Chapter 10
The doors of prison chamber C opened with a silent buzz then closed just the same. Two Jem'Hadar soldiers stood over Jahzara's bed. Another two stood over Garak's bed.
One of them laid a transmitter on Jahzara's skin as softly as he could. The other laid one on Garak's neck.
The leader of the four tapped his badge. "We are ready."
The four Jem'Hadar were beamed away, taking the sleeping Jahzara and Garak with them.
When Doctor Bashir woke the next morning, he noticed immediately that his niece and Garak were missing.
"Those bastards!" he shouted. "They know how important she is to me and they just took her without any warning!"
Sovak was silent, most likely pondering the event.
"We need to break out somehow. Did you come here in a ship?" Sovak asked.
"Yes, I think it's in one of their ports." Bashir answered.
"We'll have to break out. Do you think we could attack some of the guards with only the four of us?" Commander Worf asked, stepping into the conversation.
"Not all of them. But we could beam to the ship." Sovak said.
"How?"
"Tain built a tunnel behind the wall that leads to a panel that could be altered to allow us to beam to the shuttle. It'd be difficult, but I believe I can successfully alter it." Sovak answered.
"What are we waiting for, then? Get in there and fix it!" Bashir exclaimed in a hushed voice.
Sovak sighed wearily and lifted up one of the empty cot mattresses. He pulled out a tool and set to work on getting into the tunnel in the first place.
Jahzara was being shaken by someone. She opened her eyes to a bright light and a shadowed face over hers.
"Who are you?" she whispered harshly. "Get away from me!"
Jahzara pushed the face away from her and sat up, leaning on the wall for support. She looked around and studied her apparent prison.
"Where am I?" she asked to no one.
"We, my dear, are onboard a Dominion ship, I believe." A smooth voice said.
"Garak? They took you too?" Jahzara asked.
"Yes, now listen, from what I heard the Vorta saying, it seems that your dear Vulcan friend escaped from the prison with Commander Worf and the dear doctor." Garak said. "This means, they're either on their way to take on a Dominion battleship, or they're heading back to Deep Space Nine."
"Well, knowing Sovak, he most likely convinced the others to go back to the station and come back with a fleet of ships to rescue me." Jahzara said. "But I have a feeling that—"
A Jemhadar soldier had entered with three others.
"Get up human. The Vorta wants to see you." The Jemhadar said human as if it were a dirty thing.
Garak moved to join Jahzara, but found a gun at his chest.
"Only the girl." Another Jemhadar said and swiftly exited with their prisoner.
Jahzara was walked all the way down the corridor to a door that was different from the rest. The button was pushed and she was pushed in, causing the Vorta look up from his computer.
"Thank you," came the smooth voice of the Vorta. "You may leave us."
As soon as the Jemhadar had left, the Vorta turned to Jahzara with an unreadable expression on his face.
"I am Weyoun, the seventh of the Weyoun clones." Weyoun said.
"Who cares?" Jahzara muttered.
"I'm sure you have many questions." He said.
Jahzara didn't say anything.
"No matter," Weyoun continued. "I have heard a rumor about a great and powerful person called 'The One'. And then, upon listening in on a certain Captain Sisko's conversation with your uncle, I heard that they suspected you were this one person sent by the prophets."
"What?! How can they think that I am the one who will supposedly destroy the Pah'Raiths and Bajor's enemies?" Jahzara exclaimed.
"That is what I asked myself the moment I first saw you. And then, to my surprise, my scientists devised a way to see if you really were The One." Weyoun said.
Weyoun tapped his badge. "Weyoun to doctor Riza. Bring it in."
Whoever Doctor Riza was, he brought in some machine that rolled on wheels. Jahzara examined it, trying to figure out what it did.
Once Doctor Riza had set up the machine, he stayed off to the side and injected something into Jahzara's arm.
"Wondering how it works?" Weyoun asked. "It draws out any power beyond normal human talents. We don't even need to hook it up to you, it does its job from anywhere in the ship, to anyone that's onboard. I just thought you'd like to watch while we test your 'powers'."
Jahzara felt complied to struggle at this point and found that the injection caused her to feel weak.
"You bastard," she hissed. "What have you done to me?"
"Oh don't look at me," Weyoun said innocently. "I'm just here to watch you."
The machine was turned on and Jahzara felt something akin to not being able to control her own body.
But from Weyoun's point of view, Jahzara's eyes were pure white and her voice had changed.
"Why do you bring me out, Vorta? Have you no respect for destiny or your own life?" the being inside Jahzara asked.
"Are you The One?" Weyoun asked.
"Yes, I am. And if I want to, I can kill every single person on board this ship, save the one called Garak." The One answered.
Weyoun glanced at Doctor Riza and then back to The One. He noticed she was staring at the machine as it took notes and analyzed what The One was.
"Then we have something in common." Weyoun said, distracting The One.
"Oh? And what is that?" The One asked.
"We both are fighting for freedom with large amounts of power. Perhaps we should ally ourselves together." Weyoun said.
The One thrust out her arm and Weyoun was thrown against the wall, causing Doctor Riza to rush over to his fallen superior.
"Tell me, Vorta," The One said, pronouncing Vorta as if it were a dirty thing. "Why does this machine run tests on my being?"
Weyoun got up abruptly and turned the machine off, causing The One to immediately disappear and allow Jahzara to control her body.
"No reason." Weyoun answered. He pulled out a small gadget and attached it to the weakened Jahzara. Then he turned it on and it camouflaged itself behind Jahzara's ear, matching her skin perfectly.
"There," Weyoun said. "I think we can expect a change of attitude from our powerful friend. Take her and the Cardassian in a Dominion Cruiser and drop them off."
"Yes sir," Doctor Riza said, shedding his lab coat and revealing a Dominion uniform.
