The Nautican Gambit
The Nautican Gambit
"What just happened!?" Core yelled as he sat up.
The explosion had knocked him down and he was seeing stars. He grabbed onto a ladder rung and used it to pull himself up. The last thing he could remember, before hitting his head on the floor, was going down into the belly of their starship.
"The Nauticans caught up to us," Watt yelled down to Core from his position on the bridge.
Core heard his brother through the ringing in his ears and knew that he would have to work doubly fast if he was going fix their thrusters before they were completely destroyed. He returned to the control panel that he had been at, before the first laser blast had knocked him down. It was still just a jumble of wires that they should have organized months ago.
After a few moments of grouping the wires into different bundles, trying to find the source of their power drain, Core noticed that there hadn't been any follow up blasts.
"Why aren't they shooting anymore!?" He yelled up through the conduit.
"I don't think they want to destroy us completely... I think they're trying to capture us alive!" Watt called back.
"I'm guessing if they do, it won't be to serve us milk and cookies!" Core yelled.
"What? Of course not," Watt shouted back to his brother. "They don't even have eggs on Planet Nautica. How could they bake cookies?" He wasn't the brightest human.
