Star Trek: The Nara-Maru Files

Akagi-Maru Incident

Two weeks had passed since Asami Hirayama had fallen into a deep an unusual coma as the memories planted into her mind by the Regent and her Daughter from the alternate timeline that she had once experienced. It had been a long and arduous task to keep her stabilised as the memories continued to replay inside of her mind many times, almost to the point where her mind had blocked out any attempt to gain access to what remained of Asami, trapped deep inside of her own personal hell. A seemingly unusual side effect of those memories had arisen during her time in the hospital as Iolian like markings had begun to surface slowly on her face and body which had left the doctors confused as to why this was happening.

As with the alternate timeline that she had encountered many years ago, Kaila had not left her side along with Teela as the real reason of her unusual condition was kept classified as Asami remained isolated from the general population and a full cover-up was put into place stating that Asami and her family had returned to her ancestral home on Earth for private reasons.

As regular as clock-work, one of the eight private doctors had entered her hospital room which had now been set up in the family home as he checked her vital signs and progress with the treatment as he did every day at this specific time.

Awoken by the footsteps, Kaila looked up at the young Doctor and nodded slowly as he used his medical tricorder while Teela entered the room, looking as if she hadn't slept for the past two weeks.

"Doctor?" She said with hope.

"There is no change Ma'am. I see whatever has been altering her, has stopped…"

"For now…" Kaila said with a yawn. "What can you do for her?"

"Believe it or not Miss Hirayama, we are working on something. Her physiology is unusual, it appears that she has some Iolian DNA which is changing her for reasons that we do not understand…"

"Read her file Doctor…" Kaila said as Teela fired her a shocking look.

"KAILA! That file is Classified"

"This is all down to what happened Mom! If this is what's wrong with her… we need to open that damned file!"

"What file?" Replied the Doctor with shock.

"I can't allow that, I'm sorry. She wouldn't want it that way…"

"Then let me help Teela!" Kaila said as she stood. "You know that I can do this… let me enter her mind and bring my mother back to us all. If the file is right, I can do it!"

"I'll say it again… WHAT FILE?" Yelled the Doctor.

"Shut up Doctor!" Teela grunted. "Kaila, I won't risk loosing you as well"

"Teela. I am old enough to understand… her mind is falling apart, I can do this… give me permission to enter her mind and bring her back?"

"NO!" Called out a voice from the door.

Slowly turning, the Doctor bowed with respect towards the man who entered the room as Kaila walked towards him and hugged him tightly as she spoke.

"Marty, let me do this… I can bring her back, I know I can"

"I can not allow that… you are far too young…"

"NO DAMN IT!" Kaila yelled. "Stop treating me like I'm a child! On Earth, I would be old enough to Enter Starfleet, make my own choices… Why do you think I have chosen the Earth way?" She said as she stepped backwards one step. "YOU granted me that right Uncle Marty…"

"You're right Kaila, I did. It is apart of your birthright… but you have yet to reach y our next ascension…"

"I am tired of hearing about my ascension rights…" Kaila said slowly.

"Sweetheart, let the Doctors handle this. Get some rest for now, you've been here for nine days straight" Teela said slowly.

"Is that an order Mom?"

"From the Regent it is Kaila… get some rest, you must be exhausted"

Hanging her head, Kaila nodded as she left the room.

Half way into the long Iolian winter's night, she once again entered the room occupied by her mother and slowly turned off all of the alarms which would alert the medical staff to any change in Asami's condition before she kissed her forehead gently and placed her hands on her mother's jaw as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath before entering what remained of her mother's mind. Instantly images flowed through her own mind as the connection was made being merely an observer as she found the most intimate moment of Asami's memories. Turning away instantly, she focused on the memory within her mother's mind of the attack on Iolia Prime, only to be dragged away into a void filled with a chaotic storm. Waves crashed onto a beach that she instantly recognised, a freezing spray from the waves washed over her as she shivered instantly and called out her mother's name until a figure appeared before her, a figure that shocked her as it materialised into a seemingly mirror image of herself.

"Who are you?" She yelled over the sound of the storm.

"I guess that you could say… I am you or the memories of another life of which you never had"

"What is happening too my mother?" Kaila yelled. "Why are you doing this to her?"

"It's not me Kaila… it's her. Her own guilt over everything that happened has changed everything, but I brought you here. Only together can we fix this, allow me to join with your mind"

"You're just a memory, how is that possible?" Kaila yelled once more.

"Not a memory, I AM her…. I am you… I knew that once she stepped into the temporal-transporter, I would no longer exist… I gave her everything that I was, that in the hopes that if she was successful, she could one day join us both together and now the link between us is now breaking down, her mind can not take the stress of two souls within her. Kaila, you must join with me if we are to save our mother. Just be warned, my memories are far darker then anything that you have experienced before…"

"You stay away from me!" Kaila growled.

"We don't have much time, I am doing everything that I can to keep her mind from breaking apart. Please, let me help you? I know how to reach her but you are not strong enough, Asami is growing in strength… but the damage is stronger. I can't hold this for long, I NEED your strength to help her"

"And what if this happens to me one day?" Kaila said with uncertainty.

"The future is always an uncertainty. Mother's guilt has… warped the memories, she has always blamed herself. Kaila, this is our last chance to end her torment. If you love her the way I always have, let me help you. I never had the chance to know her… but you did, you had the life that I always wanted… join with me, and together was can free her from her own private hell"

"What do I do?" Kaila said slowly as the image of her alternate self stepped closer.

"Let me enter your mind, you are already joined with hers. We are one and the same you and I. Once I have joined with you, what is left of me will join with you and make you stronger… the abilities I had will stabilise your own and more importantly… my knowledge, things you wouldn't have imagined possible. You are a pilot of impressive skills, I can see that but I was better. I was a resistance fighter against the enemy forces. Kaila, we must hurry… the storm her mind has created is growing worse, you must choose now!"

In the outside world, technology once purchased by the Iolian government from the Federation through what had become the powerful Hirayama Family Corporation, had activated within the medical section of their home as what was once known as a Mark I Starfleet Emergency Medical Hologram entered the room. A tall human male doctor stopped at the bedside with shock as he saw the daughter of his patient slumped over her mother with her hands connected to her jaw in what the Vulcan species would call 'A Mind-Meld' a practise which had been well documented on Iolia. Quickly walking towards the two, he scanned the young girl with his tricorder before he activated the communicator on his collar.

"Medical Emergency! Doctor Wessex, please report to Medical Room One immediately"

As the hologram examined both of the patients, a male human doctor ran into the room as he pulled on his medical coat before he grabbed a tricorder from his belt-line and scanned the two patients for himself.

"Report Doctor"

"I was activated automatically by my systems, and I found Miss Hirayama over her mother in this way. Their minds appear to be locked on some form of Iolian Meld… I would not recommend moving her for the time being" Replied the Holographic Doctor.

"Of course. Get everyone up, now…"

"Yes Doctor. Should I alert Miss Teela?"

"No, not yet. We should try to ascertain what exactly is happening here first. I have never seen these readings in an Iolian Meld before, if we remove her now, both of their minds could be lost… something is… holding Kaila's mind"

"Doctor Wessex, I have interfaced with the internal sensors in this room, they where deactivated three hours ago by Kaila herself. My scans are detecting what appears to be a third memory engram within the meld itself"

"How is that possible?" Doctor Wessex said slowly.

"Go to the database and access Asami's personal file…" Replied the hologram with a deep sigh.

"I got it" Called out Wessex as he activated a computer panel on the wall. "Most of this database is… locked down"

"Computer, clearance Code Theta-One-Nine-Delta-Four, unlock the classified file and display"

Almost instantly the heavily coded data file opened and the doctor began to read the information before him, almost instantly his jaw dropped with shock while the data flowed past his eyes slowly.

"Why was I not alerted to this before?" He said with a deep anger.

"It was deemed classified by the Regent himself. Only four other people outside of the Hirayama Family know of this… myself included. I am taking a great risk by informing you of this Doctor Wessex, my program could be decompiled for this breach of that security lockout. Computer, re-establish lockout on the personal file. Doctor Wessex, now you know the truth about this situation… please assist me, I was programmed specifically for the family's medical needs. As you have just seen, something happened in that alternate timeline, the patient contracted a deadly virus and as a result, she was kept in Cryo-stasis until a cure could be found, that cure… came from Kaila's own DNA which has now reasserted itself and is altering Asami's own DNA…"

"Hence the change in her appearance?" Wessex said with a deep shock.

"Yes and more. For reasons that I am yet unaware of, her… lifespan… for lack of a better word has been lengthened, to what point I am unsure" Replied the Hologram.

"This is incredible, do you realise what this means for all Humans? The Iolian DNA could be used to lengthen Human life… if we could create some form of… synthetic gene therapy, it could lengthen Human life by a century, maybe more" Wessex replied with excitement.

"NO! The Iolian DNA is very… dominant over humans, look at her Doctor, it is not her Human DNA which is being rewritten, but the part of her which is Betazoid. I understand what you are thinking Doctor, but this information has been classified by the high authority on this world a world on which you have been allowed to practice as a part of the exchange program between the Federation and the Iolian Government. Now, you will assist me?"

"As you wish, Doctor"

A deep recess in their joined minds had been opened as Kaila and the echo of her alternate self had become joined as a new confidence had spread through Kaila like a wild-fire as her alternate memories had incorporated themselves into her own. Although it seemed as if she was fighting the memories themselves at first, they finally had given her the confidence that she had sometimes lacked. Standing alone on the beach which was once used as her mother's own private place within her mind, the waves crashed onto the shore before her as the storm began to subside due to her own mental abilities as it now became clear on what she had to do and how she could recover her mother from the deep coma she had created for herself as some form of twisted self-imposed punishment for what she had seen and caused, memories that Kaila herself could now see and relive for herself.

Almost instantly her surroundings changed into those of the interior of the Nara-Maru and the bridge itself as she found herself sat at the helm of the vessel as the voice of her mother echoed through the bridge as Asami called out Teela's name with a deep sense of relief in her voice. Quickly turning in her chair, Kaila stood as Asami looked at her in shock.

"What the hell is going on here? No lies now, who the hell are you. And what are you doing on my ship?" Asami said with almost exhaustion.

"Mother, thank the Gods that I've found you. You need to listen very carefully, none of this is real…"

"I know that, why are you doing this to me?£ Asami said as she slowly sat in the nearest seat.

"No mother, it is YOU which is doing this to yourself. For the past two weeks, you have been in some form of self induced coma…"

"This is insane!" Asami said with a weak laughter.

"Think about it mother, what is the last thing that you remember? You where on Iolia Prime, you told myself and Teela about this memory that you have been keeping hidden for twenty-five years…"

"Yes, I do remember. I said that I would… show you both tomorrow, reveal everything. Kaila, is that really you?" She said quickly.

"Yes mother. I have… entered your mind, you are in our medical ward back home…"

"Then you, you know everything? Where is…" Asami said with concern.

"She is with me now, we both knew that the only way that you would… recover from this is to remove the guilt, the memories…"

"Why would Teela have allowed this? Wait a minute, she doesn't know that you…" Asami said with concern.

"No, now we are both trapped in this… hell of yours. She knows of a way out Mother, you must forgive yourself for everything that happened, it wasn't your fault" Kaila said as she knelt at her mother's side.

"More happened then you know my beautiful daughter, much more. Teela started the war with the Federation, she started it in my name, everything came unravelled as a result, it's all my fault"

"You didn't know, you couldn't have known what would have happened mother…"

Seemingly in an instant, their surroundings had changed into the remnants of the Iolian Royal Court itself as the screams of seemingly everyone around them almost drowned out the explosions caused by the Romulan forces orbiting their world as they walked around like ghosts passing through objects and fallen debris.

"This… is the true cost of my stupidity Kaila" She said as they both passed through a wall and looked out over what was once the Capital City. "After… what happened to me, Teela's T-K abilities had been amplified by her own grief and sense of loss along with her anger. After years of searching, she found those responsible for my condition and she killed them before turning on Doctor Crusher, she tore the pour woman apart piece-by-piece while she kept her alive long enough to feel the pain. Seeing what happened to her, the war started not long after, a devastating war which had spread like a wild fire" Asami said with tears flowing down her face.

"But this… never happened, look at me. Mother, look at me! You survived the shockwave and since then you have done everything in your power and beyond to forge relations with the Federation, I count Bev Crusher as a close friend, hell… we've even given them the Tech that YOU created and I have even considered joining Starfleet at some point in my life" Kaila said with pride.

"I never knew that. You'd make an excellent Starfleet Officer, with what you know about Engineering… You'd be Chief Engineer in no time at all, maybe even higher. But I can't forget this, this is who I am now"

"You must let go of the guilt Asami and come back to us, we need you, Teela needs you… I need you and what part of the other me is left needs you, she never had a chance to know you… give her that chance and let this all go!"

"Kaila, you have no real concept of this and I am glad that you don't… you just don't understand" Asami replied slowly.

"Our minds are linked, I can feel your guilt… I can feel everything that you feel. Live your life mother and stop living in this moment. The other Kaila had become involved with a young man… I-I-I didn't want to say anything at first, I know him mother and we are… close. Don't get me wrong, nothing has happened between us but I enjoy his company as much as he enjoys mine"

"Yes, I know. Very little happens on Iolia without me knowing about it Kaila, Uncle Marty is now only the figure-head of the Iolian Central Government… unofficially, I have been running things around here for over ten years. With his agreement, I've placed myself in a position to run things when he is not around. Ten years ago, he became… Ill. Only his wife, his elder son and Teela know about it Kaila. Your cousin Jellon is not ready for the position yet we all noticed that almost eleven years ago when he almost destroyed our relationship with the Federation, a disaster that I had to repair"

"What? What are you saying?" Kaila said with shock.

"Unofficially, I've been acting as an Ambassador to the Federation, using my ancestral home on Earth as… an unofficial embassy. The business we created was the perfect cover for my absences. I can't forget what has happened here Kaila, we've even came close to this once. Twelve Federation Starships where once sent to our boarders, I was back on Earth at the time in negotiations with the President and several of the highest ranking Admirals. Publicly, it was known as exercises between Starfleet and our ships, but we came close to an all out war"

"Why was I never told any of this?" Kaila replied sharply.

"You where only six years old at the time, the one and only birthday of yours that I missed" She said with tears in her eyes. "I know the risk that you have taken here Kaila. Perhaps in time, I will forgive myself for what I caused, it has taken twenty-five years to get where we are today and I may take another twenty-five before I can forgive myself. But you, you have to go and leave me here, live your life and make me proud of the woman that my daughter is about to become"

"No! I won't leave you here mother" Kaila said as she grabbed her arm only to be shaken away gently.

"You know, you're a lot like me, more then you know… and I know that it is useless to argue with me…"

In the outside world, the Doctors and many medical staff had set up what appeared to be a crisis centre in a room facing the room where the two women where now kept as they discussed the options open too them at this time. Forcibly removing Kaila from her mother's mind would destroy both of them as the link between them had become almost inseparable. Pacing the room with his hands folded behind his back, the former Starfleet EMH program listened to the many strange and at most times, crazy ideas by what had now become his medical staff since Teela had been alerted to the situation and demanded that only he attend to them both due to the fact that he had now become updated with the entire Iolian medical database along with a seemingly limitless database since he had become integrated with the central database on the planet itself.

"Ohh come on people! This is crazy. You're talking about tearing their minds apart? What is left would be more vegetable then two living beings"

"What about… transferring their memories into the central archive and then separating them…" Called out a female doctor"

"You're an idiot!" The EMH growled. "What exactly is your speciality anyway?"

As she looked up at the EMH with a deep scowl on her face, her face instantly turned into shock as a shadow slowly moved into the room itself from the doorway.

"Oh my god!" She cried out.

"Doctor, your attention is needed, my mother is awake and asking for you" Kaila said from behind him.

After one hour and with a complete medical check on both patients completed by the EMH program, he ad been deactivated while Teela paced the room with a deep anger in her eyes as she continued to glare at her daughter while she closed the doors behind her and locked them.

"Are you out of y our god-damned mind Kaila?" Teela said quickly.

"An interesting question mom, and yes… I was. I told you, I told you all that I could do it"

"Teela, leave it. Kaila did the right thing, thank you sweetheart… right now, we have something to discuss about… me"

"Mother is Correct Mom, I saw things, I know things that can never be made public… don't ask me to explain it, I can't. what she knows and now I know… it is to dangerous. But that is not why we are here. I am leaving for awhile…" Kaila said with a large smile on her face.

"The hell you are, you're only sixteen and not old enough to…" Teela said quickly.

"I won't be gone long, just a year or two…" Kaila said with a large smile on her face.

"What? Where are you going?"

"The Academy, the Iolian Military Academy…"

"Teela, her boyfriend has just been accepted. It's okay, I know the Commandant, she'll be fine"

"Your too damned young. The answer is no!" Teela said harshly. "And don't forget, I'm still pissed at you for what you did"

"Teela, trust me. We have the rest of the night to talk about this. Tomorrow, I'll be discharged from here. Enrolment isn't for two months… Trust me Teela, trust her. She is essentially me, did I do anything stupid when I was younger?" Asami said with a wink.

"Ohh stupid question. You never did tell Kaila about how you got that small scar on your right leg…"

"What?" Kaila said with a laugh.

"Alright, we'll talk about it. A Boyfriend?" Teela said with a large smile on her face.

After two months of living with her parents, Kaila finally the family home and joined the Iolian Military Academy with the blessing of both parents and two years later she graduated with a perfect score, all placed down to the training her parents had given her since her childhood. For two months, Kaila served onboard on an Iolian deep-range science vessel as and Engineer until an exchange program opened up between the Iolian Expeditionary Fleet and Starfleet Command and Kaila became the first Iolian to join Starfleet with her rank equivalent of Lieutenant. After years of service, Kaila overtook her mother as the youngest Chief Engineer in Starfleet History, breaking her record by three weeks. Quickly moving through the ranks to the rank of Full Commander and first officer, at 35, Kaila proudly became the first Iolian national to command a Federation Starship named the USS Yoshimoto, for a seven year exploration of deep space close by Iolian Territory. With her success as a Starfleet Officer, the Federation had allowed more Iolians to enter into Starfleet service, many posted to the USS Yoshimoto itself, along with Kaila's former boyfriend, Jarred. After returning to Federation space, the two eventually returned to Iolia Prime for their wedding before returning to duty onboard the starship they both served as Captain and Chief Engineer. After completing yet another seven year assignment, Kaila retired from Starfleet Service and returned to her homeworld as she had become pregnant with their first child. Upon returning home, Kaila took over from her parents as C-E-O of what had become the largest company on the planet and the neighbouring Star-Systems, the 'Hirayama Family Corporation' while her husband, who remained in Starfleet took position as Starfleet Liaison to Iolia.

Several weeks after awaking from the coma which had trapped Asami and their daughter, Teela finally and legally changed her name to the much shorter 'Teela Hirayama'. Once Kaila returned from her Starfleet service at the age of 55 earth years old and took over her rightful place as Chief Executive Officer of the family company of which she had been a full partner at the age of 16 years old after being granted the status of a legal adult by the Regent himself, Teela returned to their family and on occasion taking a part time position as a teacher at the Iolian Engineering and Starship Design Academy.

Asami Hirayama's physical transition had been stabilised by their personal and private physician which stopped with a slight trace of the Iolian markings which ran down her body in a similar fashion to that of the Trill race along with a faint markings on her chest, markings which had become accepted by all on the homeworld once a story had been created, one which hid the truth about the alternate timeline she experienced, the so called 'Akagi-Maru Incident'. With the Regent himself succumbing to an illness due to his advanced age, Teela's twin brother Jellon had taken on the role of Acting-Regent under Asami's guidance as Prime-Minister, an honorary title given to the most trusted family member who would assist the Regent him or herself during the acclimation to his or her new duties. Finally, upon Kaila's arrival and taking over the operations of the company itself, Asami finally relinquished her authority several weeks later as she announced her retirement from her own company and the honoured position before a gathering of the Royal Court itself.

Finally packing their bags, Teela and Asami once again boarded the Nara-Maru and set off on a much needed second honeymoon to the planet that Asami had discovered decades earlier, but never took her wife, the ocean world in uncharted space. After a three week journey with a new engine design, the Nara-Maru was last spotted leaving Rempak Anchorage before the vessel itself disappeared.

Rumours had emerged from all over the Federation and Iolian Unity that the vessel itself had been equipped with a prototype Advanced Quantum Slipstream Engine and that they had set off on an exploration of the Delta Quadrant while others claimed they where using a Temporal Drive and set off into the future, other rumours stated that the two had disappeared on a romantic adventure together for the first time in decades, a rumour which was not far from the truth as the Nara-Maru had touched down on the Ocean World alone together, living onboard their ship and enjoying the ocean world with only secret contact established with only their daughter and son-in-law back home, returning eight years later upon news that Kaila had once again fallen pregnant with twin daughters.

Although many things about the ever growing and powerful Hirayama family had become classified over the years as Asami and Teela had an uncanny ability of being around when problems began, nothing was more highly classified then what happened one year after the end of the Dominion War, a file which had been classified on all worlds concerned, including Romulus.

The End.