The Complete Series by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-12-11T23:00:00+00:00

Jiya and Takal waited until the mining ships had started back toward Muultar. No one knew how long they would be gone or if a second set of ships would take their place, so they knew they had to hurry.

Jiya piloted the Pod through the field of asteroids, her hands tightly clenched on the controls. She was glad the debris was fairly large, most of it bigger than the Pod. That made it easier to avoid than the radical smaller bits.

However, it meant screwing up had greater consequences.

One mistake, and an asteroid the size of a destroyer would get up close and personal to a most uncomfortable degree.

Rather than focus on that, she triggered her comm and reached out to Takal, who was a blur of motion in the back of the Pod while he prepared the bots.

“Everything okay back there?” she asked as she steered toward the asteroid that they’d determined was best suited for a safe Pod landing.

“The bots are ready to go,” he replied, a tinge of excitement in his voice.

Jiya grinned. Although Takal wasn’t the most adventurous of the crew, preferring to remain aboard the SD Reynolds and work on his inventions, there was nothing that thrilled him more than discovering something new he could tinker with.

“I have a containment device prepared, and I’ve added several additional scanners to the bots in order to determine if the substance is hazardous to us before we bring it aboard.”

“Always a good thing,” she fired back, chuckling.

Proximity warnings sounded as they neared their target, and Jiya silenced the alarm as she feathered her approach.

“We’re coming up on the asteroid now,” she transmitted to Reynolds. “Maybe it’s a good idea to have Helm on standby in case I run into trouble landing this thing and securing our footing.”

“You’ve got this,” Reynolds encouraged her.

“How hard can it be, right?” She laughed. “Rhetorical question, Tactical!” she called right after. “I’m not looking for an answer.”

Tactical sighed over the comm, but for once he kept his digital mouth shut.

Jiya eased the Pod toward the large asteroid, holding her breath. She hunkered down in her seat, one hundred percent of her focus on the space between.

The image of the gritty gray surface of the rock resolved as she closed and her scanner readings jumped wildly, giving her inconsistent and inaccurate information. Fortunately, she didn’t need the scanner information to land, and none of the strange system’s radiation affected the pilot’s controls.

“Hold on tight, Takal,” she called. “This could be bumpy.”

The inventor muttered an affirmative and Jiya brought the Pod about, angling it to meet the momentum of the asteroid rather than attempting to chase the big rock down.

It came at them fast.

Jiya gulped and pulled back on the stick, bringing the nose up at the last second and firing the thrusters to keep the asteroid from slamming into them.

The Pod reared back and matched the asteroid’s speed an instant before the two collided, and Jiya looked stunned as she realized she’d timed the maneuver perfectly.

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