Jessica's Been Busy (Page 152)

~~~(POV: Jessica Autumn)~~~

~~~(Location: Captial Ship in Company's Fleet, Hyperspace)~~~

The Player Corporation I'm a part of has been expanding and growing at a rapid pace, and I've gained an important role in the Corporation. Thanks to Scott and the Starship, Forbidden Fruit, he made me. I've become an important fighter pilot for the Player Corporation I'm a part of. The name of the Player Corporation is called Running Rogue Inc.

The name was made by the founder and leader, Lizzy James, and she's been doing a great job managing everything. I've become really great friends with her, and I'm glad that Scott got me into playing The Aeternus Universe. "Ace Pilot Jessica Autumn, please report to the bridge." I hop off my ship Forbidden Fruit and make my way out of the hanger.

Passing other pilots and greeting them with waves and head nods. I've really found a group that I can trust. Once on the elevator, I press the button that heads for the bridge, and the elevator shoots off. It's moving fast, and I'm genuinely wondering what I'm being brought to the bridge for. Lizzy would be up here, but she hardly does any talking while in Hyperspace.

Since travel is so fast in The Aeternus Universe, it only takes a couple of minutes at most in Hyperspace to jump between galaxies in a Capital Ship like this. We've been in Hyperspace for a minute or so, and we should be arriving at whatever destination Lizzy is taking us. The elevator slows down and quickly opens. Everyone on the bridge turns to me.

Lizzy stands up from her chair and waves me over with a smile, and the blue, green, and white color of Hyperspace comes to an end as we exit into a debris field. "How's my best fighter pilot doing today?" She has a sarcastic tone in her voice, and she's doing this cause she knows I don't like being referred to as the best.

She sees my annoyance and embarrassment as everyone chuckles. I walk up beside her and look out the window with her. "What happened to this place?" I don't know where we are, but this all looks new for some reason. She snaps her fingers, and a holographic recording behind us starts to play. I turn and see a massive ship destroying an entire world.

I've never seen anything like it before, and it's intimidating, to be sure. "We're after that ship. We've been hired to find out who is on it and why they destroyed Kelromera. All we know right now is they did so after everyone was evacuated. Meaning this wasn't a random and malicious attack. There are also reports they grabbed something." I wonder who's hired us...

Whatever this... Dreadnaught is... It's not going to be easy to find, and it's not going to be easy to take down. Even with Forbidden Fruit, I doubt I can make a dent in that Starship. "What do we know about it right now?" She points to the hologram, and it shows its technology. What's apparent is its Nanotechnology. How fast it makes weapons and its firepower.

The shielding technology will be a problem, too. Not even the debris from the planet is getting past it. "What concerns me the most is its ability to destroy and how fast it can make weapons from its Nanotechnology." Lizzy is right. Those are the most significant threats. If it can destroy an entire planet, a fleet of ships is nothing.

Who would have this kind of weaponry and technology? "We're not going to try combating this Dreadnaught, right?" Lizzy shakes her head and confirms we aren't fighting it, only finding out information about it. "Do we know where it's gone? How can something so big disappear so fast? You'd need a lot of power to move something like that..." I've learned a lot in my time here.

She closes her eyes and lowers her head. This is what Lizzy does when she's in deep thought about something, and it's when she's forming plans. "It should leave behind a power signature as all Hyperdrives do, especially ones powerful enough to move a ship like that at those speeds... but there aren't any reading anywhere... It's strange..." That is strange... I have a bad feeling about this...