Spike was passing the moon, and getting ready for the battle. "Chris, ETA to the warship?"

"ETA is 4 minutes, all power diverted to specified systems."

"Good, send a message to the Federation informing them that their aid will be needed, and tell them to make it snappy?"

"I sent that the moment I landed, the Starship Orion has engaged emergency warp 9 and will be arriving in the system in less than 2 hours, but that is still too long."

"I know, set scanners for the warship and give me a reading of what the hell I'm getting myself into."

"That is unwise, they will be able to pinpoint you and that will make it harder."

Spike groaned at hearing that. "Really, but its the same one that took you down before. Don't you have some readings from last time?"

"That I do have, but that's not what you asked."

"Chris, just tell me what I need to know."

"Empire warship, Goliath, is the pinnacle of the Empire's technological development, crew capacity of 50000, armed to the teeth with advanced weapons, protected with some of the strongest shields ever developed, and has a fighter capacity of 100."

"Chris, one question, why the hell did your last pilot decide to take on this thing?"

"We did not, my mission was to transport cargo to a nearby system, when we ran into the Goliath. Spike, I am a new model, and with this technology I am able to transform into 8 different forms, each with special weapons, and skill sets. We are in fighter mode, it is meant to hold small battles, while taking a few shots. But when I was taken down, I was prepared for cargo transport, so I was in my freighter mode, slower, but with a large pocket dimension generator to store tons of cargo."

"Ok, that's awesome, tell me more when and if we make it back."

"Very well. We are being hailed by the Goliath."

"Open communication frequency, but don't make a sound."

"Opening now."

Soon a projection screen popped in front of Spike, and oddly enough there was no one sitting in front of it, all he saw were two long pointed things. "Hello?" Asked Spike.

"Greetings, I am Captain Resnick of the Black Star Nebula Empire, we are happy to in form you that from this moment on, you and your planet are now under the protection of the Great Emperor, Darnaka." Said a voice.

"Thank you, but we must humbly decline the protection. We have no interest of being a part of your empire and dying because of it." Said Spike.

"Very well, I wish you would see the error of your ways, but that will be hard when you are nothing more than space dust." The call was ended and the Goliath was moving into position.

"Spike, they know you are here, but they do not perceive you as a threat yet, so they are only sending out a squadron of fighters to destroy you, immediate action is advised." Chris then showed Spike a group of 5 ships heading towards him. "They will be within attack range in 30 seconds."

"Understood. Are we faster?"

"No."

"Are we tougher?"

"No."

"Are we more equipped than them?"

"Marginally, their shields are just as strong as ours, but our weapons systems are able to punch through them."

"So it all comes down to if I'm able to out pilot them and get some shots in?"

"Pretty much."

"Mother fucker, I'm screwed."

"The calculations are not in our favor. I predict a 86% chance of death."

"Any way we can lower that?"

"I can lower that to 80% if we take out the Goliath's communication array but we would first need to deal with the shield."

"While we have a lot of guns pointed at our tail?"

"Correct, any ideas?"

Spike sighed. "Just one, how long will it take you to change into Bomber mode?"

"That is highly unadvisable, the Bomber mode is slower and we are not able to out run them as it is."

"How long?"

"if I start programing the configuration now, we can change in less than 5 seconds."

Spike smiled. "Perfect. Start that now, and hold on." Spike engaged the thrusters and sped to the squadron leader. "Open fire." Spike pressed a button that shot out his phasors, the phasor landed on the leaders ship and punched through the shields, landing right on the ships hull.

"Hull damage detected, starship offline, life sign is no more." Said Chris.

Spike nodded, he just killed a living creature, but it was to save his home, he would dwell over it later. "Ok, once we take out 2 more, were going for the Goliath. How goes the configuration?"

"80% done."

"Good, divert 20% power from the weapons, and send it to the thrusters, and cycle it between those 2 at 10 second intervals."

"Oh, what have I gotten myself into?" Asked Chris.

"Just do it." Said Spike, he noticed that the rest of the squadron didn't take it well that he took out their leader. Suddenly Spike felt a surge of thrust push him faster, and just like Spike predicted, the rest of the squadron pushed their ships faster so they didn't loose track of him. But after 10 seconds Spike lost that extra power and he was overtaken by the ships. "Firing phasors." Spike shot at the 4 ships and actually damaged 3 of them.

"3 more down." Said Chris, surprised that actually worked.

Spike smiled at seeing that his hair brained idea worked. "Just like I planned. Are you done with the Bomber configuration?"

"Yes, we can change the moment you give the word."

"Good." Spike turned the ship and started heading for the Goliath.

"Captain, squadron 1 is almost wiped out, and sensors are detecting that the target is flying straight for us, what are your orders?" Asked a officer in the helm of the Goliath.

"Forward shields to maximum, and set all weapons on to the ship." Said Resnick.

"Spike, they are readying their weapons, and they are all pointed at you."

"Chris, what does the Bomber have?"

"Plasma charges, silent running, and a short time cloak."

"Understood, right before they fire, I want you to change us into the Bomber, drop a single charge, and activate the cloak for as long as we can take it, then engage silent running. If they think they took us out, then they might drop the shields."

"You weren't hugged enough as a child were you, because any mother would call this plan crazy?"

Spike laughed. "No, I was hugged just enough, I'm just very creative."

Chris sighed. "Their weapons are charging."

"Change into Bomber mode." Said Spike.

The ship's cockpit went black as the nano tech made the changes for Bomber mode. The out side of the ship became shorter, the wings were longer and more spread open. Once the out side was finished, the nano bots changed the inside of the ship. Spike was now laying on his stomach, his hands on 2 touch pads, and his face right at the window. "Bomber mode enabled."

Spike nodded as he looked into his mind to find information on how to fly this type of ship. Soon his hands started moving, Bomber mode's 2 pads were simple, the left was for direction, the right was for speed, pitch, and weapons. "Dropping charge now." The ship dropped a glowing ball of plasma.

"They're firing." Said Chris.

Spike gunned it and activated the cloak. There was a large explosion and it looked like the ship was destroyed.

"Captain, target is destroyed."

Resnick smiled. "Good, recall the fighter, and prepare to move to the planet."

"Dropping forward shield, and preparing engines."

Spike watched as the fighter returned to the Goliath. "Chris, how much longer will the cloak last?"

"We have 2 minutes, but I can give us another if we turn off silent running."

"Don't, they could detect us. Divert all shield power to the weapons and thrusters, once they finish dropping the shields, we're moving."

They didn't have to wait long. "Spike, all shield's are dropped."

Spike nodded as he made his way to the ship. "Locate shield generator, communication array, and any other part that could be a pain in the ass." Soon a screen was displaying the location of 5 different components. "Cool, we head for the shield generator, then the hangar, next we hit the weapons, then the engines, we'll leave the communication array for last." Once Spike was close enough to the Goliath, he dropped the cloak and bombed the shield generators.

The war ship shook at the explosion. "Captain, we've lost shields."

"What? HOW?!" Yelled Resnick. Then there was another explosion.

"The Hangar is now out of commission, we cannot launch our fighters."

"Ready weapons and fire in all directions!" Ordered Resnick.

"Weapons are charging." Then another explosion. "Weapon systems down."

"GET US OUT OF HERE!" Yelled Resnick.

"Turning ship and readying the warp engines." Then the final explosion. "Engine has been disabled, we're sitting ducks."

"WHAT IN THE EMPEROR'S BEARD IS GOING ON? There was no sign of any Federation support, and we destroyed that fighter."

"Captain, we are being hailed."

"On screen."

Spike was smiling under his helmet. "Hey, Resnick was it, sorry about your ship, but I didn't take it well that you decided to invade. So, I'm going to make this quick, I'm going to take out your communications, but leave your life support on, then in a few hours, the Federation Starship Orion will be showing up and taking you all."

"What is your name? I wish to curse it until the day I die."

"Call me the Purple Star."

"CURSE YOU PURPLE STAR!" Yelled Resnick.

"Chris, end the call and prepare for final run." The screen closed and Spike bombed the communication array on the ship, leaving it a floating hunk of metal in space.

Once the Goliath was now a giant hunk of metal, there was really not much more for Spike to do. "Chris, what happens now?"

"I do not know, we have gone so far off Federation guide lines that anything is possible, but seeing as you have engaged the Goliath, it is more than likely that the Empire and Federation will now be looking straight at this planet. My recommendation is to return to the planet and inform the leaders of the world what is going on."

"Yeah, not going to happen, if they find out about this, then we're all screwed."

"Then the best course of action is to wait for the Orion to arrive."

Spike shrugged. "Cool, change back into fighter mode and keep an eye out for the Orion."

Author's Note

Quick chapter to show off the ships capabilities. Just for note as well, Chris was developed in response to the Goliath.