Taking Space 2

CARGO?

"Are you sure that's it?" Daniel asked yet again.

"Yes, for the third time I'm sure that's the ship," Steven said pointing at the view screen.

"But it's a piece of junk. I mean look at the thing it looks like someone haphazardly welded five ships together," Daniel complained. "I thought you said it was a destroyer."

"I meant it was the size of a destroyer at least I thought it was, now looking at it though it's a good bit too big to be one." Steven answered.

"I thought it would be a top-of-the-line warship or something," Daniel continued to complain.

The giant hunk of junk switched to the left and flew off into another starway and Michael very carefully guided the stealth fiber coated drone to follow it. "Stephanie would tell you something or another about the games you play are warping your perception of reality," Michael teased with a smile.

"You bet your boots I would," Stephanie said as she came back from the bathroom.

"Yeah yeah whatever," Daniel mumbled as he plopped back into his seat.

"So what do we have?" Stephanie asked.

"A junker from the looks of it," Catherine answered.

Stephanie looked up at the image being relayed from the drone for a few seconds then said, "All right then I guess we send in the Savage Razor and a few fighters and tell them to either surrender or be destroyed."

"Look who has played too many games now," Daniel muttered.

Stephanie glared at him curling her upper lip so her cheek shook.

"Actually Dan is right this time," Steven said. "The drone's passive sensor shows that thing has weapons some nasty ones at that though I'm not quite sure where they are in that mess. So threatening it will probably just get the Savage Razor destroyed. Not only that we don't really have any starfighters other than the lionhearted ones and we can't just go around using them."

Daniel frowned, "Wait what about the ones we designed?"

"Alf is still working on printing out the factory parts so we can set up own factory for them," Steven answered.

"Oh."

"By my calculations were about five months too early to be doing any of this type of stuff again," Catherine informed them.

"I know," Steven said. "But Daniel wanted to do bounties."

Daniel crossed his arms. "Well sue me, for not wanting Albert to be murdered."

"Hey guys what's it doing?" Stephanie asked as the giant hunk of junk with engines and thrusters welded onto it suddenly left the starway.

Michael hurriedly reached out and pulled the drone out of the starway as well and carefully turned around to continue following the ship. "It looks like it's flying out to deep space."

"Why would it do that?" Steven said with a frown.

"Maybe they detected the drone and realize they're being followed?" Daniel offered.

Steven shook his head. "Not a chance. With our technology and the stealth fibers, the drone gives off less signals then an inert asteroids."

"Well they must've detected something," Daniel said. "Because they're just flying off into random open space."

"Maybe not," Michael said bringing the drones passive sensors display up on the view screen. "Look they are meeting somebody."

"Get closer," Steven said as fourteen fighters and a cargo ship came into view.