on the run, Xavier makes his way to the Rees System for refuge, three days later Xavier's radar and 3 ships appear tailing him. "Damn there are they after the bounty?" Xavier puts power into his thruster rushing away but showing up on the module a transmission appears "you can't run, we will collect that bounty." hours later and still being chased into the Rees system, the 3 ships begin shooting at Xavier unable to fire back without a crew Xavier just tries to evade with evasive maneuvers "These guys are persistent, I need to find somewhere to land soon the ship isn't going to be able to take much more of this." Xavier shouted as his ship rumbled shacking, closing the distance between them. The bounty hunters shoot a harpoon latching on to the tail end of Xavier's ship, "Dammit how did that happen!!" unable to break free Xavier puts most more power into his thruster but the ship is stuck. putting the shop on autopilot going forward Xavier runs to the blaster dock, preparing his blaster to aim at the ships. suddenly a loud screech shakes the very air around him making Xavier collapse, emerging from a subspace rift a Shinke appears floating through space. "What the hell!! things are just getting worst and worst." Xavier cuts his ship's thruster off and the bounty hunters do the same, sitting in a stalemate they wait for the Shinke to leave their area.
15 minutes pass and the Shinke is still around, thinking of a plan to get out of this situation "What can I do, we are sitting here waiting to be eaten." suddenly a thought came to him "I can use the Shinke to handle those guys." Xavier proceeds to aim at the spatial beast and shoot at its body near its eye. letting out a screech it begins to race towards them. "Nice!" Xavier runs back to the cockpit starts the thruster and pulls the ships that are connected to him by the harpoon line. "Come on baby full power, we can't give the time to react." Increasing the power Xavier drags them behind him making them bump and crash. "Where is the Shinke now?" looking at his radar and out the window the Shinke is gone but appearing below them coming out of a subspace with its mouth wide. chomping down it swallows the 3 bounty hunters' ships, but Xavier is pulled as his ship dangles from the Shinke's mouth. "urgh!" inside the ship Xavier tries to regain control of his ship. "Dammit!" struggling to walk Xavier goes back to the blaster dock moments later arriving at the dock Xavier mounts onto a blaster. "I need to shoot the wire connecting me to the Shinke." the sound of the ship rattling as the metal sounds like it's about to tear apart, as steady as he can Xavier fires off three shots two of them hitting the wine.
The wire snaps setting Xavier free, taking a moment to rest Xavier flops on the floor breathing heavily. only able to rest for a second the ship's alarm sounded, shaken Xavier runs back to the cockpit to see that there is significant damage to the engine and the left wing is damaged. "this is bad if I don't find a planet to land on soon I am going to die from lack of oxygen." looking at the module Xavier tries to find the nearest planet to land on 6 minutes later he finds a planet 10 hours away from him. "That's gonna have to work, I have no other option." Minda X1 is a planet that Xavier can breathe on with forms of life on the planet. "Let's hurry" pushing forwards as fast as he can, and Xavier hurries as his survival is at risk. Hours later Xavier arrives at a bright red planet Minda X1. Xavier is given an alert icon saying that re-entry into the atmosphere will cause permanent damage to the ship, not caring Xavier flies into the atmosphere breaking through then crash lands. landing in an iron red sand desert Xavier lays unconscious in the cockpit because of the crash. In the Depix system, Mr. Arkridge and Tristan lead a fleet of ships to battle. "Son today you will experience what it means to lead the household, today we set lit with our alike to destroy the scum black Market faction." Mr. Arkridge says to Tristan in the control room.
With hundreds of ships, Mr. Arkridge leaves the Depix System, back to Xavier on Minda X1 he wakes up with a gash on his head. "Urgh, what?" a flashing red light through the ship "Damage received...76% possibility of the ship running is less than 80%. The ship A.i system tells Xavier, heading to the exit Xavier steps out of the ship he is surprised by the excruciating heat of this planet. Rushing back inside Xavier shouts "Give me the weather reading for this planet!" "....the current temperatures measure 140°." shocked Xavier yells at the A. I was mad "I thought you said this planet was safe to live on." Xavier says to the A. I system "...this planet is 40% livable, only during The day will the heat become deadly....the sun of this system is 3 times larger than the one you are used to." The A. I say to Xavier sitting on the ship Xavier thinks of a solution to fixing the ship and getting off of this planet. Time passes and Mr. Arkridge and his fleet arrive at the Destin battle location with the black market faction. "Today we get rid of the Black market faction that has been messing with us for a long time." Mr. Arkridge says out loud in the control room "Sir the enemy is here they are 60 astronomical units away." one of the control room workers says to Mr. Arkridge.
"Prepare for battle the enemy is over the horizon!" Mr. Arkridge tells the other ships in his fleet over a private coms, a transmission comes in from the Black Market Faction. "Hello Mr. Arkridge, I'm surprised to see you are involved in this battle. Today I will kill you and that family of yours." Rick one of the representatives of the faction says to Mr. Arkridge over the transmission "Hahaha funny you say that when your faction thrives on living in the shadow living like rats in my house." Mr. Arkridge shouts ending the transmission "groups 2 and 6 leave formation and push forwards, then prepare phase cannons." the workers confirm the orders sending out a message to groups 2&6, in the Black market main ship in their fleet. "They are making a more sir!" The CW [control worker] says to Rick the leading commander "Prepare to fire and have them wait for further orders, let's see what they do and make sure our defenses are up." laying waiting Rick waits for the enemy to make the first move, as the two groups of ships approach. Groups 2 and 6 from Mr. Arkridge's fleet get into position and begin charging to fire their phase cannons as the electrical energy buildup Rick shouts "Raise the force field!" engulfing the whole black market fleet an energy shield appears.
Back to Xavier stranded on Minda X1, it is finally night time and the weather is now suitable for travel outside. Xavier now maps the landscape so he doesn't lose the location of his ship while traveling at the night. " It's been 30 minutes since I left the ship and I haven't seen any type of life at all. Did the A. I get it wrong?" using a scanning device from his forearm Xavier begins to make his way back to the ship. Suddenly sudden tremor almost shacks him off his feet. "What the!?" regaining balance Xavier looks around and sees nothing but the dark desert. Continuing on Xavier starts to hear the sound of rushing sand Xavier turns around. Suddenly bursting from the sand a 12-meter Tiki [centipede-like creature] dodging back Xavier pulls his plaster out shooting at it as the Tiki dashes around. Having trouble seeing the Tiki Xavier waits for it to attack, crawling fast and circling him as it lunges at Xavier trying to bite him with its forcipules. "Urgh...Dammit!" barely dodging Xavier gets a small chuck of his thigh. Shooting one of its legs off the Tiki dices back underground. Picking up the leg that fell off Xavier limps carrying it back to the ship. Arriving back at the ship he opens the hatch going inside collapsing in pain on holding his leg as the hatch closes behind him. Crawling to the medical bay Xavier gets his leg treated by the A. I system, hours later Xavier leaves the medical bay with a light cast and a bandage around his thigh. Taking the leg of the creature to the cockpit Xavier shouts "Scan this and tell me what it is ." he says to the A. I systems, scanning the severed leg "....scanning...scanning...This is the leg of a Tiki a large fossorial creature, that lives underground surfacing to eat for short periods.