RAPTOR FOUR
"Can you get above it?" Kenny asked.
"I can try." Billy answered. "But we'll never be able to fly in it, and we'll burn through our fuel three times as fast staying in the rough air."
Kenny was looking out the cockpit window at the angry dark clouds forming ahead of them. "Damn thing moved in quick." Kenny spoke.
Tareif nodded from behind him. "Acid storms can appear almost instantly."
"Is there any place we can set down to wait this thing out?" Kenny asked.
Tareif shook his head. "We are out of High Elf territory. What is below us is free space. We know where the human settlements are, but nothing beyond that."
"Shit!" Billy snapped.
"What about those Alliance ships Billy?" Kenny asked.
"They hauled ass about twenty minutes ago; as soon as this thing showed up." Billy answered.
Tareif nodded. "Their flying craft are slow and heavily armed as I said, but they could never stay as long as we have."
