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Leaving planet Dobhair (Free)
🕑 Added 2025-04-21 03:46:55 +0000 UTC"Dmitri, what the Hell is going on?" 悪魔丸 the Akuma Maru's intercom crackles in the cargo bay, "At least two of you came aboard, unless you got fat here on Dobhair or you brought five years supply of space snacks with you..."
Dmitri snorts as he and the canid disentangle themselves from one another after landing in a heap together when the cargo bay door closed, "We've got a 'guest'," he replies, "Don't shoot us, we're coming forward."
Dmitri motions the young Wolf Guard in front of him, palms the door-locking mechanism open, and escorts him through the ship's entryway corridor before opening the door to the Kuroi Akuma's cockpit. The canid alien's eyes are wide and his ears alert as he instinctively takes in this new environment. Dmitri motions the alien into the navigator's seat, "Don't touch anything," then stands at attention in front of the cockpit door which closes behind him.
Eric and the Jinro 人狼 alien look curiously at each other - Eric doing so for just a moment before turning his attention back to the ship's controls and scanners.
Eric comments, "No sign of pursuit at all - very strange," but then several flashing orange diamonds appear on the console display, "Aha!" he exclaims, "THERE they are!"
The Wolf Guard continues to sit calmly in the navigator's seat with his hands clasped between his legs, silently watching everything. Dmitri stands at attention in front of the cockpit doorway and Eric pilots the Kuroi Akuma Maru 黒い悪魔丸 as the trio make their escape from planet Dobhair and the agents of Nemesis.
"Shit! I wish you were piloting, Dmitri!" Eric snarls as the ship jukes uncomfortably to avoid laser-fire and incoming missiles, the ship's artificial gravity not quite able to compensate for the sudden random changes in velocity and direction.
"I wish I were piloting!" Dmitri growls, stumbling to keep his feet as the Akuma rolls suddenly and drops precipitously at the same time. Eric grunts in response, concentrating on displays and ship's controls.
"What are we gonna do with this guy?" Eric says as the ship pulls out of Dobhair's upper atmosphere, heading away from the inhabited moon and out of the gas giant planet Balor's enormous gravity well at top speed.
Dmitri stumbles again as the ship moves randomly once more, "Back to Sirius? You are from Sirius Sector, am I right?"
The canid alien turns in his chair and looks back at Dmitri, his bright yellow wolf's eyes lock briefly with Dmitri's softly glowing blue cybernetic ones, "I am," he nods, "but I don't want to go back there."
"Who are you, anyway?" Eric asks.
"My name is..."
To be continued...
