The Boot Shiner (Destiny x Male Reader)

Chapter 42: Secluded Studying of Seclusion, Seclusively Seclusive...

*AERIAL WHOOOOOSH!!!*

Gaia has made the ship flying process fairly simple. I realize most ships that guardians fly do most of the work for them. Well, more than you might expect...

Gaia: And then all you do is activate that blue button, it activates surface targeting and will take care of landing for you. Ships don't often land as you'll find out the more we do this, they just get us to an easy transmat distance. Get ready!

I get up and out of my cockpit, looking around behind the cockpit area. This ship is more spacious than I thought. Behind the cockpit is a little living area up a few steps. Down a few steps takes you to a living area. The same floor as the cockpit area has a bathroom on one side. There's a working area that has quite a few storage lockers and a vault terminal on the other side.

All in all, it's a pretty nice ship and I'm grateful for Niik. I have yet to try out the sparrow, but the ship is fantastic and superbly fun to fly. Gaia transmats me to the open area of the Seclusion, right next to a freaky-looking cabin. There's a big open field before a huge body of rocks and caves, so I have enough room to try out my sparrow.

Y/N: Give me my sparrow.

Gaia: Wanna try it out? Okay!

Y/N: Any tips?

The sparrow transmats down right in front of me, on the ground and currently off. I walk up to it and follow the ignition sequence that Niik showed me. I flip a lever, then press a button, followed by jiggling one of the joysticks as it warms up. It starts to hum and whirr as it wakes up.

Gaia: Mount it!

Y/N: Okay...

I swing my leg over the sparrow, putting one foot back in one of the stabilizers, locking it in place. Once I lock it in place, I realize I can bring my foot forward for comfort, that way I don't have to break my back to sit up on it. I do the same with my other foot, the stabilizer latching onto my foot.

Gaia: Perfect... Now, lean forward, grip the joysticks. Just like the ship, you want to move both sticks at the same time. Both left to strafe left, and so on. To bank, you lean right. To turn even sharper, you combine both of those things and drop the foot of said direction.

Y/N: So... sharp left turn is... both joysticks left, lean left, and lower my left foot down.

Gaia: Yes, and that turn is REALLY SHARP! Like... 180 degrees before you even know it, so don't have the booster going for that one unless you know what you're doing... which...

Y/N: Which I don't...

Gaia: So take it slow at first, okay?

She nods at me, then transmats into me. I push both of the levers forward, moving at a rather fast pace already without the extra boost. I can feel no pressure, no resistance at all as it hovers across the ground, like I'm going over water. In fact, on accident, I do go over water but I manage to recover. It floats over water too with no issues.

*SOFT WHIRR...*

I was cursed with beginner's luck, because I couldn't get the brakes to work properly. Slowly but surely, as my feet were locked to the back stabilizers and Gaia was screaming at me, I sent it into a ravine when I flew it into a cave. This thing... was "wonky as shit", a term I learned much later.

Gaia: GUARDIAN-

I heard no explosion when I flew off, I just died. I wake back up on the ground next to the glowing ravine, Gaia about to explode in my face out of sheer frustration.