The first thing Chekov noticed was that his head was pounding and there was a ringing in his ears. Slowly he opened his eyes. Feeling pressure on his wrists he glanced down and saw his arms were strapped under to the arms chair. He was about to try and pull his arms out when the masked man appeared and started to circle the chair. The masked man said nothing as completed his circle and walked back out the door that he had come in. It was quiet for a few minutes so Chekov took some time to think back to what had happened on the ship. As he sifted through the memories putting them all in order he realized what had caused him to hesitate, Khan had been there.

"Figured it all out have you now?" Khans voice sounded from the doorway.

"I thought you had been frozen and sent to a far out research colony." Chekov said sounding much calmer than he felt.

"I was till I was freed by a group of simpletons who believe us to be on par with Gods"

"Is that not what you believe as well?"

"No I surpass Gods, They have flaws I do not." Khan said with a smirk. "I also never miss when I aim to kill someone which leads me to wonder how you survived."

"Just lucky I guess." Chekov said allowing sarcasm to leak into his voice.

"Luck had nothing to with it. I was curious so I did a bio scan, care to explain the odd energy signals I discovered coming from various points in your body?" Khan asked with genuine curiosity in his voice.

"I thought you knew all."

"I have my suspicions but I would still like to hear it verified."

"Then what is your theory on it?"

"All these energy readings seem to be focused on your vital major organs such as your heart and lungs. There seems to be some attached to various muscles but all seem wired to a second device that has been implanted on your spine. This device is located somewhere almost impossible to remove. Considering how it is all wired up I would say that it is monitoring the other devices power output, but why is my question." Khan said as he slowly circled the chair. Chekov clenched his hands and glared at the floor as Khan continued his rant. "Or it would have been had I not recognized its particular signal, you are a walking bomb. If those energy outputs are raised by even the most miniscule amount the bomb is detonated, how clever. So that leads me to my next question, who is controlling you I wonder?"

Chekov quickly switched his glare from the floor to Khan who had stopped to his left.

"At least that explains our actions on the ship, whoever did this to you must want you back and you are absolutely terrified of them. You would obviously rather die than go back to them and that bomb on your spine is blocking all energy signals made by the others from going beyond a few feet from your body. Ah so Starfleet put that bomb in you." Khan said taking a step back with a wide grin on his face. Chekov went back to glaring at the floor. "They are protecting you on the condition you work for them but I guess they just don't trust you, but you can trust me."

"What makes you think I would trust you?" Chekov spat switching his glare back to Khan.

"I can take the bomb out, but leave the part of it that is hiding your signal."

"And what would you get out of it?"

"I need a way off this rock and way to get my crew out of here." Khan said jumping in front of Chekov "Freedom for freedom, sound fair?"