Battle In Space

Just as Lance was about to enter the capsule, the whole ship shook as if it had rammed into something.

The suit sent warning signals to him, indicating that it was enemy attack. Lance ran back to the control console, putting his hands on it to take control and check out the situation.

The ship was completely covered in that strange material to block transmissions, so there was no window to look outside. Instead, a huge screen flickered into existence in front of him and showed him the situation outside.

A ship only slightly smaller than the Reptilians's had appeared behind him, shooting at the capsule. Thankfully, the capsule had shields which were still holding as of now. That ship was very similar to the one he was on, and Lance suspected that it was a tagger on to ensure that their mission went successfully.

Immediately, Lance commanded the ship to move forward. The Reptilians' ship used a fuel which was only found on their home planet, allowing their ships to move without giving out strong heat signatures.

With a hum, the engines which had stalled after the fight with the last Reptilian started up and pushed the ship forward.

Only, the other ship was still shooting at the capsule.

The shields were fast losing their power and Lance was at his wits end. Both ships had the same engines and they were thus moving at the same speed.

Suddenly getting an idea, he communicated with the suit to make the capsule activate its engines too.

With a jolt, the ship started moving noticeably faster. Although the other ship was still shooting, they were quickly gaining distance.

Just as he was going to leave the ship behind, Lance felt a suspicious. If it was a tagger-on, why wouldn't it be equipped with better weapons? Just like this ship, it was also equipped with a standard laser cannon which was primarily used to shoot meteorites out of the way.

What if it was another ship with the same cargo? Wondered Lance.

If it was so, then that would mean that they could circumvent the station's response and reach their secret base, thereby potentially gaining the capability to abduct many initiates' families.

Lance noticed a huge meteorite a quarter the size of Earth's moon in the corner of his sight as he was pondering about what to do. Getting an idea, he maneuvered towards the meteorite after making sure that the other ship was following.

Sure enough, the other ship followed behind, aiming to shoot off the capsule and regain control of their ship. Only, what was waiting for them was a barrage of lasers.

Lance's capsule could output force in any direction. It was designed in such a way to make use of rotational momentum if necessary to fly through space, by making use of force at both ends of the capsule to indue a rotatory movement.

He had commanded the capsule to output force in the other direction, drastically slowing the adjoined 2 ships down before turning them around, again using the capsules thrusters.

This enabled them to get into an advantageous position. Earlier, the other ship had chosen to shoot at the capsule because that was the most vulnerable point from their position. If they had tried to come forward and target the front, which was even weaker, then they would either have been seen or the ship would already have changed locations.

Now, Lance was in an advantageous position. He rained down laser after laser at the exposed front of the ship in an attempt to disable it. Although the other ship fired back, Lance had fired first which enabled him to follow the flow of the battle by moving his ship up and down using the capsule's thrusters to evade the opponent;s lasers.

Soon, a hole was punched into the front, making the Reptilians panic.

Seeing this, Lance became mindful of a possibility and hurried ordered both ships to move back as soon as possible. The other ship was going to self destruct!

Sure enough, the ship in front of them exploded with the power of a nuclear bomb.

Lance's ships were pushed back by the shock wave, losing all control and careening dangerously into a meteor cluster. Although the ship hadn't been damaged by the blast, their controls seemed to have lost all effect.

Lance could only see through the screen as a huge meteor double the size of the ships came near and near, ready to break them into pieces.