ALEXANDER 6
(Time: 2259 'The Shadow War'.)
In the dead center of open space, a massive portal opened up as a ship, three miles long, with a two mile-wide wingspan, and a half-mile high, exited from it. The portal closed as The Alexander's crew tried to figure out where they were and what their next course of action was going to be.
"Okay," said Harry. "Where are we?"
"Unknown." Hermione said. "These dimensions don't exactly have their own designations."
"Maybe we should name them." Luna said.
"I don't think we wanna do that without talking to the people who actually live here."
"Cortana!"
[Yes, Chief?] the AI said.
"Status report on the ship."
[Dimensional Drive is off-line due to power drain. Estimated time to full-charge: unknown.]
"Unknown? Why unknown, Cortana?" Hermione asked.
[Someone has been tinkering with the ships systems.]
"Fred and George." Luna said.
"Lucky guess."
"Hardly a guess." she said. "Those two are as mischievous as they are predictable."
"What about ship status?" Harry asked.
[Shields: operational. Weapons: available. Life-support systems: functional. Navigation: on-line. Communications array: damaged. Engines: semi-usable.]
"I don't like the way you said those last two parts."
[Engines are in need of recharging in order to be fully efficient. Currently, only 35% engine power available. Communications array has been damaged by unknown means.]
"Alright, we'll need to get them repaired. ASAP."
While the crew was busy working their damaged ship, Karen and Diana approached Harry while he was in his ready room.
"Is something wrong, Karen?" Harry asked as the blond woman marched into his office.
"Yes. Why do we have to wear these new outfits?" she asked as she held up the mostly white bodysuit that Hermione had given her.
It had a yellow belt, blue gloves and boots, and a red cape.
"You don't have to, but Hermione and the others thought it would be better than your rather... secular outfits?"
"What? You don't like our Justice League uniforms?" she smirked at him.
In private, sure. He thought. "Those 'uniforms', as you call them, are... well, they just seem a little too provocative."
"Define 'provocative'?" Diana asked.
"They make you look like a bunch of strippers."
"That's rude."
"I'm just being honest. You're superheroes. You don't have to flash so much skin to get attention. Like you're nothing but eye-candy. Unless your intention was to distract some villain so that you could take them out. The girls made uniforms for all of you."
"I know, we've seen them. But he does have a point, Karen."
"I know, but he doesn't have to explain it like that." Karen said.
"Well..." Diana started to say.
"Not. One. Word." she said to her friend. "Fine. We'll consider it."
She began walking away, before turning back to him and spoke.
"And since when did you become so concerned with protecting our honor?"
"Since we met." he said.
The pair were headed back to their quarters, when Diana spoke.
"Why were you so against the idea of new uniforms?" The amazon asked.
"Well, for one thing... my husband helped to create mine." the blond heroine said.
"So the hole in your uniforms chest was his idea?" Diana asked.
"No! It was mine."
"Yours?" she balked.
"Yes. Because I didn't know exactly what to put on my chest like he did."
"The 'S' shield was appropriate?"
"It was Kal's family crest, not mine. When I first came to Earth, and saw the good he could do with his powers, I wanted to do the same thing. But I didn't want to automatically be associated with him and his 'reputation'.Even if it was a positive one. I wanted to make my mark on the world, my way. Be recognized for my own talents and contributions. I..." Karen explained.
"I get it. But why the keyhole in your chest?" Diana asked.
"Like I said, I didn't know what to put there." she replied.
"You could have just covered it up."
"I... wanted to. But there was a part of me that thought..."
"Maybe it would enhance your feminine charms?" she asked.
"Show the world I was a woman." she reassured.
"You're still hung up about that?" the amazon asked.
"Hey! I'm still more muscular than you are, princess. Not all of us get blessed with great beauty by Aphrodite."
"Kal thought you were feminine enough." Diana said.
"Kal was different." Karen said.
"Yes, he was."
"Why were you so concerned about what other people thought?" Diana asked as they got back to their quarters.
"Because, public opinion was and still is a delicate thing. The public, the media, the authorities, they all can either help you or hinder you when you're trying your hardest to protect them. Regardless of how powerful you are. Kal earned his reputation amongst them, and I needed to earn my own amongst them."
"So why did you marry him, then?"
"Because I fell in love with him." she said. "You knew that!"
"Of course I did. It just sounded like you seemed to have forgotten that little detail."
"When did I... oh."
"Uh-huh."
"Perhaps Harry is right. It is somewhat sexist to think that we need such provocative outfits to get just as much respect as our male Justice League members." Diana said.
"Even if they are all dead now." Karen said.
"I know." she said sadly.
Just then they were attacked.
"What the..." Neville gasped.
"ENGINE ROOM REPORT!" Harry shouted.
[We're fine, just a little shook up.] George said.
"Alright. Someone find out what hit us!" he ordered as he stepped onto the bridge.
"Harry, I think I've found what attacked us." Katie said.
"On screen," Harry said.
The view screen came to life, showing some kind of strange, black, spider-shaped ship, and it was firing on them. Specifically at their engines."
"Going for the weak-spot, eh?" Harry mumbled to himself as Hermione got the shields back up. "They want to attack us? Let's show them what it means to attack us."
Neville and the others repositioned the cannons and returned fire. The shadow-ships began falling to the might of the Alexander.
"What The Hell?" Fred shouted.
"Spiders?" Hermione asked.
"Squash Those Bugs!" George shouted.
The cannons fired, in every direction, as Cortana did her best to track the strange ships that were nearly invisible against the blackness of space itself. Even the light from the nearby sun did little to illuminate their attackers. The essence of the spider-like ships tried to capture the massive research vessel, but it was just too powerful for them to destroy.
Eventually, the spider-ships broke off and retreated, vanishing from the ships vision and scopes.
"Katie, can you find out where they came from?" Harry asked.
"Negative. But we know where they were headed." She said.
"Okay, punch it in." He said.
She did and they were on their way.
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(Location: Babylon 5 station; orbiting the planet Epsilon 3)
The Alexander had came up on a huge space station, it looked like four balls were welded together and the balls were able to rotate.
"What is that?" Said Harry.
"That looks like a space station." Said Hermione, "But not like any I've seen before. What's its call sign?"
"Looking right now." Luna said. "Babylon 5. I wonder if they have any hanging gardens?"
"Open a hailing frequency," Harry said. She did and Harry spoke, "This is the RSS Alexander to Babylon 5, do you read?"
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(Babylon 5)
Inside the C&C, a communications officer had gotten the captain's attention.
She was a tough and lovely looking woman with brown hair and green eyes. She was dressed in the official Interstellar Alliance officer's uniform.
"Ma'am we have a ship hailing us." He said.
"Put it through." she said. "This is Babylon 5, please identify yourself."
[Babylon 5, this is the Republican Starfleet Ship: Alexander. We have some information for you.]
"Alexander, I am Captain Elizabeth Lockney; Commanding Officer of this station. With whom am I speaking?"
[Captain Steven Potter. I'd much rather meet in person. Maybe you guys can help us out, we just got through fighting for our lives against something we've never seen before.] Harry said.
"Can you describe this 'thing'?" Lockney asked.
[It looked like, now that I think about it, some kind of squid or a spider, black as night, and could even turn invisible. If it weren't for our ship's sensors, we'd never get out of that fight.]
Lockney paled.
"Say that again," she said to him. So he did. "Oh My God. Get President Sheridan tell him and Vice President Delenn to meet me in a conference room!" she snapped at one of the officers.
"MA'AM!" Said one of the soldiers.
"Captain Potter, we need to meet face to face."
[Roger that Captain Lockney. Give us thirty minutes. Alexander out.]
It was then that Lockney caught sight of the ship as it slowly approached the station.
"What the hell..." she gasped when she saw it.
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(Alexander)
"Who wants to go?" Harry asked. This time Alicia, Angelina, Padma and Lavender went with Harry, Hermione and Neville. Karen, Diana and Meghan went with them as well.
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(Babylon 5 receiving center)
Once the away crew beamed aboard the station, they were met by Captain Lockney, a handsome man with black hair and brown eyes, and a goatee, he was in a suit with a 'banded collar' shirt and boots. With him was a regal-looking woman with long brown hair with a bone ridge sticking from the top of her head, brown eyes and was dressed in robes in shades of black white and silver, and boots. Harry and the others walked over to them, snapped to attention and saluted them.
"Welcome Captain Potter," said the man. "I am the Interstellar Alliance President: John Sheridan." He saluted back, "This is Vice President Delenn, of the Minbari."
"It is nice to meet you, Captain Potter." She said.
"Vice President Delenn." He said with a bow. "This is my away crew; CDR. Carol Marshall; my first mate. LCDR. James Longbottom; head of security, two of his 'men', LT. Karen Cage and LT. Jane Rhodes; Journeywoman Setsuka Patil and her bodyguard, former LCDR Cassie Cage." As he mentioned them they dropped their salute and still stood at attention. "And these are our friends in the Justice League. Karen Starr Kent, also known as Powergirl. Diana Prince of Themyscira, also known as Wonder Woman. And Meghan Morse, also known as Miss Martian."
The trio looked at them as if in confusion, sensing something different about them than the rest.
"Nice to meet you," Sheridan said, "If you'd follow us we'll discuss what you had saw in the conference room."
So they walked into a room and they sat down to talk.
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(Conference Room. Time: An hour later.)
The meeting room was large enough to host several people, and several people did end up showing themselves.
Ambassador Londo Mollari of the Centauri Republic.
Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn Regime.
Ambassador Kosh of the Vorlon Empire.
Delenn was the Minbari Federation representative.
"And that's it." Harry said.
The others were surprised. Their ship could destroy Shadow ships and not be taken over. Despite the low power they were operating in.
"If you'd like," Hermione said. "We have video of our battle with these 'Shadow ships'."
President Sheridan nodded to see the footage. So they showed them the footage.
Several minutes of watching the video, and none of them spoke a word. They were impressed.
"Just what is that ship?" Londo asked. "A battle ship?"
"No, sir." said Harry. "Surprisingly The Alexander is a research vessel."
The group, even the seemingly unflappable Kosh, turned to look at them.
"A RESEARCH VESSEL? THAT BIG AND POWERFUL?" Mollari gasped aloud.
"Yes, sir." Hermione said.
"I wish we had research vessels like that," said Delenn.
Harry just looked to his crew mates and nodded.
"We're willing to make a deal with you guys." He said.
"What kind of deal?" Lockney asked.
"We can give you copies of the blueprints to The Alexander, even help you with your war." Harry said.
"In exchange for what?" Asked Sheridan.
"The Alexander is only one of two ships in existence, we need more fire power to beat our enemies in our home dimension."
Now it was Sheridan and Delenn's turn to put something on the table.
"We will give you the blueprints to our most powerful ship." She said as she brought up a holographic rendering of a sky blue and grey ship that was rather small, smaller than The Alexander. Harry and the gang knew that it wasn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size in the fight in the dog.
"This is the White Star. It's been our most effective weapon against The Shadows. Enough to go toe-to-toe with them. But it's more a question of numbers and such." Sheridan said.
"The Shadows have more ships than we do. We don't know how many, exactly. But so far, we're holding them off." Lockney said.
"Okay, that seems fair. What say you guys?" Said Harry. They nodded and shook hands making a formal agreement. Hermione handed over a copy of the blueprint for The Alexander and Delenn handed over a copy of The White Star over to Hermione.
"If I may ask, are all your 'Justice League' members female?" Delenn asked.
"Well, that's a long story." Harry said as he looked at Powergirl. The blond leader of the League looked back at Harry and nodded. Delenn noticed this. "In their dimension, an alien warlord named Darkseid sought to conquer the Earth. He and his armies tried several times over the years to so, but they were always defeated by The Justice League. The strongest of their team was a Kryptonian named Kal-El. They called him Superman."
"He was my husband." Powergirl said, still upset about what had happened.
"Darkseid ambushed and killed him, and one-by-one he and his armies killed the other male members of their team."
"But not the female ones." Captain Lockney stated.
"He didn't view us as equals, so he didn't consider us to be any threat." Diana said.
"Chauvinist." Lockney scoffed.
"Indeed." Harry said. "My friends and I helped The League to defeat Darkseid and avenge their friends deaths. They then choose to leave their universe and come with us."
"Leaving their homes?" Delenn asked.
"Without our friends and family in the League, Earth wasn't much of a home." Karen said.
"By defeat, you mean..." Sheridan started to say.
"I killed Darkseid." Harry said.
Sheridan and the others looked at Harry in astonishment. If this Darkseid was as powerful as they said, then Harry must be even stronger. He looked tough, but...
"I can see your doubt as to my words." Harry said.
"Apologies, it's just that... if this Darkseid is as powerful as you say he is... was... then..." G'Kar asked.
"How could I beat him?" Harry asked.
"Yes."
"Well, hopefully, I won't have to show you." Harry said.
Hermione just rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"What?" he asked, noticing her eye-roll.
"Drama Wizard." she said.
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Later, Harry and his team were being shown around the station, just to familiarize themselves with whom and what they would be working with.
"Babylon 5 is the last of the Babylon stations, the others either being destroyed or simply vanishing completely."
"Why?" Alicia asked.
"Why what?" Lockney asked.
"Why would someone destroy them?" Alicia stated more clearly.
"Because it was believed that cooperation with other races would weaken the businesses of various groups and organizations that had their own agendas in the universe." she said.
"Like terrorists, tyrants and dictators." Padma mused.
"Yes."
"You said 'vanishing completely'. What do you mean by that?" Lavender asked.
"The fourth Babylon station, which was called B4, was actually the largest of the stations, being constructed out of the remnants of the last three stations. It was about 6 miles in length, and had engines that could move it through space if necessary." Lockney explained.
"A mobile station. Interesting. What happened to it?" Angelina asked.
"That's something that Ambassador Delenn will have to explain to you." she said.
The group looked at each other in confusion.
"There are six color-coded sections of the station, marked on the walls for easier identification. Blue Sector contains station administration, docking bays, personnel housing, and the Medlabs. Babylon 5 is controlled from Command and Control, also called C&C, which is at the head of the station. At the center of the head of the station is the access hatch that ships enter through. Because of its limited size bigger ships have to park outside the station, relying on shuttle and transfer services instead."
The group got in the rail-car and began moving through the station.
"The front part of Red Sector provides habitation facilities, shopping, and other leisure facilities. The following section of Red Sector crosses over into the vast interior of the station's habitat cylinder and is restricted to station and diplomatic personnel and those who live and/or work there. It has "outdoor" recreation facilities, a lake pool, a baseball diamond, and a variety of buildings, including the station commander's office overlooking the artificial landscape." she continued to explain.
"Where are we now?" Lavender asked.
"We're heading to Green Sector now. It's what we call, The Garden."
"Luna will be happy to know that." Padma said.
"It's a 12-square-mile agricultural facility, providing food and oxygen. This section showcases various alien designs and is the sector that contains habitation facilities for the alien ambassadors. Access to Green Sector is restricted to diplomatic staff and authorized guests and personnel. We'll arrange to have you and your crew access if they want." Lockney said to Harry.
"Thank you, Captain." Harry said.
"Grey Sector houses various mechanical devices to support the station's functionality, including "Yellow Sector" - the station's Fusion reactor and fuel tanks. And then of course, there is Brown Sector, primarily used by the transient population of Babylon 5 for habitation and commerce. It contains the facilities for manufacturing, maintenance, and waste reclamation for the station. The last area, and this is important, is Downbelow, also located in Brown Sector. It's a term used here to refer to the unused sections of the station, mostly nearest the hull, occupied by our homeless or dispossessed residents, commonly called Lurkers."
"So it's like a slum?" Karen asked.
"Yes." Lockney nodded. "I've only been down there once. And it wasn't pleasant. It's mostly slums and brothels. Commerce runs on barter, mostly. The Earth Alliance contractors ran out of money, so the 'downbelow' area wasn't fully developed, resulting in businesses of a disreputable nature." she explained, mostly from what she had heard. "When people searching for better lives come aboard Babylon 5 and are unable to find it, they'd assemble in Downbelow after running out of money. Without a means of returning home, denizens of Downbelow became a cheap labor force for illegal business operations, such as the trafficking of 'dust', an illegal drug."
The group looked shocked and confused at this. Babylon 5 was like a small city, and just like a small city it also had its... dark side.
"It's our 'center' of criminal activity on this station. And it's not exactly confined down there. Downbelow accounts for nine-tenths of the station's crime. A lot of people die down there. We don't know how many. The sector is mostly inhabited by humans, although a percentage of inhabitants include non-human species, such as The Drazi, Brakiri, and Pak'ma'ra."
"And because of your war against the Shadows, you haven't been able to do much about it." Harry said.
"Unfortunately, no. Despite the many changes we've made to Babylon 5, we still have limited manpower to constantly police everything that goes on down there." Lockney said.
Harry looked at Powergirl, who smiled back.
"Well... maybe we can help." he said.
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The next five years saw many changes to the Babylon 5 station.
Harry and his team had agreed to help the Interstellar Alliance against The Shadows.
They had agreed to fight in their battles, provide back up and take innocents out off the battlefield.
The Justice League's primary activities were in Downbelow, where they resumed their roles as crime fighters and protectors. Crime was slowed by 60% in the first year alone.
The Alexander was a Godsend to the Alliance. They built a second ship, dubbed 'Alexander-class', in the first year since their arrival. They called it 'Shadow-Slayer'. Which every laughed about at first, until it's first sortie with The Shadows, which proved to be a very true term.
The Shadow ships were falling left and right in every battle. Even the crew came in and fought them off when they tried to attack the station.
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"How did you guys...?" Sheridan started to ask as Harry, in full armor, shot down several of the Shadows more 'human' agents.
"We're super soldiers as well, sir." Said Harry as he reloaded his handguns.
Sheridan looked around and saw his crew, along with the formidable and intimidating Doomsday who was clearing a path by plowing through them, battling the Shadows and their agents.
"I hate it when our own government tries to kill us!" Sheridan shouted as he was protected by Powergirl.
"Yeah. Us too!" she said as she hefted a giant piece of machinery against one of the invading forces.
Fred and George were getting in on the action, flipping through the air with incredible acrobatic skill and grace.
"They're having way too much fun." Hermione said as she blocked another attack, protecting Delenn and Luna.
"I dislike being in the middle of a fight." Luna said, as she tried to protect herself with magic.
"I whole-heartedly agree." Delenn said as Fleur appeared and deflected another laser blast with her diamond-hard skin. "I can't believe we were infiltrated so easily."
"Lockney's not liking it either!" Padma shouted as she fired at another soldier.
"Don't worry, this will be over soon!" Hermione said as she punched out another soldier and Green Arrow shot down two more with her bow and arrows.
"How do you know?" Delenn asked as Harley and Jester smacked two more soldiers with their large mallets.
"That's why!" Hermione said as she saw Harry activate the 'Power Field' with his suit, causing him to suddenly move at superhuman speed, knocking down enemy soldiers left and right.
"Oh." the Minbari/human woman said.
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Ambassador Kosh was spared from being assassinated by the Shadows.
Ambassadors Mollari and G'Kar were able to iron out a more peaceful treaty with each others worlds after the Centauri's last emperor, who was working with the Shadows, was killed by Mollari.
President Clark was unable to hold his position of office longer than he had hoped, and as a result, the Shadows quickly took their front-line role in battle against The Alliance, and the Earth, much more seriously. But that proved fruitless as well.
After the final battle with the Shadows, the Alliance now had a fleet of Alexander-class ships and had achieved total victory. Each of the ships was crewed by representatives of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
Also by that time, the gang had aged about five years. But thanks to the magic of their costumes they had stopped physically aging. They all looked to be 21.
Now it was time for them to move on.
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[Chief, we're ready to go.] Said Cortana.
Standing in the reception area of the Babylon station, the original away team they stood in front of now President Delenn and Captain Lockney, who was now walking with a cane.
Harry hugged Delenn tightly.
"It was fun while it lasted Delenn." He said as he hugged her.
"Yes Steven," she said as she hugged him tightly. "It was. The Interstellar Alliance owe you many thanks for all your help." she said to her.
Hermione hugged her next. Delenn had been like a mother to the crew in their time aboard Babylon 5. They were going to miss her.
"It was our pleasure." Hermione said as Lockney hugged Harry.
"John will be sorry he did not see you off." Delenn said.
"Yes, well, being in a coma because of poisoning can do that to you." Hermione said.
"Good luck, Captain." Lockney said with a smile.
"You too, Captain." Harry said with a smile, remembering how he and Lockney had almost been intimate once, two years ago.
They all bowed to her and headed for their ship.
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(The Alexander)
"Well, let's get going." Harry said, "As a great idiot one said. 'Off to our next great adventure'." They all laughed and jumped to the next adventure.
TBC
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A/N: Welp, another ones in the can. Now on to some reviews.
To the one who said I needed some continuity in this story; Why? It's a fanfiction crossover, there is not going to be any continuity in the story. Are we going to have to add on to our disclaimers 'Warning: non-continuity in this story' now?
For those of you that think the story's is a little rushed, I'm sorry and I'm having my beta check it out and slow it down a bit.
CAST:
Harry Potter = Master Chief + Captain America (Commander)
Hermione Granger = Freedom (from Johnny Hardrim) (First Officer)
Neville Longbottom = Winter Soldier (Head of Security)
Daphne Greengrass = Elsa + Emma Frost (Councilor)
Tracy Davis = Iron Woman (Assistant Councilor)
Susan Bones = She Hulk (Navigation)
Hannah Abbott = Black Widow (Navigation)
Angelina Johnson= Power Man + Power Girl (Security)
Katie Bell = Lady Hawkeye (Security)
Alicia Spinnet = War Machine (Security)
Luna Lovegood = Lady Loki (Communications)
Su Li= Mikado Ryoko (from To Love Ru) (Medical)
Blaise Zabini = Jackson Cage; a hybrid of Jax from Mortal Kombat and Luke Cage.
Lavender Brown = Cassie Cage; from Mortal Kombat X.
Fred and George Weasley = Tomax and Xamot; the leaders of the Cobra Crimson Guard.
Padma Patil = Setsuka; from Soul Calibur 3.
Parvati Patil = Lady Noh; from Sengoku Basara.
Fleur Delacour = Emma Frost, from X-Men.
Cedric Diggory = Kurtis Stryker; the SWAT captain from Mortal Kombat 9.
Powergirl
Wonder Woman
Miss Martian
Batgirl
Robin
Jester
Harlequin
Green Arrow
Jade
Aquagirl
Zatanna
Black Canary
Doomsday