Torture is a girls best friend

Posted on Sun Sep 27th, 2020 @ 9:09am by Commodore Phoenix Lalor-Richardson & Captain Gary Taylor & Lieutenant Commander S'hib & Lieutenant Commander Alicia Kelea-Salik & Lieutenant JG Heather De La Rosa {Kelea-Salik}

Mission: SEASON 4: Episode 1: Know Thy Self!
Location: ISS EYLSIUM
Timeline: MD1 - Unsure.
1517 words - 3 OF Standard Post Measure

Heather arrived at the room where Phoenix Lalor was suspended in her agony booth. Over her years as an inquisitor Heather had learned to shield her mind from the pain experienced by prisoners in the agony booths, to harden her heart against their suffering. She walked into the room and looked at stood looking at Phoenix. “Greetings Phoenix Lalor, I hope you’re finding your accommodation to your liking?”

"Well its not Risa but hey what can you do" the captain replied coldly.

“Oh I can do plenty” Heather stood looking at Lalor. “As an inquisitor I can confirm or deny your cooperation. All you have to do is give Captain Taylor what he wants and I can arrange for better quarters for you, no more ... hanging around!” Heather grinned.

"Oh please don't bother yourself on my account. I won't be cooperative to anything you say or do."

“Really Phoenix?” Heather folded her arms across her chest. “You don’t have to cooperate, but it will be better for you and your baby if you do! I can simply reach into your mind and take the information but it will be extremely painful and could seriously damage you, or you could hang there in the agony booth until your body can’t take any more. Have you stopped to think what the shock treatment will be doing to that foetus growing inside you?”

Captain Lalor rolled her eyes. "Did you miss the memo?" She asked. "Apparently your Captain has orders to preserve the life of my child. Force field around it." She smirked. "Next threat?"

Just then the door opened and Alicia walked in dressed in her inquisitor uniform, for this occasion her son was being safely looked after he would join her later. This was to be her first test as an inquisitor learning the ropes from Heather.

Heather looked at Phoenix as she had the restraints tightened and stretched putting a whole lot more pressure on Phoenix's ’s limbs. “In that case there’s no reason why your limbs need to stay in place, dislocated limbs can be relocated.” Heather looked at Alicia offering a respectful nod to not just a fellow inquisitor but to the Captain’s woman.

Alicia motioned to Heather, “Allow me to try” she moved to face Phoenix before using her telepathic gifts to probe the pain centres of Phoenix ’s mind. She was strong, stronger than Alicia had given her credit for but but Alicia had been trained just where to probe for maximum effect. All she needed was to make Phoenix jerk her bonds.

Phoenix's mental shields had taken a battering over the past 6 months. Romulans the loss of her fiancée, who she could not find, the last few missions, and the shields she had been trained to build by Captain Mira Solomon, a betazoid, were failing, slowly. Erisians were not telepathic or empathic, but they seemed to have a natural ability to be able to block their kinds, with help and training.

Phoenix retreated into her mind and her eyes closed. She forced memories of her torture on the Romulan prison planet to the fore, which included images of certain people naked and being tortured as well.

Alicia gasped at the images that filled her mind, Heather was used to interrogation she wasn’t. Regaining her posture she concentrated on pulling down the walls in Phoenix’s mind, even the smallest chink would become larger and larger until the mental walls would break. She just needed to find the right spot and make Phoenix come out of hiding. Gary would be arriving soon and she wanted him to be proud of her work.

More and more images sent forth like soldiers marching. Images of Gary Taylor naked and bound being tortured, of Lia Holmes being whipped and then images of darkness that envelopes people and leaves nothing but bones. All these images came from the Captain as she fought off the mental invasion.

Heather was monitoring and sensed the emotional load Phoenix was throwing at Alicia. She could also see that Alicia was starting to wain, she’d done well for her first time out but it was time to teach Phoenix a lesson. Breaking the mental connection between them to save Alicia harm she activated the booth and gave Phoenix a high power shock.

Phoenix did scream but she was glad as the pain faded that Alicia was out of her mind. She opened her eyes and gave a smirk. "Aww I thought you inquisitors were stronger than that, needing help"

Heather smiled “Oh you have NO idea what we’re capable of!” She looked towards the doors as they opened and Captain Taylor walked through.

Captain Gary Taylor, commander of the ISS Elysium entered the room. He was a man of supreme confidence, use to getting what he wanted. When he wanted it. He looked at Phoenix hanging suspended in the middle of the chamber, her arms and legs pulled wide, putting a strain on her entire body. He walked over to Alicia and Heather, two of his Inquisitors. "Alicia, Heather I see you've met our esteemed guest of honour Captain Phoenix Lalor. What are your impressions of the good Captain?"

Alicia looked at Gary, “She likes to make herself appear strong but her fears are there, she buries then deep but uses them as a defence when she needs to” She looked towards Heather who nodded in agreement. “I agree, Phoenix likes to act as though she doesn’t care but she does. I suggest the best course of action to break her would be to harm her people and make her watch as you do it.”

Gary looked at the suspended Phoenix, the strain of being suspended was beginning to wear on her. He could see it in her face even though she tried to hide it. She was breathing heavily from the strain."Is that right Phoenix? " He turned to look at Alicia and Heather. set up a feed into this room so the Captain can see her crew being tortured while she hangs there." He ordered.

Phoenix rolled her eyes at them all.

Heather nodded. “I’ll see to it right away Sir” she nodded to Alicia before heading out of the room to get her Captain’s plan under way.

“I suggest you start with your doppelgänger and some of the other bridge crew Sir” Alicia looked at Gary. “When I was in her mind she bombarded me with visions of certain members of her crew being tortured, she’s holding onto the memory quite strongly.”

"No, I have other plans for him and the bridge crew. Start with random crew and we'll work up from there." He told Alicia.

Alicia nodded. “I believe they’ve already begun using the agony booths to encourage stragglers to give themselves up, we can have that feed piped straight in here.” She looked at Gary for permission.

"Make it so Alicia." Gary ordered crisply.

“Yes Sir” Alicia nodded and headed out to meet up with Heather, they’d have Phoenix watching her crew suffer. She would eventually break.

She would not give them the satisfaction of this. She kept her gaze steady and said "The more you tighten your grip on my crew, the more will slip through your fingers and escape."

"Perhaps so Captain but you won't be with them. You will remain right here. Hanging, suspended for all to see. An example of those who fall before the might of the Empire." Taylor informed her coldly.

"Its one thing seeing it over a screen," S'hib grunted beside his Captain, arms firmly folded as he stared up at Phoniex. "Bring one of her crew here... and she can watch." He snorted, his dark and angry eyes fixed on Captain Lalor

Gary looked at S'hib. "That is an excellent idea S'hib. Truly it is and as the good Captain cannot go anywhere, she'll have a ringside seat to watch."

Phoenix looked at the Mirror S'hib. "I hear horsemeat is a delicacy in the Empire, I wonder if you are screwing someone to keep your hide intact? Tell me Captain Taylor, does S'hib see to those needs of yours as well as your Betazoid whores here?"

"Oh nice try Captain but S'hib is loyal and my personal bodyguard." Taylor replied as he walked to the control panel and with a malicious smile pressed down on the button sending a jolt of electricity through Phoenix. He smiled as she jerked in her binds. "Just think you get to experience as well as watch a member of your crew be tortured. Double your pleasure, double your fun."

"You mistake me for your Lia Holmes." She gasped out

S'hibs lip twitched as the watched Phoenix writhe in pain, her comment would have been a death sentence had it been anyone else... and keeping hold of his temper was not a normal occurrence. "Find some cadets for me to break... and she'll talk." He snorted.

"What are you waiting for S'hib? Get to it." Gary told him.