It's Like Falling with a Large Bang!

*Fzzit-BOOM!*

The ship rocked as the rocket slammed into it. Tey could feel the impact roll from the right wing through the bulk of the ship, and looking at the scanners seemed to indicate the hot had finally penetrated his right grav propulsor.

“Damnit” Tey whispered under his breath as he began to flick switched on the right control board, trying to drain the power from that side of the ship before it did any further damage to his ship. The left control board was digging into his hips as he turned awkwardly to use it’ brother, but thats what you get with a renegade, fast but limited on space. With the wing in shut down the Kahler turned his attention back to the main scanner, two ships still remained in a basic chase formation behind him. The back one was a Kahler Inquisitor, a relatively small white ship designed for agents of the Kahler High Council, while the lead ship appeared to be a LCU Ronte,  it may have been heavily modified for use as a cargo runner, but it still bore the usual markings.

*Whhoaaaaaaoat*

Another rocket screamed over the wing and by Tey’s front window, the jet stream making a mess of the paint job, but then again at least it wasn’t blowing holes in his ship. Tey had set his ship to pilot a lost course (A random sequences of turns and stops to try and confuse enemy flight computers) but it was looking as though these ships were too smart for his best attempts, with a heavy heart he reached under his front panel and began to rummage around for something. As he did his comms crackled to life, releasing a booming voice upon his ship.

“Come Now Tey” The voice said in a way that sounded like a mother scolding their child, “Stop of your ship and let us come and get you, better to go back now than have us keep blowing holes in your fine ship.”

“Oh sure Kelgen,” Tey replied as his fingers clasped around a key taped to the bottom of his dash, “And if I do that just what do you think my fine brothers will do to me?”

“From my understanding they intend to take you back to Kahler for trial... the summary execution of course, but at least it’s better than getting jettisoned into the vacuum of space” The other captain stated, his glee practically palpable as it oozed through the comms line.

“What happened to you Kelen?” Tey asked as he used the found key to unlock a panel contained within his chair, “I thought you said to me not a week ago you’ shoot any military types on sight if you saw then hanging around the station anymore?”

“True, but you see the thing about working for the military is, they have short memories and pay excellently” Kelen said, but by this point Tey was trying to focus on his own problems, he’d yanked the control board free from the arm and was madly pressing switches and buttons. He had about 1 minute to do a 5 minute job, and if he didn’t do it right then his ship may very well end up smeared all over a planet.

“Tey,” Kelen said, still obviously on the line and growing impatient, “Are you going to surrender to us  or shall we start firing again?”

“No!" Tey said, probably letting a little too much fear shine through, “No, I’ll yield, just let me turn my ship around.” This seemed to please Kelen as he let out a satisfied grunt. With one hand Tey turned his ship to face his pursuers and with the other he finished pressing his switches. The device was ready and so was Tey.

“Hey Kelen,” Tey said, a certain smugness beginning to creep into his voice, “I want to bargain with you, you let me know and I’ll give you the most important thing on this ship.”

Kelen seemed to pause thinking for a moment, “Sorry Tey, but nothing you have on that ship can compare to what The Kahler are offering.”

“Shame, I think you would have needed it right about now”

“... What is it Tey?” The once smug captain asked with some trepidation creeping into his booming tones

“Just a simple, little... Warp Infusion Matrix!” Tey yelled through his comms. At that second 3 things happened, first Tey slammed on his thrusters and began to zip towards the two ships who had come to claim him, second Kelen began to yell orders at his crew, forgetting the comms were still active, and Finally, when a fat enough speed had been reached, Tey hit the final switch on his board. Tey and his ship seemed to blink out of existence, vanishing completely, leaving behind only a trail of Ionic energy, invisible to the naked eye but enough to knock out any ships caught in it’s path.

“Damnit Tey” Kelen whispered as his ship began to power down, “you’ve really done it this time.”


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The jump through space was always a bit of a wrenching experience, that’s what Zyos had said when the mighty Chulan had helped Tey install his infuser, he’d said that to complete a warp on this kind of small ship was to dance with death.. but if you needed a quick getaway there was no method finer. Tey thanked his stars that his friend had given him such an impressive component for his ship... or he would once he stopped cursing his own damned luck.

The warp had taken a split second to achieve, but it had been havoc on Tey’s stomach. He’d spilled whatever meager contents of food had remained there as he reentered normal space, coughing and spluttering as the impact of his journey took it’s toll. It took about a minute of this before Tey was composed enough to try and gauge where he’d warped to.

“Dead on” Tey whispered under his breath as he checked the sensors, he’d managed to hit just where he’d wanted to go. The planet below was considered a 0-level planet for smugglers and hunters, it’s inhabitants had not gain the ability to move beyond simple space travel and as such there was no real booming trade tracks. But for the purpose of hiding the place was brilliant, it had plenty of people that looked like him to hide amongst, and with his mark removed he would fit right in. Tey smiled as he watched the sensors... only to turn it into a frown.

With the use of the Warp-Infuser, Tey had eaten through all his fuel, as such he would normally have to wait for the solar cells to provide enough residual energy to power a slow descent onto the planet, but according to the scanners he was still moving. Checking his GRS (Gravitational Response Systems) he realised what was happening, he’d flown too close and the planet’s gravity was pulling him. Normally he would just allow it to before turning on his Anti-Grav propulsors and land safely, but with one of them out of action the system was compromised. Tey swung to the left control panel, ignoring the bump against the right as his chair smacked into it, and began to frantically try to keep his ship stable. The propulsor came on fine, but it wasn’t slowing his descent, he ship was still falling and now licks of flame were starting to appear outside his windows. Checking the scanners again Tey could see he was headed for some sort of town, but there was a large enough lake nearby that could provide the cushion he needed. Tey began to reroute all power before jumping out of his chair and running through the ship.

Ducking and weaving through the tight maze that he had left with his sudden departure, Tey made his way to the left wing’s AGP and started ripping out and reconnecting wires, trying to get just one pulse to run through it. The alarms started going off as the ship entered the upper atmosphere and Tey knew he didn’t have time. Smashing open a second panel, Tey began to hook the AGP into his main ship electrics, hoping to push through one last energy boost.

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From the city below, if one was looking, you could probably make out a small redish speck that seemed to be falling from the sky, slowly getting bigger. It would look to be coming down pretty uniformly, right up until it had grown to the size of a football, at that point it began to spin away. The ship flipped end over end as it plummeted towards earth, before finally slamming down into the lake and beginning to sink, with no sign of life as it went.

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High above, within the rings of Jupiter, a different ship was watching the space ballet play out. If one had been watching that ship they wouldn’t see much in the way of a change, except for the small energy emission that seemed to eek out as something transmatted itself down to earth, something hungry for a prize.

David crawled inside a hollow tree trunk looking for his black lab Shadow. Shadow ran off a few minutes ago when David wasn’t looking. He was finishing some dumb math problem. David reached the other side of the trunk and crawled out. There’s no sign of Shadow. David pulled out his phone and opened up an app. He made this app to go along with a device he put on Shadows collar. The device can track Shadow with the GPS function on David’s phone but his phone couldn’t find a signal.

“Oh come on not now!” David yelled angrily at his phone.

He heard a loud splash. Startled David when in the direction of the slashing noise. I must of been from the lake David figured. As David reached the lake he found Shadow. David was so relived. David hooked Shadow back on his leash and saw something sinking in the lake. David went a bit closer to see what it was. I was some sort of ship. He only just meet aliens for the first time yesterday!

"We better go see what it is." David said to Shadow.

Ace woke up to the sound of a loud bang and wonder what the hell it was and quick as a flash jumped out of bed and got dressed and got her rucksack and rushed to where, what looked like all hell was braking loss and that when she saw something that never thought would happen.

But at least she could use her knowledge and skill to help the people that need it, As she got there and feeling out of puff Ace hear a dog barking towards the wreckage of the ship and saw a young boy raising behind to keep up with the dog,but he looked more contempt to getting his phone to work and Ace rolled her eyes as she went to look if there was any signs of life or if there was any danger that could lurking in the ship.

"Geronimo" she shouted as Ace dove right into the river and swam to the ship hoping it not too late for the crew.

Sirens blared throughout the ship as it hit the water, creating a tremendous boom and crack as it did so. Normally a standard life-preserving feature would begin (locking down any vital structures and opening up emergency supply systems), but since Tey had diverted all power through the left anti-grav there was barely enough energy in reserve to hold the ships atmosphere, let alone enough to set off complicated systems. Tey himself was not doing so well, the ships spinning decent had thrown him around the store room like a ragdoll, and when it had finally landed it had done so on it’s back, he was now laying on the roof surrounded by the remains of his smashed supplies.

Managing to keep conscious despite feeling like he’d gone five rounds with an Ice Warrior, Tey dragged himself across the roof of his ship towards the docking bay. He tried to avoid splinters and some of the smashed up food packages he’d brought with him, it looked as though everything he’d had to survive with was busted. Making it to the docking bay Tey lifted himself up and grabbed one of the dangling controls. He pushed the big red central button and opened the cargo ramp. With the ship on it’s back the ramp was now located on the ceiling, and it lifted up and out into the night air, it seemed the water hadn’t quite reached it yet. Looking around Tey noticed a still standing crate, he grabbed it and dragged it under the open ramp, pulling himself on top of it he steeled his resolve and jumped up, just managing to grab onto the lip he yanked himself up and over, laying down on the ships exterior, exhausted by the effort. The ship itself was sinking fast and Tey could see the water had almost enveloped the whole thing. The kahler just lay there as the water rose up to meet him, to tired to even attempt to swim. He loped his head to one side and noticed some people who seemed to have been attracted by the rukas. ‘Seem similar enough’, he thought, trying to judge just where he landed. Raising his hand he gave a brief wave as the water took his ship, leaving him to float unsupported on the lakes surface.

O.C.C: So if either of you guys want to drag Tey to shore that would be authorised and appreciated... He isn’t quite up to swimming right now. Also any information you want on the look of the ship is in my signature under the name "The Orv"

Robin grumbled something under her breath, dashing as fast as she could towards the lake nearby. What was that? Seriously, what was that?! It was quite loud, for one, and she was surprised more people weren't concerned with it, or at least woken up like she was. Well... to be honest, she wouldn't have called it 'sleep' but she didn't care right now. All she was bothered with was the fact that someone might have just crash landed - possibly even Theta again - and they could need help. Or they could need murdering. Depending on the situation and the alien, of course... although she wouldn't go as far as murder. That would just be cruel.

Reaching the sandy area near the edge of the lake, she just managed to spot the form of the sinking metal under what seemed to be an ordinary man. Oh god, if that was Theta again... Rolling her eyes at the mere thought, she rushed into the water to go grab the man who was obviously having a bit of trouble staying up like that. It took a minute, but she finally reached the limp form of the alien. Hooking him under his armpits, she began to drag the poor man back to shore, a determined frown on her face. Where was the Doctor when stuff like this happened? She swore he missed half the good stuff...

Braxien was fishing by the lake and had just reeled his rod in for the day,when he heard a loud splash. His first reaction was to drop the fishing rod and see where the sound had come from. He sprinted along the lake, occasionally his feet tripping himself up.

Soon, he had seen what had caused the sound. It was a large spaceship of some kind, smoke drifting upwards and it was slowly sinking. He then noticed a red-haired figure dashing towards the ship and seconds later, pulled another figure out of the water.

He wondered whether they needed any help but the last time he seemed to do that, it just got him into more trouble. Subconsciously, he began moving forwards. Curiosity was killing the cat, again. He just wanted to have one peaceful day off, the universe didn't think so.

Ace had little time and air and had to be careful at the same time not to get trapped or any other hidden dangers,thinking that there could some alien that was on there way to invade only to crash land in the lake. But there was the off chance that the inheritance could human or friendly so had to try,do so as she swam near to what looked like a hole that could accommodate her entry.

Once in she saw the sight of horror and dread as there was little to go on by but some thing cached her eye a someone a man and swam over to him and grabbed him and took him to the surface with a gasp. Where Ace saw other's looking at her "oi come on give a hand here!" shouting at the top of her lungs to hopeful get help to the man that looked human.

Braxien jerked his head and looked down, and someone had grabbed him by the legs.

"Uh, okay…"

He pulled her to shore, wrapping his jacket around her shoulders. "I'm Braxien Lythis, Brax for short. What happened?"

He squatted down beside her and asked her many questions, it was something that he wanted to remember but at the same time, he just wanted to relax. He had never spent more than two days on one single planet but this planet seemed good place to be one until the spaceship had fallen from the sky.