great losses, great sacrifice chapter 5 : de-ja-vu

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Chapter 5, hope u like it, any comments welcome

Chapter 5: de-ja-vu

“Get me fleet command, NOW!”
“Channel open Sir, there’s a problem, I cant seem to get through the interference created by the xenon ships.”
“Can we contact the Xenon; see if we can find out what the problem is?”
“I’ll try.”
“Unknown object now 3 mizauras away, its activating reverse thrusters.”
“I think its time to leave, Helm target Argon Prime immediate jump, take us away from the planet full speed. Ops log all readings and put them in storage and lets get the hell out of here!”
“Sir the jump-drive isn’t responding to command.”
“Plot a course to the nearest gate, maximum speed.”
“Aye Sir”

The ship started moving slowly at first then Helm hit the boost and the ship rocketed forward on jets of fire, but even as the excelsior accelerated the unknown ship was still closing and only 2 mizauras away. 300 Xenon ships had now arrived from in the sector or jump gates, and they where all crowding round the asteroid. But the asteroid was massive, over 50KM in diameter.

Suddenly the captain had a thought, ‘What if there is Something … inside … the … asteroid ….’
“Divert all power to engines, get every last bit of speed you can, and scan that asteroid!” The Captain screamed.
“Scanning, It appears that the asteroid has some sort of black substance on it. Checking, it appears that the only other recorded incident’s of this black stuff was the battle of Dark Haven and the War of the organics. It was over 30 years ago and over 30 trillion people died. The battle of Dark Haven was when the first and last official Delta HEPT was used, it was retired from service before it even started because the weapons capacitater couldn’t handle the recoil. It was fitted to the old, old argon one, the admiral managed to get the boron and the teldi to join us but the spilt and paranid never joined that battle.
In the war every race joined us, even the xenon. They took over 50 sectors and destroyed every fleet we sent their way, until the admiral decided to use the Black project zero against them when all six races made a last stand in argon prime.”

Even as she spoke the sensor panel bleeped loudly as the spore quickly grew outwards and started ripping open, but there wasn’t just blackness beyond. A blue swirling mist was beyond, and just as she shut it up, another three sprang to life as helm, tactical and her console. All three acknowledged what they had to say with brief sweeps of the eyes and fingers. They all stopped motionless digesting the information, knowing it could mean war.
“Captain, … 4 enemy ships have just entered the system.”
“… how long until the unknown gets here,” the captain said in a quiet, lost voice.
“less than 15 sezuras, its on an intercept course with US.”
“Helm, program evasive maneuvers, lets hope it doesn’t want to kill us.”

The xenon ship rocketed by the excelsior and somehow managed a complete u-turn without hitting anything, coming on to the same course as the excelsior but only twenty meters off hitting the ships hull. The xenon ship started launching capital ships as soon as it had stopped turning and almost all of them went to join the bigger group as they battled it out, somehow the black ships hadn’t been killed yet, despite the masses of plasma being thrown at them. Just 3 ships remained in the excelsior’s presence.
“They’re sending us a message, text only,”
“read it.”

“Argon ship, Assistance required with THREAT in sector, we formerly request your assistance. Destroy Targets of War of the organics.”

“I guess we’ll have to, Helm, set course for target. Tact, fire at will. ENGAGE!”