Mission 2: The Shipment- As a new agent of the ultra secret autonomous group known only as Section 31, Mitschke must infiltrate a cloaked Romulan cargo ship deep inside the Neutral Zone and discover what it is carrying.
"I present to you the TR-116 rifle. It may never have gone into official production in the Federation, but Section 31 uses it as an effective weapon when death cannot be accomplished by "accident." The use of the wall piercing scope and point to point transporter should be extremely useful to you on this mission. You will never actually have to be in the same room as your mark. However, use of this weapon tends to make things very messy. If you go around shooting Romulans left and right and drawing attention to yourself, I will make sure that your death will not be an accident. Understand?"
"Yes, sir. I will prove myself to be an invaluable agent to this section."
"Many a young agent has made a similar boast. I certainly hope you do not meet their fates. Oh, and I nearly forgot. Your codename from now on will be Razer Kissed Wrists"
"Just tell me what needs to be done, and it will be. Enough chatter, tell me my mission."
"I like your style, but yes let us get on to business. Our reports tell us that a Romulan Warbird will be doing some business with a Ferengi of an extremely sensitive nature. You will become a stowaway on that Ferengi vessel and surgically altered to look like a Romulan soldier. Once there, you will have to remain hidden until the two vessels dock. When they do, you must sneak across into the Romulan ship; find out what is being traded, and if it is worth stealing. If so, hijack the ship, but make it look like the entire ship has defected, and send it back to a Section 31 starbase where it can be back engineered. Your only chance to get back into friendly territory is to return to the Ferengi ship before the trade is over."
"I see, let me guess, I will be all alone and the ship is on high alert for anything out of the ordinary? Perhaps there is a disease which affects any non-Romulans circulating in the air?"
"Now, now, you are a only a new agent. I couldn't trust you with anything that difficult. That is why I arranged for the Ferengi's request for repair to be denied. You should find the ship without any internal sensors and only emergency lights. The energy drain caused by maintaining a cloaking field around two vessels will cause the internal sensors on the Romulan ship to also be offline. Good luck, RKW.
To start her mission, RKW bribed a Ferengi crew member for entry into the vessel, but unfortunately, Ferengi trading policy seems to include hiding what they trade from their crew, so this low ranking member knew nothing of the ship's contents.
"Hmm, I guess it would have been too easy if he knew. I will find out complete this mission though. I'll show Sloan that I'm not just some stupid Starfleet officer. On to the cargo bay, my home for quite some time."
A few days pass before the rendezvous with the Romulan ship. This provided RKW with plenty of time to scan each and every item in the Ferengi's ship. She finds nothing out of the ordinary, medical supplies, some dylithium, a few tooth bushes which clearly cannot be for the Ferengi crew members, but there was something very important: a prototype phase-cloaking device.
"I bet Sloan would really like this back. It's definitely not something he would like the Romulans having. If anything will prove what an asset I am to this section, this will. Now, I just need to wait until this is aboard the warbird and make it defect. Shouldn't be that hard, least not for me."
The Ferengi ship and the Romulan ship finally connect, and RKW makes her way across the airlock where her disguise can be used. As it turns out, there seems to be already be some unrest among the crew. The first officer really distrusts the Ferengi and is determined to not let any of those orange giant eared freaks on board. Nor is he willing to trade with a race known for its underhandedness in commerce related matters. This is the perfect opportunity for a cunning agent like RKW to weave even further descent. She enters the mess hall of the ship to begin her work.
"I can't believe that the Captain would dare to trust a Ferengi. How the hell would they have access to the kind of hardware they are talking about? Even the best agents of the Tal Shiar couldn't find out about its existence, let alone steal it from beneath Starfleet's nose," said Sub-Commander L'aes.
"You know what I hear," said RKW, "the Captain intends to take this back to Starfleet command as proof of his defection. He intends to deliver that and this entire ship to the Federation. He's even going to secretly change course and prevent us from changing it back."
"What! I will not stand for this kind of treason. I serve the Imperial Star Empire, and I will not let the Captain complete this dastardly mission. I'm putting a stop to this, NOW! Julan tru."
With the seeds of betrayal sown, the newly inducted Section 31 operative had a very easy task before her. She found the closest console, which was in fact a replicator in the mess hall, and forged all the evidence that the first officer would need to kill the Captain. Flight path locked to the Section 31 starbase, command entered with the Captain's codes and "from the Captain's chair." Our heroine makes her way leisurely back to the Ferengi vessel and sends a message back to Section 31. The Ferengi's repair order has just been granted by a Federation starbase nearby. Time for a well earned nap for Ms. Mitschke.