Memoirs of the Forgotten

[SevereTrinity]

I woke up bathed in a circle of dull white lights. Beyond that, darkness. As thoughts rushed through my head, I came to one conclusion; I had been captured. I wasn't due back for two weeks. No one would check up on me. With every new thought I was filled with more despair than the previous.

The darkness spoke to me.

"Right... Here's the deal. You're in a sealed room on a multilevel complex, with a hundred armed guards on board, hidden away in deep space. And there are no ships docked. Oh, and you're tied into your chair. And before you try and figure a way out of this, remember we have your husband." The satirical tone of the interrogatory voice bit into me, but even more so the truth behind his words.

I remained silent; the odds were against me and I had no chance of esca- my emergency implant. It was on my arm. If I could just pinch it to activate it's distress call...

"We removed that as well."

I could not remain silent anymore, "Well, what the hell do you want with me then?" I shouted, trying but failing to hide the fear from my voice.

"We want you to sit still and not cause any fuss. We're not going to ask you anything because we don't need to. You have a chip on your forehead. We can use this chip to extract everything we need straight from your brain, albeit you will suffer extreme, but we don't care about that, now do we? Oh, and every time you act up we can give you an electrical jolt that will leave you paralyzed for a day. Are we clear?"

I did not respond.

"Good."

Agony. Searing, burning agony. They took the information from my mind. Navy defense intelligence, our future battle plans, everything I had committed to memory. Memory. The pain I felt at that moment never left mine. To this day I can still remember it. To this day, I still feel the pain.