Chapter 19- Sacrifices

"Okay Echo-2, final approach, make sure you at the right target this time."

"Hey, it took out the Ha'tak didn't it?"

"Lucky shot." Diceman argued. "Besides the aschen aren't stupid enough leave a reactor unguarded."

"They don't have any PD weaponry," Freelancer laughed "how's that for stupidity?"

"Don't be a smart arse," Diceman sighed ."Just fire your missiles."

Trent grinned, winning yet banter against Diceman, his grin only grew larger once twin sparrows from both his and Echo-1's fighter released and burst towards the unprotected shield generator.

"Impact in 10 seconds Freelancer, prepare for a bit of a bang." Moose reported, as another torp round from both F-302's were fired at the aschen heavy pulse cannons dotting around the giant battleship.

"As soon as the shields down we jump" he said, "you got that?"

"Roger that Echo Leader, where too exactly?"

"Getting some reports of Endeavour being attacked by a couple of heavies, we restock and help her out."

"We got impact boys!" Moose practically screamed, once the onslaught of sparrow torpedoes impacted into the shield generator. The visible energy shield surrounding the aschen ship, fazed out of existence, leaving it an easy target for whatever ship it will be forced to engage.

"Shields down, lets regroup with the rest of Echo-flight and restock at Ravensbright."

"Roger that Dice."

Echo-Seven

Cruising just on the shields perimeter, a single F-302 class medium fighter, was preparing to follow its comrades in the daring maneuver, the occupants, Pilot Lieutenant Yates call sign 'Wolf' and weapons officer Lieutenant 'Trigger' Collins.

"Okay Wolf, plan this right, not to early not too late."

"I got it, Trigger, just be ready with those sparrows once we jump." The pilot, call-sign Wolf said confidently.

"Okay then, as long as you're ready"

"Heh, you know I am, preparing to jump in 3, 2, 1, JUMP!"

The single F-302, powered its hyperdrive, and prepared for what some would call suicide. The glow vortex emerged for the dark, seemingly bouncing off the battleships shield, the fighter charged in blindly.

Those quick moments in hyperspace seemed to last for minutes though, timing the jump was critical, exit too soon you'll find yourself cut in half by the shield, to late inside a ships hull, Echo-7 was late by 0.0034 seconds.

Aschen Battleship- Engineering Level

The dozens of engineers that occupied the deck, were oblivious to what just happened, in fact all but the bridge crew knew what happened. A fighter jumped, but it didn't appear inside the shield, that mean't…

The speakers blared to life "All hands, prepare to evac…he was cut off when the strangest thing happened.

A Hyperspace vortex opened inside the ship, the purple destructive energy cutting into anything that stood in its way, and entire 3 decks opened in its path, killing dozens, but it was not over. The fighter that opened the portal entered from its creation at an insanely fast speed, it plowed into the floor of the engineering deck, throwing debris everywhere, the thick metal between decks did little to stop the fighter as it simply sliced through, deck by deck, including one extremely unlucky crewmember, until it rammed right through the main power source..

The aschen Anti-Matter power source lost containment the moment it was in contact with the Tau'ri fighter, the engineering crew not even getting the chance to react properly, hearing the screaming sounds of a engine get closer and closer, the sound of metal being ripped to shreds as it was nothing, that made even the most emotionless aschen nervous, and that's all they would feel before it happened. The fighter turned to a flying ball of debris rammed straight through reactor, leaving it exposed to the trillions of atoms in the air around it, the reaction was instant.

If time was slowed billions of times, you would see a fast building wave of energy burst out of what once was the ships power source, catastrophic destructive force took out anything it contacted, disintegrating the very air, as it expanded at an insane rate, engulfing the entire ship in mere seconds.

Echo-2

"Holy……" Trent didn't even finish his sentence after seeing what happened.

"Yeah man, they just took out the whole damn ship." Moose said in reply, as they both paused to fully take in what happened, watching the dozens of explosions rip apart what was once an aschen battleship.

"Damn it!" Moose yelled out, slamming his fist into his leg, "he screwed up, I knew he should have left it alone without echo-8."

"Wait….what….that was Wolf and Trigger?"

"Yeah, the fighter corp. just lost some of its best." he silently grieved for his two fallen companions before bitterly saying. "We'll save the toast for later...we still got a job to do."

"But still…."

"Lets just jump back to Ravensbright, we can't spare anytime for the dead."

Trent pulled himself together, focusing on the job at hand. "Roger that, preparing hyper-jump……ready"

"Jumping."