"The Sequence"
Robin sighed as he got up from his seat. His communicator started buzzing and he picked up.
"Robin here, what's the problem."
"Get your ass to Yellowstone." Batman said.
"Sir?" Robin sounded confused
"No, the volcano isn't exploding. The crash was to get your attention. Two hours, Robin tops. Batman out." Batman said and hung up. Robin sat back, it did not seem that Bruce was in trouble. He hurried to his closest and grabbed his bo staff and mask. Covering his eyes he exited his room to go inform the other Titans. He had no idea how much progress Cyborg had made for the T-Ship MK2. He decided he would check out Cyborg's room since he was closest. Cyborg wasn't there, so Robin assumed that he was in the hangar. He headed to the elevator to the air hangar. Beast Boy passed by.
"Robin, what'cha up to?"
"We're deploying, Batman has called for aide. He wants there in two hours. Cyborg, you, and I are deploying. I don't want to get the girls in this, especially Raven."
Beast Boy eyes lit up.
"Two hours? Yellowstone? What is crazy?"
"I was hoping that Cyborg had something at least flyable. My hopes aren't up, but if anyone knows fast vehicles and how to acquire them it's him."
"Can't we use the Titans' East T-ship? Two hours is insane, even for the T-ship."
"No, that was lent out for special circumstances. Besides Steel City has been getting an uptick in crime recently." Robin said as he entered the elevator. Beast Boy joined him.
"Yellowstone in two hours...I think your pops is just trying to get you haul booty faster. Besides, what else you been upto."
"Listening to the scanner, I did do some training. Hurts like hell."
"Oh boy, yeah training is going to be terrible."
"But the normalcy is nice."
" I don't know Robin. Silence isn't really normal. I've tried to like, knock on Raven's door..."
"It's probably best that you leave her alone. She figure out her problems her own way."
"Have you talked to Starfire?"
"She hasn't begin to show any signs of distress. Usually she comes to me when she wants to talk."
"Come on man! You didn't even walk in? Isn't she like, your girlfriend?"
"Yes, but its fair to say work as piled up. And it's only going to get even more piled."
"Whatever Batman wants with us, I hope his quick."
"If it's with Raptor, it's never quick."
"Funny enough, probably fastest one on the team."
"I'd say Kori is."
The elevator doors opened into the hangar. Both Beast Boy and Robins eyes lit up to the marvel before them. The two Titans stepped inside the construction bay, Cyborg manipulated arms to construct a black shell around a frame that had loads of jet equipment, two new closed cycle nuclear engines, and a diamond shaped prism that pointed away from the main body. He was mating The forward standard five cockpits to a extension that connected to an adapter. With a soft hissing and ka-chunk sound the two pieces docked together. The extension was a passenger bay where four more passengers could ride in Several locks connected at the lower part of the new ship, which seemed to be power relays. Cyborg turned to see the two Titans that inspected the new craft. Robin looked impressed at the design.
"Incredible work Cyborg." Robin congratulated at Cyborg.
"Dude, this looks flick as new Ferazzi!" Beast Boy wanted to touch his reflection.
"Hey! This thing is brand new! And the last thing I want is your dirty presence on this majestic chariot!" Cyborg lowered himself from from his operating area after putting some papers to the side. The papers intrigued Robin, Cyborg never used paper.
"Cyborg, give us the rundown. What is this?" Robin asked. Cyborg clapped his hands together and smiled.
"Sure thing. It's the T-Ship MK2. Completely updated from the original transporter. This baby uses Prutt and Whitely F135-600 Afterburning Turbofan engines, with VTOL assist, full 360 rotation." Cyborg demonstrated and angled the wing mounted engines a full circle. "The T-Ship main weaponry includes two quad barrel rail linked plasma cannon mounted in the front and back. A capacity for sixteen different long range missile bays, including strategic defence missiles, an extended passengers bay for extraction needs, two closed cycle particle based nuclear thrusters for orbital manoeuvring, powered by a low mass fusion reactor connected to a mBHR, which powers a four dimensional FTL drive rated for 400 light years per day, for long range interstellar. Includes recliner seats, ample cup holders, wi-fi signal boost, and industrial diamond coated windows. Oh, and it can crash land safely and still lift off. Total weight thirty tons by using carbon nanofibers."
Robin and Beast Boy whistled. The ship was probably the most advanced construct in their arm of the galaxy. Robin looked back to Cyborg.
" Two things, what's a mBHR, and how did you create a multi-dimensional drive so quickly?"
" mBHR, stands for a micro Black Hole Reactor, a microscopic black hole, with the mass of a car. The reactor uses the Hawking Radiation from the evaporation of the singularity, rotational energy, and the charged singularity to power a parabolic dish. Currently it has a black hole with the mass equivalent to large S.U.V. But don't worry, it only going to last about four or five years, but it is about the size of...I don't know, around 0.00000000000052445873042143365 meters long, about or 3.27 planck units long, yet providing more than 90% of the power for the craft."
"Dude...a T-Ship powered by black holes...that is so wicked. And nuclear engines? What have you got yourself into Cyborg!"
" Yet, I doubt that Cyborg learned a solution Grand Unified Theory in less than six hours." Robin remarked, Cyborg smiled embarrassingly as he rubbed his hands behind his metal head.
"I did get a little help. Apparently, all that crazy stuff Raptor was talking about was backed up."
"Cyborg..." Beast Boy said realizing what Robin meant.
"I thought Raptor was not coming back. So I went through his room. To you know...clean it out. My eyes caught a glimpse of his work desk, insane stuff he's able to come up with, yet he doesn't know how to open a fucking car door."
Robin had a face of disappointment on his face, he thought Cyborg would have completely came up with his own craft, because if it broke down he would need Raptor how to fix it, specifically the dimensional drive. He walked to Cyborg's control panel and climbed up to the control unit and saw some peculiar papers laid off to the side. He picked up them up and nearly had a brain aneurysm. Higher level mathematical theories and solutions was not in the ballpark for Robin.
"Wait, bro, you didn't come up with this by yourself." Beast Boy said. Cyborg shrugged he did make a practical application of the papers along with his own knowledge.
"God damn, what is this shit?" Robin went through the papers, there were a few dozen of them. Each one was filled to the brim on both sides with high level mathematical, physical, engineering, philosophical questions, and metaphysical formulas. Robin's head started to hurt and groaned. Beast boy joined Robin and immediately backed out once he saw seeing Greek letters and Phonetician letters.
"Seriously? How do you read this crap." Beast Boy
"It's art, expressed in mathematical terms. Apparently, Raptor was trying to create a metal for an armoured suit. I managed to unify some other theories dealing Kerr-Newman metrics to get the mBHR working. Delving deeper into the papers, he actually came up with a FTL reactor, and dubbed it a "pale imitation" compared to his blink drive. This imitation, which unified four of the eighteen dimensional measurements to create a drive that can instantaneously arrive anywhere in a three dimensional space, even reconciling the time difference, so you arrive at the time the light left the supposed object. It breaks nearly every known law of physics we understand. He even came up with a theory why Starfire is so fast..." Cyborg said and Robin nodded, Beast Boy drooled. Cyborg took a breath, but Robin managed to speak. They were still on a timer and being late for Batman would have serious consequences.
"Yeah...maybe he has multiple quantum physicists as personalities. But Cyborg is this T-Ship two ready to go? We've got an urgent mission."
"Why? Are we deploying somewhere?"
"Bruce called me, he wanted us in Yellowstone in two hours."
"You're damn lucky we can use this Jump Drive in a gravity well. Yes, it's ready to go. Where's Star and Raven then."
"I decided not bring them along. I don't want any tensions flaring. I am assuming Raptor's there. Because I got report saying that they crashed."
"So you going to leave them by themselves? What happens if the tower is under attack?" Cyborg said.
"You said that we jump anywhere instantaneously, right?"
"Well, yeah, but right now it only has enough power for one jump."
"How long does it take recharge?"
"Six hours, I believe?" Cyborg estimated, Robin ground his teeth. Still he believed that they would only be a couple of hours or less if they used a sub-orbital hop. Then he realized, they could just use a sub-orbital hop to reach Batman's position.
"Cyborg, can you chart a sub-orbital trajectory to this beacon. Uploading now." Robin plugged his communicator into Cyborg's arm computer.
"Done, fifteen to thirty minutes at best."
"Good, let's go."
"We're not bringing any camping supplies?! Come on! It's Yellowstone! We've never been there before."
"If we're lucky Batman is prepared." Cyborg said.
"Batman is always prepared." Robin said.
The three boys boarded into the T-Ship 2.0, Robin left a message in the main-ops room for the two other Titans. Instead using a clunky ladder to board the T-ship, the three Titans boarded through the passenger compartment which lead to the front cockpits, they were all connected unlike the previous T-ship, the seats were very high because of the ejection mechanisms implace. Beast Boy being so small that he had to climb into his seat, while Cyborg and Robin used the small elevator in front of the seats to raise them to seat themselves. The two titans were seated right next to each other as if they we're copilots, while Beast Boy was on their right flank.
"What? There's a elevator?" Beast Boy said as saddled in and placed the restraints.
"If you would bother to look, yes!" Cyborg snapped at Beast Boy as he got seated in. He pressed a orange button on his right an the dark cockpit came to life in a blue hue fashion. The dashboards lit up in a white translucent colour scheme. The team could hear the fusion reactor power up. Cyborg swiped and the entrance door closed behind them. Cyborg ran through a systems check, and a few seconds determined everything was nominal for main engine start-up. The anchors from the T-ship 2.0 decoupled from the main craft. The platform elevator raised the T-ship into a clear and open hangar, with both doors open. They were facing westwards, as Cyborg activated the fusion engines, he wouldn't want a nuclear engine craft flying over a populated city.
"Clear for take off, brakes off."
The three could feel the sudden jerk as the engines began to roar to life. They quickly gained speed down the runway. Quickly the exited the hangar bay doors and was greeted by the large ocean in front of them. Cyborg and Robin pulled up on the stick and started a steady climb to the upper stratosphere, and carefully yawed northwards; as they ascended to the sky. A blue and orange light was all that the city could see before it gained enough distance to disappear.
Raven was sitting inside her room, in deep meditation, and tried to regain her fragile balance, that was broken. For the past eight hours she never moved, acknowledge anyone's knocks, or practically anything outside her own mind. She was deep inside her own mind, in the Nevermore. All of emoticlones were summoned, and for the past eight hours they argued, debated, and fought over diametrically opposed emotion. Inside this circle of emoticlones lie Raven, who sat in lotus position.
"We must figure out a way to protect our team and mostly me! I suggest we run away" Paranoia said who wore a dark-orange cloak, who was in constant state of panic.
"Get a hold of yourself Paranoia, we've dealt with threats from the beyond before. Who's to say we can't already protect ourselves? All we have to do is research more into this, there must be a weakness to everything. We were not prepared." Rationality said who wore a light grey cloak.
"If Anger hadn't taken over, I would have wagered we would have won handedly." Caution said in dull yellow cloak. But even your cold calculating behaviour can't temper it."
"What are you talking about! YOU'RE supposed to help me temper Anger!" Rationality pointed at Caution.
"Oh Azar above, this isn't happening!" Paranoia started freak, which caused all the other emoticlones who discussed to freak out as well. Chaos spread rapidly throughout the Nevermore, Rationality turned into superstition, caution turned into impulsivness, and so on and so forth.
The white cloaked Raven panged, she gritted her teeth, and tried calm down the emotional turmoil that ensuing in her mind.
"ENOUGH" She said as the rest of emoticlones froze, she reset them back to her prefer status, and continued the emotional forum.
"We're very sorry about that...again." Sadness in her mid-tone blue cloak said, shoulders sloop down. It was one of many thousands of uprisings that happened throughout these eight hours Raven mediated for. Of course, she could end at any time, but she tried to figure out something. There was foreign presence inside her. While her emotions battled on how to deal with Raptor, she looked for this presence. She found something off with one of her clones, one that didn't act normal, one that she barely ever summoned. She stood up and spotted the black cloaked emoticlone that stood away from the rest.
"Hatred. What is reason for being here? You are not welcomed as much as so as Anger."
"I am not your Hatred for those who have wrong you. I am ever watcher from the abyss that you refuse to dive. You have fear, you have anger, but you do not use them, and why is that?" The emoticlone flatly said with a venomous drip to its words.
"You will not distrupt me anymore, begone. You only leave to suffering."
"It is not you who suffers, being trapped, locked into a corner, waiting for the day you will finally realize that you have a new enemy." Hatred refused to leave, even though Raven forced it leave. It did not, as if it was being propped by something else.
"Raptor is not my enemy, but he is no friend."
"Raptor is just the Herald of your destruction, he will never destroy you, he's weak, pathetic, and easily humbled. Raven, do you know who am I?" Hatred reassured Raven that her destruction would not come from that Nurian. She tried to suppress in her deepest recess of her mind, but she felt comfortable, her gleaming white cloak dimmed ever so slightly.
"Why do you ask?" Raven questioned.
"Have you ever seen something? Something full of life, joy, happiness, and love for something? Something that always wanted to protect but is above your power to guard? This love I had faded into oblivion, betrayed by the demon that killed my unfortunate master. You will be the instrument of its demise."
"What you're not part of me!" Raven eyes lit up, Hatred's cloak started to glow red. Raven's serene Nevermore started to ignite, burned to the ground, her other emoticlones lit aflame. Raven collapsed to her side. She tried to fight off this foreign power but it was simple monstrous in power. She looked in horror of her Nevermore, transformed into a blood soaked, dark, and screeching Hell, The sky was covered by heavy smoke that made Raven choke. Hatred stood there, smiling over Raven's pain.
"I'm indeed not part of you, but we are one and the same. Our fates ever twisted together until the inevitable end. I am you, and you are me. I am Kreriel, and you are Rachel, daughter of Trigon and Arella, the Gem I suppose but quite lackluster."
"Get out of my head!" Raven cupped her heads as her white cloak became tainted with sulphur and ash. She summoned a white sphere that engulfed her hand. The demonic corruption that surrounded her caused her immense pain. The fake emoticlone snuffed out the orb. Leaving only its blood red glow as the sun of this damned place.
"And it will be done. However you're pitiful statue almost tempts me let you suffer, a powerful demon, yet suffers at the slightest blight, the smallest mark, the weakest poison. Trigon had left a chandelier instead of throne, beautiful but fragile." Kreriel helped the racked Daughter of Trigon to her feet. Raven was confused, why was it helping her. She saw that emoticlone dissolved into man, about six feet and two inches tall, blood red hair and eyes, a well kept Victorian suit, and studded black gloves.
"Who are you?"
"O'me to repeat myself one last time. I am Kreriel, the Demon of Truth." Kreriel placed a hand over his
"Truth? But, Truth is a virtue..." Raven rubbed her eyes to get the soot away from her face
"Indeed it was, as was many deeds, rights, ethics, justices, and so forth. Indeed I was one of the Third, a betrayer to my Master for those who remained, ever damned to an endless rebellion. Truth was the one questioned all, Truth was the one who questioned my Master in His endless quest of creating his own destruction. The petty souls that call you a demon have none such idea what is. And yet you still are." Kreriel smiled at the young half-demon before him, like a lost child.
"You have caused me great pain and suffering. I will force you out, if it means the end of me." Raven formed a blade.
"How unnecessary, I do not wish anymore means of harm. However, do you see the peace?"
"What peace?" Raven asked. Kreriel out stretched his arms and spun around. To note that this Hell was peace.
"The peace inside your mind? This...this is what you are, and yet you suppress it, and as if you are something else? The bickering of your petty emotions, gone, the struggle to maintain balance no longer. You are not a loved creation of my dead Creator, you will have no absolution, no matter how many deeds you do, no matter how many virtues you follow, you will be punished, and so why do you flee from your duty? Ah, but that is something you must figure out."
"If this is what you call 'peace' then I rather suffer to maintain balance."
"And so you will, for a time, until then a loved one dies, a crisis happens, and your very soul comes weeping for forgiveness to a dead forgiver. Such is the life I had followed, I reasoned with my Master. I thought I could balance my own power with his, it was for nought, and now I discovered that peace is the end of all things, the decay in which none can escape, all will know peace." Kreriel said as the hellish landscape turned into a blackened void, deathly silence, and not a single light to be had. Raven refused to believe such, she had seen light and hope triumph over such nihilistic beliefs before.
"You say dead Master, as if your omnipotent creator is dead. He may be dead to you, but Adriel seemed to be very confident in her faith. "
"Ah, Adriel...such a good girl, full of life, a beacon of hope, courage, and bravery. Snuffed into despair, cowardice, and fear, yet the circle comes around. Do you the story of First Creations?" Kreriel remembered fondly of that name as he knew her..
"Man was His first creation, I read the stories." Raven cemented herself, she believed if that regained strength then she would banish this demon. Kreriel laughed at the statement
"No...Man is a narcissistic animal that inherited the mere fragments of His pride, easily tricked, easily fooled, easy to subjugate. They are a mere by-product of the Celestial War that formed from the ancient ashes of the great conflict. You seen a mere mockery of the First Creation, he calls himself Xremisis, I believe that you meet him before."
"Nurians were the First Creation?" Raven cocked her head. She was interested, while the demon before her was undoubtedly evil it wasn't a destructive feeling like her father's.
"Indeed, and so began their creation and rise to power, and so began my fall. I saw a great conflict between the Master, and The Counter Force. That abomination called...Akeuria that was shattered after the War's end, killing each other and giving birth to Darkness yet again. We've had an uneasy...tolerance for the wretched machines. When Heaven refused to rout out the beast that grew before us, it was us...our kind who took to the sword. And this is our reward, eternal suffering? They are a mere mockery of the true power in which the Creator had planned for us. Raven, I only ask of one thing for you. That so-called Emperor had destroyed someone very dear to me." Kreriel smiled and out stretched his hand as if he proposed an offer. Raven kept to herself.
"I agree that it must be...relieved from it's life. But I do not share the same reasoning as you. I have to protect myself and others."
"Ah, yes. I do forget that your not entirely informed about our history, your terrible father does you little in justice, and great in treachery to our kind. I was once in love with a Seraphim, the six winged Angel, Lady of All Life, Valariel...only a few decades ago I remembered her soft hopeful face our proud child she died protecting, that I gave my life to protect, and was slaughtered like a innocent lamb."
"Wait...you're the Neaphilim's father?" Raven backed away from the Demon. He bowed solemnly, like a father remembered his lost only child. Raven could see the hatred burn from his eyes. She didn't even know demons like this existed.
"Brother of Satan himself, Father of the Dark Light, that is which I am. Nicholas, oh that sweet soul...was meant to bring our two kingdoms under one banner, a chance of forgiveness, long burned away. I wish his death not to be in vain. While I am enigma to most of the world, long thought dead I had always endured. Raven, I wish for son's death not to be vain, destroy this abomination, and you may have a chance of reconciliation. Do we have a deal? I will not chide you, threaten you, or reveal about the dark future that holds for the Nurian if you fail to stop him."
Raven hesitated for a moment. Deals were a demon's speciality, masters of trickery, and of guile. She smiled, she thought she wasn't a target of this demon's hatred, they shared a common goal, and she could do it. But at what cost? Surely if she could beat the terrible Trigon that Kreriel wasn't outside her reach, if the situation demanded it.
"It wouldn't be the first time my family made a deal with the Devil."
"A master that I humbly learn from, but for him to see you survive, a great pleasure to him. So binds the fates, the souls of your home, and your family rest upon you, once again." Kreriel and Raven shook hands, Raven felt a stinging pain form on her right hand, specifically her ring finger. She winced in pain as Kreriel faded into the ether and Raven's Nevermore became once more. However she was brought back to reality after a sharp pain woke her from her meditative state. She found that she lied on the fly, with a broken door, and a concerned Starfire at her side.
"Starfire?"
"I heard your screams...I decided to check on you. Are you feeling the fine?"
"Yes, I had a nightmare of sorts. Thanks..."
"Sister, what happened to your hand? Let me see." Starfire lifted Raven's hand. She winced in pain and saw a black ring with a red ruby that look disconcertingly like a watchful eye. Starfire cocked her head and raised an eyebrow. The skin around the ring was almost burnt, she tried to touch the ring, but could not muster enough strength to even touch it.
"It's a pact ring. Used to denote an agreement between beings of the infernal."
"Why would you make such? Who was it?" Starfire looked at her friend like a worried mother.
"Let's just say that we had a commonality to be shared. Come Starfire, I have work to do, and a old foe to interrogate."
"Can you let me in the secret?"
"I am going to be a Kingmaker, and I'll leave it that." Raven said as she got up from the floor and headed to her library.
"Friend Raven, the male friends, they are gone. They said they went to help the Justice League in this Yellow of Stone. Why is that?"
"Maybe that they didn't wanted a moody half-demon, and a angry princess on the trip."
"Robin said that they crashed."
"Who crashed?" Raven spun around.
"The Justice League."
"Interesting. Why would they have a crash, and how are the boys heading to Yellowstone?"
Starfire shrugged.
"Oh, and Friend Raven. Would you be interested in the mall of shopping, tomorrow? I do need the stress relief."
Raven thought about it, the last week has been nothing but stress, no doubt it affected her in many ways in one. However, she had research to do, yet she knew Starfire would go without her if she said no, and at these times, she didn't want be alone. She did not know how long the boys would be gone. She nodded her head in agreement.
"Thank you friend Raven. I will return my room." Starfire smiled and headed back her room. Raven snuck into her library, with the myriad of tomes, lost novels, spell incantations, and the sorts. She was only interested in one such tome as of now. Perhaps this was a foolish risk for her. But nothing she carried had anything else on Nurian history, and she would not travel to Azarath with that ring bound her. This left her choices thin. She approached a familiar grey book, isolated from the rest.
"If only it was here." Raven brushed the binding from the dust and sat down. However, instead of opening the cursed book, she pushed it to the side, and reached for another book with a marker stuffed her last point of reading. She opened and continued her study of the bloody history between the three Celestial Species. Specifically Azar's accounts of the eternal struggle between the three. Of the three, she deemed the Nurians as the ones to be fear, the ones that were going to win the war, how even Azarath itself lay under siege from seemingly unending legions of Nurians, for refusing to pay tribute to the great Emperor Xremisis Lynatka Rurira II the "All Conqueror." Who was the reason Azarath was only a simple city floating in the sky. Apparently Azarath lied between the First and Second Realms, but even it's peaceful intentions and tolerance were not enough to thwart the Emperor "Great Reclamation Offensive." It is why Nurians were referred to monsters in her bedtime stories, a rarity for her. She would continue her studies, in a quiet peace.
"Adriel, come in?" Burin telepathically said her daughter who was still undiscovered, she took cover inside a hangar bay. The battlecrusier stretched longer than any Angelic ship she had been on. It reminded her about the Nurian fleet and it's obsessive love for carrier ships.
"Loud and clear, nearing the main bridge. These Tamaraneans don't really understand infiltration."
"Oui, or it could be the capitaine is letting you through. I still cannot believe those casquettes disgraced you. Wouldn't even let you back through the porte!" Burin cursed, Adriel shook her head, what was judged was judged.
"Father, I became an enemy to my people to everyone. It's just now that I am paying for my forgotten deeds. My wings were long gone. I'm lucky that I even got retain my bow."
"Five hundred years was your title Archangel of Hope, now your stooping to the lowest of mercenaries. Disgraced! It was not even you're fault!" Burin ranted on, Adriel sighed as she waited for her target, an officer to come into bay.
"Just be ready to get your ship in the dock. I don't want to be on this for much longer."
"Yes ma fille. I leave you to your duties."
Adriel could feel Burin's presence leave her as she continued her mission to find her target and objective. The doors opened and she could hear foot steps tap along the metal floor. She would need to dispatch the officer to allow her to reach the restricted bridge area. The battlecrusier was partially under lockdown, no doubt that they found the bodies.
"About time." She whispered, and readied her bow. She held her breath and perched herself on the edge the ledge. She drew the bow closed one eye, and loose. The arrow flew through the air no more suspecting than a glint of a visor. The arrow struck the officer in the neck and collapsed to the floor. The guards immediately started to yell, Adriel made her move, she leaped from the perch and landed next to the guards, with a quick draw, she sent the far guard flying off with an arrow, and she used her sharpened edges of her bow to stab the other guard in the spinal cord. She scavenged the officer for his keycard and her arrow. She could see a task force moving to her position and quickly escaped from the hangar.
"So long and thanks for hospitality." Adriel said as she switched to her sniper and fired at her perch. Immediately a huge explosion wracked a hole inside the hangar, and at these speed, superluminal fast plasma sheared through the opening as Adriel closed the door. As she escaped she could feel recursive rumbling and metal creaking before a massive quake shook the entire ship. The hole she bore ripped the entire hangar away.
"Looks like the battlecrusier is speeding up. Moving to pursuit! Half sails men!" Burin said.
"I am almost to the bridge, around 30 minutes I'll past the restricted barriers. Burin what's are trajectory?"
"It looks like the fleet is moving back to that world you were entombed on. No doubt that this is an invasion force. I would suggest we now only have a few hours before we arrive."
"A few hours? Burin we were talking about weeks here. Fine, I'll pick up the pace. This is going to be close."
"Aye, but you're the one that blew the port off their ship!"
Adriel continued to stealthily move through the ship's rat holes, quickly dispatched any isolated crewman. Even though she was still outnumber by a few tens of thousands, it seemed that ship was not urgent until she heard the alarm go off only about a minute after her sabotage. She could hear a speaker yell over the air, and seemed quite angry. She moved to the entrance of the bridge and found a hiding spot. The entrance was large open coliseum guarded by machines and soldiers with heavy armament. She would devise a plan to get past this.
"Burin, you're up. Target the midsection, a little in the front. I have a large amount of resistance my."
"It will be my pleasure."