Star Cat_War Mage by Andrew Mackay
Author:Andrew Mackay [Mackay, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chrome Valley Books
Published: 2018-07-05T18:30:00+00:00
CHAPTER TEN
USARIC Data Point
Space Opera Charlie
Days traveled: 545
Distance to Enceladus: 178,616 miles
The Hyper-Sleep Chamber
Level Five
A low hum crept around the chamber. It dispelled an otherwise perfect silence. The lights snapped on, illuminating the circular quarters.
Three hyper-sleep pods fanned out like a star from the central feeding column.
The first of the three pods shimmied to life. The screen blanketing its occupier slid into its housing.
WHIZ-WHIR.
A pair of eyebulbs blinked, âCaptain?â Its squeaky voice woke Oxade from his slumber.
He opened his eyes and immediately squeezed them shut, shifting his body around the podâs foam interior, âOh, God. My head.â
âItâll take some time to get oriented.â
Oxade pressed his elbows onto the fabric and lifted the top half of his body upright. Poz Bass, one half of the death drone duo, spun his head around three-hundred-and-sixty-degrees.
âWelcome to the vicinity of Enceladus.â
âAre we there?â
âYes, five-hundred-and-forty-five days of sleep,â Poz extended his rope-like arm and bopped thumped the glass case on Nutreneâs pod. She didnât react, âManuel-2 asked us to wake you up for debriefing ahead of the others.â
âOkay.â
Oxade threw his legs over the side of the pod and placed his bare feet on the ground. Poz forgot that his captain was only wearing a pair of briefs He looked away in shame.
âHey, itâs okay, Poz. Weâre all guys together,â Oxade stood to his feet and gripped the oxygen tube attached to his pod. His balance was all over the place, âThis is going to take some getting used to.â
âI respect your modesty, Oxade,â Poz trundled over to Alexâs pod and pressed his ânoseâ - which resembled more a mini ventilation shaft - against the screen, âLook at him. Fast asleep.â
âWhat did you and Neg do to pass the time?â Oxade ran his fingertips over his five oâclock shadow as he stared in the mirror.
âWe played chess for a while,â Poz chirped. âI won, of course.â
âOf course,â Oxade cleared his throat and opened the slider next to the mirror. His enhanced leather USARIC mercenary jacket floated inside, âIâd expect nothing less.â
âMen are much better at games than women, arenât they?â
Oxade threw his arms into the jacket sleeves. The five letters in his name lit up on the outer part of his upper right arm, âWell, technically, you and Neg are both sexes,â he said as he reached into his pockets.
âDonât patronize me,â Poz moved his head away from Alexâs pod and watched his captain unfold his gloves, âWe are both, yet we are neither.â
âYouâre vicious little bastards,â Oxade finished, snapping his gloves onto his hands, âHow did you get on with Manuel-2?â
âOh, she and Pure Genius cheated. Destroyed me in five movesââ
ââNo, not in chess, you dummy,â Oxade removed a belt from the cupboard and strapped it around his waist, âI mean generally.â
âNeg is at the control deck with Manuel-2. Theyâre trying to communicate with Opera Beta.â
âI want an update,â Oxade fanned his fingers out on both hands and pushed them down his thighs. A tight synthetic material unraveled from his waist, down his thighs, past his knees and secured around his ankles.
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