Here goes Chapter three I hope you all liked Chapter 1 and 2. ************************************************************************ Chapter 3 Later that day the crew of the Hawking planed to conduct some tests on the pulse emitter. The test was to be conducted with the assistance of the U.S.S. Omega, the sister ship to the Roddenberry; the Omega was docked at upper pylon three. Before the test was to be conducted Captain Christina Hachard, a beautiful young woman with long raven black hair that was tied up into a standard bun, asked Captain Kataka. She was twenty-six years old, one of the youngest captains in Starfleet (other than Captain Kataka who was the first person to reach the rank of captain by the age of twenty-three), if he could speak with him about the test that was to take place. "Captain Kataka will you come with me to my ready room on the Omega?" asked Captain Hachard when they were on the promenade, walking to the replimat. "Yes I will, I also would like to talk to you about the emitter and the cloaking device," Captain Anthony Kataka said. When they entered the ship the lights were so bright, compared to the airlock and the corridor, which they had just come, from that it temporarily blinded the two captains until their pupils ovulated. The entered the turbo lift and headed for the bridge. 'My God, how I miss my old bridge on the Roddenberry,' thought Captain Kataka when he walked out of the turbo lift and onto the bridge where he had the distinct feeling of deja vu, because the Omega's bridge was identical to the Roddenberry's. As they walked down the ramp to the ready room Kataka could barely hold in the urge to sit in the captain's chair which was seated in the middle of the room, in front of the tactical station and behind the Conn. and Ops. stations. The doors to the ready room vanished into the wall as they walked towards it. The two captains walked into the room and Captain Kataka felt disappointed to see that the ready room was totally different. The ready room had the desk placed at the front of the room beside the doors, looking out the massive two-meter window and the color scheme was also different. "Captain have a seat," Captain Hachard began. "Thank you, I'm pleased that we could have this talk," Anthony said to her sitting in front of her desk. "Captain, about the cloak and emitter. What I've been told is that a ship with the enhancements cannot be detected or destroyed with the cloak in use because the blasts would go right through the ship without hurting anything or anyone. Is that correct?" she asked. "Yes that is correct, but you left out one minor detail. Starfleet ships with the enhancements will be able to detect an encoded transmission that the cloaked ships will be sending out. The transmissions will relay the ship's designation and the whereabouts too," explained Captain Kataka. * * * Three hours passed until the ships were ready for the experiment. "Sir Starfleet has sent the program to decrypt the transmission that the Hawking will be sending out while cloaked, but we are not to use it until the experiment is complete," said Lieutenant Jarmack the operations manager on the Omega. "Ops. permission for clearance to disembark, so we can rendezvous with the Omega?" asked the young captain. "Ops. here you have clearance to disembark. Ops. out," said Captain Sisko "Docking clamps have disengaged," said Jarvon. "Take us out, half impulse Lieutenant," Anthony ordered. "Aye, aye sir," said Aloota. "We've cleared the station captain." "Set course to rendezvous with the Omega warp five," he said. "Course set." "Engage." As the Hawking came into sensor range the Omega hailed the ship to tell them to initiate the cloak, "Captain cloak your ship and go to impulse power. We are about to begin the tests," the young woman told Anthony. After she said that the ship disappeared and the small dot on the tactical display showing the position of the Hawking turned off, proving that the cloak worked with the assistance of the pulse emitter. Then all of a sudden the ship appeared almost touching the front of the saucer section of the Omega. "Whoa, what the..." the captain said almost speechless, "how the hell did they pull that off." "Hi Christina, are you surprised to see a ship this close to yours?" asked the smiling captain of the Hawking. "Well, how did you get so close in the first place?" she asked another question trying to avoid his. "Lieutenant Aloota is one of the best pilots in Starfleet, so I had him maneuver the ship into position and then decloak the ship to see what your expression would be when I did it," he answered. "Captain I'm receiving orders to report back to Deep Space Nine after we've finished with the testing," said the Vulcan. "I guess the testing is over now," replied the beautiful captain. "Set course back to Deep Space Nine maximum warp, Mister Aloota. Engage," ordered the captain. "Captain's Log: Stardate 54670 Yesterday the Omega and the Hawking conducted tests on the new pulse emitters, to see if they would hide the ionized gas exust from the impulse engines. The emitters worked better than I thought they would, because we were able to decloak the ship fifty meters from the bow of the Omega, they didn't know what happened until it was too late. If this were an actual fight the opposing ship would have been destroyed while we were still cloaked. Now I have been called to the wardroom to meet with Admiral Nechayev and Lexington, to discuss the findings at thirteen hundred hours today. The ship and crew have been responding well to my orders, science I took command of it four days ago. There have also been no problems with the ship too. My relationship with Lieutenant Commander Kelli Chilec is going well and I think I'll pop the big question after the ship's been shaken down, after being in space for a month. Computer end log." * * * The Captain left his quarters on deck ten and headed for the closest turbo lift then he headed to the docking hatch on deck sixteen. There he exited the ship and boarded another turbo lift, which was headed toward the wardroom where the admirals would be waiting. The turbo lift stopped, he walked off, strolled towards the double doors. Entered the room and sat down. "Good afternoon Captain, we're about to start, Captain Hachard hasn't come yet," Admiral Nechayev greeted Captain Kataka. "Hello Captain Hachard. I have read your report on the test conducted on the cloaking device on the Hawking. I see that Captain Kataka surprised you by decloaking directly in front of the forward sensors," began Admiral Lexington after Captain Hachard sat down at the table. "Yes that's right," she replied. "If we install the new improved cloak on most of the ships that are fighting the war, we can defeat the Dominion and send them into oblivion?" asked Admiral Nechayev. "Yes we can. We also discovered that the cloak is impervious to antiproton particle sweeps, so we can now invade their territory and destroy any of the katracell white manufacturing plants, ship building facilities without worrying that we will be destroyed," Captain Sisko told the two admirals sitting in front of them. "Admiral about how many ships will there be with the cloaking technology?" Captain Hachard inquired. "There will be about four-hundred ships, half of them will be placed at the front line and ordered to stay cloaked while in Dominion territory, the other half will stay close to Deep Space Nine if the Dominion decide to launch an attack from the wormhole," came the answer straight from the horse's mouth. "You are now ordered to report to Starbase 259 where the improved cloaking device will be installed and your sensors reprogrammed to detect other Federation ships with the cloak engaged. You're dismissed," ordered Admiral Nechayev. The three captains exited together and went to their ships to disembark. After they left the station and headed towards the starbase, a distress call came out over subspace, "This is the U.S.S. Javelin...under heavy attack...three Dominion...hull breach..." then the signal cut out. "Captain stay on course for the starbase you are in no condition to battle these ships. We will join back up with you later, tell the admiral that we had a priority one distress call," Captain Kataka said to his counterpart on the Omega. "OK captain," she started, "I'll tell him." "Mister Jarvon engage the cloak, Mister Aloota set course for the Javelin maximum warp," ordered the captain. The cloak engaged and the ship jumped to warp 9.9997, and they reached the coordinates in less than two minutes. "Captain Sisko, take the ship on the left and I'll take the on the right," Kataka told the other captain. The Javelin was seriously damaged, while the other Dominion ship drifted up side down with a hull breach throughout half the ship. The Hawking and the Defiant still cloaked fired at the two remaining ships. They were a lot stronger than the ones they fought earlier. This time it took the firepower of six quantum torpedoes and many high-powered phaser blasts to take care of the two opposing ships. When they defeated the ships the survivors were beamed aboard the Hawking. * * * "Doctor Kirrmanno how are the people that we beamed off the Javelin?" asked the captain with a worried look. "Most only have a broken bone here, a fracture there, or something like that, but there are some with severe burns to over half of their body, as if they were standing in front of a console when it exploded or were shot by some kind of weapon that we're not familiar with," she told him looking a little green. "A new kind of weapon, what kind of weapon would burn like this," the captain said looking surprised. "Well from what I can tell it could it could have been caused by a plasma torch gun, or some other weapon that we're not used to like I said before," the doctor told him. "Commander did the sensors pick up any thing, that would do some thing like this?" the captain asked as he showed one of the diseased on the operating table. "No, nothing that I'm aware of," she said feeling sick. "Doctor can I speak with the captain from the Javelin?" asked Kataka. "OK but I must warn you he is a little delirious," said Doctor Kirrmanno. "I'll take that into consideration," he told her as he walked to where the captain of the Javelin was laying. "Captain, what happened on your ship?" Captain Auto-bex sat up, "We were on our way to the starbase when three Dominion ships came out of high warp and started to beam Jem'Hadarr soldiers onto the ship. We barely had enough time to kill off most of them and fire back at the ships, as they kept on firing back. We were able to destroy one of the ships but the others..." he trailed off as he fell into a coma. "Kataka to bridge, resume course back to the starbase and tell them we have wounded," ordered the captain from deck 6, as he headed toward the bridge. * * * The ship entered the starbase. The wounded were beamed off the ship and into the medical facility located there. The installation and reprogramming of the sensors and cloak went on without a hitch. It was completed within two days, because the major sensor equipment had to be removed and replaced with the new upgraded ones, although the ship had just left the space dock five days earlier. "Captain the job is almost complete," said one of the engineers working on the ship, "you can disembark in a few hours once we've finished adjusting the sensors to pick up the signals that the cloaked ships transmit." "Thank you for telling me ensign," the captain said, glad to have his ship back. The Omega was docked beside the Hawking. The two ships were almost the same size except the Omega had a large upper sensor pod located between the two warp nacelles. The Hawking was slightly longer than the Omega because of the saucer section, which almost dominated the ship. Before the three ships were scheduled to leave Admiral Nechayev called the three captains to her office on the starbase. "Good afternoon," she greeted them as they walked into the room. "I have just been informed the Dominion will launch an attack at Deep Space Nine in less than a week. We have to have half the fleet to be ready to fight in the armada that you three will be leading, because the three of you have more experience with the cloak." "Are the Romulans going to be fighting with us?" Asked Captain Hachard. "Captain, I am not sure about that, but I think they will help us," answered the admiral. "If the Romulans do decide to fight with us, how do you think they will react when they see our ships with cloaking devices?" Kataka inquired. "The Romulans have already been notified about the cloak. They knew about the cloak since the Enterprise-D decloaked in front of one of their ships, using the cloak from the Pegasus," came the reply. "Now if that's all the questions that you have, you are to disembark at ten- hundred hours tomorrow morning and head towards Deep Space Nine. There you will brief your crew on the proceedings of the attack that will take place in a week. You're dismissed," she ordered. They left the office and went to their ships, where they briefed their crew on what would happen. Once they had done that there was seventeen hours before they had to leave, for Deep Space Nine. ************************************************************************ I hope you all liked this chapter as much as the first three. Again in further chapter there will be some sexually explicit scenes so be careful when reading on in further chapters. Please send any comments to ncc_81221@hotmail.com. Star Trek and all registered trademarks are property of Paramount Pictures.