Chapter 5: The core
Location: Juggernaught; Mesa-cannon
"How long have we been in this thing?" David asked sleepily hardly keeping his finger on the controls.
"Twenty, thirty Earth 2 minutes would be my guess." Ollrack said.
"I find irony in the fact that we are in a time machine and its taking way too long to find this damn weak point." David said.
"I see it!" Aileta yelled. David and Ollrack looked up sure enough; the computer registered a small part on the wall to be significantly thinner than the rest of the ship. David guided the vessel over to the point. A few laser fires later and they flew through the hole. The piping and wires led forever into wherever.
"Just keep flying along in the direction of the cannon. We'll see the core soon enough." Ollrack instructed.
"Great, another eternity of nothing." David said throwing his hands up. "You know they could have made this damn thing smaller! We are going 200 miles an hour and its taking us FOREVER."
"I've got the core on the readout." Aileta said.
"Then let's punch it." David yelled as he pushed the accelerator further. A few minutes later they came out of the jungle of pipes and into a huge room, most of which was filled with an awesome yellow and blue 'sun'. "Well if you want to power something this ridiculously large, that's how you do it." David commented. Ollrack placed the large missile in the slot, normally used for the energy balls that start the time jump. After loading in position, Ollrack prepared the firing sequence.
"Let's do this, launch in 10, 9, 8…" He was interrupted by a loud bang and a lurch. Ollrack looked up to see that outside the windshield, a Soakian, all four tails exposed and ready looking at him(A/N: refer back to Code: SNAKE if you need a small recap on these things). More bangs occurred as more dropped onto the small craft.
"Weren't these things our friends?!" David asked.
"Not anymore. Like most of the Dodrando army, Soakians used to be the loyal followers of Sicron, making it easy for him to control them." Ollrack explained. The vicious creatures began to tear apart the ship with everything they had.
"Ollrack, would these things die if they fell off?"
"Well they might survive if they avoid the…"
"Good enough." David spun the craft over and over flinging all but one off the ship. But this one was not ready to give up. With all his might he smashed the windshield and knocked David and Ollrack away to the side. The creature was about to destroy the controls when Aileta stepped forward. A standoff occurred, neither moving. Suddenly, the Soakian made the first move. A wad of acid flew out of its mouth and landed on her left arm. In her agony she whipped her sword about and knocked the creature clear off the craft. Aileta dropped to the floor, clutching her arm. David rushed over to comfort her, Ollrack got the emergency kit.
"You're okay, you're going to be okay." David said. Ollrack walked over and opened a small vial.
"Let me see your arm." Aileta looked away as she removed her hand. "This is Soakian acid counteract, and it will sting." Ollrack warned. Aileta yelped a bit as Ollrack poured the fluid into her wound. He then proceeded to wrap her arm in a bacta soaked bandage. "David make sure her fingers still work, I'm gonna shut this thing down." Ollrack said.
"Can you move your fingers?" Aileta hand twitched a little. "You think you can use that arm?" Aileta nodded slightly. Ollrack walked over I'm gonna dock this thing, be ready to go in about 4 minutes, okay." Ollrack back walked over to the console and began to guide the ship to the edge of the room.