Hudson with Terror

[Reeves]

She couldn't see it, but he was grinning, though it was pretty obvious from the way he responded to that. "My pleasure." With no sense of caution, he hit the base of his palm against the throttle stick and let the ship rip its way through the air. The clouds whipped by and in a matter of minutes they were in the expanse of space again. Since the camp's communications system had conveniently suffered a failure, Cold Bay wasn't expecting an uninvited guest by any means of the word. So not only was the retinue of Hunters nearby not alerted the moment Morreti's ship was spotted, but the defenses were powered down to save power.

By the time they did notice, he was cruising straight underneath it and slipping right by without anyone to get in the way. The resulting panic did eventually provoke the weapon systems to life, a flurry of panicked pulse blasts and primary cannons trailing after the Rebel. Nearby Manitoba was alerted and starting preparing ships to launch, but their ETA was the time it would take for the Rebel to clear itself of Cold Bay's range and make it to the nearby Kenai Field. From that point onwards it was the regular shootout the Hunters were used to, but that was a different set of contracts that Planetform hadn't chimed in on, their concerns remained quite narrow and restricted to the operations on the planet.

This would definitely cause a rumble near the field later between Hunters and whatever their prey for the day happened to be, but for now he'd done what was asked of him without a hitch. "How are you holding up back there?" He was genuinely curious, since he'd put her through the motions today and without any warning every single time.

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