Chapter Three
Captain Jade walked swiftly to the Bridge. She looked around, and everybody seemed to be in place except for Lieutenant T'Nead. The dim lights on the bridge gave it an ominous appearance. She suspected some of the systems might be offline, and she didn't know why she felt that way. Major T'Dank had a book in his hand, and he stared at the overhead screen for a moment. Standing at the rear of the bridge, she immediately asked, "Major T'Dank, permission to enter the bridge?"
"Permission granted," he said. He looked back at her for a second, and then turned back to his book. She walked over to her post, and didn't see Lieutenant T'Nead anywhere in the room, and that bothered her. She walked over to the break area for a moment, and didn't see her there either. Everything appeared to be normal, but she felt a little on edge. Captain T'Baze wore his helmet that controlled the weapon system. He looked peaceful. The Commander sat quietly while he read a book, and everything seemed normal with him, but she expected something was wrong.
"Major, I think this is a good time to do a function check on the weapon systems." Captain Jade said. She looked over the checklist, and then said, "It's been awhile."
"It has been a minute," he said, "How about it Captain T'Baze?" The Major asked.
"We can do one," he said. He stood on the far right side of the Commander, and as soon as he tried to test the weapon system, the entire Bridge lost power. The room went black, and Captain Jade used her ring for lighting. Captain Baze walked to the front of the ship, and she watched everything closely with the power of her ring.
"What happened?" The Major asked.
Suddenly, Captain T'Baze turned around, and fired a green glow at the Major, and Captain Jade blocked it.
"So, you're the spy?" Captain Jade said. "Are you even Doraxian?" She asked. Backing up away from her controlled panel, she prepared herself for battle. She hadn't ever had a real battle with her ring, but she had plenty as a speedster.
Captain T'Baze laughed. He metamorphosed into a slender, ripe olive colored woman with black hair, large eyes, and thin lips. "What gave me away?" She asked. Her nasally voice was bizarre, and she acted with pride and hubris.
"Who are you?" Captain Jade asked.
"I'm Commander Tiara of the Green Lantern Corp, and a member of the Distortion race," she said. She had her hands up in a fighting stance, and Captain Jade still had her guard down. Commander Tiara then said, "Your General destroyed one of our Battlecruisers. He murdered over a thousand of my people, so I took it upon myself to revenge their deaths." She paused for a moment, and raised her right hand to her face. She spoke into a communications device. "They're vulnerable. Take them out." She paused for a moment. "What about you, Captain" Tiara asked. "Surely, you have your grievances with this General. You're just to frightened to say anything."
"Don't worry about me," she said, "Today I fight to save my ship, and if I die in the process then so be it."
Captain Jade fired on the Green Lantern, and a laser light display took place on the bridge. The Major hid in the rear of the bridge, and tried to shoot the Green Lantern with his laser pistol, but it didn't do any good. The Green Lantern was well trained. Sparky Jade sped around the Lantern, and knocked her to the ground.
"Holy shit," The Major screamed. "Dragon, war mode."
"Warmode offline," the computer said.
"Dragon, do you have any working weapons?" He asked.
'None," They are all offline.
"Sarcoptic, attack mode Bravo," the Major ordered.
When he tried to deploy the maintenance robots, the Lantern ship fired two positronic rays into the Bridge, and it tore it open. Captain Jade grabbed the Major, and took him off the Bridge, and the ship's power fluctuated. An alert went out through the entire ship, and all the parasitic ships deployed except for Captain Jade's ship, The Leech. By the time she took off in her vessel, the Dragon was caught in Praxis' gravitational pull, and over sixty Doraxians were onboard.
Captain Jade circumvented a slew of laser fire, and attached to the Battlecruiser. She drilled into the armor plating of the Lantern vessel, and once the computer displayed the words, "Locked," she drained the ship, and the Battlecruiser lost power. She watched the display on her screen, and as soon as the computer told her the ship was completely drained, she'd destroy it on lift-off. Two Green Lanterns approached her from the rear, and as soon as she saw them, she hit the Omega Thruster, flew upwards, and fired a gamma blast into the ship. The ray incinerated the two Lanterns and tore a hole in the enemy vessel. Immediately, the ship regained enough power to escape, but only because the Leech didn't chase it. The Lantern Battlecruiser took off at sublight.
"I need all ships on hand to save the Dragon," Captain Jade screamed into the communications device. The Leech, The Infection, The Flake, The Worm, and The Flea used their tractor beams in unison, and prevented the Dragon from crashing into the planet. If a warbird crashed into Praxis, it would cause a catastrophic event, and kill everybody on the surface. Captain Jade saw Major T'Naga on the other side using her power ring to push the ship upwards while the ships pulled. When the Lanterns pulled the Blue Dragon out of danger, Major T'Naga put the entire fleet on red alert. The General was so far out of range that it would take months before he found out about the attack.
"Major Hall, this is Major T'Naga," she said, "A Lantern Battlecruiser crippled the Dragon. Until further notice, we're at Threat Level Red."
"All Doraxian Military we're now raising the threat level to red," Major Hall said, "Deploy all parasitic vessels."
"Annihilator One is red. Parasitic vessels deployed," Vivian said.
"Blue Hellion is red. Parasitic vessels deployed," Major Hall said.
"Blue Force One is red. Parasitic vessels deployed," Major Niobi said.
"Vitic is red. Parasitic vessels deployed," Colonel T'Lita Noir said.
Major T'Naga deployed Nero and the other robots, and they worked on fixing the ship. Captain Jade stood right by her when the Major took charge. When Lieutenant Iobi flew into the bay, Major T'Naga flew over to him, and said, "I need you to search for T'Nead. See if you can detect her telepathically."
When Major T'Naga walked over to the group of officers, she said, "I need a count of all your soldiers."
"Who the hell are you?" Captain Sebi T'Noi said.
"Shut up, and do it," Captain Jade said, "You see her ring."
When Major T'Dank walked over to the group, he said, "Do exactly what Major T'Naga ask of you. This is not the time for big heads."
"Captain Jade, is it possible for Stoney to send a message to the General?" She asked.
"I'm not sure," she said, "I will fly down to the planet, and ask."
Captain Jade hopped into her ship, and flew to the planet. Everything looked peaceful. The Kryptonians went about their day, and didn't realize the raucous that happened above the planet. She landed her ship directly in front of the cave, and then asked, "Stoney, can you send a message to the General?"
"He's on Brion Noir," Stoney said, "That's too far for the General to reach us."
"There has to be away," she said, "We were attacked by the Lanterns. The entire fleet is on alert."
Stoney whispered to her telepathically, and said, "I can send a message to conscious planets close to us, and in a few days, he'll get the message."
"Let's try it, Stoney," she said, "He would want to know about this."
