Chapter Three: Ignition

[Leo]

Sensor Visibility Reduced

"Please, don't alert me to something I don't already know." I said sarcastically.

The past few days had been irritating. Several jumpholes were out of phase alignment and I was forced to take the long way around through the Omega's...something I wasn't to fond of. With the Wilde, and Nomad population spiking in those areas, I was found dodging weapons fire and trying to make it into Cambridge and up into the Tau's from there. I made it into Chugoku a few days later, exhausted from the flight, and just as I approached Kyoto...

"Leo?" someone said across the comms

"Hello?" I replied.

"Holy hell, it really is you..."

"Who is this?"

"I think you need to dock...we need to talk, now."

That voice...

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"Leo, you're exhaust manifold is hanging off the under belly of your ship."

"Shut up." I replied.

Kacachi laughed.

"Your seal on your-"

"I said shut up."

"You know, hitting the landing pad that hard wasn't the best idea. Takashi will give you hell for it later, I'm just getting the primaries out of the way before he really digs on you for it. Where is Takashi anyway?"

"Something about a new girl he met, I don't know the exact details."

"Figures, keeps us in the dark all the time, lets go get a drink while we wait for him."

"Good idea."

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"I'll meet you in the bar." and I cut the comm

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.
The Banished Legion