Raptor One – Chapter 80
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The flight off Beta stratta’s station was pretty normal, I made sure that missy had the bare minimum armor and EVA suit at all times before undocking from the station.
After taking distance from the station I give a look at my mission log, head to Lunar base three and exterminate the Erchius Horror, another mission, counting as optional is to save survivors while doing that, I grunt and nod before talking.
“Su’zu, plot course to Achmea Gamma solar system, Su’ra, prepare the slipstream ring for slinging.” I give out my orders.
“”Understood Captain!”” The Su sisters say at the same time as they work.
“Plot course set, thanks for Sigma we won’t have a too bumpy ride.” Su’zu say with a dejected sigh.
“Not your problem, you are not experienced at all with navigation, that happens, just buckle up and get better.” I say to Su’zu with a snort.
“Slipstream slinger ready...” Su’ra say with a bright blush making me look at the ship sensors, finding a very badly aligned slipstream slinger, Sigma gives a hand and manages to correct most of the errors.
I sigh, a hiss leaving my mask. “Su’ra, please get more serious, the slipstream slinger is a danger in and out of it itself, bad alignment can cause damage to the ship through the entire slipstream course.” I say seriously, my rough voice giving my words a heavier sense.
I look at Su’zu. “Su’zu, a bad plot course can and will lead to problems, the worse the solar system terrain the harsher the problem we will have to deal will be, this is made even more clear with slipstream, a bad plot course can lead us through magnetic storms, further damaging the ship in the process.” I say to Su’zu with the same tone.
“Okay.” Su’ra say and nod with a sad face.
“Understood.” Su’zu reply with a sour face.
“Warp.” I give the command and watch the ship’s slipstream slinger start sparking and sending electric arcs through the ship’s exterior, the energy arcs converging in front of the ship at the very front base, then a sudden strong pull is felt as I watch the blackness of space distort and warp before showing a sight akin to surfer inside a wave.
“ANOMALY DETECTED FORWARD!” Zu yell out, surprising me and Su’ra.
“Goddamn it! Yellow alert! Sigma depressurize the ship! Masks up! Su’ra Prepare for high stress maneuver!” I send out a barrage of commands, as I and Sigma had prepared beforehand the sudden change into yellow alert was smooth, my pack exo’s automatically activating their rebreather system while missy panic a little while getting her helmet on.
With the entire ship crew tense Zu detects fast the first problem inside this wave and with Su’ra skilled high stress vector changes we manage to continue riding the slipstream wave.
As they where about to lower their guards I let a high growl out, the hiss of my mask forcing my pack back into attention, this was a good choice because seconds later Zu detected a magnetic storm in our path forcing Su’ra to do many vector changes, I watch with a smile on my face as Tenacity weave through a field of energy arcs, left, right, down, right, up, left, Su’ra managed to weave by the storm like a veteran fighter pilot.
I still think I can make the ship vector thrusters better, maybe if I sync it with both the STL thrusters and Solar sails, making it a one way system instead of each having a separate one...
I’m cut out of my thoughts as I feel the sudden difference of G forces as it spikes up abruptly before leaving altogether, making everyone dizzy for a moment.
“We are clear of danger.” Zu say, spurring Su’zu to check our new navigation course.
“Captain, we are inside Achmea Gamma, outer space, plotting course to Lunar base three...” Su’zu say before getting to work.
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I watch Su’zu with attention, catching a frown on her face.
“We are leaving yellow alert Sigma, what’s up Su’zu?” I say and ask Su’zu.
“We are outside the solar system gravity and the shortest course is downwind, it will take some hours before we can arrange a vector for orbit around Lunar base three.” Su’zu say to me, receiving a nod.
“You heard Su’zu, we got some downtime before deployment.” I say and get up.
First thing I do when I get inside the Recreation room is fill a sealed cup with Avalonian Wine before sitting and relaxing, letting my magnetic lock disengage and slowly float around the recreation room, not content enough I ask one of my primal wolfs to grab my premium avalonian earphone and wait while sipping my wine, not long after the girls and missy come inside the recreation room and get comfy, my primal wolf brings my earphones seconds later after the girls arrival.
With my luxurious earphones in place, and my list of 230 musics loaded I finally relax enough, getting in a ‘relaxing on my bed’ position.
“Hey, White.” Su’zu ask for my attention.
“Da? What’s up tovarishch?” I say with a relaxed tone while humming with the tune.
“Can you continue your Will training? I don’t want to have a easy to invade mind, the training will also help with the current mission too.” Su’zu ask me and explain why.
“I’ll join in!” Li’luk say with a grin, the rest also nodding.
“I do feel the need to finish the training, it’s help is a testament to it’s usefulness, a person in panic can’t react to anything after all.” Zu say with a nod.
I nod after taking a sip of my wine. “Rodzher, sit and relax, well, you all are already sitting, so just relax.” I say with a lazy tone while humming with the strong and rhythmic electronic tune.
I watch as the entire pack relax very easily, their minds now fully open and easy to read as my psionic senses automatically latch to each one, giving me their recent thoughts and three of the girls even linking with my psionic wavelength.
They are Zu, Li’lak, and Su’ra, each having a class 2 positive psionic potential, that can be good or bad depending of the situation...
Let’s get the training started.
When I start their will training I get some bad feedback, mostly from Li’luk and Su’zu as they have class 2 negative psionic wavelength making it harder, but me being a class 5 positive makes bypassing this type of problem almost trivial, good thing that class 5 positives are all artificially custom made high positives.
I keep feeding a plethora of unpleasant situations in their minds, from simple tricks to pack rifts to bonafide pack killer situations, all with it’s custom history, each one branching out badly as they make their choices.
They did not manage to resist and broke down, forcing me to get the girls back from their bad dreams, luckily they did not return broken as they recovered their wits very fast due to their already solid will, something that a normal person would go crazy just like their first times.
I sigh at their tense bodies and feedback my emotions at real time while listening to the soft tune, the mix of psionic manipulation, psionic quality and charisma helped a lot at relaxing my pack back down again.
“So? Had enough? This is why I don’t force any type of training, my ways are too extreme for normal girls.” I say with a content sigh while enjoying my wine.
“Not going to stop me from trying again.” Zu say with a shudder, the motive making me open my eyes and give her a side glance.
“Seriously love? Despite all the horrors you are still aroused by me?” I say with a playful tone.
“Well... To my defense, you turning into a mass of tentacles is not the most scary thing I have in mind... And knowing you, you are very capable of changing form if you want.” Zu reply back with a blush on her face.
“Da, that’s true, but you know that wasn’t me right? Even though I an capable of exploding into a mass of biohazard all consuming tentacles, it cost too much energy, it’s easier to crush a skull with psionics or just plain out brainwash the enemy.” I say with a sigh and shake my head.
“Good to know something new about you Captain, but can we try again?” Su’ra ask me, prompting me to look at the girls.
I receive their approval, so I close my eyes, tune to the beat and let another history unfold.
It takes the girls three tries to finally shake their minds enough to solidify their Will to fight, if it was the old me I would be one fifth of the way down with a migraine for company.
“How’s the feeling of staring at the face of death and coming out alive despite all the odds?” I ask the girls with a feral grin.
“It feels like playing a terror and adventure game with 100% realism and pain feedback, heck, they are scary!” Li’luk reply with a confident smile and a shudder, making the other four girls laugh.
“Hehe, true.” Su’zu reply with a small cute laugh, something rare for the ‘cold’ Su’zu.
“Should we go for another round?” Zu asked the girls, receiving their nods and making her look my way.
“Love?” I say while opening a eye.
“Can you go another round?” Zu ask me.
“For someone as white as yourself, your words sometimes are very... *Sigh*” I say and sigh, I wonder if it’s just me or it’s her words.
This time I felt the hit while placing the girls into another dream like state, this time much more elaborate and harder, but not impossible, surprisingly they managed to clean the entire dream by themselves and even broke off from their dram state.
The girls look at each other as I feel the feedback from the sudden cut of connection, luckily I reacted fast or I would be left coughing blood.
“How do you all feel?” I ask with a audible groan of pain, I did not manage to scape the migraine.
“You ok White?” Zu ask me with worry.
“Just psionic backlash, nothing to worry.” I say with a sigh.
“In my knowledge this is very bad Captain.” Su’ra say to me with her serious demeanor.
“Just a heavy drop in body energy and a migraine, only that, I'm good to go for another three person worth of actions.” I say with a chuckle.
With my cup of wine empty and nothing to do I just give a small flap of my wings and land back on the floor of the ship, placing the cup on it’s place on the kitchen area before heading to the crew quarters.
“Wake me up when we are in orbit.” I say while waving my hands in a bye motion.
“Understood Captain.” Su’zu reply before each of us go our merry way...