Raptor One – Chapter 61
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Just after i said to keep our eyes open, i detect a spark coming from the top camera, zooming in i see a defective drone flying irregularly, a malfunctioning laser on it’s front, as soon as our ship get clear of the wreck hiding us, it’s sensor focus on us as Sigma blares alerts at me.
“En-Em-Enemy de-de-e-tected.” we hear it’s message as soon as it detects us.
I look at the others and see their faces, dark faces as we need to engage a enemy with no weapons, that is until i remember it connected to our system.
“Sigma, hacking protocol.” i say out loud.
“Rodzher, hacking protocol engaged.” Sigma reply comes the same second and open a command menu where i can input my own share of codes.
Both me and Sigma get to work immediately as we breach open the drone line of defense and forcing it to stay connected, the drone tried to give a pitiful defense but failed at both ends as we started to breach it’s commands, Sigma manage to bypass it’s commands and lock it’s weapon but i get hit hard as the drone focus fire on my side of the codes, line after line of high speed code pass by my screen as i try to keep up with the faulty drone while sigma lock it’s movement speed with ours.
Two medium cycles, each medium cycle having 10 minutes, i waste it all in a fight with the drone for it’s full control, Sigma breaching it on her side, it’s recognizing system shutdown, making us neutral to it by Sigma while i engage in a hacking war with the drone, not winning but not losing either as we fight ourselves into a dead lock.
Another medium cycle pass as the ship maneuver between wrecks and scrap metal with a drone on our side, the drone for some luck manages to raise a big defense to it’s core system as both me and Sigma get placed outside it’s anti hacking defense, both me and the drone have exhausted it’s energy on one another, i give a feral grin as i breath roughly, hands trembling as i prepare for a last assault, this drone is ours.
Sigma get a hard hit as she try to breach it’s last defense, but this let me have a minute advantage of which i take and manage to breach it’s defense, finally making the faulty drone ours as it shutdown and restart again seconds later, green light showing on it’s very small hull as the faulty systems shutdown and it moves to dock on ISS – Tenacity.
“You ok Sigma?” I ask with rough breath, hands trembling from exertion.
“Minimal damage to systems, yes, I'm ok, give me some time and I'll be untouched in no time.” Sigma’s reply to my worry with a touched tone of voice.
I sigh before saying. “Damage control, help Sigma, i am opening the docking clamp.”
Both Li’luk and Li’lak nod before speeding up their hands on their consoles.
I watch the faulty drone dock on the clamp, and get moved into a better place by the crane, I'll repair this one when I'm free.
I look out into the plethora of wrecks, it’s silent as our fight was digital, not physical so there was no alert to any enemy in proximity.
“Zu, eyes open, we need you more than ever now, start giving locations when you’re ready.” i say as i take off my helmet and place it on my side, my other hand caressing Lemi’s head as i rest on my captain chair.
“Understood, strange signal, horizontal 3, vertical 5.” Zu starts giving out possible enemy locations, this allowed Su’ra and Su’zu to move better and more hidden from prying eyes.
On the sixth medium cycle, half of a long cycle later we get detected.
We are almost out of the graveyard, all the possible dangers was bypassed by Zu’s pinpoint accuracy, but even her have it’s limits because as soon as we exit the graveyard three faulty drones detect our ship at the same time and rush over, all three detect each other, but for some motive they ignore each other to target us.
“Girls?” i ask out loud for the Li sisters.
“On duty!” both say and rush over to the bridge again.
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“How’s the drone?” i ask, trying to keep my composure at the odds.
“Repaired!” “Full on system rework!” both sisters say at the same time.
“Rodzher, good job, Sigma?” i ask her as the drones fail to reduce their distance and engage.
“All systems green, Drone connected.” Sigma chimes in as soon as her name is said out loud.
“Good, undock the drone, get their attention with it and prepare to engage hacking protocol.” i say with a grin, my nerves are about to get to me.
I watch as the crane grab the drone and keep it suspended on top of the docking port, the moment the door open and the room starts to depressurize the drone is released, it’s undocking fast as it open up and get to work.
The drone easily grabs the attention of the other three as they start to dance close to our ship as we continue on our waypoint, while the drones try to destroy ours we try to connect to it by using the drone itself as unlike the first one on my hands, they did not open a connection port.
My mouth curls up as two connections pop open for us while the drone manage to take distance untouched.
“Time to work.” i say and give a feral grin, this time i have the advantage because the line of codes are exactly the same, so we start our hacking war.
Sigma starts weak as the drone manages to temporarily overpower her, but with our knowledge of their workings she easily bypass it’s targeting system and lock it into the ship orbit, i manage to do the same as the drone fails to even put resistance to me.
We manage to take control of both drones easily right after, leaving only one drone left behind.
Taking some breaths to cool down as i watch the two faulty drones orbit our ship harmlessly while the last one is giving a pointless chase to our drone.
“Sigma, when the connection stabilizes you jump in, only one sweep.” i say to Sigma as i rest my back on the captain chair.
“Understood, one moment please.” Sigma ask me.
“What?” i ask as i look up, resting my head.
“I’m detecting a change on my identity, was it you Omega?” Sigma ask me.
“Da, it was, i gave you a full name and ship AI status, say it for me please.” i nod and ask her back
“Sigma Scarlet Delta... that’s my full name? What's the significance of each word?” Sigma ask me just as the drone did a third pass and finally managed to get a connection, instead of sigma engaging in hacking i do it myself while explaining her name.
“Sigma is in honor to your origin, Scarlet is to mention the blood spilled when we got you, and Delta...” i say as i flawlessly hack the last faulty drone into submission and start their docking process.
“Delta, this time means the one that suffered, but became stronger, and is also the name of something that i like too much, something from old terra.” i finish my words as i watch the four drones dock in formation, the ramp moving back up and the compartment preparing to pressurize again.
“Which is?” Sigma ask me and the others, now relaxed from the tension also look my way, ears twitching in curiosity.
“A character from a game had this codename, she was from a dimension where she did not have luck and lost a twin sister that she loved too much, yet death was at her door, but did not manage to get her as she was saved, but her sister did not, but her sister was used to save her life by using a experiment, making her whole, just like me and Lemi, she got a lot of side effects because of the death of her twin sister, but managed to power over it and took the name of ‘Delta’, she later had a mission to correct the dimensional line where she found both herself and her sister, of which she saved countless times before deciding to bring both to her home dimension.” i narrate some of Delta’s history to Sigma and my pack.
I look down to see Zu in tears, the other two twins in silence along with Sigma as she try to computerize the narrated history.
“Is this real?” Sigma ask me.
“For me, it was very real, the same as AI are for you was the history that made her, both resemble each other, but with different circumstances, i know you had a twin alpha core, Beta was her name if I'm not wrong, managed to find some of her messages all over the city in corrupted grid zones before i finally managed to get to you, this is what made me give you a shot at companionship, luck however, made me find three more twins, of which one got the same treatment by destiny as you, Sigma.” i say and sigh as i keep my eyes locked with Zu.
The silence extends itself, so i decide to get up, leaving my helmet on my chair and hugging Zu, her tears hitting the ground with the sound of ice hitting metal as she cry on my chest plate, i keep one hand on her and the other on my Scythe, memory of her twin sister engraved in it as it’s psionic wavelength gives me flash's of her sister happiness and bitterness.
I sigh as i see that Zu calmed down, the hands that where on my chest plate now on my face, the other caressing the Scythe, her sister last gift.
“You know that there is a rare occurrence where a twin gets a better psionic wavelength than the other?” i ask Zu.
Zu shake her head and look at me in the eyes.
“You are one of the small percentages that are in this category, you got the nasty tier 2 psionic wavelength, the double edge sword of which your sister blocked for you with a small athenium object that i finally managed to identify.” i say and smile to her, handling the psionic scythe to her.
She look at it, eyes wide as i see flashes of memory pass by on her eyes, her athenium necklace on my open hands, this was hard to do even for someone made to house the unique tier 3 psionic wavelength of 300%.
I smile and pocket the athenium necklace on her side pouch before heading out of the bridge.
“Attention for the course change, I'm heading down to repair the drones, i want you guys free for training later, i want you guys extra sharp before we hit ‘The irradiated clown’.” i say as i walk out of the bridge.
“Yes captain!” surprisingly even Zu replied to me as i walked out of the bridge.
“White! Here.” Zu say and toss my helmet to me, of which i grab mid air and put it on.
“Thanks, your training will begin after some ours just like everyone.” i say and nod at her and resume walking out.
Jumping down the stairs into the bulkhead that divides the hangar bay and the cargo bay i get up from my kneeling state and head into the hangar bay while caressing Lemi’s head, four drones appear on my sight, of which three are damaged.
“Lemi, lets start tuning our psionic resonance.” i grin inside my mask, my left hand moving up as Lemi starts dissolving into a orb.
Let’s get our new weapons repaired.