Valdago, Chee, and Loran walked through the forest. They had found what they were hunting for and now had to take their prey down.
"Chee, you and Loran cover da back, I'll attack from da front. Don't do anyting unless and until someting happens. Got it?"
The two nodded in agreement of the Russian's orders. Admiral Valdago headed one way and the other two went another. It wasn't long before Valdago got to a large clearing where a small village was built. He heard screams from a smaller tent. He knew that was where he was heading. He began to sneak around.
From one tent to the next, the young admiral made his way to the tent. It seemed as if the entire town had been abandoned, or something worse with those two around, he thought. As he got closer and closer the screams grew in volume. Finally Valdago had reached his target, and he moved to the flap of animal hide that was used for a door. He pulled out his phaser and set it for stun. He was ordered to return the criminals for trial. Suddenly the screams stopped.
He stood up, walked in front of the door. In one quick motion he jumped into the tent, rolled across the room, took cover behind a cabinet and pulled his phaser out.
"All right, ladies, stop right now! I've got you!"
"QUICKLY," the doctor yelled to her slave.
"He's kicking, can't we put him under first?" asked the giant.
"Just do as she says, or you'll be next," said another doctor.
Reluctantly Neo kept dragging. The man he had in his hands resisted furiously. He did everything he could: kicked, tried jumping, everything but screaming since his mouth had been gagged. The two doctors went into a tent they had their equipment in and Neo followed, dragging their patient with him.
The man was thrown onto a large table. The doctor turned on some lights overhead to make it a bit easier to see. Neo ripped the tape off of the man's mouth. He immediately screamed.
"NO! Please! Stop!" he yelled, begging for his life.
"Now, now, Throgg, you know better than that. Your screaming only makes it loud in here."
"But, Dana!"
She cut him off. "That's Doctor Nori to you. Please, try again."
"Doctor Nori!"
"Now me," added Sandra.
"Doctor Yosh!"
"That's better. See how easy it is. Now, we'll restrain you to the table and take out your liver." She strapped him down as Neo kept him down.
"Dana," inquired Sandra, "I thought we were taking his lungs?"
"Lungs, liver, what's the difference? Take em all. Grab the kidneys while we're at it. Maybe a heart or two."
"I know we have a buyer for the lungs, the kidney is a pretty universal organ, but how many of Throgg's people will pay for a heart or liver?"
"That's not the point. Throgg stopped paying to keep his organs, so now we get them. It's kinda like rent, except we never owned them in the first place. And as far as this whole, 'no buyer' thing is concerned, I always said, 'Waste not, want not.' I still live by that rule." She picked up a laser scalpel and set it up for the first incision. Yosh attached a mechanism of Nori's design that kept the patient's eyelids open and applied water drops to the patients eyes so that they wouldn't dry up.
"What are you doing?"
"You wanna watch don't you?" Nori began to make a cut.
"What about anesthesia?" he pleaded.
"You just wanna spoil all the fun, don't you? Well, how much you got? Obviously you don't have the hundred or you wouldn't be on this table. But, for a percentage, say fifty I'll put you under."
"I've only got about twenty!"
Dana turned her head in disgust. "For twenty? No way. Maybe I'll let you close your eyes, but that's pushing it." She began to cut. The laser scalpel seared into Throgg's chest. He screamed, the pain was indescribable. She had adjusted the laser so that it would only cut, but not work on the nerves. Most scalpels cauterized and numbed so that the pain wasn't too strong, but Nori had figured a way around that.
"I'LL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE! THE TWENTY, MY HOME, MY BUSINESS!"
"I want your seat. Make me governor and I'll not only give you anesthetic, but maybe I'll only take one heart, a lung, and kidney. You know, let you live." She had been hoping for this moment ever since she started charging him a monthly fee to keep his organs three years ago. She had recently raised the cost to speed it up.
"ANYTHING! JUST LET ME LIVE!"
"Fine, it's a deal. I'll take your kidneys and in exchange, you get me your seat as governor. I don't really care how you do it, bribes, murder, whatever. But know this: Fail me," she said and paused. It seemed as if somehow, someway, the man's eyes opened even more, "and I'll find your daughter. Then, as a bit of acid liquefies your inner organs, I'll have Neo here make sure your only little girl never has a child.
Neo smiled for a quick second at that though. Throgg's daughter was the most beautiful woman on the planet. Then, after thinking about the pain he would cause, and how rough it would be, he knew that raping a woman to near death wouldn't be fun at all. In fact, it would be more work than Neo thought he could manage. Not to mention he would most likely be forced to kill himself if he committed such a gruesome act. He prayed at that second that Throgg completed his task; he had no desire to do what would be asked of him otherwise, and he knew that Nori always made good on promises. Always.
Sandra Yosh got a hypospray ready. She took the eyelid mechanism off of Throgg who immediately closed his eyes. Yosh injected him with the anesthesia. He happily went under.
Nori was just about to start cutting again when a figure jumped through the door. A man rolled to safety behind a cabinet. Nori and Yosh dove to the floor. Yosh sat there for a second wondering where to go, but Nori was already crawling for the back of the tent.
Valdago brought his phaser and head out around the cabinet. "All right, ladies, stop right now! I've got you!" He saw only a huge giant standing with his arms in the air and governor Throgg lying on the operating table unconscious. The giant motioned to Valdago that someone was right next to him. Valdago began to slowly move that way. As he got closer, the woman jumped up. She held a laser scalpel in her hands. Valdago was caught off guard, and Sandra fired the scalpel. At that range its power was very low, but the cut on his hand forced him to drop his phaser.
Yosh began to run for the door as Valdago grabbed his hand. But, as she passed Neo he extended an arm and clotheslined her. She fell to the ground gasping for breath. Valdago picked up the hypospray. He walked towards Yosh who was attempting to get her breath as she crawled to the entrance. Valdago gave her a swift kick in the gut and she curled into a ball. Valdago kneeled down and picked her head up by the hair. Fear was in her eyes.
"I guess you aren't dat important to Starfleet. For your sake, I hope dis is an anesthetic." He injected her with the hypospray, and she went under.
"Please," said the giant. "I helped you; let me go."
"Frankly, I don't care vut you do. Just let dat man keep his organs or vee'll be back for you."
Valdago threw the limp woman over his shoulders and walked out to find what happened to Nori.
On board the USS Virgo, Intelligence officer Alysa Sinclair was having a conversation with her commander. Not the commander of the ship, but her commander. Luther Sloan.
"Is everything ready?" he asked her.
"Yes, I've got someone installing the 'mirror' right now."
"And you've adjusted it to the settings I gave you?"
"Yes, of course, although I'm not sure what the plan is."
"Well, if you needed to know I'd tell you. Just make sure Jacobsen does his job right. We can't afford any mistakes."
"Yes, sir. Sinclair out." She turned off the com panel. I wonder what this is all about?
Nori could hear Valdago going to get Yosh as she crawled out of the tent. She squeezed her head and arms under the tent and looked at her surroundings. Unfortunately for her, it was Garek Loran and Johnny Chee.
"Hello, bitch," Johnny told her. His foot came down on her face. He began to dig her face in the dirt. He picked his foot back up and Garek helped him drag her the rest of the way out. Garek pulled out his phaser.
"Now we wait for the Admiral."
"Hell no, now we have fun." He kicked her again. Then he crouched next to her. Her face had dirt and grass on it. Johnny brushed off her face. "Sorry about that. Let me help." He dragged his tongue across her lips and left cheek. She winced as his saliva covered her mouth.
"Come on, Johnny, stop," implored Garek.
"Hey, I don't care if you do outrank me. I could still kill you without trying," said the marine. He took a knife from his boot and began to cut Nori's clothing away. She began to slap his hands away but she hit the knife and slit her hands open. Johnny sat on top of her and held her hands down. "Now I'll show you what we do to criminals."
Just then Valdago walked around the corner with Yosh on his shoulders.
"Damn it, Johnny! Get the hell up." The young marine looked at the Admiral. For a second he didn't plan on moving. He looked at Garek for help but got none. He returned his gaze to Valdago but saw only a boot. Valdago jumped down and placed his knee on Johnny's back. He pulled his arms behind his back and yelled in his ear.
"YOU DO NOT, EVER, EVER, CONTRADICT MY ORDERS! IS DAT CLEAR, YOU LITTLE SHIT?"
"Yes, sir," the marine replied.
Valdago spit in his face and stood up. "Now pick dat ting up and lets get out of here." He walked back to Yosh and stood her upright. Apparently there hadn't been much anesthetic left since she was starting to gain consciousness. The Admiral pulled out a communicator.
"Admiral Valdago to Virgo."
[Admiral Maruu here. Do you have them?]
"Affirmative. Target apprehended. Beam us aboard."
[All right. We'll see you soon.]
Antilles and Jacobsen were working on the transporter. They had been getting some odd readings from it and had taken the thing apart trying to find it. Without Garek it would probably never be fixed. It was probably a noisy conduit out of alignment, but there were so many that it was just near to impossible to find the one that was faulty. Luckily, a transporter had enough back ups that near half of conduits could go out before it failed.
[Maruu to Antilles and Jacobsen. How's it going down there?]
"Okay," said Antilles, "I have to admit that I don't think we'll find it until Garek gets back."
[Well, get ready, their ready to beam up. So get ready.]
Antilles moved to the transporter panel. She began to operate the machine. It began humming, and five forms began to appear on the transporter pad.
Suddenly the five forms disappeared. "Oh, hell!" yelled Antilles.
"What happened?" asked Jacobsen.
"I don't know, I just lost their patterns. Hold on." She began working the controls again. After a very short time the five forms reappeared. They started to fade and reappear. Finally Jacobsen ran over and tried something. It seemed to work. The five forms finally materialized. That's when the controls shorted out. Both Antilles and Jacobsen were thrown to the floor as fire covered the panels. The fire went out quickly but the room was filled with fog.
"That was close. Almost died after a great vacation."
"Sorry, sir," said Antilles as she stood up. She couldn't see a thing. "There was a power fluctuation. We weren't able to find it."
"That's okay," said Garek. We all made it back."
"Yeah, just get it right next time." Johnny Chee was more afraid than he let on. The smog began to clear.
"Lieutenant Valdago to Captain Maruu. Did you miss us?"
[Excuse me? What's going on down there?]
The smog cleared up, and Antilles and Jacobsen got their first glimpse of the five. Dana and Yosh weren't even in shackles. Instead they both wore small swimsuits. Yosh was hanging on to something's arm. Chee was dresses in an pair of light pants and had no shirt on. Garek wore something similar. Valdago was no where to be seen. Instead there stood a giant bluish creature with...
"Oh my God!," Antilles said. "Is that you Admiral Valdago?"
"Of course it's me. Except for the title." Then he thought for a moment. Actually, Admiral Valdago? I like that.
Jacobsen reported to his commanding officer. "Admiral, we have a problem."