Shadows

Posted on Tue Jun 2nd, 2020 @ 10:32pm by Major Ashley Rogers

350 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Chapter I: Resurgam
Location: Bridge Raven's Claw
Timeline: 238612.20

After she met with Gedak and Hatham, Ash made her way to the bridge and sat down at the Tactical console. She pulled up the schematics to the freighter and punched in commands to the ships sensors to monitor it. She was probably going to annoy Kaiae for monitoring another vessel's communications, but that was a conversation she could have later when she saw her. Everyone was preparing for the mission, the bridge was quiet, which was good. Even though she had long hung up her Starfleet uniform, planning morally questionable missions openly still made her feel slightly paranoid.

There wasn't any reason for her paranoia. So she was plotting to rob a freighter and then kill it's crew... that wasn't a big deal at all. No one on board batted an eye when she suggested that the best way to ensure success was to make sure that they left no witnesses. That was... refreshing. Ash had spent the entirety of her career in the shadows... and somehow she found herself free to be herself on a ship full of Romulans. It was almost laughable. All of the sacrifices that she had made to protect the Federation and Starfleet... all thrown away when it became clear that they weren't worth protecting. She had bought into the illusion that they were the good guys... and that she belonged in that uniform. Even moonlighting as a Section 31 agent couldn't give her a sense that she belonged in either of those organizations. The Section betrayed her and now that she sees the true colors of Starfleet and the Federation, she's ashamed that she was so gullible to have believed in either.

Now she was the only human on board a Romulan ship about to pull off an incredible heist... to save their people. That a purity of mission and cause that Ash hadn't felt in a long time. And maybe it might help her sleep better at night... guilt was a terrible emotion that she was not accustomed to feeling.

She looked at the data that filled her screen and got to work.

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