This chapter kicks off with Carolina's point of view during the later events of the last chapter.
P.S. I am in no way affiliated with both parties nor own anything from them. All rights for Red vs. Blue goes to Rooster Teeth and all rights for Metroid goes to Nintendo.
Chapter 9: The Battle of Norion (Part II)
Carolina was still in shock about what she has seen a little while ago.
"How could something just disappear out of thin air?" Carolina asked herself, still wondering whether she should report it to someone or anyone on the radio. "I'm either exhausted, due to my lack of sleep recently or I'm going insane."
But she knew what she saw. Her eyes don't lie to her but could her mind be saying otherwise? Maybe. But, at any rate, she knew she must keep going.
And so she did just that.
As she headed into the bridge that connects to the Generator Access room for Generator B, she found the place deserted, much like the past area she went through. Although her suit wasn't detecting any radiation nearby, there was something that was blocking the entrance to the Generator Access area. She ended up shooting it for a full 5 seconds, enough to empty both of the loaded magazines of her dual SMGs, but nothing happened. Throwing frags weren't even giving it a single scratch or even dented it at all. She even got close towards the crystallized substance, only to be able to punch it in vain with all her might as her frustration was growing.
"Damn it!" She cursed to herself. "The others are probably done activating the first generator and I'm just here standing like an idiot and haven't even done much progress at all!"
She hoped that all of her attempts to break whatever is blocking the door to Generator B, wouldn't grab any outside attention since the raids happening around the air were not too far from her location
There was a squeaking noise underneath her feet.
She thought it was just the bridge, squeaking either out of age or due to erosion.
There was another noise. This time, it was louder and right at that moment, she knew it was not coming from the bridge she was standing on. There was a couple of creatures coming in her direction from underneath the edges of the dock. They looked like giant mutated spiders, only with four legs that looked like one scratch could likely leave you in half, even with the heaviest of armor. The creatures shrieked, calling for its horde, as they were seemingly hungry for some fresh meat that came into their habitat. More came from above the pillars and the rest came from the crystalized nest. How could their pointy legs be milestones powerful than several blasts from her own frag grenades? This speculation meant that they were potentially dangerous and the way they were hopping on all four legs, it made Carolina's skin crawl into waves of chills. It still wasn't enough to convince her to run away, not as she was close to getting one of the generators back online. Wash and Samus were counting on her and if there's something that she has promised Wash over the years, is that she will never back out on him. After trying to destroy what she didn't know was a nest before, she wasted more than half of her ammo and what little she had is what she's gonna use wisely on any of those creatures that dare to come any step closer to her. She still had her Battle Rifle with her but thought it would still not be enough to kill a whole nest of those spider-like creatures. She hoped for the best that her stun rod would be a useful last resort to kill them.
"Alright, you want me? You're gonna have to work for your food then!"
One of them jumped at her. Carolina struck with her SMGs at the right timing just before it could impale her with its front razor-looking legs and the creature shrilled in pain as it fell to the ground. She took a quick look at it but the creature had little to no scratch on its dark-blue armored-looking skin. There were two other more, hopping right behind her. Carolina had just enough time to grab out her stun rod and knock the first one down but the second one got ahold of her armor a bit heavily. She threw herself against the nearest pillar, which caused the creature to get thrown to the ground, stunning three others.
"Argh!" She grunted.
The blue creature made a fairly noticeable scratch mark on her armor, which pierced slightly through. It barely put a scratch on her hip but even at that small size, it was enough to make Carolina feel pain as she tried to move out of harm's way. Her healing unit wouldn't work properly without an AI with her, but her bio scan didn't need the assistance of such intelligence to make her find out that the pain she was getting wasn't because of the scratch itself, but because her wound had traces of the same radioactive substance she's been finding recently. However, it seemed to act like venom rather than radiation poisoning.
"What?!" She gasped. "Damn these mutants!"
Right now it wasn't the time to ponder what would be her fate after such injury. Just as more of them got closer to her, she threw in the opportunity to waste the rest of what she had on her SMGs against them. Even as she did, only a few have dropped dead. The rest of them that were still standing were only fed by more anger than what Carolina would have wanted. Their shrills of hunger, pain, and anger were getting louder and with each hop they gave were gestures showing on how much they already resented her as she has killed some of their members of the horde.
"Fine! You wanna play rough?" Carolina took out her battle rifle as her hopes of killing the rest of the hungry horde were narrowing to her only choices of using both the battle rifle and her trusty stun rod. "Have a little taste of this!"
She fired her weapon, shooting any of the four-legged hopping blue mutants who got close to her. Many dropped dead but the more she killed, the angrier the horde became, making it harder for her to keep up with them. Even as she felt the pain surge through her left hip, she didn't try to let her worsening pain get the best of her and continued to fight against the horde until she could take no more. Each step she took was another painful step she had to take as she wasn't able to resist for much longer. Most of them were still alive, shrieking at each moment that passed, making Carolina feel even more lightheaded than she already was.
As she ran for safety, the angry mutants already worked their way of blocking her only way out of the mess she was in. Even if she was able to get past them, the door's safety-lock mechanism activated and read:
*WARNING - POSSIBLE INTRUDERS - WARNING*
"Can't this get any worse?!"
She made one last desperate attempt to call for help on the radio. She didn't care if her signal wasn't going through, but if it were, she was going to make sure her last possible moments of her life would not go unnoticed.
"Anyone come in! I need back up! There are some weird spider-like creatures coming at me from every direction! They seem to be infected by something radioactive! If there's anyone who's listening to this, do not enter to my location on-ground. If you can get here by ship or by other means, you could be able to send me some backup. Again, I need BACKUP! NOW!"
Carolina's luck hasn't always been on her side, but if there was someone listening to her distress call, she hoped that they heard at least half of it. When she turned to look at the horde in front of her, one of them was turning more blue than normal, to the point where it was spitting something radioactive all around it. It aimed at a weakened Carolina, ready to throw up a giant bluish-like projectile at her.
Having no choice but to endure and survive until her last breath, she moved out of the way by crouching to her right side and as much as her wound was hurting her, as if something had punched her from the inside-out, she focused more on trying not to get irradiated by the ferocious creature hopping to her direction. As she was cornered, the creature seemed to have entered a state of beginning to fuse an unknown type of energy to its body and focused to harness the energy, in order to throw a powerful but small jet to Carolina, making it extremely difficult for her to escape with her life in the current state that she was in. As she emptied her BR ammo onto the infused creature, her bullets did almost nothing to it. As she saw the potential of these four-legged beasts, she began to lose hope. Some of the others began to do the same fusion process and focused their firepower on Carolina, who began to fear for the worst as her life was flashing before her. She wasn't able to stand anymore due to the immense pain she was having on such a small-sized scratch.
Just as a swarm of them were about to give their finishing blow, a giant metallic ball, filled with spikes, fell in between her and the angered mutants. It began to beep from a slow to a fast-paced beeping.
"Ah shit..." said Carolina as she desperately attempted to get out of its way, until it was too late.
In just a few moments, the metallic ball began to shoot massive homing spikes at the shining-blue spider mutants before everything went black. She could not hear or see no more after that, just as she fell unconscious.
Wash was starting to worry about Carolina, right after she mentioned something about radioactive creatures.
"We have to go help her!" Wash exclaimed as he was beginning to fear at the thought of Carolina being exposed to such monstrosity.
"And we will," Rundas assured him. "Her location isn't fairly far from here as she must be at the docking area that's next to Generator B. I can go directly from here to help her. Those creatures she must've encountered were probably hopping metroids."
"Hopping- what?" Wash was confused and the word "hopping" didn't help him feel any better about Carolina's situation.
"Metroids," cleared Samus. "They're dangerous species that one shouldn't be messing around with. Especially when they are infused with phazon."
"So that's what you were telling me before. Phazon, right?"
"Yes," she replied. "I suggest you take precautions before dealing with metroids infected with phazon radiation. They're extremely unpredictable and can mutate horrendously, depending on the metroid's stage in its life cycle. The ones that Carolina may have encountered are probably pre-matured metroids that have undergone extreme mutations."
All of this information was hard for Wash to digest. Too much, that he grew in frustration as to why he and Carolina weren't informed about this earlier.
"Why didn't you tell us earlier?!" Said Wash, sounding more frustrated behind his tone of voice. "If we were informed about this 'phazon' radiation, Carolina wouldn't had to send a distress call through our radios! How could you be-"
"Wash, please!" Interfered Rundas. "We can deal about it later. Right now, Carolina needs our help and I wasn't even aware that these Pirates were sending biological weapons directly to the base, until now."
"You're right," sighed Wash. He then turned to Samus. "Don't forget that you still owe me one."
"Be careful out there. Both of you," said Samus as both Wash and Rundas nodded back. "Leave this generator to me. I'll handle it myself while you two go help Carolina."
"Take care, Samus," said Rundas as he helped lift Wash to his back. Samus nodded back as she went walking on her way to the Generator Access room.
Rundas began to make his way to Carolina's location as Washington was grabbing on his back as tightly as possible. He wasn't much afraid of heights, but their trip on the way there was more than enough for him to consider heights a danger to his mental health. He felt the wind of the air around him hit him like if it was trying to push him off of Rundas' back as he was gliding onto his trail of ice.
Just as Wash couldn't keep up with Rundas' extreme mobility any longer as he felt his hands slip slightly, they have already arrived at Carolina's location. What they saw from above was a whole mess. There were a lot of carcasses that were littering the ground deck, especially near the main entrance from where the conduit of the area should be. Across from the Conduit B entrance, there was a massive robotic machinery across from there and two other figures near the conduit entrance.
"Ghor," Rundas said, as he recognized the giant armor suit or what would also be his gunship. "I knew I could count on him."
"There's Carolina! Quickly drop us there!" Ordered Wash, not even caring whether there were any hopping metroids that were still left alive.
"Hold on!" Replied Rundas, making their way between Ghor and a weak Carolina.
Just as Rundas was about to land the on the ground, Wash did not want to wait any longer and quickly jumped out of his back, making his way towards Carolina.
"No... Carolina!?" He yelled in a desperate attempt to see if she was alive at all. "Please! You're the only soldier I know who is strong enough to survive anything!"
"She's not stable and we need to get her to the medical facility if you want your friend to survive," explained Ghor to a whimpering Wash. "I tried my best to get here on time when I heard and saw from above on what she was going through. Luckily enough, there weren't any Pirate ATC ships flying around to finish what these freaks started."
"Wait..." Said Wash just as something popped into his mind. "Carolina's healing unit!"
Wash quickly grabbed her healing unit and threw it over her, but it wasn't doing much. Whatever Carolina was suffering from, it wasn't going away even after a few minutes of waiting.
"Damn it!" Cursed Wash as he stood up, growing more in frustration and despair. "Why now of all time!? Why isn't there a goddamn AI this time around when we need this at full power?! Why, Church?! Why?!"
Rundas didn't know what to tell him, other than to keep going as there wasn't much time before the Pirates figure out they have destroyed one of their hives for the biological weapons they threw in at the base.
"Wash... we... we have to get moving before-"
Wash quickly lashed out at him, while immediately putting him at gunpoint.
"NO! IF IT WASN'T FOR THE FEDERATION, WHO DRAGGED US INTO THIS MESS, NONE OF THIS WOULD'VE EVER HAPPENED!"
"Wash, there's no need to do this," Said Rundas with his calm demeanor while also putting himself on his knees. "Look, I know you're angry. I would be too. Heck, I would probably go on a rampage against the Federation if something were to happen to Samus because of them, but us bounty hunters aren't really affiliated with the Federation. Bad things just happen to the best of us. Is this also the way you want things to go after the loss of a friend? Revenge for something you will never be able to get back?"
"You know NOTHING about loss!" Wash shot back, while also readying his finger on the trigger. "You have no IDEA how much I have lost, taken advantage of, been stabbed in the back, getting tortured from your DEEPEST FEARS that are forever BURNED into your mind. All of that AND FOR WHAT!? JUST TO GET SCREWED OVER BY YOUR GODDAMN FRIENDS WITH LIMITED KNOWLEDGE FROM WHAT WE WERE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH!"
"You're right..." Said Rundas, sympathetically. "I may not know much about loss since I lost my parents and sister right after I was born. I never knew much about them even after I grew up, but my older brother would always tell me stories about how much our mother and father deeply cared about our well-being and how loving they were towards him and my sister. In their last moments in which they had me in their arms after I was born, a group of Pirates raided the facility and killed most of the workers there, including my parents and older sister, who died protecting me in her arms. That's why after everything my brother has told me about them, I ended up becoming a hunter; someone who could make use of ice manipulation to make a difference in our world, our galaxy."
There was a moment of silence. Wash was still aiming his gun at Rundas' head, only slightly lowering his weapon, wondering whether shooting him will make him feel any better or worse.
Then, there was the sound of someone coughing. Carolina began to regain consciousness.
"Wash..." she mumbled slightly. "What... what are you doing?"
Wash then came to Carolina, seemingly ignoring what just happened moments ago.
"Hey, Carolina. How are you doing?"
"I've been better..." she replied. Although she was still feeling a small headache, she no longer felt any extreme pain like before. "What happened?"
"I used some of my biotic energy to fully energize your healing unit while these two were having some slight issues with one another," Ghor explained, almost getting Wash off-guard as he nearly forgot that he was even here. "Since my body is almost completely machine, I was able to transfer some of my biotic energy to your armor. I'm not an AI, or at least not yet, but the process should help you feel better over time. You're healing unit won't last you for more than several minutes at max power, but it should be enough time for you to make a full recovery."
Trust issues were one of Wash's main problems since the day his friends and teammates from Project Freelancer started backstabbing one another. At this point, he was starting to think that trusting these hunters shouldn't be much of an issue anymore. Although he didn't know what to think of the pink transparent-like woman. If she's trusted by the other hunters, then she wouldn't be a problem.
"Thank you for saving her life," said Wash, feeling ashamed of himself for blaming Rundas and the other hunters when all they've been doing was saving their lives since they first met.
"No need to thank me. It's in my nature to save lives since the day I joined the military for the first time," Ghor checked on Carolina's vitals and saw drastic improvements within her system, healing her wounds completely. "She should be good to go, although I would recommend that she should just stay put for a few minutes in order to make sure that the venom is completely gone."
"No!" Said Carolina, struggling to stand up as she felt like her legs were trying to give up on her for a moment. "I can still fight."
"You never change do you?" Wash pointed out, chuckling a bit.
"Since when have I ever?" She shot back, feeling better standing now.
" Yeah you're right," replied Wash. "But ever since the day you decided to join Tucker's musical sessions and the day you wanted to learn how to become as lazy as Grif, you have changed quite a lot."
"Yeah, right..." answered Carolina. "But don't tell me you never changed too because last time I checked, you wanted to play tag with Caboose and you even asked for Tucker to help you flirt with me. I gotta say, it was so hilarious to watch you two practice doing so all along."
"Wait, what!? You were watching all along? I knew it sounded fishy when you told me that you wanted to take a nap because you rarely ever do!"
"And I tried! It was part of Grif's advice but it just doesn't feel right for me to take naps throughout the whole day. I don't know how Grif does it anyway. Just after trying to take a nap, you and Tucker caught my attention when you both were at the roof, rehearsing everything so loudly,"
"Enough!" Ghor ordered as he was already merged with his suit, which has altered his persona with a more aggressive tone and colder emotion. "We need to get going. These Pirates are more relentless than you think! I'll go do whatever I can around here, while one of you should move onwards and activate the generator here. Now, get moving!" Ghor immediately went busting away as his jets propelled him away towards a group of various ATC ships in the distance.
"So... Wash," said Rundas as he approached him with his hand towards him. "Are we in good terms?"
Wash hesitated for a moment, but then remembered that all they are trying to do is the same thing as he and Carolina came here to do. He even owes him for saving his life, at least twice. He then took his hand and did a firm handshake with him and then bent their arms close together in a fist.
"We're good," Wash replied. "Plus, I owe you double."
"You'll get the time to do the same for me sometime soon enough. I'm sure of it," said Rundas.
"Care to bring me with you?" Asked Carolina.
"How are you feeling?" Replied Wash.
"Like a phoenix born from the ashes."
"Then let's get going."
Samus was having a bad feeling that activating the generator of the area wouldn't be a cakewalk. Not like anything in her life was easy enough, but she hoped for the best, trying to get her pessimistic thoughts out of the way.
Just as she entered the generator room, everything started shaking. There was a pillar in the center that lit up the room as it was moving upwards. It seemed like the generator room detected Samus' presence and automatically opened the manual override activation process so she could manually activate the generator's power using the control panel that was right across from her. There was nothing that seemed dangerous; no Pirates, no drones, no hives, no nothing. Samus was still on her guard as anything could pop out of nowhere, so she went onwards, carefully looking at her surroundings with her scan visor telling her everything about the place.
There was a noise coming at a distance from beneath the depthless ground around her.
Samus didn't know if there really was something spying on her or anything that she's been hearing through the silence of the room is all just happening inside her mind. Then, a female voice in the background was heard, breaking the air of silence completely.
"Warning. A security breach has been detected. Repeat. A security breach has been detected. Lockdown Initiated."
"What the?" Samus gasped as she inspected her surroundings.
Two drones rose up from beneath the ground. They were Pirate drones, designed to kill any intruder in a specified area by firing bursts of phazon energy.
"I knew these jerks weren't the type of leaving anything exposed for an easier route."
Samus quickly put the two drones out of their misery, merely missing their shots at Samus. Just as Samus' pessimism was getting to her, more came from underground. There were now at least four more to take care of but this time, they were more agile, as if they had taken combat data from their companions right before they got destroyed. The room was being littered with phazon and beam shots almost everywhere in the whole area. Just when Samus got rid of three of them, the last one gave Samus a direct blow at her that burned some of her armor, enough to make Samus grunt in pain. Luckily, her own suit has the ability to regenerate damaged parts, only whenever she had enough fuel in her energy tanks to do so. Just as she had enough with drones for the day, she took the time to predict the last drone's moves before quickly dispatching it with a charged shot, making it drop dead soon after.
"These drones are fast, but they're not as smart," said Samus as she heard the only door through where she came from, unlocking.
"These Pirates should probably pick someone their own size if they can't even handle a woman like me,"
Gandrayda was being boastful like always, but it's not like that ever stopped her from doing what she knows what needs to be done first. She has spent this past hour fighting Space Pirates ever since she arrived at Norion. Helping the Federation Marines and dealing with groups of Space Pirates in the interiors of the base wasn't much of a problem for her, as long as her mission stayed as simple as it could until she got a call from Admiral Dane himself.
"Gandrayda, do you read me?"
"Yes, I read you loud and clear, sir" Gandrayda responded with full of confidence behind her voice.
"I need you, specifically, to look up for more information about the Space Pirates' intentions of interfering with Federation operations in this specific part of the region. You're the only one that qualifies for this job perfectly, due to your abilities."
"Yes sir, but you do realize Samus would also qualify for this type of situation, right?" Replied Gandrayda, trying not to think that Samus could best her in that particular field.
"I am aware of that, but seeing that everyone has been busy trying to get every generator back online and knowing that you have been helping the other marines quite well, it should be easy enough for you to pose as one of the Pirates now that they have a mothership landing just around near your location. Get inside that ship somehow and grab any type of information that could be of use to us. Time is at its best hurry so you should do the same."
"Copy. I'll see what I can do."
And just like that, her mission has become from being simple to a more annoying one. She never liked infiltrating any type of place, while having to hide under the body of a pesky Space Pirate. It's just not in her style, or to anyone who had her mimicry abilities with Space Pirate hatred for that matter.
As Gandrayda finished tending to a fellow marine soldier, she went on her way to the top floors of the Federation base. From there, she used her jumping mimicry of Samus' jump boots and ran right into the rooftops of the base.
"There it is," she said as she was crouching behind some cargo crates to hide from the Pirates that were signaling the incoming mothership. "Now the only way to get there is to try to blend in."
She wasn't relishing the idea of transforming into a Space Pirate and try to be the only anti-social one when almost every other Pirate could turn against her at any moment. As much as she didn't like to admit it, there would be too many even for her to handle on her own.
"Well, here goes nothing," Gandrayda told to herself as she transformed into a regular armored Space Pirate. "Yuck! I rather hang around with my ex-boyfriend than doing this any day. Oh well..."
Walking through a group of Space Pirates while others were staring at your every move wasn't a good feeling for Gandrayda at all, but all she was trying to focus her mind on was to keep moving forward and get on the mothership, while most weren't paying much attention to her at all until one tall, blue-armored Pirate noticed something funny about her.
"Hey, hey!" He called out for Gandrayda's attention as she stood still, trying not to blow her cover. "Where have you been? Trying to reach you was a pain and you are just calmly wandering about."
Gandrayda didn't know what to reply back to him, but improvisation was something that she needed to do at that moment, in which she was quite good at doing.
"Can't you see I was busy?!" She emphasized, trying to sound confident and threatening at the other Pirate, just like most do to each other. "Having to deal with the Federation wasn't an easy task at hand now, is it? Now if you'll get out of my way, it would be a perfect start for you letting me do my job!" She ended up giving him a dead stare at him, to the point of even frightening herself a bit from the inside.
The Pirate was seemingly feeling uncomfortable with Gandrayda's Pirate stare and ultimately decided to turn away, letting Gandrayda do her own business without any sort of suspicion.
Just as she was done dealing with the blue-armored Pirate, she continued on to the mothership, not having to deal with any more Space Pirate intrusion. The Space Pirates that were hanging about were all just trying to grab their new weaponry that came from the shipment of cargo crates from inside the mothership.
As she headed in there from crate to crate and through the ventilation shafts, she managed to breach into a room seemed to be like a dormitory of some kind. It was pretty big for one Space Pirate, but then again, every Pirate out there would be greedy enough to get anything they could. The room was mostly empty with one bed at the corner of the room, big enough for one Pirate and at least three human-sized beings. A computer device was just across the bed, with a desk and a big comfy chair.
Hesitant, due to her dislikeness with any type of machine, she headed to the computer and tried to see if there was anything she could do. To her surprise, she didn't even need to hack her way into the computer as it was still signed in as a certain Space Pirate called, Orion.
"Really?" Gandrayda marveled. "No. It can't be THAT easy to get access to this type of information. This Pirate must've been here not too long ago."
Inside his list of logs, there were all about from their initial rise in Zebes to one of their latest downfall in Aether. To her frustration, there was nothing else to find what she was looking for, regarding their recent attacks in the Kalandor Region, containing anything about Norion, Bryyo, and Elysia. Gandrayda returned to her original form in order to scan everything faster with her normal gear that she's originally been wearing.
A minute later, she paused for a moment. There was one, in particular, that got her attention. It was dated just recently and talked about Orion, rebelling against his other comrades for their own actions.
Log 12.162.1
Codename: Orion
My brethren... how could they possibly be foolish enough to think that the Dark Hunter will help us in any way? We couldn't even convince The Hunter to join our ranks. Haven't they realized that the Dark Hunter was the cause of our depletion in phazon resources? She has stolen almost everything from us, even the minds of our most beloved fallen comrades. We were the cause of her creation; an abomination that still roams around even after her multiple defeats against The Hunter in Dark Aether and Tallon IV as its true form; a severely mutated metroid who, soon enough, reincarnated as the enemy of our enemy.
It's already too late to be able to redeem ourselves with the damage that we have done. Our ancestors would not be any more disappointed than they could possibly be if they were to still be alive and leading our ranks. Even our former leader has fallen to this illness of the dark corruption. We should not have played around with phazon around the remains of the Dark Hunter.
As much as I'd love to see the Federation fall, the Dark Hunter is the main priority as she would not rest until she has full control of our species, or at the very least, kill those who defy her and her filthy disciples. There's not much time before she ends up corrupting everything that I've ever come to known, including the minds of my own enemies. No one shall have to suffer a fate worse than death when it comes to such dark corruption.
Even it means working alongside The Hunter in order to see the Dark Hunter's defeat, I will do it, even if it'll cost my life to gain The Hunter's trust. I can't bear to see my former comrades turn against me any longer, but I have no other choice.
May the light of our ancestors lead my way to redemption...
End of Log
Gandrayda didn't know what she was looking at. According to this Pirate, he's mentioned that the "Dark Hunter" was still alive and leading their ranks to a path of corruption. No wonder why they were trying to land an attack on Norion, but does this also mean that they're going to be spreading Phazon all over these space regions?
"But how are they going to do that?" Gandrayda asked to herself. "Giant nuclear devices? Kamikaze motherships with missiles filled with phazon?"
One other thing that really made her thinking, was that even though she knew that all those Space Pirates she has ever come to known were all ruthless without mercy even to their own kind, this one seemed to have other goals. They seemed to be more human than she ever was herself. At least now she knew for a fact that not every Space Pirate was too keen on having phazon being spread for corruption throughout entire space regions.
Just as Gandrayda gazing at the computer, without warning, a Space Pirate entered the room through the only door in the dormitory. Gandrayda was just about to grab a stolen Galactic Federation machine pistol nearby, only for it to be knocked down by the Pirate himself with a deadly accurate shot with his plasma pistol.
"Don't you dare to think about doing anything clever!" The Pirate growled, furiously.
Well, that is it for this chapter.
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