Dawn...
I sat trying to make sense of what had just transpired... I'd been kidnapped and taken to space station Gunne where I was operated on... I had the scars to prove it according to the Doctor at Tokia... But then I was back in my apartment and had missed the chance to redo this chain of events that day... but I have the scars to prove it happened, but it didn't... Then we have the field... a reoccurring motif in my dreams... The field... Then there is this new place... the station of death... It was Gunne... Or atleast should be Gunne... I recognised the corridors as the same ones I'd walked down when I first arrived...
But now it was dawn... of a new day no less!!! I had slept well... or atleast felt awake... I felt like me... but that was no indication... I commed into the office sick... apologising for not contacting them yesterday... only to discover that I had worked all yesterday... Which can't be true!!! But as soon as I'd done that I realised... What was I going to do now??? I shouldn't go back to Tokia... I was finished there... What about Gunne... There was still a lot of unanswered questions... but there's no way I could go back there without an invitation... I still had that comm message from Dr. Shuune... I could reschedule... That way I could get back but there would be questions when they scanned my brain... and no doubt an autopsy soon after. So I climbed back into bed and switched on the viewer...
I awoke... the mesh floor cutting into my back... the lights flickered erratically as the power supply fluctuated... I looked out of the window... Earth was very small but even so I could see the destruction wrought by some orbital fleet... Fires burned across the entire planet... The X shuttle had jumped in last time I was here... followed by a dream of destruction... death... was this a prediction of things to come??? Would the X shuttle bring with it death at the hands of some unknown enemy??? I walked down the silent corridors, the constant airflow made it feel like the station was breathing... a body lay on the deck, his right arm snapped like a brittle twig, his torso had been crushed into the wall as if he had been swept aside, his weapon lay by his side. Just a few steps further lay another man... he'd run... fallen... crushed into the deck like some insect, his internal organs lay all about... his hands clawing at the deck... it must have been quick... The clothes I had been wearing were similar to the ones he was wearing. I reached the intersection... I recognised where I was I called for the soldier... I heard a groan and saw the guard limp towards me... his arm was fractured and he'd been badly beaten but even so he smiled victoriously, saluting... before crumpling to the deck breathless from the pain.
The medical facilities were two decks up... despite the fact that the elevators were still in operation it had taken forever to drag the soldier into the medical tube... the scanners buzzed around him... while the computer made suggestions for treatment... I okayed them all because I didn't know what any of it meant and there didn't seem to be any automatic mode... To be honest I was just glad to get somewhere the lights were constant... this section must have its own power supply. I looked at the fragments of the blast door... many soldiers had made it in here they thought the heavy doors would keep them safe... I looked around at the fragments of flesh and bone... the door lay bent and twisted round into the corridor, shrapnel lay everywhere inside the facility... the bodies inside looked as if they has been sliced up... the cut were clean... the wounds had coagulated immediately... You'd need something hot to do that... a laser... or something like that... The console reported success... the soldier was ejected from the tube and moved to a recovery bed, his arm was healed as were the cuts... he was alive... but seemed to be unconscious... I looked around for something to wake him up... but it was futile! I didn't know the first thing about medicine...
I stepped out into the corridor... the soldier wasn't going to wake up anytime soon so might as well try and find out why I'm here... Or atleast try and find someone who can stop the lights flickering!!! I stepped out into a concourse of some sort... Someone had held their last stand here... machines lay all about huge chunks taken out of them... barricades had been pushed aside crushing the soldiers behind them... other bodies lay along the corridor as I worked my way towards the central plaza... The fighting had been bloody... with both machines and bodies falling thick across the ground... I took the elevator up... entering some sort of command centre... as I stepped of the elevator the computer spoke "Welcome Officer Xique" from its core suspended from the ceiling, So in this dream I was an officer... that would explain the uniform, I looked down at Earth again... the devastation was horrifically beautiful... there was the blue of the ocean, the green and grey of the land and cities, the fire blazing out of control... and then there was the sunlight softly illuminating the atmosphere with its ever present glow... seeing destruction on such a scale with my own eyes... it seemed inconceivable it was all I could do to look on in awful fascination of what was occurring. I felt his hand on my shoulder, I turned expecting it to be my dark man, but it was the Soldier, he wiped the tears from my eyes "We shall rebuild... we'll be ready if they ever come back... won't we ma'am?" I smiled at him... he did not just look at me... he looked up at me... it was a strange sensation for someone to hold me in such high esteem... "Yes... We shall rebuild" as I spoke his being was filled with strength as if it had always been there... I felt quite strange myself... a part of something bigger, was it just the uniform? The Soldier's words perhaps?
Perhaps...
As I looked round the command centre I saw that no one had died here... there were no blood... no bodies... everything was quite clean... As I touched a panel the computer burst into life "reinitialising reactor... please wait..." slowly the systems came back online and the main lights fluttered back to life. Even so the command centre was dark, light by the many control panels, the majority of the consoles displayed the same message: contact lost. The soldier heaved a sigh "Space Station Gunne... had a good ring to doesn't it ma'am" I turned to look at him, thoughts racing through my head "Soldier, what's the date today" as he answered... it was like the final piece of the puzzle... The machines that littler the decks were terraformers... The bulk of the terraformer fleet had been tricked to follow Gunne's fleet through the secret gate to certain death... the rest of the fleet had overrun the defence station and slain everyone onboard only being stopped by an electromagnetic pulse that ended the terraformer offensive... it would be four years until anyone would return to the station... if I hadn't been here there would be no survivors... now there were two... I'd changed history...
As we stepped off the transport and into the ruined space port a man strolled towards me with a blanket, I pushed it away saying that other people needed it more than me. As I walked towards the exit I overheard two soldiers... "You think they're from the defence station?" his compatriot looks at him "You heard the comms... If they're here... They must be sent from the gods..." the soldier nods his head "I... She has the look of eagles that one and make no mistake" as I passed them I heard a shout, I turned I saw their hands outstretched, I shook them in turn, seeing how it seemed to strengthened their resolve... As I pushed the doors back revealing the rubble remains of the city surroundings, stepping out onto the grand stairs I saw the collection of officers assembled... The admiral was speaking to the assembled press "... through the sacrifice of these dedicated soldiers we are..." he turns falling silent his mouth still partially open... he stands dumbstruck for a moment, slowly raising his hand in a salute... I salute him... It seemed like the most natural thing to do, suddenly everyone's saluting... Their salutes were filled with pride... We stood... A bastion of hope... That humanity could stand up against the machines and win... They had systematically slaughtered every colony... every man, every woman, every child, killing their way to Earth... they had been unstoppable... relentless... but they had been stopped.
He sat in the tiny square outside a cafe once on the basement level a department store... now open to the air. I sat in the chair next to him... the coffee was hot... his hand comforting... "The smallest gesture can so often bring hope to so many... I had forgotten" I looked up at him I didn't know what to say, he continued "Hope... would you believe that it is an alien concept to me". Of course he was an Alien and this was all a dream... what ever that means...
I awoke... feeling the cold head board in my hands... he lay on the bed next to me a smile on his face "Good Morning"... It was today again.
Dawn... (FFA Part 3)
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