Tides of Change

[Implosion]

Scarlet was just finishing her patrol around Omicron Delta hole while her radar nearly bursted into flames.
Atleast a dozen unknown,possibly nomad,ships jumped her wing.
"All wings...evasi...screw that!Give 'em somethin' to think about and get back to the base!"
In the next five minutes,hell broke loose.Torpedos,energy weapons,mines,explosion,couple a collision with some asteroids.All in all,more then half the order ships went down like led balloons,while the rest fled back to base.
Scarlet's Bulldog was flying sideways,since the left engine was out of order and a major part of the ship's systems failed.After they shot down the last boogie Jessica looked around and whispered over the comms.
"Status report...how many of you are still kicking and how many pods do we recovered?"
"Delta 3 here,I've got Delta-2 and Delta niner's escape pods"
"Delta 5 reporting,I've got zero pods in my hold,over"
No more reports came through,out of ten ships,only three were lucky enough to fly away.
Jessica looked into the void and gathered strength to continue
"C...copy that three and five,back to base..."

Jessica docked on Toledo,while the other two headed for the Isis.
The bulldog moved into the hangar bay will leaving a trail of smoke and fire.
Scarlet carefully positioned the ships while the fire teams were doing their job.
After the fire was out,she silently stepped out of the ship and threw her helmet away.
Headed straight for the bar,she couldn't get the screams of her former wingmates out of her mind.
Upon entering the bar,she spotted Jack and sat next to him.The bartender noticed her mood and decided to keep it short and simple.He had bad memories about the last time he caught Scarlet in bad mood.
"Hey Jess,the usual right?"
"Double...and no ice"
After that she looked at Jack and tried to smile,but with no success.
Hey Jack...
She pretty much kept it to herself after that.Glass after glass,bottle after bottle.

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