The Experiment

[SilverDragon]

Silver looked up as Ember aproached him "We have? good, aye, were all fine a few bumps, but we'll live" He smiled, but when the proximity alarm sounded he looked at Ember and they both ran to the bridge

As soon as they both reached the bridge they found it wasn't the Kusari taskforce that trigered the alarm, it was a cruser adrift. Immediatly silver turned and headed back into the cargo bay.

Silver looked around for Nova and signeled to her to procede into one of the exo's "Everyone get into the other hold, were going to open the doors".

As the his other kin made there way to the other hold he proceded to the remaining exo and powered it up.

Nova came to his side, her exo already powered up "Whats goin on sir?"

"There is a cruser adrift outside, were going over there to claim it" Silver smiled, atlast a ship of there own, but he was takeing no chances, ships did not just drift in space, hence the exo armor they were going in.

With his exo fully combat ready he turned and lifted two rifles, handing one to Nova, he then lifted some mining charges that were stowed in the hold and gave some to Nova also "Just incase we need to blow open some bulkheads".

Both of them now kited out, proceded to the airlock and depresurised the hold and poped the hatch, as soon as they did the alarm went out "Warning, Cargo hold one compromised" and theyjumped out. Useing there exo's thrusters they aligned themselfs with the cruser and ignited there jumpjets briefley, propeling them forward slowly towards the cruser.

Silver signald to Nova "There, thats our point of entry. Looks like some sort of hanger, lets take this easy, use short thruster bursts to match the crusers trajectory".

"Aye sir". Nova responded to Silvers command as she looked along the crusers length, it was a magnificent looking ship even though there was scoring all along one side, so it had been in an engagement recently. But where was its crew? were they all dead? and if so could whoever killed them still be here?...

They were aproaching the cruser now, breaking there forward speed with short bursts from there thrusters. As they entered the hanger bay they immediatly droped to the ground as they encountered the ships gravity field. Nova called up some readings on her heads up display "Sensors say theres air in here" she looked back at the entrance, there was no wall, no nothing to seperate the hanger from space, yet there was air in the hanger.

Silver confirmed the readings then motioned Nova to follow him "Lets go, stay sharp, i dont like this". They moved to the hatch at the far side of the bay, as they moved into the corridor they stoped. The lighting was practicaly non existant, he looked to Nova then both of them looked forward and activated there lights. What greeted them was not pritty, the deck and bulkheads were covered in bloody streak marks and there were limbs scattered around like a bomb had been detonated in the corridor.

They both moved forward slowly, watching for any movement. They soon came to a computer console imbeded on the bulkhead, Silver taped it and it came to life then waited a few moments while his onboard AI synked to the ships systems. "Warning, multiple intruders detected, unknown bio signitures, level 1 lockdown in operation. Warning, multiple blast door breaches... Command deck, crew quarters, engineering. Warning main power offline, reactor restart required".

"Hey theres a log file here.. Audio only" Silver accessed the file and initiated playback..

"This is sargent Tomalov, our ship engaged a hostile alien craft, but were quickly overpowered.... they boarded our ship and started to hhunt us down one by one. Theres only a handfull of us left -"Sir, here they come ag. ahhhhhh!"- oh hell *blaster fire* no! ahhhghh......"

Nova and Silver looked at each other "lets get to the command deck, the computer reads that all but weapons, shields and engines are functional". They both turned as they heard a crash from behind followed by a dull thud. A six limed creature half again there height had smashed through a bast door and was picking itsself up from the floor, as soon as it did it began to charge Silver and Nova who instantly raised there rifles and began fireing. The creature staggered back but wanst falling, Silver stowed his rifle and armed his anti tank rifle, he fired from the hip as he didnt have time to aim properly as the creature charged. As the shot hit, it blew open the creatures chest and it flew back 30 feet and crashed into the bulkhead at the end of the corridor. They began to run when they seen more of the creatures appear from the breached blast door, a few of which stoped to feast on there recently fallen comrade.

They finaly reached the bridge after doubleing back to loose the creatures, they apparently were not verry bright, but made up for it with there sheer mass. Silver accessed the internal security system of the ship, specificaly bridge survalance, there were two creatures in the bridge, and a whole lot of mess that used to be the command crew. Now would be a good time to test the exo's melee combat potential, Nova and Silver burst in through the double blastdoors, Nova leaping on one creature and nocking it flat with the aid of her jumpjets. Silver howerver was charged by the other creature who nocked him onto his back even while he was useing teh jets to propell himself at it, the things were powerfull, it had him pinned by his arms, and ws attempting to eat its way through the his armor, but its teeth just scratched at his chestplate. He got his tail free and useing its blades impailed the creature, as it rose up briefly screaching he ramed his feet into its chest and raked downwards gutting the creature, its green blood staining his armor.

"Well, that was fun" Silver said while rising to his feet.

Nova shouted Silver to her "This is showing most of the creatures in the crew quarters, the rest are in engineering.

Silver laughed "Good, that makes it all the easyer for us. Seal off those sections and depressurise them, that should deal with our infestation problem".

As life support was turned off from those sections the creatures began to panic and tried to escape, but they soon began to fall one by one due to the lack of air. The security monitors showed the creatures all on the floor motionless. as the last creature died he asked the ship computer for a bioscan. "Warning, multiple bio signatures detected. No alien lifesigns detected. Standing down level one lockdown"

Silver moved to another console, the readout was of the engineering section, now that the infestation was taken care of, the reactor could be remotely restarted. He had his AI start up the reactor and the lights came back on as main power was restored. "Warning, vessel detected starbord, 600 meters" As the computer gave this reading, the main screens came alive, on the starbord screen was indeed a ship, Romer's transport.

Silver turned to Nova "You know, we need a name for this ship now that its ours..."

Nova chuckled to herself "Aye, that it does... how about...... Dragon's Fury?"

Silver laughed "Yea, Dragon's Fury, i like that, a fitting name for a ship belonging to us dragons" He accessed the comms system and opened a channel to the transport "This is the IDAF Dragon's Fury to transport beta 5 9, i believe you have thirty dragons that need a new home" He looked at Nova and they both began to laugh happily... The dragons had a home now to call there own.

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SilverDragon IDAF --Commander of the Imperial Dragon Armed Forces-- Cruser

IDAF ColonyShip --The IDAF home-- BattleShip

Sevarith | Sevarith-Armory- --Trader/Store-- Ltrain/LuxLiner

There is no good or evil in this existence, only the honorable and dis-honorable - SilverDragon

Honor, Power, Integrity