Authors Corner: Like I posted on D&A a few days ago i got a PM that a publisher wanted to publish my fics and D&A was the first target and the one that got them interested. Today i officially handed over the documents and at this time its now it has just begun to be edited.
The publisher is called 2 Tiger LCC which is located in the USA. For those interested in D&A and maybe even other books that they will be publishing in a few days. You can subscribe early and get a 50% discount coupon. If you subscribe after the release you can only get a 25% discount.
This is the site link http://2tigersllc.com/
Besides D&A i will also eventually publish Clockwork and Nebula but since atm D&A is the only finished one that one will go first since it won't put me on some schedule for writing more anytime soon unless the publisher want me to make a book 2 (which will at that point be different from the original intent)
As for the book price, i'm not totally sure about it.
Enjoy and have fun.
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Bang!
In the port with the single space shuttle owned by the Star Comet crew Boris walked inside slamming all the doors.
“BRATS! Pack up quick and beat it out of here now!” Shouted Boris.
Soon the crew appeared one by one.
“Whats going on?” Havic asked.
“A Rank 5 fleet appeared and they are after everyone that took stuff from the base. I know you all participated in that raid. They have trackers in their more important gear and items.” Boris said.
Havic frowned and looked at the arriving crew.
“Did anyone check for anything on the obtained goods?” She asked.
“They said they were after a Xetra Blink Drive, I can’t believe those bastards had one here.” Boris said.
Instantly everyone in the crew paled and it obviously didn’t escape Boris’s sharp eye and he also frowned.
“You guys have it?!” He said.
“We encountered it and went to ask about it on the ship. It was when Havic joined when she assaulted Alex.” Roktar replied.
Though it was a funny matter no one laughed in the slightest at this moment.
“Go grab EVERY object obtained that has seems even a little important.” Boris shouted.
At once we spread out and we began to gather weapons, tools and other items that we obtained at the bandit base while Havic leads Boris to personally open up the Blink Drive and remove the tracker. His words were “I will die before I let those fuckers get their hand on this!”
In no time at all our cargo had all the weapons and tools that were somewhat important. Most unimportant items were left in a box on the side.
Without caring we began to dismantle all the weapons and leaving me and Boris to check them over and rebuild them.
The larger guns, the important tools and the blink drive all had trackers that were like a five point spike ball conspicuously hidden but it didn’t hide from our eyes after dismantling everything.
“Good we got all of them!” Boris said.
“What about the trash, they may have added some inside incase we find out and ignore it.” Havic said.
Boris looks at his computer.
“You will have to do that on your own because the battle isn’t going our way. The station is being pushed back by the Drake fighters.” Boris said.
“What is that?” Noah asked.
“It's the equivalent of a dwarf fighter but from the Tosk. They are larger and incorporate a cannon in the mouth of the robot which can compete with the heavy cannons we have. Now get moving, there are already some rogue fighters ships coming this way! It won’t be long before the fighter robot's push through. Colonel and the rest are pushing them back as best they can as are the guards but they clearly outnumber us 3 to 1 besides the dwarf fighter unit.” Boris said and started to walk out.
“Get moving, Alex get flying, Jessica, Lisa, head to the plasma cannon, Noah jump into your Robot, try and cover if possible. We have shields but our fire power pales in comparison. Your robot has a Psionic shield so you can take a few hits before getting damage.” Roktar ordered.
“I can use some level of combat branch Psi as well, I can get with the other two!” Havic said
“Good, Hilda grab the guns and come with me. We will fire from the workshop door!” Roktar said and we split up.
Boris jumped off and went to a different port to take a ship back to the station to offer mechanics skill.
As we were getting ready we all got a call.
“To all foreigner groups, this is Major Marcus Snocon speaking. I have called all friendly ships and personnel to say that the station will most likely fail to stop this bandit raid. At this time all civilians are being evacuated via teleporters that are hidden within the hangars down to the planets surface where they have already been warned about the threat and have begun to increase security. Those outside of the station should leave the planet and system effective immediately! We have entered in contact with a nearby colony system and they have already begun to prepare a capital ship that will appear at Kelha III along with a rank 6 fleet comprised of 4 warships and 8 carriers. We can only say good luck and we will try to weaken and hold them back as best as we can! That is all!” He said.
The ship was quiet for a long time before Roktar walked to the first floor and shouted.
“Alex! Get this thing moving!” He shouted dead serious and without the normal cheerfulness he normally shows.
The engines start up and the ship soon leaves the base.
The crew feel as the gravity loses hold of them.
After a moment the turret compartment opened up and a large cannon rose in its place and the door to the workshop opened before Noah jumped out inside his fully charged robot.
“Coordinates to Kelha III set, we need to get moving!” Alex said as the thrusters light up and the ship begins to move away from the battle.
Noah flies behind watching the rear.
*Beep! Beep! Beep!*
Three beeps and a red flashing light starts to shine inside Noah’s robot and he turns to look.
What he sees are two heat seeking missiles flying at them.
At once the kinetic shot gun opens up and three shots are fired at once spreading the pellets that hit the missiles making them blow up.
The ship rapidly gained speed but far behind two Fighter ships were gaining because of the size difference allowing their smaller mass to gain on the big shuttle that was much slower in accelerating.
“I will go stall for time!” Noah says and pulls out the sword and makes a U turn and increasing his speed heading towards the two ships.
They release four missiles but like the last they are shot down as they get near and when Noah passes the cloud of dust and smoke he was on top of the ships and with a swing at the tip of one of them it began to spin out of control. With a simply 360 turn allowed him to unload a single psionic shotgun slug hitting the spinning ship and causing a psi shockwave and raising an explosion that instantly vanished as it ate the air from the inside the ship.
The other ship continues on but as it reaches 100 meters from the shuttle and the pilot locks on the large cannon on top does the same but Jessica’s finger shoots first and a compressed bullet of plasma rushes the fighter hitting dead center and causing it to blow up making the missiles in it blow up causing a larger explosion that vanished.
Noah sped up to catch up as the crew ran away.
*Beep! Beep! Beep!*
Looking back Noah paled at what he saw. Coming at a scary speed was a large dragonoid robot with the top bone structure of the wings made but the actual wings were pure blood red colored psi.
His speed was nearly 10 times Noah’s but with the head start Noah soon reached the ship.
“GET US OUT OF HERE! USE THE BLINK DRIVE!” He shouted as the door to his workshop shut.
“Activating Blink Drive!” Alex shouted.
The drake fighter was now already at 50 meters but when it did one final rush and winded its arm to punch the side to make it spin and stop but just as his arm goes forward the ship simply blinks out of existence and his punch hits only the empty void.
“What!” The pilot shouted in rage and looked around.
“Sir!” The AI said and an arrow appeared and pinpointed the ship over 1000 kilometers away.
“Boss! I found the Blink Drive!” The Tosk hissed.
“Retrieve it immediately! I’m sending another fighter to pincer them!” Cleave said through the coms.
“Got it!” The tosk said as his slit eyes narrowed. At once the robot blasted off nearly 900 km/h.
At the ship they already had the Fighter in view and were gaining speed up to 400 km/h already.
“Damn it! Speed up!” Alex shouted.
“Jessica! Shoot that guy already!” Roktar shouted.
At that moment Jessica turned the cannon towards the fighter and charged. The longer it charged the more powerful and to fight a fighter she would need a powerful shot.
After 1 full minute and aiming she finally blasted the concentrated shell.
The Tosk seeing the plasma coming at it with such ferocity it tried to dodge to the right but that caused the left wing to be utterly blown off and cause a lot of damage with the explosion.
The tosk was furious and stabilize its spinning and pointed his right arm at the ship. Opening his robot claw hand a small opening appeared in the palm and it began to glow before a glowing ball rushed out and hit the left main thrust completely immobilizing it and causing the ship to completely shake.
“MY BABY!” Alex shouted as tears began to gather but he kept got serious and deactivated any damaged systems.
“We need to blink!” Roktar shouted.
“We can’t, outside of a Xetra ship the Blink drive can’t be used as you want.” Baal said through the ship system.
“What do we do then huh!” He shouted in reply.
“This will definitely damage the engines but there is a function for the Blink drive.” Baal said.
“Baal! Your serious!” Havic shouted.
“What function?” Roktar asked.
“Xetra are known for wormhole technology and the Blink Drive incorporates the basics of that so it has an emergency escape system to open one to allow escape but this wormhole is always to a random location and it causes damage to the ship engine besides Xetra ships. If we use it in our situation forget damage to the engine, both rear thrusters will blow up and the engine will go into meltdown and shut off!” She said.
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“Do it!” Noah said.
“If the engine simply shuts off we can repair it, the same with the thrusters! Baal start it up! Xeno, Lia, Help him!” Noah says.
“Got it!” Lia said and Xeno remained quiet.
Outside the ship the Drake Fighter was slowly approaching the ship. Because of the blow wing he couldn’t move efficiently and had a hard time to stabilize the spinning caused by the explosion and psi had leaked greatly. Now he could barely move because of the strain.
“I’m going to murder them all!” He told himself.
Soon the signal for another of his allies appeared but as it did something happened.
The half broken shields around the shuttle completely rebuilt itself before gathering in front. Then a ball of energy rushed out before the shield spread completely over the ship and remaining visible. The ball of light moved only 5 meters away but as it got to that distance it began spinning and the very fabric of space began to rip open as a mass of swirling energy opened up reaching the size of the ship. Then an attraction force pulled the ship.
Seeing this the fighter tried to jump at the ship but like the first time the ship just suddenly accelerated and was completely swallowed by the wormhole that collapsed behind it.
“Fuck!” He shouted. “How did they do that!” he cursed.
“We just got a reading of a powerful energy from over there! What happened?” Cleave asked.
“Those fucks shot my wing off and I blew their rear thrusters crippling the ship. Then they did something that opened a fucking wormhole!” The tosk cursed.
“Fuck! That was our objective, the boss won’t be happy.” Cleave cursed.
After a moment of silence a laugh came from his side.
“Hahaha! All unites return to the ships! Gather all damaged fighters and their robot's if you are near and can offer the help.” Cleave said happy.
“Boss? What is making you so happy?” The tosk asked.
“Just wait and return to the ship, I will explain. We currently can’t track them until they appear again so now is just a waiting game, the rest of the junk at the base is worthless for us so retreat!” Cleave said.
From there the battle soon turned as the bandits retreated leaving the stations side with breathing room as they pushed them back until the ships left through FTL drive.
No one understood why they left but because they left they could only feel relief and gather their forces and all the damaged goods from the battle and calculate the casualties, lick their wounds and invest greatly in improving the security and weapons to defend against future raids.
In the vortex of the wormhole the ship was spinning like crazy through the vortex. Half of the ship's systems were off and the AI’s and Alex were working to restore small thrusters around the shuttle to stabilize the ship.
Removing power from things like refrigeration to power something else was done with several things until finally the other thrusters activated and Alex stabilized the ship in the middle of the wormhole. Luckily he did that because the other side opened soon after.
What appeared was a large planet with a green sea and more than 80% of the land surface was grey while the rest was green. We were facing a part of the planet with sunlight but we coukd already see the dark area and within were several areas with lights near the green spots on the planet.
The ship had appeared already within the gravitational pull of the planet.
“Quick scan shows this is some kind of junk planet where trash is deposited! Also seems to be the HQ to many scrapper organizations!” Lia said.
“Guys we are dangerously close to the planet, we are being pulled in and the thrusters are shot and the engine is offline. We are going to be experiencing a crash landing, I can turn the ship to enter the planet as it has a proper atmosphere and fly the ship with just the momentum but the landing will be far from nice so find something to strap yourselves to.” Alex says as he begins to move the ship and put the ship in an angle for entrance as well as picking up the speed to fly.
"Xeno! How are the inertia dampeners and shields.
"Shields are weak at 20% capacity and dampeners are about working still." He replied.
"When we get to five thousand meters turn off the life support and reroute the energy to the shields then open the vents to let the air from outside circulate." Alex said.
As we approach alex pulls the handles for the ship and partial its nose dive turns as the wings begin to catch the wind.
At five thousand meters the life support went off and the vents opened.
What met the crew was the smell of a dirty air similar to car exhaust.
"Oh god! Please let there be no structural damage so that it wouldn't cause the air to leak." Havic was saying.
Everyone frowned but handled it since it was their survival.
With the ship at a 30 degree nose dive when they reached two thousand meters they saw the junkyard mountains.
Huge scuttled ships, equipment and much more.
Alex at this point pulled back make the ship be at a 70 degree angle and slow the descent.
At this point the ship was lowering at a slower pace.
Far off they saw a massive structure as they neared the ground.
"Xeno! How are the shields?" Alex asked.
"80% at the current speed it will survive and protect the ship besides the lower hull which may break under the pressure or just dent." He said.
"The bottom is near the cargo so the plates are better. Prepare for touchdown!" Alex shouted.
We neared the ground and Alex kept turning the ship until she spotted a much clearer space up ahead and aimed there.
He dipped the nose a bit and gathered speed to reach it and as they did he pulled up the nose which momentarily raised the ship before the lower side touched the ground and pulled the rest down crashing but making a cushion of junk below reducing the damage to the max with the shields.
Inside, even with the dampeners everything was thrown around.
The crew had been tossed around with the initial jolt but as the ship stopped it calmed down.
“Damn it! I really hope there isn’t any damage to the drinks!” Roktar muttered as he got up after falling on one of the chairs.”
“Care about you… Urg… fucking life old man!” Noah complained in pain after being rocked around and hitting his head.
“Is everyone alright?” Lisa said completely fine. Her feet were off the ground but they land moments later and she walked over to Roktar and began healing him then one after another.
When she reached Havic the demoness groaned but laughed.
“Atta girl, take care of your man first.” She said and winked.
“Not now Havic!” Lisa said with a serious face.
Havic just smiled as Lisa used her healing powers on Havic he looked roughed up.
After healing up we work our way outside and when we get to the air lock we are completely surprised.
“...uk DAMNIT FUCKING BITCH BANDITS! I’M GONNA KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE!! WAHHH!! MY BABY! I SWEAR I WILL HUNT EVERY ONE OF THOSE FUCKERS!” Shouted a voice full of hate.
With Havic and Lisa’s help we floated down where we met Alex punching and hitting everything in his surroundings.
We looked at the ship we lived in for a few months and cringe. First off was the back which was scorched black from the explosion of the thrusters, then the bottom was completely embedded into the ground with lots of hull damage. All around the outer side of the ship was damaged greatly from the crash.
“The shields held it together rather well but even then it couldn’t withstand the damage.” Havic said.
“So we are stranded on this planet?” Hilda asked.
“Ah Right! Boss now is our time to shine!” Her AI blurted out.
“No we simply need to repair the ship but we got to completely replace all the broken parts and then remove the ship from the ground.” Havic said.
We all sighed as we looked at the ship.
Behind us Alex was still cursing so Havic ran over.
“Alex! Calm down already!” She said but he didn’t even notice her so she did something that seemed to help but still take advantage of Alex.
She came from behind and grabbed his head and stuffed it in between her head. He froze for a moment.
“Calm down already, we can repair the ship or even build a better ship.” She said.
Alex blinked a bit the scowled.
“Who asked for what you want! You and these flabby boobs always trying to take advantage and assault me!” He shouted and pushed her away before surprisingly grabbing Havic’s two generous peaks and pushing her down.
He began to vent his anger on her while physically venting by roughly fondling her with all his rage. Yet she was completely turned on. Alex had mounted on her stomach and was on top and she had no way to get up.
After a while Alex vented and just got up leaving Havic on the ground breathing roughly with her face covered in sweat.
Alex just sat down downhearted and let out a sigh and looked depressed now.
The crew all just looked on not knowing what to say. Finally Roktar couldn’t take it and spoke.
“So he really is a man, and one that can cause quite a bit of havoc. I wonder how much he caused to her.” He said with a grin.
He received an elbow from Noah but the damage was done as the two androids looked away and Lisa was bright red already from watching.
“Havic?” A strong voice called from seemingly nowhere.
The crew looked around and Havic seemed to snap out of it with the voice and sat up still shaky.
“Who?” She said but a moment later she saw the movement of a man.
Looking his way the perfectly camouflaged body shimmered as the scaly body changed to red scales and soon black military like metal armor shimmered into existence. The head of the man was that of a large lizard and on his back was a powerful tail.
He looked at her and a smile spread on his large face.
“It's been awhile since the beta testing. How have you been you horny demon.” He said and grinned showing his sharp teeth.