Darkness in Wonderland Pt. 2

Posted on Sat Jul 12th, 2025 @ 3:14pm by Captain Shran dh'Klar & Lieutenant Commander Shoniara T’ghann-Travis MD

1,036 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Wounds From the Mirror
Location: USS Saber

The vile Andorian jabbed the large crude clamping mechanism into Shon's ocular socket and gripped the eyeball, plucking it out and then with a quick crude swipe with his right hand which held a laser scalpel, the nerve bundle was severed. He looked at the eye in detail, studying it for a moment, and then tossed it into the corner near where the human female was chained. "You see," he began to speak, "a simple punishment for your defiance just as promised. Thankfully you have a spare. Marvelous redundancy the body can be, don't you agree?"

Shon couldn't help but scream in pain and for the loss of her eye. Suddenly only having vision in one eye was confusing and disorienting and she vomited profusely. She closed her good eye to help her gain equilibrium and then, suddenly everything hurt. if she could of, she would have committed murder, slowly right there and then. She tried to bring her V'echa but the pain was too great.

"Sha-s vetor slavit" she screamed in her native language cursing him with the slow death in Vulcan's Forge. "What bastard womb did you crawl out of you ball of slime!" She began to shake and then grew quiet wondering what Seth, Shasta and the twins were going through. Hopefully Seth had hidden them somewhere deep in the ship.

"Yes, good. Now we are getting somewhere" he said, his voice will with sadistic joy. "Doctor, clean her up, address the wound."

The EMH came over and cleaned her and stopped the bleeding in and around the ocular cavity. While the hologram did so, the Andorian picked up a curved blade and walked over to the biobed where LeFaye was lying unconscious. He used the blade to cut off her uniform, leaving her completely nude. He then studied her body. "I must admit, she is an attractive Terran" he said aloud in a reserved tone. He looked back at Shon, "You obviously are willing to endure much, but she can't endure what you have endured." He quickly turned back to LeFaye and in a single stroke slashed her throat, nearly decapitating her in the process. Blood splattered in all directions. "Such a waste of a perfectly good Terran female, but as you can see, I already have one just like her that is housebroken." He smiled and walked over and placed the blade on his instrument table, then walked back over to Shon. "I'm interested, how did it feel to lose your comrade?"

Shon closed her good eye refusing to let him see her grief and remained silent. The physical pain she was suffering began to recede somewhat, but the psychological damage had begun to invade her thoughts. She thought about the Klingon war in which she participated, killing many and losing her family. Her fall into darkness and her rescue by her now Bond Brother T'grek who had taught her so much about being Vulcan. Gathering her thoughts she began to mourn.

The Andorian looked at Shon, almost annoyed with her silence. "The silent treatment. Hoping I won't see past it, that my own anger might cloud my judgement. Quite the gambit. Of course, it will just mean worse things for you. Surely you would rather talk than be tortured?"

The EMH scanned Shon and then walked over and showed something to Shran. "We'll, isn't that something." He walked over to the instrument table and picked up a blade and then turned and walked over to Shon. "You didn't tell me you had a second person you were trying to protect. I'm afraid that failure to tell me something is a lie of omission, and lying to me in any form requires a penalty. Perhaps after the penalty is issues, you might learn your lesson." Suddenly Shon felt the sharp pain of the blade being plunged into her lower abdomen near the pelvic cavity. The blade opened her up, green blood flowing somewhat liberally. "So, I'm not great with anatomy, but I believe you need this for reproduction" he said as he messily began cutting out organs."

"Do you want me to die or just suffer?" she asked in an even voice not wanting to give him the satisfaction of her agony.

"You aren't going to die" he said as he continued hacking into her. "The EMH will keep you alive. This child growing in you however..." he said as he removed the fetus and tossed it aside.

Shon screamed more in distress than pain as it took her back to another place where a child was taken from her. "Dvel-tor svi' wuh pid fau-yut heh wuh neik. Ktorr wuh twi k' wuh sahris snip t' wuh lipau." Then she smiled, "There will come a time when even your EMH will be unable to save me. Then your damnation will become all." Shon closed her eye and, once again began to drift taking herself apart and replacing each nerve fiber of the pain with peace. "Seth, Seth where are you? speak to me." she flung out of her mind. Then she laughed "Pain is our ship and darkness our compass. Take me with you on your journey." Then she fell deeply into the Fal T'or pan and knew no more.

"Check her and sedate her. We'll give her time to rest. Do whatever you need to make sure she doesn't lapse into a coma or die" Shran said to the EMH. He walked over pushed LeFaye's body off the biobed. Walking over, he simply scoffed looking at the corpse. He walked over and took hold of the chain and made his way out, his "pet" in tow, and followed by his two female companions.

The EMH sedated Shon with a high dose of anestizine, then began working on her, closing up the internal wounds she had. He reproductive organs were a mess, and it was likely she would never be able to have a child naturally again, as only the right ovary remained undamaged. He connected an IV to her so that he could transfuse blood into her, along with plasma. Once he was satisfied that she was stabilized, he set to protocols and deactivated, leaving Shon restrained and unconscious.

TBC

 

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