Capítulo 48: Getting Separated from Each Other

Dora realized what James was afraid of. If she closed the door now, they would be locked here as prisoners, and they had done this to themselves. There were two ends of the corridor they were at, each with a separating segment that was closing and already was half closed.

Before she could seek for his guidance, he moved. James headed straight to the farthest one from his place, and he waved his hand towards the opposite side. Dora got it, as she moved as fast as she could towards the other end.

This segment was part of the huge cruiser, so there was part of the gravity here even after the leak with the outside gravity-zero space. This helped them in their move towards both movable gates, and they barely managed to pass these gates a hair breadth away from their complete closure. However, they were now separated.

Dora had the advantage here, as this was her ship in the first place. She knew every inch in this ship, so she knew how she could get to James. As for James, he was alone, but he wasn't that tense.

He knew their intrusion was covered by the risky trick he did back there, as whoever inside this cruiser would mistaken this to be caused by the cannons. This would provide enough distraction and wouldn't endanger them.

He also hoped this would buy them some time, after all this segment would be isolated from the outside space, and the fact this was the trash location provided them with additional advantage, no one would care to come and check the cause of the damage here, not in the trash segment.

The first thing Dora did was to hurry up and go through different cross roads heading straight towards James' location.

As for James, the first thing he did was to deactivate his suit, took out a laser gun and started to blast all the surveillance cameras in his way. He didn't know the right direction to go, but he knew Dora would come to find him, so he was just preparing their next move.

Things never went on as planned, this was a universal rule applied anytime, anywhere. As Dora was moving carelessly towards James, she was spotted on one of the surveillance rooms in her ship.

This was something she didn't put in her consideration, so when she was about to take another turn, she was faced by a closed end, an already closed separation gate. That startled her, as she didn't know why this gate was closed.

Generally, no separation gate should be closed at any time in the cruiser except if there was a leakage to outer space, or if there was a secret they wanted to hide. She didn't think much as she knew another route, but as she reached there, she was shocked to find it was closed.

'This is no coincidence,' she muttered to herself. She figured out the reason, but it was too late, as she never cared about cameras in her ship, who would ever care about cameras in his home? She lamented her carelessness, which would cost her and James everything.

'I have to drive them away from James," she thought as she recalled the map of her ship in her mind and began to locate another target. She chose the arsenal unit, which was a strategic place that her directions led to.

To make sure they would be deceived, she walked into another direction, which totally led her away from James location, while it led to the arsenal.

As for James, he kept moving slowly hitting all the cameras he found for some time, then he felt something was off. He didn't doubt Dora, as she was smart enough to figure out the next thing to be done, which was coming to him.

She was his guide here, and without her he would be lost. This wasn't a small cruiser, but a huge cruiser that was in a size of a small town without exaggeration. Getting lost here was so easy that made him terrified of the idea alone.

He also felt Dora wasn't coming to him, and that might be due to dire circumstances. He hoped to be wrong, or else things would turn very complicated.

James wasn't aware of the general design of this cruiser, so he had to improvise. He first pictured the place of the waste room that he got into from the main body of the cruiser, then he hypothesized a route towards the main deck.

To reach the commanding deck, he needed to move opposite to the direction of the waste room, and this was really challenging.

He knew he would lose all his sense of direction when he delved deeper into the cruiser, which made his previous theory invalid and risky.

He had no other option except to get a layout of this cruiser. To do so, he either needed to hack the system, and he had no ability to do it, or to kidnap someone here and try to get this info from him at any cost.

That would be very dangerous, as he would be discovered no matter what he did. He couldn't do any of this, and he had no solution in his mind, which made him so frustrated.

He kept moving, as he increased the pace of his steps, to get as far away from his location as possible. He was guarding against the possibility of Dora getting captured, and so he preferred to be lost than to get caught.

As he was moving very fast like he was running, he found something that attracted his attention and made him stop in his tracks. He leaned to the wall that was covered in strange pink color, with long white strips on it, and watched a person.

He was the first person he met so far, but instead of running away from him, he moved closer with extreme caution, so he didn't alert him.

What attracted James to this person and made him try to sneak behind him was the movement of this person, he was moving slowly with caution as if he was trying to sneak his way in the ship.

That person covered his face and his body with black colored suit, so James figured he either came from outside like he and Dora did, and that was unlikely, or he was preparing to go to space soon.

James moved towards that person as he thought he was preparing to leave here, and that wouldn't happen unless that person had planted explosives in that cruiser, enough to take it down, and James would never allow such a thing to happen.

He wouldn't risk destroying this ship like this, at least until he got his hands on that device, then he wouldn't stop any attempt to blast this ship apart.