The last of the adjustments had been made, and they were ready. Anival stood up and bumped his head on a pipe sticking out, Celine laughed. Anival looked at her. "Not funny" he mumbled, that only brought more laughter.
"Alright, I'm done." it was Darien.
"We are too. Going to the cockpit."
"Alright lets get going!"
Once tucked in the chair, Anival sat at the Weapons Computer, lucky at the controls, and Darien in the navigation computer. Darien tapped some keys and lucky hit a button, pretty soon they were in hyperspace. going to the unknown, the secret place were the event was held every ten years. The Heap race, as it had it had been come to be known. They arrived without incident, and docked with a space station. And exited.
Inside the station were countless species, many of them were checking in. Anival smiled he saw someone from his home planet, which was rare, it was a sad fact that if the man found him, he would try to kill him, but Anival had changed, so he doubted any problems would occur. They walked side by side to the desk, and checking in. They got their room key, and their match number, they would be in Round 3.
"Well, an hour is left before the first match, lets go check out our room and then come back to get something to eat."
"Ye can watch da match o'er there whiles you eat." The man pointed to a table which had a holo floating around.
They walked four halls over until the room was discovered, Anival opend the door, and sighed. He expected more. One bed in the far corner, and a couch near a Closet, no TV. A sink, and the freshers. All in all, the room was barren.
"Well not much is it." Muttered Lucky in disgust.
"Hey the coach is a bed too!"
Anival turned to look, he guessed that he and Darien would share the couch.
"Well, lets get back out there, we only have forty minutes before the first round, and the races begin."
They sat at the table that had been shown to them. And ordered drinks. The match started as the trio started their third drink. None of the drinks alcoholic, they needed to be alert.
"Ladies and Gentleman. " Began the announce, the Holograph jumped to life. "Welcome to our main event. Round one of The first five will begin."
"Team Go'rith, Team Hin'lo, Team Dancing Rith, Team Rancor bait, Team Claw, Team Qio'esi, and Team Doni will face off first." As the announcer spoke the fearsome ships arrived at the starting mark, most of them had obvious illegal mods, not that it mattered. Some escape pods could be seen.
The obvious fascination of the trios faces could be seen. Anival smiled and looked at Celin, and Darien in turn.
"5."
"4."
"3."
"2."
"1."
"GO!"
A green line appeared out of nowhere along it were several space mines, and they were moving, the first ship flew off, a Theta, and was instantly pounded by rockets, its powerful shields held, until it hit a mine, and it erupted violently into a shower of sparks, a miniature supernovae.
The others started for the red spheres at the end of the green lane, firing at each other.
