Posted by Colonel Jackson Quade (Captain) in Dead Reckoning

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Ilena Keelara Rox (CMO/CNS) in Dead Reckoning

Posted by Colonel Jackson Quade (Captain) in Dead Reckoning
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Kryssa paused and looked around again. “A memory?” Her gaze shifted quickly back to him. “I’m not conflicted. This is Master’s room. I serve Master. I was his favorite. It is my place. I belong here!”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

Tealor looked through her memories especially the older more guarded one to find something from when she was first taken. “Are you sure about that?” he thought then took her to the memory letting her play it out first.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Mistress Valeria stood over the biobed on her ship’s medical bay. “This is sloppy work, Lokhar. Even if you didn’t intend to keep him alive, this did nothing. It’s barbaric and useless. And to torture a prisoner without your consent?” She raised one brow. Lokhar had mentioned his doctor more than once. “And this girl. What was done to her? I heard the guard tell you she’s the one who caught the man. What is she being punished for? Such behavior should be rewarded not punished.” The girl was in sorry shape. Valeria’s doctors weren’t sure either would survive.

Valeria, Syndicate Boss

Lohkar was visibly shocked, the doctor would be punished and stripped of his position for this. He would soon learn what it meant to be a slave. “Mistress, no excuses, this doctor has apparently disrespected my position and yours, I will accept whatever punishment you deem worthy for my failure” he said looking at Kryrssa, “this is Dradvia’s friend and my second, ” he placed a hand on her softly. “As to the federation, this is a friend of Dradvia’s , Tealor her doctor, I would not have authorized this at all” he said lowering his eyes in shame for probably the first time in his life.

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Valeria shook her head. “We all have to deal with traitors, Lokhar. Just clean your house.” She added, “Spotlessly.”

The young woman opened her eyes. A distressed moan and cry of pain left her. She tried to move, to get up. “Master Lokhar, I didn’t betray you, I swear!”

Valeria, Syndicate Boss

Lohakar set his massive hand on her forehead, gently stroking her hair. “I know, ” he said lovingly. “Who did this to you?” he asked. He knew but he wanted her to say it.

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Kryssa opened her mouth. She must answer with the truth. But she couldn’t. The words wouldn’t form. Sobs racked her body. “It… it was…” Her body began to shake and she screamed like she was in pain.

The telepath that had been with Makahla stopped a few feet away and knelt. “Mistress Valeria,” he pleaded. She turned and narrowed her eyes, “Speak!”

He looked at Kryssa. “She cannot. Her mind is under compulsion. I can hear her thoughts and her terror. She knows who did this and more, but her mind has been programmed to inflict pain if she tries to tell.”

Ens. Dradvia, Medical Officer

“can you tell who did it?” He asked perhaps them man did not need to die. “Don’t try to say is Kyrysaa, just think about it” he said.

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Kryssa dared to look up at Lokhar and nodded her head, teas leaking out of the corner of her eyes. She hadn’t betrayed him. She had done the right thing and The Doctor had punished her, beat her, tortured her. She hadn’t done anything wrong!

The man nodded. He stepped up beside Kryssa. “I won’t hurt you. I just want to help.” He was afraid of his punishment. He was doing what Makahla had ordered to save his wife, but he had a feeling Makahla had harmed her anyway. “She knows him only as ‘The Doctor.’ Orion male, drab, his skin is never luminous like it should be, he’s over weight, has yellow eyes and wears a dirty lab coat.”

Valeria looked at Lokhar with a raised brow. “I would like to go with you to meet this man.”

Valeria, Syndicate Boss

“Yest misstress, Make sure she gets the best treatment possible, I’ll pay what ever needs to be spent” he said taking Valaria by the hand without thinking.

“You did good, the both of you, Why are you working for a worm like Makahla?” he asked, the man seemed loyal, it did not make sense. He rubbed Kyrssa’s head one last time.

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

The man shook his head, “Makahla has my wife. I have not seen her… in weeks. She said if I didn’t do what she wanted she would kill her. She’s not on the ship. Makahla has her somewhere so that I can not sense her.”

Kryssa turned her cheek into Lokhar’s palm and seemed to calm. The man sat up, “Enforcer, she wants me to tell you, he is keeping secrets from you. Conducting experiments on your crew and servants, everyone on the ship. She says there is a locked lab hidden behind his office.”

Valeria, Syndicate Boss

“That’s my special one” he said to Kyrssa. “Good, do you have the code?”

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

The man swallowed as Kryssa nodded. Her arm shook as she lifted it toward him, but pain lanced through her. “It’s her blood. He takes blood from her and uses it in a scanner on the door. He … he does not use a hypo spray to collect it.”

Valeria growled. This was unacceptable. She set a gentle hand on the girl. “Never again. I promise.” This doctor was trouble. He had done something horrible to Kryssa.

Lokhar’s hand was still wrapped against hers. “We will find him, now.”

Valeria, Syndicate Boss

“What about him? he is trouble, Starfleet will come looking for him” he said taking her hand “Second rest, you will be rewarded for your loyalty and compinsated for this. “And you, You will live for now, we will find your wife and figure out what to do with you then” he said squeezing Valaria’s hand sugesting that he wanted him rewarded as well but not yet

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Valeria looked at the Star Fleet officer. “I will take care of it. I will meet you on your ship.” She turned to the telepath, “Stay with her and help.” Then to the doctors, “The very best care.”

Valeria, Syndicate Boss

Lohkar waited in the observaation room at the main air lock, his mighty ship docked at the main and blocking two secondaries it was, for lack of a better word masive, a dreadnaut of dreadnaughts the ford skull shaped hull brought a sense of terror, and the lavis interior nothing short of extreme indulgence. He laughed in his mind at the people who said he was nothing that he would never provide anything but loss to his family if he ever managed to aquire one.

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Valeria stopped at a port window and watched the massive ship arrive. She’d never seen anything like it. It was.... how did… how did NO ONE know about this ship? It was terrifying and powerful. How did Lokhar keep this a secret?

She shook off her thoughts and proceeded further down the corridor. She had very little time to set her plans in motion and then get back to the air lock.

Valeria, Syndicate Boss

Lohakar smiled as he watched people look at the ship, in awe and then at him, and then back to the ship. I made him smile. He had hid his strenghs while playing up his weeknesses. His entire fleet and base were locked awat nicely in a miniral rick astroid field locked away in a gas cloud. It had made comunication difficult but detechtion even more so. It had also produced profit. His fleet was large now, he had The Black Tith in all her glory and 12 smaller cruisers and frigets, some built some aquired through force. Valaria was going to marry him, together their fleet would be one of the largest in synsdicate, there power, wealth and influence would be envied. The days of him letting people underestimate him and playing the brute are over. Now he would show them what this brute did and was.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

Valeria appeared beside him roughly ten minutes later. “I have arranged for him to be moved off the ship. We don’t need that complication.” She slipped up beside him, leaning against his side. “Oh, I have decided to send Kay to my estate. She is very distraught over Dradvia, and I thought some specialized training would distract her and build on what you taught her.”

She stared out at his ship. “This is the Black Tithe. It is a fitting ship for a man such as you.”

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS

Lohkar looked at her and took her hand. “Maybe that is for best she is new and grew very attached to Dradvia” he noted. “She is a master piece, I have kept her well hidden a month my deception of being a brutish fool, I have acquired many things of great value” He began to walk forward “Come let me show you how much I have acquired through the years.”

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The small shuttle bound for Karthos Drift a syndicate smugglers outpost in an obscure corner of syndicate influenced space. The shuttle was slow by federation standards, the pain he was feeling was dulled by many drugs that he was finally waking up from. “Who are you?” he asked the Andorian female sitting with him.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

The Andorian woman looked over at her. “I’m Kay. I’ll take care of you. Try to rest. When we land, it will be… rough.” She couldn’t believe what Mistress Valeria told her. She had set them free to run and return to the Federation. Her shuttle would take them as far as Karthos Drift. Then they were on their own. It was a long way back to Federation space.

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS

“Why would the landing be rough?” he asked, “They just let us go?” he asked, “I don’t buy it” he noted, “I’m Commander Taelor. U.S.S Wolverine” he said, and that was all he said she was likely a spy sent to seduce him and make him reveal secrets.

Dr Tealor Tessan
Chief Medical Officer U.S.S Wolverine

“Not the landing, after we land. You are down two limbs Cmdr… did… did you say Wolverine? Do… do you know Dradvia?” Her expression changed to hope and desperation. Andorians were trained to block their thoughts from a young age, but as a sign of trust she left her her mind open.

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS

He read her, “I do know here, and it makes sense she would help you, ” he had pulled far more from here thoughts, he was stong. “You were on the Chimera, Lieutenant, your star fleet”, and then he saw the horible things the Lohkar had done to her and dradvia and others. “Im so sorry, yes she and I are friends and collegues.” This was all said through throught to keep the pilots oblivious.

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Kay didn’t like the telepathy, but she had endured harder things. Her next thoughts were of Dradvia, in Valeria’s Medical bay. In a coma, unresponsive. She had disappeared with no warning. Valeria said she had sent her back also. Kay was afraid to believe her, but she had also seen how Valeria snuck people out. Tried to save them. But Kay was afraid Dradvia wouldn’t make it. Dradvia was the strong one.

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS

Dradvia will find her way home he thought Valiara seem sincer or she would have just taken into space and dumped my body, and would have continued to use you

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Valeria was different. Everything the others had told her said so. She helped smuggle them to freedom and safety. The ones who were still with her, choose to so that they could help her.

It was another two days on the shuttle before they stopped at Karthos Drift. She had been given enough latinum and clothes and rations to get them somewhere. Now she just had to figure out what to do. The shuttle left, heading on to Valeria’s home.

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS

Tealor was in a chair he had not way of walking at this point, he could not manage crutches with out two arms and could not stand without a leg, there would be year or more of learning to walk again, maybe he would talk to the Chief when he got back and see if the same engineers could give him new limbs with some benefits. That all would have to wait. “Now what, this life is not something I know how to navigate,” he said hoping she was more skilled in the dark and shady.

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

“I’m a marine, I’ve been in worse places. First a room. Cheap. Then I’ll find us a ride.” She found a really cheap room, that was clean, but sparse and not comfortable. She left Tealor there so she could try and find something. She came back a few hours later, “You’re a doctor right?”

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS

Tealor winced as he shifted, “Well glad you have, most the time when the Wolverine has been in these kind of places, I’m locked away safely in sickbay.”

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Kay sighed, “I’m glad for you. These aren’t the types of places that are safe for doctors. People need medical care, and they can get abducted. However, you being a doctor could be our ticket out of here. There is a man who is willing to give us his old shuttle in exchange for medical care. So come on.” Kay got behind his chair, put a med kit in a plain pack and handed it to him. Then they left.

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS

“Do you know what’s wrong with him?” he asked her as she moved behind him. THere was only so much he can do with a medkit, he would need a sickbay to do anything more or at least better tools than were in the kit. He looked down at his arm and his leg or rather lack there of. “Your going to have to assist me I think”

Colonel Jackson Quade
Captain U.S.S Wolverine

Kay shook her head. “I have no idea. He’s an elder, moves slow, I could hear his wife coughing inside.” It was a bit of a walk, and the ground wasn’t conductive for Tealor’s chair. Kay managed. She was not as strong as she had been, but she was fit.

They reached a small set of quarters. It was on a lower level. Probably once for storage, but converted. Once it was nice. Now it was in need of repairs. The upper levels were more than well kept, but down here, things were ignored. Kay pressed the chime and slowly the door opened. An old man stood there. He snorted. “That’s the doctor?”

Lt. Cmdr Rox, CMO/CNS