Call of Friendship
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The ships were assembled. These days the alien races were actually cooperating, so there was enough aid. The centauri ships served as medlabs, the Narn and Mimbari as evacuation and the League ships were the fighters to protect all these ships. This freed the White Stars to fight. They would go in first. David was sent to one of the Mimbari ships because the White Star they were one would lead the some hundred White Star fleet to battle, behind them would come the others. The area they were near was a Drazi mining colony, one that housed not only 2000 miners, but their families. Luckily, all of the population was in five concentrated areas, where shuttles were being sent to gather the people and take them to the ships.
To do this, they must fight off the enemy, who would not want any survivers. They were evenly numbered. Black, horrible legged things that still appeared in some of Susan's dreams. As was her plan, the fleet split into four sections, surrounding the enemy. As always, she let the enemy fire the first shot, but after that she did not back down, any one else and she would have been more merciful, but she knew who this was, she knew they had to be destroyed. The next hours were a blood bath. The way Susan set up the fleet, the way she had them fight, every ship had someone else watching their back, so the were harder to hit. Besides, they were more maneuverable. It took them an hour, but the Mimbari and Narn ships were able to get all the civilians off the planet and away from the fighting. Half the League guard went with them while the other half stayed with the centauri ships , which were filling up with those whose ships were being destroyed. Two League ships had sacrificed themselves to protect the civilians and 3 of the White Star fleet had been destroyed, the life pods with injured going to the Centauri. The enemy had lost 10 ships so far, and had made no effort to save their wounded. Susan did not let up one bit, no surrender, no retreat, and for this enemy, no mercy. She ordered the ship to engage enemy flag ship.
In the middle of the fighting the two ships weaved in and out, the enemy fleeing, them pursuing. Lyta was straining to get a lock on Sheridan's position, as they destroyed the enemy weapons and navigation but were unable to take out the ship without Lyta finishing, several tense moments they nearly lost the ship before Lyta snapped out of her trance, her pupils returning to normal size as she said, " Got it."
Susan ordered the flag ship destroyed. After that the fighting went on for another hour before the enemy retreated. The White Star Fleet lost 5 ships, and the League 4 ships, the enemy lost 25, plus there flag ship. It was a decisive victory. Also, Susan was pleased to hear, there were only 10 fatalities for their fleet, though many injuries.
The Centauri ships collected the wounded, and with their guard left. The White Star Fleet gathered debris, made recordings and left. They left last. As Lyta returned to normal, she told Susan that John was being held in the former No Man's Land between Narn and Centauri Space. Because it had been no mans land for so long, it was not well known. He was being held on a small moon.
The Fleet needed to repair and recover, and she needed a place to plan. Susan split the Fleet in two, sending the larger section to Mimbar, for repair and taking the smaller section, for the same reason to Babylon 5.