Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Unity by S.D. Perry

Author:S.D. Perry
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Star Trek, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743476560
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2003-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Liro Kavi was nervous, but determined not to let it get to her. She’d been on DS9 all of three months, most of that training, and had been on security detail for only two weeks, since right before the assassination. As if that hadn’t been bad enough—being brand-new to the job and the station, just in time to see the first minister murdered—now she’d been put on a night watch, lurking through DS9 in the small hours, searching for alien threats in the loneliest of places.

She walked slowly through the low-lit bay, palm beacon in one hand, phaser in the other. She could see the glow from Bennings’s beacon reflecting high on the far wall at least thirty meters to her left, heard what sounded like a curse as the young human male ran into something or other, a sharp clang ringing through the vast storage area.

Liro tapped her combadge, as much to hear a friendly voice as anything else. “Problem, Bennings?”

A long pause. “I was attacked by a box of stem bolts, thank you,” he said finally, also keeping his voice low. They’d shared the same detail for the past week. He was another postwar addition to DS9, and though he’d been in security longer than her, transferring from a Federation base, he was also two years her junior. Hassling him was one of the few perks of her day.

What is a stem bolt, anyway? Liro wasn’t sure, and didn’t care; what she did care about was getting through the cavernous bay as quickly as possible, so they could be somewhere else. Bay 5G was a nightmare jumble of discarded crates and stored excess, plus about a thousand personal items belonging to station residents, things too large to be easily stored in quarters. There was a lot of sporting equipment, furniture, a number of massive art pieces…basically, a lot of shdowy crevices for things to hide in. Occasionally, Bennings’s tri-corder would beep with a new contact, and each time he’d insist it was only a vole.

Liro shivered. She knew that Lieutenant Ro wasn’t telling them everything, but what had filtered down was more than enough. There was an alien presence aboard, in the form of small insectile or worm-like creatures that could actually take over a host body. The powers that be were keeping it quiet from the majority of those on board, but security had to know. Liro wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not. She preferred the truth to ignorance, she supposed, but when you were basically alone, walking in the dark…

A flash of movement, there, to her right—or was it just the echo of her light, the darkness closing in as the bright beam moved away? The beam jerked back to the small, tight space between two storage units, Liro staring so hard that her eyes started to burn. Nothing there…or whatever it was had moved on.

Alone in the dark, knowing that there were parasitic aliens on the loose. Liro suppressed another shiver and started moving again.

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