With the public announcement system already alerting everyone about their current predicament Dongfan Yue knew that he had only two options ; either to hide or to fight .
Taking the time to posture heroically he gave himself the kind of speech those superheroes gave to the villains in those old Earth movies.
" As a heroic and upright citizen of the Cosmic Earth Alliance whose heart is burning with righteous indignation, there is only one option when facing these scummy pirates ."
" Oh , and that is to face them head on ,right brother Dongfan ?" Asked Cubey with a face full of expectation .
" Of course not you dummy ,it's to run and hide , do you obviously think I can face those hard hearted pirates by myself ? That's clearly suicide ."
" But you are an ability user ."
" Blah ,and so is the Captain of this shuttle though am probably sure he is hiding in some hidden compartment on the shuttle . The ship's security personnel is probably doing something about them already ."
Saying this Dongfan Yue proceeded to find somewhere suitable to hide , his personal cabin was obviously a no go as the pirates would surely place personal cabins among their priorities to be searched .
The star bridge ? Even a bigger no , it required no brain power to deduce that the pirates would target the ship's control room since once they got a hold of that the rest was a piece of cake . There would surely be a lot of fighting going on there .
Running through a list of all possible hiding spots in his mind Dongfan Yue quickly made his choice .
"The kitchen is definitely one places that they surely would not go to , that's the best place to hide."
" But what if they do come there ?" Asked Cubey .
" Nah , they definitely would not , unless they are a band of hungry pirates the kitchen is the safest place I can think of ."
" Ok , if you say so , though I think that they might co.. ."
Cutting Cubey off from completing his sentence Dongfan Yue said " Could you please stop being so pessimistic Cubey ? At this rate you would probably jinx me . "
Making his way towards the kitchen area according to his memory he half walked and half ran and soon arrived at the entrance of the kitchen , scanning the whole area as far as his eyes could allow he was about to enter when all of a sudden he practically froze in the spot not even daring to breathe loudly .
The reason ? right in front of him was one of the people he dreaded meeting right now , a freaking PIRATE .
Cursing all of Cubey's cube ancestors for jinxing him he quietly tried to back off when he mistakenly kicked a broken piece of glass which only God knew how it got there , sending it skidding towards the pirate .
Turning around towards the sound the pirate immediately saw Dongfan Yue who was staring dumbstruck at him .
With a face that looked like he was smiling yet also not smiling he said ;" Hehe ,there's another one here all by himself . How about you come here for a quick chat boy."
With Dongfan Yue's level of intelligence how could he not know that the pirates was trying to lull him into a lax state ? Without replying he immediately made a run for it , going back in the original direction he was coming from .
" Run boy, run, ha, ha ,ha ."
Guffawing sinisterly the pirate guy also wasted no time in giving chase after Dongfan Yue.
"Cubey , any help here ?, I need something to hold this bloodthirsty maniac back ."
" Bro Dongfan try to turn the Rubik's cube just like you did last time ,then imagine any kind of ability so that I can decipher it's origin pattern."
How am I gonna do that in the middle of being chased by a mad man you tell me ? " Dongfan Yue yelled at Cubey in his mind .
"Just try first who knows it could probably work. "
" What do you mean by probably work ? I am so so screwed."
Right at this moment the pirate guy who was chasing after him stopped and said "Enough running boy , it's time for you to die . Done saying this he closed his eyes for a short two seconds before abruptly opening them , his eyes seemed to have under gone a special transformation with both eyes turning a scarlet red seeming like they were accumulating a terrific amount of energy which was increasing by the second .
When the accumulated energy reached its peak , they were released in one deadly ray at Dongfan Yue whose eyes were already wide like saucers.
He previously thought that the pirates guy was an ordinary human since he did not use any ability throughout the chase , this gave him some hope as he believed he could eventually escape but oh boy , was he mistaken . The a*shole was actually toying with him the whole time ? He felt like slamming his head against the wall as he was also an ability user yet he was helpless before this pirate .
Closing his eyes like someone resigned to fate he thought about Pang Pengyou and their dreams of conquering the starry skies , of the fact that he would be unable to read the latest edition of the Zach Mane space Odyssey comic , of the coun .....
" Brother Dongfan quick open your eyes towards the pirate guy . "
" Huh ." Was the only thing he could say as he honestly was already resigned to die.
" Do it quickly ,we don't have much time left ."
" Okay "
Slowly opening his eyes ,there seemed to be a difference as everything seemed to have slowed down , even the laser ray ability which was shot at him seemed to have been slowed down countless times .
Muttering to himself he said " well there is a difference but I don't think we are going to escape this ,Cubey."
" Oh boy wait for it ."
" For wha....." Only to see the eyes of the pirate enlarge a magnitude above his own . The next moment the incoming laser ray from the pirate totally disappeared while a stronger and thicker beam came from his own eyes . The beam travelled fast as the pirates was not even able to say a word before his head was totally obliterated by the his own laser beam .
The strength of the laser beam was ridiculous as it actually continued travelling forward penetrating deeply into the hull plating before the energy was finally expended.
With his mouth wide open , Dongfan Yue asked Cubey . ;" Wh .. what just happened ?"