Babylon 5: Flowers Of Fate (Fusion with Stargate and Robotech)

Flowers Of Fate, Arc 1 Prologue

"It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. For Terrans. An Age where we discovered who our true friends were, even if we could not always see it when we first met. An Age of blood, and hope. When we learned who we truly are, and when we found home." -From the memoirs of General John Sheridan.

Earth, 2247

Everything was agony. Her systems came back online so slowly, but she knew she would recover eventually. Of course, once she'd figured out her location that same damage was enough to prevent her from panicking. Her desperate blind jump had sent her to the home galaxy of the Ancestors. The Vorlons would have sensed her presence, and the overgrown energy squids would surely react. Though from the sound of the locals who were helping her repairs, they already had. These people were nice, much kinder than her old crew had been. They greatly resembled her original builders, those who now lived in the Higher Planes. Despite how their interactions with the other locals had shaped them, something in her processor cores told her this new version of them had potential.

Unfortunately, they were learning from her too slowly. The Vorlon's programming was too deep in their genetics for them to do anything except rebuild her exterior hull. On the bright side, they were a tenacious race. She was sure they'd come up with something.

Earth, April 2247

In her office in Earthdome, President Elizabeth Levy looked over the report. "So Dr Ariel Hanson was right. The Visitor set them off."

Sitting across from her, General Lefcourt nodded. "Yes ma'am. As you know 5 years ago an alien ship emerged from some sort of FTL and crashed on Earth, releasing some sort of energy pulse. After that, Psi-Corps suddenly disbanded as the Telepaths started trying to fit in more with other people, and even those who didn't originally have Telepathic abilities started gaining them. The technology aboard is far in advance of what we have, and while it is incredibly user friendly and switched all the displays to English in hours of boarding, it's 8000 meters long. It took months just to get the auto-repair systems back online. They've sped up reconstruction, which means we could launch it sometime next year. From the data we recovered from the Minbari Cruiser their leader, Dukhat, was visited by a race called the Vorlons. They said we had been "contaminated" by the "Flowers" somehow. It might have something to do with all the spores that were leaking from the ship for the first few months, but they haven't had any apparent negative effect on Humans.

All we know about those spores is that they spread fast. Within a week, Earth was covered in those things, and any ship that entered the atmosphere just carried them back up to the ships in orbit. When they take root in pretty much every environment that's not the vacuum of space, they grow into three-petalled flowers that emit Zero-Point Energy. We've got people investigating, but everyone's got the war on their minds. I'm having to do some pretty grey backdoor deals just to keep all my people in place. As I've said, they've had no apparent effect otherwise."

"They did something, General. Apparently it was enough for these Vorlons to have the Minbari spontaneously cross the border and start exterminating every Human ship, outpost, or individual they can find. Our current ships can't lock on to them, and anyone who's tried getting some hard data on what the Visitor can do is either sitting in a straightjacket screaming and trying to their claw their eyes out, or ended up unconscious for a few minutes and then got up perfectly fine. Pretty much the entirety of the latter are the ones now working on the ship. Some guys tried destroying it, and they didn't even scratch the paint. Still, they've managed to recover some interesting devices from one of the outer holds.

With respect, Madam President, we can't win against the Minbari. But with devices recovered from the Visitor Captain Gloval and his people have come up with a plan that ensures as many people as possible can be evacuated." He placed an orb the size of his fist on the table. "With this."

Levy gestured for him to continue.

April, 2247

Captain John Sheridan sat in General Lefcourt's office, wondering what was going on. Literally every Human left in known space had been evacuated back to Earth, even some of the Martians. Though a lot of that particular group had also stayed behind and tried to declare neutrality.

"John. Time is short, so I'll be as succinct as possible. You won't be returning to the Lexington, she's being scrapped. Instead, you were going to be taking command of the Excalibur, a Nova Class ship. It's been retrofitted with the new Protoculture Power Cells we got from the Odyssey. You were to be assigned to the Exodus Project, escorting the Odyssey to wherever Captain Gloval ordered.

This is a Temporal Translocation Beacon. Two of them were recovered from the asteroid belt over 90 years ago. Captain Gloval had scanners taken from the Visitor, which we have renamed the Odyssey, analyze it, and we believe they can be used to pull every Human on Earth to the other. Unfortunately, the man fell victim to a Minbari scout force last week, so we're having to reorganize things a bit. As such, you are now Captain of the Odyssey. Your escorts will be the Excalibur under your first wife, Captain Elizabeth Sheridan, the Hyperion Class Cruisers Pegasus and Daedalus under Captains Roy Fokker and Steven Caldwell, and the Nova Class Dreadnought Zeus under Captain Jeffrey Sinclair. You'll be promoted to Commodore due to the fact that you have the most experience fighting, and surviving, the Minbari. The five of you will be ordered to get the second of these devices to somewhere far away from the reach of the Minbari and activate it. This will pull every Human on Earth through time and space. Earth itself will likely be reduced to rubble, but at least Humanity will survive.

Here's the file on the Odyssey's capabilities. It has some sort of FTL Drive which warps space around it, allowing travel across hundreds of thousands of Light Years in hours. Once you find a safe place, use the device and then we'll plan how to rebuild."

He nodded, now seeing why his second wife, Anna, had been reassigned to a desk job on Earth so suddenly. Their other Third, Elizabeth, had been just as confused as he'd been. "Understood, Sir."

Earth, May 2248

At last, she was back online. Not 100% without a week or two in a proper drydock, but she could muster enough power to go along with her new people's crazy plan. Unfortunately for them both, she liked crazy. Now to find out if her shields would hold out long enough, especially since a fleet belonging to her second masters, the crazed slaves of those her builders had exiled, would emerge from Warp within the hour. And... she released a string of profanity as she saw a second cluster of Warp Signatures minutes behind the first.

Valen'Tha, Minbari Fleet, Hyperspace, Sol System, May 2248

Dukhat, Leader of the Minbari Federation, could still hear the commands of the Vorlons all these years later. He had been preparing for an expedition for Z'Ha'Duum when a Vorlon ship had emerged from Hyperspace. He'd been only too happy to meet with them, and now their commands were burned into his mind.

"A contaminant has entered the Circle. Destroy it. Exterminate all who are infected."

He had obeyed. When Delenn had questioned it he had her skinned and eaten by the Grey Council. Her skull now had a fitting place on his shoulder. The Vorlons had given their orders, and they would be obeyed. Hopefully, 20,000 ships was enough.

Sol System, May 2248

The Vorlon Kosh Ulnek wondered how it had come to this. Despite all their efforts, the second evolution of the Gate Builders, who's devices they had taken great pains to remove, had come into contact with a warship of their ancestors. The next universe would have to take care of itself, they had to destroy the Humans now before they could grow powerful enough to end the debate.

Milky Way Galaxy, May 2248

On the bridge of a gargantuan alien warship stood two gargantuan beings, one 60 meters in height, the other 28.

"Commander Breetai, we are approaching the third planet of a single-star system. The Ancestral Warship's trail ends here."

"Finally, the Robotech Masters want that Matrix back. But we won't have long, the Invid will be right behind us. Action stations."