CHAPTER BY DIGIMON LANTERN 1

CHAPTER FIVE - STRIFE

USS ENTERPRISE

NCC-1701-C

AMBASSADOR CLASS

If those in hell bathed in flame, Captain Rachel Garrett knew that she had just added the bubble bath. The Enterprise had answered a distress call from a Klingon station to discover Romulan Warbirds were the attackers.

Her tactical officer, Erika Chekov, had quickly activated the shields, armed the photon torpedoes, and charged the phasers. The old human term "trigger-happy," could easily be applied to her tactical officer as the ship's phasers lanced out like crimson fire at a Romulan Warbird that two of the station's four battlecruisers were already attacking.

Castillo had informed her that the Klingons had not answered their hails but that didn't matter as the Warbird's shields failed and she watched as photon torpedoes tore through the ship's hull and destroyed the Warbird.

Romulan plasma cannons attacked the Enterprise's defenses and Rachel was almost thrown from her command chair. She turned torwards Chekov who was already returning fire. Rachel tapped a comm panel.

"Burks, reroute power to the shields and phasers for as long as you can." Garrett ordered.

Captain Garrett had to shield her eyes as a Klingon battlecruiser was claimed by two Romulan Warbirds' disruptor beams and was destroyed in a violent burst of antimatter fire.

A lead weight was placed on Captain Rachel Garrett as she knew that there was no chance in hell that they would survive this battle. She stared at the viewscreen as what was left of the Enterprise's torpedoes arched out through space and ripped into a Warbird's hull detonated, tearing cavities of alloy all over the great machine. Unknown to the Starfleet crew, the Romulan warp core's power source, an artificial quantum singularity, burst for a nanosecond, sending out an immense gravity wave which seized the Enterprise and drew the starship into its maw.