Jonas Quintain

[jdftheman]

"Hey Jonas wake up!".

Jonas looked up with sleepy eyes. Infront of him sat his flight-instructor Mike. "why are you sleeping here, there are much better spots to sleep than here you know". Jonas looked around and realised he had fell asleep in the bar of newark station. "are you alright?" Mike asked. "You look like you saw a ghost". Jonas looked through the window, staight at the Manhattan docking ring. "You could say that i have" Jonas answered. Mike understood what his trainee was trying to say. How could he not know after what happened during one of there training session.

Mike leaned back and though back at the day he and Jonas were on a training run.

It was still early when Interspace Commerce training convoy 87-4 left newark station and headed to fort bush. Mike was looking with great pride at his most promising student he had ever had, Jonas Quintain, as he was lining the old transport up to enter the tradelane. "Ready to initiate tradelane sequence" said Jonas full confidence. "ok kid" that was Mike's standard response, "get us to fort bush". "aye sir" was jonas' answer, and he started preparing for the lanejump.

When they arrived at fort bush, Mike decided to tell his student about the special suprise he had for him. "well Jonas, are you ready for something special?" asked Mike. "Always" was the response he got. "Ok, now turn left and prepare to go to the colorado jumpgate". "t..t...the colorado........Jumpgate?" asked Jonas. "yes, you heared it, the colorado jumpgate" Mike answered "just go as you please, as long as we get there". While Mike looked at how Jonas prepared for the lanejump, he got a big smile on his face. He knew how scared students were when they had to make a system jump for the first time with the training transport. Though there was something about how Jonas, who almost always kept his cool in tight spots, now looked really nervous.

As the transport arrived at the jump gate,a big group of ships were waiting to make the jump. Mike realised something was seriously wrong with Jonas. He totaly lost his concentration, almost crashing against an armoured transport infront of them. "Can't we turn back sir?" Jonas asked nervously. "No we won't" Mike said. Then a voice was heared from the ship's speakers: "this is the liberty navy, there is some Xenos activity in colorado, please wait before you jump or you might get cought in the crossfire". What happened then Mike never could have imagined it would ever happen. Jonas pulled the nose of the big ship up making it roll over. Before Mike could do anything Jonas activated the cruise engines and headed straight back for the tradelane. "Cut the engines NOW!" shouted Mike, but for the first time ever, Jonas didn't obey Mikes order. Mike realised something was seriously wrong with Jonas, and he raced to the pilot seat. When he looked at Jonas his face, he saw terror in a way he never had seen in any person's face.