Star Age Online

Chapter 3: We The Thieves

We talked for hours.  We talked about what happened. I learned that the game pulls those who play it into it.

 "You'll need your own ship."  Saint said.

 "How do I do that?" I asked.

 "You can do one of three things, Build one, buy one, or steal one." She replied, "You don't have any cash, so the second one is ruled out."

 "So How do I build one?"

 "Its hard, but Ill teach you." She spent the next hour trying to teach me.

 "It's no use," She said, frustrated, "We'll just have to steal one"

 "Where can we find one?"

 "We're in one." She said, smiling.

 "Not this one." I replied. "Why?"

 "The people in here are good people, can't we steal something else?"  I said.

 "Fine, we'll steal a fighter, there's a couple in Hangar 3."

I handed her a spare crew uniform "Put this on," I said, "Less chance of us getting caught."

 We made our way to Hangar carefully, trying not to be seen.  As we neared the hangar, I noticed that the number of guards had increased.

 "Thats odd,"  I said, "There are more guards than usual."

 "They might know i'm here." She replied."I hope not." I replied.

 Suddenly, a guard jumped out in front of us with a gun in his hand."State your name and business here."  

 Before I could reply, Saint drew her gun and shot him in the leg.

 "Son of a-"

Before he could finish, Saint hit him with the butt of her gun, knocking him out.

 "Lets go." She said, running towards the nearest ship.

 "After them!" Shouted another guard.

 I ran towards the ship and jumped inside.

 "How do you fly this thing?!" I yelled to saint as gunshots pounded the ship.

 "I'll fly, you take the gun!" She yelled back.

I hopped on the gun and started shooting.  

 "Try not to kill anyone!"  Saint yelled at me, "Remember, if they die, they die in the real world as well."

 She started the engine and we started flying towards the exit.

 "The gates are closing, keep them open." She yelled. Sure enough, the gates were closing, fast.  I started shooting, hitting any vital points that I saw on the gate.  After a couple more shots the gate stopped closing and we shot into space.

 "Hold on, I'm engaging warp."  She told me.I grabbed onto one of the rails.  The ship picked up more and more speed as we flew away from the HALO.