As he wondered what was going on, his Comm-Badge blinked red, meaning that the station was under attack.    He thought it was a drill, since it had always been one before.   As his sled undocked, he saw 156 major energy signatures on his scanner, and thousands of signatures approximately the size of missiles.  About a dozen of these signatures were following his sled.  All he could think was: "Is this real?"

He immediately decided that it must be, and that he should take as many of the attackers with him as he could.  Because realistically, there was no way he could escape, and almost no chance of survival.  As soon as he decided this, he started accelerating towards the closest of the energy signatures.  Though there was almost no chance he could actually destroy it, he was determined to do the best he could.

More and more missiles started homing onto his position as he continued accelerating towards the enemy ship.  When he was about half a kilometer away from the ship, over 250 missiles had started tracking him.  He decided to use the enemy missiles against their owners.

As he wove between two missiles converging on his position, he shouted with joy at his amazing escape.  He continued towards the enemy ship, getting ready to activate his navigational thrusters.  At this point he was traveling at over 5 km/sec, and thus there was almost no chance of avoiding the ship, though he was still determined to try.  Though Antonio expected to die, he knew that he would take the enemy ship with him, and thus he knew his death would be meaningful. 

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A few seconds later his hard work payed off, despite his expectations.  As the ship grew closer and closer, his navigational thrusters did their job.  He skidded on the surface of the hull, leaving grooves wherever he touched the hull. After a fraction of a second he was past the ship, surprisingly still in one piece.  The ship was left in ruins from all of the missiles that had tracked him and failed to navigate around the ship.  The ruins of the ship suddenly exploded outward, almost destroying Antonio's gravsled and drastically sped him up, putting his speed around 9 km/sec.

He used his navigational thrusters to turn around while still flying in the same direction.  He then activated his mining laser and cut the three missiles that were still on his trail.   As he kept flying towards another ship, more missiles were launched in his direction.

As he wove between the missiles following him, several destroyed themselves by flying into each other.  He continued unto the next ship, skipping along the hull of that ship as well.  As he skipped along the next ship, the missiles that were following him crashed onto it's hull, destroying it as well.

His gravsled was finally knocked out after he destroyed five of the ships in the same manner.  As the sled was destroyed, the unconscious Antonio was ejected away from the sled, along with the piece of rebar that had pierced through his left lung.