Blade and Cannon

[Dab]

"Heya.."

Jess had walked into the cockpit of their Universal-owned freighter. Straight into the gun-sights of John's pistol. An M90 Magnum that could blow a hole the size of a quarter through someone's chest.

He holstered his pistol, swung his chair around. "Hurry up, I want to get out of here as quickly as possible."

"Oh come on, lighten up a bit. The fireworks are just about to start." She was grinning now.

"Haha. Very funny. Now strap in and lets get out of here. Its probably gonna be a rough ride out of here."

Jessica sat down in the co-pilot's chair. Keying in a command that brought a view of the SiN|Tech's Cambridge facility up on the main screen. She pulled a cylinder the length of here index finger out of her pocket and flipped the cover on one end.

"Watch the show."

She pushed the button and the screen lit up in fiery yellow. They felt the explosion of the facility before they heard it. It rocked the freighter end over end. And Blade's arms were straining to pull it back straight before plowing into a building's roof.. The sound deafened his ears.

"Cannon, what explosives did you use?! I said to get the incendiary explosives!"

"Umm.. Which ones are those? What was in the big box?" She couldn't stop the giggle that escaped her mouth.

"Not funny, we were meant to blow up the facility, not the next 2 blocks around it." Blade said, irritated.

"And besides," she continued as if she couldn't hear him. As two Falcons flew up into the air after them. She pulled another trigger out of her pocket. "I needed the other ones to set at the airbase.

She pressed the button down, and they heard an explosion from behind them. A second later they heard another explosion, further away.

"Alright, so it was a good idea." He conceded, grudgingly.

"Now we better head out. Give it a week or two before we come in and take out another distribution center. We could check out Manhatten until then. Lets head back to base and pick up JC."

"Hey, I don't need any babysitting." A voice came from the ship's computer.

"What have I told you about hacking my ship computers?" He asked. "Not to." JC's reply came, with a hint of humor.

John sighed. Why did he have to be grouped with these two?

"You know, my job was alot easier four years ago. Go in, shoot everything. Blow the place. Now I get to deal with you two at every turn."

"Ship incoming." Jess' voice interrupted, all business. "Frigate class. Sporting SiN|Tech callsigns."

"Alright people, now for the real show. You all know what to do, JC get our disruption ready. Cannon, go prepare our fighter."

He got himself busy setting up the rigged bomb they had hardwired into the freighter. Along with the hold full of H-fuel. He had just finished when the frigate had grabbed the freighter with a tractor beam. He set the timer and trotted down the hallway to the escape pod. They had taken it out and connected the cockpits of a fighter in it. "Alright, we got 50 seconds to detonation, lets get going. He got in the pilot position of the fighter and closed the hatch. Ticking off the seconds in his head. If he released to early they might get a tractor beam on the fighter.

"Alright get ready Jessica. 5 seconds to release." He counted down the seconds in his head... ... ...



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"I'm reading two targets nows sir. Profile suggests a small fighter of some kind. Likely was attached to the freighter." The sensor officer yelled up to the Captain.

"Get me a tractor beam on that fighter, I want it now." He had anger in his voice. Anger that anyone would dare think about attacking SiN|Tech property.

"Sir, we are pulling their freighter into the docking bay now. Two of our own fighters have launched in pursuit of the enemy."

Just then a deep rumble shook the ship. One of the bridge officers fell over a railing and onto a lower floor. The 2 meter drop knocking him unconscious. The Captain was hurled against the back wall and fell to his knees. As he picked himself he yelled; "What was that?! Ensign report!"

"He is dead sir, came the voice of the sensor officer." His console exploded and the blast hit him." The officer was staring at the crispy ashen face that had once been another bridge officer. His face was burned and melted by the explosion of the console, with burn marks all along his clothing from the lightning it caused. His eyeballs were fried black, and his mouth hung open.

"Sir, report from the deck officer!" He says the freighter exploded fifteen meters from the bay.

"Whats the status of our enemy."

"Uhhh..." the sensor officer stuttered.. "Fighters will destroyed. We are reading a group of 15 Corsair Titans running parallel to the target."

"Damnit!" The captain punched the console in front of him. "Send out recon ships, I want that fighter dead!"


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"Well that was fun." Jessica said as they flew off towards the Omega-5 jump hole.

"Yeah, real fun, I do enjoy getting shot at." John replied, dryly.

The Starblazer flew off into the nebula of the asteroid field and vanished from Cambridge. John Blade and Jessica Cannon, two HARDCORP officers dedicated to the destruction of SiN|Tech and their mutant-causing drugs.





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