1: Dawn Of Thunder
Third Edition
Author: chaoseternus
When Earth is threatened, the USA and the UK join forces to protect our world…with help from an old friend.
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Chapter 12
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Thundersdawn
Kalinda was attempting to walk down the corridor through all the debris of the hasty refit and the extra cabling that had been set up to boast the power of the Pulse lasers. In reality, what she was mainly doing could best be described as exercising her vocabulary, swearing every time the debris almost made her fall. The young ensign who was accompanying her was taking notes; he hadn't even heard some of those before. Kalinda eventually made it to the end of the corridor, and poked her head into the electronics suite at the end of the corridor.
"Carter, the bypass cables are up and the circuit test checks out. We'll have to send a team to start clearing the corridors out though; this corridor alone must break at least 20 health and safety regs."
Carter looked up from her monitor, the new software seems to be okay, I think we may be done."
"Good, then we had better let the captain know."
Kalinda turned to the ensign, "Get a team up here to get these corridors cleaned up before someone has an accident, we'll be in command if needed."
The Ensign nodded, and Carter and Kalinda left, moving swiftly through the corridors to command, arriving in time to hear the comm. officer of the watch speak;
"Incoming transmission from Master 1, captain."
"Put it through."
"This is Captain Peters of Her Majesty's space station number 1, call-sign Thundersdawn, to whom do I have the honour of addressing?" she tried to keep her voice calm, and it mostly worked, this was after all, the Royals first contact with an alien craft, sure the SGC had made first contact, and the Asgard were allied, but even so she couldn't entirely suppress her nerves.
"Captain Peters, this is Colonel O'Neill." She quirked an eyebrow, yep definitely there first contact, someone with his record could hardly be described as 100% human after all…
"Thor here says we have inbound, a pair of Ha'tak's just registered on his sensors."
"How long?" Peters snapped out, her manner suddenly all business.
"15 minutes, they are coming in fast, must have acquired a faster engine from somewhere."
"GQ!" she snapped out, her head turning to the duty comm. Officers station.
"Will our friend fight?" she snapped, turning back to her microphone.
"I will try Captain Peters, but 2 upgraded Ha'taks and their fighters will prove difficult to destroy, this is not a top of the line vessel, assistance would be required."
Peters glanced at Kalinda and Carter, who nodded, speaking simultaneously,
"We're done." Kalinda said.
"Upgrades complete and online Captain" from Carter.
"Send the fighters our way, our pulse lasers are more than a match for them and fire rapidly enough to really sweep clear, but the big boys are beyond us."
"I will try to do as you suggest."
The channel closed, but Peters was already barking orders out
"Comms, send general alert signal 'cave', tell all the 1-4's, 1-5's, and the construction crews over at the mining facility to go quiet, shut down all non-essentials and make like a hole in the water! Weapons, set pulse lasers and targeting computers to rapid fire mode, assume hostile fighters inbound, comms, begin dumping our logs to ground control, and get me ship-wide!"
"Ship-wide up, Captain!"
"All hands, this is the Captain, we have hostile craft, a pair of souped-up Ha'taks inbound and we expect to engage within 15 minutes. This is not a drill people! An Asgard vessel will be fighting with us, but they will be outmatched if we don't do our part. Hopefully we will be able to distract all the enemy fighters long enough to give them a chance, but if that doesn't work we will be next. Good luck and God bless."
"Weapons! Lock the Asgard vessel into the targeting computer and label it as a friendly"
She sat back at her command console with a sigh, "Now, we wait."NEXT CHAPTER