Sunbucks Cafe

[bus]

John Baxter enters the cafe, his head still spinning. He's quite a youngster, fresh recruit too, but that didn't prevent him from getting a promotion already. He sits down and orders an ice-cold Synth Cola. "All right people, we did it. One less Xeno Hawk flying the California space." After his last sentence, he passes out from the excitement of not returning to Fort Bush in the escape pod again. Good job John, and welcome home!

Couple of hours later...

MacMillan was the first one to talk to him. He stood right there when the doors of the escape pod opened.
"I told you you should take the rest of the day off, John. That fight was quite enough for you to handle on one day."
"Nah. What for a day at work would it be if I didn't come home in this eggshell? Besides, we caught a smuggler and handed out full cargo load of parking tickets today."
"Right. And lost three more company ships in that crazy battle. You'll never learn when is the right time to retreat John, will you?"
"Relax, I've fot the licence plate numbers of those rogues. We will get them soon enough! Barman, one Synt Cola for me and box of doughnuts for the rest of the suqad. I think I see incoming escape pods right outside of that window...."

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LPI-John.Baxter (EP-ID-004)