The ship's name is Archangel. Her crew is a rag tag group with one desire. Revenge. Revenge for the millions of innocents slaughtered by the psychopath Jake Grey.

Her captain is a powerful Cleric/Mage by the name of Greymoran. His orange and crimosn robes, and flame shaped amulet do little justice to the power he truly wields.

Sitting over by the tactical display is Keith E. Yeager. Unwittingly drawn into this epic struggle of good against evil, Keith is an eager man of 29 years, former science vessel captain, and expert in archaeology and biology, and also a moderate tactician, or so he says (in reality, he's delusionally convinced him all those years spent playing Risk taught him the basics of combat tactics).

There to help if he's proven wrong is Jackson Dupree, a clone of Greymoran's son, legendary captain of the famous Spidership. Also serving as the ship's temporary science officer until Keith regains his grip on reality.

At the helm sits Rita Yeager, Keith's wife of 7 years. 40 years old, and gorgeous, she is the object of affection for the Tacoman clone, though he is much too polite and moralistic to say anything. He hides his jealousy well.

Standing behind greymoran is the battle droid Hudzen. Formerly the security chief for Jake Grey's ship, I, Claudius, Hudzen was nearly destroyed when he led a mutiny attmept after Jake Grey aritraely(sp?) destroyed a random planet, just to watch it blow. Hudzen now vows to personally deliver the death blow to Grey's neck with a sword he pulled from the hand of the loyal mantinace worker who followed his attempted revolt. Hudzen overlooks the bridge with the gaze of a parnoid parent overlooking a playground.

Entering the birdge is the mysterious Ahz. Little is known of him, but he seems to geniunely want to see the monster Grey brought to justice.

A face appears on the screen. That of the ship's computer, Carrie. Mistakenly programmed with the personality of late comedian Denis Miller, this smart alec computer is also dedicated to the cause, and alos serves as Greymoran's emotional backbone, helping him through these stressful times. She speaks with a sultry british accent.

"Greymoran, sir. I've picked a dimensional disturbance in one of the Marvel Comics universes. Location would be somehwere near the egde of Shi'ar space. The disturbance is not naturally occuring, and is also incredibly big. Probably Grey's fleet."

Greymoran stands up and sighs. He walks over to Jackson's console. "Well, how big is it?" "Larger in circumfrance than Jupiter sir." Greymoran frowns. "Bigger than last time. That means that Jake probably either stole more ships, or found more sociopaths with piloting skills to join his 'campaign'." Greymoran's face shifts to anger. We won't be able to stop all those ships, but we can at least let that sonuvabitch know he can't hide from us. Rita! Plot a course! Carrie, open a portal. Weapons and sheild to full power! Let's go get him!"

Rita smiles. The kind of smile that would laucnh a thousand ships. She turns back to her console and begins flicking he rfingers across the panel. the ship swerves flawlessly into position.

A portal opens and...

Sir! When the portal opened and we went through, sensors got a better look at the disturbance. It seems to be a large space station containing several thousand ships. There also seems to be a bio-pattern that matches that of Jake Grey.
The station appears to be a mix of materials from different dimensions. It's basically a Dearh Star type thing from the Star Wars Universe, but I can also see traces of Star Trek mateterial, some native stuff, and even some plotonium from my own former dimension. His ships register show the same mix and match pattern. Sensors show ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, and half a dozen other universes with starship technology.
Also, before I was captain of the Spidership, I was the chief repair person, inventor of stuff, and able first officer. If I may offer my services as part time repair chief...

Arrh! The scurvy cur Jake Grey should walk the plank!

Greymoran: I was afraid that Grey might try something like that. Are there any populated planets in the area? We should head there-

Rita: Too late! We've been spotted. Three unidentified ships coming at us!

Greymoran: On screen. *screen comes on* Oh ••••. Shadows.

Shadows. I have a theory, but I need some fancy piloting skills. Point the shuttlebay at the incoming ships if you can.

Ahz turned and made his way to the shuttlebay. As the hatch closed he was heard saying "Shadows cannot exist in the light."

The Archangel swung around and pointed the shuttebay at the incoming vessels. Ahz was silhouetted in the lights of the bay for only a moment, but then he started to glow with his own light. His hands went through a blindingly fast series of movements before he pointed his palms at one of the incoming ships. In doing so, he unleashed a beam of pure white energy at one of the black ships. The beam hit the lead ship, which shriveled up vanished. The rest of the incoming ships scattered, keeping away from the Shuttlebay.

I have an idea... If we fire a torpedo flare, one that only emits light we could deal with the rest of the shadows.
As for populated planets... scanning...There's an inhabited solar system about 1.2 light years away.
Tacoman glances up at a reflective monitor, which happens to reflect Rita Yeager at the helm

I meant the Shadows from babylon 5 guys! And light doesn't affect them that way! You have to hit a ship with MASSIVE firepower, and keep hitting it till it dies, cause the ship is alive! Sax, could you delete those last two posts please? No, wait, keep that last part about the inhabited solar system.

I realize that. I was trying to demonstrate that Ahz has a lot of firepower at his disposal, and to give him a kind of philosophical angle.

Ahz's author: Oh, ok. Could you explain that to Jackson's author then. I would like to keep the mystical/magical element the dominant element if possible. Adding that neat little trick to the ships' weapons would unfairly tip the scales and take some of the interest out of the story.

While I'm here, you interested in running the Hudzen character?

Anyway, back to the story.

Greymoran: Rita, get us to that planet. If they have any planetary defenses we may be able to get them to mobilize in time. I don't know if it'll be enough to stop Grey, but it's better than letting them suffer like the inhabitants of Tatooine in one of the SW sub-universes [Greymoran told a tale of sub SW universe where Luke Sklywalker had been born female, and that was the one Grey destroyed using a bio-genetic plauge.]

Rita: Right. *turns back to her console* Allright mother ••••••. Looks like it's gonna be a race.

Keith: I'll drop some torpedoes like mines, That ship has too large a radius to avoid them. I doubt it'll hurt them much, but at least they'll know we're not willing to quit.

Greymoran: Great idea. Jackson, what is that hull made of? Also, tell me what kidn of sheilds their using, and if we have ANYTHING that can penetrate it.

Scanning the Station... Looks like it's a mixture of Netronium and Plotonium, sir....wait, I'm reading a spot on the lower starboard quarter that seems to be constructed of high grade transparent aluminium....
As for the shields, there seems to be a mix of different types, but the major types are from Star Trek, Star Wars, and magic of some sort.. But I can't make out what kind... And if I'm reading this right, as soon as one shield system goes down, another one would take its place...
Hmm... If we damage the shields where the Transparent Aluminium is, we could hit them there... it's a minor viewing area, but it's better than nothing... and it's large enough to send a small shuttle into and attack...
Looking through our weapons' manifest... several dozen proton and photon torpedos... a couple of Quantum torpedos... Phasers and lasers.... some large magical weapons...

A figure marches onto the bridge. His powerful look is made even more intimidating by the sword at his side and the rifle he is carrying. His metal body shines in the ships light. His mechanical voice differs from anyone else's on the ship. It's Hudzen.

I am here. I will take the weapons.

He walks over to the tactical console.

Keith: Fair enough. I'm a science officer not a gunner!

Rita: Complain later sweethart. I'm trying to hit Jakson's target. Dammit! To many defnesive weapons and systems. I can't get a solid lock. Carrie! Try to filter out all that light coming from those defensive weapons. I'll try for a line of sight shot with the Quantum torps. Hudzen, as soon as I so "Go" you fire a full spread! Jackson, full power to the forward sheilds!

Keith, leaning over to Greymoran, beaming with pride: Now you see why I married her.

Greymoran, nodding: Great plan Rita. Ahz, grab the Kzin shuttle and get to that planet. I thas the ability to fold space. You'll be there in no time. We need to warn the population ASAP!

I only hope that you can prevent any attack from making it to the planet.

Within moments, Kzin shuttle was on the planet's surface, and Ahz was moving as much of the population into local shelters.

I can only hope that this is enough.

You're a lucky guy, Keith.
Alright, full power all shields! extra power to the forward shields!
Rita, Hudzen, I'm sending all readings regarding both the station and the viewing area to your respective stations.
Sir, we're about to have company! Half a dozen small fighters are exiting the station and are headed this way...

Greymoran: Ignore them! Grey likes to fake out his enemies. I imagine that the fighters can do exactly zero damage to our sheilds. Rita, get that line of sight.

Carrie: It'll be a lot easier love. I've filtered all the ligth coming off the weapons fire for you. Don't bloody miss!

Back at the planet;

Commander of the Shi'ar patrol fleet: Ahz you say your name is? Tell me why you moved the natives into shelters? We ahve been waiting for them to develop FTL travel. You're actions may have stunted their growth as a species!

Really? What give the Shi'ar the right to decide what may or may not stunt the growth of a species? In any case, if you wish to see why I have done this, there is a battle going on approximately two light years away. I can only hope that my actions will save these people from the wrath of Jake Gray.

Sir, the fighters are following us! They're firing! A small rumble is felt on the bridge
Hmm...They used low power lasers to attack, but sensors show that they have more powerful weaponery on them...

Shi'ar Officer: Leftenant, check the lone range sensors. Until the presence of this, Grey, ship is confirmed, I want all of your actions to stop Ahz. If you are right, we will mobilize all ships in the area. We have three battlecruisers here, the best class of ship in the known Galaxy. We can handle this Grey of yours.

Back on the Archangel

Greymoran: Sensor shadows. He once convinced a group of Dimensional pirates that his ship had Death Star type superlaser on it using a snesor shadow. His field of experitse in the academy was psychological warfare. Rita, are you lined up yet?

Rita: Yes, but those drones he's launched are swarming. They won't blcok the whole spread, but odds are only 20% of the torps will get through. Do you still want Hudzen to fire sir?

Sir, what if we use tractor beams to shove the drones out of the way? I could activate several of the tractor emmitters, snag a few ships, and toss them out of the way.

I am waiting you to say "Go."

Hudzen fires and obliterates three of the swarming fighters.

Greymoran: *mutters* I've got a bad feeling about this.

Rita: Good work Jackson! Hudzen, fire!

A swarm of qunatum torpedoes launches outward. Several hit the drones (warp powered missiles for the record), and pass right through! Rita's face goes ashen as she realizes what just happened. The torpedoes hit the target, and do nothing. The power of the blasts are absordeb. The sensors record that all the energy from the tropedoes have gone to the shileds. Worst of all the target itself isn't Tranparent Aluminum. It was a trick. Extending from the ship is a long crystal like device. Greymnoran recognizes it. "A ship killer! Rita, get us out of here! Now!"

The Archangel banks away from Grey's floating battlestation hard. As she pulls away the ship shudders as the crystal brightens. A burst of energy flies out from the weapon, the recoil knocking the station back several metters. The blast flies past the Archangel, misisng her by a kilometer or more. It hits a drone that had been ordered by Grey to wait out at a certain distance. It hits. A minor explosion denotes it's destruction. The blue shockwave that appears a split second later denotes the destructive power of the weapon. If that shockwave hits, it will disable the sheilds, and, if the ship isn;t far enough out of the way, will destroy the Archangel and all her crew. Rita pushes the thrusters has hard as she can, hoping that shunting all the sheild power into the warp drive will allow them to jump to warp in time, but it's slow to power back up after all it's power had been placed into the sheilds. Keith yells out, "Impact in twelve seconds!" Rita's face clenches. "I'm not gonna let a god •••• shockwave beat me. She punches the Impulse engines, knowing the energy will only pull the shockwave along faster. It buys her a few seconds. The light indicating the warp drive is active again come on. She reaches for the button...

Just in time, the Archangel jumps to warp just as the shockwave hits the area they were
Now that was cutting it a bit close.
Tacoman examines the science sensors
Sir, we may want to head toward Ahz's position. Sensors indicate that the planet he's on seems to be on the verge of FTL travel!

Greymoran: I hope they can defend themselves. I think we've just learened we can't hit Grey directly. Dammit!

Keith, looking somber: What kind of weapon was that? I've never sen anything like it in my life.

Rita, taking things a little too personally: Who cares! The enemy just bent us over and shoved sensor shadows up our ass and we're talking about what kind of weapon it was, or what level of technology a planetary population is at? We need to get back at this bastard! He needs to learn we're not going to give up!

Greymoran: Calm down! We'll get nowhere arguing about this. Set a course for the planet, and pray that that station can't move as fast as we can. We need to mobilize defenses to protect the native peoples. That is the primary objective. Saving lives, not revenge. No stand down!

Rita, geting up in Greymoran's face: You wanna repeat that? *she says it threatenenly(sp?)*

Keith: Rita, dove. He's right. There are innocent people on that planet back there. We have to help them. Rita, please.

Rita takes a deep breath and closes her eyes: You're right. I'm sorry sir. I just, don't like being outsmarted.

Greymoran, smiling: I know how you feel.

Hudzen, in his normal, one-tone, mechanical voice: How can we save them if our weapons are useless?

Greymoran: Well, we do have a weapon that will work. Delay. Grey is notriously impatient. If we can delay whatever fate he has in mind for the planet's poeple for at least an hour, he'll bail out no matter how well the battle is going. Jackson, send a tachyon carrier wave with a message to Ahz. Tell him to get ready. Grey's coming.

Rita: Grey's ship is on long range sensors. He's moving at Warp 7. Looks like the out armor layers are peeling under the stress, whcih tells me he's at top speed. We can up to Warp 9. We can be there a good 10 minutes before they get there. Think that'll be enough time?

Tacoman rapidly presses a series of buttons
Message sent, sir.
Sir, you have contacts in other dimentions, right? Perhaps we can get some help from somebody in another dimention or something... It looks like we may need it pretty soon.

On the planet, Ahz was listening to a communications device.
Yes, I understand. These people don't have very many weapons, so I sent them to shelters. There is a group called the Shi'ar that seem rather mad at me for even coming here. I don't think the Shi'ar are from this planet. Ahz, out.

Ahz turned to the Shi'ar commander.
Well, it looks like the Shi'ar will get to see Grey first hand. He is coming to this planet even now.

Shi'ar Comander, looking at a pad his subordinate handed him: Well, Ahz, your story has been confirmed. We'll mobilize our ships as fast as we can, but according to our satellites, the battle didnt bode well for your companions. I hope this Grey isn't as powerful as you claim. Alot of lives could be lost.

Back aboard the 'Angel:

Greymoran: Good point Jackson, but I want to keep outside involvement to a minimum. I'd end up giving Grey more targets. I suppose I could try finding some survivors from the places he's already hit, but we don't have that kind of time. Any more suggestions?

Perhaps we can remote pilot a shuttle to serve as a distraction...
Tacoman looks at his board
Hmm... there seems to be an asteroid belt nearby. We could use the tractor beams to put a a few of the larger asteroids in the Grey's path to slow him down...
Or... Carrie, do you have any external holo-emitters?
Turns back to Greymoran You see, if we do, we can project ship images to distract Grey.

Considering Greymoran's technological abilities, he would undoubtedly know which are holograms and which are real. We need to find a way to fool his sensors.

Good point, Hudzen. I'm not sure of a way to do that, though...

Greymoran: He'd smash the asteroids to pieces in no time flat. What we need is, *pauses* Wait a minute! This is the marvel Universe! There is no warp drive here. All the major powers use artificial wormholes to travel! I remember falling asleep during a Voyage episode- 8stands up* The Omega Particle! We can explode an Omega particle in the area making Grey's warp drive useless here! Oh, wait. Where would we get an Omega particle? We'd have to go to Voyager *shudders* last time I was there, it was not pleasent. What do you think Jackson?

Sounds like a good idea, sir... but what about OUR warp drive?
Tacoman notices a light flashing on his console
Sir, we're being hailed by President Sheridan... he's in the LICC universe. Should I play his message?
By the way, what made it so unpleasent last time? You didn't disguise yourself as a Q, did you?

Greymoran: Don't ask. Let's just say I would've preferred being in that awful Mazes & Monsters movie. Anyway, tell President Sheridan that we can't help right now.

Carrie: Hate to bother you Grey-baby, but do we ahve an Amulet of time-stop protection in storage?

Greymoran: What? Yeah, whatever, just do what you're gonna do, then give us a time calculation. I'm going to send a shuttle out through a portal to get us an omega particle. Any volunteers?

Aye sir, contacting President Sheridan that we can't help. I'm also sending a brief summary about what's been going on since I got here.
Sir, before you go, I have a question... would any of more advanced Marvle groups be able to help us?

I will accompany you.

Tacoman spends a few minutes looking over the data that Sheridan sent. He grows pale and gets a shocked look on his face. Greymoran, still aboard the ship, notices and asks what's wrong
The O'kaks have taken over Earth in the LICC dimension... I assume you know about the O'kaks...
Sir, is the LICC known in other dimensions, and would anbody in those dimensions be willing to help? It looks like Sheridan has gotten help from the Babylon 5 universe...

Greymoran: Tacoman and Sheridan can handle themselves for the time being. As for more powerful Marvel universe groups, the Shi'ar are about as powerful as they come, and they won't be able to any serious damage to Grey's ship. You and Hudzen get that Omega particle. And, if you want, send Voyager to help Tacoman. As for our warp drive, we won't need it. Before Carrie took she installed A Star Wars universe hyperdrive. The omega particle won't effect it. Grey will be forced to use his dimensional drive to find another universe. Hopefully we'll be able to follow him and stall him there too. Good luck Jackson.

Thank you sir. We'll find those particles.
Come on Hudzen, we've got an Omega Particle to find.

Carrie: Oi, wait dudes. I got somethin' here that'll help.

*a sensor device of some kind materializes in Tacomans hands*

Carrie: Just plug that little thing into the shuttles sensors. It'll take you straight to it using the Kzin fold engine automatically. You won't have to doa thing. It'll do it all for ya'.

Greymoran: Great work Carrie. oh, and we'll work on your grammar later.

Thanks Carrie. I assume that we'll have something that can collect the particle without it becoming unstable?

Greymoran: of course. The shuttles emergency transporter has been modified to hold the particle. Just hit the portal generator as soon as you have it, then let it go and run like hell. The explosion radius won't be big, but it'd be big enough to cripple the shuttle.

Carrie: The device will take care of setting it up for detonation, so don't worry about that either. Just make sure you get back in one piece. You have twelve minutes to do so. After that, come back. We'll have to find another way to slow Grey down after that. Good luck. Now go!

Well, Hudzen, I think we may be ready. Let's go.
Tacoman and Hudzen make their way to the modified shuttle. After connecting the device to the sensor system, they make their way to the Voyager universe.