Perseus Gate Season 1 - Episodes 1-3: The Trail Through the Stars (Perseus Gate Collection) by M. D. Cooper

Author:M. D. Cooper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2017-10-05T06:00:00+00:00

LATE ARRIVAL

STELLAR DATE: 09.03.8938 (Adjusted Years)

LOCATION: Hermes Station

REGION: Naga System, Orion Freedom Alliance Space

Nance was securing a load in one of the starboard holds, when Cargo called down.

<Nance, Cheeky got us bumped in the queue. We’re t-minus five to pull out from the station.>

<What? No! I’m not ready down here. I just got this last shipment situated, but it’s not secured yet. Stars, where’s Trevor when you need him?>

<What took so long?> Cargo asked.

<Oh, I don’t know, maybe the fact that I took a batch of that Retyna stuff—like a crazy person, I might add—and I had to shift half my biomass around to get an isolated tank to put it in. Took all morning just to do that.>

Nance gestured to the cargo-bot hovering nearby to hold down the security net on the far side of a stack of crates while she locked her corner into the anchors.

<I’m sending Finaeus down to help,> Cargo replied

Great, I’m sure he’ll be waaaay better than the cargo-bot, Nance thought to herself before responding, <Kay, thanks.>

Nance had hooked on two more corners of the safety net when Sabrina called out on the shipnet.

<There’s a guy at the airlock. He’s dancing around like he has to pee, demanding to see Cheeky.>

<Oh!> Cheeky exclaimed. <That’s Misha!>

<Better late than never,> Cargo replied. <Nance, go get him in. Finaeus can secure the cargo.>

<Yeah, sure, send the old man to do the manual labor,> Finaeus groused.

<Are we really gonna take him with us?> Nance asked.

<It was a part of his deal. Based on how scared he looks, I bet he’s running from more people than just Mandy and Jenn,> Cargo replied. <Let him in and make sure he’s got the maps, Nance.>

<Fine,> Nance replied, and told the cargo bot to stay before running out of the hold.

She passed Finaeus amidships and called out as she passed. “Secure the last three stacks, then the bot, and sweep the other holds for anything unsecured.”

“Sure thing, Mom,” Finaeus called over his shoulder.

<Just when he was starting to grow on me,> Nance said privately to Erin.

<He’s OK, just old and eccentric. Just think how weird you’ll be when your neural pathways are several thousand years old.>

<Erin! That’s not nice at all!>

<Sorry, I thought it was funny. AI humor often doesn’t translate well. Most of the words we have for organics don’t have good analogies.>

Nance laughed aloud. <I’ll bet they don’t.>

She reached the airlock, and paused to watch as the station-side lock slid open on the holodisplay above the main bay’s doors. Misha rushed in and pressed himself against Sabrina’s outer lock as pulse blasts rippled through the air out on the sweep.

With a wave of her hand, she triggered the main bay’s lock to open and Misha fell in. As the door closed once more, a pulse blast slipped through and clipped Misha in the shoulder.

“Shit,” Nance muttered and signaled the station’s portal to close and save Sabrina from taking any more fire.

She sent a command for the station’s lock to close, but the command was rejected.

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