Author's notes:
First and most importantly, a special thank you to Kayline Blake for another great editing job! Fantastic work Kay!
This chapter finally makes the circuit connecting "The Rise of Atlantis," to "Creation's Guardian." It will probably be the last chapter in this series. The story of Lyssa and the Atlantians will continue on in "Creations Guardian chapter 12." CG12 is currently being written though I can't tell you when it'll be finished. "Life" must be pretty pissed off at me because she's being a REAL bitch right about now. So my writing time is severely limited. But keep the faith, I'll get there, I promise. Bob54z
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Lyssa, Sue, and Kendra watched as the Vengeance appeared on the tactical screen in the ready room. She was immediately fired upon by four of the Groms gunboats. Her weapons officer had a quick trigger finger and was able to fire three antimatter torpedoes at three different gunboats before the tachyon pulses shut her down. All three torpedoes hit and destroyed their intended targets just as the rest of the fleet dropped out of warp, completely surrounding the Groms fleet. When the Destructor appeared, her portside warp nacelle was so close to the starboard nacelle of the Vengeance that you could stand with one foot comfortably on each. There was only one of the Groms gunboats in a position to fire on the Destructor and it was promptly dispatched but not before it fired a quick tachyon pulse at her. The energy pulse hit the Destructor at the same time as a Groms missile fired from a nearby destroyer causing what appeared to be relatively light damage to the forward part of her control deck. At about that same time thirty six Groms gunboats and fourteen destroyers fired guided antimatter torpedoes at fifty of the Atlantian battlecruisers. The three women watched in horror as the torpedoes were expertly guided through the gap in the forward and lateral shields taking out the life-support systems of the battlecruisers and killing everyone aboard.
After that, it became a slugfest with the Groms only firing conventional torpedoes and missiles along with tachyon pulses from the gunboats. The Atlantians, realizing where the true danger was, concentrated their fire on the small gunboats, destroying all but ten of them in the next few minutes.
Suddenly, a strange, raven haired woman with a dark black psionic aura appeared standing on the warp nacelle of one of the Groms battleships. As she began hurling some kind of energy balls at the Atlantian fleet, Sue gasped and said, "It can't be...it's impossible...that's...that's..."
"Shush Sue. Keep your eyes on the screen. We'll talk after we've seen the whole battle," Lyssa said interrupting Sue's outburst.
The three women watched in stunned silence as the strange woman threw what they now realized were highly accurate energy balls between the gaps in the new shields of some of the "upgraded" battlecruisers. Between the energy balls fired by the strange woman and the tachyon pulses fired by the remaining ten gunboats the Groms were able to disable the shields on another thirty five Atlantian battlecruisers within the next ten minutes. Lyssa noticed that after that first initial attack on the Destructor, both the Groms and the strange woman seemed to avoid firing at the Destructor or any of the other battlecruisers that hadn't had their shields converted.
Just as the last of the battlecruisers with the new shield design lost her shields there was a flash of light on the bow of the Vengeance and Amy Thomasin appeared. Amy's psionic aura was a bright golden color as she stretched her left arm out toward the Destructor for a minute or so, then her psionic aura changed to a reddish golden color as she began using both hands to fire energy balls at the strange woman. Amy's first two energy balls hit the woman in the chest catching her by surprise and causing her to stumble and fall backwards onto the deck of the Groms battleship. The raven haired woman regained her footing and began firing energy balls at Amy as fast as she could. However her energy balls didn't seem to affect Amy at all. In fact it looked like they weren't even actually hitting Amy. Amy returned fire, again hitting the woman in the chest. This time though the woman didn't lose her footing but she did double over in pain for a few seconds. Amy hit her a third and then a fourth time before the women could return fire. Suddenly, the strange raven haired woman just disappeared.
Amy turned her attention to the remaining ten Groms gunboats and in a matter of minutes they were all destroyed. She used the last of her psionic energy to cause the antimatter reactor on one of the Groms battleships to go critical. The resulting explosion took out the remainder of the Groms fleet. The battle scene grew quiet as Amy collapsed on the bow of the Vengeance. A few seconds later, she disappeared back inside the Vengeance as the Destructor warped out of the Sylkar system.
Lyssa took a deep breath then let it out slowly. She turned to Sue and Said, "First things first. Get on the horn and tell Amy I wanna see her ASAP. After you've done that, you can tell me whatever it is that you wanted to say earlier."
Sue went to the communications console, opened a channel and told Amy to report to Lyssa on the double. She returned to her seat beside Lyssa and said, "Mom says that was Carol Thomasin, the woman who gave birth to Amy. Mom also says she thinks Amy was in what Mom calls a 'plural state'. It's a psionic condition where the sub-conscious mind acts instinctively and takes over the body without the subject even realizing it's happened. She thinks it's highly unlikely that Amy remembers anything that happened during the battle. Also, I don't know if you noticed or not, but there were three Groms carriers present at the battle scene and zero Groms fighters. The Destructor was only hit by five squadrons of Groms fighters when we took out Gromus. They must've been getting really low on resources."
"It wouldn't surprise me at all if the Groms were out of raw materials, Sue. Hell, we didn't have much left for natural resources ourselves. As far as Amy goes, it doesn't matter to me one damn bit whether she remembers that battle or not! You saw what she did! That girl saved our lives! I'm promoting her to Captain and giving her the fucking Medal of Courage! If anyone ever deserved it it's Amy! She went way above and beyond the call of duty! Now, what I wanna know is how in the hell did a simple university professor become so damn powerful, and where in the fuck did she disappear to?"