Message #49316

[Rakoua]

Note: How the Dominion can be a fast builder...

Part Two: Unexpected Allies

Stardate 51003.7

Two Borg cubes activated a transwarp conduit, and entered it. At the hub, it was redirected into the Federation transwarp network. But, unusually for the Borg, their mission wasn't one of destruction and assimilation. It was... an offer of alliance. The Borg had detected transwarp activity in the Gamma Quadrant, something that could be indentified as a threat as Planetia class had it's flaws, but it had teeth. Big, bloody teeth.

Of course, first they would attempt assimilation of a Planetia class vessel, with all of it's new reactive armor and interphasic torpedos. It entered a conduit that the Dominion used to travel between networks, and exited into a trabswarp hub. To the borg, it was a large and inefficient complex. The two cubes quickly destroyed the fleet of Jem'Hadar ships guarding the hub. It then encountered a fleet of Planetia class vessels, which opened fire. Seconds later, one of the cubes was reduced to stardust.
The other cube hailed them, firing everything it had at the fleet, and hailed them.
"We are the Bo..." THe other cube exploded into millions of pieces.

A Sphere dropped out of transwarp near Earth. Starfleet greeted it: A transphasic torpedo, but the sphere deflected it with a new technology.
"We are the Borg. However we are not here to assimilate you, as otherwise we would do so allready." The sphere hailed them. On it was a Borg Queen. She teleported onto the bridge of the starfleet flagship, and offered to help in the battle against the Dominon. In return, the Borg would recieve right to assimilate the Prophets and hold the Wormhole, but the Federation would be the last force to fall to the Borg.
After a leinghty discussion, the admiral decided that if Sisko, the Emissary, could get the Prophet's help, the Borg would be destroyed inside the wormhole. But the Borg weren't planning to use it...

Still, an alliance was made. On stardate 51005.1 the combined Starfleet and Borg and a fleet was dispatched to attack the Dominion. A single Dominion ship greeted them. Its configuration wasn't known to the Federation or the Borg, and it was hundreds of times larger then a cube, but the assault was lanchued. Federation fighters moved in, and the Dominon vessel sent a larger, stronger fleet to greet them. Not a single Starfleet officer survived, and the entire Seventh Fleet was reduced to a field of debris. It was the Borg's turn to move in. The fleet started weakening the shields of the enemy and it sent hundreds of spheres trough every gap they created in the shields. The spheres shot all they had, and even lanchued suicide attacks at the massive enemy, but they barely stratched the surface before both the cubes and the spheres were destroyed.

Towers appeared on the hull of the ship and tractor beams emitted from them gathered the debris fr salvagable parts. On the next encounter with the enemy, the ship will be stronger... and then it will conqur the Alpha Quadrant in a single strike.
The dominion fleet gathered around the ship, and they waited for their new allies, the Breen and the Cardassians to come.

To be continued...

Note: Still setting the stage.