NOTE: Hi, I'm not dead! Sorry, I did mean to update this in May but I needed to take a serious break from a lot of things.

What you should know is that 1) the last five chapters have been rewritten, they are generally the same as before but different (on AO3 the notes at the beginning and end have not been changed or taken down from when the chapters were originally posted)

2) I have the script of the movie fully written out now so it will be easier to write the chapters. That being said, I don't have a lot of time, so updates will still be irregular

Also! To clear some things up:
I will be doing Into Darkness and Beyond, they will be in this story not made into different stories

There are no ships unless they are canon, i.e., Sarek and Amanda

Though! For Spock and Uhura since they are canon couple in 2009 timeline, I have it so that they WERE a couple, but because Spock had left for the Enterprise when Uhura was still in the academy they broke it off and are now just good friends, but no one knows of their past romance

BUT! This story is now off of Hiatus!

[STARFLEET ACADEMY GROUNDS]

MCCOY: Why are you so happy?

Kirk and McCoy are seen walking out of a building dressed in Cadet uniforms

Everyone let out quiet groans and grumbles when the screen changed to something that was very much not about their Spock or this Nero guy. They knew that whatever was being shown to them now was also important and probably held significance to whatever they were going to see in the future, but they couldn't help but wish they were seeing a continuation of the last scene.

KIRK: I don't know what you're talking about

MCCOY: No, I don't suppose you do.

KIRK: Hello ladies. (TO MCCOY) I'm taking the test again

MCCOY: You got to be kidding me

KIRK: Yeah, tomorrow morning and I want you there

MCCOY: You know, I've got better things to do than to watch you embarrass yourself for a third time. I'm a doctor Jim, I'm busy

KIRK: Bones, it doesn't bother you that no one's ever passed the test?

"The Kobayashi Maru?" Bones asked no one in particular

"That's what I'm thinking, no one has ever passed it. Not unless they were to cheat." Jim replied to his friend

MCCOY: Jim, it's the Kobayashi Maru. No one passes the test, and no one goes back for seconds, let alone thirds.

KIRK: I got to study

MCCOY: Study my ass

Kirk leaves Bones and walks off screen, Bones does not look like he believes him before he too walks away

[DORM ROOM]

GAILA: Ahh… Jim, I think I love you

"Oh god."

"No. please I don't want to see this"

"Oh no"

"Captain please"

"Yea.. sure studying"

KIRK: That's so weird

"Oh, you did not"

"Not the place or the right wording there Laddie"

"This isn't going to go over well"

While the rest of the table had some manner of comment to make on what was happening on the screen, Kirk was trying to be the respectable Starfleet Captain that he is and not die of embarrassment

GAILA: Lights

MALE COMPUTER VOICE: Lights On

GAILA: Did you just say "that is so weird"?

KIRK: Yeah, I did but I...

GAILA: You don't love me too?

The lights turn on as the two sit up on the bed, behind a wall the sound of a door opening is heard

GAILA: Oh, that's my roomate

KIRK: I thought you said she was gone for the night?

GAILA: Well, obviously, she's not. Quick, you've got… get under the bed

KIRK: Under...

GAILA: Look, under the bed.

KIRK: C'mon

GAILA: She can't see you

KIRK: Why not?

GAILA: Because I promised her I'd stop bringing guys back to the room

KIRK: Wait, how many guys have you…?

GAILA: Down, just down. (TO UHURA) Hey

While everyone else began to laugh uncontrollably (minus the Vulcans though Spock did secretly find this very amusing) Kirk was using all of his Captains training not to blush too much as the Lieutenant smiled cheekily at him

"Sorry to interrupt Captain," Uhura said with a laugh

Kirk gets under the bed just as Uhura is shown walking towards her own bed, Kirk looks at her from under the bed

UHURA: Hey

GAILA: How are you

UHURA: Good. The strangest thing. I was in the long-range sensor lab...

GAILA: Yeah… I thought all night

UHURA: I was tracking solar systems and I picked up an emergency transmission

GAILA: Really?

UHURA: Yeah, from a Klingon prison planet

GAILA: No?

UHURA: Yeah. A Klingon armada was destroyed. Forty-seven ships

Abruptly the laughter cut off, a Klingon armada destroyed? This was grave news.

It had obviously not happened in their time, something like that would have been known by everyone in the room, but it wasn't, the only conclusion was that it was caused by Nero and his men changing the past once more

GAILA: So, you're not going back to the lab tonight?

UHURA: Gaila, who is he?

GAILA: Who's who?

UHURA: The mouth-breather hiding under your bed

KIRK: You can hear me breathing?

Kirk gets out from under the bed and Uhura immediately recognizes him, Kirk continues to talk to her as she chases him from her room

UHURA: You!

KIRK: Big day tomorrow

UHURA: You're gonna fail

KIRK: Gaila, see you around

UHURA: Get out

KIRK: If I pass, will you tell me your first name?

UHURA: No. Goodnight

KIRK: I think the fact that you picked up a transmission is very interesting

The laughter from before came back at the twos bickering, though it was slightly more subdued than before as everyone was once again reminded that this was not their past they were watching but a different past. A past, they had to insure did not happen.

[KOBAYASHI MARU SCENARIO]

UHURA: We're receiving a distress signal from the USS Kobayashi Maru. The ship has lost power and is stranded. Starfleet Command had ordered us to rescue them

Uhura turns around in her chair and delivers her statement with a lot of sass directed towards Kirk

KIRK: Starfleet Command has ordered us to rescue them, Captain

MCCOY: Two Klingon vessels have entered the neutral zone and are locking weapons on us

KIRK: That's okay

MCCOY: That's okay?

KIRK: Yeah, don't worry about it

The whole crew leaned forward in confusion, this was the Kobayashi Maru. The unbeatable test. And this Kirk was treating it like a joke?

"He's planning something," Bones muttered

[OVERHEAD]

INSTRUCTOR 1: Did he say don't worry about it?

INSTRUCTOR 2: Is he not taking the simulation seriously?

[SCENARIO]

Kirk looks very smug and relaxed as Bones and the rest of his "crew" go about their roles in the simulation

MCCOY: Three more Klingon warbirds decloaking and targeting our ship. I don't suppose this is a problem either

CADET: They're firing, Captain

KIRK: Alert medical bay to prepare to receive all crew members from the damaged ship.

UHURA: And how do you expect us to rescue them when we're surrounded by Klingons, Captain

KIRK: Alert medical

MCCOY: Our ship is being hit. Shields at sixty percent

KIRK: I understand

MCCOY: Well should we, I don't know, fire back?

KIRK: No

MCCOY: Of course not.

Kirk starts to eat an apple as the "ship" goes to red alert, it does not look like he cares about what is going on around him. The power in the simulation seems to die for a moment, causing the lights to dim and screens to become glitchy and fuzzy, then it returns to normal

Both Kirk and Spock leaned back in their seats, they knew what this Jim Kirk had done.

Slowly, after thinking about it, the rest of the room also realised what this Kirk was doing.

[OVERHEAD]

INSTRUCTOR 2: What is this? What's going on?

[SCENARIO]

KIRK: Hmm… arm photons, prepare to fire on the Klingon warbirds

CADET: Yes, sir

MCCOY: Jim, their shields are still up

KIRK: Are they?

MCCOY: No. They're not

KIRK: Fire on all enemy ships. One photon each should do it, so don't waste ammunition

CADET: Target locked and acquired on all warbirds. Firing.

The warbirds are fired at as Kirk acts very immature and points a finger gun at the screen Uhura does not look impressed at all by what is happening

CADET: All ships destroyed, Captain

KIRK: Begin rescue of the stranded crew. So, we've managed to eliminate all enemy ships, no one onboard was injured, and the successful rescue of the Kobayashi Maru crew is underway.

[OVERHEAD]

INSTRUCTOR 3: How the hell did that kid beat your test?

SPOCK: I do not know