Raptor One – Chapter 51
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I groan as i get up from the bed, having a room is good but not sharing it makes my instincts cry in agony and my mood plummet, that’s how bad Avali’s pack mindset can be.
I sigh and look at the mirror, I'm using a simple Avali skirt, my clothes met a unfortunate end at the hands of the commissioned missions of Jason, my clothes was custom made so it was hard and costly to order another, so i just dismissed the thought.
I give the standing Avali power armor a look, Full on exoskeleton, modular plates, carbon weave, neck sensor, HEV helmet, Needle gauntlet, Tower gauntlet, Liquid matter portable medkit creator, shoulder cannon(Medic), Holster(Left), Lightsaber(Scythe), Ammo rack(Right).
Yeah, i can just walk inside it and get moving, but I'm not going to war nor am i going to my ship.
I nod after looking at the armor, looking nasty yet cool.
Walking out of my room i give a yawn, Jason’s room is empty, always the task master, Crazy’s sleeping, he must have stayed awake last night on his custom made lab, of which he build on the empty room in front of his bedroom.
I shake my head and walk downstairs, the bar is closed yet, so i take my time to eat something before opening for the day.
I did not forget to give a call to the Crafters, one of the guys or gals should arrive shortly to collect the Stalker cloak for reselling for me.
Time pass slowly as i clean cups absent minded, my thoughts on the ship as i remember the countless class of ships and how they work.
Because ISS – Tenacity was basically rebuilt from it’s skeleton up by me, i don’t consider the rebuilt ship the same, so a change of name is due for it when it’s repaired into basic operation status.
Thinking about this, with the ship at basic state i can change it’s designation type easier, that’s a plus inside a minus.
The sound of clients arriving get me out of my daze as i look at the arrival with my white pupils, i can see with a simple glance they are trouble makers, at least they are female.
They look my way and i nod as i clean another cup, the group of human females sit on a table and start talking loudly to each other.
“A round of beers!” i hear one of the girls yell to me.
I raise my head and look over before placing the clean cup down and jumping over the counter and stopping before their table.
“Hard beer or Soft beer.” my cold voice resound and the group look stunned at me.
I tilt my head at the group, they look at each other surprised before regaining their composure.
“Soft beer.” One of the girls say after looking at the others.
I nod before jumping back and preparing their bucked of soft beer, their loud conversation turned soft and more tame, was it my voice? I tilt my head in wonder.
“Hey! Pipsqueak! You are using your ‘Captain Aura’ again!” Crazy say to me as he walk down the stairs.
“Niet? I just talked normally like always, and Da, your food is ready, you know how i am with perishable food, so don’t fool around and eat it.” i say to Crazy as i finish the bucket of soft beer.
Vaulting over the counter with the bucket of beer in hand i place it on their table where i get a couple of shy thanks before vaulting back into place.
Time continue to pass slowly as i reorder the bottles and mix my special brew on the mini keg of the counter.
“Hey! Forgot to give you the two Liquid Matter canisters! It's on your bed!” Crazy say as he heads back upstairs to his lab.
“Ey, tovarishch, got the blueprint for the liquid matter?” I ask Crazy.
“What? Yes i got it, I'll send it to Sigma later, why? And your old language is thickening!” Crazy yell back to me.
I chuckle at his antics, Crazy is crazy, but is a good person despite his fixation into making medicine into toxins and back.
In a way that’s good, but his lab tend to lack the... Requirements for handling this kind of thing.
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I shake my head at the thought.
Some more boring time later a pair of Avali enter the bar, their well made clothing give the pack away, it’s the Crafters.
“Ey, privet priyatel’.” i say to the duo.
“What for what?” i hear they ask each other confused.
I point at their 'smartpad', they look confused before understanding and giving my words a once over.
“Oh! Sorry, got surprised by the old language and failed to translate it.” The male avali say with embarrassment.
I shake my head. “Niet, it’s mostly the fault of my core genome, i gave it a look and found my extinct clan had this way of talking ingrained, and it passed to me too.” i explain so they wont find this too awkward.
“Oh? You came from a clan! Hurry! What's it’s name!” the female avali ask me
Erm... What was it’s name again?
“If I'm not wrong the clan full name is ‘68W’, the clan specialty was medicine and research, all of the members where war hardened warriors, they where also called White clan.” i say
Their reaction was... Shocking.
Ever thought of seeing Avali widen their eyes as much as they can? That’s what I'm seeing right now.
“The talking pattern, the old language use, the clan name...” the male avali say and look at my white feathers.
“So you’re one of the famous White!” the female Avali shriek out.
I wince before i reply. “Da. I remember being called Omega White by my parents, my fur changed color too because of the augmentation process, i was pure white when i was out of the augmentation vat, but as time passed i lost my color die to some sickness, now is my true color pattern is the one you’re seeing.” i say and nod.
“Got the cape for you!” Crazy say as he walk down the stairs.
“Da, why did you come down? Forgot something?” i ask Crazy as he give the Stalker cloak to the duo.
“Naa. Just got bored!” Crazy say.
I just chuckle at his antics.
The two avali that came for the cloak looked like they where in a hurry so i just gave a goodbye.
Having company, even if it’s somewhat a ‘crazy’ one helps a lot to pass the time as i take care of the bar.
“Right! How’s the ship?” Crazy ask me
“Da, got enough credit to order a STL engine, the thrusters was repaired and relocated, just missing money for the armor plates before lifting the beached curse.” i say to Crazy.
I was about to continue, but Jason arrived and got direct to the point.
“Hey, Brat, we got commissioned again.” Jason say to me.
I sigh. “Da. Time to test the new Suit.” i nod to Jason and to Crazy before heading upstairs with Jason.
Crazy started manning the counter, if he don’t he’s going to be kicked out.
Walking in silence to my bedroom i enter it and look where the liquid matter canister is.
I find it on the side of my room, two big canister of liquid matter, i nod and lift both canisters and place it on the portable medkit creator, it sink halfway, so i had to twist both canisters once so the soft lock can release and let it sink the rest, once done i look at the indicator light, red, so i twist both canisters again, a click resounds and both indicators turn green.
“Sigma, open up, time to suit up.” i say as i grab the HEV helmet and place it on the bed.
“What’s the matter?” Sigma ask me
“Another commission, if we are lucky it’s just a gang war, worst case scenario we are dealing with a patter cell.” i say as i take my skirt off.
I watch as the Power armor’s front open, revealing it’s sleek internals, and seconds later after adjusting the tail so i can lock the armor correctly, and done.
The armor hiss and lock up on me, important parts like the waist, neck, shoulders, and legs are locked in place, the neck sensor immediately starts showing scan data to me as i test the armor movements, the armor is three times bigger than me, yet it allow me to fly, looking at the scan Sigma gave me it’s because of it’s ultra light composition, Aero-tungsten carbide, Avali super material, only thing better than this is Avali nanomachines.
I look at the armor plate composition, Carbon weaved steel plates, basic military grade modular plating, can take a beating from all three damage type, piercing, slash and blunt.
I nod at the performance of the Power Armor, so i walk to the bed and grab my HEV helmet.
This type of helmet open from the back because of the sensors, and like any other Avali armor, it have modular plating slot.
Looking at the helmet modular plating, i see it’s the same type as my armor.
As soon as both hands are on the helmet i press and push the slider, the helmet’ back sprung open, inside are my mask and a plethora of sensors, as soon as my head finish going in, the HEV helmet close up automatically, it’s sync node linking with my neck sensor, Sigma quickly takes control of the now booted up helmet, all the data I'm receiving being filtered and replaced by a more efficient data as Sigma synchronize both sensors.
It’s overwhelming amount of sensor data is too much even for me, as i take some time to sync with the speed and volume of data being shown to me.
And I'm am Avali, we take pride in our reaction speed, but this is too much even for me.
After a minute my mind stops feeling overwhelmed and I'm no longer dizzy, so i start walking out of the room, but i stop.
“Lemi.” I call Lemi whos sleeping coiled on my bed.
Her eyes open, showing her white pupils as she looks my way before moving fast and coiling on my left arm, her head resting on my neck sensor, so i start walking out again.
When i get outside my room i see Jason in full combat gear waiting for me, i nod to him and he nods back.
I grab my pistol and reload it as Jason starts talking.
“We got a patter cell on the slums, again, They are located close to the human sector elevator, members are mostly humans, the ones that aren't are spies and saboteurs, all ready to be picked up by the security when we start.” Jason starts
After i finish reloading my pistol i holster it back and start checking the mini capacitors of my gauntlets.
“Their weapons are mostly gas operated, basic armor hidden under their clothes, that means shots at the limbs and head are instant kills, some heavy armored guards was sighted on their den, expect laser weapons or kinetic weapons.” Jason continues
After i finish checking the mini capacitors i start working with my portable medkit creator, making a mix of toxins and treatment serums before slotting the contents on my Needle gauntlet.
All the toxins are very fast acting neurotoxins that start with paralisis before giving organ failure.
“The human sector elevator and Lamia sector elevator are well guarded, so we are going to infiltrate from the Avali sector elevator, the security will invade from the Lastree sector, the Human and Lamia elevators will be locked for the duration of the commission, ready.” Jason ask me
I finish working with my needle gauntlet, so i test my tower gauntlet, it’s plates open up and deploy into a big and dense tower shield with built in deflector as it slam on the wooden floor, i nod and retract the tower shield as i finish testing the shoulder medgun, so i try cloaking to get the efficiency factor of the cloaking energy field.
The data Sigma gives me is very good.
“Ready.” i say as i deactivate my cloaking.
“Move.” Jason say and give a military hand signal saying the same.
“Rodzher.”