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up.”
    The Havana jumped into normal space next to the large ship and fired a fusion missile. It hit the three thousand foot long vessel and exploded before reaching the ship. Arvolo applied thrusters and dodged left as ten beams ripped through the space the Havana had just vacated.
    Kenny looked at his display and said, “Three of those beams would have killed us at our current field strength.”
    Arvolo jerked the Havana hard right and dodged six missiles homing in on them. “I guess you aren’t that great a kisser, Kenny. I think they expected more” The missiles turned abruptly and homed in on the Havana and hit it on the port side.
    The force field flashed brilliant white and stopped the missiles. Arvolo went weightless and zoomed in on the blue colored ship and Kenny fired a beam. It was also stopped on the force field as Arvolo turned ninety degrees and accelerated away as ten beams failed to hit them. “No more Mister Nice Guy. You have full weapons release.”
    “Just get me in close. See if you can draw another salvo of beams.”
    “Oh, now you’re two timing them. You want me to get close and personal.”
    “Not my type. You can have them.”
    Arvolo flipped the ship and came back at a hundred and eighty degrees faster than physics allowed. He was thankful for the weightlessness of the Havana. He watched his sensors and saw the beam cannons on the surface of the large ship showing they were drawing power. He had mentally counted the time taken on the previous shots fired at them and he turned ninety degrees an instant before the twenty beams ripped by less than a hundred feet from the Havana’s force field. The force field brightened from the close miss and then disappeared as Kenny directed all three reactors into the main beam and fired immediately after he launched a fusion missile from close range. The beam tore through the Scout’s force field and the fusion missile struck and blew the three thousand foot long ship into fragments.
    “Hey, that was a nice move. You may not be a good kisser but you can handle weapons. What now?”
    “Get us out of here, RV. Multiple ships are jumping in.”
    Arvolo turned the ship and accelerated away from the destroyed ship at light speed. “What do you see?”
    “We have eight of those ships just appear at the site of the explosion. They are now giving chase.”
    “Going into Sierra Space.”
    The Havana dropped into Sierra Space but was immediately hit by the screen of a Scout that was waiting for them. They popped back into normal space and saw that the eight ships had split up with four of them jumping ahead of them through Sierra Space. Kenny looked at Arvolo and said, “We can’t escape. They have more than ten ships scattered in Sierra Space to force us back into normal space as soon as we try to escape.”
    “Notify Fleet what’s happening and I’ll let them chase us for a while as Fleet decides what we should do.”
    Arvolo changed direction and kept the eight ships chasing them at a distance. “Have they made a decision?”
    “Not yet. It looks like we’re on our own.”
    “Well, weapons master. What are we going to do?”
    Kenny took a deep breath and said, “I’ve not used a program that I’ve designed because I’m uncertain about it working. It looks like we should give it a go.”
    “That doesn’t sound good to me. What does it do?”
    “I noticed that you have been able to estimate how long the beams on those ships fire after charging. Am I right?”
    “Yes, I’ve noticed the interval.”
    “Well, my software has that delay scanned in and will automatically switch the reactors from force field to beams when it determines that their beams are not firing. I’ve been able to determine the location of their reactors and if we can fly and take on their beams we can fire in the delay and hit the reactors. That should disable the ship. The program will automatically switch power between our force field and beams.”
    Arvolo turned