Chapter 4: The Mining Rooms
"So, how is it like being a Rebel Templar? Must be tough…I mean, no family, no boyfriend…" Ben asked Saber.
"No tougher than enduring your false sympathy while you're staring at my chest." Saber said, rolling her eyes.
"Hey! I wasn't…"
Just then, the console starts beeping and the three could hear a turbo lift door being opened up from the other side. "Hey, what do you know, that trash compactor robot of yours came through." Saber said to Ricky.
"Yeah, but it's strange he didn't contact us on the comm. And by the way, he's not a trash compactor, he's my pet!" Ricky said.
"If he got the turbolifts working, then we should have a clear run to the hangar."
"The turbolifts are locked down manually, so I had him open the emergency hatch."
"Wait, don't tell me you're taking that hatch down into the mining rooms, are you? While I was sleeping in the room, I heard an explosion and it came from below. There's probably nothing down there but damaged rooms and rubble. You'd be an idiot to do down there." Saber explained.
"Maybe, but it's the only way out. It's better to risk my life than yours." Ricky said determined.
"You're either really brave or really crazy. Or both." Saber said, shaking her head. "Alright, fine. I'll monitor things from up here. Be careful, the only things moving down there are likely more mining droids. So don't be playing hero too hard. Not that I care what happens to you or anything but it's just that I don't want to get out of here alone."
"Got it. See you soon." Ricky then turns his head to Ben. "Ben, you stay here and accompany Saber."
"Why can't you just bring me along?" Ben snapped annoyed.
"Because it's not safe for you to go down there. Besides, you get to stay here and relax your behind while I'm gone."
"Oh right." Ben perked up. "Okay, be careful, Ricky."
"I'll keep the comlink open." Saber said as she hands Ricky the headset. "I may be able to guide you while you're down there. Don't know if the signal will hold if you go down too deep though."
"Thanks. Bye everyone." Ricky said. He took the headset and runs out of the bridge.
He then enters the turbolift room, takes the turbolift and goes down to the mining rooms of the ship.
When Ricky reaches the bottom of the ship, where the mining rooms are, Ricky walks over to the door of the mining rooms. "Can you read me?" Saber said to Ricky through the comlink.
"Barely, there's a lot of static." Ricky said.
"There's a lot of interference down there. Probably caused by that explosion. Still, it looks like there's a route down to the fuel depot, if the passages haven't collapsed. That explosion knocked out most of the sensors. Also, watch yourself. There's a lot of droid broadcast in that area. But I can't pin them down." Saber said.
"Thanks for the advice. Ricky Blade out." Ricky said and hangs up the headset.
Ricky then enters the rooms and ran his way to fight the mining droids, as they appear. He quickly uses his Carsomyr to cut them all. As he gets out of the first room, he sees another group of mining droid.
"Ricky, listen to me." Saber said through the comlink again.
"Saber?" Ricky asked confused.
"Ricky, I want you to focus on your sword. Close your eyes…and focus."
"What?"
"Do it!"
Ricky sighed, holds up his Carsomyr and closed his eyes. The mining drois raise their rifles and are about to shoot at Ricky, but suddenly, before they could do that, Ricky's Carsomyr sword shines brightly and thunder erupted from the sword! The thunder then electrocuted the droids and the droids shut down, unable to function and fell to the ground.
"Whoa!" Ricky yelled amazed as he shot his eyes open.
"That Ricky…was the power of the Carsomyr." Saber said.
"Awesome."
"I know. That was the power the Rebel Templars possess during the battle of DC. That's why the Faction feared us and they have to effortlessly wipe us out. I'm glad you possess that power too."
"Whoa. Thanks Saber."
"No problem."
"Alright, Ricky Blade out."
Ricky continues to fight against the droids with his newfound power until he reaches the main chamber. In the chamber, there was a bridge and a console at the middle of the bridge. On each side of the chamber were energy generators shielded with containment fields.
"You did it Ricky. You reached the main ventilation shaft. The central droid controller is at the middle of the bridge. Go ahead, walked up to the console and deactivate the droids. This will make your mission a bit easier." Saber said through the comlink.
Ricky walks up to the console. He then uses the console to shut down the containment fields that are shielding the generators. He then uses the console to cancel all droid mining functions on organics and overwrite the droids' data.
"All done." Ricky said as he smiled. Then, he found a camera video inside the console. 'Looks interesting.' He thought. He then plays the video in the console.
(VIDEO (FROM SECRUITY CAMERA 017)):
It seems the video is showing three men having a conservation at a corridor.
"Everybody here?" A worker named Iruka Umino asked the other two men.
"What's up, Brock? We're supposed to be stacking fuel barrels at room 238 right now." Another worker named Dash Parr asked another worker named Eddie Brock.
"Forget the barrels. You know that survivor they pulled from the gummi ship? One of the miners says he was a Rebel templar." Eddie said.
"A Templar, are you serious?" Iruka asked.
"Yeah, positive. He said that he was wielding a Carsomyr with him."
"Hell! A Templar? We can't have him walking around here! The Faction may find us and attacked our ship!" Dash snapped.
"I thought all the Templars were wiped out during the battle of DC, right?" Iruka asked.
"Guess they missed one. But it gets better, I'm been doing some research and they say they got a bounty for any surviving Templar at London." Eddie said.
"Wait…you want to sell the Templar to the Falcone Mob at London?!" Iruka asked in shock.
"Have you gone nuts, Brock?" Dash added.
"Look, come on! Do you know how big that bounty is? That Templar is our ticket out of this blasted ship!" Eddie protested.
"Eddie, there's no way the officers will go for that. They'll lock us up for sure." Iruka said.
"Then we'll improvise." Eddie said with a smirk.
(VIDEO ENDS)
Ricky rubs his chin and arched an eyebrow. "Maybe it was these three who made the droids go haywire and caused this disaster." He whispered to himself. He logs out from the console.
"Ricky, can't you read me? I'm picking up some strange readings. What are you doing down there?" Saber asked from the comlink.
"What kind of readings, Saber?" Ricky asked.
"The containment fields in the mining rooms are shutting down. You need to get out of there before they vent fuel to the top of the ship."
"Great. How much time do I have?"
"I may be able to keep it contained until you get the turbolift to the fuel depot but not for long. I'm locking down the turbolift to the bridge now to keep the blast from spreading. If you got anything left to do down there, make it quick because where you are is going to get real hot, real soon!"
"Got it!" Ricky said. He then quickly runs off from the console, runs over to one of the energy generators and saw a door. He opens the door, enters the room and saw a turbolift that leads to the fuel depot of the ship. He quickly got into the turbolift and as the lift doors closed in front of his face, he could feel the floor rumbling and shaking.
END OF CHAPTER
Ryo: Sorry if it ain't much but I hope you find this chapter interesting. Read and review.