The Insignium
Chapter 2: Emergency Call
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAfter the Insignium detached and the Thrusters started pushing her away from the Station the Emergency Frequency light started blinking,
“Someone one the emergency frequency Captain!”, a mare said from her communication terminal,
“I see it pull it on the main speakers of the bridge”, the captain said.
“This is [static….] Captain Strong- [static…] from the [static...] were under attack in Sector 3-0-5 request immed-”, sounded from the speakers,
“Broadcast is dead Sir”, the comm-mare said.
“Set a Warp course to the sector, Communications send a message to our fleet, our rendezvous-point has a new location, Officer Gearhead set maximal Energy to the Warp core we need it charged 5 minutes ago and prepare to give the weapons all you´ve got”, the Captain barked,
“Affirmative, Sir core fully charged in 10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1, Warp core fully charged Sir!”, Gearhead answered,
„Get us there NOW”, The Stallion who hadn´t even had enough time to switch into his captains jacket shouted to the lead helm. The Insignium turned and within the blink of an eye she was gone having transitioned into hyperdrive. With a mighty flash the Insignium appeared near the ongoing battle of a single frigate against what looks like 3 Changeling warships. The Captain slammed the battle mode button and shouted:
“Put the shields up and full energy to the canons and Bullet get those missile racks full!”,
“Affirmative”, the Stallion with hat replied and pushed his own broadcast button and barked into his microphone:
“Fill the missile racks and ready the canons”.
” Get us closer to the fight!”, the captain ordered and with that the huge thrusters hummed back to life and sent the huge ship straight towards the battle.
„Canons and missiles ready sir!”, Bullet said with his head still deep in his terminal,
“Good! Citrus fly us between the first two ships! Bullet be ready to start firing at my command!”, ordered the Captain,
“Affirmative!”, both replied, the yellow coated lead helm turned to her helms who command every single move of the ship and relays the order to them, Bullet shouts into his mic to ready to fire. The Insignium now flew between the two ships and the Captain commanded:
“Wait……wait…FIRE!”, everyone turned around to their terminals, the helms making ready to turn to enable better firing at the third ship, Bullet slams his broadcast button and shouted:
“FIRE!” within a second every single canon started shooting lasers at the shields of the Warships who returned fire onto the Insignium and the missiles steered towards the third one and all three stopped to fire at the other ship, the captain saw this and immediately commanded:
“Com officer send a message to the unknown friendly vessel to get the fuck out of here immediately!”, ”
Yes Sir!”, the Mare replied,
“We got the Shield of one of those fuckers the other one is nearly down!”, Officer Gearhead shouted,
“Good how are our Shields?”, the Captain asked,
“Not a scratch Sir, those cunts don’t have nearly enough firepower to do anything!”, the tech pony replied. Suddenly something exploded and the whole bridge shook.
“Holy fuck what just happened?!”, the captain shouted,
“I’m not sure”, Gearhead replied, “But whatever it was it just put our shield down to 75%!”,
“Sir there’s something on the radar!”, one helm shouted,
“Another ship?”, came the question,
“Seems like it but nothing we know, according to the energy readings I get from it, it only has one large Energy Railgun!”, the mare answered,
“Okay new enemy ! Bullet send a wave of missiles to destroy it´s shield!”, the captain shouted to the Tactical officer who is putting his hat back on,
“Affirmative!”, he replied and turns to his terminal, “Missile racks redirect one blast to the new ship at 7-3-8-9!” The next missiles left the racks towards the new ship under them and within half a minute they ate themselves through the shield.
“Captain our new friend just lost his shield!”, Gearhead shouted,
“Good, Bullet finish him with another wave of missiles!”, the Captain barked,
“Affirmative”, The Stallion replied from his terminal, “Fellas send another Wave of missiles to our new friend!”. The Missiles shot out of the racks and flew towards the ship, after only a few seconds the hull was filled with missiles and after the first exploded a chain reaction of missile explosions tore the ship apart in a huge ball of fire.
“Sir we got two of the ships and our new friend”, Gearhead said but before the captain could answer one helm shouted:
“Sir, six new contacts om 7-0-1-6, more of those railgun ships!”,
“Affirmative, Gearhead how are the shields of the third Warship looking?”, the Captain replied,
“Down to about 1% Sir!”, The Tech pony answered,
“Good, helms turn the ship so we can give the last warship full broadside and Bullet redirect every missile to the new ships and give the other one the rest!”,the captain ordered,
“Affirmative, everypony ready the left barrage and redirect all missiles to 7-0-1-6!”, the tactical officer shouted into his microphone. The Insignium slowly turned redirecting all the missiles to the new ships and after an excruciating 3 minutes the left cannons erupted in laser fire and slowly after tore apart the third and last warship.
“Sir the enemy’s Railguns are powering up if they all fire we´re done!”, a helm shouted.
“Midnight how fast can you deploy your drones?”, the captain asked,
“Two minutes”, the unicorn mare answered, “One if we are lucky.”,
“Ok get them ready!”, the captain replied, the unicorn nodded and turned to her station and barked into the microphone:
“Everypony to your computers get your squads ready!”.
“Sir I get some readings something is warping to us!”, yet another helm shouted, “it’s enemy reinforcements I think!”,
“They want to get us no matter how many ships they need to throw at us, Bullet how long can the canons fire?”, the captain asked,
“It´s looking bad sir half of the upper line are burnt out and we only have about 20% of our missiles left!”, the stallion with hat shouted back. Then a flash and the new ships immediately opened fire.
“It’s the fleet, Sir!”, the lead helm shouted happily. The Railgun ships are bamboozled by the spontaneous multiplying of the enemy forces and redirect their shots losing any shield penetration potential in the process.
“Sir drones are ready!”, Midnight suddenly shouted,
“Perfect send them out there to help our boys!”, the captain cheered knowing well that the advantage is once more on their side. With that an army of drones rolled out towards the enemy and them not having planned to stand alone against a whole fleet try to warp away but not before one gets destroyed.
“Ok send Probes to scan the remains of the one we destroyed”, the captain ordering releasing a breath he didn’t know he held. After everything was scanned the captain opened the holocom to communicate with his fleet:
“Ok hello everypony you came right at the best point but we need to wait with the whole getting to know each other I need to get these scans to princess Twilight and the council immediately!”. And with that the whole fleet vanished in a flash on their way back to Equestria.
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