"Calling to Confess Your Sins?"

Posted on Thu Feb 23rd, 2023 @ 2:21pm by Tanaka Miyahara & Captain Taiga Aisaka

940 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Insurrection
Location: San Francisco area hotel

After the Rally, Miyahara was brought back to his hotel. Though he wanted to show solidarity with his supporters by going to Starfleet Headquarters with them (he had even promised such in his speech.), his security detail wouldn't allow it due to the intel that some in the crowd were armed. Though, again, Miyahara knew they weren't here to hurt him. After futilely attempting to make the driver drive to Starfleet Headquarters, Miyahara admitted defeat and allowed himself to be brought back to his hotel, where he had been watching the riot unfold on the viewscreen in his room.

Miyahara was hoping that Captain Aisaka and Admiral Burke, wherever they might be, were watching as well. Because today, the Federation's true patriots were sending a message to the galaxy that they were not going to be silenced any longer.

As if the universe had been paying attention, Miyahara's PADD began going off. Getting up and moving over to the desk where the PADD was sitting, Miyahara found that he had an incoming transmission from Captain Aisaka herself.

"Ah, Captain Aisaka." He said as he answered the call. "Calling to confess your sins?"

"Not that I need to confess to you" Taiga snapped back simply. "Listen Miyahara, I'm going to be blunt with you. Stop all this. You lost the trial and your career because you chose to lie and cheat your way through the system. This madness at Starfleet Headquarters needs to stop now!"

"Captain, if you want the violence to stop, here's what you need to do:" Miyahara explained. "Turn yourself in to Starfleet Security, confess that you destroyed that Romulan colony, and that you lied to and cheated the system. Once you do that, these people will all go home."

Taiga laughed. "You really believe that I'm going to do that?" she asked. "You saw the evidence provided in the trial. You know that the Tokyo was set up by the Tal Shiar, and yet you still can't admit that you were wrong?" Taiga shook her head. "What exactly do you want to get from all this?"

"I saw all the fradulent alternative evidence provided." Miyahara corrected. "If you only consider the lawful evidence, I easily win. And as for what I'm looking to gain? Well, I just want to make sure the voices of true Federation patriots are heard. For too long, these people have been ostracized and ridiculed as far right extremists, and they've had enough, Captain. Your fraudulent victory has only served to push them over the edge."

"Wow..." Taiga said with a sigh. "Tell me Miyahara, do you even know what happened after that trial? Do you know what happened to the Tokyo and the Oceania?" she asked. She didn't allow him to answer as she continued quickly. "We were tasked with getting the Romulan Ambassador back to Romulus with the correct non-fradulent information"

Taiga paused for a moment. "Of course, the Tal Shiar tried to stop us. However we pushed through. You do realise that I lost a lot of crew on that mission? The Starship Oceania was destroyed by the Tal Shiar with all hands... now tell me... Why would the Tal Shiar go as far as to destroy a Federation Starship if they knew the information we had was anything other than true?" she paused again. "Even you're not that thick Miyahara. You were wrong, there were bigger powers at work. Nothing I can tell you due to it being classified by Intelligence..."

"Perhaps if you just admitted responsibility for the crimes you were accused of, all those officers wouldn't have needed to die?" Miyahara suggested. "Instead, you had to go about making our justice system look so corrupt it makes the Cardassian justice system look free and fair by comparison. You know, I've locked up at least 14 criminals just like you. Fourteen. And each and every one of them thought the way you do; that they didn't commit their crimes. Yet they didn't attempt to commit massive fraud..."

Miyahara paused for a moment.

"Okay, maybe there were one or two fraudsters who attempted to rig a trial and win back their freedom, but they failed, justice was served, and now they sit rotting away on Federation penal colonies, never to breathe free air again." He said. "Frankly, what happened during your trial is nothing short of an embarrassment to our Federation, and these people aren't going to stand for it. The power to stop this lies in your hands, Captain; not mine."

"You know, I've tried to ask you to stop this. But now I can see I'm never going to get to someone so deluded as you..." Taiga sighed. "Good luck Miyahara, I wouldn't hang around in the same place for much longer. Starfleet is coming for you, and there's no where you can hide" Taiga told him simply. She reached out to press the button on the screen to terminate the connection.

"And to you as well." Miyahara responded before Taiga could terminate the connection. "Because you won't be able to run from true patriots forever, and when they finally put your neck in a noose, I'll be there."

With the connection terminated, Miyahara turned back to the coverage of Starfleet Headquarters. Perhaps it was time that he paid a visit to a few Federation member worlds he knew would gladly leave the Federation if asked.

Perhaps it was time for the Confederacy of Independent Planets to rise...

Posting by

Captain Taiga Aisaka
Commanding Officer
USS Tokyo

Tanaka Miyahara
Disgraced Commanding Officer

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