Somewhat reluctantly Kirk looked at Officer Ganner's report. While most of it read true to the facts it was, as Kirk read it, rather one-eyed and made no mention of talking with the woman, arranging for Officer Dint to assist her, nor any mention of Spock by name only the line, "I duly informed the First Officer of the possibility of a trapped officer in a building at the other end of the beach then assisted the Captain to return to the ship where the CMO and CEO were waiting to treat him for shock as we had seen a tsunami sweep the First Officer and an unknown officer to their deaths."

He flicked through all the other reports and found the one done by Officer Dint, "Had cleared all buildings and, as per Officer Ganner's orders, assisted evacuee Glenda Dallington with two of her three children. Officer Ganner instructed me not to disturb First Officer Mister Spock yet he then went over to him himself and gripped his arm clearly to get his attention. I got the Dallinton group settled and was ready to beam back down when I was told the last landing party had beamed aboard and that two crew members were lost, Mister Spock and Officer Walker which I thought unusual."

"Captain Kirk to Engineering. Captain Kirk to Engineering."

Quickly Kirk walked to a speaker and connected with Engineering, "Kirk here. What is it Mister Scott?"

"Oh, aye, meet me on the bridge, Sir. We have to act now. Now."

It was not like his Chief Engineer to sound so, so flustered, so excited, and yet so worried all at one time. To say Engineering and then to say to meet him on the bridge was a sure indication the man was agitated about something he considered serious. For his Chief Engineer to be that confused something had to be wrong. Kirk realized, as he headed for the Bridge, that he had seldom if ever heard that in the Scotsmen's voice: that he could almost count the number of times Mister Scott had sounded so anxious yet optimistic.

The others on the bridge looked at him as he entered and he again raised his hand to indicate that Sulu remain where he was when Sulu started to stand. Ganner had a look of total surprise and relief on his face and Kirk knew that the others would not have liked his remark about Spock and in their quiet and ostracizing way would have made certain he knew.

Mister Scott all but charged out of the turbolift holding a small device in his hand. "It works, Sir! It works! The lad had his with him. Spock left his one with me but the lad took his. They are alive and waiting for us. We've got to get them. We need to lock in on them and get them up. I have the transporter ready. Now, Sir!"

"What do you mean, Scotty?" Kirk had been surprised by the words and actions of his Chief Engineer as he had rarely seen the man so worked up about anything, had never seen him rush to the Science Station the way he did.

"It's them, Sir. It only came on. Angus's one but Spock's signal. T's a transmitter we, Mister Spock, Angus and I, were trying to work on together and it works. We'd nay tested off the ship but it works. It works. It is the signal: three short a pause three short and a long repeated. My one was two long and three short repeated, and Angus had one short and one long then a pause and one short and two long and those two repeated. We need to get them now."

"Chekov?"

"That signal? There vere blips from an old transmitter but it…. No, vait!"

"What?"

"Faint." Kirk wondered if he was the only one whose mind was racing and who was unaware of breathing as he looked at Chekov bent over the monitor and at Uhura whose face started beaming as she nodded.

"Got it."

Kirk hit the arm of the command chair, "Transporter Room, lock on coordinates being sent now and hold to beam up whatever is there when I arrive." He turned and saw a look on Ganner's face he could not fully recognize and looked past him to McCoy, saw a reflection of how he was feeling on his friend's face in and the blue eyes that met his, "Bones, Scotty with me. Ganner, you stay here. Uhura, you three only."

"Understood, Sir."

In the turbolift Kirk looked at his Chief Engineer and saw the pride and concern on his face and placed a hand on his arm.

"One of them would had ta activate it, Sir. It being Angus's one yet Spock activating it," the Scotsman looked at him, "Angus would have given it ta him." An acceptance of the most likely death of Walker was plain on the Engineer's face.

The transport officer looked at Kirk as they entered, "Two forms, Sir."

"Energize." It had not surprised Kirk that Scotty moved to take over the levers. He had learned over the years how protective the man was with what he considered his domain and how many times he had proved just how he deserved the title of miracle worker.

Never before had the forms seemed to take so long to materialize, especially when Kirk recognized Spock's form.

"Clear, Sir." even as he said the words Kirk heard the satisfaction and relief with just an edge of concern in Scotty's voice.

Almost fearfully Kirk knelt beside where Spock lay unmoving on the pad as sprawled over Walker's body as a roughly constructed bracing would let him. Carefully, almost fearfully and unbelievingly he reached out to briefly touch Spock's face as he heard the whirring of McCoy's scanner.

"Damned if I know how but they are both alive. Both critical but both alive." McCoy gripped Kirk's hand when he reached out again to touch his friend. "He seems to be in one of the healing trances but I cannot be sure, Jim. Something unusual about his readings. Best wait till we know what we are dealing with."

When McCoy had not let go of his hand Kirk had looked at him as he said, "It will be a few hours, Jim. I think in the meantime you have a puzzle to solve." He nodded then the hand gripping his hand gripped slightly tighter and he saw concern about the blue eyes, "I know I will want some answers, Jim. I will want some answers later and I hope you have them for me."