The Dominion fighters had dropped out of warp less than 5000 kilometres from the New Republic/Federation fleets and were already moving into attack formations.
On the bridge of the Mon Remonda it was hectic activity, General Solo and Captain Shakran both giving out orders.
Mon Remonda:
"Launch all fighters, and relay that order to all ships", General Solo said."Under the circumstance captain i think its best for you to return to Enterprise," he said to Picard, turning away from the communications station. Picard nodded and said,"You're right, let's give the Dominion something to think about." He gave the General a nod and tapped his combadge, "Enterprise, one to beam aboard, directly to the bridge." Over the com he heard Commander Riker, "Aye sir, beaming you aboard now," and Picard vanished in front of everyone. Even if they had seen it happen a few times since the day of first contact they were still amazed.
Mon Calamari Cruiser Sovereign:
Captain Hekrr stood on the bridge of the Sovereign, the bridge being a frenzy of activity. "Launch all fighters and put us on a course alongside the Federation's weakest ships.
The Sovereign turned slowly, away from Earth and started disgorging fighters. All around it the other New Republic capital ships did the same.
"Sir, we have incoming torpedoes,"said the sensor operator "2000 kilometres and closing fast". Captain Hekrr turned to the communications officer in charge of the communications to their fighters and said," Tell Shadow squadron to intercept those torpedoes,"then said out loud, "and open fire with our turbo lasers ."
Shadow Squadron:
"Ok boys and girls,"the squadron commander said as they had stopped all the torpedoes," lets show these people what Shadow Squadron can do", Commander Danas, a human male from Commenor said to his B-wing squadron over the squadron's channel. "We've been assigned to attack one of the fighters, however even though it has a designation of a fighter its 95 meters long. Alright, s-foils to attack position and break and attack."
USS Enterprise:
Captain Picard watched the view screen as Enterprise came around, he saw all ships close by doing the same manoeuvre, the Federation,Klingon and Romulan a little faster than the New Republics ships, but as soon as the Calamari Cruiser Sovereign came around and opened up with its turbo lasers and saw the pounding the first Dominion fighters took he realized that the New Republic were indeed a powerful ally.
"New contact Captain, at 200.000 kilometres, scanners say its a Jem'Hadar battle cruiser", the ensign at the science station said. Picard thought for a few seconds and then said, "Open a channel to Mon Remonda." After a few seconds the face of General Solo appeared on the screen. "Yes Captain Picard?" he said , Picard wasted no time, "General,we've detected a Jem'Hadar battle cruiser 200.000 kilometres out, it has powerful weapons so we cant let it come too close to the shipyards or the Wormhole." General Solo smiled and said "Say no more captain, we'll take care of it". With the communication to Enterprise still open Solo said on his bridge "Communications, order the Night Star and the Majestic to break off and jump to those coordinates". He got confirmation that the ships had received the order and Picard saw on his screen that a Imperial class Star Destroyer and a Mon Calamari cruiser broke off from the engagement and made a micro jump towards the battle cruiser. As they dropped out of hyperspace they came up on either side of the battle cruiser and opened up with their ion cannons. The Jem'hadar was completely surprised with the micro jump and barely got of shots as the ion cannon fire neutralized the ship. Within a few minutes the ship started drifting and a Iwo Jima class ship came up between Night Star and Majestic and started beaming troops on board.
15 minutes later the Jem'hadar battle cruiser was being towed to the Space dock orbiting earth. By that time all the other Jem'hadar fighters had been destroyed, over 35 of them by New Republic ships.
New Republic Nebulon-B Frigate Thunderchild:
Captain Rhaska, walked the bridge of the Thunderchild when suddenly an alarm sounded. Before he could open his mouth to ask what was happening 3 columns appeared out of thin air, which they now knew as transporter. Before they could react the 3 columns materialized into Jem'hadar soldiers.
Mon Remonda:
A sensor officer noticed a ship of cardassian design materialize next to the Thunderchild, but before he could alert anyone Thunderchild started moving away. "General Solo," he exclaimed, for a moment forgetting the chain a message should be passed on. General Solo, noticing the seriousness in the lieutenants voice turned and asked "What is it lieutenant?", he walked over to stand behind the chair. As he looked on the sensor screen he saw the Thunderchild moving and asked, "What is Captain Rhaska doing?" No sooner had he said that and the Frigate went to light speed.
5 hours later at Star Fleet Headquarters, San Francisco:
Admiral Paris was chairing the session and stood up. "It has come to my attention that the Dominion have stolen a frigate belonging to our new ally and our sensors detected it dropping out of its hyper drive, just outside our solar system, where it was met by a force of Dominion ships and then towed out of the system", he looked down at General Solo that nodded back and stood up. He stood uncomfortably in his generals uniform, he had never liked it. Walking up to the podium he looked out over the room. He took a small remote and pointed it at a New Republic holo emitter on the table. The holo showed the Nebulon B frigate Thunderchild. "This is the Thunderchild, it was under the command of Captain Rhaska, a Mon Calamari. As far as we can tell, a small shuttle of de-cloaked inside the hangar bay, from there we don't know what happened but it appears that it was filled with Jem'Hadar soldiers." This was bad news for the Federation, knowing that the Dominion had gotten their hand on superior technology.
He pointed the remote again at the holo emitter and up came a picture of Task Force Wraith and Beta, over 60 ships
"The theft and possible murder of our crew forces us to respond, we will bring 2 of the remaining 3 task forces through, leaving Task Force Rogue to secure the wormhole", the remaining task force came up, and many of the admirals gasped at the size of the Lusankya.
Admiral Paris took the podium as Han stepped down. "Thank you for your contribution, and i hope on behalf of the Federation and its allies that we find your frigate and its crew alive and well. Now on to how we're going to fight back, General Kragh, if you please."
Orbit of Jupiter, 12 hours later:
The orbit of Jupiter was busy, ships were flying around, the New Republic shipyard had been towed there, and so was 2 of the 3 task forces in the Alpha quadrant, Han Solo's Alpha and Lando Calrissian's Beta task force. The last task force, Wraith was taking up the defence of Earth.
Around all the Star Destroyers in both task forces Klingon Bird of Preys and 6 Negh'var cruisers de-cloaked, they manoeuvred into position to dock to the hull of 3 Imperial Class Star Destroyers, 2 Victory class destroyers and the Interdictor "Corusca Net". Once docked to the hull they re-cloaked, leaving the Destroyers looking as normal. In the hangar bay of the Star Destroyer Crynyd a federation ship docked, moored to the inside with cables, it was the U.S.S Defiant, it also cloaked.
On the bridge of the Mon Remonda, General Solo was in a conference with the commanders of the Klingon,Romulan and Federation task forces coming on the mission. In all there were 20 Romulan ships,46 Klingon ships, and 60 Federation ships in addition to the New Republic task forces.
"Now that Earth is more defended it is time to take the fight to the Dominion," Han Solo said, looking out over the assembled commanders, Picard was represented in the Federation's delegation, his ship would lead the Federation in the fight."Captain?" he said to Picard and sat down as the federation captain took over. "We've learned that Vulcan is still fighting the Dominion, we thought they were over run by the Jem'Hadar, but it appears that both Vulcan and its shipyards is protected by the same we have at Earth, fleets of Federation,Klingon and Romulan ships cut off from their home planets, our first mission is to reinforce them and set up an extensive defence."
Vulcan:
Captain Richard Morgan of the Akira class ship Rabin, were tired, they fired a volley of torpedo on a Jem'Hadar Battlecruiser, veering off as they returned fire. They had been had hit and fade attacks on the system for weeks and both the Federation crews and its allies were exhausted.
"Captain, i got sensor contacts", the words had barely left the lieutenants mouth as the Battlecruiser erupted in a big explosion. "Holy smoke, what was that", Morgan said as the ship shook. The viewscreen changed and 6 wedge shaped ships began firing on the remaining Jem'hadar. Behind the ships more ships dropped out of warp, Federation, Klingon and Romulan. Captain Morgan smiled, turning to the helm officer he said, "Mr Eke, lets join the party shall we".