[story][Fenspace Alternates] The South Is Rising, Someone Get A Hammer

[Dakota]

This is a incomplete rewrite of my post earler, I still need to do the interaction between Sabre and the 191 crew of the Remembrance. That part has my muse stumped at the moment.

20,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean
18 November 2016, 23:55 LST

The
whale king Tyger Tyger sailed through the clouds on autopilot. With
it’s owner currently down in his workshop. Sabre kicked back in his
telepresence body at the desk in his workshop. Feet set upon the desk
top as he leaned his chair back. Electronically running the last of the
checks on the Shadow Fox zoid he been working on as a personal project
through his head. The fun thing about being a ghost in a machine shell
is that you can do a lot of things from one spot. What he didn’t know
was that a bunch of alien space bastards where about to play a shell
game with reality right in front of his ship as the clock struck the
hour.

Sabre
and his chair crashed over backwards as his head was filled with alerts
from the Tyger. It was as if a curtain had been slammed down across the
path the Tyger was flying. The autopilot reacted to avoid the wall that
the sensors where suddenly reporting. Then everything was normal again.
This left the autopilot confused so it threw the Tyger into a racetrack
holding pattern and hid in a electronic hole gibbering. The sensors
being sensors just reported everything as cheerfully normal again.
Sabre picked himself up off the floor and gave his head a shake as he
accessed the Tyger’s systems. “What the hell was that?”

He
called up the last three minutes of sensor and external camera data.
Watching as a massive wall of clouds formed from horizon to horizon in
front of the Tyger and lasting nearly a minute before disappearing as
suddenly as it formed. He reviewed it a few more times before uploading
it to his youtube.fen account with the comment, “What the hell is
this?” Included is a link to the sensor data at a fen file sharing
site. Before turning his attention to the sensors and scanning the area
as he started the ship creeping towards the US east coast.

10,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean
19 November 2016, 00:20 LST

The
sensors picked up a weak radar signal coming from the northwest and
moving slowly west. His ears perked at this and a silent command sent
the Tyger heading off towards it. Probing with the sensors to get a
reading, “Er? six surface contacts, radar is coming from the center
one. Maybe they saw something.” A thought activated the comms and set
them to radio. “This is the fen craft Tiger Tiger calling unknown ships
on a northwest heading. Come in, over.”

_______________________________________________________________
Characters
Sabre Fang
Dakota