Star Trek TNG: Hell Hath No Fury
Chapter 5: NCC-1702-A
Vice Admiral's Log, Stardate 44005.6: As I lose one ship, I gain another. My family built the ship I will soon command, so it will survive what I plan to put her through: hell. Nippon Banzai.
The Type-1 shuttles took off from the Enterprise-D as she docked with Earth Station McKinley.
"Born in Japan, finished over Earth."
The new Galaxy-Class ship was built by the Pinkertons in Kyoto, and she was built to an exacting standard: firepower, armor and shielding over scientific equipment.
She was built for war, nothing more, nothing less.
"The Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A. It's about damn time they said the actions of that ship for what they were!"
The Vice Admiral sighed.
"They never commissioned another Ra-Cailum after we disappeared. They were planning on making my next ship the Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A, but-"
"We vanished."
"Oh, yeah."
The Galaxy Battleship already had a full load of 37 shuttles (1) and now the 44 from the Ra-Cailum 10017 were joining them. The shuttles landed on the Galaxy, and their occupants waited for their Admiral to step onto the deck. It was tradition for him to be the first one on and off the ship.
The shuttle doors on the 10017/9 Galileo opened and the Admiral stepped out, followed by his new XO, Sonic and his Chief Engineer.
The rest of the crew ran out of the shuttles, getting to their posts.
"Bridge, now."
They walked to the hatch leading to the rest of the ship.
Kyoto, Japan: Pinkerton Complex
The traditional Japanese building had stood since before the founding of the Federation, although it had been expanded at least a dozen times since 2161.
Tails didn't want to think about meeting Lunamaria Hawke, acting head of the family, (2) but as he had little choice, he walked into the fortress of death.
The nickname was well deserved: many people had tried to get in, but all had failed.
Painfully.
And lethally.
He walked in and expected the standard traps to be set off.
Thankfully, he was expected, so death wouldn't come on swift wings today.
The doors opened and a woman in an old style Starfleet uniform stood before him.
Her red, bowl-cut hair told him that this was Lunamaria Hawke.
"Shit!"
"I'll forgive the outburst, as I surprised you. Welcome to the home of my family."
Tails walked into the castle, and noticed hundreds of guards all over the place.
Then again, this WAS the Pinkertons he was thinking about.
"As you've noticed, we take security very seriously here."
"Some of the most advanced technology in the Federation comes from this place, Lady Hawke."
"Lunamaria will do. And you are partly right: we also build ships here. The Enterprise-C was born here in Kyoto, for example, although she was commissioned at McKinley Station."
Tails filed this away, although he was more focused on not doing two very bad things: angering the guards and looking at the extremely attractive Lunamaria's ass.
The former was easier then the latter.
The Mobian fox watched as he entered the inner chamber of the fortress: the office of the head of the family.
A painting of the Admiral, clearly updated with Vice-Admiral's stars, hung behind the wooden desk.
"The man is a legend within Starfleet circles, and more so within the family itself. Before him, no Pinkerton, branch family or not, made it past Commander. He's a Vice-Admiral."
"He was a Commodore."
"Does that matter? And I know you were leering at me."
Tails knew he was screwed.
He'd seen that sword the Admiral carried, and knew every member of his family trained from the age of 5 to use it.
To his surprise, Tails wasn't killed.
"Killing you is counterproductive. And my uncle sponsored your entry into Starfleet, so I would be insulting him by killing you."
The look in her eye would've killed him-and often did for other men.
"Don't do it again."
Tails saluted.
"Y-Yes ma'am!"
Then someone entered the room.
It was the Admiral himself.
Lunamaria stood and bowed.
"My Lord, forgive me! I did not know you were coming!"
"Relax, Luna."
The redhead straightened up, but the man put people on edge for a reason.
The Borg cube at Mobius, for example. And the sword on his left hip stated his post as head of the family.
That sword was older then the Pinkerton family, never used except as a symbol of status.
His kelbonite/tritanium/duranium w/neutronium coating katana was a combat weapon, and that was on the Ra-Cailum-A.
"Yes, My Lord."
"For the love of Christ, call me Uncle! It's what I am!"
Lunamaria was flustered.
The ultimate badass just wanted her to call him uncle?
Then again, he was only good at directing enemy ships to their deaths and sword fighting.
"Yes, Uncle."
"You two are coming with me for the next month! Tails, pack your bags and get your ass on the Ra-Cailum-A! Luna, you are my second officer for the next 7 days."
The Hawke blushed and saluted.
"Yes, My Lord!"
He got pissed.
"And quit calling me that!"
Galaxy Battleship-Class USS Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A
Sonic sat on the bucket seat on the bridge of the mighty warship.
Unlike the Enterprise-D, this ship had no carpets, everything was functional and grey, and the plaque was in the old style, akin to the one on the Enterprise-A.
Then again, the crew was from the 23rd Century, and luxury wasn't anywhere on their minds in that era.
While it did have replicators like the Enterprise-D's bridge, they were better hidden.
If anything, the bridge was that from a Constitution turned into something like the one from a Galaxy.
Three people, Admiral Pinkerton among them, walked onto the bridge from the starboard turbolift.
"Admiral on the Bridge!"
The bridge crew ignored the redhead.
"We don't stand on ceremony on the Ra-Cailum. To your station, Commander Hawke."
"As in Lunamaria Hawke?"
"Yup."
Sonic snorted. It was high time that Luna was humbled, and who better to do it then the Admiral?
"Clear all moorings, and take us out at high impulse power, Commander Hawke."
Luna took her post at the helm.
"Moorings cleared, docking latches decoupled and shut. Full impulse power."
The 643 meter long starship left the shipyard at damn near lightspeed.
It nearly rammed a Constitution-Class starship, but the Connie got out of the way in time.
"Set course for Aegis VII, maximum warp."
The Ra-Cailum-A jumped to Warp 9.2 toward the very edge of the Federation, where every Ra-Cailum had been first tested in combat.
Dark Legion DMZ
The D-3-Class bird-of-prey known as the DLV Holy Emerald was sitting inside the Zone, waiting to get to Aegis VII, traditional testing ground of the Ra-Cailums. The massive fleet-containing D-7s, K'T'ngas, D-5s, B'rels, K'Vorts and the odd D-11 battleship-Starfleet codename Conqueror-Class-(3) were ready to cloak and move to the Cygnus System to destroy the Admiral. "Grandmaster?" Grandmaster Kragok of the Dark Legion smirked. "Engage the cloak! We kill the Admiral today!"
Orbit of Aegis VII, Cygnus System: Pinkerton Starship Testing Area
The Ra-Cailum-A dropped out of warp, and the defense/test system kicked in.
So'tor, however, knew the drill and took out the hidden phaser cannons with only a few phaser bursts.
"More phaser power; add that to the list."
"Done!"
Two photon torpedoes nearly hit the Ra-Cailum-A, but the helm responded well.
Two torpedoes disabled the turrets.
"Turret mounted launchers: dorsal, ventral and aft!"
"Got it, Boss!"
The four forward mounted phaser strips didn't fire fast enough as four turrets downed the shield strength by 14% before So'tor disabled them, and it wasn't So'tor being slow.
"More phaser banks!"
"And forward-mounted pulse phasers!"
Kate put it on the list.
The next test was endurance.
How long would the shields hold?
Torpedoes, phasers and rocks were tossed at the Ra-Cailum-A, and it took 3 minutes for the shields to fail.
"More power!"
"And two more shield generators!"
Kate added those to the list.
Even with the extra meter thick synthetic neutronium hull plating, (4) the hull wouldn't last against such fire forever.
"Stand down from Red Alert!"
The grid stopped firing at them.
The Admiral was angry.
"The 10017 was better then this the first time! I am not impressed!"
"Sir, I'm detecting a ship: Excelsior-Class."
"Identity?"
"Just the class type, sir: no transponder codes."
"Yellow Alert; try and restore the shields."
The bridge darkened, and the Ra-Cailum-A turned toward the unknown Excelsior-Class starship.
"It's a Type 2." (5)
A Type 2 Excelsior-Class starship was a rare thing to just pop up.
The third Starship Enterprise, the NCC-1701-B, was the fifth Excelsior built-like the C, her life began in Japan-and the first Type 2 ever built.
And only four Type 2s had gone missing in over 70 years, which included the Enterprise-B.
"Let there be light."
The floodlights built into the ship kicked in, illuminating the Excelsior II-Class Starship.
"Damn, all the registries are blackened by weapons fire! Even the ones on the nacelles!"
"How inconvenient. Prepare an away team. Sonic, you're leading it."
"Sir, transporter inhibitors are engaged all over the ship. Only place I can get you in in Deck 32; bottom of the ship."
They looked at the ship.
"And with that spin, I'm only going to beam you in one at a time."
"M-4 Carbines: phasers won't work on the lower levels of the ship."
"And with damn good reason: antimatter pods tend to explode when hit by phaser fire!"
D-3-Class Bird of Prey DLV Holy Emerald DLV-225
The fleet was on it's way to Aegis VII after dodging the Federation sensor net.
Still, the Ra-Cailum was a deadly animal, and the Admiral was her deadly brain.
"Status!"
Commissar Lein-Da sighed.
"You don't need to yell, sir. The fleet is under cloak, and we are 5 days from Aegis VII."
"And we can't go any faster?"
"Not without losing the cloak."
He growled, but the 80 year old cloaking devices had their limits, and that included top warp speed.
The newer Klingon ones let you go to Warp 8!
The Romulan ones were even better: Warp 9!
"Try to boost our top speed without losing the cloak! I want Pinkerton's head on a pike!"
"Aye, Grandmaster."
The Holy Emerald jumped to warp 5.8, as fast as the bird of prey could go under cloak.
"How good are the sensors on the Ra-Cailum?"
"Enough to detect us 2 lightyears away."
"Decloak the fleet and take us within 3 lightyears of the Cygnus System! Maximum warp!"
Unknown Excelsior-Class Starship NCC-?
The last person to beam in was Commander Lunamaria Hawke.
"I've got a bet for you, Mobian."
"My name is Sonic."
"I'll bet that this is the Dakota."
Sonic smirked.
"I think this is the Enterprise-B!"
She opened her communicator.
"Admiral, can you hear us?"
"Yeah. What is it?"
"Me and Sonic have a bet. If it's the Dakota NCC-2648, I get to command it."
"Fair enough. Sonic?"
"If it's the Enterprise NCC-1701-B, I get command!"
"Very well, Commanders. Get to the bridge. The only thing on that ship that should have the name and registry now would be the dedication plaque."
Both officers looked at one another.
"Deck 1. 1 hour."
"5 minutes!"
Sonic ran off at Mach 1, but the Hawke knew the Excelsior-Class better then he did.
Sonic would run around for an hour while she would climb through the Jefferies Tubes and go straight to the bridge.
Sonic, however, wasn't an idiot.
He was deactivating the transporter inhibitors.
One site-to-site transport and the Excelsior-Class ship would be his to command.
Galaxy Battleship-Class USS Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A
"This is going to be fun."
"If it's the Enterprise-B, then everything just got better."
"All we need now is James T. Kirk, and we're in business."
"That's ironic, as Kirk died on that ship." (6)
Kate rolled her eyes.
The Admiral and Jim Kirk had a friendly rivalry over who would go farther, and in the end, the Admiral won, as Kirk lost his Admiral's stars in late 2286. (7)
That year also marked the launch of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A and the USS Ra-Cailum NCC-1976, which would be lost in late 2288 and replaced with the USS Ra-Cailum NCC-2009, the second Excelsior-Class starship ever built and lost in 2291.
And that led to the Ambassador-Class USS Ra-Cailum NCC-10017, and we all know how that ended.
"Sir, I'm picking up an energy surge, about 1.5 lightyears off."
The look in the Admiral's eyes could be described as glazed over.
Then a word escaped his lips: "Grissom."
The USS Grissom NCC-656, an Oberth-Class science ship, was destroyed by a Klingon B'rel-Class Klingon warship in mid-2286.
It detected an energy surge before the...Klingon...decloaked... Oh, shit.
"RED A-FUCKING-LERT!"
The Ra-Cailum-A was at battle stations in less then 20 seconds.
That was15 seconds too slow.
With Sonic
His laughter ECHOED through the ship as he yelled out out the call letters: "NCC-1701-B!"
Luna managed to get to the bridge, but Sonic wasn't as stupid as he looked.
He BEAMED next to the fucking plaque and quickly read the damned thing.
She banged her head against the steel panels, but then they got hailed by the Ra-Cailum.
"Hawke."
"Get that ship online!"
"The Enterprise-B isn't ready!"
"So Sonic won the bet."
"Shut up, Uncle."
"Either way, we've got Klingon ships in the area!"
"Klingons?"
"Their ships, yes: I'm thinking Dark Legion."
"Shit!"
"That was my general thought."
Sonic started powering up the Excelsior-Class Starship, and the systems on board activated.
Still, the matter tanks were pretty low, and that was a bad sign.
The bridge lit up like a Christmas tree, and so did the ship itself.
"So it begins!"
He took the helm while Luna took tactical.
The ship had gone through a battle, that was for sure, and likely the crew had to leave the ship.
That explained why no one was on board.
It also explained the sorry state of the Enterprise-B's hull and other systems.
"Ra-Cailum, we're ready!"
D-3-Class Bird of Prey DLV Holy Emerald DLV-225
That plan could've went better.
The second that the Ra-Cailum-A's shields went up, the ship opened fire on the Dark Legion fleet.
"Knew THAT wouldn't work."
"Nothing except overwhelming numbers kills a Ra-Cailum!"
After looking at the history of the name of the ship, it made sense: the ship was outnumbered at least 50 to one each time it was lost.
And that was to the most advanced ships of the time.
The ships used by the Dark Legion were 80 or more years old.
"Open fire!"
The Klingon-built fleet opened fire, but they had no chance.
The shields were weakening, but the Ra-Cailum-A was killing them quickly.
Too quickly.
A D-7's hull was ripped apart by phaser fire and the ship rammed into a Conqueror-Class battleship, followed by two B'rel-Class Birds of Prey getting hit by one photon torpedo each.
"This is insane! No ship is-"
Then a Conqueror exploded from a trio of phaser shots.
"I stand corrected: THAT ship is that powerful!"
The Enterprise-B joined the fight about 2 minutes later, adding token fire to the mix.
"Fuck this! All surviving vessels, retreat! This was a bad idea!"
Kragok looked at his second in command, who jumped out of the bridge as a phaser shot ripped the ship apart.
Galaxy Battleship-Class USS Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A
"Ra-Cailum, 7, Dark Legion, zip, zero, nada!"
The Admiral let So'tor and Cortez have their fun, as he wasn't needed against a pathetic force like this.
The Dark Legion ships ran off, cloaking as they went.
"About time."
The Galaxy Battleship flew toward the Excelsior-Class Enterprise-B. "Hail Command."
Galaxy-Class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D/Ambassador-Class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C
The two Enterprises dropped out of warp in the Cygnus System, to the sight of the Ra-Cailum-A and the cleaned up Enterprise-B.
"All we need now is the Enterprise and Enterprise-A to complete the reunion."
Riker nodded at the sight of his ship's Excelsior-Class cousin. Sonic had taken command of the Enterprise-B only a few days ago, and the Enterprises D and C were the only ships requested to assist. The Ra-Cailum-A turned, heading back to Earth for Kate Ray's refit into an actual battleship.
That left the crews of both ships to see the evolution of the Excelsior-Class to the Ambassador-Class to the Galaxy-Class.
The sight was almost overwhelming to the crews of the three ships. (the transfers to the B on the D and C) "Enterprise to Enterprises. Nice to see you!"
Riker openly laughed at Sonic's voice. An officer less then a few months and he was the Captain of the Enterprise-B! "Enterprise-D to Enterprise-B: we have the crew ready to transfer over."
"Good: my XO was pissing me off!"
"Shut up!"
Lunamaria Hawke was now the XO of the Enterprise-B? Well, she needed humbling, and Sonic was very good at that!
"Enterprise-C to Enterprise-B: beginning transfer."
The new captain of the Enterprise-C was the second Pinkerton to make it past Commander: Captain Kira Yamato.
He was called the second Ronald Pinkerton due to his skill as a starship commander, but he hated killing: avoided it as much as he could, stunting his abilities.
Still, Sonic was quickly catching up: he destroyed two Conqueror-Class Dark Legion battleships when the ship's weapons barely worked.
"We're heading back to Earth for a major refit at Kyoto, D. We'll need to be towed: the warp engines are still offline."
"Due to your stupidity, sir!"
Worf wisely shut off the com as Sonic started yelling at Lunamaria.
Two weeks later: USS Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A
The admiral was spending too much time in that damned ready room. "What's the time?" "2200 hours, Lieutenant." "He's always on duty at 2200!" Then it hit her like the Enterprise NCC-1701 exploding. "What's the stardate?" "44090.8." She sighed. Of all the things... "Riza. That's why he's in there. He's wallowing over his sister!"
Riza 'Hawkeye' Pinkerton wasn't technically his sister: she was a Romulan-created clone of the Admiral, sent to kill him, but the programming failed and the Admiral adopted her as his little sister.
She transferred over to the Ra-Cailum NCC-1702 on Stardate 1090.2, and the Admiral treated that as her birthday.
They still met on that day to celebrate, every year...until this year.
Ra-Cailum-A Admiral's ready room
He simply sat in the chair, looking at a picture of his sister.
You could see the family resemblance, but her eyes were brown-red and his were blue.
His hair was a few shades darker then her's.
He was 100 pounds heavier then she was.
So on and so forth.
"Admiral, let me in there NOW!"
He unlocked the door, and returned to moping.
"Sir, you need to get out of this room and get onto that bridge now."
"They never found her, did they?"
She was surprised at that.
"What?"
"She's missing. On the Brasilia."
The USS Brasilia NCC-10599 was the third Ambassador-Class starship built, not counting the Ra-Cailum 10017, and she went missing in 2299.
With Riza as the XO.
"Then we should go looking for her."
He looked at his XO.
"What?"
"You're moping. Get your ass out there and find her."
"She'd be 101 by now, if she's not dead!"
"FIND YOUR SISTER, DAMN YOU! WHAT KIND OF FUCKING BROTHER ARE YOU IF YOU-"
She didn't even see him draw his sword, but now it was less then a millimeter from her neck.
"Never tell me that ever again."
To her credit, she didn't flinch.
"Then find her."
He stood, then sheathed his sword.
His face was that of pure anger, but he needed to be angry if he couldn't be sad or happy.
He practically stomped out of the ready room and onto the bridge.
"Helm, set course for Goral IX, maximum warp!"
"Goral IX, aye; maximum warp, aye!"
He gave Kate a death glare, but she simply smiled.
He did need to find her, or find her body and give it the respectful burial it deserved.
Been a while, ne?
To answer a few questions about SG-1: Power of the King:
Lelouch couldn't be away for weeks on end if the school was intact, hence me destroying it.
Suzaku was working with the Britannians. To me that's the wrong side of the fence.
And Riza Pinkerton? Think Hawkeye from FMA/FMA Brotherhood.
That is where I got the idea from, anyway.
(1) The Star Trek USS Enterprise Owner's Manual stated that the Galaxy-Class had normal load of 37 shuttles. As that takes information directly from Paramount Studios, I'm considering it canon and using it.
(2) Again, a Gundam reference, and not the last one you'll be seeing, either.
(3) Fan name for the Klingon battleships of Starfleet Command for a Bridge Commander mod.
(4) Above book stated that quantum torpedoes used the stuff. A meter thick coating was enough to lengthen the ship by two meters.
(5) As there are two types of Excelsior-Class Starships-the normal ones and the ones had look like the Enterprise-B-I've coined the Enterprise-B types as Type-2s.
(6) Beginning of Generations; not corrected until 2371.
(7) Events of Search for Spock and The Voyage Home.
Recap:
We have a new ship, the Ra-Cailum NCC-1702-A
Sonic has command of the Enterprise-B
The Dark Legion are back and want the crew of the Ra-Cailum-A dead
The Ra-Cailum is looking for the Brasilia and Riza Pinkerton
Now you know why I included Fullmetal Alchemist in the mix. No, Riza Pinkerton isn't going to be Riza Hawkeye: they just look alike.
Next Time on Star Trek TNG: Hell Hath No Fury: The Ra-Cailum ends up in another universe and the Enterprise-B soon follows.
Ja Ne!
