The Hunter

[Sanguine Frozen Boy]

The large train had quite a heavy shadow that made samantha feel very small. Although she had seen bigger ships and even been in bigger ones, the large train was very long in comparison and therefore it had a much longer shadow than she was used to. She had temporarily escaped the people pursuing her and now the commander of PK looked her directly in the face with the intention of finding out who they were.

"So, who were those people?" He asked and Samantha shook her head side to side.

"I dont' know, my father just told me to avoid anyone who knew my full name." She looked up to him as he pressed his hand against his forehead.

"I know your full name, so you going to run away from me too?" Samantha seemed startled but then remembered that he was a group of mercenaries and mercenaries usually made it there business to know everything about anything that involved them.

"Well no, but I trust my father's words." She crossed her arms."He said to me while I was on the other ship not to trust anyone."

The man looked puzzled for a moment but then he shook his head and spoke,"Well then I guess you can't trust me then huh?"Samantha looked slightly flustered at this and her eyebrows lowered. "Relax, i'm joking with you. Course you can trust me."

"We'll see, with time maybe." She looked at him, still slightly angry.

"Ah well fine, anyhow, here's the gameplan. Running Diamonds from Dresden to Newtokyo, then we'll get...."

"Spare me the details, all I got to do is make sure the monkeys who control your ship do so in an orderly fashion, right?"

"Yeah, basically. I'll be following behind ya till New Tokyo, but then I gotta go get a new ship." He put his hand out like his current ship and emphasised with his other hand."Prison liners are good for transporting criminals, not holding their own in a combat situation. I'm thinking, liberty cruiser and then maybe a battlestar." He smiled and seemed very confident about what he was saying.

"Er....sorry but i'm still learning." Samantha's ears twitched a bit when a small horn went off.

"Ah well, time to board, you go ahead, we'll see how good a captain you really are." He didn't give her a chance to ask questions as he was already engaged with another conversation. Seemed to her that his crew on the prison liner was still unloading criminals from the liner. She looked over at them and noted that a few of them looked very familiar. Perhaps all pirates looked the same she thought to herself and then shook the thought from her mind. She finnally had a chance to prove what a great captain she could be. With that, she jumped down and eagerly followed up a ramp into the main compartment of the large train her father's words echoing in her head.

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"Hey Jason, I just have a quick question." The leader of PK called over to one of the marines unloading prisoners. He appeared to be wearing very heavy looking boots, but upon further inspection, they were merely magnetic boots.

"Yeah sure, is it about my new boots cause I am loving them."

"No no, you were there when we picked up that last bounty right? The one in the asteriod field?" Jason shook his head slightly but not in dissagreement.

"How could I forget a trip like that."

"Well, you didn't by any chance see her father did you?"

"Who's father?"

"Samantha, the one who was commanding the ship." Jason shook his head and this time it was a positive no.

"Nope, did you?"

"No, but I guess he must've just been behind her or something." Angel Eyes leaned to the side and watched as Samantha boarded the ship. "People chasing her too...hmmm...I'll have to look up more info on her. Jason, go with her, make sure she doesn't die till I find out more ok?" He made a pointing motion towards the large train.

"What? Uh, ok. I don't like riding trains, they make me sick, but at least I'll get to use my new boots, yeah." Jason turned and walked slowly toward the ship.

"Yeah, and have fun. You look like you just been to a funeral or something." He smiled and looked back over his shoulder. The people from earlier were there and they were looking all over the place for Samantha. "Hmmm.....i'll have to look you two up as well." When the final prisoner had been taken off the ship he followed the ramp up to the opening. He glanced over to the large train as it took off and zoomed towards space. "Who exactly are you Ms. Grey. I wonder."

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