Snippet #1879556

Cargo Bay Slums
EDF Atlas

"Code White has been issued." Captain Elena Ramirez had spent the better part of her career in and out of the Combat Information Center of capital ships across the EDF, sending pilots in the crafts known as Angels out to protect them from whatever command deemed to be evil at any given moment. Now, her new angel came in the form of Delilah Medina. It was hard enough not to control the situation, but to have even the knowledge of the inner workings stripped from her was almost diabilitating. Medina was the angel to bring back some semblance of hope.

"Here's how this is going to work," the silver-haired man spoke, lifting his voice so that there would be no lack of clarity in Medina's ears. "Drop that weapon and give up the little fight you've got going on or I put a bullet between your captain's eyes. And that's just for starters."

The sidearm in his hands gave true aim directly at the stoic commanding officer.

"Put that weapon down. Every second you spend fighting back is a second that you're killing someone else," he spoke again.

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CIC, EDF Atlas

"We have a major situation, sir," the deck officer said, reporting to the ship's executive officer, who in turn glared across the main operations deck of the CIC at Aiden Morrow.

"Our commander, chief medical officer, and several others are being held hostage. I can't launch any birds because of a suicide bomber. Can you think of anything else that could possibly go wrong at the moment?"

Despite himself, Morrow smirked.

"Good day to earn that paycheck, sir," he replied before they went on launching a plan of their own.

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Unidentified Ship
Karas System

The data from the sentry drones began to flood back through the loops in the system, bringing mainframes out of hibernation and beginning to the protocol to bring the ship out of stasis.

Something was waking up.