Jago: The Millennium Galaxy Race

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”Yeah, and you can call me Kiko. ”

My smile grew bigger. ”Thanks, Kiko. ”

My dinner turned out great thanks to Kiko. I didn think shed ever made any dishes from Sola, but somehow they were way better than mine even though I told her what to do. I think she was secretly adding ingredients, but when I asked she denied it, of course. Everyone enjoyed it, and it brought back memories of when I used to cook for the Professor and Lone.

Before I realized it, Crux was only a few days away. Tammy told me theyd chosen to take the Vaughan job even though it was on the outskirts of the galaxy for the money. Vaughans head was worth a pretty good price because none of the other intergalactic bounty hunters could, or wanted, to spend the resources to get there, or they simply didn have the skill to complete the task. Therefore, the bounty kept increasing as time passed.

”We happened to be around the area. ” This time Tammy was in her workroom, which was a few doors down from my room, talking to me while using tweezers to fiddle with a thin rectangular device while looking through a large magnifying glass. ”Our ship was damaged in an earlier conflict, so we decided to make a pit stop on Sola to grab some extra cash. ”

They decided to challenge the planets greatest fighter on a whim … thats great.

”Oh. I see. ” I watched her pull a strand of her hair with the tweezers and place it inside the tiny device. ”What are you doing? ”

”Working on a vocal transmitter. It allows its user to speak the language of the person they are talking to. I added a strand of my hair to have a direct connection with it. ” She put the thing back together. ”I don have all the pieces yet. Once we get to Crux I will be able to purchase the necessary items to have it fully functioning. ”

Was there anything Tammy couldn do?

She was about to reach for another small transmitter when she suddenly stopped and looked straight ahead at the wall. I was about to ask what was wrong, but she quickly answered that for me.

A loud alarm rang, and her voice echoed throughout the ship. ”Warning: hostile ships approaching quickly from the stern. Estimated contact in … thirty seconds. ”

After giving her message, she came out of her seemingly trance-like state and headed for the flight deck. I followed, wondering how often they dealt with stuff like this. Screens projected in front of her, displaying a map of the space around us, and she examined the approaching ships.

Running footsteps came from behind us.

”Who is it? ” Cashel asked, catching his breath as he took his seat at command.

”They
e demanding the return of Vaughan through an open channel. ”

Cashel projected one of the ships on his dashboard. ”I see we made a lot more friends on Sola than I thought. ”

Through the flight decks sun shield, large battleships started appearing one by one just as Kiko and Rei arrived to witness it as well. So many ships against just us did not bode well. Kiko was an amazing fighter, sure, but that didn translate to this type of battle. Was my newfound freedom and happiness going to end so quickly?

Kiko took a look outside. ”Hes persistent, ” she muttered.

We watched through a hologram rendition as hundreds of colossal battleships dropped out of hyperspeed to surround our tiny ship in battle formation.

”So, ” Rei asked, ”how do we get out of this? ”