Supernova

Trauma

Date: June 30, 2067

Time: 3:05 pm

Subject: Trauma

----Scarlett----

It was five past two and time for action was about to begin. I was on the line with Bliss discussing tactics and reviewing a run down. I could feel the nervousness in her voice mixed with my own. We were kids. We were all kids with some freak, once in a life time, ability. I didn’t have one, but I somehow managed to become a seventeen year old commander. I knew that if I hadn’t been one of the first to find this place then it probably would have been someone older, experienced, and fit for the job, but I arrived here and put effort into boot camp and trained for this. I was so proud of myself; maybe prouder than I ever have been before, until now. I was on the verge of saving the world a slight bit. I am seventeen and saving the world ever so slightly with a group of fourteen to twelve year olds. Wow.

“Bliss you still their?” I asked her snapping out of my thoughts.

“Uh yeah, are you?” She asked pointing out the fact that I had drifted off for a bit.

“Yeah, sorry I was just in my thought train. Alright, so what’s on the screen? Are you ready to take action soon?” I asked her looking at the time. She had twenty five minutes until launch.

“Affirmative. Troops are being led into the celebration hall at this moment. Some are mingling with other lunatic scientists down the hallway on their way there. They are smiling like they are the world’s creators and destroyers; like they aren’t some crazy lunatic.” Bliss told me in disgust. I didn’t really know what to say.

“They’re playing God.” I told her sympathetically.

“Yeah.” She murmured. A silence hung but not for long.

“Scarlett! People are exiting near position B! They are brining out some sort of aircraft and preparing to launch it into the sky. I think they are going to go over seas from my conclusions!” Akemi shouted. I opened another call to the frequency of the boys’ mikes.

“Link up, Shoot C, now!” I shouted at them.

“What’s happening?” Jedidiah murmured loudly.

“No time, Shoot C, now!” I shouted turning away from their frequency back to Bliss. “What are they doing?” I asked frantically. Everything was going so well.

“ It seems like they are preparing a launch of their top negotiators, and a few top scientists, to go sell their newest working product. They’ve exited the building and Jedidiah and Mordecai are sprinting towards the top. The motor of the aircraft is the only thing muffling their footstep sounds through the barren desert plants covering the mountain. Should I kill the motor still or no?” Bliss asked tied between to important things. I bit my lip as the gears turned in my head.

“Let them go.” I told her.

“What?” She asked astounded like I’d choose the other.

“We can’t afford them to be caught, and besides if we kill the engine they will only go in for assistance leading more and more outside and away from the trapped area and more at risk of spotting Elijah or the boys.” I hypothesized. Bliss breathed in the phone regularly, taking in what I had told her.  

“Okay.” Bliss told me. I watched the lined up screens on the holographic panels displayed. Jedidiah was ahead of Mordecai as they trampled up determinately through the dead crunching bushes while desert dust was being kicked up behind them. The motor of the U.F.O like object boomed like a rocket ship’s. The men were talking about something at the bottom.