Two Captains

Chapter 19

"Well, she's a wee bit dodgy. Shield emitters are," Mr. Scott knocks on the side of the large machine with a metal tool. "Totally bum jacked as well as a few other things." He looks down at a light blue light beside him on the machine, then straightens up and turns towards us. "Well in you go." He gestures towards the direction we had walked to the machine from with the tool. He tosses the tool in the air, it flips in the air a few times before he catches it.

"So, the Enterprise has had it's maiden voyage, has it? She is one endowed lady. I'd like to get my hands on her ample nossels, if you'd pardon my engineering parlance." He continues, handing the tool to Getiff as we walk up the steps into the machine. Getiff tosses the tool behind him, and it lands with a clatter echoing throughout the whole warehouse. 

"Except," He sits down next to Spock, who is sitting at the controls inside the machine. "The thing is, even I believed you, right. Where you're from, what I've done-which I don't, by the way." He stands up. "You're still talking about beaming aboard the Enterprise whle she's travelling faster than light without a proper recieving pad."

He looks at Getiff, who's propped up on the metal bars. "Get off there! It's not a climbing frame." He pauses for a second before continuing, Jim steps forward and helps Getiff get down from the bars. "The notion of transwarp beaming is like, trying to hit a bullet, with a smaller bullet," He walks towards Spock. "Whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse." He looks at what Spock's doing. "What's that?"

"Your equation for achieving transwarp beaming." Spock answers, then stands up. Mr. Scott takes his place.

"You're out of it..." He says as he sits, then stares at the screen. "Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving."

Jim and I walk over to Spock. "You're coming with us, right?" Jim asks.

Spock turns to us and shakes his head. "No. That it not my destiny."

"You're dest...he. The other Spock, is not going to believe us, only you can explain what the hell has happened." Jim says.

"Under no circumstances can he be made aware of my existence, you must promise me this."

"You're telling us we can't tell you...that we're following you're own orders, why not? What happens?"

"Jim, Natasha, this is one rule you cannot break. To stop Nero, you and Natasha must both take command of your ship."

"How, over your dead body?" Jim asks.

"Preferably, not." Spock answers. "However, there is Starfleet regulation 619. 619 states, that any command officer who is emotionally compromised by the mission at hand, must resign set command."

"So, you're saying that we have to emotionally compromise you...guys?" Jim says.

"Jim, Natasha, I just lost my planet. I can tell you, I am emotionally compromised. What you must do is get me to show it."

"Aye then, live or die, let's get this over with." Mr. Scott says.

Jim looks at Spock one more time before turning and stepping onto a transporter pad, I follow and step into the one next to him.

"You cannot come with me, go on." Mr. Scott says, pushing Getiff back off of the platform he's on.

Jim leans towards Spock. "Coming back in time, changing history, that's cheating."

Spock nods a little with a small smile. "A trick I learned from some old friends." His eyes dart back and forth between Jim and I. Jim and I both smirk a little and Spock turns for a second, pressing a button. He turns back to us, holding up the traditional Vulcan sign. "Live long, and prosper."