Omega
Summary: "Small-minded creatures! You destroy whatever you don't understand!" - Allos, The Omega Directive
Characters: Allos
Codes: n/a
Disclaimer: Paramount/CBS own all rights to the Voyager universe and its characters, which I am borrowing without permission or intent to profit.
Notes: Written to the prompt: Write a drabble (100w) from the perspective of a character you've never written before and inspired by the word "awe".
Rated K
If this works, decades of theorising and experimentation will pay off, our power and resources will multiply, and centuries of hardscrabble will be at an end. I will be known as the saviour of my people.
If it works.
I activate the chamber.
Brilliant light washes over me. Eyes watering, breath caught, I peer inside the vessel, where tiny particles glow and coalesce.
I wish I could say I’m observing as a scientist should, but I’m dumbstruck. I have never seen anything so beautiful. It’s… perfect.
But like most things of beauty, it is fleeting, and it leaves behind destruction.