Like I said, I’m not forcing you to read these. [quote]Immediately following my last post[/quote] [spoiler]Post theme, anyone? https://youtu.be/qhEqyWVcduY Yeah, I should probably change that[/spoiler] Silencersix hurried to his ship, it was starting to rain. “Jess, scan for any Phantom ships in orbit.” “Detecting a large ship orbiting the planet. I can’t tell whether they’re Phantom or not.” “Dammit. Ready the ship’s weapons and stealth drive, I’m going to investigate it myself.” He entered the ship’s c[i]o[/i]ckpit, flipped a few switches and the ship took off. The ship turned invisible as he flew through the clouds. It was pouring down rain now, it was hard to see too far ahead. He broke through the clouds, and finally laid eyes on the ship. A single, huge tetrahedral ship orbited the planet. “No. Goddammit! A scouting ship.” Six’s ship came to a halt, and he approached the airlock. “What are you doing?!” Six equipped a small propulsion device. “I’m going to destroy that ship from the inside out.” He pressed a button on the wall, and was sucked out into space. He activated his active camouflage, and moved towards the ship. As he came closer, he noticed that there was no obvious entrance. Not on this side of the ship, that is. Once he came close enough, he scanned the ship. He was just outside a ventilation shaft. He activated his blade, and cut a hole into the side of the ship. Once in the ventilation shaft, he put a bubble shield where the hole was to prevent any more air from being sucked out. “We’re lucky they didn’t detect that. How many life forms are on this ship?” “Scanning. Including you, there are currently 4,609 life forms aboard the ship.” “That’s reassuring.... Are there any nearby?” “No. You are alone in this section of the ship. There are many cameras, though.” Six remained invisible, and jumped down onto the floor. The corridor was empty, accept for him and a console at the end of the hallway. He approached the console. “Can you extract the ship’s schematics from this console?” “I already have.” “Good. Mark the core on my HUD.” “Done.” A small dot appeared on his HUD. He moved towards it. Less than five corridors later, Six ran across the first pair of phantoms. They were 8 feet tall, lizard-like humanoids. They both carried small rifles with glowing lights on them. The hadn’t noticed him yet. They were guarding an elevator, and the core was three floors up. Six tossed a siva nanite down the hall. The Phantoms moved to investigate the noise. The nanite managed to return to him without being noticed. He used the distraction as an opportunity to get onto the elevator, then pressed a button and continued toward the core. On the next floor, he came across a room with a ton of phantoms working on computers. The computers looked like they controlled the ship’s weapons. After 30 minutes of evading Phantom patrols, he finally found the core. It was guarded by 10 phantoms. The core was a floating orb of solar energy, Six shrank down, and looked around for any cameras. There were none, surprisingly. “No point in going stealthily anymore.” He activated his blade, and stabbed one through the back of the head. Then managed to shoot two in the head with a sidearm, before taking heavy fire. He ducked behind a console and sent a few nanites after the creatures. Three of the creatures went down, while the remaining four destroyed the nanites. Six returned fire and hit one, but he didn’t go down. He shrank down and used his active camouflage to get close to one and behead him. He then tossed a knife into another’s head. One managed to knock him off his feet, and threw him across the room. Six recovered and fire a few rounds into the remaining two. “*sigh* Well then. We don’t have much time, they know we’re here now.” He approached the core’s access terminal. “Jess, can you overload the core?” “Give me a few seconds.... Done. I recommend running. There’s a hangar not far from here. I’ll mark it on your HUD.” He sprinted for the hangar. “How much time do we have?” “I gave us three minutes to get out of here, before the ship explodes.” “Good enough. Get the ship ready.” As Six was about to enter the elevator, the door opened and two Phantoms came out. One attempted to punch Six in the head, but he ducked and fired a few rounds into the two. He entered the elevator, and went to the floor below. There weren’t any phantoms here. A phantom spoke through the ship’s loudspeakers to the crews. “Translate what he’s saying.” “Translating.... Done. ‘The core has been sabotaged. Make your way to the hangar and board the escape shuttles.’” “Oh, that’s where they all were.” He sprinted through the corridors and finally found the hangar. It was empty. “Damn, they evacuated fast.” “The ship’s here, hurry!” The ship came out of stealth mode and appeared in the hangar. Six could hear explosions all throughout the ship. “20 seconds!” He boarded the ship and flipped a few switches. “10 seconds!” The ship took off. “That was [i]too[/i] close.” “You worry too much.” Six said. The Phantom ship exploded behind them. He felt the ship shudder. “What was that?” “A piece of scrap collided with our ship. Minimal damage to the ventilation systems.” “Oh. Nothing too bad, then.” “So..... do we tell the senate about this?” “I guess we do.” [spoiler]I know what you’re thinking. “Your stories were just getting better, then you make one as shitty as this?” Yeah, sorry about that....[/spoiler] Next story : https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/252588758/0/0 Previous story: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/252549238/0/0