Assorted Flash Fiction Writings #2
Copyright© 2024 by Chaon
Human Weaponry Is Insane
Writing prompt:
The dropship came blazing down from orbit and headed towards a human colony. The target was not expecting any visitors and that is how the pirates liked things to go.
The humans were not seen as a threat because there was no military presence detected or known about for quite a distance. And with a town of roughly only 14,700 humans made up of farmers and artisans, it wouldn’t be too much of a problem to drop in, collect as much tech loot as they could grab and have some fun with the locals.
But things didn’t go the way the captain thought it would when the dropship flared out to cancel their velocity and to select a good landing spot so the raiders could get to work.
They were hovering on thrusters looking for a good spot and seeing the humans panicking on the ground when there was a sudden collection of impacts and bangs and one of the thrusters blew apart.
The dropship was instantly off balance and started to fall towards the ground and the impacts and bangs continued and the captain caught a glance of a crowd of humans pointing some type of weapons towards the dropship and clouds of smoke were appearing from their weapons.
The impact of the dropship hitting the ground was severe and caused a lot of damage with thrusters being torn off, explosions of fuel and part of the tail being torn away leaving a gaping hole into the interior.
The raiders lost almost 1/4 of their crew just from the crash and things didn’t improve afterwards.
As the dropship settled, the captain ordered all remaining crew to escape out of the wreckage and to form up in a defensive perimeter until he could work out what had happened.
The raiders saw a small wooded area close by and started to head towards it but as they moved that way, clouds of smoke appeared and bangs were heard as individuals started to be ripped to shreds from impacts of some type.
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