Chapter 138 The Pursuit 6 (1/2)
”Incoming missiles!” SAIL loudly warned just as John switched his attention from the situation outside to Peri that was just beside him.
”Oh, fuck.” John cursed.
In the face of homing missiles, John didn't have any tricks to fend it off.
All he could do is continue dodging bullets and energy beams as the missiles slowly get closer and ultimately blow them to smithereens.
With the missiles, the Apex ships lowered the amount of projectiles firing at John because they didn't want to accidentally hit the missiles.
As John focused his mind in trying to find a way to deal with the situation behind him, he controlled with the utmost of his ability to receive the least amount of damage from the attacks.
*Bam*
*Bam*
The shield glowed with a faint light where it was hot, John saw some small cracks appearing in some places, but it was soon fixed.
”Direct hit by projectiles detected. Forcefield capacity dropped to 43%” SAIL warned.
This time John made sure to skillfully maneuver the ship in a way that the the thrusters and engine didn't get damaged and they slow down even further.
”Put your seatbelt.” John spoke as he kept one hand in the joystick and the other reached for his PIPS, [I don't have choice than to overclock the engine before the missiles get closer.]
”Okay.” Peri followed along with John's order and obediently fastened her seatbelt.
John took his Breathing EPP, a grey cylinder device, from his PIPS and placed it beside him.
”SAIL, depressurize the ship, turn off Life Support System, the Artificial Gravity Generator. Prepare to turn the shield off at my order. Channel all energy and fuel onto the engine and thrusters. After I turn down the Energy Defensive System, we are going to activate turbo.” John gave a stream of orders as his hand flew across the keyboard in front of him as he got ready to activate the turbo mode.
By turning off everything that was using energy, John could redirected all the energy generated by the Power Generator towards the engine and increase even further the speed of the spaceship. Of course to do this, he need SAIL's help to force the engine to work more than it was built for and disable all safety systems to stop the engine from entering in a kind of turbo mode.
”Yes, Protector. Initiating process of turning down all requested systems.”
”I need some time...” John glanced at the screen in front of him and saw the fastly approaching objects behind them.
There was about 5 homing missiles that had been launched by the enemy.
*BOOM!!!*
”What!?” John exclaimed as he saw one of the homing missiles explode out of nowhere.
There was only a trail of red light that came to contact with the missile and it exploded.
Peri saw the development and a faint smile appeared on her face, ”Looks like he began to take action.”
Sensing his PIPS vibrate, John glanced down and saw that Lenny was requesting a direct local connection between both of their PIPS.
As the Miniknog fleet behind had FTL Jammers, they also had some kind of jamming device for communication, and as such, simply calling wouldn't work, that's why Lenny chose to request a local connection and not to use his PIPS to give a call.
”Looks like I'm indeed the best!” The moment John accepted the connection, his ears were greeted Lenny praising himself.
”What do you want!? I'm a little occupied here trying to save our lives and all.” John was annoyed and somewhat angry that Lenny was calling him in such tense and deadly moment just to speak nonsense.
”That's how you thank me for destroying the missile?”