Phoenix
23 Jun 2016Howard, o Pato
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4625 kHzI leaned against the cockpit door, the ship shook and groaned in anguish.
My left arm could not support my weight, I neglected their complaints since the incident with the limo.
Took a deep breath and stood upright, put on a mask of confidence, I didn't want to worry Nyx, she had bigger problems.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZNyx struggled with the controls amid thunder and raging storms in Scorched sky to reach the orbit-low. What was a view at the impressive minimum. The light reflected shimmering in varying shades of red and gold. Storms and magnetized hurricanes, lightning and micro explosions above. Vanilla clouds in a chain, randomly spinning inconceivable speeds below ...
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZWould not I tell her how to make a re-entry, but while I was unconscious, Nyx turned the ship 180⁰, flew back to reduce the speed using the rear thrusters, reducing the pressure on the cockpit and dealing with the flames with the part of the ship it was more accustomed to the heat. She needed much more power than imagined to align the trajectory correctly. We'd be flying blind if not by a scanner adaptation loaded in the datapad. Although nothing could be seen amid this storm of red phosphorus gas, hydrogen and Helio anyway.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZThe entire structure of the ship shuddered brutally. metal objects adhered to the walls due to magnetism. We'd all ripping the sky in a big ball of deadly fire. We spent half the maneuver at the time the ship was swallowed by a wind current that pushed the flames for a while, that's when I saw the last and lingering imperial ship.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZHe was chasing us and approached relatively quickly, used the vacuum left by the flaming tail that diamondback produced. It was an impossible maneuver to be made by normal means, we were not in supercuiser, even could not the interdict us, and no ship in normal mode flight reach that speed. Or he was a very skilled pilot or had authorization to an atmospheric reentry. One thing was the fact he was not a pilot any. He tried to expose hardpoint, but with all those rays and the wind speed, the weapons were pulled out and exploded leaving their holes in flames.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZNyx thundered on his helmet so I knew she had done everything she could to keep the path and the backup battery would no longer be required. The centrifugal force thrown out us of the gravitational pull. I read his lips and understand the reasoning.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZI pushed the battery for the engine room and below were the tracks of weapons. Breathing was labored, but I was too stoned to realize the worst evil. The battery was still 45% of energy and was not so great, it fell in the large hardpoint slot. I gathered the poles and connected with an impact sensor of a damaged escapepod. "I knew that one day would find a use for this junk."
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZWith the ship turned off, I had to start hardpoint manually. The handle was big and heavy so I put all my strength. But a lot of blood escaped through my teeth, choked, the air was thick and iron, and did not get into my lungs. ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZ What's wrong with my body? Why not obey me? Why could not breathe if my accountant had not yet zeroed? My hand was shaking. The left arm was not moving, forget it, he was not right for a long time even. It took me a second to realize that I was huddled.
ZZZSSSKKKKRRRRRRRSSSSSZZZZI pulled the arm with the hand looking for the suit biosensor. "Another dose adrenaline does not hurt anyone". I felt my chest burning, the pupils dilate by taking away the darkness that already tried to dominate me, the heart with power of a thousand horses. I stood. I roared to expel all that accumulated blood.
I pushed the lever with tremendous force, the arm muscles warmed and swelled. So I pushed harder.
The handle moved, by opening the outer chamber and exposing the battery that was sucked by vacuum heading straight for the federal ship.
The battery exploded on impact.
The explosion was deaf, followed by smaller blasts to a large.
It seemed to year-end celebration.
Flames of fire, engulfing the storm, hurricanes burning, burning helium and methane spreading in a one thousand kilometers trail.
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