EA Nautilus.
"Sir, Enemy ships are turning away, approaching the Achilles at flank speed," the xo spoke up

"Fleet status."

"We're in a bad way, three Novas are down, six Hyperions destroyed or crippled, and we've lost all but one of the corvettes."

"Shit."

"Fighter casualties at almost seventy percent."

Smith closed his eyes at the report. Even though they had been fighting and losing badly in every engagement of the war to date he had never been on the flagship of one of those fleets. The Nautilus had been the lynchpin of the DSR point's defensive screen since the war's beginning, meaning they had never really been on the frontlines like those many ships that had come and gone from their defence post in the last year.

But even with the numerous reports he had read over that time, nothing could have prepared him for the deaths that had come under his command. Thousands of the human race's best and brightest had been wiped out in mere minutes. But unlike before, these losses had now been reciprocated on their side.

"Captain, Achilles has missiles inbound towards the Minbari escorts." A trio of bright lights exploded one brighter than the others signalling one of the missiles had detonated the way it was supposed to.

"Reading a massive blast, Sir. Minbari fighters and escorts heavily damaged, we can see both of them."

Then a forth Explosion reared up and the sensors showed little left of anything in the area as the Minbari Tinashi exploded, it's engines went critical. Shock rippled through the crews of all the remaining Earthforce ships.

"Get me a reading NOW, I wanna know just how powerful that weapon is." Smith Shouted

"Sir, Tinashi frigate destroyed; most Minbari fighters are destroyed. The Minbari have three operation ships left and little fighter cover."

"Shit! Can we see the Sharlins?"

"Negative. We can see the two damaged Tinashis that's it…we're reading two more missiles from the Achilles."

"Minbari response?"

"None, yet. Missiles will hit in six seconds- Tinashi is firing weapons. Oh, My god!"

"Ensign?"

"Antimatter bolt heading towards the Missiles."

"Tell the Achilles to get out of there NOW."

USAF Achilles:

"Missile on route- Minbari weapons and defences are down."

"Confirm guidance lock."

"Confirmed, they will hit in six seconds."

"Sir, Minbari ship is firing weapon. It's some kind of charged particle bolt."

"Any idea…"

"EA sensors records online, they show… it's an Antimatter pulse, Sir, they've targeting the missiles sir."

"Fuck, get us out of here, any vector."

Blood Of Dukat:

"Shai Alyt the Tinashi has fired their antimatter cannon."

"What?"

"They've tried to target the enemy missiles."

"Get us out of here immediately, if those things impact..."

"Weapons intercept in six seconds…"

"Too close, far too close," the first officer said

A single voice whispered over the sudden silence of the bridge, "Entil'za Veni. In Valen's name."

Those on the edge of the battle tried to escape the oncoming exchange of fire, but for the ships in that area of the star system this was too little, far too late.

It was theorised that the mutual annihilation of matter and antimatter would cause an explosion that few nuclear weapons could reach, three kilograms of each could reach an explosive potential of sixty megatons, something that only a handful of the world's biggest nukes could reach.

This collision of matter and antimatter was over one hundred times the size. Tthe combination of three hundred kilograms of matter from the two missiles and three hundred of antimatter from the Minbari ship lit up the entire area with a multiple gigaton explosive effect. This would have left the four remaining Minbari ships destroyed or heavily damaged by the blast wave and the explosive energy of the mutual annihilation, while the stronger Asgard based shields and trinium-based armour of the human built ship would have been able to ride out the wave with some damage.

That was not the case; even with the incredible agility and acceleration of all the ships in combat, they would never be able to fully escape from the blast wave that eventually hit them. The warheads of the USAF warship's missiles were enriched by a substantial amount of Naquada. This rare material was able to enhance the explosive potential by close to one hundred times. This material did just that as the two weapons, human and Minbari hit each other magnifying the stroke by one hundred times.

A small forty-megaton warhead that would have destroyed the Minbari ship was instead magnified into a massive blast that blinded the sensors of any ship within the sector and annihilated everything in its path. Six and a half TERATONS of force swept in all direction. All four remaining Minbari warships and their were caught up in the explosion both frigates and the closest of the cruisers were annihilated by the blast, leaving nothing by stay atoms behind. The two remaining ship one Minbari Man-o-war and one Human battlecruiser were thrown clear into uncontrolled spins away from the battle.

On board the Achilles the crew were thrown about as the shockwave started them tumbling over and over, shields burst and the rear hull was ripped apart in all areas. An entire section sheared off by the impact and sent into the depths of space killing over two dozen crewmen.

Inside was worse, every system shorted out and the main generators spiked, causing them to shutdown automatically. More of the crew were hurt and several more killed by the ship's uncontrolled tumble into space. Only emergency life support and basic electronics were still working. The ship's artificial gravity had cut out completely leaving the g-forces of the spin to work against the crew pinning them into place.

The Minbari ship was even worse off than the human ship. The internals were a mess with the crew almost all killed outright by the impact. Unlike all earth-built ships from either time they were not held in by safety webbing or even sitting down, but Minbari crewmen were standing and those sitting or laying were not secured.

That said, only a few dozen out of almost six hundred crew were still alive by this time, mostly in the rear compartments or more heavily fortified sections in the very bowels of the Minbari ship. Only a very few systems were even in usable order. The reactor containment systems and the emergency life support systems were still online being fed from emergency power. Also unlike the Achilles, Sharlin's gravity was still online and while it didn't save many of the crew the remaining living beings aboard were shill capable of movement in Minbar-normal gravity.

"In Valen's name. What was that?" The chief engineer called out. There was no response to his calls. Looking around he could see little more than debris and the littered bodies of his engineering crew, bloody and broken limbs. Bodies and torsos lent a feeling of an abattoir to the formerly pristine surroundings.
The Chief engineer made his way through the debris of his ship trying to find out what kind of damage his ship had taken, unable to interface with the computer meant that he could not find much of what he needed to.

"Ship's Status."

The engineer looked around to see a junior ranking Bridge officer limping towards him, the youth was in a bad way but did not let his obvious pain show more than he had to, this young warrior was to be commended.

"What happened?"

"The so called human ship's missile fire was intercepted by an antimatter attack from one of the escorts, the resulting explosion destroyed the rest of the task force, the Shai Alyt and the entire command crew were killed then the explosion pierced the hull and crippled the ship."

"How did a human weapon manage to do so much damage to the ship?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. How much of the ship is left?"

Attempting once more to access the ship's main computer, the engineer still had problems bringing up anything more than the basics. The only way that could have happened is if the main computer core itself was no longer attached to the ship's data retrieval systems. That was all but impossible unless…"

"How close were we to the explosion?"

"Not close enough to be destroyed, but we were caught by the blast wave and some of the thermal damage."

"I'm not getting anything from the computer core or any of the main command back-ups."

"How's that possible?"

"It shouldn't be, I'll try to get tertiary systems in the lower hull up. We have containment and basic life support so it should still be operational. Oh by Valen's Name."

The true problems they were facing was now more then evident as they took in the damage and carnage the weapons strike had cased to their vessel, the shock and fear had left them numb, the horror not quite filtering through just yet.

The computer finally brought up what he needed. It was not a pretty sight. While the ship was still spinning through space the ship's gravity was holding them in place while somewhere in the ship someone was using the emergency systems in an attempt to use their limited remaining drive power to right their spin.

However that was not the worst news, the explosion had destroyed much of the forward sections of the ship as well as the fins that were characteristic of Minbari designs. That one explosion had reduced the ship's mass and capability to less than one quarter.

"We've got other survivors on board, but I have no idea when or where we'll end up or even if I can get this ship running again."

"We better start then," the younger officer said.

EA Nautilus

"Captain, sensors are back online," the ship's Xo said.

"What the hell was that? That as no damned matter/antimatter reaction."

"It looks as if the antimatter explosion was enhanced by whatever was in the warheads of the missiles, the explosion maxed out our sensors and blew some of the sensor clusters."

"What was the energy count?"

The XO brought up the information gathered by the ship's computers as the fight went on. The last few seconds of the fight between the Minbari and the Achilles was brought up and analysed. Within a few minutes the computers had managed to give and approximate reading to the Earthforce crew.

"Ok. that can't be right."

"Well?"

"Sir the maximum explosive force we should have reached was maybe a few hundred megatons."

"I'm aware of that Commander." Smith was getting annoyed.

"Sir, the explosion read at almost Six and a half…" The XO almost choked.

"What six and a half what?"

"Six and a half teratons Sir."

"Check that again Commander."

"Aye Sir."

"Nothing we've seen including the Minbari could do something like this."

"Confirmed sir Six plus teratons of explosive force at point of impact between both weapons."

"Copy the information to a removable memory module and wipe the ship's computer, Earthdome need to hear about this."

USAF Achilles:

"FUCKING HELL!" A voice shouted from behind Major Davis as the ship was send hurtling into space.

The small warship was tossed side by the shockwave much harder than the much larger Minbari starship, however the shields and armour of the Earth-built ship was much stronger than the thick crystalline armour of the Minbari. The damage to the Earthship however was extensive with almost a quarter of the remaining crew killed by the explosion. However much of the ship's main systems while offline were not seriously compromised by the shockwave. Instead of exploding panels and overloading systems much as one would see on science fiction television programs, the construction of the Achilles used circuit breakers and large fuses to protect their systems.

The ship's life support and artificial gravity reengaged as the Achilles came back under control as the human designed thrusters started automatically firing to bring themselves under an even keel.

"Damage Report."

"Dammit, systems are down all over the ship, Sir. We won't be able to get anything until the breakers are reset and the system backups brought online."

"Anything working?"

"Life support, short range scans and Railguns Sir. They were all attached to a secondary system that came online after the explosion."

"Send a runner down to engineering, we need internal comms and long range scanners as soon as possible."

"Aye. Sir."

"What about the fighters?"

"Four of the fighters were redocked for reaming Sir, the remaining two were flying CAP. They had no chance, Sir."

"Damn, thank you Lt."

"Aye, Sir."

"Engineering to bridge."

"That was quick." The Lt said. "Musta had the same ideas we did."

"Bridge here, Good to hear from you."

"Yes, Sir. Thought comms might be a good idea for damage control."

"What's the damage chief?"

"Don't know Sir. All the system breakers cut in we're checking the basic systems and bringing them up one at a time."

"How long?"

"I'll get back to you on that, Sir."

"Got it. Bridge out."