Worldship Files by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: scifi, lgbt, paranormal, legends, lesbian, space opera, fairy tales, fae, lesbian romance
Publisher: Erik Schubach

Chapter 9 – Alien Vessel

After a long moment of stunned silence as we all just gazed, dumbstruck at the decidedly alien spacecraft displayed in the tank, everything went into frenzied motion in the command center when we heard Myra shouting out evasive flight patterns they had developed after the Outlier incident.

Captain Peregoplis was leaping to gracefully reach for the communications level high above, others were scrambling to their stations as he bellowed, “Tactical, I want real-time trajectories displayed on the main screen. Get Doctor Reuben from cosmology on the horn now!”

Then he was calling out over coms as we joined him, Rory gliding us gracefully up and we stood in her personal gravity field, “Leviathan, Alpha One, get your people out of there!”

He glanced around as she blurted, “Not now, Leviathan, kinda busy out here!” Then she was calling out more orders to her people as the Captain motioned to a Gnome Engineer I knew well from the Morrigan mission.

Kornelious Hesserfus Tomalginarius the Thirteenth was the Gnome sapper in charge of special projects magi-tech integration for Ready Squadron. The senior Gnome engineers like him prefer the sapper term over engineer or tech. He went by Kornelious Hesserfus Tomalginarius the Thirteenth for short. We usually called him Korny to piss him the ever-loving heck off.

Peregoplis stabbed a finger at the holographic model of the, well, of the alien spacecraft that was on Ready Squadron's six, and he growled out with authority, “What... is that?”

Korny's eyes were glued to the holo-tank as he shook his head, eyes bulging as he took in the vessel, if anyone could make sense of anything mechanical with a single look, it was a Gnome, but he was sputtering, “I... I don't know.” He turned to Rory, asking, “Highness?”

Her voice was far away as she shook her own head. “I do not know. But it somehow has the ability to scatter its composition and telemetry from our magi-tech systems. And it took out four deep space-rated, magic armored fighters in mere moments. I don't even see any obvious means of propulsion or maneuvering thrusters as it is making course corrections.”

I was pulled back to the apparent one-sided dogfight going on when Myra's voice changed from barking out orders to anger when a pilot said, “I've got a clean shot with a telemerite charge!”

“No! Don't target it, Gerry! Its...” Then she was cussing in at least seven different languages then hissing like the humanoid cat she had fashioned herself into, “Fuck!” as one of the screens flared white and another icon went red on the plots.

Then as impossible as it sounds, I was hit by three rapid-fire waves of magical backlash as the first attacks shockwave of magical force reached the Leviathan. I staggered, immediately feeling the familiar sensation of my eyes, nose, and ears bleeding. It happened on the New Hope after each magic amplified transection of the asteroid to slice off some of its mass. Rory, Oberon, and Graz didn't feel the backlash for some reason.

Graz

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