"Hey, Deadpool, I'm bringing the party to you," she said into her comm.
Jamie could hear Hikaru laugh on the other end, "I'm not obnoxious enough to be Deadpool. Warpath, maybe. What does that make you?" Jamie thought as she ran through the underbrush on this planet with a bunch of locals hot on her tail.
"I don't know. Captain America. Black Widow. Iron Man. Rogue. Captain Marvel. Pick one."
"I think you could be a mix of all five. We see you, there's a slight drop in front of you. Jump in ten seconds." Jamie didn't hesitate, she counted to ten and jumped right where he told her to. She saw the shuttle, hatch open and the rest of the away team already inside.
"I have visual, Sulu. We're gonna need a quick exit, they are mad at me," she told him.
That was an understatement. They pissed off the local chieftain, who tried to have them executed. She still doesn't know what they did wrong and Jamie stopped trying to figure it out after they almost killed Chekov.
Jamie ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped, landing in the shuttle with Hendorff catching her around her waist. "I'm in, Sulu. Get us out of here. Nice catch, Cupcake."
The burly security office chuckled, "Anytime, ma'am."
"How's the kid, Bones?" Jamie asked as she unzipped her jacket.
"He'll live. You hurt, Jim?" the doctor asked as he patched up Chekov.
She shook her head, "Nothing a shower and some sleep won't fix."
"If I ask Sulu that question later, what's he gonna say?" her best friend huffed. Jamie glared at the back of Bones' head.
"I have some cuts and bruises but nothing that would require your expertise. Geez, Bones. Like I said, a shower and some sleep." She walked to the front of the shuttle and dropped into the empty co-pilot's seat.
Hikaru glanced at her, "We're not that far from the ship." There was an interference from the planet that made beaming down and communications impossible.
"With the way you fly, I'm not surprised," she smiled.
"What's wrong with how I fly?" he asked, mock hurt coloring his tone.
Jamie smiled, "Nothing. I wish I was that good."
"I guess Captain Marvel's out. Carol Danvers was in the old school Air Force. Rogue's out too, she was a bad guy first anyway. You're probably a mix of Captain America's dedication, Iron Man's brains with Black Widow's hotness. All that tight, black leather, I bet you could pull it off."
Jamie laughed, "So, Captain Iron Widow?"
"Something like that," Hiri shrugged. "We're clear of the atmosphere, comms are back."
Jamie smiled as she input the commands on the console to talk to the Enterprise, "Shuttle Archer to Enterprise. Have a med team stand by in the shuttle bay, ETA fourteen minutes." Uhura acknowledged the order and Jamie could hear the relief in the other woman's voice. Jamie cut the comm and looked at Sulu, "What would you do if I got my hands on a black leather catsuit?"
He glanced back at the rest of the shuttle before he looked at her with that sparkle in his eyes that drove her crazy, "You know exactly what I'd do, Jamie."
"If she comes back, I'm gonna kill her," Jamie growled.
"It doesn't look promising but if anyone can, it's probably you," Hikaru chuckled.
The Enterprise was investigating a planet that was almost the same size as Luna with a mass and atmosphere similar to Earth. What was odd about the planet was that it's age was less than the indigenous vegetation and atmospheric content would indicate.
Jamie, ever the curious one, decided to take a team down. The transporter room is where the whole mission went to hell before it started. As Jamie, Bones, Hikaru and geologist Doctor D'Amato were being transported down, a mysterious woman appeared. She told them that they 'must not go' before she touched Lieutenant Wyatt, the transport operator, killing him. Stuck mid-transport, the away team couldn't do anything but watch.
Once on the planet, Jamie attempted to comm Spock to warn him about the woman but before she could, a powerful tremor rocked the planet. D'Amato's tricorder read an energy burst of power that was almost too high to measure. Jamie couldn't raise the Enterprise on her communicator when Sulu figured out that the Enterprise was no longer in orbit, effectively stranding the landing party on the planet.
The four officers tossed around theories about what happened to the ship but nothing they came up with fit any of the facts that they did have. While concerned about the ship, Jamie knew that they'd eventually need food and water so she ordered an analysis of the resources. The news was not good; all vegetation on the planet is poisonous to humans, there is no evidence of rainfall or surface water and the only other form of life is a virus-like plant parasite.
Hikaru registered a sudden magnetic reading that quickly dissipated while Bones detected a powerful lifeform reading that appeared and then disappeared. These fluctuations occurred as the same woman who appeared in the transporter room of the Enterprise confronted D'Amato. Jamie made a move to protect him but the woman touched the geologist, killing him right before their eyes and vanished. Bones scanned D'Amato's body and found that his cells were all disrupted from the inside out.
"We gotta get out of here," Jamie muttered.
Bones rolled his eyes, "I can't believe we're gonna die on this godforsaken planet. I'm blaming you for this, Jim."
"You know good and damn well that we'll figure out an exit," Jamie said.
"Before or after we starve to death?" the southerner asked.
She sighed, "That is the million credit question, Bones. We'll dig his grave. Let me know when you're done." Bones nodded but didn't say anything. Jamie and Hikaru moved a few feet away from Bones and the body and attempted to dig a grave with their phasers, nothing happened.
"That's new," Hikaru said as he knelt above the spot. He opened his tricorder and scanned again. "There's no indication that we just fired at the ground, Captain. If I had to guess, this place is fake. It's likely that the whole planet is artificial." Before Jamie could say anything, the woman appeared again.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Jamie asked.
The woman looked at Hikaru, "I am for Sulu." The woman made a move to touch him but Jamie was just as fast, getting between the two of them. The woman touched Jamie right in the center of her chest before making a face and vanishing again.
Bones ran over, "Are you crazy, Jim?"
She chuckled, "Jury's out on that. Why didn't she kill me?" Bones and Hikaru looked at each other.
"She told D'Amato that she was only for him," Bones said to them.
"She just said the same thing to me. Maybe she has to focus her attacks or something," Hiri said.
Jamie chuckled, "Of course. She can't kill more than one person and it has to be the person she was after. I got in her way and she couldn't handle it."
Hikaru smiled, "I think we can beat her. We just gotta keep her away from whoever she's after. Maybe hold hands."
"I can't wait to write my logs for this one. This is some 'Quiet Earth' type stuff," Jamie mumbled.
"The Omega Man," Hiri offered.
She countered, "The Last Woman on Earth."
"Uh… I'm not sharing my girl with McCoy. The Last Andorian."
"Oblivion," Jamie smiled.
Bones shook his head, "I am Legend, the book, not the movies. And 28 Days Later."
She looked at her best friend, "That's a zombie movie."
"Sorta. There's a good part in the beginning where the main guy, I don't remember his name… anyway, there's a good part with him just walking around London and everyone is gone. Since he was in a coma, he doesn't know why. Fits in with the last man on earth thing you two are doin'. Oh my God, I can't believe I just got pulled into that," Bones groaned.
"Oh, come on. We gotta keep ourselves distracted until we figure this all out, she comes back or the Enterprise rescues us," she smiled.
"You think they'll come back? What if they've been destroyed?" her best friend asked.
"If they were destroyed, and I doubt it, then we'll figure something out. If they're out there, they'll come for us."
"How can you be so sure, Jim?" Bones asked quietly.
Jamie smiled, "You guys brought me back from the dead, Bones. As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing the crew of the Enterprise can't do."
"She's got a point, doc. I'm sure Spock and Scotty are coming up with a solution as we speak. All we gotta do is hang tight until they get here," Hikaru shrugged.
The woman came back but the guys kept her away from Jamie, her new target. The captain managed to get a ton of information from the woman who called herself Losira, the commander of the station. The Starfleet officers found out that she didn't want to kill them but her job was to protect the station. After Losira disappeared again, they followed their tricorder readings to an underground door that lead to the planet-station.
Jamie, Bones and Hikaru found a computer room, once inside, they were confronted with three versions of the destructive woman, each programmed to kill one of them. The away team seemed to be out of options when Spock and Hendorff showed up and destroyed the computer. The three women disappeared and were replaced by a recorded image of Losira. In the recording, she welcomes her fellow Kalandans to the colony. The Losira recording explained that a disease they accidentally produced when they created the planet destroyed the population and she was the last survivor. She didn't believe that she'd survive until help arrived, so she set the station defense mechanism on automatic to defend against other life forms.
"Does this mean we can go home now? Where were you, by the way? What took so long?" Jamie asked.
Spock looked at her, "Yes. I will explain on the ship. It is part of the explanation."
Jamie chuckled, "I missed you, Spock."
He raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure that you would not prefer to remain here with Lieutenant Sulu, Captain?"
Bones and Hendorff both laughed and Jamie smiled, "You're teasin' me. I never thought I'd see the day."
Spock nodded, "Nor did I, Captain. Perhaps, I have spent too much time in Mister Scott's company."
"What's wrong?"
Jamie looked up at Hikaru and smiled, "Nothing. I can't sleep and I didn't want to wake you."
"Reaching out and you're not there is a damn good way to wake me up, just for future reference. You gonna tell me what's up?" he asked.
"Just thinking. Can't turn my brain off," Jamie sighed. Hiri sat on the couch next to her.
"Anything in particular? Someone's upcoming twenty-eighth birthday, for instance? Or the fact that we've been out here a year already? Or Pike?"
"All three. That's creepy, you know," she said.
"That I got you pegged? Come on, that's not new, Jamie."
She chuckled, "I know. I just… nevermind."
He shook his head, "None of that. Tell me what's bothering you. I'll get it out of you one way or another so you might as well tell me."
"I just feel old. I know, it sounds crazy to you because you're younger than me but… sometimes…"
"You feel like you're older than you are. You've been through a lot and every time you think it's over, you get pulled into something else. To most people, turning twenty-eight isn't a big deal but you feel like you've been fighting longer than that. And you think that you shouldn't have made it that long; technically you didn't. Doesn't help that you're the youngest captain in the fleet. How am I doin'?"
Jamie looked at him, "I'm gonna have Bones check to make sure you aren't a mind reader. Creepy, I tell you."
"I don't read minds, I just know how you think. I got a vested interest in what's in your head. If I'm being honest, I see it in your eyes all the time. Like you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop. You should stop doin' that."
"I can't just turn it off; it's kept me alive this long," she muttered.
Hiri chuckled, "You're afraid to let your guard down. I can tell."
"For the first time in my life, I am really, truly happy. The last time I got close was right before they took my ship, then Chris died. I don't want something to happen to you. I honestly don't know what I'd do." She looked at their joined hands.
Hikaru smiled, "I could be all macho and say some crap about being hard to kill, which I am, but I know good and damn well that you'd never let anything happen to me, Jamie."
"True. I'd have to hurt someone for even messing with you."
"Like that Losira chick. I could've sworn you were gonna say something dumb like 'bitch get away from my man'."
Jamie laughed, "I would not. I… okay I might've said something stupid. I was thinking it. Man, aren't we a pair."
"We are. I just gotta get you over that whole self-loathing thing and we'd be golden," he said.
"You know, one of these days, I'm gonna be the mature one, Hiri."
He shook his head, "You're the wildcard. You have to be or we're all in trouble."
"You know what I mean, babe."
Hikaru nodded, "I know but I like the wildcard thing, babe. It's hot. Come on, you gotta sleep, Captain."
"I might need a little help with that."
"You're just in luck; putting sexy young captains to bed is one of my specialties."
"It's not impossible."
Hiri looked at her like she was crazy, "You guys are gonna try it, aren't you?"
"If anyone can build a TARDIS, it's Scotty and Chekov. I'd be The Doctor, will you be my companion?"
He laughed, "I'm already your companion. I'm in as long as we don't encounter any Daleks, Doctor."
"Why not? They're so cool. EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE," Jamie did her best interpretation of the Doctor Who villains.
Hikaru shook his head, "I like the Weeping Angels. Don't blink. They're almost impossible to beat. Oh, and the Master keeps coming back from the dead."
"That's easy, I can do that one. What about the Cybermen? You will be deleted," Jamie chuckled.
He shook his head, "You're so adorkable. How old is that show anyway?" She did the math in her head.
"Two hundred and ninety-seven. They took some breaks but still the original is in 2D, black and white analog."
He let out a low whistle, "You think people will remember us in three hundred years?"
Jamie nodded, "We saved the world, so probably."
"They'll remember that you saved the world. The pilot won't be on anyone's radar," he told her.
She ran her fingers though his hair, "Of everyone on this ship, it is my firm belief that you will be first to leave. You're too good of an officer to turn down any of the amazing things that will come your way."
"Sounds like you're trying to get rid of me, babe."
"No," she smiled. "It's just… You are extraordinary, Hikaru Sato Sulu. I know it, you know and the brass knows it. You're not gonna be my pilot forever. There will come a day when you get an offer that's too good to pass up and if you try, I'll kick your ass. You're gonna make history on your own, mark my words."
"You really think so?" he asked.
She nodded, "Yep. I should start calling you 'Captain Sulu' now so you can get used to it."
AN: I don't own Deadpool, Warpath, Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man, Rogue, Captain Marvel, The Quiet Earth, The Omega Man, The Last Woman on Earth, Oblivion, I am Legend (book or movie), 28 Days Later or Doctor Who.