I threw the abomination at him. He catches it, and presses it where his mouth would be, as if trying to eat it. "Ooohhhh yeah, that's good shit."
I open my mouth, then closed it.
"...you're a fucking idiot." I finally said. I proceeded to leave engineering.
As I wander through the halls, I walk past a group of droids on patrol. They were black, silver, and red. The silver were the old ones, having survived this long and being proclaimed veterans. They had overtime developed a sense of individuality, but remained as loyal as dogs to me.
They stopped when they noticed me and placed fists on their chests. "My lord" they all said, but the black grunts and red leader spoke last, due to being new.
I waved my hand. "Carry on" I said.
They removed their arms from their chest and moved on, continuing their patrol.
The black ones were the new grunts, having been given physical upgrades. They had thinner legs, allowing them to sprint faster. Instead of the centurion red horizontal moving eye slit, they had four fly-like eyes with two on the sides, and two on the front, granting them a much larger field of vision. Instead of the helmet-like head centurions possessed, they had a cross between a hunch and a hood that went above their head and stretched across both shoulders, a little hood-like hole in the front where the head would hide in and allowed it some space to move around. This hunch protected the head from the back, only being vulnerable in the front. It was all black except for the eyes and the red leader version of it. The form was inspired by a more insectoid version of the grineer from the mmo game, Warframe.
I entered a corridor. The floor was separated into three parts: the one in the middle being as still as a floor should be, the ones on the sides moving in opposite directions at a steady pace. On stepped on the side that led to my destination, getting off when I reached an intersection of corridors and stepping on another one.
Why didn't I think of this shit sooner? I thought of all the times I could of avoided running to across this long ass ship. I'm so glad tachs came up with this.
Tachs of course being the silver droid of trio of fuckups, including Goldie and Toastie. I originally named him smarty, for the being the least stupid, but he decided Tachs was a better name, as apparently I was terrible at naming things.
fucking asshole. Remakers are a badass name. He, of course being the only centurion capable of actually defying me, disagreed.
When I realized that three droids were acting differently, mainly in a comic relief way, I checked their AI. I discovered that these droids were the ones that hanged around me the most, developing personalities based on some of my traits.
Tachs inherited the smart-ass part of me, pointing out ridiculous flaws and possessing a genre savvy-ness. He's the more clever of the three, and I'm seriously considering making him the official leader instead of Goldie.
Goldie, of course, inherited the egomaniac part of me, and was more brash and stupid. Despite being stupid, he still possessed a tactical mind due to being a gold centurion, coming back to rescue me being his idea. Despite being a narcissist, he was more willing to impress me than take-over and replace me, and he was nowhere near as stupid as Toastie.
Which finally brings me to the grand idiot. Despite being the dumbest, Toastie actually inherited the deceptive part of me. Deceptive in the way I pretend to be an idiot, to throw others off guard and underestimate me. Toastie, however, has no tactical or cleverness skills to speak of, except being as absolutely as random and idiotic as possible, which just makes him a plain idiot.
Yet, how the hell did he do that thing with the toast...?
I shook that thought off as I continued to my destination. I...slid? I slid past the opening to the holodeck. I was able to repair, thanks to the undamaged holodeck on the Wrathful. Thanks to it, I was able to install it in my Remakers, and develop the new droid models.
The holodecks on my remakers didn't have a deck part, just the computer system. I used a neural interface to transfer memories of fictional worlds, so that they may reconstruct them once they get started.
Honestly, I was excited. Sure, I was killing millions or possibly trillions of lives, but I'm creating new ones as well. There was a knot in my stomach, though. But all those people, who will never see their friends and family ever again.
I gripped harder on the moving rail. Never see there mother again, their brother, their sister, their father, their children, like m...
I stood off the rail, as I felt a pain in my head. I felt pressure in my head as I could feel it could going red as I held my breath, trying not to cry. I got on my knees, hands covering face.
I could tell it was only a few minutes, but it felt like hours to me. I activated a button on my gauntlet, and then like that, everything stopped, as I fell limp on my back, in pure bliss. This wasn't the first time I had a nervous breakdown, but thanks a few implants, they happened less frequently. Of course, I could've gotten rid of my empathy altogether, but I didn't want to. Despite the pain, I found my compassion to be a beautiful thing. I also enjoyed the orgasmic feeling as electrodes pumped extra dopamine in my brain, after experiencing extreme discomfort. It's kinda like when it's really hot in the summer, and you enter a room where the AC was running all day.
After a few moments passed, it turned off automatically. I got up, brushed myself off, and continued on the rails.
The first batch of carrier ships were almost complete. They, of course, were reverse engineered from the Vengeance and Wrathful ships, with a few upgrades. A few targets were already designated on their navigation systems. Targets to be remade.
After a few moments, I finally reached sickbay.
"Entering the system...sir." Sulu reported to khan.
"Excellent. Set course for the asteroid belt." Khan order.
After a reluctant 'Aye' from Sulu, Khan silently peered out the bridge. He could see the massive saucer stretching miles and miles away in all directions, the view impressing him.
Kati walked to his chair and moved her head to whispering level so that no one would hear their conversation.
"Wouldn't it be best that we dispose of the Captain and his meddling entourage?" She said. Kirk and his closest confidants were right now being held in the ship's brig, Khan deciding to spare them. For the time being.
Khan's eyes didn't even move, yet she could tell they hardened. "Kirk and his crew are necessary to this ship, and therefore, necessary in order to avenge us."
Kati thought she misheard him. "Avenge us? You mean you think that we could fail-"
"What do you know of our enhancements?" Khan asked.
"I know that they make us more superior than any human alive."
"I mean the method behind their engineering."
"I know that they were genes taken from the most talented of humans."
"Individuals, or types of humans?" Khan asked.
"Types?" Kati asked.
"Back before the advent of genetic enhancement, there were humans afflicted with genetic birth defects. These birth defects... impaired some abilities, yet enhanced others. One such example was something called 'Autism'. It impaired a person's social and communication abilities, yet sometimes increased their intellectual abilities. These were rare, with most being incapable of functioning in society, but those that could, were often revolutionary thinkers. When augments started appearing, they were bred out, but their traits were studied. These traits later became apart of the augment programs, and is even a trait I partially possess." Khan's eyes narrowed. "...And if my suspicions are correct, then David himself has this rare form of autism."
"But, surely he is still inferio-"
"Inferior in the physical and social forms. But this inferiority just means he is more willing to keep a distance between him and us and makes it relatively harder to manipulate him." Khan said. He kept out the part where he may know the future, as she didn't need to know.
Kati pulled her head up, a look of unease on her face.
"Mr. Sulu. inform me when we reach the edge of the belt. I want to make a stop first." Khan order.
"...you idiot." bones nonchalantly said to his Captain, from his cell across from Kirk's cell.
"Yeah, bones, I really don't need this now." Kirk said.
"No, really. I think you've reached a new level of stupidity, starting with that fucking mutiny of yours awhile back." Bones said.
"Bones, did you jus-"
"Oh come on!" Bones flung his arms out. "We're rogue now, so we don't really need to keep that 'Starfleet Etiquette' that's strictly enforced!"
"Will you relax Bones!" Kirk shouted. "Everything's going to be just-"
"FINE?!" Bones shouted. "Nothing's going to be fine! I warned you this would happen! I. Warned. You!"
"I have to agree with him." Nadi pitched up from her cell. "If I had experience like this with Khan before, LIKE YOU, his betrayal would've been extremely predictable."
Kirk was surprised at just how much emotion was just seeping from her words.
The room shook a little, everyone holding their feet in place at the sudden event.
"It appears that we have left warp." Spock said. "Khan may just be entering the calculated face off."
"Wait...Calculated?" Bones asked.
As soon as I left sickbay, a voice shouted over the intercoms. "Proximity alert! ETA 20 minutes."
That was just the amount of time needed to run to the Bridge.
When I reached the Bridge, the three were nowhere to been, occupying different positions in the ship. I approached my chair and sat in it.
"Report." I ordered.
"Ship, signature Enterprise, moving slowing through the asteroid field to our location."
"On screen." on the screen, the outside view appeared. Asteroid belts were nothing like they portrayed on TV. Instead of thousands of rocks blocking my line of sight, there were thousands of Rocks with a shit-ton of space between. Of course, this space was compensated for by the sheer size of the asteroids, the one I'm floating next to the size of a city. And that's just one of the smaller ones.
A ship similar to the Enterprise appeared in my view. Similar, as in it obviously had upgrades than from the last time I saw. It was bigger, about as big as the Vengeance now. It's decks were littered with what was obviously weapons.
"We're being hailed, my lord." A pilot said.
"Patch them in." I said.
Then, the most terrifying thing I had never wanted to see appeared. "Hello David." Khan scarred face said.
"Hello David." Khan said. He could tell that David was absolutely shocked, by his agape mouth, that Khan was speaking instead of Kirk. If he didn't expect me, than that means...
Khan could see David regain his bearings, and broke out an obviously fake smile. "Sugar Pie. Honey Bunch." He said in a sing along voice
Everyone in the Bridge, save Khan, was taken aback about the randomness of what David just said. Khan, However, knew exactly what he was trying to do.
"That's not going to work on me." Khan said simply.
"Oh? Whatever do you mean?" David asked, a nervousness barely heard in his voice.
"You're trying to throw my line thought. A technique typical of someone like you. Doesn't work, though, when you can see it coming." Khan said.
"See it coming? I take that you've studied me somehow." David spoke with a smugness. Narcissism...
"Yes, well, the Captain and his crew did offer me information to aid them in their fight against you." Khan said.
"They asked for your help? Let me guess, you stuck with it until you decided to outright betray them?" David said with a smirk.
Khan could see that David clearly knew some things about him, but not all. "That is correct."
"I take it that their dead?" A more seriousness was evident.
"No, I have spared for the time being."
"How did you find me, anyway?"
"Simple, you needed a Dilithium to power your carrier ships and this place had that located in an asteroid belt, which is perfect for a tactical position." Khan said.
"Tactical? You see me as a strategist?" David asked, his ego piqued.
Khan saw his chance. "Of course. Your previous predicaments involve considerable planning and perpetration." Khan said, dropping the hook.
"But, if there's one I haven't truly been able to see personally is your combat prowess in a ship battle." Khan continued to dangle the hook.
Khan expected to see pride to appear on David's face. He didn't expect him yawn in boredom.
"Trying to use the old 'appeal to his egomania' trick? I bet you were going to propose that we fight on a one-on-one ship battle." a gentle grin grew on his face, a certain sense of...relaxation in his eyes. Like his child had just asked him to play with them...only he was like a mother. Yes, his eyes had a maternal softness to them.
No, Khan thought. It was like a sadness that was in conflict with happiness...
What David said next surprised him even more. "In that case, I accept your proposal."
David had just done something he tried the first time he spoke during the hail. He confused Khan.
The transmission cut, and outside, Khan could see David's ship separating from the other ones, heading Straight towards them.
The Enterprise and the Vengeance moved from their covers behind asteroids, entering a clearing where the space between them was empty, save for a couple of asteroids.
They sat in silence for a few, long moments. Then, oceans of beam fire filled the emptiness between the Two ships.
The light was almost blinding. The window adjusted, allowing me peer through the fire. The Enterprise shields were holding up considerably, as part of an upgrade.
"Fire the Nanorpedoes!" I ordered, Nanorpedoes being nanite torpedoes but shortened. David could see the black, smokey missiles glide across the distance between the two ships. Suddenly, a blue mist erupted from the Enterprise hull, Encompassing the torpedoes and pulling in a tornado similar to what I had done to the Wrathful's torpedoes.
"That's my thing, you fuckers!" I shouted, having not named yet what that was called.
As the torpedoes were flung away, a green glow emitted from the ship, pulling in small rocks. Tractor beams, Wha-
The ship then flung the rocks at my ship, catching me off guard.
"Shit!" I exclaimed, as I pressed a button activating my own nanite cloud. The window was encompassed by a black smoke, only for a orange-red light to burn a hole through the cloud. It was then that I realized that nanites are easily destroyed by heat when dispersed. The Bridge shook as electronics started popping out the walls, sparks flying everywhere.
"Fuck! move the Ship!" I could see the view shift as the Vengeance tried to move away from the incoming Asteroids. I could make out the Enterprise, Which was not only just flinging asteroids at my ship, trying to clear as much asteroids away from their ship.
I realize what he's trying to do. "Oh Shit, he knows! ACTIVATE THE REMAKERS!"
"Sir, We're detecting movement from the small asteroids surrounding us." One of khan's men reported from his terminal.
"Of course." Khan looked outside, and could see the various asteroids morphing their shape. Tentacles grew out from them, as their started taking on a four-eyed skull with purple glowing eyes and mouth. Khan recognized these as the remakers David had designed.
Khan predicted that David would set up such a trap, considering the morphing abilities of nanites.
"Hail the Vengeance." Khan ordered. David's face appeared on the screen, scowl evident.
"Congratulations, you saw through my own trap." David clapped mockingly.
"It was rather obvious, considering you're a coward." At this, his scowl grew. "You would never be willing to fight without a few tricks in place, because that's you are. A trickster. A charlatan, not a strategist. You hide behind all your droids and nanites and remakers, having no true talent yourself. You think you're smart, invincible, infallible, but you're not. You're an outcast with a god complex, always fantasizing about doing great things when you're more likely to end up insignificant. Truth is, you could never beat me. Why? Because you're cowardly mind failed to see one thing."
"And what the fuck is that?!" David shouted, clearly angered.
Khan smirked. "Space battles are 3-dimensional."
Khan cuts the transmission, and taps a display, activating his own trap that he had set up earlier.
The screen went black, as I felt frightened all of a sudden.
"Sir!" A pilot shouted, looking away from his terminal. "An energy signature is powering up below us!"
"ON SCREEN!" I shouted. On the screen I could see a light-
"MOVE THE FUKCING SHI-" I was too late. The screen went out as the entire bridge, shook. Lights went out, monitors exploded.
Then, the floor blew.
A red light spewed from the floor. I attempted to shield myself with my left arm, but that was burned off. The explosion shot me away from it, face burning. I could see my legs flying above, separated.
And then, the explosion reversed. I found myself flung out the ship. It was completely quiet, no sound whatsoever.
I could feel my body burn all over. I tried to hold my breath, but I felt an explosion of pain in my lungs as I opened my mouth. My vision started blurring, head lighthead...
David eyes were looking everywhere, as he started to panic. Two legs and an arm gone. Face scarred by burns. Then, his eyes stopped and lost the life in them as he stared of into the distance.
And just like that, David had died. Alone, in the vacuum of space.
Khan watched as the unmanned cannons he had place fire a powerful beam through the hull of the Vengeance, coming out of the top of where the bridge would be.
"Sir, we're picking up a vital sign being emitted from the outside of the Vengeance." One of his kin reported.
"on screen." Khan orders. On the screen, Khan could make out a body floating away. David's body.
Khan was disappointed. Not by how easy it was to defeat him, but that he had to die at all. Despite what khan had said earlier, he found David to be a rather unique individual. An opponent Khan would sorely miss.
"Sir! The Vengeance!" Khan looked and saw the ship had pulled its pieces together and repaired itself. The ship turned, and disappeared, leaving a trail of blue dust in its wake.
"The other ships are heading towards us sir!" The remaker carriers, having seen David's defeat, opened fire on the Enterprise.
"Activate the EMP. We'll disable-"
"An energy is building up around us!"
"What?!" Khan looked outside and saw a line of asteroids light up in the distance. Then, hundreds of extremely powerful beams erupted, striking the ship's engines. David's last trick...
"Engines, shields and Weapons are down!" Nano torpedoes erupted from the Remaker carriers. The blue nano erupted from the ship, but it was burned away by a heat ray, the remakers having seen the earlier tactic.
Khan stood up, pulling device that lay at his feet up. " Everyone stand close to me!"
"What about the ones not on the Bridge?!" Kati asked.
"There's no time!" Khan yelled. Once everyone, save the bridge crew, huddled close to him, Khan activated the device. Whisps consistent of a transport swirled around them, and they disappeared.
"Argh!" An aug shouted as a blue beam hit him, another one being attacked by a nanoswarm. A blue droid appeared.
"I am here to assist you." It shouted to the Captain.
"If I live, I'm making Scotty AND you admirals!" Kirk said from his cell as it was opened.
"I'll take that as a compliment!" Scotty appeared from behind the droid.
"Scotty?! How?!" Bones shouted in disbelief.
"Thank this bugger here." Scotty indicated the droid. "He hid when all hell broke lose and waited for his time to strike."
"Come one!" Kirk shouted, reminded of his mutineering days. "Lets retake the ship-"
"Let me stop you right there Captain!" Sulu shouted as he entered the brig.
"Sulu?"Kirk exclaimed.
"Captain, the ship is crippled, Khan is gone, David is dead, and his remakers are attacking."
"David's dea-"
"NO TIME!" Sulu interrupted. The ship shook violently. "WE HAVE TO ABANDON SHIP!"
"SCOTTY!" Kirk shouted. "Beam EVERYONE OUT!"
"Yes sir!" Scotty pulled out a device.
"Wait! How the hell-" Bones was interrupted as whisps of light surrounded everyone.
Their scene changed to a large hangar, filled with all of the Enterprise's crew.
"What the hell just happened?!" Bones shouted. Everyone was confused as well, save kirk, Scotty, Sulu, and Spock.
"We would like to know that as well?!" Nadi shouted over the commotion of the crowd.
"We'll hold a meeting. Right now, let's get everyone under control!" Kirk shouted.
Kirk began calling to people, telling them to calm down.
Outside, it could be seen that they were inside an exact replica of the upgraded Enterprise, half still being constructed.
"Is the crew settling down?" Kirk asked. They were in the usual meeting room, being an exact replica of the old one.
"Yes. We've reassigned them new quarters for them and their families to live in. Some are still confused and demanding answers. Others, however, are continuing with their duties and inspecting the NEW ship." Nadi reported.
Kirk looked between some of their eyes, demanding answers themselves.
"...Alright. I guess now's the time to explain."
"You're damn right it is!" Bones exclaimed.
"Okay...Well, We, as in Spock, Sulu, Scotty and I knew Khan and his crew were planning a mutiny. But, we really needed Khan to face off against David, which we knew he would do anyway. So, we decided to set up a few...contingencies."Kirk explained.
"I prepared a couple of extra defenses in case things went sour. A few extra nanoswarms, smarter droids," Scotty looked at the droid standing next to him."And a shipwide transwarp beaming system locked on to the crew and this location."
"And this place is...?" Bones asked.
"When we were scouting the Dilithium deposits for David, we dropped a nanite package that began constructing a replica of the Enterprise." Spock explained.
"So you used Khan?...Damn, that's...clever, actually." Bones said, looking down in thought.
"And it worked, too." Sulu, having joined the meeting, said.
"You're serious? David's actually dead?" Kirk asked.
"I saw his lifeless body floating, exposed to the vacuum of space." Sulu said.
"So...it's over?" Scotty asked solemnly.
"Not quite." Spock spoke up. "The remakers are still active, David having given them warp capabilities."
"And the Vengeance was able to repair itself and took off." Sulu added.
"Then we still got a job to do." Kirk said. The weight just got heavier. "And I don't think we can do it alone."
Kirk looked at everyone. "We need more. More than one ship. The remakers are only going to get bigger and spread out faster. Which is why I've decided." Kirk stood up. "We're assembling our own fleet."
Everyone was stunned at this idea, mouths agape. "Do you propose that we begin building our own droid army." Spock asked.
"I propose that we start recruiting." Kirk said. "The Remakers threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people. We'll rally them, forming a massive fleet to spearhead the fight."
"Does that mean we'll become admirals!?" Scotty asked.
Kirk smirked. David was gone, finally.
His smirk dropped. But now, the real fight has begun.
Elsewhere, a massive city stood tall as ever. Yellow-gold spiral structures sprung out from the city.
Today, we have defeated a great enemy
The alien peoples wandered the streets, living out their daily lives.
We have suffered greatly, but we have struggled forward. facing two betrayers, and now we face the defeated one's children
The once shining structures became dark, as a massive shadow covered them. The people looked up.
They threaten everything. All planets, all continents, all countries, all cities, all homes, and all peoples.
The people began to scream. Everyone started running for cover, trying to hide.
Our mission was to explore the final frontier. To go where no one has gone before
Thousands of Remakers swarm out from carriers, as they blot out the sun.
Now we must go...
trillions of Remakers, covering the entire planet.
...Against what no one else...
Remakers attacking thousands of other worlds.
...Is willing to go against.
The End
A/N: Surprise! I decided for this story to be a prologue. I killed off David for being a mary sue. I'm planning on a sequel, and if it starts well, I'll rewrite the beginnings of this one.