It had been 16 hours since the Arizona took its nearly fatal damage. Captain Wallace understood that 6 Jem'Hadar battleships were waiting outside the nebula that he was using to ascess the situation and repair the damage. It seemed he was in a no win situation. His orders were to take out as many enemy as possible then ram the last ship.
However Commander Mallory had made a makeshift cloaking device. It would only buy a few minutes before being detected by the enemy squadron.
[Captain Wallace, we have auxllary power restored. Shields at 79%. Propulsion is capable for warp speed of Warp 2.8.] The comm channel came alive with Commander Garek Loran. Wallace's trusty XO. He was acting Engineer since Murphy was badly hurt.
Wallace leaned back in his chair and gave a deep sigh of relief. " Ok, prepair to move out." Richard looked around the bridge that was still showing signs of battle damage. He saw the face of many scared young officers.
"Razek take us out at 3/4 impulse power. Mallory raise shields. Activate the cloak when we reach the edge of the Nebula. " Wallace leaned forward and looked at the view screen as he saw the nebula ending and space starting.
Mallory ran her fingers over the bridge console and the ship began to cloak. Razek yield from his station. " We are 24 meters, 68 meters from the nebula. "
Then a jolt shook the Arizona, and the bridge lights flickered on and off. Wallace turned to see if Mallory had an explaination. She shook her head not knowing why the Jem"hadar were firing at them.
"Alright reroute power from the cloak to shields. I am sick of running and hiding. Were gonna make a stand." Wallace stood up and walked over to tactical two. Upon looking at the tactical display he saw three Jem"hadar ships coming in. Richard quickly targeted two ships with two torpedos each. The Arizona torpedo bays fired four blue streaks.
The Jem"hadar ships took both shots. One exploded in a huge fireball, the other floated lifeless in space. Sparks and the explosions erupted on the bridge. Mallory relayed the damage report.
"Aft shields at 65%. Port shields down to 61%."
The Arizona then shook hard knocking a few people to the deck. Razek relayed the enemies positions to Wallace who was trying to lock onto the enemy.
"Sir three Enemy ships bearing 045, Mark 6."
"I know Ensign." Wallace said getting fustraited as he fired a volley of tropdeos at one ship causing it to explode.
"Damn the tubes are not firing. Garek the torpedo tubes are not firing." Wallace said tapping his comm badge as the ship rocked really hard.
[Sir were having short outs throught the entire ship. I can't get the problem fixed yet.]
"You better or were dead in three minutes."
"Sir another ship aproaching."
Well Richard you always said you hope to of died in Battle here is your dream come true. Wallace thought as he read four ships on the screen.
The fourth ship then fired a huge burst at two of the Jem'Hadar ships and destroyed them. Wallace scanned the ship attacking the Jem'Hadar.
"It's one of ours." The bridge erupted in cheers. Wallace walked down to his chair as the last Jem'Hadar ship blew up into a million pieces.
"Hail them Mister Razek."
A young Lieutenant JG appeared on the View screen. [Captain I am Lieutenant David McAllister by some sort of fate I am Captain of this ship The Valiant. Do you need any help]
"Yes Lieutenant I need some medical help, and damage control teams. We took quite a pounding. And thank you. For the love of god thanks." Wallace fell into his chair and leaned his head back and was never so thankful for this day.