Craig stood there as the doors opened, Andrew and him stood in a dark room only one light was on hanging high on the celling. More lights started turning on and a ship sat in the center of the room, it had a large center room obviously where everyone sat and everything was stored then two main engines on either side of it. A ramp came from the back of it allowing easy access to the ship, Andrew was walking up the ramp then stopped and turned. "Are you coming? We are in a rush." He then continued up the ramp into the ship.
"So what is this ship called?" Craig asked when he got into the cockpit with Andrew.
"Oh umm I believe it's called Belisarius Defiant, but I'm not entirely sure Lord Shaxx accidently ordered ten thousand of them from holiday, he now gives them out sometimes during crucible matches." Andrew laughed to himself slightly, "Amanda wasn't happy when Shaxx told her he didn't have the money for these, I've never seen him scared of anyone that much before, or after for that matter"
"Well what happened? Did she get the money for them?" Craig asked.
"Oh she got the money alright, don't think shaxx would still be around if she didn't." Andrew stated pressing a few buttons on the dash board.
"What are you doing?" Craig asked as he watched Andrew press more buttons.
"Oh I'm just putting us in the queue for launch so we can head to the blimp. And get you ready for your survival weekend"
"Oh and why do we need to go to this blimp couldn't the ship make it to where ever it is we are going? Or could it not reach that far? Where is it we are going by the way?"
Andrew looked over at Craig "Can you ask one question at a time? Or do they all have to come in sets?"
Craig looked back at him. "I hate to point this out but I think you just asked multiple questions at once too."
"I did not" Andrew quickly replied.
Actually you did, you just asked two questions right there.
"I'm starting to regret being the trainer now" Andrew said as he looked at Craig's ghost.
"So" Craig quickly said to break up the argument Andrew and the ghost where having. "Why are we flying to this blimp? You never answered me." Craig said making sure not to ask multiple questions at once this time.
"Ah well umm yes the ship could easily make it there by its self and float in the sky for a few weeks before I would need to go back to a hub to resupply" Andrew started saying.
"A few weeks?!" Craig yelled "I thought I would only be out here this weekend not a few weeks!"
"You are I was just trying to make a point" Andrew said as the ship started moving down the hallway. "You will only be there till Sunday afternoon then we will head back here and you'll get the rest of the day off. Then on Monday we will see how good you are at flying Amanda told me you just went and got a new ship, where did you get the money for one so early? Most Guardians need to work at least a month on the wall before earning the money for their first jump ship. Well anyways you will start training for Rookie week when we get back you have only a couple of weeks left till then and you need to learn how to fly fight track and hide by then or you won't even stand a chance." Andrew just continued talking about all the stuff for rookie week when the light reached the ship, the ship was being lifted up after a moment he could see out in front of him they were no longer in the lift but now the launch bay inside the tower.
"Ship Alpha Bravo Echo 34552 Bravo 2 You are clear to launch from tower hanger stick to predetermined path until you are out of restricted airspace. Winds are blowing west at three knots all weather is clear for the next hundred miles with some storms pass that in the north and east." A voice said over the radio.
"This is Ship Alpha Bravo Echo 34552 Bravo 2 we are taking off and will follow determined course." Andrew said and pressed more buttons on the dash board. A large yellow line appeared on the wind shield as the ship slowly left the hanger and Andrew followed it as they made their first turn to head back around past the tower and into the wild.
After about ten minutes the yellow line disappeared and a message showed up on the screen it read "Neutral airspace fell free to change your course now" then it flashed away. Andrew pressed one more button and another message popped up saying "Auto pilot engaged" and he turned his chair to face Craig.
"ahh sorry about that need to focus when you're near the tower so not to stray from the correct path did that once and I had to buy shaxx a new ship, the turrets are pretty picky about who gets close to the wall and who doesn't, get off course even a little and you become some massive threat to the city." Andrew said. "Anyways back to your question the reason we use the blimp is it's a lot bigger then this little ship ill have much more room to walk around and it will be easier to watch you from it.
"Oh okay that makes scene I guess" Craig said as he looked out the window, Craig has never been in a jump ship before and the view from up here was outstanding to him.
"See that mountain over there? That's the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountain range. We will be flying for about four hours before we reach the blimp then we another hour or two in the blimp before we reach the destination and should pass a few amazing sights along the way." Andrew said pointing off to the distance where a mountain range could barely be seen at the horizon.
"So where is it that we are heading? " Craig asked.
"oh well we're heading to Watford where we will drop you off, we will then follow you as you head to London, it's a huge city in old United Kingdom, its mostly cleared out with a few guardian safe houses throughout it. We send regular sweeps through the area to keep it cleaned out its one of those few safe cities around the world…. Safe being a relative term its nothing like the City but it shouldn't be too bad the journey getting there I can't say the same but nothing has been reported yet." Andrew said. "We will go over the area a lot more thrall when we get to the blimp. You can go sleep in the back room if you want it's not big but it is a bed."
"Well thanks I think I'll go get some sleep hopefully will get up before we reach the blimp." Craig said and got up heading back into the small hallway behind the cockpit. There was a door on three of the four walls the one Craig just walked out of that lead to the cockpit one on the left that led to the small personal room and one on the right where all the guns and ammo was stored including the ammo for the guns on the ship. The center of the hall way lowered into the storage room for the sparrow and the walkway to exit the ship. He went into the small room to the left there was a chair and a table in the room and a small panel on the wall with a few buttons. He pressed the red button on the panel and a bed lowed from the wall taking up most of the room. He laid down on the bed and fell asleep instantly.
He woke up to an alarm going off on the panel, flashing red. "Ghost armor now" Craig said and his armor appeared on him with the helmet appearing on the table he grabed it and went to the cockpit. "What's the emergency" he said as he burst into the room.
"Oh nothing that was just to wake you up, we're here." Andrew said. Craig looked out the window a giant blimp was in the sky mostly white with a black top. It had two large propellers slowly spinning pushing it forward with two smaller turbines on either side for steering. Suddenly half of the roof of the blimp vanished and the ship flew into the now open roof before it reappeared. There were several other ships in this room of varying sizes one ship looked barely big enough to carry two people others looked like they would carry a hundred people. Lights turned on allowing more light to flood the room. It was already pretty bright the roof was mostly glass or, some kind of field Craig wasn't quite sure what it was since it just disappeared and reappeared. Someone walked up a set of stairs
"Welcome to paradise Commander Andrew and Craig" The man said. "I'm Captain Mike" He said and saluted to them. "You got here a bit faster than we thought you would we are still two hours out from the drop zone debriefing will be held in the helm in one hour, see you there.