novelzi Chapter 141 Drone Carrier
Chapter 141 Drone Carrier
All of us engaged our engines and sped off after the Destroyer, aiming to get out of the interdiction field.
The fact that they even set up an interdiction field in the first place meant that they had something planned for us while we were stuck here.
Worst of all, we don't even know how big the field is so we don't know how far we need to travel to get out of it.
The field itself would have been a sphere that was projected around us and we had no idea where exactly inside this sphere we were either.
Without the travel drives, the speed of our travel was really slow as compared to with it, especially since we were matching the Destroyer's speed.
I kept my eyes on the map just in case any enemies appeared and Lea did the same on her end by manning the railgun.
I could tell that everyone was on edge from the comms and even Amber wasn't talking much over our call, opting to focus on watching her map as well.
"Do you think they would actually send more guys after us, Captain?" Lea asked.
"I don't doubt it. They wouldn't have sent that many people after us and set up such a trap if they weren't planning to do anything with it." Continue your adventure with empire
Amber scoffed, "Or they could just be completely stupid and desperate."
Well... I actually wouldn't say that is impossible either considering what they've done so far. This whole thing could just be a ploy to waste our time and make us paranoid the entire way as a last 'fuck you' to us.
Definitely annoying, but I guess it's preferable to them actually being able to intercept us.
Just as that thought crossed my mind, a warning came from my console notifying me of a high energy object appearing at the edge of my sensors.
Turning towards the console, I found myself looking at a giant red dot that was at least one and a half times the size of the Destroyer we were escorting heading directly towards us.
Looking up through my windscreen, I saw a small speck heading towards us that matched the position on the map.
I tapped on the screen to do a scan of the object and frowned when I realised what it was.
"A D Class Drone Carrier..." Amber muttered at the same time I had arrived at the same conclusion.
"Well fuck," I cursed, realising another fact. "Those forty ships we shot down... Those were unmanned drones weren't they?"
"Damn it... No wonder they were so stupid... This also means they barely have any loot on them!"
They really got us with that.
And seriously, hoe the fuck did that gang afford a D Class Carrier?!
I turned to look at Lea and found her staring intently at her console, as though she was thinking of just where she should shoot the railgun to take down as many drones as she could with a single shot.
Sure enough, as soon as we got within range of my railgun turret, Lea fired the gun without hesitation.
I watched as the railgun round flew through the space between our fleet and the formation of drones and hit the first drone before continuing to pierce through five more.
Six drones in just a single shot... And she only started using this weapon barely an hour ago.
She's a natural.
The panels above the Destroyer's cannons slid open again and the missile launchers fired a salvo of the missiles towards the drones.
The drones started evasive manoeuvres in an attempt to avoid them but most of the missiles still found their mark and took down a good dozen of them.
Unfortunately, despite all that we had done, the drones still got within range and we were now under fire from over several dozens of drone fighters at once.
I saw one of the Destroyer's escort ships get instantly shredded into pieces by the hail of lasers, the ship itself exploding in a ball of fire and spinning away out into the darkness of space.
"Hang on!" I warned, pushing forward on the throttle and engaging my thrusters, dodging through the lasers that were aimed at me.
Lea still had no problem as she managed to shoot down four drones with another shot from the railgun, despite the fact that I was dodging and weaving through space erratically.
Of course, I was no slouch either as I started firing my ship's energy chainguns and mowed through a whole crowd of them that had been too preoccupied shooting at the Destroyer to bother with me.
I had to push my ship's nose downwards to avoid a Merc ship that was spinning out of control from having its engines destroyed, right before it crashed into another drone and exploded, destroying both itself and the drone it crashed into.
The Destroyer was doing its best to shoot down the drones that were swarming around us but it was clearly lacking in the point defence sector as its armaments were more suited for medium to long range combat.
It is only thanks to its stronger shields that the drones were not able to do much damage to it but sooner or later, those would go down as well if we don't get out of here any time soon.
Shit... There's too many of them and more of them were being deployed by the Carrier.
I think we might need to abandon the client at this rate...
Just as I shot down another group of drones that were harassing another Merc, the Destroyer fired another salvo of missiles out through its missile launchers.
I bit back a curse at them as I did my best to avoid getting in the path of those missiles while they flew towards the drones that they were targeting, making sure that I was also out of the blast radius of any missiles that end up hitting a drone as well.
Just as I thought about cursing the leader through the comms for doing such a risky move, I got the notification ping that my ship's travel drives were now back online.
Oh hell yeah! Let's get out of here already!!