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?
21Discontinuity: The Battle Of Edonia NebulaData head tilted his mind quickly calculating possibilities as the anomalies registered on the sensors, passed at superhuman speeds to his mind via his console.
It was a quick calculation, the nebula was being moved as if their were ships passing through, small ones, fighter sized Data noted, and yet no ships registered on sensors.
That could be caused by several things but the most likely would be trouble. The Tau'ri would be unlikely to see this too, powerful and far ranged their sensors might be but they were based on Goa'uld technology, they lacked resolution.
Data noted slight surges of energy from the Tau'ri warships and the close location of the apparently cloaked fighters and came as close to panic as an emotionless being could.
So fast, his hands appeared to blur over the console, he tapped open a secure channel, "All ships, be advised I am detecting cloaked vessels within lethal range of your locations, do not, I repeat, do not lower shields"
Data noted the hurried shout of Red Alert from Riker behind him, but his concentration was devoted solely to the sensor Data in front of him as the Tau'ri vessels frantically tried to stop their shields dropping.
Interrogators shields never even blipped, remaining weak but up the whole time. Indefatigable and Illustrious were testing hasty shields repairs and so their remained up but Indomitable and Invincible were not so lucky, their crews not receiving words in time their shields lowered, along with those of Gettysburg, Independence and the MTB Iron Duke.
Stupid the supersoldiers may have been in many areas, they were quick to detect the frantic efforts of the Tau'ri to raise their shields and they knew then that somehow they had been detected.
They lowered cloaks, and fired.
Data's hands once again blurred over the controls as he hastily diverted helm control and weapons, he needed to act fast, permission could wait till later.
Bolts of brilliant orange energy spat across the nebula to the Tau'ri and Federation vessels. The Feds, knowing the relative weakness of their shields, were evasive, dodging the bolts with consummate ease, phasers striking the piercing space around the Anubis Fighters.
The Tau'ri were not so lucky, the shots in many cases weakening shields already eroded by battle but Invincible took a direct hit against her hull before her shields raised, bodies spilling out into space from the ruptured engine room, safeties instantly shutting down the hyperdrive and Naquadah generator.
Shields held up weakly by secondary generators and capacitors, Invincible spun off, uncontrolled and bleeding.
Indomitable shook as the bolts hit her rising shields, quickly eroding them. Desperately, all power was diverted leaving the ship a sitting duck for further strikes.
Gettysburg took one direct hit before the shields raised; her bridge shattered Gettysburg joined the list of critically damaged vessels.
Independence was lucky, a glancing hit sealing her lone shuttle bay shut before her shields were raised, Iron Duke wasn't so lucky. The MTB had fought well for its first engagement but the green crew were shaky and unprepared, coming down swiftly from the adrenaline high of their first battle. Their shields were down and inactive when the first bolt hit, tearing away the vessels armour and ripping through the empty torpedo tubes.
Thrown from their stations by the blast, the crew couldn't get to the shield controls in time and the computer, shocked by the hit, was resetting, unable to raise them automatically.
The second bolt tore through the sole airlock, sealing the crew within their craft as the third bolt struck the main structural supports of the craft dead on, its back broken the MTB died, its few crew spilling into space…
…where, before the eyes of the Anubis Fighter, they disappeared into sparkles of blue energy, Ark Royal s transporters quickly delivering the crew to safety.
Then the Anubis Fighters unveiled their surprise.
"Vampire! Vampire! Vampire!" the stunned shout was torn from the throats of tactical officers across the Tau'ri fleet as the hostile fighters fired their missiles, en masse.
Each fighter had four missiles, all Naquadah tipped and in total, their were 24 Anubis Fighters leaving a full 96 missiles flashing towards the Tau'ri at speeds their own missiles could not hope to match.
To stop those missiles were the pulse laser batteries of the Tau'ri fleet, however not every one of the weapons was online, having either been damaged during the battle, having suffered a failure of some sort, or in the case of Indomitable, there being no power to activate them.
Even worse, the fleet was scattered and uncoordinated.
The result, to Data's eyes looked to be inevitable.
"Tally-Ho!"
The vengeful shout sounded over the Enterprises bridge as an Anubis Fighter vanished, Lancers and F-302's pouring out of the nebula into the relative clearing surrounding the integrate, to where the fighting had shifted.
Instantly, that fighter's missiles shifted, powerful seeker heads coming online. This wasn't missed by anyone, and the arriving fighters doubled their efforts, recklessly attacking the Anubis Fighters to destroy them quickly, destroy the missiles co-ordination.
Not one of the Anubis Fighters got away, but now the missiles were starting to get their own locks on the Tau'ri fleet.
Data glanced at the sensor data once more, and tapped in a short command.
The missiles sped out of control, their sensors disrupted they charged unguided through the nebula until their fuel ran out, not one of the missiles hitting their target and more than a handful destroyed by Tau'ri Pulse Laser Batteries.
Edonia Nebula once again belonged to the Tau'ri.
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