DISCLAIMER: All the characters appearing in "Gargoyles" and "Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles" are copyright Buena Vista Television/The Walt Disney Company. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. All original characters are the proporty of Nokkar.

PREVIOUS "SEPARATION OF POWERS" STORIES: The only story you might have missed was "To Boldly Go: Part One Of Three".

THE STORY SO FAR: Goliath, Angela, Hudson and Elisa traveled to Easter Island to help Nokkar prepare for an intergalactic battle. As they traveled, with the help of Avalon's magic, they gathered old allies: Dingo, Gabriel, Griff, King Arthur and MacBeth. As they all entered Nokkar's spacecraft, Dr. Arnada showed up and claimed he was from the top secret government installation known as Area 51 and was `capturing` Nokkar. Hudson and Dingo stayed behind to fight off the Area 51 workers as the rest of the team took off toward outer space.

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Nokkar and his newly aquired team consisting of Goliath, Elisa, Angela, Griff, MacBeth, Gabriel and King Arthur Pendragon are headed toward an enemy fleet of ships. Nokkar's spacecraft cut through the universe at warp-speed like a hot knife through butter.

Goliath sat in the back of the large spacecraft by himself thinking of Hudson. How could he leave his former mentor behind? A Gargoyle NEVER leaves a teammate behind. It's not the Gargoyle way. All Goliath could see when he closed his eyes was the last time he saw Hudson. He was lying on the ground in front of the Area 51 workers, helpless...and hopefully not lifeless.

His thoughts were interrupted when he heard Nokkar say with his very distinct voice, "We are now entering the enemy air space."

Goliath stood up and walked to the large window looking out into space. He saw about seven large battleship-like aircraft sitting around a huge space station shaped like the planet Saturn. He pointed at the space station and asked, "That is the enemy's space station?"

Nokkar manueved his craft to the right before he got too close to the enemy ships and said, "Yes, but we are heading for my Captain's ship first. We need to talk with him."

Griff asked, "Can't you just contact him through radio or something? Isn't that how he contacted you?"

"We can but his ship was attacked soon after he contacted me. There are hardly any remains left."

Goliath asked, "How do you know?"

Pointing to a green screen on the complicated control panel, "Because he is that little spot on my radar. So I know he--"

Nokkar was cut off by a noise over the radio speaker which was next to the green radar screen. The noise stopped and Elisa asked, "What was that?!"

Turning the knob below the speaker, Nokkar said, "It's the scanner. Someone is trying to contact us."

MacBeth asked, "Do you suppose it's your Captain?"

Before Nokkar could say the word `maybe`, there was a crackle and an alien language coming through the speaker. Everyone was silent while Nokkar listened and understood what was being said.

After a minute or two, Nokkar turned and said to his team, "It's my Captain." He turned back to the speaker and responded to his Captain with the same alien language.

Goliath and Elisa looked at each other in anticipation.

Nokkar turned and spoke in English again. "He wants us to dock on to his ship and then teleport to the space station we just passed because, if we just fly in, they will see us and blow us up. The stealth mode on my ship is too weak and outdated. We are no match for their ships. We are going to be teleporting right into the space station so be prepared for anything."

Nokkar's spacecraft flew toward a demolished ship that looked to Elisa like a giant TIE Fighter from Star Wars. Nokkar's ship slowed down and lowered to the top of one of the wings and docked.

* * * * * *

Hudson awoke with a little twitch. He sat up and left groggy. He put his hand to his head and moaned. Opening his eyes, he noticed he was behind bars. He was locked in a large cell. To his right was another cell where Dingo was looking at him. "You okay, mate?"

Hudson remembered what had happened earlier that night. He had been knocked unconscious during a fight against Area 51 workers. That must be where he is: Area 51. Looking back at Dingo, he said, "Aye, I'm alright. Did Goliath and everyone get off safely?"

"I think so, mate. I heard the spaceship take off just as those Area 51 losers fired that stun-gun-thing at me."

Hudson grasped the bars with both hands. Grunting, he tried to pull them apart. He finally gave up and said, "I'm too weak ta get us out of here." Turning to Dingo, "Can't your Matrix get us out?"

"No," Dingo replied. "The gun they shot me with messed up the Matrix. I'm not even sure it's alive anymore." He looked at himself. The silvery surface reflected the light.

A door opened down the hall and two men came walking in. Dingo had a nasty look on his face and Hudson's eyes began to glow. The two men walked down to the cells. The first man, dressed in an Area 51 uniform, said with a smile, "Well, whaddaya now. We've got a real Gargoyle, and a man wearin' an alien costume."

Hudson asked, eyes still glowing, "What do ya plan ta do with us?"

"Well," the first worker started, pointing at Hudson, "we're gonna run some tests on you and find out...well, everything about you." The worker glanced at Dingo. "And we're gonna take a sample o' that...silver stuff...and find out exactly what it is."

Hudson and Dingo looked at each other. Dingo made fists. Hudson drew his sword and said, "Come on, then."

The workers laughed and they left the hallway, slamming and locking the door behind them.

Hudson sheathed his sword again and his eyes lost their glow. Dingo said, "We need to get outta this place, mate."

Hudson looked up at him and said with a disturbing voice, "Aye. But how?"

* * * * * *

Nokkar walked down a large, metal hallway in his Captain's spacecraft followed by his newly aquired team: Goliath, Angela, Elisa, Gabriel, Macbeth, Griff and King Arthur. Goliath asked, "Nokkar, does your Captain know how to speak English?"

"No. Only I do. When I landed on Earth, the natives welcomed me and thought I was a God from the Heavens. That is why they built those statues on their island. Over the years, I learned many of the Humans'...and Gargoyles'...languages. So I am the only one of my kind that knows your language."

"Does your Captain have a name?"

Nokkar said, "Yes, Gabriel, but the 'army', as you might call it, only knows their leader as Captain. So, I don't know his real name." They approached a large metal door that slid open as they stepped in front of it. Nokkar's Captain sat across the small room. He looked somewhat like Nokkar except a little older. Same green armor and all. "There is my Captain."

They entered the room and Nokkar's Captain mumbled something in the alien language they heard earlier. Goliath noticed that the Captain was missing his right arm. There were short, green strands of something hanging out of the open part. That led Goliath to believe that the Captain was hurt when his ship was attacked.

When Nokkar was done talking with his Captain, he turned to Goliath and said, "Let's go."

* * * * * *

Back in Manhattan, Lexington was at it again. He was talking with Travis Marshall on national television. They were sitting in comfortable chairs in the Nightwatch studio. "So, Lexington," Travis said, "now that we are away from the crowds, do you have anything to say about you and your clan being out in the open?"

Lex said, "Travis, have I ever mentioned that I flew a helicopter? Or built, and drove, a motorcycle?"

Travis said, "Well, I--"

He was suddenly interrupted by a large explosion off-stage. When the smoke cleared, Lex noticed a hooded figure standing there with a sledge-hammer in his hand. Lex jumped up. "The Quarrymen!" Though he only saw one. Jumping out of the chair, he yelled, "Everybody, get out of here!"

When he landed in front of the Quarryman, his eyes glowed. "We put Castaway in jail."

"Yes, but there's still some of us Quarrymen left over." He charged the hammer. "And your demon clan wll pay." He swung the hammer downward at Lex but he easily dodged it. Lex threw a short jab into the Quarryman's stomach. He hunched over and dropped his hammer. It immediately lost it's charge. The Quarryman then retaliated with a weak punch. Lex caught his fist and grabbed he Quarryman's belt. He hurled the man across the studio.

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Brooklyn walked into the television room in Castle Wyvern which sat atop the Eyrie Building. He turned the television on and, on the screen, saw Lex throw a member of the Quarrymen against the wall. Brooklyn gasped. He questioned aloud, "The Quarrymen?"

Travis walked over to Lexington who was looking at the unconscious Quarryman. "Lexington," Travis started, "you--"

"Sorry," Lex said. "I have to go." While running out of the studio, he pointed to the Quarryman and added, "get the cops in here."

The camera panned back to Travis. He looked into the camera and said, "This is a devast--"

Brooklyn turned the television off and threw the remote across the room in frustration. As he exited the room, he pounded on the wall and said, "Dang it!"

* * * * * *

Lex flew up to the top turret of the Castle just as Brooklyn came out of the stairwell, followed by Bronx. As he landed on all fours, Lex said, "The Quarrymen are back."

Brooklyn said, "I know. I saw it on TV." He walked to the edge of the turret and looked out at the city and gazed up at the early morning sky. He knew that they would have trouble with the Quarrymen again. Though he was the second-in-command, he was still scared. He had a hard enough time trying to rule the clan last time Goliath was on a journey. He didn't want to do it again, at least not yet. "Come on, Goliath. We need you."

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"We need to take out their Captain," Nokkar said as he was getting ready to send his team into the enemy space station. "It's like your game on earth called chess. Nobody loses unless the leader has been beaten."

Goliath said, "Which means you and your kind haven't lost this battle yet."

"Correct, Goliath," Nokkar said. Everyone was standing on a large, circular disk. It was the teleporter. Nokkar said, "Be ready for anything."

MacBeth pulled his lightning gun out of his long coat. "Let's do it."

Nokkar pushed the button and they all disappeared in a blaze of light. When the light faded, they were standing behind an enemy soldier. He was short and wore black armor. He turned and saw them all standing there. He yelled something in a different alien language and fired a laser out of the gun he was holding.

Nokkar's team scattered as the blast caught Griff in the right wing. He fell back against the wall and winced in pain. His eyes glowed as he looked up at the alien. "Big mistake, old chap."

Angela swooped down and knocked the alien over. Goliath, who was carrying Elisa, landed next to Griff. "Are you alright?"

"Yes," Griff said standing back up. "I'll be alright when the sun rises." After saying that, he realized he was still in space. Would he ever turn to stone in outer space?

Nokkar said, "Sorry, but that won't happen. The nearest sun is twenty billion light years away, and it's your sun."

"Terrific," Griff said sarcastically, touching his injured wing.

A large door opened and more alien troops ran in firing lasers. Nokkar said, "This way!" His team followed as he ran down a long hallway. They all stopped suddenly. Nokkar said, "Dead end."

MacBeth fired his weapon down the hall at the aliens and Elisa fired her pistol as well. Nokkar felt along the walls to find something. "There has to be a secret door around here somewhere."

Goliath, Gabriel and Angela scratched at the walls to see how thick they were. MacBeth said, "Hurry up!"

Elisa added, "I can't reload fast enough. We can't hold 'em off much longer."

Gabriel yelled, "I found something!" He saw light through his scartch marks. Goliath walked over and punched through the wall. He and Gabriel pulled the wall open. The sound of the twisting metal made King Arthur cringe. What they found was a large control room. The only thing was...it was filled with alien troops. "Just my luck," Gabriel said. "I had to find a room full of enemies."

MacBeth ran through the hole in the wall and, holding his lightning gun, said, "The more the merrier."

Goliath looked back at Elisa and said, "Well, let's get to it."

The team lunged at charging alien troops in the room. Nokkar tried slipping by all the enemies and headed for the control panel. He approached a small lift that would take him up to the control center. As he pushed the button and the lift began to move upward, an alien trooper jumped on to it. As he hoisted himself up, Nokkar kicked him in the chin. He fell backward but still had one hand grasping the lift. Nokkar stomped on his hand, which was gloved and only had three fingers, and the alien yelled out in pain and fell. Nokkar was almost up to the control center. As the lift stopped at the top, two troopers turned and fired at Nokkar. He ducked and rolled. He wasn't too agile with his tall, lanky body but he did pretty well dodging the shots. On one knee, Nokkar fired his laser gun at the two troops. The blast went right between them and hit the large control console causing an explosion. The two troopers were blown to pieces and Nokkar ran over to the console and worked with what was left of it.

Parts of the two troopers flew across the large room and landed behind Gabriel as he held a different trooper in a headlock. He looked behind him and saw an arm and leg with blue liquid leaking out of them. The trooper he was holding struggled and broke free. Gabriel jumped and grabbed him before he reached his gun. Suddenly, a laser blasted through his shoulder, spilling blood on the floor. Gabriel fell and was motionless. The alien who shot him walked over toward Gabriel and looked down at him.

Angela saw him get shot out of the corner of her eye. She screamed, "Gabriel!!!" and threw the trooper she was fighting over in Gabriel's direction. He flew into the trooper standing over Gabriel and they both fell to the floor. Angela landed near Gabriel and saw his shoulder bleeding. Kneeling, she began to cry. She took Gabriel in her arms and whispered, "Hold on, Gabriel. Hold on." Gabriel just uttered a low groan.

Across the room, Griff and Goliath were standing back-to-back surrounded by numerous enemies. Goliath asked without turning to look at the feathered Gargoyle, "Is your wing okay to glide on for a few seconds?"

"Of course."

"Okay," Goliath said. "On the count of three."

Griff started, "One."

Goliath said, "Two."

In unison, they said, "Three!" and leaped into the air just as all the alien troopers fired. The lasers missed the Gargoyles but hit the other aliens. Griff and Goliath landed away from the pile of stunned aliens.

Griff said rubbing the soar spot on his wing, "They may look ugly," then turned to Goliath, "but they sure are dumb."

They heard a gunshot from behind them and turned to see Elisa firing her pistol. She fired again and the bullet tore through an alien's armor and exited out his back. "Stupid aliens," she said aloud. Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind and she dropped her gun.

King Arthur stuck Excalibur through the alien and said, "Now that's no way to treat a lady." He pulled his sword out and it was dripping with blue liquid. He said to Elisa, "First magical beings and now extraterrestrials. It seems you woke me up just in time. My world was strange but this one is ridiculus."

Elisa smiled for a split second and then said, "Duck!" King Arthur obeyed and Elisa threw a punch over him to hit the alien behind the King.

He stood up and turned to see the alien lying on the metal floor. "Thank you," he said.

"Blast you!!" MacBeth was struggling with a trooper. He couldn't get a straight shot with his lightning weapon. He grunted as he tried to pull away from the alien's grasp. He moved his leg around and tripped the alien being. Still having a grip on MacBeth's weapon, the trooper fell and was now looking up at the immortal King of Scotland. The lightning gun was pointing downward at the alien. A smile appeared upon MacBeth's face. He fired.

Goliath lifted a trooper up over his head and threw it into a group of other troopers. He heard one approaching behind him. Without turning, he whipped his tail upward and hit the laser-projectile gun out of the alien's hands. Spinning around, he slashed his talons which tore through the alien's armor but barely missed it's skin...or scales. Goliath wasn't sure what the alien looked like underneath the armor. Then he heard a scream. He turned again and saw Angela hunched over Gabriel. He raced over toward them.

Angela stood up and turned to slash at an alien behind her. She turned back and plunged her talons through another alien's chest. She used so much force that her arm had gone completely through and came out the back of the alien. Pulling her arm back out, the alien fell limply to the floor. Her arm was dripping with blue fluids. Goliath arrived and saw that Angela was crying her eyes out. Without even acknowledging her father's presence, she knelt back down next to Gabriel. Goliath saw that he had been hurt...pretty badly. That's why Angela had screamed. She was grieving. Angela said softly, "Gabriel?"

With only moving his mouth slightly, Gabriel said, "I...love you...Angela...---" Gabriel exhaled for the last time and was now only dead weight in Angela's arms.

Her eyes were wide. "Gabriel? Gabriel?!"

As the blood poured out of Gabriels's shoulder, Goliath realized he had died of blood loss. He put his hand on his daughter's shoulder and hung his head. "I'm sorry, Angela. I know how much he ment to you. He died a brave warrior...and at your side. He would have wanted it that way."

Sobbing, Angela said, "I... I grew up with him...ever since we hatched on Avalon."

"Believe me," Goliath said, "I know what it's like losing rookery kin. It's hard. I lost my whole clan while I was in control."

The two of them stayed there beside the deceased Gargoyle while the rest of the room was chaotic. The part of the room where they were seemed to be set aside from everything else.

Meanwhile, Nokkar was up on the control tower looking down at everyone not even noticing that Gabriel had died. He looked back down at the console in front of him when he heard a beeping. He looked to the left at a radar screen and saw a long, yellow object flying toward another oddly-shaped object. Nokkar thought to himself, `That looks like a missile. Then what they are blowing up is... Oh, no...` It was his Captain's ship that the missile was heading for. Nokkar's eyes widened as the long object collided with the other and they both disappeared from the screen. He couldn't believe it! He couldn't have lost! Painfully, he said aloud to himself, "My Captain is dead."

......to be concluded......