#rebuilt quark au

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Please consider: brainstorm building Quark a new body in the present day and going back in time to retrieve his spark, looking to everyone else like he’s murdered poor Quark even when he returns to the present day, holding his precious cargo in its special containment device he made just for this, a device designed to make the entire process as comfortable as possible. he places Quark’s spark back in his new body, and…

and Quark’s TERRIFIED of him, because now he’s in a new body that’s his but NOT his and Genitus looks d i f f e r e n t and this version pulled his spark from his body and he doesn’t know where he is and all around it’s a Rough situation.

OH THAT'S HORRIBLE AND I LOVE IT

Brainstorm took such care removing Quark's spark and brain module too! Quark really ought to appreciate all the work Brainstorm put into this rescue; after all, he gets to keep all his memories and not just his personality!

Brainstorm is practically giddy when Quark finally comes online in his new body, completely ignoring any panic from his newly rescued ~beloved~

Quark was always so paranoid! Brainstorm doesn't take his distrust personally uwu. He'll just have to try extra hard to soothe him and make sure those imprinting protocols he input into Quark's processor activate

He's so excited to get Quark calm and comfortable so he can introduce him to all his new friends! Perceptor's gonna be so impressed, hehehe...

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DS9 airport AU

It’s a tiny regional airport in a small city that’s fallen on hard times. There are maybe two gates and only one runway. It looks like it was built in the 40′s and has never been remodeled. Most of the traffic is private planes and the smallest connecting commercial flights.

Quark’s Restaurant & Bar & Grill always smells like breakfast and cigarettes. The carpet has been replaced in sections and none of the squares quite match. Vintage arcade games line the narrow hall that leads to the restrooms. 

There’s a news stand that sometimes has fresh flowers. There’s always a religious nut handing out beautifully illustrated pamphlets about the alien oppressors. The baggage carousel never stops rattling.

Nobody’s really sure why Garak chose to set up shop in the space that used to be the car rental office. Most of his business seems to come from dry cleaning pilots’ uniforms.

((This got long for something that isn’t a fic.))

Corrupt Mayor Dukat has been trying for decades to shut down this tiny airport so he can get funding to build a larger, more modern one. The entire region is in decline and it seems entirely due to Dukat’s political scheming.

Don Enabran Tain from the big city upstate has had a run-in with the Feds. He plans to reroute his “business” through this tiny airport until everything blows over. Tain is giving his bastard son one last chance to prove his loyalty. Garak’s Clothiers is only a front for a drug smuggling gig.

There’s an old hotel across the street from the airport. Everyone is convinced that it’s haunted but it’s the only 4-star hotel in the city so that’s where travelers and flight attendants stay. Julian Bashir (jet-setter, old-money, dilettante) has been spending a suspicious amount of time there. The rumor mill says he’s having an affair with one of the city’s residents.

Julian Bashir is actually working for the federal government under duress. If he doesn’t help the Feds he’ll loose everything- because Richard Bashir committed an ungodly amount of tax fraud. 

Odo is the city’s sheriff. He’s working closely with the Feds on this case. Odo absolutely cannot stand the fact that organized crime is happening in his city.

Kira is the city’s overworked District Attorney.  She honestly just wants Mayor Dukat to die because that would fix 90% of the city’s problems.

Sisko is the airport’s new manager. He took this job because he wanted to raise his son in a wholesome small-town environment.  Sisko has always had very vivid, lucid dreams.

Worf is a TSA agent. His inflexibility and anger issues are the reason he was reassigned to this tiny airport with basically no traffic.

Jadzia, is the air traffic controller. She’s too young to have ulcers but she has them anyway because her job is unreal levels of stressful. You wouldn’t know it though- she’s really good at compartmentalizing.

Miles is an aircraft technician. He’s a shell-shocked veteran. Keiko is merciless about making sure he takes care of himself.

Rom is a baggage handler. He wears two pairs of ear plugs under his ear protection because he gets overstimulated at least five times a day. 

Leeta is a flight attendant. She once jokingly said that she would marry the man who could guess where she was born. Quark has been methodically listing off cities for years.

Damar is a pilot. He went to school with Dukat. They played football together. They attended the same college and they planned to run for office together.  They had a serious falling-out and neither of them will say why.

The Dominion is a multinational corporation that takes advantage of Mayor Dukat’s ambition. The Dominion promises to create jobs and stimulate the local economy. What they actually do is monopolize literally everything and convert the whole city into a next-level dystopian “company town”

The economic woes of this small airport and this small city are a microcosm of what is happening all over the planet in the wake of the Dominion’s aggressive capitalism.

((This is the point where the plot goes from “realistic crime drama” to “actually, i lied, this is science fiction,”))

THE BIG TWIST:  

The Founders are actually alien invaders. The Dominion Corporation is just the most cost-efficient method of subjugating the population. 

The Vorta are actually aliens. They’re also lawyers, secretaries, regional managers, and every other corporate stooge you might think of.

The Jem’Hadar are hired thugs. They’re mostly human. “Ketracel White. It’s transformative!” is a slogan.

COMEDY BITS: 

Quark gets busted for smuggling exotic fish. 

Worf is genuinely embarrassed by the sex toys he encounters while searching luggage. 

Julian uses bad pickup lines on Leeta, “You must have been born in the clouds because you’re an angel.” 

Benjamin keeps dreaming that his baseball turns up in weird places. His baseball keeps turning up in weird places.

Garak goes over-the-top flaming-homosexual-cliche in an attempt to get Julian out of his shop. It has the opposite effect.

ROMANCE BITS:

Garak and Bashir have a torrid this-could-be-my-last affair because both of them have everything to lose.

Worf and Jadzia’s love-to-hate-you relationship escalates to a full-on-brawl. They fuck in the men’s room and then pretend it never happened.

Rom accurately guesses that Leeta was born on an airplane over the Pacific Ocean and proposes. She accepts.

DRAMA BITS:

Jake Sisko uses Ketracel White in order to gain entry to the Dominion factory and uncover the truth.  He is successful but the long-term effects of the drug are devastating. 

Garak travels to the big city upstate and confronts Don Tain. Tain, on his death bed, forgives Garak but bequeaths the “family business” to Pythas Lok. 

Odo is revealed to be a Founder. He was sent ahead as a scout but fell in love with the planet and it’s people. 

Damar’s falling out with Dukat happened because Damar (drunk and/or coked out) killed Ziyal in a car accident. Dukat believes that Damar did it deliberately. 

Ben Sisko realizes that his “lucid dreams” actually effect reality. He is kidnapped by the Dominion. The Female Founder interrogates him because she believes he is an alien! That’s ridiculous! Isn’t it?

Dukat (hyped up on Ketracel?) assaults Kira. She destroys him; physically and politically. She then proceeds to kick asses and take names.

HORROR BITS:

Wiki How To Make a Jem’Hadar Army with Disenfranchised Youth and Ketracel White.

CLIMACTIC BITS:  

A joint FBI/mafia assault team retakes the airport and prevents SOMETHING BAD from happening. 

Miles terrifies the living shit out of everyone with his sniper skills.

Damar does a kamikaze with an empty 747, destroys the Ketracel factory, and eliminates the Female Founder.

Benjamin is rescued. He accepts that he is not entirely human and uses his “lucid dream” ability to remove all traces of Ketracel from Jake’s body. 

Sisko and Odo board a Dominion space ship:  they hope to intercept the Dominion forces and convince them to turn around.

ENDING BITS:

Kira is elected mayor.

Jake’s investigative reporting earns him a Pulitzer or something.

Rom and Leeta get hitched. Garak and Julian slow dance at the reception. 

The airport gets rebuilt. (It was totally trashed in the climactic battle.)

Nobody knows what happened to Sisko and Odo. Either they were successful or the world will be destroyed sometime in the near future. People are preparing for the worst but hoping for the best.

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

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CURRENTLY IT'S THAT BRAINSTORM/QUARK ONE

I love me a good yandere, and Brainstorm only narrowly escaped being one in canon, so I feel like I don't have to change much XD

Did Brainstorm think about what would happen once the rest of the Lost Light crew found out he literally built a body and stole somebodys spark out of time to put inside it? No, because he's very dumb (and we love him for it).

He didn't cause any time splits, so everything's fine! He left Quark's original body back in Grindcore, meaning that it still looks like he died, thus closing the loop! And besides, what's the issue here? It's not like he killed someone; he saved someone!

And this time he has more people willing to bat for him at the trial too; Chromedome's gonna defend him regardless because that's his buddy, Perceptor isn't happy about the "being a Decepticon for supplies" business, but Drift used to be a con and Perceptor's friends with him so holding it against Brainstorm feels a bit hypocritical, and Nightbeat is just happy his amica is back from the dead ("You know, Quark, I was dead too once-")

Skids would help because he's pretty sure he was also in Grindcore, but for some reason he gets a horrible headache whenever he looks at Quark...

...It's probably nothing to worry about ^v^

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

"You're awake! Thank Primus, I was starting to get worried - what's that look for, sweetspark? Don't you recognize me?"

Please consider: brainstorm building Quark a new body in the present day and going back in time to retrieve his spark, looking to everyone else like he’s murdered poor Quark even when he returns to the present day, holding his precious cargo in its special containment device he made just for this, a device designed to make the entire process as comfortable as possible. he places Quark’s spark back in his new body, and…

and Quark’s TERRIFIED of him, because now he’s in a new body that’s his but NOT his and Genitus looks d i f f e r e n t and this version pulled his spark from his body and he doesn’t know where he is and all around it’s a Rough situation.

OH THAT'S HORRIBLE AND I LOVE IT

Brainstorm took such care removing Quark's spark and brain module too! Quark really ought to appreciate all the work Brainstorm put into this rescue; after all, he gets to keep all his memories and not just his personality!

Brainstorm is practically giddy when Quark finally comes online in his new body, completely ignoring any panic from his newly rescued ~beloved~

Quark was always so paranoid! Brainstorm doesn't take his distrust personally uwu. He'll just have to try extra hard to soothe him and make sure those imprinting protocols he input into Quark's processor activate

He's so excited to get Quark calm and comfortable so he can introduce him to all his new friends! Perceptor's gonna be so impressed, hehehe...