Knights of Daybreak
Chapter 11
By: W.Bob Yankovic

	Well it was appearant that the last fic kinda sucked. Ok it had
very little actual use beyond introducing new moves, killing Brin, and
talking to Micheal. This one will be differant. Stick with me. Under
council of Pikallo I have decided to include a time lapse in this fic.
It is needed with the new ending of ROD that I was unaware of. It will
be cool. Just read. And as always enjoy.



	As Mac and I sat in my room with Katrina, Espy, Hogo and
Kyusai, we deliberated over the events of the past few moments. "I just
remember being on Cinnibar Island having a serious gut check about
leading the Knights. Then WHOOSH I am in this big ol white room and see
this guy that said he was Micheal who gave me this necklace," I said
recounting my events. Mac looked at me with a very strange look.
	"I was doing the exact same thing. I was just in my room. I
didn't know why you chose me or why I was placed in this position with
so many lives at my disposal. Then the whole Micheal thing, but I got a
Trinity symbol instead of a cross," Mac said. Neither one of us could
come up with any explination besides the fact that God works in
mysterious ways. He just seemed to work a whole lot more in our lives.
Fate was having a field day.
	"I didn't ever lose contact with you," Hogo commented. This
meant that we couldn't have had a near death experiance. It wouldn't
have made any sense anyway. "I just got a wierd feeling that you got a
whole lot stronger. I thought that you were in trouble somewhere. Then
I couldn't find you on any scanner. It was really freaky," he
continued.
	"I felt a surge in power at the same time also," Kyusai said to
the group. She then went on to tell a story similar to Hogo's. I just
told everyone to keep it in their mind but not to let it dominate their
thoughts. We all stood up and turned to walk out. Katrina looked at me
and gave me that "stay here I have to tell you something important"
look so I waved bye to everyone. I sat back down on the couch beside
her and put my arm around her.
	"Do you really love me more than your job?" Katrina asked me. I
was shocked, but then I realized. I had been a really crappy husband of
late. The last time that we had spent any quality time together was
about two months prior. I placed my hands around the back of her neck
and guided her gaze to my face.
	"I love you more than anything," I said. "This job, the money,
the position, the power, all of that means nothing. I would give it up
in a heartbeat if you wanted me to. I love you more than anything that
this world can ever place in my path. You know that. But what is wrong.
Something isn't right," I said. I could have easily read her mind to
figure out what it was, but I made a promise to her on our wedding day
that when I was with her, the Force wasn't. She looked up at me and a
single tear ran down her cheek.
	"I'm pregnant, two months, we're going to have twins. A boy and
a girl. I just don't want you to hate me or forget about me. I really
need you now," she said. I looked at her. Then I looked again. Then
everything went hazy.
	Twenty minutes later after I woke up I saw her crying on the
couch. I had fallen off and rolled a few times. I got up and went over
to her. "Katrina I love you. Don't think that was because I didn't.
That was because I was hit with about ten thousand thoughts at once.
You know my brain can't process that much at once. Don't ever think
that I won't love you. I will always be there for you no matter what
happens in my life. I will stop working if that will help the matter.
Mac can take over for a while. He can run this thing. All we were
planning to do anyway was just build up for a while. You actually told
me this at a very good time. Unless something drastic happens I will be
a whole lot less busy in the coming months. I don't think that Vyraxon
will try anything after losing so many of his fighters. He will have to
rebuild. Look at me I am rambling and I can't stop. I am just so happy
that I can't control what I am saying. If you would just kindly---"
I was cut off as my beautiful wife leaned over and kissed me.
	"That is all that I wanted to hear," she said. I held her in my
arms and we just sat there for a good two hours. After that it was
informing time. I portaled to the Comm room and pressed the all hail
button.
	"I have a very important announcement. My lovely wife is going
to have two children. And if anyone isn't exited about that he or she
can take it up with me," I shouted at the top of my lungs. As I
purposly walked back to my room people were coming up to me
congratulating me and shaking my hand and just general happy stuff. I
felt like I was walking on air. I probably was.
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	Later on in a meeting of the Supreme Gaurdians a serious
discussion began. The debate over what to do next was the main thing on
the agenda. I decided to make it easy. Each SG would have ten minutes
if needed to state his or her idea. I started with Sarhedrin.
	"I say we need to stockpile resources. If we can just get
enough ships, weapons, and foodstuff than we are going to be better off
than if we just run in now," Sarhedrin said. His point was well founded
but Irvine countered with his viewpoint.
	"We have what we need in the area of materials. The most
important thing we need now is one seriously huge army to take out the
hords of Fallen that we know are out there. I say that we hold off
until the next two classes graduate from the Academy. That will almost
triple the size of our group," Irvine said. This was a very good idea
also.
	"But if we storm them now they will not know what hit them. We
saw today that they can't fight hand to hand unless the ones we fought
today were just some big bunch of lackeys that do whatever they are
told. Even if they can fight back we should go now. We have all of the
access codes to NCC. Shane made sure of that. If we go in with a small
strike force and wipe out the leaders the rest will fall. They might be
bigger and have better weapons but the seven of us have the brains,"
Draco said. I looked to Mac to get his say in the issue. He looked down
to a stack of papers that he had brought with him. He and I had talked
earlier. We had come up with a plan but I told him to introduce it. He
had always been a better motivator and convincer than me.
	"The way I see it is that we have to be sneaky. We can't rush
head on into the dark. I have a composite list of every planet in every
dimention and thier status, whether allied with the Fallen or us. I say
that we take it slow. Start at the tail and chew our way up to the
head. Some of these dimentions only have one planet that are against
us. If we can take the easy jobs first and progress it will help us in
three ways. One, by taking it slow we will have plenty of time to
aquire the needed supplies, ships and weapons. The dimentions that we
can rid of the Fallen will be great helps in these times. Two, by going
slow we will allow the new gaurdians to graduate and not be thrust
directly to the front line. They will be able to work their way into
their units and begin to build trust in minor missions. And three, it
will let the Fallen know that we aren't going to just lay down and die
so easily. The balance of power will slowly shift until the Fallen have
no hope to win," Mac slowly explained. This made the previous three
SG's, Cratin, and I very happy. But Shandra seemed reserved about the
plan.
	"How can we promise the dimentions that we free protection from
the Dark Flame fleet? Nothing that we have now has proven to be any
kind of useful against those ships. The Lucifer can blow up a planet
just as easy as it blew up those capital ships in the first battle we
had with them. To tell you the truth, those ships alone might be our
biggest problem. If we can't get rid of them, we can't promise
protection to the sympathetic dimentions, and we will lose support if
anything happens. I am not saying that we don't stand a chance, I am
saying that those ships should be our first target," she explained. I
had to admit. She made a lot of sense.
	"Ok people, we have been presented with a problem. We need a
solution," I said. Everyone that had just so breifly seen a glimmer of
silver on this dark cloud now seemed even more down trodden than
before. "How about this. I head up a research program on the Dark Flame
Fleet. I will round up all of my old buddies to help, if I can get them
here alive. Mac will coordinate preliminary strikes on the more
sympathetic dimentions. Nothing to big, but enough to secure some trade
routes. Then when we find a weakness in the Dark Flame Fleet we will
take them out. By then we should have plenty of people ready to fight.
Then we simply bum rush Vyraxon and NCC and take it back. That sound
good?" I asked. Under the table I crossed my fingers. I decided to put
it to a vote so everyone put their hands on their voting buttons. They
were designed to sense pressure. All one had to do was press gently on
the side that he or she wished to vote for and it would be cast.
	With a few seconds of computation the holoprojecter showed a
seven to nil vote to impliment the new compromised plan. With a sigh of
relief I stood. "Mac is in charge of the attack. Think of him like a
slimmer me with a lab coat. He won't do anything that I wouldn't do.
Trust him, he knows what he is doing. If anyone wants to help me that's
cool. If anyone wants to do both that is cool too. Just let someone
know. I am sure that you all know that Katrina is pregnant. I am going
to be spending a lot of time with her. Don't think that I have forgoten
about you. I will be helping as much as I can as often as I can. God
has put all of us in this situation for a reason. He will lead us out.
He hasn't ever failed before," I said. I adjourned the meeting everyone
left. The next few months were going to be a test for everyone. Mac
called me on the comm and let me know that he was going to call a
general assembly and that he thought that it would be better if I
announced the plan to everyone.
	The assembly went well. Almost everyone agreed with the plan.
It was designated Operation Second Daybreak. After the assembly I
called up everyone in the Maw Installation that I had worked with to
make the H-Wing and Ressonance Torpedo. I arranged secret passage for
them to Camelot. I was going to pick up a few of them myself. Within a
week I had over three hundred scientists going over the schematics of
the Sheol Type Warships, Serpent Type Fighters, and the Lucifer. If
anyone was going to find a weakness these people would.
	Over the span of the next three months we had successfully
liberated three whole dimentions from the control of the Fallen.
Vyraxon made some empty threats to them and to our surpise they stuck
with us. We had scored small but significant points. One dimention
alone agreed to supply all of our food for the coming times. The other
two agreed to let us use some of their planets to field test some new
graduates. The Knights were growing in number as well as morale.
	Our review of the ships was almost fruitless. They seemed
invulnerable. No one even knew what the was made of. The Serpent that
we captured in the first battle served as our only guide. I had people
running tests on every fabric, alloy, plastic, or synthetic substance
on it. I had others strip out the whole flight system and plug it into
a sim and run diagnostics and flight data through it. The thing seemed
to respond to even the slightest movement of the stick. It was
extremely fast and seemed to think itself. We did learn that they
seemed to have a link up to the Sheol's computer system. We didn't
undertand why but it was interesting.
	I was spending alot of time with Katrina. She was getting
pretty big and needed to be constantly told that she was beautiful. She
began to have cravings for weird things that kept Hogo pretty busy
planet hopping to find them. I fell in love all over again with her. I
felt just like I did the first time that I saw her. Well not exactly
because the first time I saw her she wanted to kill me. But you get the
picture. We picked out names for our kids. Lucas (Luke for short) for
the boy and Leiah for the girl after Luke and Leiah from my second home
dimention. Katrina just happened to love the names so I didn't have to
fight much. I looked forward to being a dad. Everyone picked on me and
said that my kids were going to be able to kick my butt in three years,
and they wondered if they would have freaky superhuman forms like thier
dad, or fairy forms like thier mom. I told everyone to shove it alot.
	Mac and Espy began to grow closer together. Believe it or not
Mac actually moved in the same room as Espy. He just put up a new bed
and an extra bathroom to relieve any "uncomfortable" situations. They
were perfect for each other. I figured that when all of this calmed
down that I would get to preach a wedding. I was happy for them.
	In the fourth month of Operation Second Daybreak things began
to come around alot faster. In a chocolate and caffine induced stupor
late one night after having a full day of Katrina's mood swings I
stumbled upon the molecular charts for the metals that made up the
hulls of the Sheol's. I noticed that they seemed to be very close to
the make up of the element lead. Then I began to think. Lead rusted
very quickly in an area that had been saturated with pure oxygen. The
process was even quicker if water was present. I punched in a few
commands into my computer and found the plans for the interior of the
Sheol's. I noticed that the outer hull was the only place in the whole
ship that this element was found. In fact between the inner and outer
hull there was a vaccum. I began to ponder.
	Within the next few days we had predicted that the hull of a
Sheol would rust at a very advanced rate if it came in contact with a
large amount of oxygen supersaturated water. All we had to do was find
one and test. We ran a pop in attack with our supply ships. We popped
in, doused one Sheol with our water then popped out. Within four days
the sensors we had in the water noted that the hull of the Sheol was
only 1/8th of its full power. We had them. This news exited everyone to
a certain degree. The Lucifer's secrets still avoided us.
	Another month and a half went by. Mac had orchestrated a very
complex but very good plan to take the remaining sympathetic dimentions
in one huge swoop. The problem was getting everyone on the planets that
we were trying to liberate to attack at the same time. For the next
week he sat down with some of my scientists with every calender for
every planet in every dimention and calculated the exact time for each
to attack. He took a well deserved twenty six hour nap after he had
finished it.
	With the help of Hogo and one of my old friends Qui Xux we
began to make a plan to take down the Lucifer. After running the flight
data over about thirty times Qui noticed something. "The shields flash
a split second before the main gun fires. It must be to the massive
amounts of energy that it takes to shoot the blasted thing. If we could
target a strike in that split second we might be able to put a scratch
on it," she said.
	That plan grew until we had it all laid out. We would load the
Serpent that we had captured with a huge amount of explosives and
resonance torpedoes and anything else that we could find that would
explode and fly it remotely from Hogo. When we noticed the Lucifer
prepairing to fire we would fly the Serpent into the barrel of the gun
when the shields flashed. Then when they fired the gun, KABOOM,
hopefully. It was a long shot but it was the best thing that we had to
go with at this moment.
	After stripping down the shield generator for the Serpent we
noticed that we could reconfigure a few circuts and wires in our
existing generators to boost their power almost 300% without using a
single volt more. This was a big help with our cargo supply ships. We
could beef up their shields and using the same ideas give them some
decent armaments. After I played with one I had a new ship that could
carry three fighters, and give a Star Destroyer fits. But no one
expected our convoys of supply ships to be so heavily armed. This was
to our advantage.
	We decided to send a convoy of ships to each planet that we
were trying to win over. They would go in first and transmit the times
for attack to the people on the ground that were on our side. If they
encountered any enemy ships they would deploy their fighters and take
them out. If they needed backup they would call for a flight group that
would be waiting with the coordinates already locked into thier
computer's portal system.
	If the rebels on the ground needed help we would send the cargo
ships into the atmosphere to give arial support. Also we sould portal
in a troop transport or two to give extra men for the fight. If anyone
ran into the Dark Flame Fleet everything would take a different route.
	We had amassed thirty fuel supply ships that we had converted
to carry our special water mixture. They would be accompanied by the
biggest and most diverse array of ships ever seen. It was designated
Overkill flight group. It was compiled of more that three hundred
capital ships from just about every dimention that had space battle
capabilities. I won't bore you with all the numbers. Just take my word.
The group was huge. This group was to fly cover for our water tankers
while they doused the Sheol's. As soon as that act had been
accomplished everyone would leave. Four days later we would attack
again without warning and wipe the Sheol's out. In any of these times
we saw the Lucifer we would proceed with our plan to get rid of it.
	Meanwhile the Supreme Gaurdians and I would break into NCC
using the codes that I hacked. We would take out any opposition until
we found Vyraxon. Then we would get rid of him. If you ask me we had
the harder job. I had only fought him twice before, but I knew that he
was helluva strong. It would be a task that I would not be looking
forward to.
	Mac and I decided that it was time to notify everyone of our
plan. I called a general assembly of all Knights of Daybreak. I stood
on the podium and looked out at all of the people that were seated in
the Grand Hall. In the past seven months we had tripled in size. It
kinda surprised me to see that many people in one place. I delivered my
message loud and clear and ended with these thoughts. "Once we didn't
have to fear all the evil. Once we didn't have to sneak around behind
the backs of the Fallen to survive. I am personally tierd of it. I say
we take the fight to them. We can do this. Our plan is a good plan. And
one more thing. We have God on our side. He won't let these leathery
beady eyed, black skinned, long tailed, annerexic, excuses for a demon
continue the tyranny in which they now revel in. The days is ours. We
just have to take it!" I said throwing my fist in the air. Everyone
jumped up and screamed. This is what I lived for. It was time to join
the battle.
	I looked behind me at the other six supreme gaurdians, our two
trees and my wife. Katrina looked kinda funny and gave me a little
wave. I walked over and leaned down to hear her over the yells of the
people behind me. "It's time," she said. I looked at her. "I know that
is what I just said," I said with a little smile on my face.
	"NO, IT'S TIME!" she said as she pointed to her stomach. The
last thing I remember is Hogo catching me before I passed out. Why does
God choose things to happen at weird times? I really didn't know. But
He had done it again.