Chapter 13

'Situation Report'

Minerva Battlegroup

Captain Talia Gladys is rushing towards the bridge as alert sirens blared throughout the ship. Still her mind is partly preoccupied on that very weird dream she just had with Judah.

'Judah, what do you mean by 'Your Earth' and 'The Rain of Death' I don't understand and,…and' Talia stop for a moment as thought came in mind and the feel in her mouth made her realized something

"THAT JERK!!!!'" she shouted out loud where everyone just stop to look at their captain confusing and her not noticing their look of confusion

'That kiss in a hentai form of way, the visions of a devastated Earth that was disturbing…that kiss in a hentai sort of way…his hands snaking my bare skin to somewhere between my lee,..WHATT THE HELL!!!' she shook her head to get those thoughts off her mind and gave her a slap on her cheeks

"Wake up Talia! Get a grip of yourself for this is not the time to have such wet dream fantasies of…of" she soon realized that her crew is looking at her blushing, after hearing the words 'wet dreams' coming out of her mouth is most embarrassing.

"To your Stations, NOW!!" she shouted orderingly and they ran to their post as she ordered

She sighs heavily as she had just embarrassed herself in front of her crew like that. Yet the thought of that dream have put a little pink in her cheeks and a bit of confusion whether shed be disgusted or not, and at the same time, she feels that it was sweet of him thinking about her, then feels that hair all over her body stood up as the idea of Judah is most likely, fantasizing about her.

UNS Sojourner Truth
Hangar Bays, Zero-G Section

In the Cockpit of a new VF-19 Excalibur, Lt. Judah Ashta woke up from the blare of alarms. Judah fell asleep inside the fighter after an exhausting day he had, fell asleep inside the cockpit not realizing that the fighters 'Man and Machine Interface was partially on and receiving thoughts from Judah. His thoughts were of home and her parents working the land for life to live again, which it seems to be in everyone's mind right now.

In Judah thoughts it was no different, though he never expected to see Captain Talia Gladysin his dreams.

"Now that was really weird, seeing her in that kind of dreams and all," he heave a sigh 'Mann! Am I really that hung over about her that I kept seeing her in my dream like that,' the images of him kissing her brought a smile and she seems to be startled for a moment then settled down and enjoyed the kiss and before he knows it, his hands was doing something else but was abruptly cut off

'She must have like having my tongue in her mouth, 'Chuckle' still its really different than the other dreams I have about her…starting fully clothed and all, wonder why?' he thought and brushing it by the side and deactivated the VF-19 Inertial dampeners systems. He was about to get off when he noticed that the fighters interface is partly open and immediately turned it off before floating out of the bay and see what was happening.

Judah had no idea that two persons have just got connected in a dream

Minbari Sharlin
Blackstar

Minbari crew starts to awaken from the Spacefold of the Sparrow just under an hour. Minbari, though they are physically strong and durable from humans, they do have weaknesses, and one of which is their brains neural pathways that at times produces some telepathic abilities or sensitivity thanks to their DNA that carries the telepath gene.

At times telepathic powers would be regarded as a gift or a curse which depends on ones point of view.

Today it's major curse.

It will be later be discovered that, a Space Fold like the ones used by the UN Spacys have a most peculiar electromagnetic radiation signature, that when a Minbari's crystalline armor is exposed to it, the crystal produces a form of alphawave frequency that can be detected by telepathy.

A being with telepathy can hear or read thoughts in the form of Alpha waves and can even influence a person thru sheer will of their thoughts as well. Minbari with full telepathy or latent ones can hear the alphawave broadcast which causes a neural overload in their brain. It's something similar to a Jumbo size stereo loudspeaker with the volume in maximum, or a sonic boom from a supersonic jet doing mach5.

The sudden boom would knock a Minbari unconscious and throw them into a coma, for latent and non telepaths but capable of telepathic hearing, the sudden broadcast will force them to hear it loud and clear.

Branmer woke up with a pool of blood coming out from his nostrils, ears and tear ducts, and he is not the only one. His crew is on the floor swimming in their blood and has started to awaken groggily and weakly from the ordeal.

"Blast these Earthers Scum! What kind of weapon did they use on us?" he shouted angrily as he tiredly pulled himself up near a console and look up to the holoprojections. "Where are we!?"

One of the crew, a RII looks at one of the consoles to asses their situation

"My Lord, navigational systems are offline my Lord" he reported "We have weapons, minimum communications, gravimetric drive and main engines on line, except for our jumpdrive, its offline, My Lord Alyt!!" he shouted at him but his expression is saying

"What did you say? I can't hear you" he shouted as he could not yet hear what his RII saying to him pass the ringing in his ear.

So the RII resorted to showing captions on the screens instead.

Branmer immediately understood and taps on the nearby console

"Then send a Tachyon distress call," Branmer ordered "Hopefully we have not went far" the Rii bowed and went on to sent a message but he discovered that he could not.

"My Alyt! Our tachyon comm is being jammed, short range sensors detect unknown ships are all around us"

"Who are they?" he ask the Rii made a bioscan just as Zaft N-Jammer went up

"My Alyt, our scanners are being blocked by an unknown waveform," just then he sees something familiar and frightening for them "My Lord! Robot fighters are approaching!"

"The Earthers!" Branmer Exclaimed "Damn them! Activate the guns, Fire at will!"

Starship Archangel and Eternal

Flashing out of Warp right in the middle of an already frightened Zaft Fleet and headed towards Messiah location as fighting have just started between Zaft and Minbari forces.

The Two ships now joined by the EAS Lexington that just came out of Warp and joined them. The three ships travel together as more UN Ships appear and joins them and started launching fighter cover

On board the Eternal, Ranma receives a status report from the UNS Hawaii's Captain Fa Yuiry

"So far we have jammed their tachyon communications which they can't send their location to the others. But now the Minbari's is firing at anything around them and Zaft forces are retaliating"

"What's Zaft situation Fa?"

"Not good I'm afraid, Admiral" she replied "Their weapons are just barely making a dent on them" she show a scan on the Minbari ships engaging Zaft "Minbari armor is over 12 meters thick Poly Crystalline with a layer of gravitic shielding, Zaft beam guns doesn't have enough punching power to make a dent on their armor, and it looks like they have a far better anti-mecha weapons systems that Zaft Mobile Suits can't get close enough to make any discernable damage," just then, flashes of nuclear explosion of the fusion based type, annihilated several Zaft ships and forcing others to pull back

"Nuclear ordinance, fusion type 5 kiloton yields!" Dacosta reported

"Admiral, Zaft are taking a beating" Yuiry said

"Stand by for further orders"

"Aye Sir"

Ranma opens up tactical and see the situation ahead of them and sees that the Minbari had no qualms in firing nukes against anything that's a threat and less than a million kilometers away from Messiah is Armor 1 colony. He sees that the Minbari and Centauri ships is in a defensive sphere position around Messiah and it seems that a Sharlin crashed into the space fortress and they trying to pull the ship out of it. Zaft forces are converging towards Messiah and some are on an intercept course to several UN Ships and most likely will regard them as a hostile threat.

The UN Battlefleet is now in formation behind the Eternal another Fleet, 'Alpha Strike' is forming up at the opposite side. Both fleet is in a pincer and is readying to strike at the enemy before them.

"Open a line throughout the UN Spacys EA and Zaft line of communication." He ordered

"Aye Sir" replied the comm. officer

"Attention, this is Admiral Ranma Saotome of the United Nations Spacys, Robotech Expeditionary Forces on board the Zaft Starship Eternal" he begin and throughout the EA and ZAFT forces listens "I and my forces that are appearing to you now is here to challenge the threat that appeared at Messiah Fortress, I would like to request to the leaders of both Zaft and Earth Alliance that you do not fire on any UN Ships before you." he said

"We are not your enemy, so please do not make us one." As the transmission ends, Zaft and EA forces are now receiving data of ship classification of who are friend and foe.

From the Screens of every Zaft and EA forces who are unaware of their existence stops for a moment when they received the broadcast, ships from both sides that are closer, found themselves looking at the huge Heracles and Gloria class ships that are bigger than Zaft's Mobile Suit Carrier GODWANNA and beside them are ships looking like sea based aircraft carriers launching hundreds of fighters while protected by cruisers and destroyers.

A battlefleet of 12 Nazca class ships and 70 Mobile Suits came close to one of the UN Ships and were about to engage them was stop when they see their screens being flooded by hundreds of fighters that suddenly went up to a thousand, a number that even all the Mobile Suits of Zaft can't even equal. Common sense rules in and the Zaft fleet stop just a few hundred meter from a wall of Battloids as their number still went up.

When the Spacys stop launching their fighters, Zaft counted more than 5 thousand fighters in a defensive formation. The Spacys launched a number of VF-11 Thunderbolt, VF-2SS Valkries II, VF-1MS Metal Sirens, hundreds SF-3A Lancer II Space Fighters once slated as a long range unmanned attack fighters, SF-2 Hunter Space Fighter and X-9 Ghost Drones with PPB system, which acts as the VF-1MS and VF-2SS in a support groups of 5 and will acts much like a Dragoons. However, this fighter deployment was only for show and will not engage the Minbari fleet

The ones that will engage them are the Stealth capable fighters already flying towards the Messiah. 50 VF-17 Nightmare and 50 newly the deployed VF-19 Excalibur Squadron, are now headed towards the Minbari fleet first while the rest is in defensive formation, making sure that the Minbari will not leave the battlefield alive.

Cheyenne Mountain
Earth Alliance HQ

Ever since the loss of Joshua and then Heavens Gate, the Earth Alliance needed a new Command and Control Headquarters, building a new one takes time so instead, they reopen and refitted an old Pre-Cosmic Era Air Force Base and with it, the Spacys gave them several gifts.

A Cyclops sensor which gave the alliance a very clear view of the entire earth sphere even thru the N-Jammers interference, they can see every ship and mobile suit movement clearly, and thanks to this, they kept Zaft ships from straying into alliance space and kept the blockade runners who are supporting Blue Cosmos from supplying Daedalus Base.

One particular blockade run was a shuttle that was launched from Orb and headed directly to the moons lunar cities, but as it reach lunar orbit, it suddenly deviated course from its assigned flight plan.

The alliance sent a Drake ship an intercept course. The shuttle refused to respond to any hails and immediately went into afterburners. The Drake chases it and several other EA ships in the vicinity change course on an intercept as well. The EA however, did not get that chance to apprehend them as a UNS Warship appeared from a spacefold in front of it and collided with the shuttle.

Now the EA Command is now occupied in organizing the Space Fleet as they begin sending updated orders to all their commanders of the situation. Their new orders were to assist the UN Spacys, but as they look at their huge Plasma Screens, they find it doubtful that they needed help.

President David Sheridan who was visiting NORAD in an inspection tour was unable to leave when the alert came up, he watch the tactical screens showing one of the UN Spacys Heracles Class ship and from what he understand, that one ship alone carried more than 70 thousand Mobile Suits or Mechas and 13 thousand fighters and transport vessels firepower that is beyond Earth Alliance and Zaft combined capabilities to match.

Looking at how much firepower the Spacys have was worrisome and from the history he has read about them, this was a necessity for them in their side of the galaxy as they continuously fight off alien invaders that try to destroy them.

This show of military might is reason enough for him to make sure that Earth Alliance will continue to have good relations with them and that includes peace with the Plants and Coordinators.

Still there are a few commanders who are a bit suspicious, paranoid even in this display of military power. Though they have known about the UN Spacys, they have little knowledge about them, their strength, location of their powerbase and resources.

Even Zaft has little knowledge except that they have advance technology and powerful weaponry that they do not want to be turned on them. Zaft also believe that the Spacys are the ones manipulating the current events, which resulted unfavorably for Zaft and also for EA Logos and Blue Cosmos. The President disclosure though limited, gives a description of an organization of peacekeepers with the naïve dreams of peace. Of course the Spacys are far from being naïve.

The 100 UN Spacys ships that pop out of nowhere all across Earthspace have started circling the Messiah at a two hundred thousand kilometer range. Moving faster than any known vessels and sending out thousands of fighters.

"This is isn't even a fraction of their military might" the President muttered to himself

Starship Eternal
Launch Bay
Ranma hurried on towards the launch bay and into his VF-4 Lightning III and gave final orders to Dacosta who is following him

"Get the Eternal to Aprillius Seven the moment I launched" he said and ads as he boarded his fighter "Contact Ms. Clyne and inform her that, the Eternal is now a certified 'Starship' and also, tell her that I need her to make a temporary peace treaty with the Plant council, I don't want to have a shoot out with Zaft once we subdued the Minbari"

"Yes Sir!"

As the platform was raised to the launching bay a tech officer floated towards Dacosta and asks him

"Don't you think it's strange that Admiral Saotome is leading the charge himself?"

"It is," Dacosta agreed with him "But you know, the Admiral is an unusual person," Dacosta and the ships crew thought of what they just said

'Unusual? Try weird' Dacosta thought

'The man change to a woman for pete sake's' thought by another

'But you have to admit,' said by one then in chorus

'HIS GIRL SIDE IS GORGEOUS!' which they all agree pervertingly

Ranma felt sudden chills thru his spine as someone made some perverted thoughts about her female body, again. Ranma groans but soon ignored it as he did most of the time.

Immediately after his Lightning was launched, a squadron of Excalibur's in FAST Packs came in formation behind him led by Major Char with a red comet insignia on the wing. The Eternal made a sharp turn as it leaves the pack and headed for the Plants.

By that moment, more multiple nuclear detonations is seen near Messiah to keep the rest of Zaft far from them

"Archangel, Lexington! Alpha Strike! Sound up" he called them thru the secured comm. On his screens are five captains appeared before him

"Situation report, Yuiry?"

"Sir, Zaft forces is keeping their distance, scans indicate 1 Vorchan and 1 Primus are damage, a Tinashi is destroyed by a Nazca ramming their ship at Minbari engine sections and they retaliated against Zaft ships destroying 7 Nazca and 4 Laurasia and dozens of mobile suits"

Looking at his tactical screens, he receives tactical information on the Minbari and that they are forming a circle around Messiah while taking out defensive installations as they try to pry the Sharlin that crash into it. Yuiry continues her report

"They are in a circle formation with a Sharlin at the center and are trying to pull out that other Sharlin off Messiah Fortress and Admiral there is an indication that the Minbari have a problem getting a target lock"

"Explain?"

"Sir, they are doing ranging shot at a distance of five thousand kilometers" she replied

"If they doing ranging shot then, that's because of the ECM interference is disrupting their sensors" he said

"That would be the true sir, but we are not yet using our ECM to disrupt their sensors. It's Zaft N-Jammers" Yuiry report and that peak Ranma curiosity

"N-Jammers interfering with their sensors? Yuiry are you sure"

"Yes Sir, Zaft N-Jammers is interfering on Minbari Scanners somehow, while Minbari Stealth is interfering with Zaft radar targeting systems and now both sides are in close quarter visual battle," She said which Ranma finds it hard to understand.

"N-Jammers interfering with a Tachyon based scanners? That is not possible" Ranma stated

"We don't understand it ourselves Sir, this shouldn't happen, but it does" she said

It is curious for them as to why N-Jammers are affecting Minbari scanners, but for now they needed to deal with them. Then Yuiry gives another surprising report.

"The Centauri's are sending out more fighters, Minbari Nials are retreating"

Minbari fighters known as Nial, has only 3 Neutron Beam Lasers as their main armaments, a Poly-Crystalline armor hull and gravity drive for propulsion which makes them one of the fastest fighters in the galaxy.

Today the Nials are useless in the battlefield and are being shot down by Zaft Mobile Suits.

Minbari warriors prided themselves as 'the best and the strongest among the younger races' and the Nials are the embodiment of that warrior pride for they are well regarded in their quadrant as the most feared and dreaded fighter, that is, until they started picking fights.

Arrogance and overconfidence, when the Minbari Fleet attacks the Alpha Quadrant, they started to face off with other races fighters in the galaxy. They got into many battles especially with the UN Spacys Veritech fighters, StarWars X-Wing the Gunstars from the Last Starfighter and even Tie-Fighters.

They ALL out flew and out fought the Nials in every engagement since the start of the War and here on Delta Earth, Zaft's N-Jammers disabled their only weapon, the 3 Neutron beams, and were pick out one by one by Zaft Mobile Suits.

Unable to fight back the Nials retreated to their Motherships but most of them were shot down by swarming Mobile Suits. Only the Sentri fighters are able to fight back and gave a much better fight than the EAF old Mobile Armors.

Grudgingly, the Minbari had to rely on them for fighter protection. Minbari relying on the Sentri have embarrassed the Nial pilots as they cannot protect their own ship themselves.

Closing in on Messiah, Ranma noticed that they are not jumping into Jumpspace since they have ample time to do so. Ranma presumably that it was STILL offline and maybe repairing their jump engines.

"We need to subdue them immediately before they can jump." He said

"Yuiry, make a challenge and draw their attention, Noa, Camille, send your squadron to assist and support Zaft as much as they can, but also, tell them to fall back from the Minbari's firing range and if they refuse, then don't force them, just leave them"

"Aye Sir"

"Captain Ramius, Captain Sheridan, go and reinforce the Minerva's battlegroup"

"Aye Admiral"

"Char" he called him

"Sir"

"Were going after that command ship, recognize that emblem?" Ranma pointed at one of the Sharlin and Char growled as he remembers that Minbari emblem all too well

"The Blackstar,"

"Star Riders Clan, Warrior Caste, that's Alyt Branmer ship" Ranma said

"That's the boneheaded idiot who shot at us back at the Beta Quadrant"

Kicking their after burners they accelerated towards Messiah

TBC