So sorry for the long wait. I got addicted to GunZ and then, well, I just lost my train of thought for IUF. So, finally, I got back on track and it took an extra few minutes to remember where i left off. So, this fifth part is gonna end up shorter, maybe.

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On her shuttle, the commander was watching footage of Seillon and him "seeing" the soldiers and kicking the grenade. The window was not mirrored, and there was no way to see the door from the bridge of the Instigator. But wait, what was that? She rewinded the video and played it frame-by-frame. Frame 192 showed Seillon standing still for a few frames. Something caught the commander's eye but she didn't notice it. Frame 203 showed Seillon kicking the grenade, but it was not until Frame 205 that the Terran squad could be seen. She returned to the 192-203 play-by-play when she saw the mysterious object.

A little into the play-by-play, the light around Seillon's eyes became distorted. It concentrated into one distorted beam, which in fact was so quick it could only be captured and play-by-played by a high speed camera. Nevertheless, as 195 became 196 and 197, the beam extended until it faded at the leader's body. By 198 he was already dropping the grenade on the floor. The beam of distorted light could only lead to one thing.

Seillon Damocles Douglass was a photomancer(this is a real word), with knowledge of the divination of light, to bend it, concentrate it, and use it as a weapon.

And indeed, Seillon was about to use this ability on the offensive.

He had just made a connection to Inquisition Command. He called, "Hello, anyone there?"

The answer came, "Hello, Sergeant Douglass, we sent all the reinforcements we could give you. What else could you ask for?"

"Sir, we need someone of a higher rank to engage the battlecruisers. Could you try and give us some more, please?"

The reply came, "You should have everything you need, Lieutenant Douglass."

Lieutenant! He now had the right to declare an attack on vessels legally under Inquistion laws. He picked up the Instigator's radio and said, "All frigates and cruiser turrets, fire at target delta-foxtrot-one-seven!"

The six remaining frigates charged up their turbolasers and began firing at a battlecruiser about to fire upon the Io Pride. The battlecruiser disappeared under the wave of red light and disintegrated.

Now, Seillon could use his abilities in full. Now, the battlecruisers' bridges were located about 900 metres from the bow, and only 350 metres from the stern. Seillon expertly navigated the light from a large field between the battlecruisers and the cruiser. The giant stream of distorted light was controlled towards the center of the battlecruisers then focused. It melted the critical points, weakest to attack, and destroyed four cruisers.

Now it was 2:00. McKinnon had landed near Dakar, Senegal, and the Commander was moving south in Western Sahara. There were 5 frigates left, the Io Pride being eliminated, and there were some thirty battlecruisers remaining. Seillon lost a great deal of stamina doing photomancy, and could barely breathe. The Jeanne's wreckage had spread over a large area and rained down in Morocco, the Mediterranean, Libya, and Spain. The Instigator was coming under heavy fire from the fighters, being too fast for the Photomancer's Beam, as Seillon called it, and the cruiser seemed on the verge of collapse as the ship lived up to the title of the book.

Thousands of soldiers could only wait and see as hundreds were killed in mere minutes. Then, Seillon realised that both factions would be supplied with reinforcements that could make this battle last weeks. There was only one way to make this battle conclude, but when could both sides play their cards right, and open up this chance for the end to come?

To Be Continued, and Maybe To Be Concluded (0.01% chance that it will be concluded in the sequel)

This turned out longer than I expected!

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