Chapter 4

We got to the first intersection, I pulled Lance against the wall. He was going to walk right into a Drule patrol. I tapped my finger against the wall 15 times. Counting seconds go by. After the last tape and wrapped his wrist and ran across the intersection of hallways. I kept running at full speed practically dragging Lance behind me.

It probably not the best idea to run that fast with him injured, but I didn't care. I was so close to getting off this planet. If I took him up on his hole cadet offer, I wouldn't have to run any more. And maybe meet my dad. But, I had to get the two of us off this planet. We turned around corner to quickly and almost ran into the watch towers light. The sun had finale set and all 5 moons were in the sky. I have always loved the nighttime.

We hunched down hoping not to be seen be the patrole all around the ships. I looked at every ship to see with on would be the best to a quick escape. I stopped looking when I saw a 572-Rov sitting about 1000 bions away. Not the most weaponised ship, but I knew the controlled like the back of my hand. I waited for the guard light to pass again and then started the sprint in the opposite direction of the light towards the ship.

I was practically dragging Lance again as I picked up speed. We finale reached the ship and I pressed my hand against the lock and waited for the door to open. The second it opened I sprinted inside, again dragging the universal pilot. I looked at the controls and grinnced. The ship had no power.

"Well that's just amazing, you picked a dead ship!" I was slightly annoyed that he didn't trust me this far.

"Guest sit down and try not to annoy me too much, I got a surprise for you but only if you behave." I pushed him into the co-pilot seat and sat in the pilot seat. I gripped the controls and took a deep breath in. I hadn't done this in a couple of months, it might not be the most pretty thing, but it will do. I felt the tug in my stomach, from their it grew to my fingertips. I open my eyes and saw the black energy pulse from them. Than I focused the energy into the ship. With that the dashboard did a outward black pulse of energy as I came to life. I looked over at Lance to see if he enjoyed the show. His mouth was hanging wide open, guess he wasn't expecting that.

"I know a kid how can do that, but blue not black energy." I thought of that impossible, unless another generation has been given the mantial. This scared me and made me feel warm. I could picture my friends when you first got the shields. I snapped out of my thoughts, we had to get off of this god-forsaken planet. I need to get away from the bad blood. My fingers started pressing buttons and we started to take off.

"Earlier you told me about being a cadet?"

"Yeah, you might be interested?"

"Maybe," and with that I went full force up, towards the sky, towards space, to my eliminate, to my home. It didn't take the drule forced long before they noticed the ship taking off without permission. And of course they started firing, couldn't they just let us flee in peace. Couldn't it just have been that easy once. We were being fouled by a fleet of drone ships, in which to say twenty of the worst made machens in the hole galaxy. It took a lot of jerking and some very unhonorable flight patterns to get the ships destroyed. Now that I thought about it, weapons would have been a good idea. I glanced back at Lance, he seemed to be not enjoying the ride.

It's not that I am not a good pilot, I just haven't been a ship of any kind and at least a year. I kind of lost my grip on time when I was a prisoner of war. Because that was fun. I look back again once we are at a safe distance from the planet.

"How did you like the flight?"

"I feel like I should have flown, instead of a… how old are you again."

I turn back to the windshield. "Not important. How about you radio your friends to tell them we are off planet.

He started the talk on his coms, I didn't really care enough to listen. I just remembered his shot wound, a stupid thing to forget. But it felt like a week instead of just a day that this all happened in. "How's your wound?" I stood up and walked over to him to check it. I was about to take off the bandage to check it when a hand slapped my own out of the air. Rude!

"It's fine, no need to check. My friend say that they are coming to pick us up. Now how about you tell me a little bit about yourself?"

"No,"

"Why not come on, we'll make a game out of it. It will be fun, I'll tell you something about me, and than you tell me something about you. Sounds cool."

"Aren't you supposed to be an adult, I don't to talk about my past, and I don't want to learn about yours either." I figured mean was better than having to talk, I hate talking.

"Now that just tells me that you are hiding something, come on, my name is Lance McLain. What's your full name?"

"Delphie,"

"Ok, what's your last name than?"

"Not important,"

"Really why not?"

"It's the family that you don't share a name with that you are closer to." Now he was just plain out annoying.

"Ok, deep, but for really what is your last name?"

"My Guess is as good as yours." That was a lie, I knew what my full name was. I just figured if I acted like I didn't know. He would stop pestering my.

"Oh," That shut him up. I looked out into space. Absolutely nothing, but with the capability to be everything.