Editing Battle of Beta Seranis III (section)

==(USS Hades - Phlegathon Bridge - ASEC Ensign Baylon Trinin  - 1755)==
 
The Phlegathon bucked violently as the enemy command ship swung in a tight interior arc and began to fire torpedoes and phasers into the aft-starboard side of the ship.
 
The display was suddenly illuminated by a massive series of fireballs caused by one of the enemy ships exploding in a tremendous explosion. The flash was so bright that the computer had to instantly compensate for it by blacking out the entire display. For a few seconds he was completely blind. Despite the quick computer response, he pressed his eyes closed rapidly to clear the starbursts of blue-white light that floated in his vision. The computer simply couldn't react fast enough to prevent him from getting a face full of intense light.
 
As the fireball diminished in intensity, the blackened screen began to return to normal and the spots floating in his field of vision were also beginning to retreat.
 
The ship jerked hard, as a series of enemy torpedoes slammed into the starboard quadrant of the ship. The enemy commander had realized that they would be difficult to attack with quantum torpedoes as long as he stayed positioned just below and starboard of the Phlegathon, and he was making good use of that knowledge.
 
"Structural damage on deck 6," Gold called out
 
"Evacuate the affected areas and seal them off Mister Gold," Baylon ordered.
 
[...]
 
"Helm I need a high energy lateral slide to heading two-five-six mark three-four in exactly three seconds."
 
"Aye Sir"  The Helmswoman answered.
 
Exactly three seconds later, the Phlegathon slid sideways onto her new course without banking. Baylon could feel the deck vibrate beneath his feet as the inertial dampeners and structural integrity fields struggled to keep up with the sudden shift in momentum.
 
In that instant, Baylon fired a barrage of quantum torpedoes into the nose and starboard side of the enemy command ship. The vessel's helmsman had reacted too slowly and they shot past the sidestepping Phlegathon. Baylon lanced out with the port side phaser banks, tracing a continuous line of pulsing energy along the length of the command ship's midline. Her starboard shields collapsed and the phasers began to burn through the inferior materials that comprised her hull. The phasers tore through the materials with ease ripping a massive open wound in her side.
 
As slow as their helmsman was, Trinin's counterpart on the enemy vessel made up for his colleagues shortfalls. A series of three enemy torpedoes fired from their aft weapons array slammed into the nose of the Phlegathon as the command vessel shot past her and the forward shields collapsed completely.
 
There was an explosion behind him, as one of the auxiliary stations overloaded. Baylon felt something wickedly sharp bury itself into the small of his back and his knees almost buckled. He reached out and grabbed the edge of the console to steady himself and regained his composure.
 
"Forward shields have collapsed, structural damage to decks 1 and 2, all containment fields holding. Sickbay reporting heavy casualties."
 
[...]
 
Baylon reached out and jabbed his finger angrily at the enemy command ship. The port side phaser array did not respond.
 
Before he could report that as well, Gold reported, " Port phaser arrays are off-line, captain."
 
[...]
 
Baylon sighed; this did not bode well. The entire left side of the ship was weaponless at the moment.
 
"Helm, 90-degree portside roll."
 
"90-degree port roll, aye sir."
 
The Phlegathon rotated on her long axis, bringing her dorsal phaser arrays and torpedo bays to bear. Another of the enemy was bearing down on the Phlegathon's exposed port side when the maneuver was made and  Baylon opened fire with the dorsal phasers. He watched as his phaser blasts slammed into the brilliantly colored forward shields of the enemy vessel. The ship began to deviate course and Baylon realized that this was the first enemy ship that he had engaged at the beginning of the conflict.
 
As the vessel twisted away from the Phlegathon, Trinin fired a spread of five quantum torpedoes into her nose. All five impacted the vessel, starting at her nose and tracing their way down the enemy ships port side as she tried in vain to escape her assailant.
 
Five brilliant flashes of color as the torpedoes made contact with then enemy shields, then the Phasers began to carve through hull plating. 
 
Terrible gashes opened in the duranium skin of the enemy hull and it almost seemed as if she turned herself inside out. The ship shuddered as she violently decompressed, twisted as her supports were severed by the persistent pounding of the Phlegathon's phasers, then tore herself apart in a horrendous rending of materials.
 
By the time the ship had completed her breakup, she was close to the Phlegathon and Trinin watched as pieces of hull debris rebounded from the Phlegathon's dorsal shields.
 
The aft half of the ship steamed onwards, oddly enough, still powered by her massive engines. She flew past the aft of the Phlegathon and Baylon watched her for a moment as she headed towards a cluster of asteroids. A moment later,  she collided with an asteroid the size of France and disappeared onto the surface never to be seen again.
 
Now only three ships stood between the Phlegathon and complete victory. Outnumbered still, but with half of the enemy fleet either destroyed or disabled. The enemy command ship was suffering from severe damage, but so was the Phlegathon.
 
Baylon fired another spread of quantum torpedoes at  a pair of  enemy vessels that had regrouped and were bearing down on the Phlegathon.  Each was struck by pair of torpedoes, but they didn't deviate from their path. They were like sharks going in for the kill on the bleeding swimmer.
 
Suddenly the intruder alert sirens sounded. With shields down and half the power on deck four off line, Baylon feared the worse. they had been boarded.
 
He quickly checked the status of the inhibitors, a handful of them were off line around the ship. The report was coming from deck four.
 
"Mister Moto, we have visitors" Baylon said, then turned his attention back to the battle taking place outside the Phlegathon.