"We're gonna have to split up," her husband muttered. Sometimes, she was convinced that Bones was reading her mind.
While on approach to the ship, they discovered that it was under heavy attack by the Gorn. By some miracle, Kyle managed to beam them over. Jamie looked at the team she had with her and decided to send Bones, Kai, Chen and Sulu to clear the infected crew. They were going to take the antidote to the environmental control center.
"Scotty, please tell me you can hear me," she said into her comm. He could and wasn't happy about the state of their ship.
"We need to secure Engineering, lass. Between me, you, Spock and Keenser, we should be able to restore the warp core but the place is crawling with those lizard things." Jamie and Spock high-tailed it to find her friend. She ran right into Rand, Zahra and Gaila on the way.
"You ladies come with us," she ordered the trio. Without power, Bones' team couldn't get the cure to the whole crew. Of course, the Gorn were guarding the damn warp core. Scotty, Gaila and Keenser got the core restarted while Jamie, Spock, Zahra and Rand fought off the Gorn. "Bones, we got the power back."
"I copy ya, Jim. We're all set up here, it'll take a few minutes but the cure is airborne." Jamie let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding. Bones informed her that aside from headaches, the crew would be fine and was already returning to normal. Scotty came over the comm to warn her that they were pissing the Gorn off. The antidote was having an effect on them.
"Captain, we're pinned down in astrometrics, we could us some backup," it was Freeman; she nabbed him from the academy when she got command. He took some officers to the lab in order to help the stellar cartography team but they were getting their asses handed to them. Jamie left Zahra and Rand with Scotty to hold Engineering while she, Spock and Gaila ran to help her officers. Jamie, Spock and Gaila flanked the Gorn attacking her crew and killed them.
"You guys okay?" she asked. They all informed her that they had nothing more than some minor injuries, except Chekov, his leg was busted. Jamie pulled his arm over her shoulder and Gaila took the other side, the whole group went to medical. Bones had officers posted at the entry points to sickbay. "Nice work, Bonesy."
"I might've borrowed a trick or two from your playbook," he said with a chuckle as he took the teen from her and Gaila. Even guarded, that didn't stop the Gorn from making a play for sickbay, the cure in the air was messing with them.
"Ma'am, we got hostiles incoming. A lot of them," a security officer named Grey informed her. There were three entrances into sickbay; port, starboard and center. Gaila, Grey and Freeman took some men to the port entrance while Spock, Kai and Chen took some men to the starboard side and Jamie, Sulu, and Hendorff took a team to the center entrance. Bones' people kept themselves and the injured clear of the firefight. Wave after wave of Gorn kept coming. Jamie knew that they were trying to distract them but she wasn't sure why.
"They're up to something," she told her first officer when they killed the last wave. No sooner had she said the words when Uhura yelled over the sickbay's intercom.
"Spock! He wants you to hand over the ship," the communications officer yelled.
Spock practically growled, "Do NOT harm her."
Jamie took a breath, "This is a trap if I've ever seen one."
"If they hurt her…" Spock started.
"They'll have to deal with both of us," she finished.
"Not just you, I'm coming with," Sulu informed her.
Not so surprising, Hendorff spoke up, "Me too."
Jamie smirked, "The rest of you stay here. Lieutenants, you're with us."
Jamie, Spock, Sulu and Hendorff made their way to the bridge where the Gorn they capture was holding Uhura hostage.
The Gorn started talking and Uhura translated for him. "Pathetic creatures. I have allowed you too much freedom. Override the systems and give us control of this ship or the woman dies." Spock stepped forward but Jamie stopped him; she had an idea. The Gorn had pissed her off enough and she was just done dealing with these things on her ship.
"You want control," she said. "I'll give you control."
The officers in the room looked at her but she just winked at Sulu as the shuttle they left outside crashed into the viewscreen. Everything froze for a second then the room decompressed. Spock grabbed Uhura's arm, Hendorff grabbed one of the stations behind her chair, Sulu held onto the command chair and Jamie was hanging onto Chekov's station.
"Computer, repair bridge," she ordered with the last of her breath. The breach sealed itself and the whole group hit the floor. "Ny, you alright?"
"Yes, Captain," her friend sighed.
Jamie hopped in her chair and hit the intercom, "All hands, report to stations." This was ending, soon. The Gorn messed with the wrong crew.
They were out of options so Jamie, Spock, Chen, Grey and Hendorff launched a rescue mission and went to the Gorn ship where T'Mar and the Helios Device were. During their search they found something very interesting.
"Fascinating," Spock said.
Jamie chuckled, "I hate it when you say that. It's never anything good."
Spock nodded, "It appears that these chambers are bio-enhancement tanks." That is fascinating.
"Bones, you getting any of this?" Jamie asked as she shifted so the holo-recorder on her suit could pick up the room they were in.
Her husband's voice came over the comm, "All that stuff looks like genetic engineering gear to me. It explains their enhancements and the tanks you found on that planet." They, gladly, made their way out of that area of the ship and kept looking for Helios and T'Mar.
"This place is massive, Captain," Chen said from her right side.
She nodded, "Spock, wanna help me hack in and see if we can narrow our search." They found a console with access to the secure systems and located the targeting platform, they also located the Helios Device and T'Mar.
"Do you have a plan, Captain?" her first officer asked.
Jamie nodded, "If we hide in these tanks and hijack a transport, we should be able to get up there." They all looked at her, Spock spoke.
"I am proud of you, Jamie." What? Jamie raised an eyebrow.
"For what?" she asked her friend.
"Usually, your plans involve mindlessly running into danger," Spock told her. The security officers all chuckled at the exchange.
"Not 'mindlessly'… but the whole 'running into danger' thing is still on the table, boys," she told them with a smile.
They didn't know how to get the chambers to work, so they comm'ed Scotty. The tanks sent out signals, they just had to find one that about to be picked up and Scotty would match the signal for them. It was a tight squeeze but they sucked it up; Sulu told them that the Enterprise's shields were down to thirty percent. They had to move, fast.
"Well, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, that's the central computer," Jamie muttered after they were deposited in a large room. Spock and the officers nodded.
There were five consoles, they had to disable them all. Of course, there were turrets and Gorn in the way. Jamie, Grey and Chen went right while Spock and Hendorff went left. They disabled the turret to disable the console. The security officers kept the Gorn off their backs. Jamie was on her second console when she heard Chen shout.
"Grey!" the security officer called. She glanced behind her to see the the kid on the deck with a hole in his chest and the other officer over him trying to bring him back.
"Chen, look at me. Erik, Erik! Marc is gone, we gotta finish this or we'll lose everybody else," she told him.
He nodded, "Yes, ma'am." She finished what she was doing and they met Spock and Hendorff in the middle.
The burly officer looked at her, "We lost Grey?" She nodded.
"It's not your fault, Captain," Hendorff told her. She offered him as small smile as she and Spock disabled the list console and destroyed the computer.
"Captain, you there?" it was Sulu.
"I copy, Sulu." He informed her that they took out the weapons and that they had a chance to get the Enterprise back to Federation space in one piece. "That's good news, Mister Sulu."
Spock looked at her, "Your celebration may be premature. We must still complete our mission."
Jamie chuckled, "Well Mama Ella says that you gotta celebrate the little victories. I'm not arguing with Bones' mama, I may be crazy but I ain't that crazy." Spock was actually amused.
"That is a wise decision. I would not endeavor to ignore advice from Mrs. McCoy. She is… scary."
Bones' voice came over the comm, "Damn straight."
Getting to T'Mar and the Helios device wasn't as hard as Jamie thought it might be. They used the ship's transporters and beamed to the room where the device and T'Mar were being held.
"What are they doing to her?" Jamie asked her friend.
Spock looked at her, "I believe the Gorn are somehow forcing her to operated the device." Jamie was hoping he didn't say that, it was one thing when they only suspected it and another thing to see it.
"We gotta get her out of here, Spock," she whispered knowing he could hear her.
The Vulcan readied his weapon, "As long as the device is operational, we will not be able to beam out." Jamie decided that destroying the Helios device was the best option, she was done fighting for this thing and there was no way in hell she was leaving it for someone else like Daniels or the Gorn to get their hands on it. There weren't many Gorn in this room, she guessed that they never thought anyone would get this far. The team took them out and disabled the plasma transducers. As soon as they were down, the Helios Device was in the open.
"Take it out," Jamie ordered. The whole team opened fire on it and destroyed it into a bunch of pieces, it set a pulse through the ship.
"I don't know what you just did over there, lass, but I have a lock on ya. Grey's life signs…" came the chief engineer's voice.
"Are gone, we know. Beam him over anyway, I'm not leaving his body here," she told him. Jamie took a couple steps in T'Mar's direction when the big Gorn from the planet returned, he yelled something at them but Jamie really didn't care what he had to say.
"Get to T'Mar, Captain, I will handle him," Spock told her.
"You sure?" she asked her friend.
"As you would say, I have a score to settle." Well, shit. Mental note: Don't fuck with Spock.
Jamie, Hendorff and Chen fought off the soldiers that the big Gorn brought with him and got to T'Mar.
"Kirk," the Vulcan sighed. Jamie was glad that the woman was mostly okay. She hacked the controls holding T'Mar in and Hendorff lifted the injured Vulcan in his arms.
"I got her, ma'am." So, Hendorff wasn't that bad. Jamie nodded and looked to where Spock beat the crap out of the Gorn leader.
"Scotty, get us outta here." The familiar lights of the transporter swirled around them and they were back on the Enterprise. Jamie knew they weren't outta the woods yet. "Sulu, take us home," she called over the comm. The helmsman acknowledged her orders. Jamie looked at the officers with her, "We better get to medical before Bones shows up and hypos all of us into next year."