Chapter 97

The Turning Tide

On board Defiance

Inside the orbit of Venus

May 8, 2378

"So they're trying a suicide run on the sun? Do they have some idea of how to get it to go nova," asked Connelly.

"I don't know, but that's what I am assuming. It's what I picked up when I scanned the ship. Their leader wants to take us out, and that seemed to be the gist of what he was thinking."

Connelly shook her head and said in her Scottish lilt, "How can you read his mind from so far away?"

He snorted and said, "Ask the Vorlons. They're the ones that made me this way. I don't know how I do it, but I do. Set course to intercept!"

She nodded her head and said, "Aye sir!" and went to her chair.

The EDF ships deployed with their ships showing their broadsides to the enemy, allowing them to aim all their main guns directly at them. On the other side, the remaining Starfleet, Klingon, and Romulan ships awaited the enemy with shields raised and weapons charged. In the middle, the Earthforce ships, along with the Minbari, Narn, Centauri, and the other members of the Interstellar Alliance, were poised to go head to head with the enemy. Interspersed among all three sides were the Legendoran ships, ready to finally defeat their prodigal brethren once and for all.

Godoran looked at the gauntlet he faced and said to his people, "Let us destroy them all!", knowing full well that he didn't have near the force to do so. This was a suicidal run, and his people knew it, but they could not stomach living and seeing the Legendora triumphant.
"Forward," cried Godoran, and the fleet made its last advance on the enemy, with all guns firing.

The EDF ships fired their main guns, and the beams from the shock cannons sliced into the ships guarding the inner heart of the Ragendoran fleet. Jem'Hadar ship after Jem'Hadar ship tried in vain to take out the fleet, but none got close. The last Jem'Hadar ship was destroyed by a volley from the Andromeda, and the last ally of the Ragendora had been beaten.

Genon, the Legendoran envoy, looked on from the bridge of the Minbari cruiser Vidora, standing by Delenn. "It's like watching a funeral. I wish we did not have to do this, but they have chosen their path."

Delenn nodded and continued to look on with Genon as the battle raged on. She thought of the Battle of the Line so long ago, and hoped that all she had done since then had been able to atone for her role in the Earth Minbari War. Sheridan still did not know that it was her, lying at the head of her fallen mentor's body, who had cast the vote that almost wiped out the human race in her universe. She had knelt down at Dukhat, trying to drag him away. She cried out for help, and he said something to her with his dying breath. Then he expired and one of her fellow Grey Council members had come up to her and asked what they should do."Animals! Brutals! They deserve no mercy! Follow them to their base and strike them down!" It was the beginning of the holy war, and it still was the scarlet letter on her soul, and would be until the day she went to the sea of stars, in the place where no Shadows fall.

She looked again and saw that the Ragendora were being decimated by the flanking fire, but were making their way to the Interstellar Alliance fleet. The first ship came into range and she gave out the order, one, which she hoped, put her one step closer onto the path of redemption:"Fire!"

The ISA fleet fired at will on the Ragendoran, and it was not long until Godoran's ships were but a mere handful. He saw the Defiance and felt the presence of someone with telepathic abilities. He decided that he would ram his ship into it in one last spasm of spite. "Ram that ship," he yelled out, and his crew complied with it, speeding up towards the ship.

The Defiance's main guns had been repaired enough to allow them to fire the main gun, and as it powered up, Hollifield thought that this was like the final battle in the Shadow War at Coriana VI: the turning point of history, where things would never be the same again. A new age was about to come to all the known universes, one where the Ragendoran would not have a say in. He looked directly at the last approaching Ragendoran ship and calmly gave the order to fire. Energy glowed at the tips of the three rear fins of the ship, then they streaked down to the center shaft at the bow of the ship, collecting there before firing out at the approaching ship. The massive energy struck the ship's main firing port and went through it with ease, striking the core quickly and consuming the ship. The ship exploded into a fireball, spraying debris away from the blast's center.

The Ragendora were now extinct.