From: creative-archive@anxst.com Subject: Just Another Normal Day Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:30:29 -0700 (PDT) name = Daniel Borge email = DannieBoy@writeme.com title = Just Another Normal Day story = I wrote this story at ten o'clock in the evening, so don't expect to much out of it. It's just stupid. All characters belongs to JMS, and all who don't belong to their respective owners. The explosions is mine, and just mine ¸. Any attempt to steal it will put you in a very bad position. I know karate, so just leave it there. * Just Another Normal Day * by Daniel Borge "Ahhh...., what a wonderful and quiet day!" Commander Susan Ivanova sat in her chair in C&C and watched her screen showing B5's docking schedule. It was blank, no ship was coming, no ship was leaving. *The first day in my career this has happened* Suddenly something broke the silence in C&C "Bleep!" It was her link. "Commander Ivanova, go!", she said. "Garibaldi here", Security Chief Garibaldi said, "You'd better come down to docking bay 5. We got a little problem" "That was that day", Ivanova said quietly to her self as she left for her duty. *------* Somewhere a conversation finds place. "Has it arrived?" "The darkness is closing very fast" "Then it has to work this time." "It must, we can't let the future go on like this" "We have..." "It is coming..." *------* Garibaldi and Captain Sheridan stood and watched a yellow thing when Susan entered bay 5. "What's that?", she said. "It looks like, like...some sort of.. It's a car!" "Ohh, is *that* what it's supposed to be?", Garibaldi said. "That was an extremely good guess" "But, I am afraid that we already knew that" "What we would like to know is; what in the hell is a car doing up here. Especially a 1974-model Volkswagen Bubble" "Maybe some eccentric moron brought it up here, and forgot it" Ivanova answered as if this normally happened on all of her shifts" "This docking bay was used 14 hours ago," Sheridan said "And I was here at that time, and all I can say is; That car was *not* with the Narn cargo I saw being shipped off" "So," Ivanova said "We have a 285 year old car up here, no one saw how or when it came!" "This day was *too* good to be true." *------* "I think it's time" "Are you sure?" "I don't want to do something hasty" "The darkness is beginning to fall upon us" "It must happen now, in *these* hours" "OK, I will let him do it" *-------* Suddenly the car began to shake. "What the...," Garibaldi didn't reach any longer before he threw himself on Sheridan and Ivanova, and managed to push then away. Out of the car's side, something that looks like arms comes out. The car, which isn't a car anymore, stands on two feet's. It has arms, and a head is coming up on the top. "What the hell is that!", says Garibaldi. "If you could get off me, maybe I can use my eyes!", Ivanova said. As she stumbles on her feet she shouts out; "It looks like a, a, a robot!", She felt proud. Second time this day she had answered right on one of Garibaldis questions. "I can see that, thank you very much", he replays. The whole security troop stands frightening with their weapons pointed at the robot. "I am Bumble Bee", the robot says. "I belong to a rase called Transformers. We are made to protect the human race. You have nothing to fear." "I was send here to warn you about Sheridan's pizza, it will be burned in three minutes." "Garibaldi", Sheridan yells out, suddenly getting on his feet after being pushed over, "Send all your forces over to my quarter and get that pizza out of the oven, NOW!" "Yes sir", he replays. "Let's go boys!" The whole troop runs out of the bay. The front forces clear the way for Garibaldi who runs for his life. Toasted pizza=no pay, is the only thing his mind is thinking of. "Thank you so much mister Bee", Sheridan says to the robot. "Without you helping me out, my pizza would have been toasted, I owe you one!" "It's OK, we're here to protect you know!", Bumble Bee answers. "I love helping people" Ambassador Kosh enters the bay. Music is heard from his suit. Bumble Bee answers in the same tone. "Not yet, tell them, not yet", says Kosh after a while. "We must be ready, all of us" Bumble packs himself together. The car stand in front of them again. "I will do my best", it says. Suddenly it disappears. "Just an ordinary day, an complete ordinary day" Ivanova has her mind on her comfortable chair as she goes back to C&C. Sheridan's pizza is saved, thank God. What would have happened if Delenn came and he just has a burned pizza to offer her. Crisis as big as the E-M war. Back in C&C the computers call alarm. "Huge jumppoint under creation 120000 km from here", Lt. Corwin says. "What's coming out?" Ivanova storms over to the monitors. "It looks like a, what the...", lt. Corwin doesn't come any further before Susan interrupts. "It looks like a giant arrowhead!". "Just what I was going to say" "It is approaching fast. Within two minutes it will ram the station" "Oh my God, it is huge", Ivanova says shocked. "Call up that ship, Lt." "To late, their calling us", he replies as he puts it on the monitors. A man with a black mask pops up on the monitors. A dark, computerizes voice is heard. "Listen humans, My name is Darth Vader, and I am the commander on this ship" "This station is now a property of the Dark Empire. Cooperate and nothing will happen" "My forces are in this moment on their way over to *my* station. Any attempt to shoot at them, will be your death. Our forces are superior to yours" "Darth Vader?" "Dark Empire?" "Superior to ours?" "Who the fuck is he thinking he is?", Ivanova says angrily "He is already calling it his station." "Attention, Darth Vader", she says. "This is an independent station, we have just broke of with earth, and we will not let anyoner take over this station." "Is that so clever to say Commander?" Lt. Corwin looks at Ivanova "After all, their ship is ten times bigger than this station, and looks like it has a lot of firepower." "Ehh, maybe your right", she says "You are fools who don't listen to me", It was Darth Vader again "You have made your mistake of your life. Fire at that station" "Commander!", Corwin shouts. "Five huge jumppoints is being created above the Dark Empires ship." "It is Shadow ships." "We're doomed!" A face of a shadow appears on all screens on B5 and on the The Dark Empires Ship. "Attention, Darth Vader. You are trespassing *our* place. This station is Our destiny. But not yet, not yet." The sky lights up, the Dark Empires ship is being cut in to two pieces by a shadow beam, and explodes in a giant nuclear cloud. And as suddenly as the shadow ships appeared, they disappeared. Kosh puts his head, (if he can do that), past C&C's door. He says to Ivanova and the rest of the crew who stands open-mouthed looking out on the rest of the Dark Empires Ship ; "The time has not come yet, you're not ready" And then he goes away. *------* "It has happened" "All we can do now, is to wait" "The time will come, when we will join them" *------* Sheridan and Delenn comes waking in, both eating on a pizza. "Umm, this pizza is good, and I owe it to Bumble Bee", he says "Whoever he is, he saved our day", Delenn adds. "I hear it was some problem here", Sheridan continues "No no, everything is as it always has been, except for those parts of a battleship out there", Ivanova looks hungry on their pizza's. "Oh.,", Sheridan replies. "Well in that case, I would like to go back to my quarters" "Me and Delenn has something unfinished to do" Delenn chuckles as she and Sheridan leaves. Ivanova gives the commando over to Lt. Corwin, as she leaves. "Just another normal day, just perfectly normal.", she says, silently to her self. She meets Kosh in front of here room. He gives her a data crystal. "This will give you all the information you need", he says and goes away. Ivanova enters her room, puts the data crystal in her computer and starts to read what's on it. "Hey, this is a backup copy of "Babylon 5 Creative Works Archive", which was on the Internet in the 90's" "I'll probably find better stories there, than the one I'm currently participating in" "Better check it out! *------* "She have the crystal" "Our task is then completed" "Send a message and inform them" "The Shadows is coming..." *------* And there we leave B5, and Ivanova's normal day. ________________________________________________________ Yes, I know. This is a terrible story. But; it IS my first attempt to write something about B5. AND since you have come so far, you can just tell me how it really "touched" you! If it's a real good crossover you're looking for; Take time and read Jon Souza's story, "Breaking the Consensus" I just admire him for his work. I Thank you for reading. -Daniel Borge from Norway. Currently studying at Semmelweis Medical univerity in Hungary. E-mail: dannieboy@writeme.com