Chapter 3. Metal Moon
The ship was about ten noks away from the hole in the construct when Da'guande finally stopped. He and all the others (besides Nan-de than gaun) had put on their armor and were carefully checking their helmets.
Cetanu had grabbed a spear gun, a plasma caster, and a pair of wrist blades, the cold and methodical items of his choice.
Steg'-in had a plasma caster, a smart disk, and a combi-stick, which he would use until H'sai-de could build a new pair of wrist blades for him.
Kv'var had a shuriken, a net gun, a plasma caster, and his glaive, the weapons he would use to torture his captives.
H'sai-de had his glaive, double plasma caster, and maul, each of which he had mastered.
Hiju paya had a spear gun, a smart disk, and a plasma caster, each one intended for long ranged combat.
Mesh'in'ga had a Shuriken, his maul, and a ceremonial dagger, although he wouldn't use the dagger unless it was an emergency.
Nain-de had a plasma caster, a shuriken, and his glaive, which he would use to his advantage with his strength.
Last, Da'guande had his naginata, his maul, and a pair of wrist blades. While some might look down on him for using only melee weapons, Da'guande had a gauntlet plasma bolt hidden in his self-destruct device, along with an extra pair of wrist blades.
They all wore Bio helmets, cloaking devices, and self-destruct devices. All eight of them walked to the hatch and looked at Nan-de than gaun.
"Bring back a live ooman for me." He said.
"It'll be a female, so you'll need to wait your turn!" laughed Kv'var.
Nan-de than gaun just rolled his eyes and opened the hatch, sending Kv'var flying into space! The others laughed as they too were sucked out the hatch. They each activated their cloaking devices and gravitational modifiers. Their bio masks would let them breathe for a few minutes, and the modifiers would make the largest object in nearby space affect them as if it had its own gravity, assuming of course that H'sai-de had built them right. He must have, because they began to float to the ooman construct at great speed. Not floating, Da'guande thought, falling! He activated his helmet com. device.
"Swing your bodies to fall through the hole!" they did as he said as he fell right through.
There were several metal bars and pipes sticking out of the walls, which were grids made out of said pipes and bars, along with a few long wires.
"Grab on!" yelled Cetanu.
They all did so, and began to climb down the shaft. When they got to the bottom, they saw the "floor" was also door to the rest of the complex, but it was jammed shut! They were all annoyed, and Mesh'in'ga even considered going back out loud, but soon the surface began to shake open!
The N'dui'se hid as two oomans came out. They wore large baggy white garments covering their entire bodies, with glass windows in front, and lights on top. Da'guande turned off his connection to the others and tuned into the oomans conversation, hoping to understand a few words.
"BZZZT-ucking construction worker!"
The other one replied.
"Construction workers at least get to make booty calls, the only chicks here are playing for the wrong team!"
The first ooman ignored him, so he continued.
"We'll finish in a few weeks. Besides, there isn't anything to shoot for billions of miles."
The first was still angry.
"Just cuz we got engineering degrees doesn't mean they can treat us like some dorks that can't aim a god damn M4!"
While Da'guande listened to their conversation, the others had climbed into the construct. Da'guande decided that since he hadn't recognized any words, they could go. Just as Da'guande climbed in, the angry ooman looked right at him!
"HOLY-MOTHER!"
Even though da'guande had his cloaking device active, the ooman had seen the motion! He was so shocked that he let go of the wall, and began to float away!
"JOHN!"
screamed the second ooman. He too let go and reached for his terrified friend! Once he had his friend's hand, he grabbed onto a pipe sticking out of the wall. As he tried to calm his friend so that he could get a better grip, Da'gaunde climbed through the doorway. He was surprised to see a small room with another door on the floor, when he noticed H'sai-de was standing on the wall!
Da'guande realized that he had turned his gravitational modifier off. The others decided to do the same, but as they fell to the real ground, three more oomans ran through the door!
"Emergency procedure beta! Get a line to them befo-BZZZT."
Da'guande tuned out the ooman radio and snuck through the door with his clansmen following.
The construct was brightly illuminated, which would be annoying if they weren't wearing their bio helmets. They finally came to a four way crossroads in the hallway. Da'gaunde Motioned for Hiju paya and Kv'var to go down the first hall, Cetanu and Nain-de were to go down the second, Mesh'in'ga and H'sai-de had been signaled to go down the third, and Da'guande took Steg'-in down the fourth hall.
The group exchanged glances, and each walked down the paths that their elder had chosen. They all knew that they might not see each other again.