Chapter 140 The Pursuit 8 (1/2)

”Sir.” In the Miniknog's fleet, the pilot turns to look at his Captain, ”Their speed is picking up speed.”

The Captain frowned and looked at spaceship slowly getting further from, ”Tail them, maintain the same speed. If they speed up, we speed up, if they slow down, we slow down. Until we figure out what they are planning, maintain safe distance.”

”Yes, Captain.” The pilot acknowledge the orders and relayed the message to the other spaceships.

...

”Protector, missiles incoming.” SAIL warned with the robotic and emotionless voice.

”Lenny!” John called out in his PIPS.

”I have my eyes on them.” John sighed in relief when he heard Lenny.

...

Lenny was on top of the spaceship, without a single piece of clothing or device to protect against the natural hazard of outer space.

But as a Novakid, he didn't need. After all, he could easily survive in a environment without oxygen and fuel for long periods of time, and neither would his body suffer from the lack of gravity.

His body was only able to keep itself together because the metal ”Brand” on his face was made of a special metal that create a high magnetic field around his body and thus keeping his plasma within the his thin skin. Such skin would never be able to keep the hot plasma within, it needed the help of something else, and there comes the magnetic field that keep his inside together and also prevent the high temperature of his inside to influence his surroundings.

With a rope that toes himself on the antenna that was on the spaceship, Lenny was watching as the missiles approached throufh the scope of his completely black energy sniper rifle.

Although he prefer normal weapons with matter projectiles, in the outer space, energy weapons reign supreme.

That's why despite his dislike for energy weapon, he brought himself to use one to save their skin in such perilous situation.

As he focused the world seemed to slow down by a notch.

After going separate ways with John, Lenny trained his skill with the information he got from making John his guinea pig on the Iron Fist Arena.

It didn't take long before he somewhat mastered this ability of his, and now he got use at will without too much backlash.

*Bang*

Lenny pressed the trigger and sent a red laser flying towards one of the missiles, but he missed.

He wasn't bothered by the miss because to take down those things, Lenny would miss a couple of shots as he couldn't predicted the random movements of the missiles and John's evasive maneuvers to dodge the barrage of projectiles and laser beams.

Lenny calmly focused once again and looked through his scope.

There was about eight homing missiles locked-on the spaceship, it would take a few seconds before they reach the spaceship, Lenny had to take them all down before that could happen.

*Bang*

*Bang*

*BOOM*

Finally, after missing three shots, Lenny managed to destroy one of the eight homing missiles.

This was a huge step forward for him, as the previous time Lenny missed a lot more shots before destroying a missile.

As he completely cleared his mind and only focused on the task ahead, the world seemed to disappear right in front him.

In such world he created there was only him and his seven targets remaining.

*Bang*