"Lieutenant, you might be having a hearing problem," Spock said. His eyes caught the sight of a flash coming to from Kirk. He reached his arm out toward the blonde man who seemed to be clueless as to what was happening. "Lieutenant!"

Spock stepped forward toward the space where Kirk had once stood. He lowered his arm then looked around,stoically, expecting for the human to be beamed back down. Spock heard a buzzing around himself which was odd. He hadn't heard the buzzing earlier. Spock resisted the urge to smack whatever was making that buzzing sound.

"Lieutenant?" Spock called.

Spock turned away then walked into the post office.

"Doctor McCoy," Spock said. Bones looked up from the skeleton. "Lieutenant Kirk has just vanished into thin air."

Bones raised an eyebrow.

"A human doesn't just vanish in thin air," Bones said. "Perhaps he beamed himself up."

Spock took out his communicator.

"Mr Scott," Spock said. "Has Lieutenant Kirk been beamed aboard?"

"Nae," Scotty said. "Haven't heard a word from him."

Spock suddenly fell over landing on his side and he felt what seemed like a fist had landed on his cheek.

"Thank you, Mr Scott," Spock got up. "Spock out."

Spock shut the communicator.

"Now, that is odd." Bones said.

Spock looked in the direction that a punch could have been thrown.

"Lietenant," Spock said. "If you are here, show--" The next second that passed Spock's tricorder was on the floor. "Fascinating."

Bones stood up from the skeleton.

"What is going on, Mr Spock?" Bones asked.

"I do not know." Spock said.

"Uh, Jim, show me a sign." Bones said.

In the dust on the untoppled desk was: 'You are speaking slowly, short hand, please.' Spock raised an arched eyebrow, puzzled, by how he can speak short hand. In the dust was then written with 'I meant. . . MR, SPOCK, CALL ME: JIM. THEY WANT ME--" and the last part was cut off. Spock lowered an eyebrow at the capital letters. Spock aimed his tricorder at the dust that had been parted. Spock raised it toward his eyesight.

"Readings indicate human cells recently have been placed here." Spock said.

"The dust is gone." Bones said.

Spock looked over to see the dust had vanished on the table. He could feel something sharp place itself against his skin right in the shoulder. Spock heard a shout, "Okay, I won't tell them!" which was odd. It was Kirk's voice. Kirk sounded as though he were restrained and afraid. Kirk sounded close by. The sharp metal was no longer placed against his skin and Spock relaxed. Spock looked over toward Bones.

"Did you hear Kirk?" Spock asked.

"No." Bones said.

"How odd." Spock noted.

Spock looked over to see several sets of shoe prints, one set were boots and the others were shoes. The shoe set of prints were around the boot set. He noticed a smaller set of boot prints beside him that could belong to a woman's set of boots. When Spock blinked the dust was all but gone on the floor.

"And you heard Jim when I did not." Bones said.

"Affirmative." Spock said.

"I don't understand," Bones said. "That is impossible. He cannot be dead. Jim's not the kind to just vanish and die."

"Correct, Doctor McCoy," Spock said. "Perhaps he left a sign of his well being."

Spock looked around the building for signs of dust. It took him around thirteen minutes search. He was coming down the stairs when he saw a graffiti on the wall reading 'I am alive, I am alive so high, that not even a Vulcan can pull me down' with colorful decorations including the star fleet symbol. If Spock were human he would have laughed at that. It was illogical to laugh for a Vulcan.

Spock recorded the evidence into his tricorder. He looked down to see a couple of empty spray cans. Spock scanned the spray cans using his tricorder which also picked up human skin cells belonging to Lieutenant James T. Kirk currently missing. Spock went back downstairs, deeply troubled and confused, trying to find the logic with this. Time had to be connected with this. That was a logical assumption. Time must be different to the Lieutenant in where he is. Somehow, the Lieutenant was swept into a different time zone.

Fourteen minutes later, they regrouped back on the sidewalk.

"Mr Spock,where is the Lieutenant?" Pike asked.

Spock noticed the team lacked one security Ensign other than Kirk.

"He has vanished." Spock said.

S--Smack!

"Doctor McCoy?" Pike asked.

"Just a mosquito," Bones said. "And I haven't seen the kid after we got here."

S-Smack!

"Ensign?" Spock asked.

S-Smack!

"Mosquito." Ensign Richard Jelice said.

"Hey, where is Ensign Sarah?" Bones asked.

Pike and Jelice looked over to see that Ensign Sarah was not there. Spock raised up an eyebrow at the unusual occurrence then he lowered it down. Pike and Jelice turned their heads away. Pike appeared to have a grim expression on his face. He flipped out his communicator,"Mr Scott, four to beam up." He flipped his communicator shut as he could hear the sound of buzzing. The group vanished in a haze of gold leaving the scenery behind.