by M. Shaunessy
* RECALL
FIND
LIST
SPECIAL
She jogged down to SPECIAL and hit the return key, and then another screen appeared. She typed in HADES and said, “These are stolen structural plans for the star ship Hades. A few weeks ago before the battle we had one of our spies retrieve them for us.” She frowned of what happened, “He didn’t quite make it back from Mars, so he transmitted some of its data. What we got wasn’t enough to find a weakness or anything, but it was enough to find out what we were dealing with.” The screen then changed into a complex map formation. She scrolled around the screen until she found what she was looking for. “Our specialist examined the plans for any outer defense weakness, but they were unsuccessful. My brother should be held here,” Tygla pointed and continued, “At Prison Center #5. My plan was to go through the air ducks and surprise the guards. My only problem is getting into the ship. As far as I know the ship’s impregnable.”
“That’s where we come in huh?” Mike said.
Tygla replied, “Yes, any ideas?”
“Hmmm, well this is not the temple on Mota but,” He paused a bit thinking, “The problem is not getting in the ship, but getting near it. I am sure that ship got a long-range scanner. Say Justin, did you ever get that Ghost Shield of yours working yet?” Mike asked.
“It still has few bugs in it,” he replied, “But I suppose I can work on it before we leave.”
“Good,” Mike said as he looked back at the screen.
“Ghost Shield?” Tygla inquired.
“It’s a new cloaking program that works on scanning systems. Now, what’s that?” Mike asked pointing a small rectangular door at rear of the ship.
Tygla looked and answered, “Why that’s a garbage chute. You’re not thinking of entering through there, are you? That’s crazy, the only time that door is open is when they go into Hyper Flight.”
“Well then, we got to be quick, don’t we,” Mike replied.
Tygla added, “If we gonna be quick, then we should find a safe place to hide.”
“Where’s the ship now?” asked Justin.
Tygla exited the program and brought up a space grid map showing Hades moving upward besides a large asteroid field. “It’s a good thing one of our best pilots placed that homing signal on it before it departed. It looks like it’s still in the outer reign of the Deneb System, near a Xatu space station,” she said.
Mike started, “Justin, remember that time we were being chased by Tuskin in that asteroid field in the Solar System a few weeks ago?’
“Yeah,” Justin replied, “What about it?”
“Do you remember what happened?” He asked.
Justin answered, “Yeah, we hid in one of the asteroids and waited for him to leave. You’re not thinking what I think you’re thinking?”
Mike replied, “Yeah, we’ll just hide and have them come to us.”
“And when they do,” Tygla added excitedly, “We enter with no one knowing it. Oh Mike, it’s brilliant. Okay,” she turned off the Electronic Graph Grid and continued, “We’ll leave tomorrow morning at o’six hundred hours,” she got up and they left the command room as Tygla turned out the lights she said, “You better get a good night’s sleep, because we a got long day ahead.”
“Hey? What’s this we stuff?” Mike said, “I thought you were grounded.”
“I am,” she replied, “You don’t think I actually listen to my father do you?”
“Well I…I don’t want you to get into any more trouble that’s all.” Mike said awkwardly.
Tygla replied confidently, “Mike, I will be with my private guards, and I am sure my new private guards will protect me from harm?”
“Of course,” Mike replied.
“Good,” she said as they looked into each other’s eyes for a moment. “Now goodnight you two.” She trotted off to her room smiling.
“Sweet dreams my princess,” Mike said dreamily.