Stayin' Alive! Stayin' Alive!
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 21040
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That was when another ship decloaked. This region of space seemed
to be
awfully crowded today!
I knew what it wasn't; another WSN warship, but had no clue what it
actually was!
It's entire make was foreign. The
Astra's sensors were a bit shaken up from the attack and were
unable to identify the spherical spacecraft, or even determine what
materials it was made out of. Odd. All that was certain was that it was
small,
smaller than my own freighter, and that it wasn't
from this neck of the woods. And I would probably never see anything like
it again if the Indefatigable unleashed another salvo of torpedoes.
But the next salvo didn't come! Instead, the foreign ship opened fire on the Westonians! What was going on!? Well, I wasn't going to stick around to find out! This might be the only moment of opportunity I would have to escape! I powered up the hyper drive engines and high tailed it away from the scene! This put me in a vulnerable position since I didn't have the power to maintain both my shields and engines at the same time. But the Indefatigable did not pursue me, nor did it make use of it's far reaching weaponry. Within minutes I was out of their firing range. The Spacers' God had smiled on me again! Somebody up there like me, or I was the luckiest s.o.b. this side of the Milky Way! Several hours later...My hands were still shaking uncontrollably, my heart still pounded in my chest. I'd had my share of close-calls, being a smuggler was a risky way to make a living, but this ranked up there as one the of closest I had ever had! I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming, and even then I wasn't so sure. I should have been vaporized, but I wasn't! Whoever and whatever it was that had decloaked right at that crucial moment had saved my life. It was unlikely I would ever learn who it was, but I still owed them a debt of gratitude...regardless of whether they had intentionally come to my rescue or not. I wasn't a whiskey drinker, or at least I hadn't been until today. One shot of the Farscape liquor put aside all doubts that I was dreaming or dead! I was definitely alive and well!! This stuff put hair on your chest, let me tell you! Whew!And so, with my body, freighter, and cargo intact I continued on course. Whatever the hell had happened today was going to plague my mind for quite some time. I wondered if I had seen the end of it...but something told me I hadn't. None of it made any sense! The Ibornite in the lifeboat, those jerks in the mysterious freighter, the Indefatigable's hostility, and the strange, foreign vessel ...there were many pieces to the puzzle and none of them seemed to fit. And at the moment I really didn't care, I just wanted to get this delivery over with so that I could repair my poor ship and take some time to relax!
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10/27/2002 11:35:49 PM
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