B5 Triple Drabble: Z’ha’dum

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: Z’ha’dum
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: G’Kar.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Early Season 2.
Summary: Something is stirring at Z’ha’dum.
Written For: Challenge 417: Amnesty 69 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 66: Z.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.
 
 

Z’ha’dum. Even the name of that dark world, far out on the Rim, is ominous. It fills G’kar with a nameless dread, but even so, he knows that it’s important to find out what, if anything, is happening there. So, he despatches a ship to investigate, a single, powerful Narn heavy cruiser. It is destroyed the moment it exits hyperspace, and while most people on his homeworld assume an unfortunate mishap with the hyperdrive engines, G’Kar knows otherwise.
 

Shadows are stirring out on the Rim, shadows that call the remote world known as Z’ha’dum home, and that represents grave peril to all the known worlds.
 

He calls a meeting, speaks out, tries to warn the others, but soon realises more information will be needed to convince everyone of the approaching danger.
 

The Book of G’Quan tells of a great war, a thousand years ago, that tore the universe apart. The enemy was defeated on that occasion, but not destroyed. Perhaps they merely retreated to the darkest places they could find, biding their time, rebuilding their forces, readying themselves…

 
There is another great war coming; that, G’Kar feels, is certain. There remains time to prepare, but all preparations must be made with care, and as quietly, as unobtrusively, as possible. The forces gathering on Z’ha’dum must not be alerted more than they already have been. They must be allowed to believe that no one has yet noticed anything untoward, or at least that no one has any proof.

 
G’kar finds himself in an unenviable position. The burden of what he knows weighs heavy on him, but for now he must carry it alone, at least until he can determine who among the other races can be trusted.

 
He must trust that when the time comes to act, all will be ready.
 

 
The End
 



 
 
 
 
 

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

That is really good, I remember how terrifying the Shadows were in Babylon 5. Surely some of the most terrifying sci-fi villains of all...

[badly_knitted]

They were seriously creepy, especially when they were with Morden.

G'Kar will eventually be invited into the inner circle and learn about the preparations being made to fight the Shadows. Just not quite yet.

Thank you!

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes, especially when we found out the Shadows were kind of puppet masters and just using Morden as their tool. Same with Anna Sheridan, I think.

[badly_knitted]

Yes, the Shadows and all who worked for them were agents of chaos. Maybe they thought they were on the right side, but they were just keeping an endless conflict going, both the Shadows and the Vorlons determined to prove their way was the right way. Everyone else was just a pawn in their game.

[kitarella_imagines]

Sounds like the state of politics today in the world. No doubt that was done on purpose though! haha

[badly_knitted]

I think that's one of the reasons I like B5 so much. Unlike Star Trek, it's not all perfect, it feels more realistic, and it does shine a light on aspects of our world, at the same time showing some people trying to make things better.

[kitarella_imagines]

That is exactly my reason too!😊

[badly_knitted]

Yay! 😁

[mrs_sweetpeach]

OOoooo. This gave me goosebumps!

[badly_knitted]

Yeah, the shadows are creepy and G'Kar was among the first to realise they were stirring again.

Thank you!