Gaunt Galaxy / Blue Angel: Book 1

The Ceremony

It seemed as if I had slept for two days but in reality it had only been about 10 hrs. I had been so tired when I had finally gotten to lie down that I felt I could sleep for days. It was daylight by station time and the ship was all quite. Too quite! I was getting up to go look for Lererial and suddenly remembered I just needed to ask. So I reached out with my mind and there was nothing, not good. I reached for Se & Ke and nothing!!!! What The Fuck!!!! As I sprang up my bare feet hit the bare floor and my mind was filled with... chaos!!! What the fuck is going on???

Se & Ke were then able to relay to me through the membrane of their hull what was happening.

"A strange ship had appeared and demanded that we (the ship) had been stolen from them by Shimmerion and they were demanding our return! We experienced this same blankness just before we and our friend were captured. It is some sort of psi dampening field and it is very powerful!"

"Is this the same ship as before?"

"No, this ship is much smaller than the one that captured us."

"Then this is some kind of capture ring. They may have the larger ship hidden some distance away, Where is Lererial?"

"She had just left to get you guys a special meal for the ceremony when the ship arrived. As soon as it docked the Psi dampening wave started."

"I know this seriously hinders you guys, but there has to be something you can do. Maybe there is some way I can help. Could I somehow be your eyes and ears."

"That might work if we can keep in direct contact with each other. Open the console link and use the cameras to look around outside"

As we looked outside we could see suited soldiers all over the dock. All of the station citizens that happened to be on the dock at the time of the ship docking were in electronic holding pens. I could see Lererial in one of those pens, but I could not touch her with my mind. No one else was allowed to move around the dock. It looked as though they were trying to attach some sort of cables the outside of the girls.

"What kind of a cables is that girls? It looks as though they are going to try to wench us to the bottom of their ship and drag us to space."

"Couldn't you move the ship or just fire a weapon and disable there ship?"

"Not without proper sensors, we see in all directions at once. We can fire both thrusters and weapons but it could be as bad as not firing them without the proper information."

"Se, you are good with codes, can you backwards program their damper?"

"If I could get a direct line to their ship..."

About that time there was a loud clunking noise on the outside of the ship as they used explosive bolts to make attachments to the girls hull.

"Ask and you shall receive" commented Se "Thanks, under this stress I might not have thought of this until it was too late."

Time seemed to come to a stop, minutes seemed like hours. I could tell the girls were struggling to keep going. The dampening field must really drain their systems. Then their was another clunk and another and another. I watched on the monitor as the lines began to tighten and the girls started being pulled toward the other ship. The docking controls had been released from inside the station so it seemed that the enemy had gained complete control of the station. Then a thought occurred to me. What if I could see through the eyes of the other ships crew!

I went to the main console and placed my bare feet over the nerve cluster there. As I made contact I could sense the beings in the other ship and began to reach for their minds. I focused and began to see through their eyes, one by one until I reached an individual that sat before a control panel that I could sense was controlling the psi generator. I took control of his mind and made him reach to turn off the machine. Someone behind him began telling him not to turn it off! As I could see through his eyes this individual was reaching to stop him from doing so. All I needed was another two seconds and I would have the control in my / his hands. About that time the ships lurched throwing the individual trying to stop me / him away from me! Ke & Se had been watching what I was doing and nudged the ship just enough to cause the motion. I / we reached the control and all telepathy came back up instantly. Lererial was OK and knew we were OK, the lines connecting us to the other ship were pushed out of their places and we were free.