" Drop your bombs!"Mask yelled through his com system to the other Assault Gunboats in his formation. Yellow streaks launced out from the other gunboats, impacting on the main phaser array.
"That one didn't do much damage, let's come back for another run!" Mask said.
Good thing they aren't paying much attention to the fighters,. We should get a number of good hits before they start to target us he thought.
A streak of firey energy lanced out at his ship from starboard, destroying another gunboat.
"Where the hell did that come from?"
His question was answered when a Starfleet shuttle raked across his bow with a volley of phaser fire.
"Tell all other fighters to engage the enemy craft! We need cover to drop bombs!" He then loked to his right, and saw an unprecedented fleet drop out of warp. More than 200, he estimated.
"Oh, shit, this is going to be trouble."
" All destroyers break and engage enemy ships!" Yung ordered.
Great, we have the ships AND the station to deal with. This is some bad luck we've run into. The ISDs and all the VSD broke their attack formation at the same time and sped towards the Federation ships. As all the ships went into each others weapons range, the space around them became a symphony of light and energy. Photon and quantum torpedoes streaked across the cold vacum, only to be returned by a flurry of turbolaser fire. Bombers, fighters, interceptors, gunboats, blastboats... all launched with the purpose of bringing the Federation fleet down to it's knees. Shuttlecraft, runabouts engaged in dogfights were quickly shot down by the unrelenting numbers of the Imperial invasion fleet.
" Keep firing at the station," Yung said. " All gunships and frigates keep attacking the station." We shall be victorious... Imperial honor rests upon it.
BACK across the void...
Jayelle Riley was flying around in her new ship, the FORCE FLAME, when all of the sudden, four unidentified ships came out of, well, not hyperspace, but something.
"What the hell?" she exclaimed
ON THE DEFIANT
"Sir! There is a small unidentified ship ahead" the Ensign said
"Are it's weapons and shields up?" Captain Sisko asked
"No, wait! They're going up, sir!"
"Shields up! Power wepons! Red alert!"
"Wait, sir, the ship appears to be hailing us!"
Sisko raised an eyebrow. "Really. Yellow alert, weapons stand by, on screen!"
"Audio only, sir."
"Put him on."
ON THE FORCE FLAME
"Unidentified ship, please identify yourself and state your buisness." Jayelle said, as official as she could
"This is the Federation ship, U.S.S. Defiant. We were pulled through a wormhole into this region of space. Could you provide assistance?"
"What kind of assiatance?" Jayelle replied, slightly suspicious
"Could you tell us how we could back to our own region of space?"
"Where exactly would that be?"
"The Alpha Quadrent."
Jayelle thought: The Alpha Quadrent? Where in the world was that? These have got to some weird aliens from some other galaxy or something. "I'm sorry, I don't know where that is. Do you know anything about this region of space?"
"No. Do you?"
She thought: Duh! I live here you know. She said "Yes. Are you allied with the Empire or the Rebellion?"
ON THE DEFIANT
"Rebellion? Empire? Where the hell are we anyway?" Dax said
"Quiet, old man. I'll tell her we're neutral." Sisko replied
ON VOYAGER
"What is the Defiant doing?" Paris asked
"They're talking to that ship out there." Kim said
"Afirmitive. I suggest we hail them and ask what is going on." Tuvok said
"Agreed. Make it so, Ensign." Janeway said
ON THE DEFIANT
"Voyager is hailing us, sir. I suggest we respond." the lieutinant at conn said
"Agreed. Hail the other ships and tell them that we're going to have a visitor within the hour."
AN HOUR LATER
"I still don't see how I'm supposed to tell which ship is which." Jayelle muttered to herself, steering toward Voyager.
IN A FEW MINUTES
Jayelle went into the docking bay of Voyager and looked around. "Wow. This place is big." she said in admiration.
A man in a Starfleet uniform loked around and said "If you think this is big, wait until you see the rest of the ship."
"You're human!" she exclaimed
"Yeah. So are you. By the way, my name's Tom Paris."
"Jayelle Riley. What planet are you from?"
"Earth. And you?" he said, leading her out of the docking bay
"Dantooine, but Alderaanian." she said thinking: Where in the Galaxy is Earth?
"Oh. How did that come about?" Paris asked, thinking: Dantooine? Alderaanian?
"My parents were Alderaanian and they escaped before the Death Star blew up Alderaan." she said, thinking: He has no clue what I'm talking about.
"Oh. I see, well, right now we're going to meet the captains in the Ready Room."
"Captains? Did they come in on those, uh, shuttles I saw in the , uh, docking bay?"
Paris laughed. "No. They transported over, I'm surprised you didn't do the same. In here." he said, escorting her into the turbolift.
Jayelle thought: Transporter? Earth? Blaster Bolts! These humans must be from a galaxy far, far away...