Enroute To The Ship Yards of Combatron
What is destiny? is it something that is preprogramed into one's very being by some higher form of life that is beyond normal understanding. is that life? to unknowingly follow someone or something map. These are some of the questions that the sole passage of the living shuttle sky lynx is currently thinking about and among other things as they fly towards a hanger bay.
To follow her own path in the universe and nobodies else's or if there is such a thing as destiny pulling her strings, does that mean that of her struggles insert her independence have been for nought? because of her experience in her unusual life, The Pearl who stood up, those are the questions that she frequently plagued her mind.
"Pour me another one" she raised the empty glass up in hopes that her friend would honor her request.
The Nebulan holomatter of Sky Lynx appeared right next to his friend carrying a bottle of Mood Whiplash. After a minute of holding her glass up, waiting for her friend to pour her drink, she turned away from looking out the window to see that the holomatter avatar had a look of uncertainly with a mixture of confusion.
"Oh wipe that look off your face. You known that it won't affect me" she wiggle her glass in hopes that in would get her another drink. Sky Lynx let out a sigh of defeat as he pour the bottle into his friends empty glass because he known that she was right, engex had little or no effect on her physiology.
"If it doesn't effect you than why do you even bother drinking at all" Sky Lynx said as he watch his friend drank from her glass.
As soon as she finished her drink she turned and look at the holmatter avatar and said "Maybe it's the same reason why both of our species adopted binary gender pronouns. Maybe it's because we want to fit in with the larger universe" She placed her empty glass on the table as got up from the chair and let out a chuckle "That and maybe making a few extra shanix on drinking contests"
Sky Lynx rolled his eyes at his friends answer as his holomatter avatar disappeared . "Attention approaching shuttle please identify yourself immediately" Sky Lynx started to slow down his thrusters when flight control contacted him.
"This is shuttle S257,i am transporting important navy personnel. transmitting clearance codes now" Sky Lynx replied to flight control as he stopped his thrusters completely and started to wait for a response
"You are clearance codes check out. you are permitted to land at hanger bay 167" Sky Lynx started his thruster the moment he detected one the hanger bays doors opened on the port side.
The pearl noticed that they were headed in towards a hanger bay and as her flew towards it, she look out the window and saw multiple ships being constructed for the imperium fleet. She leaned against the window to get a better view of the ships that going to help her and the imperium grow.
She couldn't help herself but smile at the size at the number of ships that the yards were producing because ,even though they were much smaller than the battleships used during the war, the seer number of ships here prove that the imperium has a much greater military might than the diamond authority.
even though she had thoughts of going to war and finishing the diamonds herself she begrudgingly had to admit that even though the imperium had the superior numbers, the authority had the superior firepower, thanks to the so called peace accords the both the imperium and the authority were forced to sign.
Her train of thought was interrupted as she felt the shuttle coming in for a landing. She quickly grasped the handrail with both of her hands as the shuttle began to enter the hanger.
The Hallway shook only for few seconds and when it subsided she heard Sky lynx's voice "Well here we are" his holomatter avatar appeared in front of her and started to walk down the hallway. She let go of the handrail and started following him.
As the two walk down the hallway, The pearl look once more look out the window and saw a jet bridge attaching itself to the side of the shuttle, the pair stopped as the door open and as the pearl began to step out of the shuttle she turned to her friend "you known my new ship is big enough for you if wish tag along" she reach out her hand towards him.
The Holomatter let out a chuckle as he grab her hand and shook it "I think my adventuring cycles are long past me. I think it's time for your generation turn to have the mantle of adventurer"
The two let go of each other hands and the Pearl turned around towards the end of the bridge and started walking. As she stroll down the jet bridge she couldn't help herself to feel nervous about making a good impression on her new crew. Various thoughts went though her head about how will they treat her because despite how confident see might act on the inside she will feel like someone's else's property but she quickly shook her head in order to get her head on straight because she known that self doubt can cause nothing but problems in the long run
As she reach the end of the Jet bridge she was meet with a pair of guards waiting to escort her to crew. They quickly bow there heads to her and turn around and started walking. The Pearl followed them across the lobby area of the port but stopped when she heard a familiar voice " Yo Spit shine". She groaned at the nickname she hated for various reasons and only one person have called her that.
She turned to see the yellow faceplate of her friend Getaway and Despite his faceplate she could still feel him smiling underneath. the two are reach each other hand,shook it and Getaway pulled her in close to give a hug. she closed her eyes and the both of them patted each other on the back before breaking their hug.
The Two stared walking down the hallway and as they walk the pearl look around to see various of cybertroians. some tall, some short with various attachments on their bodies show all kinds of different alt-modes they have and as they walk down the hall the pearl couldn't help but noticed that some of them were looking at her, while some appeared to be whispering to each other.
she shook her head as the duo stop in front the elevator doors. "you known after all these cycles it still amazes me on how keep your head cool despite what they say behind your back" Getaway said as the elevators doors opened. "because it doesn't matter what they say, what really matters is what I do" the pearl replied to her friend as the two entered the four wall lift and the pearl pressed the button for the floor the wish to be.
"and what I'm doing is helping expand the imperium" she said to her friend as she took off her cap and started to rub her gemstone. The stone imbedded in her forehead started to glow and in a brief moment of flash that encompassed the elevator ,the pearl was holding the datapad that on the vital information on her mission.
"So what do you think is going on out their? another breakaway faction trying to make a move against the authority or is something else in entirely?" the pearl handed the datapad to her friend in the hopes that he will share is thoughts on the mission. Getaway took the datapad and skimmed over the entire mission statement and what evidence and theory's both his friend and the defence committee had written up on the mission and the planet their heading to.
"there some many possibilities on how this mission will turn out , all ranging from a basic rescue mission to full scale war" Getawat mused as the datapad while tapping his finger on his faceplate" But I believe if we play our cards right just right. We might be able to turn this our mission to our advantage." he said as turned to his friend and handed the datapad back to her.
the elevator door open with dinging noise and as the duo left the elevator the pearl couldn't help but smile "well this is going to be just prime" she put her hand on her mouth and stared to clear her throat. The pearl stared to walk to the crowd in front of her new ship "greeting everyone my name is septimus and I will be your captain this cycle"
