Title: Regenesis
Author: Aria Fox
Rating: MFR
Disclaimer: I don't own PR or any of the other sci-fi shows I'm borrowing from and I'm not earning anything from this just have a bit of fun.
Summary: Fight fire with fire so to defeat evil rangers you recruit good ones by any means necessary.
It takes a special type of stupidity to attack the System Alliance. Their voices belong in the Council chamber shouting along with the other idiots.
Arch Councillor Atytl Lesrtang to his aide
on the signing of the Fountainhead Treaty
"Code Mauve! This is not a drill! All Personnel report to escape pods! Repeat this is not a drill!"
The computerised voice droned on endlessly, its message drowned out by bellowed orders and rushing bodies.
They had trained for this. Countless drills until every option, every possible variation was practised until procedure could be followed while asleep. But here and now with reality of a firefight pressing down on them, retreat the only option, they descended into chaos. Scientist of all description, brilliant in their field, were not and had no desire to be military.
Casual friendship and camaraderie were lost amid varying for survival. Only the skeleton crew of Argosy, the Alliance's space military kept to their discipline. Whether from genuine cool headedness or plain stupidity is debatable.
Green light danced along the station's viewing windows seeking weakness. Abruptly the light stopped and gathered into a laser point. Within seconds the windows shattered spraying shards over the highly decorated promenade, shredding banners, piercing the walls.
A barrage of offensive missiles destroyed the remaining shield defences.
The scanner returned pouring over the station, Marking points and moving on. Gathering at multiple targets it turned from green to navy. Vital support structures splintered and vanished.
Space station Dragon collapsed in on its self magnificently.
Rebel ships hung in space like vultures relishing its petty revenge.
The Alliance would pay for abandoning them, protecting the rich core worlds, and leaving countless planets defenceless against the invading swarm.
Only two escape pods successfully navigated the proximity bomb network. One crash landed on a backwater planetoid and the renowned genetic scientist died slowly of dehydration. The other reached the prime home world reporting the loss directly to a stone-faced Council where he too died but less pleasantly.