Flight Of Prometheus

Chapter 8: Conclusion

General Baker and commander Higgins watched as the front of their new ship breaks off. In the heat of battle they forgot that their ship was now nothing but billions of nano bots. The battle bridge completely separates from the front of the ship and flys off one way. Then the drop pod bay breaks off, then the landing bay, even the main bridge breaks off from the lifted pylon. The four battle drones set up a defensive perimeter around the hanger bays were all of the scared civilians now sit and hope.

"All sections are now in combat defense positions. All weapons waiting and ready." Reports violet. From every section missile pod doors open, platforms raise up threw the skin of the ship, bringing with them every plasma, laser, and frag canon up from the under reaches into combat mode. Fighter squadron 1 threw 5 are all flying in formation around the pieces.

During the last wave of fighters most of 5th squadron had perished before Prometheus could fire their weapons. Captain Darren had just barley survived the sneak attack. He had ordered his men back to the Prometheus for better weapons. What he meant by "better" weapons was his men strapped a nuke to the underside of their fighters. This provides a great deterrent.

"Sir cruiser Magellan is starting its approach from the dark side of the Astroid," reports Anderson. Just then the knife point of a close quarters combat cruisers nose comes into view.

"Hold fire till they are completely exposed." Baker orders. The small ship seems to be playing tricks it exposes the front two turrets and fires a few rounds then pulls back. Reappearing on the other side of the the turrets fire again and retreat. Every time it reappears it comes out somewhere else. All the rounds it fires never come within a thousand meters of any ship. Eventually Darren calls up to the command bridge.

"Sir, mind if I go take care of them?"

"Stay where you are captain," baker orders. And then the lucky shot hits. The twelfth time the Magellan pokes its nose out its volley completely hits and dam near eliminates fourth fighter squadron. Only two piglets manage to survive the attack but they are very badly damaged.

"To hell with this." Darren yells as he pushes his fighter into full acceleration. He is literally chasing after the cruiser. As he looks at his radar he sees that his squad is still with him. "Turn back boys this is my fight." To which the rest of his squad tells him to shut up they are coming too. As 5th squadron rounds the Astroid they are met with gun fire... And a lot of it. Immediately two of his men explode as their nukes are hit. Darren looks around and manages to send a detailed radar message to the Prometheus. He closes on the he cruiser and opens fire. Three men down, he manages to shoot out part of the cruisers sensor grid. Five men down, they manage to take out a quarter of the turrets. Darren is now by himself. He points his fighter right at the bridge and jumps to full burn. Slamming his small fighter into a vessel much larger usually wouldn't do too much to the larger ship, however with the nuke strapped to his belly the collision causes it to go off. Bright light is seem from the other side of the planetoid as Darren's nuke explodes. Even the royal guard fleet is blind for a minute as. Once the light dims down High General VanDalaare is now down 12 fighter squadrons and now a cruiser.

The Magellan had the brains blown off, the bridge and main control unit for the rest of this ship is vaporized. Oxygen and debris are sucked out threw the various holes now puncturing all over the ship. As the ship and crew die the Magellan starts to orbit the planetoid

"Sir, 5th squadron has been completely destroyed," reports Violet. "Darren managed to destroy the Magellan."

"Roger that Violet." Commander Higgins responds.

The next few attacks were along the same lines, cruisers taking pop shots at them. Eventually they would get brave and charge the ship pieces, but they were ultimately destroyed. Alana came up with an amazing idea to have her nano boys eat the enemy cruisers and send them back unmanned as mine decoys. The plan worked wonders. The ships were consumed and transformed. The interiors were hollowed out and rigged to explode. They were then sent back around the planetoid.

VanDelaars fleet was getting smaller and smaller. Even the smaller cruisers were eventually coming back bringing death with them. What was left of his small fleet was a couple of now depleted battle carriers, a few battle ships, and several cruisers. "Sir I have a reading of a fleet approaching us from quadrant B," one of the Hades random officers VanDelaare didn't care to learn their names.

"Good, the outer fleet finally arrived." He hits his comm pad to open comes to them, "Royal Guard Outer fleet this is High General VanDelaare, lock on to my coordinates and combine with me fleet." There is no response. So he repeats the order. Again there is no response. He punches up a few buttons to try and get a visual of his approaching fleet, but there is nothing there. "Radar are you still picking them up?"

"Yes sir, they are at the farthest point of my radar but I am picking up a large blip there slowly approaching."

VanDalaare looks again but still nothing. "Reset you terminal, I'm not seeing anything." The ensigns does as he is told but reports that the blip is still on his screen and slowly getting closer. And then he sees it.

The attacks on the Prometheus just stop. Everyone thinks its some kind of trick so they stay at battle stations for two hours. But no more ships come into their Astroid belt defense grid. Eventually 1st squadron does a flyby around the planetoid to check on the enemy's fleet.

"Sir you really need to see this," Captain Lange says over the commas.

"What is it captain," Baker asks.

"VanDelaares fleet sir, it's destroyed. No sign of the hades but I'm seeing four battle ships, two carriers, and a whole lot of debris from those and a few cruisers. Something happened over here." Alana puts the ship back together, the crews of the fighters land, and the Prometheus moves out from behind the planetoid. The carnage and wreckage is a gruesome sight to behold. Thousand of bodies floating in the vaccine of space, ships with massive holes torn threw them. One of the carriers looks like a giant had snapped it in half.

"Violet, can you detect anything useful we can use in this wreckage," General baker asks.

"No sir," she responds. Every system out there has been fried or destroyed. I can however use the metal to replicate fighters and various other parts if we can stay here for a little while.

"Sure, we can all use a rest anyway. Do what you need to." General Baker heads to his quarters to rest, while various nano its start to take apart the enemy fleet. Consuming them and anything onboard to make them part of the Prometheus.
As general baker lays down he closes his eyes and thinks to himself. "Now what the hell could have done this..."