Star Trek DS9 - 03 Bloodletter by K. W. Jeter

Author:K. W. Jeter [K. W. Jeter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Media Tie-In, Space Opera
ISBN: 9780671872755
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2014-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

It had been worth a shot. He told himself that, as he told himself after any rejection. Or striking out, as one of Commander Sisko’s ancient ballplayers might have termed it. The fact that the substation, with Kira aboard, was on its way to its destination reaffirmed that persistence had its eventual rewards. He’d have to try to remember that.

Bashir stood up and stretched, working out the kink that had settled between his shoulder blades. The sensors and their rapidly accumulating data would have to wait; after this much work, he felt more like a nap, after a perusal of whatever had been coded into the shuttle’s food replicator.

There wasn’t time for that. No sooner had Bashir checked the tracking monitor—it showed the substation just approaching the wormhole’s exit—than he was thrown from his feet by a sudden surge of power. He landed on his hands and knees, feeling the vibration coming up through the pilot area’s floor.

Below him, in the bowels of the cargo shuttle, the impulse engines had come to life.

“What the—” He grabbed a corner of the control panel to lift himself up; he barely managed to hold onto it as the cargo shuttle was shaken by an even stronger force, caught by a shock wave that dwarfed the bomblets’ explosion. The instrument readouts of the exterior sensors peaked, then were overloaded by the fury of electromagnetic radiation pouring into them. A blinding red light sliced through the visual ports.

It’s them—Bashir’s thoughts slammed against the confines of his skull. Out there . . . they felt the engines—

Impossible to stand; he crawled, fingers clawing at the seams of metal, as the keening of the shuttle’s alarms mounted. He reached desperately for the access panel that would take him down to the lower compartments, as the blow of an invisible hammer twisted a darkening cage around him.

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