Truth
Disclaimer: B5 belongs to JMS and SciFi; Andromeda belong to Tribune Entertainment. I am only borrowing them and I promise to return them in more or less the same condition as I found them. I will make no money off this.
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"I have become Death, destroyer of worlds" --Captain Dylan Hunt, New System's Commonwealth -Date Unknown
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Trance got off the lift and walked down the hallway to Captain Sheridan's office. She was wondering what had caused them to call her right after she had managed to get to her room after meeting with that Mr. Morden and his "associates." After she walked into the office she noticed that the other members of the Andromeda crew, Hiroshi now included, then captain Sheridan asked her to sit down. After she sat down, Sheridan started to talk, "Thank you for coming to see me as quickly as you did."
"Well, since we're your guests, it seemed like the thing to do," replied Dylan
"Well, thank you any way, but now for the matter at hand," Captain Sheridan started, "as you know, we recently broke away from Earth, and thus don't have supplies coming in from Earth any more. So we have had to turn to other sources for supplies, like food and water. The problem is that raiders and pirates have been attacking the freighters that have been carry the supplies, and we will run out of food."
"Captain," Dylan said, "I think we may be able to help."
For an hour Captain Sheridan and Captain Hunt and the crew of the Andromeda talked, afer which, they were on a first name basis and they had come up with a plan to deal with the raiders. Beka and Tyr would take the Maru and John would make a shipping report, so it would be a really tempting, he put down that the shipment would be quantum 40, instead of food and water. The Andromeda and a wing of Starfuries, lead by Captain Hiroshi, would be waiting in Hyperspace for the Maru to contact them.
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Later that day the Maru left from Babylon 5 on way to a Brakiri world to pick up supplies, and since they were using hyperspace and normal space, via jumpgates, they had to use four jumpgates in total, two to enter and two to exit, and while Beka didn't understand why they didn't stay in hyperspace the entire trip, she also really didn't care. The trip would be three days there and then three days back, so they had a nice trip ahead of them, if it wasn't for the fact that they basicly had an attack me sign painted on the hull.
The majority of the trip was fairly peaceful, but inbetween the jumpgates on the way to the colony, the Maru's active sensors picked up something appearing and then disappearing. That incident, while nothing came of it, made Beka and Tyr fairly nervous, and with good cause, because they had seen that trick before, and nothing good came of it.
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It had been four days since they had left Babylon 5, and the MAru was in between the jumpgates again, not where they were when they picked up on the strange thing, but about two hours away from the jumpgate when they came under fire.
"Well it looks like it worked, we got their attention and they are attacking," Beka said.
"Beka, those fighters are barely doing anything," Tyr said, "their like gnats, their harmless, but small and agile, and close, it would be suicide to use missiles at this distance."
"Right then," Beka said, "Distress call sent, and activating our point defence lasers."
Three fighters strafted the Maru, but as they flew in front of it, they were split down the middle by the Maru's point defence lasers. The rest of the squadron hesitated for a moment at the cost of another fighter having one of it's wings blown off.
"Ha ha," Beka yelled, "Got it."
"You know Beka," Tyr said, "I think your enjoying this."
"Come on Tyr," Beka said, "when was the last time the Maru was the superior force?"
"Beka, be careful that you don't become to cocky, those are short range fighter, so they have to have," Tyr began as a jump point opened and a ship, most likely the raider's mothership, emeraged and opened fire on the Maru. The Maru shook hard as the mothership's heavy laser cannons tore into it's hull.
"Ok," Beka said, "that hurt, Tyr, can we use missiles on that ship without damaging the Maru?"
"Yes," Tyr said.
The mothership started to fire again as three missles streaked out of the Maru and headed straight for it. All three missiles hit the mothership and detonated. The mothership's hull bucked under the explosions, and was destroyed, there was hardly enough of it left to tell it was a ship, let alone a capital starship. Again the fighters paused, this time out of the firing range of the Maru's PDL's.
That was when a slipstream event opened and the Andromeda flew out, and released the wing of starfuries that she had been carring. It also ordered the raiders to stasnd down and surrender, which, in Beka's mind, they wisely did.
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John was watching from C&C when two bright flash of white light appeared and the Andromeda and the Maru emerged, then the starfuries flew out of the Andromeda. Then a transmittion came in from the Andromeda, the trap had been successful, and they had prisoners. They were also coming aboard in about an hour.
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The Maru docked with Andromeda and Beka and Tyr got out and rushed to command, with some very important information.
"Dylan, we got a problem," Beka said as she entered command.
"Hold on Beka, we got more than one problem," Harper said, "now Dylan I was compairing our time line to their's and we not only traveled through dimensions but time to, about 3000 years, give or take a century or two."
"Ok, thats interesting," Dylan said somewhat shocked.
"Oh no, Dylan it gets better," Beka said, "because while we were out there, being bait, we picked up something appear then disappear, sound familiar?"
"Unfortunately yes." Dylan replied, "lets head over to Babalon 5 and see what John can tell us, something tells me that system we were attacked in might be important."
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Once the crew of the Andromeda was in John' office, as well as Commander Ivanova. Dylan had spent four days talking with Hiroshi, basicly explaining the Commonwealth and well every thing that Dylan thought was relevent information. However Harper's little revelation about the time displacement allowed him a little more leway in negotiations.
"So, I take our little hunting trip went well." John asked.
"Yes, it went excedinly well," Tyr said.
"Yes, but while we were out there we detected something appear and then disappear." Beka added.
"What?" John asked, however it was clear that he knew something.
"Look, we know there's something out there, we were attacked by an unknown alien race not long ago, that had the same ability that, lets call it a UFO for know, has." Dylan said.
"We identified the system we were attacked in and we wish to go and explore it." Trance added.
Then a transmittion came over John's comm, it was Garibaldi, "Hey Captain, Bester is getting a little restlest down here in his cell and says he needs to talk to you immediately, and he wants the crew of the Andromeda there as well, it appearently involves them as well."
"Great," Ivanova said.
"Yeah, escort him up here Micheal." John said into his comm. "Now what were you saying Trance?"
Trance activated the star map of known space on the view screen in John's office and pointed to a system on what was called "The Rim."
"You don't want to go there," John said plainly.
"Why not?" Dylan asked, slightly puzzled.
"Well, that system is Z'ha'dum." John said, with a tint of fear in his voice.
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to be continued soon
Disclaimer: B5 belongs to JMS and SciFi; Andromeda belong to Tribune Entertainment. I am only borrowing them and I promise to return them in more or less the same condition as I found them. I will make no money off this.
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"I have become Death, destroyer of worlds" --Captain Dylan Hunt, New System's Commonwealth -Date Unknown
-------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------
Trance got off the lift and walked down the hallway to Captain Sheridan's office. She was wondering what had caused them to call her right after she had managed to get to her room after meeting with that Mr. Morden and his "associates." After she walked into the office she noticed that the other members of the Andromeda crew, Hiroshi now included, then captain Sheridan asked her to sit down. After she sat down, Sheridan started to talk, "Thank you for coming to see me as quickly as you did."
"Well, since we're your guests, it seemed like the thing to do," replied Dylan
"Well, thank you any way, but now for the matter at hand," Captain Sheridan started, "as you know, we recently broke away from Earth, and thus don't have supplies coming in from Earth any more. So we have had to turn to other sources for supplies, like food and water. The problem is that raiders and pirates have been attacking the freighters that have been carry the supplies, and we will run out of food."
"Captain," Dylan said, "I think we may be able to help."
For an hour Captain Sheridan and Captain Hunt and the crew of the Andromeda talked, afer which, they were on a first name basis and they had come up with a plan to deal with the raiders. Beka and Tyr would take the Maru and John would make a shipping report, so it would be a really tempting, he put down that the shipment would be quantum 40, instead of food and water. The Andromeda and a wing of Starfuries, lead by Captain Hiroshi, would be waiting in Hyperspace for the Maru to contact them.
-------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------
Later that day the Maru left from Babylon 5 on way to a Brakiri world to pick up supplies, and since they were using hyperspace and normal space, via jumpgates, they had to use four jumpgates in total, two to enter and two to exit, and while Beka didn't understand why they didn't stay in hyperspace the entire trip, she also really didn't care. The trip would be three days there and then three days back, so they had a nice trip ahead of them, if it wasn't for the fact that they basicly had an attack me sign painted on the hull.
The majority of the trip was fairly peaceful, but inbetween the jumpgates on the way to the colony, the Maru's active sensors picked up something appearing and then disappearing. That incident, while nothing came of it, made Beka and Tyr fairly nervous, and with good cause, because they had seen that trick before, and nothing good came of it.
-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------
It had been four days since they had left Babylon 5, and the MAru was in between the jumpgates again, not where they were when they picked up on the strange thing, but about two hours away from the jumpgate when they came under fire.
"Well it looks like it worked, we got their attention and they are attacking," Beka said.
"Beka, those fighters are barely doing anything," Tyr said, "their like gnats, their harmless, but small and agile, and close, it would be suicide to use missiles at this distance."
"Right then," Beka said, "Distress call sent, and activating our point defence lasers."
Three fighters strafted the Maru, but as they flew in front of it, they were split down the middle by the Maru's point defence lasers. The rest of the squadron hesitated for a moment at the cost of another fighter having one of it's wings blown off.
"Ha ha," Beka yelled, "Got it."
"You know Beka," Tyr said, "I think your enjoying this."
"Come on Tyr," Beka said, "when was the last time the Maru was the superior force?"
"Beka, be careful that you don't become to cocky, those are short range fighter, so they have to have," Tyr began as a jump point opened and a ship, most likely the raider's mothership, emeraged and opened fire on the Maru. The Maru shook hard as the mothership's heavy laser cannons tore into it's hull.
"Ok," Beka said, "that hurt, Tyr, can we use missiles on that ship without damaging the Maru?"
"Yes," Tyr said.
The mothership started to fire again as three missles streaked out of the Maru and headed straight for it. All three missiles hit the mothership and detonated. The mothership's hull bucked under the explosions, and was destroyed, there was hardly enough of it left to tell it was a ship, let alone a capital starship. Again the fighters paused, this time out of the firing range of the Maru's PDL's.
That was when a slipstream event opened and the Andromeda flew out, and released the wing of starfuries that she had been carring. It also ordered the raiders to stasnd down and surrender, which, in Beka's mind, they wisely did.
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John was watching from C&C when two bright flash of white light appeared and the Andromeda and the Maru emerged, then the starfuries flew out of the Andromeda. Then a transmittion came in from the Andromeda, the trap had been successful, and they had prisoners. They were also coming aboard in about an hour.
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The Maru docked with Andromeda and Beka and Tyr got out and rushed to command, with some very important information.
"Dylan, we got a problem," Beka said as she entered command.
"Hold on Beka, we got more than one problem," Harper said, "now Dylan I was compairing our time line to their's and we not only traveled through dimensions but time to, about 3000 years, give or take a century or two."
"Ok, thats interesting," Dylan said somewhat shocked.
"Oh no, Dylan it gets better," Beka said, "because while we were out there, being bait, we picked up something appear then disappear, sound familiar?"
"Unfortunately yes." Dylan replied, "lets head over to Babalon 5 and see what John can tell us, something tells me that system we were attacked in might be important."
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Once the crew of the Andromeda was in John' office, as well as Commander Ivanova. Dylan had spent four days talking with Hiroshi, basicly explaining the Commonwealth and well every thing that Dylan thought was relevent information. However Harper's little revelation about the time displacement allowed him a little more leway in negotiations.
"So, I take our little hunting trip went well." John asked.
"Yes, it went excedinly well," Tyr said.
"Yes, but while we were out there we detected something appear and then disappear." Beka added.
"What?" John asked, however it was clear that he knew something.
"Look, we know there's something out there, we were attacked by an unknown alien race not long ago, that had the same ability that, lets call it a UFO for know, has." Dylan said.
"We identified the system we were attacked in and we wish to go and explore it." Trance added.
Then a transmittion came over John's comm, it was Garibaldi, "Hey Captain, Bester is getting a little restlest down here in his cell and says he needs to talk to you immediately, and he wants the crew of the Andromeda there as well, it appearently involves them as well."
"Great," Ivanova said.
"Yeah, escort him up here Micheal." John said into his comm. "Now what were you saying Trance?"
Trance activated the star map of known space on the view screen in John's office and pointed to a system on what was called "The Rim."
"You don't want to go there," John said plainly.
"Why not?" Dylan asked, slightly puzzled.
"Well, that system is Z'ha'dum." John said, with a tint of fear in his voice.
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to be continued soon