Future Bound

Chapter 2: Here come the Dragons

The Andromeda was nearing the planet when the ship completely stalled.
"What the hell is going on?" asked Dylan.
Then the lights and power went and emergency back up lights came on.
"Mr. Harper," started Dylan.
" I'm looking," said Harper, opening the ground console.
"Andromeda?" called Dylan, "Andromeda?"
The door to the bridge opened.
"Hey Rommie! What's wrong with you? I haven't found anything," Harper asked the AI
"Rommie what happened?" asked Beka.
"Fist off Harper, you can stop looking," said Rommie, "It's not me."
"Then what is it?" asked Dylan.
"There's some sort of defense shield around the planet which is causing the power drainage." Rommie told him.
"It seems like they were expecting an attack," said Rev, "I've heard the Quadrions have psychic abilities."
"An attack by who? We're coming in peace they know that," said Dylan.
"Well then let's weigh the pro's and con's shall we?" said Harper," con we can't move, con we have no power, con these people have foreseen an attack, con we're blind, con..."
BOOM! The Andromeda was hit by something that sent the ship spinning. The lights flickered.
"Dylan the power is back on line and all systems are returning to normal," said Rommie, "we've been knocked free of the field."
Andromeda came back on screen, the lights were on and the systems up.
"Dylan we're under attack, Neitzchean fighters just exited the slip stream," said Andromeda.
"Who is it?" asked Dylan as they were hit again.
"Drago Katsof," said Tyr and Rommie together.
"Great Neitzcheans, what fun," said Harper.
"Tyr launch fighters, Andromeda get as many as you can off our backs," instructed Dylan.
"Dylan the Quadrions are using a plasma field to defend their planet, we have to get out of here," said Rommie. They were hit again.
"Right, Beka when can we slip stream?" asked Dylan.
"We can't, there are too many of them, I have to get clear to slip stream," she said.
"Tyr help us clear, Andromeda fire!" shouted Dylan.
"That's odd," said Tyr, "I've never seen those ship models before, but they're definitely Neitzchean."
"Got tired of the old one's huh? How vain," said Harper.
"Dylan," said Tyr, "It's best if I'm not seen here."
"Right, Harper, Rommie take over for Tyr," said Dylan as Tyr left the Bridge.
"Receive the Hail," said Dylan.
A few seconds later a dark haired Neitzchean appeared on screen.
"Captain Hunt, I am Kain Roguf of Drago Katsof Pride and I will accept your surrender at any time now," said the Neitzchean.
"Surrender? Is this guy serious?" asked Harper.
"I am very serious Mr. Harper," said Kain, "and you're all probably wondering how I knew the kludge's name"
"Yes, how do you?" asked Dylan.
"I know all about you and your crew Captain Hunt and we're here to make sure the Commonwealth never rises again."
"Ok, don't you think we've got a little more work to do before we achieve that?" asked Beka.
"The Drago Katsof aren't only the rightful protector's of Drago's bones but also the rightful ruler's of half the universe that the Magog have promised us," said Kain, "Surrender now or be destroyed you have three minutes to decide." The screen went black.
"Are we going to surrender?" asked Trance.
" No, Rommie how close can we get to that Plasma field without being pulled back in?" asked Dylan.
"About ten light metres," she said.
"Dylan what are you doing?" asked Beka.
"There not here for the planet, so they don't know about the field," said Dylan, "if we move towards it and turn up at the right time, some of their ships will be pulled in and I think we can get clear to slip stream."
"You think?" asked Harper.
"Well you'd better decide quick because they're firing on us," said Andromeda.
"Let's do it, Andromeda get as close as you can, pull up, then Beka get us out of here." said Dylan.
The Andromeda was hit a few more times but being the heroes of this story, they somehow miraculously managed to get clear.
"Slip streaming in three, two, one," said Beka
"We're clear," said Dylan.
"Dylan?" said Rommie.
"What?" he asked.
"There following us through the slip stream and are managing to fire on us," said Rommie.
"Woah, hey they can't do that," said Harper.
"Well they seem to be doing so," said Rev as they were hit.
"They're trying to drive us off the track," said Beka
"What's going on?" said Tyr re-entering.
"Oh nothing except that we're being rammed off the track and are about to die a horrible, horrible death," said Harper
"Remember that time I broke the slip stream and we ended up 300 years in the past?" asked Trance.
"That couldn't happen again could it?" asked Beka.
They continued through the slipstream under heavy fire until the ship was hit by a particularly large blast.
"That was a pulse wave!" yelled Tyr as the Andromeda went hurdling out of control.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A/N and disclaimer: Well? How was part two? Please r/r it would make me happy. This is probably going to be my longest fic I've ever done. It's definitely the first one with chapters. Stay tuned for chapter 3: 'Two Andromeda's?! Where are we?'
I no own Andromeda Gene Roddenberry does and other respected ppl's (pssbl.)
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