Story:Starship Archer/Dictum Factum Part Two/Act Five

ACT FIVE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

The Romulan Shrike-Class Warbird fires at the Archer hitting the dorsal shields as the Sovereign-Class ship fires back at the warbird hitting the ventral shielding, as the ship flies over the ship hitting it's port nacelle causing it to vent plasma.

INT-BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Sparks erupt from the ceiling and MSD.

SITO: Shields down to eighty-five percent.

Another hit jolts the ship.

MARTIN: (To Sito) Divert power to forward shields.

Another jolts rocks the ship harder and harder.

SITO (Worried): Shields down to sixty-five percent.

MARTIN: (To Carlson) Kara evasive pattern beta seven, (to Sito) Sito target their forward weapons array.

Sensors beeped.

ENS. MARTIN (Shocked): INCREASE POWER FROM THEIR FORWARD WEAPONS ARRAY, IT'S A PLASMA TORPEDO!

EXT-SPACE

The Shrike-Class vessel unleashes a huge green energy torpedo.

INT-BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

MARTIN (Worried): ALL ENGINES FULL REVERSE!!!

Carlson inputs commands into the helm.

EXT-SPACE

The Archer attempts to back away from the weapon but is struck by the green energy torpedo, causing it to flip and spin and rock.

INT-BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Huge shower of sparks erupt from the ceiling and MSD as debris flies to the ground and coolant vents from the ceiling as the officers are flung from where their at.

CUT TO: INT-MAIN ENGINEERING

A huge explosion sends an officer flying from the ladder as Williams and some of the engineering officers are knocked to the floor as sparks erupt from the ceiling and consoles, one of the Engineers is on fire as he's screaming and Williams grabs the fire extinguisher and sprays him with it.

WILLIAMS: GET ME A MEDIC NOW!

INT-BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Martin gets up from the floor with a cut on his forehead.

MARTIN (Coughs): DAMAGE REPORT!

Sito crawls to her console and looks at the reports.

SITO: Shields are down to twenty percent, phasers are off-line.

Kelly gets up from the floor and to her console.

ENS. MARTIN: Hull breaches on decks five-ten force fields are in place and holding, (beat) I've lost the warbird.

Martin is worried as coolant vents from the ceiling.

CUT TO: INT-STARBASE CORRIDOR

Taylor and Clarkson are moving through the corridor and gets to the Command Center.

INT-STARBASE COMMAND CENTER

KILLER #2: ARE YOU KIDDING ME I TOLD YOU TO DESTROY THAT SHIP, (beat) COMMANDER MARTIN SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE HE'LL RUIN WHAT WE'VE GOT PLANNED FINISH THE JOB!

He ends the hail.

TAYLOR (Worried): Okay their in the command center it appears that they have a ship attacking the Archer, (beat) we need to stop them now.

They get ready to stop them, but they've been captured again and taken into the Command Center.

CUT TO: EXT-SPACE

The Archer flies by Jupiter.

INT-BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Coolant vents from the ceiling as console screens are flickering and fizzing in and out as Commander Martin is standing behind the Captain's Chair.

MARTIN (Smiles): Try to disable them.

Then Kelly looks at her console.

ENS. MARTIN (Shocked): THEIR READYING ANOTHER VOLLEY OF PLASMA TORPEDOES!

MARTIN: (To Sito) PHOTON TORPEDOES FULL SPREAD!!!!

Sito presses the fire button on the console.

EXT-SPACE

The Archer unleashes a full volley of photons dealing a great deal of damage to the warbird, and the warbird flips and spins then leaps into warp.