"This place is a mess," Bones said as they made their way through the station. It was and Jamie was worried about all the people they brought to this station for medical treatment only to get overrun by the Gorn.
"Captain, you made it." Entering the shuttle bay, Jamie and her team ran into Lieutenant Abaran, Daniels' aide.
"Where's Daniels?" she asked. The young officer told her that he was nearing the shuttle bay.
"The team and I were about to go clear out the hostiles before we all get trapped here," Abaran said. Jamie nodded and offered to back them up; the place was crawling with the giant lizards. The Captain and her people cleared the area near a set of shuttles while Abaran focused on evac.
"Everybody get in. Let's move, move, move. Thanks for the assist, Captain Kirk," he said to her.
"No problem. We'll cover you; get your people outta here, Lieutenant," Jamie told him. She would have to remember to put that officer up for a commendation; he was doing Daniels' job. The two shuttles lifted off and just as Jamie moved to help another one, Daniels came running in with Gorn hot in his tail.
"Help, don't let them touch me. Get the hell outta my way!" He shoved a crewmen off the ramp to the shuttle and shut the door. Daniels lifted off.
One of his officers yelled at the shuttle, "Sir, you can't just leave us here." But he did, he left his crew standing in the shuttle bay.
"Commodore Daniels appears to be abandoning his post, Captain," Spock said. She glanced at her first officer.
"Wish I could say I was surprised, but… I'm not," Jamie told him.
"He's an ass," her husband added. Jamie chuckled as she shot the Gorn in the shuttle bay.
"You have no idea." Jamie didn't like him and neither did Pike.
Hendorff shook his head, "Jerk. What kind of person does... whatever that was?" Jamie chuckled at the officer's question. There is no way that a CO leaves the vessel with their crew still aboard. Jamie would die on her ship before she left any crew aboard and they all know it.
The group kept fighting as the other officers got the hell outta dodge. They were doing okay until the Gorn blasted the door.
"Jim, how are we gonna get these people outta here without an exit?" Bones asked her.
Jamie had an idea, "T'Mar, weapons status?" They were offline, of course. Spock must have been reading her mind; his idea was to overload the sub-space relay tower, converting it into a weapon. It was only going to give them one shot but that was all they needed in order to cover the shuttles.
"I'm gonna stay here, Jim. Help the injured. Be careful," Bones told her.
She nodded at her husband, "We will. Stay safe, Bonesy." She left the bay with Spock and Hendorff.
The three officers went to the power station first; it had to be online so that this could work. There weren't as many Gorn there as they expected but they took them out just the same. Hendorff kept watch while Jamie and Spock hacked into the system and restarted the power to the relay tower. Spock must have been snooping around because he found some of Daniels' audio logs.
"Captain, you may want to hear this," Spock told her. She clicked for it to play, 'Damn their Vulcan ineptitude! Thanks to their incompetence, the Helios Device is failing. I should have take full control of the project myself and made it a Starfleet operation from the very beginning. I'm forced to listen to T'Mar's requests for help. To make matters worse, the Enterprise is already on it's way there. The last thing I need is that little girl, Kirk, sticking her nose in things and taking credit for salvaging the Helios Device. No doubt trying to make herself the hero again. I get that she's a hot little number but damn Admiral Pike for giving her the keys to the flagship; I bet she was sucking him off when he handed the Enterprise over. All my hard work could be for naught…' Jamie took a deep breath and looked at her friend.
"Eww gross, Pike is practically my dad." Jamie put her hand on Spock's shoulder, "Breathe, buddy. It's nothing I haven't heard before… and Daniels isn't shy about saying to my face." Hendorff just shook his head and mumbled something about keeping Daniels away from him and not letting anybody else on the Enterprise hear it. She had to agree, if the Gorn don't kill Daniels, her crew might.
From the power station, they had to go to the relay tower. "Outside we go, guys. Suit up." The trio donned EVA suits and made their way outside the station to the tower. The whole area was abandoned but Jamie figured that it was due to the lack of oxygen. Getting there was the only easy part to her day. Spock tossed a wrench in the plan by telling her that they needed to manually override the safeties for the overload. Jamie and Hendorff worked together on one side while Spock worked on the other.
"You're smarter than people give you credit for, Captain," Cupcake said as he watched her hands fly over the console. She shrugged at the security officer's comment.
"You have no idea, Cupcake." After it was set, the hauled ass out of there before the room exploded. They jumped from the tower, using their suits' thrusters to clear the debris. Jamie spotted her ship and used the comm in her helmet. "Enterprise, show our guests the door."
"Yes, ma'am," came Sulu's response.
The three officers landed in a hull breach in Frontier Seventeen's crew quarters. Hendorff spotted an airlock, "This way, ma'am."
The power and gravity were welcome, the fire was not. They made it through the damaged room and Jamie hacked the sprinkler system; saving three officers from burning to death. "You guys alright?"
They all nodded, "Nothing major, Captain Kirk. Thanks for saving us. I bet Daniels split already." Jamie chuckled; they knew their CO.
"No problem. We're rounding up the last of my team, you guys can follow us out. Just stay low when the shooting starts… again," she told them.
They fought their way to the turbolift before T'Mar came over the comm, "Captain, we are under direct attack."
Spock answered his friend, "We are approaching your position." Jamie glanced at Spock as T'Mar responded.
"Use caution. They attack in large groups. I cannot fight them off much longer," the Vulcan woman told them.
"We're coming, T'Mar," Jamie said as the turbolift opened to one of the rooms near the command deck.
There were two security officers fighting the Gorn; Jamie, Spock and Hendorff jumped right in. The officers they were with grabbed weapons off the deck and started shooting too. The security officers fell in with them and they all entered the command deck. T'Mar and the last two officers were near the command chair, shooting at anything that came close. The command officer next to T'Mar went down and Jamie decided to get the Gorn's attention. She did it a little too well.
"Shit, move!" Jamie called. The Gorn turned their attention to the eight officers that just entered the room, Jamie, Hendorff and one of the other's dove to the right, Spock and two officers went left, the last two didn't move quick enough and got shot. Three Gorn materialized behind T'Mar, they killed the redshirt that was with her and grabbed the young Vulcan woman.
"Spock, Kirk!" T'Mar yelled. Shit, shit, shit. Spock jumped the console he was using for cover and tackled one of the Gorn just as Jamie comm'ed Scotty to beam them out. The Gorn went back to the Enterprise with them, not good.