Chapter 11

Delta Quadrant
The Sixteenth UN Spacys Main Fleet
Planet Aquarius 7
10 thousand Light Years from Delta Earth

The UN Spacys Fleet have been keeping station above a heavy water planet system while several ships are mining Deuterium to replenish their stockpile and other minerals they needed to continue their operations.

Deuterium or heavy water and its polar opposites 'Anti-Deuterium' are the two primary fuels for their 'Neo Reflex Furnaces' The new furnaces don't acts as fusion reactors but acts more like a matter-antimatter reaction chambers where the protoculture matrix, when put into a process that creates diamonds, and became the medium that maintains and regulate the matter antimatter annihilation reaction. The generating powers of the new furnaces are far beyond the older version with a far longer sustained level of power unimagined even by Zor himself.

Hospital Ship Vivien
Isolation cell number 13

Kosh Naranek is in meditation in his encounter suit, as he waited for his captors to interrogate him. Kosh senses his ship nearby and feels that the humans are continuing to give his ship medical treatment which is a living bioship. How well they are doing it means that they have experiences in treating his kind and are doing it very well and he's grateful for that.

Still, being captured by them was embarrassing for no one has ever captured a Vorlon except their Ancient enemies. Clearly they are not that old a species and yet they possess advance first one technology and other things he found disturbing like those flying robots that wreck havoc against a Vorlon Fleet. Kosh situation is even more difficult because his psychic link to the rest of his brethrens seems to be severed, not by the inhibitor field but something else is blocking his abilities, an unknown force coming from these humans that seems to resist his psychic probe for some strange reason.

His cell is a transparent aluminum box, and outside are Cyclone armored marines that watch him 24/7 like a hawk, surveillance cameras and sensors monitors his vital signs carefully. The Spacys are making sure that their guest is secured so they are not taking any chances.

The Ancients warned that dealing with Vorlons can be very dangerous. A warning heeded.

When Admiral Grant entered the room, Kosh felt a chill went all over him in seeing her hard and emotionless expression. The Human female Admiral carries an imposing presence of defiance, fearlessness and courage, combined with a feminine beauty that gives credit to her African American heritage.

The humans of the Alpha Quadrant are untouched by the Vorlon's for they and many other races in their quadrant are sheltered by Ancient races as they live and die and live again by their hands without outside interference.

The woman shows no sense of awe or reverence to him unlike the others in the Beta Quadrant, for when they see a Vorlon they see beings of light, an illusion. The Alpha Quadrant people see no illusion and that is a big problem for the Vorlons.

"Vorlon Diplomat. Kosh" she spoke "Why do your people continue to play God with the lives of others?"

"Pebbles" he remark "Young ones need guidance, we are your teachers, we know what is best"

"Yeah right, you guys know what's best, and a truck of manure is still a truck of manure, no matter how much perfume you splash it" she said sarcastically

"Vorlons make lousy teachers Mr. Kosh, people are not pebbles as you so put it, nor do Vorlons knows everything, or do they know what's best" she look back at him with cold eyes

"We are not some pieces in some game of chess you and the shadows played so long ago, but I am not here to argue about your past actions, but your present ones" she sit down on a chair close to the cell walls

"The Ancient Atlanteans once said that Vorlons likes being cryptic, to enhance their mysteriousness, but that's just a front for a race that is stuck being an adolescent child" Kosh iris close up when he heard the name of their ancient enemy which got his attention

"Atlanteans, fools, soft, weaklings, pebbles who don't know their place" he growled

Claudia rolled her eyes and gave a little laugh in amusement as she expected such answer, when Kosh sees her reaction, he was unnerve

"You find amusing?"

"No, I find arrogant, Vorlons don't know their place they would say and so do I" she replied like a Vorlon

"You and the Shadows ask us pebbles 'Who are you?' 'What do you want?' now, we ask you that 'WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT?" when Claudia asks that to him, Kosh suddenly became violent and bang the wall of his cage which the Cyclone Marines pointed their guns dangerously at Kosh

"NEVER ASK ME THAT!" he roared but Claudia never flinched as she shows neither surprise nor fear

"Why, because you can't answer your own question when ask that to you?" she stood up defiantly and Kosh took a step back as he sense an aura anger from her

"You tried to enlist the Abbai into your War, when they said no you tried to destroy them, like you destroyed so many in a galaxy that is still recovering from your Shadow Wargames" in her eyes Kosh can see now, unbridled hate to what they have done.

"How could you be so cruel? Haven't you done enough damage already!" she screamed angrily at him

Kosh look away ashamed "Not all, wants this to happen, we only obey" he said "The good of the whole is greater than the good of the few, so our leaders say," he said with a touch of doubt in his voice and look back to her

"This War, not my choice, I obey" he said

"You disagree with them then?" there was a long pause

"Yes"

This was something interesting for Claudia; Kosh answered her without being cryptic this time. She ask some more

"Are there other like you who disagree?"

"Yes" he replied "Many spoke against War, Council of Leaders do not listen" he told Claudia "Leaders are old, the first of my kind, believe they are right, circle must be restored they say,"

"Ah, the Vorlons infamous circle" Claudia declare with disgust "I read what the Ancients say about your circle and how many worlds died in it and those who survive, those who live after you finish your game, remembers you very clearly and hope to visit you someday" and with a smile, Kosh felt like all of his mind went numb along with his whole body, for the first time he felt fear, real fear.

Admiral Grant went forward in her questioning.

"How many worlds out there in your part of space that are influence by you, hundreds, thousands," she ask and he answered

"Tens of thousands, some like Abbai, others like Minbari" Kosh was not specific as how many but it was a start and confirms what they already believe to be true

"'Sigh' Tens of thousands" she pinch the bridge between her eyes as a headache is coming in, for even half that number are like the Minbari, the War will escalate beyond their estimation


Skywalker CnC Bridge

"Well there it is" Nova said "Our little anomaly coming up right on time,"

Captain Nova Satori looks at the sensor scans from every ship in the fleet being sent to the Skywalker. For a while now they were picking up a strange sensor anomaly coming from the very edge of their long range sensors, when after six hours every time they stop at a starsystem, the anomaly appears.

When Nova ordered sensor log comparison with the rest of the fleet, it shows the same anomaly at the same location. Nova knew now that they were being tailgated by something, or someone. With so close to their destination, Nova had to do something about that.

"Alright let's do a full scan, I want every ship do it at the same time" she ordered to Lt. Commander Christen Leor who's in charge of the sensor station, gave the nod to his staff to begin operations and then turn to the captain and ask her

"Captain wouldn't that alert our tailgating friend here?"

"There's no choice Christen, we need to find out what thing is now that were this close to Delta Earth" and just then one of Christen female officers spoke up

"Captain, every ship is detecting a ship 300 meters long vessel in the same space captain" she reports "We've match the silhouette in our archive, and it's a Shadow Scout in semi phase between Jumpspace, and normal space"

"They are Phasing between two dimensions just to hide from our sensors and it was able to follow us this far?" Leor said curious as he steps close to see the result of the scans as his staff gave an analysis report.

"There seems to be a subspace bubble around it Lt Commander, best guess is that Shadow vessel may be warp capable and it's using it inside jumpspace"

"Which probably why it is able to follow us but not as fast as ours yet," Nova finished

"Theoretically it's possible to use a subspace drive in Jumpspace but it's never proven yet to be possible" she muttered just then their instruments detected something else from the alien vessel

"We are detecting energy spike from the shadow scout, analyzing" another of Leor staff spoke up

"It's a Tachyon communication burst!" she shouted

"Oh Crap! That thing just called home!" Nova quickly ran towards the center of the CnC and began issuing orders

"Alert all ships to go to red alert, go to defensive position alpha in two minutes!" she turned towards a communication station to Lt. Aille Stenson

"Aille, contact the Dawson and the Twin Peaks, order it to intercept that Shadow scout now!"

Immediately, two Gloria class battleships, the Dawson and the Twin Peaks in security patrol came from two different directions approached the Shadow Scout from behind. The Shadow Scout has no Idea that his location is compromised from the start, until 4 tricobalt warheads exploded close to it, causing the Shadow Scout to appear into normal space.

The Dawson identified itself and demanded the shadow vessel to respond and state their business

The Shadow Scout turned its Quantum Cannon and Death Ray at the Dawson striking the Ships shields and causing the shield strength to drop to 90 percent. The Dawson fired multiple Phase Beam Cannon fire in retaliation. Multiple strikes caused enormous damage to the Shadow Scout but it was able to escape into jumpspace.

Back at the Skywalker

An hour after the incident, an emergency conference is called up, communicating with the various commanders of the Fleet. There are Five Senior Commanders in charge of various departments from military, medical, science/exploration to supply/mining/industry and repair/shipbuilding division. The Mainfleet of the UN Spacys are all self sustaining mobile cities capable of moving millions of people in a moments notice.

Admiral Claudia Grant is recalled back to the Skywalker and has been informed of the situation and she's now explaining the battle plan if they are going up against the Shadows

"As of now the fleet is on high alert and resources collection and mining are hereby halted. We believe that the Shadow Scout have been following us ever since we left the Abbai system, and it was able to follow us thru our Warp trail" Claudia pass the explanation to Nova.

"To avoid being followed, all ships will go into Spacefold mode instead, but we will not go directly to Earth but head to a nearby system close to Earth" Nova showed the image of a Shadow Battlecrab the primary war machine of the ancient race that once roams the galaxy.

"We have not encountered this race yet, but all indication that this race is equal to the Vorlon in strength and power. Furthermore, the Delta Quadrant is their territory as the Beta Quadrant is Vorlon territory so we must be extremely careful" Nova continues

"So far, there are no indications that the Shadows are actively involve in this war and that to us is a good thing, because we already have our hands full in dealing with the Vorlons" just then the PA system started broadcasting

"ALERT! ALERT! ONE INCOMING SHADOW VESSEL APPROACHING, CLASS C: BATTLE CRAB, HEADING, NORTH POLAR ORBIT, FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND KILOMETERS, DETECTING TACHYON COMMUNICATION,"

"Just one vessel?"

The approaching Shadow Battlecrab is a Class C warship; they are the biggest vessel with the length of 3 kilometers and carrying a powerful Death Ray much like that found on a Vorlon Dreadnaught.

It approaches the fleet with caution and broadcasting a tachyon message similar to a standard hailing frequency. Admiral Grant is back on the Main Bridge listening intently to the broadcast from the Shadow vessel

"UN Fleet, this is the Shadow Vessel Morass I am Valdur leader of the Shadows, we come in peace"

"So what do you think Admiral?"

The Admiral softly rubs her chin "Worth making first contact" she said "No one has ever made contact with the Shadow for nearly 2 million years, and you know Nova," she told her "During the Last War, when the Ancients decided to put an end to the Shadow Wars, the Shadows themselves quickly left the battlefield earlier on, leaving the Vorlons to fight the ancients alone."

"I thought the ancients fought the shadows during the war?"

"Well they did, but only for a very short time and not the whole one hundred years, not like the Vorlons" looking at the main screens that shows the Shadow vessel and wonders about something

"The Shadows abandoning the battlefield ended the Shadow Wars much earlier than the ancients have expected, and if they had stayed, it would have taken the ancient longer than a hundred years to end the war. Alot of people wonders why they left so suddenly and no one has ever heard or seen the shadows since then."

"Until now"

The Shadow Vessel stop just ten thousand kilometers in front of the Skywalker as several Heracles, Neo-Nupetiet Vergnitzs-Bis-Class and Gloria encircles it with squadrons of VF-19 Excalibur's and VF-21 Omega's

Claudia ordered a channel open to talk to them "Shadow Vessel Morass, this Admiral Claudia Grant of the United Nations, Sixteenth Mainfleet on board the United Nation Starship Skywalker, Please state your business"

"Admiral Claudia Grant, on behalf of the people you called the Shadows, we request to meet with you to discuss a peace treaty"

"Peace treaty?"

"Yes, my people offer a peace treaty for we have no intention in involving ourselves in your war"

There was a long pause before Claudia answers back with a question

"Shadow Ship Morass, Leader Valdur, have you been aware of what is happening, of what the Vorlons are doing?"

"We are, and again, we are not involved and we have no interest in involving ourselves to this war, which is why we request a treaty be drawn between us"

"Please hold your position" and with that they cut communication

"Well, that's a surprise" Claudia remark

"You think they really want peace?' nova ask

"I don't know Nova, but he came to us alone so let's hear him out then" Claudia gestures to open the comm.

"Shadow ship Morass, Leader Valdur," she starts "Let's talk about your peace treaty proposal"

The Shadow ship approaches the Skywalker cautiously and park just beside it. Soon a small spitfire fighter came out and enters one of the Hangar bay entrances. Soon enough 3 Shadow creatures looking like spiders disembark their fighter. Before they meet with the leader the Spacys request that they need to be medically examined first. Reluctant at first but soon gave their permission. Once finished they were led to the ships conference room and there the first talks began.

At the Hospital Ship Vivien, Kosh Naranek senses the presence of the Shadows and that worries him, for the Vorlons have not seen or heard from them for a thousand years.

Not after what they have done to Za'ha'dum

Back on Earth System
Saturn Orbit
REF Factory Satellite
Hephaestus 1 Asteroid

When the REF Fleet arrived at Delta Earth Sol System months ago, the REF Fleet immediately sent out groups of Mining/Manufacturing Ships all across the Solar System, one of them is the 'Henry Ford Group' led by the UNS Henry Ford.

The UNS Henry Ford is one of four, old Zentraedi Troop Carrier a Quiltra Queleual class vessel, converted to carry A.C.M. or Automated Construction Mecha's, their purpose is to build the foundation of an Orbital Habitat's and resource center by first mining out the nearest asteroids for mineral resources for the raw materials needed for the Orbital Habitat Construction.

The easiest to build Orbital Habitat that the ACM can build is a 10-kilometer long O'Neill class colony. After building its foundation on the asteroid, the cylindrical skeleton frame is set up first then the outer and inner skin second, and once finished, they pump in a breathable atmosphere for the human work force to start the inner colony construction, and at that same time, they starts the construction of the Factory Satellite by using the mined out asteroid as their building. The ACM expanded the man made caverns then sealed off all entrances and passages with airlocks, and then emplace life support systems, and once that's accomplished. They brought in the fabrication machines to begin turning it into a factory.

4 months later, with the other factories fabricating other parts and bringing them to Hephaestus 1, the Factory started producing new Valkyries such as, VF-2SS Valkyrie II, VF-17 Nightmare, VF-19 Excalibur, and VF-22 Sturmvogel II, VB-6 KÖNIG Monster Variable Attack Bomber/Shuttle as well as new The VF-14 Hunter II Heavy Fighter /Bomber successor to the first VF-14 Hunter I. fully operational and ready for combat.

Today Captain Bright Noa, of the UNS Sojourner Truth, came to the Factory to pick up the new VF-14 Hunter II and parts for the VF-17 Nightmare and the VF-2SS Valkyrie II.

While Capt. Noa is doing paperwork, Lt. Judah Ashta is inspecting the Hunter II planes with glee and enthusiasm of a child with a new toy to play with.

"Mann! This fighter is awesome" he remark happily as he seated himself in the cockpit and read thru the data file of the Hunter II.

"Let see here, Tri-crystalline armored plating, Class 3 Omni Barrier System, two pairs of Rapid fire phased laser cluster, GU-15 gun pod, stealth capable and whoa! A DRAGOON System on the FAST Packs and… an Internal Medium Range Warp Drive," he whistled in reading that part because now, the RDF Engineers have finally develop a smaller and compact FTL unit.

Normally FTL units for fighters are larger and separate from the plane as part of the FAST Packs, now the FTL is located inside the fighter itself, the new FAST Packs are updated and given added firepower, longer-range of travel and a few added armaments, such as 4 DRAGOON Units.

This DRAGOON carries a heavy phase beam cannon, a lightwave barrier generator and a beam saber. The unit is somewhat similar to the ORB-1 'Akatsuki' it's only difference is that; it can be deployed in Earth's Atmosphere.

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In the UN Spacys, there are two types of FTL in current use.

The First is the Tirolian Hyperspace Fold System

The Second is the human built Warp Drive System

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Judah continues to inspect the Hunter II before they are transferred to the Sojourner. Judah have notice that his ship and every other ship in the fleet have been stockpiling alot supplies, ordinance and new machines for the past week as if they were gearing up for war, ever since they started to refit the EA Ships with some serious hardware. Now rumors of a major offensive are about to start against the remnants of Logos backed Blue Cosmos and against Gilbert Dullindal 'Destiny Faction', yet nothing has been confirmed. Then a few hours ago, the Admiral announced that Earth Prime came under alien attack, only this time, there was more than one world but other sentient worlds and colonies came under threat all across the Alpha Quadrant.

Everyone immediately went to ask for information on the aliens that attack their earth and colonies. The Fleet information centers, released the data's on the Aliens called the Vorlons and their allies the Minbari, the ones who attack the Earth, and they came from the Beta Quadrant.

Judah's wingman Lt. Kai Shiden finished inspecting his new Hunter II, he then look towards Judah which he finishes inspecting his Hunter II.

"Yo! Judah" Kai called him "Think the folks back home are alright?" he asks worriedly

"Will you relax Kai" Judah told him,

"The whole solar system is built like a Fortress, and the Admiral said that everyone is OK" looking to his friend with a worried look on his face. Like Judah, Kai family is on Earth living in the newly restored parts of Kansas, the vast wheat fields that survived the Rain of Death have been expanded and is now a major producer of Wheat and Barley for the North American Continent.

"Kai" Judah said to him "It's not going help worrying about it right now, so focus on your duties and our mission here instead"

"He's Right Kai," Captain Noa said as he approaches them. He agrees with Judah advice and gave Kai a pat on the shoulder in assurance

"Worrying won't help the folks back home, but completing our mission does, so, don't worry too much"

"Yes sir" and with that, Kai went back to work as Judah steps towards the captain

"Is that the reason why were helping the Earth Alliance to be fully armed captain, if the Vorlons do come here?" looking towards the other end of the factory complex stood rows of partially finished Mobile Suits from the First generation of Gundams, the Strike, Duel, Busters, Blitz and Aegis, they also built Calamity, Forbidden and Raider as well.

They also mass-produced the Strike Daggers, Windams, Gells-Ghe, Zamza-Zah, Euclid and the X-1 Destroy New Mobile Suits. Unlike the one built by the Alliance, these built on Hephaestus 1 are better with numerous upgrades and are being loaded into Transports and on its way to EA Arzachel Base on the Moon for completion.

"They Lost the Manufacturing Centers at Heaven's Base" the captain answered, "We will need their help, it is their world to protect after all"

"And Zaft?" Judah ask

The shook his head "They are gonna have to fend for themselves if the worst comes knocking, because so long as that Dullindal Guy is still in charge of Zaft, we can't help them"

"Chairman Dullindal… that guy is a Jerk!" Judah commented

Archangel and Eternal approaching Saturn
REF Proving Grounds

The two Cosmic Era Ships are pushing their sublight engines to the limit. Two hours past after they left Mars and headed to Saturn to see how much speed their engines can give them and has shown to be quite fast.

Officer in Charge Lt. Martin Dacosta and his crew has for the first time in their life; see the rings of Saturn personally.

"Wow" was one of the remarks of one of the female crewman, as they see Saturn thru their windows

"Awesome is more like it" another crewman remark

"Admiral Saotome" Dacosta reported "The Sublight engines is giving 100 percent thrust with no problem"

"That's good Lt." he answered

"Commander Waltfeld and Ms. Clyne will be very happy once they see the new and improve Eternal" Dacosta said in high spirits

"Don't be too sure Lt." Ranma said not agreeing "I have to certify this ship for space duties first before we head to the Plants" and then Ranma asks

"Status on the Archangel?"

"She's still by our side and reporting no problem Admiral" answered by the comm. Officer

"Then I think it's time that we test the guns and shield systems." He announced

"Launch the targeting drones Mr.Dacosta, and tell Captain Ramius that we can begin field test"

"Aye sir"

Launching from the hangar bay, are four sphere shape fighters known as Tie-fighter drones moving at incredible speed and took position about 25 thousand kilometers. One of the crew operating the weapons systems have gained an accurate lock on the drone at such a far range and the maximum effective range is 3x times than standard radar and that N-Jammers can't interfere. The REF engineer did a different refit for the Eternal like the armored hull is now made of tritanium and tritium alloy, ion/plasma bolt type countermeasures are installed replacing the standard CIWS and an Omni directional shield with a Neo Reflex furnace as its powersource. Every system of the Eternal has are all current UN Spacys technology including one Long Range Warp Drive.

Eris 7
100 Light Years from Earth

As the Archangel and the Eternal raised their shields and begin their field tests at the Ring of Saturn. A Minbari Fleet of thirty five vessels fifteen Sharlins, twenty Tinashis, accompanied by twenty Lintira Scouts and 500 Glider transports and over two hundred Nials streamed out of what looks like a Jumpspace opening just 100 Light Years from Earth system, and are headed for a Earth type planet with two moons, one red the other blue.

Watching this event is a lone ship a Stargazer class starship, the ship continues to monitor the arrival of the Minbari fleet, then they monitored another Jumpspace event just three hundred thousand kilometers from the planet another fleet have exited the hyperspace dimension and it was just as big as the Minbari.

Later on the Spacys will identify them as the Drakh

Watching the Minbari and the Drakh taking orbit is a Stargazer class frigate, the UNS Sparrow on a survey mission when they detected of what look like a Jumpspace event. Captain Ramil Castillo of the Sparrow was confused as to how they appeared without their network of sensors alerting them.

"How could this have happen" he ask "if they were approaching this system the sensor net should have alert us"

"Sir, I think we found out how they got here" his Xo Lt. Commander Walt Sanders said as he showed what he found" Hyperspace probe spotted nothing in this is the area of Hyperspace the Minbari Fleet appeared, but our ships long range sensors detected something in realspace" he showed to the captain what he found

"Elevated Neutrino levels, Oh God" the captain felt like someone just drop a ton of bricks on his head

"That is a Wormhole passage" he said "That is a highspeed highway, and it just bypass most of our early warning systems Walt," he said "if more comes and hold that Wormhole then they have the means to invade deep into the Delta Quadrant and the Earth is less than a hundred lightyears from here"

An officer called out "Captain we just detected tachyon based scanners coming from the Minbari Fleet"

"Have they detected us?"

"No Sir," he replied "Their scanners frequencies are too low to affect our cloaking field yet," the one thing that their cloak can be detected is thru high level Tachyon frequencies. The captain is quite aware to this flaw and had to be cautious.

The Captain returned to his seat and started issuing orders "Continue visual monitoring and passive scans only, we need to gather as much data as we can before we leave. This is now a recon mission so stay sharp everyone"

"Aye sir" response in chorus by the crew

For two hours the Sparrow continues to monitor the growing Minbari and Drakh fleet that kept coming out of the wormhole, and then other races came out. The Sparrow identified two other races, Centauri and the Vree saucer ships. For 2 hours, more and more ships came out of the wormhole including one that look like a planet size cloud moving away from the wormhole and in station near the planet.

"What the hell is that?"

"Unknown Sir, passive scans are inconclusive" XO replied "There seems to be a massive structure inside the cloud"

Thinking of what to do next, as the Minbari starts to deploy their fleet across the system and their tachyon scanners power are increasing rapidly, their cloak will be breach.

"Let's get a full scan on that thing, helm! Get us close to that thing as much as possible"

"Aye sir" answered the helm

"But sir" the XO objected "If we go full scans that will alert our presence here to them"

"It Doesn't matter now Walt if they did" he anawered "we will use our space probes on that thing, and once we get a proper scan, we will make a run for the hills" the captain quickly activated the PA system

"Attention all decks this is the captain, secure all stations" he said and then faced his XO

"Walt, once we get to five hundred thousand K from that thing, launch decoy one to avert the attention of that fleet guarding that thing, while we, slip pass their line of defense and launch the probe to get the proper scan"

"That's awfully risky Captain" he said in not liking the Captain's plan

"Once they detected our scanners they are going to swarm in all over the place"

"Not if we use the Fold drives to escape" he said "They can't follow us thru that"

The UNS Sparrow close in on the unknown cloud, when they got to five hundred thousand kilometers distance, they quietly drop their decoy and continued on. Then about Sixty seconds later, the decoy was activated, and sends out an energy field making it look like a Zentraedi scoutship rushing out of the system at full speed.

The Sparrow watch as dozens of Minbari Sharlins and Tinashis broke their formation and went on to intercept the decoy leaving a wide gap for the Sparrow to pass thru.

The Sparrows crew held their breath as they pass thru the gap of the Minbari defensive formation. Thirty seconds later they let go their breath in a sigh of relief including the captain.

"OK were in, Walt launch the probe now, Antonio, steer us to the port, half speed" he ordered his helmsman 1st Lt. Antonio Dante

"Aye sir,"

The two probes were launched the same way as the decoy, the ship turned as two probes rocketed towards the cloud. Captain Castillo is watching the sensor stations monitors as a full scan is giving a proper view of the clouds. But then sixty seconds later, the probes were shot down by several Nials on patrol.

"Darmmit!" the cursed as they lost signal just as they were getting a deeper scan on the structure

By then dozens of enemy ships started scanning their whole area, and when they detected an unknown anomaly, they fired their fusion and neutron beams wildly in all directions.

One beam struck the Sparrow causing it to become visible.

"We lost our cloak Captain" Walt shouted as fusion beams hit their armor hull

"Raise Shields and Return fire! Helm! Get us out of here!" the captain shouted

The Sparrow opens up its convergent phase beam cannons, anti-aircraft guns and anti-ship missiles as they run as they initiated a SpaceFold. The Minbari on intercept however, was not letting them go that easily as they concentrated their firepower at the Sparrows Aft.

"Aft Shields are down 25 percent Captain" the XO reported and just then their main engines took a direct hit killing one and injuring several crewmen at the engine room. His helmsman have watch his propulsion disappear and something else

"We lost our impulse engines captain and we have a malfunction on the fold drive system 15 seconds and counting"

"What kind of malfunction? Walt" he shouted to his XO, looking at engineering station monitors in horror

"Sir if we go into fold now, everything within a 15 Km radius from us is coming with us…5 seconds till fold"

"Oh Crap" The Captain watch as the Minbari coming towards them. The Captain groans in dismay of his situation, not by the enemy that is coming towards them he's not worried about them, but something much worst.

'The Admiral is going to kill me'

The Sparrow was now dead in space as Minbari ships stops firing and approaches the ship in order to board it, and when the Fold drive timer hits zero, a sphere of light exploded, engulfing everything around the Sparrow in a fifteen kilometer radius, and like what had happen to Macross Island when the SDF-1attempted a Fold. It carried 8 Sharlins and 12 Tinashis along with 45 Nials fighters with 6 Centauri Primus and 3 Vorchans with 30 Sentri fighters.

TO BE CONTINUED