A few hours passed and Siban paced his ready room. The early twenty first century was not that dangerous of a time for Earth, although in a year he knew the Xindi Reptiles tired to unleash a virus on Earth but that plan was stopped by Archer and T'Pol.
"Captain, the is Dolred, the Glenwing's Captain is conscious and has requested to speak to you" she said through Siban's comm badge.
Siban walked into sickbay and went to Brosnan's biobed.
'We were attacked sir by a Xindi Reptilian warship." he said
"How is that possible" asked Siban.
"We were enroute from Starbase 621 to transport a few crewmembers to the Minatare when we intercepted the Xindi opening a temporal vortex, they have come here to destroy the space shuttle Columbia to stop its next mission" said Brosnan.
"Their next mission" asked Siban
"Well when the Columbia neared Earth they picked up a Xindi probe in the area. It was surveying Earth and transmitting information that prepared the Xindi for their assault the year later." said Brosnan.
Siban looked at Nivek and Brinks who both shared his same expression.
"How come NASA never picked up the probe before" asked Siban.
"No idea Captain but if I am right we do not have much time before the Xindi destroy the Columbia" said Brosnan.
"It's going to happen, historically the Columbia was destroyed by a break in the thermal shielding causing the left wing to break off resulting unbalanced aerodynamic forces causing it to explode" said Nivek.
"History isn't always truth though is it Commander" asked Brosnan.
"The Xindi went back in time and destroyed the Columbia. NASA covered it up with the whole thermal shielding bullshit." said Brosnan.
Siban's badge vibrated "Captain we have picked up another vessel, it's the Xindi"
Captain Siban, Nivek and Brinks ran to the bridge.
"On screen" said Siban urgently.
Nivek and Brinks quickly took their stations. Their replacements moving out their way as the two took their seats.
"The Xindi are closing in fast on Earth sir. They have locked weapons on the Columbia" said Kennedy.
"What do we do Captain" asked Nivek his finger ready to hit the command to fire at a moments notice.
"We do nothing" said Siban
The bridge crew looked at their Captain and knew what he was thinking
Can't mess with the timeline
The Xindi reptilian warship came into view and bounded head on towards Earth.
"Sir I am picking up audio from the Columbia now" said Kennedy
"Put it through"
The sounds of a man's voice filled the room
"Huston we are beginning re-entrance now" said the man
"The Xindi are charging some kind of pulse weapon sir" said Brinks
The Xindi ship fired the pulse. It broke through the Earth atmosphere and clipped the back of the Columbia just at the moment it planned a roll to the right exposing its left wing to a more direct blast from pulse. The pulse severed the wing slightly.
"Of scale low" said an astronauts voice.
"The Xindi are recharging their weapon sir" said Brinks.
Siban clutched his chairs arms and the whole bridge crew held their breath
The Xindi ship moved closer to Earth and by this point Siban assumed the Columbia's crew could see the vessel closing in on them
"Roger, uh, bu…" said another man.
"We lost communication with Huston" said another man
The Xindi ship prepared to fire the pulse weapon again
"What the hell is that" said the same man.
"The Xindi ship is firing the weapon sir" shouted Brinks. This time all restraint to hide the nervousness in her voice had failed
The pulse erupted from the ship and sped quickly towards the Columbia. It collided with the ship causing it to exploded.
"The Columbia is gone sir" said Brinks.
"The Xindi are moving off sir" said Kennedy.
"Follow them" said Siban\
The Sigmar moved off from behind Earth's moon and chased after the Xindi reptilian warship.
"We are closing in fast on them sir" said Brinks.
"Nivek, give them a warning that we are here. Fire a spread of quantum torpedoes just off their port bow." said Siban
"Aye, sir" said Nivek
He punched in a quick command on his panel and three bright blue orbs erupted from the front torpedo bay.
"The Xindi are turning about Captain, They know we are here now" said Brinks.
"Even with our shields down they are still no match for us Captain" said Nivek
"Hail these bastards" said Siban
"Communication link opened sir" said Kennedy.
The bulk head shimmered away and was replaced by the image of a creature with bronze colored skin and ridges on its forehead and with hair that stood straight up in a spikey kind of hairstyle.
"I am Captain Siban of the Federation Starship Sigmar. You just committed and act of unprovoked aggression against a race that was no threat to you"
"The Human kind must be annihilated before they destroy our kind" said the Xindi male.
"The human race of this time had no means to attack you nor were the capable of launching any kind of interstellar assault" said Siban.
Just then Siban began to vanish as he was transported over to the Xindi ship.
"Get him back" shouted Kimball
"Sir the Xindi ship has raised it shields" said Brinks.
"Damn it" shouted Kimball.
"What would they want with the Captain" asked Nivek.
"I suppose when he mentioned the Federation it sparked their interest" said Kimball.
"What do we do" asked Kennedy
"We need to make a plan. Emergency briefing in twenty minutes. We need a plan and fast" said Kimball.