A/N: Hey guys I`m so sorry about not updating anything but I have had problems with my laptop. But their fixed now! Also, I know I should probably be updating my current story but I have three ideas in my head and I have to get them down! I hope you enjoy my new story, Light Speed!

Chapter 1: the Atlantean empire

*Annabeth pov*

I stood on the bridge of my prison station, gazing out at the stars beyond the windows of the bridge, which had heads up displays on them which popped up and disappeared if there was anything of note to report. I hated being in charge of a prison base, it was soooo boring!

Suddenly, the widows flashed red and and klaxons blared throughout the bridge, making me jump in surprise. "Captain" the sensor operator yelled. "We have three Atlantean escort class vessels dropping in from light speed!". (Just think of star wars blockade runners, either clone wars or rebel.) Just as the man had said, three Atlantean frigates suddenly appeared, flanked by a fighter squadron. "Atlantis isn`t even supposed to have spacecraft!" I replied, shocked. But before I could say more the fighters surged forward, shaking the station as they opened fire on it, causing the klaxons to blare again, but due to danger and damage this time. "I want fighters out there now!" I snapped at the on duty flight officer. "Yes man " she replied. A few mintutes later an Athenian fighter squad zoomed out of the hangar, engaging the enemy ships immediately. At first they took the Atlantean pilots by surprise, allowing a couple to be taken out. However, that soon changed as a dog fight began.

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"we are loosing to many…." static replaced the Athenian squad leader`s voice as his fighter was blown to smithereens. I grimaced, tears starting to leak from my eyes as we lost another plane. "All pilots fall back!" a bellowed, the flight officer repeating the order into the radio a second later. There was no reply until "we have enemy troops….. aaaahhhh!" screamed the remaining pilots as their ships exploded. "Get me footage of the hangar now!" I barked at my first officer. He pressed a few buttons and an image of one of the hangars appeared in the window. I gulped as I Atlantean soldiers shoot down all crew inside, and poor out of their shuttle, running through a door intothe ship. "All personel we are under attach. I repeat, under attack" I shouted into the com link fixed to my command chair. "All guards to arms, all guards to arms" I finished. For the next half hour I watched surveillance as my men were gunned down by superior opposing numbers. "That`s it" I roared, grabbing a blaster rifle from a wall compartment. "I`m going in, XO you have the bridge",.

I ran out of the bridge and down a flight of steps, and began running throughout the station, leaping over bodies of my former comrades, and a few Atlantean soldiers as I dodged enemy fire and shot dead as many hostile soldiers as I possibly could. Eventually, I turned into a smoking corridor, only to dive to the floor next to a fellow Athenian comrade as the air in front of me filled with rapid laser fire. "Captain" the soldier noded as he returned fire from behind the rubble we were using as cover. Then , realised who it was. "Comander!" I seethed. "I left the bridge under your command. I f they manage to secure it then they have control of this prison, something I will not allow". "I wasn't just going to watch as everyone else was killed!" He retorted. Suddenly ,I heard a beeping noise. I knew what that meant. "XO, move!" I screeched as I dived out the way as the hallway lit up in a fiery inferno. I scrambled to my feet and ran forward to my executive officer, only to see a smoking corpse. I blinked back tears as I looked upon the man who I had spent so much time working with over the years, who now lay dead before me. However, I knew there was no time to mourn for my lost comrade. So I picked up my weapon, and was just about to begin firing when the barell of a rifle was shoved in front of my tear streaked face. "Surrender ordie, captain" growled the soldier who had the gun pointed at me. I thought about doing something heroic and trying to take the hostile soldiers who has surrounded me down, but I knew I would never be able to take more than two down before they blasted me to pieces. So, reluctantly I raised my hands in surrender. "A wise choice girl" commented one soldier. By the symbols on the slides( lapel badges) of his uniform I could see that he was probably the leader of this attack. "We`ll take her to the bridge with us, if there are any locked systems or programs a captain should be able to unlock them. Now lets move!".

Two midshipmen hoisted me to my feet, and the s ten man quad moved out. As we passed through the halls of HMAP Owl, (the prison station I commanded) I couldn't help but let tears spill down my face at the sight of the countless men and women under my command being shot dead, blown up or their corpses sprawled across the floor. Now, don't get me wrong. I was used to seeing dead comrades from the years I spent on the front line before I was promoted to an officer and placed in command of this prison. But this was the most amount of dead compatriots I had seen in my whole career. By the time I had pulled myself together and stopped the tears we had reached the bridge. I was yanked to the side, safe from any attack, just before the doors cycled open and the Atlantean soldiers stormed in, rifles blazing. I watched in horror as the men and women I was closest too – the stations most senior command crewman- were littered with smoking holes from blaster fire as they tried in vain to hold control of the most vital room on board the Owl. It took less than three minutes before all of them lay dead on the floor. The commanding officer and a few other soldiers put their weapons down and began accessing various monitors, disabling energy shields, defence drones, the escape pods and opening all doors throughout the prison, effectively stopping any chance of survival for any last serviceman or woman still alive. For the next ten minutes they searched through the stations databases, looking through prisoner files, Athenian tactics and other things. They downloaded the important stuff onto USB sticks( yes USB sticks exist in this universe ) .

Sddenly, I realised something my captors hadn`t. A small orange light on a control panel was flashing, signalling that someone had set off the emergency beacon. That meant that Athenian ships would be on their way here right now! I immediately started to formulate a plan on how to retake the bridge and hopefully aid in saving some of my fellow crew members who may have been taken captive. After a few seconds, I had it. Before anyone could blink, I spun around, breaking free of my captors grip, and sharply kicked the two men`s legs out from below the, causing the soldiers to tumble to the ground, knocking themselves out upon impact with the floor. Less than a second later I had a blaster rifle in my hand and shot two more enemy combatants down, as I sprinted towards the control panel. It took me a split second to reactivate the electric energy shields and activate one. An orange energy field fizzled into life, moving forward and hitting the rest of the squad before they could fire upon me. It shocked them either dead or unconscious as it pushed the men out the door, stopping and staying there when a heap of bodies lay outside the bridge doorway and in between the field and the lift doors. "Gotcha" I said to the unconscious attackers, grinning. I turned, just in time to see a flash of light as an Athenian destroyer and two blockade runners dropped out of hyperspace, opening up fire on the Atlantean ships. Oddly, the Atlantean ships did not fire back but instead surged forward, lit up their lightspeed engines and left in a flash of light. They had left behind any of their boarding party who had not already returned to his/her squad`s shuttle, along with the rest of their squad and around five former prisoners. However, all of these had yellow "high interest" shock collars around their necks, and were probably all senior Atlantean officers or assassins or spies.

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The next thing I knew I was on board the destroyer in it`s medical bay, waiting to be checked for injuries after my ordeal. However, what was happening next made me more nervous. I had been told by the captain of this ship that we were returning to our division base on the planet Caduceus. There, I was told that upon arrival I was requested to meet with the division command council and give a full report on what happened. This didn't usually happen, but an attack by Atlantean forces on an Athenian station was bad. I wouldn't be surprised if the leading council of the Olympian alliance of democratic empires heard about this.

A/N: I hope you like this chapter. I know I haven`t updated in like two weeks but I have had computer problems and I`ve been busy. By the way, please can people read my wattpad stories and review and recommend my stories on both sites. If I want to become an established author on this site I need both reviews and feedback to do so. I also need to gain more readers. See you next time when I update Perseus, general of darkness and night.