The black veritech (completed 17/17)

Wedding Bells

THE BLACK VERITECH

Capítulo 12: Wedding Bells

Knight and his men replenished themselves with ammunition and were sent to search the ship, especially the enemy pods that were abandoned.

"Damn it, they killed most of our mecha pilots," Knight cursed, "there would surely be a shortage of pilots now."

"How will Global solve this mess, we're out of men," he thought.

Knight reported to the bridge that the enemy pods were not abandoned with booby traps inside, which made the matter more mysterious.

"Where are the zentraedi pilots? Dozens of giants can't hide in the ship."

"Lisa, any news, where's Rick?"

"Rick is helping in the rescue and firefighting work, our men can't cope to clean up this mess."

Neither Lisa nor Knight could have imagined that at that very moment dozens and dozens of micronized zentraedis were headed for the main hangar of the ship to surrender.

The surprise was great, the mechanics gave the alarm and Knight and his men went to the hangar with their veritechs to destroy the zentraedis, but they were surprised to see several men (not giants) dressed in rustic unstitched fabrics to cover their nudity, and most shocking of all, they claimed to be zentraedis who had fled their ships in order not to fight anymore.

The Daedalus and Prometeus marines arrived at the site, but did not commit any massacres because Knight reported the situation to the bridge and Captain Global ordered that all marines not use lethal force.

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For the time being Global covered up the situation before the civilians but after they assured him that all the micronized zentraedis were confined, he decided to hold a press conference in which he informed the civilians of the deserting zentraedis.

The civilian population was very surprised and did so more by showing images of former enemy soldiers, that is, there were rumors about the appearance of the enemy, but only then could they see with their eyes how the enemy actually looked.

"Global was smart," Knight told Ricky, "it showed the civilians what the enemy was like before there were protests."

"In fact, there were already protests, and Kyle was the one leading them," Rick corrected.

"It was clever to show the zentraedi in those rags, the people felt sorry for them. Global humanized the enemy and thus ended the protests."

"What will happen to those guys?" Rick asked.

"I don't know, Rick, I heard they're asking for political asylum from Earth, you can believe it, political asylum!"

"Well, that's bad luck because we've been banished from Earth."

"That's right, Rick, I guess they'll have to stay with us."

"I don't think Global will let them out of town, they'll probably stay in the military area of the Knight ship."

Rick was right, the defecting Zentraedis were ordered to remain in the military area of the ship to protect their security, and were given military uniforms so that they would not be an easy target for radical elements of the ship such as Kyle and his "pacifists".

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Knight was upset to learn that the three leading zentredis of the desertion had been on the ship long before and, worst of all, that they had become close friends with Sammie, Kim and Vanessa.