Star Trek DS9 - 26 Vengeance by Dafydd Ab Hugh

Author:Dafydd Ab Hugh [Dafydd Ab Hugh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adventure, Interplanetary Voyages, Star Trek Fiction
ISBN: 9780671004682
Publisher: Pocket Books, Inc.
Published: 2014-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

JAKE TOOK his turn at guarding the cargo bay from a position some distance from the bickering Ferengi. He didn't want to hear them, and he felt like a voyeur at a family spat.

Quark and Rom never seemed to tire of sniping at each other and each had his own technique. Quark would overtly insult his brother:

"You're such a profit- able ambassador for the Ferengi, Rom; you go to work for a hu-man, your son joins Starfleet, you join a strike in my bar, and you get our entire family declared outlaws! What's next? Will you visit Ferenginar and make the sun go nova?" Rom, in response, would play the "dumb Ferengi" while more-or-less subtlely hinting that Quark was a half-witted failure, all accomplished while cringing in the proper Ferengi style of junior to senior brother:

"Uh, sorry, brother. I don't mean to be such a disappointment to you. I shouldn't have kept you here, where it's so hard to make a profit. Uh, is the bar doing any better, now that you don't have to pay me?" Jake rolled his eyes.

He was so distracted by the bickering that he almost missed the faint creak of metal on metal. He leapt up from his seat, a box labeled "Danger! Highly Explosive? and fumbled with the huge phase-wrench he had rustled up. It was as close to a weapon as he could find.

Turning wildly in every direction and hissing for silence, Jake finally located the noise. It came from a vent high over his head, at least four meters off the deck.

The vent bent outward, then, with a loud click, it detached from its mounts and dropped noisily to the metal floor, followed by the soft cursing of Chief O'Brien.

The chief dropped reasonably lightly into the room, but one arm dangled limply. He was followed immedi- ately by Dr. Bashir.

Garak stepped from the shadows in which he had secreted himselfi "Welcome, Doctor! I see you got my message."

O'Brien stared at Garak, then Bashir, then back at the Cardassian.

"You're not serious, are you? That really was a message from you?" Garak bowed stiffly at the waist.

"It brought you here, didn't it?" Jake stepped forward.

"We haven't seen any other survivors. I think--I think they're all..." He couldn't say it, the lump in his throat prevented further speech.

"No, they're not," said Bashir, smiling and putting his hand on Jake's shoulder.

"The Klingons have been quite assiduous about not killing any of the residents of the station, so far as I can tell. At least, they threw me into a pile of stunned bodies--stunned, not dead--and when a Klingon patrol shot at us, they were using their disrup- tors on the lowest setting. Otherwise, the chief would be looking at limb-regen now." The youngest Sisko stared at Bashir. His heart felt as if it froze in his chest then began to pound at twice the normal rate. Alive.t "They're--all alive? All of them?" He suddenly remembered to breathe and gasped for air.

"I think so," confirmed O'Brien.

"We haven't found any corpses.

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