A Little Bit Of Training Stardate 2253.45

Kirk looked dashing in his red cadet uniform. He was already well know at the Academy. He was known for being very easy on the eyes and loose with his lips and his hands if not alot more as well. He never signed up for any other Sim Position besides Captain. There was no other position he wanted to be in. He knew even before he joined Starfleet that he would be a Captain of a starship. His father had been one and so would he. Before he went into the Sim room, he was always running late for appointments and classes, he browsed the detail manifest.

He knew Crand Req, a Bolian at the Helm and Tos Ch'othetriq an Andorian as Science officer. The 2 new people, both female, he never heard before. Yao Mai, obviously asian? Was the Pilot and Kaia Fox another...human? He guessed. Was the communications officer. Well, he saw those 2 were first years so he decided he'd give them a bit of a hard time today. Just because and he wanted to try to impress them. He knew Crand would play along but Tos? he wasn't so certain. Well, he was 10 minutes late so he sauntered on into the sim room. The door shut and locked behind him. The training officers that watched the whole sim just shook their heads but didn't say anything about his tardiness. They knew Kirk by reputation as well and the man was a certified genius and pain in their asses.

"Good morning Crand!" He said enthusiastically with a pleased, open smile on his face. Crand smiled back and stood to shake his hand as Kirk passed him. "Tos," He said in a lower tone with just a nod and Tos nodded back. "You must be Yao Mai, out Pilot today," He said with a very bright smile. She was pretty with long, dark hair cut and styled within regulation. She had dark, slanted eyes but she smiled nervously back at him.

Kirk had seen Kaia Fox as soon as he entered but he purposefully left her for last. She was HOT, with perfect, piercing blue eyes, jet black hair and pale, perfect skin. He already saw her from every angle and mostly without her clothes on. "That leaves our communications officer, Cadet Kaia Fox. both you and Yao are fresh off the boat eh? Well, if you need help, Crand is an old pro at these sims," He said not committing to help them himself. Part of the hell he was going to put them through very soon. He smiled his best smile as he shook her hand and his eyes had that soft, inviting look they took on when he was looking at something he really liked.

Kaia Fox was not her real name. Her real name was Amara Novak, but she had not used that name in many years. Saehir was the name the Romulans had given her and they were the ones that had raised her and trained her. She was the only non-Romulan to ever be allowed to live on their planet. She had been the sole survivor (or at least so she had been told) of the destruction of the USS Aurora. The escape pod her mother had put her in had been hit by debris from the destroyed Star Fleet ship and sent over into Romulan territory. No one from Star Fleet ever came to rescue her. The Romulans could have just killed her, but they didn't. Instead, they took her in and clothed and fed her. They gave her her new name. They cared about her when her own people hadn't...that's what they had told her. Saehir hated Star Fleet because they had abandoned her. The only reason she was here was to spy on Star Fleet for the Romulans. 

Kaia Fox may have just been a first year, but she was already excelling rapidly. Her knowledge of alien languages and dialects was vast and she impressed all of her instructors. This was the first sim she had taken part in. She knew of James T. Kirk by reputation. He was quite the ladies man, or so she had heard. He also had a reputation for being egotistical and arrogant. However, despite all of that she had heard that he was on track to becoming captain of his own ship. 

She sat there in her chair at her station in the sim waiting for him to have the decency to show up. Ten minutes late, he sauntered in and Kaia got her first look at him. The rumors she had heard about his looks were more than correct. The man was incredibly good looking...an definitely seemed to know it. He was confident...almost cocky and she saw him looking at her. As Kirk shook her hand last she looked him square in the eyes. "I won't need any help, thank you," she responded with a confident smile of her own.

Kirk smiled one of those secret smiles he took on when he knew something she didn't. He was going to eat her alive the first time he slept with her. He made a deal with himself that that, would happen relatively soon. He took his station at the center of the room. He was given a little bit to look over the mission parameters and make any changes he liked. He did make one change, At some point during the mission, Crand would get hurt and he would order Kaia to take his station. These first years rarely had enough time for their own disciplines, let alone others. He doubted she'd have weaponry experience. To make it even more interesting he changed the ship type they were flying to something more grand. A cruiser. He grinned when all of the layouts to their panels had changed. Cruisers were not normally taught at the academy so he held in a giggle as he saw Yao's eyes nearly pop out of her head.

"Ok, we're going to begin the mission in 5...4...3...2...1," The instructor said. All of their panels came to life and the view screen began to show the image of the space in front of them. Kirk rubbed his hands together eagerly.

"Ok team, we're here to negotiate a peace treaty between the Andorians and the Tellarites," Kirk said. "Helm, make your heading 140 mark 226 at warp 4. I'm punching in the coordinates for where the negotiations with take place," he said. The ship turned as Yao put in the coordinates. "Course laid in sir," Yao said meekly and then the ship suddenly went into warp. Kirk tilted his head and smiled at Yao. She was supposed to wait until he told her to go to warp. He turned in his chair to face Kaia. "Cadet Fox, you can speak Tellarite and Andorian right?" He asked.

Kaia eyed Kirk as he took his seat. She looked stunning in her red cadet uniform. It caused her lips and cheeks to appear even rosier than they already were. She watched out of the corner of her eye as he began to look through the mission parameters and then began to change things. She sighed when he changed he ship type and everyone's panels changed. Kaia watched as the panel in front of them displayed an image of space. However, as Kirk began to tell them what the mission was her eyes widened slightly. She didn't know how to speak Andorian or Tellarite! He was doing this on purpose to embarrass her. She gritted her teeth together as he turned to face her. Her eyes were two blue flames. "No...Captain," she forced herself to say even though she hated it. "I don't."

"Well, the UT it is then...I hope it knows 'all' the dialects," he said in a condescending way then spun his chair away from her as if to dismiss her altogether. "So Crand, are the blue stripes on Bolian women all the same or are their differences between them?" He asked. "Well, the older a Bolian woman gets, the more stripes she gets and the thicker they become," he said. The two men talked in great length about the nature of Bolian women. Artistic and often, exotic in nature. Graceful and dramatic. "Well, I'll have to give one a try sometime," Kirk said in a droll manner. Kirk moved from his chair and the two men began to engage in talk about the subject in softer tones.

As Kirk spun away from her in his chair, Kaia had to clench her fists together to keep from doing something to him that was likely to get her kicked out of the Academy. The man was insufferable! She now felt completely useless. She rolled her eyes and shook her head as he then went on to begin talking about Bolian women. He was trying to get under her skin and it was working. The man as a jerk and yet...she found herself completely attracted to him. And so she just sat there at her station feeling completely humiliated and trying to figure out how she could get back at him.

Eventually Kirk mosied back to his chair. Soon after, Yao turned to speak to him. "Sir, we'll be coming out of warp in under two minutes," she said. And then Crand spoke up. "Captain, I'm reading multiple ships. 4 Tellarite and 6 Andorian," He said. "Well, that's odd, there's just supposed to be one of each at this little pow wow," Kirk said. Curiously he shifted over to Kaia again. "Cadet Fox, can you try to find what's going on? I mean...you did say you can run a UT," he said.

As she began to sort out all that was being said. Garbled communications, Some of it hurried. Some of it almost desperate. She was listening to a battle as it played out. Apparently the Andorians were winning the skirmish.

Kaia was getting sick of Kirk's condescending tone and yet at the same time she was imaging the two of them in bed together. She could only imagine that it would be...hot. She began to run the UT and mumbled something in Vulcan under her breath as she did. The messages that the UT were receiving were garbled and difficult to sort out. However, she soon began to realize what was going on. 

"Captain," she forced herself to say again, "there appears to be a skirmish happening. From what I can tell the Andorians are winning."

"I'm not interested in how it appears, I need certainties. I'm not showing up to a supposed negotiation with shields up and weapons hot,"he said. When she took a moment to confirm it all Kirk turned back to the front. But before he could order the shields up. The ship came out of warp and was about to run into an Andorian frigate. Kirk shifted his body in the direction he wished the ship would move. "Helm, hard to port," he said quickly but also fairly calmly. Sweat appeared on Yao's forehead as she struggled to get the big hulk of a cruiser to turn. She was used to the smaller, nimbler frigates she had been trained on. Apparently the Andorian's didn't like an unknown ship appear behind them. They fired phasers at them and the lucky shot damaged the hull and the bridge. The lights flickered and sparks flew out of Crand's panel. He fell back out of his chair and did a great job of it to look fairly real.

"Cadet Fox, Take the helm...Red Alert, charge all phasers and photon torpedoes. Computer, transfer all communication functions to the helm station," Kirk said. "Transferring them now," the computer responded.

Kaia clenched her fists as she turned back to confirm what she had just told him. The ship then came out of the simulated warp but without their shields up. Kaia watched as Yao struggled to turn the large cruiser, but before she could the simulated Andorian ship fired phasers at them and damaged their ship. Kaia looked over at Crand's station as sparks flew out of his panel. He fell back out of his chair and appeared to be injured. When she was ordered by Kirk to take over the helm she knew then that Kirk had set her up again. She hadn't been trained on ship weaponry. However, she got up from her station and walked over and sat down. She began to look at the screen as she tried to figure out what she needed to press. She finally had to look over at him. "Captain...I am not trained in ship weaponry."

Kirk sighed and got out of his chair. He stepped up quickly to the helm panel and began to quickly show her an easy way to use the controls. He put his hand on her shoulder as he pointed with his other hand to the controls he spoke about. "This is the phaser banks, green when they're charged, red when they aren't. Photon torpedo control is here. Targeting here. The computer will auto target if you use these buttons. You can select ship components to target using this dial and this button to lock it in. Phasers to drain their shields, torpedoes to do damage to the hull," He said quickly. "Please inform medical we need them up here for Crand," He said. "You can do this Kaia, I know you can," Kirk said confidently.

He didn't know why he was helping her but it just felt right to do it. That and they were all being scored on this sim.

Kaia was angry at Kirk for setting her up, but she actually did pay attention to what he was saying. Any information she could learn about Star Fleet ships would be of great use to her and the Romulans. Kaia was also a very quick learner. Someone only had to show her or tell her something one time for her to remember it forever. Kaia was sick of looking like a fool in front of everyone and she decided to show Kirk what she could do. She contacted medical at the same time that she charged all phasers and photon torpedoes. She watched as the lights turned to green. She quickly aimed the Photon Torpedoes at the hull.

"Phasers are charged and Photon Torpedoes are locked on target Captain."

Tellarites were not the scheming types. Kirk bet that the Andorians were the aggressors here. He went with his guy and made a snap decision even though an Andorian fired on them.

“We’re going to help the Tellarites. They’re outnumbered and we’ve got some big guns, let’s use them. Target the closest Andorian ship’s engines and fire, Yao take us on, shields to maximum,” Kirk said.

That brought the numbers to 5 to 6 and the heavy cruiser was giving it good to the Andorians. Kaia had an Arsenal at her command and before the Andorians fled they had disabled 3 of their ships. Kirk had Kaia contact both races to ask if they needed medical help. As it turned out, Kirk’s gut was right. The Andorians ambushed the Tellarites like he thought. He was very impressed with Kaia’s performance and so were the Instructors who had watched the display.

Kaia quickly started to feel confident and comfortable at the helm, but she waited for the Captain’s orders. Using the arsenal at her disposal, Kaia disabled 3 of the Andorian ships. After contacting both the Andorians and the Tellarites to see if they needed medical assistance, the simulation ended. Crand got up and smiled as he congratulated Kirk. Kaia glanced at Yao who looked incredibly relieved it was all over. Kaia then started to leave. Crand noticed and motioned to Kirk in case he wanted to talk to her.

Kirk wore confidence like a glove that was perfect for his hand. When he realized Kaia was lea omg he quickly stepped up to walk with her. “You did well Cadet, we should celebrate. I was thinking my place, a nice pizza, a few beers or a bottle of wine and we’ll figure the rest out as we go,” Kirk said. He oozes confidence and he smiled over at her. She wasn’t just pretty, Kaia was gorgeous!

Kaia stopped walking after she heard what Kirk said. She slowly turned to face him and then stepped closer to him. She tossed her dark hair back over her shoulder effortlessly. The action caused the intoxicating scent from her hair to waft up to his nose. She leaned in close to him, letting her breasts lightly press up against his chest. She could feel his heart beating faster in his chest and as she looked up into his eyes she  saw his pupils dilate. She smiled at him and breathed in his scent and let her lips ever so slightly touch his. She felt him hold his breath in anticipation of what was to come....Then, she moved her lips up to his ear.

“No,” she said suddenly as she pulled away and turned and walked away. She couldn’t help but grin to herself as she saw out of the corner of her eye him standing them flabbergasted at what had just happened. Women didn’t turn down James T. Kirk, but Kaia Fox just had. She paused and glanced over her shoulder at him. “Besides, I have to go learn Andorian and Tellarite now thanks to you.” She then started to walk away again. She turned a corner and was gone.