Dimensional Descent

The moment the small ship was locked onto by several behemoths, as though a rock out of a slingshot, its acceleration suddenly doubled.

Sparks and explosions rang through the quickly thinning atmosphere, and yet they only seemed to propel the small ship faster as it squirted out of their encirclement.

The lights were so bright and the ship was so tiny in proportion to everything else that it was immediately assumed that the operation was successful. But, if it was so easy to fool such high tech, why would the Guild have ever invested however many billions they had to build them?

However, what left the siblings at a loss for words was that the moment the ship used the momentum around it to shoot by the last thinning layers of the atmosphere, runic patterns exuding a magnificent aura bloomed like a halo.

At first, the runes were etched right onto its sleek, silver surface. But in the next, they became animated, wiggling about as though life had been breathed into them.

They rose from the surface, forming a protective disk of flickering silver the grew brighter and brighter until it rivaled even the second barrage of beams headed right for its small frame.

Tobyn's eyes widened.

"RETREAT! EXECUTE EVASIVE MANEUVERS, NOW!"

Very few seemed to understand the purpose behind Tobyn's orders, but their job wasn't to understood. Even though some of the Guild Head's children saw themselves as less than, any one of them that was known to have such a connection wouldn't be easily crossed. On top of this, Tobyn wasn't like them, he was born from the Head's legitimate wife. His orders were even less likely to be ignored.

It wouldn't be long, though, before they realized that Tobyn had saved all their lives.

The rippling silver runes reached an unspeakable peak, touching upon a level of brightness that seemed to rival the sun in the distance.

then, everything seemed

axis. The moons in the distance were warped, threatening to be slinged into the ether as they trembled to maintain the path they had followed for billions of years. And the ships that

the ships were simply too

warped beneath the twisting space. What once

of this world, the latter was nothing more than fleeting droplets amidst the carnage, the much larger ship parts making them difficult to

bit luckier, but the result

The end was devastating.

green and blue from

were flung out of their orbit, drifting into the depths of space with off kilter propulsion that wrestled

least in the latter case, it ended as soon as it started.

a national Independence Day. Rather, it was the kind that made one's ears bleed, one's gaze dazed,

became a case study for the history books… It would become known that the Milky Way Guild had suffered such devastating losses targeting a ship that

wasn't related to their target in the

…

tunneling through space to a

a stoic expression, taking control of the steering before passing it on to an AI. The second wore a look of confusion, seemingly wondering how it is she had gotten caught in this mess while her heart was lodged in her throat. And the last was in a daze, blanky staring at something on her wrist without a word. In fact, from her demeanor, it seemed that she might

be

very well abhor with all his heart and soul… Had all but

defenses. There was another protected vessel that seemed to have been doing the same. And, oddly enough, these two

by the ease of his escape. He had been certain that he would need to use almost all of the trump cards he had planned.

As for the second…