Alpha
...they did not send any answer, Grisha started getting nervous, then, the boosters ran out, the craft retained it´s speed for a while until it started slowing down...
...still no answer.
The beasts came closer, the Afterburners reactors were on it´s last legs but managed to at least keep at it´s non-boosted speed, the missile launchers were ready to fire any moment, though shortly after that the beasts would probably reach them as well...
...the cruiser turned away...
Missiles began firing as the beast starteds getting in range, while they did some damage to the leading thorns, there were simply too many of them, it looked like for the few they were actually able to immobilize which was already a task by itself since they seemed extremely resilient, a whole group of other ones was already ready to take their place...
Bloodred light, beams of unkown energy bursted out of the thorns sides, and began immolating the back of the Afterburner, one of the boosters detonated, the ship began spinning and slowing down even more, at any moment it would be over now...
...then a shockwave went through the ship...
...was this one of the reactors? Grisha was not sure if he should scream for his life, curse this territory or simply close his eyes...
...
A few moments laer he still wasn´t dead, this was rather odd.
The ship had apparently started moving at unnatural speed for it´s engines, in the completely wrong direction nonetheless, though apparently away from the beasts regardless, was this Morgoth helping his faithful servants...?
as the ship took another turn, he saw a dim blue light which was emitting from the leaving cruisers bottom, it apparently dragged the ship away from the swarm, out of another window Golm saw that the Afterburner quickly gained distance from the swarm, until the swarm suddenly split and turned back at a certain point, as if they gave up all at the same time...
...the cruiser didn´t stop though, nor did it send any transmission, apparently dragging them off to an unknown destination...