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Anomaly #679- pt. 4
Posted By: RogueFox<roguefox68@gmail.com>
Date: 30 May 2006, 12:07 am
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Date estimated late 2552
UNSC Ark Royal and accompanying escort of 14 ships
Lunar Orbit
Sol System
Lord Hood studied the video of the pitched battle between the Covenant spacecraft and the ship that came out of the anomaly. Lord Hood, an admiral in the UNSC since the start of the bloody war, had never seen any fleet of human vessels beat the Covenant so soundly. Yet, this one vessel, with a majority of human lifesigns and quite a few they didnt recognize, managed to defeat 30 Covenant ships. It had taken off via a form of light-speed travel other than Slipspace after 50 more Covenant ships rose to challenge it.
"Lieutenant Stewart, is that spectro-analysis of that ship done yet?" Hood inquired.
"Just coming in now, Admiral." the sensor operator reported.
Cairo Station had taken several hits after the initial Covenant attack and was losing life support. Hood and the surviving crew and Marines transferred to the Ark Royal. Like its British predecessor, Ark Royal was a carrier, one of the finest in the UNSC's fleet. Ark Royal and her battle group of 7 Frigates, 5 Destroyers, and 2 Cruisers moved away from Earth's orbit as the Covenant poured in system. Luna's gravitational field blocked them from the Covenant scanners and they had hidden there for several days.
"Sir, spectro-analysis...inconclusive. Ship is made out of materials similar to titanium-A, and several other unknown compounds." Stewart reported.
"Their last known trajectory, where was it taking them?" Hood inquired.
"Towards Delta Halo, sir." The navigational officer said.
"Prepare the battle group to move out. Set your course for Delta Halo." Hood ordered.
Ten minutes later, 15 Slipspace ruptures opened behind Luna and the UNSC ships slipped in and disappeared.
Date Estimated Late 2552
USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D
In Transit to Delta Halo
Deck 19, Armory
The Chief caught the rifle Worf tossed him.
"This is a Type-3 Phaser Compression Rifle. It fires a phased burst of energy. Your fusion pack can power about 60 shots before needing to be changed. This should be your main weapon." Worf instructed.
The Chief looked the weapon up and down and nodded.
Worf took an odd-looking device off the wall. It had a handle that curved up to a large triangular shaped end with a rather blunt end.
"This is a hand phaser. It recharges after each shot. It operates similar to the compression rifle, except that this weapon fires a beam rather than a pulse shot. It has a stun setting, to a vaporize setting, and to maximum setting. An overloaded phaser will explode like a bomb, so use it only in extreme duress." Worf said.
He handed the phaser to John, who clipped it onto his belt. Worf grabbed two more compression rifles and tossed one to Riker and kept the other one for himself. He also handed out additional hand phasers.
"Let's go." Riker said.
A klaxon sounded. The computer reported, "Alert. Unauthorized entry into Main Engineering section 12."
Riker, the Spartan, and Worf took off at a run for the turbolift.
USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D
Main Engineering
Geordi LaForge heard the computer's alert as he returned to Main Engineering from the bridge. He opened the phaser locker and began to pass hand phasers to his engineering personnel.
Once they were all armed, Geordi took one and armed it to the kill setting, 8. He began to look up the length of the Enterprise's warp core for the enemy.
The Enterprise was powered by a warp core, a device that combined matter and antimatter in a large reaction chamber with a dilithum crystal inside it to facilitate the reaction. Most Federation starships use Deuterium and Antideuterium for the reaction. The reaction results in a complete mass to energy conversion, which powers the starship in addition to several fusion reactors.
As Geordi was looking up, he heard a crewmember scream and fly off of a maintance ladder three stories up. He landed with a sickening crunch and his fall was chased by a series of red bolts.
Geordi saw the ugly looking thing. It resembled a gorilla, except with brown hair. Geordi aimed his phaser and fired. The yellow-orange beam reached out and hit the Brute dead in the chest. It roared and raised its plasma rifle. Geordi ducked behind a panel as red energy bored into the bulkhead and tapped his combadge. "This is Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge requesting any available security or Marine personnel to report to Main Engineering! I need medics down here too!"
Geordi raised the phaser's setting to 12, enough to vaporize any living thing. He rolled out from the corner and fired.
The Brute roared as it was hit and the phaser's intense beam caused the Brute's molecular structure to atomize. In seconds the Brute had turned bright orange and slowly dematerialized in front of the Jackals it commanded.
Just then, one of the Jackals screeched and was hit by a series of pulses from a compression rifle. The Jackal's body was thrown to the floor. Worf appeared and slid down the ladder towards the engineer's position.
Geordi turned and was almost face to face with a Brute that had snuck up on him. The creature roared, then Geordi heard the comforting blast of a Type-3 Phaser Compression Rifle. Three blasts was all it took.
As the Brute fell, Geordi saw Commander Riker firing at some Jackals who were attempting to get out of Turbolift 8. The person he owed his life to, however, was their strange and imposing guest.
The Spartan ran forward to him.
"Are you alright, Commander?" John asked.
"Yeah, fine. I owe you one." LaForge said.
Worf ran over to them both as a contingent of about 10 Federation Marines poured through a Jefferies Tube access port. Jefferies Tubes were ways to get around the Enterprise for maintainence or if the turbolifts were offline. Federation Marines wore uniforms with green shoulders. They were specially trained at the Starfleet Academy for boarding actions and ground actions.
The Chief looked up and saw where a group of Enterprise crewmembers were attempting to fight off a group of Drones. There were five Drones. Five blasts from the Chief's compression rifle later, and five dead drones lay next to the warp core.
The Marines fanned out to where two Brutes had just dropped down from an open Jefferies Tube. They all fired their compression rifles on the Brutes and one went down without being able to fire a shot. The other fired on the Marines. The Marine the plasma was directed at dropped to the deck and saw three of the Jackals approaching to help the Brute. They were about to flank them, and those shields presented a problem. He pulled out a photon grenade and lobbed it. The explosive bounced off the bulkhead behind the Jackals and rolled up behind them. The antimatter and the matter inside combined and annihilated the creatures. In the meantime, the other Marines had cut down the Brute and were checking for other enemy contacts.
Geordi stepped over to a console and tapped in some commands. "I read all clear in the engineering section. They look like their trying to get back to their boarding craft, but the second they leave our warp field they'll be destroyed." A Marine with a lieutenant's insignia stepped over to where the senior officers and the Master Chief stood.
"Lieutenant Silvermann, this is the Master Chief, a guest from this dimension's Earth. I believe you will find in him a kindred spirit." Riker said as he introduced the platoon leader to the Spartan.
"A pleasure to meet you Chief." Silvermann said. "Is engineering secured, sir?"
"It is, Lieutenant. Move on to Deck 39 and deal with the original incursion. Bring the Master Chief with you." Worf said.
Dr. Crusher came in with a contingent of Starfleet Medical Personnel and began to treat the wounded.
The Klingon turned to the Chief.
"You are the most gifted warrior I have ever had the honor of fighting alongside. I would be honored to fight with you again." Worf said. Klingons were a race known for their lust for battle, and for such a thing to be said to a non-Klingon was rare.
"Coming from him, that's a compliment." LaForge commented.
"Let's move it out, Marines!" Silvermann ordered.
The 10 Marines and the Chief moved to Turbolift 6 to proceed to Deck 39.
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