Lost

[Pancakes]

Chapter 2: Home?

Part 1:

"I think I can call Freeport 10 home, I am just not sure. A home is a place where you feel comfortable and recently I have the pulse to leave this place and wander to the omicrons, that pulse is becoming stronger by each day, but more then that, I just have the pulse to leave, to go anywhere but here. Of Corse Keyla don't know it, I care about her alot, I don't know what to do, every time I see her, I want to tell her, but I can't. I CAN'T leave her here, if I go I take Keyla with me, and if she refuses to do so, I won't go!"
Shaimos goes to the sink and wash his face, then turn back to the camera. "Today we are going to a system called Orkney, and from there hopefully we will continue into Gallia to explore, if that will even be possible after all those rumors about the war over there." He grab the camera and walks with it to the kitchen, he take a big sandwich that is full with meat, and continue to talk with food in his mouth "I am pretty sure that such isolated house have explored every corner in it, since it was isolated from the rest and from the edge worlds, I just hope I will leave the Taus. I am here just for too long, I joined the Zoners in first place to explore and as far as this system is beautiful, and it is very beautiful, I want to see more, learn more, and simply do more."
Keyla enters the room with only a bathrobe on her, Shaimos flush a bit and quickly go to wash his face in the sink again pretending he is washing his teeth. Keyla pick up the camera and whispers "Me and Shaimos need some privacy" she smiles with a sad look in her eyes and the camera turns off.

The camera turns on again, you can see Shaimos, angry, "Well who needs her anyway huh?" he nods his head and continue to talk "I took a mission that will take me far away, my mission is to explore Gallia as far as possible. simply exploring, and if things will start to heat up, I will leave and go back to Tau 37, give my mission report, and be assigned to a new mission."

Part 2:

The camera turns on Shaimos appear to be near a large mine field, and on one of the monitors you can see that there is a nearby station called "Reunion", he switch a few greetings words with the flight tower guy, and enter a jump hole to a system called "Languedoc" Shaimos say only one thing "The Journey to Galia, starts, NOW!", on the other side you can see a system, which appear to be a battle zone, "I will investigate the means of all these, it could be a past battle zone".
As Shaimos approach a nearby station hail to him, giving him general information, and about that he will probably be shot on sight by the Gallic Royal Navy, and it's suggested he won't go as far as after planet Quillan, after a short routine inside the system, Shaimos decide it doesn't worth the risk, and Gallia, as far as it is interesting, too dangerous at the moment.
He turns back and suddenly, stops, "I have this feeling again, that'€™s something is not right, and also I have a weird attraction to go to that ice field, more like, make a run for it to there." And as he speaks a group of order fighters fly in great speed toward him, "Ok, this is the last time I don't trust my feelings, he make the run for it, and somewhere in the middle of the field a group of fighters that ID themselves as part of the Maquis, tell the order's ship to turn around, as they refuse, the Maquis's open fire, the order's ships were destroyed fast, and the Maquis told Shaimos he can take a rest at their base, which he will have to remain in secret from the Gallic Royal Navy.
"Wow I am lucky those guys were here, I will never, but never, going to think about my feeling I will first follow them, and then think. And what those Order pilots want from me? I thought they are Zoners' allies, what I think now is that someone owes me an explanation!"
He dock at the Maquis base, after a short time at the bar he thank them and moves away, back to Tau 37, his home for now.

Part 3:

"Well after that mission to Gallia I have been given 2 days vacation, which I'm gonna use to explore a bit, first I would like to know Orkney better and then I will go back to Tau 37 to explore it, as I never been to the other side of the sun, and I am interested to see what is in there."
Shaimos quickly jumps to his Raven's Talon, or he call it RT, and flies away, without anything special on the way, he makes a few stop at Java station to refuel and continue to Orkney, "Well listeners, we are in Orkney, and what I am intending to do in here, is to map all the planets, all the asteroids fields and then to go back. As he go and map, he doesn't find anything special, but as he approach a asteroids field, he can see a large presence of outcasts, he turn off the video link, so there is only sound "Sorry listeners, as far as I know a lot of outcasts means that there is outcast base nearby, and I like my head in the shape it is now so I turned off the video." After he docks he turns the camera on again, well nothing too special in that station, only that I gotta move out, 'cause the air in here is mixed with cardamine, and I don't want to end up addicted to it." He refuels fast and leaves the station". The camera video link is turned off again, and only after he is near a planet, which location is near Reunion station, he turns it on again. "Well the other asteroids field is already mapped by the IMG, and I got from them the required data, so now I am going back to tau 37, first I will dock at a secret IMG base, which again, I will turn the video link off, I can't just reveal it's location."
Again he flies through Tau 23 make a stop at Java base and continue to Tau 37, after he enter the jump hole to Tau 37 he turns off the video link.
"I won't bother to open up the video link again until we get to the other side of the sun system.
You can hear Shaimos talking to the seller, which tell him about a major problem in his ship, the whole bottom is ripped away, he was lucky there was a small layer left so he still had air.
"God dammit! I wanted to use tomorrow to have some nice time in spa, and relax, but I rarther go explore then do that. DARN DARN DARN!!!!!!!"
"Eh, I guess today I will search for something, there are no rooms for rent in here, I will just sit in the bar, and wait until my ship will be repaired, won't sleep for one night or something'€¦"
Shaimos turns up the video link "its ok for it to be on when I am inside the base'€¦ something I thought I will do only for a short while'€¦"
Shaimos goes to the other side of the bar, and orders coffee, beside him there's sitting a young beautiful girl, maybe younger in a year then Shaimos, she sees that Shaimos is depressed "What happened?" she says to him, he replies "I am wasting a day in here instead of going to explore, so tomorrow I won't have my spa day, and I won't get any sleep today, 'cause my sip is all ruined and will be fixed only by tomorrow."
She tell him that if he will let her to come with him, and leave that rock, something they must do secretly, since her father won't like the idea.
"Come, we will sleep at my room, it's mine only as I am old enough for it, by IMG laws, but not old enough to be by my own'€¦"
he looks at her for a few moments, and says "How old are you?"
The answer comes quickly "16 sir", he responds as quickly as her "By Zoner laws you are grown up, and don't call me sir, call me Shaimos."
She smiles, hugs him, and says her name is Jenny. She takes him to her room, show it to him, and then go to take a bath, Shaimos turn off his camera video link, you can hear her calling him to come and take a shower, the audio link is lost too.

Part 4:

The camera turns on, you can see Shaimos and Jenny hugged in her bed, apparently the camera was turned on by accident, as Shaimos moved his hand while sleeping. He wake up about a minute after that, being shocked that the camera was on, he look for how long, and then relax, give a strange look at it and turn it off.
"Sorry for before listeners, I thought the camera was on all night, anyway as you can see me and Jenny are about to go, just waiting for the hangar doors to open."
They fly away, while the video link is off, and turned on only after they are near the sun. Shaimos turns away to the other side of the system, and you can hear that Jenny is very excited. "Jenny, you know we will never come back to here, me anyway", she stops giggling and say "why is that?", "Because your father will kill me", she laugh and say "The sad part, that what you just said is truth", Shaimos have a shocked look and say only "Eh?!", after a while without any talking, they reach the system other side, "Well here we are, hey look Jenny there is a small ice cloud in there, you know anything about it?" she reply "Nope, never been in that side, nothing to look for in here, that'€™s what I thought anyway".
Shaimos look back, he sees that Jenny just look everywhere and not on the monitors "Jenny, you are the navigator you need to tell me if something pop-up and not look through the window all the time". "Oh sorry Shaimos, hey wait I get a very low signal from the direction of that small cloud, hard to say exactly from where". "Ok Jenny, let's move and explore!" The ship fly fast toward, as Shaimos getting excited, but it seems weird, his ship getting to a speed above the normal, 390 and rising, like there is extra force the push it toward the target, as they reach the middle of the cloud, in a matter of seconds, Shaimos turn off the engine and bring the ship to a full stop. "Well Jenny where is the direction?", Jenny who seem to be totally scared, tell Shaimos "Shaimos, Your Eyes'€¦ The'€¦. The'€¦. Theyyy'€¦changed their color, they are purple!", Shaimos quickly took a mirror but when he looked in it, his eyes where fine, brown as they were always have been, "Jenny are you trying to trick me?" Jenny replies fast "No, No, No! I swear to you, they were purple, and we were driving so fast, maybe it's because of the strong G-force'€¦ Hey Shaimos, the signal is much better and the direction is'€¦"
Shaimos complete her "Let me guess, behind the cloud, on the other side of it." Jenny who seems to be a bit shocked "yes, how did you know?"
His answer was "I had a feeling", as they approach the signal source they see a Zoner destroyer, fearless class, only it's armor is not made from a weird metal, much stronger then the normal one used in a "Fearless" seen, Jenny seem to be a bit shocked, but Shaimos tell her "Calm down, many of Zoner designs are a reverse engineering of other vessels, that's probably one of the original designs, like the one the Zoner found, they come near it, and go on board, most of the systems seem to be fine, only it's offline, Shaimos look at it in inspiration, jenny go to something which seems to be some short of a consol, but nothing happen when she tinkle with it, Shaimos tell her to move aside and let him try, but when Shaimos touch it the ship come back alive, only not capable of moving, the ship seem to have an advance AI, after a few minutes nothing happen only Shaimos and Jenny talk to each other in excitment the AI say to them, "Hello, Sorry for your wait, I was figuring out your language, my memory seem to be damaged, but in my programming I have a code that let me chose a name, I call my self "Andromeda" from now." Shaimos a bit shocked, say to it "Ummm, Hello Andromeda, you know anything about those who operated this vessel, or how we can get it back working, or you memory is too damaged for that?" the AI respond "My memory about my creators and all history is gone, but how to operate me, and how to power me back, is something I do know.
In order to operate me, you need to put a new power-core, there is 96.7% there is a spare power-core in my cargo hold."
Shaimos quickly go there, and the only thing he find in the cargo hold, in a secret drawer that the AI has opened for him, in it he find the needed power-core, he put it back in place." The AI indicates, that since she have no crew, and no purpose, but by her programming her goal is to explore and serve her operators, in the operation manual, it's written that there is no need in a crew bigger then 5 to use the ship in a perfect way but it can work even with 0 personal, as the AI do most of the work, with her nanobots.
When Shaimos return to Freeport 10 with Jenny, he report all what happened, and as the "Andromeda" is not a zoner ship, but a private one, he may keep it, as he asks to be stationed elsewhere, the command put him in omicrons, to help there, a new chapter in Shaimos life can now begin.

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