The Visitor

The explosions ripped through ship surprising a few crewman around their stations. The attack by the Zeratul have caught the Leviathan again in a web of treachery and conflict. This time it was the Proletarians, who have concentrated their attack on the advancing Zeratul, and the Zeratul who want nothing more than to see the Leviathan infested and succumbed to the Overmind. However, Devore and his valiant crew fought hard. Red alert klaxon and the sound of bulkheads rupturing, began to way heavily on the nerves of steel.

Captain. We just lost weapons..." Yelled Grafton at Tactical. "....Shields are at 23%."

"Damn it !!!! Where is the Ronin ?" Devore yelled holding on tightly to his chair. "Reroute all emergency power to the shield emitters. I am getting really tired of these insects. Does anyone have a can of Raid." The crew smiled amidst the danger. Leave it to the Captain to add humour to a unforegoing situation. "Brayden head for that grouping of Overlords."

"Dad!... I mean sir, that will put us through the heaviest concentration of M'lisks."

"I know. Leviathan to Hellcat."

[Go ahead]

"Are you in position ?"

[As best as we are going to be.]

"Okay. Blow us a hole."

[Aye Captain.]

The Hellcat, that had launched moments before the first wave, fought gallantly. It pulse phasers cut through the combined M'lisks and Dragons as easy if they were mosquitos.

"Mister Grafton, give them cover. Fire torpedoes maximum yield full spread."

The photon fired and after it left the torpedo tubes spread to a butterfly pattern. Tens of M'lisks were hit by the salvo of torpedoes exploding to bio debris.

On the viewscreen the Hellcat was weaving within the M'lisk it fired its microquantum torpedoes and her pulse phasers, but it only seemed to make the M'lisks angry they began to swarm on the Hellcat.

[Um Captain, we can use some help here.]

"Fire phaser and cut them a hole."

"Captain !" Shaka yelled from her station. :"I think the SS drive is back up."

"That is the best news I have heard in a long time," Toran yelled.

"Yes. Very good. T'Kul. You have better have me some information about these guys..."

"No sir. I don't. Section 31 hasn't anything on the Zeratul." She responded.

"Great! Where is the Ronin !??" Devore yelled again.

"Captain," Gordon responded. "She is coming in from the Proletarian flag ship, but I am reading a massive surge from the Proletarian. It is even as if it on....."

Suddenly the flag ship exploded. The shock wave was felt moments later and hit the Leviathan. With the weakened shields, nothing stood in the way of the various repercussions. Systems began to explode, and wiring fell to the ground.

"That shock wave just knocked out our weapons." Grafton yelled banging his fists on the console.

"What about the Zeratul ?" Devore asked.

"They have lost about 25% of their force, but the Overlords are still approaching." Gordon said.

"Do we have any weapons ?"

"One phaser array."

Devore sat down and looked at the view screen. Massive waves of Overlords came towards the Leviathan. He pressed the intership com system. "All hands this is the Captain. Prepare for high speed manoeuvres. The inertial dampeners will be cut back and all primary power will be rerouted. I will need all non essential crew members and families to the interior levels and sections of the ship."

"Captain ?" Toran said puzzled. "What are you going to do ?"

Instead of answering, Devore began to bellow orders. "Take the exterior dampeners off line and reroute power to engines and shields. All secondary systems I want off line and reroute that power life support. Take the SS drive off line and reroute its energy to the phasers..."

"Captain ! I just..." Shaka retorted.

"Just do it."

"That will probably blow out the array Captain." Toran said.

"I know. Just trust me. Gordon reconfigure the deflector array to emit a highly localised solar radiation."

"A flame thrower."

"Yes."

"On my mark Mister Taline, I want you put all energy into the warp core and engage full impulse."

[Understood.]

"Did you get that Brayden ?"

"Aye sir."

"All hands this is the Captain. Prepare to engage the enemy. Secure all emergency bulkheads and systems, and brace yourselves." Devore announced over the com system.

"All departments reports ready," Toran informed the Captain.

"Good. Mister Grafton where are the Zeratul ?"

"Bearing 100 mark 3, 1,000 km and closing fast." Grafton announced.

*Good!* Devore thought.

"All necessary hands ! NOW !" Devore yelled pulling his armrest around his thighs.

The Leviathan quickly lurched towards the approaching brood forcing many crewmember down on to the deck or against wall. The inertial dampeners were reinforced but so much as to protect them from this type of manoeuvre. In a matter of seconds the ship stopped, and the deflector array illuminated brightly as a halogen lamp. The intense beam that was generated fired towards the Overlords measured about 75 meters across. Suddenly the beam shifted to the right as the Leviathan's port nacelle produced a little thrust that began to rotate the Akira class starship on her y-axis. M'lisks and Overlords began to vaporise as the intense beam came within 10 meters of them. Inside the ship, systems began to blow throwing crewmembers up and over there stations.

[Captain....] Taline announced. [....I can't hold it anymore. The warp core is going to overload.]

"I may be able to give us a few more minutes," Shaka yelled as she tapped her console. "There !" The beam grew more intense. Just as Shaka began to transfer more, the console exploded sending shrapnel in cardinal directions. She was sent flying back hitting Grafton.

"Shaka !," Grafton yelled after he regained his composer. He knelt down to the limp Andorian and felt her pulse. "Captain she's dead."

"Damn it." Devore said under his breath.

[Captain. We have to shut down now, or will have to jettison the core.] Taline yelled.

Devore looked out on the viewscreen and saw that half of the Zeratul were vaporised but just behind the various remnants of the brood, a new wave came. "I don't believe it."

[We just lost our last EPS relay.] Suddenly the entire ship went dark. All lighting both interior and exterior went out. Devore and his crew now sat in the dark.

"Get life support back on!" Devore yelled. *Oh boy. I really did it this time.*

After about a minute secondary systems that still had power came on, and life support was reinitialised. However in the darkness, Devore couldn't help but to think something was wrong. An eerie feeling came over him as he sat in the dark, clenching his arm chair. "Get those lights back on !" Devore bellowed. Finally after a few more seconds, Gordan announced that the minimal systems were operational. "Good get them up." Silent mode lights came on and on the bridge sat Williams, infested, at his side was his two Zeirg and a H'lisk.

"Hello Devore. You lose." Williams said with a sinister smile.