NGE: the old fleet

CHAPTER 3

i continued to explain about the UNSC and the capabilities of the eighteenth fleet in particular, i could see the impressed and even awed looks on the colonials

"so, now we must decide what we will do from here" i said

"should we go our separate ways or form an alliance" william agreed

"i would think the decision would be obvious" helena cain said

"oh" i said

"you seem not only semi prepared but also well experienced with this situation, i would be a fool to not try and gain your aid, a fool i am not" she said

"hmm, we want your prisoner i want to see if we can't get a bit more information out of her" i said

"be my guest" she said

"sarah" i said, the spartan nodded

"i'll make her sing" she said, this was not her first rodeo, she had interrogated many, she was used to using less savory means, as was shinji but, he was a lot more brutal in his methods then she was

"good, then what will you offer us" i said

"fighter support, i don't know if you have them but i can nearly guarantee ours will be better, we pride ourselves on fighter capability our ships were built with fighters in mind" helena said quickly, and confidently

"we don't really have fighter pilots, those are few and far between in our navy, we mostly rely on our capital ships in space combat" sarah said

"especially since we got the energy shielding tech" i said, helena nodded that was already explained in the briefing of the eighteenth fleet

"our flak wall, and straight hull armor resilience will get us through"

"we could try taking them into slipspace with us, ships have followed before" sarah said, i gave a hesitant nod

"have one of our techies explain the risks of doing so then i'll let them decide, slipstream jumping would likely be a faster mode of travel, then us waiting for them to calculate their FTL drives, and the time it takes for them to recharge" i said, agreeing with the plan

"then we should return to the angel down" she said, i nodded

"agreed" i said as two spartans secured their new prisoner

and we returned to the angel down, wherein sarah got to work interrogating the cylon, what she learned would be terrifying, except, all she'd need to do have shinji lock down all UNSC ships from their colonial friends at least for now, something he agreed to after receiving an agreement from his allies in commander adama and admiral cain, who also agreed to the plan of having the colonial fleet follow the UNSC ships into slipspace

"maybe we'll get lucky and find ourselves in an alternate dimension away from the angry AI" i said

"let's hope" she said

"no, let's let my AT-field mess with things" i said, smirking as we entered slipstream and i directed my AT-field out into slipspace as expected messing with slipspace and throwing us out

"sir we are being hailed by a ship that appears to be twice the size of an infinity, and with heavy guns, i am talking six MAC gun level heavy, they are hailing us" an officer said

"well it worked, inform admiral cain if she want's to make threats she needs something like that to do so" i said, before nodding to the comms officer

"let's here it" i said

"this is marco inaros, who the hell are you, and where have you come from" inaros said

"take it out" i said

"why are we taking them out but we didn't take out the colonials" she asked

"that is a station/battleship in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with the response 'who the hell are you' does that sound like military officer to you" i asked

"no it sounds like pirate and/or an insurgent" she said

"and how do we deal with insurgents" i asked

"we take them out, are we to take the station or destroy it" she asked

"let's take it, it could be useful, inform the fleet fire to disable but any ships that appear, are fair game to destroy with extreme prejudice" i said

"aye" she replied

the ensueing fight was nothing short of pathetic, the enemy tried to fire it's railguns which damaged the shields of the ships they hit, but that was it, as we quickly took out said railguns, before they could pose a threat

"sir one enemy ship is retreating it seems to be the biggest, i believe it to be the flagship

"take it out" i said

"aye, aiming MAC gun, firing" the officer said as we fired our shot crippling the ship and one of the thanatos-class firing their own shot destroying the enemy vessel outright

"inform one of our frigates to take the station/battleship, have the rest of our fleet exit whatever this 'realm' is" i ordered

"aye admiral" came the reply

"we may be able to wake up our pandora's soon" i said

"you mean the girls that keep chasing you around for your attention" sarah teased

"you say that until they actually succeed" i said, she blinked

"is that supposed to be a threat to me, i already said i was happy to share you, after i finally caught you" she said, i grumbled at that in what sounded like 'why can't you be a normal woman'

"did you say something dear" she asked, he just continued to grumble as he started to outright ignore her