Forsaken

[Implosion]

Daniels was sitting in the cargo hold of the Odin, keeping an eye on the entry into the hangar, when the comms lit up once more.

Herr Daniels, Can zu hear mich.

But the Guildmaster couldn't only hear the message coming from the Perditrix, he could feel it. Thanks to a wide array of neural implants, he had the unique ability to become one with the Mako. A rather taxing procedure, which required more than a few neural dampeners to be put in place. Everything was controlled by a piece of very special software - Strix. The ship's AI is what made that connection possible. And now that connection was re-established.

"Finally, took your sweet time."

"We have not yet mastered FTL travel, Jack. But, I believe this ship is never late, nor early."

"Right, I forgot you were designed to think like me. There's no arguing with that kind of logic, now is it...don't answer that. Let's get to business. What alert squadrons do you have at the ready?"

"Punisher and Vanguard Heavy bombers wings are ready for deployment. The Reaper Heavy Fighter wing is already deployed. The Bandit Light Bomber wing is currently being deployed. Gunship Tigris is also still secured to the hull via magnetic clamps."

Good, launch both heavy bomber wings alongside Bandit squadron. Make sure...What the hell was that?! -It seemed like Daniels suddenly felt a jolt of white hot pain.

"Hawke just rammed a cruiser, sir."

"Hoooly shit...get the all three wings to finish it off, make sure the Reapers are covering their asses."

"Orders given, sir."

"Now, let's talk about logistics. I want the Tigris into this hangar in less than two minutes. Chop chop."

"Roger that, sir. Dispatching Tigris."

As Daniels was finishing his conversation with Strix, he noticed Lea looking at him with suspicion. After all, from her point of view, it seemed like the man was talking to himself. Issuing orders to thin air. Of course, she had no idea about the extent of his augmentations and his connection to the ship. But that didn't bother him much. With the battle raging outside, the Tigris has already broken through and landed in the hangar.
Daniels calmly walked to it, then inside it. Several minutes later, he was all dressed up in this Specter light combat armor. It was composed of almost organic-like pitch black weave, similar to that of human muscles. Individual strands wrapped around and formed a formidable protective suit. The only thing that was not black was the visor. But unlike Jack's cybernetic eyes, the visor was actually bright red.
Jack walked towards a liberty naval fighter at the far side of the hangar to stretch around in his new suit.

"Strix, status on our new Immolators?"

"Highly experimental and very dangerous sir. Just the way you like your weapons."

Daniels activated the wrist mounted plasma whip on his right hand and in one quick swing, he cut the Defender's cockpit in half. He didn't say a thing, but he was both impressed and proud of homegrown APM weaponry. He deactivated the Immolator and calmly walked back towards Lea, as if he didn't just cut a fighter's cockpit in half with just a single swing.

"Lea, my dear. There should be a suit of combat armor for you in the Tigris as well. It should be air tight and Zero-G capable. This gives you two options. You can either leave the armor there and take your ship out to safety. Or and hear me out on this, you can hop in that armor and we fight our way to the bridge. My strike teams will soon be here, so please, decide swiftly."

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