Title: Abject stratagem
Chapters: 7 + Pro- and Epilog
Genre: Science-Fiction, Thriller
Based on: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Timeframe: 2372 A.D. (4th season of the series)
Other facts to note: It takes place somewhere in the middle of the 4th season, the Federation is at war with the Klingons and the Dominion is a constant threat.
Disclaimer: Not mine, the characters, settings etc. belong to paramount pictures.

A/N: Well this my first DS9 story and my first fanfiction in english. At first I wrote this for school not planing to publish it but I like it so much I couldn't resist XD
Please be kind, english isn't my mother tongue as you can guess, hope I don't make to much mistakes and thx to Kaya for beta-reading it.

Btw. I already finished the stroy, there are going to be 7 chapters and a prolog and an epilog

The prolog is very short but the next chapters will be much longer.
So hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think

Prolog

It happened fast and without a warning. The only thing noticeable was a sudden increasing of the neutrino level near the bajoran space station Deep Space Nine which was recorded by the station's sensors. The first and only one to notice was Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax who was working at the science station in ops just then and she put the wormhole on screen since this indicated its activity. There wasn't much, that could surprise the Trill. For over three hundred years now had the symbiont in her lived through the adult live times of 7 different hosts and it had seen so much that an unexpected rise of neutrino levels wasn't really worth her attention. The most likely thing was that a ship was returning earlier from the Gamma-quadrant than scheduled and that really wasn't something to worry about. She looked back from the view screen to the readings of the sensors and returned her glance again. But this was strange, there was no activity of the wormhole to be seen at all but the neutrino level kept rising. She scanned for other unusual phenomenons but before she could make sense of the readings a bright flash crossed over the screen and blinded her. Dax instinctively covered her eyes with her forearm. The next second the light was gone and she dared to look up again. The picture on the view screen had changed, there was a star ship right in front of the station now. It was an old one, constitution-class, she could tell without any scans, the name written on the outer hole was Defiant. 'Alright now it's getting strange' thought the young woman and tapped her communicator badge. "Dax to Sisko."

TBC