Chapter 3

Of Romulan's and worm holes

"Captains Log stardate 52202 it has been two days since I took command of the Illustrious, we have rendezvoused with the USS starcroft an old Sydney class of starship. Both federations vessels have stayed cloaked waiting for something to happen, and yet, nothing has. I take this time to look at my new rank of commodore, now only used in times of war, and rarely at this, and of course in special ops. The alterations made to my old ship have brought her back to me and also made her once again one of the finest ships of the fleet. Although from the outside she looks like an aging ship, looks can be deceiving"

As both ships slowly followed the freighter, the Astex scanned the area for any anomalies, to which none were found.

For another hour both ships shadowed the starcroft one above her and one below waiting for the attacker to show it self, they didn't have to wait long.

"Sir?" the ensign at ops called, "Sir we have just gained a sensor lock of something that has just dropped out of warp at the far range of our sensors, it should be within weapons range within a few minuets"

"What can you tell me about this reading ensign?"

"If it were not for the new borg enhanced sensors we wouldn't be able to detect the anomalies yet"

Nathan looked at the readings coming through to his station, then he spoke "Red alert, stay cloaked wait until the ship commences hostile actions then when the Astex de-cloaks and starts to engage, we can take readings before we close the box around them and take them down."

"Agreed Commodore" the commander said as she looked at her displays on her console.

The starcroft was a nothing more then an old troop transport, but it had found its use here as bait for a trap, a trap that had now sprung into action.

The starcroft was at half impulse speed as space distorted and a Romulan vessel de-cloaked, it was a Valdore-class bird of pray. It was sleeker then its predecessors, but this ship looked like a sheer predator.

"Sir" the commander spoke cautiously, "I believe this vessel is a Valdore class bird of pray"

The ship swooped down towards the starcroft and opened fire; its shields shimmered as weapons fire stabbed towards it pray.

With that the Astex de-cloaked behind the Romulan ship and opened fired with its phasers, instantly the Romulan vessel took evasive manoeuvres to try and evade the attacking star ship. Once again the Starcrost's shields flared up as weapons fire hit home, but this time they failed as some of the weapons fire hit home on the transport ship, as hull fractures opened up, and the ship lost all power drifting dead in space.

"Commander open a channel to the Romulan vessel"

"Romulan vessel this is Commodore Nathan Rothchild……"

As he spoke, the Romulan vessel opened up with everything it had towards the Astex, which shields started to flare up, it returned fire instantly with all phasres punching at the shields trying to find a way through.

"Commander" Nathan said calmly, "Drop cloak raise shields and take us in, red alert"

As the cloak dropped on the second ship, the weapons fire started to feed towards the Illustrious, then abruptly it stopped firing."

"Commander report why have they stopped shooting?"

"At this point sir, I have no……wait, there's a large energy build up within the vessel."

"Signal the Astex and get her to back away and deploy her armour"

"Deploy our armour and back us away from that ship now."

"Aye sir" the replay came

With that the Illustrious's Armour encapsulated the ship, she then started slowly to back away, as space around the Romulan vessel started to shimmer almost as if the ship were trying to cloak. Then the vessel exploded in a bright flash of light, before either set of crew could react, the explosion contracted in on it self, this started to form a tight vortex, a vortex that started to grown outwards in its wake a gradational well began to have an effect on all three vessels. Pulling them within seconds into the event horizon and into oblivion?

As fast as the vortex had been formed it blinked out of excitants leaving only a small scout ship that had been watching from a safe distant, on board the command looked at the other Romulan and spoke, "The new weapon seems to have had a catastrophic failure."

"Agreed, the point singularity weapon tore the ships own power source apart and in effect, made an unstable but effective black hole of sorts, a very effective self destruct device, the high command must be informed immediately"
With that the vessel cloaked, then jumped to warp towards Romulan space leaving nothing but a small amount of debris.