Kharon - Chapter 20
The Kharon is sailing away from Metron under heavy fire. Everyone is gathered on the bridge. They all look concerned except Kiarah who says, “I would recommend you hang on tight.”
“Looks like they are pursuing us. You gonna try to lose them?”, asks Simone.
“Won’t have to”, comes the reply from Kiarah.
Just then the ship begins to shake. The others look out the windows and see the ocean
bubbling and starting to churn.
“What the hell is going on?”, asks Jacob.
Kiarah calmly replies, “The volcano is about to erupt.”
“What!?!”, say the other four in unison.
“That’s the secret to their success. It’s why they are so energy and resource rich. They
built their city on top of an active volcano and used their technology to keep it from erupting.”
“So why the fuck is it about to erupt now!?”, yells Jacob.
“I turned it off”, says Kiarah.
“What exactly did you turn off?”, says Simone as the ship begins shaking more violently.
“The mechanism that keeps the volcano from erupting.”
“Come on if something like that really existed they would have built in a secondary failsafe”, says Jacob.
“They did. A secret one at the main armory. Which is why I had you destroy it.”
“Well even if you turned off whatever the hell keeps a volcano from erupting that doesn’t mean an eruption is imminent. Right?”, asks Emma.
“One of the energies the energy sphere collects is geothermal energy. The explosion the two gentlemen made would have sent a sufficient enough shockwave down into the volcano triggering an eruption.”
“Are you a fucking psychopath!”, cries Luke. “You tricked us into setting off a damn volcano!”
“Well I guess that’s two islands we destroyed”, says Emma holding on tight to Sparky.
“Not helpful”, says Luke.
“While I'm not terribly heartbroken to see Metron blow up, are we going to survive this?”, asks Simone.
“I originally planned this to be a suicide mission but since you helped me I will try to keep us alive”, says Kiarah.
“Not what I want to hear! So not what I fucking want to hear!”, cries Jacob.
“Listen you psycho bitch you get us out of here safely or so help me I will shred you into pieces so small the fish won't even bother with them! You will beg for mercy!”, cries Luke.
“I think it’s kind of pointless threatening someone who was on a suicide mission”, says Emma.
Kiarah calmly says, “I have all of the shields up to full power and have been at full throttle since we pulled out of shallow water. That being said I would still recommend praying if that's your sort of thing.”
They all hear a loud boom and look out the window to see Metron gone and in it’s place a huge plume of fire and smoke that is growing and heading towards them.
“Shit!”, says Luke.
“Fuck!”, says Simone.
“Oh damn!”, cries Jacob.
“Holy hell!”, yells Emma.
Just then the plume of smoke, fire and water vapor hits the Kharon. The ship is tossed
in the air and then pulled underwater. It rocks back and forth as it is swirled through the currents like a rag doll held by a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. As it is jostled around the crew inside desperately try to hang on for dear life. Kiarah is concentrating on keeping the Kharon as steady as possible and diverting as much power to the shields as she can. But the ship is being tossed about in violent spasms. It takes all of her skill and everything she has ever been taught since she was a little girl to keep the ship together.
“One of the energies the energy sphere collects is geothermal energy. The explosion the two gentlemen made would have sent a sufficient enough shockwave down into the volcano triggering an eruption.”
“Are you a fucking psychopath!”, cries Luke. “You tricked us into setting off a damn volcano!”
“Well I guess that’s two islands we destroyed”, says Emma holding on tight to Sparky.
“Not helpful”, says Luke.
“While I'm not terribly heartbroken to see Metron blow up, are we going to survive this?”, asks Simone.
“I originally planned this to be a suicide mission but since you helped me I will try to keep us alive”, says Kiarah.
“Not what I want to hear! So not what I fucking want to hear!”, cries Jacob.
“Listen you psycho bitch you get us out of here safely or so help me I will shred you into pieces so small the fish won't even bother with them! You will beg for mercy!”, cries Luke.
“I think it’s kind of pointless threatening someone who was on a suicide mission”, says Emma.
Kiarah calmly says, “I have all of the shields up to full power and have been at full throttle since we pulled out of shallow water. That being said I would still recommend praying if that's your sort of thing.”
They all hear a loud boom and look out the window to see Metron gone and in it’s place a huge plume of fire and smoke that is growing and heading towards them.
“Shit!”, says Luke.
“Fuck!”, says Simone.
“Oh damn!”, cries Jacob.
“Holy hell!”, yells Emma.
Just then the plume of smoke, fire and water vapor hits the Kharon. The ship is tossed
in the air and then pulled underwater. It rocks back and forth as it is swirled through the currents like a rag doll held by a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. As it is jostled around the crew inside desperately try to hang on for dear life. Kiarah is concentrating on keeping the Kharon as steady as possible and diverting as much power to the shields as she can. But the ship is being tossed about in violent spasms. It takes all of her skill and everything she has ever been taught since she was a little girl to keep the ship together.
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