"Mom, who do think is the strongest human alive?"
"Am not sure, maybe he/she is among the 'True Stars'?"
"Yea? Well you are wrong, cause the answer is me."
"Among us, yes, but outside, hmm, not really."
"Oh, you really think so? Well you are wrong, I am the strongest. You'll see, when I show you and everyone else in a BURST OF POWER"
"Hmmm, power? not strength?"
"Yes, power, not strength"
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"Damn, am late"
Waking up to his alarm, Dammy rolled off his bed, then ran out of his room like an African man caught cheating. He ran down the stairs at such speed it seemed like they were never there. He grabbed his black "cruffon" coat from the table top in the living room, while reading up on the "mission" debrief. The "mission" debrief file on his smartwatch, displayed in hologram, and positioned at different angles around him, contains the information of the location, security level and value of the warehouse to be hit.
"They really hit it big this time, huh?" He said to himself, while walking straight at the opened window in his living room. Reaching the opened window, he jumped out, out of his room, his room 200 floors high, landed in an empty alley and walked off like it was a daily experience.
Maybe it is a daily experience for him, as he continued his journey to the warehouse unperturbed. Closing in on the warehouse at breakneck speed, Dammy came to an abrupt stop four blocks away. He took a right turn and entered an hover-bus, hidden from sight.
"What took you so long?" Jake, a huge well built male, also the leader of the band of thieves, asked in a serious and stern tone. Despite the tone and attitude, he couldn't hide the fear in his eyes when he looks at Dammy.
'I have never actually figured why he is scared of me.' Dammy thought to himself. Despite him being around them for most of his time, three years out of his five year away from home, he still doesn't really understand these low level Starred.
'Captain always thought Dammy is a prince who is undercover, experiencing the life of low starred like us. But I just don't see Dammy as prince of any kind.' Miranda, the only female among the band of five thieves, thought to herself. "Can we start now?" she asked group, saving her captain from the awkward stare of Dammy.
Pulled of his thoughts by Miranda, Dammy started operating his holographic smartwatch. He hacked into the security server of the warehouse and shut down all alarm systems and cameras. He looks away from the holographic smartwatch to see Lee, the only [2 stars] of the band, staring intently at him.
"Well.... what is it?" Dammy asked reluctantly.
"When are going to teach me to hack like that?" Lee replied while moving closer to Dammy.
"ummm... well you see... oh, would you look at that, am in!" Dammy turned around in a bid to escape the question.
"You are avoiding my questions again bro."
"Yes! yes, I am."
"Come on bro"
"Go off bro"
"Whatttt?"
"Will you guys quit your bickering, lets get going." Jonathan, the third male of the band also the second in command, intervened in the conversation. "Prima, get the gears and lets start."
"Okay small boss." Prima, the last and youngest of the band, answered, while preparing the gears and weapons for the mission.
After the preparation, the merry band of criminals suited up and exited the hover-bus. Miranda looking sexy with blue long hair, long legs with a slim build kitted in slim fitting jumpsuit. Jake with his bald head and heroic build in his long overcoat. Short Lee with his disheveled hair, unkept appearance and his chronic disease person build. Jonathan the middle aged average looking man, with a classic designer suit on. Young prima with black jackets over black jeans and his long pink hair waving in the hair. Dammy, who is.... nowhere to be seen.
They strolled straight to the huge warehouse, entered into the black colored, box shaped, four floors warehouse through the front door. This is the disadvantage of fully automated warehouses, you bring one good hacker and next you are walking in through the the front door. Apparently entering into the warehouse was the hardest task for the group, as all they had to do next was walk straight to their point of interest, as Dammy already disabled all the AI assisted security checkpoints and alarms. In fact, you could say the mission has been completed by Dammy, unlike the pervious missions where the group had to do the heavy lifting.
The excited, happy and nervous feeling of the group could be seen all over their faces, as they stand in front of the massive safe, housing what they came for.
*click* The safe opened automatically as Dammy, who is still in the hiver-bus, hacked its AI to clear it's security options and function.
"He's really good at this, isn't he?"
"Where did you find him anyways captain."
Lee and Miranda asked Jake, who after leaving Dammy's presence regained his rigor and military presence. "Yes, he is really good at hacking. And are you just asking that now, Miranda? its been months since he joined. Anyways lets focus on the stardust for now." Jake responded.
"Okay boss"
"Yes captain"
They returned their attention to the safe, just in time to see it open completely. The massive safe, the size of five studio apartment, contained only one thing. Placed in the middle of the room, the [ stardust ] floated on its own.
"There it is!"
"Hell yea!"
"We rich!"
"Its just as I imagine!"
"Captain, we selling right?"
Lee, Jonathan, Prima and even the mostly stern Jake all burst out shouting in joy. While Miranda seem to ask a controversial question that dimmed the excitement. "What else can you do with it but sell it?" Dammy voice seem to cut through the dimming atmosphere and replace it with confusion.
"You don't know what stardust is used for?" Miranda asked, speaking to Dammy who is communicating through their smartwatch.
"Well..... I do, its used as currency at my home planet, at least by the rich"
"You use it as currency??? that means you are from a top world! Anyway, putting that aside, stardust can also be used by we low-level starred to increase our star level. If we split it and inject it, we have a 10% of increasing our star level, while if one of us injects it all, the one who does has a 30% chance of progressing to the next starred level. Since you are from a top world, you should know this things, and that also means you are at least a mid-lev...."
*boom* The whole warehouse shook as a hole was blasted through the it. Through the hole came an emaciated man who seem to be fire, blue fire, by his side is a 12-year old looking blonde dressed in priest clothes. Tailing behind them is a 16 year old girl with purple dreads in sports wear.
"Oh, who are you little lowies?" Said the emaciated man.
The group was frozen shut. Only Miranda was cable of movement, movement of the mouth "Tru tru tru true stars!".