"He wants us to go where?" Bones asked.
Jamie looked at her husband, "Yea. If this Harrison doesn't kill us, the Klingons might. Fun, right?"
"You aren't really going after this guy?" her husband asked her.
She shrugged, "Depends on what my uncle thinks."
Bones looked around, "You talked to Trip?"
"He sent me a message. He's on the Enterprise already," she told him. The pair got on the shuttle and sat down.
Spock looked at her, "Captain, I must object to our mission parameters."
"You know, I should note the date and time… that way, next time I go off the reservation, I'll have proof that you do, in fact, oppose HQ's orders. Cool your jets, Spock. I'm not sold on shooting torpedoes at the Klingon homeworld either. I'm not as dumb as Marcus thinks I am," she told her first officer. Scotty had figured out where Harrison went and Marcus ordered Jamie to pursue the lunatic to Qo'noS. He gave her seventy-two long-range torpedoes and told her to "park on the edge of the Neutral Zone, lock on to Harrison's position, you fire, you kill him and haul ass." There was no fucking way; that's suicide. And Marcus knew it.
They got to the ship and walked right into Scotty arguing with a security officer that she didn't know, she figured that he was with the torpedoes. "Captain," the engineer looked at her.
"Yea, Scotty?" She better get it over with.
"I cannae authorize any weapons on board this ship without knowing what's inside them," the Scot told her.
She nodded, "So don't."
Scotty said, "What?" at the same time Bones said "Jim?" and Spock said "Captain?" It was almost comical.
"If you don't want to sign for then don't… Someone blew up an archive, I was almost killed last night in a firefight and there's a terrorist running around. I don't have the energy to argue with you about following an Admiral's orders. You don't want to sign for them, then don't, but you get the honor of going down to HQ, interrupting the multitude of briefings and recovery efforts so that you can explain to Admiral Marcus why. I have enough of a headache," she told him. All three men looked at each other.
"Fine… but I don't recommend using them," Scotty said as he signed the PADD.
She nodded, "Noted. Meet in my ready room in ten." Bones and Spock looked at her when they entered the turbolift. "Don't look at me like that. I don't want the damn things either… but I don't want to give them to another ship. I have no problem ignoring Marcus' order but someone else will do exactly as he told them to and start a fucking war in the process. They're better here than somewhere else." Both men regarded her for a moment. "I'm crazy, not stupid, guys."
Bones chuckled, "Ain't that the truth." She looked at him. "I didn't mean it like that, Jim."
She nodded, "I know."
The trio made it to the deck where their quarters were and split at Jamie and Bones' door. They entered the room. "You sure you're okay?" Bones asked.
She nodded, "Yea. Some cuts and bruises but I get worse sparring with Sulu." He chuckled. Jamie pulled her flight suit off and grabbed her command gold duty dress. "I don't like this Bones."
He looked at her, "Me neither." Jamie couldn't put her finger on what was wrong but she knew something was.
Jamie and Bones met Spock in the corridor and the entered the turbolift to the bridge. "Captain on the bridge," Chekov called from his station.
"Sulu, Uhura, Chekov and Gaila, you're with us. Zahra, you have the con," she told her officers as Scotty entered the bridge behind her. Jamie and the group walked into her ready room. "So, you mind telling me what the fuck is going on, Trip?"
"Cranky, much?" he teased.
She rolled her eyes, "Well, someone almost…" The chair furthest from her turned and she was face to face with Commander John Harrison. Jamie would've jumped on him but Trip motioned to Sulu and Bones to grab her, "What the fuck, Trip?"
"He's not the man you saw last night," he told her.
She looked at him, "Say again?" He hit some commands on her console; it was footage from Daystrom. He paused it when the image showed Harrison's face.
"See the shimmer?" Trip asked.
Jamie looked closer, "What is that?"
Harrison looked at her, "A nano mask. We use them for certain missions. They are convincing in person for a short time but not on holos, they give off a shimmer. The person in that jump ship isn't me. I was with Tucker and Archer last night." He motioned to her friend and Admiral Archer, who was sitting next to Pike.
"Then who is that and what's going on?" Pike asked the question of the moment.
"He's one of my father's men, I don't know which." Jamie looked at the blonde next to Harrison. The woman looked at her, "I'm Doctor Carol Marcus." Jamie nodded and looked at Trip.
"Section 31 or Redux?" she asked. It had to be one of the two.
He took a breath, "That's the thing, JT... it's both. Marcus is convinced that war with the Klingons is inevitable. He just needs a reason to approve a war. A Federation vessel destroyed on the edge of the Neutral Zone would be one hell of a reason. I acquired some Redux intel that led me to Marcus. He's using 31's resources to help Redux with this war."
She looked at Harrison, "Why you? Why give that person your face?"
"He found out that my loyalties didn't lie with him. I have done many things in the name of protecting the Federation but I refused to start his war. Your reaction to me when you saw me was exactly why he used my face," Harrison told her. Jamie thought about it; anyone who saw him and knew who he was would at least bring him in… or at most, kill him.
"And her?" Jamie asked about Marcus' daughter.
"She's a weapons expert," Trip told her.
Scotty stepped closer to Jamie, "The torpedoes?"
The other blond nodded, "My father gave me access to every program he oversaw. When I heard he was developing these prototype torpedoes, I went to confront him about the. He wouldn't even see me. That's when I discovered that torpedoes had disappeared from all official records."
"And then he gave them to me. Do we know what's so special about them?" Jamie asked.
Carol shook her head, "I don't… that's what has me worried."
Jamie could agree with that. "Orders, sir?" She looked at Archer.
"Don't load those torpedoes. Go bring in Harrison's doppelganger. Doctor Marcus and Trip will go with you. Pike, Reed and I will back your play from here. Get the guy and get him back to Earth. Communications blackout. Don't even comm us. Trip knows where to take him, he'll fill you in and we'll meet you there," the admiral ordered.
"I would like to accompany the Enterprise, sir," Harrison added. Archer and Pike looked at her; she nodded.
Pike stood and touched her shoulder, "Be safe, Jamie. We don't know what Marcus has up his sleeve."
Jamie looked at him, "I'll do my best, sir." The Admirals left the room and Jamie looked at Trip.
"You got a plan?"she asked her friend.
He chuckled, "Yea, but your husband ain't gonna like it."
Bones rolled his eyes, "Of course I won't."