Galaxy9 E-Book

Darryl Brent

• Herausgeber: Darryl Brent
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

When Wade, Jean and Sanjay are walking between lectures one day, the last thing any of them expect to stumble across is a spaceship. With the opportunity to explore the Milky Way, known as Galaxy9 to spacers, their world has just got a lot bigger. Meeting new species and exploring worlds they had never dreamed of, the three teenagers go from engineering students to space freighters overnight. Can they stay alive while earning enough to keep their ship in the sky? And how will the friends decide when to step into the intergalactic fray?

Leseprobe

Galaxy9

Galaxy9, Volume 1

Darryl Brent

Published by Darryl Brent, 2016.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

GALAXY9

First edition. May 1, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 Darryl Brent.

ISBN: 978-1524206505

Written by Darryl Brent.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

Chapter 2 - On-board the Shrike

Chapter 3 - Suiting Up

Chapter 4 - Blast Off

Chapter 5 - Landfall

Chapter 6 - The First Adventure

Chapter 7 - On Their Own

Chapter 8 - Desert Challenge

Chapter 9 - Impounded

Chapter 10 - Dealer Takedown

Chapter 11 - Baby-sitting

Chapter 12 - Raant City

Chapter 13 - Raant City Market

Chapter 14 - Apartment Invasion

Chapter 15 - The FPF

Chapter 16 - Night in the city

Chapter 17 - The Streets of Raant

Chapter 18 - Door to Door Service

Chapter 19 - Back to Dewl

Chapter 20 - Escape

Chapter 21 - Fancy Flying

Chapter 22 - Verendal

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Thanks to God, through whom all things are possible.

Prologue

Beams of orange light flashed past the windscreen as the Shrike hurtled through space.  A glancing shot, shook the spaceship.

“Dreee,” trilled X5.

“I'll say they're getting too close,” Isaac agreed.  “How's it going with the warp computer?”

“Dweep.”

“Glad to hear it.”

Another volley of blasts rained down as Isaac pulled the ship into a tight drop manoeuvre.  He yanked the steering hard, causing the ship to bank right.

“You take over here, I'm going to man the top gun.”

Isaac sprinted out the cockpit and hauled himself up the metal rungs to the gun turret. He dropped into the seat panting, and keyed his cuff communications to the cockpit.

“I'm getting too old for this stuff,” he muttered to himself.

“Dweep,” X5's agreement burbled from his cuff.

“Hey!” Isaac scowled.  “You're not supposed to agree with me.  Hurry up and calculate a warp tunnel out of here.”

Isaac swivelled the turret round to face the little patrol fliers chasing them.  They looked like metal dragon flies zipping towards them against the blackness of space.

He aimed and sent a stream of return fire at their pursuers. He hit the wing of the closest flier, sending it spinning off course. The second ship was gaining fast and lined the Shrike up in its sights. Orange beams lanced towards Isaac. A beam struck the side of the turret causing the nanoplastic cover to shatter. A shard of the cover embedded itself in Isaac's arm and he let out a scream as the pain hit him.  Fortunately, the ship's shield immediately sealed again, restoring pressure to the turret.

A worried trill came over Isaac's headset.

Isaac grimaced, “I'm not dead yet. Got a warp tunnel?”

“Dweep.”

“Then let's get out of here.”

Space dissolved around them as they shot off to a faraway system.

As soon as they arrived, X5 started the calculations for the first safe tunnel to another destination.

Isaac struggled out the turret, wincing with every movement. He gritted his teeth as he dropped to the cabin floor below and made his way to the cockpit.

As soon as X5 heard him coming through, he zipped over.  “Dwoooo?”

“Gonna need your surgical kit,” Isaac muttered. The room started to swim around him as the blood rushed away from his head. He collapsed into a chair, just before he blacked out.

When Isaac came round it was to the sight of the little android sitting on his chest watching him.

“Sheesh. No need to crowd me.”

“Dweep,” X5 trilled happily.

Isaac looked down at his injured arm. The shrapnel had been removed and the wound sealed. He nodded his thanks to the android and pulled himself upright.

X5 beeped in objection as he tumbled down to the floor.

“Back to business,” Isaac said and lifted his arm.  “Aargh!” Isaac pulled his arm back against his body quickly, breathing heavily.  “Okay, maybe not.” He smiled faintly as the little android hovered round him scolding.

“Broken, huh?  That's going to be a problem.  So where are you taking us X5? It had better be remote, if we don't want the Central patrols finding us. ACSA's going to have to fight the good fight without us for a while.  We really need new crew members too. The two of us can barely manage a ship this size. We don't have a hope with my arm broken.”

“Dwoo.”

“What do you mean we need water too?”

“Beep dwoo.”

“Of course they hit the water tank,” Isaac muttered under his breath.

X5 brought up the details of their destination system on the viewscreen.

“Hmm, only signs of habitation are an old mining base on the gas giant and primitive civilisation on the water-based planet third from the star. We'd better head there. We won't be travelling the warp tunnels again till we've made repairs and filled the tank. Take us in X5.”

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

The three students came round the bend in the shady lane between upper and lower campus.

“So...we've got two hours to kill. What do you guys want to do?” Wade continued to dribble the soccer ball at his feet as he asked.

The girl walking next to him, looked up. “Well, I still need to finish the maths exercises for this afternoon,” Jean said.

“They're not due till four,” said Sanjay. “Knowing you, you'll probably finish them in five minutes.”

Jean gave his lean frame a friendly shove.  “Hey, just because I make it look easy doesn't mean it actually is,” she said, eyes smiling behind her glasses.

“Well, when you're done you can let me copy the answers in our mechanics lecture,” Sanjay added with a mischievous grin.