EPISODE 00

PRELUDE

Pain was all she could feel. Of what she could feel, she was tired and sore. Her whole body was covered with scars, bruises, and cuts from the constant beatings and torture that she had been subjected to over years she had spent with her colonial captors.

Each day was a struggle to hold on, and keep on her sanity, every day was a struggle not to surrender one inch of her mind, to her captors, and to submit to there power.

She was not going to give up, she growled in pain when bending your arms and look at her cell, there were two figures at her, her vision was blurred, the room was in shadow.

She just wore rags that her jailers had given when she was imprisoned six years ago; the rags were easy for their captors rape her again and again, in recent years.

She was General Sarah Parker, former, commander of the UNEDC (United Nation's of Earth Defense Command) Air Force base, assigned to Fort Alexandria, England. She had short dirty blond hair and blue eyes, her face, like the rest of body, was covered full of cuts and bruises, as well as her face, and her mouth was dry drop wires by the constant beatings to which it was submitted.

Parker looked around in the dark cell, had a glass wall separating the inside of her cell. To the outside corridor, even if she wanted to escape. The corridor was full of cameras, and many armed guards.

At her side was a bed with two beds, one bed on top of the other. But neither had any type of the soft mattress that they should have on them. She looked beyond; pass the wall of hard protective glass, before her. At the silhouettes that were standing on the other side of the protective glass, before her.

"Very good morning General Parker," The Colonial Commander said from behind the glass.

Parker looked at the man in front of her. He was older than she had, with white hair, and brown eyes. His arm's behind his back.

Parker was a woman of over forty years. Although she had already lost count of the years, with the years of torture so far, she slowly rose from the solid metal floor. Groaning in pain, when she flexes her leg's up, and off the deck.

The Commander who was standing tall, in front of her, still hiding behind safety of the wall, of protective glass. Was still a shadowy figure after all these years, as the woman beside him said, "I really must congratulate you on your tenacity throughout times with us you will never be broken, you never talk"

Parker glared at the figure diffuse head ached, my stomach hurt that it was empty and his mouth was dry with thirst, she hit the glass wall with his hands and then she screamed, "Damn it, I'll kill you, when I get out of here. I'll kill you all! To the god, almighty, or who ever listens, I swear on it."

She could only hear the laughter of the commander and the woman standing beside him. The man looked at Parker, as if she was a creature caged in a zoo.

Smiling he said. "It really your stubbornness deserve an applause, General."

The woman beside him said. "We were really surprised that you were able to last for as long as you did. After all you went through." the Commander said, looking at his side.

Parker tries to force the view to the faces of the two people who were tormenting her for clarification, but she could only see the fuzzy outline of their faces and their movements.

The Commander looked at his expression and then quipped:

"Do not worry, General Parker, you are not losing your mind, we are very real"

Parker broken and soft voices ask:

"Where am I?"

"In a safe place, General," said the Commander with a smile.

Parker looked at the Commander and supporting his hands on the glass wall looked coldly at the two colonial officers in front of her, she said:

"When I get out of here, I'm going to kill you."

That caused the two officers laughed again, the Commander said. "You no longer have more hope General, your worlds, outpost, and bases were all destroyed by our nuclear bombs. Along with all you're so called, puny defenses with it." He paused, then again:

"And you've been in our possession for the last six of your Earth years now, and you think you can escape us now."

Parker breathe heavily, her chest hurt, she leaned against the glass wall and then said:

"My people may be all gone. But I will never surrender, never!" She looked at the figure in front of them, "Those, if there any are left, will never give up ether. For as long as we never give up! Hope will always stay alive."

Both the Commander and the XO, thought the former Earth General looked like she was delirious, and had completely lost her mind.

Before the Commander could reply, there was a slight tremor felt throughout the room. The two looked around, as the lights went out, and the red emergency lights kick in, along with the sounds, of alarms throughout the ship.

The Commander looked to his XO and then he asked. "What's going on?"

The woman looked at the Commander and then she replied. "I do not know, sir. There must be a power failure."

Suddenly the other side of the corridor, leading to the brig where the sounds of several gun shots.

The sound of guns came closer, and closer to them.

The Commander looked at the woman and then barked. "Contact, Combat, to send reinforcements to the brig of the ship, NOW!"

She nodded and went to the phone panel that was in the brig, red lights were flashing red, like alarms now.

Parker looked at the Commander who looked nervous, almost afraid; she smiled coolly, she didn't need to know, to just know what was happening, and look to the Commander and then said to him. "See, I told you. now they're coming for me and when I leave this place I'm going to kill you and destroy this ship of yours piece by piece."

The Commander smiled, and then said. "Don't say stupid thing, General. Your people have already lost the war it's not worth it to just keep fighting."

Parker looked coldly at the Commander and then she said. "I guess were about to find out."

The sounds of heavy machine gun fire, and screams, kept getting closer and closer towards them. The Commander could only see the cold smile on her face as the sound of gun shots were coming.