Title: Ready
Fandom: Star Trek XI (2009)
Rating: G
Length: 100
Summary: Narada waits
Notes: Ship PoV. The new movie has had me considering picking back up an abandoned WiP about what happened to Nero's crew during the twenty-five years. I always thought it was silly to think that the ship was under Klingon control the whole time...

Ready

Disassociation. Parts that should be together but are not. Parts that are missing. Parts that should be joined, parts that should be replicated. This takes time.

Times has been given – longer than is necessary for repair. Programming has been given – time to escape, time to wait.

Waiting, lurking, hiding. Shielded. Silent.

Ready.

Each system checks itself, following instruction. Parts kept functional, energy conserved.

Twenty-five years, specified precisely – days, hours, minutes, seconds, nanoseconds. Twenty-five years alone.

Crew that should be present but is not. Crew that is missed.

Crew that will be recovered.

After twenty-five years, Narada will return.

Narada waits.