form were not durable enough to withstand it. Though, they can survive riding on a ship in warp." He looked back at Kirk.
"welp, see you later Kirk." He said.
"Wait!" Nadi got his attention. "you're just...Sparing us?"
"uh, yep." He said, like it was the most normal thing for a mass murderer to say.
"but why?"
He looked down in thought. "well, to be honest, it was actually really fun fighting with you guys, and if I killed you now I will probably not have that fun ever again." he responded.
"also...Miss Nadi?"
"...yes?"
"...I'm sorry about your ship and crew... and your father."
Nadi was at a loss.
"chow" he saluted, and the transmission cut.
The vengeance and the Wrathful angled in the same direction, and entered warp, leaving the system.
"Well..." Kirk looked around. They were in the meeting room again, with Mccoy and Scotty joining this time. "...Shit."
Nadi looking downcast, having just lost her entire ship and crew, and her father's murderer (a surprising revelation to everyone) having escaped...right after giving her his condolences."...Shit indeed." Everyone was shocked at a vulcan going vulgar.
Serek, instead of giving her shit, sighed. "...shit indeed."
"...shit indeed." Spock said.
"Okay, whatever you guys are doing, you need to,like, stop it. It's freaking me the hell out, and making me more worried about the situation."Kirk said.
"Aye." "You're damn right." Scotty and Mccoy agreed.
Kirk sighed. "Okay, so what are we-"
"I would like to join your crew, captain." Nadi Interrupted.
"As would I." Serek agreed.
"Well...I could take all the help I can get...*sigh* alright, I'm making you co-first officers, with Spock." Kirk said.
"I'm not sure you're-"
"eh duhduhduhduhdudhudh! Lets move on to more important matters." Kirk interrupted Spock, earning him a glare.
"I agree." Nadi said, obviously also wanting to change subjects.
"Okay, so what do we know? David has a second...Remaker?" Kirk asked.
"that is correct." Spock answered.
"okay, remaker...seriously, that's a lame name." Kirk said.
"Kirk, stay focused." Mccoy said.
"Alright, alright... David has a second remaker, which is a lot bigger and can turn people into zombies. He has a second ship, courtesy of section 31, and..." Kirk counted his fingers as he thought. "Actually, I think that's it."
"Don't forget that black smoke." Mccoy added.
"That too. Man, you'd think we'd know more about him since everyone is here is the only people who faced him." Kirk said.
"I think that's what gives him his power over us." Serek joined in for once. "The fact that David is a complete unknown and hides all his tricks until he needs them."
"I agree with Serek, it is the most-"
"The most logical conclusion?" Kirk interrupted Spock. "Yeah, figured you'd say that."
"there is another matter we need to discuss," Nadi spoke. " Unlimited resources and a full pardon? these are not the capabilities of a ROGUE division."
"Yeah...it seems there is a bigger conspiracy at play here, and our rogue starfleet division...may not be so rogue." Mccoy added.
"*sigh* man, if this isn't the biggest shitstorm, I don't know what is." Kirk glanced at Scotty. "Speaking of shitstorms...Scotty, what happened to all our systems back there?"
"Turns out, little bastard" scotty refused to say his first name. "Had nanite spores pumping out of his clothes, infiltrated all systems and electronics."
"how were you able to shut them down?"
"I didn't, that's the worst part." Scotty sighed. "Little bastard deactivated them all during the fight,showing that after everything he's done...he still cares for us."
"I wouldn't say that, he said he just wanted to have fun with us."Kirk said.
"That maybe so, but during the fight, we didn't lose a single person." Mccoy added. "A few broken bones there, caved in ceilings here...but nothing major."
"true..." Kirk looked back at Scotty. "What about those nanites? I don't anymore trouble from them in the fut-"
"already taken care of." Scotty interrupted. "I used my own special mixture of nanites to hunt down and attack all colonies of the buggers, and we're setting an immune system so that it can't happen again."
Kirk furrowed his brows in confusion. "Wait. What? Where did you get those nanetes?"
"Its pronounced 'NANITES' and I got them from...The holodeck." Scotty added with a grin on his face.
"The Holodeck? Wait. Scotty, you don't mean..." Kirk trailed off.
"Yep. We're using the little bastard's own tricks against him. With the Holodeck, we can wip up a ton of new defenses against him." Scotty said, proudly.
"Scotty, I could Kiss you-"
"might I add," Spock interrupted. "That any direct modifications to weaponry is in direct violation of Starfleet regulations."
"Okay first of all." Kirk turned to Spock and shook his hand "Good to have you back Spock."
Spock smiled. "Good to be back, Captain."
"Secondly, we're not violating the regulations...If we're no longer with Starfleet." Kirk said solemnly.
"Jim, what are you doing?!" Mccoy shouted. "You can't just qui-"
"I'm not saying I'm quitting." Kirk said, defensively."I'm saying that we're not gonna be apart of starfleet anymore."
Mccoy looked like he was just punched in face. "You're not saying..."
Kirk looked at everyone. "...We're going rogue."
"WHAT?!""WHAT?!"CAPTAIN-!"
"Doc and Nadi said it themselves," Kirk interrupted everyone. "Section 31 has more political power than we thought. now if we go back there, we could be going back to our DEATHS!"
This silenced everyone.
"Now, thanks to Scotty here," he motioned to him. "we got everything we need to go against him."
"Cap'n's right" Scotty added "With the Holodeck and nanites we can repair anything on the go, we can make our own droids, we can even upgrade the ship and make it bigger!"
"What about the Crew?" Mccoy asked.
"I'll handle the crew. We just gotta figure out our next move before we officially go rogue."Kirk said.
"I'd like to make a suggestion." Spock said.
"What is it?"Kirk asked.
"If section 31 truly has strong ties in starfleet...then they might still be using him." Spock said "and he's possibly the only one who can match David in both intellect, and savagery."
"Spock...You're not suggesting breaking him Out, are you?" Mccoy asked.
"Who is him?" Nadi asked.
"I'm most surely suggesting that."
"who?" Nadi asked.
"But this is Khan we're talking about! We can't trust him!" Mccoy shouted.
"Who is Khan?" Nadi asked.
"Superhuman terrorist...Long Story." Kirk answered her.
"Kirk!" Mccoy turned to him."You can't be going along with this! He killed Pike!"
Kirk looked down Solemnly. "That is true..." He then he looked up with conviction. "...But David's gonna kill EVERYONE."
Mccoy looked stunned. "But...But how are we even going to convince him to help us?!"
"We could save his crew as well." Spock said. "And if that doesn't work I could...show David's goals to him."
"Even if we do convince him to join us." Mccoy said. "How can we be so sure he won't betray us. You know...like how we did!"
Scotty stepped forward. "I might be able to cook up something as insurance."
"so are we all agreed, then?" Kirk asked everyone.
"Wha-" Mccoy looked at everyone, and sighed in defeat. "Alright...fine. You need a damn doctor where you're going anyway."
"Alright." Kirk said. "let's do this."
Kirk entered the bridge with Mccoy, Spock, and his two new Co-First officers. He sat in his chair.
"open a shipwide channel, Ontora." Kirk ordered, making sure to say the communication officer's name.
"Aye sir." she flipped a switch. "Channel open."
"Attention crew of the Enterprise."
All over the Enterprise, everyone stopped what they were doing to listen to the Captain.
Kirk sighs heavily, "We've...lost a lot. Not just during these few days, not just during these few months, not just during when Enterprise first opened for business...But during the history of all species of the federation.
"but let me tell you something...None of that is ever...EVER, going to come close to the number David Lord is going to kill. First officer Spock...GLIMPSED, into his mind, and saw that if he wins...he will kill...EVERYTHING..."
All across the ship, everyone gasped and whispered among each other.
"... .OVER and OVER. We CANNOT let HIM WIN." Kirk sighed heavily again."...But...I'm afraid we might not be getting help from home.
"You see it turns out we... that our friendly neighborhood rogue starfleet division...may not be so rogue after all." Kirk added. He could hear everyone gasp in complete shock.
"The worst part, they don't want to fight David, they want to hire him. Our favorite chief engineer found a way to upgrade our ship, make it bigger...and last on its own." At this, everyone's eyes widened in realization at what he is implying.
"I know that some of you have families...and if you want to leave, go ahead. We won't stop you. Call our communications officer, if you want out." Kirk waited. And Waited. And waited. and Waited...
When no one started to call Ontora, he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "If anyone changes their mind, you have until we reach earth. If you don't trust starfleet to look after your families, we can pick them up. We can make add extra quarters to the Enterprise for them, thanks to Scotty. Kirk...out." Ontora cut off the channel.
"Dammit man." Mccoy exclaimed. "You could've said that last bit the first time. Half of them probably thought they were leaving their families behind!"
"I love you too Doc." Kirk said, joyfully. He suddenly felt a new weight on his shoulders. "Sulu, can you handle all crew request to pick up families."
"Aye Captain."
Mccoy sat closer to Kirk. "I don't like what you're doing with David and Khan...It's like you're trying to scare off a tiger with a live rattlesnake in your hands."
"Oh no no no. NO! Not with the damn metaphors!"
A/N: Seventh chapter. Seriously guys, please review. The silence has begun to freak me out.