Raptor One – Chapter 60
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After i left the crew quarter, leaving my Avali power armor there, but bringing Lemi with me, i sit on the rounded low table along with the rest as we rest our bodies, the Su brothers are on the kitchen area modelling some food for us as the girls chat happily with each other.
“Ey, Li’luk, as for your question before, no i can’t train you in that technique, that was pure instinct and common psionic knowledge.” i say to her and she looks my way with puppy eyes.
“That’s a no?” she ask me giving me the puppy eyes.
“The training for psions is hard, and overload is as easy as breathing, i can train you the normal psionics, that is, a seer or a psiker.” i nod acknowledging her words but not giving a yes or no.
“Oh.” Li’lak and Zu say, their attention more on our conversation than their own.
“Hummm....” Li’luk say in thought. “What’s the difference?” she decide to ask me.
“Seer are specialists at sniping, they have the capacity to see in slow motion and see seconds in the future helping in gun fights, Psikers however are masters of close quarter combat as they yank anything on their way and use it as a weapon to decimate their opponents, sometimes even crushing their opponents outright, but they suffer from distance as their ability works at close distance.” i give some explanation as i caress Lemi’s snake head, Li’luk nod at every three phrases.
“I see, what do you think about both type of psionics?” Li’lak decide to join as her curiosity won as she ask me with her shy voice.
“Both have their advantages and disadvantages, a seer have problem at close distance and fast moving objects, and psikers are hopeless at gun range, so the one that wins more are seers, they rely on their ability to improve their already deadly gunslinging ability.” I say as i do some shooting and moving motions with my hands in a fast pace, Lemi helped imitating a pistol before reforming and getting back into her place on my left shoulder.
The girls looked at the motions from start to end, amazed at the fast pace and accuracy of motions as i imitate a Seers gunslinging ability.
“What’s you answer?” i ask Li’luk.
I shouldn’t have asked, she jumped on me with shining eyes.
“YES! I want to learn it!” Li’luk say, very hypped.
“HISS” Lemi give a warning as she collides on me and as quick as she did so, se jump back.
“Sorry!” Li’luk say, i wonder to who, me or Lemi?
“Come closer, i need to see your psionic sensitivity.” i say to Li’luk and she do so.
Placing a hand on her fluffy head, right on top of her big feather, my vision of my surroundings dim as my concentration get’s sharper and stronger, i manage to get my psionic resonance very attuned, so much that it hurts as i even feel the others close to me, so i use this focus on her, i feel her mind give dissonances before abruptly resonating with me, this show she have slight psionic resonance, not enough for a full resonance, but good enough to be called in for psionic training on academies.
“Ladno...” I say as i remove my hand from her head. “You have slight resonance, that’s a tier 1 resonance.” i say and nod to her.
“Ladno?” Zu repeats in a cute way as she tilt her head while Li’lak looks at me with shining eyes.
I shake my head to Li’lak. “Twin sisters have oposite resonances, if Li’luk have tier 1 resonance, you have the oposite, Tier 1 dissonance. And ladno means ok.” i say to the girls.
The food is taking it’s time.
I look at the twin brothers on the kitchen area, they are bickering with each other, not to the point of making a mess, but enough to the food go anywhere, i sigh and get up, heading their way.
“Privet tovarishch, how's the bickering? Does it taste good?” i ask both Su’ra and Su’zu after placing my head on the middle of the two, cutting their line of sight with each other with my big frame.
“”Oh.”” They say in sync as surprise appear on their faces.
“Listen here, I'm hungry, if you both are going to bicker, do it after making the food, I'm hungry, and when I'm hungry i get very upset easily, rodzher?” i ask both guys with my cold and commanding tone.
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“”Rodzher!”” they say in sync.
“Now, MOVE, Bystro!” i say and both Su’ra and Su’zu flinch and start moving their hands on the kitchen again i frown as i right myself and repeat.
“M.O.V.E. Bystro!” i repeat, this time slower.
“”Rodhzer!”” they say and run to the table and sitting quickly.
I shake my head, I'm not mad or anything, I'm just hungry, lets see the mess they made here.
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“Yup, that’s a mess.” i say after a light taste, the only way to correct this is making it spicy to hide the flavor before finishing, good thing that this is nutrient paste, i sigh and get to work.
Moving fast i get the spices and remake the flavor before forming it into spicy noodles, this did not take even one minute as i finish placing the spicy noodles in front of my pack and sitting with mine in hand, slowly eating after giving Lemi her dose of nanites.
“So, Li’luk, you wish to become a psiker or seer.” i ask Li’luk as i eat my spicy noodles.
“Yes, i want to become a Seer, can you train me?” Li’luk ask me.
“Da, i can do it, unlocking your psionic potential is easy for me that mastered psionics, but I'll do it tomorrow, we are resuming our unbreakable will training, this time i know you all will have a better time on this training tomorrow.” i say and nod, the pack nodding in acknowledgement.
We eat our food, the girls chatting happily while the boys keep their silence, awkward because they made me upset, of which i was not.
After giving my spicy noodles some bites i place it down and look at both brothers.
“You both know that I'm not angry right?” i say and give a warm smile before continuing. “You two are my most loyal tovarishcham, and also the most compatible with umbreakable will.” i say and nod their way, my voice slowly taking a commanding tone. “I want both of you working as one unit, one moves the other protects, we are a pack...” my voice took a full commander tone. “But you two.... Is the pack itself.... Don’t let this rare opportunity slip due to small rifts of infighting.” i look down with a predatory smile as i finish. “How i wish i had such a chance.”
My sensitive ears feel and hear their bodies tremble as i take my spicy noodles again and return back to eating, before i can put my chopstick on my mouth however, they break the silence i made.
“I won’t disappoint you Pack Leader.” Su’ra say with his serious tone of voice, i look up a little and see his determination.
“Pack Leader, we understand your orders, and we will accomplish it.” Su’zu’s unblinking eyes stay locked on mine as he say this, his determination as pure and true as of his twin brother.
I nod at both before throwing my chopsticks up and giving the table a light slam, catching everyone with surprise.
“Let’s eat, we are not at war or anything, why the serious mood for?” i ask as if the serious mood did not exist, breaking it into pieces as they look at me and my light smile.
I watch as i eat with a light smile, keeping my laugh inside as they look at each other, the serious mood nowhere to be seen as the conversation returns to a light and cheerful one, both brothers joining the high speed conversation.
I laugh from time to time as they exchange jokes as we eat, and like this the time pass by.
Placing down the empty container i get up and recover the other ones and head to the kitchen area to clean the containers before heading to the crew quarters, getting there i look at the armor anchored on the side, the helmet on it’s waist and a angry Sigma laying curses like a veteran sailor at me.
“What’s up?” i ask Sigma as i approach her and get a scolding.
From what, why, where, was, heck, even past sense was used as i was scolded by Sigma at my disregard for my life, Lemi did not take it easier either as she got a scolding to along with me at the possibly unnecessary fight we had.
“Da, i understand, we had little information on the situation, that led us into a fight, but it’s over, can we end this now? I have a hole to fill.” i ask Sigma, bored to kingdom come.
I get the silent treatment before receiving her Ok, before giving me a excuse with a shy voice and going dark, Lemi on my shoulder was not faring any better.
I look at the group on the mess of pillows that is our bed, Zu’s face is red like a tomato as i give a feral grin.
“I’ll make sure no one sleeps tonight.” i say before walking forward.
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I yawn as i get up, Zu’s still sleeping and the others only managed to sleep some time ago.
I stretch and lightly and lovingly grab Lemi, caressing her into waking up, she slowly open her eyes and sliter up my left arm before resting her head on my shoulder and sleeping again.
I slowly roll to Zu and give her a kiss on her forehead before getting up, she’s too tired after a night of workout with me.
Walking into the bathroom slash locker room, i get right into the shower, after placing Lemi into a reserve pillow i take some time on the shower to clean myself thoroughly and get the burning energy on me down i get out of the shower, a pulse of energy clean my body of the water as i walk out and get Lemi and place the pillow back again before going for my armor in the crew quarters.
My left arm is the first i place inside my armor after taking Lemi so she can coil around my power armor properly, my armor closes completely on me with a loud hiss and thump, startling everyone awake.
“God dang it, just when they started to sleep...” i mutter before placing my helmet and walking out.
Next time I'll take my armor off inside the locker room.
Walking to the recreation room and passing it as i dive into the bulkheads connecting the stairs and the upper deck i jump down lightly, keeping a hand and a leg on the stair as i slide down into the middle deck.
Entering the bridge and sitting on my chair, this time whole as Lemi is now with me i start working on the status of our situation.
“WOW!” i say and start working the maneuvering thrusters as the camera blares proximity alerts to me.
Giving quick commands to the ship i manage to maneuver out of the way of one from many of the space wrecks the ship is passing by, the maneuver small and smooth as the sails stay open and untouched as we fly on this grave yard.
My hears twitch as i feel the others run my way because of the sudden maneuver, i wait the group as i keep a look out for sudden need for maneuvering.
“What happened?” Zu manage to get inside first despite the tiring night and trembling legs, the other following right after as i see one after another drop down the stairs wing opened as they land and run inside the bridge, taking their positions just like Zu.
“We got a graveyard, that means defective drones and scavengers, we are unarmed but we got speed on our side, but with this environment this option is hard to put in use.” i say and give a simple summary to the others, Zu is already working the Radar and Identification on her console, Li’luk and Li’lak is already working on energy distribution and damage control while Su’ra and Su’zu is working the maneuvering thrusters and engine.
“Get ready and stay alert, this won’t go that well.”