A/N: Another action-chapter.
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Chapter 13 – Asgard vs. Replicator part 2
"Shit!" Minos exclaimed, and he turned the Mjollnir around violently. Thor fell on the floor, but he caught himself before he was hurt.
"Sorry." Said Minos, as he raced the ship full speed ahead.
Freyr saw the cannons of the Replicator mothership power up, and he knew that it was his end. This O'Neill class flagship could not handle any more damage, his shields were failing, his engines were severely damaged and he was leaking atmosphere. He saw the orange-red burst of energy being fired from the replicator ship.
But suddenly, he felt his ship moving. The Mjollnir had come to Freyr's aid, and had pulled the ship directly out of the line of fire from the replicator ship. Freyr and the other Asgard captains he had picked up underway were beamed aboard the Mjollnir.
"Hold On!" screamed Minos, as he hit one of the smaller Replicator ships full in the side with the Mjollnir, who was unable to brake enough to avoid collision.
The large ship rocked violently forward when it crashed straight through the smaller replicator ship, it shields barely holding. Everyone on board was launched forward, except Minos, who looked like he was glued to the floor.
Most of the Asgard landed relatively unharmed, but two were squashed against the wall violently.
"Shields are down to 5%" said the computer-synthesized voice.
"I'm beaming you out!" screamed Minos.
All the Asgard were beamed out to one of the waiting transport ships, that kept their distance from the battlefield. They saw from the bridge of the transport ship they were on how the large replicator mothership was powering up weapons, and they saw the four large replicator vessels race towards the Mjollnir, who was left almost defenceless.
Al least they thought. Suddenly, Freyr's ship powered up, and launched itself full speed into the Replicator mothership while simultaneously overloading the hyperdrive. The explosion was powerful enough to severely weaken the motherships shields and to destroy one of the large replicator vessels.
The flash of light from the explosion had given Minos enough time to regain his senses, and he flew upwards with a looping, charging right through the ranks of the attacking replicator ships. The remaining three replicator ships were destroyed by the Asgard beam weapons.
The Asgard ships that were attacking the replicator mothership had now decreased in number to two O'Neill class ships and five Bilskirnirs. There was help coming from two other O'Neill class-ships that were fighting a small group of replicator ships a little to the right on the battlefield. They had apparently destroyed those ships, and they were now racing to damage the mothership of the replicators before it could get its shields back up to full strength.
Minos took off in the Mjollnir, and he flew circles around the replicator mothership, shields powered down, beam weapons continuously firing. Suddenly, two large holes opened in the replicator mothership, and two enormous, red beams shot out. Minos barely managed to avoid both by making a barrel roll and a looping at the same time.
He tried to escape the bolts of energy that the replicator mothership fired at him by making several incredibly sharp turns, both left and right, but to no avail. The mothership kept firing at him. Minos suddenly got an idea, because he made another sharp turn, this time upwards, to where a large replicator ship was firing.
He times his arrival behind the replicator ship exactly with the beam being fired from the replicator mothership. The beam obliterated the large replicator vessel, cutting straight through its shields and hull in a matter of seconds. Minos launched the Mjollnir between two other replicator vessels, and the replicator mothership fired again. These two smaller replicator vessels were obliterated instantly, the explosions only barely avoided by Minos's piloting skills.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, the three O'Neill class vessels piloted by Jack, Teal'c and Sam and Daniel were cutting through the smaller replicator vessels like a knife through butter. Jack and Tealç both had enough experience in flying an aircraft to successfully pull off the hardest manoeuvres they could think of, and Sam and Daniel instinctively knew what the other two men were doing, and joined in.
Many replicator vessels had already fallen under the continuous attacks from the various O'Neill class vessels, bringing the numerical advantage of the replicators back to 1:1. The smaller vessels were no problem for the remaining Bilskirnir class ships, the cruisers and the chariots. The larger replicator ships were a bit of a problem, but they were taken care of too, by occasional beams from a passing O'Neill class vessel. But the Replicator Mothership was still a very dangerous threat to the entire Asgard fleet. Its shield may have been weakened by the hyperdrive-overload from Freyrs flagship, but they still were strong enough to hold most attacks.
Minos, in the Mjollnir, was charging across the battlefield like a mad bull and an acrobat, obliterating and destroying every replicator ship he could find with the powerful Asgard beam weapons. He evaded all their cannon blasts so elegant and quick that it looked like the ship was dancing with the replicators, with the shields still powered down.
Only the juggernaut mothership of the replicators was doing lots of damage to the Asgard fleet. Three more Bilskirnir class vessels had fallen, as well as five cruisers. The chariots had better luck in evading both the cannons and the huge beams of the mothership because of their agility.
Minos destroyed the last of the large replicator vessels that were following him, and he flew back to the replicator mothership to render assistance, while he kept firing as much as he could at passing replicator ships.
The three human-piloted O'Neills also finished their last attacker, leaving the remaining replicator ships to the others. They arrived at the mothership at the same time as Minos in the Mjollnir. After several quick bursts of beams from all the O'Neills together, the giant shields of the replicator mothership finally went down.
"Fire on these coordinates!" Minos yelled, his words reaching all the other ships that attacked the replicator mothership.
Immediately several multi-coloured beams from all the Asgard vessels impacted the target Minos had set. The Motherships hull was thick, extremely thick, and was very hard to penetrate. It took several beams from the O'Neills to break through the first part of the outermost layer.
Minos saw this and realised that it was going to take ages to cut through the whole mothership in this rate. He needed to speed things up. The Mjollnir came to a complete halt, right in front of the coordinates Minos wanted to attack. All the beaming weapons charged up at the same time.
"That's Impossible!" said Freyr, who had followed the battle from the bridge of the transport ship. "The generators cannot possibly provide enough power to fire all four beaming weapons at the same time!"
But apparently, Minos had succeeded in finding way to do this, because he was almost done charging. The Replicator mothership had apparently known what Minos was planning, because all the fire concentrated itself around the Mjollnir.
Minos was not able to divert energy to the shields, because all the energy, including his own, was going towards charging the beams. He saw the various beams and cannon fire from the mothership come near, but there was nothing he could do!
O'Neill, Teal'c and Jacob must have seen what was happening, because all three simultaneously parked their ship in front of the Mjollnir, to protect it from the attacks. They diverted all their power to their shields and they braced for impact.
Their shields barely held, but before the Replicator mothership could fire again, the Mjollnir fired. All four beams of white, supercharged energy impacted the mothership at the same time. But instead of dissipating after three seconds, the beams continued.
The beams changed colour. First from white to yellow, then orange and then to red. The red beams seemed to have the most effect, because they stayed that way. The beams suddenly began to 'shiver' and multiple bolts of energy were released inside the beam, doing even more damage to the mothership.
The remaining forces of the Asgard fleet had destroyed all other replicator ships in the area, and they were now heading towards the mothership, where the beams from the Mjollnir continued to burn themselves straight through the mothership, sucking every ounce of its power away to healing itself.
Every capable ship in the Asgard fleet fired all their weapons at the same time on exactly the same location on the mothership, dead in the centre. Multi-coloured beams from the various O'Neill class vessels impacted the hull, just as the smaller beams from the Bilskirnir class vessels. The cruisers and chariots fired all their board cannons towards the spot in the centre of the mothership.
Within a matter of minutes, an enormous hole was drilled straight through the outer hull of the mothership. The Mjollnirs beams kept eating away the interior of the mothership, until they found what they were looking for. A black hole.
The power requirement for a ship the size of the juggernaut Replicator mothership were astronomical. Not even the most capable power source in the galaxy would have been enough to satisfy its need for power for a prolonged time. So, the replicators had searched for an alternative, a black hole. The only problem with a black hole is that it's extremely dangerous. Once you fall in, you can never get out. The Replicators had to build several key containing mechanisms to lock the black hole into place in the centre of the Mothership.
The beams of the Mjollnir impacted the various mechanisms holding the black hole into place in the mothership. The first row of systems were destroyed, the backup systems were obliterated just as easily and the failsafe mechanisms too. The shield holding the black hole in place began to fade.
"LEAVE!" screamed Minos, and every other ship in the Entire Asgard fleet left the vicinity of the Mothership. The Human-piloted ships were the last to leave, because they were the closes to the Mjollnir. The Mjollnir kept firing its beams at the mothership. All the replicators in the entire mothership knew their time was near, that they were about to be destroyed by the very power that had rendered them almost invulnerable.
The Beams from the Mjollnir decreased in power slowly, as the Replicator mothership began to rock, move and bend around the black hole to survive its gravity. But suddenly, the Mjollnir let out an enormous blast of energy, coloured blood red. The light was so intense, that everybody on all the bridges of every ship nearby looked away.
The replicators threw themselves straight into the explosion of power, in an futile attempt to stop the wave of energy that would mean their end, but in vain. The wave reached the black hole, the original target Minos had intended to destroy. But instead of being absorbed by the black hole, the energy surrounded it.
Suddenly, in a massive explosion that rivalled the largest supernova, the black hole destroyed itself, taking the replicator mothership with it. Every Asgard vessel fled towards a safe distance from the explosion, the slower ones being pulled by the various O'Neill class vessels.
When the energy wave from the giant explosion had passed harmlessly over the Asgard fleet, the human-piloted O'Neills were the first ones to race towards the place where the Mjollnir had been. But it was in vain, the Mjollnir was not there anymore, and it could not have been otherwise saved.
Tears started to flow from SG-1, and all the Asgard bowed their heads in despair for the loss of Minos.
But suddenly, a bright blue flash of light appeared in the middle of the bridge of the O'Neill class vessel that housed the most Asgard and now SG-1 too. There was Minos, heavily wounded by the explosion that destroyed the replicator mothership, but very much alive.
"Minos!" everybody on the bridge exclaimed almost simultaneously.
A/N: Do you like my style of action writing?