Let's Be Bad Guys by Dracoulis Zachariah

Author:Dracoulis, Zachariah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

‘Nexotic Cybernetics Ocu-10 installed’ read a small notification as I groggily awoke, the faint sound of the pod’s vacuums sucking out the gas that surrounded me.

Ignoring the popup, I shot up out of the opened pod and desperately pulled the red drive from the wall, my vision foggy and my memory of the past 24 hours being equally hazy.

“Good, you’re awake.” Prescott said, having lost his friendly demeanor, while I struggled to figure out why I was so desperate to get the drive out of the wall.

“Thanks for caring.” I replied as my vision cleared up shortly before getting hit with all my memories at once, “The bits! Please tell me you didn’t-”

“Yep,” Prescott interjected, “you’d be surprised at how quickly half-a-million bits goes when you get excited.”

“All of it’s gone!?” I moaned, letting my arm hang out of the pod, “All of it?”

“Relax, that eye of yours was a good 50,000 on its own.” Prescott replied as if he’d done me some big favor, “Top of the line.”

“Yeah, what about the other 450 grand though?” I jabbed bitterly.

“Upgraded my sensor array, fixed up some other bits and pieces, and got ourselves a proper teleportation unit, which you’ll now find under this section,” Prescott explained, “amazing what you can simply pull from the Net now, huh?”

“I’m gonna-”

“Now, now, I think you’ll find you have bigger fish to fry,” Prescott once again interjected, “let’s just say you should probably make your way to the bridge.”

“I-” I started then stopped, deciding it’d probably be in my best interests to get out and dressed and find out what ‘bigger fish’ was for Prescott, “Where’s Dutan’s pistol?”

“Armory,” Prescott replied, “figured you wouldn’t need it until you could, you know, use it. You’ll also find your holster and pistol down there.”

“So, you could move my guns but couldn’t dress me-never mind.” I sighed, starting off towards the bridge, “Going to give me any sort of heads up?”

“Seems kind of redundant at this point. Oh, and I’d avoid going in direct sunlight for a few hours,” Prescott called after me, “it won’t kill you, but it won’t be pleasant.”

“Thanks.” I grumbled as the door ahead of me slid up.

Beth and P’riti were already manning two of the five stations that semi-circled around the front transparent titan-glass, leaving the central captain’s chair empty.

Compared to the rest of the ship, the bridge was surprisingly new looking, a fact I tried not to focus on for too long as I realized that it was probably due to Prescott’s little shopping spree.

“What are we looking at?” I asked as I walked over and took a seat in the unbelievably comfortable captain’s swivel chair in the middle of the bridge.

“Dutan’s men,” P’riti replied without looking away from her station, “they must’ve-fuck me!”

“What?” I asked worriedly as she stared at me sitting in the white chair with a mix of panic and disgust, “Am I missing something?”

“I-Fuck.” Beth blurted out flatly once she’d turned to face me, “What the fuck? I… What the fuck?”

“This is starting to hurt my feelings.

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