The Indomitable: A Journey to Trumpty Dumpty Citadel.

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Published 3/20/2023
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The ship hurtled through the empty space, its engines at full throttle. Captain Camille sat in her command chair, which was installed on the bridge. She rifled through her papers and adjusted her glasses as she watched the monitor to her left. It showed an image of the Trumpty Dumpty Citadel, a large red structure with towers and turrets that looked like they were built out of a Lego set. "Hold course," said Camille as she looked up to see Conrad standing next to her.

"Aye, Aye," replied the quartermaster who was seated behind them.

Conrad looked at his sister and smiled reassuringly. "I'm sure it'll be fine."

The Indomitable continued its journey towards the fortress. The crew maintained their silence until they reached the distance where they could make visual contact with their destination. They increased the magnification on the monitor and zoomed in with great care. Camille leaned forward and frowned as she examined the outline of the structure on the monitor. "What is it?" asked Conrad curiously.

"It looks like something's wrong here."

"How so?"

Camille pointed at a section of the fortress that was hidden behind a row of buildings that were jutting out from it. "That section is missing." She tapped her screen to bring up the images they had taken before they left Earth. She compared those images with what was shown on her screen now and realized that something had changed in between then and now. "There's something else." She zoomed in further until she could see one particular tower inside what was supposed to have been a public square surrounding the citadel but wasn't there anymore. The tower had many holes in it but one particular hole stood out because it was larger than all others and appeared to have been caused by some kind of explosion."

She went back to studying their new data and noticed that there were other holes all over the place, each one a bit smaller than the first. "Those look like bullet holes," said Conrad who had come closer to examine what his sister had found.

"Yes! And there are traces of some sort of explosion around them as well."

"But what could have caused this change?" asked Conrad who realized he wouldn't get any answers from his sister right away so he waited patiently for her response after a few moments when she finally spoke again, "I don't know."

"Well, we're about to find out," said Camille as she stood up from her chair and walked toward one of her crew members who was seated next to one of their weapon systems called 'Oversaw'. The Oversaw was capable of projecting numerous weapons around itself including missiles, canons, lasers, and many more depending on its configuration at any time. It also had a variety of shields which could be used depending on what type of attack it would need to defend against most efficiently. The system itself was shaped like an octagon which made it easier for its users to maneuver it into position quickly while also providing protection against enemy fire because there were eight sides instead of four or six sides like most conventional weapon systems used by other ships in space travel or battleship situations required at times during military operations. As Captain Camille approached him she signaled two of her other crew members who came forward and assisted Captain Camille in docking with their Oversaw system safely before transporting themselves over to it via two portals that were created nearby. Once they were transported they both took a seat inside Oversaw while Captain Camille took a seat inside another system called 'Planner' which would pilot Oversaw as it fought against their enemies if any showed up when they got closer to Trumpty Dumpty Citadel since whoever piloted Oversaw would not be able to fight inside it directly because doing so would require too much concentration which would defeat its whole purpose because once you focused too much on anything you couldn't focus on many things at once which meant that you'd probably miss important things if you tried fighting inside Oversaw yourself which meant someone needed to fly Oversaw while someone else needed to attack or defend while they were flying Oversaw into Trumpty Dumpty Citadel since otherwise they'd be dead very quickly if they didn't do that so Captain Camille was going to do that even though she hated flying Oversaw since everyone hated flying Oversaw because no one thought flying Oversaw into Trumpty Dumpty Citadel would be easy but nobody except for Conrad knew this because he thought everything his sister did was easy including flying Oversaw into Trumpty Dumpty Citadel even though he really didn't know what he was talking about since he wasn't about to fly Oversaw himself even though he wanted badly for someone else besides his sister since everyone wanted someone else besides their sister or brother or parents or anyone else in their family except for me because I only have my mother left since I never had any siblings even though I wish I did because my father died when I was young but my mother kept me alive by doing everything possible but then she died when I was older too but somehow I survived so I guess this means I'm stronger than we all thought including my mother who always told me I wasn't strong enough but maybe now she'll learn how strong I am just like my sister's strong enough now even though everyone thinks she isn't but nobody knows how strong she is besides me even though everyone thinks I'm not strong enough either but nobody knows how strong I am except for my sister and maybe my mother if she's still alive somewhere even though we haven't talked in years but somehow I can feel that she's still here somewhere so maybe she'll help us after all like every time before when we needed her help before including this time too especially since everyone needs help sometimes especially if you're trying your best like me so please mommy please help us again even though everyone sees me as weak instead of strong but soon everyone will see me instead of thinking I'm weak!"



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