Chapter 16
The Zeus were conducting some training exercises in an un-inhabited system. Her fighters where testing each other in dog fights, her personnel on the ship where testing each other too, using intar's. All crew where in it some how, scientists helping too defend critical areas along with the military crew of the ship, against some of the other military people. And the ship was also testing her weapons in the local asteroid belt. This was called multi tasking. Fighters battling enemy fighters, the enemy had boarded and tried to take over the ship, as well as disabling as many systems as they could, while the ship was in a battle. The Zeus and the Daedalus had the best crews when multi tasking. Colonel Anna Lund and her trusted right hand Major Lundwall where on the bridge.
"Major Jonsson, can we get more power to the weapons?" Lund yelled through the radio.
"No, si…" Was all Jonsson could say, before the 'enemy' took out the power to the ship. When the power was lost to the ship, the exercise was over, since the ship would have been destroyed. A few moments later, all power to the ship was restored, and the personnel stunned by the intar's taken to the infirmary.
"Well, that went well… Two out of three, very good." Lund said to Lundwall. "Yes, indeed it did." Lundwall started, but he was cut off by an alarm from is console. "Sir, sensors are reading an un-known vessel, bearing 192.4! It's Inarian! The appear to have noticed us as well, they are moving to intercept." Lundwall said, fear in his voice. The Inarian's, when an alternate Daedalus arrived over Atlantis while she was in the Pegasus Galaxy, almost a year ago, AR-1 beamed aboard the vessel. It jumped reality, and after a second jump, the Daedalus encountered the vessel, bombarding Atlantis from orbit. The team had made it back to their reality, and gave the news about the race, which potentially could exists in this reality. The IOA, stupid as they are, started an outpost where ships where known to disappear in Pegasus. The base had just finished construction, when it was destroyed from orbit by an Inarian vessel. The race is now in the Milky Way.
"Shit. Major, transmit to the SGC and our outpost! This is Colonel Lund of the Zeus during our training in the P2X-271 system, we have detected an Inarian vessel on an intercept course. We are moving to destroy." Lund said. "Major, re-call 302s, keep the Jumpers in the air. Spool up the hyperdrive, arm all weapons and raise shields." Lund ordered. "Aye, sir. 302s are coming back, Jumpers are staying and readying for battle. Hyperdrive is ready, all missile tubes loaded, asgard weapons online and shields are online." Lundwall said. Lund pressed a button on her chairs arm rest. "This is Colonel Lund to all hands, general quarters, all hands. Battle stations." Her voiced blared through the intercom of the Zeus. The light around her dimmed, and a claxon blared through out the ship. "Dammit, we where hoping that the rumors where false! How long until nominal weapons range?"
"Thirty seconds until maximum firing range, sir." Lundwall said. As he finished, the doors to the bridge slammed shut. "Engine room, the core room as well as this room, the bridge has been sealed off. Guards are outside, and inside said rooms." Lundwall said. It was true; inside of the bridge, six heavily armed guards stood in full battle gear. The bridge shaked and the weapons fire from the enemy ship illuminated the bridge.
"Shields are holding. They're launching fighters!" Lundwall said, calmly but alarmed. "Have Railguns on auto target, have them targeting the fighters. Launch ten Mk. VIIIs." Lund ordered. There was a small thud as the hatches to the missile tubes flew open, and out came ten Mk. VIIIs. The made their way to the ship, and the blasts where absorbed by it's shields.
"Asgard beams. Fire." Lund said. "Aye, sir." Lundwall said. He made a sharp U-turn and the Zeus came about and fired several deadly beams of plasma. In return, the Inarian ship fired several volleys of green plasma that had 'flames' in the tail of the bolts. The Zeus jolted hard as it's shields took the fire, a few sparkles flew from some consoles. "Shields down to 87%! Sir, estimate another five asgard beam shots for the enemy ships destruction." Lundwall said in a confident voice. "Okey. Wait, fire a Mk. IX, I want to know what they do to the shields of their ships, as do the IOA and everyone else." Lund said. Again, there was a small thud as a hatch to a missile tube flew open, and a Mk. IX flew away. Very soon, it impacted the shields of the Inarians, little damage done to it's shields.
"Ventral asgard beam weapons, fire." There was a 'metallic' sound as the asgard beam weapons raced out from their batteries, the never ending booming sound from the Railguns as they fired, was also heard. Five beams from the asgard batteries impacted the Inarians shields. Their shields flared, but the beams soon cut through them, and impaled the ship. After several explosions, the ship was finally destroyed. Now, about five fighters remained, and they where quickly moped up. The Jumpers returned to the Zeus.
"Damage and casualty report!" Lund asked as the doors to the bridge once again opened and the heavily armed guards walked away to get changed. "Shields got down to 63%, two injured from an exploding console in the engine room, out of the eight Jumpers that we had, only six remains. We've got sixty Mk. VIIIs left and nine Mk. IX left." Lundwall said.
"Ok, good. Re-call the Jumpers, bring the hyperdrive online as soon as they're aboard." Ten hours later, the Zeus dropped out of hyperspace over the Swedish ancient outpost. Colonel Lund beamed down to Walberg's office seconds later.
"Sir. I suppose you heard my message?" Lund asked.
"Yeah, I did. So did stargate command. How did it go, Colonel?" General Walberg asked.
"Pretty good, actually. We lost two Jumpers, one in each Jumper, two injured by an exploding console, nothing major. Shields where depleted down to 63%. Took around twenty beam shots from the asgard beams, ten Mk. VIII and a Mk. IX to destroy it. The IX didn't do as much damage to their shields as we had hoped, but we think that it'll do damage to the hull if they're un shielded." Lund said.
"Okey, not so good. I'll be have to download the sensor logs from your ship. Oh, I want…" Walberg said, but he was interrupted by an alarm going off, indicating an off-world activation. Just like the gate in atlantis, there was a shield, preventing anyone that wasn't wanted, to come through the stargate. The control room also looked almost identical like the atlantis counterpart. When the General and the Colonel came into the control room, the gate had just formed a connection.
"No IDC, sir. Radio signal's coming through now, sir." A technician at the controls said.
"Tau'ri people. I am Sox'nui of the Inari. You have destroyed one of our vessels and it's entire fighter wing, for this, you shall be punished." The Inarian said. The General pressed his radio in his ear, like the ones in Atlantis, they had become standard for all outposts. "This is General Johan Walberg, it is you who have attacked us. We merely responded in kind." He said.
"You have attacked us before, in another galaxy. Your vessel was raising it's shields and activating it's weapons systems." Sox'nui said. He was referring to a 304 sent into their area in Pegasus, following the destruction of earth's outpost there. "I know which event you are referring to, and you had destroyed our outpost there! And this time, the our ship only had shields and weapons online, because of that incident! We ask you to leave this galaxy, and return to the galaxy where our first battle was." Walberg said.
"No. We will attack and destroy you." The Inarian said, he closed the wormhole. Instantly, the General ordered the stargate dialed to earth.
