"How did you manage this?" Bones asked her.
Jamie shrugged, "The work is done, everyone is on leave and I'm the Captain." They were on the Enterprise with Joanna, Peter, Alex and Sam; she promised the kids a tour and she was making good on the promise before Joanna had to go back to school. Scotty was a kid-magnet; the trio of short people had him showing them stuff on the ship.
Sam nudged Jamie, "He's good with kids."
Jamie chuckled, "Yea, I know." Scotty was gonna make a good –and very cool- dad, one day.
"MISTER SPOCK!" the kids yelled as Jamie's first officer walked into the room, the kids love Spock and they bring out a different side to him. Jamie, Sam and Bones laughed as the Vulcan in question addressed the children.
"Miss Joanna, Mister Peter, Mister Alexander," Spock said. The kids all smiled at the fact that he remembered their names, they didn't know that Spock generally remembers everything. They asked him a million questions and he answered every single one.
"Please tell me that someone is recording this," Bones whispered in her ear.
They were getting to the end of the tour when Jamie's PADD beeped with an emergency flash message. "I'm being recalled to HQ. Something happened and they're calling for an emergency session of the commanding and executive officers of all the ships in the area. Spock, we gotta go."
Bones nodded, "Should I go too?"
She shook her head, "No, but we might need to recall the crew."
Bones nodded, "I can figure out who's already here and help Uhura if a recall is issued." She nodded and turned to her brother.
He smiled, "Go be the big hero." Jamie smiled; she kissed her daughter and her nephews goodbye before moving to her brother.
"I love you, Sammy." He smiled as he hugged her,.
"I love you too, Jimmy. Be safe," Sam told her.
She nodded, "Scotty?"
"I'll get the Kirk-McCoy crew home in one piece," her friend told her. She did another round of hugs -just in case- and kissed her husband before running to put on her uniform and getting to HQ.
She and Spock were beamed outside the building and walked in together. The pair stepped into the turbolift to take them up to the Daystrom conference room when her PADD beeped, she didn't recognize the origin of the message but something in the coding told her to open it.
I don't have a lot of time, so I'll make this quick. Most of what Marcus is about to tell you is a lie. Trust none of it, I'll give you the real story when you're back on your ship. I'm bringing someone with me. The shit is about to hit the fan. Watch your six, J.T.
Jamie hit the command to delete the information from her PADD. Spock looked at her, "That is disturbing news, Captain."
Jamie nodded, "Yea, I know him well enough to know that he means everything that he just said."
They made their way into the conference room; Jamie did a quick scan for anyone they knew.
"Captain Kirk," someone called. She looked up at Captain Bannock, the commanding officer of the Republic.
"Captain Bannock, it's good to see you again. How's the Republic?" she shook the man's hand.
"It's good. I tried to get some of your crew but you guys seemed to be a package deal after the Nero incident," he told her.
Jamie smiled, "Yea, we kinda are. Do you know what's going on?"
The other captain shook his head, "No more than you do. I don't like it though." She nodded, she's been thinking the same thing.
They were all ordered to sit down and Jamie looked at Marcus. She's met him a few times but she tended to stay away from him, he always rubbed her the wrong way but it was Trip's warning that caused Jamie to actively avoid being near the man if she could help it.
"Thank you for meeting on such short notice. Be seated," Admiral Marcus addressed the room. They all sat down and he began, "By now some of you have heard what happened in London. The target was a Starfleet data archive, now it's a damn hole in the ground. Forty-two men and women are dead. One hour ago, I received a message from a Starfleet officer who confessed to carrying out this attack, that he was being forced to do it by this man." The image of a man appeared on everyone's monitors; he was handsome enough. Jamie realized that the holo was from a Starfleet file.
Marcus continued, "Commander John Harrison. He's one of our own and he is the man responsible for this act of savagery. For reasons unknown, John Harrison has just declared a one man war against Starfleet and under no circumstances are we to allow this man to escape Federation space. You here tonight represent the senior command of all the vessels in the region. And in the name of those we lost, you will run this bastard down. This is a manhunt, pure and simple, so let's get to work." He paused for a moment to let it sink in.
Jamie began looking through the holos and reports as Marcus continued, "Earth's Perimeter sensors have not detected any warp signatures leaving the system, so we know he can't be far. You will park your ships in a blockade formation and deploy search vehicles and landing parties to run down every lead. This man has shown willingness to kill innocent people, so the rules of engagement are simple. If you come across this man, and fear for your life and the lives of those nearby, you are authorized to use deadly force on the subject." Jamie glanced at Spock, they were thinking the same thing; In what universe is it okay to just kill someone? She looked at one image of Harrison and something caught her attention, she leaned closer to Spock.
"What's in the bag?" she whispered.
He examined the image himself, "Interesting."
"Everything okay over there, Kirk?" Marcus asked.
She nodded, "Yes, sir. My first officer and I were just running through some theories, sir. Apologies."
Marcus looked at her, "You got something to say, Kirk, say it. Tomorrow is too late." Everyone in the room turned their attention to her.
"It just seems odd to me that he targeted an archive. It's like bombing a library. All that information is...is public record. If he really wanted to damage Starfleet, this could just be the beginning," she told him. The lack of logic in this plan was overwhelming.
"The beginning of what, Miss Kirk?" Marcus asked her.
She looked at him, "Sir, in event of an attack, protocol mandates that senior commands gather, Captains and first Officers, at Starfleet HQ, right here... in this room."
Spock added to that thought, "It is curious Harrison would commandeer a jump ship without warp capability…" Spock stopped speaking as the room was enveloped in red light. Jamie stood and looked out the window. This was not good.
"Clear the room!" she yelled to the other officers in the room. She hit the deck as the ship opened fire on the officers. Spock grabbed Captain Bannock, who was next to him and pulled the older man to the floor.
Bannock opened his comm, "We need air defense team, Daystrom conference room!" She knew she had to do something; she helped Commander Lance get to cover then she grabbed a rifle and started shooting at the ship. Jamie knew she wasn't doing any damage, she needed… to damage the turbines. She tied her weapon an emergency hose and tossed it at the ship's turbine, which sucked it up, pulled the mount off the wall and into the turbines which brought down the ship. Jamie looked at it and noticed Harrison beaming out before the ship is destroyed.
"Spock, you alright?" she ran back into the conference room.
He looked at her, "I am, Captain." She looked around the room, there were multiple officers down. Marcus was okay but Jamie had a feeling that this was meant for him.