Ranger24: Cortana make this thing go faster! My story hangs in the balance!
Cortana: Okay going hyper active!
The ship lurches forward.
Cortana: At this pace we will catch up with flame rising in T-minus one chapter.
Ranger24: And here's the chapter.
Chapter 30: Light the fuse... Run away.
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Cloud enters the bridge killing off a few dusks inside. The bridge is a wreck charred control panels, toppled chairs, broken glass, and sparking wires are everywhere. Cloud makes his way over to Arieths old holo tank. He inserts Areith who appears on top. She looks around at the devestation and sighs.
Areith: I leave home for a few days and look what happens.
She turns to the forward view screen where a group of red numbers counting down from fifteen appear.
Areith: There that should give us enough to find away of the ship and into space before the ring is destroyed.
Suddenly a hated voice is heard.
Dojo: I beg to differ.
Areith: Oh hell.
Meanwhile else where in the ship Dojo is flitting around downloading file after file.
Dojo: Deplorable that you would seek to destroy this installation.
Areith: He's in my data arrys a local tap.
Dojo: I do not understand why you would imbue your AI's with so much knowledge, though I am thankful for it, wouldn't you be afraid of what would happen if it was captured? Oh how I am going to enjoy the categorization of it all! All of the lost time! Human history is it? Fasinating. That you would destroy this ship along with this record! I am shocked.
The timer suddenly stops.
Areith: He's stopped the self destruct sequence!
Dojo: Why do you continue to resist us reclaimer? You cannot win! Give me your construct and I will make your death quick and pain...
Areith: At least I have control over the comm channels again.
Cloud: Where is he?
Areith: I'm detecting taps throughout the ship. Mostly sentinals. As for Dojo...
She stiffened.
Areith: He's in engineering. He must be trying to take the core offline! Even if I could get the count down restarted I could never get the core online in time to explode it! I don't know what to do.
Cloud stood there in silence for a moment then a crazy idea came to him.
Cloud: How much fire power would it take to crack the reactors sheilds?
Areith sighed.
Areith: Not much. A grenade or rocket could do the trick. Why?
She looks around and saw Cloud juggling three fragmentation grenades.
Areith: Okay I'm coming with you.
Just as she gets back inside him two sentinals appear out side and fire their lasers.
Cloud: Damn!
He ducks and then returns fire blowing them both out of the sky.
Areith: If we want to get there fast enough we should take a short cut through cryo.
Cloud: Got it.
He tries to get to cryo but the ship is so badly damaged that he is forced to take many detours past many jelly fish, sentinals, and organization soliders. After many fierce fire fights, two near infections, and three near death experinces he finnaly finds a sign reading "This way to aromry b 1, engineering, and elvevator to top deck.
Areith: Top deck seems like a good place for a pick up its open for matenince.
Cloud: Good.
He enters the now jelly fish filled engeniering room. Inside was the heart of the ship. The main reactor.
Areith: Okay first we hit those panels up there on third floor, then we hit the main chutes on second floor.
Dojo: Hello.
Cloud/Areith: What the hell!
Dojo: Sorry I cannot allow you to destroy the ship.
Cloud: F off!
Dojo: Sentinals attack!
Sentinals swoop in for they attack and the horrible battle was on! Cloud ran up staircases blowing down jelly fish. Sentinals harried him from above! But through it all he still was able to destroy three of the reactor sheilds before he ran out of grenades.
Cloud: Now what!
Areith: Theres an armory near by!
Cloud: Got it.
He fled the room sentinal lasers trailing him.
Dojo: Thats right run you coward!
Two minutes later Cloud stepped through the door a rocket launcher on his shoulder.
Dojo: Aww crap.
He blows the sentinals out of the air then arrives at the top again pulls back the chute and fires the rocket! It explodes begining the chain reaction.
Areith: Okay let's get out of here.
She opens the comm channel while Cloud fights his way up to top level.
Areith: Hogia this is Areith we are requesting imedate extraction.
He enters the lift blowing down a few dusks and an elite and gets on board the lift begins to grind it's way up.
Hogia: Roger that Areith I'm inbound.
Suddenly several explosions happen across the ship as the reactor begins to get ready to blow.
Hogia: Areith things are getting noise down there is everything alright?
They reach the top and Areith begins to talk in a panicy voice.
Areith: Negative! We have a wild cat destablization of the ships fusion reactors!
Hogia: Okay hurry!
Cloud: Alright Ranger24 wheres my bike?
It appears in front of him.
Cloud: Thank you.
Areith: We have about five minutes before the ship explodes releaseing tempatures of over a million degrees farenhit!
Cloud: That is hot.
Areith: Yeah so we don't want to be anywhere near here when it does!
Ranger24: Hurry Cortana! Hurry!
Cortana: We are a mile behind him and nearly in range!
Aang: He's hailing us!
Flame rising appears on the view screen.
Flame rising: F off ranger boy! How about you go play with your legos?
Ranger24: Okay you can insult my story, you can insult me, and you can even insult my family! But when you insult the legos... YOUR GOING TO FING DIE B!!!!!!!!!
Flame rising: Kiss my ass!
He fires the tail plasma cannon of the dropship.
Ranger24: Sheilds up!
The blasts are absorbed but they slow the ship down. Flame rising pulls ahead!
Ranger24: Review please!