With the Empire now outnumbered, they were on beginning to lose the battle that would decide the fate of the universe. Normal wars decide who controls certain areas of territory, such as the old wars on Earth or even the wars with other species in different areas of space. The Alpha Quadrant was at stake during the Dominion war. If the Dominion had won that war and taken the Alpha Quadrant, the Beta Quadrant would have later fallen. However, since this war was between two universes, an entire universe hangs in the balance of this war, a type of war that had never been fought before.
A maelstrom of fire swept through the raging battlefield as an entire wing of Peregrine class fighters committed themselves to a suicidal voyage into the hulls of a Romulan Warbird. The ensuing flames quickly engulfed the D'deridex class ship and the fighters that remained from the wake of the explosion moved on ahead to their next target, an Excelsior class ship. The two fighters slammed into the ship's stardrive section. The ship's saucer section was ripped from the rest of the ship as it exploded and thrown into an Imperial Galaxy class ship.
The Alexandria charged into the fire, flanked by the Defiant and Voyager. The trio descended upon an Akira class ship. The Imperial ship made an effort to come about, but the lack of maneuverability proved to be fatal. Combined with the Defiant's pulse phasers, the phaser beams from both Voyager and Alexandria carved into the hull of the Akira class ship, breaching it and ultimately slicing through it in various locations. The Akira class ship's core breached and it exploded.
After flying through the crimson explosion, more trouble lied ahead.
"We've got three hundred Imperial ships dead ahead." Lieutenant McKenzie said.
"And half of them have probably locked targets on us." Merriell said from his station.
A flash of orange light briefly illuminated the bridge as the lead ship, a Galaxy class ship, took pot shots at the Alexandria. The deck rumbled underneath Allensworth's feat.
"Full axis rotation to starboard. Fire all dorsal phasers." Allensworth ordered from the center of the bridge.
The ship responded accordingly and all of the phaser arrays on top of the ship glowed and discharged upon the bridge of a Mirror Galaxy class starship. With the bridge destroyed, the ship spun out of control and was now target practice for anyone who wanted it. A Klingon Bird of Prey came swooping in, destroying the ship.
"Fire at will." Allensworth said.
A string of photon, quantum and transphasic torpedoes lashed out across the battlefield, easily taking out multiple Imperial ships. The three Federation ships came under heavy fire. Joining the trio were a group of Klingon battle cruisers and Romulan Mogai class ships. The Alexandria and its allies fired their weapons as they drove deeper into the Terran Empire's lines.
With his workstation suddenly on the verge of a power failure, Dustin Zofchak was nonetheless able to determine the source. "An EPS conduit just ruptured on deck six, section twelve. The hull has fractured in two places and is on its way to breaching."
"Seal off that section." Sparhawk said.
As Dustin was taking that course of action, his console beepbed again. "Another EPS rupture, deck eight, section nine."
The ship took another hit before anyone could respond. The jolt sent everyone who was standing, to the deck.
"We've got a Sovereign class ship on our tail." Merriell said. "It's the Alexandria."
Allensworth got to his feet and stared at the screen. His counterpart's ship was on their tail and closing. "I think a barrage of quantum torpedoes is something they'll enjoy."
Four blue quantum torpedoes were launched out of the aft torpedo launcher on the saucer section of the Alexandria-A. As the torpedoes approached, the Mirror Alexandria made every effort to get out of the way. The ship came about to evade the barrage, but it was too late. Two of the torpedoes slammed right into the shields of the Imperial ship. The other two torpedoes missed the Alexandria but slammed into the port nacelle of a Luna class ship.
The Alexandria-A started to rattle, and Allensworth instinctively knew the EPS rupture on deck eight was about to turn into something more than a minor situation. A beam of orange light suddenly streaked across the viewscreen. It grazed the shields and shook the deck a bit more. A second blast soon followed and this one was just as mild as the first.
Dowey furiously tapped away at the helm but his actions didn't seem to be doing much of anything, a third shot struck the ship and still provided little damange.
"The Alexandria took heavy damage to its tactical systems." McKenzie said as another blast struck the ship.
A burst of swirling mostly white, light shot across the viewscreen. Jermaine Allensworth instantly recognized the light as a transphasic torpedo and he prepared himself for the damage it was about to do. Suddenly, a Klingon Bird of Prey eclipsed the viewscreen and exploded in a flash of crimson light.
Allensworth briefly sighed with relief but at the same time he thought of the Klingon crew. He knew that Klingons view death differently than Humans and they died a warrior's death but it still added to the death toll. He was certain that the entire crew of that Bird of Prey were all dead. In his mind, Allensworth could see countless of similar explosions on both sides. People were dying. With every moment that passed, the death toll climbed higher and higher and at the moment, it was already unfathomably high and until the Terran Empire was defeated, that infamous number was sure to grow.
"The Defiant and Voyager are both disabled." Merriell said.
"We need to end this now." Allensworth said.
"Sir," Merriell said. "It's the Enterprise. Their Enterprise. They're on an intercept course and weapons are locked."
Allensworth sighed. "I was really hoping they got pasted."
The ISS Enterprise fired its weapons that slammed into the Alexandria's shields. "Shields are down to forty-seven percent." McKenzie said. The ship rocked violently again. "Weapons are offline."
Allensworth's eyes widened as the ruthless Mirror counterpart of Captain Picard came in for another attack run on the now defenseless Alexandria.