Olimar's POV

Everything was up in such a ruckus I was surprised the building was still standing. I did swear that I could feel it shifting though.
When I glanced over at Johanna, she was sighing and rolling her eyes.

"Now where should we start?" I heard her mutter.

"Let's do a scan of the computer controlling all of the unmanned vessels, the GPS navigational program could be the problem. Either the software is out of date, or there could be a virus."

She followed me as I started walking, "Eric said that they already checked and the software was perfectly up to date, and they had scanned for viruses this morning but everything checked out fine. That's why they called the technician."

"Is that so? Hm… well we could try the Ultimate Elimination tool."

She gave me an odd look, so I explained to her, "The Ultimate Elimination tool is an aggressive cleaning tool that is capable of deeper digging. Traditional scanning has the possibility of missing more-elusive malware, but the Ultimate Elimination tool will certainly get it."

"Oh, all right! Well let's hurry up and get this thing running!" She quickened her pace.

I rushed and stopped in front of her, "There is a potential downside however."

"What is it?"

"Like I said, this is an aggressive cleaning tool, and I mean VERY aggressive. It could possibly remove stuff vital to the computer's proper functioning if the virus had affected it in some way; this is why we don't like using it very much…"

"I see..." She pondered, "I guess if something important was removed we'd have to replace it."

"Yes…"

"And… it probably would cost a lot…"

"Yup."

We stood there silently, until I remembered something else important, "What about Greg and the trainees? Any news about them?"

She shrugged, "I checked my phone just after we walked through the entrance. Eric said that he did file a missing persons report with the police two days ago, but they couldn't do anything until a certain amount of time passed. They started searching through space now, but they haven't come up with anything yet."

"Great…"

…

Out of nowhere a big boom and a violent rumble came instantly after. Both me and Johanna barely managed to keep ourselves standing, and definitely did not have time to ponder what could possibly be happening. The company alarms started blaring out.

I yelled out practically involuntarily, "What in the galaxy!?"

"Is it a quake!?"

Shaking my head I answered, "Not with a boom like that, let's go!"

We took off in an impressive dash through the wide halls, "This way, hurry up!" I directed.

Seconds later flocks of our co-workers were running past us and I heard a mix of charging yells and terrified screams.

"Olimar!" Don slapped his hands on my shoulders, "You and Johanna have got to get out of here!"

"What's happening!?" I questioned.

"Space Pirates! They're everywhere! They all came in through the ceiling, at least hundreds of them!"

A jolt of adrenaline shocked me, "What!? Space Pirates!? Oh no…"

"Well that's just brilliant! This is the last thing we need now!" Johanna threw her arms up.

"What do they want?" I mumbled to myself, sure Space Pirates are greedy and known for constantly trying to get their gloves on valuables, and this is not the first time we've dealt with them, but they have never gone this extreme before!

I couldn't ponder anything, because a large group of them rushed around the corner, when we exchanged gazes they raised their blades over their heads and started running for us, yelling.

"Run for it!" Don blurted. Naturally we started running at full speed the other way.

"Olimar, what are we going to do!?" Johanna asked.

"To the Dolphin! We're going to the shipyard!"

I hurriedly proceeded to lead both of them to the shipyard, the quickest path of course.

As we turned the hallway down the shortcut, we immediately retracted and ran back down the long path after seeing the path obstructed by large flames. Just as we reached the end of the hall a huge crash from behind barely missed us.

We stopped and noticed the ceiling above us had fallen, if we had gone too slow it would've fallen right on top of us. The pursuing pirates had halted in their tracks and stared for a moment before retreating. I was amazed at how fast those pirates wrecked the place…

I looked at a window nearby and an idea came to me.

"This way!" I started pulling on the window, trying to slide it open.

I tried until I tired myself out, "Damn! No good, it's stuck!"

Johanna and Don lifted a hunk of rubble, "Stand back!" Johanna shouted.

I dove out of the way and managed to look just in time to see the tough debris sail effortlessly through the glass.

"Great work! Now let's go!"

As I predicted it didn't take us long to reach the shipyard through the obscure alleyways of the building.

Now to get the Dolphin…

Author's Note:

Hiii! ^-^

Sorry for this cliffhanger and the possible shortness :p

I was just browsing and realized, "Oh! I haven't worked on this story in a while, I need to do that! Geez!" XD

Plus I was in a hurry to finish this. XD

Hope you enjoyed! Bye!