>ON YSS-AKURO
Two security officers entered the ICU of the Akuro's massive medical laboratory, speaking lowly to a nurse they said "We have to take him now, up to see the ShoSho..." The two NH-17's looked over towards Elsar, until the nurse handed them a padd, to give to Katsuko who had ordered his move. They approached the table, literally tilting it upwards and wheeling it out into the corridor towards one of the lifts. Katsuko said to Akina as they boarded the lift "Ever done an interrogation before?" she ran a hand over her issued sidearm, just to make sure it was secure in its holster. Despite the fact that the Mishhu had been removed a certain level of caution was in order. After all, the man could in fact have been a willing party; an enemy to the empire. Regardless the fact remained that he had many questions to answer. The Shosa nodded. "Mmmm..once or twice ma'am. We had our share of Mishhu incursions. I've stood by for a few as well..for one reason or the other." she replied evasively. "There was formal training when I was a senior NCO." The woman rested her hand on the type 28A2 NSP in it's holster for a moment.
In the corridor outside of briefing room two, six security officers stood outside the door, awaiting the arrival of Katsuko or Elsar. A low conversation between them "I hear he tried to board one of the cruisers with a ship full of explosives.." another answered "I don't care what he done, ‘ya have to remember it was the Mishhu." the one who had spoken originally piped up "Bah...Still, I think she will make meatloaf outta him." silence droned after the doors to the lift opened, not Katsuko yet..but the leader of their team joined them in the corridor.
Glad to be away from the mess he had made in the ICU but not so much so at being wheeled around like he was helpless he spoke out to the otherwise silent officers. "I can walk ‘ya know. I've got legs let me use ‘em. You can even keep a gun pressed against me just let me at least walk and retain some dignity won't you?" Still the silence wore on and he just sighed letting them wheel him around like some helpless cripple or worse yet a lab rat being transported for pokes and pricks. Either way this wasn't going to look to good on his record.....
"Sit down..." Obvious they weren't entertained to hear his about his dignity. The lift doors closed and they headed towards the deck where briefing room two was
Katsuko smiled saying "We will need some relief afterwards, dinner or something." The doors of the lift hissed open and Katsuko emerged first. The Corridor was quiet, just the way she liked it. The enlisted sentries saluted as she passed and proceeded into the briefing room with Akina, taking her usual seat at the head of the table. Shimizu was close behind, nodding to the sentries before the doors slid shut. She took her own seat along the table, to the right of her commander, keeping her right hand below the table.
The motion was starting to make his stomach feel uneasy but luckily for all of them he had already vomited all his stomach contents in the ICU. Still trying to break the ice and get some form of emotional contacted with another living being that wasn't living inside of him he spoke again. "Do you guys still have my weapons? I had a prototype with me. It's safe right?" Another thought came to him from the matters that had arisen. "That ship I came on! It's infested they were hauling eggs in that crate we gotta turn around and take it out!" He didn't know how long he had been out nor did he know if the matter had been taken care of. "They didn't take over the ship did they? There not spreading through our ranks right?" He wanted some comfort in the matter since it was partly his fault they had gotten so close to the fleet.
"Shut up, save your story for the ShoSho." the lift door opened and they wheeled him down the hall. The looks in the security team's eyes, each of them watched him not taking their eyes off them. One of them, you could tell she had something to say but didn't. They then pushed him into the conference room, putting him so he faced Katsuko and Akina..
Katsuko's eyes were piercing; they seemed to go right through him. No attempt to fix her hair or make-up or her usual happy smile, it had faded the moment he entered the briefing room. She stiffened her posture in the chair. She looked down at her padd saying to him " Ittô Heisho Iggagomi, I am ShoSho Motoyoshi Katsuko..." she quieted, nodded to Akina at her side, waiting for her first officer to address the man.
The red-haired Yamataian's expression darkened, as she stared threateningly at the Nepleslian. "Shosa Shimizu." she stated curtly.
Shifting in the chair he tried to make himself presentable and gave a salute the best that his current motor functions would allow him. "Ma'am's" He didn't try to break into a plea or some form of conversation to get the truth out of them. He knew what this was he knew why he was here and was almost slightly relieved. "At least I'm not going to be a science experiment.." He muttered to himself as he directed his gave toward the metallic green eyes of the red headed woman.
"Would that make you feel better? Maybe justify the fact that your actions, governed by your own accord or the Mishhu's, that four pilots are dead and a sentry aboard one of my cruisers is in serious condition?" She rose from her seat, her hand resting upon her sidearm. Her greyish silver eyes were like ice as they worked over his form. He looked like hell, but what was unusual about that for his race. Save maybe the blood and other such products which still coated the sheets where he sat. He reminded her of a wounded soldier, but she wouldn't dare show that kind of compassion.
"In other words, you failed to complete a standard pre-deployment medical screening? Do you know just how many places in the Empire's Army there are to that, solider? Their lives are on your hands!" Akina yelled, remaining in her seat. "So just what would you have us do? We can't be certain how you were even infected." she finished, waiting for answers to her barrage of questions.
"If you had any doubts that I wasn't properly treated then I wouldn't be here right now. Ma'am." He plugged on at the end rather quickly. "It was more of a reassurance to myself that I was back to my self and not still in control of that parasitic slime. And further more if you think I would be willing to consider playing hosts to something as vile as that you should not have even brought me up here to judge me. This is already humiliating enough as is having been host to that things will. Would anyone honestly give control of themselves over to a creature that eats your insides like a tape worm then burst out of you!" He had forgotten to address them as ma'am at the end but he was slightly distraught by the whole thing.
A brow rose "So how do you think you were infected?" the Admiral totally ignored his outburst. A typical man who obviously would rather get angry than be informative. He having not answered a single of Akina's questions, Katsuko repeated "And being infected why didn't you take the mandatory pre screening before coming here? I want answers...and damn fast."
The XO kept her eyes locked on the sickly man. Typical..just like the cook this morning.
Recollecting his thoughts over the jumble of words he was having trouble keeping together he regained his composure and looked Katsuko square in the eyes. "I was infected en route to my assignment on 5th Fleet... We encountered a downed civilian transport ship. The communications were down and it was drifting... the pilots agreed to check it out in case some one needed assistance." He shifted in his seat as he recalled some unpleasant memories. "There was only one person aboard and she didn't look to good. I returned to the ship for medical supply's and by time I returned both pilots were standing over her body shaking their heads and directed me back to the shuttle. Last thing I remember was turning around to return.
The Flag Admiral drew her sidearm and fired a single shot, a streak of blue zipped past the top of Elsar's head as she said, yelling now "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU COMMUNICATE WITH COMMAND...ANY STRAY IN FLIGHT PLAN IS TO BE REPORTED..." she was angry now, she continued on him "You DARE to tell me that you found something suspicious about the behavior of two pilots at a check point....instead of following procedure you decided to search the cargo unattended? You sir, have little respect for the Empire...Procedure is to be followed."
"If the pilots didn't know that sure as hell gives you no excuse!" Akina continued, unphased by the drawing of a weapon, this was actually rather tame for an interrogation. "Who do you think were blasted into the vacuum of space!? Do you realize how many soldiers could have died because of this?!" she screamed, lurching forward in her chair a moment. He certainly didn't seem concerned with the lives that had been lost, for whatever reason.
Rather used to projectiles whizzing by him he didn't give way to the shot and thought he probably should have to at least follow suit with this interrogation. "GETTING us to" He stressed the word to as if she had missed it the first time around. "our check point. We were a day out from it what did you want me to do step up to the both of them and confront them on their behavior and ask to radio in ahead about what was going on all by my hunch alone? I was taught better then that and set out to get viable proof to perform an act of mutiny on that ship. It's not like I have any piloting skills." He wet his lips as his steel gray eyes turned back to Akina. "If you want to blame the deaths of those that died while serving their duty on me since it was my outer appearance and not actually me that was in control then be my guest. I am sorry that they died and I lived if I could have given myself away and gotten killed before it had the chance to escalate that far I would have and believe me I was trying but every one of my motor functions were being controlled. I was literally choking on my own thoughts to break free."
He sunk his head and shook it solemnly. "The only reason I'm even trying to clear my name instead of having you kill me is so I don't bring shame to my family's name. Check my serves records a large sum of my income goes to may parents each week. The army provides me with the basics of what I require and for that I am thankful." He was trying to hold back the thoughts of disgracing his family's name and then remembered to end his little speech with. "Ma'ams"
Suddenly the commander seemed to calm, yet her words were laced with a more sharp tone "So, instead of risking your own neck. You decided to wait until the shuttle got to it's destination so that others could loose their lives for your cowardice..." She looked down at the pad, typed a few things in and looked back up. Not giving him the chance to respond she asked another question "So do you think you are to be blameless?â€
