B5 Double Drabble: Welcome Sight
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badly_knittedTitle: Welcome Sight
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Sheridan, Delenn.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Severed Dreams.
Summary: Delenn arrives just in time to save Babylon 5.
Written For: Challenge 465: Amnesty 77 at
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fan_flashworks, using Challenge 353: Welcome.Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
John Sheridan had seen many amazing, even awe-inspiring sights in his life, from the breathtaking scenic beauty that still existed on earth to extraordinary and unfathomable alien races, and even inexplicable wonders existing in the depths of the space station under his command. But never had any sight affected him more deeply than the one he now witnessed.
Babylon 5 was outnumbered, outgunned, in a hopeless position, with only two choices: to surrender, or to be destroyed, and right when all had seemed lost, she’d arrived. Delenn, riding to the rescue like a Valkyrie from Norse mythology, leading a fleet of three Minbari WarCruisers.
They came out of hyperspace practically on top of the station, the magnificent, deadly vessels ready to defend the station and everyone on board, regardless of race, and just like that, the tide of battle turned.
The captains of the Earth Force Destroyers, realising they were no match for the Minbari ships, followed Delenn’s advice to be somewhere else, turning with surprising grace and entering hyperspace. Sheridan stood for a moment, exhausted, before ordering all ships back to base.
His heart still pounded; from adrenaline or sheer exaltation, he wasn’t sure. All he knew was that the sight of Delenn’s face on the screens, focussed and implacable as she issued her ultimatum, had been the single most beautiful, not to mention welcome, sight he had ever seen. He would never forget the way his spirits had soared, knowing all was not yet lost. They would survive.
The End
Babylon 5 was outnumbered, outgunned, in a hopeless position, with only two choices: to surrender, or to be destroyed, and right when all had seemed lost, she’d arrived. Delenn, riding to the rescue like a Valkyrie from Norse mythology, leading a fleet of three Minbari WarCruisers.
They came out of hyperspace practically on top of the station, the magnificent, deadly vessels ready to defend the station and everyone on board, regardless of race, and just like that, the tide of battle turned.
The captains of the Earth Force Destroyers, realising they were no match for the Minbari ships, followed Delenn’s advice to be somewhere else, turning with surprising grace and entering hyperspace. Sheridan stood for a moment, exhausted, before ordering all ships back to base.
His heart still pounded; from adrenaline or sheer exaltation, he wasn’t sure. All he knew was that the sight of Delenn’s face on the screens, focussed and implacable as she issued her ultimatum, had been the single most beautiful, not to mention welcome, sight he had ever seen. He would never forget the way his spirits had soared, knowing all was not yet lost. They would survive.
The End
