Star Trek: Phoenix-X
Vitality Remake, Part II
Deep Space Gracea, stuck out in the far reaches of interstellar space, had been hit from disrupter gel after disrupter gel by two attacking alien vessels. The clone crew, led by clone Captain Picard, took the Bridge of the Steamrunner-class U.S.S. Vitality, inside the station, observing the advanced hover screens and programmable matter consoles.
"Well, does anybody know how to work this damn thing?" McCoy started, catching Hoshi's movement to a side-workstation.
Hoshi activated it. "This looks like communications," she observed as Tuvok took tactical and Picard took the command chair. Holographic human crew worked all over the ship, preparing it.
"Greetings," one of the holograms approached. "My name is Amp." They watched as he took the helm. "I'm a pilot and can help. Unless one of you want to fly it? Wouldn't be too hard to make me the Chef."
McCoy shared hesitant glances with the others. "Well, don't look at me!"
"I'm sorry to say, we're not completely sure of the details of the situation," Picard answered.
Amp nodded from his station as the ship shook at reverberated-hit from the station. "Let me fill you in." The ship shook again. "We're under attack!"
Out, at the side of the crumbling Deep Space Gracea, its shipyard door slowly opened, prompting the Vitality to speed out and return fire of green torpedo blobs upon the enemy ships.
"I am unfamiliar with these weapons systems," Tuvok observed, trying to handle the moving console. He then raised a brow. "Nor the enemy."
Amp continued maneuvering the Vitality, flying straight for the two ships. "They're called the Klokian. A poisonous-skinned, multi-dimensional reptilian-like species with a very limited vocabulary."
"Do you know what you're doing?" Picard turned to Tuvok, as the Vulcan dropped two gel mines between the enemy ships.
The Vulcan traded brow raises, starting to get a hang of it. "Possibly."
"Here we go!" Amp next pulled the Vitality up and out of the way as two rows of gel mines flowed into and against two oncoming Klokian battle cruisers. "Well, looks like this upgraded, ancient ship is better than I thought."
Meanwhile, O'Brien and Hoshi were at the side of the Bridge, assessing the partially encased glowing ball of energy. "What are you so jolly about?" O'Brien countered Amp. "We have absolutely no idea about this century!"
Hoshi shook her head in agreement. "We don't belong here," she added before the first Klokian battle cruiser broke formation and flew overhead the Vitality while pumping gels into its ventral hull. The momentum pushed the Vitality down.
"You belong in so much that you were created for a task. That task being we have to get that ball of energy to the High Command," Amp re-established as he rotated the ship around to point it upwards in space.
Tuvok then launched their own gels at the Klokian cruiser, knocking its engines offline and bursting it into flaming plasma.
"Why?" Picard asked Amp, stepping over to the helm. "Why is that so important?"
Amp continued working the helm. "Because the Klokians want it, and the omni'X want it. They've plunged the entire galaxy into war because of these things."
The second Klokian cruiser then nose-dived, grabbing the Vitality with a pulsating tractor beam, pulling them along. O'Brien checked internal systems. "They've got us, but I think I may have an idea."
As he worked the panels, a feedback pulse was transferred along the tractor beam, exploding the Klokian cruiser's emitter. The cruiser then went spinning away, firing one last disrupter gel at the Vitality.
BLAM! The Vitality was hit hard and shook violently. Warning sirens started going off and conduits exploded around them. "They're coming back!" Hoshi added from her console.
The crew looked at the screen as the first Klokian cruiser regenerated its engines and met formation with the second cruiser, both then heading for the Vitality.
"Don't you see? Your people created the wrong era of officer," argued McCoy as he also approached Amp. "We're not cut out for this century."
In response, Amp turned the Vitality toward the near-destroyed Deep Space Gracea, with Tuvok following his lead by firing torpedoes. The starbase then exploded with the Vitality passing the destructive radius, and the Klokian cruisers unwittingly flying right into it.
The enemy vessels were annihilated in the chaos, sending large pieces trucking through space.
"I beg to differ," Amp breathed a holographic sigh of relief. "You guys were the golden age of space crossing, exploration and peace. If anyone is made for this, it's you people. Also, we just blew up the last known piece of the Federation."
Everyone exchanged hesitant looks as he then ducked the Vitality beyond one of the large pieces of flaming enemy debris, and jumped the ship out of normal space.
