Characters: Yzark Jule, Dearka Elsman

Parings: None

Time frame: GSD ep 49


Loyalty


"Shall we go out for one and get shot down like everyone else?"

It is a single question jokingly asked, completely in character with the green-suit's usual laid back attitude.

But what he really means to say is: So that we may truthfully tell our superiors that we indeed did fight. And that we just simply got shot down, disabled and were helpless like everyone else. That we can tell them that just because we are former comrades does not mean we didn't try fighting them. That we can honestly ask in face of accusations: You are surprised we got shot down? Everyone else got shot down as well. Or that, in fact, the bloodless massacre was in truth a mass-protest of the entire fleet and we were just two of them? And the very one sided fight had nothing to do with the abilities of the enemy and everything to do with internal problems?

Such all is implied with the single question by one Dearka Elsman. Along with: Well, look at them.

Yzark yells at him for being an imbecile while actually saying we will not take such a cowardly way out. And: they, especially that bastard, are not better than me!

Yzark, leaving, still tells his ship that they had better not get too close. He likes his ship and his crew as much as he is capable of being fond of anything that isn't his friend and he has no illusions of what happens to any opponent getting within range of those very long beam-blades. Or the thrice cursed Legged Ship.