Blue Devil

[Xing]

So. What the hell we do now, Xing?
Xing looked over the squared face Red Hessian pilot with annoyance, ignoring Axels whispered question.
Now, pilot, this is my ship, and Im not going to hand it over to you for the good reason that Im neither a damned capitalist Rheinlander, nor a Corsair we have no reason to be hostile there, and anyway my ship hauls nothing, youve already scanned it.
The baritone voiced pilot sounded quite amused;
I dont really care, Xing we did met before, and your ship was registered as an independent Rheinland commercial ship. Maybe you just changed your ID Codes to pass unseen around, but it wont fool ME and my hunting boys.
His chatter was followed by multiple laughters from the other 5 Red Hessian pilots. Xing saw from the corner of his eye one of the engineer aboard, Philip, shiver in fear. His crew werent all soldiers He couldnt ask them to die for his actions
What do you want with this wreckage anyway?
Why, I could tell you the beautiful, standard pirate version, say we will sell whatever scrap of your ship that will be left, or I can say the truth; that is, for fun.
Hm. Was the only answer Xing deigned to answer. Instead he turned around and nodded to Axel.
Axel was reluctant, but had not much of an option there; he had no better idea really He powered the engine at critical level and charged toward the Hessians ships
What foolishness is this! The Red Hessian yelled, but his voice was cut off immediately by a loud noise. On the holoprojector, Xing saw with satisfaction the mans helmed head bump on its own ship hull.
Good luck Axel. He turned toward his crew, Men at battlestations! Bring down these fighters!, then he ran toward his prototype, once again to fight the enemy
Though this time, he wasnt sure they were going to be as lucky

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The 6 Red Hessian Sabres were soon swarming like angry bees around the Red Dawn, ripping off even more hull plating over the already heavily damaged Train. Xingd own fighter was still holding, but was heavily damaged as well
Well, at least we wouldnt give the Rheinlanders the pleasure of killing us Xing thought in a dark mood
And then his sensor picked up contacts from the other side of the asteroid field, ID signals he didn't even knew existed...

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