Raptor One – Chapter 103
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Despite placing my brain into shutdown mode, it don’t remove the chance of dreaming, or on my case, having a nightmare, wonder what it was about as it’s details flee my mind and calculations as I wake up from the haze of unconsciousness, my body naturally jumping down into the low table made of ferrogel and sitting shortly after with no command from my part while I kept myself lost in thought from the nightmare...
One thing was certain, I was going to die, a painless death, but death itself don’t scare me, not because I have a backup body but because I died once and know how life can be a bitch with no motive at all...
Another part that I remembered is my turn over to the dark side of my powers, the representation of my moral compass shifting to the perfect gray while mastering both healing and destroying...
But I’m not meddling with the force anymore, even if it’s part of the archonexus network, known as the Oracle network, a sub module of the archonexus which allow one to peer into the future and bond with it’s tuned crystals...
“Why the long thought love? You didn’t even touch your last cup of avalon wine.” I hear Zu’s voice, making me look at her face.
“Right, here, it’s vibrating the entire night, luckily for me it’s a soft and calming type of noise or I would be cranky today.” Zu say with a smile and place in front of me the Scythe lightsaber, it’s vibration and shifting white light on it’s long handle take my attention making me open my hand to touch it.
The moment I open my hand however it fly into it by itself and my hand clamp strongly to it, my nightmare coming back to me in full force-
*A black ship made of machines, hellbent on destruction, Tenacity half destroyed yet still in one piece, my crew with no head to it’s body, a corrupted Sigma crying inside the husk of my former ship... and my body... sitting on my captain chair with no head, slumped in it, on my hand a lightsaber, it’s handle half black and half white... the image closes in on the lightsaber showing a black pearl, a krait dragon pearl, housing it is a double lightsaber, if I'm not wrong it’s a split lightsaber class...*
I’m driven back into my body by a reverse wind as the Oracle push me back into my body from it’s calculations, the power knocking me down on my back and the image making my mood turn very grim and bad as I lift myself back into sitting position and start drinking the last cup of avalon wine to try and soften my stress, the lightsaber on my hand did not stop trembling as I holster it on my left side as I drink.
“Are you ok? I saw you get knocked down by nothing.” Nail ask me with a tilted head.
“Niet, I'm not okay, I just saw our death to a psychopath machine like ship and my descent to darkness.” I say with a sigh.
“Don-” As Zu was about to ask me something my tricorder vibrated and gave not a chime, but a blaring alarm, making me take it as everyone shut up and looked over my shoulder into the tricorder that is now on my hand.
*Attention, due to the attack at cloning facility sixty nine, your reserve body was destroyed, due to your connection being non existent with the avali technocracy, your slot have been re-used for someone else, have a good single life.*
“What the!” Nail say with alarm.
“They can’t do that, you have your rights on Avalon Secundus.” Cold say while fuming.
“Can’t you get your slot back with your grand aunt?” Zu ask me and I shake my head.
“Niet, I broke connection with her part of the clan.” I say with a sigh.
“I’m more concerned with our deaths, can we avoid it?” Peppy ask me and the girls focus back on me again.
“Da, it’s possible, the oracle network only show the most probable ending and future, if I change my actions the future will change with me, life is a network of lines, each going it’s own way, so now that I know our deaths I can reverse it, let me think...” I say with a smile and lower my head to think.
After getting a conclusion about the death of us all the lightsaber vibrates even stronger before flying into my left hand that was securing my empty cup of avalon wine.
*The situation I see is the same as the last one, but this time what I see are the wounded girls and a severely damaged ship... The image changes to me talking with the crazy AI before changing again, showing me inside the machine crazy machine AI, headless, the ship containing my consciousness taken as my head lies besides my corpse on a mountain of headless bodies, in it’s hand a black and white lightsaber shines in the dark...*
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I grunt again as my mind returns to my body again before laughing crazily for a minute.
“Whi- White?” Zu’s soft voice calms me down as I manage to breath in and calm my nerves.
“I’m back, izvinyayus... Your deaths are no more, that’s all I will say.” I say and shake my head while getting up.
“That’s good, but what about yours?” Zu ask me and all the girls look at me, their focus sharp.
“Da, I'll live.” I say with a sharp smile, it’s a clear lie, a lie that manage to pass undiscovered due to my face not showing emotions and my ability to make fake emotions.
“We are going out today, so check the ship, I'll talk with Zeta to see if we have any bounties nearby while we mine.” I say while looking at Zeta’s portrait, showing she’s available.
I got irritated as it took 3 hour of walking to get to the military area of the station as the station looks a lot more crowded than before, as I walk closer to Zeta’s office room I stop on my track, a frown on my face, I take my tricorder and look at Zeta’s portrait, it’s green, but the sounds coming from her office say’s another history if the moans and grunts aren’t a red flag.
Getting angry at the lost time I decide to head back, but before doing that I try to dial Zeta, and to my surprise she accepted the call.
“*Grunt*What do you...*Moan* Need?” Zeta’s voice come with a male grunt and her moan making me irked out by the situation.
“Izvinyayus for the call-” I try to talk but get interrupted.
“Haa, haa, don’t worry! Keep talking...!”
I can feel a vein almost popping on my head.
“Set you info to busy and don’t accept calls while copulating!” I say angered, my voice low and tone rough. “I’m in front of your office and I can hear your voice just fine, sorry for barging in, have a nice sex session, Omega out.” I say with a extremely rough and angry voice and cut the connection while walking away.
The nerve of doing such things irk me to no end as wrath fills my body, I take the time to block her as her call comes again on my tricorder again for the 3rd time.
Cutting all connections with her feels like a good choice because if she has the nerve to do such things she can do worse latter on, it will suck for her partner that’s for sure.
For a small time things get calm with some small bumps, but soon a group of mercenaries pass by me and bump on me, they immediately stop and start trying to harass me and then nothing...
*Irritation*
*Fury*
*Wrath*
*Kill*
*Devour*
*Take*
*Destroy...*
They all say in unison *Welcome to the dark side*
All of this happened in one second, but the chaos that ensued with the mercenaries was instantaneous as the six mercs started punching each other while around me, the scythe lightsaber that was with me was floating in front of me, it’s frame and crystal floating, it’s liquid matter form fighting between black and white as I try to rein in my wrath, the knowledge of the dark side powers making me dizzy while I try to control myself.
I’m lucky to archieve the literal perfect balance between black and white as the lightsaber reforms in front of me, first it divides into two halves, one black and another white, the crystal solidify before splitting exactly in half before the entire lightsaber reforms and land on my hands, the left one black and the right one white, a wave of my hand and the two halves twist together and becomes a double lightsaber, it’s energy focus black in both sides.
I quickly deactivate the lightsaber and walk off but the last standing mercenary try to punch me, but a look from me made him place his hands on his neck, his crazy eyes turning into panic before falling to the ground unconscious.
That was force choke, part of the ‘Skipmaster’ psionic tree, force lightning belongs to ‘Staticlord’ psionic tree, and shypon life belongs to ‘Necromancer’ psionic tree.
In contrast the good side of the force comes from ‘Empath’, ‘Protector’, ‘and ‘Harmonist’.
The Gray area belongs to ‘Warlord’ and a lot of technique training.
Back to the ship in only 1 hour was a good thing but the alert for breaking the rules was not, luckily I was exempted this time due to the mercenaries starting the fight first and that I did not use any lethal force so I did not get a fine nor get banned, the last thing I want is bending necks and deflecting gunfire while shooting my own bullets back.
Walking up the ramp of my ship I see on my tricorder that it’s 10:00am, but as soon as the crew saw me they rushed to my side with a mix of emotions.
“When did you get a child?” Peppy ask me making me tilt my head, this info is a no go? Where did it come from?
“I know that none of us placed a egg yet.” Zu say trying to calculate something.
“This bastard hooked with a external one! Aren’t we enough!?” Nail said with anger.
“I’m angry too but let’s hear him first.” Cold said with her usual cold tone, colder than normal.
“I- I don’t think White is this type of person.” Shy said seeing my confused look.
“Da, what the hell happened? I heard the main word child and egg, so something happened and I'm not aware of what, Sigma?” I say and ask if Sigma know something.
“*Sorry White, the absence of cameras on the ship internal make me blind to most external occurrences on the ship, only damage and wear down can be calculated and known.*”
I sigh at Sigma words and look at the girls, a wave of my hands give the command to show the problem at hand.
The girls reluctantly obey my orders and bring me to the cargo room, there I see a semi open crate, looking further inside I see a... Egg?
Leathery, smells of ammonia and seen fresh by the sticky liquids in it as I take it out of the crate and place it on the cold ground of the ship and take a small sample for my tricorder to analyze.
With fast hands and a sharp mind I easily piece together it’s DNA sequence, it’s Avali, no gender yet, egg have... 2 days of life and... Looks abandoned at first glance but some sharp observation gave out it’s not the case, some look around the ship I find out a new set of paws despite the recent movement on the deck, I give out a sharp growl and Lycanis rush to my side a minute latter with the entire pack, another growl and they start searching the lower deck after sniffing the fertilized egg, to not have problems I place the egg back on the crate as the zergs search the lower deck for the intruder, I on the other end look at the girls.
“Niet, that’s not mine, the DNA don’t even match mine nor any from the pack, we got a stowaway or homeless.” I say while shaking my head.
“That say a lot about the reduced nutrient paste on the docking module.” Zu say with a sigh, relieved.
“How much?” Peppy ask Zu.
“Found a crate empty.” Zu say with another sigh.
“huh, how much was her or it’s hunger to ransack a entire crate while avoiding-”
*EEeep!*
“Looks like we found our intruder...” I say with a chuckle.