Raptor One – Chapter 99
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Waking up earlier than expected I look at my sides and see that Zu and Peppy is still sleeping with a smile on their faces as they hug me.
Getting out of bed was easy as both girls was sleeping like a log and seen that they will need more time to wake up than normal.
Sitting on the low table and grabbing the two cups that are still intact from yesterday deeds I pour both wine into the same cup before sitting to sip it as I know that on controlled space like the living quarters won’t expire the wine nor most food that easily.
I give my cup a sip before looking at the hour.
It’s 5:45AM galaxy standard, the hunt took days in total, somewhat fast for a hunt as the enemy normally manage to flee but due to the destruction of their warp drive their option was only to fight.
I sigh as I finish my drink and get up, placing the cups on the kitchen counter before looking at the now holstered combat exoskeletons, I remember leaving both on the ground, Shy cold and Nail must have come later and placed both exos on their racks, and by the looks of the empty bunker beds it seen they are up and running already.
I give a look at the sleeping girls after putting my clothes on before walking out of the living quarters with a smile on my mouth, the sound of hammering on metal resound from the lower deck, it must be Nail and Shy restoring the armor of Selket, she did look like she passed by a micro meteor shower when I saw her on the camera.
Entering the command bridge I see cold at work like always, Shy is also there coordinating the drones with Cold as we sail the slipstream back to Tesla prime, I wonder if the crew on the cargo ship is still alive, slipstream sub dimension are very volatile to flesh beings, exposition can and will lead to death rather quickly.
I nod at the working Cold and Shy, their faces however look red? Blue? Anyway, they are blushing hard, did I forget to wash myself or something?
With that thought in mind I finally remember I kept the whole ship sound free, that means that if something happens anywhere on the ship everyone will know, be it leaking gas, liquid, rupture, explosion...
Or sex sounds...
This reminder make me get somewhat red? Blue? Gah! Whatever!
I give a loud groan at the... difficulty at questioning face color due to blushing cheeks, not that the fur and feathers make it easier.
“S- Something wrong Captain?” Shy ask me trying to keep her face out of my sight.
“Just reminding myself that the entire ship is not sound proof.” I say with a sigh making Shy’s face become... gah! I groan and scratch my featherless head before sighing I need to get this out of my head one way or another!
Let’s start with biology and medicine, when blood flows to the head the skin change color, that means the face becomes red, but that’s normal human biology, and humans have hot blood, meaning their face becomes red due to heat.
Avali on the other hand have cold blood and heat is very dangerous to non augmented avali, that means we can’t have red blush as it’s a signature of hot blooded beings, but the concentration of blood on the head will cause the temperature to lower on the region, that means we avali can blush... Blue!
If you manage to see it under the soft fur and big feathers.
Okay, with this out of the way I can finally focus now.
“How much time before we arrive in Tesla prime?” I ask Cold.
“O- Oh, right, goddamn hormones... We are going to arrive in 5 minutes.” Cold say with a blush.
I’m not hearing hammering anymore, that means Nail is done with her work?
The door to the command bridge opens and Nail walks in with a grin.
“Oh? Hey Captain, managed to fix Selket Steel plates, they are as good as new... As for your hammering yesterday...” Nail say with a grin “Nice job!” Nail say with a thumbs up making Shy blush and Cold sigh.
“Heh, hahaha, Spacibo tovarishch.” I say with a visible grin, good to see that not everyone react the same.
“Shy, prepare for slipstream disengagement.” Cold say and Shy sigh.
“Finally, the drones are having a hard time tugging this big guy, we need another two more to do something like that with no repercussion on the drones engines, even more if we are going to travel on the slipstream.” Shy complain about the situation.
“Well, izvinyayus Shy, but we took their FTL drive and it’s engines, and god know how many are alive inside, do you wish to dismantle this big guy on the fly? It’s better to overburden the drones engines than fight a needless fight.” I say with a sigh while looking at Shy.
“I- Yeah, I know White, it’s better to give the ship intact-”
*Warning! Flash of light detected on our six!*
“Damage report!” I yell at Shy and Cold.
“Ship engines are intact sir!”
“Reporting! Two of the four drones took explosion damage! The other two are fine!”
“Godamnit! Chert!” I say with some anger, we just lost more money.
As I was angry I see Peppy and Zu rush into the Bridge, Peppy take a more free aproach close to the bridge door to act at sudden damage while keeping herself danger free while Zu take her station.
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“Reporting! Cargo ship took heavy explosion damage and broke in two horizontally!” Zu say as she easily manage to identify the problem “The look of the ship say it was a catastrophic reactor failure!”
“Shy, can you stabilize the two parts with the drones?” I ask shy.
“Sir! Already done, it was a little hard with two damaged drones but both parts are secure.”
“Damn it, just before the slipstream exit!” Cold say with a growl “Hold on this exit will be turbulent!”
The exit from the slipstream realm was less than ideal but despite that no damage was done to us and the drones was not lost in the process as we exit awfully close to the protection armada of the station, Zu even cried in alarm at the many weapon locks we got.
“Here’s is ICW – Tenacity to all frequencies, we are not enemies, I repeat! WE ARE NOT ENEMIES!” I say over the radio as our slipstream radiate heat, two halves of a destroyer class cargo ship being hauled behind us.
“Here is admiral Wedamir talking, that’s the last time you did that capiche?” I hear the human male voice from the other side of the radio.
“Da, it won’t happen again, what are the odds of a hauled ship blowing just when you are about to leave Slipstream?” I say and ask the Admiral.
“So that’s the matter? The odds are close to zero, you can pass, the cargo ship is also free of heat signature so you are clear to pass.” Wedamir say and close the radio connection.
I sigh and sit back on my chair before laughing.
“Hahahahaha! That was fun devushki!” I say while laughing, a feral grin very visible on my face.
“You okay love?” Zu ask me as I calm down and sigh.
“Da, I am, sorry for that, I need to let my crazy self out sometimes or I'll go insane.” I say with a sigh “Open comms with the station, get us a seller for the remaining modules of that cargo ship.” I say as I relax on my chair.
The docking sequence was fast and took no more than five minutes after our arrival, Zu got directly to work talking with the station commander as our ship stay on the external docking port due to the two pieces of ship, and our drones that’s keeping it in place.
“I’m going out, I'll talk with Zeta and Mercy, see if they buy the whole parts from this derelict.” I say with a grunt as I get up from my chair and walk out of the bridge.
“Have a good walk.” Zu say as she goes back to working on the radar and radio.
“Can I follow you Captain?” Nail say while adjusting her own armor that she’s wearing.
“Da, let’s go, I'll head to Mercy first and see if I can speed up the selling of the derelict.” I say with a nod while jumping down the vertical stairs to the lower deck.
“Aren’t Adeptus Mercy somewhat hostile to you?” Nail say while unloading her kinetic rifle.
“Da, somewhat, and from what I got it’s because she’s suspicious of people from the hiden sector, we do have some very bad situations there.” I say with a nod.
We walk out of Tenacity by the umbilical attachment on the entrance of the ship, I also see that Selket, my old Terran mech is also good as new.
“Da, I like the job you did to Selket, also, did we get the modular mech?” I say and ask with a tilt of my head.
“Nope, it’s with Mercy still, what are you going to do with it?” Nail ask me as we walk down the station corridors.
“Maybe transform it into a specialized repair mech for Peppy as she’s our main mechanic on the ship.”
“So you want to place two giant welders to it and call it a day?” Nail say while snickering.
“Da, more or less that, also place plate holders on the hips for fast access to repair material as we don’t need a miner nor a heavy hitter.” I say shaking my head at her bad humor.
“Hey, White...” Nail say with a bashful face before firming her face. “Won’t you take care of us? I and my sister, and also Shy are waiting you.” Nail say with a serious face making me sigh.
“Listen Nail, I do like you all and I'm impressed at the things you devushki did to get my attention, I’m grateful, I mean it, but I am a person that worries about the opinion of his girlfriend, so I won’t do things that may hurt her feelings, it also don’t help me that I am a romantic inclined person.” I say with a sigh while looking Nail in the eyes.
“We already had this type of talk, and Zu allowed it, the others must be reforsing the fact again right now with Zu.” Nail said with a grin.
“Da, that I know, but what did you get over her to persuade her like that? The perfectionist girl I know don’t have a lot of weak points on her to exploit.” I say with a chuckle.
“Oh? That? That’s easy, we use you.” Nail say with a grin.
“Me?” I ask again while looking at Nail.
“Da, ya, we use ya to get her permission.” Nail say with a smile.
“Huh, that’s new.” I say and get silent.
“Don’t want to know how we do it?” Nail say while walking backwards, her hands on her head.
“Niet, I don’t, I already have some idea, and I may even get angry depending on the type of blackmail you girls are doing on her.” I say while shaking my head and pushing Nail to my side before she hit a civilian.
“Thanks White. As for the actions, don’t worry, we aren’t bullying our second in command, we just want the right to get intimate with you too just like she has.” Nail say to me while nodding.
“So you want a intimate moment right? I can give that.” I say while pressing Nail to the wall of the station’s corridor, Nail’s face get’s red... Blue really fast, and it gets worse when I activate the manual disengage of her armor, the from opening almost letting her small breasts out to the public, but my body and cloak did not let it show as I place both hands on each side of her head, my face closing in, her eyes almost spinning as my face stops centimeters from hers.
“Let me show you intimate...” I say with a gruff voice before diving in for her neck, my fangs piercing the exactly where I want with no resistance whatsoever as I drink some of her blood, her gasp of pain changed fast into a gasp of arousal as Nail try not to moan out loud, the civilians passing by showing mixed reactions at my actions but seeing the melted face of pleasure on her they start looking more curious as the talk increase as they watch us.
I release Nail with a sigh of contentment while making her armor engage again, clothing her again before I take my distance again.
“Liked what you got?” I ask Nail with a chuckle.
“Un...” Nail say with a shy face before speeding up to get besides me as we walk further into the shipyard area of the station.
Getting on the Mech dockyard I see only workers repairing and taking down mechs, and I see no mech ready with my signature, that means Mercy was too busy or did not work on my request at all.
I don’t mind because I’m getting the mech for free.
Shrugging my shoulders I walk off to the Shipyard main hub, to see if Mercy was there, but I also don’t find her there, but a look at the window I see a person working on the external shipyard ring builder, a better look tell me it’s Mercy so I give her a message.
*Got some intact modules from a recent derelict to sell, wanna buy?*
I sent that to Mercy and see Mercy whip her head my way less than a second later before flying back to the shipyard main hub.
Nail watch all that with a grin as we wait for her to arrive, it may not look that distant but the building rings are big enough to build cruisers and that means big structure and logistic framework, place a unique person to handle all those moving parts while on the void of space and you get Mercy.
Mercy soon appears and slides our way before stopping a respectable distance away before talking.
“What do you got for me young one?” Mercy say with her semi robotic voice and a deep look.
“Got a semi intact ship, bugger blew on the last second where I was going to sell to you the almost intact version, but now I have two halves, luckily they got untouched modules despite the explosion of the ship reactor.” I say with a sigh and Mercy raise her eyebrow.
“Sure, I'll get it from you, just give me the ship status.” Mercy say to me, it’s clear she’s keeping her joy in check.
“Sigma.” I say out loud.
“*Sending ship status to Adeptus Mercy... Complete.*”
Mercy get to work immediately and scan the ship data before looking back to me.
“You did good, it’s a shame we lost a reactor module in the process as it would render you more credits, there you go, 300.000 credits, 50.000 for each intact module.” Mercy say before sliding away, my tricorder giving a noise telling I got a log.
Getting my tricorder I see that I got 300.000 credits to my account so I place my tricorder back on my cloak before walking back into the station main hub and into the military sector, the walk itself took almost a hour, this station is unnecessarily big, must be for all the workers in here, it feels more like a packed astropolis than a station and I'm only passing by the center hub of the station, I did not get into the upper layer nor the lower layers.
When we get to the military sector it’s almost 8am, so I go directly to Zeta, and I get lucky to find her on the station lorekeeper area again talking to Lorena.
Not wanting to remake the same situation last time I approach while giving a Hiss of suppressed air, making the girls look my way.
“Privet Commander Zeta, I’m here to give my report about the derelict maker, they are dead and the ship is now being dismantled to make a new one.” I get directly to the point.
“Thanks for your good job, I got a warning about a ship entering normal space haphazardly, what happened?” Zeta ask me.
“The ship I was taking back to you all decided to overheat and have a explosive meltdown breaking in two halves right when we where about to exit Slipsteram.” I say with a sigh.
“So that’s why, here you go, I don’t need a report for the ship itself as I got the report that Adeptus Mercy is taking it for breakdown.” Zeta say with a nod of thanks before remembering something.
“Also, for that job you said you could do on the station, about the breeder reactor if I remember correctly...” Zeta say with a finger on her chin.
“Da, the Type Z2 breeder reactor, what about it?” I ask Zeta, I thought this option was void a long time ago as a joke.
“Right, that, the high command want it built on the station lower base close to the command center of the station.” Zeta say with a nod and a smile.
“Rodzher, but can we do that tomorrow?” I ask Zeta with a sigh.
“Sure.” She say with a smile so I leave her after giving a bye and return to my ship...