Trail by Fire

*Exiting HyperJump*

The Dreadnought was flung right into a massive battle, enemies surrounded the entire ship. ''Paladin Activate all shields to the max'' I ordered quickly. This caused the Neutron Star to spin even faster. ''PREPARE FOR BATTLE!'' I shouted to the robots who immediately changed shape from human to weird robotic creatures. Some were like spider using their multiple legs to due multiple duties, some turned like a giant carrying large amounts of ammunition to the weapons. The entire Ship sprung into action.

I quickly sad down into my captain seat.

*Forward batteries charging targeting enemy Dreadnoughts, secondary batteries intercepting enemy cruisers. Point defence system intercepting enemy fire.* I quickly typed the commands in the console. ''Your Majesty let us fight!'' The knights quickly walked into the Bridge. I was contemplating my next course of action. ''Each of you takes your Mecha and protect the friendly ships we need them if we are to survive.''

*Warning enemy Fire detected!*

Soon thousands of energy beams and shells were shot towards the dreadnought but when the impacted the shield it only left ripples in its wake, nothing broke through. ''Yes, your Majesty!'' They knelt down ''We shall die trying!'' They stood back up and ran towards their respective Mech Bay.

'80% of our fleet got annihilated, the enemies have 6 Dreadnoughts, 4 Carriers, 60 Battleships, 120 Cruisers and 500 Destroyers, I don't even want to know the fighter count...' I analysed my situation seeing it was not the greatest I decided my next course of action.

''Concentrate the main batteries on the Dreadnoughts, have the secondaries take down the cruisers and destroyers. Now, deactivate the front shielding and activate the matter disintegrator!'' I ordered Paladin. ''Yes, your Majesty!''

*Frontal shielding deactivated and redirecting the energy, charging main matter disintegrator, T-Minus 10 Minutes*

---Drake---

'I must protect his majesty, the situation is too dire to continue to protect our allies' I analysed the situation.'

*Warning impact imminent*

I slammed into a cruiser's bridge, weird creatures looked shocked as I blasted their bridge into smithereens.

I flew out only to get hit in my back by another mech, I dodge the next shot after which I charged right into the fray, killing and destroying fighters, destroyers and cruisers left and right. ''Sir the Dreadnoughts is under attack!'' One of the other knights alarmed me. ''Roger''

I dodge the shell shot by a battleship before I flew out towards the Dreadnought. ''NO YOU DON'T!'' Someone shouted as multiple smaller mechs latched onto me holding me down. ''GET OFF!'' I shouted in rage as I saw multiple ships aim at the open shield. I fought with every ounce of my power, killing thousands upon thousands of enemies. But there just didn't seem to be and end. I was started to get exhausted as I made my way towards the Dreadnought.

The battlefield was just so full of enemies, it just seems impossible to hold them off, ''Commander! Commander!'' My second in command Zeta woke me up from my thoughts. '' Formation A'' I ordered, we quickly created a diamond formation with a distance of a few hundred meters between each other. ''DON'T LET ANYTHING PASS!'' I shouted, after which the brunt of the enemy charge hit is square. Enemy fighters and mechs tried to pass, but with the teamwork, we were able to stop 70%, the other 30% were taken care off by our Point defence system.

''Enemy Cruiser is going to ram us!'' One of the Knights spotted in the corner of his eyes. *Linkareg activated* Large electric bolts shot between us forming a massive net. *Impact in 3...2...1...*

The cruiser slammed into us, with me being right in the middle, ''Push!'' I ordered, *Activating overdrive* Soon we were able to grind the cruiser to a halt and finally push it back. ''NOW!'', the cruiser was flung like a boomerang crushing many destroyers and fighters before finally crashing into a battleship damaging it greatly.

''For king and country!'' The knights shouted before starting a massive slaughter, this was the day their true selves come forward and completely changed them.

Suddenly their Mecha was remotely controlled to go either left or right into the shielded area. A blinding light came from behind, a project shot out from the centre travelling directly to the centre of the enemy formation. When it made contact the Dreadnought was no longer there and soon a burst of energy came free, whatever was in its path was disintegrated nothing escaped. Soon it reached our ship but the shields deflected the energy. Nothing survived, the entire battlefield was suddenly very quiet the only ship remaining was ours.

*Setting course to enemy HQ*

The ship's engines roared to life as it pushed the behemoth forwards. I just stood there dumbfounded, ''We won?'' I asked doubtfully. The Knights were silent, many were digesting what just happened. ''Drake, return to the ship'' His Majesty ordered. I quickly accelerated to my repair bay, which the knights followed suit.

---Smith---

*Contact successful, enemies remaining 0, allies remaining 0. Next command?*

''Set course to the enemy HQ'' I sat back in the chair with a deep sigh.

*Setting course to enemy HQ*

I opened a connection with the Knights ''Drake, return to the ship'' I ordered them which they acknowledged. ''Damages?'' I asked, *No damages, no fractures in the armour, energy depleted by 0.01%. Do you wish to replenish the energy?* Paladin asked me with a bow. ''How?'' I asked. * Draining energy from any star will replenish the reserves, if too much is drained a star fusion would be necessary and for star fusion, only neutron stars work.* Paladin explained.

''Replenish the reserves'' I ordered.

*Support ship A2 and B2, Cruiser A1 till 10 prepare for replenishing mission before departure*

*Knight 1 till 12 successfully embarked the ship*