Kharon Chapter 67
Back on the bridge Johnny and his gang are piloting the Kharon with Kiarah’s help. One of Jonny's gang runs onto the bridge out of breath and shouts, “Hey! Johnny! Our old ship is falling behind. It’s just drifting in the fucking ocean.”
Johnny patches into the Kharon’s communication system and says, “Puddle Skimmer come in. This is the Kharon. Why aren’t you keeping pace?” No response comes over the radio. Johnny grabs Kiarah and shakes her violently. “Tell me how to fire this ship’s weapons!”
“Then will you let him go?”
“We’ll see.”
The Kharon turns around and fires its weapons at the other ship which explodes in a fiery ball. Just then Luke, Emma, Simone, Jacob and Sparky appear on the bridge loaded to the gills with weapons.
“You missed”, says Simone. They all begin fighting.
Emma holds up Sparky. “Hold still and Sparky…”. Before Emma can finish her sentence she is tackled by Kiarah.
Kiarah screams, “No! You’re going to get Hamak killed!”
“What the hell is wrong with you? Who the hell is Hamak?”, yells Emma as her and Sparky struggle against Kiarah. Jacob jumps on top of Kiarah trying to help Emma and Sparky.
“What did you do to her?!”, snaps Simone as she fights Johnny with a normal sword.
“Old Metron trick”, answers Johnny.
Luke dispatches with the last of Johnny's gang and joins the others in trying to subdue Kiarah.
“Do you really expect to beat me as long as I have a Quarsian on my side?”, asks Johnny as he pins Simone against the console.
“No which is why I need this”, says Simone as she takes her fire sword hilt out of its concealed spot in her sash and turns it on. The fiery blade appears and cuts off Johnny’s arm with the controller for the metallic serpents. Johnny screams in pain as Simone quickly grabs the arm and uses the device to shock Kiarah. Kiarah falls to the ground unconscious. Meanwhile Johnny tries to come up behind Simone and stab her with a knife and his remaining hand.
“Look out!”, cries Luke. At the last moment Simone evades Johnny and runs her fire sword through his chest.
As Johnny falls to the ground dead Simone leans in close to Johnny and whispers, “For what it’s worth, sorry I took your ship.”
Kharon Chapter 68
Later Jacob is walking onto the bridge which has been cleared of bodies. Luke is piloting the ship as Simone finishes cleaning up the last of the blood with a mop. Kiarah sits holding her head in the corner guarded by Sparky. Emma also enters the bridge of the Kharon.
“I just finished putting the last of Johnny’s weapons away. We’re pretty stocked now”, says Emma.
“All the dead bodies have been tossed overboard”, adds Jacob.
“How’s Kiarah doing?”, asks Emma.
“I’m fine”, growls Kiarah. “The effects have worn off now unhook this thing from my neck this instant.”
"You gonna play nice?", grunts Luke.
“Like you're one to talk. Sparky do your thing”, says Emma.
Sparky electrifies the ring and it falls off. “That was a most unpleasant experience”, Kiarah says as she rubs her neck.
“At least we got a stash of weapons and a speeder for our troubles”, says Emma.
“Oh I had to send the speeder back to Vice Island with The Mist”, says Jacob.
“Was she pissed when you let her out?”, asks Emma.
“Like I was going to take chances with that. I just set the speeder on cruise control. Someone on the island will let her out…eventually.”
“Wait did you set the speeder on cruise control or auto-pilot?”, asks Simone.
“Cruise control? Why?”
“Well I’m not sure how her powers work but if you shocked her with Sparky while in that container then you could have charged a compressed electron mass. And that speeder had a fusion power system. So in theory how it hits the island could….” Simone stops as the entire crew stares at her surprised. “Hey I had to have some science knowledge to break out of The Colony didn’t I?”
“So what are you saying?”, asks Emma. In response to her question there is a flash of light that goes off just over the horizon in the direction of Vice Island that they all see through the view screens. “Really?! Five islands now.”
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