The Hunter

[Sanguine Frozen Boy]

"Onwards to new tokyo!" Samantha smiled as she pointed her finger towards the sun in the viewport, very happy to be commanding her own ship even at what she thought to be a young age. She sat up in her seat and eagerly watched as the ship passed through the first trade lane, however, by the time the second one had finished, she had passed out from lack of sleep. Jason was there over her shoulder and he snapped his fingers to wake her from the temporary slumber and remind her that she would have to get used to the lack of sleep as a captain.

"Captain cant' sleep but a few hours and when he does, he must sleep with one eye open." Jason patted her on the shoulder as she tried to regain composure.

"Aww....I can't control when I fall to sleep though sometimes...it just happens!" Samantha looked wearily up at him before looking forward as they entered the first gate. "Besides, train runs are long, boring and nothing ever happens right?" The first hint that she was wrong was when she got to the other side and another ship pulled directly up on the side of the prison liner that the leader of PK was in. She had seen it happen many times by ships that owned the sector, but it was clear this ship had no intention of simple 'checking' the cargo. A moment later the leader of PK came onscreen.

"This guy on my tail wants a hefty sum of credits that I don't really plan to deliver. We're going to try to run so keep your chin up on this one." Only a moment afterwards did the transmission shut off. Directly after this happened a radio communication came in.

"Your partner is negotiating your freedom right now, so if you'll pull off to the side it would be helpfull." The voice was heavily distorted by static and Samantha didn't dare try to bother with figuring out whether they were male or female, she instead watched as the prison liner attempted to escape. It made a quick boost towards the trade lane, but the smaller ship managed to disrupt it before he could make it through. She panicked for a moment but then she looked throughout the log file of all the ships in sector and noticed a few bounty hunters. She wasn't familiar with any of them, but she quickly typed in a short burst transmission to the available bounty hunters telling them that there was a bounty of small significance in the sector. Of course, she knew that the new vessel would probably escape and she wouldn't have to pay up.

Samantha smiled and began to purr as she spoke to the vessel. "Did.....Did you know there's a bounty on your head?" She could hear growling over the static and then the transmission ended. Of course it only took a few seconds for a few different ships to look their way before they began to open fire on the assailant. Samantha smiled up at a gunboat that passed in front of her viewport and she could almost wave to the captain. She was a bit busy as she aimed her ship for the trade lane that had now been reactivated. Her tail waved back and forth as the ship wavered under fire and then darted out of it. She had to admit, he was a good pilot.

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