Taking Space 2

- RETALIATION -

"Attention unidentified station my sensors tell me that an Imperial Corvette has just docked in your docking bay twenty-eight you—."

"What you again?" The communication officer on white sun station declared cutting Lord Maddog off. "I thought you left."

"No, I was graciously giving you time to comply with my request," Michael answered in Lord Maddog voice. "However, your blatant disregard of Lionhearted authority has driven me to a difficult decision. As such this is your final warning hand over all Imperial collaborators involved with the android known as the assassin or I will retaliate."

The communication across all common channels switched from just being voice to full holographic picture and a man in his thirty appeared glaring at the camera quite angrily. "No, you listen here! I've had enough of you and your vague threats. If you and your ancient hunk of junk don't leave this minute I am sending a squad of our interceptors to destroy you and I don't think your group of bleeding heart morons will survive very long after their precious Guardian bites the dust, do you?"

"I see if that's the way you want it you leave me no choice then," Lord Maddog voice answered.

Back aboard Alf's command deck Michael turned to Daniel and nodded.

Daniel adjusted the focus of the starfighters beam cannon, pointed the fighter directly at white sun station, and fired.

A yellow beam shot across the open space and slammed into the station's shields disbursing harmlessly into a brilliant shower of gold orange and violet.

At a distance of close to fifteen thousand galactic space units the particle beam cannon had no effect whatsoever on the station's shields however it did light the station up with a dazzling flash of the light and heat.

"Oh, now you've done it," White sun's communication officer shouted. "You are dead," he declared.

Seconds later three starfighter interceptors the shape of arrowheads launched from one of the stations docking bays, but as they flew out to attack the lone Lionhearted starfighter they suddenly stopped in their tracks seven thousand galactic standard space units away from their target.

"What in the world is that!?" One of the interceptor pilots said across an encrypted channel.

"I don't know but the sensors are saying it's larger than a battleship," the squad leader of the interceptor said.

"That's impossible, especially moving at that speed," the last pilot declared relaying his sensor data to the station.

"What trickery is this?" The communication officer on white sun station blurted at reading the sensor data.

"I'm sorry you forced my hand," Lord Maddog answered.

At that moment Steven activated all the drones they currently owned projecting a massive holographic swarm behind the oncoming unidentified object falsifying heat signatures with makeshift heaters formed from nothing but wires and resistors and a boatload of electricity.

"Arch spawn!" The lead pilot screamed in terror whipping his interceptor around and flying back towards the station at full speed.

"No that can't be, that's impossible. They can't survive in the core!" The communication officer declared.

As if to prove him wrong the lead ancient elder arch spawn that was now less than thirty thousand GSU away from White sun station came to a stop and whipped its tail with all its might towards the station.