"Ugh!" Elsa's ears began to ring with the sensation of a small headache. Of course, after years of learning to use her powers to the point of where she didn't blackout had side effects. Meaning she would have an intense headache for a few moments.

Sometimes that triggered a nosebleed as well. It was better than passing out from exhaustion, but these hurt like hell. But she was able to pull herself away from her aching head back to the moment.

She already had the relief of being beamed up just in time from Caera. Or now what was an asteroid field of small objects of rocks and rubble. Arik was gone forever, how good that felt to finally feel like that statement was true.

The transporter room blinded her when she barely even got a chance to look up. But she was able to steady herself to look to see Brystal and Issac rush over to her. They were ready if they had to help her, but smiles of relief crossed their lips.

"Thank god! You're okay!! Issac exclaimed.

"You okay? Brystal asked, noticing her friend reaching for the tips of her forehead.

"Yeah.....just a small headache," She looked around, "Damn.......did they make these lights purposely brighter than they needed to be over the years?"

"Reunion and questions later, please?" Olivia's voice asked, "Callum doesn't know how to handle your ship."

She was by another engineer in a red shirt at the console. And just with little time of inspecting him, she knew that was Callum's cousin. Even though, she barely had met or seen Callum's cousin.

"Right, probably since it's an old model," Elsa pulled herself to walk to Olivia, seeing something else written in her face.

She looked down onto the screen of the transporter machinery. Watching from below the ship to see the remains of Caera and her ship still there. But a swirling in the darkness caused Elsa to lean down closer.

The star core had definitely imploded, but she forgot about science. Things that had to do with working with stars and the galaxy around them. She managed to come up with a question, looking back at Brystal, the only person she knew in the room that even studied science.

She hated how Adeline acted better than her at smarts years ago. It reminded her constantly of how her own brother acted when he was alive. Maybe she just hated the fact that there were other people in the world like him.

"What happens when a star blows up or just straight up dies?" Elsa asked.

"That would mean the helium has run out and usually form a planetary nebula around the area it was originally. But even some further studies have proved wormholes and black holes to appear if it has the same mass as the sun," Brystal explained with the knowledge coming out perfectly stated.

The news hitting Elsa hard like a rock had been flung directly at her head.

"Shit!" Elsa cursed, running out the door of the transporter room.

Her mind was racing hard and hard to the point where everything blurred into the same worry. She made a terrible mistake of making him going on that ship. But she had barely had better plan to substitute the one she need up using.

She hadn't even noticed that she almost rammed into Zach. There had been too many moments to do where he had panicked and jumped away. Maybe that was what a near death experience was supposed to feel like?

"Ahh!" Zach cried out, "Why does this keep happening to me?!?"

"Sorry, Sherlock," Elsa quickly looked around the hallways of the ship.

Nicknames once again.

She'd always found a nickname for everyone she'd met. People in the Renegades didn't just go by numbers, but instead the nicknames she gave them. Stupid, but useful in her own way of describing the person.

Sherlock fit perfectly with the smart kid.

"Elsa, wait!" Brystal called after her.

The kid seemed glued to every word that Brystal spoke. He was young, but she'd been the first one to speak up for him in his defense. She was brave and bold enough to go against Arik, unlike he'd been when his master was alive.

Good. It felt good that he was gone now.

"You never stopped with the whole don't tell others the plan as you run?" Issac exclaimed.

He was right about that.

She had been the person who immediately launched herself into action. Rather than being calculating and smart by actually making a plan. But she didn't have time to discuss her habits and nature.

"I'll never learn!" Elsa exclaimed, "But your friend, Callum's gonna need help to get the ship away from this wormhole!!"

"Bloody Hell!" Callum shouted as he looked at the dozens of controls. He couldn't fathom the idea of how well Elsa could've handled this ship. He could only see people who'd actually been trained in that division to be good at piloting.

His eyes flickered to countless buttons and even the steering wheel. The sounds of the confused children were not helping, looking out the glass panel to find some way to focus. Or maybe at least give himself an idea.

With insinuating a guess before he flicked a button, just for a light to appear in the hallways of the ship. He gave out a sigh of relief, glad it hand's been a self destruct button. Why did people even make that stuff?

He sat down in the swiveled cockpit chair, his hands steadying onto the steering wheel. His eyes spotted out something that looked similar to opening a channel of communication. Flicking open the switch before he heard Uhura's voice.

"Callum? Callum? Do you read?" 

"I hear you loud and clear," Callum answered, looking down onto the remains of the planet.

"I was getting a little worried," Uhura told him, "That was the fourth time I tried ringing you up for some communication. Do you have any idea of what the controls are?"

"Kind of yes.....and no," Callum answered, "I get the steering wheel part and I turned on a few lights, plus communication."

He was being brutally honest, he wasn't ever much of a liar. Nor did he ever even try to pull off being one. Being honest came hard, but he knew which was better in times of need.

"Captain in the bridge!" Someone spoke up in the background. Signaling that everyone had made it onto the Enterprise.

That sent some relief shooting through his systems to calm his anxiety and worries. Perhaps even Elsa had been beamed up just in time. He barely knew her, but after what she'd done, he wanted to know more about her.

"Can we put him on speaker?" Jim's voice came through.

"Negative, communications are already hard to come through from his ship."

A whirring sound ignited and roared around the ship, causing Callum to turn his head. Blocking out the voices going on and focusing on the noise. It sounded like the engines were starting to lose power.

He couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. 

The kids had all fallen silent, but as he looked back he saw them doing the same thing. They were staring down at the planets remains. A horror lighting up immediately on their faces, a new terror greeting them.

He looked down back into the remains and suddenly knew their horror. There was a hole forming where the star had once been. Right in front of his starting to suck in the energy around it, that's why the engine sounded like it was shutting off.

"My engines are going offline!" Callum spoke into the com, hearing silence interrupt.

"That maybe because of the disruption of a wormhole or black hole starting to form from a star imploding in the system," Spock's voice suggested to the captain.

"Or because the star was the planets core," Jim corrected, "Send a cable onto his ship, Mr. Chekov."

"It won't be enough to pull Lieutenant Commander Stewart out," Spock told Jim.

The communication line buzzed to life, Uhura opened up another channel. The sound of people running or trying to make their way towards another room. A door hissing open before the person spoke.

"I may be able to help with that," Elsa's voice came through.

Elsa found herself in another section of engineering bay, passing by dozens of other officers. Dodging and swerving out of the way with the four following not too far after. Her intentions and instincts had been set on finding the cable that had just been launched onto her old ship.

Issac and Brystal were doing their best to keep up with her. But Zach was having trouble focusing with the marvelous sights before him. The ship was like a new wonderland for him to discover.

Elsa's swiveled around, abruptly halting herself in front of a machine of equipment. Spotting out a large hole, the air had grown colder. She'd been out in space once to know the feeling of how the world was practically freezing around you.

It was about a few inches wide, but nobody could fit down it. The remains of the hole's opening were opened on the outside, but the ones inside were flapping in and out. Not strong enough to hold together for now.

"Is that it? The cable?" Elsa turned to Brystal.

"Yep........oh god.......I hope you aren't doing what I think you're doing," Brystal looked at Elsa.

"Well, don't really have any other ideas," Elsa replied.

"We don't have much of a choice anyway," Issac added, looking down at the hole of the cable, "You sure you can do it??

"Sure as I'll ever be," Elsa assured him.

She lifted her hands outward, pushing outward for the pieces of metal to break off for her. The freezing air hitting against her lungs as she grabbed ahold of the cable. Pulling with all her might until she tugged back a few inches of rope.

It was like any other black cable, strong like a rope. But was it strong enough to withstand fire swarming around the material. She was about to find out in the few moments they had before the wormhole could take the ship inside.

She blinked before her eyes glowed a fiery red like dust floating off her eyelashes. Her grip tightened as flames shot down the cable towards the ship. Trying to aid strength to the small ship she found years ago.

"You're not burning the ship, right?" Brystal asked.

"No! Same material as that Abronath......you have it right?" Elsa looked back, worried that they may have left it on the remains of Caera.

Issac dug the strangely shaped beech out the pocket of his coat. Having hidden it before they even had rejoined with the other members of the group. He had succeeded on keeping the object safe at all times during the fighting.

"Yep," Issac told her before shoving it back into his coat pocket.

"Then, tell your captain I got him!" Elsa shouted before she grunted.

The weight of the atmosphere surrounding her ship started to kick in. Her flames slightly waving as the wormhole started to take piece by piece around her ship. Her strength felt it would weaken any scene if she didn't do something.

The weight of the world had fallen onto her shoulders, she felt her grip slip. But she immediately pulled once more, giving the fire around her to focus in her grip keeping the cable in her hands. Not wanting to lose all hope right away.

She wasn't going to be the reason the Enterprise lost a crew member. Losing someone was not an item to a list of guilt she had. Losing a friend who had been there for her friends would be a bad scar.

"Jim!" Brystal shouted into her communicator, "Get the ship moving!! Elsa can't hold the rope forever."

"Good! Just needed your confirmation!" Jim's voice came through.

That's when Zach caught a glimpse of the warp core, noticing something was odd. The ship was handling so much pressure that launching into deep space could end up in chaos. What could easily help that?

Adjusting the compressor.

He looked at a panel of buttons, time seeming to slow around him. He lifted up the metal, noticing how the wires were glitching out sparks of electricity from the pressure. His teachings kickstarted through his body, reaching into the small panel.

"One, two, three," he whispered before pulling out a blue wire. 

The static energy sending a jolt through his body. Normally, someone who touched that would need immediate care, but his body had been created to be different. Only sending his curly hair to spike upward towards the ceiling.

"Aren't you going to say your warp command?" Elsa asked, gritting her teeth hard against each other as she poured all of her strength out not the core and the cable keeping her ship attached to the Enterprise.

Jim then looked to Sulu and said, "Take us out, Mr. Sulu."

Sulu answered as he pulled down on the lever in front of him, "Yes, sir."

The ship lurched into warp speed, Elsa's eyes catching sight of the world swirling  around her. Strands and ribbons of indigo and white danced before her eyes. Even reaching up to her ship, not once falling into the wormhole.

It was all so beautiful compared to seeing it happen from behind a window. The wonders were endless, something she'd taken advantage of the years. Just because of how many times she'd been through warp speed.

But Brystal and Issac felt a change in the warp speed. 

The process seemed to have sped to the point of where it normally would launch into space. Despite knowing the extra weight that had been added with Callum's ship. They looked to hear a cheer comping from Zach near the warp core.

His hair newly static looking, curls out of place. A smile widely spread across his lips, something they'd never seen before once from him. Holding onto a pice of wire he'd pulled out of the panel of functioning the warp cores power.

"Yeah!! I've defied the laws of physics!! Take that Issac Newton!!" Zach cheered, trying to fit the wire back in.

"Damn," Issac muttered, "Really reminds me of you at that age."

'What?!?" Brystal took immediate offense, "I was not that big of a smartass..........though I admit that I should've laid off on the extensive knowledge of math and science I knew at that age."

"Wait!! You are admitting it?!?" Elsa started to let go of the rope, knowing the ship could handle the weight for now, "Why weren't you recording it or writing every word down?"

"Damnit, Elsa, really?!?" Brystal exclaimed in annoyance before her eyes met with Grace's from across the room. Seeing that Scotty had worriedly spotted out Zach at the panel, taking the wire out of his hands.

"What were you doing?" Scott questioned the young boy, confused as to what a kid was doing in the ship.

"Adjusting the compressor. The weight of the small ship that's 1/3 of this starships size would)ve added weight to the warp core's accessibilities.  I was just taking some pressure off the warp core to allow a safe leaving."

Scotty stared at Zach, completely flabbergasted by Zach's explanation. He was confused how even a kid his age knew how a warp core worked or even how to release pressure on the compressors. But he looked up just in time to see Brystal.

"What's a kid doing on this bloody ship?" Scotty asked her.

"He was part of that psychopaths plans for enhancing children's brains. He helped us out a little," Brystal bent down to be the same eye level as Zach, "You okay?"

"This is the most action I've ever seen in my life!" Zach smiled as she ruffled his hair back into place, "You and your crew are absolutely insane and going against odds! This is just.....amazing!!"

His reaction was out of nowhere, but cause a smile to spread to spread across her face. Elsa finished latching the metal back into the hole before she went up to Issac. The two going up to where Brystal was.

Scotty then looked at the woman that seemed to be a myth within Starfleet. Abilities to levitate and use fire were out of a fantasy. But here she was, the woman who helped keep Callum attached to the cable that whole time.

"How did you do that?" Scotty asked her.

"It's called defying gravity. Look it up in my dictionary," Elsa responded to Scotty.

"Those-those fire powers are real?" Scotty questioned, "It was hard not to think it was just a myth! Even a legend!"

Elsa forced a flame to twirl in between her fingers to show Scotty it was more than a myth, "Don't worry, I'm used to be seeing as not entirely a real person."

"You scared me to death!" Jim held Brystal by her shoulder as soon as she entered the second floor of the ship. Issac, Brystal, and Zach were close behind. But immediately gave the two room.

Olivia had met up with them in the lift, smiling at the scene. Absolutely adoring the fact of how worried Jim seemed. Even if it reminded her of how Leonard was so worried about her after her run in with the Crosshairs.....at least those bones had mended.

Brystal smiled, "Hey, at least I'm in one piece and I stayed safe just like you asked."

"You're gong to be the death of me someday," Jim muttered.

"I think we both are already," Brystal commented.

Elsa looked to Issac, like she was giving his a sort of eye. Telling him something that they both knew for quite a long time. But she would hate to admit it out loud in those small moments.

But over the course of the years of knowing Brystal, she would say it to deeply annoy her. The fact that Brystal had only a few relationships, Jim was definitely better than the Connery guy she dated. Way much better.

"So much better than the Connery guy," Elsa whispered to Issac, who stifled back a laugh before she spoke up, "Now I wonder why you guys were sent to Caera in the first place. No other smart people in Starfleet than Callius could send you to that planet."

"How'd you know?" Olivia inquired, interested to hear how Elsa figure it all out.

"Come on! The only guy who could even come up with a plan to get onto Caera is the one and only, Edward Callius. Muscles is still going strong?"

"He's a Fleet Admiral now after the whole Khan incident," Issac told her.

"Damn.......he still had time to make that plan?" Elsa commented. 

They cocked their heads to see that William and Imara had left the bridge. Happy to se eyheir dad was okay and that they were able to see Elsa again. Quickly, Imara pulled Elsa into a hug. 

Though, Elsa wasn't much of a hugger. She decided to let that all go for now, it had been a while since she'd seen the kids. It felt like decades ago, they'd defiantly grown up since the last time they met.

"I can't believe you're here!" Imara smiled.

"Hey! Anything to do with beating Arik's ass, you know I'll be there," Elsa chuckled.

"You're right," Jim looked back at Brystal, "She does explain a lot of your personality."

"Told you," Brystal chuckled, looking to see Zach staring out the window in wonderment.

"I never knew there was such beauty to the galaxy. This many stars......it's all so......prepossessing."

Zach's wonderment made Brystal smile, softly. But saddened at the same time to know that he hadn't had the gift of seeing the galaxy like this before. He'd been starved of it for too long like the others that were in Project Z.