Jamie
"Admiral, Captain," Carol said as she and Bones met Jamie and Chris in the shuttle bay like Jamie ordered them too. She had filled Chris in that Carol would be better off on the Enterprise with them, she had more info then they did.
"Doctors. Any trouble?" Jamie asked. The weapons specialist shook her head in relief.
"No, ma'am," Carol answered. Bones looked at Jamie as they made their way to the shuttle.
"Jim, are we really going after this guy?" her friend asked.
"Yes, Bones, we really are," she answered. Harrison had the answers they needed to figure out what Marcus was up to. Spock was already on the shuttle when they got there.
"Who is she?" he asked.
Jamie smiled, "Spock this is Lieutenant Carol Wallace. Doctor of Applied Physics with a specialty in advanced weapons. Carol this is Commander Spock, ship's Science and Second officer." The two looked at each other for a second before Spock looked at Chris.
"You requested an additional science officer, sir?" Spock asked.
Chris nodded, "She's here because of the torpedoes that Marcus gave us. Kirk will fill you in on the ship." Getting to the ship was as peaceful and as beautiful as it always is, the wonder was short lived as they docked and walked right into a shouting match.
"No, I'm not signing anything! Now, get these bloody things off of my ship!" the engineer yelled before he sopped them. "Admiral!"
Chris looks at him, "There a problem, Mr. Scott?"
"Aye, sir. I was just explaining to this gentleman that I cannae authorize any weapons on board this ship without knowing what's inside 'em." It was a valid point and Spock said as much. Chris nodded and glanced at Jamie and Carol.
"Mr. Scott, I understand your concerns, but we need these torpedoes on board," Chris said. Scotty was going to make this difficult.
Jamie looked at him, "Scotty we know." She gave a quick glance to the torpedo security officer, but her friend wouldn't let it go.
"Photon torpedoes run on fuel and we have no idea what type of fuel is in the compartments on these torpedoes, because it's shielded." Scotty sighed, "I asked for the specifications, but he said..."
The guy standing next to the torpedo spoke up, "It's classified."
Scotty looked at her, "See, it's classified. So I said, no specs, no signature!" Before Jamie could respond, Sulu interrupted from the catwalk above them.
"Admiral." They all looked up at the helmsman. "Flight checks complete. We're good to go, sir," Sulu told him.
Chris took a breath, "Thank you, Mister Sulu."
"Yes, sir," Sulu said before leaving them to their discussion.
Scotty took that as his chance to leave, "Now, if you'll excuse me, sir, I have a warp core to prime."Chris looked at Jamie.
"I can handle this, sir," she told him. Chris nodded, Bones, Spock and Carol followed him, leaving Jamie to follow the engineer. "Scotty!" She was actually glad that he moved because they were trying not to talk in front of the torpedo guard. "We need you to approve those weapons. I know, you're worried about the warp core's reaction if we use the torpedoes but we aren't even gonna load them. We were ordered to take them by Admiral Marcus, if we don't, someone else will and we think something is going on. Admirals Barnett and Archer ordered us not to use them, we'd start a war if we did. I know you're upset that they took our transwarp equation and now some madman is using it to hop a cross the galaxy. He didn't just find it Scotty, it was given to him. That officer who came on the ship with us has been working on those torpedoes, we brought her with us to keep an eye on them."
Scotty looked at her, "This whole thing scares me, lass. This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? I thought we were explorers. I thought we..."
She cut him off, "How do you think I feel? This isn't what my father died for. And I bet Loh is rolling over in his grave about the transwarp equation. I'm not going to order you to sign for them, Scotty. But I am going to ask you to trust me... and Chris. You know we wouldn't do anything to put the ship and crew in danger." All the fight left him and his face softened, he grabbed the PADD and signed off on the torpedoes.
"Just do me one favor, Jamie. For the love of God, do not use those things."
She nodded, "We won't." That was one problem down. She went to her quarters to change and then she tracked down Spock, he was alone heading to the turbolift. He looked at her and she sighed. "She's Admiral Marcus' daughter," she said as she entered the small room. "Whatever's going on, she wants to help us stop him. The explosion, the shootout, she thinks her father is involved and I'm inclined to agree. He wants us to execute Harrison, which goes against everything that Starfleet stands for."
"The use of the surname Wallace is an attempt to shield her location from her father?" Spock asked.
Jamie nodded at his question. "He can't know that she's here, at least, not yet." They walked onto the bridge together; Chris was giving Sulu his orders, when he said 'Qo'noS', everyone on the bridge froze. Sulu double-checked before laying in the course and going to warp six, it would take them a day to get there.
"Uhura, open a channel to the whole ship," Chris ordered. She hit a few commands into her console.
"Channel open, sir," Uhura told him.
He nodded, "Attention, crew of the Enterprise. As most of you know, eleven officers at Starfleet HQ were killed yesterday along with Forty-two men and women at the Kelvin Memorial Archive. The man who is responsible has fled our system and is hiding on the Klingon homeworld, somewhere he believes we are unwilling to go. We are on our way there now. Per our orders, it is essential that our presence go undetected as tensions between the Federation and the Klingon Empire have been high, any provocation could lead to an all out war. Captain Kirk will lead a landing party to an abandoned city on the surface of Qo'noS, where she and her team will capture the fugitive John Harrison and return him to Earth so he can face judgment for his actions. Alright, let's go get him, Pike out." He looked around the bridge, "Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, Kelso and Wallace, head to the ready room. Riley, you have the con." Scotty and Bones were already there when they entered.
Scotty spoke first, "What in the bloody hell is going on, sir?" Chris gestured to Jamie, giving her the floor.
"We are smack dab in the middle of a Section 31 plot to start a war with the Klingons," Jamie told the group. You could hear a pin drop as everyone in the room gave it a second to sink in. "The explosion at the Kelvin Memorial Archives was really the theft of a transwarp teleportation device that Scotty and I have been working on since I was eighteen. It's not supposed to exist yet, but Section 31 must have gotten their hands on the plans and equations from Starfleet Intelligence. I think Harrison was working under orders when he shot up the emergency session last night. He's one of our top operatives but Marcus wants us to shoot those torpedoes at him... from the edge of the neutral zone without talking to him... meaning he knows something." They all looked at each other.
Uhura spoke, "That's why you have me recording everything Marcus says to us." Chris nodded towards Carol.
"I'm Carol Marcus, Wallace is my mother's name. Captain Kirk is hiding my presence on this ship from my father. He has always been secretive, but recently he's taken it to a whole new level. My father gave me access to every program he oversaw, when I heard he was developing these prototype torpedoes, I went to confront him about it, he wouldn't even see me. Then he locked me out of the system after I discovered that the torpedoes had disappeared from all official records."
Bones spoke, "He gave the damn things to us."
Carol nodded, "Exactly, Leonard. I never knew what everything was for. I just found out that it was all Section 31 a few weeks ago and I've been trying to weed through the information. If only I had known maybe I could've done something." Bones touched her hand as she continued, Jamie was gonna have to ask him about that later. "The explosives that were used at the archive were something I was working on. He's has weapons and vessels that are so far beyond anything we've ever seen. My father..." she paused. Each of the officers looked at her. She had been betrayed by the one person she loved more than anything, but as much as she loved her father, she was still trying to help them stop him. "My father has been going on and on about how war with Klingons in inevitable. He's using this ship and Harrison to start that war."
"Why would Harrison agree to this?" Sulu asked.
Jamie answered that, "According to his file, he had an older sister. Lieutenant Alexis Harrison, she was a Starfleet officer who was killed at Donatu V while he was at the academy; I'm guessing that's where 31 got their hands on him. I doubt Marcus had to do much convincing." Donatu V was the location of a battle between the Federation and the Klingon Empire in 2245. Each side was fighting for control of the planet. The CO if the USS Republic came up with a flanking maneuver that allowed Federation forces to overcome the Klingons and forced a withdraw; neither side won but the fleet suffered over two hundred losses. Jamie remembered her aunt and uncle talking about it, they were worried that it was just the beginning of war with the Klingons.
"So, Marcus is using this Harrison guy's grief and anger at the Klingons to facilitate a war. That's just… wrong," Lee muttered. Jamie couldn't agree with Kelso more if she wanted to. She knew how Harrison felt, but she also knew that she could never wage war in Sam's name.
"What are we gonna do?" Bones asked.
Chris spoke, "Kirk is going to take a team down there and get him. We still have the shuttle from the Mudd incident, the team can take that."
Jamie nodded, "Spock, Sulu and Uhura will go down there with me, Henderson and Hendorff too. According to the coordinates that Scotty found, Harrison is hiding in the Ketha Province, it's a region that's been uninhabited for decades. Hopefully, we can go in under the radar and get out before anyone notices we were there."
23 Hours Later
"Please be careful down there. Don't get yourself killed." Jamie smiled and kissed her husband.
"Have a little faith, sweetheart. We'll be back before you know it," She whispered before she kissed him again and they made their way to the shuttle bay. Spock, Uhura and Sulu met them there. They walked to the shuttle that they had confiscated from Harry Mudd after they found him and his daughter selling Starfleet gear to a pre-warp civilization. Pike took the small ship stating that it would "come in handy," and they convinced HQ to let them keep it. Jamie walked up to Hendorff and Henderson and handed them each a small pack, "Lieutenants, loose the red shirts. We are K'normian arms dealers, put those on." Jamie and Hendorff had put the hard feelings aside after Helios. He had grown up since they met at Riverside and her actions with the Gorn had him seeing her in a new light. He told her that he thought that she just used her position as George Kirk's daughter and Christopher Pike's wife to slide up the chain of command and the Nero thing was just luck but watching her fight through the ship to keep everyone safe made him see her differently.
Hendorff looked at her, "Ma'am?" She knew what he was asking.
"Look, if this thing goes south, there can be nothing tying us to Starfleet. Unless, of course you wanna start a war, Mister Hendorff," she said.
He shook his head, "No, ma'am." Jamie looked at the other officer.
"Henderson?" she asked.
"No, ma'am," was his quick reply.
She chuckled,"Good, me neither." Chris wished the six officers luck and left the shuttle bay. Jamie, Sulu and Spock took the three seats in the cockpit of the ship.
"You know what you're doing, right?" Sulu asked. Jamie laughed at his question.
"I'm flight rated on the Enterprise, just like you are. I got this. Besides, Pike taught me how to fly years ago." When Jamie was at the academy, she shot through so fast that she missed some practical application courses. Instead of waiting for the next one to roll around, she asked Chris to teach her during one of the times the Yorktown was in dock. It didn't take long and she tested out of taking the regular class, Kelso was so jealous. They had flown towards the planet, Spock was running a scan.
"I am detecting a single life sign in the Ketha Province. Given the information provided by Mister Scott, this is most likely John Harrison," the Vulcan told her. Jamie nodded and opened the connection to the ship.
"Sir, I think we found our man," she told Chris.
"Copy that, I'll let him know we mean business," he responded, a second later, they listened to him issue a warning. "Attention, John Harrison. This is Admiral Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will launch the entire payload of advanced long range torpedoes, currently locked on to your location. You have five minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal do so will result in your obliteration. Don't test me, it won't end well."
Uhura chuckled, "A bluff? He's a badass." That brought laughs from all of them, but Jamie agreed.
"Yea, he really is," she said. As they got closer to their destination, Spock spoke up.
"We arrive at Harrison's location in three minutes, Captain. It is unlikely that he will come willingly. I calculate the odds of him attempting to kill us at ninety-one point six percent," Spock told them.
Jamie rolled her eyes, "Fantastic."
"Good thing you don't care about dying," She heard Uhura whisper from the back of the shuttle. Spock was in trouble. The two most logical people she knew were having problems. Spock was a less careful then he used to be and was putting himself in danger.
"I'm sorry, Lieutenant, I could not hear what you said..." Spock said. Jamie wanted to warn her friend but he needed to hash this out with his girlfriend.
"Oh, I didn't say anything. Actually, I'll be happy to speak if you're willing to listen to me," Uhura replied.
Spock spoke again, "Lieutenant, I would prefer to discuss this in private."
Uhura wasn't having it though, "You prefer not to discuss this at all, that's what you prefer. What never seems to require your undivided focus is us. You keep diving in but you never give a thought to us, what it would do to me if you died, Spock. You don't feel anything. You didn't care. And I'm not the only one whose upset with you, she is too."
"Don't drag me into this…" Jamie sighed. "But she is kinda right. I mean, I watched one brother die and lost another over Vulcan, it would break my heart if something happened to you too." Jamie had started to worry about her friend and his mother was worried too. She noticed that when they were fighting the Gorn how he tossed himself into things without much thought, in fact, he was acting more like her than she was. Spock took a second before speaking.
"Your suggestion that I do not care about dying is incorrect. A sentient beings optimal chance at maximizing their utility is a long and prosperous life," Spock said.
Jamie chuckled, "That isn't exactly a love song, Spock."
"You misunderstand. It is true I chose not to feel anything upon realizing that my own life was ending. As Captain Abbott was dying, I joined with his consciousness and experienced what he felt at the moment of his passing. Anger, confusion, loneliness, fear. I have experienced those feelings before, multiplied exponentially on the day my planet was destroyed. Such a feeling is something I choose never to experience again. Nyota, you mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of my not caring. I assure you both, the truth is precisely the opposite," he told them. Jamie smiled but before either woman could respond, the shuttle was hit.
"What the hell was that?" Jamie asked.
Spock responded, "We are being pursued by a D4 Class Klingon vessel."
She shook her head, "I thought this sector was abandoned."
"It must be a random patrol, ma'am," Sulu told her. Jamie worked on maneuvering them out of danger.
"Hold on everyone!" she called to the others.
"This ship has no offensive capabilities," Spock warned her.
Jamie chuckled, "This thing has us. Sulu, give me all six fuel cells."
"Aye, Captain." The helmsman gave her the power boost to the engine and she used it to evade the Klingon's weapons' fire.
"Dammit! They're still on us. Sulu, where?" she asked. He looked the screen.
"They are closing fast, bearing two-eight-five," he told her. She looked around, and noticed a small gap between two structures.
"Right there. We can lose 'em!"
Spock looked at her, "If you are suggesting that we utilize the passage between the approaching structures, this ship will not fit."
"We'll fit," she smirked.
"Captain Kirk, we will not fit," Spock reiterated his original statement. She was not giving up, she turned the ship on a ninety degree angle.
"We'll fit! We'll fit!" Jamie called. They barely scraped through the gap, and the Klingon ship exploded as it hit the structure, as the shuttle sped through it scraped against another building before finally emerging out from the other side. "See, Spock. I told you we'd fit."
Her Vulcan friend replied, "I am not sure that qualifies, Jamison."
"Sulu, any sign of them?" she asked.
He shook his head, "No, which worries me." Jamie thought about it for a second.
"Well, we either lost them, or they're jamming our scanners and this is about to get worse," she said. Just as the words came out of her mouth, the Klingons surrounded them. "Worse it is." Jamie could understand what they were saying, Uhura translated for everyone else.
"They are ordering us to land," the linguist said. Jamie understood what that really meant.
"In other words, they're gonna wanna know why we're here, then they're gonna torture us, question us, and kill us. And... we can't come out shooting. Uhura, fancy a face-to-face with a bunch of Klingon warriors?"
The lieutenant looked at her, "Guess we don't have much choice." Jamie stood up and unzipped her jacket, Uhura wasn't armed but Jamie had a knife strapped to her leg.
"Arm up but stay here… unless they kill us," she tried to put some humor in it but it didn't work. "Nyota, you'll take point. I'll be right next to you though," she told the other woman. Jamie and Uhura being the ones going to face the Klingons was as much tactical as it was practical. The Klingons won't automatically see them as a threat and they both speak fluent Klingon. The two women made their way over to the group of Klingons, Uhura spoke in their native tongue.
"We're here to help," she told the men. One of the Klingons approached them, and she continued, "With respect, a terrorist is hiding here in these ruins. He has killed many of our people." The warrior took his helmet off and looked at the two officers, Jamie and Uhura stood at their full height, ready to fight if necessary. The Klingon stared at them for a moment.
"Why should I care about a human killing humans?" he asked them.
Jamie answered, "Because you care about honor, and this man has none."
Uhura spoke again, "You and your people are in danger." Just as the words leave her mouth, he grabbed her face, Jamie didn't move from her spot before someone started shooting at the Klingons. Uhura grabbed his weapon and stabbed him with it, he dropped her and she moved next to Jamie. They looked over the shuttle and noticed that the guys had poured out of it, shooting. Jamie should keep a tally of which species try to kill her. They all fought hard, she saw Henderson as he went down.
"Hendorff!" she called. He looked in the direction she was pointing, his friend was dead. She pulled the security officer clear of the carnage. They all watched as the man that had initially attacked killed all of the Klingons. He made his way over to them and pulled his hood and scarf away from his face, "Harrison," Jamie whispered.
"Stand down!" Spock ordered, Harrison pointed his weapon at them. Spock aimed his weapon at Harrison and ordered him again to "Stand down!" Harrison shot Spock's weapon right out of the Vulcan's hands. The Section 31 operative looked at Jamie.
"Your torpedoes! The Weapons you threatened me with in your message. How many are there?" he snarled at her.
"Seventy-two. Why? Didn't think Marcus had it in him?" she could play his game. He paused and dropped his weapon.
"I surrender. Captain Kirk," Harrison told her. Jamie wasn't surprised that he knew who she was, she nodded.
"Spock, Hendorff, cuff him. Sulu, help me with Henderson, I'm not leaving him here," she ordered. The ride back to the ship was silent. A full security team and a group of medical officers met them in the shuttle bay, the security officers took Harrison to the brig and the medical team took Henderson's body while Bones gave their team a quick once over. Chris walked towards them.
"You all need to get cleaned up. Hendorff, let medical treat that then get some rest. Sulu get back to the bridge and start us back towards earth, Uhura contact Archer, Barnett, Reed and Komack. They need to know that we have Harrison. Kirk, Spock and McCoy, you'll be joining me when I talk to him," their CO ordered. They all gave him a 'yes, sir' and went about their tasks. Jamie stepped into the turbolift next to him, "You alright, J?"
She nodded, "I'm fine except for the officer I just watched die."