"What is Helios Station?" Bones asked her. It was three weeks after the conference when Spock got a comm from an old friend.
"Helios is a science station run by the Vulcans and the Captain grew up with Spock. He said T'Mar was one of the few Vulcans that never gave him a problem about being a hybrid. She needs help with something and Starfleet gave us the okay to help her." They walked into the transporter room to find her first officer was already there. "Hey Spock."
He nodded his greeting, "Captain."
"Ma'am, sirs, they're ready," Lieutenant Kyle notified her.
Jamie nodded, "Beam her over, Kyle." The officer punched some commands into the console and a beautiful Vulcan materialized in front of them. "Captain T'Mar, welcome to the Enterprise. I'm Captain Kirk, this is my Chief Medical Officer, Doctor McCoy and I believe you know my Executive Officer, Commander Spock."
T'Mar nodded as she stepped off the pad, "Thank you, Captain Kirk. This matter is of the utmost importance. It is agreeable to see you, Spock."
"And you, T'Mar," Spock told her.
The group left the transporter room and joined the rest of the senior staff –minus Sulu- in the ready room.
"As you are aware, we have discovered a planet on which to rebuild our race. A project of this magnitude would take generations to complete; Helios is part of the colonization efforts for New Vulcan. The station was harnessing the energy from the binary stars to power the Helios Device on New Vulcan, it was a critical component of the terra-forming process. This morning, the station's power was shut off. I had to issue a full evacuation that completed with me," the Vulcan captain told them.
Jamie looked at her, "And without power, the binary stars will destroy the station. Anyone with even a little astrophysics knowledge would know that. Who would leave you and your crew in such a dangerous situation?"
"Surok," was all the Vulcan said.
Jamie looked at her first officer, "Wanna fill me in?"
Spock looked at her, "Surok is T'Mar's father, he is also a mentor to myself and the Vulcan people. I do not understand why he would turn the power off." Jamie looked between the two Vulcans as T'Mar looked at Spock.
"Helios may have caused an anomaly," the Vulcan woman told him. "That is why I requested your assistance." So, the plot thickens.
"That sounds fun. I'm kidding, Bones," Jamie said before he could grumble.
Chekov sat up straighter, "It's unusual, but I beliewe it is some kind of rip in space."
Jamie looked at the kid, "Like a wormhole?"
"Something like zhat but not quite. It appears to be a shortcut through space," the young genius told them.
"Where does it lead, Mister Chekov?" Spock asked him.
"There is no vay to know for sure, sir," the navigator told him.
T'Mar looked at Jamie, "I believe that rip is why my father shut everything down." That's what Jamie was thinking too.
"We need to talk to him. Uhura…" the young captain didn't even have to give the order before the woman in question got to her feet.
"On it, Captain," the communications officer left the room.
"It's of no use, Captain. We lost communications with the base when everything was shut off," T'Mar said. Jamie nodded at the other captain, a minute later Uhura responded that she couldn't get through either.
"According to our scans, the rip is contracting and will be gone in eighteen hours," Chekov told the room.
Bones looked at them, "That's a bad thing, how?" It wasn't, not really. Jamie still had a bad feeling, she hit the comm to the bridge.
"I'm not sure, yet. Sulu, take us into New Vulcan. Uhura, have Kai and Zahra meet us in transporter room one. Scotty, you have the ship. Gaila, you're with us." Bones decided that he was going on the mission too, just in case. They walked into the transporter with Scotty who was gonna do the honors of beaming them down.
"What's with the look, Scotty?" she asked.
He opened a case and handed her a phaser, "Congratulations, lass, your phaser has been upgraded, your tricorders too." He handed one each to her, Bones, Spock and Gaila.
Jamie gave him a kiss on the cheek, "Oh, I love you, Monty."
"You're trying to make me look bad, aren't you?" Bones asked the engineer.
"Not my fault that I know my way to your lasses heart. Seriously, I'm working on plasma rifles and stasis grenades. She might just leave you for me." A few people in the room chuckled, including Jamie.
"I wouldn't… Maybe," she teased. Bones rolled his eyes as the team and T'Mar stepped onto the pad. "Alright, Scotty. Energize."
They materialized on the surface near Helios Base and realized that something was very wrong. "It is always this quiet, T'Mar?"
The Vulcan looked at her, "No, Captain. It is not." That was not good news. They found the entrance to Helios, only to find that they were locked out. "The highest security protocols have been activated. We will need to hack our way in," T'Mar informed them. Jamie didn't even have to issue the order, her team was on it.
"I'm gonna need someone on that console," Gaila informed her but Spock was already there. The pair hacked the doors open and they all made their way inside.
"I don't like this," Jamie said to no one in particular, everything was shut off. "This was on purpose. T'Mar, can you operate any of these systems?" she asked the other captain.
T'Mar moved further into the control room, "I can, Captain. Are you implying that I stay behind? But my father..."
Spock answered for Jamie, "T'Mar, we may need your technical assistance should things become… unpredictable. When we find Surok, we will notify you."
Jamie looked at Gaila, "Mitchell, can you help her out?"
The Orion nodded, "I can, Captain. I'll keep the comms open."
Jamie looked at her team, "Alright, Zahra, fellas, let's go." They left the room and made their way deeper into the base. They came upon a corridor with a bunch of dead Vulcans in it.
"Bones?" she asked.
He knelt by one and did a scan, "He's dead, Jim. This is a high powered phaser wound." They got to the end of the room and the lift doors opened to reveal a Vulcan who was infected with… something.
"Stun, guys!" Jamie ordered. Everybody shot with their stun setting and he went down. Spock and Bones rushed over to him while Jamie, Zahra and Kai kept watch.
Bones looked up at her, "He's been poisoned. There are a bunch of toxins in his adrenal gland and his blood stream, Jim. The question is: why?" That's what she wanted to know. Jamie had the ship beam up the injured and they kept moving. They took down more poisoned Vulcans on their way.
Eventually, they found a small group of non-infected security officers. The Vulcans quickly ushered them into the room.
"Spock," came the voice of an older Vulcan. They looked up at the man who called her first officer. Jamie could swear Spock sighed in relief.
"Surok, I am relieved to see you unharmed. This is my commanding officer, Captain Kirk. Captain, this is Surok," Spock introduced them to each other.
She looked at him, "Pleasure, sir."
Surok looked at her, then Spock, "And T'Mar."
They heard her voice over the comm, "I am here, father." It didn't show on his face but he was relieved.
"I am pleased to hear your voice," he told his daughter. They didn't have time for this.
"As much as I love reunions, can you tell us what's going on around here?" Jamie asked.
Surok nodded, "We have been attacked. The creatures emerged from the Rip. All we've been able to decipher is that they call themselves The Gorn."