Raptor One – Chapter 32
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ISS – Tenacity, inside ISS – Raptor One.
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As my consciousness return from deep sleep i hear conversation at 880 volts coming outside my Viking.
*OP: Back to the land of the living kumpel? Now get out there and show your glory or the Pack from Tenacity will break down.*
Rodzher.
“Start standby Protocol, Lemi, still with me?” i say
“Hum...” Lemi gives me a sleepy reply.
The sound of moving components and the hiss of locks being released resounds as the metal cockpit of my Viking starts opening and I'm released from the Neural Control System.
This get the pack outside chirping in alarm.
Finishing getting myself out of the NCS i wait for some seconds as Lemi lazily coils around me again, so i jump out of my cockpit.
My sudden landing frighten the hell out of the pack as kinetic pistols are aimed my way only for their hands to tremble and their eyes widen at my heavily customized Tyrant Warcasket.
“The leader of the pack. Forward. Bystro.” My cold and threatening voice resounds in their ears and they tremble.
The pack immediately get themselves in surrender mode as they lower their guns and lower their heads, their courage grinded into powder by my voice as a female Avali walks forward fast.
“You’re the Leader of this pack?”
“Yes.” A timid answer.
“Name?” i ask
“Zu’rahir” She says, trembling.
Can’t say much about this situation, for starters, my voice is bad for social tasks, and my appearance just make it worse.
Why? I’m a 2,5 meters Avali, remember that old Tyrant Warcasket i got on the planet? Yes, that one, it no longer look like one anymore.
My lower armor starts with a pair of Big, bulky and dangerous looking Velociraptor looking Legs, with extra sharp toe talons capable of burning and electrocuting, my legs also have smoke exhausts.
Looking a little up, my lower legs have a military looking pants, but it is only the look as the inside is pure armor.
My chest plate kept it’s look, but got a black sleeveless shirt look.
My neck sensors connected to my torso complement the look while looking like part of the shirt.
What get more attention are my arms, Big, silver plates in front, with gold segments until my pseudo fingers, right bellow the gold turbine segments lay big, thick feathers all the way to my fingers, they look sharp yet fluffy.
What make my armor have more threatening appearance is because of the pulsating red lines covering most of it as Yautja Markings Pulse in red glow along the red lines all over my body.
The most notable Yautja Markings can be seen on the Gold layered Turbines as the Yautja Markings pulse in red color that disperses along attached lines connecting a segment to another.
I sigh, four jets of red smoke leaves behind my hears and Lemi chuckle at the feeling.
I lower my stance and open my eyes to look at Zu’rahir
“There is no need for worry, i am no enemy.”
My words and my look stun Zu’rahir for some time as she look at my Glowing eyes that have white iris and fail at giving a reaction, being stunned in place, her eyes losing focus as she loses herself inside my eyes.
Seeing this i close back my eyes and she snaps back
“Chirp!” Zu’rahir jumps high when she recovers because of shame and embarrassment.
The rest of the pack was not that safe too as the other two female jumped too, but the guys lowered their heads more, their frustration visible to me.
As Zu’rahir managed to recover her composure and the pack relaxed i decided to get back into standard position.
They look at me with eyes shining as i adjust my position back, my Warrior’s charisma in full display, not that i want to let it out.
“Erm, i see that you don’t like to talk much?” Zu’rahir ask me
“My voice is not suitable for social interaction. And i don’t like to give useless words... And talk at 880 volts.” I grunt out my reply to Zu’rahir.
“Don’t judge Omega by his look and personality, if you do you will regret later.” Sigma chimes in
“Heh?” The pack give a chorus my way.
“Alpha Core, Sigma.” I give then a heads up to refresh their memory.
Another chorus of ‘oh’ flies my way and i sigh. Again.
“To your positions!” I give a order.
They all jump in fright but not even a second later they are running on the ship.
As i walk on the ship and give the ship a look as i pass by corridors i feel the ship speed up as my spinal armor lock along with my leg magnetic lockers.
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Not minding the sudden change i continue taking a stroll on ISS – Tenacity.
A kitchen slash rec area with glued pillows close to a low table, two cargo bay, one for ores and machinery and the other for supplies, and is also where my ship is docked.
The middle deck have one big engine area at the back of the ship, after that is the command module with three seats as i observe the pack leader Zu’rahir in the captain chair giving orders to the two males managing the pilot and operations console.
In the middle of the ship is a small life support system and two big ship capacitors, there is no generator here.
At the front of the middle deck are the machinery like refiner and smelters connected to the ore bay on the lower deck, must be for emergency repairs.
As soon as i get inside the upper deck i see that it’s a big rec room with a kitchen, just like i sensed.
The middle area is a big sleeping spot, just like Avali pack likes.
The front area are the utility area, clothes, bath, equipment, you name it.
Feeling that the ship stops speeding i sense the two females in the engine block at the middle deck talking.
“Li’luk! Stop being lazy and help!” ”I’m already doing that Li’lak.” ”You’re not! You must be playing games there!” ’Bang’ ”I’m trying to calibrate the engine for Avalon sake!” ”And I'm trying to repair the damaged parts for Avalon sake!”
The two Li girls continue fighting at 880 volts as i slowly walk to the engine area.
As i pass by the Bridge and continue my way to the engine block i hear the conversation shift topics
“Hey Li’luk, do you think that Zu’Rahir have a thing for the Warrior?”
“Li’lak, you have time to ask me that? Well, i do think so, she’s way too quiet.”
“Haha, Su’ra and Si’zu are very down in spirit after the Warrior appeared! And I'm curious about that customized Viking! It's clearly better than the ones made by the ‘Terrans’ and the ‘Empire’.”
“You can’t say nothing about it! You too got lost on him!”
“And you too!”
Another round of brotherly bickering at 880 volts ensue, but now my person is the topic.
I sigh as i enter the engine block, the Li girls too focused on bickering to detect me.
Lemi that never leaved my shoulder giggle at that and the Li girls freeze, but look at Lemi with hostile gazes.
“Hostile gaze, why?” I ask
The girls freeze again, and evade my look, not that I'm using my eyes.
“Lamia and Avali don’t get along naturally.” Li’luk says
“Our species are natural enemies, we can’t help it.” Li’lak chimes in.
“Lemi here can’t be placed in the same category as the other Lamias.” i say to the Li girls
“Now that you say it... She’s small.” Li’luk
“And petite” Li’lak
“She would incur the wrath of other Lamias easily” The Li girls say in chorus.
“Heh. As if it was this easy to kill us, compared to her, I'm weaker.” I laugh out loud.
“Heh!?” They chorus again
“Anyway, i see that you girls are needing help. I’m a Master Engineer, just ask and i can put it back to work as if new, be it a nuclear reactor or a simple toaster.” I Give the girls a sharp grin
The girls freeze again but a blush can be felt from then as they avoid looking at me.
They soon recover and Li’lak starts jumping up and down
“Oh! Oh! Here! I’d like some help!” Li’lak says jumping up and down
“Rodzher.” I say as i get beside her and start sensing the damage, worn out components and faulty ones for repairs.
“Erm... How will you help in repairing if you got no hands?” Li’luk ask me
“Don’t look at what you see. I have mastered Psionic Kinesis, i can move anything with a thought.” i reply back making Li’luk levitate
“Peep!” A surprised peep leaves Li’luk as she lose her footing and start floating
I just ignore the two surprised girls and start taking apart the engine at a fast pace using only my Psionic capacity
In less than five minutes i changed all the worn, damaged and faulty components, thinking it was too easy i also cleaned the engine, reinforced critical parts, and corrected the power circuit for better flow of energy.
The moment the sound of closing engine block resounds the two girls jump and refocus.
They look at the Brand new Engine surprised as it glows in metallic luster.
“Next is calibrating it right? I’ll leave the removed parts to you Li’lak.” I give her a heads up
“Oh, oh! Sure.” She stutter
I move to where Li’luk is as she follow with her head dazed
She jumps a little when i stop in front of her before giving me space so i can connect to the computer
I move my right hand closer to the computer and release my thump that was protected by my arm.
Finding a connection port i place my thump in it and my neck sensor starts working in placing the new data in front of me as holograms starts popping all over my face.
“Wow.” Li’luk mutter at my side looking at all the flowing holograms showing letters and numbers flowing at extreme speed.
Using my skills and my intelligence i sweep clean the calibration problem, so much that the engine block receives a call from the bridge as i disconnect from the computer.
“Girls, what happened? The ship’s computer just changed the speed and maneuvering rate of the ship drastically, so much that poor Su’ra had to lock the sensitivity!” I hear Zu’rair say
The Li girls run to the communications console and recount about what happened here as i leave the engine block and head to the ore bay where it must be empty.
Reaching the ore bay and seeing that it’s empty i call Lemi
Lemi slides down from me and look at me waiting my orders with eyes shining.
“Naughty girl, i know what you’re thinking, and no we are not going to do it yet.” I chuckle as her face get’s red, caught red handed “I need your help to train my mastery in deflection, as we have the time now.” i say to her
She nods to me and i detach a nanite slime, harden it and give it to Lemi.
And just like that we start my Deflection training as Lemi uses her mastery in shooting to hit me and i try to deflect the hit’s using my armor and it’s deflection surfaces.
I fail to understand at first how deflection works, but my mind soon catch up and Sigma chimes in to make me have a even better understanding of Deflection.
With my understanding of deflection now better, i can 50% of times deflect the attacks further dispersing received damage.
Happy with this long training boring fruits i get the nanite slime back as Lemi coils around me again.
“I don’t think looking at someone training can be fun.” I say looking back at Zu’rahir.
“To be honest, it was.” She reply back “Want to eat with us? It will take 3 days for us to get back to the asteroid field to mine, and maybe up to a week mining before we return to the station.”
I grunt at the news.
“Do the ship have energy for that? You wasted a hyper jump on me after all.” I reply with a grunt “And sure, i did not eat for about... 30+ days now.” i reply
Zu’rahir look at me shocked as we head to the Rec slash kitchen room located at the upper deck.
“How did you survive?” She ask me
“Tenacity.” I grin at her, my sharp teeth showing.
Zu’rahir laugh at my phrase while looking away, but i can feel her blush as i chuckle, the pros of not needing to use your eyes to feel.
Getting on the Rec room we sit in front of the low table, the pack is chatting at 440 volts while watching TV and hearing music, all at the same time.
Lemi did not ask for food yet but i know she’s hungry so i look at her and open my mouth, red smoke slowly drift out of it.
Lemi waste no time taking off her hoodie and mask as she dives in on my mouth.
Sound of kissing reverberates and silence ensues as Lemi retreats with a red face and fall weakly on my shoulder like usual.
I look at the pack as they look at me with wide eyes, i give a awkward laugh before starting to eat.
Piru noodles, a favorite of Avali, spicy and hot as the flames of hell, but delicious as usual.
After i ignored the group and started to eat they soon returned to their normal sound wave chaos all Avali are known for.
Taking the bowl using my thumb i slowly drink the liquid inside.
That done i sigh in contentment at a proper meal after god know many days.
Placing down the bowl i ask the pack where can i sleep.
“We have a big sleeping area beside this room, you can sleep there with us.” Zu’rahir say
“I’m not part of the pack, won’t that make you all uncomfortable?” i ask back
They look at each other and shake their head, a clear confirmation that they don’t mind.
How the hell did they think? At this rate I'm just missing the pack invite.
With a sigh i thanks the group and head to the sleep area, finding a good even spot with no pillows i sit in seiza, adjust my posture and with a click I'm locked in place and comfortable to sleep.
So that’s what i do...
Status:
Health: 3/3 HP | 50/50 AP.
Will: 100/100.
Day: 1.
Month: 3
Time Shift: Space.
Age: 18
Credits: 0? (No change?)
Nanite storage: 6500 units/Max 8000 units, 50u Needed per day.
Mainframes:
Omega Protocol: Mainframe type.
Auxiliary Protocols:
Alpha Protocol (O.P): Liberated.
Mimic Protocol (O.P): Needing 3th research.
Scavenger Protocol (O.P): Liberated.
Harvest Protocol (O.P): Liberated.