Djon navigated the tortoise through the holes and tunnels of the hangar. While he passed them, the alarms went off and he could see that they were closing. Giant doors of steel were trying to close and lock them in.

‘Piece of cake’ he said with a smile while he turned the ship so he wouldn’t hit anything that came in front of him

‘Easy?’ Veronica asked who grabbed something to stay in her chair.

Even though she was strapped in, she felt being tossed around by Djon’s flying maneuvers.

‘Sorry,’ Djon said but his laugh made it seem like he didn’t mean it.

They got to open space and Veronica could see the traffic from the flying ships in the city.

‘Do you know where to go?’ she asked Jon. He looked over his shoulder.

‘Sweetheart, I know this city like none other. Just put in the codes of your ship and I will know where to look,’

She didn't like his words of choice but she had a feeling of relief while sitting back to insert the codes and then wait for them to reach Eto, Hawk and TYO.

Suddenly, a loud bang was heard from the outside. It startled Veronica.

‘What was that?’ who looked around, searching through the window for where it came from.

Djon looked in his scanners and gave a big sigh.

‘They are firing at us. Didn’t take them too long to notice that mine ship was stolen. Everybody is on alert.’

Veronica looked at Djon’s back and started to wonder.

‘What kind of pirate are you?’ she asked and again he turned his head with a smile. His beastly teeth were showing but it was not terrifying. Veronica almost started to think that he wasn’t so bad for what she thought a pirate could be.

‘A one of a kind’, he said and his other arms quickly moved to control the ship.

While two of his arms steered the ship, the other two pushed different buttons which made the ship go faster.

‘Hold on tight,’ he said to Veronica without looking at her and she could feel how she was pushed into the chair due to the speed of the ship.

‘It won’t take long until we arrive at your ship,’ Djon said while looking at the scanners for attacks.

Eto and TYO kept waiting but nothing happened. Eto kept looking back where they came from if he could see Hawk returning but he saw nothing.

‘Do you think everything is ok?’ Eto asked and TYO drove to stand next to him.

‘He went to the checkout corner. Maybe it’s busy?’ TYO asked and Eto nodded, accepting that that could be the reason why it took so long.

They kept quiet and stood there, thinking of when Hawk would return. Suddenly, TYO rolled forward and said something.

‘I’m 84% sure this is not a logical planned thing but I’m sure it’s 87% effective,’ TYO said and he turned to look at Eto who looked surprised.

‘Eto, get to the checkout corner and get Hawk. We are gonna move,’ TYO said.

‘What do you mean?’ Eto asked but TYO pulled up one of his little hands.

‘Don’t worry. I will have the ship ready. Just be back quickly to escape this place.’

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Eto nodded and he jumped over TYO, making his way to the checkout corner.

At the checkout corner, Hawk was overlooking a crowd of people.

‘Damn. Everybody tries to flee because of a certain incident’ he told himself.

He kept looking through the crowd but it seemed there was no way for him to get the checkout card in time. Suddenly, someone grabbed his robot arm and pulled him back.

‘What the,’ but when he saw it was Eto, he calmed down.

‘Sorry for making you wait but it’s impossible to get the card,’ he said but as always, Eto had that grin on his face that could tell he didn’t worry.

‘No problem. TYO got a plan,’ Eto said and he pulled Hawk out of the crowd and moved back to where the ship was docked.

‘What plan?’ Hawk asked.

‘I don’ t know,’ Eto said while smiling as he ran in front of Hawk back to the ship.

They returned to the ship and they saw TYO standing next to the door, ready to open it.

‘What did you do?’ Hawk asked and TYO put his arms to the side, like he wanted to stand proud.

‘A little overwriting and disabling the borders placed on the ship for stealing if taken without a checkout card.’

Eto looked at him, not quite understanding what he meant but he was happy.

Hawk, on the other hand, grabbed TYO and hugged him quickly with relief.

‘That’s one smart robot.’

TYO looked over his shoulder to Eto who was still smiling.

‘I'm 100% sure you mean it and the fact you want to tear me apart for research has dropped to 38%.’

Hawk opened the door and everybody got in and took a place.

TYO jumped on the controls and a tiny arm came from a little hole on his body which he plugged into the controls. The lights of the buttons went fast and the light on his lens flickered a few times.

‘Now. You should be able to overload the gate that is shut,’ TYO said.

Hawk looked at the gate and started to program with the controls.

After a few seconds they saw the gate behind the glass of their cockpit opening slowly.

‘Yes’ Hawk said and he pulled his arm up for victory. Finally something that worked.

‘Let’s get this show on the road,’ Hawk said and he started the engines.

He pulled up the ship and moved it towards the gate but suddenly alarms started to ring on the landing platform.

‘Warning. Unauthorized departure active. Assistance is alarmed,’ was heard outside through some speakers.

‘What now?’ Eto asked who looked outside and saw red alarm lights going on and off.

‘It must be the checkout card. It’s not scanned. I removed all the security on the ship,’ TYO said while jumping up and down, feeling displeased with himself.

‘My calculations were incorrect. How could this happen?’ he said and his robotic voice sounded heavy.

‘It doesn’t matter,’ Hawk said and he looked serious.

‘We need to get out of here,’ he said and he pushed the control stick that made the ship move faster towards the gate.

They moved through the gate and the computer started to bring in a message.

‘This is Admiral Gustia. You are leaving without permission after a rule has been filed that no ship may leave Etoile after recent incidents.’

The voice wanted to say more but it sounded like the message was being overwritten.

‘How does it work out my friend?’ a voice said that Hawk recognised.

‘Who are you?’ Hawk asked, not sure if it was who he thought it would be.

‘Who am I? I’m the great,’ but it sounded like the person was pushed away from the mic. Quickly, they heard the voice of Veronica.

‘Hawk, do you hear me?’

Before Hawk could answer, Eto pushed him aside and moved to the mic.

‘Veronica, how are you?’ he asked, happy to hear her voice.

‘Eto? I’m so glad to hear your voice. Do you guys see a tortoise shaped ship above you? We can see the ship underneath us.’

Eto, Hawk and TYO all looked through the glass to the sky and they did see a ship shaped as a tortoise.

'We are on it’ Hawk said and he already pulled the controls so the ship went up.

‘Almost there’ Hawk said to the rest who made a little jump of joy while holding on to something.

They could still hear the alarms go off behind them from the escape.

The sound of the alarms was soon followed by the sound of an explosion and the whole ship started to shake.

The wave of the explosion they heard and the heat from it could be felt behind them and when they looked around, they saw that the back of the ship had been shot and was damaged heavily.

‘No!’ Hawk yelled, looking at the controls of the ship to keep it going, followed by Eto who asked what they should do.

‘I'm 100% sure we are going to crash,’ TYO said while the ship slowly started to move downwards.