Message for Margarita

[majkp]

After an hour of...[insert your guess]...

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"Marg, it's time", Roy sighed, gently holding her hand.

"Yes, Roy. Take my gun, this wouldn't look real with your bounty hunter Magnum we took back from that guard."

Roy checked the last message from Mandy again, she was hiding nearby Hispania and she even managed to bring a fresh new Manta so he can defend himself instead of sitting in Margarita's cargo hold like a duck. But how Mandy did it, remained secret. She will never stop surprising him. He helped Margarita in her leather jacket and they both left her home heading towards the hangar.

Once there, he took out her gun and pushed Margarita with it, calmly watching shocked faces of nearby Outcasts. Very good, they still don't know she helped him out. The usual rush in hangar dropped and there was absolute silence. They entered Margarita's Sabre and started the launch sequence. Even now, the life in the hangar was frozen as if no one there believed what they just had seen.

After they took off, they set the course towards Hispania immediately. Mandy was waiting there as she promised. Roy entered the empty Manta, leaving Margarita alone in her Sabre with his kiss on her cheek.

Shortly after, a large fleet of outcast fighters appeared on scanners.

"Mandy, lead us!", he shouted in the comm system and they all engaged cruise engines. He wanted to thank her, but there was no time...