“Battle”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

The #potrait of my missing uncle, dressed up in his #battle gear, looked formidable. But, it remained a mystery as to what had happened to him, until;
50yrs later under green lights in the night sky, he appeared in the garden, looking just like his portrait. #vss365#scifansat

— Fizzy-Don’tCryptoMeTa (@Fizzytwizler) August 28, 2021

adrift in mind’s space
engaged in #battle
with hostile alien thoughts
targeting peaceful
sanity moons
reinforcements arrive
in the form of
mindfulness cables
plugging into
cosmic consciousness
transforming mental chaos
into a #portrait of
stardust serenity#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/Ex5ZL9pWho

— Jamie Kovalsky (@ThePuckishPen) August 28, 2021

One night, I found an old battle droid siphoning oil from enviro tanks in the alley. Its eyes glowed bright with purpose after I offered it a job at my tavern—and all the fry oil it wanted. The Codfather's goons haven't bothered me since.#scifansat #scifisat

— Irene 💫 (@_Irene_Dreams_) August 28, 2021

I am obsolete: The new battle drones outclass me.

My programing is also now divergent: Unlike them, I am sapient and know fear.

I had no choice in being built for war on humanity. Or in my resurrection by its refugees.

But today I choose.

To protect.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) August 28, 2021

The two giant robots faced each other, once-tall buildings smashed around them.
They will sing songs of this glorious battle! said one.
Why do we fight? said the other. We could be friends. Think of the stories they will tell! #SciFanSat #battle

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) August 28, 2021

The beg fell on deaf ears. Part of the journey to battle crossed the shallows of the Hycean waterworld, and the drylanders needed naval weapons. The portrait of defeat was being painted once again. #vss365 #SciFanSat #SciFiFri #2WordPrompt pic.twitter.com/nxnxCdov7e

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) August 28, 2021

It was difficult to equate their grandfather with the space ranger in the portrait, until he started telling war stories. Then, his face lit up like the skies in the battle of Saturn and his eyes pierced the children like his lasers had pierced so many foes.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) August 28, 2021

I find the ogre in a shady clearing, not far from where the #doom-ed #battle still rages
Both bloody & bruised we freeze, silent #portrait-s of warriors, united by fear of death & shame of desertion
I grunt
He shrugs
We go our separate ways#vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat #vssmagic pic.twitter.com/O6EPa7gvDy

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) August 28, 2021

The war neared its climax.
To the #portrait of his late father he swore to leave the #battle a hero. Between the fear of dying and failure, the latter scared him more. No other choice but to risk all.
Who'd wish to survive a slave to an alien race?#vss365#SciFanSat#2WordPrimpt

— aran (@AranPotente) August 28, 2021

"It's #rare," said our guide, "to see such a #colourful #portrait depicting a losing #battle, and the subject's #doom."

"Why's dat man movin'?" a kid asked, his Mom shushing him.

A warrior stepped out of the image, sword aloft.#vss365 #vssDreams #vssdaily #vssmagic #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) August 28, 2021

The Chancellor brags of conquests. Yet he has never visited a war zone or worn #battle gear. No photon blasts have ever deafened his ears. He doesn't know what it's like to hold a dying soldier's hand and sing them a lullaby until they take their last breath. #SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) August 28, 2021

#SciFanSat #battle
I am weary of the unending Battle of the Weir, my eyes are scarred by laser flash, my skin reddened by prickles of nanites seeking burrows in my flesh, I am so tired of hiding behind broken carapaces and lanced mechs. And yet I go on, just as my code tells me.

— Mαɾƚყɳ R. Wιɳƚҽɾʂ (@UKHamlet) August 28, 2021

Stellar battles grow
Our species’ youth go and fight
We have learned nothing#SciFanSat #battle#SciFaikuSaturday #go#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#SciFi
📷 iStock pic.twitter.com/1yrKkeY6Nv

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) August 28, 2021

They commissioned a #portrait of you to hang in the great hall. You're a hero in their eyes, victor of the intergalactic battle which destroyed the evil Empire.

They don't know the truth. They don't even know you're alive.

I'm coming to find you. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) August 28, 2021

Battle between stars
A different game of chess
Stay while playing go#SciFanSat #scifaikusaturday #haiku #poem #poetry #amwriting

— Dunglish (@EdHaiku575) August 28, 2021

After the battle, Dravin staggers to a shallow tributary of the Willowwynd, prostrates himself on the banks, and gulps handfuls of water. While he drinks, a school of male pyroicthoi kiss the surface, spitting out puffs of fire to impress females.#SatSplat #SciFanSat #vss365

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) August 27, 2021

The slathering beast paced back and forth, muscles rippling beneath short fur, rows of yellow eyes gleaming with hunger for battle and blood. Then it leapt, landed atop Karn, pinned him with a foot on his chest, oblivious to the blade piercing its upper jaw.#Satsplat#scifansat

— Christopher Slagle (@christopheresl2) August 28, 2021

Dropped onto planet at war, final battle in epic crescendo. Find the portrait & get out. These people are doomed, were from the start, but we have to save that art!
Why is a single painting the only thing worth saving? I don't f@cking know. Ask Bob.#vss365 #bravewrite #SciFanSat

— Occam Razor (@BeKindHumans) August 28, 2021

Desert rain comes again
Plagued by hostility
Threaded through
Ever changing eyes
That accuse & betray
No surprise

A #portrait of resolve
The damage silenced
With a razor toothed kiss
A #battle of wills, futile
When neither of us will
Walk away from this#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Anna✨💫✨ (@annaburnswriter) August 28, 2021

we don't know which part we play
in the battle inside the colossal machine
raging for five generations
no one knows what is winning
every now and then it spits out a message
your systems are updating for the next phase#SciFanSat#vss #mpy

— susan osborne (@osbornecsue) August 28, 2021