First I would like to give everyone a few words on this story. I love the GS, and GSD franchises, as well as the B5 franchises, so I decided to do this story to satisfy mi imagination., so please no flames or that stuff.
A few notes however are in order. I posses the GSD anime, so I have seen the Gondwana as much as it has been shown, and it is humongous, in my estimate it is well over 3000 Mts in length, but for this stories sake it will only be 2500 Mt. all of the Gundams are included, and they will each have a METEOR.
Thank you very much for your precious time, now please read
I don't own GS, GSD or B5.
Advent of the Destroyers chapter 1: The wrong place, the wrong time.
This is the E.A.S. Agrippa, by order of the president of the Earth Alliance, I order you to surrender, any action taken against this vessel or in negation of these orders will be met with terminal force said the voice of the captain of the Agrippa over the communications channel, and all the defenders heard the ultimatum.
"This is commander John Sheridan of Babylon 5, I hereby declare those orders to be unconstitutional, and hereby declare that we no longer belong to the Earth Alliance, any attack on this station will be met with force" said John Sheridan, and prepared for what was to come, for he knew that he had just signed the death sentence of everyone onboard.
It had not been more than ten seconds since he had declared his intentions, when the bad news started coming in "Captain, the Agrippa and the Roanoke are launching fighters, and charging weapons" said the sensors officer of Babylon 5 C&C.
"Inform the Alexander and the Churchill to standby, let them take the first shot, we will not begin this, but by god we will finish it", said John Sheridan, and stopped a second to catch his breath "Prepare the defense grid, and activate weapons" finished Sheridan, and saw how the crew worked, and prepared for what was to come.
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"Captain, all squadrons report ready, and are ready to attack" said the communications officer of the Agrippa looking at the captain.
"Very well, they want to play Martyr, so we will play, all squadrons attack!" said the captain, and within short the usual chatter of combat filled the bridge, and all of them saw how the battle unfolded before their eyes.
"Captain, I have a high energy reading directly behind us, but it is unlike anything I have ever seen" said the communications officer of the Agrippa, as she reviewed her instruments.
Immediately the captain looked at his communications officer "What kind of reading? Is it a jump point?" asked the captain immediately, a the communications officer worked on her station.
"Unknown sir, but it is a very high energy reading, and definitely not a natural occurrence" finished the comms officer, and continued working on her station, while her captain thought about the situation.
"Put it on screen" ordered the captain, and immediately the view screen showed an undefined phenomenon, which resembled a purple nebula. In an instant however two ships emerged form the nebula like phenomenon, followed shortly after a massive vessel, that seemed to dwarf even the 1600 M long Omega destroyers, and for a second the whole battle stopped, while they all looked at what was happening.
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"Uhhmm…….Wh-wh-what happened?" asked a confused Murrue Ramius from the captains seat on the Archangel, as she regained focus, and remembered what had happened.
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"!Captain an energy spike has been detected on the Gondwana!" said one of the officers of the Archangels C&C.
"What?" yelled Murrue Ramius from her seat, as she tried to analize rapidly the situation. "Abort the entry, I repeat abort the entry" yelled Murrue Ramius trying to evade what was clearly a death situation.
"Too late captain, we have alrea-" but the helms officer couldn't finish the sentence, and Murrue Ramius lost all consciousness during the incident.
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"Unknown Ma'am" said one of the officers who had just regained consciousness, and was just now analyzing the information on his screen, but he immediately stopped when the alarm suddenly went off.
The Archangel shook from the impact of a lost bolt of energy, but the emergency systems had activated the shields, and a barrier of energy appeared shortly before the bolt impacted the vessel.
"Report!" yelled Murrue Ramius as she regained her place, and could just now see a battle raging not far from their position, and she was immediately awakened, her keen military instincts taking over "!All hands level one battle stations, raise the shield screens, and prepare the vessel for full combat!" screamed Murrue Ramius, and soon the alarms where heard all over the vessel, and with this all the crew quickly recovered form their shock, as a new battle was going to be fought.
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Back at Lacus and Kiras quarters, both of them had barely regained consciousness, when the alarms suddenly went off, and they where both jerked into awakeness, and looked confused and disoriented.
"Kira" said Lacus looking at Kira, who was wide awake at the sound of the alarms, and rushed to the intercom.
Kira started captain Ramius over the ships intercom, we have just been shot by an unknown vessel, and a battle is unfolding close to our position, you should launch immediately, we don't know who or what we are fighting against, but the reports are not good finished Murrue Ramius, and looked extremely worried by the whole situation.
"Understood, I will launch immediately, call Athrun and Cagalli, and tell them to sortie as well" said Kira Yamato, and closed the intercom system.
"Kira, please promise me you'll be back" said Lacus with tears in her eyes, not knowing what else to say, and looked at Kira who was at the door ready to leave. But before he left Kira looked at Lacus in her eyes "I will" said Kira, and with that he left not knowing what was going on, and uncertain of what to do.
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Athrun and Cagalli where also jerked awake at the sound of the Alarms, and where immediately greeted by the intercom system going on, and captain Ramius looking at them, as always very professional, but with worry all over her face Athrun Cagalli, report to the flight deck, and sortie immediately said captain Ramius, and looked at the two of them, both with very edged expressions.
"What's the situation captain?" was Athrun's question, and Cagalli nodded urging the captain to tell them first.
We are in an unknown location, and there is a battle raging not far from the ship, we are currently trying to get into contact with the Gondwana, and the Minerva, but so far have received no response said Murrue Ramius, and looked more serious. At this both Athrun and Cagalli realized, that they where probably in for a very dangerous situation, and stormed out of their room as fast as they could.
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"Commander, any word from the Gondwana or the Minerva?" asked Murrue Ramius to Mu La Flaga, who was trying to direct the vessel out of the way from lost fire.
"Negative, the Gondwana seems to be disabled, and the Minerva is just regaining stability" said Mu La Flaga, as he analyzed the information as fast as he could, but the battle raging was very intense, both sides where clearly trying to tear the other to shreds. Suddenly the main view screen of the Archangel burst into life, and it was Talia Gladys the captain of the Minerva who spoke Archangel, what is your situation? asked captain Gladys in a no-nonsense tone.
"We are fine at the moment, but the situation outside is deteriorating rapidly" said Murrue Ramius, as another green lost energy bolt impacted on the shields of the Archangel "Kira, Athrun and Cagalli are going to sortie immediately, but we have no idea what is going on" said captain Ramius, as she looked to captain Gladys.
Very well, we will sortie Lunamaria, Shinn and Rey as well, but I would like to protect the Gondwana first before going on answered Talia Gladys, as the first bolts of lost energy reached the Minerva, and interference showed on the screen.
"Understood, the Archangel will get a more detailed view of the situation, while the Minerva supports the Gondwana" said Murrue Ramius as both an order, and a statement to Talia Gladys, and immediately saw how the crew got to work on the orders.
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Shinn Asuka, Lunamaria Hawke, and Rey Za Burrell where changing in the pilots waiting room when the image of Captain Talia Gladys appeared on the monitor. I have spoken to Captain Ramius of the Archangel, the Minerva will support the Gondwana, as it seems to be drifting in space, while the Archangel provides cover for us, and helps us understand the situation announced Talia Gladys, as she saw the three changing pilots get dressed as fast as it was possible for them, and how they gave a crisp salute to the orders of the captain.
"What do you think is going on?" asked Lunamaria Hawke, as she finished putting on the flight suit.
"Unknown, but if the captain is as worried as she looked, the situation cannot be good" answered Rey Za Burrell, as he finished strapping the neck lock on his flight suit, and started heading for the exit.
"Whatever it is we will take care of it" said Shinn Asuka, as he also finished getting dressed, and quickly followed Rey Za Burrell out of the exit, with Lunamaria behind him running at full speed.
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"Captain Sheridan, massive Jamming has appeared on all sensors, it is coming from two of the three new vessels" informed the sensors officer from the sensors pit in Babylon 5's C&C.
"What kind of jamming?" asked Captain Sheridan, as his own screen seemed to flicker on and off from the jamming.
"Unknown sir, but it is very powerful, and extensive, it seems to cover the whole area between us and even beyond the station" reported the sensors officer, and braced as another impact hit the station.
"Can we compensate?" asked Captain Sheridan, as he composed himself form the assault of both the Roanoke, and the Agrippa..
"Negative sir, it is very powerful, it is making jumble of everything even communications" announced again the sensors officer, and looked at his screen, and was shocked by what the sensors where telling him "Captain two of the new vessels are opening what appear to be launch bays, but the energy signature is similar to those of Mass Drivers!" yelled the sensors officer, and the whole room was silent for a minute, all of the present trying to register what was happening.
"WHAT!" asked Captain Sheridan getting out of the trance.
"Yes sir, the sensors are confirming that they are mass drivers, the bearing on the closest one seems to be the Alexander" commented the sensors officer rechecking his instruments.
"Inform the Alexander, and try to get me a channel to those vessels" said the captain, and prepared for a major blow.
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"Captain, the space station is trying to open a channel, but we can barely get them" informed Miriallia Haww, from her post as communications officer on the Archangel.
"Can we open a channel?" asked Murrue Ramius, with great concern in her features.
"Compensating with the subspace transceiver" informed Miriallia Haww, and soon enough the face of John Sheridan appeared on screen.
Unknown vessel, this is space station Babylon 5, Captain John Sheridan, you are in a war zone, and targeting one of our vessels, cease all actions immediately or we will fire on you announced John Sheridan with a tone of finality on his voice, and even Captain Ramius was shocked by this statement.
"Captain Sheridan, you are firing on our vessel, and we have no idea what the situation is, and we a re not targeting anyone right now, due to these I must refuse your petition" informed Captain Ramius, and as she finished the silhouettes of the Strike Freedom, and the Infinite Justice zoomed form the launch bays, and faster than anyone could have believed started stopping the incoming beams, followed shortly after the Akatsuki.
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"Captain, the closest unknown vessel has just activated it's Mass Drivers!" said the sensors officer, and the crew once again was completely silent, all of their thoughts where on the damage that would cause to the Alexander, but nothing happened to the Alexander, but the vessels where so far away they could see nothing, except the blue glow of energy, which veered off course immediately after leaving the Mass Drivers.
"What happened?" demanded Captain Sheridan, as he saw the glow of energy move faster than it was possible –My god, it is going faster than even a Nial at full speed- thought John Sheridan, as he saw the shapes moves, and almost forgot the conversation with the unknown vessel.
Captain Sheridan, I have no intentions of firing on anyone, but we will defend ourselves if necessary said Murrue Ramius through the channel before closing it.
"Nice people sir" commented one of the crew members, but was immediately silenced as the station once more rocked due to the explosion of an energy weapon.
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"This has gone on long enough!" yelled the captain of the Roanoke, as he looked at the situation "open a channel to the same vessel"
"Channel open sir" informed the communications officer not looking at the captain, and bracing from an attack.
Immediately the main screen of the Omega destroyer burst to life, and the face of Murrue Ramius appeared on screen, "Unknown vessel this is captain William Drake(I had to make him up, because the captain of the Roanoke was never mentioned) of the Earth Alliance destroyer Roanoke-" started the captain of the Roanoke, but was abruptly interrupted by Captain Ramius, who seemed very surprised Earth Alliance, but the Earth Alliance was disbanded after the signing of the unification pact said captain Ramius, and looked at the astonished crew of the Roanoke, who looked very confused. "What are you speaking of, the Earth Alliance has never been unified with anyone" commented captain Drake, as if it was common knowledge, but quickly regained his composure, and looked directly into captain Ramius on the view screen "In any case, I am captain William Drake of the Earth Alliance destroyer Roanoke, you have intruded into Earth Alliance sovereign territory, you will immediately stand down, and prepare for immediate boarding" said Captain Drake, and instructed the comms officer to cut the channel "signal the reinforcement fleet to move in, and prepare to take care of Babylon 5, we will immediately move, and take possession of those vessels" informed the captain, and immediately the crew moved to obey his orders.
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"Captain, the Roanoke is veering away from the main battle, and seems to be coming our way, a number of Mobile Armors have also changed heading, and are coming our way" informed the sensors officer on the Archangel, as they all saw the massive vessel move away form the battle, and head straight for the Archangel.
"Oh, damn, all stations prepare for immediate combat, prepare Gottfrieds, and Valiants, inform Athrun, Cagalli and Kira to take care of the Mobile Armors, but to not destroy them if possible" ordered captain Ramius, and immediately all the crew got to work.
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Inside the Roanoke the crew was stunned as they closed in on the unknown vessel, the vessels entire compliment of support craft was of just three craft, but the most stunning feature of the three craft, was that they all looked like some kind of giant humanoid machine, but they where even more stunned by what followed next. As the Roanoke's fighter contingent closed in on the vessels strange humanoid like machines, they opened fire, and what appeared to be perfect target locks, where incredibly avoided by all the three unknown craft, which moved with an amazing speed, and immediately all hell broke loose.
The first machine was white-blue, black, with what looked like gold painted parts, and looked like an angel, moved in with incredible speed, and it looked to be tearing itself apart, except that when the fighter pilots looked at the lost parts, they where not simply left back, but where instead moving freely in space, and from their tips came green energy bolts, which tore the wings of eight of the Roanoke's fighter contingent, and immediately another five came down, as they where destroyed by the fire of the machine itself, and it closed in on the Roanoke with incredible speed.
The second machine which was red, black, and white divided itself, and the two parts started firing on the fighters, but what amazed the crew on the Roanoke was not the way they cut into the fighters, or to be precise it was really the way they cut into the fighters that stunned them. The red machine's back pack fired two bolts at one fighter, and as it passed it cut a second one with the wings, and the machine itself did the same, it fired at the fighters, and destroyed several of them, but then it got close to another one, and instead of avoiding a collision, it went straight at the fighters, and with what looked like a magenta beam simply cut them in pieces before moving on to the Roanoke.
The third machine was a gold, black machine, which was by far the most striking of the three machines, but the most striking thing was that it wasn't dodging the attacks, instead it simply went straight into the fighters, and simply continued against the numerous bolts that where fired at it, that met their mark, but to the astonishment of both the pilots, and the crew of the Roanoke they where returned, and this meant the end of several of the fighters of the Roanoke, and the gold humanoid machine itself destroyed several other fighters, with amazing accuracy, and speed.
In less than three minutes the Roanoke's entire fighter complement of 36 Starfuries, and Thunderbolts hade been wiped out, and now the Roanoke found itself against three machines, that by all means should have been destroyed by the superior numbers of the Roanoke's fighter complement.
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"Captain, all of our fighters have been destroyed" said the sensors officer to the captain, but the captain was too shocked to answer, in less than three minutes 36 Starfuries, and Thunderbolts, and been swiftly wiped out by three machines, that by all means where overwhelmed 12 to 1, not even the Mimbari Nials had been able to do something like that, and yet these three machines had just done it, and where rapidly moving towards the destroyer.
"Captain!" yelled the communications officer, and immediately the captain was returned from his shock.
"All guns open fire, destroy those machines!" yelled the captain, and at this the whole crew immediately got to work, and prepared to fight against three unknown opponents.
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"Kira, the main vessel is powering up weapons" said Athrun Zala over the comms system towards the Strike Freedom, as he started avoiding the bolts from the Omega destroyer's pulse cannons, and the heavy particle/lasers, which where making it difficult for Athrun to get close.
Hang in there Athrun, we will make it through said Kira over the communications system, and Athrun saw Kira expelled his DRAGOON wings, which moved towards the destroyer avoiding all the incoming fire. Cagalli, move to the front, and take out the heavy cannons said Kira, and Cagalli only nodded.
"Kira and I will go and take the anti-air guns, and take out the engines" said Athrun, and soon all the three Mobile Suits where moving towards the destroyer.
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The Strike Freedom, the Infinite Justice, and the Akatsuki soon entered combat range with the huge destroyer, and started exchanging shots with the massive vessel, unfortunately its cannons where not fast enough to follow the three Mobile Suits.
First the Strike Freedom with the concentrated power of four of its DRAGOON wings destroyed the two upper particle pulse cannons, and immediately afterwards with its two high-energy beam rifles, its waist mounted multi-phase energy cannon, and its two hip mounted railguns it destroyed the third one, immediately followed by a high speed run with its beam saber, with which it completely sectioned the fourth turret from the ship, and immediately moved to the back of the vessel.
The Akatsuki for its part used its twin plasma cannons on one of the frontal heavy cannons, and completely destroyed it, and passed at the front of the bridge, where the whole bridge staff saw its golden outline, as they reeled from the multiple impacts. As the Akatsuki moved to destroy the second heavy gun, it fired on the Akatsuki with a thin beam, which was immediately returned, and the second heavy gun eviscerated itself, but what stunned the crew the most was the unknown humanoid fighter was completely undamaged, and simply continued in its way.
At the rear of the vessel the Infinite Justice charged against the four heavy guns, and in one single motion the flier pack, and the Infinite justice disconnected the four upper guns of the Roanoke, and moved to the engines, where it was joined by the Strike Freedom, and the melted looking Akatsuki. Upon reaching the massive engine section the three pilot knew what to do, and in one single blow they fired all their guns at the engines, in total 15 high energy beam guns, one multi-phase energy cannon, two railguns, and two plasma beam cannons impacted on the rear of the vessel. The huge amount of firepower that was placed on the engine section was such, that it had completely eviscerated it from the Roanoke.
The Roanoke for all intents and purposes was dead in the water, and knowing this the three Mobile Suits moved into the main engagement. Where they saw a yellow distortion in space time, and several more vessels where coming through.
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"My god!" said John Sheridan, as he saw the destruction that only three machines had done to one of the most powerful vessel in space, and could not imagine what kind of power they possessed. In less than three minutes the three humanoid machines had destroyed 36 Starfuries, and less than three minutes later the Roanoke was left as nothing more than two huge blocks of scrap metal drifting apart. John Sheridan could only guess what kind of firepower the warships had, but the captains thoughts where quickly interrupted.
"Captain, the Agrippa has rammed the Churchill, both vessel where lost with all hands" said the sensors officer, as she looked at the carnage, but then the unexpected happened "Captain Jump Gate is opening, I have four omega destroyers, and two Hyperion cruisers, and escort fighters" said once again the communications officer, and all on the bridge saw how all hope was lost. Suddenly however the sensors officer picked up four jumpoints opening right on top of Babylon 5, and through came three Mimbari Sharlin's, and the White Star, and once again hope returned to the defenders.
Suddenly the main screen turned to life, and a beautiful female was shown, she had long black hair, and on the top of her head she had a crest bone, which interrupted the flowing of her hair, and soon she spoke I am Delenn, representative of the Mimbari, Babylon 5 is under our protection, Earth Alliance vessel, you will immediately leave this area or be destroyed said Delenn in a very intimidating tone.
Negative, Babylon 5 is Earth Alliance sovereign territory, and we will not retreat from it answered the captain of the newly arrived Earth Alliance task force over the communications channel.
Soon Delenn answered Only one human has ever defeated us, and he is behind me, you are in front of me said once again Delenn.
"Captain, the Mimbari vessels are powering up weapons" said the sensors officer, but soon they felt a number of explosions.
"What happened?" asked Captain Sheridan, as he looked at the crew in confusion.
"Sir the Mimbari's main weapons and several other weapons emplacements have just exploded" said the sensors officer, with disbelief in her voice "the Earth Alliance fleet is changing heading and powering weapons" finished the sensors officer, and the whole crew was silent.
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"The Roanoke has been incapacitated, and two of the vessels have been destroyed after ramming each other" informed one of the sensors officer analyzing his instruments, and soon received a strange reading "captain, also a high energy reading is being detected in the four pillar structure" said the comms officer, and soon the main screen changed to show four pillars, which started blinking in sequence, and from the center of the structure a blue whirlwind of energy formed, and several ships appeared. "Captain I have contacts with two of the destroyer class vessels, and two smaller heavy vessels, and an escort wing of several dozen fighter craft" informed the sensors officer, as they all saw the vessels coming out of the whirlwind, and turning towards Babylon 5.
"What is the status on the station?" asked Captain Ramius from her seat, and soon heard furious typing.
"Her main guns are operational, but their defense systems have suffered significantly, she also has many holes in the structure" informed the sensors officer, and continued monitoring the situation.
"Helm, bring us to the station, and inform the Minerva to follow us, launch Murasames, and inform Captain Gladys to launch her GOUFS, and ZAKUS and let them protect the Gondwana" said Captain Ramius, and soon after the Archangel started heading at full speed towards the station, while her catapults launched a dozen Murasames, which immediately went to the Gondwana, to establish a defensive perimeter.
As the Murasames launched, and the Archangel, and the Minerva moved towards Babylon 5 four more blue whirlwinds appeared over the station, and four vessels came out of the whirlwinds. "Captain four vessels have just appeared, configuration unknown, but they are far larger than the Earth Alliance destroyers, and also a smaller vessel has appeared with the other three larger ones" finished the sensors officer, but soon all chatter was finished, as the view screen changed to show a beautiful woman, with long black hair, and a crest bone that went around the back of her head, and separated her hair in two. I am Delenn, representative of the Mimbari, Babylon 5 is under our protection, Earth Alliance fleet, you will immediately leave this area or be destroyed said Delenn, and all the crew where stunned by the courage of this woman.
Negative, Babylon 5 is Earth Alliance sovereign territory, and we will not retreat from it sounded the speakers of the Archangel, but this time it was the voice of the captain of the Earth Alliance fleet.
Afterwards the crew of the Archangel expected Delenn's answer, and where not disappointed Only one human has ever defeated us, and he is behind me, you are in front of me said Delenn.
"Captain the four new vessels are powering weapons" informed the sensors officer of the Archangel, but no sooner had he finished this, that the all the crew saw how the fish like ships seemed to explode.
"What happened?" asked captain Ramius, and the crew got to work on finding an answer, even as they got into combat range.
Finally it was the sensors officer who answered "captain, those ships seemed to be equipped with some kind of Neutron based weapon, when they tried to charge them, the capacitors must have been unable to find enough Neutrons due to our N-Jammers, and thus overloaded" finished the sensors officer, and all of them understood, that they had been responsible for that turn of events.
"There is nothing we can do now, inform the Minerva to follow us, and defend Babylon 5" ordered the captain, and a series of ayes where heard on the bridge of the small ship. "Also open a channel to Babylon 5" ordered Murrue Ramius, and immediately the screen burst into life with the image of a very unhappy looking John Sheridan.
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"Captain, the Mimbari War-cruisers have been disabled" yelled the sensors officer of Babylon 5 C&C, and immediately after that captain Sheridan turned to look at her.
"Show me" said Captain John Sheridan in a very quiet, but very threatening tone, and soon his main screen changed to show the figures of three Mimbari Sharlin War-cruisers with fires all over them, and a huge number of their weapons in flames. "How did this happen?" asked John Sheridan, trying to make sense of what he was seeing, for it made no sense for all most of the weapons on three of the most powerful, advanced, and reliable vessels traveling in space to simply explode without a reason.
"Unknown captain, but the interference from those two vessels is still active" informed the sensors officer, and continued working on her instruments.
Soon the communications officer made an announcement "Captain, the leading vessel of the unidentified group is hailing us, shall we receive?" asked the officer, and awaited a reply.
"On screen, they may have some answers" said Captain Sheridan, and after a few seconds the screen once again showed the figure of a middle aged woman with deep brown hair.
Captain Sheridan, this is Captain Murrue Ramius of the United Earth Alliance Freedom Treaty warship Archangel, we are moving in to help, please tell your forces not to fire at our vessels said Murrue Ramius over the communications channel.
However Captain Sheridan was no convinced by her words, even though they had taken out one Earth Alliance destroyer by themselves, he still had doubts about what this group could do, and she had mentioned that she belonged to an 'Earth Alliance'. "Captain, I have no reason to-"started John Sheridan, but was immediately stopped.
Captain, you are outnumbered at least three to one, and you do not even match tonnage at that said Murrue Ramius over the channel, and this got John Sheridan very angry.
"You don't match the tonnage either, and besides, what could you possibly do!" yelled John Sheridan over the intercom, but Murrue Ramius seemed not to be fazed by this.
Do not let our size fool you captain was all she said, and immediately Murrue Ramius closed the channel leaving a very angry looking John Sheridan staring at nothing, and hoping for a miracle.
"I can't believe that woman, what could she possibly do?" asked John Sheridan to no one in particular, while the rest of the crew continued defending the space station, which rocked as it was hit by a non intercepted bolt. "Give the order to the Alexander and the White Star to not fire on those vessels, but they are not to support them" said John Sheridan.
However the communications officer was not sure he heard right "Captain?' asked the officer, not entirely sure if he heard the captain right.
"You heard me, now carry on" said John Sheridan, and again restrained himself from falling to the floor, as the station once again rocked, this time harder, and only hoped he was making the right decision, as the comms officer relayed his orders.
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"Delenn, the Earther vessels are turning around, and preparing to fire on Babylon 5" informed one of the crew members of the White Star.
Unfortunately Delenn was still very shocked from the way their vessels had been disarmed, she could still not believe it –The three Sharlin's had barely began to charge their weapons, when suddenly they had exploded, how could this, what could this possibly happened?- but suddenly the White Star shook from the blasts of the Earth Alliance fleet, and Delenn was brought from her reverie. "Get us in on those destroyers, and lets make this a short fight as possible" said Delenn, as the White Star raced towards the Earth destroyers, blazing with all guns.
"Delenn, I am detecting three vessels, two are roughly the size of an Earth Alliance corvette, and the other one is bigger, than a Shargoti" exclaimed the sensors officer, and once again recomposed himself from the one weapons blast.
"Who are they, can we get a visual?" ordered Delenn, and immediately the holographic screen came to life, and displayed was a vessel, which seemed to have two legs, and a half moon at the back where the engines where, and two large struts stood at the side, of the ship, and behind that one another came very fast this one however looked like the cross between a whale, and a bow, with a large front, and huge wings at it's side, facing the Earth Alliance vessels ominously. As Delenn studied the image, first vessels legs seemed to open at their bottom part, and from there two cannons appeared, and on the upper part of the legs two more turrets appeared, each with two cannons each, and they faced the Earth Alliance warships, which seemed to pay them no attention, and the later vessel opened up the one of the front hatches, and from it came one huge ominous looking cannon, and further back a triple cannon turret appeared, and faced the Earth Alliance Warships.
"Delenn, Babylon 5 is ordering us to not fire on the unidentified ships, but also not to aid them" said the communications officer of the White Star, and looked at Delenn.
Delenn thought this over, but could not find a reason s to why they would give that order, but then she saw them, six figures, which looked like some kind of giant humanoid machines, and for the love of Valen, she could not believe what they where doing.
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"Rey, Kira and Cagalli, take on the enemy fighters" said Athrun to his companions on their Mobile Suits, as he got close to the combat area followed by Cagalli, Kira, Rey, Shinn, and Lunamaria "Lunamaria, Shinn and I will take care of the warships.
"Understood" said Rey Za Burrell emotionlessly from his Legend Gundam, and moved to join the Strike Freedom.
"Got it" said Kira Yamato, and formed up with Rey, and Cagalli.
"Very well, Lunamaria let's go" said Shinn Asuka from his Destiny, as he accelerated to the nearest vessel, a massive 1200 M long warship.
"Right" said Lunamaria Hawke over the communications system, and Destiny and the Saviour Mk.2 moved closer to the battle.
As the six Gundams approached the engagement zone they where met by several Starfuries from the Earth Alliance destroyers, and a massive fight broke out in space.
Together the Strike Freedom, and the Legend Gundams released their DRAGOON turrets, and started destroying fighters as they went by, cutting a path for the Infinite Justice, the Destiny, and the Saviour, which was in Mobile Armor mode
The Akatsuki moved on it's own towards a pack of enemy fighters, which fired numerous shots at the Akatsuki, but where whipped out by their own fire, as it was returned to them, and cut them to pieces.
"Lunamaria, follow me in" said Shinn Asuka, as he accelerated even further, and evaded the numerous bolts fired it's way, or if it couldn't it engaged it's shield generators, and stopped the incoming bolts all together.
"Alright" said Lunamaria, as she maneuvered her Saviour through the enemy fire.
"We are almost there" mentioned Athrun Zala, as the huge vessel came into striking distance, and he immediately separated his Gundam from its backpack, and rammed the warship, but it didn't explode, instead before impacting the beam cannon changed with the retractable micro beams, and the backpack of the Infinite Justice continued through the ship, and exited through the other side of the ship, and it was soon joined by its possessor, who had carved the upper part of the ship in two with his shield carried beam boomerang.
Meanwhile the Destiny got to the lower part of the ship, and between the two of them they cleanly cut the engine section of the Hyperion cruiser, and another vessel was left out of commission.
As this happened the Minerva, and the Archangel got to the battle, and fired their Positron Beam cannons, the Minerva to one of the Omega destroyers, and the Archangel at the second Hyperion destroyer. The beam of anti-matter energy fired from the Minerva cleanly sliced the entire Omega destroyer from bow to stern, and the vessel exploded, lost with all hands, while the two blasts of positron energy from the Archangel caught the Hyperion at the engine section, and completely evaporated the engine section, leaving only the front section drifting in space.
As this finished one of the three remaining Earth Alliance destroyers turned to engage the Archangel and the Minerva, and as the main guns moved to bear on the two vessels they opened fire, bright crimson beams of energy fired from the main guns of the destroyer, and tried to destroy the two tiny vessels, but as the beams stopped, the two vessels where still in place, and without a single scratch.
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"What happened?" asked the captain of the Earth Alliance destroyer, which was currently engaging the two small vessels that had just destroyed an Omega destroyer, and a Hyperion heavy cruiser with one shot.
"Unknown sir, the beams hit the vessels, but apparently nothing happened, I cannot understand it captain" informed the sensors officer, and continued working on her console.
"Very well, target them again, and keep firing" said the captain, worried of what might happen, but no sooner had he given the order, that the destroyer was rocked by a powerful impact, but before the captain could day anything, or ask any question, the whole bridge became silent, as a giant blue, red and white humanoid machine appeared in front of them, and aimed at them with a huge gun, and fired, completely destroying the entire bridge, and damaging systems all the way to the middle of the ship.
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"Shinn, that destroyer is attacking the Archangel and the Minerva" said Athrun Zala from the Infinite Justice, as he destroyed another of the Earth forces fighters, and moved in closer to the destroyer in question.
For his part Shinn Asuka was almost to the destroyer, when it fired at the Archangel, and both Shinn Asuka and Athrun Zala saw the crimson beams at they splashed against the shields of the Archangel, and the Minerva, but doing no damage to the warships. Immediately after the beams ended the Destiny Gundam reached the Destroyer, and using its high-energy long range beam cannon destroyed the portside heavy cannon on the destroyer, and saw how the huge ship was rocked by the explosion, and wasting no time it went to the front of the ship where the bridge was, and again fired its main cannon, and saw how the vessel was left adrift., with its main nerve center gone.
"Lets go Shinn, there is nothing more here" said Athrun Zala, and moved the Infinite Justice towards the two remaining destroyers, which where moving towards the gate.
"Right" said Shinn, and afterwards the Destiny also moved to the remaining destroyers.
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"Delenn, two of the Earth destroyers, and the two cruisers have been destroyed" said the sensors officer on the White Star, as the white star maneuvered to get out of the way of the beams of one of the remaining Earth Alliance destroyers.
"But, that is impossible, only the first ones have that kind of firepower!" exclaimed Delenn, as she turned to look at the sensors officer, disbelief written all over her face, but as she turned again to look at the battle area, she saw that indeed the charred remains of the mentioned ships where drifting lifelessly through space. However her surprise was quickly overcome, as she saw that one of the three remaining destroyers turned to look at the two small vessels, and fired at them, and Delenn thought that must have been the end of the vessels, but as the explosion subsided she was surprised to see the two vessels completely unharmed.
Suddenly however one of the humanoid machines closed in with the Earth destroyer, and fired with a gun, that completely blew of the heavy weapon of the Earth destroyer, and with a speed that Delenn could not believe it moved to the front of the Earth destroyer, and again fired with its gun, and blew off the entire bridge, and a large part of the internal structure of the Earth destroyer, that immediately began to drift in space, with its power fluctuating. "Impossible, no vessel that small that is not of the first ones has that much power" said Delenn in a voice of complete disbelief, but the evidence was in front of her. "Delenn, the two remaining destroyers are making a run for the Jump Gate, and are opening their missile tubes" said the sensors officer once again, and the view screen now changed to the missile silos of the Earth Alliance vessels, which where opening, and immediately fired a four missiles, at the new vessels.
All on the bridge saw the missiles, and how they moved towards the small vessels, which would not survive the blast, and silently said a prayer for the souls of the poor men and women of the ships. But as the missiles impacted with the shields there was a small explosion, but not a nuclear reaction, and all of them where stunned by what had happened "Delenn the missiles impacted the unknown ships, but they did not explode" informed the sensors officer once again.
"That is impossible, there is no way to stop a nuclear reaction once it has began" said Delenn thinking out loud, and saw how the blue whirlwind of energy that was the signature of an entry jump opened at the jump gate, and the two Earth Alliance destroyer left the battle area, but no fighters left with them.
"Delenn, transmission from Babylon 5" informed the communications officer, and waited for Delenn orders.
"Open the channel" and soon enough the main view screen changed to show captain Sheridan looking at Delenn.
All ships make a perimeter around Babylon 5, we have other matters to attend informed John Sheridan, and looked worried.
Now it was Delenn's turn to speak "John, who are those new people?" asked Delenn in a very worried voice.
I don't know, but I intend to find out finished John Sheridan, and closed the channel, leaving Delenn with only questions and no answers.
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"Captain, the two destroyers are leaving" informed the sensors officer of the Archangel, as he studied his instruments.
"Very well, contact our pilots, and have them make a defensive perimeter around the Archangel and Minerva, we are not out of this one yet people" said Captain Ramius, and prepared herself to battle the people that where still left out there.
"Captain, incoming transmission from Babylon 5, shall I patch it through" asked Miriallia Haww from her position as the communications officer.
"Yes, let's hear them out" said Murrue Ramius, and shortly afterwards the face of John Sheridan appeared on the screen.
This is Captain John Sheridan of Babylon 5 started John Sheridan to speak, and Murrue Ramius, and the whole crew prepared for the worst.
TBC