The Ruins of Arlandia Complete Series by Wood William

Author:Wood, William [Wood, William]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN:

INTENSE PRESSURE

Calvin was already half awake, hovering between wakefulness and sleep when he heard a soft pop from the intercom.

“Master Calvin,” Ion said. “Please come to the bridge.”

It took a second, but when he realized he wasn’t dreaming, Calvin felt a quick jab of panic and sat up.

He jumped out of bed and dressed quickly. Normally when he didn’t sleep well he was exhausted, but not now; he was wide awake and full of energy. He entered the bridge to find Ion sitting at the main computer.

“What’s going on?” Calvin asked, standing behind Ion. He looked up to the front seats, expecting to see Astra sitting in her chair, but she wasn’t there yet.

“We have a problem,” Ion said, pointing to a monitor above his console. Calvin gasped. An enormous Goremog warship dominated the screen. It looked scary, its hull covered with tiny and medium sized laser cannons and missile launchers. The ship was black, and if not for the visual enhancers on the sensors, it would have been hard to see against the blackness of space. It was bulky and had no structures rising out of the top. The location of the bridge was not obvious. But Calvin’s eyes were drawn to the nine massive laser cannons on the front, six on the back, and twelve on the bottom. Each was larger than Azure Frost. The ultimate warship, Calvin thought, and it was heading directly towards them.

“How far away is it?” Calvin asked. “It will be over Yelsha Four in twenty minutes.”

“It’s huge.” Calvin gasped.

“It’s a battleship, one of the biggest ship classes they have. It can carry fifty space fighters, and ten thousand combat robots. Only their Titan class is bigger.”

“That’s hard to imagine.” This is always how it starts, Calvin thought. We come up with a plan, a very simple plan, and it quickly unravels. He was so fixated on the battleship that he didn’t hear the door open.

“What wrong?” Astra asked nervously, almost as if she didn’t want to ask or she didn’t want to know the answer.

“Look,” Calvin pointed at the monitor.

Astra looked at the screen, but didn’t say anything.

“Do you think they found us?” Calvin asked.

“I don’t think so,” Astra said. “They’re not launching fighters.”

Calvin’s mind raced. “What should we do?” He asked.

“We could hide in a nearby system and wait for them to leave,” Astra said. “I know it could be a while, but at least we would be safe. My father said we needed to avoid a fight, if possible.”

“Yeah, he did say that,” Calvin said thoughtfully. He moved to the front and sat down. “I don’t think we should fight either.”

“We wouldn’t stand a chance against a battleship,” Ion said.

“Right,” Calvin said. “That’s not even an option.”

“I’m glad we agree on that,” Astra said. “But what about leaving and coming back later?”

“I’m not sure I like that idea either,” Calvin said. “We don’t know how long they’ll be here. If I were them, and I had a few ships to spare, I’d leave one here permanently, as a listening post.

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