"Quarantine procedures. We have no idea what we're dealing with here. You should stay clear, Jim, just in case," Bones told her.
She nodded, "Got it. See what you can find out and we'll go talk to Daniels." Jamie, Bones, Spock, T'Mar, Hendorff and Bates were on Frontier Seventeen. She ordered the Enterprise to head back to New Vulcan to pick up more survivors. Jamie left Bones in the makeshift medical area and went to talk to the Commodore. They made their way to the command deck; Hendorff and Bates stood near the entrance while Jamie, Spock and T'Mar stepped up behind Daniels.
"I just want to know one thing: Did anything come through?" The Commodore turned in his chair; of course he knew something like this could happen.
"Sir?" she asked. Jamie had a bad feeling about this.
"I assume you're here because the machine caused a Rip. Did anything come through?" Daniels asked.
"We were attacked. They took my father," T'Mar informed him.
Daniels smirked, "Then it works." What?
"With all due respect, sir, what the hell is going on here?" Jamie asked. She was holding her tongue but it wasn't easy.
"Unlike you, Miss Kirk, I did not get my command because my daddy died in some heroic blaze of glory. Some of us have to earn our way in life." She really was holding her tongue. 'Don't let him bait you,' ran through her head.
"People died back there!" She was livid. This man is supposed to be a leader, a Starfleet officer.
"I'm sure their sacrifice will be noted," he said dismissively. Jamie doesn't know what, but she was about to do something.
"Remain calm, sister," Spock said to her in Vulcan before he turned his attention to Daniels. "Commodore, you do realize that the Helios Device has fallen into hostile hands. If the Gorn learn to harness it's power, they will be unstoppable."
"Isn't that where you come in? You two and your gaggle of friends are supposed to be the big heroes. The rising stars of the fleet, or so I read somewhere. I suggest you get that device back before there are more casualties," the man sneered at Spock.
"Which is it, sir?" Jamie looked at him.
"What?" Daniels asked, confused.
She took a breath, "Which is it? Did I get my command because of my father? Or am I the big hero that has to clean up the mess you made? You can't have it both ways… Commodore."
He glared at her, "You would do well to remember that I outrank you, Kirk."
She smirked, "Yes, sir. I am well aware. It doesn't make my question any less valid. You knew that this could happen and you did it anyway. You put lives and the Federation at risk and now you want me and my crew to fix it."
"What have I done?" T'Mar asked.
Daniels smiled, "You created a machine that will shape the future of Starfleet. Even if none of you see it now, you will."
Spock looked at his friend, "T'Mar, you were aware of this?"
She stepped closer to him, "Spock, you must believe me, I did this to protect our people. That device was supposed to rebuild our planet. If I had known that any of this…" She was cut off by the proximity alarm. The Gorn were here. Spock looked at Jamie and T'Mar then he stepped near the Commodore.
"Sir, where is the communications bay? We must notify Starfleet Command at once," her first officer told the commodore.
Daniels glared as two of his officers entered the room, "This is my station, I'll notify Starfleet." He and his men walked out of the room but she heard him tell one of them to prep his shuttle for evacuation.
"I really hate him. Like really hate him," she said right before the station shuddered and knocked them off their feet.
Spock helped both women up, "Captain, I have doubts that Daniels will contact Starfleet."
"Anyone with brain should have doubts about him," Jamie muttered.
T'Mar looked at them, "I know this station, I can tell you where to go."
Jamie, Spock, Hendorff and Bates left the command deck in search of the communications bay. T'Mar informed them that they had to go through the mess deck, the Gorn were already there.
"Get down," Hendorff grabbed Jamie and pulled her behind an overturned table.
"Thanks, Cupcake," she said to the security officer.
He nodded, "No problem, ma'am." The team fought through to the other end of the room and went down a corridor.
"Jim, I'm surrounded by those giant lizard things, I could use some back up. I'm a little outgunned," Bones voice came over the communicators.
"Captain, I have lost contact with the defense team in the bio lab. Doctor McCoy is in section one-Alpha," T'Mar informed her.
Jamie took a breath, "We're on our way, Bones. Hang tight." They made to the area outside the labs; Bates rounded the corner first and was shot by a mounted gun.
"He is dead, Captain," Spock informed her.
"It's a lot more interesting when Bones says it. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that thing is a turret."
Spock nodded, "We may be able to hack it, if we can get close enough." She was only half-paying attention to him; Jamie touched the officer on ground in front of her.
"Rest well, Adam. Spock, if you can hack it then hack it. I would like the rest of us to get home in one piece. Gimme a hand, Cupcake." Jamie and Hendorff moved Bates' body out of the middle of the corridor and she made a mental note to send someone back for him if she could.
The lab was dark, save the emergency lighting. There were Gorn and infected crew members everywhere; dodging the turrets only made it worse. They killed the Gorn and knocked out the crew members before getting to section one-Alpha.
Jamie called for her husband, "Bones!" He was locked in a storage room with a security officer and a lab technician, "You guys okay?'
"Yea, we had to lock ourselves in when the Gorn showed up and started infecting people. We just need to grab my samples and…" Bones stopped talking when the power kicked back on. T'Mar informed them that she didn't know how but she did know why. The Gorn were trying to access the computer system in the labs. "Sounds like they're after information on the Helios device," her husband said to the room. How did she end up with someone who was so handsome and smart?
"The doctor may be correct. Despite the Gorn's animalistic appearance, they are a rather sophisticated race."
She nodded at Spock, "If they get that intel, they could end the universe as we know it. Last guy that got his hands on this kind of tech destroyed Vulcan, we can't let that happen again. Bones, you coming with us?"
He nodded, "Yea, yea. Why not?" Jamie looked at the officers that were locked in with Bones.
"What are your names?" she asked.
"I'm Tal," the Andorian security officer told her.
The lab tech spoke up, "Murphy, ma'am."
Jamie nodded, "The evacuation order was sounded, you two should get to the shuttle bay and help anyone you find get there too. The infected crew go down when stunned, the Gorn have to be shot or they'll keep coming. Stay together and go out the way we came." They nodded and left the room together. T'Mar told Jamie where to go to overload the system in order to stop the Gorn from taking the information. On their way out of the lab they grabbed Bones' samples, "You're close to an antidote?"
He nodded at her question, "You aren't the only badass in the family, darlin'." She smiled until T'Mar came over the comm.
"Kirk, Spock, the base is fully compromised. I believe there is nothing further we can do except evacuate with the rest of the station's crew." Jamie agreed with her, this place was a total loss.