No Prisoners, Only Trophies

Posted on Thu Feb 27th, 2020 @ 9:29pm by Admiral Jake Yamaguchi & Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Yamaguchi-Solusar & Commander Jiao Anderson-Smithson & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi & Commodore Siaxx "Bluemoon" Dvald-Vaxx MD & Grand Admiral April Yamaguchi
Edited on on Thu Feb 27th, 2020 @ 9:33pm

Mission: Mission 26: Points of Divergence
Location: Various Locations - USS Roanoke
Timeline: 1000Hrs - February 18th, 2391

Music Soundtrack: Star Trek Nemesis - Track 13: Ideals

Jake Yamaguchi sighed as he regarded April Yamaguchi. "Yeah, I don't know what to say to you Jake... Zara Tane doesn't want her back, she's stuck in a request for a new Exec..."

"Hold that post open for me would ya April..." Jake responded. "I'm not lettin' it end like this.."

"Jake.. you know that as soon as the request comes through on paper, that I have to action it..." she paused. "I'll give you until tomorrow... but after that. I have to ship the request off to Starfleet Personnel and not even I can tell them to sod off... you know this Jake."

Jake nodded. "Yeah.... all right, I'll deal with this... somehow... Yamaguchi out." and with that he tapped the display, plunging the room into darkness.

"Torilla.." he said aloud to his wife on the other side of the room. "Seriously, why do you do this to yourself... you did it on the America and again on Starbase 45, the first time...." he looked at his wife. "I'm going to send you over to the Roanoke... so you can stop hiding and get your issue sorted out..."

Torilla opened her mouth. "Do you know what happen-"

"Yes.... Elizabeth, Rachael and April all shared with me the details of what happened... so you can skip the excuses... and do not come back here until you two have sorted out your issues...."

Torilla blinked, she had never seen this side of her husband. "I already stuck in my request.."

"Yes... April is holding on it for me.... You've turned this into one hell of a lousy fucking day for me Torilla, what were you thinking anyway...?" he inquired. "Our babies are still alive... and you're not alone in this... now go see Zara Tane... and do not come back until you two are on speaking terms again.... besides... Song of the East ships out in a week ... but you are not remaining here..."

Torilla turned and marched out the door, she glowered in silence as she walked down the hallway towards her destination.

A few minutes later, she found herself in the USS Roanoke's transporter room, she found Siaxx Dvald waiting for her. "Ahh good. you're on time... lets go."

"Lets go where..?" Torilla inquired right before Siaxx swung her right fist, Torilla saw stars as her head rang with the force of the impact while she stumbled back a step. "Siaxx.." she got out before another punch to the chest this time.

Siaxx sighed as she reached down, she hauled the other woman to her feet. "Get up off the deck and get on your feet." she snarled.

Torilla slowly climbed to her feet before she went to take a swing at Siaxx but the smaller Bolian woman punched Torilla, once, then twice and then three times in the gut, the larger woman went down in a heap as Siaxx sighed, exhausting setting in. "Stop making this harder than it needs to be woman.... get up... and lets go."

Torilla hauled herself to her feet, she looked unsteady on her feet, she followed behind the smaller Bolian in silence, her skin around her eye was already turning black as she touched her nose, her fingers came away wet with blood.

Siaxx too felt weary, she in truth wanted to cry for what she had done, she had never had to hit her best friend before today and today was a day she would never forget, as much as she would try.

The two entered a turbolift. Siaxx commented "Bridge."

"Main Bridge." Yamaguchi commented and the lift sped off, the lift reached its destination moments later as the two women stopped outside of Zara's ready room.

Jiao Anderson came over. "Torilla... what the fuck happened to you."

"A small Bolian ran me over.... with her fists..." Yamaguchi responded. "Its not as bad as it looks." as Siaxx tapped the door chime.

"Enter," Zara called out as she looked to the door while she worked on a transparent digital map stationed on a board in the middle of a room.

The door opened and in walked Siaxx, followed by the beaten visage of Torilla Yamaguchi, who's lip was starting to swell up, in addition to her black eye. "Zara... I'm Sorry.."

"Not exactly heart-felt," Zara spoke as she took her eyes off of something she was drawing with her digipen, to look straight through the board to Torilla. Her deep brown eyes hurt. "Looks like someone beat it out of you."

Siaxx simply shrugged. "I hit her because I could.." she responded. "which you deserved."

Torilla slowly turned her head. "My husband explained the situation to me... I am here because he demanded I come see you..." as she regarded Zara, she then tapped Siaxx in the middle of her chest. "and you... I will deal with you myself."

Siaxx rolled her eyes. "Anytime-" as Torilla's fist landed on its mark, Siaxx found herself bouncing off the back wall as Torilla seemed to shrug off her original injuries. "You best wait outside Bolian... I have business... and it doesn't concern you... well it does now.." Torilla turned her head as she glared darkly at the Bolian.

"Both of you shut up," Zara barked as went back to her PADD. Then checked something, and drew another circle on the board. "There will be no fights. I'm tired of it. I try to befriend you people and all I get in return is death threats and violence."

Siaxx touched her lip, it was split with the force of Torilla's fist as Torilla completely ignored her. "Yessir." she responded as she felt a telepathic message from Elizabeth.

A smile appeared on her face, despite things as her eyes returned to normal. "Do we have an assignment yet?" Torilla knew that this was awkward but she wanted to get this overwith, she had people to go and see.

"I don't know that we have anything," Zara pointed out as she took a moment to double check her PADD and added another coordinate on the board. "Last we parted, you got very physical and almost started beating on me. So I want to know which personality I'm talking to. My friend? My enemy?"

Tane went back to her PADD to cover the teary eyes of hers.

"You mean.. the officer... or the mother.." Torilla answered as Siaxx sneered at Torilla. "Lieutenant Commander Dvald, stop trying to goad me into losing what little is left of my patience... please... step outside until you calm down."

"I'm not leaving you alone with her."

Torilla shook her head. "Unbelievable... You are being a hypocrite Siaxx... first you threaten Zara and now you get all overprotective." she turned. "Zara... how fast can you grab a knife and throw it at me should you feel the need?"

"That's not something I ever timed," Zara answered honestly.

"Exactly.." Torilla turned. "If you please." she said to Siaxx.

"Alright.." and with that Siaxx turned and walked out the door. "Captain Tane...How do I say this without sounding like I'm begging or whining." she paused. "I know what I did was stupid... " she looked down at her flat abdomen.

"I'm your friend, Torilla." Zara wiped the tears from her eyes and tried to refocus most her attention back to her work. "Or I was... I don't know now what we are... And you're the fourth woman on this ship to threaten me. My best friend of all people."

"I.. I'm.. Sorry." Torilla managed while trying to hold it together, however she was failing as the tears started to fall, like the drops of rain that fell before a storm.

"I asked April for any colony aid requests over six months old," Zara finally told Torilla, after she had got control of her voice. "I promised my friend I'd find a purpose for us. And the map here that covers the RNZ alone, shows over fifty colony worlds ignored... And it was to my friend I had hoped to show this map to."

Torilla wiped her face as her tears mixed with the blood as the taller woman wiped at it until she had made a complete mess of herself. "May... May I use your bathroom... so I don't look like a vampire..?"

"Sure," Zara agreed and waved at her head.

Torilla turned and went into the bathroom, she sighed as she realized what an apparition she looked like. "Oh shit.." she gasped as she washed herself off. "Dammn Siaxx... you clocked me good..." she paused as she found herself talking to herself. "Get a grip woman... you're not insane yet...." she paused. "mostly." and then she came back out, looking like herself once again. "Do you think command will let us go traipsing around the universe doing whatever we feel like?" she inquired. "You know command will never got for this... all your work not withstanding.." she paused. "April and Jake both won't help me if I went to them..."

"They would if they knew you're on the level," Zara pointed out soberly. "But we can't do this sort of thing alone, I agree. We need Jake to build a small task group. But yes, this will be Roanoke's mission. One I can't do without my friend by my side."

Torilla nodded. "I will talk to Jake... about your plan..." she responded. "That is.... if I still have a place here..." she made a mental note to speak with April as soon as she walked out the door.

"I'd like to think so," Zara admitted. "I don't like fighting with my friends. And I really don't like being bullied by them."

Torilla couldn't say anything about it.

Zara looked very sympathetic to Torilla before she put her PADD down atop her desk and pulled out her cigar box. She clipped the tips of two of them and lit them equally before she passed one over to Torilla. Then the Trill plopped down on the sofa.

"Talk to me, Torilla. Please?" Zara pleaded.

Torilla slowly sat but she misjudged the distance as she fell onto the sofa with a whuffing sound. "I fucked up... I enjoyed what I did... roaming around the ship, terrorizing people.... " she commented quietly. "I was out of control... and I liked it... Thats whats so scary." the larger woman admitted.

Torilla sighed as she took a drag of the cigar, she closed her eyes as she exhaled the smoke. "Mmm..." she slowly smiled. "I can't go see Phoenix... medicated.." she paused. "Siaxx might... hurt me."

"Phoenix might think it's funny," Zara commented with a smile. "You rarely let yourself out in front of others."

Torilla was now having a hard time holding it together, the drugs were working on her as she felt her misery engulf her. "I had no idea.... Siaxx... could hit... with such force.."

"Phoenix and her box in the gym, or do that parkour thing... or did." Zara frowned as she took another inhale. "She isn't much help lately to Siaxx. Not much help to anyone, really."

Torilla took her time as she took another drag of the cigar. "This stuff is good...but I'm such a lightweight.." she then shrugged. "If I got addicted... would that be a bad thing?" it was a rhetorical question and was clearly phrased as such. "I'm going to start spending more time with Phoenix."

"Better you than me," Zara smiled. "She'll probably just chuck shit at me once I stick my head in the door."

"I'll talk to her about it.." Torilla responded as she looked at her reflection in the nearby tabletop. "I look... funny.." she frowned. "Why do I look funny.?"

"Siaxx beat the shit out of you for being a prick to folks," Zara answered with a grin. "Could of been worse. Phoenix could of decked you."

"True..." Torilla responded as she slowly took another drag of her cigar. "Oh... I forgot.." she paused. "April asked me to tell you....but I forget.." she paused as she concentrated. "Oh... ohh ohh ohh ooh ooh... she asked me to tell you that you'll be getting a package from her later on today, marked as private and for your eyes only."

"Sounds ominous," Zara thought and tried hard to think what it could be. "Then again, I think April gives Ferengi a run for their latinum."