I groaned, feeling myself wake up from my sleep to find myself looking up at the familiar ceiling of my bedroom in my ship.
Looking to the side, I found Amber snuggled up to , both of us completely naked after our session last night.
Seems like just being apart from for a few days made her really needy. Then again… I did feel a little lonely during those few days so I understood how she felt.
I tried to extract myself from her but she was hugging tightly like her life depended on it.
I poked her on the cheek, "Amber… It's morning. Ti to wake up."
"Nnngghh… Five more minutes…"
"Co on, we're joining Samson in hunting pirates today aren't we? We'll be diving into the nebulae."
"Mnnn… Do we have to? I'd rather be diving my face in between your legs…"
I rolled my eyes, "If you can say sothing like that it ans you're already awake. Co on. I'll make you so breakfast, ok?"
She tightened her grip on for a few seconds before finally letting go, "Fiiiiiine. I wouldn't have minded just staying in bed with you for the rest of the day though."
"That's what you always say."
"Because it's true~"
"Yes, yes, now what do you want to eat? I'll make you--"
Before I could finish my words, my Codex started beeping noisily, signifying soone was trying to call .
I looked down at my naked self and quickly threw on a shirt before answering the call, the screen changing to show Samson's face.
Judging by his background, he seems to be in his ship at the mont.
I was just about to greet him a good morning when he spoke up in a rather panicked voice, "Oh shit! Thank God you actually answered, Tera! I'm kind of in a bit of trouble here! If you could--"
An explosion shook through his side of the screen and a warning alarm blared through his speakers.
"Warning! Shield integrity at fifty percent!"
"Ah, fuck! Yeah, I got ambushed by so guys! I'll send you my coordinates so if you could co here or send soone to help , that would be greatly appreciated!"
"Should I… Call the Guild for help? Or maybe even the military?"
Another explosion rocked through his screen, "Shield integrity at forty five percent!"
He cursed, "Fuck! Anything to get these bastards off my back! There's an entire fleet of them! I think they were waiting for so big target that was supposed to fly through here and they don't want bringing news back about their hiding place! If I--"
More warnings started ringing out from his side of the screen, cutting him off.
"Missile lock! Recomnd evasive manoeuvres!"
"Ah, fuck, fuck, fuck! Send help, please!"
The feed was then cut off as he hung up, leaving staring at the blank screen.
I looked at Amber who was giving an awkward look.
"I guess… We should go help him?" I asked.
"Just the two of us?"
"Unless we can ask other rcs for help? Maurice and Clandice maybe? We still have their contacts right?"
"Yeah, but I highly doubt any rc would be sane enough to rush out and attack a pirate fleet without proper compensation or backup."
"That ans that leaves just the two of us huh?"
She leaned on an arm, "But do we really need to rescue him though? It's not like he's soone close to us? He's just a fellow rc that happened to take the sa job as us."
"Well… If you put it that way, that's true…"
She continued, "Besides, if it was us that got into trouble, he has no obligation to co and help us either."
"But… Pirates… We get money from killing them though?"
"But is the risk worth it? We don't even know their numbers."
"True… How about we send the information Samson gave us to the rcenary Guild and the authorities while we make our way there as well? If it's too much for us to handle by ourselves, we just cover his escape before escaping ourselves?"
"Hmm… That's a crazy plan, Tera… And you know I always like it when you co up with crazy plans~ Promise to make us sothing nice when we co back?"
"Of course."
She leapt to her feet and started dressing herself, "Alright then! et you outside!"
It only took us two minutes before we were boosting our way towards the coordinates that Samson gave us. Before we headed out, we had already sent a ssage to the rcenary Guild about the news that Samson gave us, although Amber told not to send it to the authorities.
If the rcenary Guild wanted to tell the military stationed here, they would do it instead of us.
I'm guessing she wants to limit our involvent with the military to be as little as possible.
At our current speed, we should reach the place in another two minutes. Even though it might seem like a short ti, a lot of things can happen in a fight within four minutes.
As we neared the place he had sent us, we saw lasers and blasters being fired in the distance. That was a good sign because it ant Samson was still alive.
The bad news was the massive fleet that was chasing after him from behind that seed to look like a swarm of locusts flying over a field.
We disengaged our travel drives and started powering up our weapons and shields, wondering just how we were going to deal with a force this size.
On the map, the entire area was filled with red dots and I estimated that there were at least a hundred ships at the very least.
I'm more surprised that Samson managed to survive for this long against a force of this size.
I then realised while it looked like he was concentrating on running away, he was also using his own turrets to take accurate shots at the ships chasing him, making sure that they could not get too close to finish him off.
Unfortunately, that also ant that he was stuck since they kept chasing him from behind. The fact that he had not engaged his travel drives must an one of the pirates must be disabling it.
I imdiately connected to his ship using my comms, the screen blinking to life to show a haggard looking Samson in his pilot seat.
"My god, I didn't actually think you would show up! We can't beat them! We just need to run!" He cried out.
"We'll cover you, get ready to engage your travel drives!" I told him.
"There's a support ship at the back that is disabling it! You need to get rid of him first!"
I searched for the ship in question and found it easily enough since it was the only support ship in the entire group. It wasn't even that hard to find the ship since it wasn't even trying to hide, probably thinking it was safe behind the other pirates.
Well… That pilot's gonna learn that isn't the case here.
"Amber!" I called her through our comms.
She grinned at , "You're really a crazy one Tera! Let's go!"
Amber engaged her boosters at the sa ti as I did, rushing towards the fleet of pirates that were still chasing after Samson.
Our goal was to get in range of the support ship so that I could shoot it down while Amber would protect from any other pirate that tried to get close to .
A few of the pirates noticed us and swerved away from the main fleet to engage us. They probably thought we weren't a threat since only five A Class and two B Class ships were sent to bar our way.
"Hahaha! You got to send more than that!!" Amber laughed, engaging her thrusters to maximum and shooting her ship forward in a blast of speed.
The pirates were completely unprepared by Amber's speed and definitely never thought we would actually choose to engage them despite being outnumbered more than three to one.
I watched as Amber's ship flew past the group of pirates and two A Class ships imdiately blew up from her ballistic cannons.
They tried to turn to engage her but my own guns had just begun firing, my rail gun and photon laser instantly taking down one of the B Class ships in less than a second.
By that ti, Amber had already turned around and blew up another of the fighters, leaving only three of them left.
She spun her ship around as they started firing at her, using her thrusters to weave through the hail of lasers and blasters through the last two A Class ships and leaving them as wrecks.
The last pirate tried to run back to the main fleet, only for my photon laser to blast a hole through its hull and disabling it.
With the route clear, we turned our ships and was just about to engage the support ship when I received a warning about a high energy signature approaching nearby.
When I looked up, a giant ship had just appeared, lumbering out of the nebulae.
…
Why the fuck do the pirates have a goddamn D Class Battlecruiser on their side?!!
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