[Fanfic] Minty Fresh Revenge (Trektober 2024)

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Minty Fresh Revenge

Trektober 2024

Sulu gets revenge on a professor for bullying Jim Kirk.

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Fandom(s): Star Trek AOS
Character(s): Sulu, Kirk, Uhura, Bones
Tags: Academy Era, Anti-Lawn

Rating: General Audiences
Content Warnings: N/A
Word Count: 768
Type: Oneshot, Standalone

Collection: Trektober 2024

trektober-challenge

Trektober Day 16
Prompt: "Mint"

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Jim Kirk slumped onto a cafeteria bench alongside his friends. Uhura, Sulu, and Bones looked over to him with concern.

"Let me guess," Bones said. "Fischer giving you a hard time again?"

Jim groaned, confirming Bones' suspicions. "I hate that guy. I'm going to flunk out of the academy just because he hates me."

Uhura patted him on the shoulder. "You won't flunk out, he can't fail you just because he doesn't like you, and if he does, he'll get his ass fired," she assured him.

"Yeah," Jim said. "Still sucks to be dunked on every lecture, and have my assignments ripped to shreds, and be made to do extra credit to make up for low marks I didn't deserve."

Sulu winced. "I don't know why they let that guy be a professor. He's an asshole."

"I just wish I could do something to get back at him," Jim said, but shook his head. "Unfortunately, anything I can think of would be traced back to me and he'd probably push to get me expelled."

"He's obsessed with his lawn," Sulu said with disgust. "Can you believe it? He has a grass lawn! Who the hell does that? All it does is sucks up water and denies wildlife valuable real estate! We could kill his lawn, which would be two birds with one stone. Get rid of the shitty eyesore of a lawn, and get revenge for how awful he's being to Jim."

"I like the idea," Jim said. "But I feel it's too much. He loves that lawn and if he saw it all die overnight he would probably have a formal investigation launched."

"You can toilet paper his house," Bones said casually. "He lives in a stupid house right off campus. Can't really trace that back to you unless you get caught."

Uhura shook her head. "No, he's enough of an asshole that his house gets toilet papered all the time. He's desensitized to it already."

"Hmm," Sulu thought. "Laxatives in his coffee?"

"Ha," Jim said. "I wish. But I'd be caught by the security tapes. It would need to be something that would be really inconvenient or annoying, with no way to prove that anyone actually did it on purpose. Because if anything even smells like a prank, he'll nail me for it whether he truly suspects me or not."

"Well," Uhura said. "I don't have any ideas, but I'll see if I can think of something."

"Me too," Sulu added, and Bones nodded.

Jim smiled. "Thanks guys." He didn't really have any intention on enacting revenge on Fischer, but it was nice fantasize about revenge.

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A week later, Sulu was running to catch up to Jim in the hallway.

"Jim!" He shouted to get him to slow down.

Hearing his name, Jim stopped and turned, seeing Sulu running after him. He waited for his friend to catch up. "Hey, Sulu," Jim said. "What's up?"

Sulu grabbed Jim by the shoulders and shook him excitedly. "I avenged you!" He said with a grin.

"You what?" Jim asked, confused.

"I avenged you!" Sulu repeated. "You know, Fischer. I got revenge on Fischer for you."

Jim paled and he groaned. "Sulu, what did you do?" He asked, dreading the answer. He worried that whatever he had done, it would get traced back to him one way or another, and Fischer would double down on his bullying.

"I planted mint in his perfectly groomed lawn!" Sulu said.

Jim blinked. "Okay, and?"

"It's mint, Jim, mint!" Sulu exclaimed. "Do you know how hard it is to get rid of mint? It grows like a weed and once it's there, it's impossible to kill it!"

Jim was skeptical. "He's obsessed with his lawn," Jim said. "Surely he'll see something out of place and dig it up before it gets a chance to really take root."

Sulu beamed. "That is true, but last week Fischer was away at a conference. I planted the mint right after he left, giving the mint a whole week to establish itself before he'll ever see it!"

Jim nodded, and slowly, it occurred to him what Sulu had done. "Sulu, you're a genius. This won't even look like anyone's fault! If anyone can be blamed, it'll be nature!"

"Exactly!" Sulu exclaimed. "And it'll get rid of that eyesore and ecological desert of a lawn."

"Two birds with one stone," Jim said, and he and Sulu exchanged a high five.

As they continued walking down the hallway, Jim wondered out loud, "I wonder how he feels about mint tea?"

"Oh, don't worry," Sulu assured him. "He hates it."

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