Call of Friendship

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Author's note: Sorry I took so long to update, I have a million things going on. Thank you to everyone who reviewed.

Susan tilted the glass to her lips as she was commanded to by Neroon. Surprisingly, he had insisted on being to one to lead her through the Entil'zah ceremony. The ceremony making her vice president had been a few days ago. She wore on her right hand now a gold ring with the seal of the Alliance and her personal seal as vice president. Her alliance uniform had been traded in for a long black skirt, turtle neck and black cloak that swept her ankles. Now Neroon said, " I declare you Entil'zah of the Anlashok and took the Ranger pin, one of the nine of Valen's and pinned it to her cloak.

Of the next few hours she remembered a general air of festivity and an odd detachment from it, Marcus should have been the one in her place right now. As if sensing what she was thinking, John and Delenn showed up around her and dragged her away to join the party.

Days later she was on a deserted moon, with a few of her rangers. It was night and they were surrounding a holding area of their enemy. She lead the approach. At the door, she hesitated, drawing a deep breath and letting it out, she stood back and with her gun, fired at the control panel, causing the doors to fly open. She ran in first followed by twenty or so figures in black.

She looked around, they had not set off the alarms. She was in a corridor filled with doors, which one. She looked at them all carefully and on gut instinct started running forward to one on the right, slightly older looking than the others. This door 's lock seemed more out dated. a perfect ruse, no one would think anything worthwhile to be in there. She stopped again, if she was wrong, they were sure to be captured. What was it Marcus used to say, if I fall, another will take my place, right. She aimed her gun and blew the door open and rushed in, Marcus' dennbok in hand, now hers.

They had fairly good proof that the enemy intended to wage a biochemical war which could take out whole planets. Inside the room was a guard of about 30 crowded around computers. From what she knew of science, this was clearly some research lab, more than likely a lab for chemical weapon development, if the diagrams were any indication. She didn't have much time to think about this though. The enemy was not too pleased to be disturbed. They reached to pull out weapons much more advanced than the door. She and her rangers gave them no time. Taking down their leader with a complicated maneuver with the dennbok by swing it over her right shoulder, bringing it around her left to hit the man in the head she ordered the Anloshak with her to neutralize the threat.

With in five minutes, the battle was over. Half of her anloshak began to cuff the enemy and take them onto the White Star to take back to Mimbar for interrogation. John. Delenn, Lyta, David had returned to Mimbar and Stephen and Michael were joining them to continue the work with the Alliance. She began in a hurried way gathering the data and materials there, giving them a cursory glance. As her eyes scanned the papers, she yelled at the Anloshak to hurry. They quickly gathered everything there and took it back to the White Star.

That evening Susan sat in her office on the ship looking through the papers with the top Rangers, looking to completely understand the problem. It seemed that the aliens had already planned a biological attack against Narn, for three days later.

As they organized the data they sent it to Stephen, with Susan emphasizing the need for speed by staying awake all night in communication with Stephen who with the data available battled to find a cure if they failed.

Already a small fleet was on its way to rendez vous with them the next day, eight ships to make a total of nine, all at full readiness as she ordered at full speed to Narn. Susan was in a dilemma, she couldn't warn the Narn government lest the enemy find out they knew, but the area around Narn was filled with civilians and there had to be a way to move them, before it was too late. She knew this was her call, John couldn't help her. Even if they started moving now, there was no way everyone could be evacuated and civilians in evacuation ships were easy targets.

Finally, in desperation she contacted G'Kar, who took her call obviously having been just roused from bed. She apologized and hesitantly began. " G'Kar, do you remember during the war how we had to keep the white star fleet quiet even though it could have possibly helped your people?"

" Yes," he understood this was serious and had pulled on a robe.

" G'Kar, we are two days from Narn, in about that time there is going to be a biological attack on Narn. My Rangers and I have been looking into possible scenarios, we can fight the enemy in space, near Narn instead of on the planet, but the people are in danger. You need to evacuate. The rest of the fleet is coming together but they are far away, you will have to put people underground, in bomb shelters whatever, if you are going to evacuate, you need to do it now, they can't be in the area when we are fighting."

G' Kar took it fairly well and began giving orders to his people, quickly cutting off the transmission. Susan hissed with anger, she hated cowards who went after the weak. She wished there was something more to be done. She looked at the strategy maps, where she was planning the attack to see who was near Narn. Seeing the obvious answer she sighed in frustration and taking a deep breath contacted Emperor Mollari.

Forty five hours later things were coming together. The underground tunnels on Narn could provide safe haven for sixty percent of the population. However, the other forty was vulnerable, until Londo agreed to help, all Narn transports, commercial and otherwise were evacuating that 40 percent to Centauri Prime, where they were guests of the emperor, housing being arranged for them. Londo had sent as many ships as he had to bring back evacuees as had the Alliance. Other governments with ships to spare were sending them and Susan had just received word that the last of the evacuees had left Narn and the others were safe underground. All the people involved in this had used the highest security and secure channels. The enemy still didn't know their plan. She was expecting them at any hour.

Suddenly, a break in hyperspace as a good fifty ships came out. Susan had managed to get together thirty ships, but they were vastly out numbered. The next few hours were a haze in Susan's mind, just like the hours at mars when she was injured. All she remembered was exploding ships and her voice coming up with brilliant maneuvers. Hours later, the enemy was limping, but not defeated. They withdrew, having lost the chemicals they intended to use, which had been destroyed, but with the ability to make more.

Susan looked around the chaos to survey their losses. They had lost 10 ships, to the enemy's twenty five. The other white stars began clean up and medical care as League ships began to join them. Susan eased herself down on the bridge and put her face in her hands.

Author's note: I might make this a long story talking about the whole war which will stretch over many years. Please read and review.