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"No problem" Cal opens the wings and fires off after Fokkuso keeping his distance just in cause quick dodges are needed. "So if we are heading out that probally means a few more teams were hired, the way it works now the more teams the better chance the mission gets done. I just hope that the teams dont try to kill us if we beat them there."

After quite awhile of constantly searching through jobs, one was very promising. It was a relic gatherings mission, very high priced. The bad news was it had been posted for awhile and many other mercenaries would be aware of it. With that kind of pay, he had to at least attmept it. The best part was the team basis was optional, he could solo it if he wanted and he would get more pay then a team would since they would have to divide it up. Koudo dropped his data pad and started running out of his office to his ship, grabbing his Megapulse Hammer that was leaning against the office wall. Jumping from the stairs, he landed directly into his ship's cockpit. The weight would have been damaging to lighter class fighters. Both he and his hammer weighed quite alot, but heavier classes were made for bigger pilots. Koudo pressed a button on the left of his control wheel and the hatch slowly closed above him. Pressing several buttons on his far right, the engines started and the booster lifts started lifting him out of the hangar as the doors opened. His destination was the Meteo Field, rumor was in the job report that relics were floating around there and were worth a bit. First he would have to break the atmopshere or the warp would be off by quite significant amout, plating him on some other system by mistake. Hopfully he could avoid any trouble, he still needed to learn to fly properly let alone any battles.

"What do you mean spend on? Its a one-in-million chance that we find anything. Even if we do, we would be lucky if we actually got payed anything decent. I think- Hold on." The Shadow Striker started to experience mild turbulence as they broke through the atmosphere.

When the turbulence ended, Fokkusu continued on. "We need to save every single credit. Hangar rent, food, maintenance for the ship, and hell, the fuel cells that these ships run on. Thank god we live off the grid or else we would have to pay taxes" Fokkusu closed the wings, as they are not needed for space flight and zipped off towards Meteo.

Koudo's Fist finally broke the atmosphere, the booster lifts were immediatly and replaced with the engine turbines. After performing the standard space check on the controls, he set off. His systems were detecting other fighters nearby, probably other mercenaries looking to cash in on the job. Koudo didn't want to be the last to get there, he needed the money for food, he wasn't going hunting again for soem wild animal back planet side for food. Koudo pressed the red button directly left of his control wheel and a green button far to the right above his on the interface. He increased the speed of the Fist, not by much, but to slowly place himself in the lead without him looking desperate to the other mercenaries. Koudo didn't really pay attention to how many were really out there, jsut hopfully they weren't in teams. One disadvantage of working solo in search missions is that you had more eyes to help the search; One teammate finds something, technically they all find something.

"Lagging behind, man your ship sucks. Alright, cut down on the chatter. I want this channel clear in case of emergency."
Fokkusu was quite proud of his ship and he cut no costs when it came to it. The Shadow Striker had top of the line equipment and hardware. Fokkusu pressed a small button near the right joystick and a panel near the front flipped to expose a radar screen. The lights flickered on the screen contrasted by a green background. Oull's ship and Cal's ships where displayed as white dots while others where displayed as red.

Fokkusu examined the instrument. He saw a red dot slowly drifting past him. That dot was Koudo and his ship, the Fist. He was a bit worried but he suddenly saw something a bit more troubling than just that one ship. A larger dot then suddenly appeared behind them. Fokkusu picked his head up and looked back. In the corner of his eye he could see the Halberd trailing behind them. "s**t! Is that the Halberd? What is that egomaniac doing here?"

Fokkusu quickly contacted Oull and Cal. "Pick up the pace. Now!" He squeezed the throttle controls hard until the two halves came together making a clicking sound. The Shadow Striker darted ahead at at least three times faster than its previous speed.

"This just might go really bad."

Oull flipped off the speakers so he could still here but they couldn't here him. He did the same as fokkusu and noticed the two ships behind them. "Great, just what we needed. The halberd and some other big ship. Better hurry!" He flipped up a switch and his ship began to increase on speed, his wings spinning faster.

He was just as proud of his ship as fokkusu was of his. His ship was made for agility, not endurance. His systems were a bit outdated but it's what his father had used and he was fine with that. Oull flipped down a screen on the side of his controls and checked the status of his thrusters. "Hmm..The damages not as bad as I thought. Though those two will be able to keep pace with me." He just shrugged and pushed forward and his controls and sped up to hopefully catch up with fokkusu.

Oull looked out just as the man waved. Having know idea what to do, he just waved back. "well...that was pretty strange. Never thought another mercenary would wave at me." He just ahead and noticed the big ship was keeping pace with him easily. "Good thing that he's friendly though. He could swat me out of the space in the blink of an eye."

He did another check over his system and flipped a couple of switches and a digital screen popped up on the side opposite the other ship. "Let's see what's new." He used one hand to steer as he moved the screen where he could see it easier as he piloted. "Hmm... Weapon stocks are going down again...oh! It's something about the dissapearing ships." He flipped through it as he tried to keep his position behind kokkusu.