Chapter 14: Energy Burst

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The IMG prepared for boarding their mothership once their meal ended. They left the station and accelerated forward as Sanduo gave signals to the B.O brothers to open the airlock.

Drio looked back at Zen-star. Seeing a solar system form was one of the many things he wanted to witness while he was just a child. He hoped his other dreams would come true eventually. He smiled and thrust further towards the Interstellar Traveller, which was a home to him now.

He still spoke with his family by Holo-Talk.

Only one thing was missing.

Touch.

He could only speak and see them, but couldn't touch or hug his parents. He missed their love. This was one of the major dilemmas of space travel.

The crew met at the control room and performed all the necessary steps to get the ship to run by the newly filled fuel. The reactors broke the fuel and turned it into antimatter and matter by a fancy process that somehow took less energy to break the stuff than what was released. Then the front and back of the ship warped the space time fabric around it.

[Graphical representation of a ship stretching space by using warp drive on a 2D plane]

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[Graphical representation of a ship stretching space by using warp drive on a 2D plane]


By doing this, the warp drive allowed the ship to cheat the speed limit of the universe and move faster than light, without actually going faster than it.

As the ship shot into the void, the surroundings stretched and curled around them, though the objects around them still kept their shape.

B.O.8 reported back, "The fuel is working fine. It's of the better quality I've seen so far. We will arrive soon now, according to calculations, it'd take just a little more than a day. To be precise, one point seven nine six-"

"Okay, okay got it. Good. It would be more than one and a half day. Ready your weapons while we get there. The encounter might not be peaceful."

"Got it sir! We will be at it right away," Lily saluted and went to the storage halls. Droop helped her get the boxes down. "Whoo! Heavy stuff," she said as she got an ion blaster out. Droop got the missile launchers and fit them on his shoulders and abdomen. B.O.5 applied plating on his body and B.O.8 did the same.

"Hey! Get this to Jayden. He'll like it," Lily threw a blunt piece of metal at B.O.8.

"What is this? It doesn't seem to be any war equipment." He rotated it by his springy arms as he inspected the queer object. Black and blue lines streched across the rod.

"It is a weapon. Best for those who are good at stealth. But too complex to handle for somebody like me. It has different settings by which it could take form of different weapons- guns, spears, or even swords! Many more actually. Best to see him handling it." She got back to unloading.

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