Unification

[Stefz]

After several minutes of flying, Stefan and his two wingmen arrived at Omicron Alpha.

"Alright people, follow me and do not ever, under any circumstances get separated from group." - Stefan said to his wingmen.

"Si Senor, we understand. We've been on missions like this, It won't be easy but we'll cover your back."

"Alright, I'm glad I have experienced wingmen." - Stefan nodded.

After their little conversation regarding flight plans and tactics that are going to be used if they find themselves under attack, they engaged cruise engines and headed towards planet Malta for the last preparations before leaving.

Everything seemed quiet as they were slowly passing by planet Mallorca. Then suddenly, radars picked up hostile contacts closing in fast. Those were three Bounty Hunters.

"Good day Outcasts. Well, It isn't that good for you, destroy them!" - One of the Bounty Hunters said.

"Well see about that. Diego, Fernando, take out those two wingmen of their leader. I'll take care of him. Be careful, we must do this as faster as possible, as we don't need any unwanted attention, even if we are in our own system." - Stefan responded quickly and battle started.

-Incoming missile-

"Damn it! Launching countermeasure. Be careful, they are using missiles all over." - Stefan said while he seemed quite worried.

The missiles and guns were flying all over the place, in the beautiful deadly dance of Sabres and Mantas. The fight already took enough precious time from Stefan and his wingmen, they had to do something. Stefan wasn't able to think very clearly, he was very busy evading those missiles. Then something unexpected happened. Stefan was still flying like he's focused, but he had an vision, how he called them. Everything was purple. Stefan was sitting in front of the unknown Nomad-looking structure but he had no idea what was it.

"Commander, we're almost getting slaughtered, what are your orders?!" - Diego started to yell.

"Commander, are you alright? You seem quite out of your mind right now." - Fernando jumped in conversation.

Stefan didn't respond. He was looking at giant Nomad hive. Soon, Great Harbinger appeared in front of him.

"The heck!?" - Stefan was obviously scared.

Diego and Fernando looked at each other through cockpit, both looking rather confused.

Stefan was still in his vision, looking at Great Harbinger, when suddenly he came back to life.

"What the hell did just happened?!" - Stefan yelled.

"Senor, we're getting hammered!" - Both Diego and Fernando said.

Stefan suddenly started to think very fast. The Hunters weren't even able to land one hit on his shields since he came back from vision. His reflexes were increased. Hunter wing leader was right behind him, and when he saw that, he headed straight towards Mallorca's atmosphere. The Hunter was so focused on aiming that he didn't even knew where he was heading. Projectiles were all around Stefan's ship. Diego and Fernando saw him heading towards Mallorca, but they didn't want to say anything and interrupt him. They believed in him since he was the one honorable enough to be given such a mission from Administrator.

-Danger: Entering atmosphere-

"Very well." - Stefan said

He was waiting for the right moment and when it came, he turned by 180 degrees and hunter realised where is he, but it was too late. The heat of the atmosphere started to eat hunter's ship. His power reactor and engines got disabled due to the heat in the atmosphere. Hunter's ship fell apart while Stefan was watching at it and chuckling.

"Great job Senor, I knew you were not going to disappoint us!" - Fernando said.

"Gracias. Now, enough talk. Let's take care of remaining fighters, they shouldn't be that hard with their leader down."

Stefan's wing turned into offensive. The Krakens were melting on the Mantas, while remaining hunters tried to evade. After several minutes of fight, Stefan's wing finally won and they were on their way to Malta. They soon landed on Malta, prepared for assignment and took of to Taus. When they entered Tau 37, they were blinded for the couple of seconds due to white cloud where Alpha jump hole was located. After that, they were on their way to Tau 23. It was quiet when suddenly, Stefan started to scream. He felt the pain in his head, he never felt something like that. The memories. Great Spirits were trying to tell him something and he wanted to find out what and understand them, but it was insanely hard for him. He had a feeling like his head will explode. He remembered everything. Going through graveyard jump hole and what was located in another two systems.

The pain was growing, he heard voices. He saw an dark cloud and Great Harbinger inside it. He didn't dare to enter the cloud, even if he was called by Harbinger. He was receiving the visions about humans shooting at Spirits without mercy. He felt the same pain they felt. In that moment, Stefan realized that he's connected to them in some way. As soon as he realized that, the pain disappeared. He felt strong, like a newborn.

"Senor, are you alright? You must have some advanced autopilot on your Sabre, we're in Baffin, almost at Coronado jump hole." - Diego whispered.

"Well damn. I'm fine. Actually, I'm great. Never felt better in my entire life." - Stefan answered.

"There is a jump hole, be careful people, we don't know what's on the far side." - Stefan gave final instructions to Diego and Fernando before jumping.

They jumped. The white covered their faces again. The white cloud again, same as one in Tau 37. They didn't have enough time for looking around.

"People, we're finally here. So, in this system, an Alien Gate is located. Let's move." - Stefan whispered.

After several minutes of flying, they found themselves under attack of two rookie Colonials.

"What the heck!?" - Stefan started to scream

"Good God, prepare yourselves guys, this shouldn't be as hard as those hunters in Alpha."

The fight started. As Colonial rookies were getting beaten, they sounded alarm. At that time, the entire Colonial fleet knew they were in the system. Colonials went down like flies, and Stefan's wing moved to Alien Gate without losing too much precious time and without risking being located by Colonials.

"That was good guys, but now we'll be hunted. Colonials know we are here, and they won't let us leave without a fight. Be careful and let's go."

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