AN: I liked the reboot video game. I changed some stuff but the mission is mostly the same, Kirk and Spock being badass. Guess I should repeat that I don't own recognizable characters, I wish. I have a huge crush on Karl Urban, that doesn't count though.
September 2259
Chris
The ship received a distress signal from Helios Station. All he knew what that it was a Vulcan science station, studying a binary star. "Sir, there's some interference from the star, no comms and no transporters," Lieutenant Uhura notified him.
Spock spoke from his station, "It is most likely the star causing the interference." Chris figured as much, he was left with few options,
"Kirk, Spock and Sulu. Head over, assess the situation. Begin evacuating the scientists," he ordered. After a round of 'yes, sir' the trio left the bridge to head for the shuttle bay.
Jamie
This was going to be awesome… maybe. Jamie and Spock changed into environmental suits and got into the shuttle, Sulu was going to fly them over and then standby.
"It's pretty," she muttered.
Sulu chuckled, "It's destroying the station and 'it's pretty' is all you got?"
She nodded, "I bet the star was there before the station was. There are some things that are beautiful, even if they're destructive."
"Like you?" the pilot asked.
"Exactly," Jamie said with a smirk.
The station was a mess. Jamie and Spock had to climb their way to the control room where they found some of the Vulcans. As it turned out, most of the team was on the other end of the station, they had to do a spacewalk… while avoiding the stellar storm that was destroying the station in the first place. On the other side, they found Captain T'Mar.
"Spock, it has been too long," the woman said.
"It is agreeable to see you as well, T'Mar. Jamison, T'Mar is a childhood friend. T'Mar, this is Captain Jamison Kirk, the Enterprise's first and tactical officer," Spock introduced the pair of captains. Jamie noticed that the woman was pretty, and like most Vulcans, she was intelligent.
"What is all this about?" Jamie asked. She was curious as to why the Vulcans would have stayed near the star so long that they got themselves trapped.
"We're working on something call the Helios Device. I'll explain more once we get out of here." Jamie commed Sulu, who had managed to get everyone else on the station into the shuttle.
Chris
"So, this Helios Device. What does it do?" he asked the Vulcan woman. Jamie and Spock brought T'Mar to the bridge with them when they got back. She had been explaining what they were working on.
"Helios was a part of the colonization efforts for New Vulcan. The station was harvesting power for the device but Surok shut it down, I do not know why. Perhaps it is because we unwittingly opened a Rip in space." That got Chris' attention.
"What kind of Rip?" he asked.
She looked at him, "Unknown."
"Sulu, get us to New Vulcan. If that's where this device and Surok are, it's the best place to start. When we get there, Spock and Kirk, you'll beam down with Captain T'Mar," he ordered. A device that caused Rips in space, not good. The last time something like that happened, Vulcan was destroyed.
Jamie
It was like they walked into another dimension. Everyone they encountered was in a daze, "Spock, what's wrong with them?" He did a scan with his tricorder.
"There appears to be a toxin in their systems," he told her. "I suggest using stun settings and hand-to-hand combat." Jamie nodded as they made their way further into the compound. Jamie and Spock met with Surok, who it also happened to be T'Mar's father. He explained to them that the station's power from the base was lost after they were attacked by creatures from the Rip who call themselves the Gorn. Right now, the duo was making their way through the locked down sections of the base to recover the infected survivors. The Gorn showed up and tossed a wrench into that.
"Where the hell are they coming from?" Jamie asked.
"I do not know." It was not a phrase that Spock used often.
They made it to the Helios Device just in time for a huge Gorn to grab it and Surok. They kept fighting, these things don't seem to give up. They made their way outside where a Gorn ship was dropping of more soliders. Jamie and Spock fought them off and jumped onto the ship; Spock landed on his feet, Jamie managed to grab the ledge. After fighting with these Gorn, the ship was hit by another one.
"Spock, my leg's done," she told him over comms. Getting dropped from a ship will do that to a girl.
"I'm on my way," was his reply. They landed a bunch of yards apart. Jamie was still shooting when Spock got to her, he wrapped his arm around her waist and half carried her to the medical center that wasn't too far from where they were. He quickly patched up her leg and Jamie kept watch for hostiles. T'Mar made her way back to them just as they were heading back outside.
"They're all over the place, time for the big guns." Jamie opened her comm, "Kirk to Enterprise. I need a torpedo strike, I'll even paint the target for ya."
She heard Chris' voice, "We're locking on, give us the word."
"Now," she called. Jamie and Spock watched as the advancing Gorn were wiped out by the ship.
"Enterprise to Kirk, we lost the interference, ready to beam you up, standby," Chris told them.
T'Mar looked at Jamie, "That means they're getting away with the Helios Device."
Leonard
Are we fighting these things? Leonard couldn't tell from sickbay. He was hoping that they weren't going after those things, sickbay was overflowing as is. He comm'ed the bridge.
"Admiral, we need to get these people to the nearest Starbase, we have more injured then we have room for," he told Chris. The man acknowledged him and ordered that they set course for Frontier 17, it was a nearby Starbase. This was something he's never seen before. It took control over these people, while some are violent, others are zoned out.
Chris
"I hate Daniels," Jamie groaned. Chris raised an eyebrow at the woman sitting across from him in his ready room. She continued, "He thinks my whole career is based on my name. The man insults me whenever we're in the same room. I have a better service record then he does and he's been in longer then both of us combined."
He chuckled, "You know that you're more than your name, so does everyone on this ship and most of the Federation. Don't let that asshole get to you, he's just jealous." The plan was to drop Jamie, Spock, T'Mar, McCoy and the infected off on the Starbase and go back for more survivors. "Try to stay out of trouble, please." He said to his first officer.
"That an order, sir?" she asked with a smile.
He chuckled, "In your case, yes."
Jamie
"We should quarantine these people until we know what we're dealing with." Bones was already hard at work, "You should stay clear, Jim."
She nodded, "Keep me posted, Bones." Jamie, Spock and T'Mar made their way to Commodore Daniels' office.
"Tell me one thing, did something come through?" Daniels asked without turning around. Jamie wasn't actually shocked that he knew, the man was shady and not just to her.
"Why am I not surprised?" She whispered to Spock in Vulcan.
"I assume that you're here because Helios caused a Rip. Did anything come through?" Daniels asked again.
T'Mar answered him, "We were attacked... they took my father."
"Then it works," the glee in the commodore's voice made her sick. She really didn't like this guy.
"With all due respect, sir. What the hell is going on?" she asked. Jamie has had it up to her eyeballs with Daniels.
"Unlike you, Miss Kirk. I didn't get my rank because my daddy died in some heroic blaze of glory. Some of us had to earn our way in life." She really, really didn't like him.
"I more than earned my place, sir. People died back there," she practically growled.
Daniels stood, "I'm sure their sacrifice will be noted." Spock jumped in before Jamie said something she'd regret.
"Sir, you are aware that the hostiles have the device. If the Gorn learn how to use it, they will be unstoppable," Spock warned. The commodore looked at her friend.
"That's what you two are for. 'Rising Stars of the Fleet' I read somewhere. You're the heroes, you stop them and get the device back,"Daniels told them. Really, he should have 'Jerk' tattooed to his forehead.
"What have I done?" T'Mar whispered.
"You have shaped the future of Starfleet," the commodore said to the Vulcan woman. 'Don't punch Daniels, don't punch Daniels, don't punch Daniels' was Jamie's new inner monologue at the moment.
"T'Mar?" Spock sounded as shocked as she did that the Vulcan was involved.
"I didn't know it would do this, Spock. I was trying to rebuild our home," T'Mar told their mutual friend. Jamie understood that, unfortunately, Daniels got his grubby hands all over it. Before they could say anything, the proximity alarms went off. Daniels refused their help in notifying Starfleet and left them to figure out what to do, coward. T'Mar lead them through the mess hall to the labs.
"Jim, I'm surrounded by those lizard things," came her best friend's voice over her communicator. It took them a while but they got to Bones, "Took ya long enough."
"You know, just once, you could say 'thanks.' You're welcome, by the way. With all the other crap going on we came for you, first." The glare on his face softened.
"Thank you, Jim, Spock," Bones said.
She chuckled, "Wasn't too bad, was it?"
After they stopped the Gorn from accessing the computers and grabbed samples from the lab for Bones, they made their way to the shuttle bay. The base was too compromised, they issued an evacuation. The shuttle bay was filled with hostiles but the worst part was watching Daniels toss a crew member off a shuttle and leaving them all in the bay to fight off the Gorn.
"Commodore Daniels appears to be abandoning his post, Captain," Spock said. She took a breath between shots.
"I knew I hated that guy," she told him. They helped get people out but they became trapped when the door was jammed, "This is just great!"
"I do not understand what is 'great' about being under attack," Spock said.
She chuckled, "It's another of my illogical idioms, Spock."
The station's weapons were failing, they made their way to the power generators in an effort to cause an energy surge that could damage the Gorn ship. Jamie and Spock rescued a bunch of Starfleet personnel from damaged parts of the station on their way through it. They got to T'Mar, but it's too late; the Gorn grabbed her. In a move that is way more Jamie than Spock, the Vulcan tackled a Gorn while they're being beamed back to the Enterprise, bringing the creature with them.
Chris
"Kirk, contain that thing!" he ordered. Jamie and Spock brought back a gift from the station; a big, mean ugly gift that was running around the Enterprise.
"Working on it, sir!" she replied. Chris was monitoring the whole thing from the bridge, the Gorn made his way into the crew quarters. "Let us in and lock the doors behind us, Scotty," Jamie ordered into her communicator. Jamie and Spock were now surrounded by infected crew members, "Bones, we got more injured. Hope the antidote is ready."
"Scotty, Uhura, is there any way to give Kirk and Spock an advantage over this thing?" Chris asked.
Uhura spoke first, "I'm trying to monitor from here but he moves to fast."
Scotty jumped in, "If we had a blood sample we could get a better idea of where he is." Chris understood, he opened a channel to the pair.
"Kirk, Scott needs a blood sample," he told his wife. She acknowledged and sent Scott a sample a few seconds later. The creature went into the turbolift shaft.
"She's not going to follow that thing, is she, sir?" Sulu asked from the helm.
Chris chuckled, "We all know she will." And she did, Spock too.
"So, is it trapped with us, or are we trapped with it?" Jamie asked Spock.
"As it would appear, both." Chekov was working on shutting down the turbolifts so that the first and second officer didn't get killed by the ship.
"Sir, the creature is in the shuttle bay, he's locking us out of the system," Scott said. The engineer always has the best news.
Uhura spoke, "We have no control of the shuttle bay, sir." Jamie and Spock took him down before he could do anymore damage. They watched as Jamie held the creature down and Spock did a mind meld.
"We must report this to Admiral Pike," Spock said before Chris ordered Uhura to cut the feed.
They were a warrior race, destroying and conquering the species in their galaxy, they were contained until the Rip happened. They tortured and killed Surok and no one was under any illusion that they wouldn't do the same to T'Mar.
"We'll have to go through the Rip to get the device back. While there, you two will have to save T'Mar," Chris told them.
Jamie gave him a look, "You sure about that, sir. What about backup?"
He shook his head, "Too far away. If they figure out how to use that thing, we're all dead."
Leonard
How does he end up getting dragged into stuff like this? Oh yea, his best friend is damned sadist. Leonard was ordered to go with Jim, Spock and Sulu to the surface of this 'Gorn' planet. Of course, they got shot down for their trouble and then Jim and Spock jumped off a cliff. They were wearing jump gear, but still. Sulu and the security officers fixed the shuttle while he worked on the antidote, he had a feeling that they'd need it sooner rather than later. Sulu asked him at some point how he ended up on a ship if he hated space so much, the answer was Jim and Pike, but mostly Jim. "Come on, it'll be fun," she said. "Who doesn't want to see the universe, Bonesy?" And the clincher, "Think of all the things that you'll get to research before anyone else." He's been trying to figure out how Pike ever said 'no' to her, especially when she looks at you with those beautiful blue eyes. He could admit that he was a little bit in love with her, only a little. Pike's a lucky guy. It was kinda funny, he figured that Pike would kill him one day but the man just chuckled, "I've known Jamie since she was thirteen, we've been through hell and back and then some. I got her heart, if you think her flirting with people and people flirting with her bothers me, it doesn't."
Watching her with people, especially Spock or Scotty, he noticed that she had a big brother/little sister vibe with them, and that's probably where he fit with her; even thought they were flirty. With Riley and Chekov it was a big sister/little brother vibe, she would kill for those kids; in Riley's case, she already has. He got pulled from his thoughts and his work by Sulu.
"Doc, we stunned it, but I think she's pregnant," the helmsman said. Sure enough, they had taken down a pregnant Gorn. Leonard attempted an emergency c-section. Man, those little fuckers bite. He told Jim when she checked in and she didn't even bother to hide her amusement.
"Glad you find that amusing, Jim. How are you two doing?" he asked her over the comm.
"We're peachy, Bones. Just peachy. Stay on comms in case we need ya," she told him.
"You got it, Jim." He kept working on the antidote and was just finishing up when they heard the grenade go off over the comm, not good. Sulu and the security officers loaded into the shuttle, he didn't know where they were heading, just that Jim and Spock needed them.
They all heard Jim yell, "Spock, NO!" before they both went silent. A few minutes later they could hear Jim again, "Spock, I'm your friend. You don't want to hurt me. Spock, you don't want to hurt me." He had to be infected; the Gorn must be making them fight each other.
"Mister Sulu, get us over there, NOW!" That girl could hold her own in a fight but Spock was bigger and stronger then her and unlike him, she cared if she hurt him.
"Fight it, Spock." She said some other stuff that Leonard didn't understand, he'd bet it was in Vulcan.
They got there just in time for him to shoot Spock. It was with the antidote but he could pretend for a second since the guy had Jim by the throat. Leonard dropped a weapons case for them, they had to clear a place for Sulu to put the shuttle down. The pilot gave them air support as they wiped out the resistance in the area.
"Sulu, run a scan for the Helios Device," she ordered as they hopped into the shuttle.
"It appears that they moved it to one of the ships," he told her. More bad news, just great.
"Jim, these readings are going nuts. Something's happening," Leonard told his friend. They all looked up to see a ship.
"I believe that the device has been reactivated," Spock always seemed to be the one with bad news. They needed to get back to the Enterprise, Jim gave the order to Sulu.
"What the Fuck?" Jim groaned. Leonard was thinking it as she said it. The ship was compromised, the only way over was a space jump with those rocket things that Jim loved so much. "We'll let you know when it's safe to come over." Bones nodded as he sealed the cockpit and opened the hatch.
"Don't get yourself killed, Jim, I can't fix that."
Jamie
That would have actually been fun is the ship wasn't in danger. They got in through a hatch in engineering and beamed Sulu and Bones over. They gave them a set of orders; Sulu was going to the officers' quarters to find a way to get the tethers off the ship and Bones was sent to sickbay. She tried to get Chris on the comm. with no luck. "Scotty, please be here somewhere."
"I can hear ya, lass," the engineer said. He gave her a status of the ship. The Gorn had the bridge, the warp core was down and life support was barely holding. She decided that the warp core was first, no way to get home without it. Jamie and Spock met Scotty and Keenser there. The little guy who once knew her dad wasn't the easiest to understand but they spoke engineering pretty well and fixed the core. The next big issue was the infected crew members. She had comm'ed Bones to see how sickbay was doing; he needed help. On their way to Bones, Sulu came over the comm with a way to get the tethers off.
"If we pulse the shields…" Sulu started.
Scott jumped in, "… we can disrupt the tethers holding the ship. The lad is onta something." She understood what they were planning.
"That's brilliant. Get on it, Sulu. but wait for my order. We need to get control of the ship and figure out where the hell Pike is."
"Status, Bones." They made it medical without encountering any trouble, but the place was a mess and emergency lighting was on. "Got injured everywhere, Jim. We barricaded ourselves in but those damn things are persistent. I don't know how long we've got." That's just great. Jamie didn't know what they were after but if she had to guess, it was the antidote. If they could get the power back on, Bones could make enough of the medication to release into the ship's ventilation system. Jamie and Spock headed to the control room a few decks down. "Let there be light."
As soon as Bones was all set, she got a comm. from Kevin, "Captain, we're under attack. They have me and Pavel pinned down. We can't hold them much longer." She got their location and headed to find her baby brothers. Jamie didn't like fighting through the ship, they were literally having a fire fight in her home. Kevin and Chekov were in an observation lounge near sickbay with a few other crew members. Chekov banged up his leg pretty good; Jamie helped him up and pulled his arm over her shoulder. Kevin, Spock and the other two crew members, Shinobi and Price, helped cover them all the way to sickbay. "I'll patch him up, Jim." He handed her the vaccine, she and Spock took it to the environmental control room. Once the antidote was in the air, she gave Sulu the order to get them free.
"Spock!" Uhura called over the comm., "he wants command of the ship or they'll…" That explains why she can't reach Chris, he doesn't give up easily. "This could be a trap," she told her friend. Spock nodded, "If they harm her..." She was right there with him, Chris was up there too. "Let's go to the bridge."
Chris
He looked over at Uhura, the Gorn kept the two of them on the bridge, no doubt as bait. The problem with being bait, in this case, was that Jamie and Spock weren't that stupid. Even if they showed up, they'd have a trick up their sleeves. That's just how his wife operates.
"They won't help you," he said to the Gorn.
The thing yelled, Uhura translated, "They will or I'll kill you."
Chris laughed, "You think that'll work. You'll just piss them off and then they'll destroy everything to get to you. You aren't the first to try. The last guy didn't live long enough to regret what he did to me, they blew his ship all to hell and killed him." Chris wasn't really worried, he didn't want to die but this is the life he picked. He knew Jamie and Spock well enough to know that threatening the people they love was a very quick way to a short life.
There were times when he found himself a little envious of their relationship; they were truly like yin and yang. Spock was cool and logical while Jamie was warm and daring, they were both brilliant and the way they worked together was graceful and powerful. He was certain that no matter what happened to him or Uhura, they would not stop until the threat was eliminated. Jamie and Spock stepped onto the bridge, a little banged up but overall they were okay.
Uhura translated for the Gorn, "Pathetic creatures. I have allowed you too much freedom. Give us control of the ship or I will kill them both." He gestured towards Chris and Uhura, who had a blade near her throat.
"If you want control, I'll give you control," Jamie said calmly. What is she up to? Chris looked at her, she locked eyes with him for a second before tapping some commands into the helm station. The next thing he knew, there was a shuttle crashing into the viewscreen from outside and the room depressurized. Spock grabbed his arm and Jamie had Uhura as everything, including the Gorn, got sucked out. Jamie ordered the computer to repair the bridge and as soon as the breach was sealed they all hit the deck. "Like I would give them control of the ship, ha," Jim laughed. Chris couldn't help it, he pulled her into his arms.
"That's my girl," he whispered against her ear before he jumped into the command chair. "All hands, report to stations."