The War for Balance

by Robert Emerald Fountain


Flurry Heart's Escape

Galeem was not pleased to hear what Flurry had to say and took it as a threat. Boarding his personal ship, the Starstriker, he joined the battle and fired powerful beams to take out Flurry’s shields. His beams began drilling into the shields as her star drive reached maximum level. She fired the engines and shot through space at speeds faster than light. Galeem’s soldiers gave pursuit, but Flurry went so fast that she vanished completely. Galeem was enraged when he received word that Flurry was gone.

Flurry ended up going so fast that she pierced through the fabric of space itself. She found herself flying through what seemed to be a tunnel of flashing colors and her speeds were off the scale. She soon passed out from the massive amount of g-force.

When Flurry awoke, she could not see anything outside her ship’s cockpit, except for lights in the distance She looked at her ship’s status, and her heart sank, because most of her controls were fried. She was above ground on a planet, but her engines were glowing orange and had burst into flames. Looking at a GPS indicated that she was over an ocean, but she did not know where. To make matters worse, the star core was overheating and could explode if she had to make an emergency landing, which would kill her. Switching to emergency battery power, she jettisoned the star core and it splashed into the water. Most of her systems were dead and the exterior lights had melted. She switched to sonar in order to see. She also recorded a video log in case she was rescued and was unable to respond.