The light hit the forward viewport before anyone on the bridge even registered it as light.
"What is that," someone said, voice small.
Nobody answered right away. Everyone just stared, the entire bridge crew frozen mid-motion, half of them still catching their breath from the celebration two minutes earlier.
"Sensors are reading it as a kinetic event," the navigation officer said, fingers already flying across her console. "Moving fast. Too fast, that velocity doesn't make sense for debris, debris decelerates, this is accelerating—"
"Accelerating toward what," Angel said.
"Us."
Diana stepped closer to the viewport, Kelvin still tucked under one arm, both of them still flushed from the reunion hug that hadn't even finished properly before the alarms started.
"Is that from the planet," Diana asked. "Leftover from the blast?"
