It was raining outside...and the thunder woke him. He sighed and moved out of bed.
"Cambridge...got to love this place." He muttered to himself, he looked over at the time and shook his head. "On duty here in a few minutes...this should be fun." He muttered again moving over to the cabinet and started to get dressed in his Uniform, He was unaware of what was going to happen today.
Twenty Minutes later, Derby's Flight Deck
Two pilots came rushing up to Austin stopping and saluting. "Sir! Glad to see you're back. How was Liberty?"
"Bloody annoying. What do you want chap?"
"Right, Sir. We got a new shipment of Ensigns before you left. One of which has been drafted to your fighter group. An Ashley Taylor."
"Really now? Hm. A Female in the group, sounds good."
"Heh, Aye sir. Want me to introduce you both?"
"No no, I'll be in space here shortly."
"Copy."
Austin shook his head as the two pilots quickly wandered off.
Three Hours into the Training Session
"Good job Ashley. Seems you graduated top of your class hm?" Austin said over the mic as the Ensign just finished off Rockwell.
A few minutes later after a rather long silence, Austin looked up from his console to see Ashley's ship heading right towards him. He flicked on the communications. "Ashley, you're about to hit me..." She pulled out at the last second and began firing random. He glanced up and saw her flying off in the distance, discharging her weapons.
"Rockwell, what the hell is she doing?" Austin whispered into the mic,
"No idea..." He replied back.
"Right, Ashley, Please do stop firing, you're not shooting at anything." Austin said again, watching as her ship turned into a sharp dive right for Rockwell. "Incoming." Austin said, muttering.
He watched as two volleys of Tachyon slammed into Rockwell's shielding. Rockwell sounded startled when it happened.
"Alright, Ashley you killed twenty Kusarian Fighters, you can stand down now.." He muttered lightly.
She swung around and flew off towards the station and started attacking it. "This isn't going to end well for her..." Austin said turning his ship about and watching, as she now turned towards the Harlow.
A few minutes later Austin watched her ship explode. That's when everything gone from decent to worse. After trying to explain to her while she sat in her escape pod she wasn't in Tau-31 and wasn't an Admiral of the Armed Forces. Austin tractor beamed her into his ships hold.
"Right, sir heading back now." He said, completely ignoring the muffed screams from his cargo bay. Before he was about to dock he heard a crash, and another shout. He turned around and opened up the Cargo bay door, pulling his pistol out from the holster.
He was standing face to face with the Ensign, who was pointing her pistol directly at him. He quickly raised his and aimed it at her. She reacted and pulled the trigger, the bullet whizzed past and hit the corner of the door.
"Drop the bloody Gun, Ensign!" Austin Snapped aiming his gun at her, not flinching. She didn't drop it but continued pointing the gun, about to pull the trigger again. "Drop the bloody, gun. Now." He demanded once more. She still didn't drop the gun, That's when he quickly pulled the trigger, pointing it away from her. The bullet hitting inside her escape pod.
"Drop the bloody, Pistol now. Or the next one is going into you." He said, again, once more.
She looked stunned then dropped the pistol. "Bloody hell I assumed you were one of them."
"You assumed wrong, Lass." Austin said walking close to her then bending down and picking up the pistols, then turning around and placing them in a compartment. He turned around to face her again. She was glaring. "Right, Ensign. Start acting like a pilot and stop screwing around will you." He said walking back over to her. "And next time don't bloody shoot me."
"I didn't mean to.." She said, looking down.
"Yeah, well what you didn't mean to do, you did anyways. I bloody hope your proud of yourself." He grumbled. "Your bloody parents would be ashamed of you." She noticed his twitch when he said 'parents'
"What, like yours?" She said with a grin.
He twitched again. "My parents are dead."
She laughed, "They couldn't live with some idiotic child like you, I take it."
"You have no business talking about my family. Ensign you are out of line." He mumbled clinching his fist.
"I'm out of line? You're just a bloody fool. Your family is dead and there's nothing you can do about it." Ashley said, replacing her grin with a small smile.
"The hell with you!" Austin said raising his fist and throwing the punch, he missed, on purpose. But she reacted quickly and grabbed his arm trying to swing him over her shoulder, she failed as he brought his knee up into her side. "Nice try" He said as she stumbled backwards
"You're going to have to come over here then." She moved slightly in a defensive stance, then started to move slowly towards the Cockpit. "Not today." He said moving quickly to intercept her, he threw another punch which she blocked, then she brought up her knee, he deflected it quickly. That's when he grabbed her uniformed forced her back behind him. He spun around quickly and took a defensive stance.
She glared and brought her hand up, waving her finger tauntingly, as if saying 'Bring it.' So, he brought it. He went in launched a punch, but faked it and when to sweeping her legs out from under her. She stumbled backwards, surprised slightly by the fake he did. She quickly glanced for the cockpit and broke out into a sprint, trying to get there.
He caught this moment as she lunged past him, He reached out his arm and caught her by the back of her uniform, spinning around quickly and wrapping his arms around her. Using her momentum he forced her and himself to spin towards the wall away from the cockpit. He kept them both balanced.
Ashley reached out with her legs and tried to push off the wall, but failed to. Due to the fact she was just out of reach. Noting this, Austin forced himself forwards and slammed her into the wall. That's when the Communications went off.
"Goodie, can you hear me?"
"Oi, Goodie come in....gah...must be sleeping...eh, wait...two people fighting? Haha."
"Let's shake it up a bit then."
Seconds later the ship shook, and Austin let go of her stumbling backwards. She spun around and was back in a defensive stance.
"Gooodieee! You there chap?!"
Austin glanced over at the headset dangling. In that small window she launched her attack. Rushing forwards, she brought her fist up into his gut, spun as he reacted and lurched forwards, then slammed her elbow into his back, and as a final move, she swung out her leg making him fall to the ground. He hit hard.
Before he could react fully she was ontop of him pinning him to the ground. He forced himself up, but failed. That's when he swung his leg back and tried kicking her, It worked. She rolled off of him just as he hit her, quickly stood up and raised her foot, aiming at his head. He rolled out of the way, mere second before her foot hit the foor.
Pushing himself up he glared at her. She spat, and noticed blood. Looking up and over at him, "You bastard." She didn't have time to react as he already launched his attack, he gained just enough speed to tackle her. Slamming her onto the ground. He brough his knee up quickly to block any further attacks and placed his hands on her shoulders. Looking directly at her.
"You bloody through!" He snapped
She stared at him, then spat in his face. He quickly turned to the side, having some respect, and spat on the ground next to her, then he raised his right fist in the arm and punched her.
"You bloody through?!" this time he yelled louder. She whinced and nodded.
Austin pushed himself off from her and stood up, then surprisingly sat down next to her. "Good..." He said panting lightly. She laid there for a few moments before pushing herself up in a last ditched effort on getting to the pistols. She stumbled forwards nearly making it to the cockpit, then fell and started crawling. Austin watched for moment then forced himself up and walked over to her as she reached her hand out. He placed her foot on her hand and pressed down.
Taking note again that this time she gave up he leaned on the wall near the door and slide down it. Taking a deep breath, then sighing.