In the mist - LSF related

[kingvaillant]

David woke up, around him were the standing the walls of his new “home”; A small room with a toilet, shower, bed and a small table. The strict minimum for comfort in fact. A few days have passed since he left the clinic.

Outside the medical facility that day, Browning told him that David' ship was too damaged by radiations to take off safely. According to the pilot, the reparations would take a few days, even weeks, depending if they can get their hands on spare parts. Lies, David knew that, the last time he was in his cockpit, the ship was still in a decent enough shape to allow him to travel from one spot to another. All his experience with criminals showed him how solid ships were build. These outlaws were quite ingenious with their them. Jokes about Xenos using tape for fixing their ships were not that far from reality. If those outlaws would hire a man for ship safety verification, they'll end up with all their ships grounded. Yet, they were still able to fly, fight, and... kill. In reality, the only thing David' ship needed was some fuel, oxygens, food, water, and a little bit of grease of moving parts like rudders and wings.

Something was really wrong with those persons. He was smart enough to notice their little strategy. However, he was still clueless about their motives, and that... was not a good thing at all. At least, he was given a room to sleep and suffice to his need. Not as big as his apartment back in Liberty space though.

Browning asked Dave to do some work around the station in exchange of a room. Again, this simple request had a second hidden objective. By keeping him as busy as possible, he would have less time to find a way to escape from the station. Entire days he was cleaning rooms spread all around the station. What the persons responsible of his “captivity” didn't think about is that his tasks were helping him to get an alibi to move around station and notice important details that could help him to get out. A trained agent doesn't need days to find the information he seeks, experience and knowledge accumulated make things go at a much faster rate. In a single day, he knew the position of all the key facilities of the station as well as some ways to sneak into them. The navigation room was combined with the hangar control room, which were right beside the hangar itself of course. Getting a map to get out of the system and reaching for the ship wouldn't take more than a minute.

He also found the armory... The room was holding a huge amount of conventional weapons, but also a few experimental weapons that were manufactured during the Nomad war by nomad infested government. To see such dangerous tools of destruction on a civilian base was extremely alarming. After leaving this “prison” David thought about coming back with a strike force and to destroy these inventions. Some of them were nightmares, in all sense of the word. Some of these prototypes were known to attack the human brain directly. The projectile, if hitting the target, was sending an impulse to the brain, causing an intense pain throughout the body. They were tools for torture. Seeing them was bringing a lot of bad souvenirs back on the surface of his memory.

Browning thought he had the situation in hand, he was wrong. David promised himself to turn this prison into a playground of chaos, his chaos before leaving it.

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Director of the Liberty Security Force: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity

The Amundsen Zone-21 Restrictions