Plan B - A Risk Worth Taking

[aerelm]

He had little over four minutes before the security cameras of the whole floor were back online, which meant he had to get out of there as fast as he could, so putting the robe back on, he unlocked the sealed door from inside to find the hallway outside deserted, with no sign of the robed figures who had escorted him there. 'Huh, the freaks left me here on my own. Why am I not surprised...' Thinking to himself, he walked straight to the elevator and pressed the 7th floor hangar bays button.

All he needed to do, was to get to the ship unnoticed, and act like a regular Corsair pilot until he was out of Gamma and Omega-41. It was easier said than done on a shipyard of that size, and with all the ships docked there, he had no idea how he had to find his Gladiator in the first place. He had seen the ghost-like behavior of Silver's gang around Corsairs, but he wasn't sure if acting the same would help him on his own, in a crowded hangar bay full of Corsairs. He had two more levels to go and then he had to leave the elevator, and still didn't have a plan.

As the elevator came to a sudden stop and the doors opened, the situation he found himself in was nothing like he had expected. The corridor in front of him was strangely quiet, and heading straight to hangar A, he found the place as dead as the corridors on the server floor. 'And to think how bad that Silver must've spooked these Sairs off...' Thinking to himself, he walked into the deserted hangar bay to find no one and no ships there except a worn out Titan and a brand new Gladiator ready to take off.

"Good. You got my note..." He said in a casual tone as he spotted the familiar face waiting for him near the two ships. "I think we'd better stick with "Darrow" for a bit longer until we're nowhere to be shot at by random Sairs." he added in a lower voice as he stopped right in front of the other pilot. "You're a better fake Sair than me, so if it comes to talking our way out of Gamma, you take the lead. From there, we'll head to a friendly base a couple of systems away." He said right before getting into the Gladiator and starting the engines.