Chapter Three: The Take-over
Khan led Kirk and Scotty through the enemy ship…his ship, to the bridge, storming it quickly and easily, taking out the remaining ships' crew with a few simple stuns. Khan saw Kirk turn to confront Admiral Marcus, and then out of the corner of his eye he saw Scotty raise his stun-gun and a stream of blue light was shot at him. It dropped Khan…but he wasn't as unconscious as everyone seemed to think.
He readied himself for his attack, listening to Kirk's 'thought-to-be-noble' attempt to get the Admiral to surrender…but he was refusing. With a roar of outrage, Khan hurled himself at Scotty, taking him out with one blow. He went after Kirk next, punching him in the face again and again until he was out, not unaware of the Admiral's dash towards a sealed door. Khan made towards him, pushing Admiral Marcus' daughter out of his way, stamping on her upper leg and snapping her femur as he strode past her to where the idiot Admiral had cornered himself. Khan took hold of his enemy's head with a vice-like grip – slowly crushing his skull with his bare hands.
"Lieutenant! On screen! Now!" Admiral Marcus cried as his head was slowly crushed. Instantly, the ships' Bridge screen flashed on, showing a man who must be the Lieutenant the Admiral must have shouted to. "Lieutenant Paige!"
"Here, Sir." The Lieutenant was very calm, but his eyes showed both his conflict and his fear. The Lieutenant was holding a gun to someone's head…someone whose identity was concealed by a bag over their head.
"You kill me," Admiral Marcus continued, grimacing as his eyes flashed towards the screen and Lieutenant Paige removed the bag from his hostages' head. "And she dies."
Khan's eyes left those of Admiral Marcus and travelled, in what felt like slow motion, to the screen. When his eyes focused on the hostage, bound and gagged painfully, tears cascading down her face, he let out a howl of both rage and anguish. They had her…they had Mira…they had his wife!
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"Let her go!" Khan yelled, tightening his crushing hold and gaining an agonised cry from the Admiral.
"Did you really think you were the only one we 'unfroze'? The only one we woke up, Khan?" Admiral Marcus sneered through the agony of his half crushed skull. "We needed…insurance."
"For if you ever went rogue." Lieutenant Paige put in, holding the gun closer to Mira's head.
"You will give her back to me!" Khan's rage extended down to his crushing hold, gaining another wonderfully agonised scream from the Admiral.
"I think not-" the Lieutenant began, but stopped, seeming to realise that he could end his Captain's life with one wrong word.
Khan calmed and cast a dangerous glare at the Lieutenant on screen. "You will give her back to me… or I will end your dear Admiral with the next twitch of my finger." Khan watched the conflicted Lieutenant as he looked from the screen at his end, to the gun in his hand, to Mira, and back to the screen. Khan chuckled darkly, "I wonder whose resolve will falter first."