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Chapter 5: And the Thunder Rumbled.
Ra's Mothership
Ra was on the bridge of his ship, besides him was the former earthforce Captain Elizabeth Lochly now Goa'uld herself wearing Egyptian robes with a gold trim wearing Egyptian Tierra.
"Tell me more about her world." Ra ordered.
"This host is resilient, but I was able to access her knowledge. The Tau'ri had indeed originated from Earth but they span over several worlds but Earth is their stronghold." Said the Goa'uld Lochly.
Ra smiled for he was already on the ship that was on it's way to Earth with 40 additional Goa'uld motherships and already had a plan set in motion.
"Also, if the Tau'ri returns to Abydos they will be caught in a trap. Your host has cunning strategies." Commented Ra.
"It is my duty to serve." The Gao'uld Lochly responded.
"And you shall be rewarded." Said Ra.
On the main view of the hyperspace window, the view of a tunnel collapsed to be replaced with a view of a yellow star in the background and a ringed planet with mustard yellow bands of cloud with several moons. Ra and his Goa'uld controlled host watched most of the fleet of Goa'uld ships become invisible.
The Grey Council
Delenn had arrived on the Grey Council's ship and donned her Grey Robe and entered the Grey Council chamber. The chamber was dark with nine spotlights with 8 grey robed figures standing in each spotlight, Delenn walked to her spotlight and began her speech.
"Summoned, I take my place that has prepared for me. I am Grey, I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light."
"Delenn, you have come in most unusual circumstances." Said Dhaliri of the Religious caste.
"We had not discussed her position in the council, this it not the time to hear her." Commented Hedronn of the Warrior caste.
"However she is still member of the Grey council and we will hear her until the vote is made." Dhaliri countered.
"I have come here on the most urgent information that the Anla'shok had reported that the Humans did contact an alien race. They are called the Goa'uld, and I had consulted with the Vorlons about them." Dellen announced.
"We had already voted that the Goa'uld or any race they affect is no concern of ours." Said Hedronn proudly.
"The Warrior caste had already decided to let the Goa'uld to destroy the humans, so that the Humans are annihilated and they won't be dishonoured by breaking from the council and continue their genocide." Delenn thought.
"The Vorlons say that the Goa'uld must be stopped before the damage becomes irreversible." Delenn countered.
"Delenn, what you propose could change everything." Dhaliri stated.
"So what are you hiding Delenn? The religious caste can't fight the so called shadows on their own without outside help or something that the warrior caste must have in order to fight the shadows." Hedronn demanded.
Delenn pulled out a data crystal.
"What's on this data crystal is only a sample of the knowledge that the Vorlons had given to the religious caste in order to fight the shadows. However, now the Vorlons told me that this knowledge must be passed on to all Minbari but only if we all fight the Goa'uld or not at all." Delenn proposed.
Hedronn takes the data crystal.
"I will discuss this with the fellow Warrior caste satai before we are ready to vote." Said Hedronn.
"Then do so, we will await for you to discuss, but don't take too long we must make the vote now." Delenn urged.
Proxima
Genreal Richard Franklin was in charge in leading the assault to the Goa'uld in the Abydos system, he was sitting on the command chair of the Nova Dreadnaught EAS Patton which will lead 4 other Nova Dreadnaughts to deliver the heaviest firepower onto the Goa'uld while the Omega Destroyers escort and cover the Nova Dreadnaughts.
"Is everything ready?" Richard asked his Analytical officer.
"Everything is all set to go. 10 loads Ground pounders, 60 destroyers, including us 5 Dreadnaughts and 3 Explorers." His analytical officer announced.
"Good. Attention fleet, this is General Franklin, we are going to the Abydos system, and when we get there we are going to show the Goa'uld who's god here. Now let's get them! Jump!" General Franklin Ordered.
All the ships that massed opened up their jumppoints and entered hyperspace.
Babylon-5
Outside Babylon-5, there are now 9 Omega destroyers with 2 Hyperion heavy cruisers and a Cotton tender with a tech crew upgrading the weapons on Babylon-5 and replacing all of her fighters with Thunderbolt Starfuries. Then the nearby Jumpgate activates and a jumppoint opened which admits to black earthforce personnel shuttles with the white omega symbol on it, both with 4 Black Omega Thunderbolt starfuries on each shuttle break off allowing the suttles to dock at Babylon-5.
In Sheridan's office, Talia Winters, Garabaldi and Sheridan is waitng for their permanent Psy-Corp representative, then a man dressed in the psy-cop uniform entered the office, who was short, with short dark hair, with grinning smile to match.
"Hello, Captain Sheridan, it looks Iike I'm gonna be your new neighbour." Alfred Bester announced.
"Yes it would be Mr Bester." Sheridan Agrees. "But, there will be some ground rules while you're working with us, is that clear?" Sheridan demanded.
"Captain, we're up against an alien species we don't know much about, and it is my duty to find out much about them as possible, as well as since Babylon-5 is currently being equipped with the best xenobiology equipment at our disposal, and the best technology research facilities on top of it for there'll be a lot of the artefacts that the Agamemnon had collected will be delivered here. Of course, I'll have to follow your rules since the station is in your jurisdiction." Bester Agreed
"Good, first there will be no scanning without my authorisation or my staff, next if you cause any trouble, we'll make sure that you're replaced as soon as a replacement is found and thirdly if any of your boys cause any problems on this station we'll make sure that you all be out of here before you know it." Stated Sheridan.
"Okay, but let's make this clear, my Office, my Staff and the Psy-Corp property is Psy-Corp Jurisdiction which means that if you need to bother us or temper with our property, you need to come to me, I think it's fair." Bester countered.
"Fine, you don't bother us and we'll won't bother you." Sheridan agreed.
"Good, now it's all settled, Mr Garabaldi I'm sure you can show me to my quarters.
"Sure." Garabaldi grumbled and escorted Bester out of Sheridan's office.
"Did he scan?" Sheridan asked Mrs Winters.
"No, he's behaving it looks like he has the weight of the earthforce on top of him for now, I don't think he'll try anything." Said Talia.
"If he does something, I like you to report it to us, can you do that?" Sheridan asked.
"I not allowed to tell about the specifics of his operations but I can let you know if he breaks any rules though." Talia answered.
"That's good enough, long as we can reasonably watch him, I don't think it would be too difficult to cope with him on the station for a while." Stated Sheridan.
"Well, the sooner he's gone the better." Said Talia.
"Tell me about it." Sheridan agreed.
Epsilon-3
Commander Susan Ivanova flew unnoticed to Epsilon-3, she disembarked from her shuttle and she was approached by the Draal hologram.
"I was expecting Sheridan." Drall announced.
"He's kinda occupied with the pain in the butt." Ivanova explained.
"I don't like surprises." Said Draal.
"Oh, well I like surprises. You see paper cut, it's hurts like hell, but to me it's just one more wonderful surprise." Ivanova explained.
"I like you! You're trouble." Announced Draal.
"Well, thank you." Said Ivanova.
"This way please." Draal announced.
Draal lead Ivanova to a chamber, there were carvings all over the wall and the carvings show several lists of symbols with each list has seven symbols.
"What are they?" Ivanova asked.
"Oh, they, I think this is what you call it an address book, but they're out of date though." Draal explained.
Ivanova and Draal continued their journey until they reach another doorway which lead to another chamber but it has a metal ring with the identical symbols on it, from the previous chamber and an alter with the same symbols with the red orb in the middle.
"Wait a minute, Captain James found something like this on Abydos." Ivanova gasped.
"Exhilarating isn't it?" Draal announced.
"What does it do?" Ivanova asked.
"You use it to travel to different worlds, you know this great machine, I had studied it's history and I learned it was built by a race called the ancients, they also built these, uh what they call it again? Ah, that's right Stargates!" Draal explained.
"The Captain is gonna love this." Ivanova mused.
Io Rally Point
There are 30 Omega destroyers with 10 Hyperion heavy cruisers already rallied up including the EAS Agamemnon. On the EAS Alexander, General Hague was in charge of the fleet.
"General, the security network is picking up multiple silhouettes advancing from Saturn." The Analytical officer announced.
"Send the Agamemnon, with 9 destroyers, to advancing fleet." Hague ordered.
"Aye, sir." The analytical officer complied.
10 Omega destroyers advanced from the fleet to approach the advancing fleet, lead by the Agamemnon.
EAS Agamemnon
Captain James ordered Lieutenant Akinson and the 9 other destroyers to advance on the fleet, it didn't took long for Lieutenant Goldman to notice the details of the silhouettes.
"Captain, I'm picking up 5 ships, 240 of fighters and their attributes are identical to what is encountered by the Agripa and Cortez in the Abydos system." Goldman reported.
"Red Alert! Launch fighters and tell the Alexander we have contact." James ordered.
The 10 Omega destroyers launched 36 Thunderbolt starfuries each outnumbering the Goa'uld Deathgliders, the fighters first clashed and the Thunderbolt starfuries had better luck against the Deathgliders but the earthforce was still losing fighters steadily, then the Omega destroyers fired their main batteries and concentrated their firepower against a single mothership. The shields of the mothership had absorbed the shot until it buckled and the concentrated firepower of 10 omega destroyers had penetrated the shields and blew off a major section of the extra structure. The 5 Goa'uld Motherships fired aggressively and concentrated their firepower on on a single Omega destroyer, quickly overworking her interceptors and started tearing it apart. The remaining Omegas fired their main batteries on the damaged mothership, destroying her.
Meanwhile Ra's plan was working the Tau'ri had took the bait an gave the order to decloak and attack.
On the Agamemnon, Goldman's instruments at his station came alive.
"Captain, I picking up 35 additional ships right on top of us! It's like they're out of nowhere and opening fire!" Goldman announced.
"What?" James said.
The additional motherships started firing their main weapons at the destroyers and the auxilery weapons had wiped out the starfuries, the Deathgliders, performed missile runs against 3 damanged omegas and destroyed them, while another 3 are getting ripped apart by the concentrated Goa'uld firepower.
"We can't take much more of this Captain!" Shouted Goldman.
"Tell everyone we're getting outta here, Jump!" James ordered.
The Agamemnon and 2 remaining Omega destroyers opened up 3 jumpoints, destroying a mothership in the process where a jumppoint ripped apart that mothership. The Goa'uld fleet rained heavy firepower onto the remaining Omega destroyers and destroyed 2 of them, Only the Agamemnon escaped, the Goa'uld fleet cloaked once more.
On the Alexander, General Hague had observed the battle, he learned that Goa'uld cloaking abilities are more superior to the Minbari stealth fields.
"This is like the Earth/Minbari war all over again." Hague mused.
"I want sensors to maximum range, I want to know the second the Goa'uld comes in." Hague orders.
"I'm picking up echos, sir, it appears they're surrounding us." The analytical officer announced.
"Then fire all batteries at the echos." Hague ordered.
The Omega destroyers and Hyperion heavy cruisers started firing their laser and plasma cannons, on wide spread in desperate attempt to hit any of the cloaked motherships, then an explosion flared when a heavy plasma bolt as if it hit a Goa'uld mothership, that mothership became visible and started to fire her main weapons, raining down drestruction. Then more motherships decloacked the surrounded earthforce fleet and started fire their weapons. The earthfleet divided, and their interceptors working overtime, the goa'uld deathgliders workin in two parts, one fights the earthforce Thunderbolt Starfuries and another to perform bombing runs and destyroyed several Omega destroyers with their naquadah missiles. Some of the Omegas attempted to ram into the mothersips, only damaging 2 of them. The remaining earthforce fleet of 8 Omegas and 4 Hyperions including the damaged Alexander decided to make a run for it and jumped into hyperspace which destroyed a motherhship and damaged 3 more but the motherships were able to destroy the rest of the Hyperion heavy cruisers and 5 Omega destroyers.
On the Alexander General Hague never felt this depressed.
"From a fleet of 30 destroyers and 10 heavy cruisers to 3 destroyers and all are barely in one piece." Hague grumbled. He can imagine the look on president Clark's face to receive the news, Hague now knows there's no choice but stand up to the Goa'uld at Earth.
"Helm, take us all to Earth." Hague ordered.
"Aye, sir." The helm officer complied.
At Io, the Goa'uld had secured the colony and began to round up the colonists and left 3 damaged motherships to attend the colony.
The Grey Council
The Grey Council reconvened and Delenn gave her final argument to the fellow grey council members. Dhaliri announced it was time to vote for the Minbari to get involved the fight against the Goa'uld.
"Those who vote against for the Minbari to fight against the Goa'uld, step out of the light." Dhaliri announced.
Only 4 of nine spotlights went dim.
"Then we fight the Goa'uld." Dhaliri concluded.
The meeting was over, and all but Dhaliri and Hedronn remain with Delen.
"Personally I don't agree we should get involved in fighting the Goa'uld but I'll stand with the council's choice." Said Dhaliri and he left.
"I was intrigued by the Vorlon technology that was supposed to help us fight the Shadows. You think it will defeat the Goa'uld?" Hedronn inquired.
"If it doesn't I don't know what would." Delenn answered honestly.
"Well I hope I will not regret in voting for your little game with the humans, just to get this Vorlon technology." Said Hedronn and he left.
Delenn was pleased that she got her people to help the humans to defeat the Goa'uld and also it will speed up the preparations for the Shadow war. This will make the Vorlons pleased, Delenn felt that she had accomplished something proudly.
Earth
At Earth, 3 jumpoints opened which admits 3 damaged Omega destroyers including the Alexander, where hundreds of Aurora and Thunderbolt starfuries and the Planetary Defence grid activated awaiting for inevitable enemy fleet to arrive. On the Alexander General Hague had reported to Earthdome in his office and all he got was Clark's red face.
"I had sent the best! With all the resources at your disposal and you can't even force them out of the solar system? My faith placed on you had let me down, general." Clark said aggressively.
"Mr president, with all due respect, intelligence had underestimated the enemy again. They are using a cloaking technology which is more superior to what the Minbari used, it even makes the ships invisible to the naked eye. Which lead to the event that we got the pants over our heads and tied them in a knot." General Hague Countered.
"I don't want to hear you excuses General, your job is in defending Earth and her people and I expect you to do your job, if you fail me again General, you will be dishonourably discharged from the earthforce faster than I can space you." Clark threatened and terminated the link.
Hague, now pressured more than ever, he had to think of a way to fight the Goa'uld before they arrive at Earth, fortunately they'll bypass Mars for that planet was on the opposite side of the sun. Then Hague got an idea and activated his commlink.
"Warren, how many tactical nukes does the fleet has?" Hague ask his munitions officer.
"Seven all together, sir." Warren answered.
"Good, remove the warheads, we gonna make a minefield." Announced Hague.
Not long later a minefield had been established, away from the line, all Hague can do now was wait. Then some Deathgliders had been sited. On the bridge of the Alexander General Hague was waiting for the Goa'uld to take the bait.
"All ships, hold your position." Hague Ordered.
All ships complied but some were getting picked off by the Deathgliders, then the Motherships made their appearance and fire all their firepower onto remaining Omega destroyers. Before the Alexander got destroyed, Hague gave the order to detonate the 7 nuclear warheads, which resulted in 7 mini stars glowing for a short time just above the Earth which had no affect on the shielded Goa'uld motherships. Then 34 the Goa'uld motherships then launched all of their fighters which totalled over a 1,000 Deathgliders which descend onto the starfuries like vultures. The motherships themselves proceed to advance onto the orbital defence grid and start destroying the satellites.
In futile attempt to defend the defence grid, the firepower of the starfuries are no match against the goa'uld motherships, and they were getting wiped out by the combined Anti-fighter defence turrets on the motherships and the Deathglider. The defence grid satellites fired the missiles at the motherships and Deathgliders. As some of the satellites and Deathgliders are shot down, some of the satellites fire a red laserbeam concentrated firepower at the mothership, which barely penetrated her shields but only left a smear on the hull but in process, the satellite is destroyed by the main weapon power consumption which overloads the satellite.
Earthdome
President Clark was in his office looking at burning wreckages raining from the sky of destroyed starfuries and Deathgliders through one of the large windows behind his desk. Monitors flicked online with an emergency broadcast of ISN.
"This is Jennifer Lawson, on ISN news, we sorry to interrupt our normal broadcasting for this urgent update on the events, Earth is now under attack from the Goa'uld. All efforts from the earthforce was unable to stop the Goa'uld war machine and the Goa'uld had smashed the planetary orbital defence grid and…" Jennifer reports.
Then a middle aged man came in and grabbed a microphone.
"I'm sorry I have to interrupt this but, just outside ISN headquaters, enemy fighters had been spotted and a mothership is landing not far from, it appears they're launching some kind of shuttles or gunboats which are seemed to be either bombing our planetary ground defence facilities or deploying troops which seemed using some kind of teleporter, we're trying to get a camera out there, oh here we are." The man announced.
The screen flicked to a cityscape of a city on earth, where Goa'uld deathgliders are flying above attacking defence facilities and powerstations. Then a Goa'uld Tel'tac shuttle flew by and deploy troops where rings fall out of the shuttle, then a beam of energy emitted from the shuttle and materialised into Goa'uld troops in metallic armour with serpent like helmets with red glowing eyes holding staff weapons, began to round up the civilians or fight earthforce security and resistance fighters. In the background, a mothership was landing. Then a large hologram appeared in the middle of the cityscape of Ra and a woman who was Captain Elizabeth Lochly in Egyptian robes with a golden trim. In Egyptian Ra, made an announcement.
"I have returned here to claim what was once mine, your futile attempts to resist you god had failed. I will grant mercy to those who will submit to me. Resist and you will die." Ra Announced and the hologram faded.
The screen flicked back to Jennifer and the man, which he continued.
"Now there's not much time left, there're enemy troopers storming ISN headquarders and we're trying to get camera out there, but there's something you must know…" The man continued, but was interfered when the studio shook with debris falling from the ceiling and the screen flicked to "ISN Pease Stand By.".
Not far from Clark's office a squad of Deathgliders fired their weapons and missiles at Earthdome. In Clark's office, president Clark was still looking out of the same window until he noticed bright lights and explosions indicating the Goa'uld are bombing Earthdome, then he noticed a missile heading straight to his office, Clark panicked and attempt to run but the missile had hit dead on destroying the office of President Clark, with Clark inside.
To Be Continued…