Five-minute fiction - 23:15-23:20
The world below glittered like a starscape. Lights dotted the surface of the fast approaching planet and Thrope could only marvel at it. Above him, the flickering fire that had consumed the remnants of the shuttle had been starved of oxygen and now only thick gouts of oily smoke filled the air, and beyond that the pale flickering of the energy field danced as it caught and distorted the sunlight glancing off of it.
He caught the flash, the momentary flicker off to his right, and before he could even turn his head he knew what had caused it. Scatter! he barked into the internal mic, and he watched as the blips on his HUD broke apart forming seemingly random groupings. All that was left was to wait, and to pray.
But the prayer went unanswered. He heard the curse, and saw the two blips that were Shaw and Dalton break loose from the insertion package. The flicker of light past his visor was too fast to see but he knew it was there. Another explosion filled the air
The world below glittered like a starscape. Lights dotted the surface of the fast approaching planet and Thrope could only marvel at it. Above him, the flickering fire that had consumed the remnants of the shuttle had been starved of oxygen and now only thick gouts of oily smoke filled the air, and beyond that the pale flickering of the energy field danced as it caught and distorted the sunlight glancing off of it.
He caught the flash, the momentary flicker off to his right, and before he could even turn his head he knew what had caused it. Scatter! he barked into the internal mic, and he watched as the blips on his HUD broke apart forming seemingly random groupings. All that was left was to wait, and to pray.
But the prayer went unanswered. He heard the curse, and saw the two blips that were Shaw and Dalton break loose from the insertion package. The flicker of light past his visor was too fast to see but he knew it was there. Another explosion filled the air