Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium Omnibus by Judith Reeves-Stevens

Author:Judith Reeves-Stevens
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Star Trek, Star Trek Omnibuses, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743455855
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2002-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

“This is the station,” he exclaimed. He touched the release tabs on his restraints and pushed himself from the chair. His feet gently made contact with the floor of the pod. Automatically, Sisko estimated gravity at about one-tenth Earth normal.

He nodded at Arla, who then released herself to stand on the floor, still holding the loose restraints to keep herself from bouncing into the pod's low ceiling.

With extreme caution, Sisko began moving toward the open portal.

The glare from the single dim light fixture in the airlock prevented him from seeing through the viewport in the far door. All he could be sure of was that whatever was beyond, it was in the dark as well.

He stepped from the pod into the airlock, almost falling as normal gravity suddenly took over.

The moment he regained his footing he took hold of Arla's arm. “Careful. They must be able to focus gravity fields better than we could.”

“Who?” Arla asked, as she cautiously entered the more powerful field.

“Knowing Weyoun, this is probably some game he's devised.”

“Or a trap.”

“He already had us,” Sisko reminded her. He pushed his face against the viewport, cupping his hands around his eyes to shield his vision and squinting to see some sort of detail in whatever lay beyond. But the darkness there was absolute.

A sudden mechanical grinding noise caused him to spin around. He saw the other wheel door roll shut, cutting off any chance of their returning to the pod. In any event, with the pressure door damaged—by what? Sisko suddenly wondered—the pod would not be the safest place to be.

Another rush of air popped his ears. Oddly enough, the effect made Sisko feel better, because he knew it meant that when the second wheel door opened there would be an atmosphere on the other side.

He turned to check on Arla. “Are you all right?”

Silent, she nodded, slowly raising her hand to point toward the second wheel door, her eyes wide with alarm.

And then just as the second door began to roll Sisko caught sight of what had disturbed her. For just an instant, through the moving viewport, against the darkness of what lay beyond, two eyes glowed red.

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