Battle of the Rainbow Galaxy

Battle of the Rainbow Galaxy
And here it goes, the big battle we spend all of last episode building up to!

Lysis proclaims that today will be the day the Gamilon forces finally defeat the Star Force.  He launches his fighters to defeat the Black Tigers.

The Argo moves into the Rainbow Galaxy at full alert.  Wildstar orders the Black Tigers to launch as he sees the Gamilon fighters closing in.  The ships form up around the Argo.  Wildstar leads his fighters against the Gamilons. 

Lysis orders the precision bombers from Carrier 2 to launch.  He then prepares the SMITE machine.  The precision bombers assume formation in the SMITE zone and are teleported (while Balgar laughs maniacally) to a location just behind the Argo.  Uhhhh, that effect looks an awful lot like the Zentraedi grand fleet folding into Earthspace.  The bombers start bombing the Argo and Venture can't figure out where they came from.  Avatar desparately recalls the Black Tigers.  Wildstar orders them to return.

The bombers are taking their toll on the Argo, which fires back with its weapons.  The Black Tigers return and the bombers reform and break off.  Watching all of this, Lysis orders carrier 3's torpedo planes to launch and attack the Argo's unprotected flank.  They, too, are transported by the SMITE machine. 

Wildstar is pursuing the bombers when he sees the torpedo planes materialize and encircle the Argo.  They drop torpedoes WHICH HAPPEN TO BE MOST OF THE PLANE'S FUSELAGE!!  Wildstar is recalled again while the Argo takes severe damage.

Lysis orders the drill missile launched an deploys the heavy bomber squadron.  The drill missile is carried by a crazy looking bomber that is SMITE-transported to the Argo just like the others.  THe Black Tigers are chasing off the torpedo planes when Conroy advises Wildstar that the planes are low on fuel.  Wildstar orders them back to the ship.  Lysis orders the drill missile to be used.

The Argo crew sees the heavy bomber appear and panics.  The drill missile is launched and flies right up the wave motion gun.  Venture speculates that it's a misfire--the Sandor sees tha the missile is turning.  Avatar orders all belowdecks crews to the upper decks as the missile bores its way into the ship.

Sandor and IQ 9 run to the wave motion gun and try to find the missile's power source.  They crawl into the missile and attempt to reverse the drill action.

Lysis plans to detonate the missile in five minutes.  He orders his carrier fleet to assemble to witness the final destruction.

Venture and Wildstar are coordinating the repairs of the majority of the attack's damage while Sandor and IQ 9 are still working on the missile.

The carriers transform from carrier to battleship modes and begin fire cannonades at the Argo.  The Argo takes serious damage.  Wildstar returns fire with the conventional weapons while Sandor find the controls of the missile.  The fleet closes in on the crippled Argo.  Blagar and Lysis gloat.  Then IQ 9 reverses the missile and he and Sandor evacuate.  The missile pulls itself out of the Argo's bow and flies back to the Gamilon fleet.  It strikes the red carrier and explodes.  The flaming wreckage catches the blue carrier, destroying it.  Lysis' command ship is buffeted by th explosion as all the carriers explode.  He pilots his command ship right at the Argo.

Venture evades, but Lysis's flying saucer continues chasing them.  Avatar orders them into the black cloud, but Lysis tracks them on sonar and drop DEPTH CHARGES.  Er, space bombs.  The barrage shakes the Argo, but they get above Lysis.  Lysis decides to plant a bomb on the Argo's ventral surface.

Venture and Wildstar wonder at the sudden lull in attacks.  The radar is repaired just in time for Nova to see that the Gamilon ship is beneath them.  Then Lysis appears on the Argo's screen.  He and Avatar confront each other face to face for the first time.  Lysis tells him of the bomb.  It detonates, and the Argo withstand the blast.  Lysis opts to limp home in his damaged control ship.

The Argo is battered and severely damaged, but continues on in space.  Crewmembers assemble on the outer deck for a military funeral for the lost hands.  Avatar presides in a stirring speech as the main cast salutes fallen comrades whose names we never knew . . .

Hmm.  No day countdown in this episode.