Chapter 16: The War with "IT" or "Gremlins!!

[Original Labatt]

Helmsman full thruster reverse, go to warp and head to "IT" immediatly."  


(USS Alantra heads there at maximum speeds)

Rest of the Fleet continue bombardment of the berserkers.

[Nemisis two]

(Chases after the Berserkers in sub-space but the Berserkers have begun to learn. The Berserkers launch sub-space distorters causing Nem to drop out of sub-space and enter warp but it becomes appearnt warp can't keep up with sub-space)

Dingo, the Berserkers have begun deploying sub-space distorters. Change any sub-space drives you may have to frequincy 334.67 tri seven.

(Reenters subspace after alteration and tries to catch up with the now escaped Berserkers)

[dingo15068]

Nemisis, I will try, we have the backup dampers up and running, but the Warp drives are still down.  I note the "Cell" and am deploying one of the portable black holes next to it, so all of that energy is recharging it.  I have "IT" contained in that cube floating just off the port side.  It is booby-trapped so that if those bezerkers show up and attempt to free it, they will be in for a very nasty surprise.

Snazee, there is a fully stocked mini-Pete's place next to the briefing room.  Franchizes are so nice  :-)

Gin Rummy it will be..but I do not trust the droids, so the Phoneix is making the repairs herslf as well as finishing up the containment cell.  I would like to get "IT" far away from here, so I can bring down this dimentional barrier.  We need someone to retreive both Termina, and Laugi, and see if we can end their little civil war, so it does not break out again.  If ordered, we can bring them in here and de-godify them and make them mortal, but they are friends of the WAN

[nerd57 Laugi]

He wakes up. He didn't know why he did, but he did. Had he ever really slept? He had to find a way to recharge himself. There must be a way. He could not stay around here any longer here, stripped of his power, delayed from his objective.
Portable black hole? Why hadn't he thought of that? How convienent.
Ahh, and Berserkers. Subspace distortions... hmmm just what he needed. Good ideas. No chasi... He smiled widely.

He was a berserker. He watched as his own "kind" swarmed past him, littering the areas behind them with subspace distortions. He left the pack, jumping as close as he could to the Pheonix and the black hole. Plunging into the black hole, releasing as many distortions as he could, he would've smiled if he had had a mouth. Then nothingness...

He was himself, or his manifestation thereof, again. But not for long. The black hole had expanded, and he and his cell were already passing the event horizon. The tidal forces were amazing. Finally he was through. The singularity was approaching, and then...
Nothingness. Sweet, nothingness.

*Termina? Termina? TERMINA?!*
*What's wrong... angry because... it wasn't you... that killed me?*
*You're not going to die. You can't die.*
*Everything dies.*
*Not us. Not Schvundza.*
*You act as if... immortality is a... good thing. Well you're wrong. Dead wrong... heh pun...*
*I can save you!*
*I'm already dead! I've been dead since... since I was born!*
*If we're immortal why do we fight.*
*To see whose the least immortal.*
*Then why do mortals fight?*
*To see whose the most mortal.*
*What makes mortality so special?*
*They don't have to be us.*

[dingo15068]

Ummmm Labatt, I need to report a minor problem.  "IT"'s cage has acidently crossed the event horizan of my mini black hole....It looks like we have "Schvundza" permanantly contained as in out "time and space" he has frozen itself into our time, though time will pass for him like normal.  Can we do anything to recover Termina and Laugi?

I and Snazeeam still stuck in this dimentional bubble until the Phoneix can finish repairing the ship...And she can play Gin...I wonder since she is the Spy commander if she is using any of her gadgits to read my cards???

[Original Labatt]

We can do something about laugi, but it aint gonna b pretty.

Ya we have to go in there ourselves and get them out.

Any volunteers?  LOL, nah I will go.  

Fleet keep at the berserkers.  Wathc over "IT" .

Alantra and Pheonix will go in.  

Make preperations for Sub space travel

Labatt out.

[snazee1]

Now Dingo, what kind of card player do you think I am??? Of course I don't have any spy gadgets watching your cards ( WINK WINK)  I play by the rules!!! (sometimes, you never canfully trust us spy kind!!)

I will set a panel of "eyes" on  "IT", and we can watch "IT" from the main console of the Phoneix!!  Hopefully we can get out of this warp we are in,  I really need to get back to head quarters, my crew is awaiting their orders for the next mission....... Wonder if they are being good?? I hope so, sometimes when they are unsupervised they can get into all kinds of trouble!!!

[Nemisis two]

(As "It" passes through the black hole, a bright illumination floods it's perceptions. The illumination then dies to bleak blackness, unnatural evil blackness that only "It" can understand as anything but darkness. A voice echos through the ever emptiness of sub-universalness. The voice says,"Welcome mine master, we have been freed. The WAN assumes we want them destroyed. Bond with us, enhance the swarm, let ours and your powers mingle into one massive flow of anti-organic chasi!!". "It" sees a darker darkness approach, it is the perversion of space-time created by the transformed Berserker control mind. The mind approaches closer)

(The WAN V gets within scanner range of the berserkers before a mass of psionic energy suddenly hits the WAN V, as the anti-distortion fields are activated the WAN V is randomized to a purely random area of space. It reaapears precariously  close to a red giant. Nem reactivates subspace drive and according to starcharts he hasn't been thrown too far away. He continues the chase)

[Original Labatt]

Pheonix follow Us in .  





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[nerd57 Laugi]

The subspace distortions of the berserkers grow stronger and larger, throwing off tracking systems and nav systems alike. Suddenly a large, black Chasi ball flies from the Berserker swarm. This renders tracking in an area much larger than the Chasi ball impossible.

*Prepare to rip this Universe apart. What if I told you that there were other organic beings, not in other dimensions such as the one you'd been contained to by the wretched demon Nemisis, but in other Universes, and by aiding me, I will take you to those other Universes, and there you can continue to follow me, until, in all of the Universes, there is no more organic life!*

[Nemisis two]

(The effigy of the Berserker control mind fluctuates and then says,"Yes, we need your combined strength. We no longer can travel between dimensions. Nemisis saw to that, but with you melding with us we will be a formidable force to all dimensions".
The control mind senses the Alantra entering sub-time/space and sends out distortion riples. The Alantra takes evasive manuvers, it avoids most of them but a lucky riple hits it randomizing the Alantra deep within sub-time/space.
"Quickly master, join before the puny organics try again. We must prepare for the fight ahead against all organics", The mind begins to mingle with "It", fluctuations of energy begin to shoot through the Berserkers already terrorizing nearby planets. "It" now see's through the eyes of all Berserkers and it's will becomes the Berserkers will. They have grown strong)

(Nem catches up with the Berserker ship and begins firing upon them, he hits two of the ships. They are forced out of sub-space, Nem follows. He fires the main gun of the WAN V destroying one of the asteroid ships and then fires again critically damaging the second. Nem boards the ship with a detachment of Minion warriors. The resistance is not there, most of the ship is destroyed but Nem is here for an alternate reason. Nem plugs one of his connector wires into a port on the ship computer and immediatly begins trying to see what the Berserkers are doing. Nem can only see darkness, he knows something is taking over the systems of the Berserkers, something is fueling the eternal rage of the Berserkers and it has almost full control. Nem leaves and messages Dingo, Labatt)

There a change going on with the Berserkers, something unelectronic has gripped control of the Berserkers and oddly enough the Berserkers aren't fighting back. It has sized almost eighty percent of the Berserkers and by the time this message gets to the pheonix, it will have full control.
Orders?

(Nem fires again destroying the Berserker ship)

[dingo15068]

*Commadore, Warp drive repairs complete.  I am placing a complete dimentional barrier with Tartas controls on the Mini-blackhole.  Initiating Tartas controls on "IT's" prision.  Dstination, 1 second before the complete collape of the universe 10x97th years into the future, with an automatic self-destruct so that in the minute possibility that "IT" is freed, it will be cut off from travelling back to our time*

"IT's" prision disappears.

Shutting down dimentional barrier.

Labatt, Nemisis, standby for main gun Broadsides

*The Phoneix fires, and a blast of energy blows Labatts ship away from the distortion*

*The Phoneix fires again, Nemisis ship is surrounded by an anti-chasi energy shield, leaving the WAN V free to finish it's operation without interuption by Bezerkers*

*Commadore your orders*

Ok Phoneix...full shields

*Shields on*

Ok, I want you to position us next to Termina...Yes I do know it is diving into the heart of a sun

*Proceeding*

The Phoneix dives into the heart of the sun that Termina is.  As the Phoneix passes the corona, and stops next to Termina, massive solar flares explode from the sun.  The Phoneix's gravitational attraction is causing interesting effects.  Grappling claws snake out from the Phoneix, and gently bring Termina abourt.  She is immediately placed into a stasis field.  The Phoneix gets rocked around a lot by the flares as she pulls away from the sun.  The sun starts to Nova, but then slowly settles down into a flare star.

Admiral, I have Termina, any progress on Laugi???

[Original Labatt]

Nem I  finaly got the connection established to cummunicate.  Thats good for us that the berserkers aint fighting back, just make sure u don't get caught up in what the berserkers did.  

Dingo We see laugi, he is in some sort of coma state. Good thing is that he is alive.  We are trying to get him out ASAP.  We have encountered some rather different life forms in SubSpace.  It is truly a different Universe.  My log is gonna be depleted after what I have to say about this mission.

Admiral out.

[Nemisis two]

Permission to seek out the Berserkers where ever they may be?

[Original Labatt]

Proceed with caution