Chapter two : The crown with the guns

"you know what to do," Oliver steered the ship away.

"ivy, weapons hot," he ordered the A.I and a targeting system displayed on the screen.

The system was so comprehensive, since it showed in realtime the distance of the target from the ship and which targets are logically supposed to hit first.

Three targets were marked red. These were smaller probes that were normally carried within the ships, probably the only reason they survived the boom. There was one problem however. The probes were not armed with any sort of ammo, not combustion or even kinetic.

Oliver had his plasma cannon barreled down on them.

"Ivy scan the probes,"

"I see a man and a woman holding hands in one pod, the other two are empty."

"Ooooo may be they are in love. ight, lets pick them up," Oliver swithed on the tractor beam.

He was excited. He always wished for more company other than Arielle. There was nothing wrong with ari, its just that she was antisocial and was never a person he could have a conversation about his life or what asteroid he wanted to invest in. She was silent. Lexa was almost never on the ship and they had been the two of them for long.

The beam was locked to the probe and was doing its work. Was Ari doing her work, he wondered.

"The top level of the ship is mostly abandoned, they must be trying to get to the probes and escape pods." she wondered before she got an idea.

"Galaxy 1 this is Ari, this is a ghost ship, i have been all over the top level and nothing. I need some over watch."

Ivy instantly had a scan ready. Oliver was still getting impressed despite the fact that ivy was always ahead of them in thought.

"Okay i see people on the bridge, guards with plasma guns, ooh get this and Lady cersie on the throne." Oliver joked to calm her.

"No we're not naming the princess after a fictional queen of a pre developed world." she retorted.

Ari took out a sword from the back of her X20 the burned so hot that is could slice through anything. She cut a circle on where she was standing and dropped to the floor below her. Three guards saw her drop and openned fire. Bursts of energy passing right beside her head.

She lit up her thrusters and flew at them dodging every chuck of plasma projected at her. She got to the first guard who she punched into the air, after which in a split second she sliced him from head to balls into two symmetrical pieces of the body. She did not stop but carried on with her momentum and turned her body with a swing of the sword and cut off heads of the other two guards.

Oliver was in disbelief watching that through a body Camera in the suit.

"you're enjoying this." He said after which she smilled.

Oliver thought she was a sociopath. She enjoyed the thrill of taking life a little too much. She almost expressed herself through the corpses left in her wake. The clean cut bodies were nothing personal a job, something that just had to be done. Before joining the galaxy one, a rumour went around that she one time killed a child trafficker by breaking all his limps and spine before dipping the body in a puddle of Acid.

"Cersie is at the end of this Floor, do your thing." Oliver said after which he went to the hull.

The tractor beam had loaded the probe into the ships hull. The probe had just opened up and the couple were holding hand plasma guns scanning the perimeter. They were scared, almost wetting their pants, they had just seen over a hundred ships destroyed in an instant. To shit their pants even more, they probably saw Ari fly into the princesses ship.

Oliver decided to milk it.

"Ivy shut down power to the hull," he said.

He went down from the bridge and across the entire ship to get to the hull. On the top of the ship was the bridge where everything to do with operation of the ship was with the beautiful glass display of the cosmos. Behind the bridge was the breakroom with the snacks and a kitchen. Oliver loved the kitchen, everyone did. At the breakroom was an elevator shaft that run down to the hull.

Oliver got in the elevator and went down to the hull. Lexa was petty enough to add elevator music and it was the tone in almost every elevator ever. The two strangers at the hull saw the elevator come down and readied their weapons. They began to fire as soon as it opened.

Locally Ari had insisted that a trap door in the elevator would be handy. It was time to get their money's worth. Oliver had used the trap door and used an ventilation duct and got out behind them while they were still panic trigger happy. Oliver was stealthy as he came close to them without either noticing anything.

They with held their fire and moved closer to the silver door of the elevator.

"Boom," Oliver said right behind them.

They turned shocked with their guns ready to shoot anything into oblivion. Oliver was quick. He punched the man literally knocking him out and disarmed the woman all in a matter of seconds. The pulled out his blaster and pointed it at the woman who held her hands up.

"Drag him into the elevator." he told her.

She was scared and took the body and pulled it in since it was relatively close to the elevator. Oliver followed in and stood facing the the doors with her in front of him. The music started playing and he could sense a degree of calmness come to her. Or my be it was despair realizing that the owners of this ship are mostly psychotic. They got to the break room and the man was laid somewhere Oliver could keep an eye on.

"Okay sit and tell me who you are." Oliver told her and she was keen to follow.

In the princesses ship Ari had made her way to the princesses room. All that stood between her and her was a troop of soldiers in the hallway ahead of her. At this point she was bored.

"I've killed all your friends and co-workers, resistance is futile." she said. The suit amplified her voice and intimidated the enemies.

They looked unphased and took out their shields and blasters. Ari was pissed. Ivy who was connected to the suits popped up. Those shields are made of a titanium alloy. Your blasters will be basically useless, i suggest a more melee approach. Use the sword, its powerful enough.

"you guys are gonna make me sweat for this. That will mess up my banks. Lexa will be disappointed, she rocks really nice banks. I didn't even get a chance to show her how good the look. For that i will have all your heads." Ari talked camly with her sword pionted at them.

Her suit had a deployable shield that she used to avoid blaster fire. The plasma from the guns couldn't penetrate the suit, the hit wasn't fun to have but she couldn't get anything more than a concussion.

She engaged the blasters and destroyed a defensive line they had formed. She sliced through three soldiers facing her after which she used her thrusters to crush two behind her. The other two panicked and ran. She cut the lock with her superhot sword and found the princesses.

"your highness, put your helmet on we are going for a pace walk." Ari told her with a smile on her face.

In the galaxy 1 Oliver had gotten aquinted to the woman. Her name was Jinie. She used to be part of her home worlds military, but was secretly drafted to the princesses and sold. In some way she felt liberated in the galaxy 1,it was a common feeling inside the ship.

"I'm on my way back," Ari radioed to the ship.

"that's my friend Arielle," Oliver told jinie. "so what about your boyfriend over there." he added.

"Thats Chad. He is an engineer and a mechanic. And no he is not my boyfriend." she replied.

He was awake and stood up furious and wanted to punch Oliver. Jinie was stonger than him and with held him. He stood down and was silent.

"How did you take out that many ships with a single ship? " chad asked.

Oliver did not reply but held his hands midair to show the magnificance of the galaxy 1. They all went silent.

"Arielle has deposited the princess in the containment module." Ivy broke the akward situation.