Southern Cross by Windstar

was left of his fleet, escape from the system, and let the plague do it's job. By the time the Bak'ra
had another fleet ready there would be no one left to fight them.
He reached out towards the fire command, and mentally blinked in surprise.
The Tiri ship had come out of nowhere, and it moved faster than he would have thought possible.
He had time for one last thought.
Thuva was right, they were up to something.
Then the three kilometer's of steel and battle armor slammed into his command ship.
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Emily screamed in rage.
Julie felt the First Guardians despair and anger wash over her, and through the link to the other
Guardians as Mira's ship self, The Banshee, physically rammed the Bak'ra ship. There was a lot
of momentum in a Guardian ship, and the bow of The Banshee crumpled as it slammed into the
broadside of the Bak'ra ship. For a long endless second the two ships plunged downwards,
interlocked with each other, entering the upper edges of the atmosphere, their edges beginning to
glow red from the friction.
Then they exploded.
For the second time that night the sky over Europe turned into noon.
Thousands were blinded by the bright flash, and every active electrical circuit for hundreds of
kilometers was fried by the sudden massive electro magnetic pulse.
But not a single Bak'ra missile made it to detonate above the surface of the planet.
The destruction of their command ship was too much, too many other ships had been destroyed,
chains of command were in tatters, and the still formidable Bak'ra fleet ceased to act as a
cohesive unit. Ships fought alone, without the support of there companions.
The Tiri and Human Guardians, still linked together, began cutting a swath of death and
destruction through them, fueled by the deadly anger radiating by the First Guardian at their
center.
In the end maybe eighty Bak'ra ships survived to escape. The Sensor sphere out past Mars kept
track of them as far as Pluto, then the survivors formed warp gates and were gone from the Solar
System.
Chapter Fourteen