Knights of Daybreak
Chapter 8
By: W.Bob Yankovic

	Looks like all of the Supreme Gaurdians are in some deep water.
  In this fic you get to meet the Ne'llaf up close and personal.  You
might even be able to pick out one special Ne'llaf in particular.  Sit
back and enjoy.


	Two days after the story that shocked the universe, I was in a
haze.  We had to go to our second plan which was not expected to
happen.  Everyone was gathering supplies and trying to gain allies in
the hopes of gaining enough people to effectively strike back.  It was
now certain though.  The DGF would be devided.  After a whole day of
deliberating over the issue the Supreme Gaurdians had taken a vote.
Everyone agreed that it was the only feasable way to keep ourselves
safe.
	In the two days Brin had been busy too.  He had gained massive
support in the Leauge of Dimensions.  They had stopped all other
business to consider his bill to remove our power and appoint himself
as a "temporary" leader.  He had also formally introduced members of a
diplomatic group from a new dimention.  This dimention was strange.  It
was not parallel enough to any dimention to be named like Earth, or
something like that.  It was also not qualified in Alpha, Beta, or even
Delta, dimention types.  It was just a dimention that seemed to tie
into every other one.  It was simply given the name Omega dimension.
The Ne'llaf came in with gifts and promises of new fortune to the DGF
and everyone tied to NCC.  They swore that they were a peace loving
people and that their weapons were not to be used for war, but for
defense.  They gave a public pardon to us for blowing up their ships.
They seemed too nice and clean for my liking.
	As I shuffled through a list of habitable planets in all the
dimentions known, Sarhedrin came in with a status report.  I had taken
him off of Brin-sitting duty and asked him to start trying to get a
round about estimate on how much money that we could have any claim too
when we left. "Looks really good," he said with a smile. "With those
passwords you gave me I found a lot of money that was just sitting
there.  I just transfered it to an account for some unknown rich guy
that I made.  We should have about 22 trillion credits now.  That is
just in out personal accounts.  With all of our annuities and stock you
could probably triple that amount.  I could easily say 68 to 70 trill.
That should last us a nice long time," He said.
	"Yeah I guess.  Did you see Shandra anywhere when you came in?"
I asked him.  He scratched his head and thought.
	"I think that I saw her and your wife hanging out with Mac's
girl.  Why did you need her for something?"  He said as he stood to go
get her.
	"Nahh, she is where she needs to be. But if you see Irvine
or Cratin tell them I would like an update.  And see how Mac is doing
with our fleet," I said.  Sarhedrin nodded and walked out.  I wrote
down the 70 trillion credits to the list I had.  I mumbled some math to
myself and figured that if we had about a hundred thousand people we
could feed them for about two years with a hefty chunk left over for
ships ammo and other supplies.  I scribbled little equations and
addition problems down for a few minutes until my comm rang and almost
scared the crap out of me.  It was Cratin checking in with his report.
	"As far as I can tell we can get enough out of the merchants
that are on our side to live off of.  It would really help to see how
many ships that Mac can wrangle so we could see if we have any spare to
use for cargo.  But it looks all clear from here.  Confirmed we have
five food, three ammo/weapons, three technology, and two odds and ends
merchants on our side.  We have about half that many that told me they
would consider our offer and might come over later.  Hey here comes Mac
let me put him on for you,"  Cratin said as he finished.
	"Hey," Mac said from the other end.  He said something to
Cratin and had a few seconds of conversation before he came back.  "You
want a report huh?  Yeah ok it looks like we have a decent sized fleet.
Thanks to Leia Organa Solo we have the full backing of the New
Republic fleet.  All of the subsiquent Star Wars dimentions have also
alligned themselves with us.  They were the biggest part in our puzzle
because they have more ships than anyone else.  We managed to swing
Capsule Corp over to our side so that was a help.  It looks like only
major sized naval fleets that didn't line up with us is Brin's little
Dark Flame fleet and some of the stronger Imperial and pirate fleets.
The outlaw fleets are of course still up in the air but then again what
did you expect.  So if everyone wasn't lieing to us we should have a
very nice fleet," he said with a little happiness cracking through.
	"Good job, keep it up every ship we can get our hands on will
be a help.  See you later.  Oh hey wait, how is Espy doing?"  I asked.
	"She is still not to happy about the whole training thing, but
I don't guess I would be either. She seems to be taking a liking to
Shandra and Katrina.  I guess that she came at a bad time though," he
said.
	"Yeah I guess so," I said as I clicked off my comm.  Things
were forming up nicely.  If things kept going right we would be out of
NCC in two more days.  I was sure that Brin would not let it be so
easy.  After I wrote down the reports I decided to go have a chat with
our "diplomatic" friends from Omega dimention.  I wish that I had
Irvine's update before I went in.  I had assigned him to digging up
anything that might even be slightly related to the Ne'llaf. So far he
hadn't come up with anything.  It was just a little fishy that such a
strange dimension had just appeared all of the sudden.  I stepped into
the elevator and pressed the button for the 19th western tier.  I had
to put my ring up to a little scanner because this tier was restricted
to high ranking officials.  As the elevator opened a portal and slid
through I wondered exactly what Brin was doing with the Ne'llaf.  He
had to have some alterior motive.
	I stepped off the elevator and walked to the central lobby of
the cabin sector.  They were in Blue 1784-1788.  I knocked lightly on
their door and excused the gaurd that was standing watch.  When the
door opened I was met by a pair of beady bloodshot red eyes.  "Hello
Supreme Gaurdian McInnis," the Ne'llaf said.  I guess that they knew
who I was or had seen me on the news or something cause I had never
seen this particular one.
	"Hello. You will have to pardon me, I do not know your name,"
I said trying to fake some manners.
	"My name is Zythran, my companion sitting down over there is
Xoniy. We are glad thankful to you for returning our captured comrads
to our care.  We assure you that we had no idea who you were when we
attacked.  As we have stated before we are a peaceful species," He lied
through his yellow and brown teeth.  I had broadcast my name and rank
to the ships before we even fired a shot.  They knew exactly who I was.
	"I am also sorry for killing your friends," I said.  I also
lied but I figured that it was for the best to keep these guys on our
side for at least the time being.
	"No worries, many of the ships were unmanned and being
controlled aboard the Lucifer," Xoniy said as he walked over.  I shook
his hand.  "Would you like to come in?" he asked.
	"Yes please if you were not doing anything important right
now," I said.  They walked over to the couch and sat lightly. I
resisted the urge to flop down in the chair in front of them.  Instead
I straightened my jacket and sat gently down on the chair.
	"I am guessing that you came here to get some answers," Zythran
said cooly.  I knew that these guys couldn't read minds but they could
sure read some body language.
	"I would like to ask a few questions if I may. You may
decline to answer any of the questions if you think that they are not
viable," I said trying to butter them up.
	"We have nothing to hide. Ask anything that you wish. This is
what I wanted to hear.
	"Why have you and your people just now discovered dimensional
travel?" I asked.  With the technology they had I was almost stunned
that it had taken them as long as it did.
	"We have always known of it. We have simply chosen to stay
isolated. We detest war and decided that if we made our presence known
that we would be trapped into the act of keeping everyone else out of
war," Xoniy said.
	"Exactly how old is your civilization?" I asked now that they
had me hooked on thier story.
	"We have been around for the same amount of time as Earth
Alpha. I believe that our species evolved a good bit of time before the
humans did on Earth.  In fact one of the races that used to populate a
planet in our dimension made trips to Earth Alpha quite often.  They
used some of our advanced architecture to help the cultures.  You might
notice the similarity of the control structures on our Sheol type
cruisers are like that of some of the cultures of Earth," Zythran said.
I though to myself. Then it hit me, the pyramids.  The big triangle
thing looked just like a pyramid.  These guys friends were dimension
hopping back during the Biblical time period.
	"What happened to this other race?" I asked.  They looked at me
with their red eyes. I don't know what it was but these guys were
freaky.
	"There were two races in our dimention. One was a group of
beings known as the Netruy. The other were called the Llaftre.  Over
the course of thousands of years these two species intermarried and a
new species was born, the Ne'llaf. The Llaftre were the species that
went to your dimention, they looked much like your race.  Then after
the last Llaftre died and the Ne'llaf became the dominant species, we
decided that Earth was not the place for us. Some Ne'llaf were stranded
in your dimention when we shut the portal up for good.  We lost all
contact with them.  We assume that they all died within around eight
thousand years.  This is about the life span of a Ne'llaf," he said.
Their door rang again and they opened it.  Brin walked in.  I bit my
tounge, shook his hand and left without saying a word.
	I was really freaked out now.  These guys had the technology
that the DGF had now about 4 thousand years before us.  No wonder
their ships were almost indestructable.  I had to talk to Irvine to see
if he had anything for me.  I decided to walk over to his room. I got
about half way there when Raven ran up to me.  He was breathing hard
and waving his hands and screaming for me to stop.  I stopped and he
ran up to me and put his hands on his knees to catch his breath.
	"What?" I said. He held up a hand to signal me to wait until he
had finished catching his breath.
	"I found something," he finally said about a minute later.  He
reached into his pocket and pulled out a small coin and placed it in my
hand.  I had never seen anything like it anywhere and I was fairly
caught up on the monetary units of different dimentions. I just gave
him a puzzled look and asked him to explain.
	"That was in a stash of money going to Brin's office. It was in
a huge metal bin that I happened to commandeir. The whole thing was
full of credit chips.  That was at the bottom of the bin," he said
pointing to the coin in my hand. "You ever seen anything like it?" he
asked.
	"No and I am a little puzzled about why some weird coin is so
important to you finding out who are Brin's lackeys," I said.
	"You don't get it do you?  This coin is 100% unique, nothing is
like it in the records, it is just like something else that suddenly
appeared," he said. Then I caught it.  Brin's money was coming from the
Ne'llaf.  Those lying, black skinned, beady eyed, yellow teethed, bad
breathed, sob's were funding all of Brin's plans.  No freaking wonder
he was so rich.
	"Where did this shipment come from?" I asked Raven.  He just
smiled at me like he had found some kinda gold mine.  I hoped that he
had.
	"It came from everywhere, there were coins from every known
dimention in that bin. And another thing. The money was signed by a
person from Earth Alpha. So I decided to dig into this person. To my
extreme surprise I found it coming from an oil rich country called
Iraq. It seemed that the president of that country sent some money to a
person without knowing they were in another dimention.  It seemed kinda
fishy so I kept looking. The money trail leads way back in Earth
Alpha's history. I printed out the list that I dug up it has some names
you might identify with," he said with a little laugh.
	"Sadam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Napolean Bonaparte, Atilla the
Hun, Ghengis Kahn, Nero, Calligula, King Ahab, Seti IV?" I looked at
him like he was stupid. I thought that he was. "What did you do just
compile a list of the most hated people in Earth's history?" I asked
him.
	"No I am telling you that these people all got money or help
from the same source. That source was unknown in all cases, except from
the Egyptian pharoh. A scribe in his court noted that his army was
supplied by the gods.  And that these gods came down in circles of
polished silver from above. Now what does that make you think of? UFO's
right. So this proves that in Earth Alpha there is more than one
sentinent species!" He said with a big smile.
	"No it proves that the Ne'llaf are liars! I was talking to them
and they admited to visiting Earth and helping some people. Then they
said that some of their people were stranded on Earth. And doesn't it
make since that if these Ne'llaf were left on Earth that they would be
strategically more advanced than any regular human? They would probably
be more rutheless too. And it is just a big coincidence then that these
list of rulers were considered more rutheless and strategic than any
human.  No way I am not buying this," I said. Raven looked at me like I
was going crazy. Of course he didn't get what I was saying, he wasn't
in there when I talked to Zythran and Xoniy.
	"Raven look, I will explain all of it later but for now we HAVE
to leave this place, and I mean quick.  Go to my hangar and prep the
troop transports for departure.  Tell all the SG's that it is Daybreak,
they will understand.  I have to go take care of something," I said as
I turned and began to run down the hall.  I realized that I didn't have
time to run so I opened a portal.
	When I came out I was right in front of Katrina and Hogo who
were laughing about something. "It's Daybreak, we have to go," I said.
Hogo immeadiatly got up and began to throw all of our clothes and
hidden weapons into a big trunk.  Katrina was just sitting there with a
stunned look on her face. "Sorry honey I couldn't let you in on this
one. But we have to leave, and we have to leave now," I said.  She got
up and helped Hogo pack.  I told them that I had to leave to get some
stuff.  I opened a new portal and stepped through.  I exited in front
of the Dimentional Vault. I punched in my code and the huge door hissed
open. I opened a huge portal that encompased everything in the Vault
and using the Force moved every article through the portal to my
designated target building. The empty Vault stood open as I opened yet
another portal.  By the time I stepped out of this one the alarms were
blaring. The Vault had a fail safe system that would track any portal
opened in it and would go off as soon as it found the destination. But
thanks to some of my hacking skills it would only open a portal to a
huge ocean on a uninhabited planet.
	I sprinted to the main computer of NCC and placed my hand on
the keyboard. I opened a small portal and placed my hand through it. It
rested on the main computer of our new base. In about three minutes at
about 3000 terrabytes a second transfer speed I had the whole NCC
computer system downloaded. I pulled my hand out just in time for a ki
blast to sizzle past my arm hair. I turned to see a Ne'llaf standing
behind me in a fighting stance. This one was bigger than all of the
others. He was a good 4 inches taller making him about seven foot tall,
he was ripped with muscles everywhere.  He had claws and his teeth were
fangs instead of the only slightly pointed teeth of the other Ne'llaf.
On his head he had small horns around the perimeter that all curved in
to make sort of a crown on his head. He also had a tail with the same
small horns around the very end of it. Besides that he looked really
freaking evil. I caught a chill just looking at the dude. He stepped
toward me and waved a finger.
	"You are going nowhere, McInnis," he hissed. He threw another
blast at me. I reflected it with little effort.  I began to open a
portal and he somehow shut it before I could walk through.  No one
could control the opening of a portal without a majorly huge
dimentional crystal. I didn't even see a ring on him. "I will tell you
when you can leave," he laughed out. I was pretty pissed off and I
needed to do one more thing before I could leave.
	"Ok, buddy I don't know who you are but I know about your
species and how they played around with all of peoples of earth. So I
do have one thing against you. That is usually enough for me to kill
you," I said as I drew my saber. He held his arm out beside him and art
of his skin on the top and bottom of his wrist slid back. A huge hooked
blade of bone shot out.  He did the same with the other wrist. So here
I was with a lightsaber fighting a guy with three foot bone blades
coming from the top and bottom of his wrists.
	"I am Vyraxon, and you will soon be dead!" he said as he rushed
me.  I casually stepped to the side of his rush, opened a portal and
slipped through.  I don't guess that he could fight and control portals
at the same time.  That was for my own good. I got to the main PA
system and pressed the button that I had preprogramed for all of the
DGF members that were loyal to the Supreme Gaurdians.
	"Daybreak is upon us. We must leave now. Take only what you can
put in your duffels. Don't worry about weapons, I have plenty. Now is
the time, go to the predetermined hangar and load up," I said over the
PA. I hopped through a portal to my hangar and saw the first transport
taking off to the new base. Raven had taken the right of telling any of
the people that he saw along the way to spread the word.  Maybe he
wasn't so bad after all.
	"Hey Raven, everyone ready to go?" I asked. He gave me a
hurried thumbs up and pointed over to the south enterance bay to the
Supreme Gaurdians checking the ID's of the people coming through. It
had been a hard job but we took the Force sensitive cadets on our side,
Shandra, and myself, and scanned the minds of every single student to
see if they were truly on our side or not. Then we had programmed them
into a huge database and just moved all of their codes to a program.
This way we could tell who was with us and who was against us.
	I turned to my left to see the second of ten transports take
off. We had around eighty thousand people on our side.  We could fit
ten thousand on each transport. Mac came running up to me.
	"Shane we have problems. The Ne'llaf have began to attack
cadets that are coming here. We can't get them on the transports fast
enough, and there are Sheol crusiers coming around to the other side of
NCC to blast the transports out of space. I have an idea," he said.
	"Do it I trust you. I will go take care of the Ne'llaf," I said
as I sprinted over to the other SG's. I grabbed Draco and told him to
come with me. Right before we got out I saw Mac open a huge portal and
people just start running through it.  Why didn't I think of that? I
stopped to try to locate the Ne'llaf that were attacking us. I dragged
Draco through a portal and we came out right under the blast of
Zythran.
	"Welcome Supreme Gaurdian McInnis," He said as he shot a huge
blast right at me. I flung it to the side and powered up.  Draco beside
me began to rip through the Ne'llaf like a hot knife through butter
with a huge blast. There were so many of them.  Much more than I
remembered.  I began to blast at single targets to give the cadets
enough time to get through the portal that I opened behind me.  As they
stepped through I scanned their minds to make sure that they were one
of us. There were only about six hundred in the wing that the Ne'llaf
attacked.  When the last troop stepped through I shut the portal and
began to pour on the ki blasts.
	I heard Draco scream at the top of his lungs as he changed into
his super human form, FlameShadow.  I had helped him with this and he
could now transform when he wanted. He began to charge up his power.
"REIGNFIRE!" he shouted as his blue blast shot out. It hit one Ne'llaf
right on but kept right going until it finally hit a wall and
dissapated.  The Ne'llaf in the path of his blast were no more. I began
to charge up a blast of my own. "STAR CRUSHER!" I yelled as I hurled my
huge blast at the Ne'llaf.  Just as anticipated the blast phased out of
sight a few feet in front of them. When it hit it easily tore through
their unexpecting bodies. Then from down the hall we heard a sick
scream.  "BRIMSTONE!" it said.  Down the hall flew a huge red flaming
blast of energy. FlameShadow and I both braced to block it but we
underestimated the power of the blast.  It threw us both back to the
wall and tore through our clothing. We fell to the ground and starred
at each other. That was one strong blast.
	"Ok, we both shoot a blast at him and jump through a portal at
the same time," I said. FlameShadow gave me a strange look. "Just do
it, you know where to go." We both began to charge up our power. At the
same time we blasted at Vyraxon. He reeled back when our blasts hit him
and we easily made it through our portals. When we flew out of them we
were on a desert planet in a deserted dimension. I waved my hand over
the ground an a door opened we walked into the huge underground
labyrith that was our new base.
	"Welcome home," I said. Daybreak was upon us. It was time for
Light to once and for all crush the darkness that controlled NCC. We
would see to that personally.