A young girl watched as much older men and women ran from room to room, hallway to hallway, trying to find their relatives and friends. The once reflective floor was now covered in dirt and muddied footprints, and she could see that many of them found who they were looking for. Everyone was happy with their loved ones, everyone was crying with joy at finding them. The girl was crying too. However, not out of joy.

She had just finished looking for her mother, but found not a trace of her anywhere in the dirty ship. She had looked for hours and waited for hours, hoping maybe her mother would find her. Even though she still hoped, part of her knew she wouldn't be back. While still pretending she would see her mother, she recalled what had just happened.

Just out of school on her colony, she noticed odd objects flying very far overhead, and she paused to see what was there. As she squinted at them, she started to make out what it was.

It was a blue-purple color and irregularly round, with many different lines of black rounding around the object in many different patterns and shapes.

Just when she spotted the details, an alarm rang out.

"Attention. Report to evacuation facilities immediately. We are under attack."

Just when she heard the voice and noise, she ran towards home. She ran through a field and a few yards away was her neighborhood, when she was grabbed by the wrist, and she turned to see a middle aged man

"There's no time! Follow that crowd and get out of here!" But before she could refuse, her neighborhood was engulfed by a bright white light, and waves of blue spewed out of it. As air was blown at fast speeds in all directions, the light dimmed, slowly revealing a devastated area, where no home stood and the place completely scorched. The only thing left was a sparkly material. Almost like glass.

She looked wide eyed at where her neighborhood once stood, and she hesitantly began to run in the direction of the of the even more panicking crowd.

She ran along with them until they got to a large facility with many ships facing upwards, ready for launch. Men clad in armor covering most of their body told people where to go, and she ran until one of the men told her to get inside of one of the ships.

She ran inside to find many people clung together with their kids or spouse or any other relatives that got on with them. And just before she could take another step, the ground began to shake, and a voice came on. "Everyone, hang on." And with that everyone grabbed anything nailed to the ground of the ship, and the shaking became more and more violent. She clung to a handle she found near her, and waited it out. Before too long, everything went still, and the shaking stopped.

She let go of the handle and stumbled toward the window, still in shock of what happened in the last 5 minutes.

She looked out to see the blue-purple ships emitting a bright blue light down at the surface, leaving behind nothing but glass in the light's wake. She saw other evacuation ships around theirs and she watched the whole thing roll out.

In a flash, much smaller ships flew by, and they flashed colors of blue and purple as they rained volleys of blue projectiles at the evacuation ships, melting through the hull of anything they came in contact with.

All around them, other evac ships succumbed to the fire, and was blown apart, decimating anyone and anything inside. The fighters kept coming and coming as more evac ships were destroyed, and she watched in terror as 2 of the ships moved to attack the ship she was in.

Blue light was shot at the ship, melting through some parts of the hull, but not anywhere that could cause too much damage where the people were. Before they could do any more, dark ships emerged and began attacking the alien aircrafts.

"Longswords! We're saved" some said, and the black ships fought with the alien ships, playing cat and mouse as the fighting continued.

The battle more and more distant as time went, and looking through the window, they were in the only evac ship that survived, or any ship for that matter. Luckily, the alien ships from before seemed to forget about them.

She returned to normal thought as she thought she heard her mother calling out for her, only to see that it was another mother calling to her kid, and a girl running to her. She watched mournfully and her tears slowly began to stop as she slowly gave up all hope of seeing her mother again. As her hope decreased, she shut her eyes and tried to get some sleep.