Cremelyn barked new orders,  ”Charge Engines, Attack Dive Taflin One. Looterbots to salvage pods, Shields to port only.  Stealth off in five.  Let’s take them out, before they can give a shout back,  and after the attack, I want to talk with the ‘Captain’ of that Vuxfor.”  

The Mongoose lit up her engines and Sheltered by a large asteroid, powered, unseen, to the only blind side of a PCT, its space wake.    The approach was rough and the crew of the Mongoose was tossed around, but they made it in and rode just below the Planet Conqueror Transport’s space wake.  The positioning gave the Mongoose two very good advantages.  First, the Transport’s Hurlean Guns couldn’t be turned easily to the wake, a very bad engineering decision by the Bengrian fleet Designers, and, secondly, the transport’s massive size would block out the powerful sensors of the Bengrian Startail Frigate.    

The Vuxfor’s guns suddenly went silent.  The Frigate, sensing an easy kill now, now foolishly and obsessively focused on the Vuxfor Cruiser.  This was the perfect opportunity for the Mongoose.  She slipped under the Transport, release two Comet Buster mines to the belly of the transport.  

She quickly surface, broadside to the Frigate, just as the Transport detected the unwanted visitor.  The PCT set off her battle alarms, briefly, before she was blown into silence.  The Mongoose raised her twenty four very powerful Voragian Particle Guns, as the panicked crew of the Frigate realized, too late, that they were in grave peril.    

Cremelyn gave the order to fire and moments later, the frigate was dead and silent.  She sent out looterbots to salvage what they could find.  It was a perfect ambush, a rarity on a Bengra Third Fleeter.   In two days of cruising the Mongoose had passed ships from both the Seventh and now, the Third Fleet of the Bengra Empire.  The Bengra were operating both the Third and the Seventh Fleets here.  That was not what Cremelyn wanted to know.  They were the most elite and the best trained of the Bengra Empire.  She did not want to tangle with either one or both of those fleets.  Too late, now, she had just killed one of their Frigates.  If it had sent out any com, … oh well, she thought, what’s a higher price on my head.  This battle was over before the Bengrian’s knew they were under attack. They might not be so lucky the next time.  Now she focused on the Vuxfor Cruiser.

An angry Holo-comunication, using silhouette mode,  came over the Mongoose’s command com port.  It was, what appeared to be, the Captain of the Vuxfor Cruiser, “Who are you, that takes our battle from us?”

“Who are we?  We are the ones that just saved your butts.”  Yelled Cremelyn, “Who is the Drekian Sot-Brained Genius that decided to take on a Star Tail and a PCT without escort and way out here?  Show yourself!”

“I am Cadet Commander Jen Kniye of the Graduating Class of 7834.  We are Avrivion Warriors.  Now answer, Friend or Foe?”  She demanded.

“Neither, I am your Mother!”