ã€ŠSpace Ageã€‹ Flight 0 - The Creation of the Universe Flight 0 ¨C The Creation of the Universe: On a large, sandy planet a lone figure riding a flying motorbike races towards the edge of a large cliff around 5 miles away. As he glances at the small countdown at the edge of his vision he notes the time, 400 seconds and counting down. Revving the engine up, and increasing the speed the Flyer roars towards the cliff at break neck speeds. With 34 seconds remaining on the countdown the rider gets off the bike and looks over the cliff towards the setting sun. When the countdown hits zero, bright spots of light appear, one popping in after the other until the entire sky is lit with thousands of different colors all trying to dominate the crowding sky. Then in a flash of searing light everything turns black, as if the world shut off all light. A box appears in front of him, You have Died. One level is lost. Skill proficiency has decreased Due to your death your last 5 stat points have been removed, You can earn them back when you next level up.

Over this box another quickly appears, Thank you for playing Space Age: closed beta For your cooperation and insight, when Space Age becomes publicly available you will get a free copy and special character customization options. Now logging out¡

When he logged out and removed his Unicorn VR headset, the young man got up and washed his face, as he thought of the last month of game play he shivered with excitement for when SPACE AGE would be released for real. The next day the long awaited video came up. As a man, around 25 with a strong steady look, walked into the field of view suspense built, ¡°Hello,¡± the man said in a deep voice, that was calming but authoritative,¡± I am Charles Gouth, CEO of ViviTech , and lead developer of Space Age, We are happy to announce that in one months¡¯ time the second ever V.R. game will be for sale, The Space age team is happy to see the public¡¯s response to our endeavor and can¡¯t wait to see you all enjoy the game we have created.¡± With a slight grin appearing at the edge of his mouth and a small chuckle the screen fades to black and the words ¡® Space Age, The Greatest Adventure, come on screen. Then the clip ends. When this video first come online social media blared, the Space Age website was so overloaded that the site was shut down, and the video had to be re-uploaded to YouTube and other video sites in order to be watched. Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.Everyone was waiting for the next V.R. game after Royal Road came out three years ago, and ViviTech was the first to answer. Space Age was in fact ViviTech¡¯s only game, the Companies history goes as this. When Royal Road first came out Charles Gouth was only 22, board with his college classes Charles and his two friends, Vanessa Gibbs and Josh Manns, and after a year of work they made a program suitable for sale, and presented their products to Unicorn, ending up in a partnership that allowed Charles and his friends to create ViviTech and start the production of Space Age. After a year and a half of production and refinement the closed beta was released to 300 lucky individuals who played in 30 groups of 10, each group testing different aspects of the game so that they didn¡¯t have complete knowledge of the game before it was launched. After a month, and countless interviews with developers and beta testers, passed 200,000 Americans coast from coast held their breath. Would you like to login to Space Age? |Yes\No|

And all at once, ¡°YES!¡± Except one man, who smiled slightly. ¡°No.¡± * Thanks for reading, and be sure to leave any and all advice below so i can improve* Flight 1- Planet Landing Flight 1- Planet Landing Christian Gouth IV, no relation to Charles Gouth, is a young man of 18 in his first year of college. Around two years before he was randomly selected to take part in Space age. Now with the Official release he was excited for Space Age. His beta test experience was lovely; he spent most of his time testing gunman mechanics and was ready to start again with gunman as his class.

Would you like to login to Space Age? |Yes\No|

¡°Yes!¡±

The scan on your Iris and Vein has determined that you are a Beta Tester. Your Character information has been saved, However your Skills and Levels have been reset. Extra Character Customization unlocked. Would you like to use your previous Character, or start a new Adventure?

¡°Hmm¡.¡± Christian though deeply about this, He wasn¡¯t particularly sentimental about his beta character, all beta testers had to use the default Character setting so it was basically a copy of their real bodies. Plus he wanted to check out the advanced Character Customization he got. ¡°I¡¯ll use a new character.¡± A copy of his real-self popped out in front of him and he opened the settings bar, Christian was a little short for his age, around 5¡¯5¡±, or 167cm, (two inches under national average), but he was built wide. With broad shoulders and hips he was a naturally good wrestler in his earlier years before he went to boxing and judo. So he was quite fit and fast, well not as fast as the 6¡¯2¡±, or 188cm, people but he could go at a quick pace. He liked his body, he wasn¡¯t a looker but felt comfortable as he was. But he had always wanted a beard so he added some scruff to his face until it looked like a well groomed beard, not long but still noticeable. As he was about to progress into the rest of the character information he noticed a strange icon, when he selected it is said,

Finger Paint. You can draw on yourself.

He was interested in it. It was probably one of the Advanced options he got as a beta tester, so he decided to use it, what did he have to lose anyway? He selected the icon and pots of paint appeared in front of him. Dipping his fingers in the grey paint pot he touched the hair on his chin and it changed color. Playing with the colors for a while he got a grey he liked and painted the beard on his chin that color, making a line from the base of his neck to his lower lip a silvery grey without changing the light brown on his head and sides of his face. ¡®Man I look so cool!¡¯ Thinking that, he selected the ¡®OK¡¯ icon and went on with the authorization process.

Your race and modle has been created, now you need a username. We will then provide you with a list of Cities to start your adventure.

¡°Oh No... Crap, I forgot about the races!¡± Groaning he regretted his haste in creating a character, he would have loved to check out the different races, but that had to wait until he got in game.

Do you want your Username to be: You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.Oh no crap I forgot about the races |Yes\No|

¡°¡No¡±

Please speak your username Loud and Clearly.

Christian thought deeply. He had big plans for his character, mainly being the best gunner in the galaxy. But a name like ¡®Blast¡¯ or ¡®GunMan¡¯ was to lame. ¡°Shanks¡± It was the last name of one of his past teachers, he really liked the guy, plus he had a cool name, so he used it.

Do you want your Username to be: Shanks |Yes\No|

¡°Yes¡±

The name ¡®Shanks¡¯ is available and has been accepted. Choose a City to start from this list, or choose random to be teleported to a random city.

¡°Random¡±

Welcome to Space Age. You will momentarily be transported to the City of Zevis, on the planet of Solius Deus. We hope you enjoy Space Age to its fullest potential.

Shanks woke in a tube with a small window in front of his face, and immediately started to panic. Not his fault, he was just claustrophobic. Looking out the Window didn¡¯t help, all he saw was a planet growing faster below him. As flames started to dance around his pod he closed his eyes and breathed deeply until the pod slowed to a stop. With a sigh of relief a window popped in front of him. *Ting*

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level: 1	Skill Experience:
Logical Mind	Beginner	0	00.0%
(passive) The Ability to keep calm in unfamiliar situations. Leveled by pushing yourself past your limits.

Another Screen appeared when he closed the window.

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Gunless Hands	MAX	MAX	MAX
(passive) Restriction on beta testers who worked with guns in order to keep the game fair, 25% slower proficiency increase, 0.5% faster proficiency increase in all non-combat skills

¡°NO!¡± * so this is the first chapter of this... thing. i hope you like it, i tried to use the advice i got from the last post to improve so i hope you like it. Please leave as much critique as you can* Flight 2- A WalkAbout Flight 2- a Walkabout When he stepped out of the pod he saw what he could only describe as a slum, but a little more futuristic. Patchwork houses of two to three stories were scattered randomly between large, several story, pure concrete houses with empty windows and covered with Graffiti. The streets were littered with trash and Hawkers begged for change on the corners. Walking in shock to a building that had a picture of a book on its sign, Shanks entered the library. He walked past an old man who was sleeping at the counter and walked up to the sole bookshelf in the building. It the Shelf was three books. The history of Zevis, a small paperback book that looked well used, like it was read many times; The Story of the Three Stars, a picture book, that looked untouched; and an Encyclopedia; that collected dust. Opening the History of Zevis the first page greeted him with a hand drawn map; it showed Zevis surrounded by a mountain range on one side and a large flat area titled ¡®The Minefields¡¯. To the south a city named Cokea was shown with several roads leading from it. Turning to the next page he was shocked, it held only a few words and the rest of the book was empty.

The poor litter the streets of this frontier town. Hope lies forgotten and jobs are rare. No commerce comes to this town, and famine happens every year. Number of adventures in the town [1] Number of adventures who started in this town [1]

¡®well darn, I guess by random they really meant random.¡¯ Putting the book down, he went outside and walked around town. He saw a small blacksmith who was making some crude weapons parts, it was apparent the smith didn¡¯t have much skill. Further on he saw a doctor who was treating some patients out on the street, but seemed to be doing more damage than he was fixing; and a pair of men who were a Gunman and Swordsman that were bickering. Gathering intrest in this display he watched the two as the argument increased. ¡°You don¡¯t think you¡¯re so cool because you got some fancy weapon! A real man Carries a blade and charges to battle rather than being a wimp like you!¡± ¡°Well I¡¯m keeping myself safe! Rather than Running to my death like you! Besides, guns would mow you down before you even got close enough to use your Stupid sword. ¡°Huh! You wanna go at it! I¡¯ll bury you!¡± ¡°Good luck trying!¡± The two men stepped back and drew their weapons. The Swordsman pulled out a blade so battered it looked like it wouldn¡¯t even cut butter, and the Gunman puller out a handgun that looked so inacurate that it looked like to couldn¡¯t hit the side of a house at point blank range. Simultaneously there was a Bang and a Crack. The gun had exploded in the hands of the Gunman, and the Sword was cracked in half from the Swordsman¡¯s weak swing. ¡°Khahaha¡ oh man, Hysterical!¡± a man erupted in laughter. The old man had disheveled grey hair and a long beard with a black stripe starting from his chin. He was wearing rags and holding a smoking pipe and a bottle of a unmarked liquid that could be nothing but liquor. Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.As moans escaped from the crowd and the focus of ridicule moved from the Fleeing duelists to the drunken old man People started tossing trash at the man who still laughed. Then the crowd left to return to their own business. However Shanks remained with interest and watched the old man. ¡°Hey you, Adventurer with the beard.¡± ¡°Huh, Me?¡± ¨C I was shocked at his sudden speech. ¡°Yes you there is no one else here! Follow me.¡±

Follow the Old Man

The Old Man wants you to Follow him. Difficulty: F Requirements: Ugly like us: Less than 1% character Modification Facial Hair: Have a beard Strange: Peak the Old Man¡¯s Interest Rewards: Unknown

Following the Old man they arrive at an old warehouse covered in graffiti. The old man opens the side door and they enter into the dark junk filled interior. ¡°Let me see your hands.¡± Said the Old Man. I showed him my hands and he stared at them in interest for a minute. ¡°Good, What¡¯s your name kid¡± ¡°Shanks¡± I replied. ¡°Ok Shanks,¡± he said as he lit his pipe,¡± I¡¯m Donavan, And from now on I¡¯m going to teach you everything I know.¡±

Donavan¡¯s Appernticeship

The Master Creator Donavan made you his Apprentice, you will have to give your greatest effort to learn his teachings or you will fail. Donavan never had an apprentice before even though many have asked, consider yourself lucky. Difficulty: B Requirements: Good Hands: Have Donavan look at your hands Rewards: Donavan¡¯s Knowledge. Unknown

This Quest Cannot be Refused. If failed Donavan will kill you, You will have to create a new Character.

¡°Well Shanks, Are you coming?¡± ¡°Yes Sir!¡± Donavan Smiled, ¡°Good. Now put on some gloves, I¡¯ll show you how to strip an engine.¡± ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ** So this is Chapter 2, Next chapter I plan to have a bit of a time skip and maybe a new Character? The character is a given to be added in the next few chapters if not this next one, Also some IRL scenes will be coming up[th_084_.gif]. So as Always Enjoy and leave some Critique if you feel like it[th_085_.gif]** Flight 3- Skills, Stats, and the Test Flight 3- Skills and the Test Shanks spent three weeks studying under Donavan and learned a variety of New Skills; today Donavan let him have a day off. Sitting in the ¡®library¡¯, for lack of a better word, he checked his skills for the first time since he spawned in.

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Repair	Beginner	9	68.2%
You can repair Complex and Simple Machines and Equipment. Your Skill gives you the slight chance to raise the maximum durability of what you are repairing.

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Smithing	Beginner	6	97.6%
The Ability to Craft Medals to create complex parts for machines. The Ability to create simple Weapons like Swords and Pistols

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Observe	Intermedite	2	01.4%
You can Observe objects to determine their stats and composition. You can determine the way things work to recreate them.

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Mana Welding	Beginner	6	35.9%
Can alter the Flow of Mana in objects to Refine Complex Machines, Can Create Mana weapons.

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Workingman¡¯s Hands	Beginner	3	45.5%
(passive) Thick skin lets you absorb damage better.

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Handicrafts	Beginner	8	68.6%
Increase familiarity with Skills that involve your hands.

While working his Logical Mind Skill leveled up as well,

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Logical Mind	Beginner	9	98.3%
(passive) The Ability to keep calm in unfamiliar situations. Leveled by pushing yourself past your limits.

Thinking back on it, he hasn¡¯t checked his stats yet,

Status Window
Name:	Shanks	Alignment:	Neutral
Level:	1	Class:	Undecided
Race:	Human	Gender:	Male
Titles
Donavan¡¯s Apprentice
Fame:	20	Infamy:	5
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Health:	640 / 640	Health Regen:	15.7 / Sec
Mana:	800 / 800	Mana Regen:	20.0 / Sec
Stamina:	400 / 400	Stamina Regen:	10.0 / Sec
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Strenght:	35	Agility:	19
Vitality:	52	Dexterity:	53
Intelligence:	62	Wisdom:	56
Leadership:	0	Luck:	1
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Attack:	13	Defense:	9
Physical Resistances
Slashing:	5	Piercing:	5
Crushing:	10	Gunshots	2

Shanks was surprised, all the work he did probably boosted his stats. When he was in the beta, a character of these stats was around level 30, but at level one he was just as strong. The fame and infamy was strange, it was probably from his title Donavan¡¯s Apprentice (Donavan isn¡¯t too popular in Zevis after all). While he admired his stats he returned to the warehouse. When he returned, he went to Donavan who was sitting on a reconstructed engine in a little clearing they made in the junk. ¡°Hey Donavan.¡± ¡°Oh, Shanks. Good you arrived just in time.¡± An ominous feeling rose within me; Every time Donavan said good, something far from it happened, mostly to me. ¡°Just in time for what?¡± I asked cautiously ¡°Your final test; It¡¯s real easy, just turn this junk into something new, and you pass.¡± *Ting*

Donavan¡¯s Final Test

The Master Engineer Donavan made you his Apprentice. He now sees you as ready to take his final test Difficulty: Unknown Requirements: Donavan¡¯s Apprentice: Rewards: Donavan¡¯s Story. Hidden Class. Present from Donavan.

Restrictions Must be finished before the time runs out. Time left: 7 Days Must be something unique. You can only use the junk in the warehouse to build it.

This Quest Cannot be Refused. If failed Donavan will kill you, You will have to create a new Character.

¡°I¡¯ll be back in a week to see how it goes,¡± Donavan said with a smile as he looked at my shocked face, ¡°Kahahaa¡ªBest of luck!¡± Ignoring the alert that logical mind leveled to intermediate, Shanks started brainstorming ideas of what to create. Weapons, guns, vehicles, engines, everything he could think of rushed through his head. And after an hour of deep thought he decided between two things. There were a lot of engine parts and plating in the junk so the easiest thing to make would be a vehicle. Things like cars wouldn¡¯t really be ¡®unique¡¯ so he needed something else. Then he remembered the map he saw in the book, so he decided to make a vehicle that could travel over land without having to stay on road. That narrowed it down to either a plane or a helicopter. Without choosing between them he gathered some of the bigger plates and melted them down in the forge. Pressing and remaking the plates into a lighter thinner panel then started bending them into a rough shape for the body of his vehicle. For the first two days he made the body of the vehicle and then looked around for a suitable Mana Generator. He spent the remainder of the third day looking until he found a light generator that seemed powerful enough. Securing it in the chassis Shanks started using Mana Welding to hook the generator up to a Small control panel he had in the cockpit. Double checking his work he went to the piles again to try and find a propulsion system. ¡®It doesn¡¯t need to be powerful¡¯ he thought, ¡®just enough to move it slightly.¡¯ Suddenly something caught his eye. It was a small dirty statue, and it looked disturbingly similar to what he was trying to make. Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.Holding it up he decided to inspect it: ¡°Observe¡±

Model of an old vehicle
Type:	Sculpture	Durability:	4/6
A Memento from Donavan¡¯s childhood, it¡¯s something he could recognize at first glance.

Shanks was appalled, his last 4 days of work were wasted. He was sure that it was only a coincidence that what he was making and this statue looked similar, but he wasn¡¯t going to risk it. Returning to his now useless build he sat himself down in front of it and started to redesign the entire build in his head for an entire day. At dawn of the 6th day, as the light cut though the dusty windows of the Warehouse, Shanks started work again. He striped all the plates off the chassis and thickened them. Replacing them he then removed the engine and turbo powered it. Spending half the day doing that Shanks spent the rest looking for extremely powerful propulsion systems. He gathered three of these and put them over in a pile next to the machine. He then melted down rubber into a tar, and sealed the cockpit area. Christian then logged out, ate a meal, and logged in again after a short nap. It was morning on the 7th day when he logged back in, so he about half a day to finish up. Luckily all he had to do was put in the Propulsion system and he was done, but it still took him half his remaining time. The rest he spent testing the various parts on the machine best he could in the confines of the Warehouse. Just as he finished his last check Donavan walked in and he received a message. *Ting*

Time has run out, and Donavan is here to check your work.

¡°Well than, let¡¯s see what you got!¡± Donavan said, He lit his pipe and walked around my build examining all the parts before getting inside and turning it on and checking all the basic functions. The build Shanks had first planned on doing was a hover plane so he could get around the vast deserts, mountains, and minefields that surrounded the town of Zevis; but when he saw the statue he had to change up what he was building. Eventually getting his inspiration from the name of the game, Shanks decided to build a Spaceship, his own Spaceship that he could use as he pleased. The body was very similar to the previous build, but the inside was made airtight and it was theoretically powerful enough to get into space, but has never been tested. Donavan seemed amused with the design, the entire time he was checking it out he was chuckling to himself. ¡°Spectacular! It¡¯s a death trap, but still spectacular.¡±

Quest Complete!

You passed Donavan¡¯s Test and he will reward you suitably

You have Leveled up¡ You have Leveled up¡ Your get to keep your life and all skills, which is a good enough reward. +10 all stats More Rewards will be given by Donavan.

Your 4 weeks of Confinement in your Spawn City has ended, you can leave at your free will.

¡°So how did you like that little surprise I added in?¡± Donavan asked ¡°Surprise?¡± I though back and realized what he was insinuating ¡°So you put that statue there!¡± ¡°Yup!¡± he said with a smug look, ¡°I built it the day before you found it.¡± ¡°Gahh, why did you do that?!?!¡± ¡°It was to test your ability to respond to emergency situations, if you just ignored the statue than I doubt you would have passed.¡± ¡°Sir can I ask a Question?¡± Sure thing my boy, ask away.¡± ¡°What do you mean a death trap?¡± These words were troubling Shanks greatly, ¡°Well, Starting with the Mana Generator¡¡± Donavan and Shanks discussed the Problems with the ship for many hours until the sun set, ¡°Now then I have some things to give you!¡± Donavan went into a back room and came back with several books, some clothes, old tools, and a small wooden box. He set them down on the hood of Failed Space ship and started with the books. ¡°This book,¡± he said picking up a silver book ¡°Is a skill that you need to learn.¡± He handed it to Shanks and he then said ¡°Learn¡±

You have learned a new skill: Drawing and Design
Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Drawing and Design	Beginner	1	00.0%
You can draw detailed sketches and Blueprints to help indentify errors in a build.

¡°Wow¡¡± ¡°That should help you fix errors before you spend time building.¡± Donavan then took out three old notebooks. ¡°These are my old designs; they should help you learn some tricks you can use.¡± He took these and looked through some of the pages; they were filled with notes and sketches that were genius, the amazed Shanks closed the books and looked back at Donavan, mouth agape. But it wasn¡¯t over yet, ¡°Now you have all the skills necessary to follow in my profession,¡± he handed Shanks the last book, it was glowing gold and shined brightly in the dark room, ¡°Please Accept it.¡± Taking the book a message appeared in front of him. *Ting*

Hidden Class

You have been offered the Hidden Class Inventor Will you accept? |Yes/No|

¡°I will accept¡±, and Shanks took the book.

Your Profession has been changed to Inventor

All starts +25 Mana +200 New Skill: Invention New Skill: Spaceship Production For possessing Forbidden knowledge: Infamy +15,000 However this will not come into effect until people discover your ability New Stat: Intellect

¡°What the..?¡± His new class concerned him so he checked out the new skills and stats he got. ¡°Check Skills: Invention, Spaceship Production¡±

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Invention	Beginner	0	00.0%
Allows you to better create objects. Every new type of object you create will create a new Skill.

Skill Name:	Skill Rank:	Skill Level:	Skill Experience:
Spaceship Production	Beginner	0	00.0%
A skill gained from Invention, Allows you to create more efficient Spaceships. The creation of Space Ships not approved and owned by the United Space Ship Corporation will earn you infamy, The infamy will not be applied until the U.S.S.C discover who the creator was.

¡®Ok, that¡¯s interesting.¡¯ This probably explains the 15,000 infamy he had gained when he choose his profession. Forbidden Skills, the idea Amused Shanks and he was interested in getting to know his new U.S.S.C ¡®Friends¡¯. ¡°Check Stat: Intellect

Intellect

Makes you less likely to make mistakes. Increase in critical strike chance. Decrease in failure of skill activation. You can¡¯t distribute points to this stat.

¡°Now for the next gift,¡± Donavan shook Shanks from his surprise over his new Skills, and handed him the clothes and tools. ¡°These are some basic traveler¡¯s clothes; they are durable and should last you for a while. And these are some assorted tools that you¡¯ll need for all of your building and crafting.¡± Shanks took them both and put them in his inventory; all that remained now was the small wooden box. ¡°This Last thing is a little present from me to you.¡± Donavan said as he handed me the box. Shanks opened the box and inside was a beautiful pipe, which shined a dark light from its black polished body. (ChrisCap does not endorse Smoking) ¡°But, I don¡¯t smoke.¡± Shanks said, ¡°It¡¯s fine even if you don¡¯t, I noticed you have the habit of putting something in your mouth while you think, so this is more for that.¡± ¡°Well, thanks,¡± Shanks was glad that Donavan noticed something so small, it was actually a habit carried over from real life so this would be useful, ¡°Observe¡±

Inventor¡¯s Pipe of Wisdom
Type:	Pipe	Durability:	145/145
Attack:	2-5
A Pipe made by a Godly Craftsman. You can bump people on the head with it. When Equipped: +25% INT +25% WIS +25% Intellect

The stats on this were incredible, when equipped it raised all of Shanks¡¯ main Inventor class stats by a significant amount. ¡°This is Amazing Donavan!¡± ¡°Kaahahaha! Shanks you remind me a lot of myself when I was younger.¡± ¡°Really?¡± Shanks was wondering what Donavan was like when he was younger. ¡°Yup, I was a Real Scoundrel when I was young, People used to call me ¡®Dread Pirate Roberts¡¯. Ah, this will take a while, have a seat.¡± ** So this is the end of Chapter 3, and I tried to make it longer like you all suggested. Next chapter will introduce IRL, Backstories, and a New Character. So get hyped. As always thanks for reading this far and make sure to leave any suggestions you want** Suggestions post Just saying, here is were you can post any suggestions you have about my writing or any Questions you have about the story. I will also post updates to let you know whats going on in between chapters, for insistence this week i have writers block![th_0gotas.gif] so the chapter will be out a day late. Flight 3.5- The end of Something Old, and the Start of Something new Flight 3.5- The end of Something Old, and the Start of Something new Donavan Started his Story, ¡°I was born on a lost planet; if you didn¡¯t know, lost planets are planets were there are no Space ports, and were landing is illegal; people lived there trapped in that hell of a planet. Big companies would dump things they didn¡¯t want public or weapons they weren¡¯t supposed to have. So the strong took those things and used them to gain power, while to poor starved to death in the streets of decrypted cities¡± While Donavan was describing this a vision appeared in front of Shanks, It showed a boy, Covered in filth and dressed in rags; with long disheveled hair covering his face; clutching a small package. ¡°Get back here Punk!¡± Two grown men were running after the child, both were dressed just a bad as the child, one had a metal pipe while the other had a Cleaver. The child ducked into a small alley and Climbed through a small hole in a fence, When the Men caught up they cursed, ¡°D@mn, cut around to the next alley and get him!¡± The two men ran off, when they were gone the child peeked his head out. When he was sure they were gone the child climbed out and started running again. After a few minutes the child stopped at a corner and waited. After sitting down for a while, the child perked his head up and looked down the street, a slight smile showed below his long bangs when he saw a child that looked just like him, but with brown curly hair running towards him. ¡°Donavan you got the stuff?¡± ¡°Shh, not here Dell!¡± The two ran into a nearby warehouse, it wasn¡¯t the same but it had the same feel as Donavan¡¯s hanger in Zevis, but on a much bigger scale. Mountains of junk surrounded were the two sat, gleaming over the stolen goods. ¡°Open it Don, let¡¯s see what we got!¡± Donavan opened the bag, and inside was two loaves of bread and a jug of water. ¡°Nice Catch today Don!¡± ¡°Yup, you do better tomorrow Dell.¡± Years passed with the two boys taking turns stealing food, while the other worked on his skills. Donavan was focusing on building; while Dell was working with guns. For ten years the two did this until they grew up, Donavan was average height with bulging muscles from working with heavy things every day for years, He was carrying a Sword that was a long as he was tall ; while Dell was tall and lean, with two holsters on his belt that held twin pistols. The pair never stopped stealing to gather food, but as Donavan progressed with his talents in Inventing he spent less time stealing food and more time stealing anything he could use to improve his designs. Naturally the two were highly wanted by the local warlord, who they were stealing from. One day the warehouse Donavan and Dell were in was surrounded by hundreds of men, all of them holding dangerous swords and guns. ¡°Ah sh!t Dell, They found us.¡± ¡°You bet? I don¡¯t think we can take them all.¡± As the two were discussing their options a man wearing a long red coat stood above them men. This man was the Warlord; He lifted a bullhorn and shouted at the building, ¡°Come out you two, and let us kill you! Or we gonna hafta come in there ourselves!¡± Donavan stood up, ¡°I have a plan! Dell you kill as many of them as you can while I start up the ship¡± Fear flashed across Dell¡¯s face before his nodded grimly, ¡°You got it.¡± Donavan ran to the largest build in the Warehouse while Dell ran to a window with an assortment of weapons. ¡°Come out you sh!ts!¡± The Warlord was foaming at the mouth, brimming with anger; at least he was until Dell put lead bullet in his head. The Lackeys yelled with shock and started to charge at the warehouse, Dell continually shot at the charging men and switched weapons when he ran out of mana, ammo, or the gun broke. Every once and a while Dell would toss a grenade at the crowd of people trying to break down the doors, but the mob made their way in. ¡°Don they¡¯re inside!¡± ¡°Fine. You do the rest of the set up; I¡¯ll take care of them.¡± Appearing around the corner of the build with his sword, Donavan and Dell switched places. Donavan stood in the path of the crowd as they rushed into the main part of the building; with a large swing he slashed the ones at the front clean in half, which exposed his right side. Several of the mob noticed this and rushed in to attack, but by twisting his body around the blade he was able to spin the blade around him on every side, chopping anyone who got too close to bits. While Donavan held the remainder of the mob off Dell was finishing starting up the ship, ¡°Don, we¡¯re set to go!¡± ¡°Start it up!¡± The engines of the Space ship revved to life and Donavan ran into the ship with the mob close on his heels. While Donavan took control of the ship, Dell went to the one gun that the ship had and aimed at the roof. In a bright light and massive explosion the entire roof of the wearhouse was blown to bits, and the Space ship flew off into space. This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. Then the vision ended. ¡°When me and Dell got off the planet we ended up running into the Space Federation, in case you don¡¯t know the Space Federation is one of the main governments in the galaxy, but back then they were competing in a power struggle with the United Planet Coalition. But later when me and the rest of the Robert¡¯s crew became a lot of trouble to them they joined forces to make the United Space Federation; which is the main law keeping body in the galaxy.¡± ¡° Now they didn¡¯t like space ships coming up from a planet were they were dropping bombs and toxic waste, so they attacked us. Naturally we ran away. We spent the next few years upgrading the ship and getting new crew. They were mostly people who were run out of their homes because they were disliked. It was a band of misfits really; for the first three years we had no doctor, the closest thing we had was a botanist named Meriwether, whose cure-all medicine was powerful laxatives. Needless to say no one got hurt during that time, or at least no one told him they were hurt.¡± ¡°When we needed food we would raid the Federation or Coalition ships, frankly it was their fault for attacking us first. When they sent mercenaries to attack us we fought back and killed them all, so that¡¯s how we got infamous.¡± Then a series of images appeared that showed Donavan and others fighting in server different situations. At the end of the series of images there was another flashback, Donavan was sitting at a table with dell and several others when a small pudgy man ran up to them, ¡°Captian Roberts, L- Look at this!¡± The man shoved a poster in Donavan¡¯s hand. It was a rough sketch of a man¡¯s face and the words ¡®WANTED¡¯ and a long string of numbers underneath it. The man¡¯s face on the poster was long and angular, with skinny eyes and long spiked hair with a white stripe above his scared right eye, the man was handsome in a scary kind of way, the interesting part was the price the of the man¡¯s bounty. The long string of numbers showed the massive amount of $$90,000,000,000; a whopping 90 billion DollarDollars. But even more surprising was the name, Pirate Captain Roberts! The group erupted in laughter, ¡°Kaahaha!¡± ¡°What¡¯s with that amount? They kept sending people to kill us, what¡¯s wrong with some self defense!¡± ¡°Look at that picture! It looks nothing like him!¡± "Who knew, Destroying entire War fleets is frowned upon!" "Haha! Only so little money, who would bother looking at this pitiful bounty!" The pudgy crewman was shocked that his Captain, who was now the most wanted man in the galaxy ( just some information, the second highest bounty is around $$12,600,000,001 ), was laughing at this news. The laughter died off as the flashback ended. Donavan was looking nostalgically at the wall before he snapped back to the present. ¡°Now then, that¡¯s about when we decided to break apart and do our own things. Each man went his separate way, but I gave each man a ring that had the Robert¡¯s Mark on it,¡± Saying this he showed the ring on his hand, it was a gold ring with a beautifully sculpted ¡®R¡¯ on it, ¡°We all keep in touch, so if you ever need some skills you can just show the mark and call in a favor. I can make you one, if you want?¡± ¡°Yeah I¡¯ll take one.¡± ¡°Ok, before you set out I¡¯ll give one to you. You should probably head south to Cokea, that¡¯s where one of the co-pilots are, he might be able to help you out.¡± ¡°Ok Donavan, I¡¯ll head out and come back tomorrow for the mark. See ya¡± Shanks logged off and got out from his capsule; and at the same time another man entered his capsule for the first time.

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¡°Yes.¡± ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I''m glad i wrapped this section of the story up, now i can introduce new characters! [th_101_.gif][th_101_.gif] YAY! writer''s block hit me hard this week so i made this a little extension of last chapter instead of a whole new one. As always leave your comments, suggestions, and support down below or in the new suggestions thread! And congratulations to myself, and you all because the prologue and the first chapter are over 600 views!