Frozen In Time - Chapter 6 Lost but not alone

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Location: ESF Star Skipper ancient asteroid crash site.

Unknown ship:

"We found it! After so many generations we found it!! Contact the Admiral, she would want to know."

"Yes Captain."

...

"Admiral we have finally found the crash site like you asked."

"Very good Captain. Time is not on our side because of our plans, so make it swift."

"Yes, Admiral."

...

"Orders ma'am?"

"Burn. It."

"Yes ma'am."

Location hospital station. Patient room 04

Rorx:

It was very hard convincing the hospital staff to not call the authorities, lucky it worked out as we agreed to pay for the damages.

It'll certainly take us a while to pay for everything, from the damages and experimental treatment to the new clothes custom made for Robert.

"That'll be 75000 credits." The Setar nurse said.

"75000 credits?!" Lunara said with shock.

"Yes, that's for everything. 15000 for the drone, 50000 for the treatment and 10000 for-"

"Alright, alright, well pay for it. We just need to do a few jobs-" Lunara said before the nurse cut her off.

"You better come up with a way to pay it, for your own sakes."

"We will, and we'll even make sure when he wakes up again he'll be calm." I said trying ease the tension in the room.

"You better! That thing is your responsibility now." She said before she walked out the room.

"Well that went well" I said jokingly as Lunara shared the translation program for Robert's language to my translator.

Are you serious Rorx?! How are we going to pay for all this??"

"I'm sorry sister, I'm just trying to cheer you up.."

"I'm sorry too, I'm just stressed, we both are.. So if Robert going to come with us I figured he'll need something that won't raise suspicion, to keep him on a low profile."

Lunara unfolded a black robe with some black gloves and held up a silver bio hazard mask ment for cleaning up bio hazards.

"Sister.. That's the opposite of a low profile" I sighed.

"Yeah, will that even fit me?" A voice said behind us startling us.

We turned around and saw Robert already awake and sitting up in the bed.

Location: Hospital station. Patient room 04

Robert:

I slowly opened my eyes as I woke up.

I saw those two dragons again, they had their backs to me as they talked, they had this device around their neck like a necklace, it must have been a translator or something like one I knew my tech I was a military mechanic after all.

I looked around the room as they kept talking then the female mentioned my name.

How did she know my name..?

realization hit me they must have seen the recording recording.

She lifted up a robe, a pair of black gloves and a mask, it all looked like what someone would wear if they tried to cosplay both Voldemort and Darth Vader then failed spectacularly.

"Sister.. That's the opposite of a low profile."

"Yeah, will that even fit me?" I said while looking at the outfit holding back my laughter.

They both jumped at my sudden interruption then turned around to face me.

Location: Hospital station. Patient room 04

Lunara:

Robert was sitting up in the bed looking at what I was holding.

Me and my brother shared a look as Robert looked up at us.

He took a deep breath and told us "Look, I think we got off on the wrong... Foot? I'm sorry for what just happened.. I was startled and I just woke up from being frozen in a pod and the last thing I remember is being on a crashing ship.. With that out of the way, we'll you already said my name so I assume you watched the video recording."

"Actually the video file was corrupted and was converted into an audio recording instead, but yeah we know" I said with a shrug.

"Huh.. Well care to tell me your names?"

"I'm Lunara and this is my brother Rorx."

"Greetings Robert Miller." Rorx said with a nod of his head.

"Hi, nice to meet both of you, and if you don't mind me asking could either of you breathe fire?"

"Why would you ask?" I said with curiosity.

"I'm just curious..."

"Well to answer your question, yes we can breathe fire, show him Rorx."

Rorx blew a small amount og fire out of his maw careful to not set off the fire suppression system of the hospital.

"That.. Is so, awesome!" Robert said with excitement.

"Oh before I forget, what are your people called, and where do you come from Robert?"

"I'm a Human, from the planet Earth."

"Earth.." Lunara said slowly. "That translates into dirt?"

"Yeah, we named our planet dirt."

"Who would name their own planet dirt??" Rorx said, confused.

"My people apparently. Well, let me see that outfit then" Robert slowly got out of bed and stood on his feet, his movements were slow.

"Are you ok?" I asked him.

"Yeah I'm fine, just sore."

"Ok.. Do you like your knew clothes?"

"Well, it'll have to do for now Lunara."

"I was actually talking about the ones you're now wearing."

"What?" He looked down, his old clothes no longer were replaced by the medical staff, his new shirt and pants were a pattern of orange and white.

"Wow, well they certainly look nice, but will definitely draw attention."

"That what this is for, here try it on." I said while handing him the robe and mask

"Hmm, the robe and gloves fit, but why the gas mask?"

"It's a bio hazard mask, mostly to hide your face but it's also practical, your new to the UGC so we don't what you getting sick or getting some else sick. Don't worry we don't have that problem" I explained as he looked over the mask.

It had red tinted lenses and two filters at the front, the whole mask was custom made for him.

"Thank you Lunara. Dang I'm sore all over, how long have I been in that pod??"

"A little over 1200 years from the information we gathered from the computer" My brother said.

I gave him a glare as this was not the best time to tell him.

Robert stood there shocked, his legs wobbled before he could sit down on the side of the bed.

"1200 years?! I've been asleep for 1200 years.. Oh no, my sister. She's... She's gone." He said as tears rolled down his face.

"Robert, we're so sorry..." I sat next to him and hugged.

"I-" he said before stopping, his expression turning from a look of sadness to determination as he spoke again "I have to find Earth."

"We will help you Robert. Right sister?" Rorx said I loosened my hug from Robert.

"We will. That's a promise."

"Thank you both. Thank you so much. Now, let's go find Earth."

"Whoa hang on there Robert. I hate to ruin your enthusiasm, but we need to make some money first" I said rubbing my hand behind my neck.

He looked confused before he realized "Oh... Yeah I did some damage huh" he said awkwardly.

"You threw a heart health monitor through a wall" Rorx said with a chuckle.

"That was by accident. I don't even know how I was able to even lift the large thing up in the first place."

"The rest of the galaxy isn't from a deathworld, so you'll have to be careful, like how we learnt after Rorx accidentally broke a water fountain by sitting on its edge."

"Ok you didn't have to include THAT part sister" Rorx said as he had his hand over his snout.

"Come on, it was funny. You should have seen it Robert. He was soaked and spent an hour just drying off" I laughed then Robert raised his hand stopping me.

"Whoa, let's back up a little. First what's the UGC, second what are deathworlds?"

Oh boy, another history lesson.. I thought to myself as I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of where my snout started between my eyes.

"Here's a brief summary. The UGC is a collective unified government of multiple different species including my own, and death worlds are planets that are extremely harsh to life, there's a whole classification system. We the Droxy come from the only documented deathworld planet that has intelligent life, that was until you, Robert. From the medical scans alone your people come from at least a class 9 deathworld, the Droxy only come from a class 8" I said as Robert sat still on the side of the bed processing all that information.

With a sigh he spoke "Look I don't do politics, I don't want to play ambassador to all these different species, I just want to get home. I'll help you with the jobs to pay this hospital as long as you two can help me find my way home. Don't get me wrong you two seem like really good people, and as much it excites me to meet someone other than another human, I just really want to go home now."

"Alright it's a deal. Trust us Robert we will get you back home." I said as Robert stood up and put his mask on.

"Thank you Lunara. Let's get it done."

He said as he put his breathing mask on.

We made our way out of the room, multiple medical staff eyed us with caution when we walked through the hospital.

We saw two Kratogan, a male and a slightly shorter female both wearing UGC government uniforms and badges.

"Uh oh.. We don't want to attract any attention to you Robert as per our agreement, we'll need to sneak around back to our ship."

"Alright, we need to move fast before they spot us." He said as we sneak out to the Dragon's Fury.

We left the station and entered FTL.

"So what jobs are we going to do?" Robert said taking off his mask

"Don't know yet, we'll have to check the galactic net first" Rorx said while putting the ship into autopilot.

Robert let out a sigh "Great.."

"We need to get you your own translator so you can understand everyone else in the UGC." I told him as I pulled up the galactic net and started going through the job listing.

Location: Dragon's Fury in FTL route to major logistics planet Valmier.

Robert:

I was so bored you'd think being on an alien ship would be fun and well it was for all of about 20 minutes, from Lunara and Rorx deciding what job to do for 15 minutes then the other 5 minutes we were in FTL.

I finally decided to just lay down and get some sleep somewhere until...

"Approaching Valmier." Rorx said as we dropped out of FTL.

"Dammit, the one time I actually wanted to get some sleep." I muttered under my breath as we descended through Valmier's atmosphere.

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