Truth
Disclaimer: B5 belongs to JMS and SciFi; Andromeda belong to Tribune Entertainment. I am only borrowing them and I promise to return them in more or less the same condition as I found them. I will make no money off this.
Author's note: This takes place in the season 3 that doesn't exist yet, I am assuming the Dylan gets Beka and Tyr back.
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"Babylon 5 was a dream given form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds could live side-by-side in mutual respect, a dream that was endangered as never before by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction." -Ambassador Londo Mollari Centauri Republic Date Unknown
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"Dylan, we have a problem," Trance said over the comm, "I just picked up a radiation wave, of unknown origin, headed towards us, and to make things worse, slipstream isn't responding, it will hit us in a matter of seconds, and we can't get out of the way."
"Everyone, brace for impact!" Captain Dylan Hunt yelled over the comm.
As the radiation wave hit the Andromeda, it was thrust into slipstream by the wave, but with no pilot guiding, it shot straight through slipstream, with no destination. After a minute the Andromeda shot shot back into real space.
After being ejected from slipstream, Dylan, who was on the observation deck, managed to get to his feet, and he said, "Rommie, what happened?"
After Andromeda's hologram appeared she said, "Dylan, I am not exactly sure, but we appear to be back in the Milky Way galaxy, but the stars are different here, the quantum signature here is... different, I believe that we may be in a different dimension."
"What do you mean a different dimension?" Tyr asked as he walked on to the observation deck.
"Not like the one you and Beka were trapped in, but more along the lines of a different quantum dimension, there are similarities to ours, but different." Andromeda said.
"Andromeda, send out your sensor drones and long range probes, I want to know what's out there." Dylan said.
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About one day later.
"Dylan, my drones and probes picked up some strange things here, the only similarity that I have found so far is Earth and humans and the arrangement of stars. So far as I can tell, there are no magog, Nietzscheans, Vedrans, or any other of the known races. Also they don't appear to have slipstream, but use some other form of faster than light transportation," Rommie, the android avatar of the ship's AI, said. Rommie motioned to the view screen as an image of a small squadron of fighters entering a structure with some kind of portal in it, then the portal closed and the fighters were gone.
"What else Rommie?" Dylan asked.
"Well, I managed to gain entrance into some thing called Interstellar Network News, or ISN for short. Also, apparently, the Earth government, called the Earth Alliance, under the leadership of a President Clark, has declared Marshall law, and apparently even bombed civilian targets on several of their colonies, which, apparently seceded from the Earth Alliance demanding President Clark's impeachment, a space station called Babylon 5 also seceded from Earth, but President Clark hasn't attacked it, yet, mainly because it's in neutral space and has all kinds of ambassadors on it" Rommie said.
"That sounds like a coup," Beka said.
"It is a coup," Tyr said cynically, "and apparently, not as effective as this Clark would want it to be."
"Uh, guys, have noticed, but we've been using the word apparently several times in the last few minutes." Harper said.
Ignoring Harper's remark, Dylan said, "We're headed to this Babylon 5, maybe we can find some allies here, but don't let any one know we're from a different dimension, just say, that were from, some long lost colony, and don't want to get pulled into anyone's war."
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This was not good, Babylon 5 was being attacked by four Earth Force destroyers, her ship, the E.A.S. Churchill, was nearly crippled and most of her crew was dead or dying, Captain Sandra Hiroshi thought as she gave the Order to ram one of the enemy destroyers when a massive flash of white light on her port side and said, "God Damn It, their using nukes!"
That's when one of her officers told her that it was not a nuke, and it appeared that a ship was coming out of it.
"What! Show me, now!" Captain Hiroshi yelled, she was injured, and she knew it, she had a broken arm, which she knew was broken mainly because it bent in more places than it should, and she figured that she probably had a concussion. But when that ship her jaw dropped slightly, it was almost as big as her ship, one core with two "wings" on either side, it looked like a glorified luxury liner, which was what it probably was, but what was it doing here? Hiroshi thought.
As she watched this, her engines were hit and collapsed, she was a sitting duck. The Churchill couldn't move and her plan to ram an enemy ship was gone now. All she could do know was wait to be captured or killed, not that it would matter with Clark, he would probably kill her anyway. But then she saw about five starfuries attack that luxury liner, and it fired five little bolts and each one destroyed a fighter, no matter how much it tried to dodge it, it was as if it tracked them. After the starfuries were destroyed, the ship released its own fighters, which looked like smaller versions of the larger ship, which Hiroshi would have laughed at if this wasn't so serious a situation.
They were using missiles, which Hiroshi thought was strange, I mean, why weren't they using their energy weapons. Missiles, while often more powerful than energy weapons in most cases, were expensive and often weren't carried in large numbers on ships, it just wasn't economic or practical, so why wasn't this ship using energy weapons. This new ship was of an unknown design and used strange weapons, and how did it get here? These were just some of the problems that were with this new ship in Hiroshi's mind.
That's when her XO spoke up, "Sir, their hailing all ships and the station." And that's when the message came over the comm that would change the universe forever.
"This is Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant to all attacking Earth Force ships, Babylon 5 is under my protection and you will stand down or be destroyed."
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to be continued soon
Disclaimer: B5 belongs to JMS and SciFi; Andromeda belong to Tribune Entertainment. I am only borrowing them and I promise to return them in more or less the same condition as I found them. I will make no money off this.
Author's note: This takes place in the season 3 that doesn't exist yet, I am assuming the Dylan gets Beka and Tyr back.
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"Babylon 5 was a dream given form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds could live side-by-side in mutual respect, a dream that was endangered as never before by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction." -Ambassador Londo Mollari Centauri Republic Date Unknown
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"Dylan, we have a problem," Trance said over the comm, "I just picked up a radiation wave, of unknown origin, headed towards us, and to make things worse, slipstream isn't responding, it will hit us in a matter of seconds, and we can't get out of the way."
"Everyone, brace for impact!" Captain Dylan Hunt yelled over the comm.
As the radiation wave hit the Andromeda, it was thrust into slipstream by the wave, but with no pilot guiding, it shot straight through slipstream, with no destination. After a minute the Andromeda shot shot back into real space.
After being ejected from slipstream, Dylan, who was on the observation deck, managed to get to his feet, and he said, "Rommie, what happened?"
After Andromeda's hologram appeared she said, "Dylan, I am not exactly sure, but we appear to be back in the Milky Way galaxy, but the stars are different here, the quantum signature here is... different, I believe that we may be in a different dimension."
"What do you mean a different dimension?" Tyr asked as he walked on to the observation deck.
"Not like the one you and Beka were trapped in, but more along the lines of a different quantum dimension, there are similarities to ours, but different." Andromeda said.
"Andromeda, send out your sensor drones and long range probes, I want to know what's out there." Dylan said.
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About one day later.
"Dylan, my drones and probes picked up some strange things here, the only similarity that I have found so far is Earth and humans and the arrangement of stars. So far as I can tell, there are no magog, Nietzscheans, Vedrans, or any other of the known races. Also they don't appear to have slipstream, but use some other form of faster than light transportation," Rommie, the android avatar of the ship's AI, said. Rommie motioned to the view screen as an image of a small squadron of fighters entering a structure with some kind of portal in it, then the portal closed and the fighters were gone.
"What else Rommie?" Dylan asked.
"Well, I managed to gain entrance into some thing called Interstellar Network News, or ISN for short. Also, apparently, the Earth government, called the Earth Alliance, under the leadership of a President Clark, has declared Marshall law, and apparently even bombed civilian targets on several of their colonies, which, apparently seceded from the Earth Alliance demanding President Clark's impeachment, a space station called Babylon 5 also seceded from Earth, but President Clark hasn't attacked it, yet, mainly because it's in neutral space and has all kinds of ambassadors on it" Rommie said.
"That sounds like a coup," Beka said.
"It is a coup," Tyr said cynically, "and apparently, not as effective as this Clark would want it to be."
"Uh, guys, have noticed, but we've been using the word apparently several times in the last few minutes." Harper said.
Ignoring Harper's remark, Dylan said, "We're headed to this Babylon 5, maybe we can find some allies here, but don't let any one know we're from a different dimension, just say, that were from, some long lost colony, and don't want to get pulled into anyone's war."
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This was not good, Babylon 5 was being attacked by four Earth Force destroyers, her ship, the E.A.S. Churchill, was nearly crippled and most of her crew was dead or dying, Captain Sandra Hiroshi thought as she gave the Order to ram one of the enemy destroyers when a massive flash of white light on her port side and said, "God Damn It, their using nukes!"
That's when one of her officers told her that it was not a nuke, and it appeared that a ship was coming out of it.
"What! Show me, now!" Captain Hiroshi yelled, she was injured, and she knew it, she had a broken arm, which she knew was broken mainly because it bent in more places than it should, and she figured that she probably had a concussion. But when that ship her jaw dropped slightly, it was almost as big as her ship, one core with two "wings" on either side, it looked like a glorified luxury liner, which was what it probably was, but what was it doing here? Hiroshi thought.
As she watched this, her engines were hit and collapsed, she was a sitting duck. The Churchill couldn't move and her plan to ram an enemy ship was gone now. All she could do know was wait to be captured or killed, not that it would matter with Clark, he would probably kill her anyway. But then she saw about five starfuries attack that luxury liner, and it fired five little bolts and each one destroyed a fighter, no matter how much it tried to dodge it, it was as if it tracked them. After the starfuries were destroyed, the ship released its own fighters, which looked like smaller versions of the larger ship, which Hiroshi would have laughed at if this wasn't so serious a situation.
They were using missiles, which Hiroshi thought was strange, I mean, why weren't they using their energy weapons. Missiles, while often more powerful than energy weapons in most cases, were expensive and often weren't carried in large numbers on ships, it just wasn't economic or practical, so why wasn't this ship using energy weapons. This new ship was of an unknown design and used strange weapons, and how did it get here? These were just some of the problems that were with this new ship in Hiroshi's mind.
That's when her XO spoke up, "Sir, their hailing all ships and the station." And that's when the message came over the comm that would change the universe forever.
"This is Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant to all attacking Earth Force ships, Babylon 5 is under my protection and you will stand down or be destroyed."
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to be continued soon