Chappie Four: Kids no More

"And that's how we ka-boomed that elf girl." McCoy finished, telling Kirk. Kirk had awoken a few hours after the incident and had been told the story from McCoy's and Scotty's point of view. Apparently Valdore had killed 100 redshirts, chased Spock through a ravine, but fell beneath Lenny's and Monty's awesome power.

Spock was sitting on Uhura's lap, watching her as she asked Chapel to come up. He began to speak to her about chess, the proper care of sehlats, and Vulcan in general. "Looks like Mr. Spock has a crush on Uhura." Chekov said.

"What is a crush?" Spock asked.

"Never mind." Chekov replied, looking downward.

Scotty had just jumped on the Russian and was pulling on his shirt. "Let's go play, Chekky!"

"Must all names end in 'y' for you?" Chekov asked. "Lenny, Monty, Chekky..."

Last of all, McCoy was sitting on Kirk's lap, asking him random questions.

"Do you command all this ship?" McCoy asked.

"I do, Dr. McCoy." Kirk answered.

"Well, I'm a doctor, not a captain." McCoy said. "It must be fun being a captain. What's it like?"

"Captain?" Chapel asked. "You asked for me to come..."

"Do you know when these three will change back to normal?" Kirk asked.

"I've got an antidote right here. It took a while to make, but better than keeping them like this." Chapel said.

"Yes. Well, give it to them." He watched as Chapel sprayed each of them with a green colored concotion.

Spock changed first. He looked surprised to find himself on a laughing-Uhura's lap. "What am I doing here?" he asked, surprise written all over his features. He blinked twice., then regained his Vulcan composure. "I...why do I want my mother and my sehlat?"

"I don't know," chortled Uhura, "but can you please get off me?"

Spock did so, trying to overcome his vast confusement. Still, somehow, he managed to look cool and logical.

Scotty changed next. He was still dangling on Chekov when he found himself to be an adult. Chekov lurched from the weight, and collapsed on top of Scotty. The engineer got up, rubbing his temples. "Did I have too much to drink again?" he asked.

The last to change, of course, was McCoy. The little doctor was still on Kirk's lap, swinging his feet to and fro, when he changed into his normal self. "I...what the hell am I doing on your lap, Jim? What's going on?"

"Oh, nothing much." Kirk said. "Um...yeah." McCoy glared at Kirk, his face two inches from the captain's. "Can you please get off me, Bones? I like you as a friend, but this is a bit too much."

McCoy flushed slightly and slid off Kirk. "What are you looking at?" he asked Uhura.

"Oh nothing, Lenny." Uhura answered.

"LENNY?" screamed McCoy. "What the hell? That's insubordination!"

"Well, you asked me to call you that." Uhura said.

"When did I ever let you call me anything more than 'Dr. McCoy'?" McCoy asked.

"Yes, Lt. Uhura, when?" Kirk said, giving both her and Chekov a meaningful glance. He had decided it was best not to humiliate his friends too much and tell them about their transformation.

"I'm sorry, Dr. McCoy. I don't know what made me say that." Uhura apologized.

"Alright, everyone get back to your stations!" Kirk said, glad that no one had told the three about their blast into their past.

"Well, Captain," Sulu said, arriving. "I've come back to see-" He stopped at the sight of the three newly-grown men on the bridge. "Yes! You're back to normal!" He shook Spock's hand. "Great!" He did the same to McCoy and Scotty.

"What do you mean, back to normal?" McCoy asked, shooting Kirk a glare.

"Didn't the captain tell you?" Sulu replied. "You three had been hit with a ray that made you transform into kids! You were the rowdiest kids I've ever known- barring you, Mr. Spock. You kept asking about your mom and your pet sehlat." Spock raised an eyebrow. "And you two kept hog-tying people- even Captain Kirk!"

"I hog-tied you?" Scotty asked. "Captain, I canna say how sorry-"

"Don't worry about it." Kirk replied. "Please."

"Dammit, you weren't going to tell us?" McCoy asked.

"It wasn't of any importance." Kirk said.

"We transformed into kids and you think it's not important?" Scotty asked.

"Take it easy there, Monty." Uhura advised.

"Monty?" Scotty asked.

"Again, you asked me to call you that."Uhura said.

Spock asked, "May I resume my duties, Captain?"

"Of course, Mr. Spock." Kirk said.

"Great. We probably did stupid, embarrassing stuff, didn't we, Mr. Sulu?" McCoy asked.

"Not really." Sulu replied. "You just acted as kids. That's understandable."

"I'll be going back to my engines." Scotty said. "I bet they missed me." He left, leaving a grumpy McCoy on the bridge.

"Well, Bones," Kirk said, "I'm going to give you three a commendation."

"Why the hell for?" McCoy asked.

"You uncovered new Romulan technology." Kirk said. "Good job."

"Thanks." McCoy snapped sarcastically. "Next time I'll pass on being a kid. It was bad enough the first time around."

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