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Subject: [ASC] NEW DS9: "A Look at Those Plans" [PG] S, W, O, O'B (Rob's "Great Lines" Challenge)
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:15:51 GMT, in alt.startrek.creative, billfl@hiwaay.net
(Bill Livingston) wrote:

Title:   A Look at Those Plans
Author:  Bill Livingston (billfl@hiwaay.net)
Series:  DS9
Rating:  [PG]
Codes:   S, W, O, O'B; a response to Rob Morris's "Great Lines" Challenge

Summary: They've found somone belowdecks on Deep Space Nine?  But what's he
Note: This is in response to Rob Morris's "Great Lines" challenge.  If anyone
has any question about the line, let me know.  It happens to be one of my
favorites.

Archive: OK anywhere, as long as title and authorship remain unchanged.  Any 
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A LOOK AT THOSE PLANS
By Bill Livingston

With preparations underway for a major offensive against the Dominion and
their Cardassian allies, security was tight on the station.  Every ship that
docked there was carefully scanned, crew manifests were investigated, and all
cargoes being offloaded were scrutinized with the proverbial fine-tooth comb.
Yet somehow, despite all these measures, a stowaway had been found - a
Cardassian, no less!  And one with an apparent sinister purpose in mind.  

Captain Sisko pierced at the non-descript little man found hiding in the
lower
pylon section of Deep Space Nine with a look of grim intensity.  "Explain
this
again - you're saying you *weren't* sent here to kill us?" he demanded.

"Please, captain, sir, have mercy!" he said, scraping and sniveling under the
watchful glare of Commander Worf, "Yes, I, I stowed away on a freighter, but
I
mean you no harm!  I am but a simple refugee from a cruel and unforgiving
homeworld!"

"And how did you evade all our scans?"

"I, I cannot say!  I just hid in a box!  Oh please, don't send me back!
They'll surely have me killed!"

"If you are no more than an innocuous refugee, then explain why, when you
were
found, you were in possession of several kilograms of highly volatile
explosive material," Worf demanded.

"It was insurance," the man claimed.  "I'm a laborer in a munitions plant!
If
I were to be caught fleeing, I'd be sentenced to death - by torture.  The
explosives were my route to escape that fate."

"Then why," Worf asked harshly, "Were you planting them inside *our* hull
plating?"

The Cardassian licked his lips and looked around nervously.  "As I said,
insurance.  I know too much!  Be-believe me, if they knew I had come here,
they'd have the same thing to you.  By blowing you up, I would have been
doing
you all a favor!"

"You'll forgive me if I don't overflow with gratitude," Sisko added dryly.

Just then, Odo and Chief O'Brien strode into the room.  "Captain, we've got
him dead to rights," the chief crowed, waving a datapadd and another, less
familiar device in the air.

"It's all spelled on here," said Odo, not sparing their captive so much as a
glare.  "A very detailed outlinem, all in a code developed by the Obsidian
Order, no less.  

"He had it all plotted out," O'Brien added, bringing up the schematics and
notes for all to see "He'd have beamed right into one of our runabouts and
blasted his way out while those bombs of his literally ripped the skin right
off the station.  Plus, there's this little jewel," he added, indicating the
odd contraption.  "It's a personal cloaking device that has Dominion tech
seeded all through it!"  

"No!  It's all lies, Captain!  Please, you must..."

"Let's see," Miles said, ignoring the Cardassian as he flipped scanned
through
the pages of plans, "How to get on board, how to pilot a runabout, how to set
the damn bombs, and - well, whaddaya know?  'Breach hull, all die'!  Even had
it underlined!" he snorted.

Abruptly, the little man's cowering posture snapped straight and he lunged
for
Miles's throat with a snarl, only to be brought up short as Worf grasped one
arm from behind and Odo seized the other from the front.

"Weaklings!" their prisoner growled.  "The day will come when Cardassia
ascends above all, and you will all bow before its might!"

"Maybe," Sisko said with a smile.  "But the only 'ascending' today will be
done by you - to one of the constable's cells."

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