to me. I did not see, I saw one of the girls. She selflessly put her "plate" under the shot and catapulted. The shuttle flared brightly, and I, completing the loop, picked up the girl on board. There was no time to be nice and curious. Twirling head accounted for all 360 degrees. But the fact that now in my canoe, besides the pilot was also a good sniper, I felt right away. Unfortunately the cannon was not infinite.

- Girls, turn on the ship.
- And where he? - scared scream alone.
- On the hologram green dot. Fly to her. In general, just stay close to me. But do not forget that they are still shooting at us. When we are a short distance, turn on the autopilot. Together with him the invisible will join and you will safely moor.
As nakarkal, just a few shots at us. But the girls skillfully avoided hitting.
- Valya, destroy the ship that shoots at us.
From Phaeton they probably fired from all the guns, because a small sun flashed at the place of the ship shooting at us. The rest of the ships were reeling. When approaching Phaeton, he once again commanded that everyone switch to autopilot and, as soon as they sit down, immediately teleport to their combat posts. And he himself flew to the command post and on the invisible being Phaeton to the flagship Arihonov. But it flew too close. Most of our heavy guns could not turn to shoot at the flagship. We closed the target with ourselves. In addition, we were so close to the Ahrion ship that the explosion of the flagship could damage our ship. Needed an urgent maneuver. And not just a maneuver, but a very high-speed maneuver.

- Phaeton, the main engines! The girls were firing at the flagship, - with their shunting engines turned their nose from the Arihon flagship, and the main engines pushed us away from the ship with great acceleration. Acceleration pressed us into the chair. Without gravity compensators and cocoons, we would be flattened. A powerful stream of plasma from the nozzles of the main engines hooked the flagship by melting, cutting the casing of the ship. And my girls from all guns opened fire.
We, invisible to the enemies, destroyed several more ships of the Arihons. But soon we could be calculated. So I had to fly away.
- Phaeton, back to Earth! But first, let's fly away from the fleet of Arichons so that they do not copy us.
- I do.

- Girls stay all in their combat positions. Soon you will have to experience a huge overload. We return home.
- HOORAY!!! - barked nearly a hundred sips.
After jumping into zero space, when everything had returned to normal, he ordered the girls to take off their space suits, armor and gather in the command room. Eyes in all were burning. They were still impressed by the battle. But all gathered, as Violetta built the girls and, dropping to one knee, they bowed their heads.
- Commander, we are ready to incur punishment for violations during the battle.
(- Again, Violetta acted according to the charter, - Leah thought again).
- Girls! What do you mean? You do not have to punish! You need to put the monuments! Do you have any idea what you've done?
- What?!!!

- You alone (with one single ship) destroyed the fleet of an alien civilization, many times exceeding the technical development of the Earth fleet. You have destroyed several ships of the Arihons. And your reckless act, when you risked yourselves, having flown to help me, even somehow looks pale against the background of your combat successes. Although the situation is repeated.This ship, on which we are now flying, was to die, but it was saved by another, substituting its board for the shots of the enemy. And now, just the same, one of you risked your life by saving the commander. By the way, who was it? - Anastasia is out of order.
- Anastasia ?! - I was very surprised - thank you. What is your title?
- Officer of the third rank.
- I hope no one will be offended if I give Anastasia the rank of officer of the first rank (let's jump over the title) and raise the rest to the rung. Everyone except my deputy. She has already raised her rank. And for the battle she will be awarded on arrival home.
The transfer has stopped.

“Madam President, now you have seen that the Earth Fleet had no chance of winning against such a heroic crew and against the ship of creators.
- Yes, I was convinced. Trust in our commander has not changed. But you, Ambassador Alex, have a lot of new assignments. Yes, and you commanded the crew is not according to the charter, but as it is necessary. Let General Liya decide to leave the ranks with which they came to your crew or leave assigned to you.
“Madam President,” Lia appealed to the president, “I believe that there was no such hard battle for the fighters of our civilization in the whole history of mankind. And our fighters did not slaughter, did not disgrace us, but heroically fought. Let all new titles remain. In addition, I want to appoint General Violetta as commander of the flagship to the place of the deceased General Zuhra. I will distribute the rest of the crew for all types of ships, each appointed as commander of the ship so that they share their combat experience with others.

- People! Earthlings! Thanks for attention! - I turned off the broadcast on all mass media.
- Alex! We were live?
- Of course, Madam President. But I will ask for one little favor. Allow the crew to be on the ship for another day.
- Leave, sly. But do not get stuck, even in some battle.
Nobody was upset, except for the journalist who was in the flight, although she dreamed first to give such a sensation.
“Ambassador Alex, I have doubts about the capabilities of your ship,” Kverk doubted, “it all seems like a play.”
And indeed Querque managed to sow the seed of doubt.

“Ambassador Querk, I agree, it looks incredible.” Would you like me to demonstrate the power of this ship?
- I'd love to make sure.
- Good. Valya, the crew in the wheelhouse, - after a moment, ninety girls in thermal suits stood at attention.
- Girls, we still have one more shooting. Battle alarm! In places! - the crew was blown away like a wind. All just gaped mouths. No one could even think that a teleport is possible in space. After a moment, all the girls in armor and spacesuits were on combat positions.

- Phaeton course here - poked on the hologram in the belt of asteroids.
- I do. After 17 minutes 12 seconds will be in place.
“This is impossible,” Leah could not stand, but she didn’t look away from the hologram of the starry sky, but only occasionally looked past the hologram, checking the changes on the hologram with changes in space. As far as I could detect, Kverk did the same. Well, sly fox! It turns out that he is not only a good fighter, but also an experienced pilot, since he can follow (and understand) the change in the position of the stars in flight.
When they almost flew between the asteroids, Phaeton began to maneuver, dodging these stones. Having inspected an asteroid measuring about a kilometer, I ordered: “Fire”. The girls, without any emotion, fired a volley, and it turned into dust.

- Valya, give the first sixteen people in shuttles.
Everyone observed with interest how confidently maneuvering between the flying stones, the girls destroyed these objects. When the following landed in the shuttles, Kverk asked:
- I would also like to fly.
- No problem. Anastasia take aboard the shooter.
- Yes, I do.
- Phaeton escort ambassador to the shuttle, - and then I saw the eyes of Faina. She could not order, did not allow to ask for a position.
- Madam President, do not want to ride with the wind?
- Commander, if you do not mind, - her voice broke into asking for notes. That I never saw her.

- Yes please.I don’t have to scream for fear when a cobblestone weighing several tens of tons will fly at you - she showed me a fist in a quiet one.
- Valya, take the girls out of the two shuttles. In one you will fly with the president, in the other alone by general Leah, - I felt Leah’s joy and great gratitude.
- Phaeton, escort them to the shuttles.
Faina flew once and then only watched. Leah made three combat calls. And Kverk did not want to get out to the last group. Only a journalist with fear watched the flights. At the end, they returned to Earth orbit. All guests were taken to the “houses”. I stayed with the crew on Phaeton.