A Personal Diary - Cruz Corzo

[Domjan]

Chapter 2: Leaving home

My career with the Lane Hackers was... Successful and fruitful to say the least, I quit, maybe quit isn't the right word, I left when I heard about the Gallic invading Leeds, as soon as I could, bought a small speedship from one of the Lane Hacker bases and departed for Leeds.

Entering Leeds what I saw was... instant chaos, freelancers, Brets, and Gauls colliding into one big explosive clusterfuck. I hit my cruise engines ASAP, but then a huge hit, it shook me so hard I almost broke my teeth, and I saw what it was, a GRN ship right on my ass. I never felt closer to death in my life, immediately starting evasive maneuvers, I was more agile than the VHF, hopefully, but I didn't know for how long could I keep it up, my lack of experience was getting to me, and then, a series of shots, but not directed at me but at the Gallic who was shooting at me. This was my chance, immediately engaging cruise engines I went straight for Leeds. All I could think about was my mom, and that she makes it out of this war torn system.

While people were mass leaving the planet, I was going in, I quickly landed right on the roof of our building and hurried down to our apartment. "Mom! Mom!! Mom where a--.., oh there you are thank god, let's go.". She turned around to me with a confused look on her face. "Cruz? What are you doing here? What is going on? They said on the news that the Gal-..", I grabbed her hand hastily, "There's no time to explain, we have to GO right NOW!", we both sprinted up the stairs to the roof and into my spaceship. "But Cruz all of my stuff... my documents and my money is in there." she said as I fired up the engines, "We have plenty of credits, don't worry for a second. Priority is getting the hell out of here right now!". I got to the docking ring and we exited Leeds, "Where are we going?" she said. "Somewhere safer, a Freeport would be our best option right now." I replied as I flew trough the nebula to a very well hidden jumphole that would take us towards Liberty systems.