Updated 2015-09-04

Destiny Trapped Ch1 Unknown Location

USS Phoenix gets flung through a wormhole and ends up in the Andromeda galaxy in a war between the Covenant and UNSC. They were transporting Bra'tac and Rya'c to a meeting. Colonel Jade Kavanagh knowns neutrality isn't going to hold if they want to survive in the long run and get home.

USS Phoenix Bridge

Location: Unknown

Colonel Jade Kavanagh leaned forward in the command chair.

"Report", she ordered Major Kevin Marks.

"No damage, sir", he announced, getting his bearings. "Looks like it spit us out in one piece. Minimal damage, a few injured but no fatalities."

Always something, Jade thought.

Jade Kavanagh was a twenty-nine year old African American woman. She had green eyes and long jet black dreadlocks in a ponytail. It wasn't exactly standard Air Force hair cut but it worked, although it usually raised a few eyebrows with the brass and her competence was at occasion questioned because of it. But last year when she met Brigadier General Jack O'Neill he officially gave her the universal: "Thumbs up", approval.

Doctor Rodney McKay made his way onto the bridge. He immediately waved a young man away from a console and took over. He had been eating in the mess hall when the ship suddenly shook and the crew was called to their stations through the internal communications system.

"What the hell happened"? He asked immediately.

"By the looks of it, a wormhole sucked us in and spit us out… somewhere", Jade said in short, without looking in his direction.

"Why didn't you avoid it"? Rodney asked, assuming they had-supposedly-flied straight at it when seeing it.

"It didn't show up on our sensors and there was no warning", Jade explained, not liking he assumed her crew incompetent. "It came out of nowhere doctor."

"Where are we"? Rodney asked, walking over to Marks and looking at his console.

"Unknown, sir", Marks said. "There are nothing familiar in this system. Long range sensors aren't functioning properly yet."

Jade cursed under her breath.

"Try contact Stargate Command", she decided. "Kyle, send a subspace message and inform them of our situation".

Lieutenant Nicole Kyle, sitting on Jade's right nodded.

Rodney sighed.

"That's assuming they get it at all."

"If you have better idea doctor, please… share", Jade told him with a hint of annoyance.

Rodney unfortunately didn't have a better idea and didn't respond.

"What about the planet"? Jade asked, ignoring him completely.

"Sensors detect several tens of thousands of people on the surface", Marks said. "Humanoid and probably spacefaring by the looks of what the sensors are picking up."

"Huh, that's lucky, perhaps they can help us", Rodney pondered.

The two Jaffa onboard entered the bridge. Bra'tac and Rya'c looked around. Bra'tac tried getting a sense of what the situation was before asking specifics. At the moment everything was calm again.

Jade throw a glance their way.

"Master Bra'tac", she turned in her chair. "We encountered a wormhole and got thrown here. Wherever, here…is. We're not sure where we are at this point", she knew he would ask so she spared them both some time.

Bra'tac nodded understandingly. He didn't like the news at all. But at least the ship was functioning, as far as he could tell.

"Colonel", Marks turned his head to her. "We are picking up ships on our sensors".

Jade looked at him and Rodney walked to another console.

"They're on the other side of the planet", Marks explained.

Jade nodded and turned to the viewport.

"Full sublight engines". She hoped that whoever, the people owning the planet was, they were friendly enough not to shot at them."

The Phoenix started moving around the planet to see if they would recognize the ships. Hopefully they would even be Jaffa and they would be able to get help and be on their way in a few moments. Meeting a small fleet of Jaffa ships would be one of the best case scenarios. But Jade wasn't use to 'running' into the best case scenarios. It was an SGC thing to run into the worst case scenarios in her opinion.

"Marks", Jade said. "Just in case, get all Railguns and Missiles Tubes ready".

"Yes, sir", Marks affirmed.

She didn't want to be caught unprepared incase these ships was hostile for whatever reasons. For all she knew, the Phoenix was violating their space and that's not something they would take lightly when it came to Earth either.

As they rounded the planet they saw the remaining debris of several ships and seven ships of unknown design who appeared to have won. They were blue and purple colored with one of them pretty large with the others being far smaller. Four ships was about the size of the Phoenix and the other two larger. The largest looked heavily armored and appeared to have a hangar.

"Bra'tac, do you recognize those ships"? Jade hoped.

He leaned closer to the viewport but shook his head after a moment.

"I do not".

"Course not", Jade muttered. No, that would be too easy.

In short the ships started turning and headed for them. They had obviously noticed the.

"Contact them", Jade ordered.

Kyle tried to no avail.

"There not answering our hail, sir", she said. "There're ignoring us."

Jade sighed.

"Open a channel then".

Kyle nodded.

"I am Colonel Jade Kavanagh, in command of the Battlecruiser Phoenix. We mean you no harm and apologize if we are in your space but we arrived here by accident and have no intention to engage you in any way. We are peaceful explorers".

She gestured Kyle to cut the channel.

A moment in silence went by.

"Anything"?

"Negative, sir", Kyle said. "Looks like they don't want to talk to us".

"They have shields up and are powering up something kind of plasma energy", Rodney warned. "Probably weapons".

Jade looked back to the screen.

"Shields up, Kyle send the message again".

Kyle nodded and worked on her keyboard.

"Perhaps we should back away"? Bra'tac offered. "So not to appear threatening".

Jade nodded in agreement.

"Marks, back us up", she ordered.

"What kind of weapons do they have"? Rya'c asked curiously.

Jade looked at Rodney.

"Eh, some kind of plasma based weaponry… according to sensors", he said.

UNSC Carrier Open Heavens, Briefing Room

The Carriers commanding officer, Captain Luke Stanford leaned in over the holotable. He had brown hair, brown eyes and was forty-six years old and a Naval Veteran.

His first officer, Commander Benny Brick stood across it. He had black hair, grey eyes and was a relatively short man.

The ships 'dumb' AI, Julia stood her blue holographic image on the table's side.

Stanford was commanding, except the Carrier, five Frigates, two Destroyers and three Heavy Cruisers and on his way to assist the defense of colony on Roost. The initial contact with the Covenant fleet was over five weeks ago but Captain Harley Stewart was a hardy man, famous for defending seemingly doomed positions and winning, against terrible odds.

"All contact with Captain Stewart has seized", Julia said. "Contact with the colony is down too. I believe the Covenant are jamming all transmissions".

Brick cursed under his breath.

"It appears that Stewart's force has been destroyed", Julia explained.

"We might enter world of hurt", Brick commented.

"Wanna go home Ben"? Stanford asked jokingly.

"No way in hell, sir", Brick smirked. "I'm just saying we probably gonna be outnumbered".

"Aren't we always"? Stanford retorted. "How long until we get to Roost"?

"Approximately two hours", Julia replied.