Chapter 9:
BATTLE OF FIVE FLEETS
The Righteous exited warp last out of the three ships and saw four fleets waging war; Khan and section 31, the Federation, the Dominion and the Borg. There were 5 Borg cubes, 100s of impulse ships, and a massive dominion fleet versed the 1000 strong federation fleet and Deep space Nine. Surprisingly, Khan's ship was involved with the Borg, not with the federation fleet. Phasers and photon torpedoes were everywhere. The federation fleet had been divided into three smaller fleets, commanded by the Enterprise, Courageous and Voyager and the Defiant lead half the federation fighters into battle, the Delta flyer took the other half. The Borg were struggling against the Timedefiant's advanced technology, the Borg cubes were destroyed with ease, all five cubes destroyed in a matter on minutes. Khan then turned on the Dominion, driving his ship into the middle of their ranks of ships. There was nothing for the dominion to do but flee, no Phasers could breach the shields of the Timedefiant, and it was a hopeless cause to even try torpedoes.
Admiral Picard, "Alpha fleet, follow the Enterprise, we are disabling that ship"
All three hundred ships of alpha fleet followed their flagship into battle, trying so hard to breach its shields. What came next alpha fleet didn't see coming. All of the futuristic impulse ships cloaked without a trace. Next minute federation ships were taking fire from all directions without any means of firing back at the right target. Alpha fleet was halved within 10 minutes of the impulse ships decloaking. The righteous sprung into action, targeting the cloaked ships with their new way of scanning the cloaked ships. Acting Captain Gardener sent the message to the rest of the fleet, telling them how to detect these impulse ships. Although they were now able to have an idea of where they were, now it was about penetrating the impulse ships' shields. That's where the Trafalgar came into the fight; commander Tolke had figured out the shield systems of the future ships, he shared that imformation with the fleet, but the information was harder to put into action, because those Phaser modulations hadn't been invented yet.
Commander Tolke, "Captain I have discovered a new Phaser Bolt array that comes in the modulation that we need to destroy the impulse ships and we can target 15 ships at once."
Captain Thomas, "Do it Mr. Tolke, by all means!"
The Trafalgar exploded with Phasers firing in 15 directions at once from all Phaser arrays. 15 impulse ships were destroyed taking another 7 nearby impulse ships out.
Captain Thomas, "Excellent work Mr. Tolke."
Commander Tolke, "Yes, sir. But there is still 200 more out there and it takes a minute to recharge the Phaser array."
Captain Thomas, "Get it up as fast as you can."
Lieutenant Dax, "20 impulse ships incoming, sir I am not sure how long our shields are going to hold."
Alpha fleet gave cover fire as the Trafalgar charged it Phaser array. Two federation vessels fell as the Trafalgar just reached enough power. The Trafalgar fired destroying 15 impulse ships, but more kept coming. This process kept happening until the Trafalgar couldn't keep going. The Phaser array was burnt out. Alpha fleet was decimated, with only 50 ships remaining. There was still at least 90 impulse ships remaining still fully powered, attacking the Federation fleet.
Beta and Omega fleets had joined together in attacking the dominion and the Timedefiant. Another Borg cube came into the fray, coming out of trans-warp, and started attacking the Timedefiant. Khan quickly reacted and with a couple torpedoes destroyed the Borg cube with ease. The Timedefiant had eased its attack on the dominion fleet, which were still 350 ships strong. Khan was going to leave the Federation as crippled as possible.
The Trafalgar had been a valued asset to the Alpha fleet, but now it was struggling to regain power to its Phaser array, but the crew had something far better than just firing the right weapons.
Commander Tolke, "Sir, I believe if we use polaron radiation, flood the whole area with it, the impulse ships and maybe even the Timedefiant will lose their shields for a short time."
Captain Thomas, "How long Tolke?"
Commander Tolke, "One minute, maybe two."
Captain Thomas, "It's going to have to do, Doctor inform the other ships, we will need everyone."
Doctor Bashir, "Yes Sir, but I can't guarantee how many ships will get it."
Captain Thomas, "Try your best."
The righteous had survived all the attacks with the new shielding they adapted. The ship was damaged but not as much as some. Acting Captain Gardener had guided his crew to safety through many of the fights with the impulse ships. There was never time for rest or relaxation; they were always on the move. For a new Ship the USS-Righteous-B had fought like none other. This ship had guts and determination; James Gardener was just trying to get it through without having a Warp core breach.
Ensign Witherby, "Message coming in from Trafalgar, we need to use a polaron radiation from our warp nacelles to flood the area. Apparently it will disrupt the impulse ships' shields long enough to destroy them."
Acting Captain Gardener, "Do it, ready on weapons!"
The whole Federation fleet was ready, and so it begun. The Polaron radiation flooded the area; the impulse ships shields were down, so began the genocide of the crews of the impulse ships. Every Federation ship went after the impulse ships, with every torpedo they had. Explosions were happening everywhere, with no shields, it was the same materials that held ships together in the 24th centaury, easily breach able with torpedoes. All of the impulse ships were destroyed in the time, but they also took many Federation vessels with them.
The Federation had been crushed from 1000 strong to about 150 vessels with a small detachment of fighters with the Defiant and the Delta flyer.
The Dominion moved in on the Federation. The Timedefiant still sat back and watched as the Federation was about to be defeated forever.
Suddenly a fleet jumped out of warp and started attacking the Dominion forces. It was the Cardasians lead by the USS-Titan. There fleet of 100 strong ships went into battle with the Federation for the second time in history. The Cardasians's ships were advanced and not damaged and because they knew the Dominion well, the advantage was with the Federation. The Dominion was defeated within the hour. The federation and Cardasians numbers were limited now though, only 80 ships in total survived.
The Timedefiant then slivered in at quarter impulse, the army was defeated, the Dragon now had to be slayed.
