Revenge, Nov 8, 3301
08 Nov 2015ParkTyGreen
Today was quite eventful.So I was fighting in the cayutorme system, for money.
Soaring through the battlefield and killing the Syndicate members
A distributor malfunction caused me to go off course, and sent me careening through space without inertia dampeners.
I started receiving fire.
Frag flying past The Blue Horizon's canopy like specs of dust, but deadly dust.
They started striking the the exposed hull.
Sparks flying throughout the cockpit, I began panicking.
"This is the end"
I've survived financial criminals, capital ships, crazy pirates, but this would be it.
Getting killed by a random Clipper.
The frag struck one of the engine pods.
I jerked back in my seat as the ship's engines became unbalanced, and started spinning rapidly through space.
Then another barrage smashed the other engine pod.
I was not spinning any faster now, but still extremely fast.
I then realised, "The auxhilary power is still working! I can use the thrusters to slow down."
I cut power to the now nonexistent power distributor, and activated the retro thrusters.
The spin slowed.
That was now the least of my worries, as the Clipper was closing in.
The Blue Horizons had made a full 360 due to the spin, and was now facing the enemy.
Sensors were still working, damaged, but working.
I could deal with a little radiation from a damaged scanner.
The image appeared on the flickering holo glass, CMDR xDarkPheonix.
"Wait, I have seen him before..." I thought to myself.
He was the CMDR who had nearly killed me on my first day in the pilots federation.
A missile streaked towards the canopy.
A burst of air pressure, the canopy shattered.
Another burst propelled me even more, I flew from my ship like a bottle top on a wine bottle. But much faster
I looked back just before I passed out, my ship was beyond repair. Shrapnel everywhere, engines sputtering.
Everything went black.
I woke up later, back in my ship. On the screen was a repair bill, titled, "Your ship was in really bad shape, thank me later"
On the comms was an image of a repairman smiling in front of my severely damaged ship while repairs were being conducted, exposed superstructure as panels were being lifted into place.
I went down the exit ramp of the ship, and went to the repair office. At least that is where the message told me to go.
I walked into the the repair office, It had a dusty feel, it had one of the tiny Windows near the entrance of the station.
"What happened exactly?" I asked the man leaning against the reception table.
"Good you asked, I am the guy who led the repairs on your ship, she was in really bad shape"
"Really bad shape, that was beyond repair! The FSD was destroyed, and the ship would have exploded shortly after!"
"Well she didn't, you've got a resilient ship there."
"And why did I wake up back in my ship?"
"You got released from the Infirmary yesterday, they said you would be awake in a few hours, so we just put you back in your ship"
"We?"
"Well, I was working with the doctors who fixed you up, apparently you had a piece of metal inches from your heart!"
"So The Blue Horizons is all fine,? You sure there is no long term damage to the engines?" I asked pensively
"We had to replace the engine pods entirely! Expensive, but that is why you pay the bills"
I stumbled around the room, shaking my head
"Also, the storage chip in the left console was destroyed, we are sorry that you lost your vouchers
"I will pay the bills, damnit. Just can't believe this happened"
Later, I walked back to the Blue Horizons
I didn't take the elevator, I wanted to take as long as possible.
"ParkTee, just remember that the ship didn't EXPLODE, that would be worse" I thought to myself
After an hour or so, I got the the hangar where the ship was at.
I took a look at the ship, thinking how such a thing could happen.
Days of combat, gone. Vouchers worth 4,000,000.
I went up the ramp, and a few minutes later slouched down in my seat.
I had to do something, that damn imperial DarkPheonix...
"Hey, that bottlecap I threw is still there" I said.
I disembarked the starport.
Outside the station, I had an idea.
"Wing, I can wing up with some people, we can stop that criminal together"
I started inviting people to a wing.
CMDR Goldsilver, and CMDR Yessy joined.
I opened voice comms and said "I need your help, guys"
"With what?" Gold said.
"Eliminating a certain individual"
"xDarkPheonix"
"He is in a wing I believe" Yessy said.
"We can do it. He has been killing innocent people." I added
"You guys in?"
"He destroyed my ship while I had 200k vouchers in my Vulture."
"So yes"
"Yessy, you in?" I asked
"Killing criminals, yep, my thing. I'm in"
I started the FSD.
That feeling swooped through me again like a bullet.
I was off, along with my allies.
Soon we arrived at the Combat Zone.
When we jumped in, we began the search.
A few minutes later, we came across the bugger.
"In a wing of two" Yessy announced.
"Fire on my mark." I said.
To have the most chance of killing him, I invited another commander to the wing. Commander 'Ugotskilled' joined the wing.
"You encountered CMDR xDarkPheonix?" Gold asked
"Yes, he killed my friend. May he rest in piece"
"We are going to kill him." I added
"I'm in" he said.
"I thought you were dead! Guess I will have to destroy your fancy ship again!" I heard from the external voice comms.
"What is that voice?" Gold asked
"It's dark, he's hacked the external voice comms"
"Why did you try killing me?"
"You are an imposter in the empire, using the empire's money for your devil devices"
"I use the money to get better weapons to kill bounties, dumbass, which low and behold, happen to at times be enemies of the empire.”
I cut comms to external, and said "Fire when he looses interest"
"Got it"
I reconnected external comms
"So go off on your merry way, go kill some people and make money!"
"How about I kill you... And make sure you are dead this time?"
"I don't think that would be a good idea"
"Well screw this, I'm out"
The large white frame of the Clipper slowly lumbered towards the battle.
"On my mark"
A few minutes later dark began attacking a Vulture, CMDR MarkxOver.
"Should we help him?" I asked
"Yes"
"Kill him" I said calmly
The second Gold shot the Clipper, dark boosted away.
"I can't catch up!" I yelled
After a minute, there was a blinding explosion as the cluster of expanding white specs and chunks of wreckage the used to be dark slowly spun through space.
A second later, the wingman, CMDR ipilot, opened fire on me.
I used vertical thrusters and maneuvered under him. Then shot the cannon.
His shields burst open like an orange exploding from the inside.
"Frame shift charge detected" the computer said.
50% hull
40% hull
The Python disappeared in a flash of white light.
Later we continued fighting in the CZ. No wing to worry about.
An hour ago as of now, we said farewell to each other.
"Fly safe"
This is Commander ParkTy Green, signing off.