Chekhov and Queen Chrysalis stopped fighting and looked at me with wide eyes. Seeing what Chekhov was going to make me do, Queen Chrysalis grabbed Chekhov’s phaser, grabbed Chekhov around the neck and held him hostage.
“Move your hand towards that panel, I kill him!” She said. “Now, open the door.”
I looked at Chekhov. He was young. A 19-year-old kid with a full life ahead of him but, here he was, being held hostage in a garbage chute by a dark green pony. I saw the fear in his eyes as he realized what he had to do. He nodded and mouthed the words,
‘Do it.’
I quickly slammed the release button and saw that because of the shock of a human defying her orders, Chrysalis dropped Chekhov and backed towards the door. Chekhov looked at me knowingly. He and I both knew he was giving up his life to save all the crew members lives on the Enterprise.
“I’ll never forget you, Chekhov.” I said.
“I won’t either.” He replied.
Then, the door opened. Queen Chrysalis and Pavel Andrevich Chekhov got sucked out into space and got incinerated on reentry. It was a horrible way to die. It was even more horrible to watch him suffer like that. The only good thing that came out of this was that Queen Chrysalis was also incinerated. I close the door and stand with my back against the hull wall. I slide down and sit on the floor. That’s when I start crying and Sulu comes running up to me.
“Where’s Chekhov?” He asks me.
I pointed to the garbage chute.
Sulu put two-and-two together within a matter of milliseconds.
“Are you telling me that you killed Chekhov?”
I nodded.
He pulled out his phaser and placed it upon my cheek.
“Do it.” I said.
The phaser started shaking.
“DO IT!!!!!!!!” I yelled.
He dropped the phaser and hugged me.
“I’m so sorry, McCoy.”
“We need to go.”
“The main bridge doesn’t have power going to it. We may be able to go to the battle bridge and get control of the ship.”
I was basically dragging him with me.
“We need to go!”
So, we got up to the battle bridge and found it to be a wreck. A steel I-beam fell and hit Sulu in the head, knocking him out. That left me to work the controls. I tried to recall the book Starfleet Vessel Training for Manual Override Part 1.
“Alright McCoy, you’ve got one chance to get this right.” I said to myself.
I pulled the column back as I saw a rather large city below us. Flaps and ailerons opened in the back of the primary hull and warp nacelle pylons, dragging the nose up and pushing the tail down. I pushed the impulse throttle forward and the Enterprise began her arc toward the sky and leveled out just above the water of Manehattan Harbor. Before going back up, the torch on the Statue of Liberty gets destroyed by the deflector dish. I let go of the steering console and breathed a deep sigh of relief. I’d just caused a whole lot of money in damage but, saved a whole lot of ponies in the process. When we went out of the atmosphere of Equestria, I turned the Enterprise to orbit the planet and got up to the transporter room.
“Hey, Scotty?” I said when I answered the room. “Got the warp core working again?”
“You bet your arse, Doctor.” Scotty replied.
“Beam me down to Manehattan.”
So, I got beamed down to where I wanted and found myself at the opening to a rather large cave. I went into it and explored and heard voices coming from inside. About the time, I heard them was when Kirk and Celestia came running around the corner.
“BONES! YOU FOUND US!” Kirk yelled happily.