New Beginnings

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[color=#FFCC33]Chapter 2

The humming went to a steady loud constant hum. As
the screen showed the heat signature of the cannon
rise rapidly. The cannons heat signature eventually
leveled out. It was ready to fire.

"All systems check she's ready to open up."

I recall one of the crew telling me as I gave back
an instant response. "Fire."

There was a massive explosion as the entire ship
raddled shaking me off my feat. When I got back
up you can see the trail of the main cannon as
it sped through the rock field. Decimating anything
it touched. Until finally the it impacted the large
purple vessel. Then another bright light appeared
as though the cannon fired again, it wasn't the
cannon. The flash of light was the ship suddenly
take a full on blow from the cannon right at
the front of the ship. Then just as fast as it
happened the ship exploded.

We didn't realize how close the purple vessel was
from the planet until the smoke cleared from
the explosion. Once it cleared we can clearly see
that we had awoken the beast. A massive purple
swarm of small vessels came pouring out of the
large hole the cannon had created, it went right
through the entire ship and the planet's shell.
Leaving a charred section on the planets surface.

As the wave of small purple vessels appeared.
With a few somewhat larger ones a voice came
over the comm. It was the commodore to the
Tenabras.

"Unknown vessel." They clearly didnt give us
a name yet. "Get your cannon up for another
shot. We will deal with this wave."

I thought to myself. We are massive compared
to that ship. How will it take on a wave far bigger
then we are. My question was soon to be answered.

"The main gun commodore has a 5 min recharge.
you will have to wait." I replied.

Right when I finished with my reply the Tenabras
appeared directly in front of our vessel. Shielding us
from the wave. Then out of no where a sudden
wave of heavy weapon fire came from all around us.
Weapon fire was flying over and under our ship from
all angles. The Tenabras, which was in front of us,
couldn't possibly be doing this. We saw it firing but
not from behind us.

As we watched the wave of weapon fire we heard the
commodores voice.

"122nd Order Guard mow them down."

As that line was said we found out what was shooting
at the purple things from behind us. An entire
fleet in a sphere formation around our ship had
appeared out of no where, ranging in size of ships.
The massive fleet destroyed the purple wave like
nothing. As the wave became nothing the fleet
vanished and the Tenabras moved. We started
to think they were ghosts.

The commodore spoke again.
"It's been 5 minutes fire your gun before more show up."

Those words had to be the devils work because at
that moment two of the same vessel we just destroyed
appeared near the planet. Not blocking our fire at the planet.

The commodore screamed out the order. "FIRE!"

I didnt give the command but my crew did it anyways.
Knocking me off my feat yet again. This time I didn't
get up though. The recoil to that shot launched me 10
feet. The entire ship was pushed back from that shot.
Slamming into what we think was one of the 122nd ships.
When I got the strength to get up the beam from the
cannon hit the planet. On impact there was no bright
light but an explosion followed by a massive shockwave.

When the debris from the initial impact cleared we
can see small explosions throughout the shell and
the planet. The planet was dieing... after a few
seconds passed the planet, still exploding. was turning
a lava red color. As the two purple vessels approached
one of them suddenly stopped in it's tracks. I had no
idea why until I looked at the scanner.

A massive wave of missiles of some sort. Maybe torpedoes
passed all around our ship again. It looked as if we had
fire them, but we knew it was the 122nd launching them
at rather close proximity to our ship. The missiles
slammed into the ship, a good twenty or so. Even
a ship that size couldn't take a blow of that magnitude.
As it exploded, so did the planet. Making a light so
bright we had to shield our eyes. As the light faded we
knew we had to get out of there, and fast. The
commodore spoke for the final time before vanishing again.

"122nd Order Guard ships. Full retreat! I repeat full retreat!"

The explosion from the planet and the ship made a wave
of destruction come our way. There was no escape for us
from something like that. The other large purple ship.
Still coming at us was engulfed instantly by the blast.
We saw another small flash of light as it exploded
in the wave. It was our turn to take the hit.

"Reroute all power to the shields!"

I yelled out as a final command before the wall hit us.
I don't remember what happen after that. I was thrown
into something or someone and knocked unconcious.

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