"I'm not sure but, looks like some kind of mobile shield is blocking all our long range shots" answered the Sensors operator.
Prepare to fire all weapons when we have reached the close range" had begun to reply the commander of the Minbari warship, when another officer in the Deck screamed to him. "Kalain! something is destroying our Nials out there but our scanners don't detect any signal!"
"What? engage Visual Scanners, Maximum Range NOW!"
in the image projectors of the Sharlin appeared then the black and white sillouettes of the Skull's Vindicators, who were literally slaughtering the Nials with a speed and skill not seen for Kalain or the other Minbari Warriors ever before this day.
Suddenly a cold lump formed in his stomach. What? they have Stealth technology superior to us? impossible!'"Bastards! how many of the Nials are alive?" shouted Kalain.
"13, but at this rate all of them will be down in a minute!"
".....Order to the other cruisers to engage the maximum speed towards the enemy ship and to open fire when they reach close range too!"
"W-What?" stammered the operator.
"You heard me.....maybe we lost the chance to destroy EF-ONE, but if we can destroy one of those bastards at least, their death will be avenged!" replied the Minbari warrior.
"Y-yes Kalain."
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Cain observed expectantly to the Sharlins what were entering to the crossfire zone.
"How many time is left for them to enter the killing zone?" barked the elder commander.
"Fifteen seconds sir"
"All the man to their posts and prepare to open fire at my call!"
The front of the Pegasus begun to split then at the middle of the bow, and between both sides of the cannon started the familiar crackling what announced what the main weapon of the Valivarre class cruiser was being charged to fire against the Minbari.
"Six seconds and counting..." announced the aide.
"Five.."
"Four.."
"Three.."
"Two.."
"One..the enemy ships have entered the fire zone sir!"!
"FIRE!!!" roared Cain...
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"In ten seconds we open fire" ordered Kalain.'They will pay the price for our dishonor' thought him when the alarm begun to cry its call of incoming fire.
"What!"
"another of their ships has opened fire with an beam like the used for their flagship against us!!" was the only thing what had time to say the officer, before the Reflex Beam of the Pegasus slammed against them.....
The three Sharlin were covered for the beam's light for at least 2 seconds, and after that two of the cruisers, the Strelas'tha and the Vindira exploded in a spectacular display of fire while the Trigalti begun to drift due to the loss of their Gravimetric drive system.
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"uuggghhhh....what in Valen's name hit us? muttered a bloodied Kalain while he tried to support himself in the comunications console. "Situation?.....Situation?" shouted both times and stopped when he saw what he was the only alive in the deck, what was almost destroyed and with fire starting for all his parts.
'The power of this new enemy is almost at the par with the stories of the ancient Shadow War....they breached abosolutely our stealth system and showed a system far superior to us...if the Earth get this technology they could become soon a threat for Minbar and our people...i must warn the Grey Council of the menace now!!' thought him and with a strength born of desesperation begun to work in the console to send a tachyon transmission towards their ship.
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"Almost all the ships have entered Hyperspace, Satai Delenn" spoke a member of the Religious Caste.
"We will jump after the last ships." replied Delenn of Vir. Her thoughts were in the revelations of this day.'The other half of our souls...what i've did? for a instant of rage i drove our race to commit the worst crime immaginable, and now the humans fear and hate us...the damage will tard a long time in be mended...i expect what we can repair our contact with them to time for the next Shadow war...or all will be lost.'
With this in her her mind she started to walk towards her room in the ship when she was intercepted for an agitated young male of the Warrior caste intercepted her."Satai Delenn, we're reciving a transmission from the Trigalti!!
"Patch it to the Council room inmediately" said her.
in that same instant appeared the image of a blood-covered Kalain in the screen, what made Delenn and all the others present in the room gasp to the sight.
"What in Valen's name happened to you?" exclaimed Delenn with a horrorized expression etched in her face.
"We tried to end this war in the same way than the humans started it .....for killing their leader, but this isn't important.....the new enemy is more formidable of what i had thought before....they have breached our evasion systems and possess a superior system...now i'm sending all the data about the battle to the ship...you must prepare our people Delenn, the humans will try to avenge what we did to them and this time the war will be worse than the Shadow War...." said Kalain while he coughed blood.
"Please Kalain, surrender and let to be rescued for one of our ships." pleaded her.
"No, i must follow the path of my fellow brothers and end my life as a Minbari warrior.....at least our sacrifice will not be in vain." concluded him.
"Kalain stop, please save your life." tried Delenn but he ended the comunication then.
"their ship is badly damaged and is the only remaining, the other two has been destroyed for a attack of one of the ships of the unknown fleet" added the young Minbari warrior.
"We must stay to honoring their sacrifice." said then Delenn
"Understood" the Minbari said and left Delenn and the others there to see the last fight of the Trigalti.....
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"Call the remaining Minbari ship and offer them to surrender or be destroyed" ordered the admiral Rick Hunter to the comm officer.
"Minbari Warship, you must surrender or we will terminate you!" said the officer of communications.
"Never, In Valen's Name!!" was the answer while the almost immobile Sharlin opened fire with all his remaining weapons towards the Vanguard.
Rick closed his eyes and mantained silence for a pair of seconds, and he said after that. "Skull One and Two, you're free to end the enemy target with warheads."
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"Understood Rick" said Max while he and Miriya armed their RMS-3 to destroy the Minbari warship.
"Skull One,Missile Armed"
"Skull Two,Missile Armed" replied Miriya.
Then both said."Fire!"
From the Vindicators flew a pair of missiles what begun to gain speed towards the Trigalti.
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A brillant light appeared in the space, and announced what the last rebel Minbari ship had finally met with his fate.......
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