Earth... - 5 hours after liberating Vulcan
Yasushi walks back off the turbolift onto the bridge. He looks over at Hunt who is standing in front of his chair.
Yasushi walks over to him and asks “Did you get any sleep?” Hunt shakes his head no. “You should've you know. You're not going to be able to function very well in battle if you're falling asleep or you're on edge.”
Hunt gives him a “mind your own business” look and says “You should worry about yourself more often.”
Yasushi smiles at him and says “Well I meditated to the last 5 hours, and I feel great. You should've at least taken a shower.”
Hunt gives him another look. Yasushi looks at him and says “Fine I'll drop it.” He looks forward at the viewscreen as the stars stop shooting by and a larger, but still very distant, yellow star appears in front of them.
“Ah Terra.” Yasushi says.
Hunt looks at him again and says “I'm going to be leading the assault on Earth.”
Yasushi looks at him and says “That's fine, I'm going to be commanding the Horton furing the assault on Earth.
Lt. Commander Pierce can command the Achillies.” Hunt replies “I would much rather have you commanding the Achillies.”
Yasushi shakes his head no and says “No, sensor scans have already detected atleast one Sovereign and one Galaxy Class ship. If I'm going to be going up against those types of ships I need a nimble and maneuverable ship. The Achillies just doesn't fit that bill. I have certain tactics that I just can't use with the Achillies.”
Hunt gives him an annoyed look and says “Fine, if you wanna command your ship it is understandable...after all you have been in command of her for close to 3 years.” Yasushi nods.
“We should be at Earth in a few minutes. I would like to see you in my quarters before then.” Yasushi says “It is something relatively important.” Yasushi adds and walks into the turbolift.
Hunt shakes his head and says “Lieutenant Commander Pierce, please report to the bridge.”
*few minutes later*
Anne Pierce walks onto the bridge a little flustered since she was in the middle of something in the CNC
She walks over to Hunt and says “Reporting as ordered.”
Hunt looks at her and says “Captain Yamamoto has chosen to command the Horton during the assault on Earth. I will be beaming down to Earth and capturing V'Ros.”
Anne nods and says “Understood, I assume that leaves me in command of the Achillies...” Hunt replies “Yes, but I have full confidence in your abilities.” Anne nods.
Hunt walks for the turbolift. “Yasushi said he needed to see me for something, and I still have to get my Marine team together. You have the bridge.” He walks into the turbolift.
Anne sits down in the Captain's chair thinking to herself “I guess I'm back in this position again. Last time I never actually took the Achillies into battle, but it was damn close. I know Admiral Hunt wouldn't leave me in command if he didn't have confidence in my abilities, but I'm still hesitant. I also know that Captain Yasushi will watch over the ship if anything happens during the battle.”
On Deck 2
Hunt walks into Yasushi's quarters and says “Okay, what the hell is this all about.”
Yasushi was sitting at his table. He motioned for Hunt to come in and sit down.
“I don't have time for this, what is it.” Hunt said angerly. Yasushi yelled at him “Sit down!” he then calmly said “Please...”
Hunt walked over and sat down at the low table. Yasushi got up and walked into his bedroom and came back out with a katana. There it had a green sheath and there was a strap neatly folded on top of the sheath. He put it down infront of Admiral Hunt then walked back over to the other side or the table and sat down. He sipped his tea and said "If you look at the brass coupling on the back strap you'll notice that it's the Imperial Seal. The symbol of the Emporer of Japan. This sword is close to 600 years old, passed from Emporer to Emporer until the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. You will carry this into battle on your back, it will give you good luck. Bring V'Ros out of the President's Building with that at his throat and you will show incredible power and cunningness. That will be the image that everyone remember when your name is uttered."
Hunt picked the sword up and un sheated it, looking at it ver closely. It was a beautiful blade, one only worthy of it's original owner, an Emporer of Japan. He sheather the sword and carefully unraveled the backstrap then slung it over him. The Seal of the Emporer was right in the middle of his chest.
"Thank you for this. Sorry for being a bit on the short side. This was well worth the wait." Yasushi stood up and said "I expect you to bring that back to me just as it is. I don't want you using it for anything other than show. It's more valuable that you would ever realize." Hunt winked and walked out of Yasuhsi's quarters.
Yasuhsi tapped is comm badge and said "Yaushi to Horton, I'll be beaming over in a few minutes." He walked out of his quarters and down the corridor to the turbolift "Bridge" he said and the lift quickly moved up a deck. He walked out and onto the bridge seeing Anne in the command seat.
He walked over to her and said "I know this is your first time taking the Achillies into bettle, but don't worry. Trust in the officers and everything will go smoothly. I will be over-watching the ship during the battle so if a bunch of ships start ganging up on you I'll distract them with the Horton.
She nodded and said "Thank you." Yasushi nodded and walked back into the turbolift "Deck 8 Transporter Room 3." He said
He soon arrived on deck 8 and quicky strolled to the transporter room. He walked up onto the transporter padd and said "1 to beam over to the Horton." The transporter chief nodded and energized.
Hunt was in Transporter Room 1 assembling his team. Himself and 7 Marines. He had a phaser rife in hand and was talking to them
"We are going to be assaulting the Presidential Complex. We are not entirely sure of the layout, or even what kind of resistance there is going to be. We must work quickly because there is going to be a battle raging above our heads, and we must capture V'Ros and stop this before things go too far. All the Marines nodded.
The ship flew past mars and finaly got a lok at what they were facing. A force of 2 Sovereigns, 3 Galaxys, 3 Nebulas, 4 Excelsior, 2 Defiants, and 4 Intrepids. It wasn't going to be a nice battle. Luckily most of the ships were slower less maneuverable, making it easy for the Horton and the Delta Orion to make quck strikes on the big ships, and dog fight with the smaller, more maneuverable ships. The Horton's shields could take more of a beating than the Delta Orions's sinc ethe Horton had Regenerative shielding, but she had thinner ablative armor then the Delta Orion. All in all they were pretty evenly matched, but it was still going to be a hard battle.
The Enemy Ships began formaing into Groups. The 2 Sovereigns along with 1 of the Nebulas, 2 of the Excelsiors, 2 Intrepids, and 1 Defiant.
"Designate the group formed with the 2 Sovereigns Group 1" Yasushi said on the bridge of the Horton, transmitting to the rest of their small fleet. Group 2 was composed of the 3 Galaxys, 2 Nebulas, 2 Excelsiors, 2 Intrepids, and the remaining Defiant.
"Yasushi to Delta Orion, My crew has prior experience from a wargame taking out Sovereign and Galaxy Class ships, so we can handle those and the Nebulas. I would ignore the Excelsiors since they shouldn't be much of a threat with Type 8 phasers. Try and get into a dogfight with the Defiants, but don't bite off more than you can chew. If one of the Intrepid's decides to come after you go after it evading the Defiant's fire." Captain Ishikawa laughed and said "You really are an interesting battle commander. I'm sure we will do just fine!' His voice was beaming with confidence.
"Yasushi to the Achilies and the Rrd Star. You guys go after the Excelsior's first then work on the Nebulas. " Anne and Mr. Solomon both acknowedged "Okay, we'll do out best."
"Anne, You and I will fly towards Earth at full impulse so that you can drop off the Admiral and the Marines for their assault. Ignore the ships as we pass through. Then we'll come back and join the battle." Yasushi Ordered
"Try and remember one thing guys. The people on these ships are probably not thinking straight. Don't destroy any of the ships unless you have to." Yasushi said
In the Transporter Room
"Okay, we'll be going down in a few minutes. Be prepared. We don't know what's going to be down there." Hunt said as him and the marines got onto the transporter pad.
Back on the bridge of the Horton
"Red alert. Engineering push the Impulse Engines to 130% and try and get the Thrusters a little extra power. Mr. Fox I think that you know what to do, During that wargame we destroyed 4 Sovereign Class ships suffering only superficial shield damage. The Galaxys were even easier since they have more phaser blindspots and are less maneuverable. As soon as we get done escorting the Achillies in go after the lead Sovereign."
Lieutenant Jason Fox nodded and smiled knowing exactly what Captain Yamamoto meant.
"Anne here we go...Full Impulse!" Yasuhsi said.
Lieutenant Fox accelerated the little Rhode Island claas ship to it's max and the extra engine boost the Commander Uditar had put into the engines held out a lot. The Achillies lagged behind for a momnet, but was soon keeping up with the nimble Horton. They quickly approached the 2 clearly defined groups of ships, and they began firing. The Horton quickly swayed side to side around some of the phaser beams coming from the ships, but a few hit the shields, but didn't do any damage of consequence. The Achillies had a harder time avoiding the hits, but she had much more powerful shield generatos than the tiny Horton. The Achillies took a few photon torpedo impacts, but it obviously wasnt enough to slow her down.
One of the one of the Intrepids broke of the attack and started fllowing the Achilies. Using smilar moves to the Hort she was avoiding most of the phaser fire that the Horton was putting out. "You continue on to Earth. We'll deal with the Intrepid." Yasushi said. As soon as he said that Mr. Fox took the Horton into a steep climb , one the inertial dampers couldn't fully adjust to, and everyone was pused back in their seats. Yasushi laughe remembering how much fun it was being on the little ship. The Horton was upside down, and Mr.Fox skimmed the Dorsal Shields of the Horton along the Dorsal Shields of the Achillies for a show of acrobatics.
"Fire 4 quantum torpedoes at their dorsal shields with the forward launchers and 3 photons at their aft shields as we pass by them. We should have the upper hand against the Intrepid in terms of maneuverability and speed." Mr. Fox spun the Achillies back to normal and Cathryn, filling in for tactical, fired the birrage of quantums at the Intrepids dorsal shields. All of them made a good impact, and apparently through the ship off baance for a second. The Horton passed very close to the aft of the Intrepid, and Cathryn fired the aft launchers all of them hittin the at shields of the intrepid. Mr. Fox took the Horton into a tight banked turn and go behind the Intrepid. The intrepid fired 2 photons from her aft launchers that all hit the Horton's forward shields. Cathryn retalliated with another 4 quantums which brought the Intrepid's aft shields down, and two phaser shots from the Horton's forward Type 12 arrays which dissabled the Intrepid's inpulse engines. The intrepid stated drifting and tumbeling out of control. She wasn't a threat anymore.
By this point the Achillies had made it to Earth and landed Adiral Hunt's party, and was on it's way back to the fight.
On Earth
Admiral Hunt's praty had landed in the garden's of the Presidential compund. They quickly found cover behind rows of bushes and began scouting out possible entrances. They could see mny guards patrolling the corridors inside, but there were only a handful on te roof that would be a problem outside.
"Okay Seargent." Hunt was talking to one f the two marines that had a sniper rifle. "Just stun the ones on the roof then we can move in." He nodded and quicly complied. 4 quick, precise shots and the men on the roof fell down.
He looked over at the Lieutenant in charge of the Marines and asked "Did you scans detect anything out of the ordinary?" The lieutenant folded up his his external scanner and tricorder and took out a large padd.
"No, but we now have a layout of the first and second floors. The highest concentration of heat signatures is here on the second floor, the President's Office. If we rapell up to the second floor over there-" He said and pointed to a wall that didnt have any windows and was relativly concealed from view "And we go in through the second floor windows...the element of surprise would be on our side. If we go through that large window." He pointed to a large windows that ran the length of an entire corridor.
"We would be one corner and about 30 meters from the office. Once in there we can just hold out ground and then you can announce to the entire Federation that V'Ros has been captured putting an end to this horrible ordeal." Hunt smiled and said "I like this plan. Seems perfect. Lets do it." They all moved low and quick over to the wall and began to grapple up.
Back in space
Al of the Excelsiors had been disabled quickly by the Red Stand the Achilies, but the Nebulas were a bit more limber and were still putting up a fight. The defiants had barely been scratched and the 2 or the intrepids hadn't even recieved a hit yet. The other intrepid was not doing too well and would fall soon. The Sovereigns and the Galaxys hadn't been touched by the Horton yet, but Yasuhsi was just about to go after the first sovereign.
"Okay Jason, you ready to do this again?" Yasushi said sitting back in his chair looking at the ripe Sovereign ready to be pounced on. "Cathryn remember that we're only trying to disable them this time, not destroy them. Try not to use too much force." Cathryn nodded and smiled wide.
Yasushi looked foward again and said "Do it!"
Jason shot the Horton towards the Svereign at full impulse. He skillfully maneuvered the small Rhode Island behind the Sovereign. Jason yelled out quickly "Divert all power to the forward shields. Make them as strong as possible!"
Cathryn nodded and quickly complied "Okay done!" Jason sped the Horton up and the tiny ship punched through the Sovereigns shields
"Now!" Yasushi yelled. Cathryn quickly fired 6 photon torpedoes at the dorsal stardrive section between the nacelles where enginering would be they all impacted and as the hull ruptured a small ball of fire burning off the oxygen before the forcefields quickly patched the hole. Next she fired two quantum torpedoes where the shield generators were, between the impule engines where the Saucer and secondary hull meet, there was a large explosion and the shields of the sovereign went down. Next 2 shots from the Ventral phaser array at the warp nacelles and they started venting drive plasma. The last thing was 2 shots from the Horton's powerful type-12 forward arrays the destroyed the impules engines. Jason quickly took the Horton into a climb and flew past the disabled Sovereign.
Yasushi smiled and said "Good job, well done!" This is the type of results he expected from his crew. "Lets go after two of the Galaxys next. They are usually really easy to disable.
Jason nodded and flew towards the nearest Galaxy which was harassing the Red Star. Cathryn lobbed one quantum and then quickly fired two more. The First one impacted perfectly on the port shields.
The other two that were fired quikly were flying towards the port nacelles, the first one mpacted the shields, and the other one quickly flew through the hole momentarily opened up in the shields and the port nacelle exploded. The drive plasma quickly concentrated in the shields of the Galaxy until the exhaust from the impuls engines ignighted it.
The was a huge explosion from the plasma and the back half of the stardrive section including the starboard nacelle was sent sailing off into space. The rest of the stardrive section was burning in space, but it looked like the antimatter pods hadn't been hit yet. The saucer section began floating away from the stardrive section, obviously the captain had initiated a saucer seperation. The saucer slowly accelrated away from the stardrive section and got about 2 kilometers away before the rest of the stardrive section exploded. A large chunk flew towards the saucer section at great speed and put a huge gash in the starboard, dorsal part of the saucer's hull.
Yasushi and the rest of the bridge crew on the Horton was ammased at the amasing display of pyrotechnics they had just seen. "Please tell me you got a recording of that!" Yasuhsi said smiling as wide as could be. The sheer amasment of of what had just happened filled everyone and it wasn't until weapons fire started impacting the shield that they snapped out of the amasment. One of the Defiants broke of it's attack on the Delta Orion and started attacking the Horton.
"Evasive Maneuvers!" Yasushi yelled. Jason took the Horton in to a spinning dive, but the Defiant behind them was keeping up.
"Lets see if they can deal with this...Full reverse, port thrusters reverse, starboard thrusters full." Jason complied as ordered and the Horton did a quick 180 turn, but still flying backwards "Fire!" Yasushi yelled.
Cathryn lobbed 4 quick quantum torpedoes then fully barraged the forward shields of the defiant. The defiant broke of it's attack and Jason flew towards the next Galaxy class.
Back on Earth
The small party had made it into the building, but the security forces were giving them a bit more trouble then they anticipated. They made it to the President's office, but there were many guards inside, and they had good cover. The marine commander finally got fed up with it and lobbed two stun granades into the room, they went off and everyone fell to the floor.
The Marines and Hunt walked into the room. Everyone was unconcious. Hunt walked over to V'Ros and said "Lieutenant give me a set of binders." The Lieutenant reaches into his pack and puls out a set of hand binders from his pack and threw them over tu Hunt. Hunt clasped them shut around the Vulcan's hands and shook him awake.
Hunt ripped him to his feet, he was still feeling the effect of the stun granade and fel back down to the floor. He threw up all over the floor. "Get on your feet!" Hunt yelled and pulled him up again. He got to his feet but his legs were still weak and were shaking to hld him up.
As this was transpiring the marines were draging all of the guards out into the hallway; Now that the room was clear they sealed the door and activated high-level forcefields all around the room. This would prevent anyone from beaming in or out.
The marine commander walked over to Hunt and asked him "What now? We have the president and ths room is competely sealed off. We can transmit a message on a broad frequencies from this room."
Hunt stood an looked at the Marine Commander. "I sopose that's what we have to do...although that's not originally what we planned on."
Hunt motioned for the Marine Commander to bring the unconccious V'Ros over to the desk. He complied and sat him down in the chair.
V'Ros woke up. "So you think that this solves any of your problems? You can't do anything and you know NOTHING!" He laughed
"If you kill me my subservient forces will fight to thier last breath if you kill me, and they will extinguish entire solar systems to get me back if you take me!"
Hunt looked at him with an evil smile and said "How about we test that." Hunt looked to the Marine Commander and said "Start the transmission."
The Marine nodded and walked over to the communications control pannel. He started entering the parameters for the transmisison. Hunt drew Yasuhsi's sword and placed in on V'Ros's neck.
The Marine Commander nodded and said "Ready." Hunt nodded, the Marine started the trnasmission canging the display of the communications console to "TRANSMITTING"
*This transmission is heard by all ships and planets within transmitting range of the entire Federation*
"This is a message to all forces loyal to V'Ros. Your rebellion is over. Surrender at once and none of you will suffer any ill consequences. Everything that you have been doing is a result of a mental attack that has damaged the mezzo-frontal cortex of the Vulcan brain which is where the emotinal barrier lies. There is already a cure for this imbalance...use your logic and stand down!" Hunt said
He nodded to the marine commander who cut the transmission.
*End of transmission*
The battlefield above Earth
There was a cheer on the bridge of the Horton and suddenly the ships stopped firing. Yasushi quickly conferenced with all the ships in the taskforce.
Anne Pierce on the Achillies, Captain Ishikawa on the Delta Orion, and Mr. Solomo on the Red Star appeard on the Horton's viewscreen.
"It seems that Admiral Hunt was successful in his capture operation. I don't know what's going on but it seems that all the ships have stopped attacking." Yasuhsi said.
Anne nods in agreement. Mr. Solomon adds in "We have already done a lot of damage, hopefully they take this seriously, any further loss of life would be pointless." Yasuhsi nodded in agreement.
Suddenly a flood of surrenders came from the remaining ships. "It seems they have." Yasushi said and smiled.
He cut the transmission and opened a channel to the President's office on Earth.
Admiral Hunt was standing there in the same position that as the transmission, but he had sheathed the sword.
"Admiral, seems that everything worked. All of the ships up here have surrendered. Now all we have to do is wait for the Vulcans to come with the psyonic device."
Hunt nodded and said "I'm glad everything went well up there. We are going to have a long process of healing ahead from this incident." Yasushi nodded and cut the transmission.
Written by:
Captain Yasushi Yamamoto
Commanding Officer
Battlegroup Vengeance
Phoenix Federation Liberation Force
