Finding Something Unexpected - Part Two

Posted on Sun Feb 23rd, 2020 @ 10:09pm by Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 5: Skyfall
Location: Various Locations - USS Venator
Timeline: 1500Hrs - January 11th, 2389

Torilla gave his retreating back a lopsided grin as she thought. 'I hope you succeed Captain or I will simply space him on charges of piracy and be done with it.' she thought to herself and him.

He had also turned and walked off without regard for standard procedure but Torilla was very unconventional, she paid lip service to the regs herself.
"Okay, Mr La Baron. What exactly are we going to do with this bomb?" she inquired.

"With your permission sir," Anthony swallowed his fear, "I-I'd like to transport the torpedo to the main cargo bay and...tinker with it. If we have to launch it into space, I'd feel a lot safer working on it in an controlled environment where I can eject it instantly."

Torilla raised an eyebrow as she regarded the younger male officer.
"Ensign, take a deep breathe, hold and let it out slowly... " she smiled
at him. "Okay so you want to tinker with this overly technical toy so what's
to stop this thing from detonating in your face... are you absolutely sure you are okay with this?" for the last dozen or so words, her smile vanished, replaced by a hard look and iron in her choice.

Security:

Saith secured the Orion in the interrogation room, and left guards both inside and outside the room. “Shoot him if he so much as scratches his nose." she said. Her officers nodded their understanding. Returning to the main Security room, she nodded Mark towards the cells. “Show me what you did.”

She and Mark headed into the corner cell, where she saw two panels removed from the upper corner. As Mark explained his movements, Saith jumped up on the cot, and stuck her head through the opening. She looked into the gap. Turning to look right (towards what would be the corridor), she could see into a cross section of the ships inner hull. Definitely room to move about the ship, “Favdt!”

She removed her head from the space and told Mark to go write his report up for her, smiling at Maal as he entered the brig cell. She got off the cot and went to meet him. She had forgotten about her uniform, but she frowned as she looked down. “I need to change,” she indicated her office. She ordered up a new uniform and changed, unashamed. She also got a good look at her bruises and the lump on her head. With a wry smile she said to Maal, “I suppose I should go see Medical, but I have a bigger problem right now. Well, two actually,” she used her chin to point towards the interrogation room.

On the way back to the cell, she explained to Maal what had happened. “I need to get back and finish that inventory, also.” She stopped and turned, “No, I don’t. She assigned thought for a moment, and then asked Maal if a Marine could be sent to finish it.”

Maal nodded at her:"Sure I can send a Marine to finish up there."

“Thanks, my hands are filling up and we aren’t even to our assignment yet.” She paused then gave him a serious look, “do you think the other ships in the fleet are having similar issues? I don’t want to contact anyone and ask because I don’t want our info out there for anyone to pick up.” She watched as Lee walked into the interrogation room then continued to the cell.

Just then Lee arrived into Security and went over to the interrogation room. He nodded to the security standing there. Lee looked dead at the Orion Pirate.

He smirked, “How’s your knee?” He sarcastically asked.

"My knee is good no thanks to you." Lee glared at him "Who hired you to pose as a Romulan and why?"

He stood, there, still smirking, but instead of answering he leaned to the side to look at the ship’s chronometer display. He looked back at the Betazoid, while trying to keep his mind as clear as possible. “While you’re here, what’s that Human saying...ah yes, time’s a wasting Captain.”

Lee slammed the man down onto a chair hard:"Boy you're one cocky son of a bitch now aren't you."

“You don’t know the half of it.” The Orion replied.

"You know that I could fry your mind and leave you in a comatose state, then just rip the info from you." Lee gave a smirk.

The Orion nodded, “Yes, but then you wouldn’t get any information now would you?”

Lee nodded:"True there, but my cousin has taught me the Vulcan mind meld, we could go that route."

“And I could swallow my tongue before you tried, then you’d still get nothing.” Orion operatives sometimes felt suicide was their only option left and used the technique similar to Thai mafia’s technique of Earth’s past.

The door opened and in came Torilla Yamaguchi, she looked around as she ambled over to stand next to her Exec. "So... has he given you anything to work with?" she inquired.

Lee looked towards Torilla:"No Captain he hasn't yet."

"Oh... I see.." she commented as she turned to the criminal. "I see you don't feel like talking... so let me explain a couple of things to you so there are no misunderstandings... " she raised an eyebrow. "I have three options on what I can do..." she commented. "I can turn you over to another federation ship heading for a Starbase. Option two is I can try and sentence you here, probably will be death because you committed an act of piracy and terrorism and option three.... I can just space you and be done with it and you.... " she paused as she smiled, this was no loving smile as it was all wolf. "So... you tell me.... lets make it your decision shall we?"

“You and I both know Option Three is out, it’s not the Federation way. Too much paper work, too many questions. Option One just doesn’t seem to be ‘you’ either. You wouldn’t want someone else getting credit for ‘breaking me’, no…you’re an Option Two kind of person, but even that wouldn’t satisfy you. So how about we go for Option Four.” The Orion smirked again as he leaned back in the chair.

"No." Torilla answered bluntly. "Listen to me very carefully for I shall say this to you, but once only." she looked at him with a placid tone as she leaned up against the doorway but in such a way that he could see her entire body. "You... are a criminal and thus I will sentence you here... I don't need to bother with a long winded investigation... what I have already is enough to condemn you to death..." she commented

“You won’t.” The Orion replied flatly.

"Oh, I'm sorry.... did I stutter?" Torilla now stood up as she smiled evilly at him. "Let me explain how this will go... You are illegally aboard a Federation ship in a warzone. helping to commit sabotage and booby trapping our weapons.... I assume for the purpose of destroying this ship and a few others as well." she commented as she turned her attention to Leon Pike.
"Take this man to the nearest airlock. We're done here."

Lee nodded and then called for two security officers:"Set your phasers to heavy stun and bring the prisoner with."

"Simply drop the force field and stun him with a phaser." she explained as she looked at Pike, she knew how formitable he was in the psionic arts. 'Its about escalation' she thought. 'I want to break him.... if that means I stick him in an airlock, so be it.'

Lee stood and watched as the two security officers grabbed hold of the Orion and started to lift him up from his seat.

Torilla raised an eyebrow. "This won't take long..." she commented. "Lets go Captain.."

Saith was just returning to Security as they were hauling the Orion out. She noticed the grim look of determination on both Pike and Yamaguchi’s faces. Saith went to her office and pulled up Mark’s report. She added her report and went to talk to the Engineer finishing up in the brig cell.

The young man was just replacing the panels when she arrived. “We were able to pull back the shielding on the Engineering conduit, it isn’t as important as the Weapons Sail.” Saith nodded, she didn’t care how they did it, just that her brig was secure again . . . now . . . whatever. She signed off on his PADD and they went their separate ways, he presumably returned to Engineering, she headed back to the torpedo bay.

The Orion gazed at the Starfleet Officers, then the forcefield dropped and saw a phaser pointing at him...

Lee turned and looked at the Orion:"Last chance pirate to spill it or get ready to be spaced."

Ten minutes later, Torilla Yamaguchi peered at the stunned Orion, dressed to resemble a Romulan as she watched him slowly wake up. "This is your wake up call." she raised an eyebrow. "You are in an airlock and I have my
fingers on the open airlock button. so.... start talking... who are you and why are you here with a WMD?" she inquired. "Oh and this is... your last chance Orion.... do not test me..."

The Orion looked around, and realized he was, in fact, in an airlock. Still groggy from the phaser stun, he slowly stood up. As he looked at the door, he realized the inner airlock door's access panel was disabled on his side. It was not a good situation, and while he was fully prepared to die on this mission, something about suffocation in the vacuum of space didn't appeal to him as a preferred way to die. He attempted to swallow his tongue, to kill himself his way, only to realize it had been numbed, just enough, to prevent him from getting it into the correct position needed to commit suicide.

He let the situation run through his head, then spoke, "All right, I did plant a bomb designed to heavily damage your vessel and force it off the blockade line before it's even in position. I do not know why, or who hired me, it was done via subspace and the latinum prepaid."

Lee stood there looking at the Orion searching for any hint of lying or deceit:"Captain the Orion is telling the truth."

Yamaguchi raised an eyebrow. "So you were hired to attack and incapacitate my ship in a warzone using a WMD. This is a capital crime but you are indeed fortunate..." she turned to her Exec. "Arrange for his passage to Starbase 400 for trial as a criminal with access to WMD's. I think Starfleet Intelligence will have a field day with this guy."

Anthony had managed to regain his composure and isolated the torpedo bay while his fellow officers questioned the saboteur. Deciding it was best not to involve anyone else he undertook the task alone.

He pried open the outer shell of the probe, revealing several transparent aluminum tubes filled with the thalaron agent. By a quick estimation, Anthony figured that the content of the tubes was enough to kill every living thing on the ship.

This he had already known, and thus he found it superfluous information. Using his tricorder, he scanned the probe's computer system.

"Thats odd." Anthony said out loud and tapped his combadge, "Admiral, Captain, Commander, I've got some news you'd might like to here."

Lee raised an eye brow then looked over at Yamaguchi:"Pike here, what do you have for us Ensign?"

"I've managed to determine the frequency on which the probe is receiving information from." Anthony turned back to his tricorder, "I've checked the frequency against carrier waves from major Alpha Quadrant communication channels. Odd as it may seem, the signals being received closely resembles an auxiliary Starfleet frequency not normally used by any ships in the fleet."

Lee raised an eye brow:"On my way now Ensign" Pike tapped his badge then turned to the two security"Take the Orion to the brig and lock him up and have round the clock security on him."

As far as Saith knew, the visual count was not completed. She joined up with the Marines Maal had sent, they were halfway through. She and they continued with the count giving La Baron and his troubled torpedo come bomb a wide berth.