The Scarman Enigma

[Sayne]

Los Angeles Spaceport
Hovering Outside the Tuatha de Danaan
Raven's Talon, Cloaked

So far so good. I wasn't going to even try to infiltrate the flagship. They probably had alarms on every deck that would wail like a siren if I came anywhere close to that ship. Oddly enough, I was right outside in a cloaked fighter, trailing the ship close. Funny that they were searching the entire galaxy for me, and I was right on their door step. Scarman was probably doing his thing right about now, and the good Admiral Scarecrow was more than likely already on his feet. He was known for getting back on his feet quickly after an attack or wound. I had to give it to him, he was a tough guy, tougher than most. I sighed and rubbed my hand through my rough brown hair.

Was I mad?

I had pondered that very same question time and time again, but I kept coming back to the same conclusion. What he had done was plain stupid and arrogant. I told him, I told him.

"Sir, there's a .50 cal machine gun in that tower, the delta formation isn't the best course of action." I repeated in the darkness of my cockpit. Trying to remember the scene in detail.

"Negative Captain, there isn't anyway they could have gotten a gun up there in that amount of time. They're not that quick." he had replied.

"You're wrong sir." I replied

"Excuse me? Captain?"

That's the moment that I turned on him. The moment he sent out my friends, my allies, they were shot down like bugs. Like a kid with a magnifying glass had smote them with the fury of the sun. I watched as their arms and legs were torn asunder. I watched as they suffered and died on that spot on that rainy day in Bretonia. I remembered holding Scarman down with my rifle across his neck, watching him almost die of suffociation...I should have killed him.

"Captain Jadyn! Get off him!!" someone screamed and threw me off. I stared at him in hatred...I could have killed him and his little protector and gotten away with it that day, but I didn't...did that mean some part of me was human? That maybe, by some hope that maybe I wasn't completely a raving lunatic?

"For Christ's sake, JADYN" The communicator crackled.

"What the f*** do you want Scarecrow?" I yelled hotly.

I heard him grumble and almost throw the reciever.

"My side's almost ready, are you?"

I flicked the switch and smiled.

"Always."

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I've lost people who meant the world to me...and I'm still doing just fine.

I'm coming for everything they said I couldn't have.