chapter 6 scout reports

"oh crap" Ridick cursed as the holo table began to show at least four hundred contacts marked as red men walking incredibly slow.

The reason Ridick knew these people as hostile is because of the fact that people never move in groups of four hundred unless a village or town was destroyed or sacked. which was an extremely rare thing to happen as most people valued there lives.

This meant that the people where either raiders, slavers or a mix of both. These people tended to be strong and fast enough to kill or capture most people very easily.

then again Ridick did need to test out his growing army of machines and huragok's that have been coming off the assembly line almost none stop. this made Ridicks army stand in the hundreds of ground combat units and very light and fast scout units.

"Maybe this is a good thing" Ridick says as this will be the frist true test of his forces. "maybe I should send 80 omni bots and 10 blade bots as a test of my force's". again Ridick says to himself. It did not matter as the raiders and slavers will go for the tribes, villages and any small towns they come across just to get some new stock. As a result they will take at least 3 weeks to get to ridick' base.

Ridicks base had grown in size to just over 3000 meter's with a 6 meter tall wall made of trinium and jam-packed with homes power plants and a new tech buildings called nano forges and mater constructors. these new buildings can both build items and new machines and new armour that Ridick, Jess and Kate refused to take off when ever it was not necessary to do so. this is because the armour is extremely constable and snug in all the right places. that and the fact that it keeps people healthy, increases the speed, reflex's, strength, ability to take damage such as kinetic and absorb energy weapons fire to a limited degree and enables people to see a heads up display (when the helmet is on).

Ridick, jess and Kate are not the only people living in Ridicks base any more. this is because Ridicks bots stumbled across twenty-six small family's.

although they not vary happy about Ridick being in charge they have enough sense to not try to kill Ridick for fear of death themselves. some of the family's with daughters that are Ridicks age try to get Ridick to marry them but so far Ridick only has his eyes on one.

This girl has the Alterin gene, graceful red hair with great green eyes to go with them. Her name is Kelly Sanders. she has a younger sister and a father but no mother. so far she has only said that her mother went out one day and never came back. this normally means that she is ever a slave or dead.

Jess pov

Jess was playing with firefly in the small open area. the Huragok was floating left and right playing tag with the little girl. this was until a boy called butch came and started to throw rocks at the girl with his friend Polly.

"hey stop it"jess cried as small lumps started to form on her head.

"get out of here you little slut. that Huragok belongs to me now" butch said with a hint of pride in his voice. "no firefly is mine. I'm going to tell if you don't stop" Jess said though tears that are forming in her eyes.

"no you wont you little trap" Polly said as he grabbed her as started to punch her. screaming for help Jess started to wonder if anybody will help her. that is till she heard her brother shout " get away from her now boys". "or what you gonna tell" Polly said thinking he will get away with what he is doing.

that was the worst thing he could do as before he could blink Ridick grabs his arm and breaks it in two places and grabs his neck before saying "you just got yourself in deep shit now boy. your dad wont be able to help you this time". as that happens a omni bot grabs butch and breaks his left arm and fist for trying to run.

when ridick let's go of the two badly injured boys they run of to there parents. Ridick terns to his little sister and said "you know you need to learn to fight right". Jess just looked at him and before she could speak her brother started to talk again."because i won't always be there for you". with that ridick left to go to the tech-lab he needed to get the wrist-mounted plasma auto cannons for the omni bots done and to see if the ground to orbit neutron ion cannons project is done because he felt like he would need them in the future.