science-fiction

As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others.__ need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.

Because we were the good guys. We were in the right. The universe looks out for people who act with honor in furtherance of an honorable cause. It must, or we never would have gotten this far as a species.___e won__his little conflict and a thousand like it__ecause we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome.

Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation.___ood luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.

They flew high above savanna grassland. The sky was the deep cornflower blue of a sunny late afternoon on Earth_exactly the color of a sunny late afternoon on Earth.Only there was no sun. Whatever was lighting this planet, it wasn__ a star.

Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place.

He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. ____l be damned.___ossibly. But not today, I think.

What do you want me to do? Arrest them all?_ __hen you can, absolutely._ __nd when I can__?_ __o whatever is necessary to remove their ability to act against us__gainst humanity._ __ou mean kill them._ Her expression darkened in what he sensed was sorrow, but her shoulders rose. __f that__ what it takes.

Above the curving arc of the planet, a mammoth explosion plumed crimson and charcoal then erupted in a starburst of crystaline white which for a microsecond shone brighter than a sun. For the briefest moment he allowed himself to entertain the notion that they might win this battle.Then the real battle began.

You__e insane.___t__l work.___hich does not alter the fact that you are insane.

His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance.He allowed himself two seconds to watch it and came away with the sense they were losing. Not lost and not soon, but losing.

Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled.__ow delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?

In my experience endings are false positives. Perhaps like a phoenix, out of the ashes of destruction we could be reborn."-Cassandra Rainbow in PHOENIX-

The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.If only humans understood...Most ignore it.

She didn__ want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn__ want to be the vanguard__f destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her the stars.Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did.

I__l do whatever I can to help guarantee this plan succeeds, and I__l try to make sure I__ in the right place at the right time._ __he right place and time for what?___f I knew that, ma__m, I probably wouldn__ need to be there.

She pointed to the wreckage of one of the frigates in the distance. Half the ship had landed atop one of the towers on the edge of the city, the other half on the flatland beyond. __ou didn___do that, did you?_ He shrugged with proper dramatic flair. __ did say I came to rescue you. They were in my way.

His punch knocked her back a meter into the wall. His fist had moved of his own volition, carrying a rage and frustration all its own. To his dismay, she didn__ fall. People so small as her always fell.No tears pooled in her eyes; instead they flared golden amber as she rubbed her jaw and pushed off the wall to stand rigid straight. A peculiar smile danced across her lips as blood trickled from the corner of her mouth and down her chin.

We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.I want to know.And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.