Heeeeey! I'm back! wow I dind't think so many people would have an issue with the last rights thing..honestly consider it a formality Religion isn't something that's defined by a race but rathr individiual preference so to cover all the bases they do it. it's the same with our system the prisoner may or may not even believe in god but they'll likely sit there through the last rights anyway just to get a few extra moments ya know?
Ch10- Revelations
It's been three weeks since Richards escape and no one has heard anything from him.Not even Atma and Zeig the C'tarl C'tarl government are searching ceaselessly for him interrogating countless thousands of people simply for being in a region he is suspected to be in they're also looking for Aisha however the Outlaw Star was smart enough to lay low while the heat is on.Atma and Zeig are both in clear due to Zeig's influence however Atma is still being watched and outside of it all Richard is somewhere on some solitary planet wondering what his next move will be.
"S'cuse me sir another sundae please." a man spoke up and a C'tarl C'tarl looked back at him sleepily
"sure in a second." he replied and turned to make the sundae he wondered how he had gotten here in this lowly job working for what one could barely even call scraps he had to get out of here he had to get together some cash and get off this planet or at least become a little better established he couldn't stand living like this but then after life as a noble who could? here he was in a blue uniform of a local ice cream shop with white stripes on the shirt wearing the dumbest looking hat he'd ever seen.
Richard suddenly snapped out of his reverie when he felt the cold sundae spill over onto his hands "gah wasn't paying attention" he muttered grabbing a napkin and wiping the sides.
"here you are sir." He said curteously handing the man the sundae.
"Richard!" A voice came from the direction of the back room and Richard turned to see the door was open he sighed 'the boss probably saw that' he thought
"yes sir?" He replied pretending to be suddenly much more interested in his work.
"Come back here a minute" Richard sighed his boss never called him to the back unless he'd done something wrong.
when he got to the back room the old man who richard now called boss was waiting sitting in an old style rocking chair tapping his chin with one finger. He was slender and well tanned wearing a dull blue uniform similar to richards except it didn't have the white stripes.
"Now boy what am I to do with you? three times today a customer has had to ask you for something more than once because you were day dreaming and twice you've overfilled a sundae or whatever for the same reason! now I ain't the harsh type I'm sure you know but this is getting ridiculous Richard is there something I should know about?" the old man stopped tapping his chin and leaned forward waiting for richards reply
'oh yea sure how about I screwed up lostr my spot in nobility and now there's an entire empire looking to kill me?' he thought and sighed he couldn't tell him that hell even if he did no one of this little rock would believe him no one had even heard of the c'tarl c'tarls here he was sort of a curiosity and having him there drew extra customers to the shop just to see him. " No sir...I'll pay more attention I'm sorry I've just been a little tired." He answered.
"tired eh? well I can imagine with everyone following you around like lost puppies you really are an anomaly here so it's natural for everyone to be curious after all you simply being here has nearly tripled business. Go ahead take the rest of the day off I'll call in mike to take over but you'll be starting earlier for the rest of the week." The old man lay back in his rocking chair rockinh slightly studing richards reaction.
"yes sir...thank you sir."
Once mike arrived RIchard gave him an apologetic look, tipped his hat and was on his way.
The walk home was the usual nagging kids wanting to know if his ears were real and pulling on his tail. at first he'd snapped at them when they did that but now he just ignored it walking along in his own little world. plodding steadily as the kids hung off him asking a thousand un answered questions. untill finally he turned the last corner to his house and the began to peel off realising they had wandered too far. Home was a shack of an apartment. everything was practically in the same room the bath room was four steps ahead from the front door and kitchen was three steps forward and two to the left and his bedroom was the only thing that could actually be considered a 'room' in the whole place now granted richard took big steps but even so it'd be about the equivilant of 3 or 4 human steps. he crashed on a futon he had managed to get for cheap from a thrift store and just lay there for awhile before wondering aloud "what am I doing here?" A question he couldn't answer.
Aisha and Gene were taking their time in the search for Richard they had a few ideas where he might go but many of them were difficult to get to without running into the empire. everyone in space knew about what had happened and everyone was looking for richard i mean everyone the c'tarl c'tarl government had offered a 1 trillion woo long reward the largest ever head of.
even the casual man kept an eye on c'tarl c'tarls coming into the ports wondering if any of them might be the man in question hoping to just get lucky and make it big hell even if they could up with a bit of information the c'tarl government was giving 500,000 woo long.
so it was amazing then that so much time could go by and no one have caught him or even seen him and provided a tip. even if it had been only three weeks any other man probably would have been caught the day after the reward was offered.
"There!" Jim suddenly yelled out.
"uh..there what?" Gene asked
"I just found our route past the c'tarl c'tarls and into the lesser used parts of space we want to get to." he answered triumphantly.
"Yea? well how do we do it?" Aisha chimed in hopeful
"Remember those hyper gates we used when we had to do that race for fred?" He asked
"Yea what about em? those are only active during the races the and all the normal ones are under heavy guard." Gene replied
"Well I just figured out how to hack them so We can use one of the race gates to get to any of the other gates." Jim told him Gene stood there dumbfounded.
"And you JUST thought of this!" Aisha said angrily leaning over him threatening to pound him into the ground if he said yes.
"Well...uh...no not exactly...I mean I had thought about it but I hadn't figured a way to hack the gates like we needed so I didn't say anything till now" He replied backing away with his hands in front of him. apparently his answer was sastisfactory because aisha just 'hmphed' and sat down.
"Well that settles it we're on a mission people!" Gene spoke up and the Outlaw Star was on it's way. however somwhere trailing behind them was a new state of the art stealth ship fully cloaked and running silent.
'we'll show them...we'll have our revenge...soon. and this time it's not for anyone but us.'
END chapter 10
Sorry for the shortness guys but I just thought I should write something ot let you all know I'm working on this again now that i'm back. it was actually quite difficult to write this chapter because it'd been so long since I'd worked on this fic gotta get back in the groove of things and recollect my thought process on it.next chap should appear in a week or two if everything goes well.
