The sun rised at Curacao. The light of the sun slowly filled the area around him with smooth dark orange shades. He checked a device mounted around his arm a last time, then he opened the cockpit of his ship. As the cockpit opens up a quiet croaking is to hear. That ship seemed to be very old. Something about seven years. Every good pilot knows that a ship, if it's older than only a few years it can mean less security than the newer ones. The hull wasn't compacted that good as it is expected from an older vessel. The atoms of the alloys began to move apart from each other and so the 'Fisher', like it was told by it's pilot, wouldn't be able to withstand too much fire. Knowing that the the shadows of the vessel slowly disappeared as the man inside it closed the cockpit and lifted his ship up. Expecting the worst when he would leave the upper atmosphere into space he activated his weapons and some other smaller devices, that looked very weird. Slowly a Kingfisher was seen, undocking from the Curacao docking ring. Right before he could undock, he already have seen a lot of LSF ships flying around infront of the docking area, searching for something. Immediately he received a call of one of these ships.
"Johan Lennox, deactivate your shields, weapons and engines. You are arrested for violating the data protection act, a case that threaten the security of Liberty!" The wing leader of the LSF Guardians ordered with a louder voice.
Lennox just ignored the message and shut down the comms. He was typing something into a console, one of his strange devices. Suddenly an EMP energy peak was detected by one of the LSF ships.
"Sir, there are Ions leaving the Kingfisher and it somehow gets into our pulse weapons..."
Static was to hear till the whole comm system of the LSF crushed. As one of the LSF ships opened fire the Debilitators on it began to explode and torn the wings apart. One by one the fighter's lights shut down.
Lennox used this moment for escaping. He initiated the cruise engines. Before doing that he took a last glance on the cockpits of the single ships. Each LSF vessel lost the energy for life support system. The ion blast killed the functions of their ships. The agents in the ships beat against the cockpits frantically trying to get oxygen to breath. But there was no hope for them. One bye one the LSF agents fell down, not able to breath any longer. After Lennox engaged cruise speed he mumbled something and headed for the Coronado jumphole.
The travel was short and quiet. It let feel Lennox a bit relieved as he reached the jumphole. He scanned it for analyzing the status of it if it would be passable. After the scans the cockpit lightened up as he initiated the jump sequence. His ship, heavily wickling inside of the cockpit, exited the jumphole after some seconds of entering. Asteroids shot into the direction of the ship. With activated shields he headed for the Barrier Gate station. He did not think about trouble with the LSF in this system and leaned back after he activated the autopilot.
"So far...let's hope there are not more evil surprises."
The 'Fisher' entered the nebula, that reduced the range of the scanners immediately, but detected strange signals coming out of the field. "Hmm...this is no regular activity in this system." Johan pressed some buttons, then a nearly invisible shockwave, coming from his ship, appeared. Just some asteroids and small rocks were hit and made strange sounds as the shockwave hits. Then another shockwave. Lennox looked at a screen in his cockpit, seeing the shockwaves spreading. He could saw all the forms the shockwave 'collided' with. "Just asteroids...rocks...nothing suspicious." He wondered while continuing generating of the shockwaves. Then a loud beep with the message "Incoming missile" appeared on one of his screens.
"Screw this. Where the hell do they come from?"
He launched four flares with his countremeasure dropper. But the missile hit and the ship lost it's cruise speed.
Johan activated the weapons, six modified Flashpoints. He had still no contact on his scanners and slowly got confused.
"What is this? I cannot see anything here....just this strange radiation."
Suddenly he saw pictures of the destruction of the ship of his parents. The new Rhino, how it blowed up with the screams of his mother and father. He dug his hands into his head, panicking, not knowing what is going on. He suddenly heard a voice in his head.
"Anger...leads to destruction. Anger will kill. Destruction will cause anger. Killing will cause anger...death."
The pictures in his head switched to the incident that happened infront of Curacao. He somehow felt the pain of the LSF agents who died. Lennox began to scream when finally the voice and the pictures disappeared. His heartbeat rate was very high, his breathing very fast. Due that what happened every body parts seemed to freeze. He wasn't able to move. He was suffering in a surplus of adrenaline. He managed to grab a bottle of water to drink something. His heartbeat slowly returned to it's normal speed again. He was sweating a lot but his body functions slowly returned to normal, too. With taking a deep breath Lennox continued his flight to the Barrier Gate Station.
"God...what the devil was this?" With activated autopilot the Kingfisher slowly came closer to the huge station. "My head hurts like hell..." Johan took a small scanning device, that he only would use to locate radiation, and set it up to his head. "What? The same traces I received with my ship scanners before that missile and the visions appeared! How can that be?"
The docking control asked for the identification of the incoming ship.
"This is Barrier traffic control. Unidentified ship please identify yourself and state your business." A male voice, coming from Barrier, said.
"Ehm...yeah sure. This is Freelancer Theta 6/38. I am here for searching for a job. I am coming from Cortez with some consumer goods." Lennox answered.
"Roger, you are clear to dock at docking point six Freelancer Theta 6/38. Please tell the bartender of this station he should spent you a drink."
"Understood. Initiating docking manouver."
The 'Fisher' began to deactivate the shields automatically and flew into the hangar bay, the gate behind it slowly closing. The old ship sinks down on one of the avaible landing pads and the cockpit opened. Lennox pressed some buttons to deactivate the systems. He also deactivated one of the strange devices in the cockpit.
"Hmm...this imitator seems to work. I should use it more often."
With quick steps he headed for the bar of Barrier to get some rest.
