U.S.S.M.C. Document 4010121-30137 DISP
CLASSIFICATION CODE: ULTRA
Interrogation Transcript
Subject: Corporal Sonya Nero
107th Volunteers, Colonial Space Marines
Conductor: Captain Dkimbe Uomo
Office of the Judge Advocate General
Observers: Admiral Isao Kumagai
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
Colonel Adrienne DeMarguerite
2nd Lieutenant Billy Eastwood
Recorded: 12/30/2107
Location: Albion Station
U.S.S.M.C. Command H.Q. (Avalon Quadrant)
Mars Orbit
Corporal Sonya Nero
Am I under arrest, sir?
Captain Dkimbe Uomo
Not yet, Corporal. What I’d like to do right now is just get your version of what happened.
Corporal Sonya Nero
Can I get a lawyer, or—
Captain Dkimbe Uomo
We’re hoping that you’ll cooperate with us at this phase of the investigation. We’re not trying to point fingers; you understand that we’re interested first and foremost in the recovery of survivors.
Corporal Sonya Nero
Survivors? Are you serious?
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
This isn’t funny, Corporal. I suggest you drop the fucking attitude and answer our questions, or I guarantee you I will shitcan your ass into a hole on Neptune so cold and deep you’ll be pissing icicles while a dozen bulldykes with dicks bigger than mine pound you up the ass in a conga line for the rest of your natural fucking life.
Corporal Sonya Nero
Wow.
Captain Dkimbe Uomo
Colonel, please, I’m handling this.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
Bullshit you are. Why is this marine bleeding on my deck?
Captain Dkimbe Uomo
That’s how she was brought in. You said you wanted her processed right away.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
She’s no good to me bleeding all over the place.
Corporal Sonya Nero
Can I have my cigarettes back?
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
Get a medic in here.
2nd Lieutenant Billy Eastwood
Yes sir.
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Captain Dkimbe Uomo
Sir, this is irregular. She’s not cleared to be present for this interrogation. She’s not even an officer. We can suspend this interrogation until she’s well enough to—
Colonel Adrienne DeMarguerite
Captain, I think we’ll decide how this interrogation will proceed if that’s quite all right with you.
Captain Dkimbe Uomo
Yes Ma’am. Yes. I’d at least like to get your name for the transcript.
Corporal Ginger Stone
Corporal Stone, sir. 202nd Airborne E.M.C.
Captain Dkimbe Uomo
All right. Now Corporal Nero, I’d appreciate it if you would concentrate and answer honestly. We want to know what you know. Now, as to the issue of survivors.
Corporal Sonya Nero
You listen to me, Captain. There aren’t any survivors because I killed everyone on that station. And I’m glad I did it. I hope there aren’t any goddamn survivors because if there are you might as well shoot me now. Then yourselves.
Captain Dkimbe Uomo
Calm down. Have some water.
Corporal Ginger Stone
Sir, her heart’s running like a greyhound in the home stretch. How long have you been on stims?
Corporal Sonya Nero
six days? I don’t know. I had to keep moving. I couldn’t stop to sleep.
Colonel Adrienne DeMarguerite
Six days? That’s not possible. if you went without sleep that long you’d be so delusional you’d think spiders were climbing out of your skin.
Corporal Sonya Nero
Oh, you have no idea how right you are.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
Unbe-fucking-lievable. Corporal Nero, I swear to god—
Corporal Sonya Nero
You’ll what, you want to line me up in front of a firing squad? truth is I’ve probably soaked up enough rads to power this station if you stuck an extension cord up my ass—
Colonel Adrienne DeMarguerite
You what?
Admiral Isao Kumagai
It’s entirely possible. Our initial scans of the station picked up background radiation consistent with a catastrophic reactor containment leak. Nobody could have survived there for that long.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
Corporal Stone, I want a workup done of her blood on the double. Find out how long she’s got.
Corporal Sonya Nero
Wouldn’t want to miss my appointment with the hangman, huh.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
Nero—
Corporal Ginger Stone
I don’t see any evidence of lesions or skin discoloration. You been taking Rad-X?
Corporal Sonya Nero
Been poppin’ them down like Skittles. Haven’t been able to stomach solid food in days because it fucked my stomach up so bad. But I don’t think it was enough.
Admiral Isao Kumagai
Corporal, do you know who I am?
Corporal Sonya Nero
Sir, yes sir.
Admiral Isao Kumagai
My concern is the safety of the colonies and the security of the sector. I don’t want to punish you. Now if there’s something I need to know about Sisyphus 1, you need to tell me right now.
Corporal Sonya Nero
I’ll tell you everything I know, soon as you start asking the right questions. What you need to know right now is that if there’s anything left of Sisyphus 1 left on that rock, you have to take the Excalibur down there right now and nuke it until there’s nothing left but a mile-deep bowl of glass.
Admiral Isao Kumagai
What’s the nature of this threat, Nero? It sounds like you’re describing a contagion.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
A contagion? You mean a virus? Jesus Christ, we let her on this station without a quarantine—
Corporal Sonya Nero
It’s not a virus.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
--find everyone she’s come into contact with—
Corporal Sonya Nero
It’s not a virus! A virus didn’t do this to me. Believe me, if it’d got on this station it’d already be too late. You want to know what it is? Check the cargo compartment of the Magnum P.T.M. you found me in.
Colonel Adrienne DeMarguerite
We have it here. What are we looking for—oh my god.
Colonel Clinton Bettelheim
fucking Christ, what were you guys doing on that station?
Corporal Sonya Nero
I was in cryo when it all started. Can I get a smoke now?
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