Awakened-Vignettes

Vignettes

The deep of space. A figure is running along the length of a Imperium super-capital ship, a streak of motion, hardly visible to the naked eye. As he passess turrets explode in a shower of sparks and debris, cut in twain by a blade as sharp as his very soul. Reaching the end of the gargantuan vessel, he leaps off, arms outstreched, like some mad diver plunging into the Void. A moment of silent stillness, then a blinding flash. Six immense wings of glowing of energy sprout from his back, lifting him away from the mammoth vessel. He banks and turns to face the ship once more as a 60ft glowing figure coaleces around his body.

A bustling desert marketpace. A woman wraps her scarf around her face, moving through the bustling crowds of the bazzar as quickly as she can without drawing too much undue attention. Looking back over her shoulder for the last time, she pauses, then bolts into the nearby alley. Racing over and through a variety of rubbish and discarded junk she reaches the looming wall of the stone building that closes the alley. Turning back around, she sees her persuers, Dominion commandos, closing in on her. Filled equal parts with fear and power she streches out her hand in a brilliant flash. Countless shards of pure energy raze the alley cracking and scouring the stone walls and doing worse to those sent to capture her.

A busy spaceport. A assassin crouches atop a gigantic neon advertizement, as countless flyers zip back and forth in the skylanes below him. The tracker in his wristcomputer emits a familiar tone, indicating that his quarry nears. Taking a running leap, he sails through the air, landing precisely in the roof of a small personal flyer speeding by. The assassin clings to the fast moving vehicle as the advanced tactical systems in his helmet locate and target his bounty. Leaping again, he bounds from roof to roof, dodging oncoming flyers within inches, before landing in a crouch on the cargo freighter he had been tracking. The assassin raises his fist over his head as it begins to glow with a brilliant light, then slams it into the hull of the vehicle. Immediately, the glow begins to spread from the area surrounding indentation his fist left in the hull. Bounding away, the assassin vanishes in plain sight as the freighter explodes in a devistating fireball.