Kirk turned the other direction to face Lieutenant Moreau. "Our sensor mask says the communications antenna is gone, right?" Tony nodded. "Then why are these idiots trying to communicate with us? It should be pretty obvious we can't communicate back." He shook his head.
"Perhaps they're hoping they're close enough that a personal communicator would pick them up," Elaine offered with a shrug. Her console beeped again. She quickly spun around and picked up her earpiece. The bridgecrew watched pensively as she listened to another transmission. Her eyes grew wide as she turned back around. "They said if anyone can hear them, they're about to transport a group aboard into our transporter room."
"Our transporter room?" Kirk quoted. Stephen, Tony, and Kenyon suddenly had the same thought. "Uh, oh," Kirk commented, reaching for his comm badge.
"Our transporter room isn't our transporter room," Tony added, turning back to his console. He brought up a virtual image of the Cardassian ship their sensors were impersonating.
"Crap," Kenyon commented, bringing out the schematics of the Warlord on his computer. He overlaid the image of the Cardassian ship over the Warlord.
"What's going on?" Elaine asked curiously.
"Where are they going to show up?" Kirk asked Richards quickly. He pressed his comm badge. "Bridge to Colonel Prichard, we have an intruder alert."
"Deck eight, section eleven," Richards replied.
"How the hell did that happen?" Prichard's voice popped over Kirk's comm badge.
"Our shields were down to conserve energy. They're on deck eight, section eleven."
"I'll have a team there in ninety seconds. Prichard out."
Kirk turned his attention to Elaine. "Elaine, scramble that ships transmissions... now!" He turned to T'Nia. "Target that ship with pulse phasers and fire when you have a solution."
"Aye, aye, Sir." Elaine replied. Still not quite sure what was going on, she targeted the plate-with-handles shaped ship in front of them and activated the scattering field.
T'Nia quickly locked a pair of phaser emitters on the small Dominion ship. "Am I disabling or destroying it, Sir?" She asked cooly.
"Destroy it!" Stephen insisted. As if the ship heard Kirk's command, it reoriented itself to face the Warlord. A pair of purple pinpoints appeared to either side of its nose.
That was as close as it would get to firing, however. Four quick bursts of red dashes launched from a red ring along the bottom of the saucer section. The first two bursts were enough to remove the faint glow of the ship's shields from view. The final two slammed full force into the disk, cutting it in half. The force of the impact was sufficient to overload its power source, causing the ship to explode in a ball of brilliant yellow and blue. "Target destroyed, Sir." T'Nia responded.
"They beamed three Jem'Hadar aboard, Sir!" Kenyon exclaimed. "They're in the main hallway of section eleven."
Kirk pounded the arm of his seat. "Rats! We're too late. Signal the intruder alert, Davies!" Within moments, the alert signal was back on adding the words 'Intruder alert' in between the screeches.
Kenyon suddenly sat back in his seat and stared at his display in disgust. "This is going to get ugly." He commented.
All eyes turned on him. "What's happening?" Stephen asked.
Kenyon shook his head and turned around to face the crew. "One materialized halfway into the wall. He did within seconds. The second one partly materialized in the opposite wall. He's still alive, but it looks like his right arm is stuck inside the wall structure. The third one just disappeared from the sensors. I just noticed a change in the hallway shield energy pattern around the intruders. I think he just walked through it."
Stephen rolled his eyes. Apparently, the adjustments to the shields weren't sufficient to keep the Jem'Hadar from penetrating them. The Starfleet engineers were wrong. "Did the EMP go off?"
Commander Richards nodded. "Yeah... at least their guns and computers won't work."
"No doubt he will attempt to sabotage the ship somehow. Even without a weapon, a Jam'Hadar soldier is still quite formidible." T'Nia added.
Kirk reached for his comm badge again. "Just what I always wanted," he said sarcastically. "a Jem'Hadar running around the ship." He tapped his comm badge. "Kirk to Colonel Prichard... things just got complicated."