Retribution: Sarah's Story

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Retribution: Sarah's Story
Unexpected Arrival
RATED "R" READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

It was dawn on Christmas Eve, and my parents felt it nessicary to go out on a trading run. While it served good pourpose, because my grandparents lived on Leeds, it still didn't change the fact that I didn't want to leave the East cost of Planet LA. I was only 15, but I still loved going to the beach and sunbathing, watching all the older men drool over my bodacious body. Made me feel more important I guess. I sighed. I have low self-esteem I said thinking to myself. Any girl that had to show off her body to get the attention of older men had no personality. But mine just grabbed their attention.

"Sarah McCollihan!" My father yelled from the pilots seat.

"What dad?!" I screamed back.

"You watch your tone young lady, just because it's almost Christmas doesn't give you any right to talk back to me. Take the weapon station, we have Rheinland bombers on an intercept course."

I blinked in disbelief. In Magellan? This must be a joke. I thought to my self, but took the seat anyway, at the scanner console, my mother sat in silence configuring the scanners to verify they were Rheinland, and indeed they were.

"Trader Vessel, stand down shields and prepare to be scanned. Comply and we will not destroy your vessel." the lead bomber said.

"Rheinland bomber, you are in neutral space, far from your homelands. You have no hold here." my father replied.

The lead bomber fired two torpedos at our ship, dropping our shields in one fail swoop. My father cursed and turned off the shields.

"You have 1000 tons of Supercarbons, drop them immediately." said the second bomber charging it's weapons.

"Blow it out your ass." my father said and charged the shields back, the bomber opened fire just as my father ran to the Leeds Jumphole, close to the Hacker base. "I would much rather pay a tax to the Hackers than have these buggers on my tail. Sarah, drop countermeasures."

I did as I was told and before long the jumphole appeared on the screen. However, space distorted near the hole and a massive Rheinland Battleship appeared, blocking the Jumphole.

"What in the nine hells?!" my father exclaimed as more ships came out of no where. My father expertly flew the large Transport inbetween the docking ports along the bottom of the huge ship and flew through the Jumphole into Leeds. "Did you see that Mary?" my father exclaimed at my mother.

"I did." My mother said for the first time in a few hours. "Seemed like they jumped in out of no where. But the sensor readings are a different story. No kind of subspace distortions...they just...appeared."

My mother was a scientist by trade, and my father was a trader by...his trade. The two met when my father was dropping off supplies for a recovery effort and met my mother there. He always said that everywhere she went in that desolated environment, the sky lit a-fire and the people around her brightened.

"I'm picking up another ship Bruce. It's huge..." my mother said.

"Rheinland?" my father replied.

"No...it's something else..."

The ship appeared in front of us and fired five quick shots at the ship, by the fourth shot, my console exploded, and I fell into darkness.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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