Author's Note: I am borrowing Phoenix-cry's OC, Salen Pike from her Star Trek series, Black Diamond Dogs. You can read more about Salen on her fanfiction page or Deviant Art page. She is kindly letting me play with him and the other Dogs for this crossover fic! I haven't read many crossover fics between Stargate: Atlantis and Star Trek, and I took advantage of the alternate timeline created during the 2009 Star Trek film to make an SGA/ST crossover that involves the Cardassians and a hint at what Terok Nor might have been up to in an AU. I hope you enjoy. Please do leave suggestions, critiques, etc.!
Starfleet was usually straightforward when it asked for the Dogs to "take care of things." Usually, they were sent on backwater missions that no one else dared to go on, missions that Starfleet would not be involved in normally, or projects that were a bit ... well ... unethical.
Salen was usually a stoic, logical man. It took a lot to make his mood swing these days. The latest turn of events that had disrupted his daily schedule left him in an annoyed and flustered mood, and the Vulcan was not afraid to show it as he stalked through the halls of the ship.
In the dead of night he had been summoned from his quarters by Razor, claiming an emergency meeting had been called by order of Starfleet Command. Razor himself didn't seem to know what was going on and that concerned the Vulcan even more than usual.
As Salen walked into the meeting room, greeting the members seated around the table, he noted their weary yet anxious faces. Something serious was going to happen. He slid into a seat next to Flash, the ship's main pilot.
Razor looked as though he had just rolled out of bed, his uniform rumpled and his hair sticking out at odd angles. He stood next to the viewscreen and as Salen settled into his chair, he activated the screen, revealing a room full of the members of the Starfleet Council.
"Greetings, General Donavan," one of the men of the council said. "I am sure you are wondering why we have called you so late at night and with such urgency."
"This is ... highly unusual," Razor replied.
"Yes, and we will launch straight into it. This shouldn't take long." The man leaned forward, activating a real time video of a planet no one in the room was familiar with. "We have had some agents on the planet Bajor for some time keeping an eye out for any Cardassian activity. As you are aware, our contact with the Cardassians is very limited and not much is known about them. We also still do not know much about the planet Bajor itself and its inhabitants. The council on Bajor is not aware of Starfleet's presence as most of the planet is still operating under ... primitive technology. It appears that a small group of Cardassian scientists have found their way to the southern regions of the planet and have been excavating something in the caves there."
"Excavating what?" Razor asked in surprise.
"We're not sure." The man showed another video shot of what appeared to be from the caves. "Whatever it is wasn't from Bajor originally. In fact, we have reason to believe that it was originally from Earth, based on the symbols on the device."
The council took the Dogs through several video shots, showing Cardassian scientists at work on something in the rocks of the caves. Later shots showed a large ring like device with constellations carved into the outer edges which one of the council members pointed out were actually Egyptian hieroglyphics.
"The device isn't what worries us at this point in time," the council member continued. "What worries us is what happened a few hours ago."
The screen showed the Cardassian scientists setting up the device so that it stood upright against one of the walls of the cave. Another shot showed the device turning, the constellations lighting up and a wash of light billowing out of the surface of the circle before settling into a watery pool within the device. Unconsciously, Salen found himself leaning forward to look more closely at the picture, along with everyone else at the table. He had never seen anything like this before.
The shot then showed something appearing in the surface of the pool of light - a man. He was dressed in black and had a shock of unruly dark hair. The man stumbled through the surface of light, looking back at it as though expecting something to be following him and raising what appeared to be a weapon at the surface. As suddenly as the light had appeared, it vanished, with considerably less dramatic display as before.
The next shot showed the Cardassians surrounding the man as he fought them, tooth and nail, before finally managing to break free of them and dashing out of the cave. Another shot showed a vast empty field outside of the caves, the man running across the area as more Cardassians joined the chase, shooting at the man as he ran. At one point, the man stopped and shot down three of the Cardassians with deadly accuracy, however, the Cardassians seemed reluctant to kill him. It took a while for them to bring the man down, and Salen nodded with approval at the man's bravery as he fought until he was knocked unconscious by what appeared to be the Cardassian leader.
The screen blipped back to the council and the man who had been addressing them appeared very grave.
"That's all we have at the moment," he said. "We're not sure what this device is that they have discovered, but our theory is that it's a wormhole that has been captured and stabilized on the planet. Somehow, this man got through and we need to find him and get him out of the Cardassian's hands."
"Do you have any idea who he is?" Salen asked.
"Yes." The council member brought up an old Earth picture of an young Air Force pilot with dark unruly hair and a cocky grin. "This is the troubling part," the man continued. "The man that came through that device has been identified as Air Force Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard, assigned to Antarctica and the codenamed "Atlantis" mission, missing in action Earth year 2006 AD."
Razor's eyes narrowed. "What? That was hundreds of years ago!"
"You can see why we need to get him out of there," the man continued. "Not only can he provide us with proper intel on that device − he doesn't belong here, and we need to find out just what he is doing here. The USS Black Diamond is the closest Federation representation we have to Bajor at the moment and we need to take care of this discreetly, without the people of Bajor or the Cardassians becoming aware of our presence. I would like you to send in a team discreetly and extract Colonel Sheppard as soon as possible. We can't let the Cardassians know the Federation is involved."
"The Cardassian presence is very strong in that area," Razor said. "I can't recall if any Federation ships have ever entered that territory."
"No, they haven't," the council member admitted. "We believe the Cardassians are also building a space station nearby the planet called Terok Nor. You can use this opportunity to confirm these rumors as well. We need to be aware of what the Cardassians may be planning as they could soon become a thorn in Starfleet's side. From what little we know of them, they are a warlike race, cold and calculating."
"We'll go over the reports and do our best," Razor said.
"Please get back to us as soon as you have this man. And good luck."
