How the Time Flies

Chapter 5

Max pov
"I told you. I don't know where the location to the location of my ship is currently and if I did. I. Wouldn't. Tell. You." I say gritting my teeth. Once I had gotten stunned I woke up in the Romulus Secret Intelligence Facility, also known to most as the Talshear. Where they proceeded to lock me up and torture the information out of me. "That isn't wise Captain. You don't want to know how much I am willing to go, to get the information out of you. We have a new strategy but I really would like to use it, so tell me again. Where is your ship? How did you get it past the entire neutral zone undetected?" Remus asks. I stay silent, hoping he doesn't shoot me. Again. So far, I could feel my left side, near my ribs possibly broken, a cut on my right leg, and now, what I'm guessing will be a punch to the face. That doesn't happen, he pulls out his phaser and shoot me in my right shoulder, thankfully not my dominate arm. I curse under my breath in Gallifreyan and then get dragged back to my cell. "You aren't going to get information from me." I spit at the guards. "We will, in time." A guard says throwing me in the cell. They put the force field up and I sit down. Regretting that my shoulder got the hardest blow as I sat down. "You should probably put a sling around that arm of yours." Someone says in the darkness. "What's with people and dark corners?" I state turning around and re adjusting my arm so I don't end up making the pain worse than it already is. "I'm your cell mate. Names Vala. And you must be Stone." A girl says walking over from where she was sitting. She looked a bit ruff, but other than a scar running down the side of her face, she was normal. "Call me Max. And, I'll be fine. I've had worse....so why are you here?" I ask. "Smuggled Romulan information to various allies in the war. Manly Cardassian and Star Fleet." She says. "Cardassians. That's risky." I say sitting back down. "Like you said. Had worse."
She then comes over and starts to fix my shoulder. "Why are you here?" She asks. "Classified." I state. "Ah, defiantly Star Fleet then." She says smiling slightly. I look up and notice that she was Bajoran, she had her hair short and on one side, a Bajoran ear piece, the iconic nose bridges, and she was really kind. "I'm guessing you were on Bajor during the occupation?" I say wincing when she puts something on my shoulder. "Alcohol. We don't have anything fancy here. And..actually no. I lived in the Badlands. My father worked with the Maquis, I was only a kid when the occupation happened." She says. "How old....are you?" I ask. She looked around my age. "23." She says looking up at me and smiling slightly. "Ah. 22." I say. "Well, your shoulder should be good now, but I would keep it in the sling for a while, you got hit pretty bad and we don't have a dermal regenerator." Vala says. We stop talking because Remus comes back, the main guard. "Well well well. Time for round two, but before we go, I want to take you on a side tour. "You know, they say Romulans have no emotions yet I can clearly taste your sarcasm. Are you just bluffing, because that's rude." I say as we walk down various hallways. Remus looks at me and slaps me. "I see. That's Romulan for shut up I'm guessing. It's very universal." I say. He goes to pull out his hand for a second time, but stops because we are at the cell. "This is a man you might know." He says. "Spock." I whisper. "Max." He says. "I'll get you out of here Spock! I'll get you back to your family! I promise!" I say as I get dragged away. I am taken to a room that is pitch black, one dull light was on, and there was a chair with a table next to it. On the table was a box that looked a bit worn. "I told you that this was going to keep getting worse and worse if you didn't give me the answers I wanted captain." Remus says. "And I told you that you're going to regret it. Just you wait till my friends come." I state. He punches me and then slaps two nodes on each side of my head. "Well this is new! What is it? I love new tech, really." I say kind of sarcastically. "You will find out." He states. I fake frown and then clutch my head in pain. "Don't fight it captain or it will just get worse." He says. My mind was being filled with more and more of my memories, my past, and present. "Aaghhh!" I say wincing. "Show me your codes captain. Point me in the direction of Star Fleet." Remus says through it all. I hold back to urge to show him and instead let my past come forward. Then I thought to myself, I've been to different Romulan planets, there must be one where the Doctor would be held. But oh how I didn't want to go back to those memories, for they were of my darkest hours. I start from A and work my way down to Z, my head feeling more and more packed. Remus kept asking me questions and I kept pushing them aside, but I didn't have much time. If I was going to do this, it had to be now. That's when I came across a world called Kata IV, I was taken there when I was 12 by Admiral Pike. He thought it would be good for me to learn more about cultures. The mission didn't end well, I had gotten kidnapped and Pike had gotten shot in the leg. Apparently a old enemy of the federation who had a grudge against Pike and his crew was on Kata at the time. For 4 days I was held there alone, kept in a very small cell, and forced to tell them all that I knew. I had refused, which only made the conditions worse those 4 long days. When I got rescued I swear I had seen a man in a colorful suit with a girl. Little did I know that it was the Doctor, in his 6th regeneration at the time. He didn't see me, but I know he had felt my presence. It was the only place I could think they would take him to be put, because something happened on that planet while I was there, and it all revolved around the Doctor.