"We are almost there," Sam said. "Are you sure about this?"
"It is the only place where I can get answers. Daigon is hiding something and I need to know what." I continued.
"You do realize that Daigonian fleets don't even come here right?"
"I guess they do now, we are here. Besides, that only peaks my interest."
I looked out the window and saw the ghostly planet. If planets had souls, this one had its stolen. It was devoid of life. It's sight sent shivers down your spine. It was a rather small planet. it's atmosphere was a thin cloudy and sparse region. The planet reflected an eerie purple tint. Looking at seemed to steal the heat from your skin, drained the sound from your ears and filled your eyes with sadness.
Something glinted in my peripheral. I looked to see what seemed to be vacant ship slowly drifting. But then I saw glints of light appear and it started to move.
"This courier is armed right?"
"No, why?" Sam said concerned.
"I think we have a ghost ship coming our way."
Sam looked out the window, then strained his eyes. His face went white.
"Dear God, it's true"
"What is true? What is it?" I asked starting to panic at his reaction.
Sam slammed the ship into full speed. "Synthients," Sam said. "Living breathing guard dogs created by the rephaim to protect their technology"
I looked back out the window to see that it had got significantly closer. I took in its sight. He was right. It resembled something alive. It was covered in pale flesh and large armor plates. It had what looked like a mouth, a large glassy orb and large mechanical spikes that surrounded it. The synthient was closing in fast, we couldn't outrun it.
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"Sam! It's gaining" I looked at the planet which still looked so far away.
"I know! I am going as fast as I can, If I go much faster I won't be able to slow down before reaching the planets surface..." He thought for a moment.
"I'll head toward the planet's edge, that will get us into the atmosphere and we can orbit a few times to slow down."
He changed course and increased speed.
The synthient now nearly on top of us. It was significantly larger than us. I now saw that the skin simply morphed into the metal extensions. "What kind of monster is this?" I murmured.
I noticed a large caged orb at its rear was now lighting up. The synthient pulled its front end up exposing full view of the large sphere.
Suddenly everything turned a blinding white and a loud piercing sound struck my ears.
It took several seconds to recover. I could no longer see the synthient. Only the dark interior of the ship now lit by the planet light. The sound continued.
"Sam?" I stumbled to get up.
"The power is out!" He yelled over the sound. "I don't know what's happening"
I started getting static shock from the seats and ceiling. "Was that an EMP?"
"We have a faraday shield and the nothing seems burnt." He began pulling off panels and checking wires when a panel lit up and shocked Sam. he yelled out in pain.
I ran over to help when I too was struck from the ceiling. A blinding light and I fell.
I felt so weak.
Sam looked at his hands "No burn marks" he looked at me inquisitively.
Sam's eyes widened "we aren't being shocked, we are shocking it"
"Is that good?" I asked
"No, it must be draining power from our engine"
He jumped up and ran to the back and began ripping off panels.
I thought for a second "And us."
Sam looked at me. "Damn it."
He sat down.
We were quiet.
Sparks shot out as bolts of light ripped from the walls.
"This is it" I said.
Another bolt ripped from the hull, almost in slow motion, I watched the sparks gently fall.
