35 Trial Of The First Ring XI : Escaping From Pirates (2/2)
That was the most I've ever heard him speak, of course I'm sure the situation calls for it, but now how the hell were we supposed to get the hell out of here. Jack ran his hand through his yellow blond elven hair, as he turned to reply the captain.
”Captain Tobias, I'm afraid, we can't land this ship as we're on an urgent mission for the elven diplomatic minister. This cargo ship is registered under her name, and I'm afraid your actions would cause a lot diplomatic problems.” Jack explained.
”Okay look here elf boy, I don't give a shit which bitch! Owns the bloody cargo ship. This trash heap of a planet is mine! And no elven whore has the power to come make trouble for me, not if she doesn't want to be shot out of the sky. Now I'm done asking, take your bloody ass down to the ground, and hand the black pearl to me, and maybe then I can consider killing you slowly. But by all means, please resist, it would make shooting you out of the sky all the more pleasant.”
I guess there was no talking our way out of this. Since this was a cargo ship, I doubted it was strong enough to withstand damage from the dozens of custom made and enhanced pirate space ships caving us. And not just defense, I doubt it's weapons system could dish out enough damage to threaten them.
”Master Aaren I'm afraid we have no choice but to land. As we are right now, I'm afraid we can't fight them.” Jack said to me as he turned around.
”Like hell you will, jump into hyper space now! They hyper engine should be charged enough to get you clear of the planet. From there you should have enough chances to get away!” the short red haired new addition to our ship shouted at Jack.
”Are you crazy or something?” Zack asked with his eyebrow raised
”First it's almost guaranteed that jumping into hyper space within a planet's atmosphere would cause severe damage to it's ecosystem, or at least within the area where the jump was initiated.And this close to the city, I'm afraid we're going to be leveling at least a quarter of it, if not half. And then the danger of jumping out of a planet since the start charts don't function well under a planet's gravitational pull. We have to be in orbit to plot a course and navigate! If we jump now, we'll be jumping blind, and could very well end up in the middle of a star, a solar storm, through an asteroid or the gods forbid, a black hole!” Zack said with a panicked look on his face.
”What other choice do you have?” She asked back with her hands folded in challenge.
Zack couldn't say anything, because without a doubt she was right. If we stay here and land, there's a 100% chance we're all going to be killed and the ship taken away by this bloody pirate.
But if we initiate the hyper space jump, there's a 99.99999% that we'll survive. Really small odds, but I'll take it either way. Of course if we should all go burn in a star, I'll survive, and so would Sky. But the others and the ship wouldn't make it, but this was a risk we had to take.
”Do it! Make the jump!” I said to them with a hard voice.
”But master Aaren!....”
”I said do it! Now!” I shouted cutting off Zack.
Darke turned around and pushed a lever forward, slowly powering up the ship as we prepared to jump into hyper space.
(What are you doing? Stop! I command you to stop now!Shit!....fire the EMP cannon, fire it!........what do you mean firing it will knock all of the other fleets out!....fuck you Monty! Fire the cannon now! Now! Now!Or we're all going to die, you should do as I say I'm the captain.....)
VOOOOOOM!
Space, stars, moons and an asteroid belt in the distance. But my stomach was terribly upset and I felt like puking my guts out. What the hell! I'm never getting on a space ship again, never! Not in the game, and definitely not in the real world.
[Your orders have taken the life of 4679 pirates,and 8483 inhabitants of the Quadrant 1 city. 1000 of which are children below the age of twelve. For your actions in destroying a criminal city, you've been given 3000 fame, and 3000 infamy. You've received the title Bronze Blood Commander, Mass Murderer/ all exp are deferred until trial of revelations is over. / you've been given +15 to all stats and +15 skill points. You've received blueprints for (Ion Pulse Cannon) (Dragon Star Engine) / You've received passive skills, Navigator, and Command/ You've received three Skill combining Gem.]
So we're alive, very good. But why do I feel a pit in my stomach, why did I feel like it would have been better to be dead rather than alive. And I don't feel like hearing all this crap about this being a game, I'm not sure I can that lecture to myself right now.
With every second that I've spent in here, this was becoming more and more like a real world rather than a simple game. I didn't feel like the so called NPCs were only lines of codes and programming, I've felt connected to some of them, I could relate. Jack and his brothers were an example, they all felt so alive, and now I've murdered thousands with just a word. And children to boot, what have I done?
”Log out!”