I could have fought back of course... But for now, I decided to just follow them since they were apparently going to escort to the Pleasure Station anyway.
Unfortunately, they did not let us fly the ship there ourselves and soone else took over the pilot’s seat to fly us there while we were confined in the cargo bay. I hope they could be held liable if they end up damaging the ship...
The only good thing was that they did not handcuff or restrain us in any way aside from having a whole bunch of ard guards keep watch over us.
And when I say a whole bunch... I really an a whole bunch because there’s a small army of them which even included six guys in Power Armour.
Honestly... Even with this much firepower and numbers, if we really wanted to take them out, we could. So this wasn’t really exactly overkill if you factor in the fact that we had three Psionics on our side.
But the thing is that these guys surely did not know that piece of information and if they did, they would know that this was not enough to restrain us either.
So it’s a little confusing as to why they saw the need to have us surrounded by this many guards if they believed we were just normal people.
The only reason why we were even cooperating was because Mara had read their minds and they were legitimate security personnel and were simply told by their superiors that I had sothing illegal on board and they had to arrest to bring back to the Pleasure Station as soon as I jumped into the system.
Unfortunately, none of them knew what the supposed illegal item was just that they would ’imdiately find it’ and they didn’t even know who was the one who gave the order for them to do this to begin with.
The only thing that would fit that description was the turtle but who could have told them about it?
The client was supposed to be so rich guy living on the Pleasure Station itself so if I had to guess... Maybe it’s so rival or sothing that heard about it from sowhere and wanted to stop him from getting the turtle?
But even if that’s the case, how would they know that my ship was carrying it?
Also, while it was true that they had specifically targeted my ship, it doesn’t seem like they were targeting in particular.
Unfortunately, none of the people whom Mara read the minds of knew what made them target this ship to begin with either. They only received the instruction from their superior that this was definitely the ship they had to stop when we jumped into the system.
I checked with Renata about her clone that was sent to follow Clent to see if that guy sold us out but Renata assured that he did not.
In fact, he’s actually trying his very best to get good prices for our goods right now and he never even tried to betray , which was honestly quite surprising.
Speaking of Renata... There’s actually way more of her than I realised which probably made the guards around us nervous.
I thought there were only six or seven of her clones on board this ship but it turned out... There were more than a dozen of them with each of them having a different hair colour.
While the guards seed surprised, none of them actually asked about her. Either because they didn’t care or that they were not allowed to interact with us outside of this supposed illegal thing we supposedly have in possession.
On that note... Right now, there were more questions than answers about this situation and these guys couldn’t even answer them because they don’t know the answer themselves.
Thus, if we fought them and resisted instead, it might actually turn this into a bigger problem and we might actually end up becoming criminals.
At least right now, they had nothing that they could use to pin any cri on us.
...
Aside from the fact that I was harbouring Amber and Mara who are both wanted by different organisations and also the fact that Renata was technically an illegal AI and also an eldritch entity...
Oh, and I also can’t forget the fact that Yumiko was also a forr Pirate Lord and most likely a wanted person by the military.
Damn... I just realised that almost half my crew are technically criminals... How did I even get myself involved with them?
Then again, I wouldn’t give any of them up for the universe.
Besides... It’s not like I was any better either... If people found out I was from another universe, I would probably be captured and stuck in a laboratory to be dissected elsewhere.
So as I was saying... It’s better for us to comply here.
Our ship eventually pulled up to a station that was shaped like a giant mushroom with a bulbous, wide ’head’ at the very top and a thin ’stalk’ that jutted out at the bottom.
Even though I said thin, it was only in comparison to the rest of the station and it was still wider than the entire length of my ship.
The docking arms and cargo bay seed to be concentrated on the ’stalk’ area of the station so our ship was turned towards it as whoever was piloting my ship slowly made it lumber its way towards the docking arm.
As soon as our ship completed the docking process with the station, the guards around us started to move and surrounded us.
This ti, however, they ended up coming forward with so kind of wrist restraint and I realised that they were going to handcuff after all.
The rest of my girls were untouched though they were instructed to remain on the ship while I was escorted out while being surrounded by those guards.
My girls wanted to protest but they made it clear that there was no room for discussion when they lifted their guns to threaten them to back away from .
I nodded at my girls to assure them that I was fine for now and they did as the guards asked, letting them escort out of my ship with the rest of the guards.
They brought out to the station proper through the docking arms while still surrounding , leaving no choice but to just follow along with them.
When we got to the elevator that will bring us deeper into the station, one of them suddenly brought out so kind of bag before turning to .
"We’re going to have to cover your face," The guard announced, right before putting the bag over my head and stopping from seeing what was going on around .
Why do they even need to do that?
I guess I don’t really have a choice in this so I just had to deal with it and try my best to walk along while not being able to see anything.
They half dragged and half carried along as I was forced to walk blind as they led out of the elevator on a certain floor.
The only thing that I could do was to listen to the sounds to try and gauge where I was.
But since this was a Pleasure Station, the mont I stepped out of the lift was when I was bombarded with the sounds of loud music blaring out around .
I’m not sure what the layout of the place was like and what kind of anities this place had, but judging from the sounds, I think this place sounded like there was a lot of water since I heard a lot of water splashes going on around .
I was still unable to see anything as the guards dragged forward so I couldn’t even tell if there was any reaction from the guests that saw or if this was a really normal occurrence that they aren’t even surprised to see the guards dragging soone with a bag over their head through the station.
But even while my sight was robbed from , I still tried my best to make a ntal map of the place by feeling out the route that they were taking in case I had to escape.
They eventually reached another part of the station and I heard so of the guards talking before their footsteps moved in another direction, separating from us.
The ones who remained then pulled to another part of the station where the music and the sounds of people slowly dwindled until the ding of an elevator could be heard and I was escorted inside it.
My stomach lurched as the lift began descending to a lower floor before it opened up to sowhere that was filled with silence.
The guards continued pulling along in silence and I heard the hiss of a door opening in front of .
The bag over my head was suddenly yanked off and I found myself standing in an ornate looking room with ard guards staring at through their covered helts.
Yet aside from them, there was no one else in the room.
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