I had decided to make a few prequel stories for the Elementian Effect, this will be the second prequel story anyway hope you like it

(Chapter 01)

'Huh?' was the thought that passed through a blond man's mind as he saw a woman working outside in a field harvesting wheat, she looked to be in her mid-twenties with long brunette hair that reach her mid-back and was wearing a long black tunic but what drew his attention was the rabbit ears on top her head, he stares at them as he saw one twitches making her look in his direction.

The scenery around him changed and he found himself standing in the middle of a street filled with what he assumes to be soldiers as they were all dressed the same, looking around he saw they were all standing in formation of a metal dome.

He then looks to his right and saw a petit woman with chestnut brown hair, he then hears a whirring sound and looks to the sound. he sees the doors on the dome open and catches a glimpse of a marble stone structure inside

"NARUTO" shouted a woman's voice waking him from his dream getting him to snap his eyes open and sees his friend and first officer Beka Valentine, kneeling over him trying to shake him awake which worked.

A groan escaped Naruto as he sat up then looks around command, he saw the lights were flickering and the extensive damage that was done to the bridge of his ship. Naruto could only imagine how the rest of the ship was doing "Andromeda, Status!" he ordered with a groan as he was getting up on his feet.

"It's no use, I tried calling for her earlier but it seems her AI core was knock out in that energy wave, that hit us while we were in Slipstream" Beka informed him as she went to one of the consoles that still barely worked.

Naruto looks around again and saw Tyr was the only one on command trying to fix the weapons station "Beka, where are Harper, Trance, Rev and Rommie?" he asks with a strained groan.

"Harper is in the conduits trying to repair Andromeda's AI, as well as trying to get sensors, engines and weapons systems back online. While Trance and Rev Bem are assessing the damage done to the rest of the ship and Rommie is offline right now" she tells him receiving a relieved sigh from the Elementian at hearing the first three were alright but was a little worried about Andromeda's avatar.

Stepping up to the captain's console he asks "do we have visual of where we are?" looking towards the three main viewers.

Just as she was about to answer the consoles and lights turn back on "if anyone has noticed, we now have reserve power coming online, curtesy of you friendly neighborhood engineer" a cocky voice came through the middle main viewer revealing a short man in the conduits with the monitor on the right was glitching.

"Harper, what does the damage look like?" Naruto asks hoping it wasn't bad.

"It doesn't look good boss, whatever hit us took down most of our systems but I was able to get short range and internal sensors back online, as well as communications and Rommie should be back online in a few minutes as well, now we're gonna have to prioritize on what we want, I can't do all at once" he says then raises his hand up "sub-light engines, long range sensors or weapons" Harper continues counting each priority.

Naruto looks towards both Beka and Tyr "what should we repair first? Sensors, engines or weapons?" he asks them.

BEEPBEEPBEEP

Before either one could answer the sensors went off making Naruto look at the console in front of him "what is it?" Beka asks with a bit of worry in her voice.

Checking the sensors Naruto saw there was a planet off their starboard and they were drifting towards it "Harper, we're gonna need those engines back online right away, we only have ten minutes before we enter the planet's atmosphere and plummet to our deaths" he tells him receiving a nod from the short man.

"Getting on it" he hurriedly says scrambling on fixing the engines cutting communications with the bridge.

"So what do we do in the meantime, just wait for Harper to repair the engines?" Beka asks just as Trance and Rev Bem return.

"The damage to the Andromeda is severe but the nanobots & androids are slowly repairing and sealing any ruptures along the bulkheads" Rev Bem reported with a breathing apparatus over his mouth.

Thinking over the situation Naruto looks over to Beka "prep the Maru for takeoff just in case" he tells her which Beka then tells Trance to come along as well and they both left command in a hurry.

The right viewer screen glitches a few times then a woman appeared on screen revealing it to be the ship's AI "Andromeda! it's good to have you back, now are you able to analyze what that energy wave was and did it have anything to do with the Catalyst?" Naruto asks wondering what it was.

She had a little smile on her face when he said the first part then begun to be process his inquiry and was analyzing the data she was able to obtain from her sensors at the time "there isn't enough data for me to give an accurate reading, sorry captain" she reports looking a bit puzzled with the readings.

Four minutes later Beka and Trance came back to command with concern expression on their faces "it's a no go with the Maru" Beka simply stated with a bit of an edge in her voice.

Both Naruto and Tyr looks to them "what do you mean, it's a 'no go'?" Naruto asks loudly a little confused on why.

It was Trance that answered "whatever hit us, also effected the Maru's systems as well" her voice seemed a little timed telling them.

Naruto gave another sigh at hearing that "it seems, we are going to have to wait on Harper for those engine" Tyr says a little disappointed at that comment.

"Harper, how are those engines coming along?" Naruto asks as he contacted him in the conduits again

The middle screen turns on to show Harper hard at work "it's coming slowly but surely, I just need a few more minutes" Harper informs them cross wiring a few circuits together.

Looking at the Sensors again he saw there was very little time "you better hurry it up, Harper, we only have six minutes before the planet's gravity pulls us in" he updates the short man.

"I know, I know" he simply said with a tool in hand.

BEEP BEEP BEEP

"Now what?" asked an irritated Tyr wondering what else could go wrong.

Looking at the left main viewer they saw a huge faded red bleep appear on radar "whatever it is, it's just barely on our sensors and unfortunately, we don't have visuals yet" Naruto said out loud.

"Captain, I just located our position and it appears, we're in the Milky Way galaxy, Perseus arm, in a system in the Styx Theta cluster" Andromeda informed them of where they were in all of Known Space.

A thought crossed Naruto's mind at hearing they were in the Styx Theta cluster and uses the sensors to scan the planet they were drifting towards "Andromeda, can you search your database for that planet?" he inquires as he felt there was something familiar about it.

Everyone looked towards him with suspicion and/or confusion on their faces, while receiving a nod from the AI "checking now" she says.

"Do you know something about this planet?" Beka inquires with a raised eyebrow as she got out of her seat and walks over to Naruto.

He was about to answer her before Andromeda interrupt him "I found a match in my data-banks, the planet is called..." "Arashi" a voice from the entrance finished for her making everyone look towards it.

Standing there was Gaheris Rhade "How do you know that?" Trance asks curiously as she took a few steps towards him.

"Later, Harper we need those engines right now, we only have a minute before we enter the atmosphere" Naruto calls out bringing him back on screen.

The moment he was on screen a bright spark happened making Harper fall backwards quickly with a yelp "oww, man that smarts" he whines shaking his right hand from the pain then looks up to the screen that was in the conduits "it doesn't look Naruto, all I can give you is stabilizing thrusters and I had managed to get the GF Generators (1) back online, but it can only give minimal power, that's all I can do" he tells them making him lower his head.

Naruto then looks back to Harper "could you get us visuals?" he asks with a raised eyebrow

Harper looked a little confused at that then pulls out his data-pad and scans the circuits "yeah I could, but why?" he questions

They saw Naruto look over to his first officer "Beka take the helm, we're going to need you to land the ship on the planet" he ordered her getting a nod from her as she took the helm "Harper get us visuals now, everyone brace yourselves for impact" he tells them as the lighting in the room turn blue.

(Arashi – hillsides – midnight)

The light sound of marching could barely be heard as an army of men in metal armor were carefully walking towards a hill with a stone building on top of it "if we take advantage of the dark and come in from the side of the hill that block out the stars, we should be able to make our approach" voiced a grizzled old man in dark red armor as he and his army slowly move towards their target.

"Do not shuffle about men, pick up your feet and be quite" quietly says a man on an armored horse.

A couple of minutes after he said that the whole area around them suddenly lit up with balls of light slowly descending from the sky revealing the entire army as they were looking up in confusion, the old man looked up at the lights as well with confusion on his face then hardens a second later "What! Where are these lights coming from?" he spoke aloud looking at the slowly descending lights.

After settling his horse and regaining his thoughts the old man then gives a shout "no" he cries out as his plan to use the night as cover for him and his men to sneak up on their enemies.

He then had his horse start running "all troops forward! Keep moving to Alnus, take the fight to them" he shouts to his men as he was riding towards the enemy's camp on top of the hill.

What acquired next happened to fast, as he made his way towards his enemies multiple loud bangs were heard coming from the now identified Alnus Hill and lights streaking towards them, the next second explosions started happening and loud quick screams filled the air but the old man continued on "move! Keep going" he ordered.

The old man kept shouting for his men to fellow him as he advanced forward and as he came over a small rock side and the next then he knew, he was sent flying off of his horse as it ran into large coils of barbed wire and got tangled in it "my lord!" his men cried out seeing their king getting flung off his horse.

"Wait, let us help you" one of his men said as they hurried to their king's side.

"We need more shields" another one calls out getting more people to help their king.

After moving the barbwire out of the way his men formed a wall using their shields to protect their king, two of his men help him up to his feet which he then shoves them shouting "GET OUT, EVERYONE GET OUT" he tries to warn them but was too late.

As hundreds of small streaks of lights soured at them going through their shields and armor, time seems to slow down for the king as he stood in place watching his men fall one by one around him, he looks to the enemy's base seeing many streaks of lights coming from their base then something hard ricochets off of his helmet making time speed back up for him and slowly starts walking towards them.

The next second they stopped and that confused him for a few moments before he heard a rumbling sound and it was getting louder by the second, it made the king and his remaining army to look around wondering where this rumbling was coming from "what the hell is that? Look up there" shouted one of his men as he was pointing up towards the sky.

This made all of them look to where he was pointing at and what they saw was a giant fireball plummeting towards the mountain they were next too, this made them and their king's eyes widen "EVERYONE RETREAT! MOVE NOW!" he shouts at the top of his lungs ordering his men to run which they start to.

BOOM

A loud explosion came from the ball of fire making them look back up at it and saw that the giant fireball was replaced with multiple of small ones but the king saw something else amongst the fireballs 'is that a chariot of the gods?' he asks himself staring at the object and sees it was arcing upwards looking like it was going to miss the mountain altogether.

As he was watching he didn't notice one of the fireball impact the ground a few feet in front of him engulfing him in a bright explosion of light followed by a loud crash and skidding.

(Andromeda – Command – ten minutes later)

Groans could be heard coming from multiple people "any survivors?" came a groan from Naruto as he was upside down against the wall at the front of the room.

"I'm alive" came Trance's voice whom was slowly trying to get up on her feet.

The sound of unbuckling was heard "same here" Beka said as she stood up from the pilots seat.

"still alive as well" sounded Gaheris with a grunt.

"Thank the divine for Beka's piloting skills" Rev Bem says as he turns over onto his back to lay there for a few moments to regain his bearings.

Tyr stood back up "miraculously we're all still alive" he says in his usual tone.

Having heard everyone in command was okay he was just about to roll himself back onto his feet but then heard something powering up making him look to where Rommie was and saw her sit back up "systems back online" she reported then looks around command.

She saw sparks flying from a few consoles then looks to her right and sees her Captain upside down, she just stares at him for a moment confused "captain? What are you doing?" she asks as she stands up and walks over to him.

"Never mind just help me up" Naruto grumbles as he held up a hand for her which she grabs pulling him up to his feet in one swift movement.

"Thank you, Rommie" Naruto says as he dusts himself off then looks too the main viewers "Andromeda! Give me a status on the ship" he asks her hoping the landing didn't cause that much damage.

The right screen flickered a couple of times before the ship's AI appeared "major hull damage along the Ventral and Port side of the ship, sub-light engines are offline, the GFG lens is damage and will need to be replaced, both internal and external defenses are offline, external sensors is offline, one of my GF generators will need to be completely replaced, communications are offline as well and we only have 35% of reserve power" Andromeda informs them as she was checking over her systems.

Hearing that didn't really surprise anyone as they knew there would be damages "so what do we have?" Tyr asks not liking what he just heard as he leans against the wall on the left side of command.

Checking her systems again she reported "internal sensors are online, we have real-time visuals, the Exotic Matter Pulsar is still online and the slipstream core is also still onli…" "Hello! Is anyone there? Hello!?" came Harper's voice through the comms surprising everyone as they had forgotten Harper was still in the conduits.

"Yes Harper, we hear you and glad to know you're still alive" Beka says sounding a little relieved to hear his voice.

"Are you okay Harper?" Trance asked looking a little concerned for her short friend.

"A little sore from being tossed around in here and could use a really good back massage…how about it my purple love goddess wanna give me a rub?" he says sounding a bit flirtatious at the end.

A smile graced Trance's face as her earlier concerns left her "stop being predicable" she tells him being used to his pickup lines.

Clearing his throat Naruto asks "pushing that aside, how are we looking Harper?" wanting to know if they can get back into space.

Scanning the circuits with his data pad and looks over the results "well this is just great, it doesn't look good boss" he tells him "there is extensive damage and it looks like we won't be flying for a whi…" was all he was able to say before being interrupted by the alarms sounding within command.

"Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Intruders on V-deck" Andromeda informs them loudly as the middle viewer flickers on showing a group of people in green camouflage clothing with assault rifles in hand slowly moving down a corridor on V-deck.

(End Chapter)

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1. A Gravity Field Generator, also known as the GFG or GFG Lens, is a critical component of every Slipstream able spaceship. A GFG helps to reduce the effective mass of a vessel (i.e. Andromeda Ascendant, Eureka Maru, Garuda class, Drones) to just under one kilogram. It also focuses gravity so that a hole can be ripped into the fabric of space-time so that the Slipstream can be accessed. A GFG is an important part of the ship's mobility system.

The lens is critical part of the GFG, without a lens a GFG cannot operate. The lens is an extremely expensive item that is hard to find. The lens is grounded by nanobots to help magnify the GFG's effects.

A ship's GFG must be shut off just as missiles or other large objects moving at high velocities are impacting upon a vessel's hull, because the effects otherwise would be disastrous. The ship would be smashed off course at speeds so extreme that the occupants would most likely be killed instantly, and the ship would be caromed into a nearby stellar object, or instantly vaporized. Smaller, scaled down GFGs also reduce the effective mass of weapons such as missiles until just before impact, allowing them to reach greater speeds and cause more kinetic damage when they impact. The high speeds also help the missiles move fast enough to evade any kind of countermeasures that the enemy might have.

The GFG is one of the key components of any Slipstream-capable ship, and is often specifically targeted by opponents looking to capture rather than kill a crew.