Chapter 47 The Floran Colony 2 (1/2)
After recovering from the effects of the hangover, John and Lenny left the Royal Hotel and went to find Penguin Pete on the Shipyard Shop.
On his way toward there, he felt a lot of eyes focusing on him. Even though there was no malicious intent, it creeped out John, he started to walk faster.
Lenny who was by side saw that. He glanced at the people that were looking at John and realized that most of them were from the audience of the Iron Fist Arena.
Lenny smirked and threw a side glance at John's direction. ”How does it feel being famous now... Black Lightning.”
”Lenny...” John angrily stared Lenny. ”Don't start it now...”
”Alright, alright...” Lenny stopped messing around.
They arrived at the Shipyard Shop after a few moments. There were Penguins working everywhere in the Shipyard, they were dismantling ship wreckages, and building new ships with the pieces.
John was able to see a middle-aged man with orange hair berating the Penguins from the distance.
John approached the man and the Penguin Pete also felt that there was someone behind hun, so he turned around.
”John... Yer is here.” Pete greeted John but ignored Lenny.
”Pete, how are you?” John greeted Penguin Pete.
”I'm fine, thanks.”
”Is the ship done?”
”Yeah, it is done. Come, let me you show you how it looks now.”
Pete brought John and Lenny to enter inside the shop. The shop was completely made of a rusty metal, it looked very old from the outside, but the inside was sparkling new. There was catalogs of ships, other types of vehicles and pieces for repair on the walls. There was some advertisements about what appeared to be... Mechs.
Mechs aren't a rare sight in the space, a lot of people have them. They are a piece of machinery that is extremely needed since most of the spaceships doesn't have weapon system. Usually, criminals use the Mechs to destroy, or board into ships and space stations.
The prohibition of building Warships and placing weapons on spaceships was made by the Terrene Protectorate. If any ship was sighed using a weapon, they would be hunt down by the Terrene Protectorate and destroyed to serve as an example for the others.
As for the Mechs, the Terrene Protectorate tried to prohibit them as well, but the Letheia Corporation refused to do it. Most of the mining operation in asteroid field and other planets are made by miners using Mechs to venture in this dangerous places.
It was also because if this prohibition that most people started to lose interest in making big ships. Why would they build something big that couldn't have weapons? They would only be an easy target for pirates since bigger ships cannot use the FTL Warp Drive. So this was also one of the reasons why almost 90% of the spaceships on the universe belong to one of the 5 classes, Sparrow, Kestrel, Falcon, Eagle, and Condor.
Pete stopped by a door that was inside the shop, he pressed some blank keys that were by the side of the door, and soon enough it opened.
After the door opened John and Lenny was able to see that there was a stair that leads to the underground.
”Come,” Pete called both of them as he slowly stepped in the stairs.
John and Lenny followed behind him.
Once they entered they were met with a huge warehouse and what appeared to be a workshop.
”Hey, Pete! You came at the right time, I need some help with something!” A Penguin wearing giant glasses appeared from the workshop. His entire body was covered in oil and some burnt marks.