Machines and Might - Part Two

Posted on Thu Mar 12th, 2020 @ 12:04am by Captain Marcus Duval & Commander Beth Woerner & Lieutenant Commander Tan'ato Tejera & Lieutenant Commander Shorin Gal'jaridd & Lieutenant Commander Kaitlin Nesbitt & Lieutenant Tyla Shrikewing & Lieutenant Rtas "Halfjaw" 'Vadum'ee & Captain Annalee Stevens & Lieutenant Michael Nelson & Lieutenant Commander Jacqui Briggs & Lieutenant JG Sarah Ashley & Master Chief Petty Officer Chen Vaxx

Mission: Mission 85: My Soul's in Arms, and Eager for the Fray
Location: Various Locations - USS Manticore
Timeline: 0910Hrs - May 12th, 2392

Commander Marcus Duval turned his attention back to the tactical display, he narrowed his eyes as a small portion split off from the main fleet and began moving off on another heading, away from the main battle fleet. "Helm, stay with them, order destroyer unit three to remain with us."

Master Chief Chen Vaxx, nodded his head as he went to work. "On it skipper." was his only response as Woerner leaned in close to Duval. "Skipper. It could be a trap."

"I know," Duval answered. "Halfjaw. You set?"

"Yes, Shipmaster. I am ready as are my weapons." came the rather dry response from Rtas Vadum'ee who regarded the half dozen fleeing Klingon ships with a look of disdain, suddenly a Klingon battleship dropped its cloak and opened fire on the USS Manticore and her half dozen destroyer escorts, all of which scattered before returning fire with their own heavy quantum missiles, all of which targeted the battleship which was busy handing out several times that abuse onto the Manticore.

The battleship ignored the destroyers who were more like mosquitos rather than a serious credible threat as Manticore found itself facing the full fury of the Klingons attack. "Evasive maneuvers. Fire everything!" Duval yelled over the thunderous din of weapons fire striking his ship's shields.

Halfjaw didn't hesitate as dozens of missiles left their racks and shot through the void into the battleship's shields, however, the Klingons now had the advantage and both sides knew it. "Get us, the hell out of here!" Woerner cried a moment later.

Meanwhile, the half dozen destroyers found themselves under the guns of the half dozen Klingons who were fleeing earlier, one of them suddenly exploded thanks to all the Federation destroyers targeting it all at once while the Manticore began shooting at everything in range when a second and a third Klingon ship both exploded back to back followed by a Federation Destroyer being demolished, then another Klingon which died by ramming a Federation New Orleans class destroyer, killing both ships at the same time with a massive explosion, energy released from both ships.

Duval watched the battle rage around his ship and he knew time was running out. "Helm, status?"

"We're boxed in skipper." Lieutenant Michael Nelson, the ship's chief Conn officer responded, a tone of panic in his voice.

"Then unbox us please Lieutenant," Duval responded in his usual dry tone of voice, as the tactical situation got worse as the last two Federation destroyers began calling for help, only to find themselves being jammed so they both opened fire on all of the Klingon ships with everything they had before one of the two turned to flee, shooting away into warp doing a micro jump to get away as the second ended up taking fire, the crew tried to abandon ship but only about two-thirds escaped before the last Federation destroyer rammed itself into the battleship, causing massive damage to the enemy warship.

Manticore's weapons meanwhile resumed firing, smashing into the three remaining Klingon ships, causing one to explode outright and doing heavy damage to the others, one of which exploded moments later with the third escaping the barrage, before looping around the battleship and joining in the barrage against Manticore.

"Shields are failing." came the voice of Lieutenant Jacqui Briggs, at Operations. "Correction, shields have failed."

Suddenly the alarms started screaming as the comm system beeped. "Warning, Intruder Alert." a voice screamed before it was abruptly silenced.

Duval sighed as several Klingons beamed onto the bridge, he drew his sidearm and shot one of them as the bridge exploded into a crossfire of weapons fire, Klingons attempting to capture the Manticore and the Federation personel, desperately attempting to defend their ship. People on both sides went down, wounded as the Klingons were almost going out of their way to avoid inflicting excessive casualties but this fight was just getting started.