S.M. Cochran

The Twenty-Five Percent

Prologue The ship darts out of its hiding place as the Predator ship approaches. It dodges and rolls, trying to simultaneously avoid the large asteroids and the Predator's lasers. At such high speeds of travel, dodging is always hard to do. Only the most experienced of pilots can pull off this tricky maneuver without crashing and killing everyone on board. It gets dangerously close to a large asteroid a few times, only to pull up at the last second. The pilot is hoping the much larger Predator ship won't be able to dodge as quickly, but unfortunately for the small ship, the Predator is every bit as agile as it is. The Predator gracefully dodges in, out, and around the asteroids and other debris firing its lasers as it goes. The lasers burst open asteroids, and space junk alike, barely missing the smaller ship.