Stardate 52039.5

	Jarrod watched Etely move to the workshop door, open it, and then
slowly move outside.  Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and a
phaser shot could be heard coming from outside.  Jarrod jumped at the
sound and the changeling saw his chance.  The changeling quickly shot an
arm out, knocking Jarrod into the wall.  Jarrod yelled and fired his
weapon from the impact, hitting the changeling and vaporizing him into
nothing.  Outside Etely was staring at where her arm once was and crying.
 Everybody stood silent for a minute and then Reman said, "Hey Etely, 
need a hand?"  Syxx turned toward Reman, "That isn't funny Reman.  This
is serious.  And shouldn't you be at the runabout?"  "I know but I
felt like something needed to be said to break the silence and I'm going
to the runabout, OK!"  Syxx shook his head as Reman left then looked 
over at Lenoz, "Lenoz what the hell were you thinking?"  Lenoz walked up,
stunned at what he had done, "Hey it was an honest mistake.  It's not
like I'm Carter or anything."  Syxx turned his attention back to the
sobbing Etely and tapped his communicator badge, "Captain this is Syxx. 
Ensign Bruder has been badly injured we need to transport her directly to
sickbay."  The Captain came back, "OK sickbay is standing by.  Prepare
for transport."  As the Captain's message ended, Etely was transported to
sickbay.  Syxx turned to Lenoz, "We had better check inside this building
for that changeling.  Just be sure to be more careful with that phaser." 
Lenoz frowned at Syxx, "I know what I'm doing Syxx.  Just keep your
'advice' to yourself."  They both walked into the workshop and
immediately saw Alex Jarrod unconscious on the ground.  Lenoz ran 
over to Jarrod and scanned him with his tricorder, "He's alive but out 
cold.  We'd better get him to sickbay as well."  Syxx nodded and tapped 
his badge once again, "Captain we have another crewman injured down here.  
We need him transported to sickbay as well."  "Affirmative."  The
transporter responded and beamed the crewman to sickbay.  After Jarrod
was transported away, Syxx and Lenoz began to look around the workshop. 
"It doesn't look like the changeling is here anymore but he could be
hiding," said Syxx.  "Looks that way.  Let's see what the tricorder
says," Lenoz put his phaser rifle down and began scanning,  "According to
my readings there was some weapon fire and right here appears to be some
changeling residue.  I don't think we are going to find that changeling
anymore.  We should probably check back at the runabout."  Lenoz and
Syxx both exited the workshop and headed back toward the runabout. 
	Meanwhile on the ship, Etely was being operated on.  The doctor
and a nurse were taking a look at Etely's arm and concentrating on
stopping the bleeding and closing the wound before they even considered
replacing her arm.  Another nurse was looking at Jarrod, making sure no
permanent or serious damage was done to him.  After a hypospray Jarrod
came around and woke up.  "What...where am I?"  Jarrod looked around 
and realized he was in sickbay.  "You were unconscious due to a 
serious concussion.  I believe you will be OK with rest," said the nurse.  
"Sure. I could sure use more sleep," said Jarrod as he laid back down.  
The nurse left and went back to help with Etely's operation.  While he 
was gone Jarrod started feeling strange.  He was wide awake yet felt
incredibly tired.  His body felt like it suddenly sped up.  His heart was
racing, his blood being pushed through their veins extremely fast, and
his other functions seemed to be going toward overload.  He sat bolt up
at the pain he was beginning to feel and yelled out.  The nurse ran over
to Jarrod and saw him shaking violently on the table.  He tried to hold
him down but to no avail.  "Computer restraining shield."  The shield
went up and held Jarrod in place but the nurse could still see him
shaking and noticed his veins were puffed out.  He told the computer to
do some scans while he gave Jarrod a hypospray.  The computer registered
that Jarrod was on the verge of having a full body collapse due to every
single one of his functions being strained too much.  The nurse called to
the doctor but before the doctor could get over away from Etely to the
other table, Jarrod died.  The computer registered the familiar flat line
beep indicating a dead patient and the nurse stood silent.  "It isn't
your fault he died.  You did the best you could.  I am sure whatever it
was you couldn't have fixed," said the doctor.  The nurse nodded and
scanned Jarrod's body to determine the cause of death, "Doctor.  This is
strange.  It appears as though he has some alien technology in him and
had some manipulation done to his structure.  That is what killed him." 
"Yes, I see what you mean.  Without proper control and maintenance he 
died immediately.  The scan on Ensign Bruder revealed the same thing.  
And if the same thing was done to her then we need to do some major 
operating on Bruder before she ends up like Lieutenant Jarrod here," the 
doctor said.  The doctor quickly paced over to Etely who was waking up 
since her wound had been closed.  "Sorry Ensign.  You need to undergo 
another operation.  You should be OK the next time you wake up."  Etely 
looked up sleepily at the doctor, "What?"  Etely was about to speak again 
but the nurse administered a hypospray that knocked her back out.  "Nurses.  
I will need you both working your hardest if we are to beat this thing 
in time.  Now, I need my instruments, STAT!"
	Back at the runabout Reman was pacing back and forth,
thinking about his lost latinum and how to get it back.  "I suppose I
could beam it up to my barber shop using the runabout's transporters...
but that might not work since Zenoz is in there.  He would want to know
what I am doing.  Maybe I could use the deflector dish to... no that is a
dumb idea.  The deflector dish can't do that.  Well the only thing I
could do is to get to a transporter in a cargo bay, use it to transport
the latinum, and somehow mask the signal with some background radiation. 
I would also need to get out of the cargo bay before security gets there
to see who activated the transporter.  That would also mean I could only
take a little bit of latinum.  But I should remember rule of acquisition
number 13: 'Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.'  Then I could
hide the latinum in a shielded cargo crate I just happen to have so that
scans couldn't pick up the latinum.  That means I would need to transport
the latinum, put it into the crate, nestle the crate among the other
crates, and then get out of the room within a few minutes before I could
be found out.  Well cargo bay 5 is close to a holodeck so I could
just get out and go there for a quick alibi.  A simple yet effective
plan.  I just hope we get off this rock soon enough so that I can get my
latinum and get back to making profit," he thought.  Reman's thoughts
were suddenly interrupted by Syxx's voice, "Hey Reman.  We are pretty
much finished up here.  Let's report back to the ship.  There are things
that need to be sorted out."  "I'm sure there are,"  Reman said relieved
to be going back to his shop.  "Yes.  There are some things to be sorted
out..." said Lenoz with an edge in his voice.  Then they all got in the
runabout and headed back to the Equinox to report their findings.