The Infinite Chronicles
Act 4: Onwards
Chapter 11
I woke up in an unfamiliar place, my first thought was that I was captured. Then I remembered, this was the vessel we built with Aunt Smica using Steve's blueprints. Oh wait Steve, I rushed out my door to find that he was well and steering the vessel. "Oh Steve are you alright?" I asked, hugging him "Steve is all fine and well! Healer Jess help me pull out knife" he said proudly. He really was silly of what he was proud of sometimes. "Oh yeah where's Jess?" I questioned "She down the hall making breakfast" gesturing to hall on his right. I hurried to the kitchen and saw Jess and Zero making what seemed like an omelette. "Good morning!" she said without looking at me. She flipped the omelette on to a plate and put it on the counter next to her. "Why don't you get it and sit there" waving a spoon at a table. Really, Steve had thought of everything, I wanted to ask him what other features this ship had. "Good morning all" Avalon walked into the kitchen and grabbed another omelette Jess had set on the counter. "Really sorry about yesterday" he sat next to me "Infinite is really cranky when he wakes up" "I only have one question for you, why do you always wear the mask?" I said. He pressed something on the mask and it contracted to show his face and he gave it to me. "New user protocol" he said and the mask glowed blue "Put it on". I did and the mask clicked and fit perfectly as it had changed shape to fit my face. "Welcome new driver" a robotic voice said inside the mask. The mask lit up and I could see a HUD with various alerts.
"Please state your name" the voice continued "Hazel" I said "New user protocol finished" he replied. As it turns out, the slits I thought were for eyes were useless as the mask projected everything on a screen. There were signs like "power output required", "total speed", "power used" and "enemy element" on my left and right. "Woah" I said, handing him back the mask. "Indeed, this mask does help me in combat and precision in doing tasks" he said "now how bout we finish breakfast and go meet up with Steve at the deck" after we finished our food, we met up with Steve and he directed us to the hall on his left this time. I saw some other rooms but the room he directed us to was a meeting room. "Hey Steve, if you're here who's driving the ship?" Jess asked. "The autopilot" me and Steve said at the same time. "Friend know about technology like this?" he asked, surprised. "I used to be a MEKA pilot, driving huge machines was what I did all the time" I explained "I do wish I still had the Nimitz sometimes." Avalon glowed white and then became Infinite again.
"Sorry for yesterday kid" he said "but there's something you need to know.". Curious, we all leaned forward "Ever since your birth, you have been watched by some people even if you don't realize it, some good, some bad and that's why Vyssini here lives with you.". I looked at Gran with my eyebrows raised "You were watching me?" "More like protecting you, you probably don't know how many threats I've had to save you from" she said. "But why are people looking out for me?" "Well you see kid, a thousand years ago, I tried to find a driver who could keep up with me, and so far, only one family line has been able to do so." he stared at me and I put the pieces together. "Hold on, so you mean she related to both Luke and Jackson?" Jess asked. "Friend descendant of legendary heropons?" Steve also asked. "True, and that's why her parents allowed us to keep you safe" "Wait a minute" I cut him off "I have parents?" Infinite tried to say something but he was interrupted by the vessel being shaken to the side. "What the hell was that" I drew my sword and looked around. "Shit, must be a child of the dragon" Infinite said "I'm like a magnet to them, they can sense me and they usually try to kill me." I turned to Steve "We do have weapons on this ship right?" "Yes, but me need to hurry to deck now! All hands on deck!" he shouted.
We all hurried back to the deck and saw our problem. "Damn that's a huge one!" Jess yelled. Steve flipped switches and levers and we heard mechanical clanking and booms of the cannons firing. "That's not any sea dragon" Infinite said with fear in his voice "That's Mors, Dragon Aspect of Death" The sea dragon rammed us once again and we all fell to the floor "Meh meh, ship weapon not enough!" Steve cried. Grace came running out of a hatch below deck "Shield integrity is not doing well! Any moment soon and we're gonna be screwed"/! I asked the most important question of all "You were down there?" "Irrelevant now, we need to save the ship" she snapped. Infinite put his hand on his core crystal "Coordinates locked on, Atlas do you read me?" he said to no one in particular. Another ram from the dragon knocked us to the floor. "If he rams us one more time we're screwed!" Grace cried. Just as the dragon was about to ram us one last time, he got sucker-punched by a robotic fist. We all turned to look and saw the Nimitz. "What's he doing here?" I thought Nimitz's green parts began floating off the main body or contracting into other places and in its place stood a different robot,I had never seen this build, it was mostly grey and had a darker shade of grey around it with some orange highlights. It had thrusters on its back, which was rare for a MEKA robot. The sea dragon roared back in challenge and charged the robot. It caught the dragon and swung around before rushing it and delivered another blow. The robot drew a massive sword and rushed at it again, the dragon just dodged and blasted it with a dark ray of energy.
The robot just raised its shield, similar to a blade's shield made of hexagons. This time he caught the dragon again and threw him again, his sword seemed to split in half and line up with his chest. The dragon roared again and fired another ray of darkness, bigger this time and the robot shot its own ray from its chest, the halves of the sword focused the ray to counter the dragons. The robots ray blasted through the dragons and blew him up. All of us were silent, not believing our luck. Infinite cut the silence, "Hey Steve is there like a hanger bay on this ship?" he asked "Uh dow-down stairs" he stuttered still in shock. I followed him down stairs and the two huge doors opened, but the water didn't flow in because of some barrier that kept us dry.
"You do realize that the Artifice is way too big to fit in the ship right?" "Just watch," he said. The Artifice flew towards us and at the last moment, somehow shrank into the size of a normal human. He bowed at both of used "Greetings Master Infinite and Hazel" his voice was exactly of the robotic voice from the mask "Atlas at your service" "Come here old friend" Infinite laughed and pulled him in for a hug "long time no see" up close I could see he had yellow eyes and orange wings on his back as well. "Ah you must be Mistress Hazel, I am Artificial Tracking Linear Artifice System or Atlas for short" "So he's your robotic butler huh?" I looked at Infinite. "Something like that," he replied.
Back on the deck, everyone was already out of their shock. "We have to make emergency stop to nearest titan! Ship has critical damage everywhere!" Steve exclaimed. "Scanning area, the nearest titan located is Epitychiménos, titan of trading," Atlas said. Steve stared at him "Me never seen robot able to scan so fast!" he exclaimed "Uh yeah this is Atlas"I explained. "Time to Epitychiménos, 2 hours, setting course." he moved to one of the panels on the deck and charted a course to the titan. "Well I suppose that's two hours to relax" Jess said.
