Sacrificing Sanity

[Not Espi]

"Your call, robot." the Corsair replied and just as he was about to fire his guns into Derilos' motionless body, the station's intercoms started signaling a fighter wing and one battleship class contact in the cruiser proximity. "Excellent! The timing couldn't have been better.", Espi said and a smile could be seen on his face as he fired his ship gun into Derilos. The electro-magnetic pulse effectively caused Derilos' body to become a magnet and practically glued him to the metal floor of the hangar bay. Immediately after that he put on his pilot mask and fired a mini razor into the airlock door. As the razor landed and turned the airlock into a gaping hole, he activated reverse thrust and dropped a few screamers to be sucked into the airlock and deal with the shields. The screamers immediately hit the ships shields, creating a hole in them. Espi watched all the debris being sucked out of the docking bay for a few seconds. Several explosions shook the ship's hull. The Black Sails flagship and her fighter wing escort was here.

"Now or never, Espi. Hopefully they will notice you." He turned on the gladiator's emergency beacon, activated a timer on the forward thrusters and prepared for some time spent in the emergency pod. As he sealed the pod's door manually the ship rushed forward into space, leaving the cruiser behind. Luckily, his amigos already disposed of the shields with their Supernovas and he didn't hit them. "Looks like you guys will be saving me again, eh?", he laughed.

Back on Amayamo,thinks were getting tight. With the Black Sails coming out of no where and one of the docking bay doors exploded. Not a good day if you were to ask him. To make things worst the Black sails has already begun bombarding the ship, time was a factor. "Send out all the fighter patrols we can and let's get out of here!" he exclaimed. "Once all the fighters are out ditch them, we cannot afford to lose this ship yet!" One by one, fighter squads were deployed and engaged the sails while maintenece and medical robots ran ramapant trying to clean up the mess. If that wasn't bad enough some o the light mortar shells fell off their storage and miraculously exploded which shoot more and got them to explode as well. As time moved on the shells stopped their explosions and a huge black mess remained for clean up duty. "You've got to be kidding me. Give me a status update on those fighters." One of the robots on the bridge opened up his console and looked through the stats. "Sir, we are showing the sails have engaged our fighters, we are losing handedly." Faust simply shook his head. "Let's get out of here, to Omicron theta again we will drop the prisoner off there. Also someone get me in contact with Derilos once he is back to normal."

While sailors and treasure hunters kept Amayamo and it's fighter wings busy, The Black Sails deployed emergency teams to the cargo bay to take care of the Buccaneer's gladiator as soon as it would be safely inside. The decompression caused a lot of oxygen to simply leak out through the crack in the cockpit windshield and by the time was nearing the flagship, Espi was already blacking out. The last thing he saw was The Black Sails flagship heading to him and opening her cargo bay, getting ready for tractoring.

Derilos came back online, he was unable to move his arms and legs. He should have been dead, but apparently the best thing corsairs know how to do is run and attack when they need to. Something Derilos had been trying to avoid, guess that's what happens when you trust your enemy. Medical bots made quick work of repairs but his internal power core was damaged, something that was needed to finish part one of the plan. "Faust." Derilos' voice was rasp and silent and most of the robots had to bend down in order to hear him. "Tell Faust, to begin part two." Was the last thing they were able to hear as Derilos fell unconscious.