TEEN TITANS: SG-1
Summary: AU Teen Titans X Stargate: SG-1 crossover While attempting a new inter-dimensional portal spell, Raven is distracted by Beast Boy and the spell is miscast, she and one of the other Titans get sucked though the portal into an alternate reality where the Titans do not exist and the threat of alien invasion of is very real.
Pairings: Robin/Raven, Star/OC, BB/T. Please Read and Review and remember NO FLAMES PLEASE!
Disclaimer: Don't own Teen Titans or Stargate: SG-1.
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A/N: So sorry for the long update guys! It took me longer than I thought. But I won't stop writing this fic; I know you people are enjoying it, so I'll keep writing it. Please read and REVIEW!
A/N 2: One of my reviewers asked in their review who Starfire's new friend will be and when she'll meet him, well, she'll meet him next chapter. And in reply to Rockgod, the Titans and SG—1 will get to know one another as the story progresses.
Happy reading.
Chapter 9: The battle for Kresh'ta. Part 1.
Hyperspace.
Ba'al's fleet were travelling in single-file through the hyperspace corridor, Ba'al's ship was leading, followed by three other Ha'taks and four Al'Kesh.
The Pel'tak of Ba'al's ship.
Slade was standing with his hands behind his back in a relaxed posture, calmly watching the window in front of him, looking at the flowing energy that made up the walls of the hyperspace corridor they were in. He sensed someone watching him, in fact, he'd been sensing it since he first set foot on the bridge, he felt as though he was being watched, by someone very powerful, but unquestionably evil, more evil than him, someone whose evil was so great that it probably matched, or even exceeded that of Trigon, if that were possible. Yet every time he looked in to the shadows, he saw nothing.
And so he resigned himself to thinking up his game-plan, how and when he would confront the Titans, and how he would beat them, he was still hoping to find out if Robin would keep his promise of killing him if he ever saw him again.
Ba'al sat in his chair, idly watching the window in front of him, when his tactical officer, standing at a console behind him, alerted him to what his sensors were telling him.
"My lord, we are approaching Kresh'ta, our sensors are telling me that several other ships are also en route, if we face them with the fleet we currently have; we would surely be out numbered." Ba'al nodded without looking back.
"Contact the reserve fleet at Tartarus. Tell them to rendezvous with us at Kresh'ta."
"Yes my lord."
In the shadows, Anubis stood silently, not moving, ignoring the exchange between Ba'al and his officer. His eyes fixed squarely on Slade. Slade repositioned his stance slightly, as though he knew he was being watched, but then settled down again.
Anubis continued to watch him, silently.
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On Kresh'ta.
The sun bore down from a clear sky; the deserts were dotted with intermittent rock formations, sand dunes, and several ruins. A small contingent of rebel Jaffa stood near the Stargate as it dialled, weapons raised, as it finished engaging, and the vortex was projected out and the wormhole formed, they charged their weapons.
Through the event horizon stepped SG-1, followed closely by the Titans and SG-6, SG-7, SG-8 and SG-10.
Bra'tac walked down from the top of a sand dune to meet them.
"I'm glad to see that you were able to come so quickly," he stopped and looked at the Titans, then spoke in a quiet tone to Carter. "But I don't think it was wise to bring them."
"They…insisted…" Sam trailed off; Bra'tac nodded and then spoke up to all of them. "The Ruins of the temple are not far, just over this rise, we have tried to explore it already, but we couldn't get very far." Sam nodded; she turned to the other SG teams.
"Alright, SG-6 and 7, lay down a perimeter of Claymores in a radius of 50 to 60 yards around the ruins, then form defensive positions there…" she pointed to a rock formation to the far left of the ruins, about 50ft from them "…and over there." She pointed to a large sand dune and some more rocks to the northeast of the ruins. Then she continued, "SG-8, set up emplacements around the edge of and inside the ruins, SG-10, guard the Stargate."
"Yes Sir!" all the teams said together, before moving off to carry out their orders.
"What about us?" Beast Boy asked, Sam looked at him blankly, as if to say; "What about you?"
"What are we to do?" Starfire asked, answering Sam's silent, unasked question. Sam sighed.
"You're with Daniel, Teal'c, Bra'tac and me. We'll check out the ruins."
Robin looked at Raven with a look of concern on his face, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you ok? You aren't having any more visions, are you?" she shook her head no.
"No, I'm just getting some strange feelings about that temple… something about it seems familiar…" she paused, looking down on the ruins of the temple that were below them. She shrugged, and headed down with the others.
As they got closer to the temple, the Titans stared at the walls and lines upon lines of unreadable text that covered them. Daniel smiled and took out his note book, he was in his element, and he was one of the few people on Earth, if not the only one, who could understand, read, and speak Ancient.
"Ok, looks like the text here describes some kind of battle between several Ancients, or beings with great power, and… something, or someone called the 'Destroyer'."
"Well, that doesn't sound too good." Sam spoke up, trying, and failing, to read the text, it was all gibberish to her. "Thank god he's here…" she thought. "Anything else?"
"Yeah, err, 'The power of the enlightened lies within'…" he started pressing some of the panels on the walls, while he was doing that, Robin turned to his team, knowing full well that what he was about to do was a direct violation of orders, but he figured Sam wouldn't mind if he gave his team a few orders without consulting her, for now at least.
"Starfire, Beast Boy, Terra, take up defensive positions, There…There…and there…" he pointed to the two positions west and northeast of the ruins, and another position just a few hundred feet north of the temple. The Titans nodded and headed off in there perspective directions. Sam turned to give Robin a hard look. He looked back at her defiantly.
"They'll be more help to us there than here, besides, your defences are gonna need all the re-enforcement they can get." Sam sighed and relented, "Ok, but from now on, you consult with me FIRST before you give them orders, as long as your on this mission, your under MY command, is that clear?" he nodded.
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Orbital view of the planet.
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Ba'al's fleet dropped out of hyperspace in orbit above Kresh'ta.
Pel'tak of Ba'al's ship.
"Signal the Al'Kesh to begin the ground assault, deploy the gliders. Begin beaming down the troops."
"Yes my lord!" his First Prime nodded then proceeded to carry out his orders.
As the Al'Kesh and dozens of Death Glider squadrons headed down into the atmosphere, the display on the tactical officer's console started beeping.
"Several Ha'taks have just emerged from hyperspace at the edge of the system, they are approaching."
"How many?" Ba'al asked, without turning his head.
"Three."
"It'll be a close fight then." Slade muttered, looking at the screen. Out the window, the three Ha'taks were approaching, a few squadrons of Gliders had already been launched. Suddenly a holographic image appeared and Slade found himself looking a Tolok.
"Surrender now, or be destroyed." He said, menacingly.
"You can't possibly hope to defeat me!" Ba'al taunted, while struggling to control his laughter.
Tolok didn't look phased. "Soon, re-enforcements will arrive, both on the surface and up here, by now the temple is already secure, your 'invasion fleet' will not prevail, and I'm sure the System Lords will want to fight you for the temple too."
"That's why I've already called in some re-enforcements of my own." Ba'al stated, his face turning hard and dangerous. Tolok was unfazed.
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On the surface.
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Daniel was continuing to read and jot down notes, mumbling occasionally, Cyborg was scanning the text and downloading the images for future study, struggling, and failing, to understand.
"Ok… this section of text describes what happened to the Ancients just before and after they ascended. Seems that when they did, something happened, something was created when the Ancients shed everything in them that was evil and unjust…" Daniel paused, turning to study another walls.
"Why's that important?" Robin asked.
"In order for someone to ascend to a higher state of being, they must be free of all evil and doubt; they must be pure and good at heart…" Daniel answered.
"That means I'd never get in…" Raven muttered.
"So what happened?" Sam asked.
"Well…err… according to this, there was a group of a few hundred or so people who lived on this planet at one time, they studied meditation and began a search for enlightenment, turning their backs on technology and abandoning all outside interaction…they were being taught and protected by someone this text refers to as…'The Devine One'."
"That's helpful." Cyborg droned. Jackson nodded.
"Yeah, doesn't make much sense to me either, I can't find any reference to who this 'Devine One' is, but the answer's here somewhere."
"Was it an Ancient?" Sam asked. Daniel nodded.
"Most definitely."
"Do you think it was Oma?" she asked, he shook his head.
"I doubt it."
As they continued to read the text, Sam's radio crackled, she grabbed it and answered.
"Go ahead Major."
"Colonel. We've got multiple hostiles inbound, four Al'Kesh, a couple of dozen Death Gliders have just come into visual range and about a hundred Kull Warriors have just beamed in. They'll reach the claymores in about two minutes."
"Damn it!" Sam thought. "Understood Major, do not engage until absolutely necessary."
"Yes Sir." The radio clicked off, they looked up to see the Al'Kesh, Death Gliders and platoons of Kull Warriors approaching.
"Crap." Daniel thought. Robin grabbed his communicator.
"Titans! Stand by! Don't engage until they do." he turned to Cyborg, "We can handle things here, go help Beast Boy."
"On it!"
As the metallic Titan rushed off to assist his friend, the first few explosions were heard; Robin looked over to see clouds of smoke being thrown into the air, debris, and Kull Warriors, Raven and Teal'c watched along with Sam and Robin, Daniel continued to read.
"Do you think the mines will stop them?" Robin asked. Sam shook her head, either forgetting, or choosing to let slip, the fact that Robin just gave his friend an order without consulting her, but she figured he didn't need her say-so on directing his friends.
"The armour of a Kull warrior is too tough for the claymores to do any real damage, the mines will slow them, but they won't stop them."
As she said this, several more mines exploded, throwing up more Warriors, several Gliders flew overhead, firing plasma bolts into the ground, most of these missing the SG teams they were aimed at, but served to throw up plenty of dust.
As the Warriors approached they raised their weapons and fired.
"OPEN FIRE!" shouted the Major who had warned Sam. Instantly all the SG teams, minus SG-10 opened fire on the enemy. They were followed quickly by the Jaffa, led by Bra'tac.
"Protect the temple at all costs!" he yelled.
Robin yelled into his communicator,
"Titans! GO!" he turned to Raven, "Let's go, we can help more out there." She nodded and the two birds took off before Sam, Daniel or Teal'c could say anything.
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In orbit.
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The two fleets of more-or-less equally numbered ships squared off. Then a hail of plasma bolts rained from Ba'al's ships, hitting the rebels full on. Tolok and his forces were quick to return fire.
Several bolts from Ba'al's ship ripped through the shields of one of Tolok's ships, disabling its engines, the ship was quick to return the favour, although its weapons didn't really do much damage.
Tolok's other ship was busy trying to survive being pounded by two of Ba'al's, on the Pel'tak, Ishta was attempting to maintain control.
"Keep firing!" she yelled, her tactical officer alerted her to a problem.
"They are coming in too close! They're attempting to flank us."
"Evasive manoeuvres!" she snapped as the ship shook with more impacts and several consoles in the room exploded. Another officer consulted her readouts.
"We have hull breaches on Levels 30 through 36. We've suffered minor damage to the inertial thrusters and we've lost life support on several levels."
"Evacuate those levels, seal off the sections affected by the breaches, divert all available power to forward shields and weapons and target the nearest ship."
Her tactical officer complied, she watched out the window in front of her as two pulsing trails of plasma bolts, firing rapid fire, cut into the nearest of the two ships, striking the pyramid on its back, and destroying the control center and most of the vital systems. Ishta smiled as the ship began to disintegrate under the barrage it just took, her tactical officer was a good aim.
"One down. Three to go."
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Back on the surface, the Titans were fairing moderately well, all except Beast Boy, who had to keep his head down to avoid being shot.
"Aw man! It was easier back on Earth! There weren't as many!" he raised his head when he felt a hand on his shoulder, looking up he saw Cyborg smiling at him.
"'Knew I'd find your green butt hidin' down here." Beast Boy scowled.
"Hey! I'm not privileged enough to have a weapon built into my arm!" BB snapped. Cyborg turned and raised his sonic cannon, firing a stream of energy, hitting several of the Warriors, pushing them back, allowing the Jaffa and SG teams to cut them down with the disruptors.
"Dude, can't you make your sonic cannon more powerful or something?" Beast Boy asked, Cyborg looked puzzled.
"I'm using full force; nothing should be able to survive that, well their armour shouldn't anyway." BB nodded. "I wonder how the others are doing."
Terra was busy causing small sand storms, sand tornados, and using some very large boulders to play a game of 'Catch', or rather 'Grind the guys in black armour into paste' which is exactly what she was doing, and she was loving every minute too.
"This is for shooting my arm…" she growled, as a particularly large boulder came down on top of, and crushed, several Warriors, the others in the immediate vicinity turned from fighting the Jaffa to shooting at her. To counter this, she brought several rocks up to intercept the blasts, the first few rocks were blasted to dust fairly quickly, forcing her to duck to take cover, but she soon realised she'd used all the boulders around her to crush the enemy. Literally.
"Oh shit…" she mumbled, expecting to be cut down any second, when the warriors opened fire, a black shield surrounded her. She looked over to find Raven levitating above and behind her, eyes and hands glowing.
"Thanks Rae…" she panted.
"Don't mention it, just be more careful next time, I won't always be around to save your hide." Raven said with a slight smile. Terra grinned.
Starfire meanwhile, was flying above the battle field, engaged in a dog fight with several Death Gliders, green starbolts intercepted orange plasma, green eye lasers hit and cut through black armour plating. She hovered over the group of Jaffa who were with Bra'tac, turning her head, and pointing her arms, in all directions.
Her eye beams cut through the right wing of a Glider as it approached her, it veered off course and began to spin, before nose-diving into the ground, disappearing in a fireball. A couple of her bolts struck the left stabilisers of another Glider, causing that to veer off course, and straight into another on-coming Glider, both of them disappearing in a fireball. She giggled.
Bra'tac noticed the Gliders all but ignoring the ground forces and were attacking something in the air, something above him. He looked up and his eyes widened in surprise. The young girl he met on one of Ba'al's planets, the one who called herself 'Starfire' was flying! How can this be?
He quickly summarised he would find out what the others could do soon enough, and low and behold he turned to see Terra attacking the Kull warriors, but the way she was doing it was what really shocked him, she seemed to be controlling the very ground at her feet! Sam, Teal'c and Daniel were also watching what Starfire and Terra were doing.
"Starfire didn't tell us she can fly!" Sam pointed out.
"Indeed." Teal'c replied.
"And it looks like that Terra kid has got some major powers of her own." Daniel noted as he watched said geomancer generate a tidal wave of sand that practically buried about ten Kull warriors, but they immediately got up again.
Beast Boy had transformed into a squirrel, and was busy jumping on and running all over several Kull Warriors, confusing them, they each tried to shoot the little green creature, but ended up shooting each other instead.
Bra'tac and his Jaffa were watching all of this, mesmerised.
Robin had transformed his bird-a-rangs into his sword and was using it to fight hand to hand, for all the good it did, his sword was still having no effect.
It was then that the Al'Kesh decided to finally attack.
As the first of the cruisers flew over-head, it released a torpedo that sailed towards the ground and let off a violent explosion when it hit, throwing up dust and flames, as it sailed over SG-6's location, they immediately opened up with everything they had, their weapons causing only minor damage, until a rocket fired by one of the Lieutenants hit the Al'Kesh's engines, the craft came down close to the temple, almost burying it.
"Hey!" Daniel yelled, covering his eyes then turning back to the wall, "Watch where you shoot those things down!" his protests were lost in the middle of more weapons fire and explosions.
"I'll never get any work done at this rate…"
Meanwhile, Terra gritted her teeth and braced her feet on the ground, feeling the energy course through her, her eyes and body began to glow with yellow light, she locked her eyes on her new target, an approaching Al'Kesh.
With a primal scream, she raised her armed into the air; the ground began to shake violently.
Suddenly, most of the SG teams, the Jaffa, SG-1, the Titans and the Kull warriors stopped what they were doing and looked over just in time to see a large fountain of soil shoot out of the ground just in time to seize and engulf the Al'Kesh.
Terra gritted her teeth, screwed her eyes shut and groaned with the effort of what she was doing. She then pulled her hands down towards the ground and the Al'Kesh's engines were soon overpowered, and the ship hit the ground, but instead of blowing up, it began to sink, Terra had used her powers to create a patch of liquefied soil directly under the ship.
Sam, Daniel and Teal'c, along with just about everyone else, friend and foe alike, watched as the Al'Kesh was pulled under, then Terra used her powers to crush the ship like a tin can. The resulting explosion threw up a huge cloud of dust and smoke. Terra dropped to her knees, exhausted, Raven was by her side in an instant, covering the two of them with a shield.
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In orbit.
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Ba'al's ships were now fighting an even battle with the rebels, one of Ba'al's ships had been destroyed, and he was close to loosing another.
On the Pel'tak of his ship Ba'al glared at the rebel ship that just took out one of his, which was now receiving a royal beating from the second that was attacking it.
Suddenly, his First Prime alerted him to something he thought he should see.
"My Lord! We're receiving transmissions from the surface, the battle is not going as well as planned, our ground forces have run into heavy opposition and…" he trailed off.
"And what?" Ba'al snapped, not in the mood for guessing games.
"…And I think you should see this…"
Ba'al finally got out of his seat and walked over to look at what his First Prime had found, what he saw both amazed and enraged him at the same time.
The screen showed an aerial view of the battle field, but what caught his interest most were the images of Starfire, Raven and especially Terra using their powers to wipe out his invasion force.
"SLADE!" he yelled, said villain walked casually over to him.
"Yes?" he asked smoothly. Ba'al gestured to the screen.
"Explain this! Are these the enemies you mentioned?"
"Yes."
"You did not tell me they were capable of this!" Ba'al snapped, as he saw Terra pull down and destroy the Al'Kesh she grabbed. Slade eyed the screen carefully.
"So…Terra has returned…And her powers have grown slightly." Slade thought before speaking aloud.
"I did mention they have abilities, didn't I?"
The ship was rocked by another explosion and he and Ba'al looked up just in time to see one of Tolok's ships (neither the one he nor Ishta are on) disintegrate.
"Two versus three. This should be over soon." Ba'al thought.
Ba'al's comm. Officer tried to get his attention.
"My Lord! The reserve fleet is approaching; they have signalled us that they dialled the Chaapa'ai on Kresh'ta to prevent the enemy's escape just before they left."
"Good." Ba'al growled, he could use some good news.
Meanwhile, on the Pel'tak of Tolok's ship, he was beginning to re-think his battle plan, he'd already lost one ship, and Ishta's was badly damaged, and getting weaker, if their re-enforcements didn't arrive soon, they'd have to retreat, or die. Tolok braced himself as more explosions rocked the ship; a static filled image of Ishta appeared in front of him.
"Tolok! My scanners tell me that Ba'al's re-enforcements are almost here! If ours don't arrive soon, we won't stand a chance." Tolok nodded. Ishta continued "My scanners also tell me that Ba'al's ground assault isn't going as well as he planned, but also that the Chaapa'ai has been dialled, but none of our forces have come through." Tolok nodded again.
"Ba'al must have dialled the Gate, our forces down there are cut off, but your right, if our re-enforcements don't get here soon, we're dead." Another violent explosion caused the comm. Line to be cut.
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Back down on the surface, Daniel had continued working on the translation; he turned from the walls and spoke to Sam and Teal'c.
"Anything?" Sam asked. Daniel nodded.
"It seems that the people who lived here were attacked, they were almost wiped out; before the 'Devine One' led them to a sanctuary she'd built…"
"She?"
"I'm just skimming over the text, I can't properly translate all this while we're under attack!" he snapped.
"Ok, Ok, what else does it say?" Sam asked defensively.
"Err…It seems the Destroyer came to this planet and tried taking over, killing those who didn't bow down to worship him…Apparently he planned to conquer the entire universe… and this planet was one of his first targets."
He was interrupted by several more blasts striking the ground near the temple, throwing up dust and smoke, Daniel ducked to try and cover his eyes, then straightened himself up and continued.
"…But at the last second…the 'Devine One' stepped in and stopped him…" Teal'c interrupted him.
"Are the Ancients not permitted to interfere in mortal events?"
Daniel nodded, "…Well, I don't think the others would have stopped her unless she tried taking this 'Destroyer' on by herself, if she just stopped him without fighting him, then the others wouldn't have stepped in…although it doesn't say how she stopped him…" he paused for a moment then continued.
"She took the survivors of the attack to another world, where they hid and built up their forces to prepare themselves in case this 'Destroyer' found them again." He was interrupted when Sam spoke up again.
"When was this temple built anyway? Because to me, some of these cut marks in the rock look very recent." Sam asked, Daniel looked at the stone blocks, thinking.
"Some of these carvings do appear to be fairly recent Daniel Jackson." Teal'c pointed out. Daniel nodded, then continued.
"Yeah, err, you're right, some of these text were carved only a few years ago, judging from the limited amount of wear on the stones…"
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The fight between Ba'al's ships and the rebels was going in Ba'al's favour, although he too was now down to only two ships, he knew that he would soon get some re-enforcements.
Suddenly, several Ha'taks dropped out of hyperspace and locked their weapons on Ba'al's ship.
On the Pel'tak, he smiled at the ships, thinking they were his re-enforcements. His happiness was cut short when a holographic image of Lord Yu was super imposed over the window.
"This planet and the Ancient temple belong to the System Lord High Council. Surrender at once." the old man demanded, Ba'al just stared at him.
"Let me think about that for a second…" he said, as his re-enforcements from Tartarus arrived and took up position beside Ba'al's ships.
"…No." he answered, grinning evilly.
Yu glared at him.
"Surely you must realise the Tau'ri are on the surface, if they are allowed to uncover the secrets of the temple, they will gain an advantage over us. We cannot—" but he was cut off by Ba'al.
"You cannot what? Old man? Beat me? I know you're old, but your age must finally be getting to you if you think you can beat me."
As he was saying this, Slade was standing at a console, re-aiming the weapons towards the surface. On the screen, it showed the Titans still in combat, he pushed several panels and two words started flashing on the screen that he assumed meant 'TARGET LOCKED', then his hand moved to the firing panels, silently congratulating himself for paying so much attention to the tactical officer.
"Goodbye… Titans."
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Meanwhile, at the ruins, Daniel was still going over the text, but he was quickly coming to the conclusion he couldn't translate it all, well, not in the middle of a fight, anyway.
"Ok, I still haven't found the name of this Ancient yet, but I've found something that tells of what happened to the colonists…"
"What happened?" Sam asked. Daniel read the text, his skin turning pale.
"It says the people of the colony built up their skills, preparing for a fight none of them wanted… But it didn't work, the Destroyer attacked them, unfortunately, the priests were on their own, since the Ancient couldn't interfere a second time, I don't know how she got away with it the first time…"
He was interrupted as a roaring sound was heard; they all looked over to see flashes of yellow light dropping from the sky, heading towards the Titans.
"GET OUTA THERE!" Sam screamed, knowing they couldn't here her. At the last second, Raven threw up a shield to cover all six of them; she quickly dropped to her knees groaning with the effort.
"I. Can't. Hold. It. Much. Longer!" she yelled, feeling the constant strain of the energy blasts weakening her. The blasts may only have been going on for a few seconds, but it was enough.
"Starfire! Distract them!" Robin yelled, the Tamaranean nodded, then took off into the sky, flying though a hole that Raven created in the shield. The only trace Star left was a trail of bright green light as she climbed towards the atmosphere and the battle about to take place in orbit. Sam watched Starfire go, bewildered.
"Where the hell's she going?" Daniel thought.
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The Ha'tak continued to fire plasma bolts down at the surface, on the Pel'tak, Ba'al whirled on Slade.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! I GAVE NO ORDER TO FIRE!" Slade just looked at him casually.
"Just taking a good opportunity to eliminate my enemies, don't worry, I didn't hit the ruins."
But this calm explanation did little to calm Ba'al.
"You did not have permission to fire! I am lord here! You do as I COMMAND!"
Ba'al advanced on Slade, but the shimmering image of Yu stopped him.
"What are you doing?" Yu demanded. Ba'al turned round and glared.
"I'll deal with you later, human." Ba'al spat in Slade's direction before addressing Yu.
"I'm sorry old man, but I've got a temple to take, enemies to kill, Rebels to crush, the usual, so if you don't mind…"
He pressed several panels, and the communications were cut.
"I'd rather not waste my time with a senile old fool like you." he finished.
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orbital view. Just outside the atmosphere.
As Starfire followed the trail of bolts, she narrowed her eyes as the ships came into view, though she had to take a slight pause when she saw the relatively large fleet of ships in front of her, she didn't know how she was going to handle this, but she knew she had to.
"You will LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" she though as she felt the righteous fury flow through her veins, and her eyes glowing bright green.
She threw her arms forwards and sent a large starbolt flying towards the ship that was firing at the surface. The bolt was powerful enough to penetrate the shields, which had been weakened quite a bit anyway, striking the hull and causing a powerful explosion that caused the ship to stop firing.
There was a pause and three more Ha'taks dropped out of hyperspace, Tolok's re-enforcements had arrived.
Starfire looked considerably worried now. She was in the middle of a fleet that numbered about 19 ships. (5 for Tolok and Ishta, 7 for Ba'al, and another 7 for Yu and the other System Lords. In other words, she's out numbered!)
"I do not believe my 'distraction' is going to work…" she thought worriedly, although she had forced the attacking ship to stop firing, she had thought there was only one, not 19!
Just then, another hyperspace window opened and one more ship entered the system, this one was different from the others, Starfire noticed, that was apparent almost instantly.
The ship was rectangular in shape, with large thrusters to its stern, an oddly shaped bow section that looked kinda like a beak, and a raised pylon section above the engines.
Prometheus, the X-303 prototype and Earth's first interstellar battle cruiser had arrived.
"I must stop them from attacking again; perhaps I can use their numbers to my advantage…" Starfire thought as she charged up her starbolts again and a grim, determined look crossed her face.
To be continued.
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Well, that's chapter 9 finally up! Hope you people enjoyed it, I'll get the second part of this chapter written and posted as soon as I can. Don't worry, Starfire will survive this…maybe…
I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, please review!
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Guardian of Azarath.
