Something Sensible

Posted on Sat Jun 28th, 2025 @ 5:35pm by Captain Maho Takahashi & Commander Keisuke Takahashi 'K.T.' & Lieutenant Commander Tristana & Lieutenant Terrence "Terry" Johnston & Tanaka Miyahara

1,430 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: Indivisible
Location: Braxus Government Complex

As it happened, Miyahara had returned to his office in the high tower. Despite the shields collapsing, work was already being done to try and bring them back online. Even still, many in Braxus' government complex weren't concerned: The complex had been built to withstand the pirate attacks that the system had been plagued with under the Federation, and a full scale invasion force was certainly testing the complex's design.

With the complex's shields down, that meant that the complex was open to transporter attack. What little were expecting was for three Starfleet officers to immediately beam to the high tower right outside Miyahara's office, bypassing the designed countermeasures in their entirety, and leaving only a small detachment of guards to defend against the onslaught.

And the enemy was prepared, too: The guards had little time to call for backup before they were quickly subdued by the away team.

"Wait here:" Keisuke instructed once the guards had been dealt with: "If anyone else shows up, deal with them:"

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[Supreme Leader's Officer]

Miyahara had returned to his office in the government complex's highest tower. Previously, this was where the Governor of Braxus had worked, but with Braxus becoming the capital of the Confederacy, the Governor had relocated his operations to the office space the floor below where the Lieutenant Governor had worked, that position being relocated elsewhere in the complex.

Miyahara had returned to the office, leaving a fully gathered confederate Parliament in the Parliament chamber to check up on the status of the assault, and how far the invasion force had managed to push. As he observed the battle in the skies raging around the capital city, the doors to the office opened, and Miyahara knew just by how the air shifted exactly who had walked in...

"Keisuke, my boy..." He greeted in the warm, fatherly tone that his young protege was used to. "I was wondering how long it would take you to find me."

"Too long:" Keisuke responded. "This ends now, Miyahara! Your forces are in disarray, and your big lie will die with the Confederacy!"

"Then perhaps it is too late for this galaxy..." Miyahara responded, turning to face Keisuke. "Crooked Aisaka and her agents of chaos have got even you strung up like a marionette."

"What happened to you, man?" Keisuke muttered with disgust. "We used to stand for law and order: Not whatever the fuck this fascist shit is!"

"Conversely, I could ask the same of you:" Miyahara replied. "Whatever happened to draining the swamp? Making Starfleet Great Again??"

"Those ideas died the day you unleashed an angry mob on Starfleet Headquarters." Keisuke snarled.

"That was a day of peace and love that Crooked Aisaka violently and brutally suppressed!" Miyahara said.

"Tell that to the 250 Starfleet Officers and innocent cadets your thugs murdered!" Keisuke snapped back. "Your own sister, for fuck's sake!"

"She knew the risks when she enrolled:" Miyahara replied, coldly brushing off the news of his own sister's death. "The galaxy is an angry place, Keisuke. You think this mess is just going to be magically cleaned up once you clip me? Because that's what you came here to do, isn't it-?"

Miyahara was cut off by Keisuke letting out an animalistic scream as he finally snapped and rushed Miyahara, tackling him to the floor.

"I was your bitch!" Keisuke exclaimed as he straddle punched Miyahara. "I could've been staring down the barrel of your gun any day!"

Miyahara intercepted Keisuke's next punch.

"You fucking fraud!: He growled. "You'd still be at Lieutenant JG if it weren't for me! I made you into what you are, and this is what I get for it??"

Miyahara lunged for Keisuke's throat, catching the younger man off guard, and in seconds, the positions were reversed.

"Twenty years, I've worked to drain the swamp:" Miyahara continued. "To make the galaxy a safer place: Assure our gold star families that their loved ones didn't die in vain because some spoiled brat like Taiga Aisaka felt like kicking the hornet's nest! I'm not going to let a fraud like you tear it all down!"

"Go... To... Hell!" Keisuke wheezed as he found a pen that had rolled off the desk as the two men had tumbled over it grabbing it and thrusting it as hard as he could into Miyahara's eye.

Miyahara yelled in pain as Keisuke slid out from under him and got to his feet.

"You hoodwinked who knows how many untold numbers of people into believing you were an honorable man; my wife included." Keisuke snarled. "But now, they're starting to wake up, and realize you're just as spineless as any other Tal Shiar agent!"

Keisuke sucker punched Miyahara in his gut.

"You claimed to be Mr. Federation, but the Romulans turned you into their little lap dog..." Keisuke continued as Miyahara collapsed to the floor. "But, even the most faithful lap dogs have to be put down someday..."

"You think this is going to end here?" Miyahara laughed as Keisuke pointed his phaser at him. "The Romulan takeover has already begun... You won't see it coming until it's already too late..."

In the next second, Keisuke fired. His phaser set to a lethal setting. One second, Miyahara was there. The next he was a cooling body on the floor, for Keisuke's aim was firm and true.

"Sorry, Senpai:" Keisuke said to the corpse. "Your time is up..."

As Keisuke caught his breath. He knew that there was one more thing that needed to be done before they could return to the Myogi, and Terry's axe that he brought down with him might be the key. So, he made his way back to the doors and ducked out.

"Terry, can I borrow that axe real quick?"

[A Few Minutes Later...]

Keisuke and the away team burst into the Confederate Parliament chamber carrying Miyahara's severed head by the hair, pen still lodged into the eye socket. Keisuke threw the head into the center of the room, shocking the Confederate MPs before taking Miyahara's podium:

"Your god king is dead:" He declared. "Your forces are in disarray, and your defenses are crumbling: There's nowhere left to run, so I'm only going to say this once: Surrender, or be des-!"

Keisuke's ultimatum was suddenly interrupted when a mysterious portal opened in front of the podium, and through it stepped a wispy, glowing figure.

"So, you are the heroes of the Milky Way:" The figure spoke. "You have come further than we expected, but still you chase our shadows..."

"We won't be intimidated into surrender, asshole!" An MP suddenly called out, motioning for security to come forward. "Our ways of life will be preserved, and maintained, so help us..."

With a simple raising of the figure's arms, the objecting MP, approaching security detail, Tristana, and Terry were suddenly raised up off the floor and seemingly converted into pure energy, with the glowing forms seeming to go limp before they disappeared.

"We give you a single warning:" The figure continued. "Do not attract our attention again..."

With the words of warning, the figure turned and stepped back through the portal from whence it came, which proceeded to dissipate.

After the portal had dissipated, Keisuke popped up from behind the podium.

"What the hell was that??" Keisuke asked, the facade of the confident Starfleet officer was gone, and Keisuke now sounded like a frightened child.

[Much later...]

The remaining Confederates who had the authority to do so had called for a ceasefire, and over the next several hours, Starfleet and Confederate personnel alike were helping tend to the injured. With the situation safe, Maho had beamed down to speak to the surviving Confederate leadership:

"That was..." Maho stammered as she was still processing what Keisuke had told her: "That was the reason why we need to work together: It's time for all of this big lie bullshit to end."

"Agreed: Starting today, all Confederate member worlds will begin the process of rejoining the Federation... We can never make up for our past misdeeds, but we hope this is a good first step."

"Sometimes, a good first step in the right direction is all you need." Maho said, sealing the deal with a handshake.

A Mission Post By:

Captain Maho Takahashi
Commanding Officer

Commander Keisuke Takahashi
Second Officer

Lieutenant Commander Tristana
Assistant Chief Security/Tactical Officer

Lieutenant Terrence "Terry" Johnston
Assistant Chief Engineer

Tanaka Miyahara
Former Supreme Leader
Confederacy of Independent Planets

 

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