Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Trapped in Time by Ted Pedersen

Author:Ted Pedersen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, Star Trek Young Adult, Star Trek
ISBN: 0671014404
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 1998-02-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Earth, Occupied France, Normandy, 1944

Nog sat and brooded in a dark cellar. The shelves had once held food and wine, but now they were empty. Poverty was one of the plagues that came with war. Empty wooden crates served as furniture. A faint light came through a small, narrow window high on the wall.

Nog heard the turn of a key in the lock, and the door opened. Jake was pushed inside, and then the door slammed shut behind him. The key was turned again, and they were locked in. This might not be a holding cell in Constable Odo’s office on Deep Space Nine, but escape was just as impossible.

“You’re OK?” Nog asked.

Jake rubbed his head. That was a bad idea, since it still hurt whenever he did it, but he did it anyway. “Except for needing a new head. What about you?”

“I’d be a lot better if we could get out of here.”

“Little chance of that,” Jake said, sitting down on a crate. “These appear to be members of the French Resistance. They’re fighting the Germans.”

“Then they should help us,” Nog said. His eyes brightened at the possibility of finding allies.

“I don’t think so,” Jake said. “They probably think we’re spies. In which case, they’ll execute us. Or they may believe we’re innocent victims of the war. But even then, they’ll keep us locked up until the war is over.”

“And then we’ll be executed,” Nog said.

Jake looked at his friend. “Why?”

Nog went over to the wall below the window and looked up at the gray sky. “When this war is over, the Germans will have won,” Nog said.

Jake started to protest. But Nog turned to Jake and put his reasoning into words.

“That has to be why the Changeling came to this time period. His people, the Founders, believe in order. If the Germans prevail, they will inflict order all over the planet. Freedom will have become a casualty of the war.”

“And the future—our future—will be lost.” As Jake spoke the words, they brought home the terrible realization of what was going to happen. “We can’t let that happen, Nog.”

“How can we stop it?” Nog asked. The situation seemed hopeless. The Ferengi looked around the dark room that might become their coffin. They were trapped, lost, and alone in a past that was about to be altered—and there seemed to be absolutely nothing they could do about it.

“You’re Starfleet,” Jake said. “Starfleet officers don’t give up. Not even first-year cadets.”

“I’m not giving up.” Nog was adamant. “But I’m all out of ideas.”

“We need to get out of here. We need to find Chief O’Brien. And stop the Changeling.”

“I’ll buy that,” Nog said. “But, I repeat, how?”

“Well…” Jake looked around the room. It was as bare as his own store of ideas. Maybe their plight was hopeless. Maybe…

Jake was pondering their situation when he heard the turn of the key in the lock, and the door to the cellar opened. Brigitte entered, carrying a bundle of clothes in her arms. She closed the door behind her.

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