Star Trek Voyager - 33 - Enemy of My Enemy (Spirit Walk Book 2) by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780743492577
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2005-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

The Changeling dreaded sleep, but in his completely human form, he required it. He lay on Chakotay’s bed, staring out the window at the stars streaking past, wishing he were heading to Earth instead of back to Loran II, to Earth, where he could disappear without a trace. His eyes closed and the dream, as it always did, broke upon his sleeping mind like a wave crashing on the shoreline.

It had all gone so well, better than he had dared hope. The massacre on Tevlik’s moon base was not part of the original deal struck between Dukat and the Dominion, of course, but the Changeling who now wore the face of Ensign Andrew Ellis felt certain that was a minor technicality. Gul Dukat had made it clear what he wanted by allying with the Dominion. He hated the Maquis with an obsession, and he wanted them eradicated. Over the last three days the Jem’Hadar and the Cardassians had done almost precisely that.

Over the last year the Changeling had managed to kidnap and place in stasis not only Ellis—a rising young star not long out of the Academy; the wife and infant Ellis had were trivial obstacles as far as the Changeling was concerned—but others as well. No one too noticeable, no one too important, just people in certain handy positions he could become for longer periods of time. He kept them in stasis, realizing that when the time came for him to stop impersonating any one of them, he could arrange a tragic “accident” and produce a fresh body.

Ellis was a transitory body. It was good to have a Federation alias, and as things were about to heat up here in the Alpha Quadrant, it would be easy enough for “poor Ellis” to have a hero’s death in some battle somewhere.

The Changeling was the proudest, though, of Arak Katal, who was completely fictitious. He had created the face and body from his own imagination, making a “character” as real as any of the actual people he could impersonate. It had been good enough to fool all those trusting Maquis. He’d picked out the moon base, he’d led them all there, he’d convinced them it was safe enough to bring their children.

And now he’d shown the Cardassians right where they were. A few had survived, but only a handful. The Changeling was proud of his handiwork.

He’d watched the destruction from the safety of a cloaked ship. Even if anyone had been able to detect him, it was unlikely anyone would care, considering what was happening on the moon and in the space around it. Now that it was all over but the body count, he was happily heading back to Earth, where “Ellis” would rendezvous with his starship.

He was startled when he heard the hail, but relaxed slightly when he realized who it must be. And sure enough, there was the pale, dark-haired image of a Vorta on the viewscreen.

It was one of the Elani clones. She was young, younger than most, and quite attractive.

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