Chapter Five: Defeat
Khan had jumped from the wreckage of his ship, leaving the carnage and the deaths of every single person he'd held most dear behind him. He now ran, glancing over his shoulder every few seconds to see if Commander Spock was still following…and how close he was. He was fast running out of road to run down, but he saw his escape ahead.
A mining hover-vehicle was raising itself higher in order to mobilise. With a confident sneer, he jumped and landed on its roof without so much as trying, fully aware that Commander Spock had jumped after him. This had turned out wonderfully. The man responsible for the death of his people, for the death of his family, had come to kill him. How deliciously ironic it was that, now, Khan would kill him instead.
He watched as Spock crawled up onto the roof of the craft, struggling to hold on…to not fall. Khan sneered as he walked forward and picked up the other man, throwing him painfully into the centre of the obliging craft's roof. Spock groaned as he stood. Khan lunged at him then, landing punch after bone-shattering punch to Spock's head, kicking him in the chest so hard that the Commander went flying through the air and landed on the opposite side of the craft's roof. He charged forward, taking Spock's head between his hands, intending to crush his skull. But Spock performed the Vulcan Mind-Meld. Unable to withstand the Mind-Meld, Khan shoved Commander Spock away, tumbling him to the ground.
With a backwards glace of pure, unadulterated loathing, Khan jumped from the current craft down onto a similar mining hover-vehicle which was passing below. For a moment, Khan thought it was over, that Spock had had enough. That was until the Commander himself landed right on his head and proceeded to throw blow after blow at Khan.
Khan lunged forward again, with what would have been the defeating blow, but Spock was ready for him this time it seemed. He dodged Khan's fist and, moving slightly behind him, took hold of Khan's shoulder in the commonly known Vulcan Nerve-Pinch, bringing Khan to his knees for a moment.
With a strangled cry of rage, Khan took a hold of Spock's hand and, upon removing it from his shoulder, twisted Spock's arm painfully away from his person. He was about to finish Spock for good, Khan's crushing hold on the Commanders head telling, when he was shot from behind…no, stunned from behind.
He turned to see Lieutenant Uhura holding a phaser directed at his chest. Khan struggled to his feet and, bracing himself for further shots, made his way towards her, taking six stun shots from her phaser.
As he reached her though, something hard and distinctly metal collided with the back of his head, and he went down hard, his head smacking into the steel of the craft below him. Spock grabbed Khan and rolled him over, pinning him down as he punched him over and over again relentlessly, and intent on ending Khan's existence.
Uhura intervened. "Spock!" she yelled over the rush of wind around them. "Spock, stop! He's the only way we can save Kirk!"
Spock froze, his head snapping up to look at Uhura. With a final look of pure hatred at a nearly unconscious Khan, Spock delivered his final blow, sending Khan into the oblivion that was sleep.