Cassandra: A singular experience

<ooc>Events kind of outpaced me, but here's my little contribution towards
Andy's bombshell</ooc>
'Brittany' stood silently amidst the bustle of the darkened drive room, flanked
on either side by Cassandra and Mr. Butler as she watched the desperate battle
unfold on the monitors; white and crimson splashes of destruction frequently
illuminating the increasingly tense members of the command crew
"We should have weaponised forty or fifty asteroids and vaporised that smegging
dust ball instead of indulging in this smegging stupidity" Cassandra hissed
"We both know that would have been complete overkill" Cass murmured back
"...regardless of its suitability. However, Captain Chrysler's chosen to opt for
this brief moment of fiery glory..."
"Oh, look! There he goes!" Cassandra pointed up at a fading explosion on one of
the monitors "Huh. Look at that! Lucky smegger looks like he survived!"
Cass smiled at the sight of the escape pod
"I don't fancy his chances, but I do hope he makes it"
"Doesn't matter" Cassandra snorted "Whichever way this pans out, you're sitting
pretty; if Jay get's himself killed, we do things our way and sterilise the
planet in revenge, otherwise we just bask in his reflected glory; either way
it's a win!"
Cass glared at Cassandra, struggling to hide her irritation at the woman's
impropriety
"Well, let's hope we get the chance to enjoy it and don't die out here, eh?" she
snapped irritably, her remark punctuated by another Space Eagle meeting a fiery
end in a burst of plasma
"Buck up your Majesty. Think positive! What possibly could go wrong!?"
Cass just ignored this
"Hmm. Nearly nine" Cassandra muttered, stalking over towards one of the vacant
command consoles "I need to monitor that blue smegwit; see what the message he
was given was about..."
"Oh" she called back over her shoulder to the queen "Your press entourage just
arrived!"
Sighing, Cass turned to gaze over towards the main doors, where a small cadre of
reporters were being ushered into an area where they wouldn't be able to cause
too much trouble while everyone else just got on with their real jobs
Smiling brilliantly, she strolled over towards them
"Ladies and gentlemen" she began "Welcome to the drive room..."
Half an hour later, Brittany's smile was fading fast, as the increasingly bloody
space battle continued to rage across the stars, with heavy casualties mounting
on both sides
The Dwarf's fighter crew had battled valiantly, but over the last quarter hour
had been slowly beaten back, hampered by both their inferior ships and the
additional complication of the Space Corp fighters seemingly attacking both them
and the Hymenoptera at random.
The remaining Eagles had battled bravely, but were hopelessly outgunned by their
Hymenoptera counterparts, with the casualty lists updating minute by the minute
into an ever longer catalogue of loss and misery, in spite of the sterling
efforts put in by the McDonalds staff on the Dwarf's heavy weapons
"Smeg's sake" Amber screamed into her comms "Three by three! Deploy MIRV
blisters across vectors six to nine. Walk the smegging line!"
Another bright flash over to her left and a burst of static heralded the loss of
yet another Eagle, marking another friend to mourn at a later date
"Loop back" she called "Stay tight. I..."
Her words died in her throat, primal animal twitch response instincts kicking in
to ensure her survival as she banked hard to avoid the massive Hymenoptera ship
that began decloaking ahead of her
"Oh shit..." she breathed, hardly even aware of what she had said
"Oh, shit" Brittany breathed, her eyes wide as she took in the sight of the
massive mothership that had appeared not a hundred klicks away from the dwarfs
prow
Hundreds upon hundreds of drone fighters began peeling away from the thing
"OH YES!" Cassandra shouted, slapping the keyboard in front of her and
activating the wormhole drive
"What the smegging hell are you doing!?" one of the flight command Ensigns
screamed, diving over to try and wrestle her away from the controls and cancel
the jump process
"Too late" Cassandra smiled as she was pulled away by other members of the
command staff, her eyes shining in delight as the monitors showed the
coruscating blue vapour outside the ship whirling to form the jump drive
wormhole
"Control! For smeg's sake, what the hell are you doing there!?" Amber screeched,
her eyes wide in disbelief "You can't just leave us..."
Something wasn't right though
The wormhole was somehow... wrong
Lightning danced across the Dwarf's ramscoops, arcing occasionally into the void
of the wormhole, which span faster and faster before suddenly and without
warning, it abruptly disappeared
A silence permeated the dive room, broken after a few tens of seconds by a low
rumbling, which quickly built to a screaming metallic crescendo as the Dwarf's
already tortured superstructure protested violently at the forces it was being
subjected to, before the cacophony came to an abrupt halt
Brittany smiled coldly, having suddenly guessed what Cassandra had been doing
over the last half hour
"Observe!" she instructed the collected members of the press, pointing towards
one of the monitors displaying the massive ship
At first nothing happened
Then something punctured the outer hull of the mothership; enormous shattered
plates of chitin erupting briefly into space only to spear backward down into
the ship, which after a few seconds of shuddering inactivity, began implosively
folding in on itself in a terrifyingly brief maelstrom of destruction which
neatly dragged almost all the Hymenoptera fighter craft to their doom
"Now, I am become death" Cassandra shouted in triumph "The Destroyer of Worlds!"
'Brittany' turned to address the shocked and open mouthed members of the press
"Singularity generation" she said with a wink "Smeg about with a wormhole in the
right way and you can create your own little black holes; effective eh?"
Cass turned
"Ensign" she shouted "Bring us about and we'll target the Hymenoptera homeworld"
<...>
Enjoy fatherhood Andy - we'll look forward to seeing you in a couple of years
when you've time for a little more writing ;)
All the very best mate
A.