“This wasn’t a spur of the moment decision,” Paul said, cutting her off with a grin.
“One of your side projects?”
“Something like that.”
Megan stared at his holo for several long seconds. “You took the helm.”
“Wasn’t going to trust anyone else on that fast of a descent. Not my first time either with a command ship.”
“Why am I even surprised?”
“Good question,” Paul mocked.
Megan sighed. “Terrible 2s.”
“Have you seen the training logs?”
“Whose?”
“I’ll take that as a no. Might want to take a look at Jason and Emily’s progress.”
“Oh?”
“Jason passed me up a month ago, and Emily is almost ready to tie me.”
Megan’s eyes went wide. “Holy crap. Who’s on top now?”
“Aaron by a level over Jason.”
“I’ve been so busy I haven’t checked…though I can see why you’d make time. Back to number 2…no, make that 3 now?”
“Four, actually. Morgan caught back up.”
Megan couldn’t help but laugh. “Knew that was coming.”
Paul glared at her. “More a result of me spending way too much time in a nexus.”
“I hear you there,” Megan said, losing a bit of her merriment. Like Paul she’d been trying to oversee every operation personally in order to tweak things to get whatever small advantages she could buy them.
“Two, maybe three days?”
Megan cringed. “Probably more like 4. Got a lot to do down here.”
“Four then,” he said, referring to them getting together for a decent training session. “You got any ground ops I can jump into? The kids can drive the car from here on out.”
“A few, but I’m going to have to stay back and quarterback.”
“Send me the list. I need to get my commando mojo back on. Been stuck in space the entire time with the Dvapp.”
Megan slowly shook her head in dismay.
“Jealous?”
“Yeah, actually. Good to have you around again.”
“Likewise.”
“List will be coming. Right now…”
“…bad guys to kill,” Paul finished.
“And if you don’t mind, have your student driver swing by this location,” she said, sending him coordinates, “before you pull out.”
“Will do.”
“And do you have any ground troops in that thing?”
“Afraid not. The Excalibur has been on a strictly naval mission. But you’ve got me now, so throw me at something tough.”
“You know I will,” she said, cutting the comm and immediately digging into the mission files searching for something worthy of his skills. She knew they’d catch up later in person, but right now they had a war to fight and she needed the badass trailblazer out there racking up a kill count. The enemy fleet may have been eliminated, but the war on Metropolis was far from over.
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