MechaShadow2

Ian was sitting in the cargo bay alone, thinking things over, adjusting to the fact of how much had changed, his way of life being over, the few people left that he was close to being long gone. It was almost too much. He wondered also what he would do from this point on. Could he adjust to the drastic change in culture? Technology? The fact that he couldn’t understand what others were saying aside from some hologram? He wasn’t sure what to do. Just then the ship shook. His head jerked up, he knew from experience that it meant that either the ship had hit something, or something had hit the ship. He also knew that generally speaking, it meant a weapon had hit the ship. He jumped up and ran to the doorway, after stepping out to a hallway, he looked around, not sure where to go. It then came to him that he had no idea as to what the layout of the ship was. “T’pan, are you there?”, he called out. “Yes, what is it?” T’pan’s holographic head appeared in the hallway in front of

“Is it ready to be opened up yet, T’pan? The suspense is killing me!” “It is safe to proceed now, madame, whoever is inside will awaken once you open the hatch.” “Good, finally!” She hopped on top of the vehicle's nose and opened up the hatch, a hissing noise appeared, and vapor came out as she lifted it up. “What have we here? A human? Hhm, have you found anything on record yet for a ship of this model T’pan?” “No Madame, however now that we know the pilot is a human I will narrow the search to only human vessels in the ship's database record.” “Great, thanks. Oh! I think he’s coming too.” She looked over at him as he squinted, he slowly moved his hand over his eyes. “Sorry to wake you from your sleep, but I’m sure you didn't want to be floating out there forever,” she said as she gave a playful laugh, “besides, your ship is pretty beat up, I doubt its power would stay on much longer. My name is Himiniami, what’s yours?” He looked at her for a few seconds with a