Chapter 4: The attack

Location: above orbit of Porrsan 8

The air opened up and the small blue time machine pulled itself out. In the distance, the massive Juggernaught loomed in the distance, towering over them. "Aileta, anything out the back?" Aileta looked out a window, which was revealed when the large bacta tank was removed.

"Nothing." She said.

"The rest of the fleet must be off down on the planet blowing something up." Ollrack suggested.

"Are you that dense?" David said. "The Juggernaught is always guarded by something, in order to save the massive firepower. Besides, the planet looks like its ready to fall apart anyway…those cover ships have got to be somewhere."

"Good point, let me intensify the radar, maybe I can get something." A few random button pushes later and the radar began to give a continuous beep. "What the hell's wrong with this thing?"

"I think its working…perfectly." David said without emotion.

"If this things right then that means…" Ollrack stopped as the realization hit him.

"God I hate cloaking shields." The two slowly looked up to the window. The space around them was blank…until all at once, every ship in the entire Dodrando army dropped their cloaking shields and completely blocked out all vision from the outside. "You…have got…to be kidding me. Maybe we should go…"

"…Yeah." Ollrack powered up the weapons and began to ease on the throttle.

"For Gods sake PUNCH IT" David yelled as he slammed the throttle to the max. The ship lurched forward at unheard of speeds. Ollrack desperately tried to slow the ship down while narrowly avoiding ships and lasers. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS THING WAS CAPABLE OF SEPTUPLET DIGIT SPEEDS!?" (A/N: Septuplet is 7 for those of you who don't know) David yelled holding on for dear life.

"As if you needed to know!" Ollrack said back as he tried to slow down and looped around another strike ship. Aileta barely held on to the side of the ship but still got tossed around a little.

"Go left, go left!" David yelled.

"I can't."

"Shut up and do it!"

"Fine let's kill ourselves!" David and Ollrack continued this back and forth for a while as the maze of ships just never ended.

"Go over this next Avenger!"

"Which one?"

"The one in front of us damn it!" Over, under, around, over, around, around, under, they seemed to fly in circles as the ships never ended. But then, among the armor gray, a patch of starry black. "There, go there!"

"I see it damn it." A few more maneuvers and they burst from the clutter of ships. The three sighed in relief.

"I don't think this ship has much more left in it." Ollrack said.

"Um…please tell me you're joking." David said. Ollrack looked to where David's eyes were pointed. All the ships turned toward them, cannons charged.

"No…" Ollrack groaned. A shower of lasers sped toward them.

"Punch it damn it!" The ship accelerated but the lasers were closing in. "We're gonna die unless this thing can go faster!" David said.

"You got it." Ollrack said as he flipped a switch and the ship, already going impossibly fast, went more than twice the speed they were going. They easily outran the lasers. Ollrack cut the power and the ship quickly died down.

"Let me guess…Nitro jets?" David asked as he got to his feet.

"Damn straight."

"Whatever. You alright Aileta?" David called. Aileta slowly got to her feet.

"Yeah, yeah I think I'm all right."

"Guys...you might want to hang onto something again." Ollrack said.

"Why?" Ollrack pointed to the Juggernaught. From the back of the giant, huge robotic tentacles, 4 in all, were unwinding (A/N: just think Dr. Octopus from Spiderman and you'll be fine).

"What the hell are those?" David asked.

"The latest advancement in capital ship technology…" Ollrack said blankly.

"How advanced?" David dared to ask. But the tentacles suddenly took on life, and raced for them. Everyone in the cockpit screamed and Ollrack jammed on the accelerator again, but David thought differently. "You barely got us out of the last nightmare…move over!" He said as he pushed Ollrack out of the seat. "Only let a guy with wings behind the cockpit." The time machine then learned a new meaning of maneuverability. The tentacles were quick, strong and determined to crush the tiny ship. They speared, grabbed, and even shot at the vessel. But David flew past them like it was nothing. Pushing the ship to its limits, Ollrack had to hold onto Aileta to keep her from getting hurt with all the spinning and flipping, all at speeds never before heard. In no time the Mesa-cannon was in front of them. David boosted straight into the enormous cylinder. "There you see, having REAL wings dose make a difference." David boasted.

"I got to hand it to you that was really cool." Ollrack said out of breath.

"Guys…" Aileta said as she stared out the back window. The two slowly looked behind them. The tentacle with the long spike was lurching for them. The 3 screamed as the spike got closer and closer. David decided to give the ship the ride for its life, as he flipped on all 4 Nitro jets. The ship must have been going 50000 mph at that point, and in one second it went to 5000000mph. The ship was going full but the spike was almost on them. But over the roar of the engines the scraping sound of metal against metal sounded and stopped. David flipped the jets off as the tentacle yanked itself out of the cannon.

"Let's never…do that…again." David moaned. He pulled down the speed to a comfortable speed.

"Just keep an eye out for that weak spot." Ollrack reminded. The ship continued to fly ominously into the dark abyss.

(A/N: I realize that these speeds might be unbelievable…but with that new plane that can go mach 10…I had to up the speed from the original draft to make it seem impressive. You want to flame me on it go right ahead, it's still a review.)