Downward Spiral and Lost hopes

[Wolfs Ghost]

Tau-31, 804 A.S.

"Dear. We have contacts on scanners." A female voice spoke up.
"Hm?"
"Frequencies show that they're Gaians."
"Ah, quite lovely. Maybe they're here to get their shipment that we've been waiting to deliver. I'd like to get home to our family."
"You mean our son."
"And our house, and obviously I'd love to spend time with you, sweetheart." The man said smiling.

The woman giggled lightly and proceeded to open up a communications channel to the incoming wing of Gaian ships, which were escorting another transport.

"Daddy! Daddy! Look!" A little girl shouted as she ran into the bridge of the transport, literally running and grabbing her fathers pant leg. "Look!!" She shouted again, the man laughed and let his daughter escort him to the starboard window. "What is it Lena?" He asked gently, leaning down and picking her up in his arms.

"Look there!" She pointed happily.

The man squinted out towards the area his daughter was pointing, just as the Communications flared up.

"Bah! We've got company. Miss Goodman, get your transport out of here! Head to Islay! Fighter wings, break formation! Protect the transports at all costs! Inbound Hostile contacts."

"We have Armed Forces signatures approaching quickly."

"Damn..." Evelyn Goodman cursed under her breath as she scrambled over the controls.
"What? What is it dear?" James said setting his daughter down on the floor and calmly walking over towards his wife. "The Gaians picked up Armed Forces vessels enroute to this position."

"I thought the Green Front bribed these pilots, dear."
"It seems they didn't."

James spun on his heels and quickly walked over to his daughter, "Come on dear, we're going to go take a space walk." He said hustling the young girl over to the nearby Escape pod hatch. She climbed in, contently and unworried, including when her father shut the hatch behind her.

She could hear the muffled voices of her parents planning something, but couldn't exactly tell what. It wasn't like she cared to begin with. Until there was a sudden explosion that rocked the entire ship.

Back on board the transport, the explosion went off as a pair of missiles slammed into the hull of the transport. James grabbed onto a nearby bulkhead to keep himself from falling. "I'm not liking this." He mumbled, when a secondary explosion ripped the ship apart.

The escape pod was violently flung out of the transport, causing the young girl to hit her head hard against the padding of the seat, as the pod turned about she could faintly see the transport exploding, before everything went black.

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