Yeah, this chapter is short, sorry, but the next one will be longer okay? Thanks for your reviews so far! Keep reviewing and enjoy!

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Chapter 6

The Commander walked slowly toward Wesley and Kathren. "Oh, but if you are asking, more specifically, why you were brought to this room, well," he said, stopping just in front of them. "The answer to that is simple."

With that, the Romulan reached up and took their combadges. Both of the teens tried to move away, but the other two men behind them kept their grip tight. The Commander walked across the room and set the two communicators down on an empty shelf. Near where he laid them down were two other small objects, which he scooped up into his hand and then headed back to where his captives were.

"I've been told what happened when you two were beamed aboard, You two made quite a scene. And not only that, but if I'm correct, you attempted to run while you were being brought here," the Commander said, stopping in front of them again. Both teenagers stiffened.

"And?" Wes practically growled. But Kat remained silent.

"And," the Romulan said. "I will be forced to punish you."

"What?!" both Kathren and Wesley cried in alarm. Again they tried to move, to break free of the Romulans' grip, but the two men were paying more attention now, and it was impossible.

The Commander opened his hand to reveal what he had picked up. They were two simple-looking, small, flat squares of bare circuitry, about the size of communicators. The Romulan then attached them to the same place where their communicators had been.

Wesley looked down at the thing on his shirtfront, and didn't notice the Romulan back away. What the objects were, neither Wesley nor Kathren knew, but there weren't too many things that they could be. It could, he thought, be a device to keep track of them or something; but then again, none of the other Enterprise people had them. At least he hadn't seen any, anyway. He also obviously seriously doubted that it was another form of communicator. So what else…oh no.

The boy's head jerked up, the color draining immediately from his face. He glanced at Kathren, but she was keeping an eye on the Commander, who was now several yards away, and seemed oblivious to what Wesley had realized. Going by what the Romulan had said, the strange devices could only be….His thought was interrupted when suddenly the two Romulans behind them let go, backed up and quickly shot out the door before the teenagers had any idea what was going on. A soft click told them that the door had been locked again; they were still trapped inside.

Kathren and Wesley spun back around to face the center of the room, both panicked and looking to see if the Commander had left too. But he hadn't. They spotted him on the on the other side of the room, holding what looked to them like a small, relatively flat metal box, but with button, but with a pad touch pad on top. Now, looking at the menacing grin on the Romulan's face, Wesley realized with horror that his deduction had been correct. The objects attached to their clothing were meant as torture devices, and the box the Commander held must control them.

Immediately Wesley reached up and tried to pull his off, telling Kat to do the same. She had apparently figured it out by then, too. She started to try to pull hers off as well, but before she could two things happened at once: Wesley realized that the device wasn't coming off……..and the Romulan Commander turned his on.

Okay….the devices in this chapter? Well, you remember the agonizers in Mirror, Mirror? In a Next Generation sequel to that, written by Diane Duane I think, the agonizers are smaller, and they look the same as the communicators in the normal universe. Well, I sort of used that idea. I figured the Romulans are smart; if they had a need for something like that, which this Romulan does here, that they would figure something like that out. So in this story they did.