Hilary Kazarick pulled herself away from the inner workings of the anodyne relays. She wiped her soiled hands on the front of her uniform and tapped her communicator. With a sigh, she came to her feet. "Kazarick here."

"Hilary," Dustin's voice said a second later. "How are the weapons coming? Should I go down to the shuttlebay with a hand phaser and start shooting at the Imperials that way or can you help us out with our little dilemma?"

She found it a bit amusing that Dustin could keep that type of attitude in the middle of a battle. Luckily, she had been anticipating the weapons going offline ever since the very first EPS rupture and was able to get a head start on restoring the weapons before they went offline. "I just finished rerouting main power through the secondary systems. You should have phasers."

"Should? That's not very encouraging, Hil."

"I agree, Commander but with the numerous EPS ruptures that are creating all kinds of hell I can't make any guarantees."

"Fair enough. Try and get the torpedoes back online. Zofchak out."

Dustin was proud to have Kazarick on his engineering team. She was highly competent and if she thought the torpedoes were operational then he would damn well believe it.

Moments later, the tactical station came online. "Sir," McKenzie said. "We have phasers and it looks like the torpedoes are about to come back online as well."

"If I ever become Captain, she's going to be my chief engineer." Dustin said somewhat smiling.

Allensworth slightly turned around and gave his chief engineer a smile. He turned back to the viewscreen. "Fire."

The Alexandria fired its phasers at the ISS Enterprise. The beams slammed into the shields. Allensworth could see power fluctuations aboard the Enterprise just by watching the light from the warp nacelles flicker.

In that same instant, sparks dance across the Alexandria's hull. Pieces of the hull were torn away from the ship in a matter of seconds. The entire phaser array was annihilated.

Hilary Kazarick angrily jammed her fist into her workstation. "Damn it." She then slapped her communicator. "Bridge, we're back to square one."

"I'm on my way down." Dustin replied.

Hilary now knew that whatever needed to be fixed was going to get fixed now with Commander Zofchak on his way down and with him fixing things, laws of physics be damned.

"What happened?" Allensworth asked through the comm. system.

"Another EPS overload." Kazarick grumbled. "Don't worry, I'm already on it. We'll shoot out of the windows if we have to. Engineering out."

The ship rocked again. And once again, Allensworth was thrown off his feet.

"Report."

"Shields have failed, no weapons, hull breaches on decks five, six and seven. Doctor Plumley has set up triage facilities in Ten Forward and cargo bay three."

"Captain," McKenzie said. "The Enterprise is coming about. They're targeting the bridge."

The familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar voice of Captain Picard came through the bridge's comm. system.

"USS Alexandria. Stand down and prepare to be boarded." The mirror Picard said.

"That'll be the day." Allensworth said.

"Your entire planet will fall as well as any world in this…"

Allensworth did a slashing motion in front of his neck to Hoshi, signaling her to cut the transmission. When the bridge was silent again, Allensworth figured that the mirror Picard was infuriated that he was cut off. As if that mattered to Captain Allensworth.

"Sir," Merriell said. "A wormhole is opening up and more ships are coming through."

Allensworth felt his stomach tighten. His ship was practically dead in space and was about to be destroyed. It seemed that the Terran Empire also had a trick up their sleeve as well.

"It's the Enterprise." Merriell said. "Our Enterprise."

A smile crept along Allensworth's face. The USS Enterprise came flying in from above firing weapons at its counterpart, which erupted into a giant explosion. More ships followed the Enterprise.

"Sir, it's the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth fleets. They're all coming through the wormhole."

The newly arriving ships came into the battlefield with weapons ablaze. More Imperial starships fell at the hands of the Federation. The Enterprise and Thunderchild moved up along side of the damaged Alexandria-A as if they were protecting it. Both ships on either side of the Alexandria had taken some damage while on the other side but didn't compare to the condition of the hull of the Alexandria.

Hoshi turned around in her chair. "Sir, Captain Picard is signaling for the Imperial fleet to power down and surrender. He says that the Empire has fallen, the Federation task force has laid waste to the Imperial Starfleet headquarters and they have the Emperor and Empress in custody aboard the Enterprise."

"I'll be damned." Allensowrth said. "No wonder why no one had heard from those ships. They were on a covert mission to the other side and took out their headquarters."

Merriell was the next to speak. "Sir, the Imperial starships are powering down weapons. They're surrendering. We won."

The bridge crew cheered. Merriell turned his head to look at Christine and he smiled at her. They were going to be able to raise their child without having to worry about the war. Allensworth let his crew cheer. It was something they've been waiting for over a year, since that fateful day in the Talos Star System.

Merriell's control board began beeping. He turned back around and entered several commands into the console. "Sir, the ISS Alexandria is releasing some sort of spherical object from their main cargo bay." He pressed more buttons to get a better reading on the object. "It's a subspace disruptor."

Allensworth's eyes widened. A subspace disruptor was one of the type of weapons banned by the Khitomer Accords because of their unpredictable nature. When this weapon exploded, not only did it create a subspace tear like an isolytic burst but, it contained an Omega molecule which would destroy subspace and render warp travel impossible.

"What's the status of the Alexandria?" Allensworth asked.

"It's going to warp." Merriell said.

Allensworth looked up just in time to see the ISS Alexandria leap into warp. "McKenzie, tractor the disruptor. We're going to shove that thing down their throats." He then tapped his comm. badge. "Bridge to Engineering, Dustin do we have warp engines back online?"

"Yes, sir but I wouldn't recommend we go any higher than warp four."

"We may have to, Commander." Allensworth said.

Dustin sighed. "Understood, sir."

Allensworth ended the transmission by hitting his communicator. He then looked down to Dowey. "Lieutenant, pursue course. Hit it."

"Aye, sir." Dowey said.

Once the Alexandria-A had the subspace disruptor in its tractor beam, it leapt into warp in pursuit of their counterparts.