A Hunting

Mercenary entered Foyer of Central Bank on Planet Crossfire. His steps led him to nearest Information Console. Special address inserted, Silver Arrow emblem showed on display. Searching, hunting information … "no new targets", very small activity today. “Well, it looks is time for some weapons tests in field“ … last data console refresh … “What?” Red light blinking in upper right corner, important message is coming. Opening message: “Sir, we have a Job it seems.“ Something happened in Custodian System and theirs police Officer set a Bounty on one Target”. Accept … Decline. In mercenary eyes blinked cold light, mission accepted, details are downloaded. Target actual location is in Shikoku system but it looks he will be there only for a short time period. Mission details downloaded and transferred to ship computer, tracking device has been launched.

Small hunter ship departed from Crossfire Planet Starport and headed to Nomad Gates junction. … “Which way to use?” appeared in mercenary mind … “let’s try use a Tohoku route.” Few second later tracking computer give a signal … Target location changed, Kepler is showing on display. With little delay hunter returned to X system and quickly moved through Custodian to New York and hunting started. Target vector changed 180, adrenaline in blood raised. Hunting continued into New Tokyo and Honshu Systems. Mercenary smiled "let’s try this" … few jumps through not normally used hidden jump holes and his Target is only few km ahead. He almost felt him but he also knew that one bad decision can destroy all effort.

Frankfurt, Mainz Storage Facility – one station doors open and small ship ship took off into space. Suddenly ships alarms sounded and in next moment was ship shields hit by disrupter missiles salvo. Cruise engines went off-line and from system channel come only one word “Defend!”

Mercenary eyes had darkened, all his senses prepared for merciless struggle "… but hmm, something is wrong …" Target refused to defend! Fast scan revealed this mystery, on Target is only very basic armament. With this also come request to stop … Adrenaline in mercenary blood slowly decreases, taste for killing fades. He decided do not destroy his target today. Hunting alone was his price, he knows that he is naive, but he knows also that destroy Target without good fight is not fun for him. "We will meet again, be prepared" told and his ship slowly left the Frankfurt system.