Raptor One – Chapter 37
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Inside ISS – Tenacity i was sitting alone thinking about life.
Seven days have passed since the day i almost died.
I got to know why i did not die, Lemi became my saving grace as she had active nanites inside her, so she managed to inject some on me, that made a chain reaction as it activated the rest and brought me back from the hands of the Grim Reaper.
Now i know why it was laughing, i sigh as i place a hand and take the small golden hourglass with death sand inside.
Looking at it my mind drift back at the day.
After i was brought back i managed to get myself back into the civilization data banks, but what happened came with a cost.
I soon started to feel my body become slow, my armor stopped repairing, and soon started degrading...
The group of Demonkin, they are called ‘Lastree’, 95% of the race are either Military or mercenary, the other 5% are just problems to be solved, the group was a hunted one by it’s own race, but managed to flee here and create chaos as it pleased.
Not anymore, they died in different ways that same day.
I even got a thanks for the souls from my new non corporeal friend.
I look at myself again, i don’t look like a ‘Warrior’ anymore.
My giant Warcasket armor is gone, i had to be fast and resolute if i wanted to keep most of it’s benefits before it wasted away.
So i dismantled it.
I got as much technology from it as possible as it was old tech.
The only part i kept was the Neck Sensor that i repaired, as it keeps not only the Psionic module, but also keeps Sigma connected with me.
“Back into my fleshy body.” I mutter as i look at myself.
Back to being a 145Cm Avali, the clothes looks like my Warcasket looks, the difference is that i casted away the toe claws for a Knee length heavy metal boots.
Another thing that does look different from a normal Avali are my wings, they resemble my Warcasket blade wings, as the making is the same, both in technology and material.
I sigh again, this time in happiness as I'm finally done.
I pass both hands on my ears, adjust my Marked pressure mask, and prepare to get up from my sitting position.
“Hey Omega, still inside?” I hear Zu say as she enter the crew quarters.
And yes, it was repaired along with the rest of the ship, Raptor One did not have the same luck as i was busy trying to piece myself together again.
“Da. What’s up drug?”
I look her way and see the entire pack enter along with her and stop in front of me.
“Yo!” The Li sisters say in unison
“Hello.” The Su brothers also say in unison
“Privet priyatel’” I nod at the two pairs
Zu don’t say much, she just pick up something somewhat big for her hands along with a black pearl and give it to me.
Taking both the black Peal and the orange Shaft i look at Zu.
“What’s this?” I ask.
“I had a Psionic Weapon that belonged to my twin sister, it was just there, getting dust along with her pearl, so i took it and sent it to another pack, they suffered the most from that lawless group, so knowing that it was for you they decided to remake this Double Emitter for you, we only had to pay for the material, and at a great reduced price too as this is their gift for you.”
Zu blast me with a lot of information, Zu had a twin sister, this is called Double Emitter, and there’s this Black Pearl, it must have some use as she said this was a Psionic Weapon...
Most important question first.
“Is this weapon also called ‘Lightsaber’?” i ask Zu
“The Shattered Empire call it like that, do you know it?” Zu ask back
“This Black Pearl, it’s name is Krayt Dragon Pearl, right?” I ask again
“Yes that's the name! How did you know?” Zu ask again with surprise
Heh, now i have to be alert for monks with laser staffs.
I don’t reply to Zu, but i open my eyes, they lock on the Kryt Dragon Pearl and start to release smoke, a sign that I'm using my new all in one Psionic capacity ‘Helheim Protocol’.
“There’s no despair, no unwillingness, no anger, only purity... I see the day your sister got this pearl, she finished her apprentice training with a double lightsaber in Avalon as the best Psionic of her batch... She fought many foes, but never yielded to wrath, nor despaired at her worst times... She always reminded herself that she needed to see you one last time before dying... And that’s what she did when she was mortally wounded in battle... It’s foggy, but i see the determination to return to you, to be with you before her last breath... Her smiling at you as her life goes away, she took this Krayt Dragon Pearl and her lightsaber, made you vow to give it to someone that deemed worty before peacefully leaving this world with no regrets... As she did complete her last wish... Be with her Twin Sister.”
My eyes stop smoking as i return back into focus and lift my head to look at Zu’rahir, my white pupils locks into her crying face.
“I always thought... ‘Hick’ That she never... ‘Hick’ Liked me... ‘Hick’ Thanks... Omega...” Zu says crying, but also manage to smile to me as her eyes releases tears non stop.
I nod to Zu “This legacy... Shall be Engraved into this Weapon as part of it’s acceptance.” I say, my voice firm as i lift both my hands and both the big hilt and pearl levitates.
The weapon start detaching piece by piece as my Black blood flow into it’s parts, slowly engraving it’s last owner’s life history.
The Pearl start releasing strong black looking light as waves upon waves of psionic resonance start emitting from it, it’s happiness clear at my act of engraving it’s last owner’s history as the pearl don’t give a single resistance as it starts floating into the middle of the parts.
The parts start to get together slowly with the pearl on the middle, it’s resonance so strong that the entire pack was blown into their backs, capable of only lifting their heads to look as the shaft finish getting it’s last piece.
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Then a bust of black smoke, electricity crackling within as black lines appears and white words shines in it.
Then it slowly stops, and levitates down into my hand, the connection very clear even with no Ultra Capacitor to activate it.
“A Very big scythe...” i say out loud as the pack get on it’s feet again.
“Yes? The pack’s Psionic Forge Master suddenly said the best shape was a scythe, he even said that it had to look like one of a Grim Reaper as he started to crazily sketch the weapon schematics anew...” Zu reply back, no longer crying, but the happiness is clear as she looks at me then at the shaft that is now on my waist.
“Here, they are clip belts.” the Su brothers arrive in front of me and give a clip belt each.
This type of suspended belt that is plugged into a normal one have five special pouches on each side, a total of ten pouches.
The Li sisters return from the locker room, each carrying a case.
“There you go.” The Li sisters place it in front of me and sit down with the rest.
Opening one of the case there’s 12 Ultra Capacitors inside.
“Why all this?” I ask unsure why the sudden kindness.
“All this are thank gift, most of Beta Stratta’s population are Avalis, and for some reason that group had a problem with our race and made our lives miserable, each one that knew about your action came together to gift you, this are the spoils of war you gained.” Li’luk say
“Not to mention the fame, ‘Grim Reaper’ Omega.” Li’lak also reply.
“Spacibo.” i just nod, trying not to cringe at the title.
Sigma was bemoaning me all the time as i remade the Neck Sensor because there was no energy being supplied to her at all, this will solve our problem and allow me to get mostly back into fight ready status.
I levitate two Ultra Capacitors, and tap the bck of my neck, a hiss resounds with a click as a hidden compartment reveals itself on my neck where i place the levitating Ultra Capacitor and it closes automatically.
“Finally! Some good ol dense energy!” Sigma chirps out happily
Then her voice becomes serious.
“External Spinal Life Support System and Sensor online, Energy 100%, Psionic module Online, resync Alpha core to Brain... 100% Sync complete, Passive Psionic Territory Online. Psionic Heat, 0%.” Sigma say out loud.
Psionic Territory is nothing more than the area where i can manipulate things, mostly used for defense, but can also be used for devastating attacks at the expense of Psionic Heat, in other words, a special type of mind exhaustion.
The pack kept silent, but their surprise was clear as they must have thought i would take a lot more time to get back into combat ready status.
They are right, i just got into optimal status, but need more time to return to full strength.
I open the other case and see...
More capacitors?
“What’s this?” i ask as i take a capacitor looking thing.
“O - Oh! Right! This is a Matter Capacitor, as the name says, it keeps compressed liquid matter inside.” Zu reply to my question
“We saw that you get much better with Avalon food than normal ones, so we managed to gather six capacitor with it Avali only plant biomatter inside, the other eleven are normal matter capacitors used by your lightsaber.” Li’luk gives me some more explanation.
“The Biomatter Capacitors are marked with the Avali flag in it’s sides.” Li’lak also reply.
I nod in reply before levitating the Six BMCs and with both hands i tap three times the side of my spinal lock close to my neck, six ports open with a hiss and i place the BMCs inside and it closes as i lower my hands back.
“Emergency Medical Supply detected and plugged in.” Sigma chimes in a clear voice as i place the ultra capacitors on the hanging belts along with the matter capacitors, five on each side before clipping the hanging belts on my normal one.
I take the last Matter Capacitor, unsure what to do with it, but my lightsaber chimes in with vigor, so i make it levitate.
My orange lightsaber open a hidden port on it’s own, inside is divided into two parts, one for the Ultra Capacitor and the other have the same specs as the Matter Capacitor, so i place each on it’s place and watch as the Lightsaber close itself on it’s own as if it have life itself.
It floats back into my hands, and i feel it's desire to activate, then it’s specs come to my mind.
“I can’t activate this Lightsaber inside the ship unless i want it to waste time changing it’s modules.” I say out loud.
Zu jumps in fright at the mention of damage to ISS – Tenacity, and so does the rest of the pack, they took a lot of work and wasted a lot of sleep time till now to get the ship glowing as new after the fiasco last time.
“Why not go outside to test it? The hangar bay is pretty big.” Zu ask me
“Da.” I nod to her, so we start walking out of the ship.
“Remember me to repair the Weapons of ISS – Raptor One.” i suddenly say.
“No worry! We got a lot of components as gift for it’s repair.” Li’lak say with a laugh.
Outside the ship i go to a more wide area inside the hangar bay and prepare to activate my new Scythe Lightsaber.
Stopping on the middle of a open area, i activate my Lightsaber.
The lower part of the shaft extends and thickens, finishing with a mag lock while the upper part curves back before emitting a black scythe blade that can be swing from both angles, the entire weapon release black smoke from it’s black lines, the white engraved words looking like pure souls.
Let’s star with some basic and realistic moves, was it from france or europe? Dunno.
Arm poke, leg poke, back poke, counter leg slice, counter beheading...
Yeah, the only weight is the shaft, the blade don’t have weight, the shaft weight is mostly on the middle, emphasis on mostly as the mag lock is more or less heavy making it a good stopper.
But it also slows down the spin of the scythe...
I activate the mag lock before it pass the ground and the scythe lock upright.
This gives more options, now let’s see how to divert the spin problem...
I think a little before deactivating the mag locker, and with a back leg kick at the mag locker i manage to make the scythe spin really fast while entering combat stance at the same time.
Okay, front spin ready, now to invert it...
Adjusting my stance i let the spinning shaft hit my back while i keep a eye for the mag lock, after the shaft hit my back it stops, but the kinetic energy stays, so i deflect the kinetic energy back into the shaft and adjust fast the scythe so i don’t cut off my tail as it spin backward.
Done, good thing i mastered deflection or i would have hurt myself.
I test the inversion of the spin some more times before letting the shaft loose, the spin and momentum makes a crescent horizontal arc as my hand slides almost to the mag lock before ending the swing in combat stance...
This move will allow me to combine the movement into a swirl, or full on sprint, but I'll be mostly defenseless to deflect with the scythe... Not so much for a counter...
Taking a straight stance i swing the scythe up and let it slide down with the mag log, and it stops upright before naturally leaning on my shoulder.
Okay, now let’s mix psionics and superhuman capacity.
Also, every time the scythe moves it makes a beautiful yet terrifying sound... The sinergy with my looks is too much... I don’t want to be sued for death by heart attacks...
I sigh, four jet’s of red smoke leaves my pressure mask as i open my eyes, the smoke and glow they give very visible as i take a heavy swing stance, then swing the scythe backward, the spinning scythe leaving resonant sounds that gives the feeling of approaching death as i spin back and forth, long reach attack, sort reach attack, back defense, sudden strike, psionic swirls, a sword dance ensue as every and each movement bring death in it’s wake.
Then i suddenly speed up, the wrath i failed to keep in check resonates with my dancing scythe as the sound change from beautiful yet terrifying to banshee like horror, the smoke the scythe releases now crackling in red electric sparks, each swing so fast the it gives the impression of a Grim Reaper harvesting souls as the feeling of heads rolling disperses along with my movements as i come to a sudden stop, scythe resting lazily on my shoulder as i take a relaxed stance, sighing out four jets of crackling red smoke as my eyes closes again.
“I like this one.” I mutter before hearing a mechanic say in shock “The Dance of the Reaper...”
I look his way, his eyes wide in shock yet unfocused as he keeps saying the same thing again and again...
Looking the rest that did watch me they are no better, even the pack was the same...
I walk in front of the pack and open my eyes as i look at Zu.
“What’s the order Captain.” I officially decided to make another try on living.
Zu and the rest startle back to focus as she looks at me in shock.
“Eh? Captain? Me!? No! You’re the Pack leader!” Zu stutter at first but end at a strong note.
“YES!” The rest say in unison...
Huh... When did i become part of the pack? And when did i become the Leader? The captain nonetheless!
I keep looking at the pack, my open eyes pass each of the five members as i keep my relaxed stance, the scythe laying lazily on my shoulder yet emitting a menacing aura.
Sigh... “Sure, you want me as Captain and Leader right?” i ask one last time
A chorus of confirmation...
“Okay, first thing first, pack name, after that I'll start laying out rules, don’t worry I'll be gentle.” I say with a chuckle as they shiver a little but their looks stay intense, there’s no shaking this kind of morale huh...
“The pack name is Tenacity.” Zu say
“Da. From now on, civilian clothing like the trinkets and skirts you all call clothing is banned. I want everyone in Survival Armor ASAP, we will also start using Black cloaks with our pack name imprinted on it, and Scout HUDs are mandatory now. Just ignore my words if you all don’t want all the benefits i can give the pack and us.” I fire off a plethora of rules.
“Roger!” They say in unison
“If you can, each of you can waste some money and bring me the components in this list to me and I'll make a Mod for the Armor and Cloak. Don’t worry I'll also get a cloak too, the better at defense the cloak the better.” I finish talking and nod at the pack.
I straight myself, deactivate my scythe and start walking back into the ship as i give some last words “I’ll be Repairing ISS - Raptor One. If you don’t see me there I'll be on the locker room taking a bath.”
Just like that i finally go repair my Viking...
Status:
Health: 3/3 HP | 50/50 MP.
Wrath: 0/100 - Cold Wrath.
Day: 16.
Month: 3
Time Shift: Space.
Age: 18
Credits: 15000 (+12500 – Bounty, +2500 - Escort)
Nanite storage: 50 units/Max 10000 units, 50u Needed per day.
Mainframes:
Omega Protocol: Mainframe type.
Auxiliary Protocols:
Yggdrasil Protocol (O.P): Liberated.
Helheim Protocol (O.P): Liberated.
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ISS – Raptor One
Status
External Armor – 1/5
Internal Armor – 3/5
Walker Legs – 5/5
Engines – 3/3
Weapons
Heavy Laser Cannon – 1/3
Heavy Laser Cannon – 1/3
Heavy Gatting Laser – 2/3
Heavy Gattling Laser – 0/3