Repression... A Faldek Log!

[LtCdrFaldek 0]

Faldek quickly drifts off to sleep in the pilots' chair after Farrington decides to disobey a direct order from a flag officer. He obviously is perfectly okay with this, but he noted in his log that he protested, not saying what he protested, but that he did. As he sleeps he moves into REM sleep and begins to dream. Only this isn't a dream or is it?

 

Faldek is 18 years old, an operative for the Obsidian Order. His mission: find and extract a particular individual code named Daikon. As he recieves his orders in his home on Cardassia Prime in Cardassia City, the capitol of the Cardassian Union, he places the data rod, which cannot be duplicated into his personal console, and listens to the content, commits it to memory and summarily destroys the data rod. According the information he recieved, the individual to be called Daikon, was kidnapped by the Breen Confederacy. His mission to play cop and find this individual, but why he thinks... would the Order want to rescue someone so badly? It was not really what he was trained for. He dissapeared people, not the other way around, truly puzzling indeed, but orders are orders, especially if they came from the Order.

 

Like any well trained person, he started with a disguise, this time he would be a Dalin of the Cardassian Union Military. He applied certain make up tones to make him look more the age of a lieutenant commander. Then moving on, without any real physical evidence, just Daikon's last known whereabouts, a restaurant in Lakarian City. He boarded the transport to that city, and within no time he was there. Unknown to him at the time, this was Gul Dukat's home town, he would later find that out. Faldek heads to the restuarant and takes a seat, people looking at him with admiration and respect, his rank and job title displayed on his uniform. Faldek orders seafruit, and taspar eggs fried with a nice warm glass of Kanar to wash it down. As the order is taken he requests to know who was working on the date in question and has that person ... brought to his table.

 

According the file and by the admission of the employee named, Bannek, a person fitting the description of Daikon had been in 2 days ago and had lunch. Bannek wasn't sure what was ordered and I suggested he find out. After carefully reviewing the logs Bannek had ordered tefla broth and rokat with Bajoran spring wine to wash it down with. Now that's odd Faldek thought, Bajoran spring wine. Faldek askes to see the security footage, but according the establishments owners the data rods are re-recorded over every 36 hours. Realizes that's a violation of the new laws put in place last week, files it away to be reported to the Order, and have the owner properly... educated on the new laws.

 

After eating a scrumptous meal, Faldek feels enlightened by what he was told by Bannek. Apparently Daikon was rather talkative and lead on that she was leaving for a while on a diplomatic mission to Romulus. However according to the orders Daikon recieved she was not doing such a thing, she was actually tasked to head up a covert mission against the Federation. As he mulls over the facts he begins to get slightly confused about the whole ordeak. Daikon was kidnapped by the Breen, lied to a waiter about going to Romulus, but was infact going to spy on the Federation. As he thinks, walking down the sidewalk, lost in thought he becomes aware of something around him, not sure what, and then suddenly he drops to the ground, unconcious and is taken away swiftly by an untracable transporter beam.

 

Faldek awakens on a ship, he's not sure what kind as he is still very groggy from whatever it was that made him unconcious. As he becomes aware he is on a Cardassian vessel, unsure of the class as he is only in a single room on the ship, but from the markings on the walls it is deffinately of Cardassian design. He is no longer wearing his Dalin uniform and armor, he was stripped down to nothing but his skivvies. Faldek is tied down to the table with seemingly unmovable straps. A door opens and he hears two people, then they both come into the light, and he can see them. Both Cardassian males, and both were wearing medical garbs. Faldek begins by asking why he was taken and where he was, the reply came swiftly in the form of an electrical shock to his cranial cavity, and oddly enough he felt pain, not pleasure, and he cries out.

 

A moment later he hears the door open again, this time a Gul in uniform comes into view, the man introduces himself as Gul Madred, Cardassian Union Military Intelligence. Realizing somehow that his cover had been blown, tries to think his way out of this. He knows that his Dalin disguise had all the right documentation, but sometimes the Military Intelligence analysts can spot a fake. Apparently the MI had been looking for this Daikon as well. After being tortured for hours, Faldek broke, telling what he knew, that he was an Obsidian Order operative, on mission to find Daikon. They wanted her real name, but as Faldek did not know he could not give them that information, and he was totured even more, almost to the point of death.

 

He was dumped in front of the Obsidian Order's Administration building. Faldek wakes up inside another dark room, with medical things inserted into his body, his arms and legs in dermal coverings. He didn't feel any pain though, this time he felt simply pleasure, as his "Wire" had been repaired. Faldek can see a figure sitting in a chair in the corner of the room in the dark. He askes who the person is but there was no reply. After a moment the person started to speak. He tells Faldek that he failed and that Daikon was found dead in a sub-impulse pod floating near the DMZ. Faldek asked what day it was and was surprised to learn that he had been out for 4 days. The person described what Faldek already knew, that his cover had been blown and of course that he was tortured and his wire disabled by MI.

 

According the operative, Daikon as a mole for MI, that had somehow infiltrated the Order. To Faldek that seemed impossible, technically this would not count as a failure on his record but in his mind, he had failed his mission. Retrieve the person, alive. Faldek asked the Order to alter his memory engrams so that this memory would not harm his future performance. They did, but apparently the doctor that had given Faldek a new face wasn't too great at fixing memories and this one resurfaced.

 

Now in his mind, dreaming in the Chimera Faldek wakes up, a thin layer of what the Cardassians call perspiration on his forehead, his head and entire body in pain, imagined pain, he realizes this wasn't the only person he ever lost on his watch, he looks at the chronometer on the console and sees its nearing first light as he can see the sun starting to rise, with a red dawn, and vows that he will not lose Lowen, and that if he did, he would lose himself.