Leaving planet Dobhair, Part Two (Mid-Res)
Added 2025-04-21 01:36:12 +0000 UTCThe Wolf Guard continues to sit calmly in the navigator's seat with his hands clasped between his legs, silently watching everything. Dmitri stands at attention in front of the cockpit doorway and Eric pilots the Kuroi Akuma Maru 黒い悪魔丸 as the trio make their escape from planet Dobhair and the agents of Nemesis.
"Shit! I wish you were piloting, Dmitri!" Eric snarls as the ship jukes uncomfortably to avoid laser-fire and incoming missiles, the ship's artificial gravity not quite able to compensate for the sudden random changes in velocity and direction.
"I wish I were piloting!" Dmitri growls, stumbling to keep his feet as the Akuma rolls suddenly and drops precipitously at the same time. Eric grunts in response, concentrating on displays and ship's controls.
"What are we gonna do with this guy?" Eric says as the ship pulls out of Dobhair's upper atmosphere, heading away from the inhabited moon and out of the gas giant planet Balor's enormous gravity well at top speed.
Dmitri stumbles again as the ship moves randomly once more, "Back to Sirius? You are from Sirius Sector, am I right?"
The canid alien turns in his chair and looks back at Dmitri, his bright yellow wolf's eyes lock briefly with Dmitri's softly glowing blue cybernetic ones, "I am," he nods, "but I don't want to go back there."
"Who are you, anyway?" Eric asks.
"My name is..."
To be continued...
