Blue Devil

[Xing]

Xing, with all his time serving in the Rheinland land army, has never been to the omega systems his operations mainly happened over habitable planets and the occasional stations being threatened by terrorists.
As the bluish vortex came to an end, he saw two planets all seemingly inhabitable. Around the larger one was orbiting a station hes seen often
A Zoner station? he wondered
Eugene replied with amusement,
More like, we killed the Zoners and now its ours. He answered after a small mad laugh.
Xing was actually getting used to the attitude of the coalition pilots why, despite all the discipline in the Rheinland Army, soldiers needed to take out some stress by whatever mean they could acting like cow boy being part of it.
He wondered for a second as he set course toward the station which his sensors determined as the Cap Verde station, and opened a private channel to Axel.
What you think of these guys?
Instead, it was Philip who answered, his voice showing panic,
Xing, these are madmen youll get us slau-
Get out of here Phil Xings talking to me a few seconds later, Axel was alone on the conversation.
I think they are crazy.
Xing produced a chuckle, explain yourself?
Xing, youve heard them. No armed force people would talk like that. They treat killing as a sport they are no better than some pirates around.
The Chinese pilot produced a sigh and considered a while before answering, looking far away.
Maybe. But these guys my people were once part of this Coalition
Axel remained silent, so he continued on,
Look, they saved our life. Crazy or not, these guys were competent soldiers who know how to work in team: what are their stupid comments compared to their skill? If they were really crazy theyd have blown us into dust for fun just like that Red Hessian idiot was about to do.
Axels voice came back, slightly provoked,
So you want us to stay with these men. Wed stand no better chance of survival if thats their only station, and frankly I believe this is, these coalition boy, despite how good pilots they might be are what, 7 thousands max?
Xing shook his head.
It doesnt matter. I remember when I first entered the rheinland army, the coalition was already active. If they were as weak as you pretend, theyd have been wiped away by the Rheinlanders since a while.
You forget rheinlanders usually dont get in omega 5 either
Well thats even better.
You know we are now hated by the authorities, the pirates as well and now our only allies are a bunch of revolutionaries Axel made a small laugh, At that rate I think we are as mad as they are.
Xing produced a smile, though Axel couldnt see, he knew he could feel it. They had been comrades at arm before. They understood each other better than anyone else.
What does the men think?
Well. Pretty much same opinion. But they dont want to work neither for authorities, nor for pirates. A bit reluctant, but they say its the best deal up to now.
So, we stay with them?
We stay with these guys. And damned, I think they need some updates on their ship its a miracle they even deign to fly these old warbirds
Xing produced a chuckle and cut down the communication. Yes indeed these coalition people could use their help.
He smirked as he thought of the bright red star, accompanied by Chinese markings over his own fighter. Maybe it was his destiny to meet the remnants of his people after all...
They could use this fighter as well. he thought as he followed their coalition saviours, and docked on the station.

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