The Man in Cap

[Nightfall]

Chapter Eight

UNKNOWN NOMAD BATTLESHIP, OMICRON MAJOR

Jamie opened his eyes to a blue interior of a nomad battleship. Confusion was raving in his head while he was getting a grip to reality. "This is not a hospital..." no, it wasn't a hospital.
He was on a nomad battleship. He was abducted along with the rest of the survivors from the freighter convoy that was taking him to New York. The good doctor sent him on a pretty round way, through the omegas to Omicron Delta and finaly to New York... Obviously, the nomads didn't touch him he didn't know why. He didn't care why. He had to escape while he was still himself.
He didn't know that, but the nomad tissue in his head saved him. The nomads felt him as one of their own so he was ignored. He got that piece of nomad in the last battle when the Devastator was disabled, it slipped somehow, breached all the protections of his fighter and got to him but the nomad died before it could take over, only that part remaining, living, feeding off his blood but not doing anything else. Well, anything except the nomads would take him as one of their own.
After much wandering, he found the fighterbay. He also found many fighters, some healing, of course, much more of them completely healthy... He never piloted a nomad fighter... and how could he do?
As he got nearer to a group of fighters, he started sensing something like chatter, it became stronger. He engaged the extra sensors in his eyes - nothing no controls whatsoever in any of the fighters. The chatter became louder, clearer. But it was more inside his head than he was hearing it actually. "Do you need a lift somewhere, brother" he heard it inside his head, he turned, nothing, no one except the fighters, then he turned back to the one in front of him "yes, it's me!" said the nomad fighter "all new hosts act that way, you will get used to it as the link grows stronger with us".
Jamie's brain wanted out of his skull. It was screaming. Then he calmed down and thought to the fighter "You will take me anywhere I need to go?"
"Yes!" Jamie had the impression that the being was getting amused by this.
He entered and the organic tissue of the fighter enclosed around him, he was tucked in comfortably in there "Destination?" asked the nomad
"Human settlement Freeport 9 in what humans call Omicron Theta!" he smiled "this can't be that easy!"