Raptor One – Chapter 95
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The flight was smooth after leaving the station via mech airlock, I was somewhat unsure where to go, but saw some close asteroids orbiting Tesla Prime, so I headed there, the planet gravity was somewhat on the heavier size to a terran world and that was hard to account to, but my expertise with mechs did not let me have problems with that as I adjusted the course smoothly, as I was taking distance from the station and closer to the asteroid in orbit I saw Selket closing in, not long after I got a message from Nail.
*Everything good there Captain?*
*Da, I did a check with Peppy before leaving the station so all system are green.*
*What’s the course of action Captain?*
*Standby and let me do the work, unless the mech is destroyed should you intervene.*
*Understood, but won’t that place your life into too much danger?*
*It will but you will know when to engage, I'm sure.*
With our conversation done we return to silence as we travel the space at turtle speed, I hate this thruster.
21 minutes of boring flight later we finally arrive at the asteroid, and I'm immediately met with space bugs and what’s this? A space worm? A tentacle?
As I was closing slowly the... Thing unfolded and released a light that clouded my mind and made me close in on the thing, so I resisted and failed, my only option was to defend myself so I took the iron drill and as it was about to wrap me I drilled it making it tighten the hold, so I pushed the drill further, yet it don’t want to release me, that was until I felt the drill control move further and the thing started bleeding and suddenly released me and ran away.
I sighed as this thing was not on my database, I wonder how this would go with only ranged weapons...
I sigh again and get back to work on mining the asteroid, the kinetic hunting rifle on my mech’s hand as I mine the asteroid, as I mine it out however the drill hits empty space many times making me wonder if there’s some problem with the rock I'm breaking apart only to see a empty hole with some gooey mass inside, I take distance fast as insects spew out of the hole and I'm saved by the iron drill again as the bullets goes wide due to the size of the insects.
I just shake my head at the slimy sight and shoot the sacks, insect matter flying inside the asteroid, but I got what I wanted at least, ore and insect meat.
With the hauling module on the back of my mech full with ore and insect corpse I return after this strange mess.
With a look I manage to calculate the station movement and the asteroid vector course so I start the return, luckily the mech thruster can keep up with the station vector course speed because we are in space, but it’s thrust force leave much to the desire.
It takes almost 30 minutes to get half way, and as I was passing by a broken down satellite it release a pulse, probably because it’s sensor detected movement close by, that being me, soon another pulse comes from down bellow, making me look at the planet as my ears tremble due to the strength of the mix.
This is not just any pulse, it’s psionic energy, raw unadulterated energy traveling along with a probable signal.
I give a look and see that Nail already left with Selket and as I was about to do the same the mech I'm in stops working, slowly traveling forward before I'm hit with a dense amount of psionic energy, the hatred I'm feeling...
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Hypocrisy, the act which all sentient being do, the act of denial in this ever moving time which leads to decline where the oh so over shadowed good people fail to keep the rest of their race afloat in this ocean of hatred, in this war with themselves which they deny and place this oh so fake hatred into another sparking a nonsensical war led by hypocrisy and shed with the blood of the true good, only god knows how bad we all are, the fake relationships we have... only kept by denial of their own hypocrisy...
I find myself afloat in the void of space with a deactivated mech, the station is out of reach and my orbit was cut down due to the speed, I try to get the mech online and it starts with no issue as I fly my vector to a halt.
As I finally stop to breath I see a message on my neural system.
*You are a good candidate to be one of us Apocrions, so much hate, so much disdain, so much lack of trust, so much... Darkness... Wrath... If you wish to deny humanity and become better come to me, here’s the coordinates.*
What is this message, the message itself is dark and maddening, I can feel it’s hatred from a distance, not much different from mine...
*Beep* *Beep*
Two beeps coming from my mech call my attention back as I look down before looking at the approaching ICW – Tenacity, Making me smile as I see the message.
*Needing a helping hand there?*
*Da, got caught into some anomaly and was knocked out, how long was I out?*
**8 minutes, we departed as soon as Selket lost track of your position.*
*Spacibo...*
*Something in mind?*
*A lot, just not things that can be easily said.*
I shake my head and enter the lowered elevator, as soon as I'm in it goes back up, Peppy comes into vision as the elevator finish rising, and less than a minute later the air is back into the hangar module, so my mech automatically release it’s breathing system with a hiss allowing for communication.
“Privet Peppy.” I say with a sigh.
“Are you okay? You drifted off into space with a thin mech like that, it can barely be categorized as a lifter.” Peppy ask me with worry as she closes in on me.
“Da, I'm okay, how long will it take to reach the station? Izvinyayus for the trouble.”
“Don’t worry, it’s normal to help each other! And you thought something like that would happen so you got us ready right?” Peppy say with a big grin.
“Something like that.” I say and nod before going silent and waiting.
Minutes later I feel the ship docking, the elevator drop and make a connection with the extending ramp, making a curved corridor, the folded plates underneath the elevator that are used as support fold back up making a makeshift rail guard.
I look at Peppy and nod at her before walking down into the station again, the gun and drill back into it’s place as I walk out frustrated that I can’t jog or run due to the equipment used by the lifter class modular mech.
As I walk to the mech bay that is somewhat close I talk with Peppy that decided to escort me, sharing ideas and doing some peppy talk as we walk.
We stop talking as we reach the mech bay, due to this mech being somehow small, a little bigger than a two meter human despite the work and plating, this mech follow the lifter class principle, mobility and capacity for the drawback of defense and size.
“So here you are, why did you not come by the mech airlock?” Mercy slides our way as I park the lifter class mech in it’s place.
“Privet to you too, I got into some unknown anomaly when returning back and needed some rescue but the mission was completed before that.” I say and shake my head as I drop down from the mech.
“That’s alright, the data from the mech tell me that you got in contact with the mechanoid hive because you passed too close to one of their controlled satellites, it’s already good that they did not send their army your way.” Mercy say with a nod as she take the information from the mech.
“So, how’s the contract?” I ask her.
“The contract is fulfilled, I'll send you a lifter class mech to you, what about the information?” Mercy say with a glint in her eyes as she ask me for the desired knowledge database I have.
“Da, da, there you go, happy now?” I say with a frown and give her the basic information about mech building, more specific the lifter class mech building information.
“This is good, I'll send someone with your mech later, here, I'll pay for the work crew that will help you with your weapons.” Mercy say with some sweeps before leaving.
I and Peppy look at each other before shrugging and walking back.
When we return many minutes later we are met with Shy and zu leading the workers as they prepare the ship to take the new weapons I bought with our credits.
“Hello love, how was the work?” Zu ask me as soon as her ears twitch, she knows when it’s me by the sound it seen.
“Privet love, it’s done, what’s the current work order?” I ask the girls as they come my way.
I’m shown my own thoughts about how ICW – Tenacity should get armed, my own blueprint of the ship and where each weapon should go.
“Which order are they following now?” I ask with interest.
“This one.” Shy show a very bad organization and I shake my head.
“Shy and Peppy, order the crew to follow the upper deck order, place all six Vulcans on the upper deck and the railgun on the first upper module.” I say while showing how the ship will become with the order.
“Understood!” Both sisters say in sync before running off to give the orders.
I watch as the ship slowly get armed up with the Vulcans and Railgun, sparks of grinding tools on metal as they place the ammo feeder into the ship and lock the hardpoints of the ship with it’s turret.
Now we can start hunting pirates...