What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

Chapter 81 We Just Need To Keep Them Distracted

"You're crazy..." Samson muttered over our comms.

"That's why I love her~" Amber shot back while giggling over her own comms.

I could see Samson rolling his eyes before looking straight at me, "I swear... This plan of yours is either going to get us killed or we're going to be heroes."

The other Mercs that were also accompanying us shared a laugh with him but said nothing more.

I shrugged, "Hey, you volunteered for this, remember?"

"Yea, that's only because I'm doing it out of the kindness of my heart, mind you."

"In that case, I thank you for your infinite compassion, Samson, for volunteering yourself on this perilous journey!"

He sighed and chose to keep his mouth shut this time.

The plan I came up with was pretty simple though I guess the risk of it was also rather high.

We all know that the pirates are pretty confident of beating us even right now so I'm guessing that they know we were outnumbered and outgunned.

Possibly they already predicted that even if the military were to seek help from Mercenaries, not everyone would be on board to help defend the station as well.

This was the specific point that I was hoping to take advantage of in this plan.

You see... If us Mercs knew that we were screwed in this situation, it would make sense for us to look for a way out of it, right? That's why a few of us would pretend to flee coincidentally in the direction of the pirate fleet and then run into them by accident.

Then we would beg for our lives and offer to either join them or even give them information about what the military's plans were in dealing with the pirates.

If they take the bait, then we would definitely be able to get their attention and give the others the time needed to get into position to ambush the pirates.

Since I was the one who suggested it, of course I volunteered myself for it. Mostly because I was confident that even if they tried to shoot at me, I could at least escape from them.

I still needed volunteers to join me since just having a single ship flying towards the pirate ship would definitely not be taken seriously. We needed at least a group small enough to appear non-threatening but also large enough to make the pirates consider if attacking us was worth their time and effort.

When asked for volunteers, Amber had stood up, called me crazy before giving me a deep kiss on the lips and saying that she was in.

Samson then volunteered himself a few seconds later though he never said why at that time, which then prompted the other Mercs to start volunteering for the role as well.

Of course... There's also the chance that they just ignore whatever we have to say and just shoot at us. That's why there's that high risk involved for this role.

Before anyone could respond to me however, a gruff voice that belonged to none of our group came over the speakers.

"Oh really now? Tell me all about it you little piggies."

The battlecruiser came out of the nebula like it had just materialised out of thin air, the rest of the pirate fleet surrounding it and making a quite intimidating display.

All of us stopped our ships and maintained a distance away from them, some of the Mercs goggling at the sheer number of pirates in front of us.

The same gruff voice spoke again, "So... What's it going to be? I heard you little piggies chatting about those military bastards having a plan to blast my fleet to bits right?"

I'm guessing this voice belonged to the pirate lord. He's only joining the comm using his voice channel so we can only hear him but he must be able to see us since we opened our video channels as well.

I gulped, "Ye... Yeah... The... The Captain gathered all the Mercs he could find... And tried to force us to help them fight you..."

The pirate lord sneered, "Oh really? What's this plan of theirs? Tell me."

I acted a little bit scared, "If... If we tell you... Could we--"

"Oh you want to be let go right? Sure, we can do that."

Even I know that he was lying and we would definitely be shot out of space the moment I told him.

I shook my head, "No, no... We wanted to join your fleet!"

There was a pause and I was a little afraid that my lie may be too unbelievable even for him.

"You... Want to join us?" He asked.

I nodded, "Yes! We got sick of how Mercs were being treated and we felt that it was more profitable and we'd get more respect if we just joined your pirate fleet! We're already being treated like trash over there anyway so we might as well just throw our lot in with you!"

"Hahahaha! You hear that boys?! These little Mercs who have been hunting us for a living now want to join us! What do you guys say to that?!"

A chorus of expletives came from over the comms, all of them cursing us and demanding our deaths.

Ok... I was not expecting them to be that against that idea...

Oh... Now I'm getting warnings about weapons being locked onto my ship...

Err... Where's the battleship?