Bashir crept closer to Tyr and Freya, but she adopted a fighting stance, the spikes in her arms twitching to full extension as she drew a knife from her belt.

"Keep back!" she ordered.

Bashir halted. "I'm a doctor," he said. "I can help him."

Freya's eyes flicked between Bashir and Tyr. Then she backed up. "All right. But at the first sign of treachery, I will kill you."

Bashir crouched by Tyr and passed a scanner over his back.

"No one is killing anyone," Sisko said. "We're glad to help, but-"

"Captain Sisko," Dylan's voice called from a nearby console. "How are you doing-"

"Dylan?" Freya called. She ran past Sisko to the console. Dylan and Beka were in the monitor, under some kind of tent near another orb, with a man and a woman with brow ridges behind them. Sisko and Kyra came around up behind Freya.

"Where am I?" Freya demanded. "How did I get here? What's going on?"

"Who are you?" Dylan asked.

"You know bloody well who I am!" Freya snapped. "Beka, surely you must know me."

"No," Beka said.

"She appeared next to Tyr," Sisko said. "He said herr name is Freya."

"Freya?" Olma poked around Dylan and Beka. She gasped.

"Olma, will you…" Freya started.

Olma darted away from the camera.

"Mother Olma!" Freya called.

"Captain," Sisko said, "do you know this woman?"

"I know of her.." Dylan said, "but we never actually met. She died a couple of years ago."

"What!?" Freya yelped.

"And she's not the only one," Beka said. She indicated the dark-haired woman with Worf. "Say hello to K'Elyer," Beka said. "She also just came back from the dead."

Kyra ran her fingers through her hair. "We're seeing dead people?" she said.

"Benjamin, things are more scrambled than I thought," Dax said. "We're not only dealing with two universes but alternate versions of both."

"How do we stop it?" Sisko asked.

"Benjamin, I don't even know what started it."

Bashir came over to Sisko. "Tyr's been shot," Bashir said. "There's some sort of bullet in his chest very close to his heart. I've stabilized him and stopped the bleeding, but he needs surgery. I need to get him back to the infirmary immediately."

"Captain Hunt, did you hear that?"

"Yes, Captain Sisko. Be advised that Tyr Anasazi is extremely dangerous. Use extreme caution."

"Understood. Dax, if the orb is connected to the wormhole, will we be able to resume contact with Captain Hunt from the station?"

"Maybe," Dax said.

Sisko turned to the screen. "Captain, our station is at one of the L1 Lagrange point between the wormhole and Bajor's star. We'll take Tyr and Freya back there; hopefully we'll regain contact there."

"Understood," Dylan said. "Hunt out." The screen blanked.