Canals of New Mars: I Had Better Time by flavia49
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Eve looked at JS's wound from which a rivulet of blood flowed. She was very worried. For the first time since she'd known him, she felt some hesitation in JS when he opened his mind to engage the Rogue crew and the pilot of the lead aircraft.
"How are you?" Eve whispered mentally.
"If our ship yells again, I'll be totally bollocksed and we go tits up!"
"Would you stop trying to do everything by yourself?" Eve murmured with a hint of concerned frustration. "I can help shield you from the ship, while you concentrate on the plane. We are one, now."
"All right!" nodded JS relaxing a bit.
After that sudden sharp cry, the ship hadn't shown any signs of life, but JS's headache was still monumental. While he focused on the take-off and his position as a wingman, Eve began to "massage" and stretch his nerve endings and neural ganglia as she had been taught. She felt that his mind reopened, relaxed and almost purred. Taken his place in formation, JS turned toward her and smiled.
But Eve also felt that the loss of blood was weakening him. "I can dab your wound, can I?"
JS clenched his jaw but nodded. Eve began to dab his wound with the pieces of towel she'd used as a padding for the suit. At once she exclaimed: "Jay, the tattoo's nanostructures are... er, the nanocritters are healing the wound. It bleeds less where there's the tattoo!"
"So they're useful for something, besides giving me a crazy tickle!" JS grinned, but she could see that he moved his left arm clumsily.
They flew in V formation for a while then JS thought: "Eve, we must disengage before someone discovers the truth. I realized that if I focus on someone and send a thought, he perceives something like a sensation, an unconscious feeling. Well, we have to focus on the lead, I'll think about a drone entering the atmosphere of New Mars, and you must reinforce the pressure of my thought. All clear?"
After a moment of "mental fire", JS yelled on the radio: "I saw a drone entering into the atmosphere, sir. I saw a flash."
"I also saw something, like a reflection." The lead called the flight leader: "We saw a drone penetrating the atmosphere of the planet, sir. I ask permission to investigate."
"Go!"
The lead leaned toward the planet below, tailgated closely by JS, while the rest of the flight continued its search in the outer space.
JS entered the atmosphere and immediately noticed that the controls of the Scythe had become stiff and the aircraft was difficult to maneuver.
"Damn it!" the Rogue pilot exclaimed, "she doesn't respond to the controls easily and drinks too much fuel in the atmo."
"We shall report," said JS who served as a wingman and who had struggled to keep the aircraft in line against the Martian winds. His shoulder had started to bleed again. It was time. JS cocked his weapons and hooked the target. "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" the Rogue pilot yelled, his alarms sounding. JS's missile reduced him to confetti. JS motioned to Eve to take the stick and called his base on New Mars. Given his position he ordered: "Send two fighters to escort us and prepare the landing platform, we are coming."
"Also prepare a MedLab!" Eve cried.
Eventually they managed to land. JS took off his helmet and looked at Eve staring at him, her lips tight and a worried expression. "Hey, we made it!" and added to his land crew: "Hide the plane."
"You're as white as a wash cloth!" Eve said, "how are you?"
"I had better times." JS murmured closing his eyes, "and worse ..."
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Comments (65)
flaviok
".After that sudden sharp cry, the ship hadn't shown any signs of life, but the JS's headache was still monumental. While he focused on the take-off and his position as a wingman, Eve began to "massage" and stretch his nerve endings and neural ganglia as she had been taught. She felt that his mind reopened, relaxed and almost purred. Taken his place in formation, JS turned toward her and smiled."..impressiona a maneira descritiva e envolvente com que evolues a hitória minha amiga, rica em detalhes e sutilizas. Imagem igualmente magnifica, aplausos (5)
alessimarco
Tattoo nanostructures...intriguing! I really love the image you made to accompany this chapter...excellent scene!
claude19
A beautiful episode where the couple Eve and JS starts to happen in close cooperation with each other! Eve seems more seasoned JS, even at times; La gravure est très SciFi !!! BRAVO.
jocko500
wonderful story and image
Star4mation
Super sci-fi scene Flavio :)
jeroni
Wonderful and very creative work
Madbat
I like the nanostructure tattoos and the clever escape, great looking looking image!
RodolfoCiminelli
Meraviglioso e molto creativo lavoro la mia amica Flavia.....!!!
wblack
WOnderful concept and imagery, well done!
stick
Great image, now you certainly have me hooked on this story!
tennesseecowgirl
Sounds like JS and Eve make quite a pair, a great story~
scifibabe
Interesting scifi scene. Great space background and cockpit. I liked the story a lot - very engaging. And the self healing tattoo is too cool. Well done!
plasmid
Great POV from cockpit. Nicely laid out.
1358
loved the POV of the image, good use of vanishing point painting!
drifterlee
Fantatic scene!!!!!
psyoshida
Gripping story beautifully written. This scene is superb!! In full view, looking at the angles of the other ships you can certainly feel the movement. Wonderful work. Bravo.
Minda
Great POv and excellent scene..
mgtcs
Amazing description, excellent writing my dear friend, congratulations!
MOSKETON
ME GUSTA FELICIDADES.
Faemike55
Great render and wonderful story. I'm eagerly awaiting the next reading
Richardphotos
we humans bound to earth can only dream how space looks like first hand except for hubble spacescope provides.your depiction is outstanding
myrrhluz
Very interesting about the tattoo's nanostructures! Love the interaction between JS and Eve and how they work together. Wonderful verbal descriptions and rendered image! Very interested in what going on with the ship! Great episode!
junge1
Great story and image!
Darkwish
Amazing pic. Very well done.
brycek
Wonderful sci-fi scene!!
renecyberdoc
going tits up huh?? and getting reduced to confetti fine world you live in lol. story as always the finest for me.favo.
gonedigital
Wonderful and well done. Love the pov! Oh and don't forget the great story. =-)
Chipka
What a wonderful image and text...I have quite a lot of catching up to do, but that's always a good thing...It means I have something to look forward to. The title of this series is wonderful...The Canals of New Mars has such an Edgar Rice Burroughs and Ray Bradbury feel to it, and from what I've read so far, the story itself is quite compelling. Wonderful work! Time to start catching up. By the way, I love those ships...they're nicely organic, rather like manta rays mated with household appliances...that's always a good thing if you ask me. Great details. Great work!
bazza
Super chapter of this story.. very riveting, and a lovely picture.. Very well done Await the next chapter now lol.. well done!!
lior
So amazing!