All is silent for a while as the Dibits just floats in space. Surrounded by debris of other starships and the bodies of the dead from both sides. Dibits' left wing is torn completely off. When Victoria comes to she has a tiny little gash on her forehead and is bleeding from it.
"Ah." She says
She looks around the room and sees everyone else is unconscious.
Beta is face down on the floor while Heidi and Jeffers are in their chairs.
The room has some sort of smokey filling in it. And over at Beta's section there is a flashing red light that keeps flickering.
Victoria is weak but she slowly stumbles over to the red light.
"It's the telecomm" she says
She mashes the button and the voice comes over saying
"Space Command to Dibits, come in Dibits"
"Dibits to Space Command, this is Dibits" Victoria says
"Dibits, we notice you have a ping. So your ship wasn't completely destroyed. Do you need assistance?" The voice asks
Victoria looks around the smoke filled room and out the window she notices that the left wing is torn completely off.
"Yes, we need assistance now. Our left wing is gone and judging by all the smoke there might be a fire onboard."
She says
"Sit tight Dibits, the Galaway will dispatch to rescue you." The voice says
"Thanks Space Command" Victoria says
Victoria stumbles away from the base as the noise of a looming ship overtakes her ears. She looks at the main windshield and sees a gigantic ship, the same make and model of the Dibits just painted all black with a white stripe.
A different voice comes through the telecom.
"Galaway to Dibits." says the voice
"Dibits to Galaway" Victoria says
"Dibits we have scanned your ship and the scan shows 13 of your crewmembers are dead and a fire is raging in the lower decks." The voice says.
"Ok, well can yo-" Before Victoria can finish her sentence she passes out from the smoke becoming even thicker.
"Dibits! Dibits! Oh no, get an extraction team in there stat." The voice demands.
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When Victoria comes to, she is on board the Galaway, with a tarp on her in the lower deck of the ship. Instead of the usual silver metal color on the starships there is just a dark room.
Where am I. She asks herself
Heidi comes over to her and jokingly asks
"Quick! Do you know where you are?"
Victoria rubs her eyes and answers
"No."
"Heidi leave her alone." Beta says
"Excuse me." Heidi says enraged
"I mean that's what, Jeffers told me to tell you. Those were his words not mine." Beta responds.
"Anyway, Join us at the bridge. Those actually were Jeffers words." Heidi says
Heidi, Beta, and Victoria walk to the bridge through the hallway of the Galaway which unlike the lower deck is almost identical from the Dibits hallways layout. Except the Galaway is a warship so it's bigger with more room and one other thing women aren't allowed to serve on it according to PA law.
They eventually make it to the bridge where Jeffers and the Captain of the Galaway are talking with Captain Monroe over the holocom.
They are all laughing, and having a good time. As Victoria enters the bridge Jeffers says
"There's our guardian angel. The crew of the Dibits owes you our lives, Victoria."
"It was no big deal." Victoria says
"It was to us." Jeffers replies
"So where is the Dibits?" Victoria asks
"We're using the tractor beam to drag her behind us. We were able to rescue the surviving crew but the fire still ravages the ship." The Captain of the Galaway says.
"I'm Captain Derut by the way." He then says
"Victoria, nice to meet you" Victoria says
"So Captain how long until you reach Morza." Captain Monroe asks
"We are in sight of her right now Captain." Derut answers
"I bet there are a lot of the damaged ships at the shipyard" Victoria says
The mood then changes from happy to sad as Jeffers says
"The Dibits is one of the only ships that is able to be repaired."
"What do you mean? There were 160 of us, how can that be?" Victoria says
"Out of the 160 ships that come only 39 made it out." Jeffers says sadly
"Oh dear" Victoria says
"We are still counting the dead, but right now it stands at 6598" Heidi says
"That's awful" Victoria replies
"Not completely, thanks to this disaster of a battle that shleb Newton will probably be removed from his command" Monroe adds
"Thank Merci" Heidi comments
"Alright, it's about time for me to go offline see you on planet Captain" Monroe says
"Syre." Both Jeffers and Derut say. Which means bye in the Morzan language.
"We should be getting ready to land anyway. We're coming up on the planet." Derut says
As they enter the atmosphere, a message comes through the telecom saying
"Welcome back Galaway, Dibits"
"Thank you" says Derut
As they descend from the sky over the city of Alicus they see the smoke has mostly cleared and what is barely visible is a large crowd of people cheering and some holding signs.
"What do those signs say?" asks Beta
"Probably hero, or something like that." answers heidi
The Galaway lands at the harbor and the Dibits is set in a safety area so a fire crew can extinguish the flames.