Trapped

Season Finale

[Major Phanan to Captain Taybar.] The voice of the Marine announced over the intercomm. [We won't be able to reach the command deck before the base detonates. Can you beam us out any other way ?"

Captain Taybar looked at Lieutenant Lune. "Not from here Captain." He announced.

"Mister Lune, is everyone else onboard ?" Aki asked.

"We're just waiting to transport Lieutenant Trueman and the two scientist. They're heading for the command deck." Lune reported.

"Can we still transport them if we we're outside the base ?." Aki asked.

"So long as we're within two hundred metres, we should be able to get a good lock." Lune replied.

"Mister Dare, take us out of here." Aki ordered.

The Taurus started to move out of the base's hanger area and back into open space. Zack kept the vessel as close as he dared to the base.

"Lieutenant Trueman is onboard." Lune announced.

"Helm, take us as close to the Major's position as you can." Aki ordered.

[Truman to Bridge. Have you beamed the Major back yet.] The voice of the young Marine announced.

"We're moving closer to the level of the cloning lab, we don't have much time." Aki replied. "The base will explode in four minutes, we had to get out of there another way."

[Understood, I'm taking Doctor Mitchell and his assistant to sickbay, then heading to the Brig. Trueman out.]

"Captain, we've got the Major and his men." Lune announced. "Plus eight Jem'Hadar, all in sickbay."

"Security report to sickbay immediately." Aki announced.

"Let's get out of here." Aki suggested. "Before that base goes up, helm set a course for Mirisam V. It's time we picked up our away team. Open a channel to the Hellcat."

"Captain, we have a problem." Lieutenant Lune announced.

"What sort of problem ?" Aki asked.

"Three Dominion battleships and a Dreadnought have just took up positions on the edge of the asteroid belt." Lune reported. "There's another two cruisers on the other side and they've launched battle-bugs."

"How did they get here so fast ?" Aki commented.

[They didn't.] Lieutenant Commander Barker said as he appeared on the viewscreen. [The warp signatures match the three cruisers we encountered earlier. These are the rogue Jem'Hadar forces.]

"Lieutenant Commander." Aki stated. "Set course for Mirisam V and pick up the away team, then head back to the Alpha quadrant."

[Aki, I can't leave you here.] Chu replied, he had no intention of leaving his friend behind.

"Commander, that was an order." Aki stated firmly. "We're trapped here, we have little chance of evading the vessels, but you can escape. Chu I gave you an order, now carry it out."

Chu wanted to protest more, but decided not to. He knew what Aki had said was true, the Taurus had very little chance of survival against the odds. If they were in open space and still had the transwarp drive, they could easily outrun the Jem'Hadar ships. But they were trapped in the asteroid field, their movements limited.

[We're coming back as soon as we can.] He said. [That's a promise.]

The viewscreen changed to the image of the asteroid field and the approaching Jem'Hadar vessels.

"All hands, battle stations." Aki ordered. "Helm, get us away from this base. Head for the two cruisers and the battle bugs, we'll take down as many as we can."