Rogue Ship: An Artificial Intelligence Sci-Fi Tale (Rogue Worlds Book 0) by RJ Crayton

Author:RJ Crayton [Crayton, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 - A Plan

When the AI had come back on, Jim had been unnerved. Luckily, Sam hadn’t been. She’d been worth her weight in gold in this situation. She’d had the good sense, to hit the all-ship comms button as she spoke, and he heard everything she said to Katarina.

The order to not contact the alliance was good, but it wouldn’t hold. AIs were meant to think. Katarina would figure out what they’d done, eventually. They had to get off this ship.

The best bet was to use the escape pods. They were small and meant for short-distance travel. There were two pods, and each could fit a maximum of three people. They had auto navigation set to dock at the nearest space station or probe. He’d have to disable that. If they could launch while Katarina still trusted their information, they could land on the planet without worry that the AI would shoot them down.

There were weapons on the Goldenrod, the kind designed to combat the alien ships seen by probes. But the weaponry was a bit of a crapshoot since weapons engineers only had images of the ships to guess at what weaponry might be effective. Unfortunately, the weapons on board were definitely capable of destroying the escape pods. They had to get out without Katarina figuring out they were evading her and killing them.

Jim needed to communicate with the captain and the rest of the crew, but he didn’t know how. Not when Katarina was watching their every move. He used to like the ever-present AI, but not now. This had been highly improbable, but it had happened. He sighed.

Jim left engineering and headed toward the escape pod hatches. He needed to override Kat’s connection to them. They needed to be able to eject without her stopping them. They could go two and two.

He was rounding a corner when Sam appeared. He gasped. “You startled me,” he said.

“Sorry,” she admitted. “Do you have a minute?” She asked, and offered him a smile. The kind of smile she’d never given him before. It was kind of a sexy, come hither smile.

He wasn’t sure what to make of that. “Umm, sure,” he said. “I was just going to check all areas of the ship. I’d done engineering and the surroundings. I need to check the escape pods.”

Sam nodded. “That’s perfect,” she said. Given that she had popped out in front of his path, he followed her to the escape pad launch. The room was only about four feet square, and two round porthole doors indicated the opening to enter the escape pods. The moment they stepped in, Sam stepped closer to him, too close, and before he’d known what to expect, she’d wrapped her arms around him. He blinked, wondering if he was dreaming. Had he fallen asleep? Was he now having a bizarre dream? “I know we shouldn’t,” she whispered in his ear. “But it’s been such a rough day with Randy’s death.”

Her hands, lifted the shirt of his uniform, untucking it from his pants in the back, and then her cool fingers slid up his back.

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