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during Operation Foolish Hero, but I could see in his face that he was still unsure of himself.
I traced out a doorway into jump space, and we walked into the vast sea of blue. The engine room of the battleship leaked massive amounts of power, making finding it a trivial task. As we stepped into the engine room, the crew of the battleship jumped with fear and surprise. They grabbed for weapons as Phoenix caused fire to rain down around the room. I quickly turned on the engines and used my power to unweave the powerful curtains of energy that contained their power. I then used the power I had gathered in unweaving the curtains to weave an energy feedback loop, causing the multiple drives to dump massive amounts of power into each other. Soon the drives would reach a critical level, and without the retaining curtains to stop the reaction, they would explode and take out anything nearby. Alarms were going off everywhere around us as the ship’s computers figured out what was about to happen. I sent, “ Phoenix, when we exit I need you to lay down a ton of firepower to give me a few moments to do my part. ”
“ Understood, one home-cooking barbeque on tap for you ,” he sent back.
“ Then it is time to go. Start your barbeque, ” I sent as I opened a new door to jump space while he sprayed fire from his fingertips.
Phoenix threw one last great fireball into the room and then ran through the door. “ Flame, best speed, get us clear now! ” I sent to Flame just before diving through it to jump space myself. Once in there I quickly located Phoenix and then sent out to Spectra, “ Spectra, I need a sign.” Both spellweavers and those with the dimensional line could move in and out of jump space at will. The only real problem was finding the way back once you were there. This typically meant that you only entered jump space if you had an exit already prepared. We did not, but I was counting on Spectra to be able to provide that marker for us, which she did, and we were able to exit right onto the bridge of the Dust Dragon.
A quick look at the tactical showed me our plan was a great success. We were pulling away from a massive explosion that not only took out the battleship, but several ships nearby.
“Flame, once we are safe, throttle all the way back,” I said as I saw Dusty near collapse from the effort of keeping us undetectable while Flame piloted us away from the pirates at high speed. Spectra saw what was going on and moved to lend Dusty her energy. After we had gotten far enough out, Flame cut off the powerful engines, and most of our screens went blank as we entered low power mode. Being mostly drained from our attack on the battleship, I reached out and drew some of our ship’s power into myself so that I could see beyond the ship that was now mostly blind by virtue of being in low power mode. The pirates were frantically looking for us while pulling tighter together. It was clear they had no idea of our location.
“Dusty, you can get some rest. I still have enough power to keep us hidden while in low power mode. Flame, Spectra, I am depending on you two to get us safely to our next jump point. Phoenix, go and rest also.”
We would have at least six hours at cruising speed to the jump exit, but I dared not go that fast right now. The faster we traveled the harder it would be to hold the cloak and the more likely that we would be spotted. “Flame, keep our max speed at thirty percent for now and everything else as minimal as you can safely manage.”
Chapter Fourteen
The next day passed painfully slowly. I had my crew rotate through rest and meal breaks until we reached our jump point, while Dusty and I took turns keeping the Dust Dragon completely cloaked. The pirates continued to look for us, but for some reason they did not follow the route to the next jump. Instead they seemed to assume we would cross over to the Scaladian route and slowly got further and further from us. The plan worked
I traced out a doorway into jump space, and we walked into the vast sea of blue. The engine room of the battleship leaked massive amounts of power, making finding it a trivial task. As we stepped into the engine room, the crew of the battleship jumped with fear and surprise. They grabbed for weapons as Phoenix caused fire to rain down around the room. I quickly turned on the engines and used my power to unweave the powerful curtains of energy that contained their power. I then used the power I had gathered in unweaving the curtains to weave an energy feedback loop, causing the multiple drives to dump massive amounts of power into each other. Soon the drives would reach a critical level, and without the retaining curtains to stop the reaction, they would explode and take out anything nearby. Alarms were going off everywhere around us as the ship’s computers figured out what was about to happen. I sent, “ Phoenix, when we exit I need you to lay down a ton of firepower to give me a few moments to do my part. ”
“ Understood, one home-cooking barbeque on tap for you ,” he sent back.
“ Then it is time to go. Start your barbeque, ” I sent as I opened a new door to jump space while he sprayed fire from his fingertips.
Phoenix threw one last great fireball into the room and then ran through the door. “ Flame, best speed, get us clear now! ” I sent to Flame just before diving through it to jump space myself. Once in there I quickly located Phoenix and then sent out to Spectra, “ Spectra, I need a sign.” Both spellweavers and those with the dimensional line could move in and out of jump space at will. The only real problem was finding the way back once you were there. This typically meant that you only entered jump space if you had an exit already prepared. We did not, but I was counting on Spectra to be able to provide that marker for us, which she did, and we were able to exit right onto the bridge of the Dust Dragon.
A quick look at the tactical showed me our plan was a great success. We were pulling away from a massive explosion that not only took out the battleship, but several ships nearby.
“Flame, once we are safe, throttle all the way back,” I said as I saw Dusty near collapse from the effort of keeping us undetectable while Flame piloted us away from the pirates at high speed. Spectra saw what was going on and moved to lend Dusty her energy. After we had gotten far enough out, Flame cut off the powerful engines, and most of our screens went blank as we entered low power mode. Being mostly drained from our attack on the battleship, I reached out and drew some of our ship’s power into myself so that I could see beyond the ship that was now mostly blind by virtue of being in low power mode. The pirates were frantically looking for us while pulling tighter together. It was clear they had no idea of our location.
“Dusty, you can get some rest. I still have enough power to keep us hidden while in low power mode. Flame, Spectra, I am depending on you two to get us safely to our next jump point. Phoenix, go and rest also.”
We would have at least six hours at cruising speed to the jump exit, but I dared not go that fast right now. The faster we traveled the harder it would be to hold the cloak and the more likely that we would be spotted. “Flame, keep our max speed at thirty percent for now and everything else as minimal as you can safely manage.”
Chapter Fourteen
The next day passed painfully slowly. I had my crew rotate through rest and meal breaks until we reached our jump point, while Dusty and I took turns keeping the Dust Dragon completely cloaked. The pirates continued to look for us, but for some reason they did not follow the route to the next jump. Instead they seemed to assume we would cross over to the Scaladian route and slowly got further and further from us. The plan worked
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