Sulu was right when he said that they would be spotted. The Gorn had an anti-aircraft gun that shot them right out of the sky. The pilot got them down in one piece; farther away then she liked but alive. They split up into two teams; Sulu, Hendorff, Chen and Bones stayed with the shuttle while Jamie, Spock, Edwards and Kai moved to locate the Helios Device's transponder signal. The team had to base jump off the ridge they landed on in wing suits. They disabled the AA gun then continued through the underwater and underground tunnels to get to the encampment. There was a point, about halfway, when Spock comm'ed to check on Bones.

"Doctor McCoy, how are you progressing on an antidote to the Gorn venom?" the Vulcan asked.

Bones responded over the comm, "Almost there. It's a nasty little virus but Jim… I gotta tell ya… these Gorn are everywhere. Hendorff stunned a pregnant female that tried to attack us, then like an idiot, I tried to perform an emergency C-Section to save the little bastards. Octuplets. The damn things came out all teeth and claws; they almost bit my hand off." Jamie knew she shouldn't laugh but it was funny. Bones was always trying to help somebody, even if it hurt.

"I'm glad you think it's funny, Jim… How are you two doing?" She didn't really have an answer to his question.

"Peachy, Bones… just peachy. Stay on your comm in case I need you." She heard him chuckle.

"You got it, darlin'."

They shot their way to the Gorn's complex. Using stealth and well executed hand-to-hand combat, they got in under the radar. They found their way to what appeared to be a prison and a lab at the same time.

"Ma'am, Daniels' crew?" She nodded at Edwards, some of the men and women that they saw on the Starbase were dead, right here.

"There is nothing we can do, Jamie," Spock said with a hand on her shoulder; it was a very human gesture.

She looked at him, "I know… I know." She hated that these officers died like this. They were going through the prison/lab, Jamie was sure that around here the two things were one in the same, when they all heard a voice.

"I need help," Daniels. The team made it over to him and Spock looked at him.

"Commodore," there was ice in Spock's tone. As much as Jamie hated him, she would do the right thing.

"We'll get you out of here, sir." The officers looked at her like she was crazy and maybe she was.

"Captain?" they all asked.

"He's a Starfleet officer, gentlemen. We can't just leave him here." No matter how much she wanted too.

"This is your fault, Kirk. You brought those things after my station," Daniels is an idiot and even though they were short on time, Jamie was done holding her tongue with him.

"Yea… it's really not on me. You wanted praise and recognition that you didn't earn, so you activated Helios early despite T'Mar and Surok's warnings. Your actions caused the Rip that brought the Gorn through. We watched you abandon your crew. You lied to T'Mar and you got Surok killed. We found your audio logs and some of Surok's so don't even think about trying to pin this on me. I'm sure Starfleet will just love to hear everything we found. Being recognized isn't all it's cracked up to be, by the way. Did you ever consider that I never sought out to be a hero? I would rather live in anonymity with my husband and my kid… instead of people calling me a slut or being reminded that my dad is dead. I'm not special, I'm just a girl from Iowa who is tired of watching people die, even people who hate me for no reason. I think you used to be a good officer before you decided to be a selfish prick, so I'm going to ask you to help me. You want to be the hero? Then be the hero and tell us where they took T'Mar, sir." The other officers just looked at her. Jamie rarely talked about George or what it's like being his daughter. To Jamie, she wasn't really his kid anyway, Sam was but Jamie never got the chance to be.

"I… I don't know where she is," Daniels told them. She nodded and looked at Kai and Edwards.

"Get him outta here, we'll get T'Mar and meet you outside," she told the officers.

Jamie and Spock went deeper into the complex. They were onto something when Spock grabbed her.

"Grenade!" he warned.

She looked around, "Shit. It's an ambush. Don't give 'em an inch." No, no, no. They were outnumbered and seriously outgunned. They fought, hard. In the end, they were overpowered. Guns were pointed in their faces and they were taken into the room where T'Mar was being held.

"T'Mar!" Spock called. She was a mess, they tortured her like Jamie thought they would; she had green blood all over the place. Kai was on his knees with a weapon pointed at his head, Jamie looked him over.

"Daniels and Edwards?" she asked.

Kai looked at her, "Dead, ma'am. I'm sorry, they overpowered me."

She shook her head, "Not your fault, LT. You did good." A huge, huge, Gorn entered the room and Spock stepped forward. "Easy, Spock. No need to go full human on me… not yet anyway." The Big Gorn growled something at his men and then something in Jamie's face before the three officers were forced into what Jamie could only describe as an arena. "I think our bad day just got a whole lot worse, boys." Kai nodded and Spock looked at her.

"Unfortunately, I believe you are correct, Captain," her first officer said.

They were forced to fight several waves of creatures in the arena for the Gorn's amusement. After defeating what Jamie was calling the Gorn Champion, Spock was infected with the Gorn venom and they were forced to fight to the death.

"Spock… listen to me. Please. You don't want to hurt me, I'm practically your sister. Your family. Fight, I know you're in there. You gotta fight," she pleaded.

Kai was between them, Jamie knew that Spock cared if he hurt them but there was nothing he could do. She didn't want to hurt him and she didn't want him to wake up after hurting her. They fought him but they did their best not to actually hurt her friend. Jamie and Kai had the advantage of knowing how Spock fought and because they still had their clarity, they could dodge his attacks. The shuttle showing up was the best thing in the world. Spock had tossed Kai and had Jamie pinned when he went down with a tranquilizer in his neck. Jamie looked up at the shuttle and saw her husband with a sniper rifle in hand. He might not realize it but he's getting laid when this was all over.

"Captain?" Spock looked at her.

"You're alright, Spock," she assured her friend.

He took a breath, "The antidote?"

She smiled, "Yea… looks like I married a miracle worker. You owe him one."

Bones spoke up from the shuttle, "Dropping you some gear. Sulu says he can't put this thing down until you clear the area. Go get 'em." Jamie smiled as she, Spock and Kai grabbed the weapons Bones dropped to clear out a landing zone.

"What about T'Mar?" her friend asked.

Jamie glanced at Spock, "We'll get our chance. They need her alive so as much as it pains me, we'll have to wait. We got a shuttle to catch." They cleared out the landing zone and Sulu put the shuttle down long enough to pick the three officers up. Bones was getting some crazy readings.

"Jim, something's going on," her husband told her. Spock theorized that the Helios Device was re-activated and that they were using T'Mar to do it. They were gonna need back up if they were do anything about it. Jamie ordered Sulu back to the ship.