Alright so Book 2 is here

I didn't feel like changing much from the original post, the biggest change was including Suzu in place of Hinata, that being said Hinata is still one of my favorite characters and I fully intend in keeping her as a main character, for any of you who have read (if any) the original story you know that she is the main plot points of one of the future books ;) that is not going to change :) anyway on with the show, here is Chapter 1 of Book 2!

Book 2 - Star Trek Predator: Starfleet Academy, Konoha Style - Chapter 1 - Red Squad and War

It had now been two years since the Konoha group had entered Starfleet Academy, they were doing better then anyone expected, however the two who were always at the top of the class were Naruto and Sasuke, their skills were among the best the academy had ever seen. Chakotay had kept an eye on them during their time at the academy and along with Janeway, they both recommended all of them for the prestigious Red Squad

They were now all stationed on board the USS Thunder, a defiant class ship. The ship had ten officers and forty cadets, the captain had command of the ship when ever he needed it and the other officers were Starfleet Academy teachers. The cadets were given special Red Squad ranks depending on there scores during there first years at Starfleet Academy, the ranks themselves had no authority outside of the ship.

Sasuke was a Lieutenant Commander and first officer, Naruto Lieutenant, helm officer as well as second officer and Sakura was Lieutenant Junior Grade working in sickbay, the rest all had either Lieutenant Junior Grade or Ensign.

The ship was doing a scan of a nebula, Naruto was at the helm under the supervision of a Starfleet Academy pilot trainer, and Sasuke was in the captains chair along with Captain Tim Jones standing next to him in case he needed some help or an emergency situation happened, Suzu was at ops with a science Officer to help her out

"Scan complete, this nebula is composed of hydrogen, helium, and argon, I believe this classifies as a Class T Nebula" Suzu reported

"Very good, lets go scan the planet now, that will complete the mapping of this sector" Sasuke ordered

"Setting course for Tristar 2 half impulse" Naruto said as he worked his console

Suddenly an alarm came from Suzu's console "Captain I'm detecting something...It's a distress call" She finally told him

Roger who was the science officer looked at her console "She is right this is a Federation distress call" He stated confirming Suzu's last statement

"What?..." Sasuke said not really sure if this was real or a simulation since Roger had gotten involved, the officers generally didn't get involved during simulations

Tim walked to the front of the bridge "Patch it through!" He quickly ordered

A voice came over the comm "This is USS Vigilant, we are under heavy attack from Breen...They are trying...Boarding...scramb..." the voice suddenly stopped as all they could hear was static

"Clear it up!" Tim ordered

"Trying sir!" Roger answered back as he had taken over the ops console

The voice returned but it was full of static "They are scrambling ...communications..."

"We just lost communications sir" Roger informed his captain as he allowed Suzu to retake control

"Suzu, bring up the Vigilant information" Sasuke ordered

"Aye sir, USS Vigilant, Vigilant Class, crew of thirty, Medium Combat Frigate" Suzu reported

"What are its armament?" Naruto asked

"Six Type X phaser arrays and two standard photon tubes" Suzu answered back

"They are no match for a Breen ship, any other ships in range?" Tim asked

"Negative captain" Suzu answered back

"Well then, its going to be up to us, take us to yellow alert, Naruto set course for that ship's last known coordinates at maximum warp, have security and damage control teams on standby" Tim ordered

"Aye sir setting course, speed warp 9.5" He said as he entered the commands into his console making the ship enter warp

Meanwhile Shikamaru was drinking a cup of root beer and reading his PADD, he then heard the yellow alert

He let out a large Sign "Something troublesome is about to happen" He said as he got up from his seat and entered the turbolift and took it to the bridge where he sat down at his post as tactical officer

"We are arriving at our destination, dropping out of warp" Naruto informed them as the Thunder dropped out from warp and engaged its impulse engines

"A Breen ship has the Vigilant in tow" Suzu reported

"Life signs?" Sasuke asked

"Detecting all thirty human life signs, however they are surrounded by Breen" Suzu answered

"Looks like they have been captured" Tim commented

"Captain, the Breen ship has just noticed us, its let go of the Vigilant and is coming our way" Suzu told them

"Red alert, raise shields and prepare for battle" Sasuke order

"NO belay that order, raise shields, we are not at war with the Breen, them first" Tim quickly said overruling Sasuke's order

"But sir, they assaulted and captured one of our ships" Sasuke protested

"That may be true but we don't know what caused this situation, for all we know the Vigilant did something to warrant this. So we must try diplomacy first, it has to be the first thing you do" Tim explained

"Aye sir" Sasuke answered with a bit of disappointment

"They are hailing us sir" Suzu informed them

"On screen" Tim ordered as the image of a Breen captain appeared on screen

"You are trespassing in Breen space, turn around or be destroyed"

"I am Captain Tim of the Federation starship USS Thunder, this isn't Breen space this is Federation space and you have just captured a Federation ship, please explain yourself" Tim answered back

"We have claimed this region of space as ours, your ships are trespassing" The Breen captain answered back

"You can't just claim our space, look a Breen ship isn't a match for a defiant class, let go of our ship and leave Federation space and we will forget that this incident ever happened" Tim offered

"You are correct, one Breen ship isn't enough for a defiant ship, but five is" The Breen captain stated

"CAPTAIN, four Breen ships just came from around the moon, they were hiding" Suzu quickly informed him

"Surrender, you are now prisoners of the Breen Confederacy"

"As if, this is an act of war!" Tim answered back

"Good, that is what we were going for, the Federation is always expanding into other space, you are a plague and we must put an end to it" The Breen captain

"What are you talking about, The Federation has always stood for peace" Tim stated

"You attack everyone you come across, you just call it diplomacy instead of war. You are worst then the Borg, you go around and you bring races into your Federation, you assimilate them into your collective and you use there resource and technology and the worst part is that they don't even realize they are being assimilated. With the Borg at least you know their true intentions!" The Breen accused

"Look if you want to take this to the council and speak about this disputed space then I'm sure we can come to an agreement" Tim said trying to deescalate the situation

"You haven't been paying attention to a single word that I have been saying, you will be destroyed!" The been said as his face disappeared from the screen

"They have cut communications" Suzu informed them

"Now what?" Sasuke asked

"Red alert, all hands battle stations!" Tim ordered

The lights on the bridge dimmed as the red lights began to turn on along with the alert sounding throughout the ship

"I knew this was going to be troublesome" Shikamaru said as he began to work his console

"can we get a lock on to the crew of the Vigilant?" Tim asked

"No sir not yet I have to crack this dampening field first" Roger answered as he worked the console along with Suzu

"Then we will try and give you some time, if we can rescue the crew and destroy the Vigilant we can outrun them, the Thunder is much faster then any Breen ships" Tim said as Sasuke allowed him to sit in the chair and take command

"The other ships are now within firing range" John who was the tactical officer trainer informed them

One of the Breen ships fired on the Thunder "Evasive manoeuvres!" Tim ordered

"Aye sir" Naruto said as he worked his console, the Thunder began its manoeuvres to avoid enemy fire, however Naruto was still just a cadet and most of the enemy fire hit the Thunder

"Shields down to seventy nine percent sir" Shikamaru reported

"Damn it Ray take the helm" Tim ordered

"Aye sir" The helm officer who was Naruto's instructor tapped him on the arm indicating he was going to take over. Naruto let out a sigh as he felt like he let everyone down and got up to allow Ray to take his place.

Just as he was about to sit down a torpedo somehow got through the shields and hit the bridge, the armor prevented a hull breach however major damaged was caused throughout the bridge as explosions trowing the crew out of their stations. Tim got up from the ground and looked around, both John and Ray were down and not getting back up

Tim tapped his comm badge as he sat back down in his chair "Medical emergency on the bridge"

Sasuke had been putting out the fires with a fire extinguisher, Naruto got up from the ground and checked on Ray "He is alive" He reported

"Naruto retake the helm, Shikamaru take Tactical, I am going to have to depend on the both of you" Tim ordered

Both Naruto and Shikamaru nodded and sat down at their stations, Naruto somehow started doing better, some shots still hit the ship but much less then before. The Thunder was returning fire and causing damage back to the Breen, Shikamaru's natural talent for Tactical gave them an edge as he was always trying to analyze their next tree moves

"Done sir!" Roger reported back

"Good work, beam them out of there!" Tim ordered

Naruto took the thunder and put it right next to the Vigilant, he figured since they had to lower their port shields he thought he could use the Vigilant as a shield since they were going to destroy it afterward anyway. The plan worked, the Breen tried to fire at the exposed side of the Thunder but they kept hitting the Vigilant

"Transport complete" Roger informed them

"Access the Vigilant's computer and activate the self destruct" Tim ordered

"Done sir, ten seconds" Roger answered back

"Helm get us out of here Max Warp!" Tim ordered as Naruto went to work, the Thunder warped away just as the Vigilant exploded. The medical team finally arrived on the bridge to take Ray and John down to sickbay

"Good work Roger, that was fast" Tim complimented

"Well actually sir, it was mostly Suzu who was the one who cracked the code sir, she was amazing" Roger said with a smile as he was proud of his trainee

"Well done Suzu! Showing how Konoha Cadets are the best!" Naruto told her from his console

"Well uh, You were great too Naruto, by using the Vigilant as a shield saved us from damage" Suzu told him with a slight blush at all the attention she was getting, especially from Naruto's compliment

"That's right, great thinking Naruto, you all did well, I am proud of all of you" Tim told his entire bridge crew

The ship was heading towards Starbase 12 for repairs, it was the headquarters for the sector. Tim was resting leaving Sasuke in command with Roger as supervisor

"I'm getting a message from Starfleet, its an FNN emergency broadcast" Suzu said while being confused

"What's the FNN?" Naruto asked

"Its the Federation News Network, but why would they be sending us a message?" Roger answered

"Its fleet wide, not just us" Suzu answered

"Patch it through" Sasuke ordered

The Federation News Network's logo appears on the screen as a broadcast began "Today the Federation just received a message from the Breen Cardassians alliance, they have informed us that they are declaring war on the Federation, they said that they claim the new systems discovered by the Federation 3 years ago"

"Isn't that where Konoha is located?" Suzu stated fearing that war could soon be waged on their home world

The broadcast continued "As a result the Federation is now getting ready for war once again with their old enemies, this time they claim to have another ally, one more powerful then both the Cardassians and Breen combined. The Federation has no idea who this new force is but is confident that they can find a diplomatic way of resolving this. As always we will be reporting all the details as we received them, this has been Jane Lewis for the Federation News Network"

"My god, the Breen weren't bluffing..." Roger stated

"Do you think its our fault?" Sasuke asked

"I doubt it, I think it was planed" Roger answered

"Take us to yellow alert" Sasuke suddenly ordered

"What are you doing?" Roger asked

"Federation regulations state that when ever we are in a state of war, all ships must be at yellow alert at all times" Sasuke answered

"Nice one, you are correct cadet" Roger responded with a grin

"Things are going to get troublesome again aren't they" Shikamaru said with a sigh

"You have no idea" Roger answered back

End Chapter 1

And that ends the first chapter

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