Earthbound
19 Feb 2021Konner_Salutaris
After spending the last couple weeks in the clink, me and Lyman are have arrived in Sol. The Bounty Hunters tracked us clear to Cubeo and then on to Latoya.We were camped at the Nav point in Latoya. Last time Lyman was out in the fighter the bay door never sealed right so we took some time so he could repair it being afraid the compromised hull pressure would prevent our next jump.
All was quite for about an hour. Some vessels popped in and out, nobody even scanned us. I nodded off for a bit. Dreamt of her, but not in a good way, never is. We make the Demons that haunt us and when I took his life, I made him. No peace even in my dreams, for when she is in them, he shows up to take her from me, each time more horrifying than the last. I can almost feel him coming, even in slumber. I'm sitting with her, gazing at her beauty. Then that's when the pain in my stomach starts, the sky starts to become dark, she doesn't seem to even become worried or notice, I frantically start to look around as rain poors and thunder crashes. Still she seems unfazed by any of it. Then out of the darkness he comes for her. Barely human, not the "man" that fell at my hands, he's something else. Her murder is always savage, and more brutal than the last. Everytime I'm frozen, helpless but to watch. I awake screaming, sweating, reaching out for her. I know Lyman hears me, yet he says nothing.
This time though I was awoken by a weapons attack on us. Lyman frantically over the comms calls me to the bridge. I get there as three Bounty Hunters are asking for our surrender, which is odd, never given the option before. Lyman tells me he managed to fix the breach and we were good to go. I take the helm as Lyman heads for the fight bay. As I stall making excuses, and continually telling them they have the wrong ship. The Krait and two cobras had us surronded and locked.
On my signal Lyman launched in his fight as I launch seekers. And immediately follow up with The Ripleys modified Beam Lasers and Multi Cannons. Lyman easily takes out the Cobras while me and The Krait have at it. The whole time I'm curious, why alive all of a sudden? Who has the Bounty out for me, I mean I have an idea but not sure.
The option to take this guy alive for questioning starts to enter my mind. I try to make him a deal as Lyman catches my wing and we both have him dead to rights, as the law comes swooping in to investigate the crime the Bounty Hunter fires at us and the law gets hit in the crossfire. We get arreted as we don't need more trouble than we already have, we surrender for jail but not before Lyman launches a Prototype tracking device onto the Krait. We knew it would be a small stay in jail, we bowed out for now and decided to track him once freed, we are hiding out in Sol for the moment. Needless to say it's our turn to find out who's behind this and take the fight to them. Plus I've always wanted to see Earth. Ad Astra Commanders o7