23 Danger (1/2)

”Armor!” Yelled Koren as he jumped out of the sand ship. The liquid metal squirmed out of his body and started to form into the Guardian Armor.

”Repulsors!” Koren activated all the flight functions of the Armor, and before his feet could touch down on the sand, the Armor was formed, and the plasma jets fired.

The Armor blasted into the sky, quickly overtaking the domain of the birds of prey.

Koren looked down, and he could spot the tiny ship sailing on the sandy dunes.

'This is incredible, when will I be able to do this on my own.' Thought Koren.

”With me by your side, it won't take long.” Said Hope trying to wake Koren up from his dazed state.

”Where to now Big sis, I'm not sure where the underground tunnels are, will we have to find them again.” Asked Koren with some concern.

”Don't worry, I'm familiar with all of your Geo-location's since the day you woke me up. I can find the exact spot you were standing on when we found the tunnels.” Said Hope as her floating form appeared next to Koren.

”Big sis can you stop doing that, it feels like your teleporting, and it makes me feel dizzy.” Said Koren as he adjusted his display and saw a mini map pop up.

”No can do Koren, this is how I roll. Oh, I created a mini map on your display, fly to the location marked with an X quickly. Our current power reserves are at around 0.09%, and that's after the chaos energy from all those shards and that ore fragment was absorbed by the Armor.”

”OK big sis” said Koren with a sigh, giving up on trying to reform Hope's behavior.

The smaller repulsors on the Armor fired and allowed Koren to adjust his orientation as he flew to the location on the map.

Koren looked at the small bar showing the Armor's power reserves, and curiously Asked ”Big sis, isn't there any other way for the Armor to recharge its power supply.”

”Of course there is, but all of those power generation units are redundant in this world, at least for now.”

”Like I told you when we met, the laws of this world are very different. I'm hoping that you can help me understand the laws of this world so we can make adjustments to the technology and make it more compatible.”

”The Chaotic energy found in the shards is a lucky find, but it's not really a permanent solution as it is an extremely inefficient power source. On earth, every Pandora class battle ship and above is fitted with a solar harvester unit, it allows a ship to literally harvest power from a stars corona.”

”Your Armor also has a similar unit installed, but the so called Spiritual power creates too many problems, it's present in every strand of energy, so unless I can understand it and isolate it, the power generation units can't work.” Replied Hope keenly.

”Does that mean if I can create my own path, it will automatically make the world accept human technology as a type of power system.” Asked Koren.

”Yep, at least that's the idea.” Replied Hope flatly, before her eyes went wide in panic .

”We're getting close to the location, this is incredible, we've only been flying for 15 minutes.” Said Koren, not noticing the alarm in Hope's eyes.

”Koren!!, Dive now!!” Yelled Hope.

Koren who was still dazed by the speed of the Armor's flight system, couldn't react when to Hopes voice in time.

He could feel something pluck him from the sky, and push down on him with enormous serrated claws, and for the first time since he gained the Armor, he felt something penetrate it.

'…Armor integrity 32%, contusions detected, activating life support systems…'

”Koren, activate the force field and dive, now!!” Shouted Hope.

Koren was hurt, he felt his leg get pierced, the Armor barely protected against the attack.

”Koren, NOW!!” Hopes voice finally got to Koren, and he quickly activated the force field.

The force field was one of the technologies Koren saw when he was looking at the Armor's utilities menu. He couldn't activate it then because of its enormous power requirements.

As the force field activated, an invisible barrier expanded from the Armor. It forced the gigantic claws to open and allowed Koren to go free.

He used the plasma jets to quickly make some distance between himself and his opponent.

Koren finally had a good look at what had attacked him just now. It was a gigantic Spiritual Bird, with a very large hooked beak, it was as if it was made for ripping apart flesh. It had large and strong muscular legs, with powerful talons, Koren could see a small trace of blood on one of those talons.