Forwarded by the ASC-VSO Posted: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 06:26:42 GMT In: alt.startrek.creative From: "Jay P Hailey" JayPHailey@comcast.net Title: Star Trek: Outwardly Mobile Author: Jay P Hailey (JayPHailey@hotmail.com) Series: MISC - TNG OCs Codes: None Part: 21/335(?) Rating:[PG] Archive: Fine with me, just tell me where. Disclaimer: Paramount owns all things Star Trek. I claim Original Characters and Situations for me. Webpage HTTP://jayphailey.8m.com The Dorians and the Sixians: Episode 21 By Jay P. Hailey And Dennnis Washburn On the signal from Ensign Zuma she said "This is the Starship Harrier. We seek friendly contact. Please respond." A face appeared on the view screen. Blocky, yet humanoid. He had a heavy forehead and a lantern jaw. His eyebrows rode on top of ridges of bone, and his teeth appeared too large for his jaw. He looked like an old stereotype of a cave man. "Ooga blungle meengle wok!" He said. A moment later the universal translator achieved lock on and repeated the statement. "This system is ours! Leave or I kill you!" "I'm sorry, I can't do that." Li'ira sounded reasonable. "May be there's a way to settle this without all the killing?" "I show you killing if you don't leave!" "Are you certain that you don't want to discuss this?" "Yes! What I want is the riches of this system for me and the Sixians! What I want is to see you running or dead! I will do whatever I need to do to get what I want!" The Sixian cut the channel. "The Sixian has changed course to intercept, Commander." Varupuchu said "Contact in thirty seconds." "Raise shields. Go to red alert." Li'ira said. The red alert klaxons signaled the Harrier to battle readiness. "On screen." Li'ira said. The image of the Sixian raider appeared. It was an ugly starship. Through the gaps in its shields, the Harrier could scan every deck and nearly every individual on the ship. The Sixian raider was made out of slabs. The intermix chamber hung off the back of the ship, open to space for cooling and to give the radiation it gave off somewhere else to go. The forward edge of the hull was an armored ram. Laser turrets and missile tubes jutted this way and that. "I am surprised that it can make warp speed at all." Varupuchu said. Graphics detailed the long trail of hot radioactive plasma the ship left behind. All starships leave plasma in their wake. It's a side effect of the engines. This ship was leaving it's own engine plasma. It was using only a portion of what it generated for power and heaving the rest overboard. "The intruder is now within weapons range for long range fire." Zuma said "Hold your fire, Ensign Zuma." Li'ira said. "Missiles arming commander." Varupuchu could see the antimatter travel across the ship to the missile pods, on his sensors. "Jam their sensors, Mr. Varupuchu." Li'ira ordered. Varupuchu made the proper adjustments and then hit a button. "Their sensors are jammed, Commander." He reported. The Sixian fired his missiles. They left the tube and streaked off in random directions. Most of them locked onto the Dorian sun, but two locked onto other missiles. There was a merry chase, ending when one of the missiles caught its target missile and detonated with enough force to eliminate the whole salvo. The Sixian ship kept closing. "Evasive" Li'ira ordered Spaat threw the Harrier into a complicated loop to evade the Sixian ship. He need not have bothered. The Sixian ship kept bearing down on the position where the Harrier had been. "Bring us along side." Li'ira ordered. "Drop sensor jamming and hail them." Li'ira said. The cave man appeared again "What!?" He demanded. "We have been hit by laser fire, Commander. No damage, no weakening of our shields." Zuma reported. Li'ira nodded and turned to the Sixian. "Your weapons can not harm us. Our weapons are superior. Are you sure you don't want to discuss it?" Li'ira asked "Save us all time and drop dead!" The Sixian howled and cut the channel. "Nice guys," Li'ira said. "They have increased power to laser cannons. They are overheating now. One of them has exploded." Zuma reported. "The intruder is coming about." Varupuchu warned. "They are charging their cannon." "Evasive." Li'ira said. Spaat again threw the Harrier into a spin designed to fool fire prediction computers. "They have fired." Zuma reported "It was some kind of phaser cannon. Very primitive. It would have struck us like one of our phaser banks set on twenty percent power." Li'ira said "Could that have penetrated our shields?" "No, Commander." "They are recharging. Estimate another shot in five minutes" Varupuchu said. "Bring us up on their tail. Arm phasers. ready for a broad focus firing pattern. I want to damage their shields more than their ship." The Harrier came about and smoothly glided up to the rear of the Sixian ship. The Sixian ship began to thrust violently from one side to the other in an attempt to lose the Harrier. It was unsuccessful. "Phasers ready, Commander." Zuma said "Fire." Li'ira said The phasers of the Harrier lashed out against the Sixian shields. There was a fireworks display as the phasers played all over the facing side of the Sixians ship. The Sixian ship shuddered and stopped flinging itself from side to side, suddenly. "They are coming about." Spaat reported. "They are firing lasers at overload levels. No damage." Zuma said "They are about ready to fire their phaser cannon again." Varupuchu added. "Tactical, tune phasers for best effect against the Sixian shields. Target weapons, including that phaser cannon, and fire to disable them." Li'ira said "Aye, Commander." Zuma made the adjustments quickly. The Sixian ship fired its phaser cannon, also overloading the amount of energy put into it. The Harrier bucked and rocked slightly. "We've been hit. Our forward shield has been slightly weakened. No other damage." Varupuchu said. "Phasers ready, Commander." Zuma said "Fire." The phasers of the Harrier, tied to the sensors and the computers fired a rapid set of pulses. All over the Sixian ship tubes and turrets began to explode. The phasers of the Harrier went through the shields of the Sixian ship as though they did not exist. The Sixian ship lurched and tried to dodge the incoming fire, but it was far too late. One more burst tunneled into the hull of the Sixian ship and chewed into the phaser cannon. Soon the cannon was out of action. The Sixian ship had been totally disarmed. "Hail them again." Li'ira said. The cave man came back on the screen. "Now we're going to talk." Li'ira said "Talk while you still can, Dorian! Now that we have found an enemy worth our mettle, the whole might of the Sixian Empire will descend upon you! No matter how many terror ships you now have, our dreadnoughts will defeat them! Our fire will rain down from your skies! Your oceans will run pink with your blood! Our deaths will be avenged! No Dorian shall survive!" The Sixian was shouting and spittle flew from his mouth. "Who said anything about killing you?" Li'ira said mildly. "What!?" The Sixian seemed to enjoy shouting. "We want you to leave the Dorians in peace." Li'ira said patiently. "Err..." the Sixian got a sneaky look on his face "Okay!" "I'm sorry?" Li'ira couldn't believe her eyes. "We won't shoot any more Dorians! None at all! Can we leave now?!" The Sixian was trying his best to look innocent and failing miserably. "If you promise not to hurt anyone, you may leave." Li'ira said. The bridge crew of the Harrier exchanged incredulous looks as, in the background, a male Sixian voice began to guffaw. "Oh, we won't! We promise!" The lead Sixian said, while other Sixians struggled to keep their laughter silent in the background. "Okay. Off you go, then." Li'ira waved vaguely out of the Doria system. "Eternal Peace!" The grinning Sixian shouted on the screen. The laughter was louder now. "Eternal friendship between us and the Dorians!" He cut off the channel as the laughter broke loose. The Harrier escorted the Sixian Raider for a short distance. Then the raider went to Warp three and was out of the Dorian System in less than two hours. The Harrier returned to orbit around Doria III and Li'ira made her report. -*- I watched the report back aboard the Harrier, in the briefing room. "Uh oh." Was my first comment. "What I'll be wanting to know is how a bunch of sixth graders got ahold of starships." McTague said. "Well, here's my dilemma. We can either stay here and be the Dorian defense force, or we can violate the Prime Directive and give the Dorians enough technology to even up the gap." I said. Li'ira said "What your preference?" "Number three." I said. "Number three?" Tillean said. 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