Pathfinder (Bones McCoy Fanfic)

~ Set during Star Trek Beyond ~

When the USS Pathfinder, a small mapping ship sent to expand horizons of treaty territory, finds itself stranded in deep uncharted Starfleet space after a skirmish with a klingon warbird, they send a call to command for help. Command replied and gave them a rendezvous point with the famous USS Enterprise where they can resupply and receive help, or if all else fails be returned to Yorktown for briefing.
With the help of the crew from Enterprise and the Pathfinders they work tirelessly to repair what they can. The two crews find themselves growing to like the other, and friendships are built, and tensions too.
After consideration, the captain of the Pathfinder, Captain Cecilia Smith, finds herself struggling with blame of the ships destruction when it is decided they can't continue to stay. With much regret for her crew they pack themselves onto the Enterprise to Yorktown where they are greeted with a mystery. A random woman, an unidentified species, named Kalara finds herself begging the fleet for help when her ship was attacked. Commodore Paris decides to send the USS Enterprise on the mission to help Kalara find her stranded ship, and agrees with Captain Kirk when he asks for the help of a group of Captain Smith's best people.
Captain Smith reluctantly joins the Enterprises mission, bringing her second in command, chief medical officer, chief engineering officer, and navigator to assist the mission.
With one goal on their mind the crew falls blind to any worries or suspicion they would to the disaster that awaits them. No one would have known how quickly their lives will change in that moment.