The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1022

Ves pushed off his table and coasted over in the direction of the battered bar counter where the two elite Spiral Shocker guards and Lord Javier huddled behind.

"Don’t shoot! It’s me!" He said as he floated to their cover position.

Lord Javier gaped at Ves as soon as he came into sight. His guards probably paused in astonishment as well, though their heavy helmets obscured their expressions.

"Did you do all that?" Javier asked with a tremble in his voice.

"No, a unicorn did it." Ves flippantly said. "Are you okay?"

"I’m unharmed."

"That’s good to hear."

"Say, can you give me your weapon? I’m a good shot."

"You’ll have to ask the unicorn, not me. I’m unarmed."

Lord Javier threw a skeptical eye at Ves. "Yeah right."

Ves would never admit he fired the powerful lasers despite being more than obvious that he was the one who could have done so. The good thing about the total shutdown was that the Felicitous Remembrance’s pervasive monitoring system stopped recording everything that happened inside the ship.

Even if some secret record already stated that he possessed a power laser weapon as his trump card by now, the less details it mentioned, the better.

He already used the Amastendira so often that he no longer feared its exposure. If nothing else, he could always chalk it up to a present from Master Olson or an amazing treasure find from the Frontier.

The best way for Ves to brush aside the speculation on his weapon was to forge onwards and leave what just happened behind. It was a lesson that Lord Javier imparted to him just some time ago when he explained how to deal with public embarrassment.

In other words, just be shameless and boldly change the topic, leaving your questioners no time to go back!

"Those ’pirates’ aren’t pirates." Ves declared. "They’re infiltrators, commandos, whatever. They look like pirates and their gear fits their roles. Yet the training they exhibited and the tactics they used are too sophisticated."

One of the elite security guards snorted. "We’re aware. We have fought these sorts of disguised pirates before. They did a good job masking their actual origins. We aren’t able to determine if they’re Brighters or Vesians."

"They might even be dark mercenaries from the frontier or the Nyxian Gap." Ves idly guessed. "Whatever the case, these pirates came here for a very specific purpose. I think they intended to rescue you, Javier."

The attackers didn’t put their full effort into fighting back against the two guards. If they truly wanted to kill the guards, they could have been a lot more aggressive and decisive in their attacks. Yet they took a lot of care in their aim in order to avoid hitting the defenseless hostage.

Another clue that backed up Ves’ assertion was that all the grenades they threw turned out to be stun or EMP grenades instead of deadlier variants. He studied their fragments scattered on the deck and knew enough about them to recognize they held no lethal payloads.

The Vesian noble wasn’t stupid. Neither were the guards.

The only thing they couldn’t figure out if rescuing Lord Javier was a priority or a side goal to the attackers.

"We need to get to safety." Ves said. "What are your protocols?"

"The main security department is close by." One of the guards stated. "We can bunker down there. There is also a small armory further ahead that is much more secure against hostile intruders."

"Our orders in this event are to take the prisoner back to the security department." The other guard stated.

While Ves would have preferred to go to the armory in order to equip himself with a good set of armor or something, he shrugged. "Let me come along."

The two guards didn’t refuse. Even if Ves was a mech designer who appeared to be completely unarmed, they didn’t forget the powerful laser attacks that wiped out the attackers just a few minutes earlier.

This mech designer deserved his combat awards!

The ribbons adorning his service dress uniform took on an entirely different meaning now to Lord Javier and his guards. The latter especially no longer dared to dismiss Ves’ presence.

Before they left the room, the two guards sought out an emergency locker that held various tools, medkits and most importantly a set of hazard suits!

Ves and Lord Javier both adorned the bulky hazard suits which to the former’s regret also consisted of a basic model. Its semi-flexible synthetic surface didn’t offer that much more protection against enemy fire than a thin vacsuit.

Even so, the added protection against heat, fire, corrosion, radiation and other environmental hazards at least protected them if the Felicitous Remembrance began to fall apart or something.

Wearing this basic hazard suit over his ornamental uniform and basic underlayer vacsuit made Ves miss his old CFA gear. He would have been able to walk up to the supposed pirates and wrestle their own ballistic rifles from their grasp without any hindrance!

His XV-99 Squalon armor would have been able to bounce away all of the rounds and grenades thrown in his direction without suffering a single scratch!

Of course, this was only a dream for now. His current assignment left him with no opportunity to bring his own gear so he had to make do with this basic model hazard suit instead.

"Let’s move to the security department."

They hustled out of the dining room, leaving the charred and smoking remains of the so-called pirates behind.

Even the blast doors failed for some reason, succumbing to plasma charges from all the melted slag left behind. _{ƒreewebɳovel.com}