First day working for the Junkers, I will learn a lot of interesting things with them. The Vieques shipyard job board is empty, they don't have much work to offer at the moment, and they have more experienced people to do it ... Culebra smelter is almost the same, all the work they had for me was to fly through debris fields in search of still useful components and not too shattered hull panels. Something that won't help me improve my fighting skills ... At least I found someone who could give me some tips: a young Junker told me to go to Rochester, in the New York system, and give some help there, they have been bothered by the Bounty Hunters lately, and want someone to do some housecleaning tasks. A really annoying behavior, even for the Bounty Hunters ... They were sweeping the Jersey debris field with massive squads in search of unlucky outlaws whom to overwhelm in numbers to get some credits, like they tried to do with me... The first time they almost achieve it... If it weren't because we were near Rochester, that sent a rescue team to get me to safety. I forgot that they attack from all sides, just like the vermin they are, so next time I just had to keep them grouped and avoid getting surrounded by them. I love how this ship flies through debris as if each movement were the wiggle of a ballerina. Finally, those badass scumbags got a message from the Junkers, and pilots who survived, also a one-way ticket to a slave liner. Back in Vieques, I found Ray, with two teenagers whom he intended to assign me as my co-pilot and my rear gunner: "Let me introduce you Nick and Helen, they aren't aged enough to own a ship, but they are really valuable as crew. Nick is the Vieques lead engineer's son, he is already an expert in ship subsystems enhancement and can do almost all kind of repairs, and Helen... she was going to be sold as a slave when she was about five or seven years old, we couldn't know it exactly, and I couldn't allow that, so I payed for her freedom. She is autistic, so don't expect her to talk too much, but I've set her to test in a simulator, and resulted to be a sharpshooter." Ray got closer to me and whispered in my ear. "Don't do anything that can make her angry, the last one that I saw annoying her was found gutted in an airlock." Fine, so I'll share the same space with someone that can kill me if I make her angry... I asked him if he knowed what could annoy her, to avoid behaviors and expressions that could do it, but he answered laughing, something like "I'd wish to do so" and left. I don't know a thing about kids, I only expected to not having to babysit my new crew. Nick looked at me, and said that he was ready to launch. I stared at him, at least he seems motivated for working. "Well, we will depart as soon as we have a new assignment, I'll show you the ship later. By now you can go play over there or have a drink in the bar, something alcohol-free, I don't want to have to drag you to the ship, I already have enough having an underaged crew to take care of." Helen looked at me, turned her eyes to white and left saying: "I'll be in the deck." Starting well...
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