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Fingers danced across the key display.
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Sweat beat it on his body, and he felt it trickle down the sides of his ribcage from his armpits.
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The sweat increased in proportion to the speed of his fingers tapping on the keys.
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Where?
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Where next, White Monkey?
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Julong thought of where his nemesis would try to go next.
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His brow knit as he watched ten more zombites disappear.
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This isn't working.
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His army of pathobites was rapidly diminishing.
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He raised both hands from his bar and slammed them down on the controls, swearing.
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The monitoring techs in the room glanced warrily in his direction.
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More vile epithets flowed from his lips as he watched more pathobites be destroyed.
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Chulong, is there something that I One of the female techs placed a hand on his shoulder.
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He shoved the hand away and stood glaring at the woman.
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Get me a transducer, he hissed.
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She turned away and went to one of the walls lined with storage lockers.
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Chulong clenched his fists at his side as he watched his digital plague army diminish.
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She returned and handed the device to him.
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He snatched it from her hand and whirled on the monitors, standing near.
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Get back, he shouted.
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They stared at him for a moment and then one by one left their stations and filed down the stairs to the floor below.
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The face of Chin Yao materialized near his control console.
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Do you have control, Chu Long?
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He turned to the face and tried to hide his frustration with a smile.
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It won't be long, Emperor Chin Yao.
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I have most of the systems under my control now.
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The Emperor's doubt showed on his face.
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If you fail me, you'll wish you'd never been born.
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His face vanished, and Chu Long stared at the spot where it had been.
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Screw you, Chin.
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He whispered and clamped the transducer to his head.
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Pulled the chair tighter around him and scooted it closer to the display.
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White monkey, time to die.
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The virtual model of Chin Yao starship materialized in the air behind him.
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A tiny red light pulsed near the ship's stern.
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He gazed at it and then turned back to the screen in front of him.
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On the floor below, many of the tech stood white-eyed, watching him watch and learn.
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He paused suck air.
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Thirty-six miles.
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You got that figured out.
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I think.
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He looked down and saw a key with AMC written on it.
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How'd I miss you before?
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He pushed it.
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The key turned from blue to red and began flashing.
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A whole screen rose up in front of him showing the perimeter of the ship.
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Red flashing icons indicated each anti-missile cannon.
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He counted.
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There were twenty arranged around the ship.
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When they stopped flashing, the ship's IA spoke.
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He looked over at Ying Tai with a plaintive expression.
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It was a fire.
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He inhaled.
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He knew his physical bringing back aboard the starship was being punished and taxed by the digital onslaught.
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Two zombites wrapped themselves around his feet.
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One tried to pull at his arms.
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He continued to maneuver the staff, striking the heads of the grotesque shapes and watching them become neutralized, screaming in digital pain.
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A claw reached for his head.
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Frantic, he kept beating his head out of reach from the clawing hands until only one zombite remained.
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A sharp blow to his head, and the battle was over.
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Luke released the digital equivalent of a heavy sigh and considered his next destination.
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Gravity control next.
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The map materialized above his arm and he located the GCI, thought about the destination, and deployed.
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He felt himself simultaneously stretched and compressed.
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When the painful sucking sensation ceased, he faced a horde of red lizard-like replibites swarming around the GCI.
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He raised a stab as they hissed in digital codes and rushed at him.
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Zulong stared down at the body of his yellow avatar that a part of his mind now inhabited and controlled.
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It shimmered bright against the ghostly green image of the starship's virtual structure.
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He thought of a killing thrash code in his mind, and a grayish-black baton extended out from each hand.
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He looked at the gray sword-like batons in each hand.
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Pulsing, purple-black, tendril-like veins ran down the length of each to the pointed tip.
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One blow to the head, white monkey becomes vacant.
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He smiled and cracked a swinging of the batons as he walked down the corridor.
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Where are you?
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He wondered as the map of the ship appeared above his left arm.
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His enemy's tiny red dot pulsed near the GCI.
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Visualizing the destination, he experienced the mental stretching as his avatar transported itself to confront his enemy.
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He stretched his neck, avoiding contact.
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The replibite's other claw reached for the side of his head.
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Eight more of the red pathobites wrapped themselves around his torso and grabbed for his hands, trying to prevent the staff from striking.
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The replibites were hampering his motion.
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Claws reached for his head and he weaved and buffed.
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His arms were restrained and he couldn't swing the staff.
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Desperately, he glanced to an unoccupied side of the chamber and immediately fought himself at that location.
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The Lazardian pathobites collapsed in a writhing heap in the space's avatar no longer inhabited.
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He swung the staff and struck one of the less attentive replibites nearby and glanced at the remaining eight, still struggling to rise.
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He felt weakened from the last deployment and shook its head.
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A change in the digital fabric of the space alerted Boo to a new threat.
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A yellow humanoid avatar appeared near the space's door as he charged at the eight-angled form.
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He struck out at the wrestling mass and quickly tapped each one on the head.
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I hope he will kill you.
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The familiar voice of Chu Long's digital announcement came from behind him.
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Well, I guess he watched Monkey.
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You wish he had.
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Shunting that much could result in permanent mental wounds.
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But for the skilled wielder, venom sticks were a deadly weapon.
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Julong smiled and swung the batons in front of his avatar like propellers.
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He stopped their motion, inverted his hands, and thrust them into the floor of the space.
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Where the batons penetrated the translucent green deck, purple black tendrils crept from the baton and blackened the floor.
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You are so bad.
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You before gathered his courage.
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He raised his staff in front of him.
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Chulong snarled and rushed at him.
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In the end, one of us will be taken.
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He blocked a blow from one of the batons.
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The brilliant blue tendrils from his staff crackled with energy as the venom stick's purple black tendrils turned molten red.
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He parried the blow, then thrust the staff into Ju Long's stomach.
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He fell back on the floor.
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Just go back.
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I don't want to hurt you.
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Fug cried in a desperate voice.
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A snarl and Ju Long transformed his avatar's face to a fanged serpent.
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He jumped to his feet and raced at him, shouting as he came.
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Zhu Long sidestepped the move and brought a stick swinging toward his side.
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Boob jumped away, but not before it bit into his avatar's rib cage.
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A shock of digital pain lanced from the blow, and the avatar's flesh blackened around the wound.
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Boob felt his avatar slow.
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Boob staggered back to avoid another thrust from the sticks.
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He's right.
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I don't know much about a sword play.
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Boob thought as he backed away from the Long laughed and playfully swung the sticks at him.
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He parried with the staff and crackling energy popped each time the batons hit it.
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The black wound seemed to pull and limit his strength on that side.
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As Boog repelled another playful swing from one of the sticks, Chulong vanished.
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He reappeared, popping up beneath Boog's staff, striking low.
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A stick struck Book's left leg.
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Black digital pain raced up his avatar and stumbled backwards.
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Black tendrils encircled his leg, crept out from the wound.
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Chulong backed away.
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His face returned to its normal appearance and sneered at him.
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I think I prefer to stay to long.
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This face frightens me.
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Boop felt the wall of the space against his back.
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Nowhere to go to the city.
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Ying Tai shouted and looked around the command deck.
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It was getting easier to breathe, and the dizziness had decreased.
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That's affirmative, Tactical said.
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Engine number three was just hit the sound.
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It's returning to normal damage?
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Ying Tai asked.
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The man shrugged his shoulders.
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I can't tell.
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He sounded frustrated.
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Just keep trying.
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She glanced at Boog's slumped form.
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Come on, Boog.
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Where are you?
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I I think I got this figured out.
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I can increase the firing rate of the AMCs.
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That should help protect against any more missiles.
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Do it.
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Ying Tai pointed at him and then turned back to her screen.
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Tima, how are things looking?
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Air levels are back up to 58%.
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Uh gravity is coming back up.
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But temperature is still dropping.
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It's now 42 degrees on board.
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Ying Tai had noticed it was colder, but it didn't really register as she was so caught up in the battle to escape.
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Keep monitoring.
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Let me know if anything else happens.
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Tactical.
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Anything on the damage report?
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The man shrugged and looked back at her.
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No, ma'am.
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Can't figure out how to bring it up.
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But I'm still monitoring the fighters.
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Carry on.
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She turned back to Boog.
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His body hadn't moved.
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She whispered.
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Poop watched Yulong approach with the venom sticks.
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He raised a staff before him in a weak defense.
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Thoughts of the past raced through his head.
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This man who'd insisted on becoming my enemy.
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His anger grew.
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The one that ratted me out to Qin Yao.
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Probably caused me to be tortured or killed.
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This last thought struck to the center of Boog's heart.
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Mean.
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What happened to her?
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He looked up at the sneering face of Julong, and a sudden rage took hold of him.
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May sap all my remaining mental strength.
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He visualized the space immediately behind Zulong, and the agonizing vacuum sucked at his digital mental strength.
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Julong still hadn't turned around when Bug's avatar materialized behind him.
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Boog staggered.
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His leg wound flared and he drew back the staff.
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His head swam and he felt his strength dropping.
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Julong whirled around, bringing the stick swinging.
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One of the batons struck his chest, but the strength behind his thrust wasn't affected.
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Boog thrust his staff at Julong.
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The staff struck Zulong on the left side of his head, and blue energy crackled.
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One of the black venom sticks withered and then disappeared.
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Chulong howled in digital rage.
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He staggered back and dropped to his knees.
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Boog's injured leg gave out and he fell to the floor, watching Zhu Long writhe on the deck.
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I'm sorry, Chulong.
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He let out a heavy digital breath.
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You left me no choice, he said, as his foe's avatar stiffened and vibrated, then vanished.
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He mentally breathed out relief and struggled to raise the avatar to its feet.
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Still, still have a task to do.
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One last place to check, he thought, visualizing the heating and cooling system.
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Last time.
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When he appeared in the room, he slumped to the floor and struggled to raise the staff with one hand.
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The zombite's pale bodies had fallen to the floor.
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A few still staggered about, but with their master's digital defeat and certain severe brain damage, they were weak and ineffective.
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Boob, with the aid of his staff, forced his avatar to stand.
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When the lad's zombite turned blue, he stood and looked around.
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Now to get back.
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He thought the proper codes and his avatar slowly dissolved.
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He continued to howl from the digital mental pain.
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A shred of his sane mind screamed.
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The tiny part of his mind still functioning visualized a part of the virtual ship, and he felt the vacuum suck his mind, stretching and compressing, further sapping his waning mental and digital strength.
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When he appeared in the ship's virtual stardrive control system, his last thread of sane conscious thought conjured up another devilish code.
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His vision flickered as he watched a parasite form in his failing hand.
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He willed it to take the shape of a scorpion, released it into the drive system just as his avatar began to dissolve.
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The last sane thought that crossed his mind was truly.
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He stared back at his key display and then up at the holo screen.
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His hand reached clumsily to his head and removed the transducer.
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It fell to the deck.
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He tapped at a key and the model of the ship vanished from above.
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He shook his head.
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odd at times, let me know.
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He turned and smiled up at her.
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Are systems returning to normal?
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Ying Tai rubbed her arms.
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Still cold, but the gravity is back and air supply is returning to normal.
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She tilted her head to the side.
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What happened?
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In there.
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Boog shook his head.
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Tell you later.
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I'm I'm just glad to be back.
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Good! Maybe you can do something about our friend.
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Boo turned to him.
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What's up?
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We've still got seven fighters shooting us with missiles.
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The AMCs, which I barely managed to figure out, are trying to keep them at bay.
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So far the fighters have managed to evade the cannons.
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Do we have anything else?
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Anti-missile cannons aren't very effective against fighters.
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I'll activate the ASGs.
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They'll handle the fighters.
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Dex raised an eyebrow.
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ASGs?
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Anti-spacecraft guns.
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Oh, right.
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Why didn't I think of it?
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Boog struggled upright and staggered over to the weapons display.
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He tapped on the pad and then came and plopped back in his seat, releasing a heavy breath.
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Dex stared at Boog and folded his arms.
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I was gonna try that key next.
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The ship shuddered and vibrated as the ASGs blasted at the fighters.
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Dex peered at his display.
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Our previous weak posture?
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Ha! Must have attracted the pilots into coming in close.
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Ha ha ha!
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VASGs are ripping them apart.
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Good.
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Why don't you go check on our friends in the infirmary?
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I'm worried about Otis.
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Dex smiled at her.
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Yeah.
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The big lug kinda grows on you.
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Doesn't he?
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Three fighters have been destroyed by the ESGs.
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Tactical reported.
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Three others have been severely damaged.
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And it looks like the other is leaving.
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Wonderful! Tima said.
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Can I go to the infirmary now?
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She asked as she rubbed her poorly bandaged forehead.
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My head is killing me.
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Ying Tai nodded and Tima exited the command deck.
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Where's Gecko?
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She asked Dex.
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Oh I suppose he's somewhere between paradise and Hell's his leg.
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He should get it checked out.
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Dex glanced down at Ying Tai's hastily bandaged thigh.
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As should you He raised a hand and walked toward the exit.
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I'll let him know.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a massage to finish.
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Ying Tai glanced down at the dried blood on her leg and the tourniquet above it.
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She loosened the binding a bit and felt heat and pain spread down her thigh.
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But the wound remained dry.
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In the heat of the battle, she'd ignored the pain.
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I can wait a little longer.
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She turned back to Boog.
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You okay?
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He nodded absently and tapped at the key display.
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I have some cleanup to do in the systems.
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I'll play some anti-pathobite programs so Chin Yao won't be able to thrash into our system again.
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Where are we going?
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Ying Tai felt the deck vibrate.
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What was that?
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I'm just re-engaging the engines to get as far from here as possible.
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I think we'll just cruise and In the meantime.
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Think about our next move.
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He looked up at her.
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We need Moriston to reveal the destination.
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Ying Tai glanced down at the display she'd been scanning earlier.
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I know.
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The ship's speed rose rapidly.
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I better get down to the infirmary to make sure someone doesn't kill him.
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She headed for the exit.
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Right.
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I'll keep watch here.
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The door closed and Boog leaned back in his seat and sighed.
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He blinked several times and shook his head.
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His thoughts seemed so muddled and he had to mentally stretch to obtain each one before expressing himself.
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This goes away.
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Except one.
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She glanced up to see how her news was received and wished she hadn't.
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Chen Yao's face turned instantly red, and his hands clenched into fists at his side.
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Slap split the silence of the command center, and her cheek blazed with intense pain.
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The blow was so sudden she had no time to react.
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She fought back tears.
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Get Chu Long, he hissed.
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Seconds later, an unfamiliar person's hologram appeared in the command center.
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Emperor.
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I'm afraid Julong cannot communicate with you.
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Chin Yao kept his voice controlled.
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Where is he?
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Basically, he is here.
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Uh mentally, he's gone.
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The person shrugged.
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He's vacant.
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Chin Yao cursed and his whole frame trembled.
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The ring station techs, including their commander, stepped back away from him.
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A howl of unfathomable rage and hate burst from Chin Yao.
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Fingers danced across the key display.
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Sweat beat it on his body, and he felt it trickle down the sides of his ribcage from his armpits.
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The sweat increased in proportion to the speed of his fingers tapping on the keys.
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Where?
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Where next, White Monkey?
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Julong thought of where his nemesis would try to go next.
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His brow knit as he watched ten more zombites disappear.
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This isn't working.
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His army of pathobites was rapidly diminishing.
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He raised both hands from his bar and slammed them down on the controls, swearing.
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The monitoring techs in the room glanced warrily in his direction.
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More vile epithets flowed from his lips as he watched more pathobites be destroyed.
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Chulong, is there something that I One of the female techs placed a hand on his shoulder.
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He shoved the hand away and stood glaring at the woman.
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Get me a transducer, he hissed.
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She turned away and went to one of the walls lined with storage lockers.
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Chulong clenched his fists at his side as he watched his digital plague army diminish.
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She returned and handed the device to him.
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He snatched it from her hand and whirled on the monitors, standing near.
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Get back, he shouted.
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They stared at him for a moment and then one by one left their stations and filed down the stairs to the floor below.
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The face of Chin Yao materialized near his control console.
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Do you have control, Chu Long?
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He turned to the face and tried to hide his frustration with a smile.
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It won't be long, Emperor Chin Yao.
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I have most of the systems under my control now.
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The Emperor's doubt showed on his face.
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If you fail me, you'll wish you'd never been born.
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His face vanished, and Chu Long stared at the spot where it had been.
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Screw you, Chin.
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He whispered and clamped the transducer to his head.
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Pulled the chair tighter around him and scooted it closer to the display.
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White monkey, time to die.
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The virtual model of Chin Yao starship materialized in the air behind him.
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A tiny red light pulsed near the ship's stern.
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He gazed at it and then turned back to the screen in front of him.
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On the floor below, many of the tech stood white-eyed, watching him watch and learn.
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He paused suck air.
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Thirty-six miles.
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You got that figured out.
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I think.
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He looked down and saw a key with AMC written on it.
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How'd I miss you before?
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He pushed it.
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The key turned from blue to red and began flashing.
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A whole screen rose up in front of him showing the perimeter of the ship.
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Red flashing icons indicated each anti-missile cannon.
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He counted.
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There were twenty arranged around the ship.
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When they stopped flashing, the ship's IA spoke.
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He looked over at Ying Tai with a plaintive expression.
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It was a fire.
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He inhaled.
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He knew his physical bringing back aboard the starship was being punished and taxed by the digital onslaught.
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Two zombites wrapped themselves around his feet.
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One tried to pull at his arms.
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He continued to maneuver the staff, striking the heads of the grotesque shapes and watching them become neutralized, screaming in digital pain.
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A claw reached for his head.
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Frantic, he kept beating his head out of reach from the clawing hands until only one zombite remained.
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A sharp blow to his head, and the battle was over.
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Luke released the digital equivalent of a heavy sigh and considered his next destination.
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Gravity control next.
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The map materialized above his arm and he located the GCI, thought about the destination, and deployed.
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He felt himself simultaneously stretched and compressed.
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When the painful sucking sensation ceased, he faced a horde of red lizard-like replibites swarming around the GCI.
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He raised a stab as they hissed in digital codes and rushed at him.
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Zulong stared down at the body of his yellow avatar that a part of his mind now inhabited and controlled.
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It shimmered bright against the ghostly green image of the starship's virtual structure.
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He thought of a killing thrash code in his mind, and a grayish-black baton extended out from each hand.
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He looked at the gray sword-like batons in each hand.
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Pulsing, purple-black, tendril-like veins ran down the length of each to the pointed tip.
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One blow to the head, white monkey becomes vacant.
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He smiled and cracked a swinging of the batons as he walked down the corridor.
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Where are you?
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He wondered as the map of the ship appeared above his left arm.
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His enemy's tiny red dot pulsed near the GCI.
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Visualizing the destination, he experienced the mental stretching as his avatar transported itself to confront his enemy.
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He stretched his neck, avoiding contact.
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The replibite's other claw reached for the side of his head.
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Eight more of the red pathobites wrapped themselves around his torso and grabbed for his hands, trying to prevent the staff from striking.
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The replibites were hampering his motion.
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Claws reached for his head and he weaved and buffed.
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His arms were restrained and he couldn't swing the staff.
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Desperately, he glanced to an unoccupied side of the chamber and immediately fought himself at that location.
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The Lazardian pathobites collapsed in a writhing heap in the space's avatar no longer inhabited.
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He swung the staff and struck one of the less attentive replibites nearby and glanced at the remaining eight, still struggling to rise.
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He felt weakened from the last deployment and shook its head.
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A change in the digital fabric of the space alerted Boo to a new threat.
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A yellow humanoid avatar appeared near the space's door as he charged at the eight-angled form.
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He struck out at the wrestling mass and quickly tapped each one on the head.
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I hope he will kill you.
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The familiar voice of Chu Long's digital announcement came from behind him.
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Well, I guess he watched Monkey.
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You wish he had.
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Shunting that much could result in permanent mental wounds.
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But for the skilled wielder, venom sticks were a deadly weapon.
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Julong smiled and swung the batons in front of his avatar like propellers.
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He stopped their motion, inverted his hands, and thrust them into the floor of the space.
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Where the batons penetrated the translucent green deck, purple black tendrils crept from the baton and blackened the floor.
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You are so bad.
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You before gathered his courage.
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He raised his staff in front of him.
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Chulong snarled and rushed at him.
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In the end, one of us will be taken.
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He blocked a blow from one of the batons.
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The brilliant blue tendrils from his staff crackled with energy as the venom stick's purple black tendrils turned molten red.
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He parried the blow, then thrust the staff into Ju Long's stomach.
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He fell back on the floor.
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Just go back.
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I don't want to hurt you.
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Fug cried in a desperate voice.
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A snarl and Ju Long transformed his avatar's face to a fanged serpent.
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He jumped to his feet and raced at him, shouting as he came.
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Zhu Long sidestepped the move and brought a stick swinging toward his side.
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Boob jumped away, but not before it bit into his avatar's rib cage.
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A shock of digital pain lanced from the blow, and the avatar's flesh blackened around the wound.
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Boob felt his avatar slow.
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Boob staggered back to avoid another thrust from the sticks.
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He's right.
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I don't know much about a sword play.
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Boob thought as he backed away from the Long laughed and playfully swung the sticks at him.
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He parried with the staff and crackling energy popped each time the batons hit it.
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The black wound seemed to pull and limit his strength on that side.
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As Boog repelled another playful swing from one of the sticks, Chulong vanished.
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He reappeared, popping up beneath Boog's staff, striking low.
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A stick struck Book's left leg.
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Black digital pain raced up his avatar and stumbled backwards.
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Black tendrils encircled his leg, crept out from the wound.
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Chulong backed away.
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His face returned to its normal appearance and sneered at him.
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I think I prefer to stay to long.
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This face frightens me.
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Boop felt the wall of the space against his back.
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Nowhere to go to the city.
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Ying Tai shouted and looked around the command deck.
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It was getting easier to breathe, and the dizziness had decreased.
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That's affirmative, Tactical said.
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Engine number three was just hit the sound.
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It's returning to normal damage?
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Ying Tai asked.
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The man shrugged his shoulders.
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I can't tell.
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He sounded frustrated.
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Just keep trying.
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She glanced at Boog's slumped form.
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Come on, Boog.
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Where are you?
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I I think I got this figured out.
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I can increase the firing rate of the AMCs.
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That should help protect against any more missiles.
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Do it.
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Ying Tai pointed at him and then turned back to her screen.
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Tima, how are things looking?
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Air levels are back up to 58%.
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Uh gravity is coming back up.
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But temperature is still dropping.
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It's now 42 degrees on board.
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Ying Tai had noticed it was colder, but it didn't really register as she was so caught up in the battle to escape.
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Keep monitoring.
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Let me know if anything else happens.
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Tactical.
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Anything on the damage report?
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The man shrugged and looked back at her.
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No, ma'am.
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Can't figure out how to bring it up.
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But I'm still monitoring the fighters.
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Carry on.
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She turned back to Boog.
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His body hadn't moved.
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She whispered.
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Poop watched Yulong approach with the venom sticks.
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He raised a staff before him in a weak defense.
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Thoughts of the past raced through his head.
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This man who'd insisted on becoming my enemy.
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His anger grew.
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The one that ratted me out to Qin Yao.
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Probably caused me to be tortured or killed.
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This last thought struck to the center of Boog's heart.
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Mean.
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What happened to her?
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He looked up at the sneering face of Julong, and a sudden rage took hold of him.
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May sap all my remaining mental strength.
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He visualized the space immediately behind Zulong, and the agonizing vacuum sucked at his digital mental strength.
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Julong still hadn't turned around when Bug's avatar materialized behind him.
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Boog staggered.
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His leg wound flared and he drew back the staff.
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His head swam and he felt his strength dropping.
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Julong whirled around, bringing the stick swinging.
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One of the batons struck his chest, but the strength behind his thrust wasn't affected.
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Boog thrust his staff at Julong.
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The staff struck Zulong on the left side of his head, and blue energy crackled.
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One of the black venom sticks withered and then disappeared.
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Chulong howled in digital rage.
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He staggered back and dropped to his knees.
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Boog's injured leg gave out and he fell to the floor, watching Zhu Long writhe on the deck.
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I'm sorry, Chulong.
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He let out a heavy digital breath.
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You left me no choice, he said, as his foe's avatar stiffened and vibrated, then vanished.
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He mentally breathed out relief and struggled to raise the avatar to its feet.
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Still, still have a task to do.
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One last place to check, he thought, visualizing the heating and cooling system.
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Last time.
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When he appeared in the room, he slumped to the floor and struggled to raise the staff with one hand.
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The zombite's pale bodies had fallen to the floor.
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A few still staggered about, but with their master's digital defeat and certain severe brain damage, they were weak and ineffective.
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Boob, with the aid of his staff, forced his avatar to stand.
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When the lad's zombite turned blue, he stood and looked around.
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Now to get back.
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He thought the proper codes and his avatar slowly dissolved.
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He continued to howl from the digital mental pain.
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A shred of his sane mind screamed.
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The tiny part of his mind still functioning visualized a part of the virtual ship, and he felt the vacuum suck his mind, stretching and compressing, further sapping his waning mental and digital strength.
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When he appeared in the ship's virtual stardrive control system, his last thread of sane conscious thought conjured up another devilish code.
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His vision flickered as he watched a parasite form in his failing hand.
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He willed it to take the shape of a scorpion, released it into the drive system just as his avatar began to dissolve.
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The last sane thought that crossed his mind was truly.
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He stared back at his key display and then up at the holo screen.
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His hand reached clumsily to his head and removed the transducer.
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It fell to the deck.
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He tapped at a key and the model of the ship vanished from above.
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He shook his head.
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odd at times, let me know.
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He turned and smiled up at her.
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Are systems returning to normal?
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Ying Tai rubbed her arms.
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Still cold, but the gravity is back and air supply is returning to normal.
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She tilted her head to the side.
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What happened?
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In there.
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Boog shook his head.
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Tell you later.
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I'm I'm just glad to be back.
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Good! Maybe you can do something about our friend.
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Boo turned to him.
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What's up?
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We've still got seven fighters shooting us with missiles.
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The AMCs, which I barely managed to figure out, are trying to keep them at bay.
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So far the fighters have managed to evade the cannons.
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Do we have anything else?
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Anti-missile cannons aren't very effective against fighters.
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I'll activate the ASGs.
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They'll handle the fighters.
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Dex raised an eyebrow.
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ASGs?
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Anti-spacecraft guns.
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Oh, right.
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Why didn't I think of it?
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Boog struggled upright and staggered over to the weapons display.
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He tapped on the pad and then came and plopped back in his seat, releasing a heavy breath.
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Dex stared at Boog and folded his arms.
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I was gonna try that key next.
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The ship shuddered and vibrated as the ASGs blasted at the fighters.
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Dex peered at his display.
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Our previous weak posture?
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Ha! Must have attracted the pilots into coming in close.
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Ha ha ha!
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VASGs are ripping them apart.
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Good.
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Why don't you go check on our friends in the infirmary?
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I'm worried about Otis.
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Dex smiled at her.
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Yeah.
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The big lug kinda grows on you.
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Doesn't he?
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Three fighters have been destroyed by the ESGs.
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Tactical reported.
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Three others have been severely damaged.
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And it looks like the other is leaving.
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Wonderful! Tima said.
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Can I go to the infirmary now?
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She asked as she rubbed her poorly bandaged forehead.
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My head is killing me.
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Ying Tai nodded and Tima exited the command deck.
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Where's Gecko?
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She asked Dex.
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Oh I suppose he's somewhere between paradise and Hell's his leg.
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He should get it checked out.
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Dex glanced down at Ying Tai's hastily bandaged thigh.
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As should you He raised a hand and walked toward the exit.
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I'll let him know.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a massage to finish.
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Ying Tai glanced down at the dried blood on her leg and the tourniquet above it.
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She loosened the binding a bit and felt heat and pain spread down her thigh.
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But the wound remained dry.
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In the heat of the battle, she'd ignored the pain.
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I can wait a little longer.
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She turned back to Boog.
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You okay?
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He nodded absently and tapped at the key display.
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I have some cleanup to do in the systems.
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I'll play some anti-pathobite programs so Chin Yao won't be able to thrash into our system again.
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Where are we going?
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Ying Tai felt the deck vibrate.
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What was that?
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I'm just re-engaging the engines to get as far from here as possible.
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I think we'll just cruise and In the meantime.
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Think about our next move.
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He looked up at her.
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We need Moriston to reveal the destination.
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Ying Tai glanced down at the display she'd been scanning earlier.
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I know.
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The ship's speed rose rapidly.
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I better get down to the infirmary to make sure someone doesn't kill him.
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She headed for the exit.
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Right.
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I'll keep watch here.
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The door closed and Boog leaned back in his seat and sighed.
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He blinked several times and shook his head.
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His thoughts seemed so muddled and he had to mentally stretch to obtain each one before expressing himself.
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This goes away.
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Except one.
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She glanced up to see how her news was received and wished she hadn't.
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Chen Yao's face turned instantly red, and his hands clenched into fists at his side.
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Slap split the silence of the command center, and her cheek blazed with intense pain.
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The blow was so sudden she had no time to react.
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She fought back tears.
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Get Chu Long, he hissed.
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Seconds later, an unfamiliar person's hologram appeared in the command center.
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Emperor.
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I'm afraid Julong cannot communicate with you.
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Chin Yao kept his voice controlled.
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Where is he?
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Basically, he is here.
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Uh mentally, he's gone.
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The person shrugged.
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He's vacant.
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Chin Yao cursed and his whole frame trembled.
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The ring station techs, including their commander, stepped back away from him.
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A howl of unfathomable rage and hate burst from Chin Yao.
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