Raptor One – Chapter 104
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Looking over to the sound of panicked ‘eeps’ coming from the cargo module number 2 I decided to walk over there after chuckling a little, the girls coming after me as I walk deeper into the ship lower deck.
At the end of the second cargo module I see a small and malnourished avali, dirty with grime and oil, but still recognizable by it’s female color pattern, her age don’t seen to be any day older than a normal adult age of 4 years, and the strong smell of ammonia gives out that she’s the birth mother of the leathery egg seen minutes ago.
I watch as her eyes dart from me and the girls to the zergs growling around her, in her eyes a look of pure panic and a call for help, her mind a complete mess.
I give a sigh before letting out a growl, making the zergs return to us and sit, their state as docile as a zerg can look like making the foreign female avali dumbfounded by the situation.
“Privet dear intruder, can I ask you why did you decided to place a egg on my ship?” I decide to ask her, my words making her panic at the word of the egg as her mother instincts flare up.
I tilt my head as she talks in squeaks and chirps to me, her tone a little nervous.
“You don’t know universal language after 4 years of life?” I ask her while getting closer.
She respond with another set of nervous chirps and squeaks as I stop in front of her.
“So you never had a chance, how are you still alive then?” I ask while giving her a check up.
Another set of squeaks and chirps gives out why.
“Da, so you where treated like a expensive pet by the so called ‘mercenaries’ and was discovered, meaning they landed in jail while you became a... freelancer that a doctor managed to save from dying.” I repeat her words as I finish her check up.
Her lungs are filled with liquid ammonia and her body was cooled some time ago, it’s clear she have bouts of heatstroke due to not having the cooling implant, and Hypoxemia due to not having a breathing implant.
I sigh as her body is fully natural so I take off my mask and change it’s settings before placing it on her face, she let’s out another ‘eep’ as the mask latch on her face with force.
Releasing a rough red colored breath with some shallow coughs I continue talking.
“Better? You need a survival kit asap before, *cough* leaving for a colony with your egg.” I say and walk off while letting out orders.
Peppy have gone take the emergency survival kit in parts of the ship, it’s a shield bubble like equipment that is located on the waist and creates the ammonia based environment for the breather, it’s standard procedure for newly hatched avali and many other things as it convert o2 into breathable ammonia.
Zu on the other hand has gone to get a egg incubator on the living quarters, yes I know each of the girls keep one on their lockers, I'm not blind at the discounted credits on my tricorder.
Shy have gone to prepare a another crate to keep the egg with half of it filled with nutrient paste for a present for the colony I'll be visiting soon.
Nail have gone to heat Selket and prepare it for planetfall as we are going for the colder areas of the planet in a moment.
“Hey White, why do all that for a stranger?” Cold ask me.
“Because I was a stranger myself when I found myself inside the augmentation pod on a dead planet full of hostiles.” I say and Cold gives a nod of confirmation while the novice give a gasp at my words.
I won’t talk about the DNA on her egg, it’s clear she was used as fuck toy by deranged humans that thought the avali can’t give birth...
I get into a coughing fit due to anger as I'm not breathing condensed air anymore, I'm feeling sluggish due to the low air intake and my mind is not at full capacity.
I feel the hand of Cold on my shoulder as I cough out my anger, the guys are lucky, they’re gone to prison because I would rip and tear each one piece by piece from the outside in while they are kept alive!
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“White! Breath!” Cold’s voice take me back to my situation as I try to take big and slow breaths, her voice managing to calm me down enough to breath as normally as I can without my mask.
Moments later Peppy comes with the avali rebreather and the avali waist cooler, they are more affordable and can do the same as the overpriced waist shield environment actuator.
Peppy gives the waist cooling kit to the newcomer and watch as she fiddle with the equipment with no clue how to put the piece of equipment.
I sigh at her cluelessness and help her easily as I open the waist holder and put it on her before fastening it on her and adjusting the ideal cooling for her using her medical analysis I did.
After adjusting the mask and looking if the ammonia converters on the mask is working I take my mask from her and place the new one, it’s bulkier than mine and even bother when looking as the upper converter gets in the way of the eyes, but it’s useful for non augmented avali.
With her kited out I place my mask back on my face and take a deep breath...
Before taking it out and almost vomiting on the ground because I forgot to adjust the mask back to normal.
“You okay there love?” Zu ask me as I weeze on the ground.
“Da, just almost killed myself by breathing ammonia dense air.” I say after some weezing, adjusting my mask back to normal.
I hear some squeaks and chirps that make my ears perk up.
“Niet, I don’t suffocate with ammonia air, but I hate the smell, I'm built for O2 only and it’s clean textures, not the NH2 that ammonia is.” I say with a shake of my head and finally put my mask, this time I don’t gag at the air.
“Also, you did not give your name little one.” Zu say with a smile as we move back to the hangar bay, Cold had already gone to the bridge to undock Tenacity.
She gives a series of chirps and peeps before going silent, her happy mood gone.
“Huh...” I hear Nail, Zu and Peppy along with Shy as they say the same words while looking at the small avali girl.
While the girls had... that expression I was about to have another bout of anger, these bastards know how to murder the life of someone with actions.
Barely keeping myself together I look at her.
“Niet, you are now known as La’mos.” I say to her with seriousness and she repeat my words.
“Da, Laren Moskovich or La’mos for short, hope you like the new name, it’s better than Cocksucker.” I say the last word with disgust, despite being having a disastrous life, she kept her purity in some way...
The other girls nod at my words and start talking with her in avalon while Nail just sings on top of Selket, waiting for the order to drop.
Some minutes of waiting later we receive the ok from Cold and Nail quickly jump into Selket’s cockpit, a single crate is already loaded with fasteners for hauling, so I and La’mos enter the drop module on the belly of Selket and seconds later we feel the pull of gravity as Nail burn the thrusters into orbital flight to the tundra regions of Tesla prime where the avali colonies and their packs resides.
I kept hugging La’mos the entire flight as she does not have any means of keeping herself in place as the drop module was modified with combat exoskeletons in mind which my pack all uses, minus myself as I still need to build my own combat exoskeleton yet as I don’t remember what happened with my last one...
“Captain, can you drop from high up or do I need to release the drop module? The environment is not helping with the strong winds and so many tundra trees on my way.” Nail say over the comms as I feel her weave Selket in the air trying to find a suitable landing spot.
“Nail, find the last colony spot from a wandering pack, there should be enough space to drop the module, don’t mind the module as it can lift back up if needed and even reach space now remember?” I say with a chuckle.
“Roger.” Nail say and go silent as I feel the jolt of movement, meaning that Nail is on a trail and we should be dropping soon.
“La’mos, get ready to walk some long distance, avali colonies are hard to pinpoint even from space due to our customs.” I say to La’mos and hug her a little harder as I feel the sudden shift of direction.
“Captain, prepare for drop, found the perfect spot, it’s recent despite the strong wind and snow, drop minus one.” Nail gives me some tracking data while preparing to drop the module off, it seen the area is not big enough for a Viking to land.
“Rodzher, we are ready.” I say after looking at La’mos who nods at me.
I release La’mos and head to the cargo crate and open it, inside is 75 units of nutrient paste and a fastened incubation chamber with a fertilized egg inside, seeing that it’s all okay and undamaged and the egg is out of risk I close the crate and Hug La’mos again while reactivating my leg gravity actuators, my torsion hatchet sinking down due to the force of the gravity actuators.
“Drop on three, two, one!” Nail’s counting ends and I feel the sudden loss of gravity before it returns with force as it try to throw both me and La’mos to the roof of the drop module, the sudden deceleration force me to hug La’mos closer to me so not to hurt her as my body bend forward by the force of the thrusters.
The feeling of perfect landing is big as the drop module did not even give sounds of breaking things as the door opens to the cold tundra and it’s thick field of snow, I laugh a little at the thrill and release La’mos which looks almost as thrilled as me.
Getting the crate over my shoulder by the fastener I leave with La’mos trailing behind me, the drop module automatic system detecting that it’s empty closes the door and activate it’s four thrusters as I and La’mos watch as it fly upward before Selket align with the hovering drop module before flying off into space with a roar of engines.
I shake my head at the display of ability with a chuckle and start walking, following the trails of avali feet deeper into the tundra forest, La’mos rushing to my side with a happy chirp making me laugh at her display of pure curiosity and happiness, it seem it’s her first time on a planet.
Following the trail was hard as I exchange words with La’mos trying not to get lost in this forest, a distant roar echo through the forest before howls close by resounds to offset the intruder.
I stop on my track at the closeness of the howls, La’mos literally hiding under my cloak as I feel the closing of different entities on our position, I think a little about the situation and decide to stay put and wait.
What I see moments later are five wolfs as they appear between the trees, their growls of hostility clear, I am trespassing their territory.
I have a hand occupied with the crate, but the other is free while the guns are used via 'telekinesis' and 'skip gates'.
I stay in place with my eyes focused on the five wolves and La’mos did not leave my cloak the entire time as we stare at each other, at some point I manage to deliver my message.
‘I’m just passing by’
Despite not having the same language they understood as one of the wolves growled at the others before leaving us be, the other four following it’s trail.
I release a hiss of compressed air before resuming my walk, La’mos peeping and chirping happily trying to ask me how I made the beasts retreat making me chuckle as we continue our journey...