Shamus harpers through was getting hoarse but he dared not let up. Tyr was also shouting and roaring whenever he stopped. They heard distinct feet falls of two people

"That hast to be them" he though aloud "DYLAN" he shouted as they came closer he had managed to get one arm free, he though his rescuers were almost there he felt elated but as they due near that elation became dread as two Magog came and re fastened his arm to the wall, the two grabbed him which gave Tyr enough time to kick one in the face knocking it down and out, he wrapped his strong legs around its neck and broke it.

"You never told me your feet were free" Shamus squawked in outrage

"I wanted it to be a surprise"

Hearing there friends suddenly go scient Dylan and Romme doubled their pace in the direction they thought right. Only to come to a dead end

"There are thousands of tunnels" stated Romme as they looked down to the bottomless chasm.

"You think they would have signs" he gasped out trying to regain but to no avail across the gap came blasts from a group of Magog. "Take cover" Dylan and Romme ducked back into the cave, getting cover before firing back. "Magog with guns? It just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?" he Grabbed Romme by the arm "come on" they ran down another cave.

In space the three high guard ships were getting closer and closer to the nova deployment range

"How much closer do we need to be to deploy the nova bomb?"

"We can do it from hear but they would have a long time to shoot it down I want to close another thirty LS" stated Andromeda all three ships weapons sweeping for targets

"Are we really going to drop it?" asked Trance

"Trance I'm in way over my head" Beka said not taking her eyes off the screen

"That's what happens in life" she said with concern for her friend "we keep going and going until we've gone too far and haft to deal with it"

Andromeda chimed in with her own words of encouragement

"The important thing to remember is that Dylan trusted you with command" she stated simply "he believes in you and so do I"

"Me too"

With her friends behind her Beka felt more steady in Command like she could do this

Inside the catacombs Dylan and Romme were running into more resistance from the Magog

"Another squad, rifles" stated Romme

"Don't they have any respect for tradition" stated Dylan irritably "whatever happened to just clawing us to death" he shouted as he activated the second force lance

"Dylan if we aren't going to make it" before she could finish

"Don't" he said simply "please don't say it Romme" his voice slightly tender towards his ships avatar

"If we're going to die" she stated as a blast hit the wall next to her

"We are not going to die" he said tenderly to her as he stared into her hazel eyes "captain's orders"

In space Andromeda had reached optimum firing range

"Andromeda set maximum PSL on my mark I want you and the other two to fire everything you have I want everything we got missiles, drones, AP guns, lasers everything"

"Beka conventional weapons won't put a dent in that thing" stated Andromeda

"You have your orders" said Beka in a tone that brokered no argument she walked to her pilots controls grabbing one of the sticks "and Mark" moving at maximum speed the three ships unleashed there weapons of death at the world ship, energy blast light up the sky as brightly as the artificial sun.

In one of the numerous caves Dylan and Romme were falling back into cover as another squad opened up on them,

"You ready" he asked his companion

"Don't worry about me" she said as she continued to blast away at the Magog forces, a rumble almost knocked Dylan to the floor "what's that" she asked with concern for her other self.

"Starters gun" he mumbled gruffly "go Now" he shouted as they darted away from the Magog.

In another cave Shamus had finally gotten himself free he felt like dancing

"I can't believe it I'm" he was cut off by the sound of a rifle powering up

"I believe the word you are looking for is dead" Shamus put his hands up as the Magog leader with Rev slowly began to advance, the leader stopped and Rev stepped forward

"Rev?" Shamus couldn't believe what was happening Rev his friend was acting like a true Magog, Rev growled menacingly as he walked to words Shamus,

In space the three war ships have entered the defence umbrella of the world ship, swarm ships begin to attack the three ships but the two lager war ships drawing most of the fire leaving Andromeda with less and less ships to defend her against.

"We've go there attention now but the Hood and Bismarck are drawing the majority of the swarms"

"Good, now I want you to vent your atmosphere, dump your water tanks and dump every piece of crap from the holds, I want as many targets for them as possible"

"Venting, dumping and tossing captain" smiled Andromeda

"There firing those black whole things at us again" shouted Trance as main defensive and offensive weapon of the world ship,

"Prepare to fire Andromeda" shouted Beka

"Nova bomb is away" said Andromeda

"Impact in ten, nine, eight," said the voice of Trance echoed around the cavern that Dylan and Romme were. In another cavern the countdown was reaching zero and Shamus was watching his old friend stalking closer to him. "Seven, six, five, four"

"Rev" he said unsure in how to respond to the new Rev

"Three"

"My name is Red Plague" his hand close to Tyr's face

"Two"

"And I do what I must"

"One impact"

The nova bomb impacted the sun causing a massive solar expansion, inside the ship grate amounts of Magog were incinerated instantly. Taking a run Dylan and Romme jumped into the massive chasm at the centre of the planet in space the three war ships were jostled with extreme turbulence from the explosion. Inside Beka was crying thinking she had just killed her friends.

"Dylan I am so sorry"

From the outside the planets looked like they were burning from the inside out, in the core the abyss avatar was surrounded by fire as the son expanded. As the explosion dissipated, Beka and the reaming crew onboard the Andromeda saw the imposable not only had the ship survived intact but the machine connection between the planets were completely intact

"That's imposable" shouted Beka at the screen "tell me that's imposable"

"I don't know" for the first time Andromeda didn't know what had happened, all she did know was that that world ship should have been destroyed. "I just don't know"

"It's not imposable just really unfair" said Trance astonished and awed at the sight of the untouched world ship.

"Andromeda come back around now"

In the planet Dylan had landed badly hurting his ankle, scanning his ankle Romme gave him the bad news.

"It's broken"

"Yeah forget my leg" he planted in pain "was that what I think it was?"

"Elevated radiation levels, EMP-rays, X-rays, Gamma-rays, oscillating neutrinos, it was a nova" she stated turning back to Dylan astonished "we lived through a nova"

"Told you we wouldn't die" he said smiling slightly

In another cavern Shamus and Tyr were also rocked by the explosion,

"Fools" spat the lead Magog "they thought that they could defeat us so easily, understand now Red Plague, everything is possible for the harbingers of the Abyss"

"Yes I understand" said Rev "but then I understood all along" he turned fast and stabbing strait through the heart of the lead Magog "behold the fiery beast with razor tail that cuts through mountings, and tramples castles down, inhale the stench that makes the whole world wail"

"But witch of us is the beast me my master or you" said the Magog leader as he spat up blood

Tyr chuckled slightly

"A Magog quoting Dante"

"Guys can we get the hell out of here now"

In space the Magog world ship still appeared to be burning and in the bowls of the ship the avatar of the Abyss was being blasted by flames.

As the trio of one Human one Nietzschean and one repentant Magog, made their way down one of the passages, until movement within Harper began to cause him grate pain, the Magog eggs were moving inside of him. The small rest they had brought them face to face with a rifle squad of Magog, who looked ready to fire when blasts from nowhere hit them.

"I know of only one man idiotic enough to rescue three dead men in a Magog hive" said Tyr and he wasn't disappointed from a nearby alcove came the limping form of Captain Dylan hunt leaning on his android counterpart

"Yep, that's me Captain Idiot" he said waving his force lance at them "now I don't know about you but I want to get the hell out of hear"

In space the three ships pulled back enough for the swarm ships to over extend themselves making them easy prey for their guns, the three sat there waiting for more ships to come, in the Magog world ship Rev was leading the crew out, when they finally reached the Maru they were confronted with the spirit of the abyss, it launched two fireballs than vanished, they made for the Maru

In space the Magog were attacking with a savagery that was new to them they wanted revenge, all three ships were unloading death like they never had before, their weapons were at the verge of overheating when they detected a launch from the planet, the Maru was taking damage from swarm ships, only to be saved by the Andromeda, as soon as the ship was recovered all three jumped to a safe system.

Captain Hunt walked back onto the command deck as Beka dropped the Andromeda out of slip space, followed closely by the colossal Commonwealth ships.

As the Andromeda came to a standstill he opened communications to the two ships, before he could say anything he was cut off the brunette man

"So you are our beloved sisters captain" sizing up Captain Hunt "you don't look like much, what you think Otto" acknowledging his brother

"Nein macht er Bruder nicht aber seine Aufzeichnung spricht für sein Selbst" (No he doesn't brother but his record speaks for its self)

"That is true it dose" he said nodding "I hope you have been treating our sister well captain" a hint of caution in his voice

Unsure how to respond to that he just asked

"Who the heck are you two and how did you survive the fall of the commonwealth"

"I am the avatar of the Admiral Hood and you may call me Sam" spoke the brunette

"Sie dürfen mich bezeichnen als Otto ich bin der avatar des Admirals Bismarck" (You may refer to me as Otto I am the avatar of the Admiral Bismarck) blinking twice Dylan started at the two

"that's the who, now what about the how"

"well were not sure our selves we entered slip space to rejoin the fleet" said the brunette

"How Ai's can't fly slip space it's a known fact" stated Beka

"we are not conventional AI's, we were specially designed by digitally cloning a brain, the brain chosen was that of Admiral Constanza Stark, in this way that pilots instincts carried over, we are not sure how exactly and probably never will"

"so you entered slip space?" coxed Dylan

"yes we came into some strange energy turbulence, when we came out the damage to our slip core's was immense, so immense that even with our advanced repair systems it would taka centuries, being AI's we had all the time in the world, to avoid the risk of going rampant we went into sleep mode, unfortunately we didn't wake up as planned. we were to have awoken once the engines were fixed but that energy discharge in slip spaced damaged or chronometers, we were awoken our sisters distress call, once we were back on line we picked up our sisters and brothers distress beacons from all over the known worlds, Andromeda's being the closest we decided to come to her aid first" he then looked confused then asked

"you have missed the last three hundred and one years" asked Beka

"we know, we felt crawl of time even in our sleep" he said

"so we know the who and the how but what are you going to do now" asked Romme

"well we have distress calls to answer" stated the brunette

"why haven't we picked up any distress calls?" asked Dylan

"due to attacks buy The Nietzscheans on disabled ships all commonwealth distress beacons are encrypted so only our ships can find them, you haven't received the upgrade for it so you can't" stated the brunette the blond man just nodding occasionally.

"wait aren't you going to stay a while" asked Andromeda

"sorry beloved sister we have others to help keep us updated with your progress if we are going to fight the Magog again we will need a large fleet than us to do so"

"how many ships survived enough for you to help?" asked Dylan

"almost ten battle groups" stated the blond

"ten battle groups, that's fifteen hundred ships" stated an astonished Dylan

"you are correct sir, also due to the obvious lack of officers you will have to take command of the fleet"

"me" stammered Dylan "I'm just a captain I can't take command of a fleet that size I don't have the clearance"

"you do now, Commodore" stated the brunette "we haft to leave now but call us when you need us we will come and we will be bringing our extended family with us"

"good bye beloved sister" stated the brunette

"Auf Wiedersehen werden beliebte Schwester, wenn wir zurückkehren, wir die Familie mit uns bringen" (goodbye beloved sister when we return we will bring the family with us)

"if German be the language of love, we need to get that translator fix on you Otto" stated the blond as the screen went back to showing the commonwealth logo

"Heben Sie Arsch" (jack ass)

His screen also went back to showing the commonwealth logo. The two ships turned away leaving and entered slip space in a flash leaving the Andromeda alone once again.

In the space between two dead star systems the two ships exited slip space and began scanning for the source of the beacon, it didn't take them long to find.

Hidden in a nebular were ten ships all righteous fist of heaven class and all reparable they were the Troy, Kings Crown, The Gilded Wings of Ascension, God's Fury, the Chariot of So, Wings of Pegasus, the Flames of Hades, Sirens Call, Wars Drum, Sword of Truth. these ships were once part of a larger fleet supposed to ambush a the supply routs would begin to bleed the Nietzscheans white, unfortunately were betrayed from within.

"they are all salvageable but it's the Ai cores I am worried about we can only repair those so much" he said pondering to his brother "if worse comes to worse we could get that Harper person to give it a shot" as he placed the crew roster from the Andromeda on one of small desk next to the captains chair. "what do you think?"

"Ich denke, dass wir mit der Reparaturarbeit auf dem fortfahren sollten, das am schwersten zuerst beschädigt wird" (before voice fixed I think we should proceed with the repair work on the most heavily damaged first) his voice crackled then came through in English "that would be the Truth and Sol the next would be the Drums we can work our way out from their" his voice held a heavy Prussian accent.

"this is an new day brother; this is the day the Commonwealth shall rise from the ashes of death" said Sam as he and his brother launched the mobile dock.