After fighting with the Prime Mistress about getting a meeting with her. T'Pol and Hoshi made their way into her office. T'Pol had to take a breath before she said something she was going to regret. All the stress she was under wasn't good for her baby. She needed the men back so they can get out of here.
"Where are our men?" T'Pol asked in a calm voice when she really wanted to yell. She wondered if it had something with carrying half human child.
"As I told you, just go home. You don't need men anymore." Mistress Crars smiled at T'Pol.
"If I want to go home, I need my men back. I can't run a ship with what crew I have," T'Pol said.
"You and the rest of your crew can stay here," Mistress Crars glanced down at T'Pol round belly. "Your son will be reunited with his father after he is born. We can make sure that you get your husband's seed to have another baby. Maybe this time it will be a girl for you to keep."
T'Pol was not having it. She felt Hoshi at her back. "Captain," T'Pol could hear the warning in Hoshi's voice.
T'Pol took a breath before talking anymore. She traded a glance with Hoshi before speaking again. "I think that my crew would feel better at home than here. We'll leave you and your planet."
T'Pol turned to Hoshi. "Captain, we can't get home without the members of our crew. We need them."
"Commander Sato, do you want to be here the rest of our days," Hoshi shook her head. "The logical option is we let these women have our men. We might take a page out of their book and do the same with the men back home."
Hoshi frowned. "But Captain, your husband is here. Don't you want him back?"
T'Pol waved it off. "They can keep him, He was starting to annoy me," T'Pol kept her face in a straight face. Hoshi knew after all these years to read T'Pol's eyes. Hoshi saw how determent T'Pol was.
"Listen to your captain. She knows how men are and that they are only good for one thing," Mistress Crars said.
"Yes, you should," T'Pol said. "Thank you," T'Pol placed a hand on her forehead. "I think I was letting my emotions get to me," T'Pol patted her belly. "Having a baby can do that."
"Understandable," Mistress Crars smiled at T'Pol. "My wife was the same way when she was pregnant."
"I'm sorry for bothering you. Come on, Commander Sato. We have to get back to the ship," T'Pol headed for the door.
Hoshi and T'Pol got back to the shuttle pod. They moved away from the landing pad. Hoshi knew where to go once they were out of range. Hoshi landed the shuttle pod in a wooded area where they couldn't be seen.
T'Pol closed her eyes and reached for the bond that she had with Tripp. "Tripp, my love," She called out to him.
Tripp was fixing a tracker in a field that had just died when he heard his wife's voice in his head.
"Tripp, my love," Tripp closed his eyes because she only called him love in her head.
"T'Pol, you didn't leave us," Tripp smiled. He glanced to the man that was helping him to see if he noticed.
"Never, where are you?" T'Pol asked.
"We are on an island continent," Tripp said. "I miss you, love."
T'Pol left the conversation for a moment. "Ensign see if you can find an island continent." T'Pol went back to her conversation with Tripp. "I miss you, too. The bed is too cold without you. Also, your son misses you, too. What can you tell me about where you are?"
"I miss him, too," Tripp started to tell what he had learned in the first day that he had been there.
"Are there any ways off the island?" T'Pol asked.
"Not that I know of," Tripp said. "We only been here for a day,"
"Are you around anyone else?" T'Pol asked.
"No, the only person that is around is one of the Ducaran males," Tripp told her. "We are in the same barracks."
"Commander T'Pol," Hoshi said. She didn't want t break T'Pol's con. T'Pol looked at the young woman. "I've found the island, it is hard to find, there seems to be a shield around the island."
"Thank you, Ensign," T'Pol had to think about what they were going to do to get the men. "Tripp, can you make sure that you talk with the captain and others. I might have plan to get everyone off that island."
"I can. Please be careful," Tripp told his wife. "I will talk to you tonight."
"I love you and please be careful yourself. Your son would like to meet his father."
Tripp laughed in her head. "Charlie will get to see me."
"We never agreed on the name," Tripp could hear the smile in T'Pol's voice.
"Hey. Why have you stopped working on that tracker?" The man that was with Tripp asked.
"I love you and will talk to you tonight," Tripp told T'Pol. "Sorry, I was thinking about my beautiful wife."
The man rolled his eyes at Tripp. Tripp only smiled before going back to the tracker.
Tripp smiled when he entered the barracks. He saw that Jonathan was talking to Malcom, Phlox, and Travis. Tripp nodded to some of his men as he made his way to the captain. He might have a way out of this. Tripp looked around at the others before speaking. "I was talking to T'Pol earlier."
"How?" Malcom asked. "I asked around to see if they tried to get out but nothing."
Tripp tapped the side of his head. "Our bond. She said that she had a plan to get us out, but I have to talk to you guys."
"How are they doing?" Jonathan asked.
"Good, I think. We didn't have a lot of time to talk. I was to be fixing a tracker. Let me see if I can reach her. "T'Pol," He called out for her.
"Tripp," She called back. "Do you have the captain with you?"
"Yes," Tripp answered her. "What do you have planned?"
"There is a shield around the island, and it needs to come down. Ensign Sato and I tried to find a way to bring it down so we can get you out of there." T'Pol didn't sound happy about it.
"Hey, we'll figure something out because we know that I can't make one night without you," Tripp reassured her.
"Okay," T'Pol sighed.
Tripp loved that he could feel her emotions through their bond. "Let me talk to the men and saw if we can come up with something." Tripp turned away from the conversation that he was having with T'Pol and looked at the men around him. "T'Pol told me that there is shield around the island and she and Hoshi can't find anyway to turn it off."
"I think I might have found the building it is being kept it in," Malcom said. Tripp gave his friend a look. Malcom gave a rare smile. "I had finished my job early and the guy that oversaw me was gone. I had a look around and found a building that was being used for technology."
"Where is this building?" Tripp asked. He had a feeling that he could bring down the shield.
"On the right side of the island," Malcom said.
"Can you show me?" Tripp asked. Malcom nodded. "Alright this is what we are going to do…" Tripp spoke to the men. Everyone agreed and that they needed T'Pol and Hoshi to help. Tripp called out to T'Pol and told her what the plan was.
"Be careful, Tripp. I don't need a pregnant woman crying in my arms," Jonathan told them as Malcom opened the door to their barracks.
Tripp smiled. "I will," Tripp stepped out of the barracks with Malcom.
Tripp and Malcom snuck around other buildings getting to the edge of the camp. They were standing at the edge of the fence when Tripp felt a hand on his shoulders. Tripp was ready to throw the man over his shoulders when he heard.
"It's alright, my friend," 3782743 said. "We want to help." Tripp looked over 3782743 and saw other men with him.
Tripp traded a look with Malcom, who nodded. "Alright, we need to get to that building," Tripp pointed out that building. There was a big empty space between them and the building.
"It shouldn't be too hard," 3782743 smiled. "We use that field to play a game."
"No one is going to stop us?" Malcom asked.
"No, the women around here think that once we are in for the night, we won't do anything stupid." 3782743 said.
Malcom nodded and started for the building. The others followed them. Malcom saw a lock on the door. Tripp was ready to kick the door in when someone handed him bolt cutters. Tripp nodded before breaking the lock. Tripp and Malcom entered the building. The other men stood guard outside.
Tripp looked around the building and started with the computer in the center of the room. It didn't take him long before the shield was down. Tripp traded a smile with Malcom before they heard a knock on the door.
3782743 opened the door. "They know the shield is down," He smiled. "I think that your ride is here."
Tripp and Malcom stepped out and saw the shuttle pod land on the ground. The door opened. Tripp was ready to run to his wife's arms when he looked at the other men. "Thank you for your help. I'm sorry if they hurt you."
3782743 smiled. "No thank you. You showed us that we can do something. Now get to your wife to welcome that little boy in this world." Tripp nodded.
"Tripp," Malcom yelled. "We have to leave now!" Tripp smiled at the men one more time before running to the shuttle pod. He climbed in and saw that Hoshi was already taking off as Malcom closed the door.
Tripp looked at the other person on shuttle and smiled. He opened his arms for her. He knew how she felt about public display of affection, but he didn't care. He went and kissed his wife. He broke the kiss to wipe a tear away from her face. "I love you," He said against her lips. T'Pol wrapped her arms around his waist and just held on to him.
"Are we ready to get out of here?" Jonathan said.
"There is one more thing I want to do," T'Pol said. They were in the captain's ready room with Tripp. They had been talking about their time on this world. T'Pol gave Tripp a look. "I'm going to need Commander Tucker for this," Tripp gave her a look.
The captain looked between the couple. It seemed like Tripp didn't know what was going on "Do you feel like you need to do this?"
"Yes," T'Pol said.
"Okay," Jonathan said.
T'Pol and Tripp made their way into the conference room. T'Pol stopped right in front of the Prime Mistress who glance her way.
"What do you want?" Mistress Crars hissed at them. "We have a problem happening because you."
"I know," T'Pol glanced at the woman. "You should have never taken our men."
"Why not?" Mistress Crars wanted to see where this was going. "You have plenty of men where you come from."
"We do, but I need these men in my life," T'Pol looked at Tripp. "He is not perfect, he knows that I'm not perfect, and that what makes us perfect for each other." T'Pol looked at the women again. "You are trying to for the perfect society, but there is no perfect society. My home world had too many wars before they are where they are," T'Pol looked at Tripp again. "My husband's world is not perfect, and they know it. Nothing is perfect without a little imperfectly. My husband and I work because we not perfect. He shows too much emotion, and I don't show enough. He will call me out in a meeting, and I will do the same to him. No matter what happens between us I know that he loves me."
"What does that have to do with us," Mistress Crars asked.
"You can achieve more with your men than without," T'Pol said. "Let them have a voice." T'Pol grabbed Tripp's hand.
Tripp turned to the woman. "Those men want to be heard." He let T'Pol lead him away. They were worried that someone would stop them as they made their way to the shuttle pod. They didn't Tripp helped T'Pol in the shuttle. Tripp started the shuttle and flew the shuttle back to the ship. They were docking the shuttle when Tripp asked. "Do you think that they will change?" He looked at the planet they were on.
"I don't know," T'Pol whispered.