By Chaoseternus
Heres a joke for you, two ships, the Enterprise NCC 1701-E and the Dauntless class Indefatigable both investigate an unusual gate, which one ends up in the wrong universe?
19Discontinuity: Battle Of Edonia NebulaApparent chaos reigned on the Enterprise bridge as the mighty vessel engaged the Goa'uld, its highly accurate phaser arrays immolating fighter after fighter, Al-kesh after Al-kesh as it covered the Tau'ri fleet from attack by the small craft.
Picard knew his ship did not have the weaponry to take on the larger craft, but this… this he knew his ship could handle.
A volley of torpedoes spat from the vessels hull, the slight shuddering it caused unmistakeable to someone as in tune with his ship as Picard was, quickly he followed them across the viewer, watching as the quantum's splattered across the already flickering shields of a Ral'tec.
She shields gave, allowing the last torpedo to slip through, impacting directly against the vessels hull. A stream of guass rifle fire was instantly diverted by the closest Prometheus to follow it, the rounds cratering the mighty vessels thick armour. Segment by segment, the vessel was exposed to vacuum until the vessel died, lights dying throughout its riddled and holy superstructure.
Picard grabbed tight onto his chair as Enterprise rocked, brilliant yellow light covering the shields as a direct hit was scored.
"Shields at 82 and holding" Data's calm voice intoned, "We appear to have been singled out by a Ha'tak"
The vessel rocked again, "Shields at 60"
"Load Phase Plasma torpedoes and fire!" Picard ordered his voice firm.
Four bright red dots spat out from Enterprises hull, flashing through space towards the Ha'tak, where they impacted directly against the hull, ignoring the shields. Shocked and battered, the Ha'tak forgot to evade and an angry fuselage of fire converged on the craft. It burned, then fragmented, its structural integrity failing utterly.
" Mosquito one to all craft, intergate activation, I repeat we have Intergate activation!"
Picard went to share a wary look with Riker but cursed, he wasn't here. He was on the Battle Bridge just in case, "helm, take an evasive course to the Intergate"
Masters cursed, not liking his orders at all, there was a major fight going on inside the nebula and here he was nurse-maiding nervous support craft outside the nebula.
He must really have pissed somebody off to get this assignment.
"Eagle one, this is six, I gotta bleep on the sensor pods… looks like company is inbound…" Six trailed off.
"Copy six" Masters replied, looks like things might get interesting after all, "Where from and how many?"
Six hesitated, then replied, her anxious tone clearly coming through "multiple vectors… classify group one as possible return of Anubis… classify group two as unknown… classify group three as unknown, possibly cylon…"
Six's voice turned emotionless, "unable to count, sensor pod is now OBE, too many contacts"
An icy pit of fear set in the Iron Eagles stomach, too many contacts? Those things were designed to track up to 250 contacts at a time before they became Overcome By Events…
Well, as his British friends would say, Bugger.
"Copy, Eagle 5, Eagle 6, take a ride into the nebula, you have to sound the alert… all sierra's, all sierra's I have no doubt you heard that, I want your hyper drives spun up and a course plotted ready for escape at a moments notice, copy?"
Masters sighed, reaching down to the MP3 player he had patched into the Lancers systems as the freighters and tugs all copied his transmission, he might need those tunes after all…
Anubis dropped his fleet out of hyper some distance from the nebula. He knew he had reinforcements inbound and he would wait, join up with his Cylon allies and attack with overwhelming force, crush the Tau'ri attackers then move directly back to Ragnarok and Maktenos's weakened forces there.
His plan was however not to be as not one, but three Cylon taskforces dropped out of hyper.
'Christ, what a ride!' Cohen thought, her breathe misting up in the now cold air as the Defiant class warship dropped out of the nebula and as per pre-programmed command, span up to the top of the gate, out of the way of Ark Royal when she finished her transit through the device.
Seconds later, the Akira class vessel appeared and instantly dodged as a familiar blast of yellow energy volleyed, tracer like, her way.
"Captain, we're being hailed… its Enterprise"
Cohen nodded, signalling for the hail to be accepted as Valiant rocked from a close weapons blast, "Picard, good to see you and Enterprise intact"
Cohen caught Picards grimace, and wondered what it meant, but the other captain was speaking, "I am transmitting an IFF update, several of these vessels are friendly"
Cohen watched the data as it came in and nodded, it appeared to make sense.
"Very well Enterprise" Cohen turned to her helm officer, "Engage the Goa'uld"
"Yes Ma'am"