Carrier Fiasco - Part Two

Posted on Thu Mar 5th, 2020 @ 4:53am by Commander Marissa Cartwright & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi & Fleet Captain Vrr'Srhann'rr 'Siranna'

Mission: Mission 62: Its Hour Come 'Round
Location: Roanoke Battlegroup - Orbiting Niven
Timeline: 1000Hrs - January 27th, 2392

Captain Vrr'Srhann'rr slowly blinked her eyes as she regarded the display before her. "We start this pathetic excuse for an exercise in ten minutes... is all ready?"

Commander Marissa Cartwright nodded her head. "The Comet is fully operational. We're just waiting on the Fairfax and the Miami."

"Very well... Inform the other ships in the group." The Caitian female responded evenly as she sat down in her chair which was off to the left of the Captain's chain on the bridge of the USS Comet.

The responses came back as Commander Cartwright tapped the display next to her command chair. "Admiral, we are ready to go."

"Very well... You may proceed." Bremer's tone came across as smug which grated on Cartwright's nerves, she paused a moment to give the order. "Also, make sure all the ships in the battlegroup can hear us whether they are involved... or not."

The Destroyers all began moving into position before the battle was joined, in the end however they all fell before the Carrier and her starfighters but they didn't go down without a fight as they all remained more or less together, while swatting down half of the Carriers three hundred or so fighters.

Bremer smiled. "Excellent. I will call that a successful fight." he paused. "Contact the rest of the ships in the battlegroup, tell them to move to round two..."

The communications officer hurried to obey as while he hated Bremer, he kept it to himself.

Teva and Zuko both got the incoming order form the Richard, which both decided to outright refuse, with Zuko being the spokesperson," Sorry my own ship and Roanoke are far too busy with our humanitarian mission to do this, so No."

Bremer growled. "How dare you both speak to me like that."

"I will speak to you how I choose." came the voice of a female voice. "You have placed all of us in danger. You are downright incompetent and I will not participate in your ego-stroking..." there was a soft sigh. "Oh how pleasant it must be for you... to have a mind unburdened by thought.." before L'Ruan shut off the com system

Her executive officer smiled. "Remind me... to never piss you off.."

"It is so noted my good man." before the pregnant Vulcan sat down in her command chair. "Lets continue our patrol mission."

Meanwhile Bremer seethed. "What is WITH these fools... Do they not know of who I AM!"

Holiday answered. "No.. and I don't think they care either."

Bremer sighed. "Alaska. You can move into position anytime."

Teyo, in a not so polite manner, replied. "Hey buddy, I have reports from my pilots that we have possible cloaked contacts in the system, and right now, there are not enough ships on the line for screening for them all, so how about you drop your stupid little exercise and put our Destroyers back on the line before something really bad happens."

"No. My mission here has priority." Bremer growled. "Does nobody here ever follow orders!"

Holiday turned his head. "They do have their own mission and they do have issues, we should be assisting them with those issues.. rather then them assisting us."

Bremer's temper fused white hot. "You're revealed of your command, I will command this ship myself. Get. Off. MY. Bridge!"

Holiday shrugged. "Fine..." and with that he turned and walked off of the bridge in silence, however he had no intention of going down without a fight. "Computer, lock out all my command codes. Authorization Holiday Sigma One Nine Five Alpha."

"Command lockout in effect." the computer responded.

Teval decided to get the situation resolved as quickly as possible, Contacted Ryuukei. "Hey Ryuukei, can you provide on battleships or battlecruiser, a large cruiser and three heavy cruisers for this damn exercise that Bremer wants."

Ryuukei, whom had already heard of what was going on, nodded. "OK, I'll bring Ryazar's Shield, Guardian of Kio and three Heavy cruisers then."

Thanks" Teval replied, then he switched comm's to Bremer's ship, " Alright, I will give you Courageous for this assignment and five Akurian ships to fill in for our battlegroup."

Yamaguchi who was sitting in her command chair raised an eyebrow. "So.. I got detailed to help in this excuse." she sighed softly. "I am going to murder Bremer in his sleep.." she paused. "I might murder Teval too."

Commander Morales laughed softly but he wasn't sure if Torilla meant it or she was joking, however the com system was not active at the time so she wasn't able to be heard. "Open the comline to the group." she paused. "I am here.... Admiral." her voice was filled with malice and cruelty.

Meanwhile over on Ryazars Shield's bridge. Talon Yamaguchi listened to the com chatter. "This guy needs to learn some manners.. Several of my relatives has spoken to me about this guy... all of them universally hate his guts too... Even Rachael hated him.."

She listened as Bremer began rattling off his terms and instructions for the engagement, she then sighed. "This guy... is a fucking moron. Even my children are smarter then this..."

Ryuukei listen carefully to the terms, looking for a loophole, and quickly noticed one. Ryuukei looked at Talon and commented," I take it Bremer is unaware of the effective range of our guns."

"I assume yes." Talon slowly grinned. "Can I fire the guns at him?" as she almost jumped up and down. "Please?" she inquired, an impish smile on her face.

Meanwhile on the USS Comet. "Did Idiot-boy do what I think he just did?"

Cartwright nodded. "Yes... he did." as she smiled while she regarded the map on the screen before her. "Admiral, we are ready."

"Excellent. You will get a commendation for this... and if I have my way. a Promotion too." as Cartwright nodded while thinking 'Sure, not that it would be worth anything.' but she kept her mouth shut.

Meanwhile Talon Yamaguchi smiled. "Shall we proceed?" she indicated the map. "I want to .... abuse him..." she paused. "did I say that out loud?"

Ryuukei then checked the range on heavy quantum missiles then contacted Siranna. "Hey Siranna, you deliberately held back from firing heavy quantum missiles at him didn't you, considering that he placed the starting point well within range."

Siranna's response was simple. "Mmm... It never really came up.." she responded. "I assume we shall devour him quickly?"

Talon looked at Ryuukei. "Wait.. Who's that?" she inquired. "I like how she thinks.." as Talon assumed the speaker was female.

Ryuukei responded to Siranna first," Yeah, once the exercise starts, order all your ships to open fire, I'll do the same to mine, lets teach dimwit a lesson."

"On it." Siranna responded.

Bremer nodded. "Alright.. Begin..." he turned his head. "Take out the destroyers first..."

Siranna meanwhile smiled. "Target Bonhomme Richard, all weapons, all ships do the same."

"Sir. We're being targeted.."

"What!" Bremer responded. "How!k, they don't have anything that can threaten us!"

"They all just launched dozens of warheads at us sir." as they watched Bonhomme Richards fighters swarm the warheads, sacrificing themselves and stripping the carriers defenses in one smooth motion.

Talon smiled. "All units, hit him again... maximum barrage!"

All the ships carried out her order and resumed firing their warheads, unleashing full salvos on the now helpless Carrier.

Ryuukei then contacted his ships," All Akurian vessels open fire with main batteries."

Ryazar's Shield immediately opened fire, sending 24 heavy 200 cm lance shells at her target, while Guardian of Kio followed up with her 150's, and the three heavy cruisers quickly fired their 125's. While Richard's fighters could shoot down heavy quantum missiles, they here helpless to stop the heavy lance shells of the Akurian vessels, as defensive weapons fire simply bounce off the shells thick skins. Bonhomme Richard soon found her shields being withered away at a frightening pace, especially once all the Akurian ships secondaries opened up.

Bremer turned. "Get us the hell away from it."

"Shields failing... shields have failed...." the tactical officer intoned like he was handling a drink order. "Armor has failed... and so have we..."

"What!" Bremer responded in disbelief.

"We're dead sir." the tactical officer responded, as if he was bored.

Ryuukei shook his head in disbelief as the big federation carrier ran as fast as it could, passing near the Ferasian controlled Vo'Quv class carrier. However before he could say anything, Multiple torpedoes appeared on sensors. Bonhomme Richard had only seconds of warning time before over a dozen torpedoes slammed into the ship, and those warheads where most certainly live. Another dozen torpedoes passed right by the massive carrier, heading straight for the Ferasian carrier. However now alert to the threat, the surrounding Akurian vessels opened up with their defensive weapons, destroying the remaining warheads before they found their mark.

Meanwhile the crew on the USS Relentless was caught completly flatfooted as Kira Antilles, calmly and with a measure of resolve ordered the exercise program removed, within seconds her ship was ready for battle since the crew were already at battlestations, she began the hunt for the cloaked ships.

When the ship shook. Captain Jon Holiday slapped his combadge. "Holiday to bridge, report?"

"Captain, we've got heavy damage, those warheads were live... they seemed to come from nowhere."

"You are relieved-" Bremer responded however the various people were now ignoring him speaking, the Exec spoke next. "Sir, we need you in Engineering... they're reporting they need help, the Chief's dead. we've got heavy damage down there."

"I'm on my way."

Meanwhile over on the bridge of the Courageous. Torilla Yamaguchi turned to her tactical officer. "Talk to me goose?"

"I got a location for those warheads. firing now." as they watched three phaser blasts streak into space, not hitting anything. "Alright. sending out a massive Tachyon pulse." Lt Commander Serrax T'soon'ah added. "I have targets. three of them... looks like two birds of prey and a old K'Tinga cruiser."

"Open fire... try to disable them if you can." Yamaguchi responded. "Tell all allied ships to do the same." the Halanan female added.

Suddenly there were several flashes of light as three ships dropped from warp, one of them was a Century and the other two were Kelvins, all three moved into position and began shooting as soon as they got targets.

On the Bonhomme Richard. The scene in Engineering looked like a scene from hell. "Status report?" Holiday inquired.

"Sir its a right mess down here, the port impulse engine has been destroyed and we're still getting damage reports from the starboard drives.."

"Are we still mission capable Master Chief?" Holiday inquired like he was reading the sports page of the Starfleet holonews rather then a life or death situation.

"Negative skipper. We're too badly fucked up for that... Sorry sir.. but were going back to the shipyard to fix this... assuming we make it at all."

"Holiday to bridge. Commander Kuznetsov. Land our birds and ask one of our allies to tow of off the line please.."

"No this is MY ship and-" was as far as he got before Holiday's temper fused to ultraviolet hot. "Carry out your orders Commander."

"I'm already on it Keptin." came the Russian female officers response. "Landing fighters now."

Holiday turned his efforts back to the Master Chief. "You're now the acting Chief Engineer. I need to attend to my ships command structure.
You're in charge here... To go it Chief."

"I'm on it skipper. Thanks." and with that the Mater Chief turned and went back into the hell that Engineering had become while Holiday went up to the bridge of his ship. "Division Admiral Bremer. I'm placing you under arrest for dereliction of duty and reckless endangerment. More charges will be forthcoming at a later time.." he turned. "Lieutenant Springer, take this man away... if he opens his mouth, stun him and have him beamed to a cell, any cell in the Brig.." Holiday ordered.

Jason Springer nodded before he drew his sidearm. "Please to not make trouble Admiral... You can go peacefully or in peaces, the choice is yours.."

"I have a lot of friends at Starfleet Command. Captain... you just made an enemy today."

"You will need them ... Mister Bremer." Holiday responded before he turned his attention to the matter at hand. He had noticed that damage control had not been deployed so he decided to start there. "Deploy damage control and lets save as many as we can. Hail the other ships and let them know our status and request aid... then apologize for our conduct up to this point..."

The Exeter moved in close as she gently stabilized the massive carrier with her tractor beams while her two escorts came in to assist with efforts.

The USS Relentless turned her bow so she could assist the Exeter with her efforts to assist the carrier before Relentless moved in close so she could extend her shields around the now crippled carrier.

Several Akurian vessels fired their secondaries at the klingon ships while the massive battleship Valikir's Flame moved in to assist the stricken Bonhomme Richard. Meanwhile Zuko, whom was observing, send his orders to Siranna, ordering her destroyers to fan out and search for any more Klingon ships.

Nevanzi did the same with the Akurian fleet, ordering multiple destroyer and fleet escort squadrons to search for additional Klingon vessels while the capital ships and cruisers formed a defensive ring around the Ferasian vessels.

Ryazar's Shield meanwhile joined the chase against the three Klingon vessels, using her battlecruiser speed to keep up, when several more Klingon ships got flushed out, a Negh'Var and two Vor'Cha's, which all three attempted to lay covering fire. However the Negh'var quickly found itself grabbing the full attention of the powerful Akurian battlecruiser, it barely lasted two minutes before being reduced to a floating wreck at the hands of the Akurians guns.

One of the Vor'cha fell beneath Exeter's guns while the second fell to the Courageous, one of the Birds of Prey sped away before Cleveland blasted her apart with her forward torpedo launcher batteries. Royal Oak finished the already damaged K'Tinga which was limping away, before the last ship fell to a warhead launched from the USS Dreamcrusher.