AutoTerra: Operating Systems
Chapter 43: The Journey to Headquarters
The hangar on Thornic 035 looks so quiet nobody. Understandably, it's past midnight, the hours are many people on rest.
Inside one of the planes, which is certainly an outside plane, not the original plane of the ship, the pilot was fast asleep in the steering wheel with his head turned up, the helmet almost covered his head, and saliva dripped everywhere.
His sleep was so good, ngorok also sounded loud. Until the moment his head hit the tab from behind.
“Woi, wake you up, Pilot!”
Hurriedly the pilot woke up from his sleep, turning towards the thrower while fixing the position of the helmet.
“E-eh. Si-ready, Mandor— Mak-I mean, Deputy Commander!” he said firmly accompanied by respect with the helmet back tilted on the head.
Harnan slightly moved his lips. “Mandor, foreman. You think you're building another project, what? Huh, ah. Ready, noh! Soon we will just go back to headquarters.”
“Now, Sir?” the pilot was confused. When looking at the clock according to the time of this ship, it still shows midnight passing a little.
“Marriage of Commander Mavin, yes...” Harnan's face immediately sewot. “Now, lah! That same Commander that guy ‘dah waiting outside.”
“O-okay. Okay, sir,” replied the pilot nervously.
Harnan decided to get off the plane for a while, going to Mavin and Astan who were still talking to Noah, the vice-chairman of the Guild.
“I'm down jerk. Do not jump on the plane. Until it hits an asteroid, it won't be us anymore.”
As soon as Harnan got off the plane leaving the pilot, the pilot opened the candy wrapper, putting it in his mouth.
“Candy coffee candy ajalah, let me be literate,” muttered the pilot, began to check all kinds of preparations before flying the plane.
In a hangar near their plane, Mavin, Astan, and Noah are still chatting with each other before saying goodbye. From the plane stairs, Harnan came down to them.
“So...” Noah put both hands in his pants pocket. “You're leaving now?”
“Ya..., how else?” Mavin rubbed his nape. “We have to leave at this hour, mumpung the occupants of your ship are still on sleep.”
“Commander, here bentar.”
Harnan pulls Mavin away from Noah and Astan, begins to whisper the commander, and briefly steals the lyrics to Astan.
“Mavin, are you sure that the delinquent is Vice Chairman Ash?” whispered Harnan while glancing at Astan with a somewhat disgusted glance.
“86% sure, really. His face is similar, his name is similar. And there are allegations that Astan has amnesia. Naturally if he looks different,” replied Mavin whispered with a plain face.
“You're…. Try view.”
Mavin squinted with Harnan while watching the antique gelagat Astan. Seen standing a bit lackluster, sometimes scraping one ear, kissing the old finger scraping it, and even rubbing his own ass.
It really looks like an immoral human being.
“Vice Chairman Ash we know ‘kan the person neat, polite, cheap smile. Lah, this..” Harnan clucked, shook his head, “Ish~ is like a caveman who just knew civilization. No courtesy.”
“I told you, his name is also amnesia.”
“You're sure he's amnesiac? What if you're wrong?”
Mavin starts to assert a little, “Ish, you don't remember our conversation with you—.”
“Hoi!”
The two stopped whispering when they heard Astan's call. The man with the wound in his left eye grew tired of standing around the plane for a long time.
“We so leave no?” ask Astan bete. “Lift just a cepet, let the business of kayak start directly kelar.”
At first, Harnan wanted to nag because he could not stand Astan's tough attitude, but Mavin intercepted him.
While holding back the overflow to blaspheme, Harnan went back up the stairs to the plane.
With a smile, Mavin replied, “Oke. We just leave.”
“Ya, already. Y'all careful. Thank you for your visit, Commander Mavin,” said Noah kindly.
Mavin nodded for a moment. “Sure. I hope you can keep this a secret good.”
Previously, Mavin had explained their purpose in finding Astan to Noah after successfully persuading Astan to come with them. Noah does not believe it at first, but the bespectacled man chooses to be silent, not to interfere more deeply until the real truth about Astan's identity is revealed.
Then, Noah spoke to Astan, “You also do not look for because during their headquarters later. Will be worse our image in the eyes of the military and government.”
“Iya, Fish Meal…. I like to search for it because of.”
Hearing Astan's call to Noah, Mavin is forced to try to hold back a laugh. Fish Meal? Funny that's the title for the vice-chairman.
Noah kept trying to smile as gently as possible. If only there were no Mavin, Harnan, and the pilot here, it might have been slit alive Astan's neck was so anxious with the indiscriminate attitude of the orange-haired man.
“OK, we leave first, Vice Chairman Noah,” said Mavin.
Mavin and Astan immediately walked up the stairs of the plane. Before the two entered, Noah had a message,
“Again, don't make it because of people's headquarters, Tan! The old one there. If you can, don't go back. Let's not get this reinforcements Guild.”
“Aelah~ It's very situ same members themselves,” Reply Astan annoyed.
“Hahaha Noah laughed at her response.
Their plane came out of the hangar gate, and was about to take off in the outer hangar area. Now only leaving Noah alone, still standing there in the silence of the plane parking area.
“So, Astan is a military member who had lost his memory?” he murmured, seeming to think. “Hopefully Astan gets a better fate in the future. Don't let anything else.”
Although not a close friend, Noah is quite concerned about the fate of Astan when remembering the events of three years ago.
At that time, Astan looked very sad.
...~*~*~*~...
With light-speed energy, it only takes a few hours to get to Ribelo-II Group Headquarters which is in the orbit of Planet Ribelo. Accompanied by his trained skills, the pilot skillfully flew the plane, shooting at the asteroid rocks when it could not be avoided in the trajectory of the asteroid belt so that there was a gap through.
Even so fast, those on board did not feel any vibrations at all thanks to various advanced technologies that support the structure of the aircraft well.
Harnan and Mavin had just finished changing their clothes in a special cabin, from Hippie's ridiculous outfit to an official military uniform. While Astan himself was left to wear ordinary clothes coated in a black leather jacket. Mavin said that Astan will be sent to the base without any military personnel being known there.
If they find out there's a hunter at the military headquarters, it could be bad.
All three are sitting in their seats, precisely behind the pilot who is still focused on flying the plane. They seem busy themselves, Harnan plays his tab, Mavin just daydreams about how to smuggle Astan (thought of illegal goods, what?), and Astan sees a blurry view in the window due to the speed of flying this plane.
“The pilot doesn't mind knowing that you guys brought hunters like me to headquarters?” tanya Astan opened the conversation.
The newly awakened Mavin from his daydream replied, “Tin. He's our trust pilot.”
“Oooh...” In return, Astan simply nodded.
A few minutes later, the speed of the plane began to drop. Can be known from the view outside the plane window that looks somewhat clearer than before.
“We've arrived, Commander.”
...~*~*~*~...
Saturday-week holiday, yak. So, see you on Monday. Drug...! ^^/
