Lele, Marty, Mulk, and Seesha discussed the things they'd found on Kirk's datapad. Lele's youngest son, who sat at the computer working on a project, was impressed with the technology of the thing. But it was the information on it the others found more interesting. They'd quickly found his audio log, and listened to parts of it. Lele smirked at the story he told about his pheromones. "Lele," Mulk said looking at the Scrum sitting on the table. "You didn't see what he did to Peenk. I'm sure that if I hadn't been in the med bay that she would have jumped that boy immediately." "And maybe you forgot how you reacted to them," Marty grinned at his wife. "Rather vigorously!" Seesha put a finger on the tip of her nose. "This nose smelt him within seconds of him entering the ship. While the pheromones didn't affect me, they were still very strong. But I still would have jumped him if the old man hadn't been in there. This boy is hot! Lean and wirey, just the way I like my men." "I'll have one of our boys kick the air circulation up to 75%." Marty said. "The filters should remove them." "I'll tell you one thing I do know about him. This boy is a more advanced version of what Melee is." "How do you know this, Buir?" Seesha asked her father. "Did he tell you?" "In a way, he let it slip. It was when he told Peenk he was no war hero." "Mulk, you're the same way when someone calls you one of the heroes of Pahrn 4," Lele said. "You tell them you were just doing what you were trained to do." "Right. But that's not what he said. He said he was just doing what he was designed to do." "He could be from a religious family, Mulk," Lele said. "I am, and that sounds like something my brother, the priest, would say." They all turned and stared at Lele. After a few seconds, she rolled her eyes in exasperation. "Ok! I admit, it does sound very suspicious. I just wanted to throw that out there." "Another clue was when he told us that only someone with a biological brain can use telekinesis." "Yeah," Marty nodded. "I was going to ask him about that when you stopped me." "There are other factors in play here as well," Mulk switched on the medbay's holoprojector. "The first is, he weighs about three times what a Human male his size should. And I slammed him against that bulkhead hard enough to break bones. But the med droid said there were none. Wasn't even any bruising. And his skin is even tougher than Melee's. And he must have an incredible metabolism. Because about ten, fifteen minutes after he ate those combat rations, he was giving Peenk the time of her life. Before he ate them, he couldn't sit up without help." "But the med droid is what convinced me of what he is," Mulk said as he turned on the computer. "It found the most amazing cybernetics. #3 said it makes the stuff in Melee look primative. Let me show you what it found," Mulk opened the holo file to show them what was in Joshua's body. "Mulk, show us one of the eyes!" She said excitedly. He did as he was asked, one of Kirk's brown eyes now floating before them in cross section. "Look at that! I bet you could stand him on the stern of this ship, and hold up a data pad on the bow and he could read it! And do you see these two structures here?" She said, pointing for them. "They're for infrared and ultraviolet. You're right, Mulk. This stuff is more advanced than what Melee has." When the full image was back she examined the rest of the head. "I bet his hearing and sense of smell are incredible. Now let's see his brain. Woh!" She exclaimed as the brain popped into view. "What is it, Lele?" her husband asked. "See here at the back of his head? There's some kind of interface. I bet he can link with a computer to download and upload information. And right next to it is that same ribbon like structure that those three girls have. And just look at his brain. It's very similar to Melee's." "Wow!" Lele gasped in awe. She then reached over and changed the target. A holographic image of Joshua's musculature popped up "There's some serious science in this kid. Take a look at the cybernetics imbedded in his muscles. This is why his people are after him. They don't want this tech getting out. Mulk?" Lele glanced at the Mazuran who was lost in thought. "Mulk!" "Sorry," The Mazuran muttered as he was jerked back to reality. "I was thinking about something. If he can upload and download information, maybe he can delete memories also." "Why do you say that?" Lele asked. "When he told us about how he'd spent a year in a hospital recovering from wounds from a battle he couldn't remember, I felt a very powerful surge of emotion from him." "Papa!" Seesha said with a shake of her head. "He had nothing but one powerful emotional surge after another for the first hour he was aboard ship!" "Yes," Marty nodding at Seesha'a comment. "But if he had no memory of this time, then he wouldn't be thinking about it," Marty said before pausing for a moment. "Maybe he can bury memories. And maybe they resurface. That might have caused the pain you felt." "Of course!" Lele exclaimed as she snapped hers fingers and turned to Mulk. "Remember what he said about never forgetting what they went through? And how he could never let someone die again, to be forgotten forever?" "Khindie," Marty muttered. "You didn't need to be Force sensitive to see how her memory tore that boy apart." "I've known other's who've felt similar pain," Mulk Kerrish said as he stared briefly into nothingness. "Some of the Jedi who survived Order 66. As well as some the men who carried out the order." "Or Buir Mykul over the Battle Of Varashta," Seesha added sadly. Mulk flinched at the mention of that horrific battle. "I was talking to Veera a couple weeks ago," The Mazuran muttered as he shook his head. "She said that even after sixty five years, my friend still has nightmares of that day." "Mulk," Marty said softly, trying to change the subject. "Let's see his skeleton. I think that's why he's so heavy. I bet his bones are very dense. I'm thinking that the people who did those things to those girls got their information from these people." "Get ready for this," Mulk said as he removed everything else. The three stood in stunned silence at what they saw. "Youngest Son and I couldn't believe it when we saw this." "Damn!" Lele exclaimed. "It looks like every bone in his body has been broken at one time or another!" She then read the figures on the monitor. "Mulk, it would be easier to break your bones than his," The diminutive woman stared back at the holo. "Something bad happened to this boy, that's for damned sure." "What's that?" Lele's husband said, interrupting her, as he pointed to Kirk's left forearm. "There's some kind of device between the bones of his forearm." "Let's find out what it is," Lele said as she played with the controls. After several seconds, she shook her head. "It's some kind of delivery system for medicine." "His addiction," Mulk nodded slowly. "I bet it's empty." "I bet it's not!" Lele shot back. "And I don't know what kind of drug he's hooked on, but it's not this stuff. This drug will put him in a coma!" Lele then stared at her husband. "This is the stuff the Republic doctors said to use on Melee if I ever need to put her under for surgery." "A control device maybe?" Seesha asked. "Didn't they say that he was an escaped prisoner, Papa?" "No," Lele said as she read the numbers on the monitor. "That was recent. This thing has probably been in his arm for ten years. Hmmm." "What is it?" Her husband asked as she eyed the holo. "There are two ways of activating this thing," Lele said, pointing at an image of the device. "See this wire, and the other on the opposite side? That is how it's set off remotely. They're antenae. But here," She then pointed to a pair of small buds on it's sides. "These plungers can be used to activate it manually." "How would you do that?" Mulk asked, confused. "I can think of two ways," Lele said as she held up an arm. "He can slam that forearm against something like the edge of a table. Or he can hit it with his fist. Either way, he's likely to have a broken bone." "What purpose would such a thing serve?" Seesha asked, staring at the image. "Maybe he has a medical condition that might neccessitate being put into a coma," Lele said as she crossed her arms and shook her head, as confused as the others. "I'll ask him later," Mulk said as Seesha fiddled with the controls for a second. An image of Kirk soon floated before them when she'd finished, nude. Mulk turned to her. "What are you looking for?" She said nothing, just pointing between his legs, her eyes staring and mouth open in shock. Mulk turned the projector off. "You have a dirty mind, daughter!" Mulk then turned back to Lele. "I'll get the bacta tank ready for Peenk!" She said, laughing. "The girl's lost her mind!" She said, shaking her head. "So do we tell everyone what he is?" Marty asked, grinning at his wife's comment. "I'll have Seesha tell Peenk when she's done with the boy," Mulk said. "It's her ship. She needs to know who she has on board, and what he's capable of." "What about the girls?" Marty asked. "Hell no!" He said hurriedly. "We can't risk them becoming attached to him. And if the girls find out that he's like them they just might do it. And besides, I don't want them near him and his pheromones. So I'm going to put Melee's battle droids on them to keep them away from him. At least until I can talk to him. He seems like a bright boy," Mulk slowly shook his head. "But unfortunately, it looks like he's on his way to a Republic prison." "That's too bad, Papa Mulk," The Arner's youngest son said as he slowly limped across the room. "I've translated some of his military records. This guy is the commando's commando!" The young man tapped at the data pad he held and one of the monitors lit up. "He seems to have every commendation for valor his people have," Youngest Son said to the others as they read the translated records. "Multiple times. And the highest he's been given three times. He's also recieved the highest honors from some people called the Romulan Empire as well as this Klingon Empire he was ambassador to. This guy would make a great addition to the Aliit Kerrish." "Get this," #3 said as he read facts off Kirk's datapad. "He graduated from something called Starfleet Academy eight days before his fifteenth birthday, and was assigned to a ship called Excelsior. At the age of seventeen he was given his own command. A scout ship called Leif Ericsen." "Sounds like the boy was on a fast track," Mulk said. "When did he become a commando?" "A year later, at eighteen. Three days before his twenty-first birthday, he was listed as missing in action. And for two years his record is blank except for one entry. It states that he was released from Starfleet Medical Center, Mars, and several weeks later was switched from active duty to the reserves." "Well son, that's nice to know," Marty said as he placed his hand on his son's shoulder. "But that's not what I wantes you to find. I wanted to know where this Federation is." "I know. I did this while the navicomputer made sense of the star maps I found. It took over an hour before it identified something. This guy isn't from this galaxy," They all stared at #3 like he'd lost his mind. #3 rolled his eyes and shook his head in exasperation. "When I couldn't find anything with the star charts, I ran the galaxy charts that we found," Again #3 shook his head. "Still no match. So I had the computer take a time shift into account. Almost instantly it gave me what I was looking for." "So what's the time shift?" Mulk asked, very curious now. "Only seventy-four million years!" To prove what he was saying, he brought up a holo of the nearby universe. Two galaxies were lit up in red. "This is our galaxy. And seventy four million lightyears away is his." As #3 zoomed in on his home galaxy, a small area lit up. "Is that his Federation?" Lele asked. "It's not very big." "No, that's known space for these people," The highlighted area divided even further. "The one at the center is the Federation. This one is the Romulan Empire. The Klingon Empire is over here. And there are others. The Cardassians, Gorn, Tholians, and a bunch of smaller ones." "How could he get here then?" Lele pondered, almost to herself. "I found that out when I listened to an entry he'd made in his audio log, just after he'd escaped from that ship," Her son told her. "He came through something his people call a wormhole. We call it a space tunnel." "A space tunnel?" Seesha asked, confused. "You mean there's a second one in the galaxy?" "Yeah," Youngest Son said with a nod. "But this is a seventy-four million lightyear trip, as opposed to the fifty lights covered by the Short Cut." "I hope we can get the chance to go through it," The tall Furrene said. "You all know how much I like to travel!" "That's all I've got right now," #3 said. "I'll let you know what else I find when I finish checking what's on here. There's a huge amount of data on that thing." "Ok then," Mulk said. "Let's go. We have things to do." "Wait up, Buir," Seesha said, holding up her hand to stop them. "I have to tell you about the condition of the fighter first. In addition to the burns from the laser strikes, the hyper drive was burned out." Marty stood in thought for a few seconds before turning to the others. "I bet he was pulled out of hyper space, and wasn't able to shut the drive down in time." "And what's more," The tall Furrene told them. "The navy said that the fighter was fully fueled and armed. It's tanks are empty, and all six proton torpedoes have been fired. I think he ran into pirates. Melee and #1 are still on the bridge, running a scan of nearby space for wreckage. We need to see if they've found anything." "Ok, then." Mulk said. "Let's head for the bridge. I have a feeling that those two have found something." "Have you found anything?" Mulk asked as he stepped onto the bridge, Seesha behind him. "Yes, sir," #1 said as he stood before a monitor displayed the remains of a frigate. "And there are life signs. Four of them." "It's the Durga, Papa Mulk," Melee said quietly as Seesha stepped next to her. With a jerk, the Furrene's claws shot from her fingers. After several seconds, she spun about and marched back up the passage. "There," Mulk said as he pointed at the remains of the ship. "Bring the Runner in and dock with that airlock. Seesha and I are going to see to it that there are no survivors. Sever the connection with the X-Wing, #1, we'll need the tube." "What?" Melee said as she turned to Mulk as he strode down the Runner's central passage. But the Mazuran just made a slashing motion with his hand, letting her know there would be no discussion of the subject. The ship vibrated slightly as Marty fired the retros. "Melee, Have you never heard of the Durga?" Lele asked as she watched Seesha enter her quarters. "Of course!" The girl said testily. "Everyone has!" "Well Seesha's family was the first to fall prey to the Durga," Lele said as her eldest son left to ready the docking tube. "Her and her sister Sheeda had to listen as the twenty five other members of their family were hunted down by those Trandoshan Hunters. Then they had to endure the horror of hearing them celebrate their hunt as they skinned them." "I didn't know Seesha had a sister," Melee said. "What does she do?" "Sheeda died of the Alc'tosh," The ship's doctor said as her eyes started tearing up. "It's a neurological condition that occurs among the her people. I was her doctor, so that's how I met Seesha." "What was Sheeda like?" Melee asked as she placed an arm around Lele's shoulder. "The opposite of her sister," The older woman said as she wiped away the tears. "Where Seesha is hard as diamonds, Sheeda was sweet and gentle. Her passing tore Seesha apart. Hell, it tore that whole family apart. Mulk and Zanna loved those two as much as any of their biological children. You see, it was Mulk and his friend Mykul who detected the distress call the Prindae sent out." The pair watched as Seesha and Mulk each left their cabins and headed for the ships armory. "What's going on up there on the bridge?" Peenk demanded, her voice ringing out over the bridge's intercom. "Why are you moving the ship without my orders?" "Mulk's orders," Marty said. "We've found the remains of the ship that boy destroyed, and he and Seesha are going to kill the four survivors." "It's the Durga, isn't it?" Peenk asked. "Yes, Boss Lady, it is," Marty told her. "Let me know when they're done," Peenk said as she severed the connection. "What do they mean they're going to kill the survivors!" Joshua said quickly. "Why would they do that?" Peenk then explained to Joshua the story of the Durga and the Prindae sisters. Then she told him how the ship had been hunting Wookiees and Furrene for fifty years. With a smile she then pushed Joshua back onto the bunk. "Have you been having fun so far?" She asked with a smile. "Yes." "You ain't seen nothing yet, Cabinboy!" She then leaned over him, still smiling. "I am going to thank you for what you have done. You'll be lucky if you can still walk when I'm done with you!"