《Spacer's Dream》 Chapter-0:Prologue At, the year 2105, humanity still hadn''t conquered the space, like many brilliant scientists predicted. And unfortunately, our mother earth was exhausted - from us, humans. Earth, had only enough resources to last us humans for the next century at most. A new government was formed, the united world federation, or UWF for short. UWF did a good job, they managed, to make every lazy ass human go to work, a new rule became the foundation, of this new society ¨C ''You dont work, You dont eat''. Many were unhappy about this, because money now meant nothing, for your work you got work points, and for them you bought anything you needed, and to get WP you needed to do everything, with your own hands, so the rich began to riot... Like that, the first UWF war began, but it didnt last long - the previously poor quickly forced the old rich bastards to their knees, this new system, was the best system the humanity has ever used. The results could be seen clearly, fat people became a rarity ¨C only those with genetic diseases that made them fat were fat, and even these individuals had enough muscle, to not be bothered by their weight. Statistics of people sick with mental diseases such as depression, anxiety disorders, anger management problems and many more were forgotten. The length of a persons life increased, as our scientists finally have proved, that the more you exercise the longer you live is true. And as every single person was working, all having a common goal - to survive, to stay alive all the differences disappeared, they were remembered more like jokes. There no longer were black or white, there only were the people. Almost an utopic society. Unfortunately, even this was not enough, to make mother earth recover. Not, with this amount of people living on it, the efforts still helped, more than doubling the time remaining, for humanity. And drastic measures, had to be taken. But there was no one willing to do it. It was then, that they came, and they came, with a solution. It was cruel, it was inhuman, but it was effective. Boiders, a humanoid race of aliens, came to earth, after witnessing our efforts to fix our planet, to improve ourselves, to conquer our differences. They came without any warning, their spaceships dropped gas bombs on earth. There were no explosions, those gas bombs looked like they were harmless. Our people laughed at these silly aliens, though some were a little concerned by this act of war, yet in the end they never attacked us again, just left a station in our orbit, that was watching earth. At first, we didnt really understand, only after some time did we began to see, the consequences of those gas bombs. And it was hearth breaking, it was beyond cruel. The humans, that were weak, had some genetic diseases or were stupid, became sterilized. This forced sterilization, happened to 70% of, the earths population. Women who were affected couldn''t have kids, men''s seed became too became unable to impregnate women. It was a silent death to many people. Boiders, didn''t make any contact with us after then, until ~ 80 years later, when almost all of the sterilized, were dead. Now, when only those unaffected by the gas and their descendants were left, they decided to contact us. This first true contact as we now call it was a really awkward one. Or so they say. They came, to us bearing gifts now, not weapons of mass annihilation. Boiders newer apologized for what they did, now was there any need for an apology, we all understood that they did what was needed to be done. As they explained to us, the planet was more important than any other single species. The gift, that they brought us was technology. Maybe basic to them, but to us it advanced almost all of our science fields hundreds of years forward. This gift allowed us to advance out of nuclear power onto the more efficient power sources, like energy crystals and many more. In time we got to know a few more races, we were still unprepared to go to space ourselves, yet we were already making alliances, and trading agreements ¨C our earth had quite a bit to offer to these other races ¨C from our fertile lands, where we could grow the delicacies they loved, to renting land for their training, experiments or whatever else they wanted to do. Usually we rented islands, that were artificially made, that we later destroyed, once the contracts were up. A few hundred years later, humanity was out in space, not far, but in space nonetheless. Humanity was mining asteroids in our own solar system, the rule ¡°you dont work, you dont eat¡± was still present, but capitalism has returned together with the space age. This is how, the space age of humanity began. ||| === Somewhere on earth. === Doors to my room slowly opened, with a silent creak, as if protesting a little, a small layer of dust got raised up a few centimeters above the ground. Trough, that small gap, a small golden ray of light fell on the floor. From the light, the room was now seen a little more clearly. An old wooden desk was near the left wall of the room, with a few antique paper books on it, there was an even older ink pen close to it. Besides the desk, there was just as old book shelf standing, filled with books and some new data crystals. On the other side of the room, there was a mirror hanging on the wall with a gray colored metal wardrobe standing close to it. A few small dumbbells could be seen close to it, they too were covered with a small layer of dust. At the end of the room, on the wall there were many posters of big, muscular men, a few posters of old sports cars, a few posters of girls, and one big picture of my family. Below the posters was my bed, with me, currently in it. I was sleeping peacefully while the doors were slowly opening. My mother slowly entered my room, and sat down on the side of my bed. ¡°Baby, it''s time to wake up¡± - she slowly woke me up. ¡°Just five more minutes mom... please...¡± - a murmur could be heard from me. ¡°Alright, alright but isn''t this, your big day? - She asks me in a gentle tone. ¡°It is...¡± I sigh, and start to get up slowly. Five minutes later, in the kitchen, my father looks at me and smiles, while putting his morning holo news away. ¡°Ha! Just look at our boy Naria! Already twenty one.- my father sighs for a moment.- how fast you grew up, it is as if yesterday you were just a small boy... ¡° I smile to my father. Yeah, I have just turned twenty one, with dark hair, gray-blue eyes, a little wide and long nose, rather full cheeks, and a gentle smile on my face, at the height of 176cm with a little excess weight, I am one of those guys, that you would call just above average. ¡°Time, really does fly by honey...¡± My loving mother agrees, to my father. ¡°Oh, come on you two, lets just enjoy this day!¡± I say, to my parents. A small sign, of sadness almost instantly appears on my parents faces, but just as fast it disappears. ¡°Right, right so, come on eat some breakfast with your old man.¡± father says. Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. ||| === Somewhere on earth, almost at the same time. === ¡°How is it developing?¡± a powerful voice asked another man. ¡°Just as you planned elder, there are no disturbances so far.¡± was the reply. ¡°Good, better keep it that way, or you wont be leaving here alive.¡± the elder threatened. ¡°Yes elder.¡± ¡°Very well, then I shall be going, I have an important role to play.. Hahahaha...¡± ||| === Back at Spikes home. === The breakfast were good, Spike was back in the garage, checking his ride, a nice new bike, powered by the Boider technology crystal this thing was a marvel of engineering- an electrical motor for each wheel, magnetic wheel locking blocks, advanced glide systems, micro-magnetic jump control and integrated shielding system from bad weather, that also could protect the user from a few shots if they ever came. It truly was a beauty ¨C Spike called her ¡°Lady Blue¡±, because of the color. He issued the start program, in a second a system check ran ¨C all green. Shielding system deployed, a small humming sound could be heard now coming out of the bike, a smile ran across the face of Spike... ''Oh, this is going to be such a good day he thought...'' Slowly, enjoying every second he left the garage and went for a ride at the maximum speed allowed. Yet, as soon as he left the law zone, and entered the so called ¡°Wastelands¡± he initiated free mode. It was illegal, it allowed him full access to the bikes power, and if he was caught he would be in big trouble... but he didnt care, the feeling when you are going at a speed when the world seems to shrink into a single point, was all that mattered, the knowing, that if anything went wrong you would die was thrilling, and Spike was living for such moments. ||| === A few hours later. === Spike was slowly returning to the city, now enjoying the wind passing around him. His next destination a was to go to his beloved, his fiancee Mersedessa. As he arrived at her home, we saw an unusual sight, there was his grandfathers car and guards, standing near the entrance to Mersedessas house. Spike simply greeted the guards and entered, they just nodded at him. Inside he found more of his grandfathers guards, a bad feeling entered his heart, what could have happened he thought, but calming himself he continued to the sitting-room. As he neared the doors, he heard sounds as if someone was struggling, yet the guards seemed not to notice anything and just as usual just nodded at him. When he opened the doors... his world stopped... There he was his most beloved grandfather, fucking his fiancee, and she was moaning in pleasure. Spike stood there shocked at the sight, and they continued, not noticing him. His mind blanked out, tears started to flow from his eyes, he was betrayed... ¡°How, why... ¡° were the words, that left his mouth. His grandfather turned to look at who was speaking, seeing him there he had a surprised expression on his face but only for a fraction of a second, before he took Mersedessa into his arms and sad down, while still in her. ¡°keep mowing you slut.¡± he said into her ear and then looked at Spike.¡±Sorry, that you had to see this my dear boy... ahhh good girl... ¡° ¡°Why grandfather... WHY?! SHE IS MY FIANCEE!!!¡± Spike finally came back to his senses, still shocked he yelled at his grandfather, but as he started to shout two guards entered and without words restrained him. ¡°ah, boy dont shout... you see I just couldn''t resist this pretty girls voluptuous body... but you know me, a head of the King clan now leaving his wife and remarrying a young girl like Mersedessa would be a scandal... do you get it?¡± Spike was still looking at him shocked and dumbfounded at his words. ¡°Oh, my boy you are so dense... You see I have nothing to hide ¨C Mersedessa was my plaything all along, you could say she was sold to me by her own father, for money and power... But you know I just cant have a mistress because of my status.. So she will marry you, and so she will stay close to me! Now isnt this wonderful?... oh, dont look at me like that... you dont really love her, no do you? Hahaha it cant be! Hahaha you really do love her! Ahahaha... such a silly boy.. okay, boys take him out, I have some stuff to finish here. ¡° And he was dragged out... midway out of the house his senses began to come back... he was just a toy, a simple pawn... his grandfather wasnt the man he thought he was. His thought and feelings were swirling inside of him, boiling and slowly molding into something else.. he didnt know what yet, but he had to leave, leave this place, this house this city, this country.... this planet... and his mind, that was desperately looking for a way out of this mess of a feelings and thoughts that he was right now, found it... the answer was Space... Spike freeed himself from the hands of the guards and rushed to his bike, jumping on it he powered it quickly. Before the guards could stop him... he had already activated free mode, still inside the city, but he didnt care Boiders, police wahtever... Fuck them all, now all he wanted was just to be gone. And he had a destination right now. Going at a speed that everything around seemed like a blur his steel lady roaring like an enraged beast he was driving towards the spaceport.. the Boiders spaceport. There was one ship, that could take him out of this fucking planet ¨C ¡°the King¡± his grandfathers frigate. And he was going to use it to run away from here. But he wasnt so lucky.. the security system of the spaceport picked him up, and activated defense systems to counted illegal trespassers, he was already inside the ship, booting it up, he knew every part of the ship, after all he always traveled with his grandfather and learned to pilot from him, whenever he could. Spike ignored the warnings, he received from the Boiders system and left the spaceport. As son as he was away a little and was going to relax... it all went to hell. The defense system finally started to attack the ship, it didnt take long before he was shot down... Chapter-1:Goodbye Note: For now, i will be making small chapters, because, im learning, to write with both of my hands, not just index fingers, and it is hard... But you can expect fast releases. Doors, to my room slowly opened, with a silent creak, as if protesting a little, a small layer of dust, got raised up, a few centimeters, above the ground. Trough, that small gap, a small,golden ray of light fell on the floor. From, the light the room, was now seen a little more clearly. An old wooden desk, was near the left wall of the room, with a few antique paper books on it, there was an even older ink pen close, to it. Besides, the desk, there was just as old book shelf standing, filled, with books, and some new data crystals. On the other side of the room, there was a mirror hanging,on the wall, with a gray colored metal wardrobe, standing close to it. A few small dumbells could be seen close, to it, they too were covered with a small layer of dust. At the end of the room, on the wall, there were many posters, of big, muscular men, a few posters, of old, sports cars, a few posters, of girls, and one, big picture, of my family. Below, the posters, was my bed, with me, currently in it. I was sleeping peacefully, while, the doors, were slowly opening. My mother slowly entered my room, and sat down, on, the side, of my bed. ¡°baby, it''s time, to wake up¡± - she slowly woke me up. ¡°just five more minutes mom... please...¡± - a murmur, could, be heard, from me. ¡°alright, alright, but isnt, this, your, big, day? - She asks me in a gentle tone. ¡°it is...¡± I sigh, and start, to get up slowly. Five minutes later, in the kitchen, my father, looks, at me, and smiles, while putting, his morning holo news away. ¡°Ha! Just look at our boy Naria! Already twenty one.- my father sighs, for a moment.- how fast you grew up, it is as if yesterday you were just a small boy... ¡° I smile, to, my father. Yeah, I have just turned, twenty one, with dark hair, gray-blue eyes, a little wide, and long nose, rather full cheeks, and a gentle smile, on, my face, at the height, of 176cm, with, a little, excess weight, I am, one, of those, guys, that you, would, call, just, above average. ¡°Time, really, does fly by honey...¡± My loving mother agrees, to, my father. ¡°Oh, come one, you two, lets, just, enjoy this day!¡± I say, to my parents. A small sign, of sadness, almost instantly appears, on my parents faces, but, just, as fast, disappears. ¡°right, right, so, come on, eat, some breakfast, with, your, old man.¡± I take a seat, behind, our round, family table. This table is, just, as old, as my father, and all, the other furniture in our kitchen. My grandfather made, all, of them, and, gave, them, as a present, to my grandmother, when, she returned, with, my father, from, the, hospital. You could, say, this, was, a heritage, of our family. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. It, didnt, take long, to, finish, the breakfast. After, the breakfast, I went outside, and began, to cut the grass, with a new generation, laser based grass cutting machine. After that, I had, some time still, so, I took, some of my old toys, and took them, to our neighbors, they, just, had, they first child. While whistling, I went home, only, to find, a few, of my old friends, to have, came over. ¡°So Spike, how, much, longer, are you going, to make us wait?¡± Asks, one of my friends, Fim. ¡°Yep, I told, ¡°Spike, the slow¡± really, fits him.¡± while laughing, another friend of mine ¨C Ulrick, says. ¡°hmm, Spike, the slow, sounds good, so, where are we going m?¡± Asks the only female ¨C Cecilia. ¡°Right, so mister, slow, care, to answer?¡± asks my muscle head cousin, while smiling ¨C Kelp. ¡°kids, shouldnt talk like that!- I laugh, at them.- So, the whole gang is here?¡± we spent, quite, some, time together, it soon, will, be, the time, for me to go. We talk about, these past years, about, our families, they also make jokes, about, me being, the oldest, and the smallest, just as always. Time, sure flies, when, you are in a good company, of your friends. Just, a minute ago, I let the gang out, probably seeingm them, for, the last time. Cecilia, began, to cry on her way out, but didnt turn back. My heart was heavy, soon, I will, have, to leave everyone, leave behind, forever. I was deep in my thoughts, when, my father came, he put his hand, on my shoulder, bringing me back, from my thoughts. I turned back, at him, he had, something, in his hands. ¡°take this son, this here, was passed, down in our family, for generations, from father, to his son. So, I want you, to have this.¡± he extends me a small ring. For a moment I look at the ring, with curiosity, there are strange words written, on it. ¡°Life isn''t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.- I read it out loud.- Thank you father.¡± my father gives me a big hug, and I return it. Seconds later, a cars signal, can be heard. The time, has come. For a moment, my father, hugs me even more tightly, and then releases. ¡°good bye son.¡± ¡°Goodbye dad.¡± and I exit, the house, in witch, I have spent, my whole childhood. Outside, there is a military bus already waiting. A few people look at it trough, their, windows. ¡°Move kid, we have, many more stops, to make! And there is little time! Move I said!¡± An angry marine shouts, at me. A few minutes later, i am already in the bus, getting further away, from, my house. ¡°Goodbye...¡± Are, the last words, of mine, while leaving. Chapter-2:Designation A few hours later, the bus stopped, once again, a few people entered, of course, only after, getting shouted at by the major, for being slow, just like every one else. Slowly, the bus, was filling up, now, almost eight hours later, it was two thirds full. I was sitting, near the middle, of the bus. We had just made one more stop, finally, the last group of people entered, the bus. A young, black guy sat near me. ¡°Hey there, im Jim, nice, to meet you man.¡± He politely greets me. ¡°Nice, to meet you too, im Spike.¡± ¡°So, my friend, got any information, on where we are going?¡± Jim asks me. ¡°Unfortunately, no... The major, hasnt told us anything yet, what about you? Know anything?¡± ¡°haha, too bad, I dont know anything either. Still, a pleasure, to meet you Spike.¡± Jim, really is a warm guy. Jim, unlike me is tall, I would roughly say around 195~ maybe? His body, is a mountain, of muscles, he has a big, flat nose, his eyes, are black, and he has no hair, a baldie, but, the most funny thing, about him is, his his mouth. You see, when he sits still, he really looks, like a big, black, chocolate sculpture, because, of his almost black as night skin, so, when he smiles... You might go blind, or think. That this is the end, because, when his teeth, begin, to show, it is as if a small sun, had just began, to shine. Really, this guy, his funny smile and a friendly attitude, soon, made, everyone in the bus feel beter. A few minutes later, me and Jim, were already talking, like, good old pals, we, had this usual talk, about girls, about cars, even about RUGBY!!! Do you know, how rare it is, to find, somebody, who likes old sports nowadays? ¡°Listen up kiddos, in ten minutes, we will be at the launching site.- The major, began to speak, and everyone went silent, while, listening, to him.- Now, every one of you will find, a small metal ball, in, the boxes, I am about, to give you. Once you get your box, you will swallow, that ball understood?¡± we answered in unison - ¡°Yes Sir!¡± ¡°good, now, after swallowing it, you will go, to sleep. That happens, to every one, so dont be scared. That is all.¡± each, of us, received, a small box, like major said, inside it, there was a small metal ball. I took it, and looked at it, but it just looked, nothing more, than a ball. Still, I was thinking, what it could be, as I swallowed it. Moments later I and the rest of the bus were sleeping soundly. Major then contacted his superior. ¡°We are at the launching site, all kids are sleeping sir.¡± He said, into, his communicator. ¡°Good, transport them, into, the shuttle and return, to the carrier.¡± He got a reply. ¡°Understood sir, we will be there in a few hours.¡± the bus drived, into a small shuttles inside, where a few more, uniformed people entered, the bus. They walked, from one man, to another, slowly putting, some, kind, of helmets, on them. Once, every person, had a helmet on, they gave a signal, trough, theyre comm, and the shuttles engines, came back to life, slowly, generating power, needed, to lift off. When, I came back, to my senses, I had a strange helmet on my head, whatever I tried, I couldnt take it off. After a few tries, I looked around, and found, that everyone, had, a helmet, like mine, on theyre heads. Only then, did I felt, that headache... It was like a rock concert, was going, inside of my head, but it was slowly fading away. ---hello, boys, and girls, this is your captain writing. --- A sentence, appeared, in front, of my eyes, on the helmets glass. ---In a moment, your HUD will be activated, and directions, to your pods will be showed. Each pod is made, from two sepparate pods, so, find a friend, to go into one, of those together, you and your partner, will be working together, in the future, so choose wisely.--- Some more information appeared. If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. I looked at Jim, and we nodded, to each other with a smile, like the captain wrote, in a moment a line appeared, on the ground, and we all began, to follow it. It took, us, no more, than five minutes, to reach, the pods. Just, like the captain said, they were double pods. I and Jim, took, one, of, the pods, near the end, of the line, and slowly entered it. It slowly closed, filled itself, with some kind of a jelly substance, that slowly cowered us, being, with those strange helmets, we were able to breathe, but it still was an unusual experience. //Initializing... //Initialization complete. //Program start. Again, I slowly drifted into sleep, only to wake up, moments later, I found myself in an old school, class room. Many people, were sitting, behind, the desks, like I was. Soon, we all were given tests, after them, we went, to a gym, to exercise, then, some more tests, and finally, we were led, to our own, separate rooms, where we could get, some rest. After, a week, of repetitive tasks, learning, about, many new things, to us, for example, about, gravitational fields, of asteroids, minerals, and materials, that, humans on earth, will take hundreds, of years, to discover, theyre natural appearing places, and so on, we spent our time. Then, came the simulators, space flight simulators. They probably were, the best thing so far. We roughly spent a month, inside, the pods. And when we finally got out, we no longer were total greenhorns, now hawing some experience, and understanding, of space, we were ready, or so we thought. ---Greenhorns, each team, report, to information officers. There you will receive, your directions and designation.--- We once, again read, words, on our HUD''s. Information officers, were located, on the lower decks of the carrier, our group of newbies were going there all together. All thanking god, for this HUD thing, for, we would be lost without it, in this maze of a ship. Some time later, we finally reached, the IO''s. We all entered there, with our partners. When it was mine and Jim''s turn, we both were a little sweating, because, of our future, being, decided there. A young woman, was there, behind a desk, there were two simple chairs in front of her. She showed us, to take a seat, with her small, blue hand. We quickly sat down, and began, to wait. ¡°So boys, welcome, to IO, lets do this quick, as there are a lot of your friends waiting outside. So, Jim, and Spike correct?¡± She asks of us. ¡°Yes.¡± We both answer in unison. ¡°So boys, I got you two offers, one is a job, for mechanic, and a programmer, other is a job, for, a pilot, and a miner, so witch one would you like, to get?¡± She smiles at us, and many, small teeth, can be seen in her mouth. For a moment, we look at each other, understanding each others thoughts, without words, we want to go to space, so yeah, obviously pilot and a miner. ¡°Pilot, and miner designation please.¡± Again, we speak in unison, making this woman smile. ¡°mining it is then! Take, these keys, and go, to the medbay, there you will find all of your equipment and your superior, just ask around, for ¡°Oneye Joseph¡±.¡± we leave, her office, and go off, to medbay, its on the other side, of the ship, so it''s going, to take us a few hours, to walk there, walking, while, talking, about, some small things, we go to find our new supperior. Chapter-3:The "Mole" Finally, after that long walk, we have finally reached, the med-bay. This med-bay, is nothing, like its counterparts on earth. There are many tanks around, near the walls, all of them full, with humanoids and not, the green color dominates all around me and Jim. Once we enter, a doctor all dressed in green approaches us. ¡°Hello there boys, how can I help you?¡± Asks, this humanoid creature, he is almost human, if not for three sets of eyes. ¡°Ah, hello? We are looking, for our superior ¨C Oneye Joseph?¡± I reply, to this doctor. He smiles at us, takes out something, like a tablet and starts browsing it. It took some time, but, he finally finds, what he was looking for. The with a hand gesture he shows us, to follow him. We walk just behind him, to one of the side rooms. There, near the corner, of the room a big tank is standing, inside of it we see a man, as tall as Jim, and much, much more muscular. The doctor does something, with his tablet, and the liquid inside of the tank slowly is drained. Several minutes later, the tank is open, and from inside this giant of a man steps out. He looks at both of us, and grins, with such a sadistic and at the same time warm smile, that I feel, like fainting. But I dot. ¡°So you two greenhorns decided to be miners? Don''t worry I will make you two into the best miners, my power allows me to. They call me Oneye Joseph, to you I am just Joseph, no more, no less understood?¡± He speaks to us in a low voice. We can just nod. He grins again, with that disturbing grin, and walks past us, stopping, only near the exit. ¡°Hey doc, give them ¡°C1¡± pilot and soldier shots, okay?¡± Joseph says, to the dock, who brought us here. ¡°Witch one, do you want as a pilot?¡± The doc asks understanding. ¡°I''ll let them decide between themselves. Listen up boys, one you are done here, you report to me immediately, at the docking-bay D-11. Got it?¡± ¡°Yes sir!¡± We both answer. And Joseph leaves. Once, he is gone, we both sigh in relief. Damn, that man sure has a commanding presence. Our doc clears his throat, reminding us, that he is still here and so we turn to him, one again in attention. ¡°So who wants to be a gunner?¡± He asks us while smiling, a really warm smile, nothing, that can be compared, to Josephs. Jim turns at me and makes a pleading face, how can I say no, to a big baby? So, with a few quick nods we agree on our positions. ¡°I''ll, be the gunner doc. If thats okay.¡± Jim says. The doctor, just nods and takes a small jet-injector. He walks up, to Jim and gives him a shot, then leads him, to a nearby chair. Jim sits there for a moment, looking a little disoriented. Then it is my turn, if Jim''s shot was silver, then mine can only be compared, to a mad scientists newly invented crazy candy. But I take the shot, and just as Jim have, to sit down for quite, some time. These shots kick like a bull. The effect wears off in ten minutes, and we are good to go, the doctor gives us some directions, on where to go, since we have no idea, where this bay D-11 is. And we take our leave. On the way we get to talk a little. ¡°Spike, do you fell a little strange, after these shots? I feel, like I have some knowledge, about things, that I previously didn''t know about... like this laser turret, and so on, what about you?¡± Jim asks me quite stunned. ¡°I know, what you are talking about, I think I know how to fly small mining ships, and even what drill crystals to use, for what ore. Damn man, this is strange, I wounder, if we can get any more knowledge like this?¡± I reply. Stolen novel; please report. ¡°Yeah, I am thinking about that too, would be nice, to learn more like this, not having, to spend time at some boring lectures.¡± ¡°Yeah, that really would be nice. Hey look, there''s D-11.¡± I point my finger, at some big hangar doors, with a big white D-11 sign on it. We enter, the hangar. It is big, really big, but that is not the thing, that catches both of our eyes, it is the back wall of the hangar, I mean, there seems, to be no wall at all, only a yellow force or laser, or hell knows what shield there. We stand there, near the entrance, with our mouths wide open, captivated, by the view. But soon we are brought back to reality, as a heavy hand lands on each of our shoulders, we slowly turn around and see Joseph standing there, grinning, with his signature grin. ¡°So, how do you boys like your new home? The view is nice isn''t it hmm? Hehe, speechless are we? Okay, so our mole is the last one, on the left, closest, to the field, our barracks are right behind, the landing pad for the mole.¡± Joseph begins, to walk towards, the mining frigate, the so called ¡°Mole¡± ship, and stops near it, we stop too. Its not something, I have ever imagined, it looks like made out of a huge ball of metal, with a few smaller ones attached, to it from the side, one clear at the front and one just as big, like the clear one on the top. And this thing is hovering over, the landing pad... I shit you not, it really is hovering. ¡°Well boys, this will be your mole, for the next two months, until we will reach your final designation station. So, see the two clear half spheres attached at the front and at the top? The front one is, where, the pilot will sit, the upper one is for the gunner. Those two spheres at the sides, can e retracted, when your cargo is empty, to get a little more maneuverability, but we rarely do that. So boys, witch one of you is the pilot?¡± ¡°Iam sir.¡± I take a step forward. ¡°Hmm, good, good, so the other one is the gunner then? Very well, go, familiarize yourselves with the mole, ill come back in a few hours, no flying by the way.¡± Joseph says to us, and we just nod. Joseph left us there, to get to know the ¡°mole¡±, and so we did. You can enter it, trough, the doors, that open just below the pilots cockpit. Once you enter, there is a ladder that you use, to get to the pilots or gunner cockpit. The pilots is double the size, of the gunner, with an extra seat there, for a miner, but the pilot could also operate, the mining dill if there were only a crew of two. The third seat for now, was probably for Joseph, to observe them. They both got into theyre seats, examining the controls, every button, and every screen, neither of them felt, how Joseph came back after a few hours, and silently entered the ship. Joseph silently approached Spike, thinking of giving the small youngster a little scare, but when he looked over his shoulder, he was surprised, the boy was looking at the moles operating system code, and optimizing it, slowly, but surely doing it, and doing it well. Joseph grinned to himself, and left the young man, to continue. Next he went to check on the big guy, he once again was surprised, but not so much this time, Jim, was reading the holo manual on the guns calibration, and slowly calibrating it, this made Joseph smile even more. He got back out of the ship, and then called the boys over, leading way into theyre rooms. Chapter-4:Goodbye Joseph, hello Berugia station Note: trying to fix my mistakes, of using too much ,,,, ¡­ thanks, for noticing it. Anyway, I''m looking for a proofreader, if anyone wants to help, pm me. Oh, and any ideas on, how to name a bar? ---*--- I don''t even know, how I went to sleep. You see, after Joseph came back, he brought back a nice, big bottle of some strange liquor, that aliens on this ship drink. And so we had a small welcoming party, between the three of us. Other than that I really don''t remember shit. =Note to self: don''t drink alien booze.= I made myself a mental note. When I got up, Joseph and Jim were already practicing something, with small arms weapons, I quickly joined them, not wanting, to miss anything. As Joseph said, you have, to know, how to defend yourself, since, no one is going to save your sorry ass, once, the things get messy. I and Jim, both took this to heart. And as the future will show us, this will save our asses many times. After the small weapons, we were introduced, to our suits, we already had one part of them ¨C the helmets, but now, we got the other full body suit parts. This thing, was basically our new skin, since, we will be wearing them at any time, we are not inside of a medical pod. After giving them, to us, Joseph proceeded, to teach us about them. ¡°So boys, these suits, are your new self, your new skin, basically this suit is a symbiotic machine, that will save your ass, whenever hurt, thrown out into open space, poisoned, or being cooked or frozen alive. So now you will ask me, how do these bad boys work? Hell if I know, the only thing I know, that once put on, you wont be able to remove them yourselves. Well, don''t be afraid, put them on, a girls pussy feels just as good, with them on, as if you were fucking her raw! Hahahaha!¡± His laugh echoes trough out our room. Once I put the suit on, I immediately regret it... I feel something entering my ass, and my penis... Joshue looks at my expression and bursts out in laughter, but I myself, just want to cry... I will newer be the same again... ¡°HAHAHAHAHA!AHAH!HA!HA! Boy, would you have seen your own face, hehe, hilarious. Well, back to business. As you both should have noticed, the suit not only covers your skin, some parts of it enter your insides, to relieve you of your waste, hehehe. So now some better news, we will be flying out today, for the first time! We actually are going, to exit, the jump near an asteroid field, and our commander thinks, it will be good, to give you rookies some real mining experience.¡± Joseph. After getting, these suits on, and going into the ¡°Mole¡±, we begin, to wait, for the carrier to exit the jump. It took some time, but finally it was out. And we could clearly see the roid field around a hundred clicks away from us. Joseph waited a little, until, the carrier slowed down a little more and gave us the order, to fly out of the hangar. He also let me handle all the procedures. ¡°Tower, this is Mole 05, asking for permission, to undo-ck.¡± I ask trough, the comms. ¡°Permission granted Mole 05, have a nice flight.¡± We get, the reply. And we are ready, I slowly increase, the engine power, and begin, to turn around our ship, just as slowly leaving, the hangar, while going, trough the yellow field. Once we are out, I increase the power and head towards the roid field, my radar shows a few more mining vessels leaving, the carrier, and going in the same direction as us. ¡°Now listen up Jimmy, blast any roid, if you thing or even have the smallest feeling, of it, smashing at us. The ships shields, can handle, the small pieces of asteroids, but nothing bigger, than one fifth, the size, of the Mole. One hit, from such a rid, and we are left, with no shields got it?¡± Joseph says. ¡°Got it sir, will blast everything bigger, than a mini car.¡± Jim answers. ¡°Now Spike some advice, for you. Don''t go straight, into the roid field, let the other miners enter first, and go after them, its a small trick, a little selfish, but it might just save our asses, if anything happens. One you enter after one other miner, you don''t have to use your shields, to push all the small roids away, since the one before you has already done that, hehehe.¡± I get a lesson too. I do as Joseph advised me, I go into the field, using one of the other miners made path, and it really saves us some shields, once inside, I start scanning, the field, for nice, and big, C class roid, with metal core. And it doesn''t take much time, since I had upgraded, the moles scanning software yesterday. We approach our target, and Jim shaves off, the dirt off of it, this process takes some time, so I scan some more, looking, maybe, for some more, good and profitable roids, since, we get five percent from each haul of the ore. If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Hours later, when that roid finally parts with its crust, it is my turn, by using a special beam module, that locks the roid in place, I begin, to mine its core, with a laser drill. The process is quite simple, the laser drill melts the ore, another specialized beam captures it and separates our needed ore, form any other impurities, jettisoning, them from another special tube, on our side. Well, yeah, while, this process is simple, it gives us good results, because we fill our ore hold, only with the purest quality ore, so efficiently maximizing our gains, still, this process takes quite some time, as we have to melt all the roid core, to process it. After this, we just repeat it and repeat... looks, like our life will be quite a monotonous one, for some time. And it sure was, mining, mining then some repairs,and back to mining... only, the beauty of space, and the calling of unknown allowed us to continue. The days were monotonous, but still, time passed, and really we didn''t even feel, when almost full two months have passed. One day, Joseph, just came to us, and ordered us to pick all our things, because we will reach our designation in two hours. When we were about to leave, I still felt a little sad, even, if this place was our home just for a small period of time. As much as I could understand, Jim felt just like I did. We were waiting in the main hanger, when the carrier jumped out, finally, trough the shields we could see our future home, this time, we will live there for a really long time. What came into our view, was a big rocky mushroom, around it there were many other structures attached, to one another, sometimes even connecting asteroids one, to another. The size of this structure was impressive, ten times as big, as our carrier. We saw, a shuttle leave one of the docking-bay''s of the station, soon it corrected its course a little and began, to fly into our direction. An hour later, we were flying in that shuttle, to our new home. And our pilot was, this girl with four hands, damn if I wasn''t shocked, while seeing her for the first time. It actually was too hard, for us, to speak her name, so she asked us just to call her ¡°Four¡±. As the station, was slowly growing on our iluminators, we could see more and more of its details. There were numerous docking bays, many ships were entering and leaving, there even was a section of the station, that was all clear, allowing, to see inside of the station, from the space. As Four later explained to us, it was, the central market of the station, or a trading hub, call it however you want, the meaning was all the same. We docked inside one of the hangars, its shield was a little greenish, and there were only Four''s shuttle there. As it turned out, she was given the duty, to help us out, once we arrive. ¡°So wanna go party your coming, to Berugia mining and processing station? Or do you want to your rooms and rest like old farts?¡± And you know, when a girl puts it like that there really is only one way. So we went, to party, to a club called ¡°Afterlife¡± (yup, imagine ME afterlife... why? Because its awesome.) pole dancers, bartenders, people of many races and even more appearances were just letting, they''re frustration and steam out. Some shady characters were also present, some in more open areas some in private lounges. Four showed a few of them to us, while we were drinking at one of the corner tables. ¡°See that guy, with a red tattoo on his forehead? That''s Jumbo, he has all the kinds of stimulants you might want, the guy in the lounge, left of him, the one all in black combat gear it his big bro ¨C Kufras. That guy, doesn''t play with stimulants, but you can get quite a variety of gear, that not really allowed here, from ship parts, to small weapons.¡± Four showed them to us. ¡°Are there any information brokers?¡± I ask curiously. ¡°There are, but you wont reach most of them, not with your connections, just go to Jumbo, if you want some intel, he will get it for you. For a price of course.¡± ¡°I see, so, to our new friendship!¡± Jim toasts. It was a good evening, Four brought us to our new rooms, mine and Jim''s were next door, to each other. One inside, I just dropped half dead on the bed and instantly went into the blessed sleep world. As I was out cold, I didn''t hear the moans of Four, coming, from Jim''s room next door.