Raptor One – Chapter 93
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Placing my attention on the attendant I try to get what the test is about as she talks...
“Now that I have all of your attention I'll tell the objective of this test, it’s simple, survive a galactic battle and keep your ship flying, that’s all, the test will be on the digital universe 27c it’s on the middle of the erchius war, you will be hijacking a captain’s body for the test, good luck. Start transfer protocol SCFT27c.”
With her words I feel my being get pushed out of the room and into the kaleidoscope again, it’s turns and swirls lead me to a miniature universe where I'm pulled in.
Opening my eyes I feel so many different things from my actual body, but it lasts only a instant as my body starts to glitch, I hear the squeak of alarm from my fellow avali but I keep my attention on myself as my body change color back to white and grow to the height of 1.40 meters, the long face got adjusted to the face of a Neo avali as a mask materialize where the flesh should be, the same thing happen all over my body as my cybernetics pop into existence in this virtual world making me drop to one knee due to balance.
Getting up and flexing my now remade body I look at my fellow avalis that are looking at me with their guns raised, their hands shake as my sharp and droopy eyes pass by each person currently on the bridge, including the guards.
“Wh- Who are you and what did you do to our Captain!” A black colored avali yell my way, must be the 2nd in command.
“Privet to you too, and pozhaluysta don’t shout, I can hear you very clearly.” I say and sit on the Captain chair, I'm feeling a little awkward being nude again as Neo avali don’t have the same dense fluff for hiding their manhood.
“Uh... A Russian invader?” One of the avali say with a tilted head.
“Infected too, I can’t lock on to the type of infection yet, don’t seen erchius related.” Another avali respond.
“Guys? We don’t have time for chit chatting! We got a enemy fleet incoming!” The avali responsible for the radar yells out.
“Fuck! To your stations! Guards get him to the jail, I'm taking control!” The black avali yell out making everyone start moving.
“Niet.” I say with my cold voice as I focus my eyes on him. “Are you trying a coup? This body is of your Captain even with me in control, are you going to kill him? Are you being insubordinate?” I say as my sharp eyes are locked on him, the crew stops moving and looks my way as the guards resolve shake along with their guns, once a member of the pack, always a member of the pack.
“You all wish to hear the growls of grief from your Captain it seen, he’s just lending his body, this makes him and me no different than one another, to see that his crew was this unruly...” I say with disdain as I pass my sharp eyes at each avali. “TO YOUR STATIONS! READY FOR COMBAT, YELLOW ALERT, BYSTTRO!” I yell out and they start running to their stations, a plethora of shaken voices talk to each other, my words shook their morale badly.
“I hope you don’t let me down, I want to return both the body and ship intact.” I say with a smile, my sharp eyes returning back to a droopy, friendly look.
I’m met with silence but their ears and way of movement show they heard me, their morale better.
I take a look at the ship I'm taking for now, avali cruiser, compact yet powerful, good armor and weapons, same with engines, but logic system suffers because it’s not made for extraplanetary missions.
“Enemy fleet warping in! 3! 2! 1!” The radioman yells.
“Nose to enemy! Prepare for Evasive maneuvers! Ready guns for firing.” I give some orders and the crew get to work as I see the enemy fleet appear close to us.
Our fleet is located right on a Temperate planet mostly covered in snow, it’s low temperature ideal for colonization by avali government, we are currently in orbit of the planet along with another 6 ships, 7 with this one included.
“What are your orders captain?” A member ask me.
“Get in formation with the rest of the fleet and wait for the fleet commander orders, and move with a minimum impact angle, keep the entire railgun battery on broadside.” I say and watch the crew work as the ship fly closer to the capital ship and take formation along with another cruiser and four other destroyers.
I watch as the Fleet commander open a channel and start talking, the conversation was good and the situation was about to finish itself but someone took a shot at us, the shot passed the other ships and hit us square center, I'm almost shaken off my chair by the impact.
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“Damage report.” I say as I adjust myself on the chair.
“Impact on deck six, no integrity damage, but we got wounded crew.” The Engineer say after a look.
Soon after the fleet commander yell for weapons free and I watch as the fleet open fire at the enemy, I make a count on enemy number and type and see that the enemy have the same composition as us, the strange part for me however is that the enemy fleet is full of plants growing all over their ships as it seem made of stone.
“Mark a destroyer and open fire, hail the two destroyers escorting us and tell it to focus fire, barrage fire only.” I give my orders and the ship finally starts shooting, I can feel the ship tremble with each barrage fire of the railguns despite it having only upper deck turrets.
“That’s a nice symphony.” I say with a small smile, hidden within my mask as I focus my eyes on the destroyer that’s being shredded into pieces by a barrage of railgun slugs, there is no explosion despite the heavy damage to the ship as the crew focus on another destroyer, keeping full focus and talk to the minimum.
I give a closer look at the destroyed ship with some swipes of my hand and see green bodies floating in space close to the wreckage, aliens?
*Negative White, they are Florans, old world species killed by the Necromorph invasion, killers by nature and warriors since childhood, if they have one that is.*
Sigma’s voice comes to me making me look besides me as she manifest her body on my virtual network, I look at the others and see they can’t see her so I focus on the battle in front of me.
Knowing we where focusing on the smaller ships their last three destroyers started evasive maneuvers thus cutting their concentrated fire, but the superior firepower of the avali made short work of another evading destroyer, lowering their number to two as the capital ships exchange blows with one another, our side spiting railgun slugs while the florans spit hardened spikes our way, it’s small projectile pierces the ships armor like nothing was in front of it, the chaos on the crews from our side was big as the spikes pierces the ship and bring casualties, something we avali take with heavy heart and pure fury as another destroyer becomes wreckage.
With only four ships on their side and a full fleet on our side they escape back into the warp after trying to launch pods into the planet bellow, it fails spectacularly as it’s shot down as it passes the exosphere, blown by anti invasion flak railguns.
The death of the ones in the pod was painful, even more so for florans as they where burned alive by plasma explosions.
I feel my avatar glitch again and look down at myself, and see the lent body returning to normal.
“Good work guys, you did excellent so my mission here is over and I had to do nothing but watch, hope I never see you again.” I say with a big smile as the body that is housing me finish returning to normal, making my consciousness flow backwards as it leave this digital universe and back to the chair where I was before.
I blink my eyes as the license pod blink a notification to my face.
A passing grade was ensued to me on the test, the motive? I did not show any abnormal signal that correlates to psychosis and it’s sub afflictions.
I sigh and get up as the pod power down, the military grade ship weapons can now be bought.
Good thing they did not detect my waning mental health, I shake my head and start walking back to the ship while looking at the time.
8:22AM, took a lot of time that test...
As my consciousness was taken from my body, my speedboost psicast was gone so I casted it again and saw the world slow down before me as I walk back to my ship with each step.
I got back to Tenacity almost 9:00AM, however I did not go directly inside but sat on the entrance and sent a message to Mercy, the dockmaster did not even take a second to reply saying she was coming so I closed my eyes and started to meditate a little.
Six minutes after I sent my message Adeptus Mercy arrived where I was so I opened my eyes to see her and got surprised by her face so close to me with her piercing cold eyes!
As I was about to react she gave me space and my sharp eyes became droopy again, but my frown did not left my masked mouth.
“Don’t do that, pozhaluysta.” I say with clear frustration on my voice.
“Sorry for that young one, how can I help you?” Mercy ask me with her piercing eyes and analytical mind.
“For once I want to place some weapons on my ship, can you be the forwarder?” I ask her as I sit again on the elevator layered piston and start swinging my legs.
“Sure, what type do you want?” She ask me as her eyes start to analyze my ship and it’s most appropriate weapons, her hand never got quiet.
“I want two railguns Mark two, and six Vulcan Mark two, will my credits support that?” I ask Mercy.
“Negative young one, but I can get you 6 Vulcan MK2 and 1 Railgun MK2 for 371.000 credits, and that’s me using my kindness.” Mercy say after a rapid two second calculation.
“Bring it, and don’t place worker price on it, I’ll install it myself.” I say with a sigh.
“DO you have a mech for a job like that? Even a Exoframe mech will do.” Mercy ask me something unexpected, making me think, will I be able to lift something so heavy to the top and belly of the ship and install just like that?
That’s a no.
“Niet, I don’t have help for that, can you lend me a lifter mech?” I say with a sigh making Mercy chuckle.
“Don’t worry, I got a test mech that I want you to fly for me, if you manage to finish the test with it intact I'll pass the ownership of it to you how about it?” Mercy’s voice and words make me lift my head in curiosity.
“Shoot it, give me the specs and parts used along with it’s weapons.” I say with clear interest.
Mercy chuckles at my interest before talking “Sure, It’s chassis is a Chinook, Legs are Exitus, Thrusters are also Exitus, it’s specs are of a basic mech, fresh out of printing-” Ugh... “As for it’s weapons it’s a Kinetic Hunting Rifle and a Mining Drill made of iron-” Oof. “I want you to test if it’s working and then fly it into the void to the asteroids in orbit of Tesla Prime, bring me some ores and insectoid meat.”
“Bring what now? Bring ores I can work with, but Insectoid meat? Does we even have that in space?” I ask with a tilt of my head.
“Oh, how good it is to be young and blissful of things, looks like you never visited asteroid belts.” Mercy say with a chuckle making me tilt my head even more.
“But I did? My ship was a mining ship before it’s refit...” I say unsure by her words.
“Did you come from the void sector? As for the information I want will bring up your privilege as a independent as it breaks the information sharing rule.” Mercy ask me with a soft voice and narrowing eyes.
“Can you show me where it is located? Maybe I can tell you as I don’t have recollection.” My words make Mercy wave her hand my way a galaxy map appear, showing sector 17, segment 3, area 1, the map of area 1 have a big void on it’s map, and to make things strange we came from that area, the area where no planet, star and anomaly shows.
I look at the map and pinpoint with my eyes the stars I visited before doing a reverse localization... “Yes I was from the void sector.” I say while placing a finger on the current star and doing a reverse flow to where I came from, my finger stopping at the edge of the void sector.
“Interesting...” Mercy say with her eyes narrowing even further...