Hitchhiker

[SimonBlack]

Leeds system, 817 A.S. November.

Innes Evans was in a small Gaian group consisting of two civilian class ships. The original idea was to launch an attack on trade lanes in Leeds system. Innes arrived in the smog cloud ready to disrupt lane, but a Molly fighter jumped in right in front of her through the Dublin jump hole. Right then a Bretonia Armed Forces patrol would be disrupted by failed sequence of the lane and scatter the two fighters.

An Armed Forces patrol lured Innes Evans away from the intentional zone of piracy. She did not want to pick a fight with the Armed Forces, it would be too much for her, but little did she know that she was closing to the ever moving frontline of Bretonia-Kusari war.

The second Gaian ship would arrive then. Soon Innes would realise the risk she has taken of fleeding the smog cloud. The Gaian group would end up not too far from Stokes surrounded by full Armed Forces wing squadron.

There would be little hope for the Gaians. They couldn't flee, they couldn't give up. The second Gaian support Innes wing appeared to be a fanatic of some sort. They felt to be positioned in the corner and provoked. A fight would soon take place over Leeds.

Kusari Naval Forces used the chance to move in closer with a Destroyer class vessel. It would launch a few fighters and provide covering fire from a distance. However a lot of the shots would reach both the BAF and the Gaians.

It was looking grim. Naval Forces took BAF by surprise attacking from flank, dispatching a few fighters along the way but it was only 'charge' effect. It wasn't too far from Leeds and BAF would outnumber the enemy here.

Innes wingman was shot down then. She saw the whole thing. Armed Forces have taken out most of them by then. Innes morale broke down as she started waving white flag. An Armed Forces pilot, a lieutenaunt, appearantly would then order to catapult from her seat.

Thats what Innes did, she surrendered and submitted to his will.

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2 hours later

Innes opened her eyes as the light flash blinded her. She did expect to see what she did. A man in Kusarian uniform would stand in front of her. He seemed all bruised, but his character remained strong, though you could see he'd be handling some pain.

Innes looked around again. She has just climbed out of Chimeras cockpit, that was for sure, but the dock she was in reminded her of home - a mining station in Dublin. Innes expected to be met by Bretonian officers. She feared them too, but this was something different.

"Where am I?" - she asked the strangely silent man - "What happened?..who..who are you?"

Innes had so many questions she completely lost sense of time and place. All the Kusarian man would say was

"Konnichiwa..."

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