Fan Fiction ❯ Space Bounty ❯ SB Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

SPACE BOUNTY

The Adventures of Angeline Frazier and the crew of The Hydra

Angeline wakes up hearing a beeping sound coming from her personal terminal; she gets up and clicks the monitor on seeing she has an anonymous e-mail from her contact on Mars. The e-mail contains bounty information about a hacker that has been trying to hack into the IGP mainframe. Angeline has been a bounty hunter for 3 years now coming from a long line of bounty hunters. She travels the galaxy on her ship The Hydra hunting down and catching bounties and she is pretty good at it remembering all the tricks her parents used to tell her about when she was younger before they got murdered. She has been hunting for the people that murdered her parents ever since, sometimes she gets close but they always manage to slip away. She then gets dressed and clicks on the ships intercom.

"Angeline Frazier: Jillian, prepare to get underway we got some new information on a bounty head."

She then clicks it off and strapping her holsters to her thighs she heads for the bridge. Once on the bridge she sets a course for Mars, Jillian comes up after getting cleaned up. She stands next to her sister Angeline wondering where they are going this time. She leans against the chair Angeline is sitting in looking over her shoulder at the controls.

"Jillian Koch: So where we off to this time Angeline, another lead on the people that had your parents killed?"

"Angeline Frazier: I wish, but no this is just an ordinary bounty on an extraordinary hacker worth 2500,000,000 credits. We could really use that money to get some food and ammo for the Aquarius, and maybe have enough left over for a few new outfits."

Angeline leans back in her chair as the ship starts moving on course to earth, she then looks at Jillian. Standing at 5'6" Jillian isn't much taller than Angeline but she is so slim she looks taller than she is. Jillian smiles and looks at the console at the destination.

"Jillian Koch: So we are going to earth, who is this hacker anyway and why is there such a big bounty on him?"

"Angeline Frazier: It's a she and she's supposed to be a hacking genius she has been trying to hack into the IGP mainframe. You know we could use her skills I think in helping us track down bounties. It could be useful to have a hacker around and maybe she could be another sister."

Jillian looks down at her and giggles rolling her eyes; she then kneels down next to Angeline still wearing her crease covered overalls. Angeline sets the auto pilot and leans back closing her eyes. After a few minutes Jillian stands up and goes to her room to change while Angeline also prepares going over plans in her head. Suddenly the ship is rocked throwing Angeline and Jillian around as the deceleration thrusters' fire and the ship changes direction heading away from earth. After the ship settles again in the new direction Angeline gets her self set up right in her chair and checks the controls. Meanwhile Jillian comes running in with lipstick streaking from the corner of her dainty lips to her ear.

"Jillian Koch: What in hell was that Angeline, are you trying to make me look bad or something?"

"Angeline Frazier: It wasn't me Jillian the ship went crazy and changed direction, I think we have been hacked someone doesn't want us going to earth!"

Angeline franticly works the controls as she tries to trace down the problem, with little success how ever as who ever it is really knows how to cover their tracks and is keeping 1 step ahead of her. Eventually after several hours pass the hacker who ever it is leaves the ships system and Angeline manages to bring the ship to a stop. She then looks at Jillian before turning the ship around again to head in the direction of the earth. Trying everything she knows Angeline then tries to set up a barrier incase the hacker returns. Try as she might thou as they get close to earth The Hydra's computers again get hacked and again forced violently to change direction. This time thou Angeline is on top of it correcting so they remain on course.

This hacker doesn't make it easy thou always 1 step ahead of Angeline, almost like it's a game. Angeline knows who this is now there is only 1 hacker that it could be, she gets a grin on her face as she continues to keep a firm control correcting each alteration Alexandra Maura Schmidt makes to the flight path of The Hydra. Jillian is hanging on to the seat trying to keep her balance as the ship is tossed around while the war for control continues even while The Hydra is entering the Earth's atmosphere. Out of the corner of her eye Angeline sees Jillian standing there and with out taking her eyes off the controls she yells.

"Angeline Frazier: DAMN IT JILLIAN SIT DOWN AND FASTEND YOUR SAFTY BELT, THIS IS GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE!"

Jillian does just that, she takes a seat and fastens her safety belt as she does thou in an effort to scare Angeline, Alexandra sends the Hydra into the path of several larger oncoming ships. Angeline simply grits her teeth and with a few quick entries into a near by keypad she says.

"Angeline Frazier: Nice try but you're not going to scare me that easy Alexandra!"

With that she pushes 1 more button causing 4 small hatches to open on the top of the ship letting 4 hidden thrusters' extend and fire sending The Hydra down towards the surface. The larger ships pass over the Hydra missing her hull by mere inches. After several more hours of cat and mouse with the controls of the Hydra Alexandra grows tired of this and sends a massive electronic spike. The spike results in the computer systems of the Hydra crashing. Navigation and emergency landing thrusters are fried rendering them un-operable. As the systems crash all at once, The Hydra starts falling out of control towards a city below. Angeline franticly starts trying to direct the ship away from any populated area but it's like trying to push 130 tones of dead weight.

"Angeline Frazier: Shit….Jillian I can't control her we are going to crash prepare for impact!"

After she yells this they both duck down as best they can, putting their hands over their heads. The ship hits right in the middle of rush hour in the middle of the city first colliding with several tall sky scrapers and then as it hits street level several cars and fleeing pedestrians get crushed under the weight of the massive ship. It skids and continues the line of destruction, eventually coming to a stop just a few meters shy of plowing into one of the main power stations of this city. It comes to a rest smoldering with a long path of death and destruction behind it, Meanwhile on the inside panels spark and pop in the aftermaths both Jillian and Angeline no where to be found in the smoking mess.