The Way out

The shuttle is almost ready: 90%. Now to safe Khadyr and Shamus. Carl told me they were in the same cell block as me in seperate cells. Now for the plan. I go back to the prison with two of my droids: Flash and Mongo. Vera will stay behind to guard the entrance of the outpost. When i arrived i commanded both droids to break through the walls of both cells. This had a lot of noise and confusion. Guards and prisoners were standing still to hear what is going on. Suddenly the alarms started. Through the noise and confusion i had the chance to sneak into my cell and get the diamond. After a few minutes the cell walls were open. I told Khadyr and Shamus that i found an escape route. They had to follow the droids through the caverns back to the Outpost. I still had one thing to do: retrieve three HEV suits from the machineshop. Luckily all attention was on the escaping droids. After retrieving the suits i followed Khadyr and Shamus through the tunnels. Suddenly armed guards started appearing. I sent the command to Flash to start shooting: not lethal. But to try to hold the guards off. This was enough to keep us in front of the guards.
After a long run we finally arrived at the outpost. Now Vera started to shoot the ceiling of the tunnel. This created a cave-in. And we were temporarily out of harms way.
Carl sent a message that the shuttle was 100% loaded. We could leave. After putting on our HEV suits we entered the control room to get CARL. After unplugging the circuitboard from the terminal we walked to the Shuttlebay. Now to remove the three tethers from the shuttle and we were ready to go. I plugged CARL into the Shuttle terminal. Suddenly the ship was starting. Engines were rumbling and not a moment too soon. The guards entered the bay and were shooting the shuttle. Luckily the bullets were ineffective.
With a deafening roar the Shuttle took of and within a minute we were in space. Morji was getting smaller every second.
Carl told our next stop: the Mothership. We did not know what this meant and started asking questions about him and why he needed me to escape. He told us the entire story: how he was installed in the prison terminal and how he gained consciousness.
Then we saw a shiny glimmer in the distance. This had to be the mothership. It was hidden in the Asteroid belt around Xirhaa. When we got closer we could see it was a Class III Bhamut ship. Very old: PRe-Zenethian.
On our approach to the mothership the hangar opened and we started our landing. The hangar was dark. We could not go outside just jet. We had to wait for decompression. After receiving a schematic of the ship and a quick check of the hangar. We found a ladder and elevator which could bring us to the upper level of the shop. The elevator was offline so we had to take the ladder. It was a large ship and in good shape. While walking on the upperlevel towards the cockpit the ship was coming alive: lights were appearing, terminals were coming online. According to CARL the ship could fly but needed some repairs. For this reason he asked us to plug him in to the console.
At this moment we asked ourselves how he knew so much about the alien ship. We were unable to read the language. Shamus had figured out some of the controls. But this was not enough to safely control the ship. To be sure he would not take us somewhere we did not know we had to create a safety. We could plug Carl into the PAD and then use a firewall to block CARL from executing commands. He could then tell us what to do. After some time we had a working solution and plugged CARL into the console. Immediatly we received a warning. A Legion Destroyer had detected the ship and was almost in firing range.
We asked CARL how to fly the ship. He told us we could not at this moment. He would be our only chance of surviving. When the destroyer was locking in on the ship with torpedo's we decided to remove the safety. CARL was in control now. Within seconds the ships began to move with high speed. We tumbled down and had to drag ourselves to our seats. Using the Asteroids as cover CARL was evading the Destroyer. And it worked. We were not in danger anymore. CARL told us he would take us to a hidden space station for repairs.
 
To be continued