Chapter 11:
*T'Aimnu's POV*
Along the way towards the Bridge, Cousin Spock comes over to my side. "Cousin T'Aimnu!"
"Cousin Spock, what is it? I need to get to the captian," I informed him, starting to head back to the bridge.
He then grabs my arm gently, speaking to me, "Captain Pike promoted me as Captain while place Mr. Kirk in my former position."
"Seriously?" I asked shocked, turning back to him.
"Yes, also as captain I have you and Dr. McCoy as the Chief Medical Officers of the U.S.S. Enterprise."
"Thank you Cousin Spock," I smiled softly to him, but then frowned, "my mind of trance showed me that Romulans are destroying Vulcan from its core."
"What?"
"Yes."
"Someone from the other ship claims has been acquainted with us."
"I do not understand."
"He also called you Dr. T'Aimu."
"But that's the Creature spelling and my spelling is Vulcan."
"Agreed. Now go back to Medbay and inform your professional partner and I will inform when you and I are going down to the surface."
"Understood, oh and Cousin Spock?" I asked, blushing a little.
"Yes Cousin T'Aimnu?"
"Leonard and I confessed our love and now we are mates," I blushed a little more.
"Have you two done the Creature tradition?"
"Unfortunately no, I don't wish to tell him that tradition until we finish this mission."
"Very well, go to your mate now," he says, letting go of my arm.
"Yes Cousin Spock," I head back to the Medbay.
"Congratulations on your love."
"Thank you."
*Meanwhile on Vulcan*
Sarek's hovercraft hurries along the desert floor. It enters into the massive cave opening. Solok, Thorne, Sarek, and Amanda gets out of the craft and into the cave.
*Enterprise*
Upon entering to the Medbay, the sight has gone worse since I was here a little while ago. More chaos with men and women wounded. It's bad and bloody.
"T'Aimnu!" Leonard exclaims, really badly shaken up from one location of the Medbay.
"Leonard!" I exclaimed, hurrying over to his aid. "The captain has put my cousin as Captain of the Enterprise and promoted you and me as the Chief Medical Officers of the ship."
"Just plain great," he rolls his eyes at this.
Another attack strikes us.
"My love," I speak to him, "we need to help these people rather we like it or not, please my dearest."
"Only for you my Little Blue Star," he half smiles to me.
I smiled back, moving my fingers against his fingers, "the Vulcan kiss," and move them again, "the Creature kiss."
"And the human kiss," he says, leaning to me.
Our lips meet again before we scatter around the Medbay to help out.
*Meanwhile*
*No One's POV*
A shuttle from the Enterprise flies to the planet Vulcan, seeing its familiar red orb sight. Everyone is suited up for the mission. Thrusters flare while it descends to show a different sight.
The Narada lays there. Tentacle cables descend toward the planet's outer atmosphere. It is where the plasma drill sub-station is tethered. Beams shooting through the source of the drill into the planet. The shuttle from earlier glides over at least sixty thousand feet above the drill.
Three men are in the violent freefall, heading towards the planet in a wild spin. It rockets through the void at one hundred and fifty miles per hour. Breaks through the Vulcan's atmosphere while shaking violently at terminal velocity.
"Whoooaaahyyyeaaaah!" one of them, Olson, called out, having fun of the speed of the shuttle.
One by one, they stabilize, falling face down straight past the cable tentacles tethering the drill to the Narada. A sense of incredible relative speed and scale. Their hands and feet are angled for the control, soaring themselves towards the plasma drill. Another, Sulu pulls his chute first with Kirk following the lead. Their chutes snap open as the red shirt, Olson, blows past them.
"Olson!" Kirk calls out to him. "Pull now, now!"
He tries to, but it was too late and his body gets slam into the edge of the circular drill, bouncing off hard steel and right into its center. The swirling vortex spins and now he was instantly eviscerated into the plasma light.
While approaching, Kirk appears to be more terrified. He comes in hard as well, resulting in slamming against the drill edge, bounces but quickly gets his footing. A button on his chute gets pressed and slits appear in the fabric, suddenly there's no more drag and the chute auto-retracts into Kirk's pack.
Sulu isn't so lucky. At least twenty yards from the drill surface is where his chute gets snared into the cables, moving him upside down. The pressure of the wind hits him hard as his body is blown sideways. The chute lines begin rubbing against the sharp metal of the suspension rig.
Kirk holds onto the one of the chute's cables, yelling up, "I'm coming for you!"
He tries to climb up, Sulu's cables are snapping one by one. He tries to climb back up using the cable towards the rig. On Kirk's way up to the rig, Sulu calls out, "Behind you!"
A Romulan appears when the young Kirk spins around, tackling him to the drill platform. The two fight on the edge of the swirling plasma drill with the wind roaring. Suddenly another Romulan appears from the open hatch. Sulu slides down on the cable, jumping and taking the second guard.
Starfleet battles the Romulans to the death. Sulu kicks off an antenna piece and uses it as a weapon. It swashbuckling at least ten thousand feet and it's a frenzied assault. He manages to get his Romulan into the vortex, killing him into the process.
Kirk draws his phaser and point blank shoots his Romulan, knocking him clear of the cylinder and falling him to his death. Ignoring the pressure of the wind, both Kirk and Sulu moves towards the Hatch to open it.
Pike's shuttle door opens for him to step out. Nero's men surrounds him and Ael steps forward. Pike stands tall, knowing this is the end for him.
"I'm Captain Christopher Pi-" he begins but he gets a punch to the face, dropping him down to his knees. His blazing eyes look up to Ayel wiping a trickle of blood from his lip. "So much for diplomacy." he gets dragged away.
Meanwhile, Kirk and Sulu drops in through the outer hatch to find a control console. Sulu flips switches without any results. "None of this is familiar," he stated, "the interface, the controls…"
"Step back," Kirk speaks up.
"What, you have an idea?" Sulu asked him, turning to him.
"Yea, yea, I do."
He fires his phaser to the console, blasting it.
The immense column of light disappears. It leaves only a towering, swirling vortex of dirt.
Uhura's console lights up with activity. "The jamming signal's gone - communications are reestablished," she states.
"Transporter control reengaged," Chekov says from his station.
Spock looks up from his console to grave, "Chekov, run gravitational sensors, I want to know what they're doing to the planet."
"Aye, Commander - Keptin, sorry, Keptin."