HPDBC Chapter 302 Helping With Mara's Drop
Chapter 302 Helping With Mara's Drop
Lea and Amber had to reschedule their deliveries since we would be heading out right now.
The good thing was that the ship was already stocked and resupplied and the fact that Ries actually expedited the delivery on her ship parts meant that we were fully capable of handling a combat mission right now.
As our ship cruised towards the location of where Mara's drop was, my new Maochatte lover was in the workshop busy making sure that all the new drones that she had unpacked were working perfectly.
Amber was out in the hangar doing some checks on her own ship while Lea was manning the guns as usual.
As for Mara, she took over the communications station partly to replace Ries and partly to give me more information about the place.
She had just gotten off a call with some other people and I got to watch a really pissed Mara tear those guys a new asshole for not informing her about this.
Apparently they thought Mara would have already known about this since she's an information broker and would keep tabs on her own drops, but it seems like Mara wasn't watching this one in particular.
She had explained to me privately after getting off one of the earlier calls that these drops of hers were just side hustles and she didn't pay much attention to them since she doesn't do trades that often.
I'm guessing those smugglers must have thought that they could claim it for themselves and Mara might just deem them too troublesome to kick out when she finds out about it.
"Fucking useless cunts," The doctor cursed, still looking the most pissed I've seen her.
No wait, I think she was more pissed back when she was confronting that guy who tried to shove me away from the front of her clinic.
I cleared my throat, "Right... So err... What are we dealing with here?"
Mara turned to me, "As I mentioned, the location itself is a group of asteroids a distance away from the station. It's a neutral drop for smugglers to deliver, pick up and do trade as long as they are affiliated with me."
"You mean that only people you approve can use that drop?" I asked.
"Something like that. And before you ask... No, I don't police it, so sometimes smugglers not affiliated with me would also use it but I don't really care. There are other drops belonging to other people who would police those drops."
Sounds like a whole other can of worms about the underground trade that I'm not willing to dive into at the moment.
Mara continued, "Anyway... From what I managed to gather, those smugglers have managed to park one of their larger ships on the asteroid itself and turned it into a base. I fully suspect that this was masterminded by someone else who wishes to fuck with me because they managed to build a fortress in such a short amount of time. They definitely have a sponsor for this."
I gave her a worried look, "A fortress? Will we be alright?"
"We'll be fine. The guns they used are meant to repel small ships that smugglers would use to sneak past scanners, not a fully armed combat freighter that has the firepower and capacity to fight ships twice its size."
Right, that puts me at ease... I wouldn't want our new ship to get blasted apart so quickly after getting it...
"So what's the plan?" I asked.
Oh wow, that was pretty fast... Or time just passed by so quickly that I didn't even know half a day had already passed.
I was just about to return to my seat when the map display in front of me changed to show the area around us and, sure enough, there was a group of asteroids a distance away.
That was fine since that was what we expected, but what was not fine was the fact that there were six ships currently orbiting the asteroid field and all six of them seemed to be B Class heavy fighters.
Another sound came from the side, this time from the communications panel, indicating someone was trying to contact us.
Both Mara and I quickly returned to our stations and Mara checked the console to turn back to me, "We're being hailed by one of the ships orbiting that asteroid, Tera."
I nodded at her to patch them through and she manipulated the console to prompt a screen to appear in front of me.
There was a scarred middle aged man with a cybernetic left eye glaring at me.
"Hey. Don't know who you are but you better get lost. This place is our turf now."
I decided to play along, "Isn't this supposed to be a neutral drop that is under err... Whisper Tale?"
"Not anymore. So if you know what's good for you, fuck off right now or else you're going to leave full of holes!"
I heard a voice from my Codex whispering, "She can fuck my holes..."
Oh... I didn't know Amber was connected to the call...
Ahem.
I raised my hands, "Alright, alright. We'll leave... Just err... Let me turn my ship around ok?"
"Whatever."
He shut off the call and I slowly powered down the Travel Drives of my ship.
I then initiated the auxiliary thrusters that turned my ship's broadside towards the asteroid and...
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"We are within range, Mistress."
"Perfect. Fire at will."
And she pulled the trigger.