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The Bounty Hunter

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The quietness of space was interrupted by the loud booming sound of a ship exiting hyperspace. Everything grew quiet once more, until a loud boom announced a second ship's arrival. The two ships quickly entered into combat, firing various colors of projectiles at eachother. Some blue, green, red and even purple lasers being shot from both of the ships. The first one was a small, grey frigate, with twin engines that could outrun any commercial vessel it came across. The second one was a large, jet black battle cruiser, with heavy cannons on both ends and decorated with smaller turrets everywhere else. The battle intensified, with the cruiser clearly winning, first by destroying the frigate's shield generator, then by damaging their engines.

"Cease fire! Cease fire!" the voice crackled over the radio inside the battle cruiser. A tall, muscular man overlooked the bridge and watched his crew control the turrets, cannons, shields, engines and all of the other important ship functions from their terminals. He was a bounty hunter, a good one too. He took a few seconds to ponder the desperate request, "Hold your fire." he told his crew. The two ships slowly came to a halt and quit firing. The bounty hunter called out to a crew member sitting in his position below, "Connery! Keep an eye on their hyperdrive and let me know if they try to start it!" He then pressed a button on his terminal and began talking, "Are you ready to surrender yet? I have you out-manned and out-gunned, give it up, criminal!"

A minute or so passed, the crew on the other ship debating on what to do next. Then, finally, a response came, "Okay you bounty hunter, we'll surrender on one condition," a few seconds passed, "we want half of the reward money when we're released." The bounty hunter contemplated for a minute. He was going to be payed 100,000 credits for this job, he certainly didn't want to split that much money, especially when he could easily kill this pest instead. He was still pondering his decision, when he heard Connery yell out from the bridge, "Captain! They're powering up the hyperdrive!" The bounty hunter was caught off guard by this trap. "Open fire!" he yelled out to his crew. Red and green lasers filled the space between the ships, with the battle cruiser aiming for the frigate's engines. "Five seconds until they enter hyperspace!" The engines began to smoke, "Four," the frigate started to pull away, the cruiser started its engines to catch up, "Three," more shots were fired from the cruiser, the engines almost destroyed, "Two," with a loud bang, the hyperdrive was destroyed and the frigate came to a halt.

"We've lost reading on their hyperdrive, it's been destroyed!" yelled Connery from the bridge. The bounty hunter smiled and looked out towards the frigate as the shots continued to fire towards the frigate. "Cease fire! Please, cease fire!" the voice yelled out from the radio once more. The bounty hunter looked out on his crew and said with a hint of delight in his voice, "Continue firing. Do not stop until they're a smoking pile of rubble." More calls came over the radio, desperately trying to call for another cease fire, but they went unheard and ignored. They soon stopped when someone fired towards the frigate's bridge, destroying it completely along with its crew. The bounty hunter looked onto the rubble of the enemy ship, then called out to his crew, "Connery! Turn the ship around, we're heading back to Anaraxis." There was a loud boom as the cruiser entered hyperspace. Then, a quietness fell once more.
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Update #1 : by Jiloacom 06/17/2016 11:03:51 amJun 17th, 2016

Fixed some writing issues.

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