Everybody looked at the screen which was blank but of which the sound of help came from.
‘Is it on?’ Veronica asked slowly about the video but Djon shook his head.
‘No. It’s a message. A transmitter must send it out constantly.’
‘What should we do?’ Hawk asked but Eto jumped in front of everyone.
‘Help her of course!’ he almost yelled.
Hawk got a reminder of Etoile, where Eto couldn’t understand why people just wouldn’t help one or another. It gave him a feeling of admiration towards the boy.
TYO plugged in a part of itself in the computer and started reading.
‘The message sends a location. It’s not far from here,’ he said.
Everyone looked at each other and then at Eto, who looked determined.
‘Can we argue?’ Veronica asked and she had to laugh. The rest smiled and understood what she meant. If Eto wanted to help, he was gonna help.
‘You really have the spirit of a holy knight,’ Hawk said and that made Eto smile.
Djon put in the coordinates that TYO had found and he maneuvered the Tortoise into the direction of the signal.
They traveled through the dark red space and soon arrived at the destination provided by the coordinates.
‘This is the place,’ Djon said and they all looked around through the glass.
Just in front of the Tortoise, a few wreckages of ships had appeared, floating in space.
‘The signal is coming from there?’ Veronica asked and Djon nodded.
‘Scanning the wreckage. There is 100% lifeform located,’ TYO said.
‘Should we scan the area more?’ Hawk suggested but Eto jumped in, almost looking angry.
‘What are we waiting for? There is someone who needs our help!’
‘Alright, alright. Calm down,’ Djon said and he started to move closer to the wreckage.
He flew and searched until he found a hatch to attach the ship to.
‘TYO, scan for oxygen,’ Hawk said and TYO went to work.
‘Oxygen detected. Save to enter the parts that are not open to dark space,’ TYO said.
The ship made contact with the hatch and soon the side door attached itself to the wreckage.
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‘Who’s going?’ Djon said who already prepared his blaster rifles.
Everyone raised their hand except for TYO who quickly waved his little hands as a sign of not wanting to go in.
‘I think I will stay on the ship. For safekeeping,’ TYO quickly said and Djon couldn’t help himself but laugh. He knew what kind of a scaredy cat the robot was.
‘Fine. Then we will go and TYO stays on the ship,’ he said and everyone nodded.
They walked to the door and when everyone was prepared, Jon grabbed his rifles and opened the hatch.
Hawk looked at the rifles and noticed how old the models were.
‘Don’t you ever think about taking some new weapons?’ he asked and Djon showed his teeth with a grin.
‘No way. These ones will stay with me until the end,’ he said without looking away from the entrance and he started walking.
Eto walked behind him and tried to look what was going on.
The part of the wreckage they walked in was a long dark tunnel with emergency lights on, some flickering.
On the outside of the windows they saw the broken parts of the wreckage.
They entered a huge hall after the tunnel and noticed that some holes in the wreckage were filled with an energy shield, preventing everything from getting sucked out.
‘Emergency shield. Someone has activated those, to keep everything inside,’ Hawk said and he analyzed the room.
‘Hello!’ Eto yelled and quickly, Veronica hit him in the head.
‘Idiot. There is a reason why someone needs help,’ she said, frustrated by how Eto scared her with his loud voice.
Hawk nodded, making sure Eto knew they all agreed with keeping quiet.
‘Let’s look around,’ Djon said and he pointed his rifles in a direction as he walked to the right.
Soon Hawk started walking to the front and when Veronica wanted to bring the idea of staying together, Eto already started walking left, making the group split.
She quickly jumped after him, looking at the back while Eto looked to the front of where they were going.
The hall was huge with multiple levels and balconies to the side with different doors going in different directions. The only thing that was different from any other ship were the broken pieces everywhere. The ship definitely had a hard time and whatever did this to the ship, must have been the reason why help was called out.
Eto and Veronica kept walking until they reached a long dark hallway in which nothing was seen.
Veronica made sure Eto didn’t yell something but she also thought of how they could get the attention of the one who sent the message.
On the other side of the hall, Djon was walking into a hallway which stopped into a room where the ceiling was blasted off and protected by the energy shield.
‘Where could they be?’ Djon mumbled to himself. There was no sign of life, even though TYO traced it after scanning the wreckage.
He quickly grabbed a little device from his pocket which made contact with the Tortoise.
‘TYO, can you hear me?’ he asked.
After a few moments, the robot responded.
‘Yes sir,’ was heard through the device.
‘Can you scan the wreckage again for lifeforms? Excluding us four.’
‘Scanning,’ TYO answered.
It took some time until TYO spoke again.
‘Yes. Besides you four, there is one other lifeform on the ship.’
‘Just one?’ Djon mumbled and he heard something behind him.
He turned around and luckily, he was quick enough.
Someone in a dark suit holding long metal knives had jumped off a balcony.
It was going for Djon and it tried to cut him with a knife.
Luckily, Djon was quick and he jumped back, dodging the incoming attack.
He looked at the person who was covered by a black latex suit and a helmet, holding only the knives.
‘Guys! Trouble!’ yelled in the direction he had come from.