[writers note: I don't have much skills in writing a story]
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{TS: 26/9/27AI}
"[Alester]"
There was silence as the voice from the other side waited for an answer.
"[Alester Constantine-]"
"Give me a break you fucker! I heard you loud and clearrrr!" Alester shouted towards the radio mic from her bed, "I'm trying to sleep!"
"[The cruiser has arrived, where are you?]"
She suddenly remembered what she was meant to do, "..." she sighs for a moment.
"change of plans, I'm not coming back. Don't try to talk to me away from my choice." She said towards the mic before cutting any possible transmissions from the Empire. "and don't think of ever exploiting me because of my background, I had enough with my fathers shenanigans."
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"Do whatever you want Alester, spend your time however you want." A voice said as he shuts the radio, "she's matured my lord, finally making choices for herself it seems."
The emperor looks down at him from his throne, "our ways of control are outdated, but it's how our people and this Empire could still be known as a great superpower. Tell me Alois, what is your suggestion of capturing that deserter."
Alois chuckles by the emperor's way of word, "my lord, we could place a bounty on her head. All across the empire and outside could take her dead or alive to us."
"we need her alive, she's worth more than just a child." the emperor said before coughing out blood all of the sudden, "Go, do whatever it takes to get her back in this castle.."
The servant, Alois only bowed and then left the room. 'that emperor, he's dying... it's almost time the Constantine's are purged from this galaxy..' he thought for a moment as he closed the door from behind and left into the darkness of the old royal castle.
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"They're saying that the planet will be worth atleast 400 trillion credit, but if we insist on control it by a city or some sort.. we would only need to use at most 20 trillion credit" Eve said through her confrontations with the (lord) of the planet.
Athen sighs for a moment from this in disbelief, "so you're saying a city is worth 20T but the whole planet is 400T? this is being scammed but worse... they're scamming themselves at this point"
"I guess you shouldn't expect much from these desert dwellers which only have rain once every 100 days.. they're not that civilised on most of what we know yet in the galactic scale." Eve said while holding the tablet, "they're mostly isolationist but since an unknown Empire suddenly tried invading.. our Peacekeepers have to intervene as well as the galactic planet defense union."
"..."
"..."
Alester felt the air around her became heavy, "don't act like I know the answer just because I'm connected with that old scumbag." The air did not lose its weight.
"other than that, how much did father gave us to buy the planet or at least the city" Athan looks at Eve who held onto their deposit for the payment.
Eve replies by giving Athan 3 cards, holding 2 of the 3 on herself. "At least a few trillion.. 3kT credits to be exact, shared under 3 different cards just so it doesn't get stolen and we lost all our money."
Alester is shocked, realising they were richer than that she thought, but for the two siblings it's some little money.
"I see father knew we needed a lot to buy just a planet.. it's just devastating to think they were this stupid in negotiating payments." Athan giggled by his own words.
"I'll go back there then to negotiate minimal stuff and agree on the payments." Eve stood up and left the room.
"..."
"..."
Suddenly Alester got a new announcement from her phone, the news made her eyes widen as well as making her grin mischievously. "never thought they would go this far to get me back~"
Athan is surprised by her sudden change of tone which took him off guard, "what is going on Alester?"
"A bounty, more than a million that's what happening." She said, closing her phone and putting it back in her pocket.
This revelation made Athan laugh more from the situation they're in, "this is going to be fun isn't it, a chase for a sniper across this wide galaxy."
Alester looked out of the window, she felt an uneasy feeling. "when will Eve return?"
"Minimal time it would be 30 minutes with what's happening." Athan replies to her question, noticing the uneasy feeling from the window.
"Where's my sniper rifle?"
"3rd closet"
Alester quickly grabs her rifle and aims it towards the window, "An assassin? or is it just something else out there."
"Hard to tell, just be on guard." Athan replies, creating an ice spear out of thin air and slowly getting near the wall.
There was a sudden silence as the duo waited for a movement from the other side, but there was nothing. Not even a breath of air was taken from outside, "so are we safe now?" Alester is already tired of the position she's aiming at.
Turning the ice spear into air once again, he lowers his guard and looks outside but suddenly closes the window in an instant. "I did not sign up to kill a fucking desert spider."
"... are you afraid of spiders?" Alester started laughing from the sudden situation they were in, it had been a long time since she ever got a laugh this great.
"Just shut up, we don't know whatever is going to appear from that window. Besides, it's fricking huge!" He tries to keep his expression serious but was unable because Alester just couldn't stop laughing now.
It's not until they begin hearing gunshots from outside is when they armed themselves once more, "The spider isn't carnivorous right."
"Shut, the fuck up about spiders. This is bigger." He replied, creating two ice spears instead.
They could hear the footsteps getting closer towards their room, "shoot it down" an unknown voice said from behind the door.
"Whenever you're ready Alester." Athan said, readying to sprint to the door and kill them in close range.