Knights of Daybreak
Chapter 9
By: W.Bob Yankovic

	Hmm, seems like or heros have a back up plan that was ready at
a moments notice. In this fic you are introduced to Camelot, the new
home base for the good DGF.  The Ne'llaf begin to attack innocent
dimentions. And more hints to who these weird people are and where they
came from.


	I stood on a platform in front of every person in our renegade
army. Behind me stood the rest of the Supreme Gaurdians, my wife, and
Espy. We had successfully made it through with extremely light
casualties. Now the hardest challenge that had ever faced the SG's was
at hand.
	"Welcome to Camelot," I said adressing the crowd. "This is our
new home. You will find that it has much of the same comforts as NCC. I
hope that you find it acceptable. Now to get down to business. I have
reason to believe that Brin is being paid off by our new friends.
Thanks to some undercover work by Raven, we can shed some light on the
Ne'llaf. Since the beginning of the Earth Alpha dimention and every
subsequent one, the Ne'llaf have been in it. The people in Earth's past
that have been looked upon as evil and ruthless monsters are infact
Ne'llaf that were left behind when they sealed the portals to their
dimention. They are the cause of most of the war that has ever gone on
in Earth Alpha. They are extremely more technologically advanced than us. 
They fight better, and have more connections. In no way will this
be an easy fight. If anyone wants to turn back now, go ahead. Go back
to NCC with the evil and corruption. But if you choose to stay here you
choose to fight on the side of good. To bring daybreak to this night of
evil. To become a Knight of Daybreak. And to cleanse the DGF of all the
impurities that plauge it now!" I said as the crowd erupted into cheers
and war whoops. I smiled and turned the mic over to Mac.
	"I would also like to thank you for being here. I know how big
of a decision that it was. Again welcome to Camelot. Now down to some
less interesting stuff. Everyone will be assigned a roomate and a bunk.
If the person you are with is not acceptable you will fill out a room
change request. Do note that you can only do this once. You should all
begin to make friends. We are gonna be doing alot of undercover work
that will require a lot of trust. Picky and childish behavior will
result in failure, and possibly death. As for eating, everyone will
have the same schedule that you had back in NCC. We have tried our best
to keep everything exactly as it was so we didn't have mass chaos. If
you have any questions ask your commanding officer. As for the lack of
leadership, we will be asking for applications for ranking officers. We
will go through these with our disgression and choose who we deem fit
for leadership. Everything else will be explained when you report to
your unit meetings in two hours. Until then move your stuff in and meet
your room mate. Enjoy," Mac said as he stepped down from the platform.
The crowd of people began to make their ways to find their rooms.
	"Well I think that went fairly smoothly," Irvine said as he
walked up to my side.
	"Yeah, if you ask me I think that the DGF are in a world of
trouble. They are counting us out," Cratin said. He turned his back and
moved his hands over his face. When he turned back around his face
looked just like Brin's. "Please don't kill me! NOO!" he said in a
little girl's voice. Everyone on the stage shared a laugh.
	"Ok everyone, here are the room assignments," I said passing
them out. Of course Katrina and I were in a room together, Cratin and
Sarhedrin shared one, Draco and Irvine were together, Shandra and Espy
were together, and stubborn Mac was in a room by himself. He claimed
that it would be "too much of a temptation" if he was in a room with
Espy. I wanted to slap him and say that was why they should be in the
same room but he remained in his stoic little state of mind. As
everyone walked to their suites Hogo and Raven walked up beside Katrina
and I.
	"Hey Shane, check this out," Hogo said waving a piece of paper.
I had asked him to help out Raven with the background check. I took the
paper from him and began to read it. It was a list much like the one
that Raven gave me for Earth Alpha, but instead it had the names of
criminals and fugitives from almost every dimention known. "You get
what we are saying?" Hogo asked. I shook my head not fully
understanding the significance of a list of thousands of names. Hogo
hit his palm to his forehead and pointed over to Raven as if he was
telling him to explain.
	"Those are the names of people who have been in contact with a
strange source of power and money. This source can be traced back to a
central body. This body is none other than a subsidary branch of a
company called Brinteck. It seems that they cut it off when someone got
nosy about it. They changed the name of it and passed it off as another
company to itself. It seems that it is just a big bank account. Anyway
those people are pretty much just a bunch of Brin lackeys. And since
Brin is a Ne'llaf lacky, that makes these people like the fingers of
the Ne'llaf. I think that it would be nice to watch these people,"
Raven said.
	"I see, good work. Um heck I don't know put some trusted people
on them. Make sure that there aren't any here that might have sneaked
in under our noses," I said as I walked toward my room.  Katrina had
long since left. She wasn't much for business talk. Then again I wasn't
either but I was the one that didn't have a choice in the matter.
	As I walked into my suit I noticed Katrina sitting on the couch
with her face in her hands. "Hey, what's up?" I asked in a conceredn
tone. I sat down beside her and she leaned over and put her head in my
lap. "Is everything ok?" I asked. She turned over and looked up at me.
	"What is more important to you?" she asked. I was shocked at
the question. A puzzled look crossed my face.
	"You know that I love you more than anything in existance. I
would turn in my badge and quit this whole thing if I knew that it
would cause me to lose you. Nothing can come between us," I said almost
losing my temper. She just gazed up at me and smiled.
	"That is what I wanted to hear. Never forget that I like to
hear that," she said. With a little yawn she turned over to her side
and fell asleep. That old familiar feeling came over me. I realized
that I had not been paying her much attention of late with all of the
Brin crap going on. She was my wife, and I made a vow to love and
protect her. It was high time that I picked those habits back up.
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	The news hit me a few hours after I had finished an
uninterupted dinner with my wife. The Dark Flame Fleet had attacked a
planet in Earth Delta who refused to comply with the new "Unified
Dimentional Order,(UDO)." It appears that they didn't like the whole
Ne'llaf situation so they wouldn't sign the new Universal Compact which
gave Brin total control over every trade route and all of the supplies
of all the dimentions. So the Dark Flame fleet gave it an orbital
bombardment to straighten it up. They claimed that it was a peace
keeping measure. Because even one rouge dimention could mean pain to
everyone. This severly pissed me off. I called an emergency meeting of
the Supreme Gaurdians. Everyone had heard about the situation so I
saved some time by not explaining it.
	"Maybe instead of worrying about the ships that will supply us
and try to win whole planets," Mac said when I opened the table for
suggestions. That was a nice idea. If we didn't have to worry about the
security of ships coming and going we could keep our profile lower.
	"That sounds nice. Why don't you and Sarhedrin take care of
that," I asked. They looked at each other and nodded. I excused them to
go ahead and start. "Hey Mac, before you go, I need to talk with you in
private sometime soon," I said. He said ok and left to get busy on
those planet reports.
	"Ok next problem. We need to find a weakness in the Sheol's and
especialy that good for nothing Lucifer. Anyone wanna volunteer?" I
asked. Shandra said that she had always been good with schematics and
stuff like that so she agreed to look them over and hope for the best.
I gave her the name of an old friend who was really great with machines
and told her to call her up. It would be good to see her again, if she
was alive.
	"Hey, Shane," Draco said. I looked over to him and gave him the
floor. "Who or what was that thing that we fought in the hall way of
that dorm?" he asked.
	"To tell you the truth man I have no idea. I know somehow that
he can control portals and pack one heck of a wallop, but I don't know
anything else. He said that his name was Vyraxon or something like
that. You can ask Raven for some info and try to find out some more
about him if you want," I said. He agreed and hurried off.
	"Hey Cratin, wanna do some UC?" I asked. He let out a fake cry
of disgust and fell down to the floor. When he stood back up he looked
just like a Ne'llaf.
	"I wouldn't mind," he said in their hissing slimy voice. I told
him to wait in the control room until I finished and looked over what
we knew of their history and customs. He picked up and flew with his
new found black leathery wings.  With that out of the way Draco told me
that he had something special to go do so I said ok. I had to go find
Mac and break some news.
	I found him sitting in front of a computer screen typing with
one hand and writing down numbers with the other. He was holding a comm
in front of him with some levitation trick, and he had an earpiece in.
I leaned over and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around, saw me,
and made some quick words in a foreign language and shut off the comm.
"What's up man?" he asked.
	"Um, I have some news to tell you," I said. I tried to sound
concerned and troubled. He looked at me and seem to pick up on my
situation.
	"What is it?" he asked. He was falling right into my trap. He
didn't even see it coming.
	"Well ever since we moved here I have been thinking. Some about
you and me, some about everyone else, and some about Espy. You know how
she has to go into the academy and all?" I asked.
	"Yeah," he answered. I could tell that by mentioning her I had
added that much more to the atmosphere. He waved his hand in the air as
a guesture to tell me to go on.
	"Well the way I see it is since I pretty much have full reign,
and there really is no academy that she can just live with you and it
would all be cool," I said in a low voice.
	"Oh I see," he said not really letting it sink in. Then about
three seconds later, "WHAT!? Serious!? Man this is great news, I can
hardly wait to tell her. I can't wait to see the look on her face. Man
this is so great. You're the best man--" I stopped him there. He looked
like me on a sugar/chocolate high. I waved him off and he portaled out.
It was cool being in charge without having to appease some Brin
lackeys.
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	"Well how's it going with everyone?" I asked the next day at
our meeting. There were some good reports and bad reports. Mac had
cleared up his Espy situation and was now grinning ear to ear.
Sarhedrin, left alone with his project began his report.
	"The planet search was a huge success. Some even want us to set
up recon bases on them. I told them that we would have to vote on that
but that I would get back with them. I have a list of eighty three
planets that said they would like to side with us," he said as he
passed around a packet of information with the planet's name and a
history of the people and culture. I was happy to see Earth Alpha on
our side. That was a big relief. "The ones with stars beside them want
a base on them. I figured that we could just put it to a quick vote
tomorrow after everyone has time to review the information. Next up we
have people from every one of those planets who are offering their men
and women to be trained for us. So I think that we need a new academy.
So I took the liberty of drawing up a plan for it and began preliminary
steps to start it. I hope you don't mind," Sarhedrin said to me. I
shook my head no and commented on his initiative. He sat down and it
was Shandra's turn.
	"Upon reviewing the plans and schematics for the Sheol type war
cruisers and the Lucifer," she said placing a holoprojector in the
center of the table, " I am sorry to say that there are no clear out
weaknesses. Each Sheol has six differant complete control rooms. And
the Lucifer has 66. The only means of attack that I could find myself
were simply to shoot a missile with 893 megatons of explosives right at
the middle. This would take out a large portion of the propulsion
systems. Then blast it until it just fell apart. That would be totally
impossible if more than one Sheol was present. I contacted Qui Xux, a
friend of Shane's, and she said that she would review the plans and try
to come up with a feasable plan of attack," Shandra said as she sat
down.
	Cratin stood up to brief everyone on his infiltration plan. "I
get lucky enough to break into NCC and play demon for a while. This
plan will go into action the next time we can capture a Ne'llaf. I will
impersonate him and try to get on the inside. There I will leak info to
someone sympathetic to our cause in the academy, who will also be UC.
Hopefully we can get it back to you all before anything happens. If
this works out we could pull some major guerilla warfare. Everyone pray
for me, I will need it," he said sitting down.
	As soon as he sat down I got a message on my personal channel
from Hogo. I followed his directions and flipped on the main broadcast
monitors. From these I could see Brin flanked by Vyraxon giving an
adress to the whole universe.
	We picked it up in mid sentence, "are now in total control of
the DGF. Any planet that does not sign the Universal Compact and turn
its goods over to me will be punished. Furthermore if any planet is
found to be sympathetic to McInnis and his rouge bunch they will be
orbitally bombared by the peacekeeping Dark Flame Fleet. Now, to you
McInnis, I know you are watching. We will find you, we will crush those
around you, and then, we will drag you down the cooridors of NCC until
you are dead or wish you were. Your little rebellion has no hope. If
you give up within the next day we will only inprison you for the rest
of your miserable life. Again, woe unto any planet found on the side of
the rouge Gaurdians," Brin said with a small throaty laugh.
	"Hey Sarhedrin, I think your list is fixing to shrink," Irvine
said. I had a feeling that it was going to shrink a lot.