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GAHG! FINE CHAPPIIE HERE NOW!



Chapter Twenty Four: Gold and Tears



Tymen stood aginst the massive mechanical monster. He knew he was going to end up dead from this endavour, there was no way out of it. Then, just as the smoke from the missile dissapated, a voice came over the mecha's loudspeaker.

"Come on, Tymen, we don't have all day!" This was, unmistakably, the voice of,

"Tyio!" Tymen shouted.

"No foolin', hop in." Tyio said, extending the mecha's hand. Tymen did so, loaded the unconcious others onto the mech aswell, hoping it wasn't too late. Just before he lept onto it himself, he spyed the shard Asari was holding, quickly grabbing it, he jumped into the hand. Tyio then drew the hand up, opening the cargo hatch and placing them in.

"Okay Tymen, I'm going to try and escape the planet's gravity." Tyio checked off to Tymen though a comm. unit, as he sat in the cargo hold.

"Erm, okay." With pure fury, the thrusters on the back of the mech kicked into action, and, slowly, the mech lifted off the ground.

"I only have ten thousand mega-liters of fuel, I don't know if that'll be enough, so hold onto you're shorts." Tyio noted. Tymen nodded in response, then asked,

"Isn't that a lot?"

"When you're talking about rocket propellant, it's like a sip of tea." The whine of the thrusters was insane, and Tymen barely heard it when the Knn began bombarding the mech. But he certaintly felt it. The unconcious at his feet began knocking around inside the broad cargo hold, and he himself fell over and was being knocked into them.

"We're three miles high, almost out of the atmosphere." Tyio checked off, a parting shot knocked off one of the mecha's legs, but at the last instant it escaped the atmosphere and into the void.

What they saw did not please them. A massive fleet of Knn warships surrounded them, and being brough into the docking bay of the Demon's personal ship was the Penultimate."

"Dang it, Tymen get into the cockpit." Tyio ordered, and Tymen passed effortlessly through the network of passages to reach the cockpit.

"Yea?" Tymen asked.

"I wan't you to take two of the healthiest members of the crew into the cockpit, then jettison the cargo hold. Use the subspace drive in the mech, and take it to the next planet."

"What? Why aren't you going? Why are we jettisoning the cargo hold?!"

"Those people up there are really hurt, medical attention from the enemy is better than dying cold and alone in space! I'll go along, since I'm the healthiest I'll be able to break us out."

"I can go, you should pilot the ship."

"No, no, I have to go with the cargo bay, it's to important, they could all die any minute now."

"You don't trust me? Do you think I'll defect to the Knn?! I've had plenty of chances!" Tymen shouted. Tyio grabbed Tymen's shoulders and shook him.

"Don't you under stand!? I have to go, I have to get there as soon as possible! I must save her!" Tymen understood perfectly Tyio's meaning, and the latter cursed himself for revealing his true reason for going with the cargo hold.

"I'll...bring Seraph and Juiso down...they seemed the least hurt."

"It'll take ten days to get to the next planet, since this mecha is only outfitted with a subspace drive, do you think it has enough subspace matrix and rations to make it?"

"Certainly matrix....I dunno about rations, but then again, you've been getting plump off of food from the Penultimate, you could use a little fast." Tymen plushed, and Tyio laughed a kind of half hearted laugh, as he went to fetch Seraph and Juiso. Tyio did so, and then Tymen quickly jettisoned the cargo hold and jumped into subspace, before the Knn could capture him. The ten days passed slowly, the ration supply was extremely precious and indeed, before the three of them arrived, they had become rather thin.

It was morning for them, and morning in the system, as the sun just peaked over the side of the planet.

"Finally, we've arrived, I don't think I could make it another day without food..." Tymen sighed, as he guided the mech into the gravitational pull of the planet. The mech barely made it through the atmosphere, and was clearly unable to be used again. As they stepped out onto the lush, green planet, they found something spectacular in the underbrush.

The planet was covered in gold! As they trudged through the underbrush, they found another amazing thing. A bunch of broken capsules, atleast as high as a rabbit. And a few feet away from one of them, was a felled, strange, insect like being.



There, that's not all of the chapter, but most of it.

Garghness, sorry bout the delay, but I've barely had any fre time this week...