After the ship had taken off, Jim requested Uhura open a ship wide channel. Luna just continued to stare forward at the clear space they were headed through. She tried to keep her face as steely as possible, but she couldn't help the small tears silently trickling down her face. "Channel open, sir." Uhura reported.

Jim continued to stare at the back of Luna's head, knowing he had really messed up, and he had to fix it somehow. "Attention, crew of the Enterprise. As most of you know, Christopher Pike, former captain of this ship and our friend, is dead." Jim took a long pause after that sentence, still wishing it wasn't true. "The man who killed him has fled our system and is hiding on the Klingon homeworld, somewhere he believes we are unwilling to go. We are on our way there now." Luna shut her eyes, wishing this mission wasn't happening. Wishing none of this had ever happened. She even found herself wishing she had never joined Starfleet. She didn't want to be here, and she didn't want to be with Jim.

"Per Admiral Marcus, it is essential that our presence go undetected. Tensions between the Federation and the Klingon Empire have been high. Any provocation could lead to an all-out war." Jim continued to stare at Luna, knowing he had to make this better. "I will personally lead a landing party to an abandoned city on the surface of Kronos where we will capture the fugitive, John Harrison, and return him to Earth, so he can face judgment for his actions." Both Luna and Spock turned to look at each other, not expecting that of Jim. The two of them went from looking at each other to look back at Jim. As Jim looked at her, noticing her eyes wet, he slowly lipped: I'm sorry.

Luna continued to stare at him, knowing he was just pulling her right back in, and she was completely conflicted. Scotty was her best friend, but she was in love with Jim. But she did tell Scotty that sometimes love wasn't enough to keep a relationship going. She just gulped and turned back to her seat, knowing that maybe this decision would be harder than she thought.

Jim took a deep sigh, knowing that what he did was unforgiveable, but he was going to keep Scotty's advice in the back of his mind about Luna. "All right. Let's go get this son of a bitch. Kirk out."

Once Jim was done, Spock approached him, making Luna sigh, knowing if Spock was going up there then as second officer, she was going to have to go up there too. She stood up from her spot and stood on Jim's left with Spock on his right. "Captain," Spock stated as soon as Luna made it to her spot. I believe you have made the right decision." Spock and Jim looked at Luna, expecting her to say something else to follow the usual pattern of conversation between the three, but she just continued to stand there, annoyed. Jim pursed his lips and turned to look forward, knowing that was going to happen. "If I can be of assistance," Spock spoke to break the tension. "I would be happy to accompany you on the away team."

"You?" Luna scoffed, finally meeting Spock's eyes. "Happy?"

"I was simply attempting to use your vernacular to convey an idea."

Luna gave a slight eye roll, but Jim gave Spock a warm smile and nod. "Thank you, Mr. Spock."

The two again turned to Luna, hoping she would say something to them. She took a deep sigh, knowing she had to talk. "I guess, you can count on me too, Captain."

"Well," Jim spoke with a slight smile. "I assume 'I guess' is better than nothing." Luna stared an angry stare for another moment before walking back to her seat.

Jim sighed as he watched her walk away, and Spock began to lean into Jim. "Captain, may I suggest – "

"No." Jim quickly said, really not wanting relationship advice from Spock. "Please, no."

Carol was intently studying the torpedoes, running a detection machine over it when Bones smacked his hands on it in a beat. Carol screamed and jumped at the sudden noise, Bones realizing she didn't see him coming. "Are you insane?!" She screamed at him. "Why would you hit a torpedo with your bare hands?!"

Bones gave her a small smile, trying to apologize for it as best as he could. "Sorry, wasn't thinking."

"Obviously." Carol mumbled under her breath before going back to her device.

Bones sighed slightly, realizing this was not going off to a good start. "Well, I came down here to tell you that lunch is up in the med bay."

"I'm not in medical sciences, Dr. McCoy." She told him quickly while still looking down at her device.

Bones sighed slightly, knowing she had a point, but he didn't want that to be the end of the conversation. "I mean, they're going to send lunch to you at some point. You might as well get it now."

Carol's eyes slowly moved up to his with a small smile on her face. "So, I'll eat then."

Bones got a flirty smile on his face, knowing what was happening even if he hadn't done it in a while. "Look, as the ship's attending physician, I request that you eat now."

"Dr. Wallace," They both turned around to see Spock standing there. Bones gave him an annoyed stare. Spock always kind of got in his way, but this time, he was getting in the way of something way more important to him than normal.

Bones quickly looked back to Carol, giving her a little wink. "Lunch is upstairs if you want it."

Carol could feel herself blushing as he walked away from her, but when she turned away from him, Spock was right in front of her. She jumped slightly before calming down to address what Spock wanted from her. "Mr. Spock." She sighed out, trying to regain her breath. "You startled me."

"What are you doing, Doctor?"

Carol looked back to the missiles she was working on with a confused glance before turning back to him. "Verifying that the torpedo's internal - "

"You misunderstand." Spock spoke in his monotone again, making Carol nervous since she was fearing something in the back of her mind. "What are you doing aboard this ship? There is no record of you being assigned to the Enterprise."

She offered Spock a large smile, trying to keep her cool, afraid that he had found out her secret. "Really? That must be some sort of mistake."

"My conclusion as well, Dr. Marcus." The second he used her real last name, she went stiff, and her smile slowly fell. "Except that you have lied about your identity. Wallace is the surname of your mother. I can only assume the Admiral is your father."

Carol had to think over what to do. She liked her lips before moving closer to him, hoping she would be able to negotiate with him. "Mr. Spock. I'm aware that I have no right to ask this of you. But please, he cannot know that I'm here – " Suddenly, the ship jarred forward.

Everyone on the bridge fell forward, and Luna slammed into the controls, hitting her nose so hard she could feel warm liquid beginning to trickle out of her nostrils. Jim hurried to her, placing a hand on her back as she tried to wipe the blood off her face. "Engineering manually dropped us out of warp, sir."

Jim still kept his hand on Luna's back while he weaved his other hand around her to connect to Chekov. "Mr. Chekov, did you break my ship?"

"Sorry, sir!" Chekov yelled over the radio, Luna only pictured him running around the engineering deck like a chicken with his head cut off. "I don't know what happened! The core overheated. I had to activate the emergency stop. It must be a coolant leak. I need time to find it." Luna slowly turned to look at Jim with an annoyed face, knowing that if Scotty was still here, he would probably make sure that didn't happen before they took off. Jim rolled his eyes at her dramatically, knowing exactly what she was thinking when she finally removed her hands from her face. "Sorry, Captain."

Luna looked to her left as Sulu continued to see if there was anything else he could do to get them moving again. "Sulu, what's the time to our destination?"

He sighed, staring down at the controls before finally looking up at her. "Twenty minutes."

Luna turned back to Jim, shaking her head as her eyes drifted off in thought. "That's twenty minutes in enemy space we weren't counting on."

"All right. We better hop to it." Jim spoke while walking back up to the captain's chair.

When Luna stood up, Bones was there, immediately taking her face in his hands to inspect her nose. "Oh my god." She spoke in a muffled voice from him blocking her mouth.

When Jim turned back to them, he simply sighed and turned back to what was in front of him. That's when he realized Spock was no longer on the bridge. "Where's Spock?"

Spock then appeared what seemed like out of nowhere. "Here, Captain."

"You're coming with me to Kronos." Jim told him with a nod before turning to Uhura. "Lieutenant, how's your Klingon?"

"It's rusty, but it's good."

"Good, you're coming, too."

Luna finally broke away from Bones, moving towards Jim with a slightly annoyed face. "Um, me too."

Jim slowly turned to her while shaking his head. "No, it's too dangerous."

Luna let out a little laugh while crossing her arms. "Yeah, and you literally yelled at me in front of the whole bridge. You owe me one."

Jim let out a loud, annoyed sigh before turning back to Spock and Uhura, getting back to what he wanted to ask them. "This isn't going to be a problem, is it, you two working together?"

"Absolutely not." Uhura answered immediately before giving Spock a dirty look, and then walking off.

Spock turned to Jim with a slightly terrified look. "Unclear."

Jim already felt like this mission was going to shit, and Luna just glanced Spock, not too happy with him as well. "I'll meet you in the shuttle bay." He sighed out, really not wanting this all to go bad when they had it all at the tip of his fingers.

He turned to look at Luna, motioning with his head for her to follow him. She hurried to make sure she was right next to him, really wanting to talk to him before they did this. "Luna, Jim," She sighed once she realized Bones was blocking them from moving. "You're not actually going down there, are you? You don't rob a bank when the getaway car has a flat tire."

Jim mulled over what he said before turning to his chair, pressing the button to reach Chekov. "I'm sure engineering will have us all patched up by the time we get back. Isn't that right, Mr. Chekov?"

"Yes, Captain." Luna looked to the speaker with a quizzical look on her face, knowing he didn't sound too sure, but Jim just gave Bones a big, confident smile. "I'll do my best, sir."

Jim then turned around to look at Sulu, Luna moving even closer to him, making Jim know automatically that there was something she wanted to talk about before their mission. "Mr. Sulu, you have the conn. Once we're on route, I want you to transmit a targeted comm burst to Harrison's location. You tell him you have a bunch of real big torpedoes pointed at his head and if he doesn't play nice, you're not afraid to use them." Sulu's eyes slowly drifted downward, concerning both Jim and Luna. "Is that a problem?"

"No, sir." Luna moved her head forward, expecting more to come from that. "I've just never sat in the chair before."

They both smiled, Luna giving him a little wink. "You're gonna do great, Sulu."

Jim and Luna turned around to head to the elevator, but Bones hurried after them. "Jim! Wait! You just sat that man down at a high-stakes poker game with no cards and told him to bluff. Now Sulu's a good man, but he is no captain."

Jim looked off at Sulu as he spoke. "For the next two hours, he is." Jim then processed that this was the second metaphor in less than five minutes. "And enough with the metaphors, all right? That's an order."

"Yeah." Luna scoffed, getting really annoyed with his constant interjecting. "Where's Carol? Don't you have more flirting to do?"

Bones' mouth dropped, not realizing his daughter noticed he was attracted to a woman. "How the hell do you know about that?"

Jim and Luna slowly turned to each other with an amused stare before turning back to Bones. "How does everyone on this ship not know that?" Jim almost laughed out.

Luna leaned forward, rubbing her father on the arm with a pouty lip. "It's really cute, daddy. Watching you try to flirt."

Bones angrily looked back and forth at the two before making way for them to walk past him. "Will you two get the hell out of here?"

They both smiled at him before walking to the elevator. Once they got inside, and the door shut, the two moved to look at each other. "I am so sorry." Jim almost whispered, feeling so bad for everything that had happened to them.

"Look," Luna began. "I don't want to go into this thing being mad at each other, knowing something can happen to any of us."

"I feel the same way." Jim sighed out.

"Even though I should really smack you in your gorgeous face for everything you've done to me for the past few days."

Jim thought over what she said before looking to her with his idea face. "Slap me then."

Luna had to blink a couple of times. "What?"

"Slap me." Jim said obviously while shrugging. "I obviously deserve it."

"Yeah, but I don't know how I feel about that."

"Come on just slap me."

"Jim."

"Slap me!"

Luna struck him in the face as hard as she could right when the elevator doors opened where multiple lieutenants saw it. Jim and Luna turned to look at them, not sure how to address that situation. Jim wiped the shock off his face before putting on his professional one, and nodded to them. "Carry on."

They all did as he said before Luna looped her arm through his as they walked towards their room to change. "Did I do it too hard?"

Jim stretched his jaw before looking to her. "I mean, damn Luna, I'll be surprised if I have feeling back in it at the end of the day."

Jim, Luna, Spock, and Uhura moved to their shuttle where two red shirts were waiting for them. "Ready to deploy, Captain." One red shirt reported once they had reached them.

"Lieutenants," Jim announced while handing them both different duffle bags. Up close, Jim realized one of the red shirts was Jeremy. He almost forgot Cupcake was on the ship. "Lose the red shirts. You are K'normian arms dealers. Put those on."

The two lieutenants looked to each other and then back to their captain with a puzzled stare. "Sir?"

Luna looked to them when she was about to walk into the ship, knowing if her and Jim were going to get back to normal they had to begin working with each other like a team again, and a lot of the times, that included saying what the other was going to say. "Look, if this thing goes south, there can be nothing tying us to Starfleet."

Jim nodded, knowing what she had said was more or less what he was going to say. "Unless of course you want to start a war, Mr. Hendorff."

Jeremy looked down, feeling both Jim and Luna's eyes burning a hole into him. Although, that could go back to his previous experience with the two. "No, sir."

"Good." Jim told them with a little smile as Luna climbed into the ship, and Jim began to follow after her. "Me, neither."

Once the lieutenants had changed, they made their way to the planet, and by further examination, were able to see a ship docked by the planet. "I am detecting a single life sign in the Ketha Province." Spock announced.

Luna looked across the data at her seat next to Spock. She sighed before looking ahead again, thinking about how they wouldn't have been able to get here if it wasn't for what Scotty had done before they left. "Given the information provided by Mr. Scott, this is most likely John Harrison."

Jim sighed a little bit at how sad Luna sounded when she said his name, but they had to continue on with this mission no matter what happened. "Mr. Sulu," Jim announced through the radio. "I think we found our man. You let him know you mean business."

"Aye, Captain." Everyone on their shuttle, and everyone on the Enterprise seemed to fall silent, ready to hear what Sulu had. "Attention, John Harrison. This is Captain Hikaru Sulu of the U.S.S. Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will unleash the entire payload of advanced long-range torpedoes currently locked onto your location. You have two minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal to do so will result in your obliteration." Luna felt her eyebrows lift, never hearing this side of Sulu before, and they had known each other for years. "If you test me, you will fail."

Everyone on the ship was shocked, but not as shocked as Bones was from previously doubting him. "Mr. Sulu," He nearly whispered, unsure of what he would do if he was provoked right now. "Remind me never to piss you off."

Luna turned around to look at Jim, mostly just because she wanted to look at him in case something went wrong. She wanted to spend as much time looking at him as she could. "We'll arrive at Harrison's location in three minutes, Captain."

"It is unlikely that he will come willingly." Spock added while Luna placed her hands back on the wheel. "I calculate the odds of him attempting to kill us at 91.6%."

"Fantastic." Jim scoffed.

"Good thing you don't care about dying." Uhura said quickly, really wanting just Spock to hear it, but everyone heard it, and everyone turned their head toward her.

Silence passed, no one knowing what to say until Spock decided to break that silence. "I am sorry, Lieutenant. I could not hear what you said."

"Oh, I didn't say anything." Everyone slowly turned back forward, wanting to just let the awkward moment go, but Uhura began speaking again. "Actually, I'd be happy to speak if you're willing to listen to me."

"Guys." Jim called out, afraid this would happen as Luna began to slide into her chair, trying to hide into her jacket like a frightened turtle.

"Lieutenant," Spock said quickly, trying to stop her from speaking. "I would prefer to discuss this in private."

"You'd prefer not to discuss this at all." She bit back.

"Our current circumstances – "

Jim turned to Luna, hoping to get her help in this, but she just continued sinking into her jacket. Jim let out an irritated sigh, knowing Luna wouldn't be any help, before looking back to Spock and Uhura. "Are you really gonna do this right now?"

Uhura just continued talking right over Jim, though. "What never seems to require your undivided focus – " She stopped herself, knowing she had to say something to Jim. "I'm sorry, Captain," Uhura about yelled. "Just two seconds."

Jim sighed, knowing there was no stopping them, and threw his hand in their direction. "Okay." He then turned his attention to Luna whose hair was just sticking out now. "What about you? You were no help in this situation."

She popped her head out of her jacket with an offended look on her face. "You know I don't do well with couple conflicts because my dad decided to hoe around the whole Midwest."

"At that volcano," Uhura started, throwing Jim and Luna's conversation to the side, and only focusing on her and Spock. "You didn't give a thought to us. What it would do to me if you died, Spock. You didn't feel anything. You didn't care." She turned back to what was in front of her, feeling herself getting emotional. "And I'm not the only one who's upset with you. The Captain and Luna are, too.

"Wha" Jim began, blindsided by being mentioned. "No, no, no."

Luna tried to turn all the way around, but she could only turn as much as her seatbelt would let her. "Don't drag us into this."

Luna adjusted back into her seat comfortably, and some time passed before Jim decided to speak up. "Uhura is right."

"Jim!" Luna yelled while throwing her hand in the air. "What happened to staying out of it?!"

"Well, she's right!" Jim yelled out, becoming flustered with the whole conversation. "I'm pissed, and don't act like you're not either! When's the last time you actually talked to him?"

Luna opened her mouth to argue again, but Spock stopped them. "Your suggestion that I do not care about dying is incorrect." They all turned to look at him, but Spock just looked down while he spoke. "A sentient being's optimal chance at maximizing their utility is a long and prosperous life."

"Great." Uhura spoke in a monotone voice while rolling her eyes.

"Not exactly a love song, Spock." Luna whispered, not sure what he was trying to accomplish by quoting himself.

"You misunderstand." They all got quiet again, noticing Spock's voice sounded way more serious than usual. "It is true I chose not to feel anything upon realizing that my own life was ending. As Admiral Pike was dying, I joined with his consciousness and experienced what he felt at the moment of his passing." Luna turned to look at Jim, but he just kept his head down. She wished their seats weren't as far apart as they were so she could be able to hold his hand and comfort him. "Anger. Confusion. Loneliness. Fear. I had experienced those feelings before, multiplied exponentially on the day my planet was destroyed. Such a feeling is something I choose never to experience again. Nyota, you mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of my not caring." Uhura's head fell into her seat, taking deep breaths, feeling like she had everything completely wrong in these past few days. "Well, I assure you, the truth is precisely the opposite."

That's when something jarred the ship. "What the hell was that?" Jim asked as they tried to regain their bearings.

Luna tried to get a hold of the controls again, but the blast was too strong. "We are being pursued by a D-4 class Klingon vessel." Spock reported.

Luna turned to look at Jim with a terrified look on her face. "I thought this sector was abandoned!"

"It must be a random patrol." Uhura reported.

Jim kept his stare with Luna for a moment but went back to what was in front of him, knowing he had to take control to keep her anxiety under control. "Hold on!" He took his controls over, knowing only his recklessness would get him out of this.

"This ship has no offensive capabilities." Luna stressed, feeling a panic attack beginning to rise.

"It's got us." He assured her with a small smile, knowing just a little smile from him would calm her slightly. "Give me all six fuel cells." Jim demanded to Spock after turning away from Luna.

"Aye, Captain."

Jim accelerated, but the Klingon ship kept behind them, and began firing again. Another blast jarred the ship, worrying the red shirts on board. "Damn it!" Jim cursed, trying to get control of the ship again.

"They're closing fast," Uhura reported while staring at her screen. "Bearing 285!"

Jim was able to spot a small opening on his map, giving him either a really bright or really dumb idea. "All right, there! There! We can lose them there."

Luna looked to what he had pointed out on the map, taking a deep, worried breath and letting out a slight laugh at this suicidal thought. "If you are suggesting that we utilize the passage between the approaching structures, this ship will not fit."

"We'll fit." Jim assured matter-o-factly as Luna tried to dodge all of the blasts being sent the ship's way.

Luna turned around to look at Spock, hoping he would be able to help her convince Jim that this idea was crazy. "Captain," Spock spoke, matching Luna's tone of worry. "We will not fit."

"We'll fit, we'll fit!" Jim screamed while taking control of the steering. Everyone screamed as Jim turned them sideways and went full blast through the crevice. The ship could no longer follow them, but they continued to smash into the walls until they finally made it through the other side. They all took a few moments to breathe, knowing they barely made it through. Luna slowly turned to Jim with an angry stare. Jim offered her a small smile as strands were now wildly coming out of her tight bun. "I told you we'd fit."

Luna rolled her eyes and began to focus on where she would land them. "I am not sure that qualifies." Spock spoke in a condescending tone while Luna slowed down but made sure to stay alert.

"Any sign of them?" Jim asked while Luna continued to pivot the ship, ready to get them out of there if need be.

"No." Uhura sighed out. "Which worries me."

"We lost them!" Jim yelled out in excitement. No one else was sharing his excitement though, knowing nothing was certain.

"Or they're jamming our scanners." Uhura brought up.

"Or we lost them." Jim said again, not understanding why they were all so doubtful.

That's when the Klingon ship showed up in front of them, a spotlight going directly on them. They were completely surrounded by various Klingon ships, and their speakers came on, yelling angry Klingon at them. They each looked around at the ships, not sure what to do. "They're ordering us to land." Uhura finally translated. "Captain, they're gonna want to know why we're here." Everyone's breath began to pick up, thinking about all the possible scenarios, knowing that none of them would be a happy ending. "And they're gonna torture us. Question us. And they're gonna kill us.

"So, we come out shooting." Jim answered simply.

Luna shook her head, knowing that would not work out in their favor. "We're outnumbered, outgunned." Luna took a pause to shut her eyes and take a deep breath. No matter what happened, no matter what situation crossed her mind next, they were going to die. "There's no way we survive if we attack first."

Uhura unbuckled her seat belt and moved to Jim, looking him dead in the eyes. "Sir, you brought me here because I speak Klingon. Then let me speak Klingon."

They each knew she had a point, but they didn't want to put Uhura in that danger. Jim took a huge sigh before nodding and looking to Luna. "Land us." Luna turned to the controls, and began to land them, but she felt worry in the pit of her stomach.

Uhura hurried to the entrance once Luna landed, and the three left in the ship moved closer together to watch what would happen.

"This isn't going to work." Jim sighed out.

"It is our only logical option." Spock spoke with a shrug while Jim placed his hand on Luna's hip out of nerves. "And if you interrupt her now, you will not only incur the wrath of the Klingons but that of Lieutenant Uhura as well." They each looked to each other, knowing that was true as the red shirts moved behind them to watch as well.

Uhura stood in front of the large group of men, and the conversation began. Jim's anxiety began to rise before running to the guns stowed away on the ship. He quickly handed everyone a gun, and the red shirts thanked him as he quickly sat down next to Luna again. Luna just stared at him until he looked at her. When he met her eyes, he pulled her close and shut his eyes while kissing the temple of her head. He knew that if something happened, this was the last moment he wanted with her. Not the fighting they were doing, but he wanted this. Just holding her and being close with her as she rested on his chest.

Spock stared at them, wishing he could say that if something happened to Uhura out there. He turned his gaze back to her, terrified of what would happen. As the conversation escalated, the Klingon grabbed Uhura by the neck and began to raise her to be eye level with him. Everyone tensed, not sure if they should break it up or let Uhura handle it. As the Klingon pulled out a knife, shots rained on the group, and everyone began to fall back.

When they looked to the shooter, he was wearing a cloak, but his weapons were familiar to them. They were Starfleet weapons. "We gotta go!" Jim yelled while running out of the ship.

Spock followed, but Luna was still mesmerized by the shooter. That had to be John Harrison. There was no other explanation. "Lieutenant Commander!" One of the red shirts called to her.

She finally broke out of her gaze, and ran out of the ship, knowing the only thing she could do was help Uhura. When her and the red shirt ran out together, Luna hit as many Klingons as she could, and the shooter kept firing, but he didn't even try to hit one of them. The last surviving Klingons tried to escape in one of their ships, but the shooter took them down with complete ease.

Luna began to hurry down one of aisles, but a Klingon came out of nowhere, and grabbed her gun. Luna let out a grunt as she fought back, but the Klingon sent her on her back. Luna tried to scramble back, but she just didn't have the room. That's when a shot grew in the middle of its chest. When the Klingon fell, she saw Jim was her savior. She got up and hurried to hug him. When she leaned down to pick up her gun, Jim still wouldn't let go of her.

They ran out of the aisle with their arms wrapped around each other. Jim aimed his gun at the shooter, but they were both tackled down by another Klingon. It slammed Jim's face into the ground, but that gave Luna the perfect chance to kick it in the face. Once it was dazed from the kick, she moved forward and stabbed it in the chest.

Another Klingon came from behind Luna and kicked her in the face, sending her back down on Jim. The Klingon tried to go for her again, so Jim rolled her over so Jim would get whatever hit Luna was meant to get, but the shooter got both of the Klingons advancing towards them. They were both so confused. Why was he helping them? He just tried to kill everyone at the Starfleet base, and now, he was saving them.

Spock and Uhura hurried to help them up and move them out of the line of fire. Once they were safe, they continued to watch the shooter, noticing how expertly he was going from one gun to the other. That's when he removed his cloak, confirming Luna's suspicions. He didn't stop until he had killed all of the Klingons, and then pointed his gun to move toward the four. Spock stood up with his gun pointed at him as Jim, Luna, and Uhura stood up to defend themselves as well.

"Stand down." Spock threatened in a steely voice.

"How many torpedoes?" He asked in a threatening voice.

"Stand down!" Spock shouted again, but this time, John Harrison shot the gun out of Spock's hands. They all jumped and looked to the discarded gun.

"The torpedoes," John Harrison shouted again, making them all look back to him in fear. "The weapons you threatened me with in your message! How many are there?!"

A moment passed before Luna was finally the one to answer with a shaky voice. "Seventy-two."

His eyes locked with her, and Jim looked back and forth between the two, scared for what he was going to do to her. Jim prepared himself to jump in front of her if he shot in her direction. "I surrender." John Harrison finally spoke before throwing his gun to the side.

Spock brought his gun back up to him as Jim began moving towards him with a slow pace. "On behalf of Christopher Pike, my friend, I accept your surrender." Jim turned to look at Luna, wanting to go back to her, but there was still that anger bubbling at the surface. He turned around and delivered a right hook into his face. Luna jumped, but Harrison didn't even flinch.

Jim continued to punch him in the face, but it didn't even affect Harrison. Jim then moved to punching him in the gut, but still, there was no reaction. Jim was going wild throwing out various blows, and he was seeming to hurt himself more than Harrison. Jim took a slight break and began to breathe heavily, making Luna's chest tighten, but Jim just kept going.

"Captain!" Luna finally yelled, but it was like Jim didn't even hear her. He just kept going. "JIM!"

That's when Jim stopped. He continued to stare at Harrison, trying to regain his breath. "Captain." Harrison whispered out with a wicked smile on his face. "Captain James T. Kirk."

They continued to stare at each other, but Luna had enough of him. She hurried to Jim, wrapping her arm around his shoulders, and pulling him away, but she wasn't going to stop staring at Harrison. "Cuff him." She growled out before pulling Jim away from the scene.

Uhura and Spock continued to stare at John Harrison, noticing his wicked smile never fading. He wore it proudly like a badge of honor. Spock didn't dare move his gun from Harrison's direction for fear that he would try something else.

MisfitCarter: Instead of a kick to the nuts we can settle on a slap to the face! Also, same about Carol when she showed up in the movie. My best friend was so annoyed with me when I freaked out, but I couldn't help it haha. Thank you so much for your review, love!

Love. Fiction. 2017: Thank you, love! I hope you liked this chapter too!

I am sorry it took me forever and a day for me to upload, but college is an absolute bitch sometimes. I've just been writing here and there when I got a chance, but yesterday I wrote like a mad woman, and good god, I've missed it so much. And I've missed this story, and all of you! I hope you all like this chapter, and hopefully I'll get some more time to write soon! Remember to review!