Chapters 12/13 Things Never End like they're planned / Evan's diary

Story by Skye on SoFurry

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#12 of Dusk to Dawn


"Oh, sure anything else your little heart desires?" Blake replied.

"Well nothing that I can say across the com channel," Skye laughed.

The Prospect of Intent, Shroud of Shadows and Cassiopeia, appeared from the dark side of the nearest moon, guns fully charged. They took aim at the seven flagships shooting at their Prowler and opened fire.

Several plumes of bright plasma were displayed on the main screen of the Prowler. They gracefully impacted on the shields of the flagships.

They're firing their main rail guns at the fleet; however, I'm detecting several missile locks on us." Alex reported.

"Prepare evasive actions," Skye commanded, taking control of the weapons system of the Prowler.

"Aye," Alex replied.

"The Ships are firing, four short range missiles, bearing 20-11-08," Spencer warned.

As the missiles fluttered across the radar screen, they became clear to see inside the Prowler through its tempered windows, their bright red plasma powered thrusters shooting plumes of red ions out behind it.

The Prowler easily tilted to the left at the last second, avoiding two missiles, the other two still following it in hot pursuit. They streaked across the space between themselves and the Prowler.

"Two more missiles bearing down behind us," Spencer cautioned.

"Aye, firing anti-missile lasers now," Skye informed.

Several neon blue laser beams criss-crossed the space behind the Prowler and sliced into the missiles, causing them to explode.

"Let's get back to the Shroud of shadows." Skye commanded, as the five remaining flag ships recharged their missile batteries.

"Aye, ETA to the Shroud is one minute." Alex replied.

The five flag ships shot several rounds of plasma, which streaked across space, several missing, but the odd one however, impacted on the Shrouds' shields, causing them to shimmer with the impact of the ions on the shield.

The Prospect of Intent's side shimmered with golden plasma, as it charged and prepared to fire upon the flagships.

The plasma erupted from the cannons at a blinding speed as the ship guided all eight of its plasma rounds into the lead flagship. Their shields taking the first four, but as their shields collapsed the other four charges detonated on their hull. The flagship imploded and then exploded sending a ring of blue plasma out of its core, which impacted on the rest of the fleet, their shields shimmering bright blue as they took the blow.

"Fire, now!" Blake commanded as each of the ships now fired their entire reserve plasma energy at the fleet, the red, gold and blue plasma light up the several kilometers of space between the ships. The plasma from the Shroud of shadows washed across their shields, taking the weakened shields out, as the blue and red plasma from the Prospect and Cassiopeia burned through the ships hull themselves.

The Prowler had just made it inside the docking bay of the Shroud when the flagships outside ignited into a massive blossom of white plasma, as gasses and fumes mixed in with the explosion.

"Move us away from the energy wave." Blake commanded as Becka moved each ship at maximum speeds away from the wave.

"They're still going to hit us." Becka warned.

"It's okay; just get us as far from here as possible." Blake agreed.

The plasma wave washed across the three ships' shields causing them to glow red-hot with the heat generated.

"Our shields are at 25%, and still declining, the Prospect's are at 30% and the Cassiopeia are at 20%," Becka advised.

"The wave should pass in a second," Blake replied.

As the wave passed by the three ships, the three red shields of the ships flickered golden and shattered, the energy, being absorbed back into the ships generators.

"The cloud has passed, but all three ships shields are down and charging." Becka said cheerfully from her holo pad on the bridge of the Shroud of Shadows.

"Okay good, get us ready for slip space and prep a course for one of our fleets supply world." Blake commanded.

"Yes sir!" Becka shouted as she disappeared into her holo-pad once more.

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Team Black â€" User I.D; 31282 - Secure Log - 02/04/2019

This has been my first day as a full fledged member of Team Black. I'm now teamed up with Skye, Alex and Spencer; or Team Black as they're known around here. This was one of the most amazing things that's ever happened to me. I have wanted to become a member of their team since they day that they rescued me from one of Joey's labs. I finally have a family again... well as close to one as I'll ever get again. Since we got on board the Shroud of Shadows I've learned a lot. Skye and especially Spencer have been teaching me everything that they can to help me with my transition from being one of Joey's lab experiments into an asset to the team. Since my arrival, just a week ago, Spencer has been more than willing to help me with anything. He's even there if I just need a shoulder to cry on; since my first morph had had a lot of these weird mood swings; Alex and Skye both feel it's just my body under going the many changes, just at a mental level not physical. I really like him; Spencer I mean, I'm almost scared to admit I may even love him. Though I thought that this was a one way feeling he also has taken a real liking to me, or so Skye, Alex think. Other than that, I also have been having some weird dreams, like I'm seeing the memories of Skye and his team in my sleep. There's a boy named Steven, all I can see so far is that he died. I've also felt the love between Skye and Alex, and though they don't want people to know, I know that they're a pair. Back to my morph form though Spencer explained how him holding me during my first transformation may effect the two of us but; I still wanted him there holding me while I changed. Just being in Spencer's arms made me feel so secure and strong through all the pain that I was feeling. I morphed into a narwhal, which is pretty cool; I grow this tail, fins and even a huge white horn. I've also now inherited the Team Black dragon gene; I become a red dragon with a white chest, stomach, and lower, all the way to the tip of my tail. Several days passed before our final jump through slip space was possible, with the ships moderately damaged from the battle, that took place saving us, and due to some un-foreseen circumstances they had to drop out of slip space a couple of times before they could get en-route back to the supply world. I'm really hoping that my new team will not only accept me for who I am, but also as part of their family.

Evan - Team Black