The Hunter

[Sanguine Frozen Boy]

After jumping from the New York System to the Colorado system, Samantha looked out of the front viewport towards the sun. She could almost feel the difference in intensity, however, she was unsure of whether there really was a difference. Her hand met the bruise on her cheek and lightly rubbed it while her left hand rested gently on the arm rest of a small chair stationed in the middle of the bridge. She looked to her left towards her father whose gaze never left the viewport. Although her father wasn't very nice, he did let her sit in the commander's seat and for that she was quite happy. Her father usually communicated orders through her and she always assumed it was for practice so when the crew asked her for coordinate info, she was not surprised. Of course, she always had to ask her father what the answer would be.

She looked around the bridge of the ship and smiled slightly at many colors on the consoles, watching as they flashed many different colors. The bridge was actually very open and the viewport was made up of monitors to ensure that a stray shot wouldn't destroy the entrie command structure. It didn't matter whether they were looking directly into space or not, it looked real enough for her. On the bridge there were many different Officers, they all seemed busy and as a result, she didn't feel it was nessecary to learn of any one of them. She was sure that her father knew a few of them if not all of them.

"Where are we headed father?" She dropped her hand from her cheek and let it rest as well. Her father seemed lost in thought.

"New Tokyo. We need to earn some money." Her father answered her but gave no details as to how he planned on going about getting the money. Samantha couldn't recall what her father did exactly, but she had never questioned him. The reason was because of what followed after her question, the bruise still warm under the hot lights of the bridge."But before we go there, we're going to mine some silver."

She was relieved to hear her father say they would be doing honest work. The image of her father being brutal and harsh faded slightly as the ship began to turn off the tradelane and into a thin field of asteriods."Does silver sell well father?" She did not get a response as she watched several asteriods burst into smaller pieces, most of which contained silver. The process didn't last too long before one of the crew members announced incoming pirates. She looked up to her father for guidance on what to do but his fierce gaze forced her to reconsider asking any questions about what should be done. If they were actually going to attack the cruiser then there had to be a large sum of them or they had to be incredibly stupid.

She watched as several ships came very close to colliding with the ship, however they quickly changed course. Although she was unable to see them, she looked up to her father to see where they were and watched as he looked over his shoulder. She was unaware of their intentions, but guessed that they would be back. Sure enough the ship began to rock slightly as fire impacted the shields on the engines of the cruiser. Again she looked up to her father for guidance and this time her father uttered two low words that only she could hear. After hearing this she returned her gaze forward and spotted several more pirate ships making strafing runs.

"Pirates opening fire, Captain?" The leading weapons officer turned back towards Samantha who had already come up with her answer.

"Kill them, Kill them all." She could almost feel her father smile.

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