The call answered, the cavalcade of voices rose in unison, undaunted. The moment contact had been established with those allies across systems, between peoples, the clamour redoubled as affirmation took sattelite and wire and frequency alike.
"You saw it, well so did we. Now let me ask you this, what are you going to do about it?"
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The place where it all started, we have a route to the planet? Heh, can't leave this up to the GP, after all! We live here too, you know!"
"Yes! Indeed it has not ended!
To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!*
With each declaration, the silent distance between them had all but disappeared, and now in these darkest days, the spirits endured as a hope had kindled anew.
"BGS-01, this is EDF Commander Kenshiko. Prepare the Stargate coordinates."
"Captain Prizzm, if you would, I need you to make a delivery."
"With everything ramping up as it is, frankly the last thing I'd want to do now is a cargo run-"
"Anything at all we can do to support them, we do it. It's not their fight, this concerns all of us" she replied. Kenshiko straightened up and adjusted her red beret. "
Besides the Saiyans left something in port before taking off. We'll only get one shot at this, so we're going to do it right."
"...ah hell, it'd be on the way to the Admiral, we'll get it done with an emergency launch and tractor beam. Over and out."
The viewscreen thinned to a single line, then silence. Her attuned ki sense for a moment made the raucous hordes of enemies loud; to behold such illumination of a Guardian brought things so sharply into focus even upon ordinary sensation, as if seeing everything all at once, that it had all become overly bright to her eyes. She took the moment to adjust her shades.
You believed in them all that much? In us as well. That's why Sakin took his shot. Time for a little payback for him...and for what we owe the lot of you.
The offworlders had come through after all. Kenshiko stole her gloved hand to a red phone upon the console. Her thoughts remained upon the blue world they'd built their garrison around, and now more than ever, they needed their brightest mind.
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Get me the President. Yes, I know he's not in his office, he's never there at the best of times. Right now, he's probably at the top of the world."