Defender of the Mother Galaxy Chapter 4

  We hadn’t been in flight long when we came to the designated location. I had no clue how the nerds figured an asteroid’s orbit… they just seemed to fly everywhere. I ordered our local nerd, the guy who came up with these new gadgets, to try the first test. One of the Fleet Admirals thought it might be ‘proper’ to let him be the first to fire it up. But the results of the first test, the sound waves, were negative.
“Alright then, try the eh…”
“Brion particles?”
“Ah, yes. Go emit your Brion particles.” I figured since he formed the particles himself they were ‘his’ in a sense.
“It seems we may have gotten some minor results.”
“Oh, and what would those be?” I really didn’t care much, but I thought I’d let him have his fun.
“The space outside the window was distorted slightly. Whatever the particles hit, it’s massive. I suggest we broaden the waves, and emit the disrupter wave.”
“Alright, fire away!”

  The disrupter wave looked like blue lighting flying sideways away from the ship. It looks so much cooler coming from a Disrupter Cannon. But my mood of “yeah right, like there’s anything that massive out there” quickly changed into an order. “Charge the Photon Cannon, all forward Ion and Plasma Cannons, and arm torpedo bays!” I yelled to the crew of my own ship, while sending a signal to the other ships to arm their bays, and charge their cannons. I was stunned as a massive ship come into view just ahead of my fleet. At first nothing happened, and I had my hand up, ready to give the order to fire. But, as if hit by an invisible disrupter wave, my ship, and the rest of the fleet all just shut down… frozen in their places.

  “Sir, we… we can’t do anything. Whoever they were, they had a rather large EM emitter, or something very similar. And it isn’t the usual kind either. Doctor?” I was talking with one of the engineers over the intercom, after power was restored. He was with one of the scientist nerds.
The doctor came to the intercom. “Whatever enhancements they’ve made to that EM wave, it went right through our shield. We thought that we’d made our shields impervious to any form of EM waves, but it looks like we’ve got a new one to contend with.”
I thought about it a moment. A new form of EM? I remember learning about the, like, six-billion known varieties back in school. “So you’re saying we’re helpless against them should they decide to attack?”
“For the moment, yes. But once we get the read-outs on the wave’s frequency, we can adapt our shields to block it. We’ll have to run some tests first to make sure it works though.” With that the intercom closed, I tried to make contact with Earth. The wave must have reached far… All I got was static. After a few minutes Fleet Admiral Jerald, Derigan’s replacement, opened communication with my ship.
“Kyros? Are you there?”
“Yes sir. I assume you felt that too?”
“Indeed we did. What the hell happened over there?”
“You’ll get full details in my report, but basically, we came here, shot off our disrupter wave, and saw a really big ship. Much larger than the Sovereignty, sir.”
“Then what?” Jerald was upset, to say the least.
“Well, we charged our cannons, and waited to see what they would do. Suddenly my whole fleet froze. It was some sort of new EM wave. Some of the nerds are working on getting some reading about it’s frequency so they can improve our shields to block it.”
“You work on that and see if you can track them.”
“Alright sir, we’ll see what we can do. Kyros out.” I closed the comm. with Jerald and ordered the fleet to split into three groups. We’d all stay within sensor range, so that if one group got in trouble it wouldn’t take long to get to them.

  After about three hours of searching the scientists finally had the upgrades for the shields ready. Since we couldn’t just get new shields, we had to change the shield output to a certain degree, meaning our shield were using more power. Several places on the ships had to be shut off, and the groups had to share their power, so that all the ships could have the energy needed. Fighters and the like couldn’t use the shield upgrade though. That’s for another day when we’re on Earth. So, we were of to see if the new enhancements would work.

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  It had been almost six hours since we had started the search and still nothing. The disrupter waves were being emitted at a constant rate of one waver per second. Nice and steady, but nothing had shown up. We were going to search for another hour, and then head back, since it’d be 00:00 AM at that point. But it wasn’t yet, so we continued on.

  Finally, after maybe forty-five minutes we got something. Group D-2 had detected on object. It was as if the corner of a large object passed through the wave. I opened a com with the lead ships of Group D-2. “Follow it in the direction it went, we’ll come to you.” I ordered Group D-3, and my group to head to Group D-2’s location. They weren’t far. We got there in under a minute, and Group D-3 wasn’t far behind. We spread out the entire fleet to cover more area, and hoped we could find whatever passed through the wave. But it seemed hopeless until  almost ten minutes afterward. Another corner showed up.

  We charged the cannons, and armed the torpedo bays as we whipped around. The waves emitted from my fleet again managed to show a large ship. “Prepare to fire on my order.” I wanted to talk to them, but if they were hostile, I didn’t want to get caught off-guard. I ordered the Communications Officer to “Open a channel with the alien vessel.” There was no response to the multiple hails sent out. Suddenly the ship shook and one of the smaller ships shut down. The must have fired another wave. “Fire torpedo bays one through three, and fire the Photon Cannon!” I ordered to all the Battleships. The Frigates and Destroyers fired their Plasma and Ion Cannons, by a command I had given with one of the signals used for easy fleet management. I watched as the torpedoes and beams from the cannons flew toward the alien ship at high speed, hoping that we weren’t starting any kind of war…