Charm a Relic

Chapter Twenty Two: Vult Ravik's Merkabolisks

After escaping the Tigris attack at the theatre Andrew left to retrieve a ship from his old storage hangar. 

The ship was a dark triangular shaped craft that was designed to travel in the air and hover silently. 

It took an hour for the engineers to get it flight worthy so Andrew spent the time selecting a crew and making preparations to head north to the main stellar command operations base. 

Once airborne Andrew sat in the co pilots seat next to Sergeant Holland. It was already the early morning hours and it did not take long for them to reach their destination.

As the sun rose over the mountains Andrew gazed upon a tall pyramidal structure.

"What is this? This was not here before?" Andrew said as he looked at the tall black spire.

"It's one of Vult Ravik's big weapons projects," Holland explained. "He's built them all over the planet sir. Things really ramped up since you've been gone."

"Weapons project? The war is over I will have to order its demolition!" Andrew replied.

"Demolition sir?" Holland asked.

"I will have all evidence of criminal activities erased! Shred all of the documents and remove every trace of our people's collusion with the Virillians on this planet. You do not want to incur the wrath of the Galactic Council's Judges!" Andrew stated.

"Are you serious Admiral?" Holland asked. Andrew looked at Sergeant Holland and became angry. "Yes you idiot are you capable of this?" He shouted.

"We do have asset destruction protocols in place that we can initiate, But Vult Ravik would be most displeased!" Holland replied.

"You take your orders from from me now!"

"I want those asset destruction protocols started as soon as we land!" Andrew shouted as he walked out of his seat and headed to the back of the Airship.

"Dad! Check out these cool hover bikes I just found in the cargo hold, I gotta have them!" Kenneth screamed excitedly pointing at white coloured tear drop shaped personal scout craft lined up against the wall. There was also a suit of white armour for a scout uniform that nobody had worn.

"Those are highly advanced Stellar Overseer scout craft and armour. All prototypes and NO! I can't just give them to you!" Andrew scolded.

"But I want them and look I found these drones too Dad! I can program them to play Droneflag! They can record me when I beat Sam!" Kenneth replied.

"Where is your cousin Sam?" Andrew asked, he looked around the room at the soldiers who appeared defeated and frightened. These soldiers were not as young as they were when they saw active duty many years ago. Sam was not among them as Andrew thought.

"Freak boy? He wasn't up there with you? Hey it's still around his neck the Tal. . . " Kenneth said but Andrew yelled.

"Keep your mouth shut about that. Sam must have ran off looking for his friends!"

"You gotta go back and get him Dad! I'm supposed to beat him at Droneflag! It has to be him he's on the Sports Foundations roster!" Kenneth said.

"The Sports Foundation? On Earth? That is very far away from us now boy!" Andrew said and then laughed at him.

"Where exactly are we?" Kenneth asked.

"I will show you come with me!" Andrew commanded and they walked up some stairs toward an observation deck.