Between Two Fires

Posted on Fri Mar 13th, 2020 @ 8:30pm by Admiral Jake Yamaguchi & Master Admiral Pasha Andreyev

Mission: Mission 91: The Sum of All Fears
Location: ACSF Noble - High Orbit over B Kayor.
Timeline: August 15 2392

Anzan walked into his office and immediately went to the comm station, where he contacted the highest Federation medical officer he knew, Division Admiral Firespirit.

Anzan, went straight to the point. "Firespirit, I have multiple Federation officers that have severe medical issues stemming from heavy genetic damage. I need to have them reassigned to the Federation detachment on this ship, so I can treat them."

Firespirit looked at the kurokuri in confusion, " OK, who has the issues and what."

Anzan looked at his list, "Well the big one is captain Torilla Yamaguchi. She has Telepathic Huntington's Disease, 5 years of progression."

Firespirit wasted no time looking at Torilla's medical records and found there was no report of the condition. "Wait, her medical records have no record of THD."

Anzan growled, "Yeah, that's one issue among several. The Federation doctors haven't been doing proper checkups. They should have caught this years ago. But I'm sending you a full report on the matter right now."

Firespirit looked at his computer, seeing the report being downloaded. He then turned back to Anzan, saying, "Alright, so how long are the treatments?."

Anzan looked back to his notes, "Well what I am looking at is using nanoprobes to repair the genetic damage by replacing defective genes with good ones. The procedure is going to take months at least. Plus, this is an experiment, to see is it is possible to use this procedure to save the entire Halanian species from extinction."

Firespirit now was fully attentive, "Wait, hold it... Extinction."

Anzan nodded," Yeah, the whole species is facing severe genetic degradation over time, the species has maybe ten to twenty generations to live before they become completely extinct."

Firespirit didn't need to hear anymore, "Alright, send me everything you have on this, and I will have a word with Starfleet command."

Anzan nodded then closed the channel, while Firespirit's computer received all the data. He decided to read through the report himself, then as soon as he finished, he activated his comm system and got in touch with the Commander in chief of Starfleet.

Pasha Andreyev tapped the wall monitor. "Firespirit, what can I do for you?" he inquired.

Firespirit sent Pasha a series of reports regarding the issues at hand, "I'm sending you medical reports, on Torilla Yamaguchi and her family, as well as reports regarding the entire species. But to make things short, Torilla is suffering from THD, which has been going for about 5 years, and her children all have varying degree's of genetic issues, So I need you to have Jake Yamaguchi reassigned to the Federation detachment on Noble, considering the fact that there is a decent chance he may become a single parent."

Pasha blinked, he knew Jake Yamaguchi only by reputation but the man had a reputation for being honest, ethical and methodical in his work, he was also known for having a good caring family with his wife. "I see." he paused. "Whats THD and why wasn't it caught sooner?"

"Telepathic Huntington's disease," Firespirit explained in an annoyed manner. "It's a hereditary neurological degeneration condition. kills within about 15 to 20 years once it starts. To date, the only known fully confirmed cure is Akurian age reversal technology. That was discovered by chance really... However, if the genetic flaw is not fixed, the disease will come back in a decade or two. And as for why it wasn't caught, I can only assume the medical staff on some of Torilla's previous assignments were incompetent, as I need to launch a full investigation into this matter to determine the how and why."

Andreyev nodded his head. "I'll leave that with you then. Just keep me informed so I can brief the President." Andreyev smiled. "If this issue with this officer becomes a major problem for anyone you are dealing with, have them contact me and I will deal with this. Consider egotistical officers and assholes handled as you will have whatever you need with your investigation."

Firespirit nodded. "alright, well, If you don't mind, I need orders for Jake Yamaguchi's reassignment. I know you have a lot of people to inform, so I'll handle informing him."

Pasha nodded while he picked up a PADD and began typing out a set of orders, reassigning him from the Taurus Reach over to the commanding officer of the Starfleet detachment assigned to the Akurian starship Noble. He sent it off to his aide to have it drafted up quickly and he stuck a note saying he needed this done as in right this second.

"Okay. I'll have the orders for Jake in a moment." Andreyev commented lightly as the full set of orders came back, all drafted and ready to go. "I'm going to forward them to you now." he slid the PADD into the slot under the display before he tapped the PADD twice. It indicated the orders were being sent to Firespirit right now. "You should have them in a moment."

Firespirit looked at his computer console and saw the orders coming," Alright, also be sure to inform April Yamaguchi on this development, she has a right to know."

"I have a meeting with April in a few minutes. I'll brief her at that time." Andreyev responded in a dry tone of voice. "Anything else you need of me?"

"Not at the moment, but I will later," Firespirit answered. "I'm going to take more time to look over everything."

"Alright. Thanks for letting me know about the issue. I'll brief the President after I see April." he responded. "Andreyev out." and with that, the old Russian hung up. He gently rubbed his forehead. "Fuck..." he muttered loudly.

Firespirit then hailed Jake Yamaguchi, who was somewhere in the Taurus reach. After a few minutes, he got a good connection and didn't hesitate to explain, "Jake Yamaguchi, I hate to do this, but I have orders from Pasha Andreyev that I am sending to you, you are being reassigned to the Federation detachment on the Akurian Starship Noble. This is a priority reassignment."

"I understand," Yamaguchi responded as he tapped his combadge. "Yamaguchi to Ops, tell the Incheon to beam my stuff back out and hold them. I'll be heading back to the Federation aboard. Tell Captain Kerr I will explain everything as soon as I'm aboard."

"Aye Admiral." came the response. "Yamaguchi out." as he turned back to Firespirit. "What's going on?" Jake was all business now and there wasn't a trace of civility in him, his gaze as was hard as iron and he was not in a good mood, his anger seemed to be with him all the time these days.

Firespirit explained carefully. "Your wife, Torilla, has been admitted to the Akurian Ship Noble's hospital. She has Telepathic Huntington's disease, a hereditary neurological condition. Given her condition, this is why you are being reassigned to the Noble. Also, your three youngest children, Paul, Tressa and Diamond, also need to undergo genetic screening because of various concerns."

"I understand. Thank you Firespirit." Jake responded. "I need to get aboard the Incheon so I can explain myself to her skipper and start back to the Federation," he explained. "Can I call you back so we can go over the details?"

Firespirit nodded," Yeah, fine Jake."

"Excellent. I will call you back." and with that, Jake hung up before gathering his things together before heading back to the Incheon. As he expected, Captain Ralph Kerr was waiting in the transporter room. He regarded Jake as Jake explained briefly the situation, Kerr knew that Jake could have simply not wanted to discuss it and told the Captain to get him back to where he as going as quickly as possible and that would have been the end of the matter but Jake was clearly wanting to be civil about matters, Kerr respected and appreciated the man before him for this.

"I understand sir, we'll make it back to the Federation quickly."

"No need to rush your ship Captain. I'm heading back to B Kayor. I'll stay out of your way while I'm aboard, if I need anything, I'll ask the officer of the deck I'm on."

"The last officer of the deck said you were the least demanding Admiral he's ever known."

"I try. Besides... You guys are doing be a service with the ferrying assignment." Yamaguchi answered. "I do not need to make life harder then it needs to be."

"Not a worry sir, we'll get you there." and with that he turned and departed, leaving Jake alone to unpack the children and everything else into his old quarters aboard this ship. An hour later he contacted Firespirit again. "Firespirit. What exactly is going on with Torilla?"

"Torilla has some serious hereditary conditions," Firespirit explained. "Specifically the main one is a Neurological degeneration condition, that has been ongoing for about 5 years. Th Akurians are trying to treat the condition on the noble, but it could take some time."

"Fair enough, that explains why I've been reassigned to command the Starfleet force on the Noble," Jake answered. "I've never served on an Akurian ship before. This should be interesting. I'll need to chat with Talon as I know she's done it."

Firespirit didn't have anything else to add on the matter.

"Alright, thank you Firespirit. I'll talk to you soon. Yamaguchi out." and with that, Jake hung up as he sighed. "It never fucking ends. First the Nalla mindfuck incident, then the peeves incident, then the pineapple incident, then Torilla dies and then she's not dead and now this. I should not have stood in Torilla's way when she said she wanted to retire. I can see why she would. Never-ending fucking drama." he sighed softly.