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Steve quirked an eyebrow toward him, brushing his thumb across his thigh and humming. “I guess, this is where I ask. Doing what?”

Eddie tapped Steve’s hand lightly. “Even while planning, you kept using pronouns for all the cryptids. And then you’d immediately be all shifty or try to laugh it off. So, I guess, this is where I ask. Do you know something I don’t?”

Steve smirked at the perfect set up. “Oh, babe, I know of things beyond your wildest imagination.”

Eddie laughed like Steve knew he would, hopefully distracted enough to move on.

“Steve, come on. We fought literal demon monsters in hell. We know a girl with actual real life powers. If you know that Sasquatch is real, you can tell me. Please tell me Sasquatch is real.” Eddie clasped Steve’s hand between his and held them up under his chin.

Steve knew he was making his eyes all big and wet, beseeching. Eyes Steve can’t help, but to always give into. Good thing he was driving, Steve was saved from the full force of that look. But he could still feel it, his heart and belly trying with all their might to make him look over at Eddie, to just tell him.

“Eddie. Look, I didn’t mean anything by it. Just because Hawkins happens to be a gateway to hell, doesn’t mean all that other stuff in your books, and dish towel, is real.”

Steve felt Eddie lower their hands to his lap, Eddie flipping it palm up, so he could trace Steve’s life lines. But he didn’t say anything. The sound from the radio filled the cab. It wasn’t tense, but Steve could feel Eddie thinking.

“Ok,” Eddie finally said.

They spent the rest of the drive bopping along to the radio, Eddie reading some paranormal books he’d checked out of the library. They passed through the town of Rochester and followed their map to the lake. They drove through a few neighborhoods until they found a spot to pull over.

Steve dropped the tailgate to slide the cooler to the edge, grabbing out some pops and sandwiches. Eddie grabbed his “Explorer’s Bag” holding a notebook, pens, sketching pencils, disposable camera, and polaroid camera. They walked down to the grassy edge of the lake, picking a spot to plop down. Steve got out their sandwiches, laying them on their baggies, and popped open his drink. Eddie stared out at the lake, waiting.

Steve took a bite of his sandwich. “So, what now? We just wait to for a sea serpent to pop up to say hi?”

“I don’t know, didn’t really think of this part.” Eddie glanced at Steve. “In my head, I guess we’d show up, see something suspicious and, I don’t know, track the clues? Maybe this wasn’t the most thought out plan. Should we just go home after this?”

“At least it’s pretty.” Steve nodded out at the lake. “I don’t mind road tripping just to see some nice spots. Bet a store in town has some touristy stuff we could pick up.”

“Yeah, ok.” Eddie didn’t look pacified, but at least he started eating.

Steve felt a little bad that Eddie wasn’t going to get what he wanted out of the trip, but Steve honestly didn’t mind just driving around the state, spending time with Eddie. They didn’t always get a lot of this kind of alone time, even living together, what with work and activities, Robin and Corroded Coffin.

“I’m gonna go grab the chips, hold down the picnic while I’m gone,” Eddie said, standing to run back to the truck. Steve looked back out over the rippling, blue lake, clouds reflected in its surface. It was so peaceful-

Splash

Steve tensed. It was probably just a fish or a bird landing, it definitely wasn’t-

Splash!

Steve stood, walking over to the lake, making it look like he was just enjoying the view. At the water’s edge, he glanced back to see Eddie hanging over the edge of the truck bed, trying to pull the dry food bag closer.

Steve leaned over the water, speaking low. “I’m not here alone, you need to stay out of sight.”

Splash

Water flicked up at Steve, wetting his clothes, sprinkling his face.

He wiped at his face, glaring. “Thank you for that, but no. I’m not coming in today. You gotta go.”

“Steve?” Steve flinched and turned to see Eddie walking back, hand halfway in the bag.

Flicking one last glare toward the water, Steve smiled back to Eddie. “Saw a bird scooping up a fish, pretty cool to see in person. You ready to head out?”

Eddie tilted his head, confused smile in place. “No? I just got the chips. Thought we were gonna enjoy this a little longer?”

“We could, yeah. Orrrr we could drive into town, see where we could find a key chain or magnet with this mythical monster on it. Maybe find a bathroom before we head out.”

“Ok, but can w-” Eddie’s eyes went wide, mouth dropping open, bag of chips spilling to the ground.

Steve dropped his head in defeat. He knew what Eddie saw rising behind him.

“Steve,” Eddie whispered, eyes still locked behind him. “Walk toward me, baby. Slowly. There’s- there’s a- The Monster of-”

Splash!

Water drenched the back of Steve, droplets making it to Eddie. Steve sighed deeply and rubbed the spot between his eyes. “Yeah, uh, he doesn’t like being called that.”

Eddie’s wide eyed gaze moved to Steve. Steve held out his hand, wiggling his fingers like he always does when he wants Eddie to hold his hand. “It’s ok, I want you to meet someone.”

Eddie walked slowly toward him, eyes flicking between him and the large serpent at his back, until his hand was firmly within Steve’s. He tipped his head toward Steve, lowering his voice. “I know it’s the wrong time to say this, but I knew you were lying and keeping information to yourself. Now, is it- splash -he nice? Obviously, he can understand me.”

Steve huffed out a laugh. “Yes, he’s very friendly. Kinda the problem, actually.” Steve pulled him around so they both faced the creature.

“Eddie, I’d like you to meet Kevin of Lake Manitou. Kevin, this is my partner, Eddie.”

Kevin swam across the water toward them. Eddie jerked, stepping in close to Steve’s side, squeezing his hand tight. Steve swept a thumb over Eddie’s knuckles to reassure him, though he still glanced worriedly over at Steve.

Steve crouched at the edge of grass and water, pulling Eddie down with him. “Put your hand out. Like this.”

Eddie followed his lead, reaching out the hand not held tight by Steve over the water. Kevin came close, slipping smoothly up and out of the water to brush his head across Steve’s hand first and then Eddie’s.

Steve heard a tiny gasp from Eddie and looked over. Eddie was grinning, relief coursed through Steve as he watched Eddie petting Kevin’s head, flipping his hand under to scritch his chin.

“If you want, you can get take a polaroid. You can never show it to anyone, but you can take it.”

Eddie’s head snapped over to look at him. “You trust me with a photo? What if-”

“Eddie. ‘Course I trust you. I mean, maybe we wait to tell the kids til they’re older, but yeah. It’s just, I couldn’t tell you because it’s my duty to protect them all; from curious people, from hunters, from developers. It’s been my family’s job for generations going back hundreds of years.”

“So, what, you get to protect them ‘cause you’re, like, the only humans who know about them?”

“Uh, no.” Kevin lifted out of the water, resting his big head on Steve’s knees, offering support, Steve pet him slowly. He looked Eddie in the eye. “We’re, uh, we’re not exactly...completely...human.”

Eddie blinked at him, opening his mouth a few times before closing it. “You’re, uh, you’re- what?”

Steve ducked his head, scratching the back of his neck. “Yeah. My mom’s a Banshee, her whole side of the family is. My dad’s a human, though. Banshees are kinda, like, a warning system in our world. I don’t have all of Mom’s abilities, but I can still sense when something’s vaguely wrong or someone’s on the verge of death.”

Looking up, Steve wasn’t sure Eddie was breathing anymore. “You ok?”

Eddie’s distant gaze snapped backing into focus on Steve’s face. “This makes so much sense. All those times- And you knew in the Upside Down- Wow. Ok. Yeah, ok. But-” Eddie’s face fell, suddenly sad and worried.

“Eddie?”

“You said this has been your family’s duty, passed down for generations, but if we’re- You’ll need to, you know- I can’t give you- ugh.” he pulled a hand down his face.

Steve reached out, stopping him from shoving his hand into his hair to pull at it in frustration. “Eddie. I have cousins, it’s fine. Or we can find a surrogate. Robin’s kinda offered; though she said not until she’s established in her career. So, we have time. But...you’re fine? With the whole, you know, not human thing?”

Eddie tilted his head in confusion, before oh-ing in understanding.

“Honey,” he said, a wide smile overtaking his face, “I’ve loved you for four years now; you think a little thing like ‘not being completely human’ is going to change that? Not on your life, baby. You’re stuck with me forever.”

Steve’s cheeks hurt from how wide he smiled. “I like the sound of that.”

Eddie glanced down at Kevin, reaching over to scritch between his eyes, he suddenly gasped. “Wait! Does this mean Sasquatch really is real?!”

Based on this dish towel

“You still tense?” asked Eddie, when they headed up to Steve’s bedroom.

“I’m good.”

“Gonna take that as a ‘yes.’”

Steve sprawled naked and face-down on his bed, while Eddie moved in to give him a massage. And Eddie gave the best. His deliciously warm hands totally nailed those rock-hard muscle knots in Steve’s shoulders, soothed up and down his spine, and those clever fingers got everywhere. Steve had no clue how Eddie did it, and he was too much of a happily melting goop to care.

“You want me to dive a little deeper?” asked Eddie, hands dragging down to squeeze Steve’s butt.

Steve grinned into his pillow. “What d’ya think, Munson?”

“Mmmmm, mmmmmm. Yum, yum, yum!”

The blissed-out noises Eddie made while eating Steve out were always hilarious, fitting between slurps and twisty tongue-work that hit sweet spots inside Steve that seemed impossible. How could anybody get their tongue so far in, let alone pummel hard enough to give multiple orgasms? Christ, Steve hadn’t known guys could climax this hard and fast, yet there he was—clenching and weeping, fists balling and toes curling, spurting like a mad thing all over his wrecked bed. It was a relief when Eddie cut him a break, sliding his tongue back to tease lazily around Steve’s ring.

Steve—still drowning in post-orgasmic quivers—peeped back to dig the sight of his boyfriend licking him out.

Steve blinked. Blinked again.

Eddie’s gift of kickass oral pleasure was ongoing. His face, however, was not exactly buried in Steve’s butt-cheeks.

Nope.

Eddie kneeled upright on the end of the mattress, lapping away at Steve’s hole with a two-foot-long green proboscis that flowed seamlessly from his luscious mouth.

“Shiiiiiiit!”

…

Once Steve had finished screaming himself raw and having heart palpitations, snuggles with Eddie genuinely felt like a good idea again.

Maybe Eddie was gonna eat him. Or infest him with a baby alien that was going to burst out of his chest in an explosion of ‘Steve-look-away-from-the screen-right-this-instant’ gore.

It didn’t seem particularly Eddie.

“You’re an alien,” Steve said weakly, nose planted in another of its favorite spots, somewhere near Eddie’s armpit. “Since when?”

“Since always,” said Eddie. “Didn’t realize till the Upside Down. First time I died. And got better. And healed implausibly fast. Look, I’m still me, okay?”

“Okay,” breathed Steve. “Okay. Okay. Okay. Does anybody else know?”

“Wayne. He always suspected. I mean, Al had some real whacked-out girlfriends, and it was the 60s.”

“Riiiiight,” said Steve, as Eddie enfolded a second preternaturally long arm around him. Did that explain everything? Anything? His head was too achy and his body too trembly to know or much care.

“How do you manage to look so... human?”

“Not entirely sure. Apparently, I’ve got some kind of glamor.”

“Whut? Like a Playboy bunny?”

“Not exactly. Ask Robin. She’ll explain it best.”

“Does she know?”

“Think she suspects too.” Eddie hummed uneasily. “Steve, are you cool with this? Look, I didn’t mean for you to find out this way, particularly after the whole ‘Alien’ movie shitshow. Honestly, just wanted to view your mega-hot ass better. Didn’t realize how far back down the bed I’d rocked and rolled. Do we, uuuuuh… need to take a break or anything?”

Steve took a beat. A long beat, where he wound his arms tight around Eddie’s slender waist and inhaled deeply of Eddie’s reassuringly human sweatiness. At this point, only one question of grave importance sprang to mind.  “So that’s how you manage to, you know, delve so deep?”

“I’m telling you, man, it’s insane how dexterous my proboscis is! Tactile too. Like a two foot long erogenous zone in itself.”

“That’s pretty cool.” Steve flirted with a follow-up question concerning Eddie’s dick, then decided he’d had enough mind-bogglers for one day. He peeped up, waggled his brows. “You feel like getting back to it?”

Eddie’s grin flashed suspiciously neon-bright. “With pleasure, Babe.”

He returned to slaying Steve with impossible tongue-work and probably impossible multiple orgasms. When they both climaxed so cataclysmically hard Eddie’s glamor fell away, Steve whimpered, “Dude, you’re even hotter in green.”

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Thank you to @strangergraphics for the divider!

Author's notes

-This park is an unholy combination of a bunch of different parks, but takes place where Hershey's amusement park in Hershey, PA is. Sorry I made Robin and Steve from Pennsylvania instead of from Indiana haha, wanted them to be locals

-In this AU, Chrissy goes to Penn State for college. There she's outside of her mom's direct control and starting to figure out who she is as a person. Her and Eddie befriended each other after she has a panic attack trying weed for the first time. The two of them applied to Pirate's World: Blackbeard's Adventure because in part it was a way for Chrissy to continue to be free of her mom and in part truly because Chrissy fell in love with the zoo portion of the park

“But sir, my sister's down there.” Mike argued.

“And would Nancy be happy to see you, or would she be pissed?” Steve raised an eyebrow even as he entered the turbo shaft.

“Sinclair’s going.” Mike insisted. Steve glanced to his side at the woman in question.

“Are you going to tell Erica no?” Mike slumped into the Captain's chair conceding the point.

“Your sister is a capable woman. My brother is an idiot.” Erica offered as she stepped into the lift.

“Transporter bay.” The lift lowered to the bottom level as Steve laid out the plan.

“When we get to the surface, I’ll swim down as far as I can while you tread water. Once they can't lock onto my signal, we’ll know how close to the surface we need to get the crew.” Waiting at the transporter bay was Dr. Buckley with a few respirators that she handed out quickly.

“Let me switch your translators to non-verbal mode.” She gestured to her ear and pulled out a tricorder. She ran the device over the right ear of the humans and Vulcan, and the left ear of the trill.

“Thanks, Robbie.” Steve smiled and hugged his best friend. “We’ll see you in a bit.” With that, he stepped onto the transporter pad.

A quick push of a button, and they were beamed onto the planet, submerging underwater.

“Everyone okay?” Steve asked. It was weird to talk to his team without actually speaking, but he figured he’d get used to it.

The three others nodded in affirmation. Steve began his dive, but no sooner had he sank did a green old man appear. He tilted his head in confusion until he heard Erica scream.

“It's a vodnik!” Steve had no idea what that was, but given her tone of voice and the way the thing charged at him, he didn't think it was friendly.

With a kick of his legs, Steve tried to escape it, but the vodnik was fast; faster than any creature Steve had ever seen.

Suddenly, a great white shark appeared and bit into the vodnik’s leg dragging it to the depths. A second shark swam directly for them but paused in front of the group and moved almost as if it was treading water.

“Are you a native to this planet?” Steve asked. The shark gave the approximation of a nod. Upon closer inspection, Steve realized this wasn’t a normal Earth shark, it had a few extra fins and the gills were in the wrong spot. Almost as if someone explained what a shark was, and this creature became it.

“What are you?” There was a sense of dread filling his stomach, and he didn’t have time for tact.

“Come with me.” It said. “I won’t hurt you.” The shark gave a wiggle and it transformed into a half-horse, half-fish creature, long curly seaweed-like hair made up it's mane. Attached to it’s flank was an enclosed carriage.

“Answer me first. What are you?” Steve said again.

“I’m a Kelpie at the moment.” The creature nodded at its form. “We don’t have much time, if you want to save your comrades, come with me.”

There didn’t seem to be much choice. If that other creature was a shapeshifter like this one, there's be no way to tell them apart if they separated. With a sigh, Steve swam to the carriage and got in, Jane, Erica, and Dustin followed close behind.

Inside the carriage, the four discussed the situation.

“What's the likelihood these are the same species as the founders?” Jane asked, right to the point.

“If they are it doesn't seem like they're in league with them. If they were they wouldn't be helping us.” Dustin said. The discussion continued around him until the carriage came to a stop.

The carriage dissolved around them and they were once again submerged in water. The creature was still in the Kelpie form.

“Is this your true form?” Erica asked, keeping voice quiet and calm.

“I don’t know that I have a true form. Your comrades said this was a form you’d be comfortable with.” The creature said.

“Are you the one holding our comrades hostage?” Jane asked. The creature huffed in irritation.

“Not exactly. Come, I will show you.” The Kelpie galloped forward into an underwater cave. The group followed and breathed a sigh of relief when they realized it was a habitable cave for them.

They climbed out of the water onto the bank and removed their respirators. Steve kept his eyes on the shapeshifter as he turned into a human man. Long curly black hair framed his face, with dark chocolate doe eyes staring at him in return.

“I’m not with the Dominion, if that’s what you’re wondering.” The creature said.

“Then who are you?”

“Your comrades have been calling me Eddie. You may call me that as well.” He sighed and gestured to the sand. Taking a seat himself, Eddie told them all that had happened.

“The Dominion are terrible. A group of us defected a while ago, about a thousand of your years. Those of us who didn’t agree with the war on single forms settled here; but, over time, some of us have changed our minds.” Eddie gazed out over the little lake.

“So the vodnik, he’s a shapeshifter who hates solids?” Steve asked.

“Yes. Your comrades call him Jason. He’s the one who crashed their ship.”

Eddie went on to explain that Jason and a dozen others made up a group of shifters who want to rejoin the Dominion but can't access the warp technology they used to get here in the first place. Eddie was the only one who remembered where the old ships were, and he was the only one who knew how to work the tech in the first place. Even if they got their hands on the ships, they wouldn’t know how to use it.

“So, why did he destroy the Hawkins?” Jane questioned. “Wouldn’t it have made more sense to attempt to steal the tech?”

Eddie squinted at the woman for a moment, a particular look on his face.

“Have we met before?” He asked.

“I once was a woman named Kali. Maybe you met her?”

Eddie snapped his fingers in recognition.

“Yes! We gave her some Duranium.” Eddie turned back to the problem at hand. “Anyway, from what I gathered from the first group, Jason tried to board the ship but the captain Joyce, refused to let him have control. Once everyone was evacuated she set the ship to self destruct. Thankfully, the majority of us here don’t hate single forms. We managed to make Jason’s group retreat and save the crew. They’re in a nearby cave like this one. But, we couldn’t get them home without leading Jason to the warp tech.”

Steve absorbed the information as quickly as he could. There had to be a way to save the crew.

“Your Commander Joyce is a fearsome woman. She refuses to leave until she helps us stop this civil war.”

With a huff of a laugh Steve hung his head. Of course she’d say that.

“Can you take us to her?” Steve asked. With a nod, Eddie beckoned them to follow him through a series of tunnels and through a network of caves. Eventually, they stepped into a huge underground room filled with light.

“Erica?!” Lucas called as he ran to his sister and pulled her into a tight hug. “What the hell are you doing here?”

“Rescuing you, duh?” She replied even as she pretended to wiggle out of his hug.

“Steve!” A voice called. Will Byers pulled away from the crowd and hugged him around the waist. “Mom knew you’d come.”

Joyce herself was in deep discussion with Nancy and two people Steve didn’t recognize. They must be other shifters.

“The one with the red hair is being called Max and the other is called Chrissy.” Eddie pointed. “The older man in the corner is Wayne. He’s…what you would call my uncle.”

“You guys have family dynamics like that?” Dustin asked, fascinated with their new friend.

“In a way.” Eddie began. Steve left them to it and made his way to Joyce.

“Everyone okay?” He asked. Joyce met his eyes with a tired smile.

“Kind of. The shapeshifters who saved us have been friendly and hospitable. The caves are coded in kelbonite. I’m assuming that’s why you’re here and didn’t just beam us aboard the Loch Nora.”

“That would do it, yeah.” Steve laughed. “But, I hear you’re trying to prevent a civil war.”

“They have warp technology, it doesn’t violate the Prime Directive.” Joyce placatingly raised her hands. “Besides, it’s in the best interest of Starfleet. This group of defectors didn’t know about the Dominion War until we got here; but, most of them don’t seem to agree with the founders and didn’t really care too much about the outcome. The ones that do agree with the founders want to avenge them.”

“So we have to stop them here.” Steve concluded. Steve looked at the small group of officers here, and the shifters in the room.

“So, what’s the plan?”

It’s Eddie who answered.

“Evacuate our allies. Any warp tech we have, take with us or destroy. Once we’re a safe distance away, we’ll blow up the planet.” The calm indifference in Eddie’s voice would scare Steve if he was on the enemy side.

“Blow it up?” Erica asked in confusion.

“If he was smart, Jason would realize he can shift into a warp capable ship. But, he’s an idiot so it hasn’t occurred to him; but the second it does…” Eddie didn’t finish, but the meaning was clear.

“We already set a bunch of bombs throughout the planet. Shoot one, and it will cascade to the next.” Nancy chimed in.

“How many of you are on the planet?” Steve asked.

“In total? 20ish. We’re usually a conglomerate.” Wayne spoke up. “But, those of us who don’t mind your type are few now. Jason convinced almost everyone to join him. The four of us you see here, plus Eddie’s three friends.”

The three friends, entered from a separate cave as if summoned. They introduced themselves as Gareth, Jeff, and Bear. Gareth was the other shark they saw on the surface.

“The seven of you are willing to leave your home?” Steve asked, a little shocked.

“The thing about us Stevie, is we’re a collective. Our home isn’t a place or a planet. It’s the link we share with each other. One that’s connected us even when we were a part of the whole.” Eddie smiled.

“We need to move quickly.” Jeff mentioned. He and Max led a group of Hawkins crew down one passage, Bear and Gareth went down a second, and Wayne and Chrissy took the rest through a third.

“We have ships prepared to get us all out. I taught everyone how to fly them, at least a little.” Eddie began as he led Joyce, Will, Lucas, Nancy, and the rescue team down a different shaft.

“Why did you set out a distress signal if you guys already had a plan?” Steve asked as they shuffled down the path.

“We needed the backup. Plus, there would be no way to prove we were alive and also not shapeshifters if we appeared suddenly in an old Dominion ship.” That was a great point, Steve had to admit.

Eddie fell back in step with the two and stared calculatingly at Steve.

“What?”

“You’re pretty cute. For a single form anyway.” Eddie flirted and winked.

“Is that a compliment?” Steve asked as Joyce sped up to give them some space.

“You don’t think I’m cute?” Eddie pouted. “Do any of these speak to you?” In a blink he transformed into a female version of his human form. Then just as quickly, he morphed into an Andorian, Klingon, Tholian, and Ferangi version. Even his Ferangi self had huge doe eyes and big curly hair, which looked a bit silly with the ears.

There was something interesting about his shifting nature, Steve had to admit. He wondered just how far that extended. Could he shift parts of himself into other species or was it all or nothing? The only understanding of their abilities Starfleet had any record of was from a Bajorian scientist’s research notes; and he wasn’t very thorough with the details.

“I think you’re cute in all those forms you took. Except Ferangi, but I’ve known too many shady Ferangi.” Steve shrugged.

“Really? You’re not into the ears?” Eddie touched his lobes and gasped in shock. “Why does it feel like I’m touching my…” He waved his hand at Steve’s crotch.

“That’s a great question. You’ll have to ask one when we get back to Federation Space.”

Eddie pursed his lips in thought, shifted back to his “human” self, and turned back to the conversation at hand.

“Listen, after I blow up my planet I’ll need a new one. We all will. I’ve heard the Federation takes in strays. Will they make room for us too?”

“Of course!” Steve exclaimed.

“Even though our people tried to kill you all?” It was said like a joke, but the insecurity was clear.

“You’re not the first people to defect from their genocidal species and join the Federation. I doubt you’ll be the last.” Steve sighed and decided to take a risk. “Until then, you can stay on my ship with me. You all can, I don’t mind.”

“You have enough rooms for the seven of us?”

“Well, one of you might have to bunk with me.” Steve said with a flirty smile. He had enough rooms, it wouldn’t be a problem. Besides from what Eddie said, they’d likely all share the same space to link. But, it was the principle.

“Well if you insist.” Eddie replied and bumped shoulders with him. “I wouldn’t mind sharing your room, big boy.”

They arrived in a big cave that held a huge purple ship next to another underwater lake. Steve gulped; it was obviously an older version of the Jem’Hadar ships. Steve wasn’t in Starfleet during the war, but they learned all about it in the academy.

“Commander Byers was correct, if you showed up in Federation Space in these without an escort, you’d be stopped.” Steve mumbled.

“Right in one, pretty boy.” Eddie giggled as he jogged toward the ship. With a flourish, Eddie waved the group into the ship as he got into position. He flipped a few switches and then sent a signal to the other ships.

“Everyone’s ready. But you are going to have to convince your ship not to shoot at us.” Eddie handed Steve the headset, that doubled as a view screen. From the academy he knew he’d likely get a migraine if he wore it for a while, but a few minutes should be fine.

“Let’s do it.”

The ship exited the cave system through the lake and out to the surface, where it met up with the other three. A huge squid appeared but Eddie quickly fired a few shots into it’s stomach. It sank into the depths as they pushed through the water until the Loch Nora was in view.

“We’re hailing them.” Eddie pointed at Steve once the channel was open.

“This is Lieutenant Commander Wheeler. Who are you and what business do you have on this planet?” Mike’s face filled Steve’s vision.

“This is Captain Steve Harrington. These vessels hold the Hawkins crew and allies. We come in peace.” He said. Rightfully, Mike didn’t trust Steve at face value.

“Tell me something only Steve would know. Something a founder wouldn’t torture out of you.” Mike glared. Steve sighed and pursed his lips.

“When I was dating your sister I accidentally clogged the toilet while playing ultimate barbies with Holly. I was so embarrassed about it that I pretended I was having stomach problems.” There was a muffled snort to the side and Steve squinted his eyes at Eddie.

“How is clogging a girlfriend’s toilet with a huge dump less embarrassing than playing dolls with her sister?” Eddie giggled.

“I asked him the same question.” Nancy joined in before she snagged the headset from Steve. “Michael Wheeler, it’s me your sister Nancy. If you don’t send a message to Starfleet informing them of the Dominion Ships returning home with us, I’ll tell Jane all about your little notebook.” At that, Mike paled and nodded quickly.

“Okay, you’re who you say you are. I’ll relay the message.” He quickly ended the message as Steve turned curiously to Nancy.

“What’s in that notebook?” Steve asked curiously, but she didn’t answer, only shrugged with a secretive smile.

The ships left the atmosphere and headed toward Federation Space. All but Eddie’s ship; which turned to face the planet.

“I’m going to miss it. It was my home for so long.” He sighed.

“There could be another way, right?” Steve offered, he just met the man, but he’d do anything to make him happy.

A soft sniffle is the only sound Eddie let himself make before he pushed a button on the console. A single photon torpedo shot into the planet’s water, but whatever it hit, activated the explosions all along the surface.

As the planet broke into pieces, Eddie flipped it the bird.

“Good riddance to those fuckers.” He set the ship’s course and leaned back against a ship wall. “So, tell me about my new home?” Eddie requested.

Steve smiled. He liked the sound of that.

“The Loch Nora is what I affectionately call ‘home to the Starfleet strays’” he began.

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NOTES:

Trills can have a symbiote that retains the memories of past hosts. The trill will change it's last name to the name of the symbiote.

The translators Robin adjusts refers to the universal translator that is a common star trek tech. there's a few different versions of it in the universe so I went with the in ear kind and which side varies by species. All universal translators can be used through a telepathic link but they do not default to that.

Steve's backstory is based off of Nick Locarno Joyce is inspired by Captain Janeway L365= L class planets are nearly as hospitable as earth is for humans. founders= are a species of shapeshifters who are the main antagonist in the series Deep Space 9. Dominion= is what the founders cal their empire. Duranium= is material used in a whole lot of stuff in the Federation kelbonite= a metal that is notorious for blocking transporter tech of all kinds. Prime Directive= a Federation protocol to not get involved with the affairs of planets without warp tech. This includes preventing wars or anything even if asked. The shapeshifters are shown to be able to shift into warp capable vessels in DS9. The Bajorian scientist refers to a character in DS9 who did experiments on a shapeshifter. The Ferangi are known to masturbate with their earlobes. link= when a group of shapeshifters are one group. it's a pool mostly. Jem'Hadar= the soldiers bred and controlled by the Dominion

This is just something I couldn't fit in: Jason only defected from the Dominon because he wanted to be with Chrissy. Once he realized she didn't want him back he was just biding his time to dip and rejoin the founders.

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