[USS Chimera] SD: 241001.30 || Duty Log || Maj. Scott Walters || Interrogation ||

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***Holding Cell Three, Deck 5, USS Beijing***

Walters entered the hot holding cell and motioned to the two Starfleet guards still in their assault gear to pick up the profusely sweating figure of Captain Jamis Tawrens and drag him to the makeshift interrogation room in Holodeck One.  Walters had played with the environmental and gravity controls in this section of Deck 5 increasing the temperature to Sahara like conditions and the gravity up to 3 times Earth standard.  Both the heat and the gravity had vastly drained the energy and resistance of the captured renegade Starfleet personnel.  This man, Captain Jamis Tawrens had been in command of the ship which Walters and Rojac had stormed.  Tawrens was also the highest rank officer captured by them and as such was the most likely to know any information.

Walters watched as the two guards (Vulcans beneath the layers of armour) forcibly sat Tawrens on a metal chair which was bolted to the ground, behind a metal table which was also bolted to the ground in the dark room.  Plastic restraints were used to strap Tawrens' legs tightly to the chair and his hands loosely to the table.  Walters signalled for the Starfleet guards to wait outside the dark room.  Even in the heat and heavy gravity Walters moved easily to his seat opposite Tawrens, he was used to these environs being not that much different from where he grew up.  The middle aged Captain Jamis Tawrens was very evidently not used to these environmental conditions and it showed.

Walters opened a chilled plastic bottle of water and took a leisurely drink then placed it down at his side of the table taunting the dehydrated Tawrens.  Walters pressed a button on the table and caused powerful bright lights behind him to shine into the face of Tawrens causing him to squint.  "Captain Jamis Tawrens of the USS Potomac training ship attatched to Starfleet Academy.  You've had a long if not remarkably notable career.  So why would a long term seemingly loyal Captain throw away a long career and all he's worked for to cause a few meaningless terrorist bombings?"  Walters took another drink of the chilled water and placed it down in the middle of the table.  "Care to explain why you're betraying the Federation?"

Tawrens snatched the bottle of water from the table and gulped down the contents and said defiantly "Go screw yourself.  I'm not telling you anything, I am invoking my right to silence."  Walters laughed unpleasantly.  "Care to tell me why you're laughing?"  Tawrens asked suspiciously.

Walters replied "Two reasons.  Reason One, the cocktail of chemicals that were spiked into that water will guarantee you telling me the truth.  They not only include an enhanced truth serum but also a drug which amplifies the signals received by your nerve endings meaning something as insignificant as a papercut will cause unbearable agony.  The third chemical causes you to stay awake unable to black out from the pain.   Reason Two, under Article Seventeen, Subsection B of the Mutual Defence Treaty between the Federation and the Erassian Alliance, wartime provisions allow for the transfer of prisoners between powers meaning despite being held on a Starfleet ship you are a prisoner of the Erassian Alliance without the protection of Federation rules governing the treatment of prisoners.

Tawrens eyes went wide and his skin paled as the realisation of what had just been said set in and the drugs began taking effect.  Walters smiled and stood up and grabbed Tawrens left hand pinning it down whilst the right feebly tried to loosen Walters' grip.  Walters continued "Let's start with who gave you the orders to carry out the terrorist attacks?"

"I can't they'll kill me..."  Tawrens let out a blood curdling scream as Walters bent his left pinkie back with a sickening crack.

"It's the ring finger next.  Your bosses may kill you but I'll do far worse and you'll still be alive and conscious throughout the whole thing."  Tawrens let out another scream as Walters broke his ring finger with another sickening crack.  "Middle finger next.  I'll say again.  Who gave the order?"

"N..nn..no more!  It was Ad..Admiral Lomax, he's the..."  Tawrens abruptly stopped talking and black lines began spreading beneath his skin.  Walters released his grip on Tawrens' wrist and backed away from the table.

"Guards!"  Walters shouted as Tawrens started to thrash violently snapping the plastic restraints on his wrists.  Tawrens stood apparently no longer inhibited by the gravity as the guards rushed into the room.  Tawrens lunged at Walters with wires bursting out from beneath the surface of  his hands striking out towards Walters who just barely managed to dive out of the way.  "Shoot this bastard!"  Walters yelled and the Vulcan guards fired their handheld phasers on heavy stun at the now monstrous Tawrens without effect.  Walters scrambled to his feet and snatched a phaser from a vulcan guard.  He thumbed it to vaporize and fired it at Tawrens who managed to let out a scream of rage before being completely atomised.

Walters said to the guards as he handed back the phaser.  "Lock down the area where the prisoners are and if any of them turn into that vaporize them."  Walters headed to the nearest turbolift pulling up information on Admiral Lomax  on a small padd he kept in his trouser pocket.  He ordered the turbolift to the bridge and read the information.  'Vice Admiral George Lomax, former Head of Starfleet Medical Bioweapons Countermeasures Division.  Died Stardate 240503.26.'  The turbolift arrived at the bridge and Walters made a beeline for Captain Rojac ignoring the demands of the Beijing's Captain for an explanation of the phaser fire.  Stepping up to Rojac he breathed quietly handing over the padd.  "Captain we have a major problem..."


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Major Scott Walters
XO
USS Chimera - C

Captain Jamis Tawrens (NPC Ixus)
CO
USS Potomac