Detained Pt. 2

Posted on Sun Nov 9th, 2025 @ 12:54am by Captain Rogue "Ro" Kudo {Meji Master} {Flt. Cpt.} & Yui Kudo {Little Fox} {YuiFox}

Mission: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT 10/25
Location: Earth
Timeline: current/somewhere in between

OOC: Many years ago I played a character from a species I designated the Puazi. The pic of said PC is in Yui's bio pics to show what her eyes, the glyph on her body, and the stripes would look like on her. Her eyebrows and ears are not that elongated, but I have played with the idea that she may mutate into a Puazi. The first, and only, of her kind. Just an FYI to explain things a bit better. Some portions of Puazi biology are taken from the Avatar films.

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Qeritas had talked Admiral Stone into contacting the Federation Council and asking them to meet them on Spacedock over Earth. There was an auditorium designed for this, with massive panoramic windows that showed the vessels around Spacedock, the Earth, and the moon. A chamber suited for diplomacy when outside parties did not want the trouble of beaming to Earth to negotiate. Once the Admiral had said it was done, Qeritas then gave him coordinates near to Spacedock, and to warn other ships to not be there. Again, it was done. "Okay, I have done as you've asked," Aaron said while the four of them stood on the Bridge. "What now?"

Qeritas raised her hand and snapped her fingers. There was a momentary flash and then Nautilus was fine, except the Bridge became super-active super quick. Helm spoke up. "Admiral, we're in orbit over Earth, all stop near to Spacedock. All systems at station keeping." The look of amazement on his face was clear as day as he looked at the Q in their presence. She gave the young officer a pleasant grin. Aside from that, there was a sudden influx of calls from various sources, asking USS Nautilus how they were able to simply appear out of nowhere. Once things were established that all was safe and done by a Q, permission was then given to beam over to the foyer just outside the auditorium. "Alright, to the transporter..."

"...room..." Aaron Stone stopped talking as he now realized that within a split second he had gone from the Bridge of a starship to the massive, decorated, and carpeted foyer of a Spacedock auditorium. Security for the event reacted by placing their hands on their sidearms without drawing them. "Easy, people. We're here to see the Council." As Stone dealt with speaking to Security, Ro and Yui looked around. Both of them, separately, noting there were far more Security in the surrounding antechambers. They were taking no chances.

Ro looked at Yui, giving her hand a squeeze. Yui looked up and met her gaze, but her expression was not one of fear or anxiety. More like a determined curiosity.

"They're ready for us," Admiral Stone announced. "Let's try to be on our best behavior, shall we? I like my job." Straightening his uniform as the women all adjusted themselves for propriety, he then nodded to the door sentries and led the way in. The diplomatic chamber was packed with every member of the Federation Council and their immediate staff. The UFP President, a Human male, was in his fourth year as the head of government. The office was held once, for life, with a six year term. Once your term was over you could never be President again. The President, Omar Kasdan, stood at his podium on a raised platform, centered before the Council. They, in turn, all had tiered seats on the same raised platform so they could see above the heads of their peers without difficulty. More stadium seating was to either side of the main entry walkway, these seats being filled with all the highest ranking members of Starfleet Command. The group of visitors with Admiral Stone arrived at the hearing table.

The Admiral made to sit in one of the two 'centered' chairs out of the four. Qeritas reached out and got a handful of his uniform at the shoulder and forcefully moved him to the seat at the far left from their vantage point. "I will sit next to Yui." Stone gave her a disapproving look but conceded to her abruptness, not only out of politeness but also for appearances. Aaron did note that what the Q had done had caused Council members to lean towards each other and speak privately, some with a look of disdain or surprise, depending on species. Qeritas sat down next to Stone, Yui to her right, and Ro to Yui's right at the opposite end of the table from the Admiral.

President Kasdan looked at Aaron. "Admiral Stone, if you would introduce your charges for the record."

Aaron gave a nod, and with no need for microphones in this day and age, motioned to his right. "This woman is a Q, known by her chosen name, Qeritas. To her right is Yui Kudo, daughter of Captain Ro Kudo, seated to her right."

All eyes looked at the trio of females, but they seemed to linger more on Qeritas and Yui. Captain Ro Kudo was well-known, as was her record. As the introduction had been made, Qeritas passed Yui an item palmed in her hand, with Yui hearing in her mind; "put it on". Playing the bad child under scrutiny, Yui dipped her chin to appear embarrassed by all the attention, her eyes going to her own hand as it opened and showed her a gold, two finger ring. She slipped it onto her fingers on her left hand, the holes larger than her digits but, the moment she slipped it on it molded to fit her fingers perfectly morphing to look like a pair of plain gold hoop bands.

"Admiral Stone, the Council has questions in regards to recent events. I shall allow their queries." President Kasdan turned and sat in his chair, handing the questioning over to the Council.

A Vulcan representative cleared his throat politely. "I am Council member Sirok. The Federation Council is troubled by the latest reports of yet another incident involving genetic manipulation. Captain Kudo, your report was disturbing in many ways. Your own logs show what your daughter was capable of doing. Showed her give her life to destroy this Reman god Grezhok. After a rather intense antimatter explosion that, according to passive scans, had annihilated all matter, your daughter was once again standing on the bridge of the captured vessel."

An Andorian woman leaned forward in her chair, looking towards those at the table. "We are wondering if you may have manipulated the logs and directed them to cover for whatever you kept from the official record."

Ro, unhappy to be here for all this, had her eyes moving about on the Council members as she spoke. "Do any of you know how to read?" She stood up and came around the table, to pace back and forth before the assembly, her query causing light inhalations as the Council was surprised by her abruptness. "What you saw on the internal sensor logs, we also wrote about and admitted. Every detail, every action. If there was no visual of it, there was a written accord. Nothing was left out because I do not lie on official Starfleet reports."

Yui got up suddenly, and joined her mother, standing beside her as she came to a stop and put her arm over her daughter's shoulder. Seeing that they were going to face this head on, Qeritas stood and joined them, to Ro's left. None of them seemed to care about Admiral Stone because this was not about him, nor had anything to do with him aside from his flag position.

Qeritas spoke as her eyes scanned the Council, meeting their gaze one at a time. "Just know, as of now, the entire known galaxy is now witness to this trial. There is nothing you can do about it so don't even try. Let us see just how free and altruistic the United Federation of Planets truly is. Now, your neighbors will know also."

The room went dead quiet as everyone within the chamber suddenly realized that if she was being truthful it could make them look really, really bad in the eyes of their own citizens, as well as, citizens of every other galactic government.

Yui raised her hand, stepping forward a pace. She looked right at Omar Kasdan. "Mister President, why is everyone afraid of me?"

Kasdan gave a sigh of sympathy. "We are unsure of your intentions, Yui. There have been super beings in the past that have wreaked havoc. Not only in the UFP, but other cultures. We don't know how you are still here; how you were brought back."

"The Q Continuum," Qeritas interjected. "That's how. We are omnipotent and can do many things. Like the Organians when they stopped the Federation and Klingon Empire from going to war over their world. A world neither of you had any right to stake a claim on. The end result was a Starfleet Captain and a Klingon Commander coming together and cursing the Organians that they had no right to interfere in their affairs. When, all along, it was those two governments who were interfering."

"In all my years serving Starfleet," Ro said. "I have seen many times when things did not go our way in negotiations. I've seen the Federation apply pressure on worlds not yet members, pushing and pushing to get their way. If the world in question continues to say no, what happens? Suddenly, Starfleet Command adjusts their fleet status so as not to provide health and safety patrols in a sector, leaving non-combat vessels vulnerable to piracy and attack. A fearful, vulnerable society is easier to control and manipulate."

The Andorian woman sat forward again. "How dare you accuse us of impropriety. You, yourself, are an Augment are you not? Perhaps we should have arrested you and kept all this from happening."

Yui stood quietly, listening to all these adult children accusing each other of vile acts and subterfuge. But, when a perceived threat towards her mother came up she could no longer hold back. An inner eyelid she did not even know was there until now opened, her vision suddenly far more acute. Externally, she could not see that dropping the inner eyelids had exposed her true eyes, which now glowed with a blue similar in color and brightness as a plasma conduit. The inner eyelid was a defense against her eye glow being seen during times of stealth. Right now she was not hiding. As the eyes became apparent Yui took in a large breath and then let it out in a forceful roar as loud as a lion, but matching her cultural hero Gojira. "HEEEEEEEEEEY!" The entire chamber rose to their feet, some ready for combat, most others looking at her in fear. What they had seen on the logs they were now seeing with their own eyes. No spines growing, no tail, but the eyes and roar being enough to convince them that she held within her an unknown element.

As soon as everyone reacted and stood, Qeritas waved her hand and they were all locked in place, only their eyes able to move. That hand wave also dropped the galactic transmission and then erased it from that timeline. The only people who knew what was being said now were those in this auditorium. "Enough!" She turned a circle to face each area of seating slowly. "I will release you without harm if you calm yourselves and do not overreact. I hear one order to apprehend any one of us, you will all live out your lives as the animals I choose." She did as she promised, and despite wanting to, no one reacted negatively and ordered the apprehension of the two they knew they could grab if given a fair chance. "There, that's better," said Qeritas. "Sit down, please." Again, seats were taken and everyone settled, still on edge and suspicious. "Yui, you had something to say?"

"I do." Yui's glowing eyes looked to the Council and President, her gaze falling on the Vulcan, Sirok. "You." She pointed directly a moment. "This Council chooses to call us liars when your entire culture is based on lies and subterfuge, Mister Sirok. I have done my reading and was blessed with genetic memory for a while. This Andorian is defending you when she knows the truth as well. P'Jem, a sacred monastery of Vulcan logic, housed a listening post at one time. The Andorians accused you multiple times of it being there and you lied to cover your own dishonor. To make the Andorians appear to be the aggressors." Yui looked from the Vulcan to the Andorian, who glanced at each other before looking back to Yui.

"You are correct in your assessment," Sirok admitted. The Andorian was looking a tad bit more sheepish as her own cultural history was thrown in her face.

"Vulcans tell us that logic alone dictates their actions," Yui continued. "So, using logic, can you explain to anyone in this room what a soul is or where it comes from? What a conscience is and where it comes from? Vulcans call their soul the Inner Chorus so, don't pretend to not know what I'm talking about. Everything my mother and I did aboard that Romulan ship was for the greater good of all. ALL! Not just the UFP but, every sentient being in this galaxy. What you witnessed me doing with the plasma radiation breath was a gift I asked this Q to grant me for the battle with the Remans. It is gone now, as I also requested." She stopped talking, glancing at all the faces to see if anything was resonating.

The Andorian woman spoke as she sat forward, this time with a far more calm demeanor. "I am Minister Leyra, since I never gave my name. I have to ask, Miss Yui. If that power is gone why are your eyes glowing as we have seen on the visual logs?"

"Wait...what?" Yui looked at her mother. Ro gave a nod and pulled out her palm PADD, leaving it closed down so Yui could use the blank screen. Taking the item and looking at her reflection in it, she could see that her eyes were glowing. Not like when she had used the gift, but they were definitely aglow. Instinct told her to close her inner eyelid to douse the glow from being seen, so she did so. Voila! She could see, albeit not as acutely, but the inner eyelid covered the glow. She handed mom's PADD back and looked to Leyra. "There, problem solved. Seems I have things to learn about myself."

"Therein lies the issue," President Kasdan stated as he looked to the young lady. "You have things to learn about yourself, and as that learning commences and you find yourself developing even more unique abilities, how are we to know you will use them in a benign fashion."

"You will just have to trust me, Mister President." Yui responded, which brought a few snickers from the Starfleet seats.

"I'll see to it personally if she crosses a line." Qeritas said. "After all, part of her being is Q. As such she is an automatic member of the Q Continuum. We police our own as they both can tell you."

Ro had not expected to hear that part, that her daughter was a Q. Here we go again, she thought. Each new revelation enforced her want to not see Qeritas for a very, very long time; perhaps never again. She was losing her daughter to all this metaphysical manipulation. Her daughter was, by definition, a mutant. Not an Augment. But, with where they were now she figured the best course of action was to go along with Qeritas and what she was saying. Yui was her daughter, no matter how this all played out, and she would protect her young with the ferocity of a mama Grizzly. "If she becomes problematic, a danger, I will end her myself, Mr. President. My Starfleet oath still stands, against all enemies foreign and domestic." Ro and Yui's eyes met for a moment, the girl surprised at first to hear that come out of her mother's mouth. However, that brief look into each other's eyes showed Yui that her mother was using rhetoric to alleviate their anxiety.

After that round was said, the Council asked the guests to wait outside as they conferred. They all left the chamber and out to the lobby/foyer. Yui went to the replicator and ordered a large banana split with all the sweet treat trimmings. Stone and Kudo gathered themselves a beverage each, while Qeritas had nothing. All of them sat around a table to relax until a decision was made.

"Does your offer still stand, Qeritas?" Ro looked at the Q, who gazed back at her with an askance expression. "If they decide to arrest Yui will you honor what you said?"

"Absolutely," Qeritas replied stoically.

"Ya know, I'm sitting right here, Ro." Aaron Stone said. "Talking about going on the run is not the best way to keep me in your camp."

Yui swallowed a large mouthful of ice cream upon hearing that, having to take a moment to get over brain freeze before she injected herself into the conversation. "Can we please stop? Please? All this should bring us closer together, not drive us apart. All of us." She glanced at Q before going on. "I just want to be me. Have ice cream, sing, dance, learn science and become a physician. But, until I attain those things, let me be a youngling. If they honor what the Federation stands for then all will be fine." All the adults gave her a look of appreciation, finding her reasoning refreshing. "What are these?" Yui held her hand up to Q and wiggled her fingers with the rings on.

Qeritas gave a grin. "Bring your fingers together and think of the ring back in one piece." She watched Yui do so, her eyes widening a bit as it worked. "Now, you can keep the ring that way, or separate them. But, you have to wear both in some way for the Eldritch magick to be accessed. Rings, ear rings, a septum piercing. whatever. Together in one item, as now, that is a Slingring. You will have to practice with it to make it more user friendly but it doesn't take long for a sharp intellect to figure it out. Your Q essence will greatly help in that regard. After all, the Q in Continuum stands for quantum."

"Good to know," Stone said, smiling. "Come on, don't look at me like that. You knew I would make note of that the moment you said it."

Qeritas gave a mirthful roll of her eyes. "You're right, I did. Ro, you've been awfully quiet the past several hours. Still hate me?"

"The jury is still out," Ro replied, although her eyes did not show any type of hatred, just a lot of frustration over all that had transpired. All she wanted right now was to get back to M-69 and help get the station back in working order once these proceedings were finished. With a sigh she started over. "Look, I don't hate you. Angry with you? Yes. Tired of my family being the brunt of all your little games? Absolutely. Just...just stop for a while, okay? Please?"

The Q's face softened in another of her rare moments of actually caring. "You have my word. I will leave things be for a while. No contact unless to just visit, or if there is a danger you need to know about. I won't interfere and will let you and your companions deal with it."

"Thank you," came out in stereo from Yui, Aaron, and Ro, all of them glad to hear that as they popped it out.

The four kept chatting amongst themselves until they were called back in to the assembly. Several ministers had gathered votes from others, and then presented the verdict. The President then addressed the assembled, reminding them all that the UFP was not a government based on bigotry. Everyone, all species, were to be treated equally until they proved otherwise. The original Borg were not a species who could be reasoned with, but offshoots did arise and overcame their enslavement. Yui Kudo had yet to provide evidence that she was dangerous to the Federation way of life, and with that in mind, the government had no right to detain her for any reason. As a citizen, born of a citizen and member of Starfleet, Yui was protected by the same laws as everyone else. All of them were free to go.

Once they had left the assembly, the three women headed over to a seldom used corridor for every day foot traffic. The same corridor Ro had known, and used, as a senior cadet and a junior officer many years ago. It was a cargo junction, the warehouse section of Spacedock. Qeritas began to instruct Yui on how to use the Slingring to open a portal and get them back home, with Ro aiding in that with her own techniques for using the Force. Focus, know what will happen, then make it happen. It took about ten minutes in the small observation lounge they had found to do this in but, Yui gave her somatic gestures for portal activation, unique for her own purposes as a practitioner of Eldritch magick. Just before she began to call on the magickal energy, Q did warn her that the further the distance the more taxing it would be on her body. Too often in too short a time would leave her exhausted to the point of incapacitation depending on distance. Taking that warning to heart, Yui produced her portal, and she could feel the draw on her body's own energy reserves as it appeared since where she wanted to go was their living room on M-69. A round portal formed with swirling amber sparks of energy around the outer ring, but looking into the portal they could see their home.

"Good job, Little Fox," Ro said with a smile. "You're a fast learner."

"Visit us soon, Qeritas." Said Yui, wanting to get through and home to shut it down and flop into a chair. "We need to go or we won't make it."

"I will," Qeritas smiled and then vanished. Mother and daughter stepped through the portal and into their home on M-69, the portal shrinking quickly and disappearing with a final pop of a few amber sparks.

Yui used a hand to lean on the arm of the couch. "She wasn't kidding. That was taxing. Go see to your job, mom, I need a nap." She stumbled off to her room.

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