RidOv Chpt 1

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 1 - Making of a Captain==
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"Do you know why you're going to fail...
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...Sir?" her hair was black and straight, cut short to end framing her jaw-short enough to fit inside a pressure suit helmet. One eye is paired to an empty socket, left open with a dirty bandage wrapped 'round her forehead. 
"Stand down, We have you surrounded." He ordered, as his advanced Clan Battle Armor ran a link to facial recognition.
His prey was maybe seventeen, if that, and barely armed with a vibroblade and an old, even obsolete, Sternsacht heavy pistol crammed into her ill-fitting belt.
"It's because I'm the greatest Pirate you've ever seen, or ever will see, and I'm far, far, too amazing to be taken in by the likes of you!!" What she threw at him wasn't reactive or visibly flammable, but the inky dye-like substance obscured his sensors and his vision, and the wiper simply smeared it...
As she made her escape.
"Lock down the spaceport-she can not escape if she can not leave the planet!!" he barked over the command channel.
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"Tell me you found it, Leo!!" Amanda barked over the scrambled channel, "I've got Clanners on my ass!! and not in the fun way!!"
Chickenwalker legged 'mechs rumbled up the street as a pair of modified Turhan APCs rolled to block the main line of the pavement, disgorging battlesuits and uniforms armed with Needlers and flame units.
"Working on it!"
"Work faster!!"
She spotted a drainage under an eroded ferrocrete wall, dashed toward it, and dove in.
"They've locked down the spaceport, boss. I think they know who you are."
"Great."
She struggled under the broken section, through nasty-smelling runoff and garbage into the storm sewer...which had, over time, become the actual sewer for this part of the city...and smelt like it.
Job's going south, ******!! job's going to hell...
It was supposed to be simple, straight forward-in and out in the quiet, and enough profit to maybe start again.
But then, somehow, the ever- ****** Snow Ravens showed up!
She spotted an outflow that would probably put her outside the city wall, and the grate was rusted over.
She kicked, and it opened just wide enough to worm her way through.
"Greatest Pirate? I do not even know who you are."
The Clanners had the drop on her. Amanda glanced left to right, before raising her hands. She hope they don't make it last too long.
"I will be!" she announced, and let herself topple down the loose shale grading, under their guns...
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