Jim, Luna and Spock began to run off while turning around to shoot off their phasers at the Romulans. The three got some good shots in, but they were ridiculously outnumbered. One of the crew members alerted Nero about their whereabouts just as they found a spot to duck down and take shelter. In a moment, all the firing seemed to stop, leaving them three panicked. "I'll cover you." Jim whispered to Spock.
Both Spock and Luna turned to look at him like he was insane. He was really going to offer cover to the man who tried to kill him less than an hour ago? "Are you certain?"
"Yeah," Luna scoffed while looking back at Spock and then Jim. Spock just gave her an irritated face. "You sure?"
"Both of you go." Jim encouraged while nodding forward. That took them both by surprise. "I've got ya."
Luna gave him an irritated look before getting up along with Spock and following him. She stayed close to him, with their phasers up. Spock stopped when he saw one of the dead Romulans on the floor. "Spock," Luna whispered as he got down. He then put a hand on the Romulan's cheek and shut his eyes. Luna was completely confused. "What the hell are you doing?"
There was a rustling in front of her. She looked up in fear as a Romulan moved towards her with a gun. She brought her phaser up, but Jim beat her to it, shooting him down. Luna let out a loud sigh before bringing her phaser down. "I had him."
"Yeah." Jim spoke looking back to the dead Romulan he stepped over. "It was obvious." Luna opened her mouth to argue more, but Jim looked down at Spock. "Do you know where it is?"
"How would he know where it is?" Luna asked, still not knowing what Spock was doing. No one said anything, stressing her out even more. "Will someone tell me what the hell is going on?!"
Spock opened his eyes, Luna looking back to him expectantly. "I know where it is, along with Captain Pike."
Spock stood up and Jim began to follow him. Luna rolled her eyes dramatically before throwing her hands in the air and walking after them. "Fine don't tell me. Luna's not important."
As Spock led them to the black hole device, Luna tried out the communications, but all she was getting on the other end was static. "Guys," She spoke up, still looking down at her communicator. "Coms are down." She then looked up, realizing why none of them had said anything back yet. There was a huge ship in front of them. "Holy shit."
They ran forward, and on the inside, it was pure white. "I foresee a complication." Spock spoke while turning to look back at Jim and Luna. "The design of this ship is far more advanced than I have anticipated."
"Voice print and face recognition analysis enabled." The computer spoke, making them all look up, terrified that the computer would destroy them right there for trespassing. "Welcome back Ambassador Spock."
"Wow. That's weird." Jim quickly walked off after saying that, but Luna watched him as he walked. He was way too calm about what just happened, and he was a horrible liar.
"Computer," Spock spoke, eyes still fixated on the intercom system. "What is your manufacturing origin?"
"Star date 2387." Both Luna and Spock turned to each other with wide eyes, not expecting that. That was over a hundred years later. "Commissioned by the Vulcan Science Academy."
Both Luna and Spock looked back to where Jim had gone, looking back to each other in shock before hurrying after him. "It appears that you have been keeping important information from me."
"Us." Luna corrected while crossing her arms.
Jim acted like he didn't even hear them, looking up to the two with hopefulness. "You two will be able to fly this thing without killing each other, right?"
"Something tells me I already have."
"No promises."
Spock gave her another disapproving glance as Jim pursed his lips at her. They were going to die. "Alright, good job for team effort."
"Jim," Luna spoke, hurrying after him. He turned to look at her, gulping, not wanting to show her how terrified he was of possibly losing her today. Sure, in another life, they were married and had kids, but there was no guarantee in this life. "Are you sure you're going to be okay by yourself?"
He offered her a little smile before giving her a kiss on her lips. When he pulled away, Luna gave him a small smile, but it was more worried than anything. "Promise."
Jim began to walk off again, but Spock stopped him this time. "Jim," Luna turned around going to the copilot seat of the ship while Spock hurried to him. "The statistical likelihood that our plan will succeed is less than 4.3%."
Jim gave him the same smile he gave Luna. Sure, they could all die here, but he just knew in his gut that everything was going to work. "It will work."
Jim tried to walk off again, but Spock moved forward, needing to get this out. "In the event that I don't return please tell Lieutenant Uhura – "
"Spock," Jim stopped him, really not wanting to hear it, knowing that if Spock didn't make it, Luna wouldn't make it. "It'll work."
Jim then hurried off the ship, wanting to get Pike and get the hell out of here. Luna was running preflight checks when Spock got to her. "Let me inform you of something Commander Spock," she spoke while he was still standing up. "When you almost killed Jim back on the ship, you're lucky your father stopped you."
Spock nodded, actually coming to respect her. "And the way you feel towards me is completely understandable."
Luna smiled a little bit before shrugging, coming to realize maybe Spock wasn't so bad. "At least you admitted you were an asshole."
"I didn't say that, Lieutenant Commander." Spock told her with a shy smile as Luna stifled a laugh. When Spock finally sat down, the chair automatically began rotating. Spock looked around, still completely amazed by this future ship. "Fascinating."
Jim stayed until he was sure the ship took off, and after it did, he continued on his mission to find Captain Pike. As Jim weaved through the ship, he found it was all very quiet and still. Something was going on, and his thoughts were confirmed when he found Nero standing out in the open at the front of the ship. Jim outstretched his phaser, taking a large breath before speaking. "Nero, order your men to disable the drill or I will – "
One of Nero's men then came out of nowhere, punching Jim in his jaw. Jim hit the ground hard before his phaser skidded away. Nero then hurried to Jim, standing over him as Jim was still trying to recover from the blow he had received. "I recognize your face from earth's history." Nero hissed out before grabbing Jim by the fronts of his shirt, lifting him up as Jim was completely defenseless before throwing him a few feet away.
He then ran at Jim again, picking him up and punching him in the gut over and over again. When Jim stood up, he finally got one good punch to the face, but Nero hit him back down. He let out deep breaths, wondering how much more his body could take of this.
"Spock," Luna urged in a worried tone as they began to make it to one of the walls of the Narada. "Start shooting."
"But Miss. McCoy, if we start – "
"Spock," Luna tried again, putting on a tight smile. "We've ran into this earlier today, and I was right. You really want to doubt me again?"
Spock took in a deep breath before doing as she said, beginning to shoot along with her. The shots finally got the wall weak enough that they went through with insane ease. As they began to fly through free space, she turned to look at Spock with a big smile on her face from proving him wrong again. "I'm sorry, you were saying?"
"I have no comment, Miss. McCoy."
Nero was on top of Jim, choking him as Jim fought as best as he could. "James T. Kirk was considered to be a great man." Jim was letting out grunts, remembering what it was like when Spock was trying to kill him and Luna was fighting with him over it. "He went on to captain the USS Enterprise." He had to fight. He had to fight for Luna. He wasn't going to leave her again. "But that was another life. A life I will deprive you of just like I did your father." That was unacceptable. He wasn't going to have Nero deprive Luna's life of being a mother. Not after everything they have been through.
Spock and Luna were getting closer to the drill in their ship, but they still weren't firing. "Miss. McCoy?" Spock asked, getting very nervous about the fact that she wasn't shooting yet.
"Not yet." She whispered.
"Any time would be fantastic." He bit at her. Luna waited another second, shifting the ship just slightly so they would have the best shot. "Miss. McCoy if – "
"Now!"
Spock dropped his sentence and shot at the drill along with her, the angle they were in only costing them a few shots for it to come down. Luna smiled, and she saw a small smile on Spock's face too. "I've said it once," she breathed out, "and I will say it again. Spock, do not doubt me."
Spock shrugged as they watched the drill fall into the ocean. "Fair."
Nero was still choking the life out of Jim when a voice came in on the intercom. "Captain Nero. The Vulcan ship's been taken." Out of the anger he felt in that moment, he finally let go of Jim's neck, realizing that he wasn't the important one anymore. "The drill has been destroyed."
Jim let out breathy coughs as Nero looked around, so angry, not knowing where to start. "Spock!" He screamed, knowing this was his doing. "Spock!"
Nero jumped up and ran off as Jim rolled onto his stomach to pick himself up. Right when he was about to stand up, he caught sight of one of the Romulans still standing close by. The Romulan slowly moved to Jim with his gun up. Jim looked around, but there was nothing he could find to defend himself.
Nero was hailing Spock and Luna on the ship, Luna quickly giving Spock a scared once over as he showed up on the screen. "Spock, I knew I should have killed you when I had the chance."
"I hereby confiscate this illegally obtained ship and order you to surrender your vessel. No terms."
Nero looked off like Spock and Luna were no longer there. "That ship! Take it out!"
Luna and Spock shared another terrified look before looking back to what was in front of them. "Sir, if you ignite the red matter – "
"I want the Spock dead now!" He really was going to kill everyone here just to get his revenge.
"We have to go into warp." Luna whispered just as missiles were chasing their tale.
"He'll just catch us there."
"Okay," Luna spoke, overriding Spock's flight power on the ship. "I am so not dying in this small ass ship with just you. No offense."
"None taken." He muttered as she completely took over the controls and sent them off into space.
Back on Narada, they had completely lost the ship, making the Romulans worry. "He went to warp."
Nero didn't even let him finish his sentence before screaming at his crew member. "Go after him!"
Jim finally stood up, wanting to be anywhere but in front of a Romulan while unarmed. He looked around quickly, knowing there was no where he could go. Well, there was one place he could go. If Luna was here, she would kill him for this thought even crossing his mind. He got up all the courage he could and got a running start before jumping to the other end of the ship.
Everything slowed down as he fell through the air, and just as he reached the other platform he held on, but it was just too slippery. He was losing his grip just as the other Romulan joined him on the platform. The difference between the Romulan and Jim was that the Romulan stuck his landing.
The Romulan then leaned down, grabbing Jim by the neck and lifting him up like he was nothing. Jim gasped and put on a good show for him. "Your species is even weaker than expected." He commented just as Jim almost had the gun tucked away in the Romulan's coat. "You can't even speak." He slowly released his grip on Jim's neck, deciding to let him speak once before he killed him. "What?"
Jim let out a few more gasps because he was really choking him, but he was just about ruin everything for this Romulan. He gave him a weak smile, and through a hoarse voice, he spat out, "I've got your gun."
Jim then shot him, and the Romulan dropped Jim, but Jim was able to hold onto the platform better than before. The Romulan fell into the depths of the ship while Jim pulled himself onto the platform and grabbed the discarded gun.
Spock and Luna were still in warp, Luna working frantically while Spock simply stopped. "What are you doing?" Luna asked him, not even wanting to look at him, she wanted to keep working because they had to get out of this somehow.
"Miss. McCoy, I think I have an idea."
She stopped what she was doing to look at him. Normally, she wouldn't listen to him, but they were going to die if they did nothing. "Well, Mr. Spock, I would say I'm open to suggestions."
"Can you reach Mr. Scott on this ship?"
Luna looked back to all the controls, thinking for a moment before actually working to get a hold of him. With her expert work, it only took her about a minute. "Mr. Scott?" Luna asked, knowing she got to the ear piece of someone on the Enterprise, but she wasn't one hundred percent sure if it was him.
Scotty looked around the room once he heard his name, but then looked back to his ear piece. There was no way she was on the ship so it had to be on his ear piece. "Luna?"
Luna began to laugh with delight. She had actually done it. "Scotty," she spoke excitedly. "Spock has an idea on how to stop this, and we might need your help."
"Mr. Scott," Spock began by leaning in. "Can you warp us from a ship next to Narada?"
"Why are you two in another ship?" Scotty asked, completely confused.
"Scotty!" Luna yelled to him, becoming just as panicked as she was before. "Please, tell me you can."
Scotty looked at his controls before working on locking on their location along with Jim's. "Aye."
"Because we're about to crash into Narada with red matter on our ship."
Luna turned to look at Spock with wide, terrified eyes. She knew this is where it was all headed, but she was still terrified at the fact that they could have been incinerated by being sucked into a black hole…or worse. Luna nodded before looking back to the windshield of the ship. "I'll take us out of warp."
Almost instantly, Narada got out of warp just like their ship, just like they had wanted. And once the ship was facing them, Luna fixed it so the ship would go right into it without stopping. "Ambassador Spock," the computer spoke. "You are on a collision course."
Missiles then were shot off, going right for them. Luna's breath hitched just a little before turning back to the speaker where she still had Scotty. "You still got us, Scotty?"
"Aye."
All Spock and Luna could do was look straight forward, knowing what could happen, knowing the worst of it all. "Incoming missiles." The ship reported again. "If the ship is hit, the red matter will be ignited."
"Understood." Spock spoke with a nod just as Spock and Luna reached out for each other's hands. An hour ago, Luna wanted to kill him, but now, they were sharing something. A fear maybe? But in that moment, Luna knew, she couldn't hold her anger over Spock forever if they even had that long.
Then, as if they were waiting for a cue, the Enterprise showed up, shooting off all the missiles going right towards Spock and Luna's ship. Luna just couldn't fight her smile, never being more proud of her boys Sulu and Chekov for pulling this off perfectly.
They continued to get closer to the ship, though, and they had no word on Jim and Pike. Luna was beginning to get worried all over again as she bounced up and down. "We can't do this if Jim isn't safe." Luna brought up.
"There's no way we can get out." Spock explained to her calmly.
Luna looked around, wondering where Jim was, wondering if they hit the ship, if they would hit Jim. Then, out of nowhere, his voice came on the channel. "Enterprise now!"
Luna smiled before nodding and putting her hand to her ear. "Scotty, now!"
Just as both Spock and Luna were about to crash into the ship, they were back in the transporter room. Spock and Luna shared a relieved smile, but they quickly realized they were still holding hands. They let go quickly before looking anywhere else but at each other. Sure, they shared a moment of friendship on that ship, but no one had to know about it.
"Nice timing, Scotty!" Jim complimented as Luna hurried to him and Pike, helping Pike down the steps along with Jim.
Scotty excitedly threw his hands in the air while screaming from delight. "I've never beamed four people from two targets onto one pad before!"
Both Bones and Uhura were running into the room along with a couple of nurses. "Luna!" Her father nearly tackled her down in a hug before moving to Pike. "I've got him." He assured them both as they moved forward.
Jim and Luna were still walking, but looked to each other with such excitement that for the first time in a long time, everything was working out perfectly for them. "I told you I would find you." Jim spoke to her.
She gave him a huge smile. A smile that was so big, her cheeks were already hurting. "And I told you it was a good idea to bring me along."
They quickly pushed together to give each other a small kiss, but they actually forgot Bones was right behind me. "You two are back together?!" They both jumped out of the kiss, turning to look at Bones with terrified faces.
They didn't know what to do for a moment until Luna grabbed Jim's hand and whispered, "Run!"
They both began to hurry, knowing they had to get to the bridge as fast as possible. "I'm gonna kill you!" Bones yelled once he got out of the transporter room and saw them going down the hall. "Both of you!"
Scotty was still in the transporter room, watching as everyone hurried out. No one had said anything about how expertly he had beamed them all back. "Hey, that was pretty good!" He yelled after them, but still, neither of them turned around.
Jim, Luna, Spock and Uhura finally got back on the bridge, Jim and Luna's hands still locked together when they were the first ones to walk in. Chekov turned to look at the group with a wide smile. "Captain, the enemy ship is losing power. Their shields are down, sir."
Uhura moved to her position while Jim and Luna let go of each other's hands, and Spock flanked Jim on the left, the three making a perfect line. "Hail them now." Jim commanded, still furious about everything they had gone through with Nero.
The red matter was taking over the ship, and a black hole was created right in the middle of it while everyone on the Enterprise just watched. Nero came on the screen, but his camera kept cutting in and out, and in the background, his crew was running around like madmen. "This is Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise. Your ship is compromised. You're too close to the singularity to survive without assistance which we are willing to provide."
Both Spock and Luna were confused by what he was doing for a moment. They both turned around so Jim would, knowing they had to have a tiny meeting at the moment. "Captain, what are you doing?"
"Showing them compassion may be the only way to make peace with Romulus." Jim spoke while looking back and forth at the two. "It's logical, Spock. Thought you'd like that."
Spock gave a thinking face for a moment, knowing normally he would, but not after everything he did to his home planet and his crew. "No, not really. Not this time."
"I would rather," the three then turned around, ready to listen to what dramatic speech he was going to give him this time. "Suffer the end of Romulus a thousand times, I would rather die in agony than accept assistance from you."
Luna gave him a big smile before speaking. "You've got it." Both Jim and Spock watched her as she turned around back to her little crew before speaking to them. "Arm phasers. Fire everything we've got."
Jim stood there for a moment, looking at her with a little smile. Sure, that was his job, but he loved the way it looked on her. "What she said." He told them with a nod before moving to the captain's chair. Luna watched him as she was back in her middle seat, getting a little smile on her face. She loved the look of captain on him.
The trio then began firing on Narada sending it further into the black hole as the ship was disintegrating until it was completely gone. "Luna," Jim spoke in his commanding voice. "Let's go home."
"Yes, sir!" She yelled back before trying to warp them out, but the force of the black hole was trying to pull them in.
"Why aren't we at warp?" Jim asked in a panicked tone.
"We are, sir." Chekov told him while Luna and Sulu were working hard on trying to get the ship mobile.
Jim then moved to his intercom button. "Kirk to engineering. Get us out of here, Scotty!"
"You bet your ass, captain!" Scotty yelled while running through the engineering deck.
"Captain," Sulu began, his voice terrified. "We're caught in the gravity well. It's got us."
Jim was just as terrified as everyone else on that ship, but he had to keep his cool for his crew. He turned back to his intercom, a bit of his panicked voice coming out in that moment. "Go to maximum warp. Push it!"
"I'm giving it all she's got captain!" Scotty yelled back.
"All she's got isn't good enough!" Jim yelled back, the whole crew feeling the stress of the pull, Luna letting out an uncomfortable scream, feeling it harder than anyone from the controls as the ship's ceiling began to crack. Jim looked to her, panicked before looking back to the intercom. "What else you got?"
"Ok," Scotty spoke while trying to think his way out of this. "If we eject the core and detonate, the blast could be enough to push us away. I can't promise anything though."
"Do it!" Luna yelled, hoping he would be able to hear her as the ship's windshield cracked as well.
"Do it!" Jim yelled along with her. "Do it!"
Scotty ran to the nearest computer while advising his crew to clear the area just before shooting missiles in the air directly at the black hole. Everyone watched in anticipation as the explosion sent them flying forward. Everyone was pushed back into their seats as the blast seemed to engulf them, but in a few agonizing seconds, they shot right through with ease.
Everyone took deep breaths while Luna cheered before pulling both Sulu and Chekov to her. Sulu grunted at her affection, never really being the affectionate type. "Your Southern is showing again." Sulu complained.
"Shut your mouth for once." She whispered to him, just wanting to take a moment to appreciate the fact that her friends and her family had made it out of this alive.
When she pulled apart from them, Sulu was smiling at her and so was Chekov. "We couldn't have done it without you, Lieutenant Commander." Chekov told her with that boyish smile she loved from him.
Luna swiveled her chair around to look at Jim, both of them giving each other wide smiles. "This is about to be insanely inappropriate." Jim muttered before getting out of his chair and Luna doing the same. Jim hoisted her up in a tight hug as the two laughed from victory, and Luna's arms wrapped around his neck while Jim's were around her waist.
And while he was holding her there in the air, she picked her head off of his shoulder and gave him a big smile before fixing some of his hair from their physical activity earlier. Jim gave her a soft smile, now matching hers as she touched his face. He missed this. He missed their closeness, and he was so happy he had this back. "I knew you could do, legacy."
He then pushed his head into hers, giving her a quick kiss as the whole bridge watched with smiles on their faces. Jim was right, it was wildly inappropriate, but no one seem to care. Not even Spock. Those two were made for each other. Like their carbon had been from the very same star and had found each other again, shinning brighter than ever before.
ImsebastianstanButter: I think it's fair to say Bones was a fair amount of upset, but he will still be upset in the next chapter. And yes, the father/daughter moments are going to be in the next chapter. I thought I was going to have one in this chapter, but it just didn't work out that way. I hope you enjoyed!
rebootfan: I put Luna and Spock getting along in this because I feel like Spock and Luna are those siblings that hate each other, but also love each other. I think "their acting captain was losing it" should be the motto for this story lol. Ugh I love the Luna/Scotty friendship too! I will not be naming the child Tiberius, I can promise you that! I was thinking of George Leonard for Jim's dad and Luna's dad. I thought that would be super cute. Thank you for congratulating me on the business!
Love. Fiction. 2016: Glad to be back! Hope you liked it, love!
MisfitCarter: Aww, thank you so much it's super exciting like there's so many firsts we're going through right now! Soaks in the City is my baby and I'm so proud of it! I will definitely hit you up if we get an Etsy page! And it's totally fine about not reviewing on the last one. Fanfic glitches with me like that sometimes too. The last chapter was probably one of my favorites to write because of all the Jim/Luna and Luna/Scotty moments! Thank you so much for all of the compliments!
Howling2themoon: Thank you! Here's more!
Ziggy55: Thanks! (also ps I'm checking out colleges in Huntsville to transfer to soon and it made me think of you!) Spock and Luna definitely have a brother /sister vibe where they hate each other, but also love each other because you're my big brother sort of love. And yes, Luna and Scotty are best friend goals! My favorite movie in the reboot series is Into Darkness so I'm so excited to get to that! I've actually been going back and forth on an idea like that. We'll have to see how it plays out! Thank you so much, love!
Okay, so we have one more chapter left *sigh*, but that means we're closer to Into Darkness (aka my favorite reboot movie!). I'm not going to go right into the next movie because I need to go back to my Avengers story for a bit (and I kind of lost inspiration for my London Has Fallen fanfic so we'll see when I'll be back on that one), but I will put a chapter up in this story announcing when the second one is up so everyone has a chance to know about it if you don't follow me as an author. I hope you all liked this chapter, and are excited for the closing. Remember to review! Love ya!
