The Sparrow Project - Part II"
By: Sarik, Chief Science Officer, [PST]
Lt Simon Zent, Chief Science Officer, [NPC]

Stardate: 58204.14 2212

==Refugee Science Freighter==

After stepping through the device, Zent turned around and saw Sarik. He had a surprised look on his face. The lights appeared to be much more blueish than a moment ago. He also observed that Sarik was moving his tricorder very slowly. Zent realized that time was moving at a much slower rate. "Fascinating" said Zent looking up, now realizing the light was discolored from temporial time shift.

Even though he already knew the answer Zent asked anyway, "Sarik? can you hear me?" Suddenly Zent heard talking, he froze in place as several cardassians brought a man dressed in a lab coat into the cargo bay and dropped him on the floor. His hands and feet were bound. One of them walked over and looked at Sarik and Zent. "Where these two here before?" asked one of them. Another Cardassian came over and looked at Sarik, he swung his arm and it passed through Sarik as if he were a hologram. Another one waved and pointed to the assistant who was on the floor." Look they have overpowered the assistant."

Zent watched being still as Sarik. "If they shut down the machine we will be trapped in here." said one of them, "our take-over will fail." One of the Cardassians yelled an obscenity and said, "quickly, we must get everyone together and takeover now. "You go forwad," he commanded one of them. "You go aft and I'll get the troops in the other cargo bay. The three men walked through the walls and dissappeared.

Zent quickly grabbed Doctor Sparrow and dragged him back through the device's portal.

He slowly began to materialize but he was already in front of the device, quickly he shut it down. The loud humming slowed to a low groan and faded. The pulsating lights stopped flickering.

He turned to Sarik who was still standing as he was when he left. Zent stammered, "th-there are ca-cardassians in there he said pointing toward the device's portal.

Sarik rose another eyebrow, it were just a couple of seconds since Zent left, and he had not seen any cardassians. Then Sarik looked at a new person which came with Zent along.

"I did not see any cardassians." Sarik bend over to reach for the phaser of the assistant.

Zent quickly explained his experience and how there were Cardassians waiting to takeover in interphased space. "They're trapped now." he said concluding.

"Interesting experience." He looked at the scientist who was still not conscious."Let me take a look at him." Sarik scanned the man, he had some braindamage and several broken bones here and there.

Sarik to Atlanta, four people to beam up, two injured people directly to sickbay. Both the scientist and his assistent were beamed to sickbay of the Atlanta.

Once aboard the Atlanta, Zent went to work. He was able to conclude that the interphased matter could not be targeted by conventional transporters. He had hoped the transporters could be rigged to do so.

Instead with Sarik's assistance they devised another plan. First, all the passengers on the ship would need to be evacuated. Then, several devices which emitted anyon particles would be beamed aboard the freighter and activated remotely. This would dephase the chroniton particles and revert the Cardassians to normal space. Then, the Cardassians could be beamed off, directly into a holding area.

Sarik and Zent beamed aboard the Zion. It was much better suited for mass transport functions. They explained the matter to Captain Hunter.

The on duty tactical officer coordinated the evacuation of the passengers of the freighter while Zent and Sarik perfected the remote controlled anyon emitters.

When everything was in place Sarik and Zent went down to the trasporter room where they beamed the emitters over to the ship. Zent motioned to Sarik to activate the emitters.

Sarik continuously scanned the freighter. No life signs appeared as expected.

"There are no signs of life. Hypothetically there would be some signs of cardassians but there are none.

Zent remembered the slow time effect. "I suspect several months elapsed in interphasic space since I shut down the generator because of the added temporal distortion field. The Cardassians didn't realize this and didn't bring enough supplies to sustain themselves." surmised Zent.

"Sarik rose an eyebrow and tapped on a console. "Mr Zent ancient earth history, have you have some knowledge of it?"

Zent rested his arms on the console and smirked, "I haven't been around as long as you, but I've heard a story or two."

"There was a story of an old earth army that couldnt capture a city after years of siege when suddenly a clever hero names Odyseus came with an idea. They used a huge horse as a gift to the Trojans. The Trojans accepted the gift believing it came from the gods. Then the soldiers came out at night and murdered people in the city. I believe the cardassians were trying to use the device for a similar purpose. They intimidated the assistant and mr Sparrow to help them and took Sparrow with them. However they forgot that time passed by more quickly and since time passes by in a multiple versitude of times 15 being in there for a couple of days may indeed become months. However a starving man will always try to look for an escape, somehow they couldn't find the exit and now they were drifting onboard the ship in a different time."

Zent's face frowned, "Yet another sublayer of interphasic space?"

Zent began running his own scans. "Sarik," said Zent with a pause, "I'd have to concur. Even if they had starved to death their bodies would have materialized... something would have materialized, uniforms, weapons, what ever they took into interphasic space should have percipitated out after exposure to the anyon beam."

Zent paused to consider the ramifications of this theory.

"Oh crap!" he said. "They could be anywhere," he murmmered, He turned to Sarik and mused, "The 'Trojan Horse' has just become the legendary haunted ship, 'The Flying Dutchman'."