[b][u]/+ NSEA [i]Protector II[/i] .[/b][/u]

"Hey, uh, guys. There's some red... thingies moving toward the green thingy," Guy said. He was pointing to his console while turned around. The display with the circle and the green dot had lit up like a christmas tree.
"What?" Tommy asked.
"Red thingies-" Guy started, before the entire bridge shook violently, interrupting him. "Oh no," he moaned.

The series of impacts threw Guy from his console, but the rest of the crew managed to stay seated.

"Tommy, get us out of here!" Jason shouted.
"Whoo!" Tommy shouted as he twisted the throttle control.

The ship lurched from underneath the wreckage of the [i]Magicienne[/i], climbing upward at a steep angle. One of the saucer shaped ships came into view.

"Guy, now!" Jason said.

Guy was busy crawling as far away from the consoles as he could.

"Guy!" Jason said, turning around to see what the problem was. Tommy juked away to avoid crashing into the [i]Aurora[/i], destroying the opportunity. "What are you doing‽"
"The consoles always explode on the show!" Guy said, now near the elevator. Frustrated, Jason got up from his command chair and started toward Guy's console.
"Oh, shit," Gwen said. Clearing the [i]Aurora[/i] revealed three Venator-class star destroyers, each deploying fighters. The weapons console beeped again as another battery of turbolasers arced across from the Venators. Tommy put the ship into an evasive roll. As the ship spun, it presented a bigger target for the turbolasers, taking fire that was intended for the [i]Aurora[/i] and [i]Illustrious[/i].

"Oh, brilliant! Great maneuver, [i]Laredo[/i]!" Alexander said.

The bridge shook violently again, throwing Jason off his feet. Guy screamed. Jason dragged himself up by the edge of the console and slammed his hand down on all the red buttons. Streaks of blue and red shot out of the particle cannons, slamming into one of the Venator's shields but failing to disable them in merely one salvo. The pulse catupults fired, shooting two waves of energy that slid neatly between all three Venators, completely missing the targets. Resonance cannon batteries roared into life around the ship, utterly useless at this range - especially so without fighters or missiles to fire at. One Gannet Magnet fired, lasing ethereally into one of the Venators, overloading its sheilds and a few ancillary computer systems. Jason clambered back into his command chair. By now, the distance between the Venators and the [i]Protector II[/i] was starting to close.

"Get us away from the ships! Away!" he shouted. The [i]Protector II[/i] started to loop back the way it came.

Engineering suddenly popped up on the viewscreen. Fred stood in the foreground with a small cluster of Thermians frantically working a console. A perfect shot of the Beryllium sphere - the heart of the ship - took up the background. 

"Hey guys," Fred said. A Thermian raced past in the background with a cardboard box, following another with a clipboard. "They're telling me the weapons... energy conduits have overheated. So don't fire pulse catapults or particle cannons for a couple minutes."

"Alexander, fire a... a... rocket," Jason said. 
"You mean a quantum rocket?" Alexander asked.
"Yeah!"
"Oh, sure, I'll get right on it! Does it look like I have the slightest idea how to do that?"
"Well, just look for a red button!"
"You can't just press every red button you come across!"

Jason found a red button on his command chair. He pressed it. The lights suddenly cut out and started flashing red as a klaxon sounded. Panels in the wall flipped over, revealing signs that read "High Alert".

"Stop that!" Alexander said.
"I can't see shit!" Tommy shouted.

Another salvo hit. Mathesar had made his way over to Guy and was attempting to lift him of the floor. By the time Jason lifted the high alert, the [i]Protector II[/i] had looped back around and was facing the Venators again. V-wings were closing the distance. Jason, desperate, scrambled back to Guy's weapons console. He slammed his hand down on the red buttons again. 

A second salvo of weaponry lanced out at the Venators. At point-blank range, it was hard to miss. Some particle cannon fire impacted the shield-less ship, doing marginal damage. A gannet magnet disabled the hangar shielding on another Venator, exposing it to space. The resonance batteries, suddenly much closer to acceptable targets - ie, the fighters - tore a swath into them like flak into aircraft. The real star of the show, however, was a pulse catapult. The energy weapon managed to impact the shieldless ship, leaving a large borehole of re-arranged metal, twisted beams, and exposed wiring.

"Yeah!" Jason shouted, just before Guy's console exploded. Jason was flung against the command chair dias. Guy started screaming uncontrollably, and crawled into a console-less corner.