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“Human, where are you? Now’s our chance.”
“What chance?” she mumbled. She didn’t flinch a muscle.
“I’ve cleared your path.”
“How? I’m sorry, but how? What about the soldiers?”
Impatience bled into his words. “I’ve dealt with the soldiers.”
“How—”
“Don’t question me right now. Just go!”
Her heartbeat accelerated. He was serious. He meant rightnow.
She followed the pirate’s prompting. He tapped into the hallway sensors, warning her of danger spots, directing her to an adjacent suite. It was unoccupied, unwatched, and he had unlocked the computer for her use.
She crept up to the terminal.
“Now find out what you can, and get me out of here,” Astyanax ordered. A tall request. The moment he was free, all hell would break loose.
She searched through everything. Her first priority was finding Caligher, but she found nothing. No record of him. No mention of him in any of the classified logs. No picture of his face in the video footage.
He wasn’t in any of the cells. He was nowhere to be found. A hollow pit formed inside her, growing by the minute.
“What have you found?” the pirate urged impatiently.
“Nothing. He’s not here.”
“Stop looking for the bounty hunter and look for something useful,” he scoffed. She let all her frustration rip free via an angry groan. “Dammit, quiet! Your voice carries. Look for the guns. Can you find anything on the guns?”
“We have to get into the control room physically, remember?” she said.
“Shit.”
“Yeah.”
“Just…shit!”
“I’m afraid so.”
“Hold on,” he growled, and she could tell he never liked when things failed to go his way. “We have to think about this. What else can we do?”
She came across the camera feeds on the outside walls of the warship.
“Looks like our backup made it,” she said.
“What?”
“Bunch of Ternetzi fighter ships outside the walls.” Hundreds of them. A sense of hope leaped in her chest, but it didn’t give her Caligher. “They haven’t started firing. All our shields are up so they’re hovering out of range. The humans have a few satellite ships patrolling the area.”
“I imagine they’re looking for a way in,” the pirate said. “Can we let them in?”
“Um, yeah,” she answered.
If she was quick, she could create an opening. The under-hang of the warship had a weak spot where it had once been bombed open. She could let Ternetzis through there.
And she could scramble the cameras, which should slow the humans down. Make it next to impossible to track intruders through the featureless halls. The damage she caused would take days to repair.
