B5 Double Drabble: Enough Is Enough

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: Enough Is Enough
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: John Sheridan.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 449: Ready at drabble_zone.
Spoilers/Setting: No surrender, No Retreat.
Summary: Sheridan isn’t going to wait any longer…
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 

They weren’t ready, not by a long shot. Sheridan had hoped they’d have more time to grow their forces, more time for Ivanova’s Voice of the Resistance to refute the rumours and lies Clark was spreading about Babylon 5 and his people, but there was no time left. Not when Clark had his ships firing on unarmed transports, filled with refugees just trying to escape the killing zone. Ten thousand civilians! Ten thousand lives lost that he should have prevented…

 
Perhaps the truth was that he simply hadn’t wanted to be faced with firing on Earth Force vessels, killing his own people, but wasn’t that exactly what Clark’s forces were doing? They weren’t trying to take Mars and Proxima 3 back from terrorists, they were trying to shut down all resistance to Clark’s rule, and they were willing to shoot down anyone who opposed them, anyone who happened to be in the way.
 

Well, Sheridan wouldn’t have it, enough was enough. The curfews and the martial law back on earth were bad enough, but this…
 

So, they might not be as ready as he would have liked, but the time for waiting was over. They’d take the battle to Clark.
 

 
The End
 



 
 

Comments

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Oh dear, this made my thoughts turn to Trump. Good writing, an awful leader.

[badly_knitted]

Re-watching the show, there are SO MANY parallels between Clark and Trump. I think of that every time President Clark is mentioned.

Thank you!